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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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