18:06:31mintyoh goddamn i hit a patch of red pepper in the food that didn't mix in well
18:07:21mintywell, what are your thoughts on tonight? would gingy be stream? is pincers alive? would you stream? would you hypothetically want to play something?
18:09:58gingeraleI figured I'd not stream after already messing it up two days in a row. I feel like I'd just be a bother. I'll swap Sunday's Mario to Snoops.
18:10:26shinmerabut I want to see you snoop tonight
18:11:06mintyfuuuuuuck now that i have food in my stomach i wanna lay down n nap
18:16:31shinmeraIt's gotta be the full name c'mon :colbert:
18:17:22mintyblackthorn's my favorite wood type. the irish use it to make their shillelahs out of. i have a few sticks of it i've been meaning to carve into hair sticks
18:17:53mintyand i've used the sloe berries they produce for alchemy
18:18:21mintyFINE it'll be the whole name but ima just call it blackthorn for short
18:21:49mintyoohh i should call the white bunny hawthorn then
19:47:01gingeraleDoes it give any error messages when you restart the daemon?
19:48:06mintydownloaded teamviewer n it says "same version is available in a software channel. you are recommended to install the software from the channel instead"
20:16:04mintyi know and THAT's the part that sucks for me. cuz i can just tell you right in here like "lol game won't start" but you're not getting crash reports cuz it won't open
20:16:11gingeraleDynamic library version mismatches.
20:16:36shinmeraglibc in general is a fucking horror
20:17:07shinmeraminty: I assumed it was a version compatibility thing like it turned out to be, I just wasn't entirely certain what version you were running.
20:19:31gingeraleDecided to update Factorio. Long Reach and Squeak Through no longer have compatible versions to them.
20:35:17mintynext week is the last week of my class
20:35:28mintyi don't have a ton of schoolwork left
20:35:53mintybut i'd like to get my book reports n stuff done by sunday so i only have response posts
20:36:40mintybut after that i won't have to do any schoolwork til the summer course starts on the 7th
20:37:34mintyso, plush sewing, coding book, n harassing you nerds
20:40:37gingeraleThe basic idea of Factorio is that you've crashlanded your space ship to a beautiful and pristinely clean planet. So you start tearing down its forests, digging its minerals, and burning its fossil fuels to build a factory capable of making you a space rocket.
20:41:50shinmeraObviously this pollutes the planet which pisses off its inhabitants. So you develop weapons of mass destruction along the way.
20:42:52gingeraleThough you can use green energy but it's so much less efficient, you'd probably have to build things by hand rather than automating everything.
20:43:09shinmeraThe core game loop is about figuring out how to make your factories as efficient and compact as possible. As I said, a very :spergin: game.
20:46:36gingeraleIt also lets you research and build trains.
20:46:55gingeraleThough they do come with manual control as well.
20:49:29gingeraleTrain optimisation is rough. To keep things neat and free of deadlocks you should keep as many rail lines one direction only, but pulling two rail lines is so much more work.
21:16:11mintygooooooooood if i wanted to see a landscape destroyed by overlogging i could just drive down the street
21:19:12gingeraleIt does give a very good environmentalist message. I've heard some people talk how they got really careful with the pollution once they realised that you're the alien, rather than the giant insectoids being that.