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RAM isn't really the issue as it is Minecraft's CPU-bound nature. I have 8 GiB RAM and a3.4 GHz CPU and I can't manage 60fps on a 128x pack. Vanilla can run anything. considering vanilla has bugger-all in it.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=minecraft+512x+texture+pack

I don't know what world is your world, but in the world of Minecraft, 16x16 (as in, pixels of width and height) is the default resolution, and HD technically is anything larger than that, but most people consider HD to start at 64x or even 128x. The highest I've ever seen is 512x, though 256x is the maximum that most high-end systems can handle, considering Minecraft's lack of optimization.

Why are you talking about a 16x16 texture pack in a thread asking for an HD texture pack?

I'm slightly disturbed by how well you know me. O_O Fair enough. Also fair enough, I suppose. I think Kaker's right, though: For me, it's "good enough", and it's pleasant. I find it aesthetically pleasing and nonintrusive, and reliable, anecdotally.

Late to the party, bud. This is actually the third time I've discussed using Norton here. And like I say, it's never failed me, and I am a low-risk individual, running no open inbound ports of any kind and running very few programs of any kind that I can't verify for myself or that aren't done by huge companies that could be sued. My needs are low, and Norton fills them. I still have not yet been convinced that Norton is inadequate in any way; Perhaps you would provide a link or two to some of your 12 years of experience so I can see for myself what the fuss is about, because so far, all anybody has ever said is "it sucks" and not really why.

My computer, my choice. I've been using Norton products since they were called Symantec and bought Metrowerks which made the compiler I used to program my Macintosh in System 7/8, and they haven't failed me yet. Contrary to popular belief, Norton is just as good an AV/Systool as the rest of them: It just requires a maximum dipshittery level of 4 to successfully operate.

Norton 360 (newest version, recently-renewed subscription with upgraded software) reports the Technic launcher as both Safe -and- Reliable. So there, I say. SO THERE.

That's exactly what they just said, though. According to Minecraft Wiki: Statement from Mojang: The release has been updated to 1.3.1 instead of just 1.3, because the obfuscation was wrong and made life (more) difficult for modders. So yeah, talking out of both sides of their mouth.

Obfuscation makes decompilation more difficult, forcing people like Searge (MCP) to painstakingly reverse-engineer the code using logic, trial and error, and educated guesses. The intent is copy-protection, for the most part, as stupid as any other such measure, but they continue to delude themselves and we either suck it or walk out the door.

Don't forget "We will release the NDA'd source code to a set of licensed and approved modders.", which conveniently has been dropped now that Notch buggered off. And all of us alpha players should keep in mind the ages-old promise of "If I or the players ever lose interest in this game enough to not make it commercially-viable, I'll release it to the public and let you guys have it.", which lasted precisely as long as it took for Notch's first gold-plated toilet seat to arrive. Let's all be honest, here: All they'd have to do is stop obfuscating the source, and every worthwhile modder on the planet wouldn't give two shits about anything else, because we are fully-capable of producing our own APIs and packs. Despite the vomitous shitpot the modding community is right now, given enough time, equilibrium and entropy both would play their part and eventually something would precipitate into a cohesive whole (of which Forge is one of the earliest examples), thereby leading to future efforts sticking to that precipitation out of sheer momentum, and finally a "core" modding community that might actually keep the pot spinning in one direction for a while. Fuck Mojang's modding API, fuck all that, fuck their past promises. Just turn off the linker flag that obfuscates the damn program, and leave us be. So easy.

Exactly. Like I said, the degree to which people in general will go to screw with Mojang is directly proportional to the degree in which Mojang screws with people in general.

