efaardvark
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Looks like this place is done until the spring thaw..
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@Beocat .. yes, I've got fireplaces, at least in the "winter" home. (The savanna place doesn't really need them.) Fireplaces take a lot of wood to run though, and I haven't planted a lot of trees around that place yet so both wood and food are getting scarce. Also, there's "kobolds" in the modpack that are making life (more) difficult. They aren't very dangerous, but they're small enough to hide in grass, fast, and they pick up anything that drops on the ground. If you're breaking crops or trees or whatever there's a decent chance that a kobold will run off with a lot of it before you get a chance to pick it up. More than once I've run into monsters that ARE dangerous while chasing one of the little kobold bastards to get my stuff back too. Lava seems scarce too, at least on the surface in my area. Delving is also dangerous and difficult in this modpack. There's skills that you need to level up to mine anything beyond coal, and even coal is dangerous, especially to low-skill players, since about 1 in 20 breaks of coal results in a - surprise! - earth-elemental spawn. I've now got my mining, defense, and attack skills leveled to the point that I am reasonably confident of surviving, but only recently have I started any systematic digging for iron for buckets or armor, and I still haven't found any lava. (Unless you count a bit sighted at the bottom of a crevasse, but that's got a dragon in it too so.. nope, not going there.) BTW, there's also giant ants that will steal your crops... very cold...
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Also, there's a "velociraptor" outside the savanna house...
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One of the mods in the RLCraft modpack adds seasons to minecraft. I started in a savanna near a desert and things were getting so hot that I was getting hyperthermia unless I spent all my time in a pond/water. So I went to a forest biome that was on the other side of the savanna from the desert and built a "summer camp". That worked for a while, but now it is winter and there's snow everywhere and I'm freezing to death! Also, crops don't seem to grow well/quickly in the winter so food is running low. I've already made one trip back to the old place on the savanna to collect wheat from the old farm there. Maybe I should just get into the habit of moving between the summer or winter homes depending on the season.
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Welcome! I hear you. I start talking and everyone's like...
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Hello! Gamer and science fiction addict here. And anime of course. Bingeing If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord at the moment. (Just started tonight.) Before that was 2nd season of New Game according to my crunchy history.
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Always keep an eye on the sky in RLCraft. There's not a lot that can fly in vanilla minecraft, and the stuff like ghasts and phantoms that can hurt you really only appears when you go looking for them, or in special circumstances that you generally can avoid. RLCraft just spawns random sh..tuff that swoops down and eats you. Sometimes it swoops down, CARRIES YOU AWAY, then eats you. Technically you can survive being carried away if you kill what's carrying you away. Generally your victory is short-lived however, since the fall is likely to kill you. And if it doesn't kill you then it breaks your legs so you can't move. Inevitably something will come along and finish you off. Also, a note on the sharknados.. one was just outside my cobblestone bunker so I thought I'd just pop out and take a few whacks at it with my sword. How bad could it be, right? I figured I'd just pop back inside if it turned out to be too bad. Heh. Things went bad as soon as I opened the door. Before I could even see the monster I was sucked out of the doorway (!) and launched into the air. As I was spinning around in the air the shark was attacking me from random directions. I managed to connect with the sword - basically by random chance - pushing the shark away for a moment and by keeping the shift/down button mashed I finally dropped out of the tornado. Fortunately I landed in the pond next to my bunker so I didn't take additional damage from the fall. It seemed like the suck-you-into-the air process didn't work while I was underwater, or at least that didn't happen again. At any rate I wasn't taking chances. There's an underwater entrance to my bunker from the pond so I took that route and managed to get back inside without surfacing. Have I mentioned this modpack is brutal?
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Construction work pounding on the walls at work for the last couple weeks. At least I think it is on the walls. Might be in my head at this point.. I've had a headache for two days straight now.
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Hello! Welcome!
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Sharknados are a thing in the RLCraft modpack..
