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It absolutely does take a stance. THE QUESTION PRESUPPOSES THAT THE ABDUCTIONS HAPPEN.
Damnit @Wipqozn, now I have to make an Area 51 account and I'm not getting anything done at work today
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Q: Why won't you go in your home?

DavelklatzenI am on the verge of building a mini metropolis in Terraria but no one is arriving? What do I need to do? I have a table chair and light source but nothing for the last hour. What do I need to do?

I came up with a sample question. I hope it's good.
Ugh, I hate how wikia sites work so poorly on mobile.
Really? They work fine for me mobile. It's on my desktop browsers they turn into a mess of embedded flash and then crash and burn.
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A: Warlords of Documentation: A Proposed Expansion of Stack Overflow

Tom MedleyThis potentially has applications outside of SO too. One of the biggest sources for gaming instructions are community-written wikis, usually hosted on sites such as Wikia etc. They are frequently terrible. Often there are multiple wikis with different information. This could kill those sites co...

15:10
@fredley This is a really good idea. Game wikias are of such wildly varying quality with no control and are just covered in ads
I for one support this idea of killing wikia
@fredley Could you take a glance at this Nline user?
Guy seems to just be trolling in his answers
@twobugs His other answers seem ok
I only saw his Destiny and Terraria answers which were both just non sequitors
And when prompted to improve them he doubled down on his "heeheheee i am not trolling ;)"
His other answers do seem fine.
I tried Armello. That's pretty much Redwall meets Game of Thrones as a board game.
15:16
Huh. So Nintendo made a cool community site for Splatoon which lists leaderboards, events, rotations, etc.
...but it's only in Japanese.
@twobugs Well he's triggered the answer ban now, so that should hopefully get the message across
Yah, answer bans!
I wholeheartedly approve.
I can't wait for the meta thread :P
@twobugs it could just be a well made fansite?
@fredley Ah, good!
15:18
@Rapitor It's apparently official
Actually, I'm not 100% sure. Let me see...
@twobugs Excellent.
@Frank It's an automated system, don't give @fredley any credit
3
@Frank After a certain number of low quality/deleted posts, it kicks in. I think 3. Same for questions. Users see a message telling them they need to wait before posting and to up their quality when they do.
@Unionhawk I'm not. Just celebrating that quality standards are a thing.
@fredley iirc, the question ban is only enabled on trilogy
15:24
@Unionhawk No, I've definitely seen it kick in here.
@Unionhawk brb, I'm going to science this one out with a sock
Also, I continue to be amazed by MGS5 and the sheer number of things you can do that actually have an impact.
Woo, the remaining 95% of New Horizon's data is being sent back!
@MadMAxJr shoots a butterfly, every enemy in the next mission comes down with the flu.
15:34
@MadMAxJr How far are you? I just did Episode 12 and wow, this game man.
They do start using more helmets if you headshot a lot, but I've heard that's only the tip of the iceberg
You can do Mother Base missions to destroy the helmet suppliers, too!
Helmets were funny in Peace Walker. It just meant I would have to use two tranq rounds instead of one.
Do they stay on if you headshot in MGSV? Or does the helmet only protect from one shot?
So that's how Elizabeth looks natural but stays with you always in Bioshock Infinite
"If Elizabeth is ever not in your view, she is liable to teleport"
So the Watson method.
@Yuuki The helmets can block multiple tranq shots now.
@Yuuki Stays on. I've had mixed success with just shooting the part of their head not covered by the helmet (so far, this is basically just the face), but the initial tranq pistol is pretty crappy.
It has an effective range of about two inches.
I mean, I've been able to land shots up to 100 or so meters but it gets unreliable after 30ish
15:45
@Unionhawk Yeah
(there are apparently speedrun strategies involving looking away from Elizabeth in order that she teleports behind you instead of walking to do a thing)
@Unionhawk How would that help?
@Unionhawk You mean you didn't notice that?
It was pretty obvious at certain points
15:53
How to infuriate other cultures, cc: @badp
Even if they were on the same day people in Britain should still be able to see it first because of timezones
@PrivatePansy But a whole extra day? (Also, the French get it a day before us, on the 16th)
Well, more than a whole day to be precise
I'm kinda sad Finn has the Force. I was kinda hoping for a main character in Star Wars who wasn't Force-sensitive.
16:16
@fredley are you ok @badp
@Yuuki who is Finn?
Also Han Solo, Lando, Chewie are not force sensitive... Or did that get retconned?
The continuity is kind of a mess now. I don't know the answer for thoes guys.
I agree though, @Yuuki
Or at least do something more interesting with the Force. I thought it was handled well in KOTOR2, but apparently Lucas hates everything that isn't pure black and white.
Lucas has nothing to do with the new movie.
All the good stuff in Star Wars was not designed by lucas
@JasonBerkan I thought he still had some say in the canon?
Or is that entirely Disney now?
16:24
He's out.
@fredley The most annoying part of this article is the spelling of "instalment".
I had to copy-paste it because I was physically incapable of typing it that way.
@twobugs entirely Disney. He sold it and donated the money to charity
Well, good for him on the donating to charity thing.
@StrixVaria I refuse to believe "instalment" as a w-- HOLY SHIT SWIFTKEY RECOGNIZES IT AS REAL
HOW COULD YOU
I don't remember if it was him, but there was some story of a famous dude who moved into some exclusive neighborhood. The community got mad because he was "ruining their image" or something, so he bought up a lot of the housing and turned it into low-cost housing in a super nice neighborhood :)
Either way, I think if you just stick to the plain vanilla good vs evil stuff with Star Wars you're only hurting the potential. It's complicated though because they want it to be a media empire you can market to every single person alive.
16:30
The writers did some cool stuff in the EU to make it a lot more complex, but then they went wild with the yuuzhan vong and started killing off main characters left and right. After that I lost interest
