Your options are:

Apple phone

Bloated android phone like Samsung etc.

Chinese android phone (xiami etc)

Google phone with Android

Google phone with graphene. This still looks like the best of those options.

Or no phone? I guess people are hardcore enough that will be the option.

Edit: I stand corrected.

List is horse shit

No Factorio.

The podcast company that makes the podcast.

When they make it, they put in an <advertising tag> in the locations during the podcast they want the advertising to be, then they sell the advertising space. If there is no local advert, it skips, if there is one, it pulls and plays that.

Mods. The hours come from that.

I started with just bobs mods. Vanilla takes me 15-30 hours. Bobs it’s about 60. If you have never tried mods, and want to make the game a little bit more (and have already finished vanilla), bobs is an excellent start.

Next is Bob + angels. Combined this dials up the complexity, base size, and forces you to think a bit more. 120 hours to finish

Seablock - this takes the above and forces you to work with no space at all - very cool. But long. 300 hours.

Space exploration. 500 hours for this.

I did 5500 hours, then stopped at the time of announcement.

This way it will be fresh n magical.

Dream of blue chips

Primer

The mystery is working out what’s going on. The answer is a way cooler outcome than what you thought going in.

This game is pain on purpose.

In similar fashion, downloaded dude where’s my car, over dialup, using at the time the latest tech method - a file download system that would split the file into 2mb chunks and download them in order.

It took like 4 days.

Or it could be voice lines for their other new game that is currently in “invite your friends” beta.

Yep.

I pirated Factorio way back when it first came out (0.72?) and I actually didn’t like it. It was… Bad.

A few months later someone suggested I give it another go, so I pirated it again. It was a lot better. Like way better. I did a couple of months and was like … this is soooo good I’m buying it.

I will pre buy the dlc the moment it’s available.

I’m at 5500 hours and haven’t played since Jan 2023…

I’m so fucked

I’ve booked 3 days haha.

I’ve not touched factorio since Jan 2023. 5500 hours till then.

Factorio DLC is going to break global productivity for a month when it’s released in October.

Another excellent example of this working is Factorio.

The original game doesn’t cost a fortune, it’s made by a small extremely dedicated team. They polished it so hard the shine made everything else look like vanta black. Playing Factorio ruins other games because the depth and quality of everything else is so poor in comparison.

The game came out in like 2013 early access. Full release completed in 2020. A decade after initial launch, they are going to offer a DLC, that will cost money.

Absolutely happy to pay for a DLC for that perfection.

I have a brother color laser + scanner. Love it.

I’ve had it for 8 years now, and so far it’s only on its second set of toners etc.

The only warning I give to brother printer owners is don’t leave them on. The capacitors in them aren’t the best and your printer will either not turn on without a long power off, or like mine it will turn on and off randomly all day and night.

So now I only turn it on at the wall when I need it, and unplug it after

Na I have a 2XL that I let sit for two years and it still charged fine.

I burn the garbage

Yep.

Google will spend more on a legal team working out how to prevent the lawsuits in the first place than they would be giving to Mozilla

Seems to be console only.

Bf4 PC lives on

The DLC will do very well.

It will be an insta buy for a significant percentage of the player base, and will also be overwhelmingly positive.