Optifine

[nedks]

Will they have this soon

[theprolo]

Nope.

The mod author decided to blanked deny modpacks permission to use Optifine(not running the right version can increase lag, not decrease it, so he got fed up with the errors).

[nedks]

Noooo! I really need to get a better computer

[theprolo]

You can add it yourself if you want. It's not hard, you just drag stuff into the modpack.jar.

[LazDude2012]

theprolo: come on. First, the ultra edition now has all the features, which you can turn on and off at will. So it wasn't about support.

Would you like to know my theory? Starts with "mo" and ends with "ney". Honestly. Their main download is adf.ly, which is ok, I guess. But their mirror download, instead of adfly, goes to their own custom "Wait for the download while we show you ads" page, which isn't even a separate download location. In other words, it's all about the money.

[theprolo]

Yeah, but my excuse stops people raging

[LazDude2012]

Yeah, but stopping the rage isn't what's best for the community. What's best for the community is raising a bit of outrage so either a.) the Optifine people abandon their money-grubbing ways, or b.) people come up with an alternative that isn't encumbered by such things. (likely open source)

[GreenWolf13]

This [the situation with optifine] reminds me of this xkcd comic:

The lesson? Pay more attention to the kind of infrastructure you're building. Before it comes back to bite you in the butt.

[LazDude2012]

I resent that. I don't think I'm being anything like weird beard dude.