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Can't you just use autonomous activators to harvest the oreberries and then not have to worry about mobs spawning because you won't be going in there anyway? I dunno, I've never seriously used oreberries. My last couple worlds I've just built laser drills to give me free stuff.

VixYW posted...

other games that STILL refuse to go back to local multiplayer for some god damn reason

That reason is that couch multiplayer only requires the purchase of one copy for multiple players, whereas online multiplayer requires the purchase of a copy for each. The game industry is pretty notorious for deciding that certain things (single-player games, local multiplayer...) are "dead" because they would make less money if they continued to produce them.

Ogurisama posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

Greenfox111 posted...

no he's really looking for diamond, gold is just something he happens to find while digging

Honestly, diamonds aren't actually that helpful long-term, while gold can be. In vanilla, you mostly just need enough to sustain your diamond tools/armour. Meanwhile, if you're going to do any significant amount of rail work, you're going to need lots of gold for powered tracks.

Playing modded, both gold and diamond are really needed for high end equipment.

Lets use the Wyvern Chestplate for example
You need (going from base material)
x13 diamond
x20 gold
x1 netherstar
x36 redstone
x34 Draconium

And Draconium, without going to the end. Is the hardest thing to find in most modded versions.
If you want the full set
x13 diamonds chest)+ 10 (helm) + 12 (legs) + 9 (boots)
x80 gold
x4 netherstars
x16 redstone blocks
x136 Draconium

This is just for an armor set that isn't even the best one

If you're playing modded, though, materials are significantly more plentiful. 44 diamonds and 80 gold aren't even that much by vanilla standards. As you said, the Draconium is by far the more limiting resource.

You think you know Steve? I've LIVED Steve. I've eaten, drunk, and breathed Steve. Steve has become incorporated into every fibre of my being, so when I tell you gold is more useful to Steve than diamonds, I expect you to ****ing listen.

In all seriousness, it's been so long since I've really played vanilla MC that I don't really know how diamonds compare to gold in terms of overall usefulness. With mods, it's often actually iron that ends up being a bottleneck, due to how much of it is used, with ender pearls being the basis for more high-end items. Both diamonds and gold often end up taking a bit of a back seat. Automated mining (or other means of resource gathering) also tends to simply bring both to me without me having to worry about them. *Shrug*

What? Are you suggesting that Trump has an agenda beyond blind patriotism? That's crazy talk.

Not my fault you were wrong.

Greenfox111 posted...

no he's really looking for diamond, gold is just something he happens to find while digging

Honestly, diamonds aren't actually that helpful long-term, while gold can be. In vanilla, you mostly just need enough to sustain your diamond tools/armour. Meanwhile, if you're going to do any significant amount of rail work, you're going to need lots of gold for powered tracks.

Full Throttle posted...

Now after closing the parks, he plans to open a 55,000 sqft "mega entertainment facility" in 2020 that will not only include trampolines but a roller skating rink, rock climbing wall and laser tag and parkour.

Sounds like he's just been absolutely ruined financially.

Zeus posted...

...so even if you took the guns away, he still has a dangerous ranged weapon? Why bother with the guns at all then?

Because the maximum rate of fire on a compound bow is like one shot a second if you're really skilled, using very bulky ammunition, and that's not sustainable at all due to the amount of upper body strength required (presuming the bow's meant for hunting, I'd expect a 50-pound draw weight minimum, with 70-80 being pretty plausible). You can do damage with a bow, certainly, but it's nowhere close to being as effective a weapon as a gun is. If it were, militaries would still use bows on a regular basis instead of guns.

That logic, by the way, is identical to saying "they've got bombs either way, why do we care if they have nukes?".

Really, there's no reason not to breathalyze anyone they've got stopped already. If they haven't been drinking, they'll blow zero and there won't be a problem. If they have been drinking and blow over the limit, then the cop's caught an impaired driver and everyone wins except that douche.

Full Throttle posted...

The judge said he could set up a PAYMENT PLAN through payments that can be halted after 10 years as long as he commplies, completes probation and doesn't commit any crimes

This sounds reasonable. The amount is a reflection of just how much damage he caused, which means it's not at all unreasonable to be laying it on him, but offering him the opportunity to be forgiven if he does enough to repent is probably the best way to go about it. Keeping him destitute forever wouldn't come close to ever covering the damages, so it's not like there's much point in that.

