Pyrolusite

Pixel Artist, Modder, Developer. I mostly play video games though.

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@CoreOfMidas You have to install them little by little and check every few mods or so that the game still boots.

Heavily recommend Mod Manager 2 if you aren't using it already, it "loads mods dynamically" before launching the game so your base install doesn't get fucked up

[✨ 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 ✨ Shitposter Detective @TheDarkEnjoyer]

To all Rplay, SubscribeStar, and "The next censorship-free" platform creators:

Stop huffing the copium. It doesn’t matter if it's Rplay, SubscribeStar, or whatever shiny new "creator-friendly" platform pops up tomorrow promising absolute freedom. They will all meet the exact same fate. It is mathematically inevitable.

Why? Because they don't hold the real power. The payment processors do.

The lifecycle of these sites is always the same: A platform launches, promises no censorship, attracts a massive wave of exiled creators, and builds notoriety. Then, the Eye of Sauron (VISA, Mastercard, Stripe, PayPal) turns its gaze toward them. Once the traffic gets high enough, the payment monopolies put a gun to the platform's head: purge the NSFW/controversial content, or we shut off your ability to process money.

Every single time, the platform bends the knee. They have to, or they die.

So what’s the alternative? Decentralized payments like crypto. Crypto legitimately solves the censorship problem overnight. But let’s be brutally honest: just the concept of crypto completely deters the vast majority of normie subscribers. You will bleed out a massive chunk of your audience who can't be bothered to figure out how to buy a stablecoin just to tip you $5. So platforms avoid the crypto route to keep their traffic high, which brings them right back into the crosshairs of the payment processor cartels. It is a perpetual cat-and-mouse chase, and the creators are always the ones who end up as roadkill.

Here is the actual META moving forward:

You need to build your own website with your own self-hosted storefront. You become your own Patreon.

The Science behind it: Payment processors are massive, bloated bureaucratic machines. They go after aggregators (platforms like Patreon, Rplay, OF) because striking one big target enforces their puritanical terms of service across tens of thousands of creators at once. They are far too lazy and top-heavy to manually hunt down thousands of individual, niche indie websites.

If you are hosting your own self-managed membership site, you fly under the radar. It’s herd immunity. You are a completely insignificant blip on VISA's spreadsheet. You become too niche and too tedious to be chased down and audited by the payment processors, making your income practically future-proof for a long, long time.

Don't believe it's possible? Read up on how indie creators are already doing this. Look at Karl Kerschl’s breakdown: How I Built My Own Patreon Alternative. It takes a little elbow grease, but it frees you from the corporate plantation.

You need a backup plan YESTERDAY.

Stop putting your balls in a vise and handing the crank to corporate CEOs who hate you. Relying on a centralized platform for 100% of your income is financial suicide. Losing your entire livelihood overnight because some suit at Mastercard got offended is a catastrophic blow. Do not let yourself be a casualty of the next inevitable purge.

Build your own site. Host your own store. Own your own audience. Decentralize yourself, or get nuked.

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Resuming work on GT Impact resource pack soon btw.

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Always been partial to the Iron Shulker Boxes mod. You want bigger storage ? Earn it. Reach the End. So I made a very tech-y texture and gui replacement for them. (the one with the black rods is a vanilla shulker box)

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Some tweaks to high tech casings, new fusion reactor screen, and here's the Impact multiblock assembling machine.

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Next step : Minor single blocks I forgot (Data Hatch, Locker), and then multiblock controlers !

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And here are the last single block machines, Recycler, Thermal Centrifuge, Wiremill, HV+ Macerator, Sifting Machine, Slicing Machine, Wire Assembling Machine.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

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@Pinde_ C'est une feature qui s'auto-sabote en plus, parce que c'est souvent les plus grosses commus qui vont pouvoir faire payer plus de "whales" pour ce système... donc plus de visibilité pour des streamers qui sont probablement déjà en front page et qui n'en ont pas besoin.

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Organic Replicator (active, had to check if the animation was working as intended), Plasma Arc Furnace, Polarizer, Forming Press, Printer.

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Macerator, Microwave, Miner, Mixer, Ore Washing Plant. Notice the diamond bits on the macerator blades.

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10 more.

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Electric furnace, Electric oven, Electrolyzer, Electromagnetic separator and Extractor. 20 done, 26 left.

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Circuit assembler, Cutter, Compressor, Component assembler and Distillery. Might ramp up the active cutter lighting a bit.

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Did not forget the original "color mixing" idea, just moved it on the sides !

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Bending machine, Canning machine, Centrifuge, Chemical Bath and Chemical Reactor. The reactor really looked cheap af, fixed that.

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Reduced the amount of reflections and tweaked some stuff, should be final for now.

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The problem I have with glass effects is that I find them a bit too parasitic now, but I think I found a compromise.

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The assembler stuff made me realize I should probably refresh a bit the existing machines and common overlays. Still debating if I should keep, rework or remove the glass effects.

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Original MT on the left, rework on the right, forgot to mention that.