GreyDuck
@greyduck.bsky.social
Just a little grey duck in a big grey world. He/him. (Not to be mistaken for ho/hum.) If I have a "main topic" it's the game #Satisfactory. My main textual output is (or should be, if I'm behaving myself) over at my not-a-blog: https://greyduck.net
I'm a day early on completing my Heavy Modular Frame facility, or at least bringing it online, in #Satisfactory. This means I can take my time doing the weekly write-up tomorrow, and then figure out my next steps. I'm *quite* pleased with how it turned out!
November 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I'm a day early on completing my Heavy Modular Frame facility, or at least bringing it online, in #Satisfactory. This means I can take my time doing the weekly write-up tomorrow, and then figure out my next steps. I'm *quite* pleased with how it turned out!
Did I bite off more than I can chew with this new factory build in #Satisfactory? Maybe, but so far I'm sticking to my principles: Make it walkable, leave plenty of room, and put the spaghetti in a logistics floor (except for at the smelters). It should look great when complete... I hope.
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Did I bite off more than I can chew with this new factory build in #Satisfactory? Maybe, but so far I'm sticking to my principles: Make it walkable, leave plenty of room, and put the spaghetti in a logistics floor (except for at the smelters). It should look great when complete... I hope.
Once again, #Satisfactory helps distract me from The Everythingness Of It All, and I've finally hit my favorite part of any new save: I can make a railway network! First up: Rubber and plastic to the Quickwire site to make Computers... at a later date. Down tools for tonight though.
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Once again, #Satisfactory helps distract me from The Everythingness Of It All, and I've finally hit my favorite part of any new save: I can make a railway network! First up: Rubber and plastic to the Quickwire site to make Computers... at a later date. Down tools for tonight though.
Not bad for ~3 hours, including earning the onboarding achievement (for "building" the Hub instead of jumping right into the first milestones): The only early-game stuff we didn't get done was the space elevator itself. (Er, whoopsie?) Oh, and the useless jump pads. #Satisfactory
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Not bad for ~3 hours, including earning the onboarding achievement (for "building" the Hub instead of jumping right into the first milestones): The only early-game stuff we didn't get done was the space elevator itself. (Er, whoopsie?) Oh, and the useless jump pads. #Satisfactory
A few items from the bookshelf for #SundayPixWombat37 selected purely at random I assure you:
October 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
A few items from the bookshelf for #SundayPixWombat37 selected purely at random I assure you:
Battle Tapes, 'Polygon'. I'd have picked the newer album, 'Texture', but there's one (1) song on that record I sometimes skip.
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Battle Tapes, 'Polygon'. I'd have picked the newer album, 'Texture', but there's one (1) song on that record I sometimes skip.
Ask me a different day and get a different answer, but I'll also stand behind this particular answer until the Sun burns out.
October 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Ask me a different day and get a different answer, but I'll also stand behind this particular answer until the Sun burns out.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
October 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
The word "changed" seems the wrong choice for this utterly useless error message, Axcient.
![Error message which reads, "The health status of appliance [name redacted] changed from warned to warned."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:55n4nhkcgvadrimff3myqvmw/bafkreid4dtyxpfsh7swac6t62ku47rj4oa3cxqvwwr3wwqm6zfrt4rjxai@jpeg)
October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The word "changed" seems the wrong choice for this utterly useless error message, Axcient.
Spent the day mostly playing #Satisfactory and keeping an eye on a couple of work-related situations (I'm on-call this week). Main accomplishment? Coal power, which is always the biggest "sigh of relief" milestone to reach in a new save. Next? I need SAM ore and a proper ironworks.
October 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Spent the day mostly playing #Satisfactory and keeping an eye on a couple of work-related situations (I'm on-call this week). Main accomplishment? Coal power, which is always the biggest "sigh of relief" milestone to reach in a new save. Next? I need SAM ore and a proper ironworks.
4.5 hours into my new #Satisfactory save and I've got the first space elevator shipment up. Plus, I got Iron Wire and Cast Screws from my first drop pod hard drives. SWEET. Next? Coal power, please and thank you.
October 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
4.5 hours into my new #Satisfactory save and I've got the first space elevator shipment up. Plus, I got Iron Wire and Cast Screws from my first drop pod hard drives. SWEET. Next? Coal power, please and thank you.
