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A friend told me about one of the multiblocks in it... Maybe I'll take a look one day, maybe. Maybe I should play GTNH first. We're currently playing MeatballCraft, which has been pretty fun, will probably need a break after that.

Let's take a moment to talk about our 1.7.10 lord and saviour, GregTech New Horizons

More seriously, depends on where your cutoff of "kids" is, but fuck gatekeeping things because they're "for kids" - Minecraft is fine for kids, and it's fine for adults. If you want to hop on your procedurally generated world and explore landscapes, or build houses while working for every block and managing the logistics, or build convoluted redstone contraptions in creative, that's a great use of your entertainment time.

And on modded Minecraft, I haven't properly played GTNH, but I recommend The Lost Era if you want a nice 1.7.10 modpack with balanced progression that doesn't try to be extreme. When playing it, I realized how many mods are being updated, and how much of that work seems to be done specifically for GTNH, so that's extra appreciation I have for it.

One counterpoint - even with a weak speed to capacity ratio it could be very useful to have a lot of storage for incremental backup solutions, where you have a small index to check what needs to be backed up, only need to write new/modified data, and when restoring you only need to read the indexes and the amount you're actually restoring. This saves time writing the data and lets you keep access to historical versions.

There's two caveats here, of course, assuming those are not rewritable. One, you need to be able to quickly seek to the latest index, which can't reliably be at the start, and two, you need a format that works without rewriting any data, possibly with a footer (like tar or zip, forgot which one), which introduces extra complexity (though I foresee a potential trick where the previous index can leave an unallocated block of data to write the address of the next index, to be written later)

If you're on Linux, I don't think a windows VM is very useful for gaming? Most games run fine in proton, and the ones that don't, probably don't because of anticheat that will also refuse to run in a VM. I do know of one niche case that needed to be run in a VM until recently, that being SS13, but that was because of an engine dependency on IE for webviews.

But then the poor won't freeze to death... Can we fit liquid nitrogen in the budget instead?

That's an interesting point, but one small counterpoint - the artist signature in this case seems to me more like the graffiti, an individual making art trying to get their name out there from behind the corporations.

Using an app instead of a website is great... As long as the app is well-implemented and performant, and not just a website wrapper, and ideally not forced on you. And absolutely ridiculous if the app is just a webapp, but they still force you to use the app instead of putting the webapp on their website.

Evolutionary pressure to survive, for one, since we need heterosexual intercourse to breed. I'm all for freedom in this regard, but come on, heterosexuality is the default because it's how we evolved and thus what the species needed to survive. Explaining how it's the default is good as part of the greater understanding in science, but you're probably not going to have success trying to study it in isolation, you want to look at the "exceptions" and figure out where and how they diverged.

Reminds me of The Flintstones Split the Atom

It's half-joking, since the presented move is not a thing in 5D Chess, since the boards aren't placed on one plane, but instead exist on new axes (one temporal and one parallel-dimension).

I am a fan of Valve, but this is just way exaggerated. For example, encourages you to save money by having sales? Isn't that about manipulating you into buying more games than you would otherwise, because you perceive the value as being better?

I'm on the fence about the topic, but you've gotta be dense to believe CSAM has nothing to do here. The accusation is one of CSAM, so the argument is whether the scene is CSAM or not.

In a perfect world the question would be simple, but in the reality we live in, you have to consider if the art will be misused - and that's assuming the artist is honest about their intentions in the first place.