I’m reposting my tickets as I’ve had a few fake accounts trying to scam me for these tickets or accusing me of being a scammer myself! I said originally I’m happy to arrange a video call to prove I’m legit and will only accept PayPal as form of payment to ensure both parties are safe from fraud. The TM e-tickets and merchandise have now arrived so see pics of proof of tickets (QR code covered for obvious reasons) and VIP merchandise attached. I can meet you outside the stadium to pick up your merch or have it sent to you for a fee to cover postage. DM me if you’re interested!

So this bag is up for 30$, I’ve tried reverse searching but can’t find it, so I’m wondering if it’s fake? And if it’s real, does anyone have a better pic of the color? It looks almost purple but she said it’s brown..

That's no moon! Well, actually it is a moon. But still.
I wrote recently about a late game PLS-based mall segment, and then started looking into recycling. (For an introduction to malls, recycling, and some of the other terms I use, see the next section, "preliminaries".)
Recycling is a bit expensive; you basically need one additional ILS per five buildings that your mall is producing. In the midgame, this may not be worth the extra power requirements.
But I figure that if you are going to build a spiffy late game mall, then you have resources to spare anyway and recycling is a natural thing to add. So I decided to combine my last two posts into one. First, I updated the PLS-based mall segment to include recycling. I also cleaned up the recycling design a lot. I then used the mall segment to build a complete late game mall, as a proof of concept.
During the limited time I've experimented with it, I found it comfortable to use and set up, and fast.
Pro:

• Can export any produced item to anywhere in the cluster, and can also recycle any produced item from anywhere in the cluster.
• Fully proliferated.
• Can make up to 100 buildings and other items.
• It is large, but not as large as designs that use one ILS per building. It's also tucked out of the way: it is built outside of the equatorial area. This means that you can include all production for the mall on the same planet, reducing off-world dependencies.
• With three re-composing assemblers per building, using speedup proliferation, the mall can build any building up to 18x the speed listed in their recipe. For example, it can build three ILSs per five seconds, 11.25 pile sorters per second, and 30/s mark 3 belts. If you should need even more speed, you can dedicate two columns to the same item.
• You can easily start small and add to it as your game progresses. Whenever you need to make more buildings, you can add a mall segment (which clicks into place perfectly), adding space for ten buildings. The order in which you add buildings is unimportant.
• Four materials can be imported per building, which is usually enough; it is also possible to share the middle belt between two adjacent assembler columns, which makes it easy to set up those few buildings that need five inputs.

Con:

• It uses PLSs to import materials, which may be inconvenient if you want to produce all the input components off-world. (That said, I recommend producing the components for the mall on the same planet as the mall itself, to reduce off-planet dependencies.)
• It is a lot larger than other full featured mall designs.
• It buffers a lot of material, since for every building all inputs are imported separately and buffered in a PLS somewhere. For high throughput, these PLS buffers cannot be too small either, and the ideal buffer size depends on your production capabilities, usage patterns as well as logistics upgrades, so it may need to be hand-tweaked. For example, a complete mall makes 20 items that require iron ingots. If 1000 iron ingots are buffered for each, that means that when idle, the mall stores over 20000 iron ingots. Same for other common products.
• A full mall contains 40 ILSs and 100 PLSs, so it is power hungry, especially during the start-up phase.
• The mall bulges into the equatorial area slightly, meaning that you might not be able to place ILSs everywhere you like in the equatorial area. (Sorry!)

Preliminaries

• A mall is a structure that automates the production of buildings. Not all malls produce the exact same set of buildings. My malls usually make all buildings, as well as a number of items that are not buildings: logistics drones, vessels, and bots, and combat drones.
• The way I use the word, a mall usually does not include production of all the components needed to make the buildings. I assume these are produced elsewhere and are already available.
• Malls differ by the way they get all the required components into the right assemblers. A "bot mall" uses logistics distributors for this. A "bus mall" uses a lot of belts carrying each of the building materials that can be leeched from to make a building. A "sushi mall" uses mixed belts, i.e. belts with multiple distinct components on it, allowing you to deliver all components to all assemblers using only a limited number of belts. This post is about a "PLS mall", where one PLS (planetary logistics station) is used for every building, to import its required components.
• Malls also differ in the way they make the produced buildings available. Some malls simply have an area where you can pick up what you like from a storage box. Some malls make this easier by placing logistics distributors on top of the storage boxes. It is the most convenient if malls make them available on the interstellar logistics network, so that you can request buildings from anywhere in the cluster. For that reason, this mall has one ILS (interstellar logistics station) per five buildings, that can ship those buildings out to anywhere.
• If you're on another planet and you've requested a whole lot of, say, miniature particle colliders, and you've built whatever you wanted to build, you might want to send the leftover particle colliders away again with minimum effort. Also, if you do that, the mall should stop its production of additional particle colliders. This is what the "recycling" is about: the mall will not only export, but also import all buildings it produces. The importing is done using an additional series of ILSs. The output of these recycling ILSs is prioritised over the buildings that are produced in the mall itself, so that as long as buildings are being recycled, production of that building is halted.

