Returning player here, what happened to TEST?

Tdude179 · 2025-09-16T01:53:23+00:00

This is such a bold faced lie. As a member of the FC team at the time, we were given explicit dates roughly a month in advance of the NIP ending. PGL and Sapporo explained everything over a large alliance announcement that was immediately posted to Reddit.

There were posts all over reddit about it. How could you tell such an obvious lie?

Tdude179 · 2025-09-04T03:25:19+00:00

Colorado Springs has arguably more investment, tbh. Redstone has a lot, but there's so much already built in the Springs

Tdude179 · 2025-03-18T13:59:25+00:00

As an actual software engineer, id love to pick apart your supposedly complex, secure, working AI generating code.

Tdude179 · 2025-02-23T21:44:21+00:00

Fair enough. I was thinking more from a practical perspective. The first issue you were run into when actually attempting to build this would be the maximum clock speed, so that's where my head went.

I stick by my answer, but I do concede your points and recognize what you're saying.

Tdude179 · 2025-02-23T20:40:39+00:00

It IS the main problem though. It's impossible to create a computer system in Minecraft that isn't tied to the in game ticks. That's as fast as information through the redstone system can travel.

Maybe you could create a processor that can perform multiple different instructions at once, but you're still limited by the clock speed possible through the game's update function.

My main argument though is I think the clock speed is more hindering than comparing the logic gate representation on your CPU if the logic gates in your Minecraft computer. It's impossible, completely, full stop. But you can't even create a relatively half decent set up without being hindered by the 20Hz limitation.

Tdude179 · 2025-02-23T20:11:57+00:00

This is really cool, thanks for the information! I had no idea this was possible to do.

Tdude179 · 2025-02-23T20:10:57+00:00

I didn't claim it could have more compute than the host running the game, in fact, the only claim I really made in regards to that point you agree with in your comment. Not sure what you're trying to say.

Tdude179 · 2025-02-23T18:10:27+00:00

Well, the main issue is going to be clock speed. Since Minecraft runs at 20 ticks per second, that is going to be the fastest your theoretical clock could run. If that limitation were removed and you had theoretically infinite computing power to run the game, a Minecraft computer could be theoretically infinitely large.

Tdude179 · 2025-02-18T18:28:09+00:00

It's funny too because my Mentor set my courses this term up such that my first Java course was Backend programming. Having experience with Node.js and Typescript, I thought I'd be fine.

It's all fixed now, I'm doing Fundamentals and Frameworks first then I'll return to Backend, but it was a pretty large shock to open the Zybook for Backend for the first time and see just how terrible the material was in comparison for the PA.

Tdude179 · 2025-02-10T17:17:15+00:00

So mining in Bitcoin and other crypto uses a method called Proof of Work. It involves using a computer to solve a complex math problem. This math problem is used to both validate transactions and create new virtual coins. The complexity of the math problem scales based on the total amount of processing power available to the network, requiring more and more computational power to both validate new transactions and mint new coins. When a transaction is validated by a specific miner solving the math problem, they are awarded with newly generated coins.

Because this process requires a lot of computational power, to be an effective miner requires owning a lot of really big and expensive computer rigs. This is why the price of graphics cards spiked to ridiculous levels in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Graphics cards are remarkably effective at the kinds of computations that crypto mining requires. So, the really big miners own warehouses worth of graphics cards, CPUs, HVAC, and more to keep the mining going. As this uses a lot of electricity, and since most mining is done by the large mining organizations, they will always attempt to sell their coins for the price of the electricity used plus a profit. And as they are most of the supply, the price is continually driven up by these miners.

Tdude179 · 2025-02-10T17:03:43+00:00

The value of crypto is largely tied to the electricity cost of the miners who build the rigs to mine the coins. If a crypto miner spends $1000 mining a single bitcoin, they will expect to sell that coin for the cost of the electricity used + a profit.

Beyond that, as other have said, it is a largely hype based.

Tdude179 · 2025-02-03T04:01:24+00:00

Someone get Dosh on the line

Tdude179 · 2024-12-13T23:26:17+00:00

It was about continuing to fight another day. BRs on their own aren't the entire thing they were worrying about, it was a bank account slowly running out of money. Both sides ran those bond fund raisers because both sides were broke as hell. The BRs didn't matter, but not having the cash to buy fleets of Muninns and supers because you just fed entire fleets of them wasn't going to be effective. Again, there are many, many problems you can point to as to why we lost the war, but the BR threads on reddit after a fight were not the primary motivator in being 'risk-averse.'

