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Other Games / Re: Terraria - 1.3 released. Big Patch!
« on: April 18, 2018, 09:52:40 pm »
Handful of UI/quality of life things of note, passel of fairly pure content mods, few mechanics (RPG, overhaul fiddling with a bunch of stuff, etc.) mods, some cheat options if you're tired of digging. Decent spread, and the mod browser lets you sort by popularity to see what folks are using most.

It's a fairly developed/long-lived modding scene, albeit one intermittently disrupted by new versions, with most of what you'd expect from that.

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Other Games / Re: Terraria - 1.3 released. Big Patch!
« on: April 18, 2018, 07:53:10 pm »
If you think you'd still enjoy playing it, definitely suggest it. Magic storage alone tells vanilla to go fuck itself. Everything else is basically cake.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 18, 2018, 03:53:12 pm »
Doesn't help much, far as I'm aware (might even make things worse, depending on the light, iirc). F.lux, if you don't have it, is the way to go, or a similar filter. Adjusting screen brightness and color contrast can do a bit, too.

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Other Games / Re: Terraria - 1.3 released. Big Patch!
« on: April 18, 2018, 07:13:42 am »
Least if it's working that day, the mod loader has an in-game browser and handles most mod conflicts more or less by itself. Less sure on antiaris, but the rest are basically as easy as checking a box.

Beyond that, kinda' repeating myself, but the mod loader most of those require makes things stupidly easy these days even if you don't want to or can't make use of the browser. You literally just stick a .tmod file and maybe an assets folder in the mod loader's mod folder and that's it. The loader itself handles most potential mod conflicts, apparently.

I'm having what seems to be some old-computer hardware issues, personally, but beyond that installing like all (except antiaris, anyway, but it's nothing major, either) that plus another dozen or so other mods took (sub-half hour) minutes and the only headache was waiting for the game to load and world to generate. Both of which are much smaller headaches if your machine isn't a decade-ish old piece of vista laden trash that's starting to have what looks suspiciously like hardware failure.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: cabinet reshuffle shuffle shuffle
« on: April 17, 2018, 09:08:06 am »
Oh, did he actually deny links beforehand? :O
He didn't deny (until his name got revealed anyway), he never even mentioned any links beforehand.[/quote]Which is to say he did deny the connection, once it got called out :P He's apparently been steadily walking back from that denial, too. The stumbling backtracking is a thing.

Fun thing is, from what I've been noticing of chatter, it's possible (if perhaps unlikely) that hannity's reaction will itself void any attorney/client privilege that may have existed.

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Also add a smattering of sugar and maybe mayo, apparently. Haven't done the latter 'cause I just don't like mayo, but a light bit of sugar is like a minimum 50% improvement to tonguejoy.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 15, 2018, 09:46:34 pm »
... though do note reducing clarity isn't exactly a small thing. Still pretty important. Same as grammar, really. Theoretically you can throw all the rules out the window as you please, in practice it can lead less to getting your point across and more people wanting to put pointy things in you to make the frustration end.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 15, 2018, 09:34:24 am »
And yet people debate he existence of god all the time... Never once considering that it is not worth the effort, because god does not seem to be willing to submit to testing, and so cannot be tested for, and as a consequence, has no true meaning to pursue. :P  (what point is there in worshiping something that does not respond to worship? ;P)
Eh? No, plenty of people have considered that. It's one of the bitsies you could file under apatheism, off the top of my head, and probably other stuff, too.

Mind you, there's various points that still exist. Fun, for one :P

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General Discussion / Re: Science Thread (and !!SCIENCE!! Thread!)
« on: April 15, 2018, 09:17:55 am »
Besides, do you really think everybody who reads the headline of that is going to think "Oh that's poppycock there's surely no way!"
... of course they won't? There's an industry catering to (ripping off :P) that sort of outlook, after all. Plenty of folks that'll bite the hook. Can't recall if it's the science or history channel that's famous for it, these days.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 15, 2018, 09:12:33 am »
... there's also nothing nonlinear about the hypothesis? Word you're looking for is cyclical, and that's spattered across history ruminations like a particularly enthusiastic porn shoot.

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General Discussion / Re: Science Thread (and !!SCIENCE!! Thread!)
« on: April 15, 2018, 09:09:07 am »
Something I did not expect to see for a long time, let alone today.

Stumbled upon this Atlantic article about how we miiiiiight not be the first industrial, or even spacefaring, civilization on this planet. Talk about a mainstream paradigm shift, right? Certainly could help explain why Sumerians say sky people gave them all their knowledge and technology and the Egyptians have a recorded lineage extending back 30,000 years.
Uh. It kinda' does the exact opposite of helping to explain either of those, though. It's talking geological time scales, stuff that happened well before current-ish humans existed. Doesn't explain much of anything regarding more human time scale stuff, except posit (from the nth perspective) that maybe just maybe we're on the road to envirofucking ourselves into extinction.

Can't say it's much of a paradigm shift, either. Vague acknowledgement of the possibility's been around at least as long as I have, near as I can recall, and what that article describes is vague acknowledgement of the possibility.

And ninja'd, more or less. Eh.

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Other Games / Re: Terraria - 1.3 released. Big Patch!
« on: April 14, 2018, 01:53:22 pm »
*mumbles various imprecations about mod compatibility*

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: cabinet reshuffle shuffle shuffle
« on: April 14, 2018, 01:48:02 pm »
France and the UK again seem just as eager for a fight here as the US is, but I'm not sure what they get out of it. The only explanations I've heard relate to gas pipelines (representative link,) or secret concessions, and I'm not really convinced.
Domestic nonsense seems to make about as much sense as anything. Short victorious war sorta' shite. France I'm less aware of, but both UK and US has leadership that'd be inclined towards it and political bases and situations such that someone might convince them they'd more or less come out ahead for the decision.

Add on the general condemnation of NBC stuff and you got decent enough grounds to posit those involved would go for it for political points, so to speak, rather than anything substantial on the material gains front.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: cabinet reshuffle shuffle shuffle
« on: April 12, 2018, 04:24:17 pm »
On that line of thought: Does anyone have any good sources on Congressional opposition to recent wars? Attempted laws or amendments and the like?
I probably wouldn't call it good, exactly, but just in case a reminder is needed, do remember pretty much everything congresswise so far as proposed lawstuff goes is archived and online. It's also keyword searchable and can be filtered by time period, iirc. Think by results to some degree, too.

If it turns out you can't find someone else who has done the scutwork and let it free to the wilds, you got the means to do it yourself.

... mind you, if it's just a paper and you're not literally being paid for it, going that far is likely not worth the effort. The research can be a bit of a pain in the ass, and probably way overboard for anything that's not dissertation level madness.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 11, 2018, 02:07:12 pm »
Guy riding a something-propelled bicycle down the street. The something was trailing the bike by a good bike length behind, on its own set of wheels and attached to the bike. Couldn't tell what it was other than some sort of engine, maybe weed-eater-ish size or thereabouts. Sounded gas propelled but other than being hella' questionably road legal I'unno.

... which I guess actually makes it not a bicycle, just one of the more odd looking four-wheeled devices I've seen in a while. Faintly bizarre regardless.

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