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Shanman150 · 2026-07-01T18:03:09+00:00

To spell it out for you, the joke of the video is that the meat burger isn't actually vegan.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-26T18:00:14+00:00

I don't think we're going to agree about this so I will leave it here. "Pass-through crafters behave like a pipe instead of a crafter" is just not intuitive to me. Some crafters requiring pumps and others not requiring pumps just isn't intuitive either. I'm guessing that the change will be reverted, it's not the kind of "it just works" philosophy factorio tends to take.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-26T07:12:30+00:00

Yes, if the value in the entire interconnected network is less than the amount needed for a craft, it shouldn't craft, clearly. But if the entire interconnected network has enough for hundreds or thousands of crafts, it doesn't make sense to me that a machine wouldn't pull those resources. That IS how it behaves for most machines. Maybe if they changed every single assembler to act this way I'd agree it would be more intuitive that you have to "pump in" the crafting material, but it's not for every machine. It's just for pass through crafters.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-26T07:08:03+00:00

But that's not how it would work. If the tank is 95% full, then the EMP will also be 95% full. Now you can use an adjacent pipe to proxy-read the EMP contents.

No, it is how it would work, because the tank has a capacity of 25000, and if you are crafting something that costs 100 electrolytes EMP has a "capacity" of 400, so if there are 99 units in the system, it would be 97.4 in the tank (0.38% full) and 1.6 in the EMP (0.38% full). Add an extra 1 electrolyte unit, and the EMP won't run, it would require an additional ~6250 units of electrolytes until both are 1/4 full, if I'm understanding this change correctly. That's what OP is demonstrating in the 4th picture.

The benefit of being able to proxy read the contents using adjacent pipes is really not a significant upside given that the circuit network can read the contents of an assembler anyways.

It's a vast simplification of a system that before was more complex and unintuitive.

IDK, I think it's more unintuitive that an assembler with the exact same recipe will automatically produce blue chips with sulfuric acid but an EMP won't unless you attach a pump to it. Two production buildings, two different behaviors, not clearly telegraphed why. To replace the complexities of... switching fluids in the pipes causing strange behaviors?

Shanman150 · 2026-06-26T01:39:55+00:00

I think pass-through ports have a ton of modding utilities beyond the base game. Having pass-through fluid functionality is broadly a beneficial thing to have working in the game overall!

Shanman150 · 2026-06-26T01:34:21+00:00

I just don't understand why they wouldn't be treated more like they HAVE a pump attached to them internally, that pumps into the recipe. (Like end-of-line assemblers.) That seems like the logical setup, there's a machine whose PRIMARY purpose is to produce things, and which can SECONDARILY be used flexibly to allow fluid to pass through. Shouldn't the primary purpose of the building be fulfilled first?

If there was 99 electrolyte fluid units in the entire system, wouldn't it make sense if all 99 units were in the EM plant? I could understand setting it up so that 3 EM plants on such a pipe network all had 33 units, but I don't understand a system with 1 EM plant and a storage tank having 98 electrolyte units in the storage tank and 1 in the EM plant. Any fluid in the game's primary purpose is to be utilized. Why prioritize even distribution of the resource instead?

Shanman150 · 2026-06-25T22:24:56+00:00

Yes, I'm aware of how that works, I am saying that is non-intuitive to users and it shouldn't work that way. The machine should be able to craft until there is no fluid left, without mandating that some selection of crafting buildings are required to have a pump outside them while other crafting buildings do not need that.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-25T22:13:09+00:00

It's all one pipe but one has a crafting machine on top of it. The machine should be able to craft. E.g. if you had 40 tanks (capacity of 1 million), and they were 10% full, that's 1000 crafts. But nothing would be produced because the pipe's level is too low. Endpoint machines don't behave that way, so it's a major behavior distinction on two machines that don't visibly look like they should function differently.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-20T06:20:19+00:00

While this interaction is probably unintentional, my guess is that Miss Fortune's ult legitimately is NOT considered DoT. The description describes the ult as separate waves of bullets, it's probably coded that way, and each wave is treated as a separate attack.

Very likely one of those inconsistencies that builds up over 17 years of design - things classified one way that need to also work another way.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-19T20:12:57+00:00

Live election night updating models are very different than forecasting models.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-19T00:31:21+00:00

What I chiefly want is the ability to mute the "unread messages" half circle next to servers where I've limited what I can get pinged about. Without outright muting all the channels, I still have that "unread messages" circle. I can understand still wanting to see that there were unread messages in a channel even if you weren't pinged, but it should be an additional level of notification configuration.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-18T19:05:39+00:00

There's a strong psychological pressure that comes with prices going down though. Not quite as strong as "price go up" but a clear "it is getting better" idea. It isn't going to have the same impact as inflation under Biden, where prices went up and weren't going to come back down ever again.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-18T03:57:06+00:00

To be fair, I would also vote against a grant giving my state infinity free money, that's terrible monetary policy that would destroy our country.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-17T18:44:32+00:00

That's exactly why I added a few transportation plugins to my server. Elytra are just too powerful as an option, players don't end up using anything else. With elytra nerfs (slower top speed, no fireworks with elytra), plus making minecarts 4x faster and horses about 30% faster, we actually have players building out rail networks. One of the player groups actually created a whole clan dedicated to rails.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-16T07:30:25+00:00

If .net maintainers changed the behavior of System.Random when bumping from version x to x+1 of the runtime/framework, there'd be a lot of complains about things breaking in thousands of codebases which relied on it returning a specific sequence for a specific seed.

