TheBytemaster

hello old people
i am an old man who doesnt come around that often anymore

"We've decided on an entirely new exciting direction for Tekkit, and as a result, Tekkit will no longer feature Thermal Expansion, Project Red, Calclavia Core, Buildcraft, Galcticraft, qCraft, Carpenter's Blocks, Applied Energistics, Mystcraft, or Steve's Carts. In order to focus on this new revolutionary direction, going forward, Tekkit will exclusively contain Magic-focused, Gun-focused, and Sword Art Online-themed mods."
Yeah guys, that's what's going to...
Wait, Forestry? Railcraft?
Somehow that's even weirder.
Pffft, "Explosive History" you guys kill me.

So, uh, the server works now.

My prediction; spells for getting rid of spambots. It's brilliant, really. The advertisement itself would create a need for the product.
 
Anyone else remember the time when we got like 8-9 of us all playing Of Guards And Thieves at once? (That cops & robbers game.)
That was the best day.

To the spammers we've progressed past luring girlfriends in with fake counterfeit fashion accessories, and now need magic slavery spells to keep them.
Next they'll probably offer spells to ensure male children or black market adoption services.

"Green Lantern buys 239 watermelons. If all the watermelons have a combined weight of 900kg, what is the airborne velocity of an unladen swallow?"

"Green Lantern buys 239 watermelons. If all the watermelons have a combined weight of 900kg, what is the airborne velocity of an unladen swallow?"

Well, I don't know. *gets launched screaming into ravine*

FTFY

My profile page works again! Huzzah! 

Okay, this made me laugh harder than it should have once I got it.

Okay, this made me laugh harder than it should have once I got it.

Okay, this made me laugh harder than it should have once I got it.

They embody fractured philosophers' stones, made from the souls of hundreds of innocent? I'm having a hard time keeping the FMA ball rolling.rolling. rolling on the riveeeer
In other news, Windows seem to be intent to fuck everyone over, not just those that installed windows 10. They force user-tracking updates on W7 and W8  users.
Perhaps it's time to cram a penguin onto my hard drive and make it drunk enough to think it can run games designed for windows.

help, I accidentally downloaded LMMS and started making crap Touhou remixes how do I stop
 
Seriously though, LMMS is kinda nice, especially for, ya know, not costing an arm and a leg and your brother's entire body.

Wait, what's the equivalent exchange for a half-decent piece of music? Can I just film a bunch of mediocre let's-plays and trade them all in at once?
In hindsight, maybe the phrasing, "put their entire soul into their music" is more literal than we thought.
WAIT: This explains everything. This is why pop stars burn themselves out so fast, (Bieber, Miley, et al.) They literally have no soul left. The ones that manage to stay sane are the ones who actually had talent to begin with and never had to resort to alchemy IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.
Oh hey, the Chinese spam is new.

Wait, what's the equivalent exchange for a half-decent piece of music? Can I just film a bunch of mediocre let's-plays and trade them all in at once?
In hindsight, maybe the phrasing, "put their entire soul into their music" is more literal than we thought.
WAIT: This explains everything. This is why pop stars burn themselves out so fast, (Bieber, Miley, et al.) They literally have no soul left. The ones that manage to stay sane are the ones who actually had talent to begin with and never had to resort to alchemy IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.
Oh hey, the Chinese spam is new.

help, I accidentally downloaded LMMS and started making crap Touhou remixes how do I stop
 
Seriously though, LMMS is kinda nice, especially for, ya know, not costing an arm and a leg and your brother's entire body.

help, I accidentally downloaded LMMS and started making crap Touhou remixes how do I stop
 
Seriously though, LMMS is kinda nice, especially for, ya know, not costing an arm and a leg and your brother's entire body.

So here's a question, why don't we make ethanol out of grass?
Tons of people already grow it, (some take care of it better than their own car), and then throw away all of their clippings. You could offer a free grass clipping removal service, and I'm sure tons of people would happily give you their clippings. You'd take some of the pressure off of corn prices too.
Plus, it comes with it's own built-in marketing shtick. You could call it...
grassoline.
(No, I'm not actually serious, I just wanted to make that joke.)

So here's a thing. It's free.

Okay, here's something interesting, if I click on my notification I got from Melfice commenting on my status, and then click on the "see all status updates by TheBytemaster" link, I can get to my profile page without any errors. It's when I try to click on the Activity Feed tab that it errors out. So the problem is likely in there. (The "About Me" tab works fine too.)

Technically, it's not a requirement, but with an Nvidia card, I can get apparently get something like 20-30% more oomph out of the limited bandwidth with their Optimus compression. If AMD had something similar, I'd get a 380 in a heartbeat.
But yeah, at some point in the future, I'll probably end up building a desktop and slapping that in it. I can re-use 3/4 of the parts that will go into the eGPU in a desktop, and I can probably sell the last one for a reasonable amount.
I think what I'll do is wait and see if I can get in on that Microcenter $230 GTX 980 crazyness if they do it again; failing that, I'll try and grab a 970 on a good sale come cyber monday. Or a 960 if there's a really good sale.
Related: An amazingly perfect non-space jam remix for once.