Alright,
welcome to Office sales,
we're gonna go ahead and get started.
Uh,
for those who don't know why you're here,
uh,
drop questions in the questions thread which is linked in the
side chat uh and in the Office hours updates channel.
I'll get to them all that they're there.
Uh,
feel free to ask whatever you would like,
uh,
so we're gonna go ahead and get started on questions.
Uh,
first,
I guess like happy New Year,
I probably said that last time,
actually,
what was the date?
Look at the calendar.
Yeah,
I probably said that last time,
but whatever,
it's still January like it's like first half of January,
it's fine,
whatever.
Um,
right,
so the first question here we have is what the dog's doing?
The dog's looking grumpy at me,
I think he wants to go out.
I'll take him out immediately following this,
um.
He was cold earlier and he was sat in front of the uh heating outlet for my apartment,
which was kind of cute.
er Zao says,
uh,
I've recently found out that cloud variables made by a user
are not allowed to have their right permissions set to anyone,
though the group variants are,
is there any particular reason why this is?
I think it's,
it's something to do with like,
um,
resource constraints,
like uh if we allow anyone.
Um,
anywhere,
uh,
there's like a,
a resource constraint issue.
So it's like,
hey,
uh,
make a group if you need that feature or something.
You should be able to find like some commentary on that
uh elsewhere and you can also ask Crooks for
the exact reason at their next office hours.
I
wish I had a better answer there,
but like yeah,
something to do with like
resourcing or like limits
moving forward.
So we have a question from Poli who says,
do you think,
know if there are any plans to bring back the old volunteer QC team?
I think
if
like
QC uh.
QA stuff like that,
um,
would probably be better
to sort of re-exist or,
or be rethought about,
reimagined,
whatever you want to call it,
uh,
on the onset of molecule.
Um,
so one of the problems with like the whole,
uh,
QCQA kind of process
is that we still really only have two branches,
right?
We have pre-release and we have main.
Um,
and so we,
we get to a problem at some point
where like there's a feature squatting on pre-release.
I say it like that to use sort of visual imagery,
I don't mean it negatively at all,
but um.
But for QC to be like a really good thing,
we need like unlimited branches,
right?
So it'll be like,
hey QC we need you to test
this feature in parallel to this feature,
right?
That would mean that we'd need two branches and that that's the sort of
understanding and and purpose of,
of,
of molecules to sort of get that ability out there.
Uh,
once molecule is complete,
uh,
we'll also have the ability for
each individual engineer on the team to maybe make special branched builds,
so we might have,
you know,
pre-release,
and pre-release has whatever Prime's working on,
pre-release yra has whatever Cyra's working on,
pre-release dash Frukes has whatever Frukes is working on.
But it can go beyond that,
right,
and we can just name the branches based on
the feature that they are,
so maybe,
um.
I don't know,
like when we're doing rigid body physics,
right,
we'll have a pre-release rigid body physic physics and it'll be labelled like that,
and the only difference between the main release and the,
the rigid body physics release
will be
rigid body physics.
It also means that we can get them like around for a lot longer as well,
um,
like I said,
there's kind of like that squatting problem.
Uh,
so when there is a feature or a pre-release release on pre-release,
there's always some pressure to get,
like,
get it moving,
get it out,
uh,
you know,
move it along the line so that the next pre-release feature can get in.
Uh,
if we had multiple branches,
that,
that wouldn't be the case.
In fact,
if molecule works out as perfectly as I'm sure Fruits is planning it,
um,
we might have the problem of too many release branches,
so we'll probably have to have some sort of like internal policy on,
on cleaning those up.
I know that becomes a problem on,
on like busy git repos as well.
Uh,
I get kind of bothered about it sometimes,
like if you have a lot of Git branches,
which is really common for like a gigantic like
repository,
happened a lot on Mixer,
uh,
Git UIs can kind of slow down because GUI's are always like,
let's list all the branches in this repository,
and it's just like,
hey,
like there's like uh 300 people working in this repository,
let's maybe not do that.
Um,
so,
so there we go.
I periodically go through the uh like stale branches on um.
Like the Freaks engine repo and I,
I see what's going on.
I also requested a quite reasonable thing that uh a lot of people have done.
Um,
the,
uh,
really helps,
which is you,
you put some sort of like designator in the branch that is like who owns it.
Um,
that isn't always appropriate,
uh,
because of like teams and stuff like that,
but when it gets to that point you can kind of do like,
I don't know,
let's say it's the billing team,
right?
You can,
you can name
the branch with like billing in it.
Um,
right now what we do is we start it with the name,
I use Prime for short,
and then
like I do like feature.
And,
and
cheese,
so like prime slash feet
slash cheese,
right?
And then it's very clear like Prime is working on a feature called cheese.
Uh,
3 years down the line if that feature never came out and we were doing like a,
a Git branch cleanup,
we could,
you know,
send a politely worded email to,
to people who have stale branches and be like yo,
you're slowing down Git's UI.
Uh,
that's unlikely to happen for quite a while,
uh,
just because we have,
um.
You know,
a relatively small engineering team,
but I know that like my local branches,
that's branches I haven't pushed up to GitHub,
are just like
extremely random,
and some of them I don't even know what they are.
Uh,
moving forwards,
next we have Red with uh Nupet,
uh,
Nuppe,
yeah,
I'm gonna do like heating systems,
right,
so,
I'm gonna post a picture of,
of my thermostat.
So it's the very typical sort of like,
I don't know,
like not
basic thermostat,
like it's clearly like a,
a sort of like,
You know the whole like web 2.0,
web 3,
web 4 kind of meme,
right?
My thermostat is like thermostat 2,
right,
Nest thermostats or those that are connected to the internet
are like
thermostat 3,
right?
Thermostat 1 is the sort of like,
you crank it,
it makes really weird noises and you find it in old houses,
so
um,
you know,
I've got thermostat 2,
it's a little bit smart,
but I just,
I just have no idea how to.
Programmer,
and additionally,
because it's not like central
um HVAC,
it,
it isn't really like the temperature of the room,
it's more like effort,
right?
So
if I set
the,
the heating,
as you can see in the picture,
it says 72 right now,
I'm not saying
make my entire apartment 72.
I'm saying
wherever the thermometer or the,
the,
you know,
the thermter uh thermometer,
wherever the temperature sensor is,
uh,
for the,
um,
for the room.
Make that read 72,
and then what happens is,
uh,
a fan,
and an electric heater run,
and there's,
there's two in my apartment,
one in the bedroom and one in the,
in the,
in the living room,
they'll just run until that thermostat reads that.
But often,
my personal perspective on what the temperature feels
like is different than what the thermostat reads.
And that like,
I don't know,
it it basically means that like I have an argument every single day in the winter
with my thermostat and the only way I've been able to like figure it out is,
I'm cold and I'll just pummelled up,
I'm too hot and I'll just pummelled down,
and so I've got no idea how to fix it.
Uh recently I discovered that the buttons on the bottom,
um,
uh,
left or right,
they are like schedule,
night mode and work mode.
Um,
if you long press them,
there's a bunch of like other menus you can get into.
Um,
I believe the night mode is like when you're sleeping.
But like,
I don't know if that's like,
it overlaps with like schedule.
