1958 suburban house

Personal: right now I have 6 open. I might get up to 15-20 if I’m going down a rabbithole of some sort.

On a side note, Windows 11 finally put in an option to go back to normal Windows taskbar buttons so I can actually read tab titles from the taskbar:

Work (software engineer): sometimes dozens if I’m deep in the weeds with loads of reference pages open/etc.

For Dyson Sphere Program, you have to dig for this one below all the gross Fandom links:

https://dsp-wiki.com/Main_Page

Barbaric

Very interesting; thank you

Good idea

Annoying on many levels

I feel you. The Network Effect is real, and the niche subreddits need a HUGE overall userbase to work at all.

The total population of Lemmy + Kbin is about the size of a medium size city subreddit.

I’m staying here for now. I sometimes cheat and browse reddit not-logged-in. I don’t know what the answer is.

It was my first thought too

“ESA survey showed” – not exactly an unbiased report

I have memories of buddies in college being SUPER into it. I was never very good. But it still stands out to this day as a game with a unique feeling of speed and motion and control.

Any of the building/management games like Factorio or Dyson Sphere Program or RimWorld. You can definitely make those games extremely challenging (speed runs, achievements, ultra hard modes/challenges). But for me they’re cozy games where I can chip away at a small project or part of a larger project, like, I don’t know, slowly building a scale model or something.

Agreed. It’s one of the more creepy aspects of social media that mostly leads to “gotchas” (“oh your account is only 2 months old? your opinion is invalid!”) and stalker-ish behavior – and one I wish fediverse had learned from instead of copied.

Cool. I remember a buddy showing it to me in his college dorm room. I was more interested in Unreal Tournament (which released a year later) at the time and probably couldn’t afford to buy another game anyway. But I was positively obsessed with Half Life 2 a few years later…

Okay, who downvoted this? Come clean, buster. My opinion about a video game is objective fact and you must agree with it.

Starfield bad

Factorio would cost me $370

For years I’ve been wanting a simulator simulator simulator. It’s like those simulator simulator games you’ve played except it’s simulating the next level up, playing the people who built the simulator simulator.

Not quite the same, but Snowrunner does detailed mud simulation well… and you get to drive various vehicles through it

Dyson Sphere Program. Factorio and Satisfactory tend to get all the press, but DSP is AMAZING.

• They learned a lot of quality of life lessons from older factory games and built them in, e.g. you get bots right away.
• The visuals can be breathtaking: not because it’s raytracing/whatever fancy tech, but simply the scale of the game: giant gas planet rises at the horizon, etc. – and you can fly to just about everything you see. Star 5 light years away? You can fly to it and visits its planets and moons, and then ship stuff between your home system and the new system
• It does power exceptionally well: there are a ton of power sources (https://dsp-wiki.com/Energy_Sources#List_of_Fuels), and a lot of depth in figuring out how to power your mega factories. You can even charge up a battery and ship it by spaceship to another moon/planet. Going back to Factorio’s simplistic steam/solar/nuclear power feels like a let down (of course, Factorio has its strengths, like trains and extreme polish).

It’s in early access, but it’s one of the most polished early-access games you’ll find. They’re currently working on a large combat update that should drop in December. Price-to-value ratio is ridiculous. It’s $20 and I have 155 hours in the game.