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The "free" mods you get on a tool level-up are completely RNG and not something you want to rely on for your progression.

If you use them in tinker tools, most definitely: Keep in mind that neither requires a smeltery, as you can just use base patterns for them. If you are lucky enough with world chests, you can manage either fairly quickly, but they don't exactly have arduous requirements to make (remember...

The U.N. has the COPUOS (Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space). It's a consensus-based organization, however, and if somebody really wanted to have their way it has no teeth for enforcement (for example, only 16 nations have signed on to their "Moon Treaty"). The basic gist of "space...

Compared to national budgets, it's not all that expensive, especially versus typical annual U.S. military spending. This is why organizations like SpaceX are able to contemplate picking up the ball on this. The real fun is going to be when one or more of those agencies actually get sustainable...

I'm personally sad we don't have anywhere else on this planet to carve out and run some more experimental governments on, and that the push to space is so markedly stalled rather than prioritized. The stagnation of governance has created pressures that need to be released and there's no safety...

No, I'm just kind of doing other things while replying here and also don't really want to have this argument here as this is a politics discussion, not British History and Semantics 101. I don't really feel like reciting a family tree of Plantagenets, Yorks, Lancasters, Tudors, etc., and...

I said anti-monarchical. Jord's the one who turned that to "dictatorship". =)

Not to mention the eras where the Crown was much less ornamental than it is now.

...history says otherwise, but I'm not going to argue that here other than to say that the only way I can imagine you coming to that conclusion is if you forgot the UK existed before the year 1900. You've had your share, they just tended to be bad at dynasty creation. =P

That's a feature, not a bug. We're anti-monarchical here. FDR was a blunder that was fixed by constitutional amendment (before him it was considered courtesy to not have more than two terms, now it's law). I could spend the next several hours expounding on how our traditions aren't just...

Except that nobody's really implemented a better way to manage this stuff except bureaucracy, and bureaucracies are inevitably self-serving and, once in full swing, only do the bare minimum to remain relevant enough to get their funding increased. Source: I spent ten years sucking up tens of...

I had this rant about the non-choice of American political parties about two years ago:

Yes, and people wonder why we complain about not having representation.

Two things: It's going to be very hard to look into any issues without an actual log of the crash to tell us what's going south. The more relevant data that is provided, the more targeted support and suggestions can be. 8GB RAM is rather low for concurrently running a full server and separate...

When it's known how they want to handle it, I assume there'll be a news update, per the linked post. I put in my notice three weeks ago but agreed to stay on until they had a solid plan for what they wanted to do with this, largely to avoid the "oh my god there's only one moderator left" gap...

As I head towards retirement here you guys made me concerned and then happy. Here's why: When I finally said yes to doing moderation here, I established that my goal for the community was that you would be largely self-policing and would toe the line without having to be told to "Be Nice"...

Reminder, especially because the moderation landscape is changing: the Report button is the primary way to get moderation attention/action on a thread for whatever reason. =) Thread locked.

Not particularly enamored of the poll being part of this myself. When you frame it as mod author vs. mod author in a game of pure numbers it screams "popularity contest". I fear this is only going to engender ill will, no matter how the numbers play out. I'm not going to touch this...

One of my first experiences on the forums here as a user was getting bitched at by a totally non-related person in a Tech Support thread for daring to perform Troubleshooting 101 with the original poster instead of just magically knowing the solution based on the very limited amount of data...