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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Religion is seriously fucked up, actually.

    If you can get people to believe in magic they have never seen because of stories that never happened to explain an afterlife that nobody knows about, you can easily get them to also fork over a considerable amount of their income to avoid a fate that will never happen.

    Nevermind that you can also produce some fearless soldiers who will gladly hand over their life for no real reason.

    Eesh. Humans are weird.


  • My guess is that you are visualizing the event horizon as a gradient when it should be viewed as a hard-line barrier.

    As anything approaches the event horizon, it still has a chance to escape. Once an object crosses that line, it’s game over: All arrows point in.

    Now, I have also heard that of you wait long enough for the black hole to completely evaporate and are able to collect every bit of the black hole as it does, you should be able to reassemble the data you desire. It would probably take a supercomputer more massive than the original black hole, but it’s worth a shot. As a bonus, I believe you have to solve for an information duplication paradox that is tucked in there somewhere as well.



  • My experience is practically a carbon copy of yours, so I’ll just tack my reply here.

    I just started using robots a few days ago after numerous game restarts since the DLC was released, so I am still a hair behind. Rocket launchers vs. biter nests are starting to get a hair difficult now, so tanks are on the menu for tomorrow.

    The biggest issue I had was planning around the sheer scale of the base we need to build and how to design and manage busses for them.

    Once I figured out how to plan the layouts for entire stacks of furnaces or assemblers, my base got sooo much more efficient. The exact opposite, but just as satisfying, is when I leaned to quickly automate random odds and ends with temporary assembler puzzles. (Early game red science is a perfect example of that.)

    I guess the biggest lesson is attach a massive multiplier to everything. ie: Will 2 turrets fend off attacks from one direction? Cool, but put 6 turrets there instead instead of the 2 it takes now. 10 absolutely wouldn’t hurt either.












  • It’s one of the better bad designs, in some cases. Something, something self-regulating air flow. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, I suppose.

    If there was any intelligence involved in our design, it was similar to a kid buying aftermarket parts for his car on eBay that then strapped them to one or two bits of ultra high grade equipment. The end result is something like a nice Supra that drives around town making weird farting noises.