In the news today, the pandemic of 2025 has been traced to an intentional release of a synthetic virus manufactured by a group of Factorio players that quote, “just wanted time to play the expansion.” Officials noted that, when the found the facility that manufactured the virus, it was a monstrous example of speed and efficiency, with built-in expansion capabilities.

• from dev’s notes about the third year - 2023 - The grind*

I haven’t reached 1M SPM yet, but I might get there before we release :).

Factories be growin’!!

twist: It’s neighbors all the way down.

sounds like EU really dodged that bullet. Good on them.

We may pray to different gods, but the factories must grow.

Which one? The shortest one with the bump on the side, or the narrow on that is never wider than 8 belts?? Here, let me show yo…. Ohmigawd.

Factorio has never gone on sale. The price did go up from US$30 to $35 during the worst of the inflation. At some point this year, we’ll get a version 2.0 that massively updates the core game, and has an expansion you can optionally purchase.

R-rated Jabba’s Palace would be worth the admission.

Ahyess, the season 9 ep 5 clip show that replayed dumb little bits from the previous seasons.

If he can lay down a four-belt balancer from memory, you are the side hoe to his Factorio addiction.

We’ve gone full circle - North Korea and South Korea wage a proxy war among western belligerents. Now if Seoul could just propose an end to hostilities along a particular meridian…

Not sure rolling on the concrete would get chalk on the bridge of the snout like that, but it makes for a cute pic.

A moose once bit my sister

Just the one, but you can always come back tomorrow.

Just to clarify, the fears are that they were looted, and that they have a questionable provenance. Carry on.

Gonna need a source on your 1000x. I can find 27.9x the potential, per unit mass. I think my point still stands: they’re taking a problem and merely converting it into a different form of the problem, and calling it a solution.

Unless the event was to hide from Trunp in a place that he’d never find them, they were right to laugh in your face.

“Let’s take all that yucky methane released by cows and make it fuel!”

• how’s that help?
  “It keeps the carbon from entering the atmosphere.”
• okay genius. What uses the fuel?
  “Engines I suppose”.
• and the engine combusts it and creates…?
  “Exhaust?”
• and that exhaust is made of…?
  “CO2 and NOx and SOx.”
• and is released to…?
  “The atmosphere.”
• So how does that help?
  “I have a new fuel revenue stream.”