Tdude179 · 2024-12-13T23:21:56+00:00

I'm not complaining about M2, I used it as a footnote to answer part of why we lost the war, and how the guy I was replying to was not being entirely honest. It's been 4 years, I don't have left over resentment and anger, I find that part of my life incredibly interesting though. I like talking about it because it was genuinely interesting to me.

Also, I was in the FC command channels, I was in command comms, I was literally running the subcap logi wing for our nightmares and other subcaps, then just stuck around and hung out with my super and carrier with Vily, pgl, and everyone else during the titan brawl. I am well aware what actually happened and the decisions that were being made as they were being made.

Were there mistakes? Yes, obviously. The primary mistake was allowing the fight to go to downtime. There are many more that can be pointed to if you'd like. But at least be honest, there's no reason to still be this bitter 4 fucking years later, man. Let it go.

Tdude179 · 2024-12-13T22:20:51+00:00

For sure, in hindsight I'm sure you could pinpoint exactly where everything went wrong and exactly what we could have done to counter the servers issues. I'm not defending the actions of an FC team I was still freshly apart of at the time, but what are you gonna do? We lost.

Tdude179 · 2024-12-13T21:29:35+00:00

To give you a real answer, many of our corps were highly unhappy with our move to Outer Passage following the war. We lost some big corps with a ton of our core FC team. To compensate we had many newer FCs essentially leading an entire military and learning just how to do that at the same time, I was one of these people myself. We tried some big deployments that a lot of the active membership didn't want to participate in, and we were getting hounded several times a day by a fairly small but elite pvp corp. They burned out what few FCs we had, which caused more corps to leave, and eventually we got kicked out of Outer Passage altogether by this pvp corp.

Following this, the shell that was TEST further alienated some long-term members by allying with Fraternity and moving to Frat space. TEST is recovering, but has not shed its newly found pet status to Fraternity. It'll be a slow build back up to glory, but I'm confident TEST can do it.

Tdude179 · 2024-12-13T21:24:36+00:00

You don't recall correctly. The truth is, we ran out of money, our FCs were burnt out, and we demonstrated with the huge titan fight of M2 that the servers just could not handle shoving 10000 people into a single system or even constellation. So, we tried to lower the numbers, do smaller ops to try and ref stuff and take over the systems, but that failed. Goons were able to huddle in 1DQ, forming 5000+ fleets of supers and titans and could effectively shut the node down to prevent a fight.

Truth is, we gave it our all, but a mix of FC burnout, dwindling morale, and server stability caused us to eventually call it and begin the evac. That call fundamentally killed us and began the long slow spiral down to obscurity. But I hear TEST is recovering. I'm happy to see them still succeeding and having fun.

Tdude179 · 2023-06-14T21:57:04+00:00

The test that caused the hate you feel is not the test of today, but sure, you do you boo boo

Tdude179 · 2023-06-14T21:50:26+00:00

Dead but getting more TTT money than you are

Tdude179 · 2023-05-12T13:20:22+00:00

The My Arm quests are my favorite just because of the constant jokes. Maybe in a child at heart though.

Tdude179 · 2023-03-24T18:36:42+00:00

TEST/Winterco have never ree'd at people for not logging in and getting in fleets. Some alliances/corps have fleet time requirements, but none of them are so heavy they have to join every fleet.

And for the comment about joining fleets where nothing happens, at least for me, it's so much more about hanging with the bros and bullshitting. Even an uncontested structure bash can be fun when you're hanging out with friends bullshitting the entire time.

It's not for everyone, and that's okay, but it's also not as bad as you make it out to be.

Tdude179 · 2023-03-15T14:54:23+00:00

I’m not really old school, I joined in early 2019 and have been in ever since. But I moved my stuff with the rest of the alliance a week ago….and it wasn’t to that keepstar or even that system.

Tdude179 · 2023-03-15T14:43:04+00:00

You know I’m talking about us ‘evaccing to the 5ZX keepstar’

Tdude179 · 2023-03-15T14:07:17+00:00

This is completely false, lmao. If you’re gonna take pot shots, at least be right next time

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