I don't,
I don't know,
it's very confusing,
but what I do now
is I,
I hit
the,
the moon button
when I'm too
cold,
and I hit the work button when I'm too warm,
and that has reduced it to like
2 buttons,
right?
Uh,
so like
moon is set to like
74
and
work is set to 70,
and
like
that way I can kinda like turn it on and off with one button.
Now if you're looking at the top,
you'll see that it is made by Alloy,
which is a smart home um
manufacturer.
Uh,
I figured out quite quickly that my apartment management has
access to the um home system that they set up.
There was actually a small
uh like router thing in one of the closets,
uh,
it was the one above the microwave.
Shout out to all the like above the microwave like cupboards,
by the way.
I have no idea what you're meant to put in them,
so I've just got like random junk,
um,
but yeah,
there was like a sort of like smart home device in there.
um,
that smart home device connected to both the thermostats,
so there's one in the living room and one in the bedroom,
uh,
and it also connected to a bunch of water sensors,
so there's one,
I don't know where.
I think there's one under the sink
and I think there's one in the sort of like laundry closet,
which is my main closet,
it's just like got uh like laundry on the side of it.
Uh,
just to detect leaks there,
but it also connected to my door,
uh,
which is the bit where I was like unhappy.
Uh,
I don't want an internet enabled front door,
um,
particularly one that is cloud-based or operated by
not just me,
like if it was me,
if it was a,
a property I owned,
I would be able to sort of authoritarily be like,
OK,
I've.
Read the door lock,
I trust it,
you know,
it's not
doing anything weird.
But as it stood,
the door lock was,
you know,
connected to this big alloy system which was also connected
to like a landlord UI and it meant that like
more people than I would like would have the ability to enter my apartment,
if that makes sense.
Like,
of course,
the landlord and maintenance,
they've got like physical keys.
Um,
but
as it stood,
it would be like
anyone with access to the like landlord UI would
be able to unlock my apartment door remotely,
and I'm just like,
that ain't good.
Added onto that,
the small little box,
the ally Smart Home hub that was found in my microwave closet.
Uh,
I did a little bit of poking around in it
and I didn't get far.
Like if I had enough energy and time,
I I'm sure I could do it.
I'm sure I could give
the whole device to like many people in the community here,
many people in the chat,
and they'll be able to figure it out.
Uh,
but I was a couple of steps away from like,
decom like not decompiling,
sorry,
uh,
like jailbreaking the device,
uh,
so.
Uh,
there's a like small programme
built into the device,
uh,
that I was able to access by mounting the SD card that's in it,
so Micro SD card,
and that small programme,
uh,
like
mounted another partition on the SD card
with like some sort of authentication password that was hard to figure out.
It wasn't like secure at all,
it was something like you take the,
The like serial number and like
the hardware version or something and then like you hashed them through like
I don't know like a shar hash and that would be the password,
uh so it was like a deterministic password and I'm just like this,
this sounds really
bad that it's a deterministic password
um.
Every single apartment in this building has one of these boxes,
and I,
I guarantee that the majority of tenants don't know what they do or how they work.
uh,
I'm not gonna say that there's a security vulnerability there,
but if like an idiot,
me,
if you've seen my Linux video.
poking around in a resonite package,
uh,
I,
I wasn't confident in the security there.
Uh,
so I disabled the smart home hub,
which meant I lost Wi Fi connectivity,
which means I,
I created my own problem,
which is why I need to like
negotiate with this thermostat.
So there you go,
there's an extended knoppet.
But suffice to say,
uh,
I can open my front door.
Maintenance,
if they have their spare key or the landlord has their spare key,
they can,
but there is likely a limited amount of spare keys,
and they are a physical object,
which means they're probably secured.
So I felt a lot better about that being there,
so I've completely disabled all
smart home functionality that was provided by my landlord.
Now I do have smart home functionality that is provided by me,
and it is not ideal,
but I live in an apartment,
so it's OK,
right?
I can't like pull out the electrics and put some shit in,
right?
I have to
sort of deal with off the shelf like components.
So I've got a couple of smart switches
that do require a cloud account and I'm not happy about that,
but because it's a rental,
I couldn't,
like,
I can't like.
If it was up to me,
like I'd replace all the light fixtures,
uh,
so the light switches with the like a,
a,
a reputable
non-cloud based home assistant compatible like smart home lubily do,
but
I live in an apartment.
All of my,
uh,
smart home shit is on a separate like,
I,
I hate networking terminology,
VLAN I guess would be the,
the right terminology.
Um,
to my like computer and stuff,
which means like
they can connect to the cloud and
that works out fine.
cos you know like if you have an app-based like smart home thing,
this is another not it,
um,
and it requires an account.
Let me tell you what happens when you push like turn off living room light on that.
It
contacts the cloud,
like API.cloudhome.com,
whatever,
and it says,
yo bro,
turn off living room light.
And then somehow either by like polling,
as in the light switch is like
every now and again talking to the cloud,
or there's a notification somehow,
I don't know,
uh,
the,
the message goes through the cloud and then back
to the smart device and says turn off.
But like I am like
1 metre if that away from the smart device,
why does it need to go through like the cloud?
I understand it going through local Wi Fi,
but like
the cloud?
Uh,
things like Bluetooth,
Zigby,
actually not up to date on,
on other like local radio-based
technology.
I know there's like Laura for like meshtastic and stuff,
but that isn't,
that isn't for smart devices,
that's for like long range communication.
Uh,
Zigby,
Bluetooth,
etc.
like the whole reason that Zigby,
Bluetooth,
etc.
were created
is to sort of create an open standard where things can talk to each other.
So if you look at the Bluetooth standards for I'm
like
triple downing on Muppets here,
you're like nested Muppets on top of each other.
Um,
if you look at like the Bluetooth standard for things,
something called GAT,
GATT,
it's like a whole like open specification for how to communicate with things,
and there is a spec for things like doors and light switches and
no one fucking implements it.
They just do their own shit.
There you go.
I'll move on with other questions,
but it looks like we've got some,
some follow-up questions to the microwave closet and stuff like that.
So there we go.
Uh,
uh,
moving forwards to Vedport who says,
how's the business going?
Uh,
amazing,
um,
absolutely amazing.
I had an amazing,
um,
like,
everyone came back
from,
let me back up and
trying to figure out how to like explain this the best way.
So I got blocked on the main business contract in December,
um,
because of a DNS issue.
Of course it's DNS like anyone I I hung out with around the sort of Christmas period,
I was just like,
yeah,
blocked by DNS till like the 13th,
um,
so that's fun.
Um,
it turns out that when I made a support ticket,
I put the support ticket in the wrong queue.
Now my reasoning for that,
and it's sort of an excuse as well,
is that the,
the ticket desks like QI was in,
uh,
German.
And so I Google translated it,
you know,
my browser right click translate,
and I picked the best available option
given that there's some like wobbly wobbly inaccuracies with,
you know,
um,
machine translation.
It turns out I picked the wrong one.
I should have chose like a mg instead of ho,
so I'm not gonna.
So my ticket went into a low priority queue,
uh,
and so
my uh counterparts at the um client that we're working with,
they,
these people are employed by the client to kind of like steer
the project from their side into like the appropriate direction.
