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  • Satisfactory: Upend Away

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    I am, once again, for the Nth time now (for differing values of ‘N’ depending on if you count all the multiplayer saves or not) back on my you-know-what.

    Satisfactory video game screenshot: Moments after placing the Hub building for the first time in a new save, the delivery pod comes in for a landing. It's a beautiful day in the grassy starting area of a new world.

    Yes, I’m leaving the “Quantum of Solids” save behind, possibly for good. (Before that came “New Clear Plan,” before that came “Choo Chooing Scenery,” before that was… “eSthetics,” I think?) After some agonizing over whether to start fresh again or not, then more agonizing over which starting zone to select, then further agonizing over arguably the most crucial decision (what to name the thing)… this afternoon I started a save titled, “Upend Away.”

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  • Satisfactory: Depots Change The Game

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    It’s been a month since my last post about Satisfactory, and to be honest I’ve been on a sort-of-break from the game while I wrestle with how to cross the finish line on my current somewhat-botched save. (The nuclear power plant is a mess, but replacing it would mean building a whole second one elsewhere, and the first one took long enough as it is! And that’s not the only problem.)

    I might yet start fresh soon. We’ll see. I’d have liked getting two FICSMAS events in a row out of one save but if I’m going to be miserable the whole time, why bother? But if I start fresh I want to kick that off before month end so I’m ready for presents to start falling out of the sky…

    Anyway: I’m here to talk about the Dimensional Depot and how its ability to make all sorts of materials available anywhere in the map changed one of my long-held snobby opinions about alternate recipes.

    Satisfactory video game screenshot: A blue hologram depicts where a Mk.3 Miner is about to get placed on an iron ore node. Below the hologram is a row of icons indicating what parts will be required to build the machine, and in what quantities.

    I have my coworkers to thank for this one, as it turns out.

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  • Rascal Does Not Dream Of Wrapping Things Up

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    Hey! Do you remember that “bunny-girl show” from a few years back?

    Anime screencap from "Rascal Does Not Dream Of Bunny-Girl Senpai" of a character, holding a book, standing in a library, staring at a girl in a bunny-girl outfit who's sitting on a reading table, absolutely ignored by the people reading at that table.

    Yeah, that one. It’s based on a light novel series whose final main story installment saw print late last year in Japan, the English translation of which is due early next year. Last night I picked up the penultimate volume… and this morning I discovered that a continuation animated series (following from the first animated series and subsequent movie releases) aired over the course of this past summer.

    (I’m annoyed that, as a fan of this property since the start of the first anime series, I didn’t even know the continuation series existed. Bad fan, no biscuit. I could’ve been watching the show all season long! Ah, well. Now I have something to catch up on.)

    The story is close to wrapping up, and reading the “…Girlfriend” installment (volume 14) makes me wonder how well the author is going to “stick the landing.”

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  • The Superfriends

    Fandango’s streaming site had the new Superman film on rental for fairly cheap last night so I decided to spend a couple of hours checking out the movie folks have been raving about for months now. There’s a lot to rave about, I’ll agree. With that said, there are also some things to rant about and my brain simply refuses to leave them alone. Like a dog worrying at a chewtoy, one might say.

    Still image from 2025 Superman film showing Krypto, the super-mutt.

    Please note that I’m going to have to spoil some major parts of the movie to talk about my issues with it properly. Also note that I’m not lambasting the movie as a whole. In general, it’s a fun flight of fancy with a lot of good stuff going on and it has great heart. (Most of the time.) It’s certainly an improvement over the dour, grimdark efforts of the last set of Supes movie outings.

    But.

    Let’s get into it.

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  • Guild Wars 2: Settling In

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    One of these days I’ll get back into playing one of the existing characters from before my 7-or-8-year break.

    Guild Wars 2 video game screenshot: Character select screen, focused on a red-colored plant-based character named Itzal Darque. Some character and account details are also shown, along with icons for the other dozen or so available characters in the account.

    Today is not that day, however.

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  • Satisfactory: Release +1 Year

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    I may wander off, I may restart time after time, I may abandon more saves than I finish… but I love this game as much now as I ever have. It’s gotten me through my diabetic years (and the pandemic years, both of which are ongoing) at least as much as any other piece of entertainment you could name, and moreso than most.

    This image uses one of the new screenshot Photo Mode filters added in version 1.1, the “Noire” filter in particular.

    Today marks the 1 year anniversary of Satisfactory’s version one point oh release. The reasons I keep coming back are varied and probably too many to count, but I’ll count some of them here anyway, in no particular order:

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