I never really got into the EU because it just seemed like there was so much of it I'd never be able to catch up on. Plus I heard a lot of it was not so good.
I just thought KOTOR2 struck a good balance of being accessible but still building off pre-established stuff.
kotor 2 was an interesting take on light side vs dark side
And it really has an interesting take on the Force. One of the central characters views it as basically some kind of Elder God thing that drives its followers insane and causes them to murder each other.
@GodEmperorDune Finn is the stormtrooper dude.
> Disney expects merchandise tied to the film to generate $5bn in sales in the first year after release
That's a lot of money.
16:38
You know we're doing something right as a society when there are franchises with higher yearly sales figures than some countries have GDP.
Wat
I don't even
@twobugs yeah.. I'm on like.. 3, cause I did 4 first.. I've been doing side-ops.
It gets worse. There are so many side ops.
@GodEmperorDune urmom is the kenyan word for completely stupid.
Multiple 'get the sheep' side ops for some reason.
16:43
That first sheep side op was great. Just roll in, grab the sheep, roll out
The target practice side ops are pretty fun, but the R&D one is terrible
@Arperum Kenyan is not even a language!
"Obama" is the Kenyan word for "Kony"
Man, I wonder how many people made Kony Island jokes back during that meme. Probably way too many.
I've been having fun experimenting on what impacts a base. Taking out the comm antennas are one. Taking out the radios guarantees silence.
They rebuild them eventually, but they've kept the long time MGS spirit of being able to terrorize guards
Now there's guys with helmets. Darts don't pierce helmets.
16:46
@MadMAxJr always fun to toy with your prey
I felt horrible. I accidentally hit the puppy. I was hoping there was a pet button. D:
@GodEmperorDune Details. The post is a perfect example of complete nonsense.
@MadMAxJr You monster.
@Arperum yep
Turns out you can only pet the dog when he grows up.
I am amused the dog gets an eyepatch.
user4704
16:48
You can kick the dog when he's a puppy though :(
user4704
I accidentally stomped him flat while beating up my soldiers.
user4704
Then I alt-F4'd in case that was a stat that was recorded or tracked somewhere.
D. Dog is a really good buddy. He'll mark everything for you.
Konami's giant billboard of # of puppies abused in MGSS5
user4704
(Oh I see you already noted about hitting him as a puppy, nevermind.)
16:49
I prefer D. Horse though because getting around is a lot easier unless you chopper everywhere.
My friend was streaming her play, commented she was miffed you can't pet Quiet. :P
user4704
Can you take the chopper between drop points in Afganistan without actually taking the transition to the ACC?
Some outposts do have cars to steal, which is fun to do with D. Dog cause he just chills in the car with you as you drive around blasting 80s music
user4704
(like you can on base?)
@JoshPetrie I don't think so
Also, at Mother Base if you get onto the cargo transit area and equip a box you can fast travel
16:51
Hah. A callback to MGS.
That saves a ton of time because each strut is like 1km from the nearest one
user4704
Yeah what's up with that? Why build them so far apart :|
That would have made MGS2's big shell a lot more annoying
So it's harder to blow up
user4704
Oh, that makes sense. Still.
user4704
16:52
Apparently you can do the box trick in Afganistan if you find delivery invoices, but I haven't found any yet.
I haven't either. I'll have to look for them.
Yeah, invoices are at depots. Picking them up unlocks new helicopter drop points.
Also, if you blow up the aircraft radar trailers, you can get new heli pickup points.
I love that you can collect posters for GMP. I found a few pin-up girl ones, some soviet propaganda ones, and someone had posted an anime girl one on my Mother Base
C4 is your friend.
@MadMAxJr I'll do this when I get home. D. Dog for life now!
user4704
16:53
I blow up everything, I like to use C4 as a way to distract guys on my way out of a base with whatever I was supposed to acquire in there.
At a depot, look for the yellow post. It'll have the invoice on it
user4704
Cool.
Level 1 C4 is pretty dinky, though. I highly recommend upgrading it or getting a missile launcher before the vehicle destruction missions
I love that the detonator blows up the oldest C4, not all C4
I can place charges on the rim of a base and occasionally blow one up to keep the guards off me
Also: vehicle kills do not count as kills for some reason
user4704
16:54
@twobugs Yeah, I had trouble with mission 8, even with the cheapest launcher I could develop
user4704
First one I didn't get an A or S on :(
Was that the 15 minute one? All the trouble I had from that one was the absolutely no checkpoints
I had to spend about an hour retrying it
user4704
The one before that I think.
I need to make another pass through the bases to harvest their precious 80s tapes.
Managed to continue my Foxhound streak, though!
user4704
16:55
The 15 minute one I started last night, but apparently picked a bad drop point since I was behind all the tanks and had to chase them, so I gave up and went to bed
I need to go back and play Ground Zeroes. Apparently 'Hideo' will join base staff if you did the intel mission.
user4704
He does
user4704
Basically everybody you rescue will eventually, which is neat, some of them are pretty cool.
@JoshPetrie I used the same drop point. I basically just had to use D. Horse to sprint past the first vehicle and blow it up. After that it's pretty easy BUT there's one vehicle who has really shitty timing and is easy to miss
Sadly I have four with the 'Troublemaker (Unsanitary)' skill
user4704
16:57
I just fire those guys.
Two troublemakers will cancel each other out if they're in the same unit
user4704
It's too easy to get replacements and I don't want to pay that much attention to staff assignment.
I've started dropping my crappy soldiers, though. If you don't have at least 1 C rank or better you're outta here!
user4704
I usually auto-assign everybody unless I really want to develop something, then I stack everything so I can build it, and re-auto-assign.
I've gone out of my way to harvest B rank troops if I spot them.
16:58
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Q: Can I Redistribute CSGO Skins?

