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published=2025-01-10 16:30

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Hey, wow, it's 2025!

I am going into this year with a lack of credit card debt (my car did a no-power-steering)
and a deep tired
in my bones. I've worked every day since December 11th. Well. Every night,
since I'm still on night shift. I quite literally asked for it so I cannot seek
sorrow! And yet. The overtime is nice, however.

The year and a new project of mine started together. I know I know, who needs
more of those. But it's fun! I think so, at least.

I call it <a href="/the-continuum/">The Continuum</a>! Every day I post a
banner to my homepage and update
a continually-taller image with a 256x1 strip of pixels where it's height has
been collapsed, averaging the colours.

Here's to hope I make it for at least a few months without missing a day. I think
I can make it all year! But we'll see how <i>that</i> goes now won't we.

Anyway, the archives are cool. You should go look at them ;3
<a href="/the-continuum/banners/">banners/</a>

My favourite from the week <i>(in full glory)</i>:
<img src="/the-continuum/banners/2025-01-03/banner.gif"
	alt="genny's and a large dog's eyes are inline with one another. their heads face roughly the same direction, but genny looks at the camera and moose, the dog, off to the right" />

That's me and a coworker's dog named Moose. I love Moose. He is the biggest
goddamn dog I've ever seen! Oh, I cannot get over how goddamn big that
goddamn dog is. He's so large! He's like a small bear!!

And that's kind of all I did! Not a lot.

Well, I started to play a Minecraft modpack called <i>Enigmatica 2: Expert</i>.
I've never played a modpack before, really, so I did some looking around and
this one seems to be well regarded! It is challenging and fun!

<i style="color: var(--text-dim)">(in which she writes a lot about e2:e because it has
	consumed so, so much of her time)</i>

It seems that the Modpacks of yore were a lot of "here are some mods that work
well together", but now they are "here are a lot of mods that work well together,
a little because we made them work well together, and also we have like 600 quests
to help guide you through them!"

Which is to say: There is a lot of questing? Which was surprising? Often a quest
reward will be a "Loot Box" which is a slot machine that doesn't require payment.
You get, as far as I can tell, a random item from the game. One of my very early
rolls was an "Ultimate Furnace". It is a very powerful endgame utility-thing.

The Ultimate Furnace smelts an item in 2 ticks. Two <i>goddamn</i> ticks!
What is 2 ticks,,, 100 milliseconds?
That's cool enough. I would understand if it also consumed fuel at a rate
proportional to the smelting increase. Like an item smelts in two ticks but
coal only lasts like, 20 ticks. That would make sense to me! But no! The fuel
burns at the same rate it does in a normal furnace! So you <i>know</i> I filled
that thing with sticks. It's so, so nice.

I made an Industrial Craft 2 Electric Furnace <i>(a quest asked me to)</i> and
didn't use it at all because I had this could-kill-god furnace sitting here
that didn't consume all my EU power and smelted <i>so</i> fast.

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okay, that's enough. this was late by three days. i did not bleed the new week
into it even though i very much desired so!

goodbye. see you next week!