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Comment on Humble Choice - November 2026 in ~games
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
TMarkos Link ParentFish farming is incredibly OP, from my brief dip into it. I didn't do the advanced tier but even basic tilapia delivers a steady stream of large fish filets that are on par with the large meat...Fish farming is incredibly OP, from my brief dip into it. I didn't do the advanced tier but even basic tilapia delivers a steady stream of large fish filets that are on par with the large meat cuts for value and also carry the Luxury Good tag. If you feed the offcuts to the fish they're more or less self-sustaining operations.
Meanwhile, the gutter variant will happily thrive in any of your chemistry reagents while purifying them to 99.9% or so, making it trivial to get to lab purity even for the involved recipes like Nomore, and they still have reasonably profitable meat despite eating the gutter trash food.
I didn't touch rat ranching but it seems similarly powerful. Plant genetics takes a long time, I was only a bit into it when I beat the game and I get the sense that it really wants you to have the postgame hypertech to do meaningful alterations - also it's definitely a win-more mechanic because the default seeds still give you enough dreamcap goop to Heisenberg up the whole station's drug market plus the option of doing similarly-profitable nightmare toxin sales to Odin.
I think if I had a mechanics wishlist large-batch brewing would definitely be on it, as well as maybe food processing (think meat + nutrifruit + scrap metal into peat cans or other vending-friendly products). I'll also definitely be looking at QOL mods to reduce some of the annoying repetitive tasks - I like the mechanics for most of it but dragging a knife twice to each fish or rat gets old really fast.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
TMarkos Link ParentI came here to talk about this one too. It's bonkers how involved all of the game's systems are, and how they operate under the hood without you paying too much attention to them until later...I came here to talk about this one too. It's bonkers how involved all of the game's systems are, and how they operate under the hood without you paying too much attention to them until later mechanics make them relevant. I'm thinking in particular of the chemistry system, which I thought was mostly a flavor thing until I got the advanced chemistry kit and realized that all those different water contaminants have specific, direct counters and that making lab-pure drugs requires a specific sequence of mixing, purifying and distilling to get what you want.
And you don't even have to engage with that, it's just there in case you find it fun.
I beat my first run a couple of hours ago and I'm definitely putting a pin in this so I can come back and play a rock bottom start in a few months.
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Comment on Ten remote cabins with artist residency programs in ~travel
TMarkos LinkThere's a beautiful artist residence cabin in Glacier NP as well! https://www.nps.gov/glac/getinvolved/air.htmThere's a beautiful artist residence cabin in Glacier NP as well!
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Comment on 'Cracking the Cryptic' plays 'Order of the Sinking Star' with Jonathan Blow in ~games
TMarkos LinkI might have been inclined to check this out at one point but since Jon Blow went crazy I'm less inclined to support anything he's headlining.I might have been inclined to check this out at one point but since Jon Blow went crazy I'm less inclined to support anything he's headlining.
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Comment on Rocketwerkz releases new BRUTAL low-level game development framework for free in ~games
TMarkos LinkThis is a cool move by a studio I'm really a fan of. Having more options in the development space and more flexible tools can only improve the quality and variety of games that make it to market....This is a cool move by a studio I'm really a fan of. Having more options in the development space and more flexible tools can only improve the quality and variety of games that make it to market. Very happy to see a lot of familiar names involved in the project. Relevant to this other discussion here:
https://tildes.net/~games/1wfy/ludeon_studios_announces_new_engine_for_rimworld_teases_new_game
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Rocketwerkz releases new BRUTAL low-level game development framework for free
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Comment on 'Darkwing Duck' reboot ordered to series at Disney+ in ~tv
TMarkos LinkI love benefiting from millennial nostalgia pandering. This was probably my favorite show as a kid and I can't wait to see it with Mark Hamill at the fore.I love benefiting from millennial nostalgia pandering. This was probably my favorite show as a kid and I can't wait to see it with Mark Hamill at the fore.
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Comment on Colorado's Tildos - How-does it suit you? in ~life
TMarkos LinkI grew up there but have since moved away, my parents live in the Denver area and I visit often. The water situation is not great but ultimately is better than some of the other western states; it...I grew up there but have since moved away, my parents live in the Denver area and I visit often.
The water situation is not great but ultimately is better than some of the other western states; it wouldn't be a primary negative factor for moving there. The real estate market is a nuthouse, though. My parents bought their house for around 100k in 89 and it is currently somewhere in the 600s. Rentals are crazy, buying is crazy.
It's a wonderful, beautiful, unique place with a great outdoor culture, generally good people and a decent food scene. It can feel somewhat isolated from other cities, since there's really nothing around the metro area for a long way. I've considered moving back every once in a while, and the housing market is what usually stops that line of thought when it happens. If that weren't an issue, I'd give it serious consideration because I love that state.
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Comment on Zack Snyder's ‘The Last Photograph’ is getting destroyed at TIFF: “Unabashedly sh*t on every level” in ~movies
TMarkos Link ParentThe thing he's not getting is that he can't keep the best of both worlds. He can absolutely make his own vision that the critical scene doesn't know what to do with as long as he packages and...The thing he's not getting is that he can't keep the best of both worlds. He can absolutely make his own vision that the critical scene doesn't know what to do with as long as he packages and markets it appropriately, look at someone like Robert Rodriguez. Trying to sell indulgent niche content to the arthouse crowd is never going to work.
