/int/ - certified time wasters

>>23725
>local celebrities
Not really, but there are more important rules: You can open any thread you want, and if it is not a today thread, everyone will say "shit thread go back to cabbage reeee". If it is a today thread, you will instead get bugged by german Ernsts:
>noooo I wanted to open the today thread reeeee
Followed by endless bickering:
>Are you the Ernst that always complains about the Ernst that opens the today thread?
>Are you the Ernst that always complains about the Ernst that always complains about the Ernst that opens the today thread?
>The old thread is still too far up on page 1.
>But the old thread is on Systemkontra
>Are you the Ernst who said this?
>Are you the Ernst who said that?
>reeeeeeee

>>23728
sounds schizo, im in!

Might have overdone it with them biter slider, they're everywhere and plentiful.
Thank Kali that AAI comes to the rescue, a full Gatling cavalry detachment is at hand.

But biter evolution will only ever tick up with every destroyed nest.
Probably time to go more solar & flamer quickly, remembering behemoth biters of the last iteration.

>>23746
Before I saw the 4th picture I clicked on the first and thought "huh that doesn't look like a Factorio vehicle" lol.

Also, since you seem to know more than me: Is there a way of setting a minimum amount of stuff to send back from a platform so there isn't a rocket going off for every 20 or so science? Or doesn't it matter because it costs nothing? I seem to have missed any explanation of how that shit works in the Factoripedia.

Hnnng... how dat amplitude wave from the iron output hits da coal line after I routed a second ore belt into the input.
Naughty!

Also finally making flamers.
Enclosed a nice piece of property in a tried & tested Doshington Cuckbox (TM) and oil processing is about to be set-up.
Bots from the beginning make that whole process so much more enjoyable.
One mod adds 10 slow bots immediately and another mod provides manically fast bots that perish after a single use craftable en masse from iron, copper and coal.
This is how this game is supposed to be played and I blame the devs for that, fight me.

Kinda slow tho, the game crossed the 15 hour mark already.
But Ernst isn't in a hurry.

>>23751
Yeah, the game gives me heavy early C&C artstyle kinda feels and much more with controllable vehicles :3
Tiberian Sun or RA2 era of sort.

But Ernst, I... I haven't even launched a rocket.
Like ever.

The answer is probably circuits tho.
Absolute noob with them, but instead of limiting storage space in chests, I try to let the inserter read the chest input and shut-down if there is a specific amount.
Similarly you can probably connect the rocket with a constant combinator, read the amount of science that's inside and only turn it on once you're happy with the numbers.

>>23763
Uh, what? I thought what with you playing with mods and having all those kinds of setups and optimizing the fuck out of it you were some kind of veteran player.

Old ammo out, new - explosive - ammo in, I think this comes with the Factorio+ mod.
Vastly superior and made from regular ammo to begin with, last time I filled the whole ammo belt with piercing ammo that performs worse while being basically useless if I wanted to change ammo type.

Deep scans indicate troubles all around.
Last time a large fire biter managed to outrange my turrets, now a tanker biter nest settled in my polution cloud and they simply manage to break through the bulk of defenses...

>>23764
It's just neat to layout.

Ignore the casualties and press on, my mechanical men!
AAAHHHH... nu? Damn biters got me, was a hassle to retrieve my stuff.
Also researched a Warden vehicle with a stun gun and healing beam, perfect rally point for a mechanized firing squad to control them without my bodily presence.
If it weren't for their shit path finding, it would be basically C&C.

Another great thing is, once you get the game and pre-dependencies in the recipes, it's much easier to set it up in a way that is expandable with the next tier stuff.
Belts and belt accessoirs for example only ever get reached through and neatly fit into seperate lanes.

Science screams to be finally given a nice spot, as the old place isn't further expandable and the place is needed for future cannon shell production.
Luckily I can just copy the build from the last iteration, that one was pretty neat.