Maybe. TLJ didn't turn me off of Star Wars, by any means (I'll be seeing episode 9), but I feel very meh about Solo.

Revelation34 posted...

adjl posted...

Delicinq4 posted...

I dont really care. I can see how it may be annoying for men that women are getting all sorts of things subsidized now (tampons, birth control, etc) and they arent getting anything,

Whoa there. Birth control is also for men. It may be women that end up physically receiving it, but those women's partners get to reap all the same benefits that the women do (at least as far as using it as birth control goes, and ignoring the therapeutic applications of BC pills and hormonal IUD's). Painting subsidized birth control as "women getting something that men don't" is ignoring the fundamental purpose of birth control (that is, to let men and women have sex with each other without making a baby, which both parties enjoy unless one of them is really bad at it).

Men's birth control is just a condom though.

Which are already available for free in many places, and also aren't really adequate for long-term birth control (85% effectiveness with normal use), nor cost-effective (presuming a reasonable level of sexual activity). It'd be great to see more viable long-term options that are administered to men (the only male-centric alternative to condoms is a vasectomy, and that's not a temporary solution), in which case any subsidy programs should obviously apply to them as well, but for now, female-centric options are naturally going to be the primary targets for subsidies.

And, in the event that something like Vasalgel makes it to market and becomes a target for birth control subsidy programs, looking at that as "men getting something that women don't" will similarly be missing the fundamental point of birth control. Subsidized birth control really should not be viewed as a gendered issue, no matter who's receiving the treatments in question.

I mean, good that she was going slowly so as to minimize the chance of hurting someone, but yeah, I don't see her keeping her license for long. Disregarding the rules that brazenly and with that many witnesses isn't likely to end well for her.

knivesX2004 posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

Lol. Look at this guy.

He's more triggered than everyone in the topic combined.
OhhhJa posted...

I thought of a good deterrent for these shootings. Instead of revealing their name to the public, just call them dookie boy or something. Nobody would wanna be remembered as dookie boy

Hmmm. I don't hate this idea. It won't work in this day and age, but I don't hate it.

Some degree of identification is good to help keep them straight, but I'd be all for anonymizing them to some extent. "Prisoner #21926" should be adequate.

I feel like that's too short a monitoring period. Of course people are going to aggressively overuse it once it's added. Waiting a week or so to let the novelty wear off would probably have been more sensible.

GreenKnight127 posted...

adjl posted...

GreenKnight127 posted...

The "Scouts" aren't dead. The Boyscouts are dead. Because they aren't exclusive to boys anymore.

Am I saying things that are difficult to understand or something?

They're pretty easy to understand, they've just so utterly devoid of semantic value that I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and offering you a chance to add some meaning by elaborating.

LOL, they made perfect sense, but you require more because reasons.

Aren't you a fascinating little bastard? lol

Of course it made sense. Tautologies always do. Making sense and saying something meaningful, however, are two separate things.

I rented it, but I didn't have a controller pak, so I couldn't save. I enjoyed the first bit of it, but that was all I could play.

It was a good time. I ended up getting stuck on the bonus bosses and never finishing them, but I quite enjoyed it.

myghostisdead posted...

That is a weird article. So, no foul play? What the neck was he doing to get there and how long was he there?

It's been updated to include the theory that he fell from a vent while crawling through it and got stuck. Dunno about any further details. It's an odd case, to be sure.

ImmortalityV posted...

Nope I am an incel and I have not hurt anyone. Just because I cant have sex doesnt mean I should be punished wtf

Incel=/=lonely virgin. The latter just can't get laid, the former refers to a specific online community characterized by a sense of entitlement to sex and the decision to blame their lack thereof on society's refusal to give it to them.

SkynyrdRocker posted...

Gone with the wind is still number one adjusted for inflation

And probably will be forever, because it made like a billion dollars after adjusting. That's really a reflection of how movie-going has changed, though, given that Gone With the Wind came out at a time when home video wasn't nearly as prevalent a thing, far fewer movies were produced overall, and it was common to see movies return to theatres if demand was high enough. It's still an impressive record, but the fact that times have changed means it isn't really directly comparable to modern records.

VioletZer0 posted...

When was the last time they actually WON against civilians?