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Wait.. is that a zombie hiding in the shadows there on the left??
I might have played too much minecraft this weekend.
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I usually have Spotify going on the commute home. Usually I queue up a couple that I want to hear, and when that list runs out Spotify starts suggesting things. I'm not sure what triggered it initially, but lately it has been coming up with a lot of titles from old video games. Mario Bros, Zelda, FF, and Elder Scrolls have all been noted over the past couple of days. There was even an Angry Birds in there once. Today there was a track from Halo 3..
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I get that a lot.
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Hello! Welcome. Hmmm... stimulus. Well, if you have some money you could always place a bid on a slightly used MegaBot, if that's your thing.
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At the risk of going even further off the OPs topic, if we're talking streaming vs buying then the other issue I have is that I tend to lose access to stuff if I rely on streaming. I have a few discs/collections that I've bought specifically because I either could not find them on streaming sites or they disappeared off the streaming site I'd been viewing them on. If I like it enough to buy it in the first place then I probably don't care too much about the price of the DVD. I mean, I'm not going to buy it at $1000/disc but even $100/season might be a consideration. Like I said, I don't go for the animes with multiple seasons anyway, so if we're talking $100 for 12 or 24 episodes that works out to about $5-10 per episode. Ridiculous, but not out of the question. As others have said, a lot depends on the quality of the packaging. If it is no-frills (no insert, poor/minimal artwork, etc.) then $20 for a season on DVD seems reasonable. If it is good quality - maybe even something I'd put out in front of the rest on the book shelf as a display item - then I might be ok with $100 per season. Maybe even more, depending.
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Just saw Elon Musk's SpaceX anniversary talk. The guy is crazy... in a good way maybe, but still crazy. Hard to believe it was only a year ago when he announced his "BFR", and now he's already got an engineering prototype that's supposed to start test flights in a matter of months, and "to reach orbit in 6 months". True, those are "Elon months", but still. It'll be interesting to see if he actually gets 2 of these rockets done in time for an unmanned Mars test flight/mission at the next transfer window in 2022. He's also previously said that he might land one on the moon during testing.. because "It may literally be easier to just land Starship on the moon than try to convince NASA that we can."
https://arstechnica.com/features/2019/09/after-starship-unveiling-mars-seems-a-little-closer/-
It is absolutely insane how much he has accomplished in a few years (especially compared to ESA/NASA). If he actually manages to achieve his planned goals in the next 5-10 years, I seriously think NASA should just hand over their budget to him
My uncle (worked on astrophysics stuff) is a huge fan of his, so I always get the latest updates from him
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I would love to see that happen. NASA has their own planes and such for research purposes, but they don't own and operate their own "NASA airlines". In the same way I'd like to see NASA do the same for space R&D and regulation and just buy transportation to/from space like they do for air travel. Cost-plus contracts and Congressional pork seem to be the main obstacles to commercial space these days. Don't get me wrong, NASA does a lot for air travel, safety, research, and regulation. That first "A" in "NASA" is for "Aeronautics" after all. I'd really like to see NASA do things the same way for the "S" and drop the semi-operational, perpetually over-budget NASA-sponsored programs like SLS in favor of buying commercial services from the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin.
NASA does have a "COTS" - commercial off the shelf - program for some space operations like satellite launches and cargo delivery to the ISS, so there's some progress there. I'm hoping space travel will quickly commercialize as a transport industry like it did for airplanes back in the day. The time between the Wright Flyer in 1903 and the Ford Trimotor (airplane used in the first commercial airline in the US) was only about 8 years, and the DC-3 was in service by the end of the 1930s. I'll make allowances for space travel being harder - not to mention that there's no established extraterrestrial destinations to justify a scheduled service to - and give them a little more time but I'm really looking forward to the first regular commercial "spaceline" service!
