I just wanted follow up on this: If you're at all familiar with the concepts of an AI driven technological singularity, and the concept of the paperclip maximizer, it's worth considering the idea that Corporations are effectively a type of superintelligent AI that uses people as a processing substr...

Solve the Halting Problem. Square a circle (use the "ruler and compass" method for this). Work out the Traveling Salesman Problem in O(log n). It needs to be fast or your regex engine will hang. The results will be pretty big, so make sure you have another algorithm that losslessly compre...

Besides my personal feelings on Microsoft (short version: not good), I think the chances of me getting a "cease and desist" letter at some point just shot up dramatically. Beyond that, I'm not really ready to get into it as I'm still thinking it all through. Haha, that's fair enough. I ca...

And normal techspeak seemed eldritch enough...

You know, there's a lot of doom and gloom being passed around about how MS is going to ruin Minecraft forever by coming down on the modding community, and a few devs seem to be preemptively throwing up their hats ( 1 , 2 ). How do you guys think having MS in charge will effect modding and BTW specif...

Man, I just lost a cat of I've known for many, many, many years (since before I've been able to form memories) and even the thought of getting attacked that way makes me sad. I wish I had your spiky shell, FC. No you don't. I was trying to come up with a good metaphor as to what creates a good exos...

FlowerChild wrote: Trolls still occasionally try to use my dead cat against me

Man, I just lost a cat of I've known for many, many, many years (since before I've been able to form memories) and even the thought of getting attacked that way makes me sad. I wish I had your spiky shell, FC.

This piques my interest!

Out of curiosity, what is the appeal to games like Saints Row & GTA? All I know about them is that there's over-the-top levels of violence & adult content, but I assume there must be something more to it, right?

It's a really cool collection of easter eggs, but I don't think it means anything special.

7/10, sounds like a webcam brand (am I reading it right?).

Katalliaan wrote:I hope they take it in a serious direction. Not sure I could stand a new version of "fish fingers and custard".

Was it really that annoying? I only remember it appearing in the first episode of #11, and not even as a major point.

I still can't decide if Doctor Who is just cheesy entertainment or the work of a secret genius. Do you think the new Doctor will take things in a more serious direction?

FlowerChild wrote: No. I didn't say anything even vaguely resembling that.

My bad, I horribly misread that and thought you were ripping witches out entirely.

So are you going to go back to redstone for potions, or what?

Pistons need SFS now instead of iron, so I think that goes a long way towards balancing this machine.
It still seems like it could be a potential problem, but I'm unsure.

At least one side (not top or bottom) of a bookshelf must be exposed to air for it to be detected by the Infernal Enchanter. -The Wiki I use enchanting pretty sparingly, but I'm pretty sure that you'd never need thousands of levels to enchant something, or thousands of bookshelves. Plus, you can st...

I always search for and mine Lapis no matter what, because the thought of having an anvil and having to wait on Buddy's and DBs seems to be worse than not having RS, Iron, Diamonds, and Gold, in the now.

Just me?

BinoAl wrote:If that box has cards from '92-'94, you could make some good money from it. Specifically, Black Lotus, anything with "Mox", Time Walk, Ancestral Recall, or Timetwister would be worth a ton

It's just too bad they're banned in a lot of formats (and by my casual playgroup).

So I was planning on starting a new world to get the 'full experience' (I last restarted in the middle of the early game rebalances) of BTW, and I have some friends new to the mod who want to give it a try. My question is: would I be better served by continuing to play on single player, or by restar...

Scrolls latest feature: crafting. Bet you never saw that one coming from a Mojang game.
https://scrolls.com/2013/07/introducing-crafting

Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that this is a Dark Omen of Things to Come?

Sarudak wrote: I'm going to count that as an aye. Any opposed?

I oppose unless FC will teach me his secret to deliberately not dying or becoming ill.

How do any of you keep a handle on all of these cards? I could never remember the names of all the cards in my collection, only barely in my main deck.

I can tell you that I probably wouldn't use tripwires even if you did redesign them. They have no good place.

Sarudak wrote:Also they managed to make them more OP that the original redpower frames lol!

No man, It's not OP! I mean, you need to do that building thing with the blocks in order to activate the I WIN button. Does anybody even remember how blocks work?