Maybe I'll have to add another set of barrels aimed solely at large biters.
Just cut me some slack, I'm about to finally design a tile-able high security wall to draw a fresh border with.

But as iron ore for the weapon and ammo factories is scarce, I had to explore the unthankful goblin ore deposit within my existing borders.
A sorter was set up and hopefully it will be some time until it clogs up on something.
Even has a belt bypass for an easy flush of the sorting area, but that's still manual labor to do until roboports are researched.

Then it was connected to the smelting array via train, first time I dip my toes into those.
Just a simple single double headed line for now to push 4 cargo wagons.
Fun to hop on the ride nonetheless :3

And finally I rekindle the fire to grill some fish, pleasured to see the iron lines swell up with product again.

Oblivion remake? Meh…
I’ll take the new Tamriel rebuilt update “grasping fortune”. Coming out may 1th. Biggest update to the Tamriel rebuilt multi decades project to date!!! With no less than 1100 new unique npcs.
https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/content/grasping-fortune-teaser

I’ll still wait one or two other updates before jumping into that world again. I really tend to cut myself from everything during a morrowind run.

>>23835
oh my you are the cutest poster ever we should kiss

I think my main gripe with most modern games is that they are either adhd twitch zoomer shit that warrant zooming around and never stopping and everything is exploding and bursting and colors and effects (e.g. Ultrakill, Fortnite) or that it's the complete opposite, where everything feels like molasses, animations have over 9000 frames because who needs responsive controls, more polygons are better anyway and cost-cutting means using UE5 which sucks ass if you don't REALLY know what you're doing (which most devs don't) and makes your computer chug like a Twingo full with passengers on an uphill road.
Sure, there are a few exceptions like Hitman 3 (although that one is technically almost 10 years old now), the RE engine games (at least RE2 runs well on my machine within the limitations of the graphics card), but those are, well, exceptions.
Take Robocop for example (btw there's an expansion coming out), UE5, horrible performance. If the game wasn't fun at its core I would have refunded. Commandos Origins was also built on UE5 and Steam reviews are complaining about bad performance, which was also my main point of critcism after playing the demo.

>>23836
Are you the usual ameriball or someone else

>>23843
Someone else.
t.Not him

I've never finished a game where the story was one of the main focuses besides portal.
I never finished the main quest in any rpg (crpg, mmo, anything) ever.
Probably the only reason portal was an exception is that I was able to beat it in 1 or 2 sittings.
Most of the games that I've actually sunk any time into tend to be sandbox or multiplayer games. I buy games like fear, thief, or bastion, because they're supposed to be very good but I never play them for more than 5 hours.
I literally can only play games where I can "create my own story"

rate settis

>>23856
Sounds like adhd.
Also, Bastion only takes like 5 hours lol.

>>23856
Bastion is a game I'd also like to play, just waiting until it's on sale until I pounce.

>>23857
Oh, that's a shame, I hoped it was longer. However, I suck at gaming, so I can easily make 10h out of that.

>>23858
Bastion is a cute little game that is not demanding and has a cool style. Get it for a fiver or so, it's definitely worth playing at least once.

Upgraded my central hub a little, built storage with spare gear should an incursion into biter territory go wrong and added ammo production for rockets and mortar shells.

The former are needed for rocket half tracks that add much needed range to my mobile raiding parties, the latter gives stationary defenses very high range at mediocre damage but okay ammo efficiency.

Then I decided that edges of the new wall will incorporate laser turrets instead of flamers, setting them up was rather easy as I was able to leech products of a neighboring mall lane.
The factory needs more iron and there's a great patch perfect for testing reasons of the new wall system.
Also going to illegally download a chunk-based railway system blueprint book, as I could probably waste hours designing all intersections myself, just to have mostly the same tried and tested design anyway.

>>23859
It's sitting in the dark, untouched corners of my backlog for ages after some Bernd gifted it as thanks for the second copy that came with Risk of Rain 2 for some time.
Is it an adventure like Zelda with item based progression?