EnxityMe and a group have friends have came up with a business idea that involves CSGO skins. I was wondering if I am able to freely use the skins, or if I need strict permission from the skin authors? Thanks in advance.

@MadMAxJr In the last mission I did (12), B rank guys were spawning pretty regularly and so were A or higher guys
I prefer this to PW where it was like postgame before you got anyone who wasn't a complete moron (or maybe I was just unlucky)
Also during my friends stream, she was waving her iScope view around, then she found something unrelated to her mission and dropped everything to go after it. A building was playing the 'Snake Eater' intro song.
user4704
heh
user4704
the tapes are great
user4704
I will detour all the way across the damn base to unneccessarily pick up some sweet 70s tunes.
17:15
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Q: "Steam needs to be online to update" error while updating Steam

user124362Someone please help me with this. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Steam multiple times, and the error continues to occur. Here is a screenshot of the error:

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Q: Is 1st generation GBA bright enough for indoor use?

user124363I am consider to buy GBA, I prefered the 1st generation model but don't know if the machine is bright enough or not.

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Q: Is it possible to Play games on playstation 4 / xbox One with key board and mouse?

Hitman2847I play games on my laptop , i tried playing on ps3 and xbox 360 on my friends consoles and i am not at All comfortable with the controllers . actually i lost every round so i can't play . now my question is can i connect keyboard and mouse to the new ps4 or xbox One and play games? Is it possible?

