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The best part is the minifactory at the bottom of the page. Completely nuts to launch a rocket in that small of a space in that little time. Everyone should scroll down and check it out if you haven't.

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Most of my enjoyment of factorio has been watching the factories of other people. I have been playing industrial games for ten years and I still stumble through the game that’s primarily based around discovery. Seeing what thousands of hours can accomplish is inspirational.

DaveMcW regularly does amazing and unbelievable things in Factorio, like the in-game video screen[1]. Whereas I am happy to muddle half a dozen combinators together with my lazy head on - to control a level display, delivery buffer, or turn off specific features etc.

I just hope he doesn't decide to turn his hand to self-aware general AI. :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgfwwqwxdxY

How in the... That's amazing. How is the video itself even "stored"? Does this require a mod?

Just like memory cells are made IRL electronics using latches, you can make memory cells in Factorio using combinators :

https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Combinator_tutorial#Memor...

Surely this is a top gaming achievement of all time.

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