There's a very, very big difference between an offensive war and a defensive war. Attacking guerrillas? Yeah, that's hard, especially when they hide among civilian targets to take advantage of the "good guys'" relative unwillingness to shoot civilians. Defending against them? A massive disparity in armaments makes that substantially easier.

Really, if you want to push the "the people must be able to defeat the government" angle, it's anti-structure weapons you should be pushing to legalize, not anti-personnel. Especially with the rise of automation making a workforce less and less necessary to maintain function. Anti-personnel stuff isn't good for much in that case.

VioletZer0 posted...

the government wants total submission of the people. You must fight against that at every turn.

It's the government that tells you you shouldn't go murder some random dude. Are you going to fight them at that turn? Or is that just melodramatic rhetoric that you think sounds cool?

Was the burglar in question the raccoon that tried to steal your gaming PC but then threw it down the stairs when you caught him?

ReggieTheReckless posted...

she might not be super hot, but at least she doesn't have an eating disorder anymore

I'll go with that. I wouldn't call her attractive, but I'd rather she were ugly and mentally healthy than hot because she was slowly killing herself.

mooreandrew58 posted...

wasn't darth vader voiced by a black dude.

But Darth Vader is black. When he's not, James Earl Jones' voice isn't used >.>

That's not to say there aren't trigger happy cops in Canada, particularly when it comes to mental health or substance abuse issues (something like 60% of people killed by police in the past couple decades fit that bill), but they are indeed much less trigger happy.

edededdy posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

edededdy posted...

jfc PotD must have the memory of a goldfish

Nah, I'm just stubborn.

then my next line that you didnt quote doubly applies. copy down all your advice so you can paste it again

How slowly do you think I type that sifting through files to find saved responses would be faster than just typing them again?

edededdy posted...

jfc PotD must have the memory of a goldfish

Nah, I'm just stubborn.

TheWorstPoster posted...

my therapist would try to get me to do stupid things.

Examples?

Zeus posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

Oh hey, it's time to equivocate necessary utilities to things that serve no purpose except as weapons again!

Clearly you've never used a gun as a bottle opener.

No, because I have hands that aren't made of gossamer and can open my own bottles.

TheWorstPoster posted...

I don't want therapy.

Why not?

shadowsword87 posted...

...Do you know how to socialize at all though?
Might want to work on that.

That. Talking to girls is the same as talking to anyone else. If you're off-putting to other people in everyday conversations, girls aren't going to like you much either.

Now, given your condition, that's going to be hard. I know you didn't like your prior efforts at getting therapy, but I really do think you should be trying again and sticking with it this time. It takes a very specific set of circumstances to allow somebody like you to teach themselves how to talk to people, and it's extremely unlikely that you're going to encounter them spontaneously at this point in your life. Therapy can provide that opportunity, but it's not going to happen overnight and you need to be patient.

Oh hey, it's time to equivocate necessary utilities to things that serve no purpose except as weapons again!

goldbman posted...

I have numerous times and never do.

You probably did.

helIy posted...

this applies to every single thing, though, so it really doesn't mean much in this context.

Juice is particularly easy to drink an unhealthy amount of, and unlike pop it doesn't have the social stigma associated with it to remind people of that.

helIy posted...

drinking grape juice, or juice in general, isn't going to make you fat, nor is there any correlation between body mass index and juice

Anything with a high glycemic index contributes pretty significantly to the risk of obesity.

Smarkil posted...

I think it's actually a pretty efficient treatment for chronic seizures if I'm not mistaken.

It used to be done as a treatment for epilepsy, but it turned out it wasn't all that effective (or it worked in a very small subset of cases) and had too many side effects to be used as anything but a last resort now.

If they aren't too busy.

Herpes posted...

Sahuagin posted...

saying the game is "mediocre" doesn't even make sense. it's not really a "good" or "bad" game, it's a niche game. if you're looking for what it offers, it's great; if not, not.

otherwise, adjl, learn when people aren't worth talking to

It's pretty bad at being a "niche" game.

You still haven't elaborated on your "dumbed down" comment.

Revelation34 posted...

Herpes posted...

Ok, I'll try and explain this as if I were teaching preschoolers.

Sugar - bad. More sugar - more bad. Bad = fat. Fat bad.

Does that make sense now, pumpkin? And nice job not answering what your BMI is, that speaks volumes.

Not all juice has added sugar in it and not all fat is bad. Also pumpkin is healthy.

