michael-online

> Factorio pretty much founded the factory video game genre

I feel very nerd sniped by this one! Factorio was heavily influenced by minecraft mods like industrialcraft2 which create factories inside of minecraft. Here's the factorio creator discussing it in 2013 https://forum.industrial-craft.net/thread/8845-factorio/

As usual, the ouroboros of culture continues, and now minecraft mods spend lots of time imitating factorio, as well as iterating from the same original seeds.

You might be interested in this, it plays villager hurt sounds when your terminal hits errors https://github.com/ProfessionalGriefer/terminal-villager

I've had it running for a long time and it's more surprising to me to accidentally here the default ding when I'm away from my home machine.

Here it is! Using the classic doom https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

Keep building and keep sharing. My personal interest in this domain is to build a small screensaver & graphics toys demo pack to share with friends. Trouble is how to share it these days. Asking someone to download a desktop app might be too 90s for most. A browser extension? A website? I would love to help inspire the wanderlust that computers and the internet provide.

I love it. Screensavers are special to me and I've been building some custom ones for myself this year. Sadly the windows bubbles screensaver this is imitating no longer has its original beauty. Microsoft now fully covers your screen with your accent color before starting the screensaver, so no more desktop image effects work.

Source? Sounds like a conversation I want to hear more of.

What a fun project, thanks for sharing. I've dreamed of projects like this. What did you expect to learn from this project? Did you learn anything unexpected?

Thanks for sharing! I like this collection a lot.

I love the spirit here, but the limitations on iOS are not the limitations of the medium. Mobile computing has lots of interesting and inspiring limitations, we don't need apple to draw artificial squircles we can't cross in an api.

The first three minutes of this Ira Glass interview are pure gold, and I listen to them at least once a year to remind myself to keep fighting.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE

This looks awesome! I never finished working the book and I regret it. Can't wait to try even more of this out.

There's a clip of Sid running one of these exact machines here https://youtu.be/XwUM33VJRbY?t=605&si=O_D66Uasv2iJD0JY

If youtube is to be believed, thumbnails make a dramatic difference to first-glance engagement. A model trained to find great(by what metrics?) screenshots from the film sounds like a fun project.

All the incentives are there, not too surprising. What percentage of people will notice? How long until only a trained eye will recognize it?

It's distracting and hard to read, I agree.

This excites me to consider using it as a design tool. When trying to design a game with a more large pareto front of fun and viable builds.

I agree, I'm in awe of SideFX and have a lot of respect.

They've proven you can do a lot by being in touch with your users and being half-decent at what you're doing.

Your mac can already do this for usd files fyi