cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49514337

Their compatibility list notes 75.33% are Playable, 22.93% can go in-game but not be finished and only 1.69% can't get past the intro.

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[–] 5 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

Cool, thank you satisfying my curiosity! Wouldn't have thought of mineral surveying crossed with tech, though not surprising eh, not something I come across personally I guess.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Since we're already drifting off topic - all big tech companies make a lot of money by selling hardware, compute, or some other service to the oil and gas industry, they just don't go out bragging about it. Before the AI boom the oil and gas industry was among the biggest customers of the tech industry, just a quick search gives:

    https://www.amd.com/en/solutions/energy.html

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/energy-resources/oil-gas

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/energy/oil-gas-operations/

    https://cloud.google.com/solutions/energy/oil-gas

    https://www.ibm.com/industries/oil-gas

    https://www.intel.co.uk/content/dam/www/central-libraries/us/en/documents/2025-06/aramco-executive-brief.pdf

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Yeah, the prospecting industry includes mining and oil/gas. I'm in the former. In the past, if you went to a trade convention, the oil/gas side would take up at least 2/3 of the floor space, but that's kind of flipping around now. The electrification of the economy is bringing metals to the fore.

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