I hope that this provides the necessary context to be able to place the rest of this post!

A mall segment

The updated mall segment looks like this:
Makes ten buildings
Placement:
The segment should be placed one tropic line out from the equatorial area towards the pole, with the ILSs towards the pole. The blueprint is tileable, and the mall should be expanded by placing copies side by side as you unlock more technology and want to add buildings or other items.
The blueprint is 80 cells wide. This area of the planet has a circumference of 800 cells, so you can stamp it down exactly 10 times to complete a ring, allowing you to make 100 buildings in the mall. There are currently not nearly that many buildings in the game, meaning that there is plenty of room also if the game should be updated with more buildings. (Of course there's no requirement that you complete the ring; it's just pretty if you do.)
Setting up:
The ring of ILSs closest to the equator import all the buildings to recycle them; the ring of ILSs towards the pole exports all produced buildings. So, if you want to produce a new building, first add it to the inner ILS. Leave the storage capacity at maximum and set it to "local storage" and "global demand". Set the output filter on one of its outputs to that building.
Now add the same building to the outer ILS; leave this one at "local supply" and "global supply". Set the product limit to the amount you want to receive if you request that building from somewhere across the cluster. For me, this means I set most product limits to 100, except for the items I use most, like belts and sorters. Leave the "min load of vessels" setting of both ILS at 1% (or at most 10%), so that vessels will fly out even if the ILS contains only 100 buildings.
The next step is to find the column that corresponds to the output filter you just set on the ILS. Set the three assemblers in that column to the building you want to produce. Note: although it's not strictly required, I like to keep the buildings in the ILSs settings and the assembler columns in the same order.
Find the PLS for that column and import the materials that the building requires. Setting the perfect product limits in the PLS is tricky: the best number depends on many factors such as: how much of this material does your mall need, how far away is the production, how fast are your drones, and how much do you want to avoid overbuffering. If you don't really know, I recommend setting each product limit to 1000 initially. For low throughput building materials you could use an even smaller buffer, and for high throughput you might sometimes need to make it larger. Keep an eye on your mall after you've built it so you can detect if some materials are not supplied quickly enough, and increase the buffer size if that should be the case.
If your building requires more than four input materials, there is the option to share one input belt between two columns of assemblers, namely the middle belt out of the five in-between buildings. Since only relatively few buildings need this, in the blueprint only one column of assemblers grabs from the middle belt, but you can easily add sorters that supply the material on the middle belt to the assemblers in the other column.
If your building requires fewer than four input materials, then you can choose which of the four connected belts to use. If you like, you can delete the remaining belts, spray coaters and sorters that were attached to it.
Set the PLS output ports to the right materials. Production should now start.
Making a bunch of assemblers :) I forgot to set the ILS output filters in this pic.
The storage boxes buffer the produced buildings. In the blueprint, these boxes are set with a storage capacity of 5 slots, which should be okay for most use cases. However, again it's better to think it through in a bit more detail for every building you're making. In the early and midgame, fewer slots might suffice and save resources, but this mall is aimed at the end game, where you might often want substantial buffers. As a rule of thumb, you should set the number of slots such that the buffer contains somewhere between the same number of buildings as the ILS product limit, and twice as much. This means that you should usually give buildings with small stack sizes more buffer slots. For example, Ray receivers stack in groups of 20. If your ILS is set up to supply them in groups of 200, then your buffer box needs a capacity of at least 10 slots to buffer an appropriate number of them.
As a finishing touch, you can change the alarm icon on the traffic monitor to the building you just added; it's not necessary but it can be nice if you want to be told exactly which building is failing.