Uh,
they usually make a humongous amount of noise whenever I open a ticket,
right,
cos I open a ticket and I'm very polite.
I'm like,
I've made a ticket,
I've put it into the queue,
I don't mind how long it takes,
I get it,
right,
there's a ticket desk,
there's an order,
a priority,
uh,
I'm,
I'm not impatient about that.
But they are impatient,
so what they will usually do is they'll find out who's
assigned to the ticket and go to their physical office.
Within the company,
something which I think's kind of like
borderline rude,
um,
and that's how we found out that the whole like ticket was in the wrong queue.
So I'm glad that they did that,
but I'm also not glad that they did that,
like they should have done it like a better way,
like sending an email like,
hi,
I work at
client
and,
you know,
third party,
Prime,
has made this ticket,
like.
Check the status of it,
but there we go.
Uh,
anyway,
so the DNS issue was resolved and I have got updated instructions for how to,
uh,
make tickets in the future,
so they should be handled correctly.
Like they literally sent me a screenshot.
It was like,
I understand there might be a language barrier here,
here's a screenshot,
and they've drawn like a big red circle around the way I should click,
and I'm like,
got it,
bro,
got it,
understood.
Um,
so the moment that DNS was fixed and,
and,
and like I said to a few people around the sort of holiday period as well,
I knew it'd be like 2 clicks,
and it was like the moment it was assigned
to the right ticket desk and the right person,
it took like 5 minutes,
uh,
so.
Lesson learned,
but also lesson learned for I guess the bureaucracy of large companies,
uh,
and also the sort of
multi-language state of those,
those large companies.
I'm incredibly frustrated that a lot of their internal UI that I'm,
I'm,
you know,
forced to deal with
doesn't even appear to have language options,
um,
even though they use like off the shelf software for everything.
So their,
uh,
like ticket desk UI is
like,
it looks like some sort of like Jira plug-in to make like a,
a front end for Jira.
Uh,
I absolutely know that that can be translated,
but
what happened was they made like custom queues,
and those cues don't have
translation capabilities.
It's got like a queue name
and you can just put a queue name
and there's only one box for it,
so of course they put the German one.
So it's like,
it's all understandable,
but it's like
the phrase bureaucratic machine comes up a lot,
uh,
particularly like in other areas right now.
But like,
if you remember the marble machine from,
from Wintergarden,
I'll link the video in a minute.
It's like
that machine was amazingly rickety but also fantastic
and had a bunch of levers,
right?
If you don't know which lever to pull,
it's not fantastic.
That's the bureaucratic machine.
Uh,
but we're all unblocked.
I was able to get the thing that was blocked or,
or not working.
It was SAML,
by the way.
If you take a look at Devlock,
you'll see some stuff there,
um,
where I was fixing it up and,
and making the quality of that code better.
Uh,
that was cool.
Uh,
if you wanna know what SAML is,
I honestly,
I don't,
I still don't know,
um.
It's it's like it's similar to like Open ID and like OOF but like XML
so there we go.
It's also used a lot by uh enterprise,
so,
so that's cool.
Uh,
computer user says who came up with the
idea of calling business relations the business obelisk?
Uh,
that was me.
Um,
it's just,
it's very difficult to talk about because when you
come up with like uh a business thing,
it,
it's sort of like a,
it starts as like a,
like it's technically sales,
like I know it's sales,
but it's almost technically like marketing before sales,
right,
so there's like a.
Please use our software,
right,
and it's like uh
mostly marketing little bit of sales,
and then at some point they're convinced to use
the software and it turns into like full sales,
cause it's like,
how much are they gonna pay for it?
And then
after that it turns into like project planning,
and then after that it turns into like Prime smashes the keyboard with his.
Face and C code appears and uh the project happens,
right?
So
that whole process is really sort of like intangible and also like sometimes like,
not scary but like anxiety inducing,
etc.
so it's like really difficult to talk about.
Particularly because like not a lot of these
deals make it through to like execution.
They get stuck in the preliminary stages that I just talked about,
and so like it,
it really is the sort of like ominous obelisk,
like at any point,
there could be like a,
yo guys,
we've got like a an offer for like a million dollars if
if Prime just writes this one C feature and it's just like,
yeah sure bro,
and then like the next day it can be that that fell through.
So heads,
uh,
heads obelisk.
If I could do it in the calira,
um,
like interface,
I would make it like hover ominously,
like,
you know,
sci-fi style,
like float up and down and glow slightly,
uh,
but,
but that's what it's doing,
even if you can't see it doing that.
Uh,
Shadow Blitz says,
are there any official resources to learn Protoflux,
uh,
or is it just the wiki and things made by the community?
It is just the wiki and things made by the community.
You do have to remember that the wiki is a community effort and so.
Um,
team members are editing the wiki.
I actually edited it yesterday,
uh,
I don't know if I closed the loop the other way round,
but I saw a user who was struggling to figure out how to de-anchor a user.
Um,
and it appeared to be a sort of like a,
a terminology thing,
right?
They were looking for like unanchor or like de-anchor or like
a node that had the word anchor in it because the,
the,
the node to anchor a user is called anchor user,
but the node to release a user from an anchor is just called release user,
so
that link wasn't clear,
so what I did is I edited the anchor user Protoflux node page and I just added a link,
like it's a quick link,
it took 2 seconds.
Uh,
to the release user,
um,
node,
and I put at the bottom see also release user
if you want to remove this user from the anchor.
Maybe,
uh,
you know,
in the future we need to rename that node or something,
but there we go,
so like I did edit it,
um.
As for like
other resources,
it kind of depends what you want.
There's like a,
you know,
there's a,
there's a bunch of different ways to look at it.
A lot of the wiki right now is more reference,
it's like,
hey,
what node do you wanna use?
What,
what nodes are out there,
what nodes have which inputs,
what nodes are compatible with each other,
that's sort of like reference documentation.
Uh,
you'll see that a lot in programming as well when
you go to reference documentation for like programming libraries,
it's just like,
here's a list of classes
and,
and methods that you can call and things that you can do,
but it doesn't really help you because it doesn't say like,
here's how you actually use them.
For that you're looking for more sort of guide or,
or,
or like tutorial based content.
Um,
or tutorial-based content that sort of
guides you through that reference documentation.
Reference documentation is more for power users who already know what they're
doing and they just need like a bit of a refresher.
Uh,
Shadow Blitz has a second half of their question which is,
uh,
what is the way you can describe the upper limit of what Protoflux can do?
I've seen so many creative applications of it,
it's honestly so impressive,
and I'm excited to learn how to make my own things.
I just need to learn how.
Um,
there are limits,
but those limits are more sort of like your imagination.
Um,
you will run into engine limitations,
of course,
but
surprisingly not that much.
Uh,
so a poignant example right now of like a limit would
be around the sort of area of arrays and collections,
and as you're trying to learn Protoflux,
those words might not mean anything to you right now,
but as you're learning Protoflux,
you will continue to see those terminologies and stuff like that.
Maybe you need like a wiki page that just sort of like explains the term collection.
We probably do need like a glossary and the glossary
can link to like supplementary pages to explain that,
like it's just a big glossary,
a big glossary,
you know,
uh,
so that that's one of the big limitations.