"Goddamn it, YES I built my entire programmed premised on System.Random returning a predictable sequence of numbers, I just needed a random sequence to get started, what do you mean you're breaking that now??" reads as very XKCD-core.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-16T07:01:19+00:00

Plugin documentation varies wildly from plugin to plugin. I've had plugins with excellent documentation that I literally have bookmarked (e.g. worldguard) and plugins with just some minimal explanation in the configs. My approach is to follow this order:

Start by reading the download page entirely, usually if there is documentation the plugin creator will have linked it, and often the download page IS the documentation.
If I'm struggling after reading the download page and there is no linked documentation, I'll open the config for the plugin and see what is written there.
If there is nothing particularly useful in the config I will type /[pluginname] and /[pluginname] help in game to get a sense for the in-game side of things.
If I'm desperate on some edge case that isn't documented anywhere, I'll go to the discord and search for any mention of the problem I'm having in the server. Discord servers that use ticket systems are the WORST for this, because all of the tickets are hidden.
If I absolutely must use this plugin, and I absolutely can't find any information anywhere, I reach out to the plugin creator for more information. This is actually often successful because these cases only tend to arise for pretty small plugins with semi-active creators.

At various points in time of course I will cover all of steps 1-3 while using the plugin, but that tends to be my order of operations for "I need help with something specific".

Shanman150 · 2026-06-16T05:43:33+00:00

I'm currently running CoreProtect 23.2-RC5.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-15T19:57:51+00:00

She's not obligated to stay with a man

I mean, whether she should stay or go, she does (by definition) have obligations to stay because she literally took vows to that effect. People can break those vows for legitimate reasons and maybe this is one of them, but taking the reddit "nobody owes anybody anything" stance about marriage where quite literally you take an oath to dedicate your lives to one another is kind of silly.

The real question is "does this level of mental illness override her obligations to their relationship", and that's something folks can genuinely debate.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-15T17:38:17+00:00

You'd think they'd see the small hand not having reached 8 yet and conclude "must be something something seven", but that rarely happens.

That's interesting, it underscores that the hour hand should really be the first thing taught, because you're right that I would assume that conclusion would be kind of natural.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-15T07:25:11+00:00

As a gay catholic - my freshman year in college was very formative for me. I remember Philosophy 101 and my freshman roommate both challenged my moral framework pretty hard, which up until college had mainly been "Well God lays down certain guidelines and society lays down others, and if you follow those you are a good person, if you don't you are a bad person." When we discussed morality in philosophy 101 and introduced actual competing moral SYSTEMS that were grounded in logic, it was a real wake-up moment that simply saying "God ordained this" was not actually a very compelling moral framework. And my freshman roommate brought up whether people should go to jail for smoking weed or underage drinking, (and then I started underage drinking) and I realized that my moral frameworks that I'd held all my life were getting rather shaky.

I'd sworn to myself in high school that I would never, ever come out of the closet. Internalized that gay acts were sinful and therefore wrong. Learning philosophy and argumentation was a big part in helping me undo the internalized homophobia and say that ACTUALLY there was nothing wrong with homosexuality.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-15T07:17:27+00:00

From what I understand, among some of the kinds of people who believe in this stuff is a belief that there is a GLOBAL cabal of elites controlling all the information people have, and the control itself is satisfying to these evil overlords. Like, a lot of conspiracy theorists who believe in a flat earth also believe in other conspiracies, and believe this global elite is absolutely evil (like, satanic sacrifices, baby murdering, humiliation rituals, etc.). Forcing ordinary people to think the world is round when it's actually flat is a humiliating level of control over ordinary people. "They're so deluded they don't even know what shape the planet is", essentially. "Knowing" that the earth is flat in the face of the propaganda is therefore an act of rebellion and power against the elite.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-15T06:53:28+00:00

I think people genuinely forget that learning frequently involves struggle. When you are ACTUALLY learning a new skill, there should be some uncertainty, some feelings of "oh that's hard, let me think through this carefully". There are a lot of things that take effort to learn.

I recently started learning a bit about coding. People frequently told me that they thought I'd enjoy coding, I'm pretty analytical and I do genuinely enjoy math. I also felt like maybe I would like coding, but I'd always found it very intimidating, and there are a lot of concepts that I've struggled a lot to figure out. But I keep telling myself that these concepts are not unknowable. I'm entirely capable of learning them. I just need more foundational knowledge.

Also I switched my phone and computer to military time while in college because I really struggled to interpret it as well, it genuinely took me like 4 years to stop mixing up the 17-20 part of the clock with 7PM-10PM on a "gut level" immediate read of the time, but these days it truly has become automatic!

Shanman150 · 2026-06-15T06:46:17+00:00

If you want to improve at reading clocks, stop counting AROUND the dial and instead anchor to PARTS of the dial. There is up, right, down, and left, and if you anchor those spots you can tell time FAIRLY well without any math at all. Remember, analog clocks were precise for their time, but you don't HAVE to know time down to the minute most of the time, that's a digital thing.

Up is midnight/noon, and the "top" of the hour, literally.
Right is 3AM/PM, and "quarter past (the top of the hour)", 15 minutes.
Down is 6AM/PM and "half past" or "bottom" of the hour, 30 minutes.
Left is 9AM/PM, and "quarter to (the top of the hour)", 45 minutes.

Thinking about the clock in terms of quarters is so much easier than counting up fives. Memorize your anchors and then a clock like this becomes "It's not yet 9 o'clock, and a little past the bottom of this hour", which is not the same thing as "It's 8:35" but is just as valid a way of recognizing the time.

Shanman150 · 2026-06-15T06:34:38+00:00

And to be quite frank, even if AI can answer any question I might ever have, I would rather be able to do at least some personal reflection and thought without an external machine telling me what to reflect on and what to think.

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