The completed mall

I used the mall segment to set up a complete mall that produces every building, as well as all drones and ammo. In my experience, each segment with 10 buildings takes about 15 minutes to set up.
In the first mall segment, it is important to get the space warpers and proliferator going. I found the following convenient way to do this:

• Set the first slot of the importing ILS to request proliferator, and set the first slot of the exporting ILS to REQUEST space warper. (It is the only slot on an exporting ILS set to "demand".) Lead the space warper out of the correct output by setting the output filter.
• Set the three assemblers in the corresponding column to producing space warpers out of graviton lenses. These will serve as a backup: if space warpers are unavailable but graviton lenses are still supplied, your mall can keep working.
• Since the assembler column uses only one input, you can remove its other three inputs. That frees up space to run a belt of proliferator from the ILS to seed the proliferator belt.

In my blueprint I've also set up ammunitions, because there are so many unused slots that I figured I might as well. However, depending on your playstyle you may need a higher production rate than what can be delivered by a mall. So it is really up to you whether or not you feel that having ammo in the mall is useful.
Find the blueprint for the complete mall in the references below!

Comparing malls

To give an impression of how this mall compares to my tiny sushi mall, here's an image that shows both of them in a single picture:
Help! There's a mall in my mall!
... yeah. So, is this late game mall worth it?
In my personal experience, the sushi mall is fast enough until you start planting down planet sized blueprints, and even then, it's only a couple of items that aren't produced quickly enough. So you might prefer to just use the sushi mall or some other smaller mall, and scale up specific items using dedicated designs once you reach the very late game.
On the other hand, if you're in the late game anyway, and you have a good production and enough power and plenty of space, and you want to have a mall that's arguably a bit easier to understand, that can support more buildings, that offers far superior throughput and that has recycling built in from the start, then this new design might be your jam.

References

The mall segment: Dyson Sphere Blueprints - Recycling PLS mall segment
The full mall: Dyson Sphere Blueprints - Recycling PLS mall
My sushi mall: How to build an effective sushi mall in the early game : Dyson_Sphere_Program (reddit.com)
My bot mall: Bot mall (dark fog ready) : Dyson_Sphere_Program (reddit.com)
Bot mall segment: Dyson Sphere Blueprints - Optimall segment

Hey Everyone! This is my first post here, although I have been lurking for a while. I've decided to write a review for a muffler I recently got.
Disclaimer: I was not sponsored for this review. The owner was just super helpful, and the exhaust is nice, so I thought I would give a review.
I recently purchased a 1997 BMW e36/7 (Z3) 2.8L, with an m52 -- my first BMW. The stock exhaust was a little too quiet, so I started looking at catbacks. Every decent seeming option is pretty expensive - and all the offerings seem to be 10+ years old. I eventually got an instagram ad for a muffler from a company called downpipedaddy. Guy seemed to used to buy catalytic converters and seemed knowledgeable enough.
The Muffler:
From their website , the muffler is universal fit, dual entry/exit, TIG welded, and 304 stainless steel. They also have a $100 rebate for posting a sound clip of your car. (I have since been payed over paypal for this)
Here's a pic of the muffler I took when I got it. Packaging was good, and it came intact.
downpipedaddyUSA universal fit muffler
Everything looked pretty solid. Welds were definitely TIG, and I'm pretty confident that its actually stainless steel. There's a lot of fake stainless out there! It was not magnetic (stainless isn't magnetic) and it has not rusted (I've been driving through watewet conditions). Additionally, there is a rainbow-y effect around the welds (to my exhaust section) - although I'm not sure if mild steel does this too.
I had to get it installed by a muffler shop, as it had to be welded onto my car. The shop had to install a y-pipe, as my car (all z3 and 2.3 m52 have a single exhaust) has a single midpipe instead of a dual like other e36's. They also welded on some exhaust hangars but they kinda did a bad job. However, I paid around $80 for the install so :shrug:
Sound:
While waiting for the muffler to arrive, I decided to chop off my muffler to see how it sounded. I saw some clips on YouTube of how a muffler delete sounded on my car, and it sounded decent. With the muffler delete, the Z3 sounded more aggressive but droned and sounded "unrefined." It had rasp, but not "good", growly rasp. It sounded as if there was no resonator on it - although most muffler-delete m50, m52's, and m54's are like this, its much worse in person.
Once installed, it sounded completely different. While I think these cars sound good, even with a muffler delete, they don't sound like a traditional DOHC inline 6 sounds - there's no growl and snare in them, like Nissans L24 in the 240z or Jaguars XJ6 engine. They just sound... angry, but not like a built race engine. Sort of how you would imagine a D series civic to sound as a 6 cylinder. Just angry, with no tonality or overtones to it. This is the first exhaust I have heard that is able to do this to an m5x. From what I can tell, this sounds a lot like a UUC Corsa system - maybe better. It brought out a lot of snarl from the motor, without being obnoxious. I actually got pulled over filming the sound test (LOL) and the cop said nothing about the exhaust.
IMO it sounds better than my friends stromung exhaust. There is a ominous, bassy idle, that always impresses me - although first startup scared me. Was really worried about drone after hearing this, but I cannot get it to drone at all. Maybe a little bit if I lug it wide open (100% throttle) in 5th gear below 1500rpm. Not really a problem for me, though, since it drones much less than stock, and there's no reason to not downshift. These cars don't like to drive around under 2k, anyways. Can't get it to drone audibly, ever with the top up.
downpipedaddyUSA muffler sound clips - m52b28 - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1kf6on4pTcI
The only gripe with it is the mounting options. The muffler shop I went to told me they had a hard time figuring out how to get it mounted. Then again, I went to the cheapest muffler shop I could find, and I'm sure there's much more talented fabricators than the 19yo who welded mine.

