Could be very high, even the waste heat from the compression could be used to achieve more compression and turbines get to above 90%, that all depends on the scales they’re building this at. 70% overall doesn’t seem unrealistic as an educated guess.

Highly recommend it. Although slight warning, you go to 4 new planets with different mechanics, and one is a “hate it or love it” situation. I loved it, but clearly a significant number of people didn’t.

Sounds good, good luck to the dev!

• factorio space age: it’s the best for a reason, but there are a few things that irk me. There is a “pick any of 3 paths to go first but you have to do all 3” kind of choice. And unlike RPGs you don’t really get all that much from each choice, so there isn’t much to optimize in that way, it doesn’t result in different builds. Space age 2.0.X still has a few issues, the UI for the actual space part is pretty bad and while that’s not a space age feature, the way they do logic programming is easy for simple things but takes up too much space and is too difficult to set up for slightly smarter setups, so there is no reward for doing those.
• mindustry (purple planet): It does way better spacial puzzles than factorio. In factorio you have “too much” space or it’s too free form. You can pretty much build the way you want. Mindustry has more basic resources you have to mine in specific places, enemies are coming from a distinct direction and you have a lot less space to lay out your factory, so you have to make more choices. I liked that.
• hollow knight: I did see a playthrough years ago and was mad that I spoilered myself. Played it, and had forgotten enough that pretty much everything was new again. Great game, 10/10.
• hollow knight silksong: also played it, has it’s moments, ultimately I didn’t like it. Writing, mechanics, when stuff is available to find… there are some weird choices and imo regressions from hollow knight. Great soundtrack and it does deserve the goty award it got.

All the stuff I enjoyed is gone, and everything they make now seems so empty and pessimistic now.

Eeeeeh. First of all, all the stuff you liked is still there.

But also good stuff is rare. You really need to know where to look and which tips to follow. For example, if you disregard anime as a whole, you’ve probably missed absolute 10/10 media experiences you can’t find anywhere else. Sometimes it’s about leaving your comfort zone and trying something new.

But then also, about the only really good star wars content we got in the last… 30 years is Ep. 3, the clone wars animated series (later seasons) and Andor. And they made SO MUCH.

Also, maybe you should make your own. If you like the old stuff so much, try to make it yourself and give it a spin. get close to it, recapture, reinterpret, re-imagine. Maybe you’ll do that for 15 years, go back to your inspiration and find that your “imitation” has surpassed it.

Necessity is the mother of invention. If you’re bored make your own.

You have all the blueprints for the stuff you like. What else are you going to do? You can watch reruns, of course… not sure if it will be equally satisfying though.

Games that are turn based or allow you to pause or control speed:

• xcom
• city builders
• sims
• anno
• paradox games (probably just stellaris since that has difficulty settings)
• cRPGs
• card games like slay the spire

also

• minecraft
• mmos that don’t require you to think, guildwars 2 just let’s you run around and auto attack that’s pretty effective…

The thing that’s crazy here, and that imo clearly shows that this is a 100% political, manipulative move, is that it’s a court. They don’t just grab people and declare people guilty or flip coins or something. A trial can end in a “not guilty” verdict. That’s the point.

There is only one reason to threaten a court: if you already know beyond any doubt that whoever is accused of something is guilty AND you don’t like the outcome and consequences of a guilty verdict.

I mean, you have to modify it of course. You can’t literally blame cloudflare.

But you can modify everything so that it’s a funny joke that still looks like the cloudflare error that people know.

I came ready to hate with bias because I often don’t like wrappers, but at least the .format seems like an objective improvement.

But I never understood why matplotlib insists on ax, fig and that’s still in there…

Directly working with matplotlib classes tends to be more clear and concise than pyplot, makes things easier when working with multiple figures and axes, and is certainly more “pythonic”.

I disagree.

Looks like a solid project overall! Thanks for your effort!

Oh yeah. My favorite (and only) plugin so far is the https://github.com/twibiral/obsidian-execute-code

Let me explain: Obsidian is basically a very fancy wrapper around a folder with markdown files in it. (which makes it git compatible, which is one of the upsides). In Markdown, you can define codeblocks, with syntax highlighting, because of course you can, programmers will improve their own tools first. Now, there are two cases when you would do this:

1. you want to execute the code because it’s actually driving something. Like some kind of interactive, “this is the manual, but also, you can just do it right away by executing this code” and then they give you the code.
2. you’re actually building it as a document, and you want something in your document that is actually the output of some program that’s producing some output. Like… analyzing numbers and creating a graph. You can now just put the code in the document, hit “execute” and you get your output in the document right then and there. And that concept isn’t new, it’s what “jupyter” also does, but jupyter uses a weird bytecode, xml zip format or something, in obisidian, because of the markdown base, it stays just code. (which again, makes it git compatible where jupyter isn’t) AND you can do it not just with python but with…

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Python
• R
• C++
• C
• Java
• SQL
• LaTeX
• CSharp
• Dart
• Lua
• Lean
• Shell
• Powershell
• Batch
• Prolog
• Groovy
• Golang
• Rust
• Kotlin
• Wolfram Mathematica
• Haskell
• Scala
• Racket
• Ruby
• PHP
• Octave
• Maxima
• OCaml
• Swift

“new”?

