Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers

Re:Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers by jpcookie on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:54PM (#42554458)

Factorio is literally the worst game on earth. Stop giving it so much airtime

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Re:Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers by endigma on Monday December 30, 2024 @06:39PM (#42554847)

Don’t click into posts just to comment empty ragebait dude, actually grim if this is your passtime

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Re:Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers by DonHopkins on Monday December 30, 2024 @07:28PM (#42555147)

Obviously this dude's never played ET on the Atari 2600!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsQmYRfynw

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Re:Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers by lupusreal on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @09:41AM (#42558950)

It's no Berzerk, but ET isn't really so bad as people meme it.

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Re:Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers by fxwin on Monday December 30, 2024 @06:05PM (#42554596)

Eh, i can think of worse ones. Quite a lot of those actually

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Re:Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers by jpcookie on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:01PM (#42591966)

It's "optimizing things to prove you are smrt" (yes that was deliberate). Playing a complicated game only proves you are wasting your time. For half that effort you can learn something helpful

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Re:Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers by fxwin on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:24PM (#42657685)

calling factorio the worst videogame implies you think there are good games out there to play - which ones would that be? (And why wouldn't those also be a waste of time?)

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