Even without added sugar, juice is typically very, very sweet. There's a lot of sugar in fruit, but it's significantly diluted (so to speak) by all of the fibre and other nutrients found in the pulp of the fruit. If you juice your own fruit (and therefore get all of that extra stuff in there), it's fine, but commercial juice strips out most or all of the pulp (even orange juice with pulp), leaving mostly sugar.

If you look at the nutritional information for juice, it'll often be pretty comparable to what you'd get into a similar serving of pop. There are other nutrients that mean they aren't empty calories like you get from pop, but there's also a high fructose content (which bypasses the first regulatory step in glucose metabolism and can therefore contribute to insulin resistance), so it's still important to limit how much you're drinking.

Mead posted...

Literally the only losers in the scenario where this thing passes(it wont) are the pharmaceutical companies

And prison companies, because for-profit prisons are great and totally haven't been lobbying to have drug offenders jailed for easy money.

Nightengale posted...

It's not spurious. Any developer can file DMCA claims on their own footage.

Unless it falls under fair use. The issue is that fighting to have it acknowledged as fair use often involves more legal resources than most youtubers have ready access to.

YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

ninja_lootz posted...

rjsilverthorn posted...

Slightly exaggerated to say they tried to shut his channel down. They tried to get videos of him playing their game removed despite having previously given open permission to use the game

They were also urging other devs to follow suit and Youtube shuts down channels that get too many strikes. The intent was pretty clear.

"we should boycott this company that had the moral nerve to not want their game associated with a racial slur spewing european dude who doesn't even know how to fathom the history behind the word and its usage in american history toward black people"

It's one thing to say "we don't want our product associated with you and are revoking your permission to use it on your channel." It's another entirely to file spurious DMCA takedown claims and encourage others to do so, knowing that accumulating strikes faster than they can be dealt with will shut a channel down.

sonic_c_tail posted...

Hotels might water down your whiskey too :)

Really, you should water down your own whiskey. Diluting whiskey alters the distribution of the phenolic compounds that give it its smoky flavour, bringing them closer to the air-fluid interface so you can more readily taste and smell them. How much water is up to personal taste, and lower alcohol concentrations don't necessarily warrant it, but if you're ever drinking a cask strength whiskey (usually around 55-60%), you're doing yourself a gross disservice if you don't try splashing some water in there to see how it changes.

sonic_c_tail posted...

classic "If you disagree with my delusional statement = troll".

No, I very explicitly said you're trolling because you're refusing to provide an answer to any of the questions that are necessary to participate constructively in this discussion. Pay attention now.

sonic_c_tail posted...

If anything I should be asking how much are they paying you to support these anti consumer practices.

Classic "disagree with me on a company's business decision = paid off by them."

Sahuagin posted...

costs me almost $7.50 for a double cheeseburger from wendy's. costs almost $10 for a large salad.

Same, actually. Even most fast food burgers here push past $5, let alone ones from higher-end establishments. Those are Canadian prices, so you can take off ~25-30% to get the American equivalent, but still.

SasukeChaos posted...

That is a game that wasn't made for people who like easy stuff.

Doesn't mean it can't have an easy mode.

Lokarin posted...

I wouldn't care if he was a disney princess... it's VA work

Pretty much. So long as you've got a good voice for the role, it doesn't really matter what you look like.

TheWorstPoster posted...

The article blames it entirely on our activities, but doesn't give any evidence that we actually did anything to cause that.

Articles aren't expected to cite common knowledge.

FellWolf posted...

You should close this and make a topic called PSA: You can no longer get it for 20 dollars.

*Shrug* I'm surprised it's still alive, really, but I figure the date on the first post should be enough to prevent people from being significantly misled.

Revelation34 posted...

Yes we are. $5 for a burger is expensive when you get a better one for cheaper.

But you don't necessarily get a better one for cheaper. In-n-Out being better than a lot of regular burger restaurants means there are still >$5 burgers that are better than In-n-Out. The quote in question was also a one-off analogy, not an opportunity to tier burgers. Methinks there's a bit of overthinking going on, thus missing the underlying point of "$10 isn't a big difference" (and apparently it's only a difference of $9 cdn, which was a pleasant surprise).

Revelation34 posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

No, I mean literally anything classier than a fast food chain.

In-N-Out is better than a lot of regular burger restaurants.

That may well be true, but we're talking about cost, not quality.