The fediverse is really nice. Some cool advances in programming, but nothing major.

Obsidian is really nice, with plugins can do virtually everything you’d want from a note taking or even writing app.

localsend is a syncing/sending solution via wifi for smartphones or computers in the same network.

the interview that was mentioned:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/after-40-years-of-adventure-games-ron-gilbert-pivots-to-outrunning-death/

In practice these won’t be concerns. “Usually” if it’s an important project, the distribution is not based around github. It’s pypi for python or npm for js, or a package distributor on linux, or a store or whatever.

A weird mixed setup would be providing some kind of signed object through torrents, don’t know how that works in practice, but that would avoid stressing your own internet too much.

Yes, you will lose some “driveby” error reports from people who don’t want to make a codeberg account to report the bug on. But then they don’t actually “need” need it solved either.

Make it a single source of truth, point to the new repo in the old one and update the descriptions in the distributing websites/services and that’s it.

No, or rather, that doesn’t matter.

I would say I didn’t have a good grasp on reality and what I wanted until my late twenties. Your perspective will continue to change, just as it has from when you were ten to now. Maybe your marriage will struggle with the changes (in both of you). So waiting is an option. But then again, I know people who fell in love at 15, married and are happily married 20 years later. Maybe that’s you maybe it isn’t. The internet doesn’t know.

All you need to be aware of is that marrying isn’t just something you say, it also comes with legal complications. A divorce isn’t as simple as teen breakup.

Good luck though!

I’m working on a game like that, but it’s far from completion.

To add to what the other guy said, Supreme commander allowed your units to synchronize shots, for example for the big guns on battleships, useful for punching through shields.

They also allowed you to queue orders, display them and then edit them. So you could set up one big patrol path for 100s of helis and fighters and defend your territory that way, and when you want to expand you can drag the patrol points and all of those 100s of units would automatically adjust.

Also there were heli transports with lift and drop points and you could use that to ferry units quicker than they would walk. So you could set the drop point closely behind the frontlines and advance the drop point with the front line, allowing for quicker resupply of troops.

Quite a bit more advanced than you would see in starcraft or AoE2 overall.

Most MMOs are that btw., if you haven’t played any. Lots and lots of minigames.

That looks amazing.

I wish I liked the overall experience. I don’t think you’ve done anything wrong, quite the opposite, it’s just not my genre. I think I got the the first mount & blade on gog and the core loop of the battles just didn’t click for me.

The website mentions:

"Realistic Economy

See the availability of goods ebb and flow in a simulated feudal economy, where the price of everything from incense to warhorses fluctuates with supply and demand. Turn anarchy to your advantage by being the first to bring grain to a starving town after a siege or reopening a bandit-plagued caravan route."

But it’s relatively hard to find more material online about what that means, what it looks like (UI) and how it works. Can you maybe go into a bit more detail? On the website or maybe a feature trailer or something? Even a recommended creator content thing would be great. I care too much about economy and logistics.

I don’t really get it,

Sticking with the snail mail analogy, what happens when two pen pals keep sending mail to each other from their homes without including return addresses in their envelopes? The postal service might not know who exactly is sending each piece of mail but, over time, they would know that Address A in Lower Manhattan, New York, keeps on getting one-way mail from the post office in 3630 East Tremont Avenue, the Bronx, New York; and Address B in the Bronx keeps on getting one-way mail from the post office in 350 Canal Street, Lower Manhattan.

I mean, no, all they know is that they ALL users get one way mail all the time?

The “over time” in “but, over time, they would know that…” does a lot of heavy lifting. Would they? How would they know that?

Sure, if there were only two participants in the system, I would agree. But we have way more than 2 users on signal.

It’s not that lofty, it’s pretty much like the merrowingian put it in the second matrix movie: “cursing in french is like wiping your ass with silk” It’s not limited to cursing, some languages have unique expressions for some things that are more fitting. You have to lean into it and embrace it though, it’s like clothing or food, you have to want it and you have to enjoy it. There is no point in cooking yourself a fancy meal if you hate doing it and don’t particularly value good food. The same is true for practicing language.

I enjoy learning languages in a low pressure way. I didn’t enjoy it particularly in school.