Tonight's #Satisfactory time was prep time in my old save for when I unlock trains in my new save. Thanks to work done by and guidance from @newbiespud.bsky.social I have a working blueprinted roundabout setup. This pleases me greatly.
October 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Tonight's #Satisfactory time was prep time in my old save for when I unlock trains in my new save. Thanks to work done by and guidance from @newbiespud.bsky.social I have a working blueprinted roundabout setup. This pleases me greatly.
I apologize for nothing. Absolutely nothing. #Satisfactory
September 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I apologize for nothing. Absolutely nothing. #Satisfactory
I actually played some #Satisfactory for the first time in... a while. (Look, sometimes you need a break.) Tonight I got started on a plan for fully automating SAM Fluctuator production, something I should've done ages ago... whoops.
September 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I actually played some #Satisfactory for the first time in... a while. (Look, sometimes you need a break.) Tonight I got started on a plan for fully automating SAM Fluctuator production, something I should've done ages ago... whoops.
A "perfect album from the 1990s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam" is pretty easy, honestly. Right off the top of my head? Midnight Oil's 'Redneck Wonderland'.
September 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A "perfect album from the 1990s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam" is pretty easy, honestly. Right off the top of my head? Midnight Oil's 'Redneck Wonderland'.
We have...reinvented the QWERTY keyboard phone?
August 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We have...reinvented the QWERTY keyboard phone?
When in doubt: Placid Plastic Duck Simulator.
August 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
When in doubt: Placid Plastic Duck Simulator.
My first #Satisfactory 1.x "final phase" item production is under way, now that I make "golden Toblerones"... I mean, "Ficsit Trigons." Next session? "Time Crystals," and I'm sure nobody from Gallifrey will interfere with that project for any reason.
August 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My first #Satisfactory 1.x "final phase" item production is under way, now that I make "golden Toblerones"... I mean, "Ficsit Trigons." Next session? "Time Crystals," and I'm sure nobody from Gallifrey will interfere with that project for any reason.
Two hundred thirty four (and a half) hours into my #Satisfactory 1.x save and I finally sent up the Phase 4 shipment.
Oh, and I unbuggered the rail network after the new cross-connect I installed a few nights ago created havoc due to my mixed-up usage of Path and Block signals. D'oh.
Oh, and I unbuggered the rail network after the new cross-connect I installed a few nights ago created havoc due to my mixed-up usage of Path and Block signals. D'oh.
July 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Two hundred thirty four (and a half) hours into my #Satisfactory 1.x save and I finally sent up the Phase 4 shipment.
Oh, and I unbuggered the rail network after the new cross-connect I installed a few nights ago created havoc due to my mixed-up usage of Path and Block signals. D'oh.
Oh, and I unbuggered the rail network after the new cross-connect I installed a few nights ago created havoc due to my mixed-up usage of Path and Block signals. D'oh.
Whoops. Intern-kun forgot to replace the placeholder text with the mail-merge hooks. Nice work, @crunchyroll.com.
("Can you top those numbers?" CR, those numbers are literally IMPOSSIBLE. You dingbats.)
("Can you top those numbers?" CR, those numbers are literally IMPOSSIBLE. You dingbats.)
July 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Whoops. Intern-kun forgot to replace the placeholder text with the mail-merge hooks. Nice work, @crunchyroll.com.
("Can you top those numbers?" CR, those numbers are literally IMPOSSIBLE. You dingbats.)
("Can you top those numbers?" CR, those numbers are literally IMPOSSIBLE. You dingbats.)
Coworker cooperative #Satisfactory session achieved! Motorworks is in progress and Heavy Modular Frames are now fully automated. Teamwork!
July 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Coworker cooperative #Satisfactory session achieved! Motorworks is in progress and Heavy Modular Frames are now fully automated. Teamwork!
Still waiting for the Phase 4 parts to finish building in my #Satisfactory solo game so I made a bunch of general mostly-train-related improvements, including a whole new shortcut/bypass using my latest support towers. Soon, though, Phase 4 will be complete!
July 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Still waiting for the Phase 4 parts to finish building in my #Satisfactory solo game so I made a bunch of general mostly-train-related improvements, including a whole new shortcut/bypass using my latest support towers. Soon, though, Phase 4 will be complete!