Yea! I got some fake internet points, and nobody commented on my answer saying "This answer is unnecessarily complicated." It's going to be a good day. (It was going to be a good day anyway, as I just got told that my company is going to contribute $100/month more to keep my Azure VM going for the entire month.)

hahaha Happy to hear you are off to a good start

@Malco Tell me something good that happened to you this week

(If you feel like sharing)

hahaha, hmmmm

I finally got the SIM card activated on my phone, so I am no longer running Gingerbread on a old phone that barely works

Oh and I managed to fix a problem tree in minecraft that was constanly dropping mobs on my head in skyfactory

I had to sacrifice some of my fluid cows though...

I really want to play Skyfactory with a small group. You start with nothing but an island and a tree, correct?

And you spend the rest of the game in NEI/JEI or on Reddit trying to figure how how to make cool stuff from dirt and a tree?

one tree on one block of dirt

and yup that is pretty much it after that

Then you are you standing on?

you spawn on top of the tree

Oh.... haha. They waste no space lol

Nether is also just void as well

Can you spawn dimensions that are more "normal"?

I found a mod list

Not sure, haven't gone to the End yet

mind you I am playing Skyfactory 2, I probably should have went for 2.5 or 3 but too late to switch now :/

I think 2.5 still has Ender IO and AE2 and all that fun stuff (Bloodmagic, Thaumcraft, Botania, Draconic Evolution) along with some more QOL mods

We just updated our server as well, and had to destroy and re-place all blocks from one of the tech mods (Industrial Foregoing I think) in order to keep the server from crashing

no fun :/

Mostly I try to avoid updating things after they started, it usually isn't an issue as servers don't last too long before we pack up and move onto the next thing

Same, but there was something broken in the minor version we were on, so we updated

ahh I see

It was that or cheat. I will cheat if there's a bug in the way. We just throw away the resources and spawn whatever item we need to cheat in. But in this case we were doing steady production of something, and cheating it in wasn't really a solution.

Something like we couldn't craft the third tier of energy cells because one of the ingredients was unobtainable

Ya, I am similar

There is a bug in my version of Skyfactory where Ender IO capacitors don't accept RF from ender IO energy conduits... was tempted to just chuck it into the void and spawn in a working charge thing

but found out I could just put it directly on the generator and it would work properly

@Rainbolt \o/!!

I forgot I was going to research what a Gingerbread is and whether modern phones still use SIM cards, but then I got distracted by Minecraft lol

I assume it's an OS on a phone

Looks like it's an OS from... 2010?

Android phones have OS's named after food

Deserts, specifically

Gingerbread is about 8 versions old

ya, they are also named alphabetically so Gingerbread is older than Honeycomb and Icecream sandwich etc.

Oreo is the newest one

yup current is Oreo

I need to learn to type faster

hahaha

I've had the new phone for a while, just my old SIM card was too fat to fit inside it

so couldn't make calls or use Cellular data, wifi only

Desserts or sweets

e.g. lolipop is not a dessert :P

Self answering questions is supported by the site and even encouraged in certain circumstances, but people can be a bit prickly about them.

It's totally OK

there is even that "answer your own question" checkmark on the ask page to encourage it

They can feel like Rep grabs to some voters, but usually the self answered questions that have either long, complicated, or detailed answers do a bit better

have an upvote

You are definitely judged to a higher standard by users when you self answer though.

And I understand that, I'd also accept a better answer over my own if someone posts one, but that card is the one I see the most misplayed by new players, in MTG terms it's similar to the issue between Doubling Season and Planeswalkers, where the cost is adding counters so it doesn't trigger Doubling Season

Interestingly, if an effect in MTG says "You can't sacrifice [something]", it actually means both that an effect can't cause it to be sacrificed, and that you can't sacrifice it to pay a cost.

And actually, the real wording is "can't be sacrificed" (e.g. Assault Suit), so it's very similar

@Andrew in fact, if it is that kind of unusual edge case, then that is exactly the kind of situation where it would help to quote specific rules or rulings in the answer, if such a thing is possible for that game

@murgatroid99 The card is sacrificed to prevent the destruction or sacrifice of something else, though it can't take the place of the other card if the sacrifice is a cost

The equivalent Magic ability would not take the place of another card, but simply prevent that cost from being paid at all

There's no real equivalent I can think of in magic to the way Sac Con works, honestly

and though all of the players that have been with the game for a while know it, I am still looking for the actual ruling

Yeah, that would be good. In the Doubling Season + Planeswalkers case, the wording of the card is much more specific, and a card like Winding Constrictor actually works differently, and you can tell because it's worded differently.

I found the actual ruling, and while it's legal to do it, it prevents the effect, I'll correct my answer

No one does it because you're destroying part of your field for no other changes in the game

Huh. So it says that it "prevents [something] from being trashed", but it actually lets you trash the thing as a cost and prevents the effect that that would cause from occuring?

Or did you mean a different effect?

Or it does in fact prevent you from paying the cost?

It prevents the cost from being paid yes

since you never trashed (sacrificed) the card with the trash ability, its' cost wasn't paid

@murgatroid99 from the official rulings: If the cost of a paid ability requires a card to be trashed, then preventing that card from being trashed prevents the cost from being paid and the paid ability does not resolve.

I'm glad that you found your answer, but I have to say that this really isn't the right way to handle a self-answered question. If you're going to publish a question and answer together to share knowledge, you should put more time in at the beginning to make sure you're correct, with sources to back up what you're saying if possible.

Also you can have a look at some other (1, 2, 3) self answered questions to see how they are written.