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Comment on [SOLVED] Hunting for a movie in ~movies
TMarkos LinkMy suggestions: Screamers Hardware The Postman Anything by Albert PyunMy suggestions:
- Screamers
- Hardware
- The Postman
- Anything by Albert Pyun
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Comment on An accidental breakthrough in Iceland revealed how to tap into magma itself, potentially unlocking geothermal energy at scales previously thought impossible in ~enviro
TMarkos Link ParentMagma is actually a bit below the melting point of most steels - this article says 900C, some basaltic magmas can get to 1300C, and steel starts melting at around 1370C. That said, you probably...Magma is actually a bit below the melting point of most steels - this article says 900C, some basaltic magmas can get to 1300C, and steel starts melting at around 1370C.
That said, you probably wouldn't use steel for a job like this. There are refractory metals that have much higher melting points, and steel is also fairly reactive to the various corrosive things coming out of the well so you'd want to select something a bit more resilient to the chemical damage as well.
It would be expensive, perhaps prohibitively so, but it's well within the reach of modern materials science if someone thought it would be profitable to build.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
TMarkos Link ParentThe DLC goes a fair way towards resolving some of the annoying RNG of the game, and gives you an interesting mechanic to call in visitors for essentially renewable sources of lessons. It's fun,...The DLC goes a fair way towards resolving some of the annoying RNG of the game, and gives you an interesting mechanic to call in visitors for essentially renewable sources of lessons. It's fun, although I wouldn't necessarily say it upends the whole experience or anything - just a nice addition alongside the rest, and a fleshing-out of the food/cooking system that was barely present before.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
TMarkos LinkI've been playing and enjoying a few puzzle games: Cat Mail Co. Strange Horticulture Strange Antiquities All three are strong recommends. Cat Mail Co. tasks you with keeping pace with varied...I've been playing and enjoying a few puzzle games:
All three are strong recommends. Cat Mail Co. tasks you with keeping pace with varied packages and really scratches the catalogue/sort itch. The two Strange games are narrative puzzle games where you collect and identify plants and artifacts, respectively, building on a series of clues while solving map-related puzzles until you eventually deal with a major problem that builds up over the course of the story. Peak worldbuilding on both, Antiquities is the later game and is considerably more polished but Horticulture is still quite good.
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Comment on Performers claim unsafe conditions at Casa Bonita in ~food
TMarkos LinkIt's always been a little bit like that, lol. I grew up in the area, and the performers were always just a mix of whoever was there, in high school I knew a girl that was one of the dancers there...It's always been a little bit like that, lol. I grew up in the area, and the performers were always just a mix of whoever was there, in high school I knew a girl that was one of the dancers there as a part time job and the divers were definitely not trained to any particular standard. Prior to the closure and reopening pretty much every aspect of it was janky except for the mariachis.
The divers in particular do a dangerous job, the pool they're using is not large in any dimension. It is part of a larger water feature that includes a waterfall, and keeping it at more or less a normal swimming pool level of temperature and cleanliness is something that should go without saying.
Obviously preventing staff harassment is something the restaurant should do as well.
Nothing here seems unreasonable, and verges on neglect by the restaurant - which is in keeping with how it used to be run, for sure, but I had hoped that the reopened restaurant would do better.
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Comment on Thunder mug and tea voider: understanding the chamber pot in early America in ~humanities.history
TMarkos Link ParentI'm on mobile, so please forgive a lack of primary sources, but from a light investigation into the issue it does seem as though chamber pots in the dining room were a fairly common thing, but the...I'm on mobile, so please forgive a lack of primary sources, but from a light investigation into the issue it does seem as though chamber pots in the dining room were a fairly common thing, but the emphasis seems to be on allowing gentlemen a place to relieve the consequences of their drink more than a full service stop, as it were. That said, I did also find quite a few references to the same service being available for ladies, particularly in France where they had a variant of the chamber pots commonly called a bourdaloue optimized for that purpose.
So, perhaps not omnipresent but it certainly seems to be attested.
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Comment on Are there any games that had their development abandoned that you followed where you wish that continued/completed development? in ~games
TMarkos Link ParentI'm excited about it, they've got a lot of the most prolific modders and a few devs from KSP on board and everything looks really good thus far. I'm a huge fan of Stationeers as well and they've...I'm excited about it, they've got a lot of the most prolific modders and a few devs from KSP on board and everything looks really good thus far. I'm a huge fan of Stationeers as well and they've done such a good job with continuing development there, so I hope KSA gets the same treatment.
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Comment on How Finland's forest fruits became a criminal industry – Nordic berries are big business but human trafficking and market rigging have revealed the unpalatable truth behind the superfood boom in ~food
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TMarkos Link ParentI am hopeful there will be a group prioritization mod or feature. Being able to set the launch order would be super useful.I am hopeful there will be a group prioritization mod or feature. Being able to set the launch order would be super useful.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~games
TMarkos LinkSome really excellent fixes to rockets and platform logistics there!Some really excellent fixes to rockets and platform logistics there!
Since there's no comment on it yet - I've played Dysmantle in the past and had a good time with it. Pretty standard zombie scavenging/crafting sort of game but a lot more arcadey and fast-paced than something like Project Zomboid. I eventually fell off of it before doing the lengthy endgame content but I'd say it's definitely worth a look and earns its steam rating.