Um,
the collection thing which as I said,
might be difficult to understand if you're just starting,
I'll,
I'll give the best explanation of it I can.
Um,
if you have one thing,
it is not a collection of things.
Uh,
but if you have more than one thing,
it's a collection of things,
so
I collect,
uh,
obscure action figures,
and I put them on my,
my shelf of interesting items.
Um,
and that is a collection of action figures.
But if I only had one action figure,
that wouldn't be a collection.
Uh,
and when you expand that to programming concepts,
the words that you start coming up with are,
um.
Like hash map,
dictionary,
uh array,
a list,
and again these are all technical terms that just basically mean like
how many action figures are on your bookshelf,
one
or more than one.
And then how you interact and process that action figure thing.
So periodically I have to take the action figures off and like clean them,
right?
Especially um where they're standing cos dust gets on the shelf.
And so there's a process where I take each action figure
off the shelf
and I clean under it or I clean it.
Um,
I also have to pose them a lot cause they fall over and stuff,
but,
but there we go.
Um,
I just realised I could just do this,
so just give me a second here.
Sometimes I mute to do home assistant stuff because it's like a meme,
but like,
hey,
you get it here.
Hey Google,
set living room lights to maximum brightness.
I will get you a picture
of
my shelf of interesting items,
and I'll post that in the chat whilst I,
I whilst I move forwards.
Uh,
the other like limit
that you'll have,
getting back on topic of,
of,
you know,
limits of Protoflux is like suitability.
So a good example would be um you wouldn't do a banking application,
you wouldn't do anything banking related and you,
you wouldn't do anything sort of like you wouldn't do your taxes in Protoflux.
You wouldn't,
um,
as I said,
do banking,
you wouldn't do anything security wise or medical wise.
You do sometimes see medical research,
but the caveat there is like it has to be like a,
a pri,
I would never suggest doing any form of like
scientific or medical research in a public world.
It has to be like
segregated.
We are,
um.
Like usually when medical people reach out,
we're like
um
working with them to get a private universe set up so that like that sort of cross,
I guess contamination is the right word,
but like not really cos that sounds like gross,
um,
you know what I mean,
it's like,
so like
you don't suddenly get someone coming in and being like,
yo,
look at this cool gun I made,
it makes a lot of noise,
and you're like great,
you just ruined like 3 weeks of,
of,
of research.
Here you go,
um,
there are pictures of the shelf of interesting homes.
The name of the shelf of interesting items,
by the way,
is um a reference to the uh British YouTuber Ashens,
who also has a shelf of interesting items.
Um,
Ashens reviews basically tat and and junk.
Sorry,
tat's a British word,
it means like
low value items that really shouldn't exist.
A good example might be he goes to Poundland
around Easter and Christmas and just buys random stuff.
Like none of that stuff should really exist,
it's kind of like it's made
because people might buy it and put it in Poundland to try and make some money.
Um,
but
he will evaluate an item.
And the places that the item can go
are the shelf of interesting items,
which means like a good quality item,
uh,
or I don't remember what he calls the drawer,
like he'll just shove it in a drawer,
um,
and for a while,
but I think he stopped this just because of like maybe safety,
maybe YouTube guidelines.
um,
another punishment for an item that was of sufficiently poor quality
would be he would blowtorch it.
So
like,
I don't do that.
I don't wanna start a fire anywhere,
but I do have a shelf of interesting items.
Uh,
moving forward,
Shadow Blitz has another question.
Uh,
who says,
uh,
how is everyone in the office?
Everyone doing good physically,
mentally?
Uh,
coming back from sort of the,
the holiday break,
it's like
you've been outside of a,
a,
a fast flowing river.
Like we're talking like white rapids,
waterfalls,
rocks,
etc.
and
then because it's suddenly Monday and it happens to be 2026 now,
you need to dunk your head in that river and try and survive.
So it,
it can be a bit shell shocking.
And so I do know that a bunch of people are like a little bit shell shocked,
um,
I won't,
you know,
say names,
but I know that a few people are just like uh.
Uh,
you know,
uh,
and so it does take like a week or two to get back into the swing of things.
Um,
that should clear up by like Monday.
Monday,
Monday rhymes with book,
um.
That that should
clean up
by sort of like you know it should like
fairly it should have cleaned up yesterday but like I
get it causes a bunch of people are travelling,
etc.
um so like I I it's understandable.
I basically say like the year like professionally like
starts halfway through January just cos like you know
people are like oh I ate too much,
I drank too much,
I'm tired and it's just like yeah I get it,
like halfway through January you'll be you'll be fine.
Uh,
as for physically,
yeah,
there are like,
uh,
physical symptoms associated with that sort of dipping your head into the,
into the,
the rapids.
Uh,
I've been leaning a bit too heavily on like energy drinks and sugar this week,
so I'll try and cut that back to like regular levels,
uh,
but it's just like
I,
I need like something to just.
Like upgrade my existence for a couple of weeks just
so I could get back into the swing of things,
so,
leaning a bit too heavily on drinks,
but there we go.
Uh,
I was so exhausted.
Um,
once that DNS issue was fixed,
um,
for the,
the business,
um,
client,
I moved very quickly
in that like I probably did like a week's worth of work yesterday,
um,
to get
the feature that was blocked by that DNS working for them.
They were um frustrated but understanding in December
that uh I'd ran into a wall with that ticket,
um,
but they were frustrated about it,
and I was like,
OK,
the DNS is resolved,
this should work,
I'll work real hard and I'll get it working.
And so like basically first day back for most of the,
um,
most of the,
the corporate,
you know,
client there.
They were like,
yeah,
well,
prime and you know,
in brackets,
YDMS,
they hit the ground running,
and I'm like that is a good reputation to have,
so that's why I worked real hard,
you know,
it's always good to be ahead of them,
right,
so they're doing the whole like
rapids,
you know,
days sort of adjustment thing where they're like,
uh,
back at work,
and here I am like,
boom,
the thing that was broken is fixed.
So it's like it's,
it's,
it's a good thing to do.
Uh,
a shadow that says,
uh,
that their birthday was last Friday,
happy birthday,
uh.
So,
um,
they've been feeling nice since my family took me to a
pick Dave and Buster's for my birthday.
I've never been
to a Dave and Buster's.
This one time,
um,
I ordered.
I ordered pizza from Chuck E.
Cheese.
I didn't,
I don't know why you can get delivery from Chuck E.
Cheese through like DoorDash and Uber Eats,
but you can.
I think they shut down that
particular location.
Uh,
but I was doing that,
right,
and I,
I ordered like a,
it was the best deal for pizza and I wanted pizza,
and as I was putting it through my car,
it was like free item and I'm like ooh,
what's that?
And it's like,
you know,
maybe it's like a taco or a burrito,
like you know,
it's usually some small item.
Um,
but it was actually a Chuck E.
Cheese plush,
like a plush of the,
of the mouse,
and I was like,
hell yeah,
I'm gonna get like a
like kind of mid pizza from Chuck E.
Cheese and a Chuck E.
Cheese plush.
What a great thing to go on the shelf of interesting items,
um,
but it didn't come.
The,
the,
the delivery driver delivered my pizza but did not deliver my,
my Chuck E.
Cheese plush.
Very sad about that.