>>23867
I can't even remember what exactly Bastion was. Basically you run through a world that is rebuilding itself, but I can't remember if it had an item progression or anything.

Hopping in a command vehicle in person to throw down with them biters is still the most fun and efficient.
Explosions, bursting sacks of flesh and huge bugs everywhere, what a nice place.
AI half-tracks and tanks even come with a good inventory grid, so they may be fitted with repair packs and roboports for repair or light shielding.

Now with a more dedicated security layering the game gives me real Tiberian Sun feels.
And thank Buddha for finally setting up a robot network, having walls replaced automatically is a godsend.

With all that I finally also managed to connect some fat ore patches via multiple lines, set up some electric smelting and even bauxite was explored, so despite ammo production and the mall drawing bigly on resources, up to purple science can be done mostly fluently now.

At times I still have to haul a load of wood from the northern sawmills to the bio science plants because I never set up a line and the other input is biter parts which I handfeed anyway.

Turns out biters really hate it when you shell their homes.
But as long as they are out of the polution cloud, we always come to an equilibrium.
And an eviction team takes care of those that are definitely violating the law of factory expansion.

It's just beautiful to see them bots do their job after painting a large stretch of concrete paving
The game takes a 180 after getting them lil' critters.

1. Use national focuses to promote clergyman for research points (RP) and literacy up to 4%.
2. Research Prestige and then RP techs as soon as you get to the necessary year, and save up RP for a year beforehand. In between these techs, get the techs necessary for the prestige inventions. Congratulations, you are now incredibly prestigious and call dibs to goods on the world market while having 0 industry. Your factories will be very profitable.
3. Build Liqour and Glass factories. Cement is pretty unprofitable.
4. Wait for wars between your enemies if you're weak, declare if you're strong. Promote soldiers if you don't have enough military.
5. Ally Great Powers (GPs) with very high military ranks.
6. Beeline Healthcare, Education, and then Unemployment social reforms. Don't do any of the others. Always choose consciousness options and switch between governments to piss off your pops.
7. Conquer provinces with large populations and good RGOs like steel or coal.
8. After getting 4% clergyman everywhere, promote craftsmen and then clerks.
9. You should have a massive tech advantage at this point and roflstomp/stackwipe opposing armies with less troops, thus giving you even more prestige and lots of warscore. This in addition to using Hussars and Engineers will allow you to end wars quickly and take on extremely powerful large nations. You'll be able to get enough warscore to win before they can get their armies to the front line.
10. Start building factories for expensive goods like airplanes and automobiles.
11. Conquer China and make the pops build factories for expensive goods. Luxury goods are also good because you will then have a monopoly on silk
12. Sphere places with oil, rubber, and tropical wood to make Airplanes and Automobiles even more profitable.

This practically guarantees you to become a great power starting from virtually any country.

A boss boiter decided to visit a neighboring abandoned outpost and provided a laser show during mop-up duty.

Some helis provide much needed mobility around the base, now that it is expanding nicely.
They do pack a punch, but as only a single one can be flown and they don't have AI support, they're at best light scouts against smaller expansion nests in this environment.

Then I expanded a little too far into biter territory without cleaning up first, which swiftly ended in sending the cavalry to reduce damages.
And while those abandoned outposts don't pose a danger by themselves with their laser towers, they are a pain in the ass when they align with my base while building, as they take down the little worker robots.
Still using those single-use "early construction bots", they cost repair packs and coal, but are 5x faster then regular bots, so I'm just feeding them into a bot port at base.
Those regular bots run out of juice halfway to the outer wall and then crawl at a snails pace...

>>23950
At times I wish we had politicians that understood such games.
Just as an entry barrier for thinking and technological prowess or whatever.

>>23973
You think your assburger simulation have value because you are so invested in them. You cannot admit to yourself that they are useless games for pathetic man-children. Politicians do not need those games, because politicians hold real power in the real world. They do not need cheap power fantasies manufactured for weak, pathetic cucks, they control real economies and have sex with real women.(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>23987
Why are mods tone-policing? Is it because they cannot bear to read the truth?

