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  1. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Did some rail expansion the past few days. Screenshot showing the line. The yellow portion is built by @LazerDye, stopping at their base, with planned extension to go to Poland. The pink section...

    Did some rail expansion the past few days. Screenshot showing the line. The yellow portion is built by @LazerDye, stopping at their base, with planned extension to go to Poland. The pink section is what I have built, and services the flower farm and a stop within render distance of @Herven's base and also the xp guardian farm. Not sure where to expand it to from here, since there is nothing else in the area

  2. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    You missed the sitting room in my suite, above comm. storage. I have my office, which I used a minecart, but there is a sitting room in my suite with couches. Also, come to think of it there are...

    You missed the sitting room in my suite, above comm. storage. I have my office, which I used a minecart, but there is a sitting room in my suite with couches. Also, come to think of it there are also benches in the transit hub below comm. storage as well as benches at the transit station in Tildes Town that @TaylorSwiftsPickles decorated

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  3. Comment on The Stephen Colbert exit interview: “I did not expect it to end this way” in ~tv

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    On top of the Obama quote, Colbert goes on to explain that part of the reason is that the boo can drown out the lead up or punchline of the joke. I think that tells a lot. Colbert is not trying to...

    As for the 'no booing' thing, he basically explains his reasoning there with the Obama quote

    On top of the Obama quote, Colbert goes on to explain that part of the reason is that the boo can drown out the lead up or punchline of the joke. I think that tells a lot. Colbert is not trying to be a political commentator, but is an entertainer. I think people forget which role he is trying to play

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  4. Comment on The end of tourism? (2020) in ~travel

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    An interesting part of this article is the discussion of how tourism harms the destination, but has also preserved the destination. Two examples from the article are: Venice. Without tourism, the...

    An interesting part of this article is the discussion of how tourism harms the destination, but has also preserved the destination. Two examples from the article are:

    • Venice. Without tourism, the historic areas of the city would have been torn down and redevloped. With tourism they have been preserved, but now they get so much traffic that it cannot acccomodate the traffic.

    • Kenya, and some other African countries. Tourism has led to a higher amount of wildlife conservation and paid for rangers to prevent poaching. Without tourism, these ranches would get sold off to beccome hunting grounds or farms. However, tourism is also environmentally destructive.

    So the question is how do we as a society balance these factors that are linked together but also in opposition?

    In December I visted Tortuguero in Costa Rica. It is an area that is only accesible by boat, with a few resorts. There is a small community of locals to work at the resorts. A local made a comment how about 50% of the local residents had to move away from their home in 2020 due to a lack of work. A few of the rivers that they took small tour boats also grew over in 2020. So the locals are aware of the environmental impact but also the financial necessity of tourism. Reading this article reminded me of that conversation, and the balancing acts these communities have to handle.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Another factor I did not mention is to make sure the materials used for the tunnel is easy to gather. We have a variety of farms that make most items easy to obtain, so it is not too limiting.

    Another factor I did not mention is to make sure the materials used for the tunnel is easy to gather. We have a variety of farms that make most items easy to obtain, so it is not too limiting.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I know previously with the guardian xp farm we had the hopper clock in the nether freeze. Maybe a similar issue has ocurred?

    I know previously with the guardian xp farm we had the hopper clock in the nether freeze. Maybe a similar issue has ocurred?

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I somehow missed this comment, but I did notice the decor and thought it looks really nice. If you do decorate other tunnels, I will caution you that it is time consuming and can cause burnout. If...

    I somehow missed this comment, but I did notice the decor and thought it looks really nice. If you do decorate other tunnels, I will caution you that it is time consuming and can cause burnout. If you do decorate more tunnels, keeping it simple is recommended.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I have added in the junction, placing it where your rail was currently ending and built a bridge to cross the river. Lazer, feel free to modify the bridge or any of the other infrastructure around...

    I have added in the junction, placing it where your rail was currently ending and built a bridge to cross the river. Lazer, feel free to modify the bridge or any of the other infrastructure around your base as you see fit. Once I add a proper stop in the flower district, that will be yet another place accessible by rail

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    More so due to the placement of it, being at the end of the water stream, giving it the most time to cause problems

    More so due to the placement of it, being at the end of the water stream, giving it the most time to cause problems

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Seems to have fixed it. I ran 10 shulkers of moss through the system (moss was kind of the worst offender for overflowing) and 11 blocks made it to the overflow. That is a 0.07% of items slipping...