Initial sketch, took me a while to take reference pics of my self making poses and such.
Inked, realized I screwed up and forgot that Phil is supposed to have a prosthetic leg.
Finished results, had to add in the fake leg via photoshop
Background Soundtrack: Hashoka - Dancing Lights
The shutterdoor grinds and clunks loudly as Mia with seemingly ease rolls it up, though it is clear that it would take some effort from any other person by how heavy it looks and sounds. I can't even imagine the shit this garage must've seen over the years since it opened.
I step inside slowly and cautiously while Mia is quick to walk in and turn off this very old fashioned looking alarm and flip on a old dial that flips on the fluorescent tubes that by the somewhat oppressive buzzing sounds that emits from them and the struggling blinking before they finally calm down and lightens up the garage, I swear that everything is older than me and Mia both.
"Sit. Or don't." I hear Mia say as she casually rips open a fridge that I swear to Raptor Jesus must've been one of the original fridges I only seen in those very old 1950s commercials on YouTube. The only thing that seems to be close enough to be something to sit on, is a bench that I realize seems to be a old bleacher. I groan of relief as I collapse on the seat, I didn't realize how much energy I've spent.
With a heavy thud and a deep sigh from Mia who is carrying two bottles of beer between her fingers in one hand as she takes a seat right next to me, she pops the caps with ease using same fingers. Before I can say anything, I find myself accepting one of the bottles that she quietly offers.
I look at the brand of the beer bottle, which has a picture that shows some kind of a over the top manly Fabio looking dino pirate holding a swooning human female in his own arm while the other hand holds a fence while waves splashes behind them and the name of the beer "Gears of Beer" in heavy metal pirate font printed. I find myself being so amused by the almost harlequin esque pictures I've seen on those romance novels that only middle aged women or older would buy at some gas station or whatever, that I didn't realize that Mia had already taken a swig of the beer.
Looking at her, her usual stiff and stoic posture seems to just steam out, softening and relaxing. Her face has a far away nostalgic look, reminiscing on seemingly good times long lost. "...You know, I haven't had one of these for five years." Mia mutters, loud enough for me to hear. "I found a couple of them at a store, shopping for food and shit like that. Figured, eh why the fuck not. Didn't think I would find these again."
I just look at Mia, and then at my own bottle of cold beer, the soft sizzling of bubbles inside emitting a soft yet strong smell of beer. "...I've never had beer." I decide to confess, shrugging apologetically. "Sorry, I didn't think to tell you before I saw you offering me this."
I flinch unintentionally as I can practically feel her head turn towards me, almost expecting her to have some harsh remarks or comments towards me. But I just hear a soft chuckle that ends with a unintentional snork from her snoot.
"Fair warning, this brand packs a punch. Start by taking smaller sips. Beer is a really acquired taste." Mia states amused, before taking another deep swig of beer. That sigh of satisfaction she lets out gives me a shiver, the good kind as well.
Next, the garage echoes with the sounds of me retching loudly by how strong and bitter the taste of beer is, despite me taking literally a few drop into my mouth and the soft chuckles of Mia that is not of mockery but with amused sympathy.
"How was it?" Mia asks, raising a eye brow.
"...The taste ... It's gross..." I mutter with disgust and shiver as I can feel the vile beverage slide down inside me and causes war with my stomach. I decide to take another taste.
"Oh yes!" I cringe harder, my face scrunched up as if I had just eaten a 200 liter barrel with lemons. "I hate this! It is revolting!" I laugh out.
"More?" Mia asks amused.
"Please." I nod holding up my bottle towards hers to make a toast, the ding from the bottles is soft.