Whoever plays computer games is essentially a rat in a skinner-box, pushing the lever to get some blinking light as a reward. A simp sitting in a corner and stimming, achieving nothing. Going nowhere in his live, ever.

Politicians are chads who massively win against those weak, pathetic losers who play computer games. Politicians and bussiness-men defeat the weak, worthless betas and sub-betas,partially by manipulating them to chase worthless pseudo-achievements in computer games, to watch movies about strong hero-types so they can fantasize about how it would feel to be strong, to watch sports, so they, too can enjoy the thrill of defeating and destroying their opponent, if only in their imagination. The betas even watch porn instead of trying to get with real women. In real live, the betas and sub-betas are weak, deficient, defeated, low-value losers, the butt of every joke, and they will only ever lose, lose and lose, because they are so weak, pathetic and worthless, and they know it, this is why they seek escape, so they don't have to face reality. The reality of nature itself telling them that they are subhumans worhty of being shot and carted of going to the garbage them, worthy of being sent to the gas chambers, worthy of being smashed, destroyed and done away with, not real humans, but sub-humans in the true sense of the word, beings less than humans, unworthy of life, pseudo-persons whose existence is an insult to any true human. Smashing them would be no more immoral to me than smashing a fly.

The use of ersatz-victories neutralizes the betas and sub-betas even further, since instead of focusing on uprising, war and battle, they focus on the worthless, dumb, little fantasies they call 'hobbies' instead of seeking battle and, ultimately, the destruction of their superior masters. They essentially renege on the battle for existence and thus, on live. Subconsciously, the betas know they can never win in real life, they can never force other men to submit to them, so they will never gain material wealth or procreate with young, attractive women. This is why they use the cheap, worthless, inconsequential thrills the offered to them. And the winners offer those manufactured replacements gladly, laughing over the stupidity and weakness of the pathetic beta losers who take them!

Computer gamers are genetically dead already, they are dead ends of evolution, zombies, essentially. Since they won't procreate, it should not even be considered murder to end them. It's just a mercy-killing, tbh.

Politicians, pop-stars and bussiness men are the ultimate winners in the destructive, murderous battle for existence. They enjoy real victory, gain material wealth, fame, and father many children with wonderful young women, while a computer nerd simp can only hope to sell his soul and give his live savings as exchange for a few mediocre fucks with a washed-up 7/10 alpha-widow who is done riding the cock carousel, and father one or two worthless assburger beta children or worthless mongoloid retards, even.(Get a hint)

>>24000
> winners in the destructive, murderous battle for existence
existence isn't a battle, it's a game.

You glorify those griefing their your own team.

Why yes, at some I did get tired of killing biters, they seemingly closely managed to trigger my inbuilt bitter kill limit, but in the end the line enclosed pristine property into private provision or as we in the business call it, PP2PP.

A few solar powered radar outposts later, visibility is provided over most of the lands and a couple of mines also already got set up.
Time to get a more potent smelting array running, the old one will be exhausted for hours with the resource draw to refill the mall & science.

If the attention may be diverted to appendix 69, the base also got a few toys for times of design blockade.
While a quick circle with the fighter went well, the Spirit always crashed into the coal mines to the south and needs a longer runway that is slowly getting built.
The bomb selection goes from 50 to 1000kg, napalm and rather expensive nuclear for now :333

>>24006
If he'd get it, he wouldn't be so KONTRA all the time.

>>24014
Kontra is NOT a downvote. Secondaries and undesirables of course don't know that.

I've had long stretches of my life where I haven't played video games at all. Every so often I get back into playing them and become like an addict - I literally can't stop playing them. I'll want to stop playing after an hour, but then spend 10 hours (neglecting sleep) a day for days playing them. They literally can give you similar dopamine and norepinephrine releases as stimulants can.

