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christhereaper

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To be honest, I sometimes think the main dude on that channel overthinks things because while I disagree that magic is a "I don't gotta explain shit" excuse, he should at least accept that magic changes the rules far more then they don't. His skyrim video on Arrows and Knees shows it very strongly that he discounts Magic as a possible medical treatment. C. Arthur Clark said that "Any Highly Advanced Technology is indistinguishable from Magic", and someone wisely inverted it to say that "Any Highly Advanced Magic is indistinguishable from Technology", and great Magical Settings rely on this.
I do admit that explaining how magic allows for such freaks as skeletons and zombies, let alone teleportation and dimensional travel is utterly inane and serves no real purpose... but the creeper being a massive Peat Moss Monster at least makes sense.

I always thought it was "Any Sufficiently Analyzed Magic is indistinguishable from Science"
 
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chbachman

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The filtered internet where I work hasn't blocked google translate, reducing my machiavellian scheming to get round the filter to a single step of HTTPS abuse.

*whistles innocently*
its the same at my work. just use the google translate website lookup feature to get around it. Sadly it doesn't work for youtube :(
 
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keybounce

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You mean, translate from english to english???

Can china use that to get around the great firewall?

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Lefty here, with movement on the arrows. Didn't think of ijkl.

But vi controls? ... Sheesh. Nethack in minecraft next ...
 
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Iluvalar

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I discovered that a small glass snack bowl has just enough weight to weigh down my keyboard's spacebar(that's my action button) so I can hand grind ores in the grindstone while away from the game.
What do you do with that ore this early in the game without any bits of redstone and gold (pulverizer) or aluminum, tin, copper and lead (Automated TiCo smeltery) or Iron and copper (macerator) or only Iron (grinder rotary craft) ? What else do you pulverize in mass so you can't automate ore doubling ?
 
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Pyure

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What do you do with that ore this early in the game without any bits of redstone and gold (pulverizer) or aluminum, tin, copper and lead (Automated TiCo smeltery) or Iron and copper (macerator) or only Iron (grinder rotary craft) ? What else do you pulverize in mass so you can't automate ore doubling ?
fwiw, I do the same thing. Sometimes I just don't have the stuff for any other duplication block, particularly in a more hard-core tech game. And some of those ores I know I can't afford to waste.

hand-grinding gives me carpal tunnel...
 

malicious_bloke

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Rotarycraft certus quartz gems.

Good god.

Flick through NEI for the processing options for certus quartz ore (digital miner has a nice little button for silk touchiness), it looks fairly standard, smelting gives 1x, pulverizers 2+byproducts, a grinder 3x flakes and an extractor 5x

As you'd expect.

Then you realise the flakes smelt into three gems each.

It makes me all tingly in my happy place!
 

Pyure

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Aug 14, 2013
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Rotarycraft certus quartz gems.

Good god.

Flick through NEI for the processing options for certus quartz ore (digital miner has a nice little button for silk touchiness), it looks fairly standard, smelting gives 1x, pulverizers 2+byproducts, a grinder 3x flakes and an extractor 5x

As you'd expect.

Then you realise the flakes smelt into three gems each.

It makes me all tingly in my happy place!
RotaryCraft, AKA NeverNeedResourcesAgainCraft :)