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  1. Comment on Introductions | July 2026 in ~talk

  2. Comment on Tidles Minecraft Weekly - Big Farts Edition (26.2 Update) in ~games

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    I finished the large scale sulfur spike farm, which is located at -347, 1080. It can be configured to output just the spikes or autocraft into sulfur blocks. Best way to access it is by following...

    I finished the large scale sulfur spike farm, which is located at -347, 1080. It can be configured to output just the spikes or autocraft into sulfur blocks. Best way to access it is by following the rivers south of comm. storage until you reach the sulfur/froglight markers.

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  3. Comment on Tidles Minecraft Weekly - Big Farts Edition (26.2 Update) in ~games

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    That would be nice. I think the big farts update will suit your build style quite well, and I am interested in seeing what you build with it

    I'm hoping in the next couple weeks things will start to be on a routine where I can maybe play some again.

    That would be nice. I think the big farts update will suit your build style quite well, and I am interested in seeing what you build with it

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Tidles Minecraft Weekly - Big Farts Edition (26.2 Update) in ~games

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    I have since built a larger design south of town using flying machines. This has been my first time designing my own farm and it has been tons of fun. I plan on expanding it further, with at a...

    I have since built a larger design south of town using flying machines. This has been my first time designing my own farm and it has been tons of fun. I plan on expanding it further, with at a minimum of one more module (but maybe three). Since each module of this design is 3x the size of the whole farm I built in the industrial district, it will be good for some of the larger projects.

    Edit: There is no good option for transport to this farm. I have been taking a boat down the rivers from comm. storage. I do not plan on building a portal to out here, but I am thinking of putting in a southbound line for transit, which will serve the large sulfur farm as well as some other builds in the south

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  5. Comment on Tidles Minecraft Weekly - Big Farts Edition (26.2 Update) in ~games

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    On the vanilla launcher it is a smoother process to update, whereas for prism I find it a bit clunkier

    On the vanilla launcher it is a smoother process to update, whereas for prism I find it a bit clunkier

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  6. Comment on Tidles Minecraft Weekly - Big Farts Edition (26.2 Update) in ~games

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    Yeah, I checked this morning and the output is on the low side so I will expand it. I also thought of a slight modification of the design, so will do that as well Edit: I expanded it to 4 total...

    Yeah, I checked this morning and the output is on the low side so I will expand it. I also thought of a slight modification of the design, so will do that as well

    Edit: I expanded it to 4 total layers. I think for projects that require a lot it might be worth building a large flying machine based farm. A flying machine in the industrial district would eventually get unloaded mid-flight so not the safest location for one. Although, part of that is my farm philosophy which is have several small low impact farms in common areas to provide a small trickle of resources, then build giant high output farms that have higher performance impact in remote areas

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  7. Comment on Tidles Minecraft Weekly - Big Farts Edition (26.2 Update) in ~games

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    Yeah, I always find upgrading an instance to be something I fumble my way through, rather than have it just be a smooth single click operation

    Yeah, I always find upgrading an instance to be something I fumble my way through, rather than have it just be a smooth single click operation

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Tidles Minecraft Weekly - Big Farts Edition (26.2 Update) in ~games

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    So I have started playing around with creating a sulfur spike farm. I have done a small automated proof of concept, and the growth rate is quite slow. The farming mechanics are quite similar to...

    So I have started playing around with creating a sulfur spike farm. I have done a small automated proof of concept, and the growth rate is quite slow. The farming mechanics are quite similar to dripstone, so it should be easy to build a farm. However, the industrial district storage prefers items inputted at a small steady stream, whereas dripstone farms use flying machines, which does infrequent large deposits. So I will probably just make something similar to a large bamboo farm kind of design

    Edit: I have since built the farm. It has 64 sulfur spikes, so it will output a decent amount hopefully. It is my own design so might not be the most efficient, but it was fun designing it

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Tidles Minecraft Weekly - Big Farts Edition (26.2 Update) in ~games

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    I think either 2 redstone + 2 sulfur or another suggestion I saw was the idea of netherack and sulfur

    I think either 2 redstone + 2 sulfur or another suggestion I saw was the idea of netherack and sulfur

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in to use old.reddit.com in ~tech

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    I don't think that is accurate. Surely the reposted "what's the sexiest sex you have ever sexed?" variation of the hour takes up half of the posts

    I remember when the AskReddit subreddit was actually a really enjoyable sub where you could get interesting questions and answers, or just generally good advise. Now 2/3rds of the posts are "Person X (who we don't like), did thing Y (which has been framed as an inherently negative thing). How does that make you feel?"

