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The Factorio mindset

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    knocklessmonster
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    "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." Factorio is an automation-based game by design, and I'd bet people generally know the difference.

    The bad habits it offers are:
    Assuming that everything worth doing is worth automating (yes, there is a relevant XKCD).
    Related to this, assuming that everything can scale arbitrarily.'

    "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."

    Factorio is an automation-based game by design, and I'd bet people generally know the difference.

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    1. MimicSquid
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      Charisma is selling mango salsa. Jokes aside, it's easy to cease questioning the assumptions if you spend too much time within a given framework, including Factorio. Mentioning the limits of a...

      Charisma is selling mango salsa.

      Jokes aside, it's easy to cease questioning the assumptions if you spend too much time within a given framework, including Factorio. Mentioning the limits of a conceptual framework isn't that useful when it's fairly obvious, but it's still worth mentioning, especially when the downsides are otherwise fairly minimal.

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