Good, it wasn't just me

He's probably deliberately not upping Factorio after the Twitter thing.

@@morganrobinson8042 What twitter thing?

@@morganrobinson8042 Twitter thing?

@@morganrobinson8042 people want to know. :p

^This guy gets it.

this should be higher

And an entire newspaper shows us once again that it is either stupid or corrupt, possibly both. They actually put a piece out from that saying they had stumped the climate activist, all I saw was an intelligent person dumbfounded by their idiocy.

All together now: -1...

I foresee no issues whatsoever with gridlock on the roads that deliver oxygen to everybody's houses.

It's their own fault for not inventing flying cars, when future started.

You can probably fix the gridlock with a one-way system!

@@ManyATrueNerd You hilarious, beautiful son of a gun

Has Jon never played the Anno series? This is a almost a pure clone.

Narrator: _Meanwhile in the U.S. of A..._ 😔 🦅🇺🇸

Looks like mag/lev cars. Which also didn't seem to put out any emissions....

@@henryviiifake8244 we do have 140K route miles of railroad in the USA, while per square mileage, we are lacking to the UK, it is nothing to snuff your nose at. It is a system 13x larger than your entire route mileage.

@@dobermannrx7 I’d love to see the statistics for mass of cargo and/or people moved per year per route mile though

@@joshuakelley7122 28% of tonnage is moved by railway in the US. 40% is trucking, 18%is pipeline, and almost 7% is waterway. The other approximate 5% is a combination. That is opposed to 9% by rail, 13% by waterway, and 79% by roadway in the UK. These are just freight statistics, which obviously skew in the US Favor. Our people movers are woefully farther and fewer between. But don't discount the US Railway!

Lol, spaghetti roads?

This.

I mean technically they are both wrong as it was originally alumium.

Well it was aluminum before it was aluminium. Merriam Webster heard about it while he was in Europe and sailed back to the US while it was still aluminum. By the time aluminium became popular over there, America had already been using aluminum for a while. Thank the great big ocean between the two continents and the attitude of not caring about Europe for our differing use of the word.

@@MatrixGuardians99 You call it "aluminum" because your brains are NUMB to any spark of intelligence! :P

Alumium DOES sound better than either. It makes sense Brits use the longest version that feels the least good to speak though. They did get that accent in the 19th century when the nobility started speaking with clipped Rs to sound posh. The closest spoken today to colonial age English is either in Boston or Apilatia with that long drawled R.

@@MatrixGuardians99 Didn't know that, cheers. But how do you explain Yanks completely dropping the L from solder?

Hey, random smile for you. Also, do you ever watch any Yoyoka drum covers? She's about as pure Joy as you can find these days. I highly recommend.

Workers and resources... you do realise that's exactly how capitalism also works. lol

@@user-yv2cz8oj1k I mean fair, but that's pretty much how anything works, isn't it? Labour and nature being the two sources of wealth and all. Surely it's 'just' a question of how a society chooses - though not within the conditions of its choosing, naturally - to organise production and distribution, and whether nature is considered a cheap thing to be simply exploited or whether its reproduction is itself taken to be a part of the productive process.

@@user-yv2cz8oj1k Its a game title.

These kind of games are always fun 👍🏼

you can get roundabouts

This comment reminds me that Unto The End has British, American and Canadian language options. It's truly brilliant.

When he said that, I was blown away. It feels complete, and the devs are saying, “wait, there’s more!”

It’s really pretty remarkable for how early it is. After playing a little bit, i think it does need some meaningful polish, but that’s what early access is all about. For example, the visualization layers feel like placeholders at the moment. I’m really excited to see where this game goes. It’s so far up my alley.

Yeah if I had to describe this game in one word it'd be FactoriAnno

Also very similar to the mechanics from Sierra Entertainment's line of city building games(Caesar 1-4, Pharoh, Zeus: Master of Olympus; and Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom). The main difference, at least based on the quick look here, is that this one seems to be 100% about shippable commodities, including for stuff like parks and culture; while the Sierra ones had housing development tied to a combination of supplying goods, which could be shipped, and maintaining desirability; which was service radius/nuisance radius based, with extra fun when the elite classes started objecting to having to be near the buildings that produced the commodities they demanded.

I stopped watching for a few months. Come back and sure enough, he has me opening the Steam store.

I just saw another video on this game where i discovered that the road building mechanics are also much more in depth than john showed here as well. I am very intrigued, to say the least

I think he just misspoke since he said the colored research pakages reminded him of Satisfactory and Satisfactory doesn't even have science packs like Factorio

Would you say you've had your eye on this for a while?

I'm guessing if they used an actual concrete recipe, someone will try it, screw up, and then blame them. That, or they wanted to be consistent.

Concrete made of Mars soil and sulphur is actually a thing scientists have been looking into, as a new building material that makes use of what's available on the surface of mars. So the concrete is realistic! Much more so than the science factory where the science workers turn iron and carbon into pure science

You need the iron to make the cup and the carbon to make the coffee (plus water and air). Sounds like pure science to me.

@@xen-42 Ah, it's SPAAACE concrete! Thanks for the info, I didn't know that.

It's an abstraction to simplify things. It makes the game less mind-numbingly complicated because real life stuff is extremely complex to make. The production of steel NEEDS oxygen to remove impurities, and that's before you add stuff back in like vanadium, chromium, manganese, or nickle for all sorts of specialist uses. In most games you just get a generic "steel". Electronics is a broad term that encompasses all sorts of things (resistors, capacitors, diodes, thyristors, thermistors, transistors, etc.) that all require more than just copper and iron to make. And that's before you start asking what exactly they're using to keep the electronics properly insulated from each other. Semiconductors require all sorts of elements in small amounts to function properly. In real life plastics, drugs and explosives are a mess because organic chemistry is a mess. Games just abstract and simplify ALL of this because otherwise it just isn't very fun.

It's a plot between Jon and the game devs. He plays the games so badly his viewers *have* to buy the game to see it done properly. It worked on me with Skylines.

Please, Jon, take no offense from my repeated trolling. I'm rarely called subtle, or gentle, but rather direct and strait.