Anytime I start playing videogames again, I literally have symptoms of videogame addiction:

•Having intense urges for screen time or to play video games, and these urges block out other thoughts
•Spending money on video games or screens, even though you can't afford it
•Cutting back on social or recreational activities because of preference for screen time or video games
•Continuing to play video games or participate in screen time, even though you know it's causing problems in your life, such as poor performance at school
or work, or letting household responsibilities go
•Displaying signs of irritability, anxiety or anger when forced to stop playing, even for brief periods of time
•Lying to others about the extent of your use
•Needing more screen time over time to get the same level of enjoyment
•Neglecting your appearance, including lack of interest in grooming or clothing

I've spent hundreds of dollars over the span of a week or so purely from the good feelings of spending money. I was diagnosed with ADHD combined type (but I feel I am more inattentive) so games and internet use have always been a death sentence for me.

>>24030
It's ok bro

t. 1:39 AM playing Factorio and having to work tomorrow

>>24032
Cracktorio

I'm planning on getting a 9800x3d at a price of 400$
However, I have rx 66xx xt card.
Normally this would be an enormous GPU bottleneck (especially for 1440p) and complete overkill, but I almost solely play MMOs and simulation games. Also the GPU market is completely fucked right now - should've gotten a better GPU while I had the chance).
I might get a replacement GPU when cards decrease in price.

Am I being reasonable, or am I just a complete retard?

>>24269
Who cares, do what you want. If you have the money and want to spend it, why not?

>>24272
Not especially. I mostly bought it from the dopamine hit from purchasing

>>24274
Well that's silly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4fwWIeQzeA

Why is it always finns?

Some earlier exploits had me subjugating a hero wonderland as the leader of a cult for the dark, ever-hungry and ever-lusting snek mommy.

I started spreading my enshadowing influence on the continent with the mightiest nation and luckily for my first game, that sucker of """chosen one""" came to be on another continent.
So I sent an agent there, infiltrated some assets and plainly started the plague.
Not too long after that whole area broke down on every metric, whole settlements just went extinct and all heroes scuttled about to try contain the following hunger, brigantry and devastation.

At some point the whole world simply forfeited to snek mommy and accepted that it is the universes will that the whole planet shall be devoured for her nourishment to grow bigger.

A few games after I managed to get my hand on some mania inducing artifact, gave it some throw-away agent and suicided him against this instance of *spits* """chosen one""", which as the idiot as they are, claimed it as a trophy and went batshit mad only doing the tiniest of menial tasks possible and leaving the world in blissful ignorance on how they are slowly being liberated by an elder being for the sake of... you may get the gist.

10/10 take on the 4X genre, I'd go so far to call it a sleeper-hit.
7-8 gods with more or less different playstyles in the base game and modders added a few flavorful ones on their own.
At times rng world generation may fuck you over, but the possibilities to stay hidden and further the goals of the chosen god.
Also watching the chosen one can feel like baby sitting, but then again you really learn to hate whomstever is selected.

Also played Avorion some more.
Great take on block based construction with a little Egosoft mixed in between by some Germans.

Not as intricate as Empyrion, but excellently polished and simpler in terms of designing a ship.
Went from a few cheap plates to a fleet of destroyers and corvettes so far.

Still need to reach the center, which involves the hunt for rare and mighty components around the galaxy, but that may be a thing for another time, as I rather play Vintage Story again as of now.

This game is just so comfily idyllic, just grab some basic tools and venture out into the unknown, you're bound to find something of value.
Seeds, wild game, prospecting spots or simply landscapes that get the creative juices flowing.

Also welcome to my preliminary abode.
It may not be much, but it's carved out of a nice rock with 3 traders nearby.
Even got a farm running early to make sure that flax fiber won't be that scarce anymore, when I completely missed this part of the game before my last first winter. The first harvest gave me 2,5 stacks of juicy carrots!