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is this a good watch order for index/railgun
efaardvark replied to kintoki's topic in Anime Discussion
I want to say yes, but I can't remember the details. IIRC it wasn't a meeting per-se, she just she saw one of the clones briefly, and from a distance. She thought it was Misaka. I'm pretty sure she never found out about the clones. I could very well be misremembering however. I didn't pay too close attention to the railgun series. The only part I liked was the index/railgun crossover episodes. -
Been playing the RLCraft modpack on my private server this afternoon. This pack is brutal. If your idea of a good time in minecraft is messing around in creative or goofing off in easy mode then this modpack is not for you. Everything is trying to kill you, and you can be one-shotted with only 3 hearts-worth of damage due to hit locations. (Your head and torso are considered critical-damage areas and only have 3 hearts each.) Also, if your arms get injured then your combat abilities are affected. If your legs get hit you slow down. There's environmental effects that can hurt you. Deserts will give you hyperthermia. Icy climates will give you hypothermia. You get hungry as usual, but you also get thirsty. If you drink water without cooking it first there's health debuffs similar to eating uncooked meat. A full meal won't heal you either. For that you need bandages, or a good night's rest in a bed will heal half of your health damage. Just to make it even more difficult there's also skills. You have mining, attack, defence, agility, farming, and magic skills that you have to level up to get anything done. Breaking potatoes or sugar cane requires farming of 4 or greater. Breaking iron ore needs level 4 mining. You get experience pretty much as you would expect, but now you have to allocate those points towards your skills instead of saving them for your enchantment table. This pack is also brutal on the server side. There's over 50 mods in the pack! I have a pretty beefy 2700X AMD system and it is still lagging occasionally, even with just one player and 4GB RAM allocated to the server. Currently I'm messing around with the settings to see if I can do anything about that. No idea what these are. I call them moss dinos. The plain beyond had "velociraptors" and all I had was a flint knife (with an attack skill of 3) so I didn't go any further. Definitely not in Kansas anymore Toto.
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Phftt! That's not old! I'll be 4,000 years old next year! In minecraft years that is. Welcome!
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I don't go in for those animes with hundreds of episodes anyway. 2 or 3 filler eps and I drop it. I don't see how people can stick with a series for that long without some sort of ending/closure. I'm also a binge-watcher and usually I don't start watching a series until it is already over. I'd be highly unlikely to even start something like Naruto or DBZ.
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You know you're a game nerd when stuff like this rotates through your Spotify feed during your commute...
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Yeah, I subscribed to Pandora for a while too. Spotify is better. I even found stuff like the sound tracks for games like Kerbal Space Program and Minecraft on Spotify, and the anime tracks are extensive as well. A lot of it is covers of varying, sometimes dubious quality, but there's plenty of high-quality gems too, including quite a few OSTs, in both English and Japanese.
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I spent the evening attempting to get a private minecraft server + the RLCraft modpack running on my LAN. This stuff is definitely not ready for prime time. I grabbed the latest versions of forge and the rlc modpack, and added them to a freshly-(re)installed 1.12.2 MC server but ran into problems getting the server running. I finally got all the mods installed on the server side and the server staying up (with a LOT of warnings, though no exceptions), but now the client is throwing a fatal exception after connecting. Looks like maybe a version mismatch somewhere. I don't really have the time to debug, then track down and install exact versions, but maybe I'll take a closer look at the modpack web site's forums tomorrow.
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Spent my lunch hour online looking for a server host to rent.. preferably one that I can get the minecraft RLCraft modpack pre-installed on. I might need to get my head examined.
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I'm always kind of sad to see a library close, especially one as historic and useful as this place. Got to be a clueless beancounter to decide that closing a well-used rocketry library is a good idea. Especially one established by no less a figure than Werner Von Braun himself! My dad used to work at Redstone way (way) back in the day, and I've actually been to this place so there's a personal connection as well, though I was way too young at the time to get any actual educational or professional use out of the place. At least some of the content is going/staying online...
https://www.al.com/news/2019/09/rocket-scientists-mourn-end-of-redstone-arsenals-risc-library.html
