OTC Mike

Gotta love the one called "SexCoin"...wonder what that's used for?

Therer is FTB lite which I think is pretty close. But if you download the ftb launcher, you'll be able to see which mods are in each pack. There's also one called techworld. Might be what you are looking for.

My meetings are scheduled for Monday, April 14th through Wednesday the 16th. I'm not sure if I'll be coming the weekend before, or staying the weekend after, but will let you know when plans are finalized. And yes, most likely the wife will be joining me. And doesn't really matter where we meet up. I'm sure I'll get a few good lunch/dinners on the company dollar. We're not known for being frugal when it comes to meals (or anything else for that matter) You may have heard of my company...It's name is emblazened across the chest of one of your beloved football clubs you may be familiar with...Manchester United.

Thanks guys, sounds like there is a fair bit of interest. I will keep you all posted once dates/times are figured out on my end. Haha. You go ahead and drink that one. I'll get the next one.

I honestly do see it as that big a deal. These YouTubers are marketing their product, so why not pay them?

Alright gents, I'll most likely be headed to London for a week in Mid April (week of the 14th) for work. I'll be tied up all day from breakfast through dinner, although I may arrive the Friday before and bring my wife along. Anybody near London want to meet up and have a few beers? I'm not exactly sure of my schedule yet, but just wanted to see if there was any interest. I know there's another London meet up page, but to be honest, I'm not scrolling through 30 pages of posts. Cheers Mike

Double post

Ok. So here's the story. I was still in the Marines at the time, and like I mentioned earlier, part of my job was dealing with explosives. The day before I was to go on leave for Thanksgiving we had a day at the demo range. It was a fun day - who can say that a day blowing up shit for no reason isn't fun. So, as one might guess, we used the standard Grunt explosives. C4 and Det cord. I remember at one point we were standing around a table building something (probably a shape charge) and had some det cord left over. Well, like any good Marine, we wanted to investigate it some more, so we cut it open to see what was inside. For those that don't know, inside det cord (or more formally detonation cord) is nothing but explsoive powder. Either RDX or Petin - I can't quite remember. And like the smart Marines are played with it for a bit. So, that sounds like no big deal right. Get a a little explosive powder on your hands - wash it off. Well...since I was going on leave the next day, when we got back to the barracks the first thing I wanted to do was pack. So I did...before showering. Needless to say some of the expolosives transfered from my hands to my clothes. Did I mention that tt was right before the Thanksgiving right after 9/11. If you traveled around that time you should remember the intense checks you had to go through before you boarded a plane. They had (and I've still seen from time to time) these little wands with a piece of cloth on them that they rubbed all over you luggage and anything inside your luggage. So, they proceeded to stick the cloth inside the machine that detects explosives, and uh...yeah...the machine started to flash red lights and blink and all sort of crap that basically labeled me as a terrorist. The woman running the machine nearly had a heart attack and literally says to me "wait right there while I get my supervisor." Seriously? Some dude test positive for a number of explosives and you tell him to wait there...Well, I did since I could completely explain myself, but seriously?!?! I ended up talking with her supervisor and explained what the situation was and give him the number to the CO. He called and confirmed my story, but not before going through my entire suitcase, every shirt pocket, inside every sock, turning everything inside and out. They ended up letting me board the plane but for about the next 7 or 8 years, everytime I went through security, I ended up in the "random" extra screening area....wonder why

Ouch. That hurts man. At least I was one of the "smart" grunts. I was an 0351 - Assaultman. Part of my duty was doing some demo work. Not nearly to the extent of CE's though. But I've built a shape charge or two in my time. If you want a funny story - ask me how I tested positive for exposives at the San Diego Airport...

I know man, I was just busting on you for being in the Army...The guys who "carried" the M2 and Mk19 mounted them on vehicles as well. But when we went on hikes, they were carried. Carried in pieces and spread around, but carried non the less. Combat engineers have alot to carry. We had a few attached to my platoon when I was in Iraq.

Yep. One of those

That's funny, because in the Marine Corps the SAW gunner is the bitch of the infantry team...they put the biggest guys with the heavy machine guns. You know, the M2 or the MK19. Just busting on ya Doc (though I am telling the truth)

Noob. How was that not your first thought?...j/k. Glad you got it sorted.

I think mob griefing is on at the moment. It's not mittlemier's server. It's Nicks (nhigh). He's pretty cool about changing any of the settings as long as most of us agree, and that isn't to game changing. I'm sure this is one that nobody would have a problem with if we changed. GregTech isn't in any of new new mods, but the crafting is a bit more material expensive than the Unleashed pack was. Cant' comment on how it relates to the Tech pack. Are you looking for specific mods?

I hear that. I hadn't played MC for a while and when Ghosts came out and it sucked ballz, i started playing FTB. I don't even care about vanilla anymore. All I want is more power and more automation

I haven't tried the new technic pack. I play on a FTB (Direwolf20 1.6.4) OTC server. PM me if you're interested and I'll see about getting you on. There are about 6 of us on regularly. We just reset the world this week so we are all in the pretty early stages.

I haven't tried it, but haven't heard about any problems. I know the direwolf pack was using a lot of memory and was causing some games to crash for some people if they didn't have enough memory. Could be a similar issue with Horizons, but I'm not to sure

So I played a bit last night with the new pack, and have to say that so far I'm really liking it. I just need to find a texture pack nosince I can't stand the ault textures.

So a couple of new modpacks for Feed the Beast have come out for 1.6. Does anybody plan on playing them? The OTC server I play on will be updating to the new Direwolf20 pack. I just recently got into Feed the Beast. We have been playing with the Unleashed pack and it took me a while to get used to everything, but once I did, I don't think i'll ever go back to vanilla.

And yet GTA V isn't on PC yet!?!?!?!?

Any interest in doing this in NYC?

Simply put. If money was no object, I'd quit work and just go to school. I like my job and everything, but there's just so much more I want to learn. I got my degree in Applied Mathematics, with a minor in economics, but want to learn about Biology, Geography, Physics, Finance, History, Law, and Literature. I'm sure there would be others that I'd want to pick up as well. But those would be the starting few. And I don't mean just taking a few classes in each, I mean full on Masters level education in each field.

Thanks man. I think I remember a Sandy Ravage video where he was talking about the framerate issue during the Beta. I think he was playing on the PC as well.

With the PC framerate issues, did you try to adjust your settings at all? I'm just curious because I'm thinking about getting it for the PC. I've got a decent comp but not the greatest.