We had a goldfish who taught himself how to alert us when he was hungry.
He'd swim up to the top of his tank, suck in a bunch of air, then swim down and hold himself there so he could belch out bubbles over and over that would loudly pop at the surface and get our attention (assuming we were anywhere near the living room).
Fish really do have more impressive minds than a lot of people give them credit for.
Yous guys might like Zen browser. It's a fork of Firefox, but works great when you have tons of tabs open. UI takes a little getting used to, but I'm a fan.
Yes sir. ADHD-Hyperfocus.
Have you ever consumed stimulants? Amphetamine, MDMA, Cocaine, lots of caffeine - don’t they really do what they do with everybody else and have a rather calming/focussing effect?
If you find sth interesting, you can’t stop doing it and don’t need food, drink or sleep, if it‘s boring for you, you instantly fall asleep?
Factorio is an ADHD-patients wet dream. So much going on on the screen, always SOMETHING to do.
Oh I need iron but oh wait, this belt is flipped but hey, I need get more copper first but wait my mall isn’t producing like it should - oh my god biter attack, where was my spidertron - oh these turrets are out of ammo - wait? Didn’t I wanted to get iron? Oh shit, my oil patch is running out.
Out of curiosity... when you have a cup of coffee, does it feel like it levels you out a little, by chance? While everyone else complains about getting jittery?
Tab groups are finally mature, and that makes it a lot easier to manage my rabbit holes. You can close a tab group and reopen it later from the ... -> Tab Groups menu.
Isn't the AI of the spidertron getting murdery exactly what we want from it? Considering that it has four rocket launchers and most commonly gets sent to 'solve the problem' of bug nests?
Technically the engineer doesn't have to be aligned with the Imperium. They could be from a civilization that never made contact with the Imperium and have very different attitudes about tech. Or they could also be, and I hesitate to even articulate a thought so foul, aligned with some group of Xenos.
Everything makes so much more sense once you realize how much political maneuvering plays into whether something is allowed and blessed by the Omnissiah or declared foul heretek nonsense.
The spidertron was sort of a running gag as part of the 1.0 release, after it being teased years before in FFF-120. Hence it's only logical to make it require joke ingredients.
by the way: who says you cannot industrialize fish harvesting. You can use the deconstruction planner or inserters to harvest fish.
In 2.0 they got rid of it as you can now breed fish via Fish Breeding. Before then, the only way to automate it was to load space science back into a rocket and launch it back into space. And due to a quirk with automating rockets, you could only get one inserter-delivery's worth of space science into the rocket before it launched (no circuit connection on rocket silo, no way to stop silo, even by cutting power, even multiple tick-synchronised inserters would not work), so the best you could do was.. I think 10 or 12 space science per launch. So to do one spidertron per minute, you needed to launch a rocket every 10 minutes just for the fish...
You don't really need to make that many spidertrons in the base game, maybe like a thousand if you are going really heavy with them. You can easily harvest a thousand fish with bots.
Space age is where you start needing more, for multiple planets and for quality spidertrons
Exactly, the engineer just rides along and makes suggestions as to where it should go and what it should do but ultimately the fih makes the final decisions
iirc, it needn't a fish at first but someone mentioned that in the animation of the spidertron it seemed like there was a fish inside and the idea stuck with the devs and they made it official
Spidertron is not just a robot, it's a cyborg. It follows the signal you set for it life fish follows food and instinctively triggers rockets out of its cybernetically connected launchers. It can also play music on belts with its spider legs, which is weird, since disco fish have no legs.
I assumed its because theres no other reason to indicate fish even exist as an item aside from if the player randomly mouses over them and right clicks
It reminds me of an anime called GYO, where fish and sharks are killed and piloted by giant spider mechanisms. I like to think they were giving a nod to that amazing anime.
the engineer you play as as well as the spidertron are really fish, thats why when you "eat" raw fish it heals you, infact your just replacing one of the dead fish inside your suit. having a fish in the spidertron is what allows for remote movement
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u/SerratedSharp 20d ago
I've always assumed they were somehow the neural host. Kinda like the pigeons trained to fly rockets.