    Seems to have fixed it. I ran 10 shulkers of moss through the system (moss was kind of the worst offender for overflowing) and 11 blocks made it to the overflow. That is a 0.07% of items slipping past the filter in a stress test, whereas before the change we were probably having closer to 25% slipping past the filter (I never measured the rate before). Thank you for making the change. As long as we don't have any serverside performance issues after this change, I think it is solved

    Edit: Since so little items are making it past, I implemented a loopback system where the items stored in bulk storage get filtered out using one sorter from the multi-item sorters and it gets put back into the start of the system to be run through again. I set this up a while back but did not enable it since so much was making it past that I was concerned it would run too high of a risk to be active during server restarts

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    @teaearlgreycold thanks to @PunchTunnel the source of the glitching behaviour of items in water streams have been found. Github issue describing it The solution is to modify...

    @teaearlgreycold thanks to @PunchTunnel the source of the glitching behaviour of items in water streams have been found.

    Github issue describing it

    The solution is to modify /infrastructure/apps/minecraft/spigot.yml

    Line 108 to the following:
    misc: -1

    This will revert it to the default vanilla behaviour. This might cause some slight performance decrease though

    Edit: After some in game testing, I have realized that standing close to the water streams prevents it from stuttering, which further confirms the theory that the stuttering is caused by player distance

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    @Lazerdye I have completed the section of rail that runs north/south from your base to the flower farm, but it currently ends a couple hundred blocks east of your base across the river. Before I...

    @Lazerdye I have completed the section of rail that runs north/south from your base to the flower farm, but it currently ends a couple hundred blocks east of your base across the river. Before I build a bridge to cross it, I wanted to get your opinion on placement. Are you wanting to have the junction in your base where the rail line currently ends?

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Trying to find other uses of a specific sample in ~music

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    I found it! Turns out it was also in Divided by DK the Drummer. Since it was a smaller artist, it is not surprising that it was harder to locate

    I found it! Turns out it was also in Divided by DK the Drummer. Since it was a smaller artist, it is not surprising that it was harder to locate

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    server down? Blue map also seems to be down for me Edit: It appears to be back up

    server down? Blue map also seems to be down for me

    Edit: It appears to be back up

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  15. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Glad to hear it was familiar to use. It helps that I have had user feedback from other players. I find myself this season trying to balance something that looks cool and is interesting for me to...

    finally got to check out the new rail station under storage. It's gorgeous and very familiar to use

    Glad to hear it was familiar to use. It helps that I have had user feedback from other players. I find myself this season trying to balance something that looks cool and is interesting for me to build with the utility of the build, and leaning more towards the looking cool department.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Trying to find other uses of a specific sample in ~music

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    Well now I know that it is from Mercury 9 from Gordon Cooper. Hopefully I can use that info to help narrow down my search

    Well now I know that it is from Mercury 9 from Gordon Cooper. Hopefully I can use that info to help narrow down my search

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Trying to find other uses of a specific sample in ~music

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    I forgot to mention that Game by Rizha was one place that came up in my search, but is not the source I am familiar with

    I forgot to mention that Game by Rizha was one place that came up in my search, but is not the source I am familiar with

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Seems like music discs work differently for copper golem sorters. It will require each disc being separately added to the filter, which is pretty easy to do, and have since grabbed the stockpile...

    Seems like music discs work differently for copper golem sorters. It will require each disc being separately added to the filter, which is pretty easy to do, and have since grabbed the stockpile of records and added them to the filters

    1 vote

  19. Comment on US landlords want to be paid for pandemic losses and hope to reach a deal with the Donald Trump administration in ~finance

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    Potentially with landlords explicitly it might be a straw man, as I have not researched that in general. Real estate being viewed as risk-free though is not a complete straw man, as I have heard...

    Potentially with landlords explicitly it might be a straw man, as I have not researched that in general. Real estate being viewed as risk-free though is not a complete straw man, as I have heard people hold that viewpoint (although unsure if they owned any properties or not).

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Trying to find other uses of a specific sample in ~music

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    Useful source, and I scanned each entry for another artist that I knew (since I did not know the name of the original NASA recording). Unfortunately, it did not turn up a familiar result. Cool...

    Useful source, and I scanned each entry for another artist that I knew (since I did not know the name of the original NASA recording). Unfortunately, it did not turn up a familiar result. Cool resource, although not fully comprehensive. But doing a comprehensive library of sampling seems nearly impossible with modern music

    2 votes