17:36
@fredley I rest easy knowing that there is a very special ring of hell for the likes of these people
Remember: hell is a real place and you will be sent there at the first broken spaghetto
@badp I just learned that "spaghetto" was the singular of "spaghetti" within the past week.
Glad I could reinforce your learning
That said I think no one will blame you for using English pluralisation rules
Spaghetti is bad anyway.
I won't correct pizzas to pizze
@StrixVaria yeah they're too thin in practice
We treat "spaghetti" as a mass noun, like "paint".
17:42
Our family usually goes for the next step up, vermicelli
I prefer non-string-shaped pastas, like rigatoni.
How about tagliatelle! Hmmmm, thin and wide
You don't even have to fold them in pot, they already come in nests
Lots of surface area to absorb sauces
@badp This looks similar to the noodles used in pad thai, shape-wise, which means they're ok.
I don't like fettuccine; it's too thick.
Fettuccine are good too
I mean if you don't feel the pasta under your teeth what's the point?
My wife's family cooks pasta to mush. The first time my mom made al dente pasta when she visited she thought that it was undercooked.
Her family notoriously overcooks everything, though.
17:47
Sounds like the dutch
I need to figure out what to have for supper.
@fredley? Ideas?
Apparently people in Neaples cook pasta for as little as they can get away with
Don't have first hand proof
Eh, I don't mind spaghetti but they're far from my favorite noodles
@badp It works in some dishes, particularly macaroni and cheese.
What about bucatini! They're spaghetti donuts!
17:49
If you're going to do anything with a tomato sauce, though, no thanks.
You guys love donuts right? :P
Farfalle are amazing
@twobugs especially with cream/philadelphia
As a kid I loved Rotelle
@badp What does "philadelphia" mean in Italian?
17:50
and maybe prosciutto or tuna or salmon
@StrixVaria just the kraft spread. Also the city I suppose
@StrixVaria I'm guessing he means it like the cream cheese brand, which I've actually heard people say in English as well
@badp Oh, cream cheese.
I haven't tried other types of cream cheese
Radiatori are small, squat pasta shapes that are said to resemble radiators. Although it is rumored that they were created in the 1960s by an industrial designer, their invention was actually between the First and Second World War. They are often used in similar dishes as rotelle or fusilli, because their shape works well with thicker sauces. They are also used in casseroles, salads, and soups. == Design == Radiatori somewhat resemble rotini in shape, but are generally shorter and thicker with a ruffled edge, circling the pasta. They are modelled after an old industrial heating fixture, w...
That's awesome
If you water down Philadelphia with some cooking water it is an acceptable-to-the-taste milk cream substitute
17:52
Cream cheese is pretty big around where I am. The best is the locally made deli stuff. Philadelphia is probably the best store brand, though.
Ooooh radiatori, there was a period we made them all the time
Their feel on tongue is predictably unique
as for rotelle my father hates them so I haven't had much
Overall I'd rather have gnocchi than pasta.
I hate gnocchi. They're so tasteless
I want to try Radiatori, all you can really get around here are Farfalle and spaghetti
I've had some good gnocchi. Trader Joe's has sweet potato gnocchi which is pretty okay for a frozen dish.
EXCEPT THEY'RE NOT PASTA
AND NOT MOE
Just blobs
17:54
gnochhi is a blob of potato
I hate trying to make my own pasta because I've never been able to find a good sauce or sauce recipe
I like potato.
@twobugs find an italian grandma
*they are the moe blobs or pasta
@Rapitor Sure thing, let me just reroll my ancestry
17:55
I desperately tried to edit that message and then accidentally it
it doesn't have to be yours
Hm, good point. That makes things easier
@badp I like the texture of gnocchi more than the texture of pasta, and when you cover it in sauce it tastes like the sauce.
@twobugs I've made do with bottled Barilla sauces mostly because I prefer eating to cooking :p
I love Alfredo but Trader Joe's (the only store near me) has very mild and tasteless Alfredo