    I don't think that is accurate. Surely the reposted "what's the sexiest sex you have ever sexed?" variation of the hour takes up half of the posts

    34 votes

  11. Comment on Tidles Minecraft Weekly - Big Farts Edition (26.2 Update) in ~games

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    For sulfur, that is renewable with a sulfur spike farm. But cinnabar is not a renewable resource, so we may need to come up with a crafting recipe to make cinnabar renewable in a balanced manner

    For sulfur, that is renewable with a sulfur spike farm. But cinnabar is not a renewable resource, so we may need to come up with a crafting recipe to make cinnabar renewable in a balanced manner

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Re-watched the Bourne Trilogy after several years, I understand now why it was so influential in ~movies

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    In this re-watch, I only did the original trilogy, since I know that the quality suffers after. I did see the 4th (the Jeremy Renner one) when it was originally released, and it was mediocre. I do...

    I love the first trilogy of these movies so much (haven't seen any that came after).

    In this re-watch, I only did the original trilogy, since I know that the quality suffers after. I did see the 4th (the Jeremy Renner one) when it was originally released, and it was mediocre. I do remember that the 4th kind of fleshed out the pills that were being used in Treadstone and did flesh out Blackbriar more, but I feel like that part of the original trilogy was not what made it popular.

    For those who don't know, the first three movies were written by Tony Gilroy, who was the showrunner for Andor. He doesn't miss.

    I have been talking with a friend recently about the Bourne movies and he commented the same thing. Maybe I should look into Andor a bit more

  13. Comment on Do you cook with cast iron? Is it the hassle everyone says it is? in ~food

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    So I cook with a mixture of cast iron and also non-stick pans, and have been doing so for several years. A lot of the comments here have already discussed the pros/cons of cast iron. There are two...

    So I cook with a mixture of cast iron and also non-stick pans, and have been doing so for several years. A lot of the comments here have already discussed the pros/cons of cast iron. There are two things that make me reaching for the cast iron more often recently compared to the non-stick pans. The first is that while both sets of pans are over 5 years old, the non-sticks are starting to stick more often as the coating wears down, while the cast iron is still the same. I now view the non-stick pans as a consumable, where each use shortens its lifespan, whereas I do not have the same viewpoint with the cast iron. The second thing I really enjoy with a cast iron is that I can start a meal frying something on the stove top, and then finish it by sticking it in the oven to bake or broil (really useful for crisping up cheese on the top of a dish).

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I finished the building to house the industrial district storage system (screenshots). I also included a button on the shulker loaders to prematurely break the shulkers, in case there are no...

    I finished the building to house the industrial district storage system (screenshots). I also included a button on the shulker loaders to prematurely break the shulkers, in case there are no filled ones and you only need some of the specific item.

    5 votes

  15. Comment on Re-watched the Bourne Trilogy after several years, I understand now why it was so influential in ~movies

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    Yeah, the first movie is a lot more toned down in that style, although it does maintain some similarities in editing.

    Yeah, the first movie is a lot more toned down in that style, although it does maintain some similarities in editing.

  16. Comment on Re-watched the Bourne Trilogy after several years, I understand now why it was so influential in ~movies

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    Yeah, the plot of the movies are great as well. I was glad I was able to come into this rewatch with little memory of the plot.

    Although you are talking about the direction and style, I love them for the plot. Actually, I'm not sure if I really like the presentation of them that much, but you are right about how it's always clear what is happening.

    Yeah, the plot of the movies are great as well. I was glad I was able to come into this rewatch with little memory of the plot.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Re-watched the Bourne Trilogy after several years, I understand now why it was so influential in ~movies

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    Yeah, Wick movies are not an equivalent movie comparison, but that was the mindset I was going into.

    I watched the first John Wick movie and disliked it intensely, so I haven't bothered with the others. But I find the Bourne movies to be vastly superior to that first Wick movie. They feel more focused and less super-hero inspired.

    Yeah, Wick movies are not an equivalent movie comparison, but that was the mindset I was going into.

  18. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I feel like that is starting to become an issue with vanilla minecraft now as well. Especially with temperature preferences making it harder to find a different temperature biome. I know in my...

