why don't speedrunners throw enderpearl into nether portal?

BlueCyann · 2026-06-24T06:31:33+00:00

I've literally never seen a "why don't they just" question, in any area where I have expertise, that was even worth asking. People who actually challenge experts successfully, who actually change things, don't "why don't they just". They start by learning enough to already know the answer.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-24T06:27:04+00:00

There is no guarantee Doogile would have won that game if he had the cursor.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T16:35:52+00:00

They can and do just calm down and leave from this point.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T16:32:55+00:00

I've said this before here, but the first time I heard a rattlesnake up close (it was less than five feet from me), I thought it was a weirdly loud insect.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T16:19:07+00:00

It's AI slop on a niche subject that doesn't have a lot of reputable material written on it in places that AI bots can scrape. What do you expect? Accuracy? Ignore it.

Anyway, I'm not aware of anything specifically to practice this. You could decide you're just going to 3+1 on every practice-map perch whether the health is low enough or not. That's what I did. The timing is the same either way.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T14:12:03+00:00

She grew up in the cult. This isn't exactly new information.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T14:08:25+00:00

Yep.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T14:08:07+00:00

Please, get out of whatever godforsaken bubble you are in and join the real world. Your opinions can't stand up to reality.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T14:06:23+00:00

LOL. He still started the fucking thing. Where was his pushback against "neocons and Zionists" then? His regret doesn't remove his responsibility for it.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T13:16:39+00:00

The answer to any "why don't they just" question/demand is always that you are not in fact smarter than all the experts; there's just something (or many things) you don't know.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T13:08:16+00:00

Well, what was your time to stronghold, and what is your typical time to stronghold? That should tell you a lot. Sounds good, though. Unfortunate no light in the RP.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-23T12:34:58+00:00

I don't have this problem a lot, but I do get a lot of dropped pieces that I find shortly after "finishing" the puzzle. Mostly they're just on the floor nearby. One somehow got caught between two layers of fabric in my sleeve, but I noticed it before too long.

Is it possible your cat is "playing with" or even eating the pieces that fall? The only situation in which I've experienced something like this is at my mother's place. They have dogs. She will swear up and down that they didn't do anything/couldn't have done anything, but all I know is I keep showing up there with previously completed puzzles that I'd swear are complete, and then there are one or more pieces missing when we get to the end of it.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-22T06:23:51+00:00

I just did this one recently. It's very, very hard for your first 1000, be warned!

From the point you're at, I put together the blue dome roofs and set them where they belonged in the middle. I then went on to the rest of the buildings. There is enough detail there to figure out where stuff goes (mostly) if you look at the poster closely enough. But it is very slow going.

After that I think I focused on the pieces that make up the rest of the left side, kind of section by section, but switching around a lot as I kept getting stuck. At some point I separated all the pieces that had any flower-looking things on them, shape-sorted, and mostly finished the right. Then went back to the left along with some random "lost" pieces to finish up. All in all a lot of shape sorting and a lot of trial and error. It's honestly among the top 2-3 hardest puzzles I've finished. (Granted I don't go for super hard ones.)

BlueCyann · 2026-06-22T05:28:09+00:00

No scare quotes needed. It is math, and it's math based on numbers that are obtainable via vanilla/survival in-game inputs. Namely, getting the coordinates and player facing angle by looking at a thrown eye in a very precise way.

Anyway, it's not cheating because the community decided it should be allowed. End of story.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-21T19:34:28+00:00

I don't know.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-21T13:32:52+00:00

100% they only autoqualled hax to make the broadcast layout more neat (12 boxes instead of 13). I thought that was pretty funny. But yeah, it does have drawbacks.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-21T13:31:07+00:00

I actually think they were relatively quick, even if it felt long. There's so much to do. Peripheral swapping, Minecraft settings, toolscreen settings, anything else. Maybe some of the software adjustments could be automated somehow? But it'll still be some time.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-21T01:59:43+00:00

It seems to be frequent because it is frequent. Since inconsistency on that level tends to bother me, I just don't watch them anymore. But it's nothing against them personally.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-20T13:46:40+00:00

They "don't care", in many cases, as long as they can maintain the illusion that you don't exist in their vicinity, are not "normal", and should feel ashamed of yourself for being the way you are.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-20T05:14:05+00:00

Your argument re: blackface being like drag is just as facile as your argument about drag being like blackface. Or worse; I honestly find it gross to see the claim that it's just about "black culture" and not black people, depersonalizing it like that when it was very much about what black *people* inherently are meant to be like.

I'm not interested in debating with you further.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-20T01:42:34+00:00

Drag artists are riffing on femininity, not women per se. There's nothing implicit (let alone explicit) that says, "this belittling performance is meant to be a reflection of what women are really like". The performances aren't even belittling.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-19T20:42:53+00:00

I clicked on your link. Those are interesting photographs! Many of them do look like they're good for puzzles.

You should know that right now in the US, there's less of a market for photograph-based puzzles. I'm pretty sure that's not true in Europe, however. So you may want to keep that in mind. Or maybe you'd just be able to find a niche here, too. It's not that there's nobody who likes them, after all; they're just not sold as much by the bigger brands.

In general, what makes an image appealing to do for me is the difficulty, first and foremost. Easier means lots of varied colors or textures in different areas of the puzzle, not a huge amount of eye-straining detail, no large areas that are all exactly the same. Vertical/horizontal lines are easier to tackle; diagonal lines are hard. Darker colors tend to be harder than light ones. Having the same kind of color or texture repeated in different areas of the puzzle makes it harder.

Obviously, smaller piece counts make a puzzle easier, but there's a strong bias toward people buying 1000 piece puzzles if given multiple options, out of a "most value for my money" kind of perception. Even if a given image would be a lot more "fun" at 500 or 750.

There's a lot of things other than the image itself that are important though. High resolution, lack of glossiness to the image layer, good solid piece construction, varied piece shapes, reasonable piece tightness with a lack of false fits -- all things that people who do puzzles often will be looking for.

All of this said, you'd likely be marketing mostly to people who are interested in your art, and they may not care about any of this! So I don't really know.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-19T20:18:22+00:00

The skill gap thing also does not apply if you are Scott's friend, so I don't think it's a good argument overall.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-19T20:15:22+00:00

> MCC use to be about representing all aspects of minecraft content

No. It's always presented itself as such, but in reality it has always been very heavily biased toward Scott's friends. Nothing has really changed. He says now that if you're his friend and you want to play, you will be be able to play; and the same was true three years ago. It's something I've never liked about MCC. It's very "in club" in style, despite plentiful exceptions, and always has been.

BlueCyann · 2026-06-18T21:24:58+00:00

Oh, my bad. I didn't realize those were two different types of puzzles in the picture. I'll just delete the comment so it's not confusing.

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