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Hey Foo

Foo wrote:Just dropped in to see if anyone still had a minecraft server up. No bueno ;(

DC had one until about a year ago. i think there might be some screenshots in the MC thread. maybe

don't think anyone's that into it any more

Foo aren’t you in New Zealand? The wife and I are considering a trip there in a few months. Can you suggest some locations?

i can: all of it

Foo!

Our old MC server was epic.

My kids got into minecraft and spoiled it for me. It’s come a long way since alpha days.

Don Carlos wrote:Hey Foo

seremtan wrote:DC had one until about a year ago. i think there might be some screenshots in the MC thread. maybe

don't think anyone's that into it any more

I don't really play any more but being overseas for a month or three it would be a good way to still get time in with the missus, cross timezone. Even then, vanilla used to be fun but now it takes a 200+ mod autismal orgy to get me off.

xer0s wrote:Foo aren’t you in New Zealand? The wife and I are considering a trip there in a few months. Can you suggest some locations?

For sure. What do you like to do? It'll be heading into Autumn in a few months so you'll be kinda halfway between the good weather and the snow coming in on the mountains. If you like winter sports, hold off for a few additional months and look at Queenstown or Taupo for easy mountain access (QT is like, Aspen expensive though). If you want summer weather but can't make it over before the end of Feb, hold off until next November-December at the earliest.

If you want to hit summertime but avoid the worst tourist time, mid to late Feb is often a good time to catch the last of the good summer weather while avoiding heavy traffic.

If you want to tour then the amount of time you have dictates what you can comfortably do. One week? Fly into Auckland, overnight and see the city, then fly to Christchurch and rent a vehicle. Drive the West Coast, Milford Sound, Arthur's Pass and that'll eat up your week nicely. Two weeks? One on each island. Anything longer, come camp at our place for a week or so and branch out from there

shaft wrote:Foo!

Our old MC server was epic.

My kids got into minecraft and spoiled it for me. It’s come a long way since alpha days.

I miss that. Wonder what the next big thing's gonna be. MC doesn't seem to be dying down as far as holding the kids' attention, I had to set some friends up with a console the other day so their kids could all play minecraft together.

Foo wrote:Even then, vanilla used to be fun but now it takes a 200+ mod autismal orgy to get me off.

yeah FTB Infinity is great but you need a beast server to handle all the autism

also, Notch is working on another voxel-based thing but it probably won't amount to anything. 256 colours but it doesn't look terrible

Foo wrote:

xer0s wrote:Foo aren’t you in New Zealand? The wife and I are considering a trip there in a few months. Can you suggest some locations?

For sure. What do you like to do? It'll be heading into Autumn in a few months so you'll be kinda halfway between the good weather and the snow coming in on the mountains. If you like winter sports, hold off for a few additional months and look at Queenstown or Taupo for easy mountain access (QT is like, Aspen expensive though). If you want summer weather but can't make it over before the end of Feb, hold off until next November-December at the earliest.

If you want to hit summertime but avoid the worst tourist time, mid to late Feb is often a good time to catch the last of the good summer weather while avoiding heavy traffic.

If you want to tour then the amount of time you have dictates what you can comfortably do. One week? Fly into Auckland, overnight and see the city, then fly to Christchurch and rent a vehicle. Drive the West Coast, Milford Sound, Arthur's Pass and that'll eat up your week nicely. Two weeks? One on each island. Anything longer, come camp at our place for a week or so and branch out from there

Awesome. Thanks for the tips!

I’ll pass this info on to the misses. We’re more of the fair weather activity people. Hiking, kayaking, etc. I doubt we’ll be able to make it before the end of February. Maybe we should wait until later in the year to catch the better weather...

xer0s wrote:I’ll pass this info on to the misses.

Check out xer0s here, sporting an entire harem for himself

I did tell you here in Q3W I had cataract eye surgery (both eyes) back in early 2015.

Well lately I have had a fuzziness in one eye and today I attended my ophthalmologist for a yearly checkup. The specialist confirmed the condition and moments later after signing the indemnity paperwork she used a laser device to blow away (more like cutting as explained to me) the offending obstacle in one eye only..

All good and I again can see (more) clearly now.

Locally, I had the air conditioning technician attend yesterday to investigate the lack of airflow (we had a very warm day or two recently) and he checked and removed two motors that drive butterfly valves in the ducting and is providing a quotation to replace whenever.

While accessing the A/C compressor I noticed a small water weep coming from our hot water system housed in the same cupboard. Seems I am up for a replacement and soon

WOW

I got up this morning and everything is so crystal clear. It's amazing. Black is so black too. It is just like when I has the cataracts done. I guess that cloudiness was accumulating over the last months.

A new day

Nice man! I've always had amazing vision, I'm scared of the day it starts to go.

Κracus wrote:I've always had amazing vision...

lol, Jesus Kracus. You really can’t hear yourself, can you?

xer0s wrote:

Κracus wrote:I've always had amazing vision...

lol, Jesus Kracus. You really can’t hear yourself, can you?

No really... 20/10 vision is pretty rare and pretty awesome. The optometrist that tested me said maybe 1 or 2 people a year he tested would have 20/10 vision. I had myself tested when me and a friend were hiking to an island called Partridge island. It's roughly a mile from the shore and illegal to cross so as we were getting ready I mentioned that I could see 3 people on the island a mile away. He didn't believe me so we waited as I could see them crossing back and sure enough he managed to spot them when they were halfway back. I'm very aware of that fact and worry that some day I won't have the eyesight I'm used to.

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sorry dude, resolution is nothing to do with your lens it's all down to rods and cones (seeing a GTI from 20 miles) and 20/10 20/20 isn't that rare anymore because of laser eye surgery.

Christ, if you're going to lie at least try.

Bunch of jelly blind mofos in here.

I spent 4K on waveform LES and probably have better eye sight than you, but in real life, for real.

Yeah, I wasn’t gonna rub it in, but I had LASIK 10 years ago and can now see 20/10 or better.

However, I was practically blind before the surgery (-7.50 in both eyes). So I wasn’t a natural badass like Kracus...

Started my new job last Monday. Very chill company. Nice office and vehicle. It's going to be great working with adequate support staff and today's technology.

Here are a couple of pictures from one of the projects I'll be working on. We will be renovating a 90 year old high school and turning it into a community center.
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90 years olds???

Doombrain wrote:I spent 4K on waveform LES and probably have better eye sight than you, but in real life, for real.

I wanted mine done too but sadly I have some serious bonk eye going on so the tech can't help me out (astigmatism)

really? it's come on a long way, when was that? PS, it hurts like fuck when the drugs wear off.

I went in for a consultation about 18 months ago