Uh,
and then Shadowbots has another resume question.
Uh,
where would be a good place to find
worlds to make your home world,
uh,
if I don't build my own,
that is.
Um,
you're kind of gonna have to look around,
uh,
try searching for home as well in the,
um,
in the search browser and you'll find that.
I recommend like a,
a low,
low intensity,
low,
low resource requirement,
you know,
like a,
a simpler world for home.
Uh,
I also recommend something more visual rather than functional,
like a good example.
A good example,
I've got like a beam,
give me a second,
uh.
I don't know if this is the original poster,
but like
uh here's uh an Asian user's unbreakable functionable laptop.
Uh,
what I,
what I mean by that
is,
uh,
you need to
not have like a lot of protoflux or a lot of like
concepts or systems in the world because it is your home world.
Like I,
I would,
I would much rather it be like a fast like loading place.
I also,
um,
something I was trying,
I also don't recommend filling your home world with photos.
I know.
That that like makes sense for a home world
because you wanna like share and like collect and and place,
you know,
around your home so it feels homely,
um a bunch of photos of your experiences inside resonate.
But do remember that like each of those photos is probably at least a 2K image.
Uh,
so if you're like 20 photos in your home world,
you're loading
like at least
20 2K textures basically,
uh,
into your video RAM and into your computer
every time you go to your home world.
Uh,
Johnny says that uh 15 degrees C is cold,
but 16 degrees C is warm for me.
Yeah,
trust me,
if I could put this like alloy thermometer,
thermostat thing into Celsius,
I would,
um,
but there we go.
Uh,
Johnny also asks your microwave closet.
Yes,
if you have a,
um,
microwave that has a built-in extractor fan,
um,
that is used for the,
the,
the stove that is below the microwave,
then there'll usually be a closet above it
which continues the extractor fan's flu.
Uh,
and by that I mean chimney,
but like flu is like another word for chimney I guess,
um,
and it means that that cupboard is like.
It has like,
I don't know,
40% of the available space it should because it's taken up by the flu.
Uh,
but you can still shove stuff in there,
but you can't shove much in there,
so it just turns into like a
random junk you never really use closet.
We've got some commentary on,
on cloud devices.
Um,
I completely agree with Fox's statement here.
Fox says,
um,
a,
a lot of companies have large parts of business that are just giving
access to things for people who would not normally have access to something
without the internet,
but can now sell access because it's easy because internet.
Yeah,
uh,
paying extra for features that are already installed in your car,
no.
Uh,
and Fox also comments that some housing and apartment blocks have
include managed Wi Fi.
No,
never.
Um,
I need to know the exact network conditions
for me
all the way outside the building to the street.
I still don't,
and please,
if you can explain it in one sentence,
go for it.
I still don't understand how I connect to the internet.
OK,
so
my apartment has a router,
it's to the left of me by my computer,
and it goes through wall,
uh,
like cables that are inside my wall to my bedroom where there's like a,
a utility closet.
And inside that closet,
there's a patch panel,
um,
and that patches my router's network connection
to the rest of the building.
And then on this floor,
I know it's on this floor cos I walk past it every day,
there's a networking closet.
I presume there might be a closet per floor,
I don't know,
but inside there is like the next step of the loop,
but I've,
I've never been in there.
Uh,
when I moved in and I activated the internet,
uh,
like a guy came round
and
by the time he had knocked on my apartment front door,
he's like,
yeah,
it's mostly done,
and that's because he spent like
5,
10 minutes in the networking closet.
That sounds like an RPG D&D like dungeon.
Journey to the networking closet and face the demon,
but they're like,
from that closet,
right,
it's gotta like
leave the building.
I don't like the internet's a series of tubes,
uh,
Red has a bunch of
chill out,
um,
Red has a bunch of techre updates.
I'm gonna come back to those at the end,
uh,
but I,
I will get to them.
Our computer user says,
I like to imagine the business obelisk being like the obelisk from the SEP story.
There is no,
uh,
anti-memetics division.
Enormous black rectangles with no extra detail on them.
Exactly that,
yes.
Uh,
another good way to visually think about the sort of
business obelisk is uh the art around the video game control,
which I realised has a,
a sort of like
sequel,
spiritual success,
like spiritual sequel coming out soon.
Uh,
I also did not realise this,
but the Alan Wake universe is connected to the control universe,
which is fantastic.
I,
I love the control game.
Um,
control
taught me the architecture that I love.
Uh,
it's weird cos like growing up I just got pissed off,
cos it's a bit like art,
right?
People just like add labels to things,
it's like,
oh,
is your art impressionist or like abstract or
neo-libertarian
future
solar
punk
metal art of like shut up,
right,
um,
but in control.
Uh,
the
architecture style that they go for there is brutalism,
and the reason why I like brutalism
is,
uh,
I,
I don't really care what the building looks like,
it just needs to have a functionable use,
right?
Um,
uh,
so that's cool.
If you wanna know what brutalism is,
uh,
think
anything from control,
like the whole oldest house I think it's called,
is a,
is a brutalist building.
Uh,
what's another good example,
the,
uh,
the building in Men in Black.
You know the like big huge building,
the
what's the name of the main character in Men in Black,
I don't know.
Um,
they go to Men in Black.
How did you get through the baby gate?
Uh,
Feder,
like I said,
Feder wants to like have attention,
and so if I don't give them attention and the baby gets open,
they'll go bark at the door sometimes.
I,
I think it's a combination of like something
happening outside the apartment and they want attention.
So I'm,
I'm working on it.
Like
dog behavioural issues are challenging.
Uh,
what was I saying,
brutalism,
yeah,
the,
the
Men in Black HQ has this like really ugly like rectangle of a building.
I also have a favourite sculpture.
I know like it's,
it's,
it's uh like crazy to say that,
but there is a war memorial in Berlin
that is like my favourite sculpture
and it's very brutalism as well.
I never remember its name though,
uh,
for anyone in chat,
I,
I guarantee this is gonna be faster than Google.
Uh,
the,
the wreck like the stone cubes that are arranged in a grid
in Berlin.
What are they called?
Uh,
oh my God,
Berlin.
Denk
dinkmal
Ferdien
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin,
yeah,
there we go,
that's an easy thing to type.
I'm gonna post um
an image of it that's got a uh
let's not do that one,
I did that.
uh,
here you go,
here's a,
here's a picture of it.
Uh,
so
it's very brutalist,
um,
but it's also like
I don't know,
it's the easiest to understand,
um,
like art installation I've ever seen.
Uh,
so you can walk between
those sort of concrete blocks,
and there's actually a bit of a hill,
so as you go more towards the centre,
you're lower and the concrete blocks sort of surround your vision.
And
art is objective,
right,
but like you can sort of almost feel
the presence
of um
the
the people that were killed in the Holocaust are a difficult subject to talk about,
but like you can feel
their sort of presence pressing on you
because you're sort of
in these cubes and you're walking through them and it it's like quite harrowing,
so that's why it's like my favourite
art installation.
Um,
there's another one in,
I think it's in Berlin as well.
I didn't go there,
but my brother did,
um,
some sort of museum.
It might also be part of that,
there was like an area of that that I couldn't go to when I visited,
but there's like a hallway,
and,
uh,
in the hallway there's a bunch of like stone faces,
loose like gravel
on the floor.
