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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I was a kid when all the Maxis “sim” games were out, like SimCity 2000 and SimFarm. What I really wanted at the time was a sim factory. I wanted to set up production lines, figure out material needs, build out logistics. But I figured I would be the only person who had fun with that sort of game.

    Then one day around 2014 I’m a grown man poking through the Steam store and I see this simple looking little game about setting up factories and production lines, and I thought it might be entertaining for a bit. But I was wrong. I have never been nerd-sniped as effectively as I was when I first tried Factorio.




  • I tried to plant five seed potatoes in 2017. I ended up with maybe two pounds of little potatoes. So the next year I planted more. And kept planting after that, along with a bunch of other veggies.

    In 2024 I ended up with several milk crates full of potatoes that I ended up giving away to anyone who asked, tons of tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, onions, lettuce, cabbage… I moved in the middle of the planting season in 2025 and didn’t get much growing, but I’m already working on the garden for 2026…

    Just plant something. There are hours of videos and probably thousands of books written over hundreds of years that explain how to make things grow, and learning how to keep stuff alive is half the fun.