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The Factory Must Grow. From the game Factorio
"Why do you play factorio so much?"
"TFMG"
TFMG by Gsworld October 29, 2021
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The Factory Must Grow.

This phrase had become the unofficial motto of the factory simulation game Factorio. It encompasses the addictive nature of the game and the players desire to continue expanding production indefinitely.

While the game can be "won" by launching a rocket, there is endless research unlocked by that same action. In addition the number of overhaul mods available for the base game allows hundreds of hours to be spent in a single expanding factory. Finally, the player base recognizes the incredible $/hr value of this game and "grows" the factory by purchasing copies for friends and strangers alike as a way of supporting the developers choice to not include paid expansions, loot boxes, or any other exploitive pricing mechanisms. This has become another way of growing the factory.
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"I used Factorio to demonstrate a new design today" awesome! TFMG. Now I get paid to grow my factory.

I just bought a copy of Factorio for all 10 of my co-workers! TFMG!
TFMG by luckylookinglurker October 29, 2021
The Factory Must Grow. A term born within the Factorio community on reddit that states the law by which a factory must grow through means of automation.
Person 1: "I haven't slept in days, Factorio consumes my every waking moment."
Person 2: "TFMG"
TFMG by axeboy October 29, 2021
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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