A recent mining trip underground even got me a nice supply of zinc, bismuth and tin, which finally lets me upgrade my anvil to bronze.
But as of now I am slowly in the process of migrating towards my new, much more beautiful spot within a freshwater bay surrounded by giant redwood trees. Just need to finish tanning some leather to upgrade my backpacks for more inventory space, then I can move the rest of the most important tech there and continue building.

First I have yet to discover some acacia trees for some reddish lumber, then the main task will be to develop a nice quarry to mine some whole blocks for further processing.
Thank Kali this world had me blessed with nice, black basalt and a limestone layer for concrete production on the first try.

>>24646
Also, I cheated myself a bronze pickaxe and prospecting pick, after I started a new world with some slightly modified parameters to allow a better use of the new sail boats later on.
Been there already on the last save that cost me 15 hours, so I just wanted to kickstart progression a little.

>>18848
The Stop Killing Games campaign is only running for another month and still could use support of Ernst.

>>24648
Why should a company support video games are cost-only and no longer profitable?

>>24649
They don't have to keep supporting it forever, they should just make it so when they stop supporting it it remains playable. Either aking it possible to host private servers or making it playable through direct connection, or whatever else works best for them. A game shouldn't become completely unplayable just because it's no longer supported.

>>24651
Will the support cost the company money, though?

>>24651
Yes, it should. When it's still playable, people will waste their time playing old games instead of buying new games. What you are asking for the publisher to assist people in pirating Software. Typical Russian thinking.

>>24652
Not sure I understand you. Of course it will, until it ends. The thing is, games should still be playable even after the support ends.
>>24654
Let's extrapolate this logic a bit, imagine you bought a refrigerator for your house, and after a few years the manufacturer disables it completely, because by still using it and not buying a new model you're costing them profits. That's the reality you're arguing for.

>>24656
Refrigerator is a good example. They used to be fully functional without any support by the manufacturer. Now imagine a smart IOT refrigerator that only works with access to a internet service. Once that would shutdown it wouldn't allow you to change temperature.

There was no reason to bind the change temperature function to a service. It is planned obsolescence and legislation should disallow it.

>>24657
> There was no reason to bind the change temperature function to a service
Your refrigerator needs connection so that it can synchronize clocks and show the current time. And so that it can pull weather report and quote of the day from our servers. Not even talking about regular security updates. This really marks the new era of refrigeration. Soon we'll stop to understand how could we even refrigerate things without being able to read the quote of the day.

Finished off my humble beginner abode with a small lookout and signal platform at the top, even has a lightning rod to protect my lifestock down below.
The mass of possible space throughout all of this rock would have made a nice overall base as well, but then being a cave dweller isn't all that fun when given an actual choice.

Also after a lot of pain in the ass, managed to finally enclose a bighorn buck in my area.
They spawned on top of my hill while there was still grassland, yet bighorn calves never survived the fall down at the bottom and while I had an grown eve for some time now, the aggressive bucks weren't as easily trapped.
When I finally managed to get one down, lure it around pointlessly and gave in to install a mod for animal cages, it quickly went to to caged bear of the trader and got itself mauled to death...
I had all but given up on the idea to start bighorn breeding at this base to relocate later generations into the new base, but suddenly and without any help of myself, a bighorner managed to fall right into the my enclosure and survive the fall.
That horny fucker got my eve pregnant in an instant even,, so easiy wool, milk and meat should be just a few incestuous generations down the line!

Also also look at that nice, nearly topped off bucket of honey. Mmmmmhh, yeah!
Needed the candles for lanterns, but they also make nice and moody lighting on their own.

>>24648
Great effort, Ross is probably the single online persona that I have ever donated money to.
20 bucks, 10-15 years ago, no regret and even got a nice thank you mail from him.

Also with all that drama surrounding SKG lately, it took me some time until I figured out from where I know this giant douche PirateSoftware """Thor""".
Then it suddenly came all back with his WoW streams and his time as Blizzard """dev""" *more like anti-cheat helpdesk nepo babby.