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someone made the most ADDICTIVE game to learn DATA CENTER networking its called Data Center, $6 game, you start with bare floors, buy racks, mount servers, route every cable by hand the INSANE part, every customers traffic shows as colored balls rolling through your cables... you literally see bottlenecks... show more
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video games in 2026 are about working

I sent this to my team over UDP but I'm not sure if they got it.

Interviewer: "What are your qualifications?" Interviewee: "I'm a level 8 on Data Center with 3 network badges." Interviewer: "Sounds important, when can you start?"

sounds like a fun way to get into networking. interactive learning hits different. I need a break from spreadsheets.

i learned more about the american revolution from assassins creed than i did from my middle school history class. not really saying much, but i think games can make otherwise boring topics into fun, engaging learning experiences if they’re done right

I think you will like this too

its not a SIM they are actually cabling a data center,, do these tards not understand what they are doing is training a model to replace teh people who do this ROFLMAO

the fact that it costs $6 instead of $600 and teaches more than most enterprise training programs is kind of wild ngl

Where's the part where youre precariously standing on top of a 6 foot ladder reaching through a 10 foot high drop ceiling trying to get fiberglass rods over j hooks through insulation and a bunch of leftover building material like ceiling tiles and old wires

Which level has you telling the “GOATED NETWORK ENGINEER” that BGP with BFD is all you actually need but the dummfuk insists on OSPF being added and now everything breaks if a single MTU setting is off Oh wait that’s my actual life

Oh good, now every kid with a cybersecurity degree can say they built their own data center as well as minecraft server…

I work in a data center. Most of our rollouts are with pre-racked, pre-cabled devices that we spool up for whatever function is needed. The old days were racking and stacking and then cabling. Most modern datacenters have moved away from this.

#recKaemend

They are calling it bridges: The Final Frontier

If anyone wants a job doing this in Texas DM me. My company does this

I work doing this in IRL why would I want to do it in a game? Proceeds to install the game to try it!!!

seeing traffic as colored balls rolling through your cables is such a clever way to make networking fun to learn

Is it multiplayer with Subcontracting DLC?

this is the future of learning. gamification isn't new but making it technically accurate so you actually learn while playing? that's the move. you're building domain knowledge without it feeling like studying 🎮

This is adult minecraft

Someone needs to make a real, high-quality addicting version of this game so people will play it and learn what data centers actually are. Instead of this AOC dumbass shit about freezing all construction of data centers in America

throwing this in the slack chat to nerdsnipe our whole dev team

the colored balls showing bottlenecks is genius game design. turning something invisible (network traffic) into something visual that players can debug in real time. wish more games taught real skills like this instead of just dopamine loops

So you’re working basically? 🤣

I do this IRL. It is just as fun!

this is elite autism

This is how we will solve the labour shortage

Not as fun if you don't have the sound of fans humming at 130db and freezing your ass off

@grok why are people with RTX 4090s addicted to a $6 networking game?

hmm this is actually useful but funny at the same time

@JaLetch Oh you mean they created a game to let people design things in new and interesting ways for them while they collect and harvest data every game now is not about just playing a game yo motherfuckers need to consider that

Oh, wonderful. A game to do what I do for a living. Does it include configuring the management interface for storage appliances or a serial console for the switches?

How many times do you have to remake the ethernet cable ends?? Hard mode