Mia leans her elbows over her knees, her bottle dangling between two fingers. "Take that your dad wasn't keen to share that moment with you, eh?" Mia muses, but changes her expression when she sees my face looking down and stares thousands of yards right into a small crack on the concrete floor and my prosthetic leg.
"...More like he and I just couldn't connect about anything. Let's just leave it at that..." I mutter and take a bigger swig of beer. The taste is still strong, but I'm starting to get the appeal. I figure that I could change the subject, I turn my head up and look around the garage.
It is pretty much what a regular car mechanic's paradise looks like. Large tool chests with wheels underneath standing here and there, gas tanks with torches, old and new car parts carefully leaning towards the wall, car engines hanging in the air with a crane and such. "How long have you been doing this? Being a mechanic I mean?" I ask.
"Since I got here, five years now." Mia replies nodding, leaning back on the bleacher that whines with soft plastic groans. "I came here, with barely money on my name or anything. I looked for job, and the previous owner took me in. He was Russian or something like that. A big mutherfucker, not fat but buff with a strong dad bod that he could actually lift up a semi truck with one hand with ease. He had this thick Russian accent that was quite awesome, I could listen to him and tell amusing stories all day. I always suspected that he was a soldier in the past but I could never tell. Nor did he tell any, none of my business. He was very cool. He had this laughter that was so loud but so contagious and made some odd but nice words of wisdom that he learned from his old Russian family. But when he got mad at asshole customers... He had this roar that would humble most stubborn scaly asshole. Especially when it came down to his Sasha... Anyway, he helped me out. Let me stay here, work here on cars and taught me some stuff about cars that I didn't know about. Four years later, he was gone..."
Mia takes a more lighter swig of her beer, making me wonder about the guy. "--- You mean like---?" I ask slowly and concerned.
"Oh, nah." Mia shakes her head after gulping down her drink. "He just retired with his family. He gave me this place and some cash to live by. He still lives in a house with his wife nearby, I chat with him occasionally and he even helps me out with car problems. Been doing this job ever since, repairing cars and even making custom muscle cars like hotrods and such. Its a nice living, I don't fuck with people here and people don't fuck with me."
"Oh" I nod smiling, the beer is getting to me, feeling that dizziness making me spin slightly "Whoa..."
"Heeeeey, look at you. Getting all plastered and shit. I think he likes it Mikey." Mia sing songs amused, patting her hand over my shoulder. "Easy, dude. That first time will get to ya. Just drink a lot of water and eat a banana before going to bed and you will be fine. No hangover or shit like that."
"Yea... " I nod softly, swinging slightly to sides despite me sitting on the bleacher. Then, just to try impress her even further, I manage to inhale the remaining beer down the hatch and with a confident smile I just let out a deep sigh complete with saying "Aaaaaaaaah..."
Mia just chuckle with a grim smirk and does the same, but with ease as the beer just vanishes down her throat and she too sighs deeply with a "Aaaaaaaah..."
I am not sure how to read the current situation but whatever it is, Mia is quick to notice it and stands up while picking up the two now empty bottle of beer. "Alright, party's over." She says putting the bottles in a large stainless industrial basin that. "Let's get you home so you can some... Sleep..."
I barely register as I slide down to the side, slowly falling asleep from exhaustion and the strong alcoholic beer. Before I start to dream, I can feel her help me to disconnect the straps to my fake leg and carry me to her bed upstairs of the garage and I hear her something that I think is something like...
"Fuck." Then I dream of falling again.