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Jeremy Laird

Running Factorio from over 1,000 floppy disks is a masochistically manual process that surely sets a new record for game load times

In this age where AI threatens to do everything for us, robbing the human race of agency, is there a certain masochistic appeal in intentionally and needlessly making something much more complicated and manual than usual?

That'll a be a huge, 50-storey, fully-carpeted yep according to YouTuber DocJade. He decided that installing and running the construction and management simulation game, Factorio, on a hard drive, like a normal human, is far too straight forward. So, why not use 3.5-inch floppy disks. Like, over a thousand of 'em.

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