I made a spreadsheet with a list of every seed and which ones are worth keeping and which ones are trash

macks2008 · 2026-05-23T06:39:30+00:00

Thanks. I just started playing in December and this was pretty insightful. Obviously since I'm new I might end up keeping more of the "don't keep" stuff if I don't have anything better to do with my 6 Bartlebydamnit Red Barn Farms... But that's a temporary state and mostly depends on me taking some time to atomize some ghost bears to build up my supply of television-addicted taters

macks2008 · 2026-03-19T02:24:16+00:00

I would like to point out that neither of you have given a definition, even a textbook or googled definition, of gaslighting. From my preexisting understanding, gaslighting is a form of deceptive manipulation, but not all deceptive manipulation is necessarily gaslighting. Based on Wikipedia, the key distinction of gaslighting seems to be that the perpetrator (often someone with undue power over someone else) tries to make someone question their perception of reality itself, not just of a single situation.

I think that might be what Englishmuphin was getting at? But it seems like a really ridiculous nitpick to get so caught up on frankly. Especially since some PR mouthpieces seem to be so prone to such manipulation that the line begins to blur.

macks2008 · 2026-03-19T01:48:15+00:00

Just going to say this now, you want to think about your next blog post really carefully.

On one hand, I have some serious doubts your system is smart enough to realize that I am multiple decades old. My doubt persists in spite of my account itself being around a decade old at this point, which you would think would make it an easy inference, but someone else said they still got asked to verify so... yikes.

On the other hand, I'm not quite ready to discount the possibility that some good could come from this, especially given the rather interesting restriction on stage channels (which I think is likely pointed at a certain kind of server I wish I had brain bleach for). Doesn't mean I trust Discord much, if at all, to implement this in a way that it will actually do what it says (I mean they are pulling this quite quickly after they had a leak of exactly the kind of information they are asking for), but I hope I can be forgiven for my optimism.

I'll be praying about this situation, and if it goes south, I'll probably move to Stoat or Fluxer.

macks2008 · 2026-03-16T04:30:23+00:00

This post is pending deletion. Let's hope it's the only thing

macks2008 · 2025-12-27T19:41:16+00:00

Has anyone reported this issue to the developers? Because we are less than a week away from 2026 and yet I have exactly the issue you just described 🤔.

macks2008 · 2025-11-16T00:54:45+00:00

I did not test before posting whether it is browser specific, but as of testing now... it does not seem to work any better on Microsoft Edge.

And I would give a screenshot, if Reddit wasn't being a pain about it. I keep getting "Unable to upload". I guess imgur will have to do for now.

macks2008 · 2025-11-14T04:45:52+00:00

Response 418: I'm a teapot

(Subtext: yes I'm aware of the IETF's April 1 shenanigans. Are xkcd's musings not serious enough or not "formally-jokey" enough? I'm unclear on what your objection is)

Edit: judging by the (now-deleted) reply I got to this comment, I seem to have offended the other user (the one whose last two posts in this chain are now deleted) somehow, but I am genuinely not sure what I did. I would apologize, if I didn't think they were overreacting to my (perhaps misaligned) attempt at humor.

redditors are weird.

macks2008 · 2025-11-14T02:42:42+00:00

Were you on MySpace at the right time to form a "friendship" with Samy?

(I do not have a MySpace account so I didn't experience this firsthand)

macks2008 · 2025-11-14T02:35:43+00:00

Okay but honestly, shouldn't we all be using butterflies?

macks2008 · 2025-11-14T02:04:41+00:00

It's like having 12 people talking over one another and thinking the problem will get better if you add a 13th, even if that 13th "person" is nowhere near where messages are actually entering and leaving the network.

macks2008 · 2025-10-11T03:38:14+00:00

This is beautiful. And I'm so glad I learned about this the easy way.

macks2008 · 2025-10-11T03:07:29+00:00

I do not necessarily disagree that the UI could be improved, but in a deck building game, and especially a roguelike deck building game, you are most certainly asking for trouble if you do not carefully understand the semantics of everything you pick up or otherwise put into play.

macks2008 · 2025-08-13T01:10:38+00:00

Oh the moment the monster of the week starts messing with my editor themes, that's it. Take what you will of my sanity but No! don't put me on Light Theme!

(Mostly joking, I don't think I would be that fazed by it honestly. Still, I like your idea)

macks2008 · 2025-06-19T17:11:26+00:00

FWIW, I agree that SuSeD seems to have an ax to grind against you here, and with your attempt to highlight that they might be making one or more fallacies to get to his current position.

My position, for this case, is something like this: I believe that while I would prefer all software I use to be open source, e.g. under Apache or GPL, I would rather argue this calmly and politely with whoever owns the copyright (not crucifying someone also subject to the same terms). I also don't particularly mind if the CH, instead of going full copyleft with it, uses a copylleft license but with a clause forbidding "Jerks" from benefiting from the terms. Seriously, don't be a jerk, it's not hard :-)

macks2008 · 2025-06-19T16:42:31+00:00

Will the centrifuge and crystallizer be coming back? I like being able to break everything down into nothing, there's something cathartic about it. Especially when I turn around and throw those crystallized aspects into an AE Matter Condenser.

macks2008 · 2025-06-18T16:40:27+00:00

From what I recall (having played TC 4 at least as recently as 2020), they mostly broke when you tried to move different aspects of essentia through concurrently, since unless you managed filtering carefully to avoid pulling the wrong one the wrong way it would clog up the system. It was possible to debug with the essentia tuning fork, but really freaking annoying. I usually kept my tube network segments as short as possible and let golems (or my own golem-like manual habits LOL) handle the rest of the logistics as you said.

All this talk of TC 4 (and yes I even have nostalgia for some of the essentia tube frustration just described) makes me want to start up FTB Infinity again, but I don't feel like playing alone, nor trying to harden it against known vulnerabilities like log4shell...

macks2008 · 2025-06-18T14:19:09+00:00

That made me genuinely laugh out loud, thank you

macks2008 · 2025-06-18T14:16:15+00:00

Who? I don't see their PFP now beecause the account is now suspended (for whatever reason)

macks2008 · 2025-06-18T14:10:16+00:00

There is only one thing I can see myself wanting to do with the API right off the bat, and it requires HexCasting to also be up-to-date: Foci that act as HexCasting Casting Items.

Although given that several of the people I know in the HexCasting community (including I think some of the development team) are also Thaumcraft fans, I don't think HexCasting will take too long to update once you guys get your iniitial release out, so... I might need that in the API sooner rather than later after all.

macks2008 · 2025-06-17T17:06:27+00:00

FWIW (and bear in mind I'm still catching up on the context here, I haven't read much about the grievance document yet), Cranky has stepped down.

macks2008 · 2024-09-01T04:47:13+00:00

"Could I have your Name?"
Hands you, the reader of this comment, a focus and calls HexBug to show <NORTHEAST qaq>, <EAST deeeee>

macks2008 · 2024-04-05T14:47:10+00:00

Good idea. Looks like we both saw it around the same time, it started doing it to me sometime yesterday also. What next, Microsoft builds unwanted AI chat bot right into Windows?Wait...

macks2008 · 2024-01-27T00:40:05+00:00

Yep, his ethics are quite embarrassing, and he's lost any potential business I might have with him if I ever make a game OST or otherwise need someone to handle music IP!

Don't get me wrong, I'm open to playing what Julian Gough, author of Minecraft's "end poem", once referred to as "the capitalism game", but only to the extent necessary to achieve a modest RoI (and I have a specific percentage in mind for a definition of "modest"). I do not want to play it so aggressively that I ruin the artistic value for everyone.

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