And like each stone face,
um,
just imagine like a pile of coins scattered across the floor,
but they're faces.
Each stone face that you that you is there is designed to
represent um a Jew that lost their life in the Holocaust and
as you're stepping through this hallway,
there's like clinking sounds cos these
faces are like clicking together and it's again,
it's like trying to remind you of what happened.
It'll be like a weird Google,
so I,
I really don't,
maybe I have to like text my brother or something.
My brother does get annoyed about that cos I,
I usually just like message him when I don't know the name of something
cos uh my brother is like a history buff so he knows everything.
If anyone can find that like face corridor,
go for it,
um.
Face card.
Uh let's get off of uh off of the Holocaust,
I guess,
and back to,
back to more pleasant subjects.
Uh,
although if you are near Berlin or have the chance to go visit it,
I,
I do recommend it.
There's lots of stuff in Berlin that you can do,
I wouldn't suggest going to Berlin just because of that,
uh,
but if you are in Berlin,
you can go ahead and,
and take a look at that.
Just realised it's very similar to the,
um,
9/11 Memorial in the,
uh,
like,
it's very unimposing,
like,
it's very,
uh,
basic in structure,
but like causes a lot of thought.
There's a great documentary about the um workers who clean that memorial in um
the 9/11 memorial.
I'm,
I'm so sorry,
I've just momentarily forgotten where the,
the like 9/11 buildings were,
I'm so sorry.
Mo.
New York?
I'm sorry,
I'm British,
like I,
I always caveat stuff with like I'm British,
I moved to America in 2018.
Like I,
I like,
I don't know the names of your states.
I don't know the names of,
of,
of everything,
but like yeah.
Uh,
Palpatine posted a really cool uh brute,
I,
I wouldn't
actually like that definitely is brutalism,
uh.
Yeah,
that's brilliant,
that's actually fine.
Alright.
Uh,
fun fact,
Prime used to live in Berlin for about 18 months,
and,
um,
there's like a,
a,
a
sort of brick line that runs where the Berlin Wall
used to run to sort of again memorialise it,
and it ran right past my front door.
Let's catch up with questions,
uh.
Uh,
Johnny has posted a,
uh.
Close up of the William Dafoe action figure that I have.
Uh,
I bought that
for my office at,
uh,
Microsoft,
for my office during the mixer days,
and
I removed the Green Goblin hat
and,
and helmet.
The reason I did that
is so that in my office at work,
inexplicably on the shelf.
Was
William Dafoe sitting in an armchair and I refused to explain why.
They're like,
is that William Dafoe sitting in an armchair,
and I'm like,
yep.
They're like,
what's that from?
And I just refused to explain.
It was,
it was a good bit for a bit.
If you uh push his butt into the chair,
there's like a button in the back of the chair and the
helmet will light up and Green Goblin quotes come out.
There's also Jar Jar somewhere on that shelf,
I don't know if you can see Jar Jar.
Also the like sunbeam
in that picture
uh that is,
yeah Jar Jar's at the back,
he's uh
he's in the sort of Star Trek science officer wing.
There is um there is a uh
God what's his name?
Vulcan Science Officer,
original series,
come on,
what's his name?
Why have I,
OK,
I'll just,
I'll summon will know his name and I'll put it in the chat.
I'm gonna move gee,
mental barriers are kind of like
terrible.
Uh looking
through,
um,
Radar commented about,
uh,
blockchain stuff being cool in proto fucks.
Actually,
funny fact there.
There is an Azure offering called the confidential ledger,
and it is based on blockchain technology,
but
I like,
I,
I say this as like a,
an industry veteran,
right?
Azure confidential ledger is a legitimate use for blockchain technology,
and I love it.
I don't need it,
but I can,
I can think of why people
would,
uh,
would use it.
Um,
so confidential ledger over in Azure is tamper-proof storage,
block backed by a blockchain structure,
tampered evidence,
um,
like
the way it works is you,
you send a message to the confidential ledger,
and then on very secure hardware,
like we're talking like securest hardware ever,
that message will be applied to the ledger.
And then the results are of course untamper
uh untamperable.
So you could,
and no one's ever gonna do this,
but
you could use confidential ledger to do like
uh records of like shareholder votes or like
processes that need like a lot of sort of like validation and anti-tamper stuff,
like I think it's really cool.
Better,
no barking.
Uh,
computer user says,
uh,
Charles Entertainment Cheese does delivery.
Uh,
a Chuck E.
Cheese near me did delivery.
They promised a Chuck E.
Cheese plush,
they didn't give it to me.
I've been unhappy about that
forever.
Emergency Temple Shift said,
could Home worlds be optimised to buffer photos or something?
Probably,
and I actually don't know how
like bad the the photo is,
um,
I have like a bias when it comes to home worlds of,
I keep it as basic as possible and the reason behind
that is because I spend zero time in my home world.
99% of the time.
More like 80,
but whatever.
Of the time when I launch Resonate,
I need to do something and I need to do something quickly.
Like,
uh,
imagine any time you work in like the IT sector
where you've got like an urgent email and you need to do something really quickly.
That's my life,
but with resonate sometimes.
And so like I need the whole world to just like get out of my way.
Akwali says,
does,
do resonate photos get mip maps generated?
I don't know.
Ozzie says,
I already have 90 hours into upload labs,
thank you,
even if the target was meant for Fuy.
Uh,
are you sorry?
No,
I'm not sorry.
Uh,
for context,
I send Fey,
uh,
he's a,
uh,
a member of the community here,
I send them idol games,
like
once every couple of months,
like our,
our like DMs are basically just sending each other idol games,
and
every now and again Fooey will be like,
oh no,
and what that means is what I've,
I've sent Fooey like a good idol game,
and then Foy sends me a good idol game and I'll say,
oh no,
and it's been going on months.
Uh,
Shadow Blitz has another question here.
Are you allowed to tell us any plans for future upgrades,
uh,
updates on Proto Flux's capabilities?
Absolutely.
Um,
I don't mean to like pick,
uh,
pick on you specifically,
but I,
I do want to,
to come up with it.
I have seen a recent increase in
language that I wish to sort of help people with.
Uh,
I'm seeing a lot of sort of,
are you allowed to?
There are rumours that
if you ever hear a rumour and you're wondering if it's true.
Please just go ahead and ask one of us yellow people,
we'll tell you,
guaranteed we'll tell you.
Uh,
we don't really have anything secret,
um,
the only secret things that we have are like business client names,
again that is sort of like a mutual respect thing,
um,
the clients are kind of big and like.
Um,
we don't really know if they want the project to be public,
and if they want the project to be public,
we might have to liaise with their PR team,
and if we liaise with their PR team,
there'll be like a big sort of release schedule,
like management around that,
so it's better to just be like
no name until
we know further.
Having said that,
I think I've leaked the name like 4 times,
but oh well.
So yeah,
we're allowed to tell you any plans for anything that's going on.
We don't really have anything secret,
uh,
just,
just ask us.
I will open up what's called the tech tree in a few moments and I'll,
I'll talk about Proto Fox's capabilities though.
Palpatine says,
did you know that you can skip the home world entirely using a command line flag?