17:56
@StrixVaria De gustibus, aka you're allowed to be wrong on the internet :)
Even the latins knew this fundamental truth
Alfredo is not an Italian recipe, BTW. What is it, double butter?
It's weird because they have really good other sauces. Great pre-packaged curry sauces, for instance
Maximum overfat
@badp That's probably what it is and I'm never eating it again
Oh, apparently it's a Roman dish, not Italian.
> Fettuccine Alfredo is a pasta dish made from fettuccine tossed with Parmesan cheese and butter. As the cheese melts, it emulsifies the liquids to form a smooth and rich coating on the pasta.
It's gross.
what? alfredo is incredible
17:59
Hey, you can have the gnocchi and I'll have the alfredo. Everyone wins.
@StrixVaria that just sounds like something you'd eat while sick and weak
or if you had absolutely nothing else at home
I'd read that Alfredo was actually worse than that
I'm appalled by the level of food hate in this chatroom
Yes apparently it's just got twice as much butter as we'd normally use in an emergency
@twobugs you are surprised that we have strong opinions? You must be new here
No, I'm just not used to people besides @Uni being this wrong.
Hah, actually according to this — italymagazine.com/recipe/… — Alfredo actually is triple the butter
OVERFAT LIMIT BREAK
(60 pictures of vividly vibrating butter sticks per second.gif)
(the gif slowly breaks out of its bounding box and starts percolating all over the place, including over your hands and keyboard)
18:12
@badp eclipse.gif
(your monitor is now percolating alarming amounts of milk byproducts)
(you quickly reach for your pocket and yes, the microusb jack on your mobile is flooding. You need a new pair of pants. And trousers)
(Your mind quickly turns to the chat tab you left at home/work)
(You might also require a new job)
(It's a true butterpocalypse)
[uni@badp:/home/uni]
$ reboot -f
(You think the worst is behind you then your pager buzzes. Your production servers are also dripping. So is your router, and every bit of the internet that these packets are travesing)
(You clumsily try to reboot them but forget to sudo, also because the s key is permanently jammed)
i am so scared.
(The watery contents and heat insulating properties of the fatty blob eventually forces every piece of electronics in the world to shut down)
18:20
@fredley no experience with CAD, sorry.
(After those, every piece of electricity producing and consuming equipment fails too)
Well at least global electricity demand is met
(You turn to diesel generators, but the diesel is now butter)
All the world's problems are solved! Thanks @badp
(Also the butter is starting to smell)
18:21
What is this
@GnomeSlice run!
Don't scroll up, just run
(The smell quickly becomes overpowering, bringing every nose-equipped lifeform to a grinding halt)
@badp is going on about... butter, I think
It's funny whatever it is
(The remaining life forms fester on the nutrient rich mixture of rotten butter and dead everything)
(A new butter-based tree of life forms evolves and prospers)
(The butter finally melts away under the sun. So much for that)
(The future refused to change. Game over. Your score is 1.)
18:25
I don't get the ending
@GnomeSlice btw, did you figure out the powder from your weekend adventures?
Everything died so I kinda rushed through it because it wasn't particularly interesting
IF A WORLD DIES AND THERE IS NO ONE AROUND TO SEE IT DID IT REALLY DIE
@badp Missing Jaden Caps
Yes
P(a world died|the world died) = 1
therefore yes
THERE ARE NO ALIENS. THERE WAS ONLY ONE PLANET IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE WITH LIFE ON IT. SAID LIFE WAS QUICKLY DESTROYED BY THE ELDRITCH MONSTROSITY THAT IS TRIPLE BUTTER PASTA. THERE IS NO MORE HISTORY TO BE WRITTEN, LITERALLY. IT'S OVER. FOREVER. WE DIDNT EVEN GET TO WRITE "THE END" OR PLAY THAT JOHN OLIVER VIDEO ON TV
18:29
rm -rf badp
So I just went straight for the score
It's the only reasonable thing to do
Any other question?
@Unionhawk Be careful, there's often an alias that also adds -i to rm
@badp so how do you feel about breaking spaghetti in half before cooking?
@GodEmperorDune that would be the bad end
18:31
@GodEmperorDune Now that we're done figuring out how he feels about butter and cheese based sauces