Android has the benefit of being open-source and 100% fiddlable (including rooting) simply by using debug mode by USB, in general operating more quickly (partly because you can control it more easily), being made in Java so it's extremely easy to develop for, and "apps" are free to be hosted and used outside of the official store. Android has the detriment of being a lower market share, being more difficult for the "average Joe" to use, having its features vastly-underutilized because developers don't take the time to truly understand the Android API and all the time and effort it -could- be saving them, and a vast dearth of games compared to iOS. iOS has the benefit of being well-integrated, making the entire device act as a seamless and coherent whole, almost organic in fact, generally having higher-definition screen technology as well as more-accurate, and the #1-supported platform in terms of games and "apps" due to higher market share and visibility/notoriety. iOS has the detriment of being extremely closed and tightly-controlled, actually voiding your warrantee and possibly your contract by rooting, the inability to debug, alter, or control its software at any fine level, the requirement that you go through Apple's official store for all software (which has been incontrovertibly proven to be anti-competitive, denying apps and even removing extant ones when they don't fit Apple's "plan" or when they directly replace or upgrade the functionality of an upcoming made-by-Apple program), and overall shitty support as you are just one amongst an uncountable mass. Windows phones...are basically just a preview for Windows 8, with all the commensurate benefits and detriments entailed thereby. I couldn't give two shits about them, so you're on your own. Summary: Android is better if you care more about control and freedom and don't mind being neglected by a large number of developers; iOS is better if you care more about technological superiority and have a lot of money to blow; Windows...meh.

I declare you the official winner of this thread.

Oh, I can host them easily; It's just that I have less than 1 Mbit upload so it would take a horrendous amount of time to upload them, and I didn't want to waste my time if nobody cared. If there's demand, though, I could certainly put them up.

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there. - Mark Twain's Notebook

Added 20 more badges, mostly a few more MMOs and phone games with a few regular Steam games mixed in (and one for Technic!). About 2/3 of the way through the digitally-distributed or online-only games I've actually played (which leaves half my Steam library yet to play), and then there're all of the physical games (discs and cartridges), so perhaps my initial estimate was a bit low. Thus, the wall begins! The Dig-N-Rig one looks weird because my printer started running out of ink on it, and I kept it because I like the goofy way it came out. Also, I really suck at keeping everything in line, so there's a giant crack running up the middle that looks like an earthquake came through. Meh, nerdiness is all that counts. I was going to upload the PDFs for people to use, but then I realized so far I have almost 800 MiB of them. O_O So if anybody does actually want any in particular, I can put those up, but putting the whole thing up would take way too long.

Hero Quest, best boardgame ever.

That's the general idea. My ceiling is smooth paint without spackle, so I might end up walking it up that way. It's about eight square feet currently.

"Solid stone is just sand and water, and a million years gone by." - Beth Nielsen Chapman "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." - James Tiberius Kirk

Blacksburg, Virginia: I have 3 Mbps downstream, maybe 1 Mbps or less upstream, $48/month. No filters on content (such as torrents) and unlimited bandwidth (as in I have left big MMOs, steam games, and videos downloading concurrently for almost a week at a time with no issues). Extremely good latency on individual packets. Basically, unrestricted but slow, which I consider a good tradeoff. The town government is working on a multi-year plan to bring super-fast Internet to the whole town, since we get a metric shit-tonne of tax money from the university students coming in and going out every year, so we shall see. Maybe they'll end up just buying into this Google thing. Seems more their speed, since they did deny Wal*Mart from building a store in town.

If you don't know the game Aardwolf, this will mean nothing to you, but I just deleted the MUD client folder for the last text-based game I still played, because I so strongly disagree with the creative direction the game has taken versus botters over the enjoyment of normal players, and the owner/developer expressed his intention in terms so clear and certain that I didn't even feel like it's possible to discuss. So I'm a little unhappy about that, and I felt like mentioning it. That was, in my opinion, the only textual game left on the Internet that I could find anymore that I actually enjoyed playing, so...that chapter of my life has now closed? I'm not the type of person who deals well with closed doors.

Depends on if only the normal crackers do it or if Mojang manages to piss off the rest of us and we suddenly feel motivated.

If you didn't want the graphic to update with its contents, that's much more feasible. You'd create a simple container with filtered slots to accept only those tools, using reflection to get references to check which mods are installed, and then override the function to get texture by side after setting a smaller hitbox.