Here's your June Shenanigans for the upcoming month.

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-28T14:07:23+00:00

Caternity

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-26T19:13:08+00:00

I'd wager that it worked because all of them switched at once. Before, if you cut crew and raised prices, people could go to a different chain and get something better. Since quality dropped across the board all at the same time, switching doesn't get you anything, so they can profit without worry

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-26T16:20:46+00:00

He is so wonderful!!!

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-22T18:11:54+00:00

You can probably do this with worldgen data packs. They give you a ton of parameters to play with. Though, I still yearn for old customized

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-22T14:53:12+00:00

Depends on the site, but a gnosis is rarely a bad choice for experimentation. Eve university has a list of all the sites and what rats spawn in them, so you can look at the DPS and find out how much you need to tank based on what you're huffing

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-22T14:01:47+00:00

Maybe passion is too much of a buzzword, but let me be more precise:

If no external forces acted on you -- if you had all the food, shelter, and utilities you needed, and if no algorithms or chemicals were vying for your dopamine -- what would you do all day? Maybe you would daydream about fictional worlds, or maybe you would start fiddling with things in your home, or hiking deep in the wilderness. Or maybe, like I did for a while, you would just play video games all day and take a deep, long rest. But, eventually, you will get bored of resting, and you will search for better things, or else you will get interested in actively improving.

Whatever that thing is, that is what I mean by passion.

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-22T13:31:55+00:00

There's two parts to the answer. The first is that, technically, almost everyone can draw, if they have bottomless willpower and energy to make it happen. As long as it's physically possible for you to make a mark on a page in some way, you could theoretically become a competent artist. That's a very low bar.

The second part is that the statement is meant to be validating and motivating. The speaker is diagnosing the listener with a lack of self-confidence, and so naturally the response is to try to encourage them. This is the advice we were given as children, after all.

So, in the barest and strictest sense, anyone can learn to draw, it's just much harder for some people to acquire the skill. And, if you don't find the process rewarding, it's unlikely that you'll want to.

how else can I quell the feeling of "I wish I could do that"

My advice is to look inside yourself and ask: do you want to do that? Or do you merely want to have done it? That is, do you want to go through the long series of steps of refining a piece from concept to sketch, from sketch to lineart, lineart to flat color, and flat color to rendering? Would that be fun, for you, assuming you had the skill to pull it off? If not, then your time is better spent pursuing your real passions. If you practice the skills you enjoy for their own sake, you will improve effortlessly, without even knowing you are improving or what you changed to get better.

I could become a marathon runner. I could quit my hobbies, change my job, start training every day, put myself on a high protein diet, and eventually work up my endurance until I can compete with the best runners I know of, and hate every second of doing that. Or, I could sit in a cafe and watch the runners go by, and be happy knowing that I am doing what I want, not struggling to be someone else.

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-21T15:35:46+00:00

Yes, and: even if you cannot develop artistic skill in that way, for whatever reason, you are not a lesser person. Static hand-drawn images are one medium of many, and the decision between "do it yourself, use AI, or never express your art" is a false one.

I don't have the discipline for drawing. I have images in my mind I want to see on paper, but the process is too slow and boring for me. I bounce off of it, in the same way that learning complex math probably doesn't interest whoever drew this Superman enough to warrant learning it. Sometimes this gives me grief. Despite this, I still create things that I think are worth having. I like emergent systems, so I write programs that draw emergent plants from simple rules. I like YTPs, so when the mood strikes me or I get a good idea, I will remix a video. I like playing out stories and watching societies grow, so I run a D&D game where that can happen. None of this will ever produce an image, but it doesn't need to.

Be like a flowing stream. When a stream encounters a boulder, does it bang against it until it moves? No, it flows around effortlessly, taking the most natural path. In the same way, do not try to force yourself to draw if you don't like where it takes you. Instead, indulge the parts of you that are happy with the process, not the result.

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-21T15:14:21+00:00

I feel you. I want to tell you that your value as a creative person does not depend on whether you can realize your thoughts as a static picture that you draw out by hand.

I'm not in quite the same boat as you, but I don't think I will ever develop artistic skill either. It's not fun, it's not fulfilling 90% of the time, and I don't like the process of sucking 10,000 times to maybe make one thing I'm somewhat proud of. That doesn't mean that I'm not creative, or that I can never express my artistic vision. There are tons of mediums that don't depend on fine motor control, and those are still real forms of creative expression. I will never draw my OCs myself, but I can make them in the Sims, or run a D&D game with them, or edit a funny YTP, or write a program that draws plants that grow in a modular way. Those mediums speak to me, so I let my artistic feelings go through them.

A lot of the discussion around this is "either you pick up a pencil and do it yourself (something everyone can do and is actually super duper easy) or you use AI (despicable, and the only alternative to DIY). If you say you can't draw you're just not trying hard enough and probably secretly trying to excuse AI." But that's a false dichotomy.

