Of Pain and Suffering

Howdy Folks,

So, the day after the last post, I started getting a toothache.

Now I am missing a tooth and taking the last of my "dude, you have a really massive cheek filled with disgusting stuff, gotta fix that"-pills.
It's not massive anymore (which is good), still a decent amount of pain, but for once it's not the kind of Pain that makes you forget where you are.

Needless to say, no progress was made at all. :(
Time to fix that.

'Til later, folks!

Metal and Maidens

SABBAAAAATH!

Unusual greeting, isn't it?

Storytime!

My Mother invited me to the Nova-Rock-Festival – she REALLY wanted to see Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath live, at least once. Since both of them were playing there, we (my mother, her boyfriend and myself) went there too; drove there every evening, didn't camp as most festival-people would.

Iron Maiden was alright, I suppose. I'm not a Maiden-fan; some Albums are nice to listen to, but nothing I would risk concussions (through headbanging) for. Sound was a bit shit at the start, got better after approximately half an hour. Still, no songs I would have liked to hear, mostly the really old stuff (including fear of the dark, obviously).

Now, Black Sabbath on the other Hand... considering I knew no songs of Sabbath (Paranoid doesn't count), I was rather surprised they worked so well for me. I am willing to accept any sort of concussion I might not have noticed by now for such an amazing performance. Screamed my lungs out, still coughing – such is the price of metal. :D Sound was great too.

In other news – who remembers me ranting about my total lack of interest for girls?

So, uhm, let's say a healthy dose of eyecandy in the form of the famed metal-/goth-chick more or less fixed me. Didn't get any numbers, but boy do I wish I had. HAWT GURLS, so to speak.

The least surprising act at the festival: Volbeat. Expectation: Awesome, Reality: Awesome.

Translation of the Story I started a few posts back is nearly done. Expect it to be the content of the next post.

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FREEEEEDOOOOOOM!

Connichiwa!

Today is my last day at work. Somehow, this feels really relieving. THESE CHAINS CANNOT HOLD ME! Yes, cheesy Xerathquote, I am not ashamed in the slightest.

I spent the fist 30 Minutes (I'm very early at work) making fun of my future ex-superiour. Made my co-worker(s) laugh, totally worth it. :D And yes, I only did that so openly because my boss isn't here yet. No, I'm not one to talk bad behind someone's back, usually, and I don't plan on continuing this – I just wanted a pretty girl to smile. I think that should be acceptable.

In other news, I got more free time now (duh) – not only because I quit my job, but also because there's a bunch of free days here in my country. I will whip myself bloody until I have that damn translation done! Other than that, I'm thinking about a tiny, short Pen&Paper-campaign in the FTL-Universe, true to the game. Which means the Pen&Paper-session will probably end with a burning playership aber 20 minutes, in true FTL-fashion.

So long, read you soon!

Ramble, ramble, ramble.

Avast ye!

Today is really, really weird. Since my superiour is at a press conference and will be gone all day, work feels really relaxed. People communicate more and get more work done (from my perception) compared to when he's in – which might also be related to him not being able to give you some amazingly important task you have to do RIGHT NOW.

I feel really, really guilty about not being able to pour some quality time into more writing and translating – maybe I'll get it done now, but I highly doubt that. Still work to do. After work: the finishing touches for another project I am forced to work on. Not a fan of it, but at least I don't have to pay attention to it anymore when it's finished – freedom!

Time for a totally different topic!

Women!

Yeah, got your attention now, don't I. Well, it's a lot less interesting than it sounds – I just have noticed that my general interest in looking at pretty women has diminished. I still notice them, but I don't seem to have any interest in even thinking about "dat booty" for any amount of time. As soon as they pass me, they are gone from my mind. I assume that my brain just had so little womanly attention in the last 5 years, it totally forgot how to feel excited about it.

I'm actually bothered by unneccesary nudity in media now – when you don't care for cleavage anymore, getting it pressed in your face every 5 seconds gets annoying. I was always big on the "Don't sexualize women, they are people too", but I still appreciated appropriately sized boobage, especially in the right "wrapping".

Now, I still like the aesthetics of a pretty body and I'm still a fan of creative lingerie, but it has absolutely no effect on me (in the sense of making me horny). The Assumption that actual, close (intimate/sexual?) contact with a girl would "fix" me doesn't sound too far off, but I'm not sure if I even want to fix this.

And no, I'm not interested in guys either. Yes, I'm sure, no, I'm not turning gay out of frustration. Weirdos.

Until I write again!

Why do I feel so proud of this.

Okay,
I really did not expect translations to be this hard to do. Guess my English isn't as good as I thought it would be (or my German is a lot better - plenty room for improvement in both cases). Sorry it's taking so long - I don't have a lot of free time, and most of it was used to play Minecraft and pen&paper this weekend.

Which brings me to the core of this posting - Minecraft! TekkitLite, to be precise.

Now, I'm not a genius. I have a certain aptitude for building convoluted machinery, that's about it.
And for exactly this reason, I am really, really proud of my latest "Invention", which essentially pumps lava out of the Nether and feeds a bunch of geothermal generators with it.
That's not new, nor especially creative.
The interesting Part is how I get the power from the Nether to the Overworld - time for some pictures!

Here you can see the Generators. Current max. output is 420 EU/t - needs more generators, but for now it's alright. The Generators store their energy in an MFSU, which in turn transfers the power to Lapotron Crystals. Those get cycled out of(if empty) or into(if full) an Enderchest.

Edit: Since my friend said I'm lying, and selling his idea as my own: Using Crystals and an Enderchest was his idea. The Machinery, coding and everything else is my doing, but I feel guilt-tripped into at least mentioning that HE had the Idea with the Crystals and the Enderchest.

My calculations indicate that fully loading a Lapotron Crystal takes about 100 seconds (96.7) - so the switching out of the crystals is done on a 120-seconds-interval for now, just to have some leeway. Oh, and the tiny thing in front of the Generators is a Chunkloader. Don't wanna be in the Nether all day.
Challenges here: pump the Lava fast enough to keep all the generators powered all the time. Easymode, really.

But now it gets much more interesting!

The Setup in the Overworld called for creative solutions, since discharging Lapotron Crystals can only be done from the bottom slot of the MFSU - and that slot is only accessible to machinery from the bottom side of the Block. So I needed a way to both load and unload crystals from the same side.
I love Frame Motors so much. :D

Explanation: every 115 seconds, a swap-cycle starts. The middle area between MFSU and Enderchest moves one block to the right, connecting the Filter to the MFSU, pumping out the empty Lapotron and dumping it in the Enderchest. Then the whole assembly moves back to the left and a full Lapotron gets pulled from the Chest and dumped into the MFSU. All this takes about 5 Seconds. 115+5=120 - isn't that the timer for the Swapcycle on the other side? Well, yes it is! Nifty, innit?


I'm WAY too proud of this.

I play with 110 FoV, in case you are wondering about the distorted images.

More Fantasystory upcoming.
I really hope I get the Translation done in time ;_;

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