Yes.
Did you also know that if you're Prime and you can read the source code easily,
you can like super mega disable the,
the,
the home world and,
and,
and the local home
and load into like a blank empty world that does absolutely nothing,
has no resources in it.
Uh,
you're OK,
for that,
I think someone's moving in.
You're OK?
Oh,
are you scared?
He's licking my face.
Uh,
Prime says,
have you seen
Mao Makan Apa,
what to eat when translated to English?
Uh,
no,
I haven't seen that.
Link me to it.
Uh,
Shadow says fair enough,
I didn't hear any rumours.
I just know,
uh,
some tend to have secret surprises to their community.
Nah,
we,
we don't really want any of them.
We like,
we went through all of that with,
you know,
you know what,
if you don't know what it means you do to the community,
so we don't wanna do that again.
Shadow says,
what kind of dog is Feather?
Feedta is 50% Chihuahua,
50%,
you name it,
it's in there.
Um,
so I,
I'll get you a quick picture,
but there's,
there's pictures of Feather like literally everywhere.
Originally I gave them an Instagram account,
but every time I try and like sign into Instagram,
it goes like
it goes like,
no,
blah blah blah,
something something,
wrong password,
blah blah blah,
and I I can't be bothered to do it.
Uh so here's here's Fedder.
Oh and uh FYI for for dog owners here,
Federer is currently suffering from what's called snow nose.
Um
snow nose is a condition that happens to some dogs in the winter.
Uh,
where their nose can change colour or like peel and stuff.
I won't send you a photo cos it can,
like,
you know,
it's technically like
dog skin peeling,
uh,
but you can look it up,
it's called Sn nose.
So his,
his nose turns like,
uh.
Like
different colours in the winter.
It is unpleasant,
um,
but I've got some like dog specific skincare
that I,
I rub on his
like pet ownership is great,
it's like,
did I think I would be like,
oh poor dog,
let me rub cream on your nose?
No,
did not expect.
I'm trying to see if I've got like last year's final result
from their no nose,
cos that's when like everything's healed,
it's just like,
you know,
just a funny colour.
I panicked the first year it happened,
um,
took him to the vet and everything.
And they're like,
yeah,
that's just no nose.
You're OK,
honey.
I don't immediately have a uh a snow nose
picture.
Uh should I blitzes,
wanna see my dog,
I would absolutely love to,
but chuck him in off topic
and uh tag me and I'll take a look after this
cos we're we're like running out of time.
Um,
Ozzie says,
I'm curious,
I know rigid bodies is something planned,
of course,
but in terms of personal interest,
how interested is the team in,
in that feature compared to others?
We're interested in like all of the features,
like
Frukes wants to do full body fixes because Frukes uses full body a lot.
Uh,
Fruchs wants to do rigid body physics cos it'll be fun.
I wanna do rigid body physics cos it's fun.
It's never like a,
like personal interest does weigh in,
but like it's just like
the read the how to how we prioritise document.
And then just add
like
several ladles of like internal conflict.
You know,
it's like,
oh I really wanna do that but I can't for these reasons,
so I'm gonna feel grumpy for a couple of days and then I'll
get over it and I'll work on whatever I can work on,
uh,
you know,
etc.
so like just a couple of ladles of just like personal strife and conflict about it.
95% of my camera roll
is
like photos of Fetta.
Uh,
quality says,
any words on particle sliding,
I don't know what that is,
but if you can let me be a GitHub issue,
I will absolutely take a look at it and let you know if I know anything.
Alright,
I will quickly open the tech tree.
Uh,
whilst I open the tech tree,
here's a random feather photo just to sort of placate you.
Uh,
speaking of,
of features that people want,
uh,
you will have noticed in December that there was a
bunch of,
um,
like wiki activity.
That's still happening,
it's still a main focus.
I just had to get back on business and and fix that DNS issue like I was talking about.
Uh,
so I,
I do have some more like business stuff to do today,
but like it will be,
uh,
I don't wanna give percentages,
but like there,
there is,
there is room for wiki stuff this week.
Alright,
so welcome to the,
the tech tree,
uh,
Shadowlets and for the benefit of anyone else who doesn't know the tech tree.
The tetrie is what I created as an answer to sort of handle
um
people being unclear about like our,
our roadmap and our like
I don't wanna say inability cause that sounds like a negative connotation,
but like our,
yeah,
our inability to make like a,
a,
a roadmap with dates.
So
there are no dates on this diagram,
it just kind of shows you how features relate to each other.
Other
and what we're working on,
uh,
so do keep in mind the,
the annotation annotation
annotations at the top.
So
line with no arrow at the same time,
dashed line means like unsure,
partially related,
and then a,
a full
line means like dependency,
and then
not started,
unsure it's still valid,
complete and in progress.
So you're asking about protoflux.
So
protoflux has a gigantic area over here.
So,
uh,
collections
is,
is what I was talking about,
the,
the shelf versus the,
the single item.
um,
but,
uh,
the uh shelf,
uh,
not the shelf,
sorry,
the collections leads to things like
nodes that can handle Jason,
nodes that can handle nested nodes,
um,
component access,
uh,
also kind of leads to text-based scripting,
rigid body physics.
Uh,
stuff like that,
then,
uh,
there's also dynamic signal processing,
um,
which is things like custom shaders,
Protoflux texture nodes,
Protoflex audio nodes,
generative audio,
etc.
Now,
uh,
over here we have,
uh,
like fileO,
stuff like that.
Did you know that like
you can view like AI image generation as digital,
not dynamic,
it's,
is it dynamic or digital?
You can view image generation as as as DSP as well.
Uh,
so Ozzie says,
why does rigid body physics have a connection to collections?
Uh,
I'm unsure.
I'm unsure about that.
I don't remember.
At some point I made that,
I don't know.
Made by Prime,
might be wrong.
Uh,
so,
uh,
I wanna go up to Red's,
uh,
queries,
cause Red had a bunch of updates,
uh,
that they wanted to notify me of.
That's before the war memorial.
That's a sentence I didn't expect to say today,
but hey,
it's my favourite
art installation and it's for like a
good cause is the wrong,
like it's,
it's,
it's a good art installation,
there we go,
I'll just leave it at that.
Uh,
so,
uh,
so Tetri updates from Red.
From what I heard,
Cyro dropped all the work he was doing on Sweetcast.
He's reworking on Sweetcast,
but he's breaking it down into like several,
uh,
smaller items,
so there's some sort of architectural stuff that needs to happen to.
The architecture around the Protofluox raycast nodes,
uh,
and once that's done,
uh,
Suite cast will,
will,
will still exist,
so I'm gonna leave,
I actually don't know where it is right now.
Oh,
here it is.
I'm gonna leave it alone and in blue cos
it is still something that CIRO intends to do.
uh Headless arm is green,
yeah,
I did that,
um,
Siren and Ruvi have been looking at the shade of consolidation.
Yes,
I haven't heard anything about that in a couple of weeks though,
uh,
but I will go ahead and make that,
uh,
wherever it might be.
Surely it's near custom shaders,
right?
Uh,
oh yeah,
and we can
grab these two beans and,
and chuck them over there.
Uh,
I've already lost it.
Here.
Alright,
so we go,
that's Tetri updates from Red.