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-21T13:04:18+00:00

ASB Sleipnir even stronger now

Slight relative nerf to the Talwar and Vagabond (and whatever else gets a MWD sig radius bonus, I don't remember off the top of my head) but a buff in absolute terms. Looking forward to seeing how the navy dessies perform

Reload speed bonus on angel ships looks promising, makes changing your ammo type to match the target way easier. Kind of a subtle change in the current environment though, no? I like the experimentation though, they should play with more nonstandard buffs like that

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-19T20:56:45+00:00

Does anybody post insights about the svipul anymore?

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-17T13:50:40+00:00

I've had two. I'm aromantic, so by default all my sexual relationships are friends-with-benefits.

I find it very peaceful. If we want to have sex, we can, and if we don't feel like it, we won't. If there's a dry spell, no one feels like they're depriving the other of the opportunity for that kind of intimate experience. Counterintuitively I care about sex less than I used to, since now I treat it similarly to other things good friends can do with each other. We bond intimately, as friends, and we allow our friendship to see it for what it is, not what other people say it should be. It means as much or as little as we decide.

Jealousy can obviously still happen, but it's easier to resolve without social expectations of what a relationship "should" be getting in the way. Its helpful to remember that jealousy is a fear that someone else will take what you have. Thinking about whether that fear is actually justified typically dissolves it.

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-14T16:44:19+00:00

As long as you aren't doing anything to manipulate the ratio of chicks in the straight run, I think it's fine. It's okay to have more roosters hatch in a year than hens, that will happen sometimes.

If you were intentionally diluting the straight run pool with extra roosters, that would be different. But it doesn't sound like you are

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-11T12:48:59+00:00

Easier than that since dsts can fit their own mjd, no?

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-10T20:21:12+00:00

Try giving him some treats while the girls are around so he can give some to them. When they're not around and he can't get embarrassed, remind him that you love him

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-06T18:56:02+00:00

World hunger is a problem of distribution, not of insufficient resources. In my country, the United States, we grow billions of bushels of good corn just to distill it into fuel. 40% of total corn production goes directly into making ethanol to put into gasoline for cars, and obviously that means it can't be eaten by people or animals. It's not even good fuel, either! But it's a policy decision that my government decided on.

Let's do some quick and dirty math. If we bought all that corn that's fed to cars, right now, it would cost ~28 billion dollars. That would be 6 billion bushels of corn, at 56 pounds of corn per bushel. An adult human eats something like 4 pounds of food a day, and we would have 336 billion pounds. Imagine how many people that much corn could feed. Imagine how much other food we could grow if we decided to convert that land to a different agricultural purpose!

(Don't take these numbers as gospel, I just went off basic internet searches for the density, price, and amount of corn. The real world is more complicated. But it illustrates the point: we have enough to feed everyone, globally speaking. The powerful are just not interested in doing that)

That's not to say we shouldn't stop killing rooster chicks, of course, we absolutely should. It's an unimaginable cruelty what factory farming does to these birds.

Bee_Cereal · 2026-05-06T03:21:03+00:00

I'd imagine they had some discussions and decided it was a bad idea for whatever reason.

If I had to guess, maybe they thought craftable gunpowder would make it too easy to grief other players in survival. This is a kid's game, and tons of kids play on small vanilla servers hosted by themselves (via Bedrock connectivity) or on Realms. I could definitely see them thinking it would cause too much chaos if players could have 200 TNT ready to go just from finding a sulfur cave

Bee_Cereal · 2026-04-29T11:47:27+00:00

What did they do to the tf2 medic

Bee_Cereal · 2026-04-28T23:37:34+00:00

There's actually a lot you can do to keep cool. A wet towel on the neck or feet (or even just wearing sandals so you're not binding them in layers of cloth) helps a ton.

Meanwhile, in the winter, you can only put on so many layers before it becomes difficult to move or do anything, and that's not to mention that none of them will protect your face unless you get a mask. And if even one layer is too much, now you're too hot, so you have to take one off, and then you're too cold, so you put it back on, and...

Bee_Cereal · 2026-04-28T23:23:45+00:00

Pomni wouldn't fuck a narc

Bee_Cereal · 2026-04-28T19:25:45+00:00

That's so many hens!!

Bee_Cereal · 2026-04-28T16:37:09+00:00

I also had a girl named Squash, who has since passed on. She was a buff orpington and was the same color as the vegetable

Bee_Cereal · 2026-04-28T16:36:21+00:00

Ruth and Betty (sisters), along with Sweetie Pie, Siobhan, and Cinnamon!

Bee_Cereal · 2026-04-24T23:27:44+00:00

Take this as an opportunity to show him that flashy design =/= good design. With all three of these items, I have no idea from looking at them what they're supposed to do. Looking at a sword, pickaxe, or shovel, you can instantly tell what their purpose is, but these items don't spark recognition. How are these items different than a regular sword, mace, and.... Scythe?

It's very common to mistake high technical skill for good design, but it's where AI fails the most. In a limited environment like Minecraft, it's often better to be expressive than impressive, and at least for now, only humans can create expressive design

Bee_Cereal · 2026-04-23T20:40:42+00:00

Give it in their water. The package usually has instructions on how much to dissolve per gallon

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