    The tricky thing will be to figure out how rare the biome is with Terralith in the mix.

    I feel like that is starting to become an issue with vanilla minecraft now as well. Especially with temperature preferences making it harder to find a different temperature biome. I know in my single player worlds being stuck either in a warm or cold biome area, and having to travel very far to get to the other temperature preference

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  19. Re-watched the Bourne Trilogy after several years, I understand now why it was so influential

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    I originally watched the Bourne Trilogy as a young teenager. I found them to be great action movies, and quite enjoyed them. At the time I knew they were regarded as great action movies, but did...

    I originally watched the Bourne Trilogy as a young teenager. I found them to be great action movies, and quite enjoyed them. At the time I knew they were regarded as great action movies, but did not understand the influence they had. Recently, I have heard about how influential they were on the genre, so I decided to re-watch them in my late 20s, with a lot more media awareness. A lot of the commentary I had seen going into this is how the movies popularized the shaky cam and fast cutting on action scenes. Going into this re-watch, I did not remember much, with only remembering just a few standalone scenes, but not much about the plotline (except Bourne has amnesia).

    If you have not seen the movies in the past 5 years, I highly recommend you bookmark this post and stop reading then go back and watch them before continuing reading

    So going into this movie, my expectations were more along the lines of a dumb action movie, with well done fast-paced editing for action scenes. I was thinking along the lines of mid-2000s equivalent to the John Wick franchise. I was wrong on this. The plot is a lot tighter than the action movies I was expecting, and the action a lot lighter. The entire trilogy has lighter action than compared to more modern action movies. There is a grand total of two explosions for the entire trilogy (one in Identity, where Bourne explodes a propane tank as a diversion, and the second in Ultimatum where another agent blows up a car). Instead, the movie focuses on hand-to-hand combat for the action (which will be discussed later), but also strongly prioritizes Bourne trying to sneak out of a situation rather than fight out of it. Trying to sneak out of an area definitely changes the tone of the movie, and for the better in my opinion.

    For the action sequences, I found the fast cutting and shaky cam actually really good. I have been annoyed at other movies that have copied this style, because when done wrong it just turns the scenes into an unreadable mess. I think there are a few things done in Bourne that makes this editing style actually readable. The first is that the scope of these fight scenes are quite small. Normally they are 1v1 fights, not the fighting through a hallway of opponents that can be common in other movies. When the viewer has to keep track of only two people in a fight, the fast cuts are not as jarring. The second trick they use is providing establishing shots of the environment, keeping the environment small, and doing familiar environments (normally apartments). The viewer can very easily keep track of the different rooms they fight through, which grounds it. The third is that the fight scenes are relatively short. Also, all the fights have very clear goals (normally defeat this single person that is preventing escape). Too many movies looked at the well done Bourne action and copied it, without understanding what made the scenes work.

    The other part of the movie that uses fast cuts is in the car chases. Bourne car chases are fantastic, although I would argue that there needs to be suspension of disbelief, as the damage to the vehicles are a bit extreme while staying operational. The fast cuts work well as the goal is clear "escape the city center." The viewer is not expected to be able to keep track of where in the city they are, just that they are being followed and Bourne needs to escape. Also, the movie does not use high performance cars, but instead does regular cars in tight European streets, which is a fun change compared to other movies.

    The editing in general for the movie is quite engaging. I would describe it as a fragmented editing style, which works really well for the plot. The fragmented style disorients the viewer a bit, which matches well with Bourne suffering from amnesia. Cutting between various things puts the viewer into the mode of trying to piece everything together alongside Bourne (although the viewer has a bit more info, since they are aware of others actions). Then there is the two ending scenes in Supremacy (Bourne in Russia, then Bourne in the US on the phone with Landy) being reused in Ultimatum with it starting with Bourne escaping Russia and then the phone call taking place about 2/3 of the way through Ultimatum. Since I watched the two movies within about a week of each other, I found that having the movie partially exist between the two ending scenes of the previous movie really fun.

    44 votes

  20. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I agree that the input/output is the bottleneck. Putting a shulker loader at the end of the system might require a bit of planning so that there is the ability to break a partially filled shulker

    I agree that the input/output is the bottleneck. Putting a shulker loader at the end of the system might require a bit of planning so that there is the ability to break a partially filled shulker

    1 vote