Uh,
scrolling it
back down,
uh,
to
the bottom.
Oh,
Kestrel has an appoint uh uh appointment,
has a question which is,
is good.
Uh,
Kestrel says,
are you excited or interested in high tail?
Uh,
no,
not really.
One of the problems with sort of Minecraft or
Minecraft-like stuff,
don't,
like,
don't hate me,
I'm just using like terminology to make conversation faster,
um,
is that if I start playing them,
you,
you lose me forever.
It's a bit like factory games and stuff like that.
Uh,
the last time I played Minecraft fully on a mod pack,
um,
one of my roommates came in
and they,
it was like in a university apartment,
it's like really small,
um,
they lay on my bed and they said,
can you explain what you're doing right now,
and I said,
sure.
I was like,
so.
So
I am currently
taking some bees,
cos this is the,
the bee mod for,
for my craft,
and I am
putting them through a machine
that exposes them to water so that they will like operate better
in the climate of the biome that my home base is in.
And he said,
so you're drowning bees?
And I said,
yeah,
I'm drowning bees.
That's how deep I got into the modern world,
right?
I spent weeks drowning bees
so that they would produce more resources.
I also,
cause I was playing on like a quite popular server
that I was an administrator on.
I,
uh,
winky face,
um,
I had a,
a meme we were using applied energistics 2.
And applied in logistics,
uh,
I don't know if IEA3 exists.
I,
I'm not up to date,
but like applied eristics 2 is basically like,
what if you could take items and you could store them digitally,
and so it came up with this whole sort of like computer concept and
hard drives and stuff like that,
and so the hard drives could store items on them.
But with that you could also hook up screens
and the screens would like total up the number
of that item that existed within the digital like hard drive on Minecraft
and.
I added a cobble generator,
which went,
an applied eneristics cobble generator is insane,
it's just like numbers go up,
right?
And the number of cobblestone I had in my applied eneristics system,
um,
it
was getting crazy
to the point where like I was legendary on,
on,
on the server
as having the most cobblestone.
It got up to like
billions of cobblestone,
billions.
It got to the point where like people would come to
my base and they would donate applied and logistics hard drives
so I could bolster my supply of cobblestone.
I have a picture of uh like,
not like full like billions,
but I have a picture of like the,
the cobblestone screen growing in size somewhere.
It won't take a moment to find it cos I was,
I was literally looking at it yesterday.
OK maybe it was 2015 then.
No,
no,
it must be before 2015,
it must be 2013.
cos 2013 was the year where the guy,
like I said,
the roommate,
um,
yeah,
found him.
Like I said,
I don't know
like
if I've got like the final total,
but you can see there that like I was,
I was taking screenshots like every couple of days and
and watching the number go up and sharing it in the
in the Discord for this particular Minecraft server.
Uh,
for anyone who,
who's up to date on Minecraft mods,
uh,
does applied energistics or any other similar mod
have
spatial IO.
So spatial I've got photos,
but as well just.
So,
uh,
Spatial IO came out
like when the mod pack started and no one knew how to use it,
but
I realised that I could
digitally capture a cow
and put them inside my applied and logistics computer,
and so I did that.
And I had that cow for like weeks,
uh,
because like Spatial IO would basically take like a um a grid
that can be shown by the,
the space between
um
those fences.
And it could put it digitally into the applied energetic system,
and so what I had set up was I had a single cow called Fred,
and what you could do is you could come visit Fred
and you could like push a Minecraft button
and it would load Fred out of the computer into
that fenced area for like a minute or two,
and then it would re-digitize Fred so that Fred was safe,
and Fred lived forever.
You know,
I wanted to mess with it more,
I just couldn't find out a way to do it,
um,
and then,
you know.
I got bored.
It also turns out that you can put yourself inside Spatial IO
and it gets kind of spooky.
In fact,
this here,
um,
is myself inside Spatial IO,
but it should give you enough information to understand when I last played.
Minecraft 1.5.2,
so there you go.
Um,
this is the tech tree,
like I said,
uh,
Fruits is still working on that.
I don't know why it's an obelisk.
Here's the business obelisk,
and do remember,
like,
even if it's not doing that,
this is what it's doing.
In fact,
I have an idea.
Where is my start bar?
Sorry,
I'm having to avoid AIO.
Give me a second.
As predicted,
it's very difficult to find an obelisk image that is
permissively licenced and not AI in the middle of a
A,
uh,
in the middle of the
cast,
so I'll do that later,
uh,
but I was gonna replace this red
diamond with like a,
a picture of a like ominous obelisk.
Uh,
so I missed Kestrel's second question.
Opinion time,
should I be a
Chipori,
uh,
a mu,
Mau,
or a regulus?
Uh,
that's entirely up to you.
I,
I wouldn't,
wouldn't use any of those.
I might use a regular,
I don't know,
but there we go.
And then,
um,
Red's asking for an export of the tech tree.
I,
I will do that,
but
Mr.
Dog needs a,
uh,
needs a walk,
and we are
like 15 minutes over our time period.
So unless there are,
well,
unless there are like tech Tree updates I've missed,
I think we'll leave off here.
Oh,
Quia says,
I'm going to grab dinner,
favourite sandwich from Subway,
haven't eaten.
Subway in years,
so I,
I don't know.
Oh,
Shadow Blitz has,
has found a question that I missed.
Is there an easy way to reorganise your inventory?
Uh,
unfortunately not.
However,
and
shout out to the check tree,
uh,
yes,
uh,
inventory work,
uh,
rework right here.
This
will include moving,
uh,
and reorganising your inventory.
I was just looking to see if I had any
additional poignant photos from.
Uh,
that time in Minecraft,
but
oh yeah,
OK,
you can have this one.
So because it became a bit,
I started like,
I added like a chest outside that was like,
hey,
cobble donation,
and people could put in cobblestone
or they could put in like hard drives,
and of course I,
I figured out how to like make it all work such that
it would all flow into the same system.
Oh look,
here's my ME terminal.
You can see the items I had.
Yeah,
you did stuff like this
where you could put like applied energistics on top of a crafting.
Table,
and it would like craft stuff,
it was crazy.
I got a high image,
33 million,
33 million.
Can we,
can we go higher than 33 million?
No,
but you,
you can have this image as well,
cos I laugh at it every time I.
I'm,
I'm looking
and I will leave off very shortly here.
Right,
OK,
yeah.
Shortly after 33 million,
uh,
the server reset
and we updated to
uh like the next,
uh,
big release or whatever.
Oh,
I also had to.
At some point during that Minecraft,
I had to walk
like
across town
because my vehicle
faced,
uh,
failed its inspection
due to
that
small part being like worn and broken.
Uh and I couldn't drive it until that issue was resolved.
So I walked halfway across the town I lived in
to pick up one of those for 5050 pence,
and then I walked all the way back and gave it to the,
gave it to the guy.
I think his phrasing was,
we're out of stock on stupid rubber part,
uh,
you'll have to like wait and not be able to drive your car for a couple of days,
or
you could walk across town,
pick up this 50 pence piece and then walk back,
and,
and so I did that.
And with that,
I will speak to you tomorrow,
not tomorrow,
you know what I mean.
I'll speak to you whenever.
Bye.