Played more with my son today. He managed to complete Phase 1!
As awful as it is, YouTube's disdain for its viewers isn't really the big dealbreaker for me. It's their disdain for their content creators. If creators were treated like first-class citizens as much as ad sellers and copyright holders holders are, I'd absolutely subscribe to Premium. Creators get three strikes, but copyright trolls can submit as many bogus claims as they want. Ad companies get to dictate what videos their ads can and can't appear on, but creators have to put up with whatever ads YouTube decides should run on their videos. All this despite creators being far more critical to YouTube's success than ads.
My son wanted to play with me today, so that's what I did.
He pretty much just worked on this, while I explored and killed shit the whole time.
I don't play in creative mode, or with any cheats, if that's what you're asking. This save started from scratch and unlocked as I went along. It's my 3rd or 4th one, and is tied for the farthest I've ever progressed.
After going through the early game a few times now, I think my recommendation is a mix between the two: beeline (however much you're comfortable with) to a certain midpoint, where you've got most of the real powerful stuff unlocked, then start being more methodical/thoughtful/permanent. In this playthrough, I started building permanent stuff after unlocking coal power and Mk.3 belts, and I think that was actually early. I think I should have waited for Mk.4 belts. That ensures you have access to all the really important cosmetic buildables, like pillars and beams, as well as some really important functional stuff like smart splitters and trains.
We're finally there. The last last last thing to do, for this project. Like, actually. Just 3 unfinished miners, and that's it.
I really like how this walkway aesthetic came out. The new 1.1 build pieces are doing their job.
The slope transitions ended up slightly wonky, with the transition from 1m-thickness to 2m-thickness, then back to 1m. Doubling up on the covering cable looked marginally more acceptable than just leaving part of the foundations exposed.
And that's it! Actually! Project complete!
Wide shot of (mostly) the whole area, cause why not.
Traditional nerd docs.
"Time for a bathroom break"? Where do you think she's tweeting from?
Have never seen a link to a "Trending" page or a "Trending Now" list in any of those spots.
Goddamnit, why can't we get a militia that does some PRODUCTIVE sabotage?
Somehow I doubt the might of New York's police force (most of which probably support Trump over Mamdani) outweighs the might of the US Federal Government. But BOY would I love to see that play out.
I'm not really sure that being open source here means much of anything, but an SO alternative definitely sounds good. Thanks for the tip.
Use of AI (actually Machine Learning) in the medical field has been going on for a LONG time, and has nothing to do with the recent explosion of mostly-useless LLMs. And even if this weren't the case, the way some technology was developed kinda doesn't matter a whole lot when it's going to be put through a rigorous testing process to determine it's actual efficacy. Which is what this article is talking about: taking a drug that's already gone through a bunch of non-human testing and moving to the next step.
I know the US government is doing its damndest to dismantle safety regulations, avross all industries, but I don't think we're quite at the point that we should be alarmed at new possible cancer treatments.
Submitted. Thanks for the heads up.
The last thing to finish out this whole project is the resource trunks coming into the two satellite factories. Crude Oil, on this one in particular.
Definitely an opportunity for blueprints.
And one more, carrying Copper Ore.
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Didn't quite get this one finished. Should be doable tomorrow.
Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn't willing to cross.
Not that anyone really believed Elon isn't calling all the shots here.
Finishing out this building with walls. Had to move a few pipelines and power outlets that were in the way, but I forgot to get shots of those.
Oil Processing facility is next. Same treatment, starting with painting...
...and lighting.
Moving on, we have the copper processing facility, that feeds Circuitworks.
Painting, walls, windows, lighting... it's all just cosmetics at this point, just matching what we did at the main facility.
Yeah, it's been 3 months, but I can explain: Blue Prince came out. And then Nightreign.
But I spent the last week-and-a-half of June migrating the screenshots in the first 154 posts off of lemm.ee, before the shutdown, and that re-ignited my itch for Satisfactory.
The last building I was working on, back in April was the main facility for Circuitworks (Computers and High-Speed Connectors), and I actually finished it back then. I've had these screenshots sitting around since then.
So, picking up from there, I finished out all the tubeway around the area that I hadn't yet finalized by replacing the scaffolding with support pillars.
This track always struck me as bizarre, within the album, but I eventually grew to love it.