After many years, knowing all too well that it’s the kind of game that would have driven me crazy, I started Factorio. I am indeed struggling not to have it swallow my life whole.

I went very far with it but gave up because I was feeling quite fatigued. I think I’m a bit after the underwater (?) Highway. It’s a fine game but I don’t have the patience for that kind of grind and repetition anymore

Honestly, I agree with you.

Of course, if someone offered to come by my house and set this all up for free I wouldn’t say no, but nowadays with a fast enough internet connection and the right tracker you’re a few keystrokes and maybe 15 minutes away from any movie or TV series you might feel like watching.

The 15/20 minutes saved don’t justify the massive work and maintenance to keep this all running.

Annihilation is a good book, but the hype it got is much more due to:

• the fact that it arrived at the peak of the new wave of interest for Weird lit,

• its (again, very timely) environmental spin to weird fiction,

• the fact that Vandermeer worked a lot to present himself as THE authority on Weird fiction, with his articles, collections, prefaces to reissues of older books and so forth.

Better upgrade to SSD

Came here to say this