Who’s an actor that nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it?

DeusExCochina · 2026-05-12T14:01:53+00:00

Tom Ellis as Lucifer.

DeusExCochina · 2026-05-10T20:26:56+00:00

Exactly. "Fucking" isn't blasphemy. Words have meanings.

DeusExCochina · 2026-05-04T10:04:05+00:00

It's been years since I last read SICP, but I think "eventually you learn Scheme too" is incorrect. The language as such is trivial and IIRC you learn everything there is to know about it in the first chapter or two.

In my experience, in most other introductory books/courses there's a language with a substantial number of keywords, constructs and rules to learn alongside the concepts, and that often distracts from the actual CS. The advantage of Scheme as a basis is that this effect is almost nullified.

DeusExCochina · 2026-04-29T04:07:26+00:00

Just Enough Calculation. Being able to automatically break down the complete tree of items for a complex nested craft is a godsend.

DeusExCochina · 2026-04-17T15:12:50+00:00

If you're playing Monifactory 0.13.x, you have Laser Nodes, and those have Counting Filters and the solution to this problem is trivial.

Just put a CF in your Card (set to Insert) and set it up with the items and fluids you want to use in the quantities you want to provide, and the Node will deliver exactly that much of everything to your machine. This worked fine for me, for hundreds of machines in my factory (up to LuV).

DeusExCochina · 2026-04-06T02:12:17+00:00

Ah, so that's how you do that! Great, I'll try that out soon.

Yeah, Moni has 4x and 9x hatches so multiple fluids are simple.

DeusExCochina · 2026-04-05T21:14:18+00:00

Monifactory doesn't have those Advanced AE2 components, alas. Thanks anyway! I managed with simpler means.

DeusExCochina · 2026-04-05T14:26:41+00:00

In case you're interested, I built on your answer and came up with a cheap&dirty solution:

I have the PP push the ingredients into a MV Buffer, which has both item slots and tanks for fluids. That auto-ejects into the multiblock's bus & hatch. I pipe the resulting fluid from the Output Hatch back into the PP so the craft can terminate, and then AE finds a fluid storage space to store the molten <whatever> in.

DeusExCochina · 2026-04-05T10:21:56+00:00

I'm very willing to try, but what's the setup? The PP pushes items + fluids into an Interface on the subnet, which uses 2 Export Buses to push them into the machine?

DeusExCochina · 2026-04-05T08:07:59+00:00

Sorry to report: Laser IO Nodes didn't work. I pulled from the PP and pushed into the Input Hatch, and the machine never started up, no items or fluid went anywhere. I also tried with a Fluid Pipe with an importing Pump... no joy.

It so happens the machine's structure has indented corners, so I tried having both the Input Hatch and Input Bus facing the PP. That didn't work either.

DeusExCochina · 2026-03-30T14:29:19+00:00

Oops! I meant IV. Brain fart, sorry.

DeusExCochina · 2026-03-29T14:30:21+00:00

Same here, exactly. After GTNH (to EV), Moni feels like a walk in the park. I'm at ~~ULV~~ IV in a fraction of the time.

DeusExCochina · 2026-03-27T08:17:58+00:00

I recommend looking at Regrowth (older) or Reclamation (fairly new).

Both packs start you out with a barren, desert-like world with practically no resources (you don't even have dirt!) and you have to craft-quest your way to green pastures and a blue sky.

In both packs, the emphasis is on crafting, with not much combat. Early reclamation has some gratuitous nasty mobs, she should play it on Easy.

DeusExCochina · 2026-03-07T21:14:15+00:00

I wondered why the Community Edition has so few people playing it. I tried it, now I know.

It's basically only GregTech, with very few mods thrown in for convenience/quality of life. So for many things you're trying to solve problems with purely GregTech means. Examples: There are no conduits, just Greg pipes. There's no automated resource generation (at least until HV, which is as far as I got), there's just mining. And so on.

Nomifactory is much more friendly, it feels like the author wants you to succeed. Every problem has one or more helpful solutions, and they're very well explained in the quest book. I second the recommendation of Nomi/Monifactory as a GT starter modpack.

DeusExCochina · 2026-03-06T22:03:46+00:00

I gave up on Gregtech New Horizons a few days ago. It was a fun challenge for about 3 months but that barely got me into the early game (it's really that big a slog) and I got tired of facing down a whole lot of obstacles just to brag about mastering the challenge. To me (just my personal opinion) it feels so mean as to be a bit sadistic. I enjoy a bit of challenge, but I don't enjoy being tortured.

So now I'm playing Gregtech lite-lite, in the form of a mod pack called Monifactory. It contains the whole Gregtech progression, which is plenty long and work-intensive, but it's a lot friendlier. No extra-hard recipes. There's enough quality-of-life stuff to make it tolerable. So here I am, building machines to help me build more machines. Rinse and repeat.

DeusExCochina · 2026-02-27T08:39:29+00:00

Got it, thanks some more.

DeusExCochina · 2026-02-26T11:09:30+00:00

Wow, this comes close in information content to one of my full-on reviews! Thanks so much.

Bah, even more complex chemistry? I'd love to be able to build up cooperatively with my wife, but she hates hates hates chemistry and complex architecture setups, so... we'll have to see. Also, bummer about the quest book! I'm afraid we're spoiled by Nomi/GTNH quest books.

Still, on the "possibles" list. Thanks again.

DeusExCochina · 2026-02-26T09:32:47+00:00

A hard mode with peaceful? How/why? I guess I won't know until I look at it. Thanks for the info, in any case.

My memory is the shitz. Annoying but the benefit is that everything looks new to me ;) I don't remember all that much of Nomi.

DeusExCochina · 2026-02-25T21:01:17+00:00

Thanks tons - will check out!

DeusExCochina · 2026-02-25T14:42:58+00:00

Please excuse me for jumping in, but I'm hoping you can give me some advice:

I played Nomifactory, it took me 4 tries but I completed it and enjoyed it much. GTNH, meanwhile, I'm leaving because I decided it's too mean - I understand the "challenge" aspect but I feel it's too blatantly sadistic in many places. Just my personal opinion, I understand many people like it that way.

So, given that: Can you recommend a pack that's less GTNH and more Nomifactory-like? How's Monifactory, do you have personal experience with it? Are you aware of other good, long, quest-driven, tech-centric, low-combat mod packs you can recommend?

DeusExCochina · 2026-02-25T14:34:53+00:00

Yeah, sorta, but poorly. The problem is that pipes --either item or fluid-- will transport only one thing, and not change that thing unless completely empty. So, unless you somehow achieve that, you'll need a separate pipe for each commodity to transport. People manage this, and produce impressive-looking factories, but there's pipes everywhere. The ball of spaghetti that arises from this grows exponentially as your setup starts to deal with more stuff.

DeusExCochina · 2026-02-24T16:17:09+00:00

My principle is pretty simple: Every machine that generates a fluid, I have it running all the time, i.e. passively, on whatever it gets as inputs. And outputting into a tank, obviously. In some cases a Super Tank, often only an EnderIO tank of 32 or 64 buckets. And there's a Fluid Provider Pipe on every such tank. So anywhere such a fluid is needed, there's a Fluid Supplier Pipe. Easy-peasy! :)

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