Welp.

+1 voice of gratitude and bogglement.

A skeleton dropped me a gift: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/80099464/scroll.png If the image is missing, it's an arcane scroll (projectile protection) And it got me to wondering if "random and very rare" is really the best way for these to drop. Didn't Battosay's recent video have a giant kicka...

In this spoiler: feeding the troll? First of all, you turn this into a personal offense so please do not try to offend me, I'm trying to state my opinions not "correct the world according to my super-true and heavenly good beliefs". First off, I don't care what offends you or doesn't offen...

I encounter a fair few people who say "it's not about the destination, it's about the journey" to which I think they expect me to reply "mm, that's like, deep, man." So thankyou Eriottosan (Eriotto-san?) for taking the time to type out this much more thoughtful position. I think ...

Another example considers religion... just to make my point clear. Hinduists, a society group of people (or a sub-society) that believe in the ways of Hinduism, believe that cows are sacred animals and even DRINK their urine. Hindus. Not Hinduists. And the "cows are sacred" thing isn't en...

Probably the most interesting part of the "everyone is selfish" argument, to me, is it signals how you define the self. Case in point, you are saying any action people take is rewarded by the good feelings they generate. These are caused by our biological systems releasing the happy chemi...

The reason I laugh in the face of a notion of a selfless act is this: When somebody sacrifices themselves to save others, whether that be in a work of fiction or real life, you must think of their motives and gains from this. Obviously they lose much. The human survival instinct will not let you di...

ada221 wrote:its sad that what all the smiths are saying is true... the human mind just cannot accept a utopian society, without competition, struggle, or so called "evil", the mind rejects it as false reality

How can you possibly know that? There have never been any utopian societies.

Words are pointers to concepts. If I say "good," most people will understand a similar concept to what I meant when I said it, even if I am using an exact "the most possible happiness for the most possible people" definition and they are using "whatever feels nicest." W...

"But I don't trust the research." Then you've lost a lot of at least my respect, which shouldn't be worth much to you, but obviously means a lot to me. Not trusting scientific research as and when suits your worldview to do so is incredibly arrogant; not trusting scientific research ever ...

Elevatator wrote:This thread went off-topic

I think we're all in vehement near-agreement, really. But we're working off anger =P

To me it's as simple as deciding to punch a wall instead of punching a person. Yes, neither is particularly desirable, but if you can hold off the desire to do the latter, by doing the former, more power to you. I've seen enough practical applications of that in life that no amount of research woul...

I'm not so fond of the occult elements for a different reason: occult things don't need to make sense. You can use "magic" to justify just about anything. "The millstone grinds things" makes sense. Objects go in, powders come out. The powders even come out of the sides, not the b...

Utterbob wrote:New block suggestion - Epiphany Toilet.

If I ever need to refer to The Device, I suspect I shall call it the Epiphany Toilet.

It's possible using a second turntable as a timer. The time to turn a clay block into an urn on the fastest setting is the time for a slowest-setting turntable to rotate once. But you have to pause the timer while the urn is removed and the clay replaced. Counters are more elegant and efficient in g...

If Steve is evil, the monsters really are the good guys.

"Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from technology"? This idea seems pretty cool flavour-wise, but mechanically, do we really need more incentive to automate production? Automation is alway needed, what do you think why people started auto record farms? Because we can d...

"Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from technology"? This idea seems pretty cool flavour-wise, but mechanically, do we really need more incentive to automate production?

I cannot overstate how cool it is that you've brought back (simple) mob-grinders, FC. It is hyper-wonderful. Superfect. Ultrawesome. Portmanteautiful. Wait, not that one.

Haha, this is like a game'd up labView. Brilliance :D

Edit: Wait, no. This is like Rubicon.

Got them, love them, have finished both three times :) I agree that the combat in ME2 was kinda meh but BW has at least said that ME3 will have less focus on combat and especially on cover based combat. Pretty much this. I liked the "sprinting out of cover firing all the weapons all the time&q...

Sweet Newton's ghost, they metastasize? :terror:

ITT: I kid, I kid. It's not THAT bad; just someone who's not as hyperadjusted (not a word) to redstone/mechanical power's idiosyncrasies as we are.

So I've spent half an hour or so rubbing saplings and nether wort wart against things tentatively. Time to check the wiki I think. Though reports suggest maybe it's one of those Things Steve Was Not Meant To Know. Perhaps I'll just put the vegetable pieces away and go build a greenhouse like a sensi...