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>>130753"Well... I know what
I have to do. I am less certain about what you have to do, or can do"
>>130754"Could you give me a route in order to get money?" Iron asks "I do not mean cooking, as I am not one to do that, but... somehing a bit more physical could work."
>>130755"There are all sorts of ways to make money, if only you have the will. What did you have in mind?"
>>130756"Something about strength," Iron replies without missing a beat.
>>130757"Well, I got this place, then there's a matter of getting materials and customers. And with... other business, someone needs to be talked down. Or... well, talked down in the better option, but there are other ways it can go down. I think others in the business are having problems getting past customs, but that isn't my business..."
>>130758"So either I locate and transport materials, lure ponies to eat here, do some convicing and helping out other ponies to pass through something," Iron tries to surmise as accurately as possible. "How would I go about doing the first two?"
>>130759"No, that's not....that's not what I meant"
>>130760"Oh," Iron replies with a little pout before rising his ears up in realization "...perhaps you could point me to the right ponies in order to understand what I could do better."
>>130761"No, I just mean there are some things to do. For instance, the potion shop. I found a place, but there are materials to acquire for it, as well as customers. Then in that
other thing I do, you know the thing, someone needs to be dealt with. Let me rephrase that. Someone needs to be
talked to. And then so far as business for that
other thing I do, well, you already know what I do. It involves a tire iron. Other creatures do more with
animals and
heavy crates.
Customs is giving them a hard time." She looks past Iron, towards Blanche
"Even these are not everything, but I've been helping the Kirin mare."
>>130762Iron nods softly, listening intently. "Ah," he answers with a sheepish smile "sorry about that. Perhaps my best choic is to start grinding on the ingredients." Recovering into a normal smile, he turns to Cauldron. "So, what would you need in the short term that I could potentially find? I do have a lot of experience from the jungle to get some of the ones growing on the wild and the time to gather more mundane ones otherwise."
>>130763"There are definitely those that grow in the wild, but we are in the city, and that is what makes it harder"
>>130764"If I go out and try to extrach the ingredients' source from the soil and bring it to the place, would that work?" Iron asks.
>>130765"Do you mean like transplant trees?"
>>130767"I don't have the land, and in any event many of the sources are kind of diverse. Some of them can be bought in bulk, others of them, not so much"
>>130768"What if I go collect a lot of these ingredients from the wild and bring it back to you each day?" Iron offers
>>130769"Well, in theory these should all be collected in bulk so many trips isn't necessary."
>>130770"I believe I can do that," Iron answers confidently before pouting softly "how many of these ingredients would be considered as 'bulk', however? For that matter, how heavy are they?"
>>130771"Well.... It just depends on the potion. Some ingredients, like mint for health potions, are easy to find. The bark of New Mareland Ironwood, for stoneskin, has to be imported. Then there's aluminum powder, tiger fur, kelp..."
>>130772Iron has a blank look on his face, a bit surprised at the amount of ingredients. "Uh, kelp is... one of those deep water plants, right?" he asks "Mint should be pretty easy to find, tiger fur I may know where I could find, but this 'ha-lum-ee-num' powder I have no idea what it is."
>>130773"Well, don't worry too much. A lot of the ingredients I can just buy on the open market and it really isn't a big deal. Some requires deep jungle plants or animals and is kind of hard to find. Some has to be imported from countries that... Well, there are just aren't trade agreements with those countries at this time. And some are chemicals that are heavily regulated now."
>>130774"So what could I do regarding that?" Iron asks with a tilt of his head.
>>130776"The acquirement of materials," Iron clarifies.
>>130777"Well, that's kind of the question, isn't it?"
>>130778"What would you require directly from the jungle or other wild areas?" Iron replies, trying to narrow down the potential ingredients that he can reliably gather with his strength and experience with tropical biomes.
>>130779She looks back to Iron, then to White Sands
"What about
her?"
>>130780"Maybe she can help with finding new customers," Iron replies, turning to face Sands "could you, Sands?"
>>130781"Sure I guess" She shrugs
>>130782Iron turns back to Cauldron with a happy smile. "We will get both problems covered that way, unless you believe it is wiser to rack up customers more than ingredients."
>>130783"I think it would be much easier if you just talked to someone who smuggles or imports"
>>130784"Where would I find that?" Iron ask with a tilt of his head.
If you want to conduct sessions earlier, that's actually better. I'll adjust my schedule to make it work.
>If you have experienced stutter/hangs on scroll on full thread view (viewing all posts), I found the bottleneck causing it. So now you should be able to view the full thread with update turned on and problem free scrolling (no stutter/hangs).
>>130795It still stutters every 7/9 posts.
>>130798>It still stutters every 7/9 posts.Is this when viewing all posts or also just partial (last 50,100, 200 posts), and what browser are you using so I can do more testing.
Just to have asked a dumb question (just to eliminate the basic case) I assume reloaded the page so the newest js gets loaded. >>130799In a fresh loaded page:
- View all posts stutters big every ~10 posts
- View last 200 posts stutters big every ~70 posts with very small ones every ~10
- View last 100 posts stutters big every ~40 posts with very small ones every ~10
- View last 50 posts stutters big at around ~35 posts with very small ones every ~10
Browser is Dissenter (Brave).
>>130800I assume the stutter you talk about is when scrolling. and that every 70,40,35 post you scroll by you get a little stutter "freeze" when "Auto update" looks for new posts. Or is this when you scroll normally, and if you can try to turn off "Auto Update" (uncheck Auto at bottom of page) to see if you still get stutters. If you still get stuttering while scrolling after Auto update is turned off I will have to looks further into it as it won't be related to autoupdate where I found a big bottleneck.
The initial load of big threads/threads will always take a little toll as it has to do quite a bit.
>I tried loading this thread in Dissenter and didn't experience any stuttering (well got the tiny stutters I forced it to scroll superfast (click-hold on scrollbar) but that is due to rendering and I would not expect it to be able to do that fluently, not even notepad will do that) >>130802I disabled the update and moved the cursor out of the way to avoid to render previews; now the scrolling is smooth in every case.
Under the same conditions described above, viewing all posts of this long page, the stutters happens every 500 posts.
>>130804Is it so that if you turn on autoupdate the stutters comes back every time it looks for updates (every 5 sec)? Like if you scroll continuously up and down you get a freeze every 5 sec? Or is it usable as it is now, like you can force it to do a few freezes but under normal conditions it won't be a nuance or particularly noticeable?
>>130805Correct, with the update ON the scroll stutters every ~10 posts.
It's not a terrible but it might be annoying for some autistic poner.
In desktops, at least for me, it's not an issue but I don't know about phone fags as I don't own a phone.