Nah the butt of the joke is merely Alfredo
I see
I'm not sure if @badp is more sauceror or pastamancer
I assume that means that butter and cheese is an acceptable sauce base, but not in the proportions that Alfredo typically entails?
Or... Actually, why am I trying to figure out @badp
@Unionhawk yeah it's usually for when you're sick and weak, or when you positively have nothing else at home
18:33
@uni because you are always wrong
@badp I see
@GodEmperorDune Fair point
@Chippies Apparently the WD lag stuff is all related to Helltooth, which is currently their best set. It can happen solo. Oh well. Guess I'll level another character this season, at least until that gets fixed.
@GodEmperorDune yes, I did.
It was coke
:(
@GnomeSlice Probably the least bad thing it could have been
Dadslice and Gnomom are not going to be happy about this
18:36
@GnomeSlice sorry, that sucks
@fredley I guess, yeah.
But the good thing is you're not dead
I already feel completely fine again, save for my mental state
And it clears your system pretty fast
2 weeks ish
18:37
@GodEmperorDune If he was, we could use this as material for Paranormal.se!
Make yourself feel better by reading this amazing tumblr
How can I tell if my friend is dead?
@fredley what
I'm just super embarrassed, particularly about some things I said to a particular person during the only part of the night I don't remember
@twobugs 1) locate stick 2) commence poking
18:38
@GnomeSlice you mixed hard drugs and alcohol and came out alive. You're lucky and you should feel good that you're here to share the story. Cheer up man
(I mean it)
I guess. It's something I can never take back now
(Although that didn't seem very cheerful)
This is all going to be googlable isn't it
@GnomeSlice also you are not in jail or anything as a result of that. Although I don't know if Canada is as bad with that as the U.S. is
@GnomeSlice How so? Perhaps I'm being too naive but I don't think having done something once is that bad
Barring, of course,
18:41
Also it doesn't have to mean you're going to be addicted to coke forever
or even at all
Is everyone on mobile today? Good lord
@GnomeSlice You literally haven't done anything illegal.
@Unionhawk yeah mobile sucks
@Unionhawk 20 mins and I'm home
@GnomeSlice I don't know how Canada views it but former and current US presidents have admitted to doing drugs
18:42
Actually I think tonight I might be having pasta with a parmigiano-based sauce. It might contain butter. Wish me luck
My sister bought some by accident apparently
I believe dubya did A LOT of coke
Basically just watch out for Book Depositories
@GodEmperorDune Suddenly everything makes sense
Or something
@twobugs how many current presidents do you have
@badp 3
18:43
All of them I see
@badp One for each pound of butter
Presidents intensify
That's what the election comes down to, really: who can eat the most raw butter
@badp the Kenyan one, the Muslim one, and the Socialist one
18:44
@GodEmperorDune What about the Nazi?
@twobugs Chris Christie has that locked down
@twobugs nazi party disavowed obama iirc
@GodEmperorDune The people who propagate this nonsense are more of a circlejerk than /r/circlejerk.
/r/circlejerkmasterrace
That has to be a real subreddit that exists
Probably
@StrixVaria I don't know which of my inflammatory statements you are referring to
18:46
Apparently not
It's not even a banned subreddit
@Unionhawk Don't miss this opportunity.
...What are the rules on subreddit squatting?
Do eeeeeeet
It has to be done
@StrixVaria I intend to miss it
18:46
@Unionhawk You are a failure and a disgrace.
The internet oracle compels you
The Bridge may have it
But I refuse
@Unionhawk BUT THOU MUST
I don't know how to make a subreddit
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Q: Tekkit Lite 0.6.5: What is up with liquids?

Galen NareI have been playing on my Tekkit Lite server lately and have been trying to set up a system that transfers lava via cells. I just found that lava buckets will not place the lava. It will consume the lava bucket rendering an empty bucket. Oddly enough, when you right click the bucket again it will...


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