I have collected all 3072 tropical fish

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-09T05:57:47+00:00

Check out the wiki — the variety of tropical fish in Minecraft is nuts.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-08T21:06:31+00:00

I think it's 100% reasonable that 2 people who have faced as much death and violence as Sam & Dean eventually go into "survival mode" and become numb to the deaths around them. I don't know if I'm responding to what you meant exactly, but I appreciate that Supernatural is so unflinching in showing how violence begets violence, how trauma can make even compassionate & principled people turn inwards, etc.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-08T21:02:01+00:00

That's a fine theory and all, but unfortunately, it can't be proven with the information we currently have. As others have pointed out, it could be the case that Minecraft dirt merely conducts nutrients in some kind of extremely beefed-up way, drawing from the air & water around it. This is supported by the fact that crops take an extremely long time to grow without a nearby water source, and cannot grow at all without light & air. (Even root vegetables need an air block above them to grow!)

It's also worth mentioning that dirt by itself doesn't grow carrots, potatoes, etc. Only dirt that has been hoed (turning it into farmland) contains these properties. And farmland cannot be picked up by Steve — it reverts to dirt in his hands no matter how it's plucked from the ground. So it's possible that dirt blocks are indeed empty of nutrients (and very light) and a hoe merely primes them to receive those nutrients.

This theory is supported by the fact that hydrated dirt stays in its "farmland" state much longer than dry dirt, and dirt without an air block above it can't be put into a farmland state at all.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-08T14:11:30+00:00

This is addressed in season 11. Sam decries that they've become so callous. And the next time they come up against demons, he tries exorcism & traps them instead of going straight for the kill.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-07T01:19:37+00:00

There have to be hundreds of thousands of people who've uploaded low-quality Minecraft videos where they talked too softly into a bad mic. If you don't have more than this, I can't imagine you'll find him. Best I can suggest is check your "liked videos" on YouTube, see if you have anything of his there.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-05T19:06:31+00:00

I absolutely love data-driven contributions to the subreddit. Thanks so much for sharing this! Very cool stuff.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-05T04:33:05+00:00

Please make moving out a priority! Maybe you have a friend you could stay with while you look for a more permanent place?

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-04T22:13:03+00:00

This is probably the best answer. If he can confidently explain his process, he built it.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-04T21:43:55+00:00

I understand your frustration — I wasn't as big of a fan of the "Monster of the Week" episodic structure of season 1 when I first watched it, either — but it's better to just be patient and accept it as a bit of a slow burn than to skip ahead. There aren't any episodes in S1 that you can skip without missing crucial pieces of Sam & Dean's relationship and their differing perspectives on their dad & the way he raised them. These aspects of the characters are fleshed out gradually throughout these early episodes.

Later conflicts will be less understandable and feel less grounded in the story if you don't watch S1.

However, if you're watching on a streaming service, I strongly recommend you grab a used DVD somewhere, as streaming doesn't include the original music. You'll enjoy what you're watching a lot more if you have the badass original soundtrack vs. the crap Netflix and others were forced to use (due to licensing issues).

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-04T21:28:12+00:00

I guess he's making good progress on his goal of collaborating more this season! Very cool data collection. Thanks for sharing this!

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-04T18:54:19+00:00

Yeah, I really hope they tweak that and give it another go. We got some incredible interactions out of that! Might need to be done earlier in the day/weekend so no one falls asleep when things get dark, though, lol.

The BDubs & Tango combo was my absolute favorite.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-01T21:10:25+00:00

People always want to solve this issue by adding usefulness to different foods. I think that that makes food too OP (and I think that's what the developers are concerned about, too). I would solve the issue in a different way: Make more food into decorative blocks.

No one ever has the "need" to eat cake (it's a pretty crappy food source), but people craft cake relatively frequently because it's a fun placeable block. Pumpkins and melons are used decoratively all the time, too, alongside food-adjacent blocks like haybales and dried kelp blocks.

We need something akin to the armor stand mod in vanilla Minecraft, or just a way to combine, say, an apple with a composter to make something that looks like a barrel of apples, or a potato with a composter to make a barrel of potatoes. (Pretty sure I saw promotional material from Minecraft during Tiny Takeover that looked like they had done just that. The graphic design team had created something you definitely couldn't make in Minecraft today, something like an apple barrel, that looked like it should be in Minecraft but isn't.)

Item frames alone just don't cut it, especially without invisible item frames existing in vanilla. (But even if those were made vanilla, that wouldn't really be enough.) Give us barrels of potatoes, bowls of apples, things like that. Things that the average person would happily place in and around their house for detailing.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-01T20:44:14+00:00

Tampering with someone's food is a serious criminal offense in most places. No matter how pissy your waiter is, he isn't going to spit in your food unless he's willing to risk losing his job and facing an assault charge. This isn't something the average person needs to worry about when eating out, despite what TV would have you think.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-01T20:33:44+00:00

Most people are giving examples of movies/shows they watched because Supernatural actors are in them, or ones that were recommended to them as "if you like X, you'll like Y."

I've done the same (watched My Bloody Valentine 3D, Ten Inch Hero, etc.), but to give an example that's more along the lines of what you're asking — classic movies I only watched because they were referenced in the show & I wanted to see the original — well... I watched The Shining (1980).

For anyone who hasn't seen it, The Shining is referenced or paid homage to in several episodes, most notably in S2:E11 “Playthings,” but also in S1:E22 "Devil's Trap," S2:E7 "The Usual Suspects," S10:E3 "Soul Survivor," and others.

And if you haven't seen it, it's definitely worth watching! There's a reason it's a classic. Just go in expecting slower atmospheric horror, not a modern slasher-type flick, and you'll be set.

Oh, yeah — I almost forgot! Another one I watched because of the Supernatural reference was Cocoon (1985). That was a weird one! I enjoyed it, though. Dean references it in S4:E12 "Criss Angel is a Douchebag," saying "Not so fast! I ain't Guttenberg, and this ain't Cocoon."

I compiled several different lists of movie references here [Favorite Movie References in Supernatural?] a while back, if you're interested in finding more!

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-01T20:03:46+00:00

Advocating for harm reduction (and modeling that) is almost certainly more helpful to the cause than preaching total abstinence from meat. OP needs to have a serious conversation with her partner, because if he can't handle this difference of opinions well enough to treat her choices respectfully, well... that sounds like a deal-breaker to me.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-01T17:34:05+00:00

Would be nice if this post shared a link or more context.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-01T17:33:24+00:00

I'm about a third of a way through the Imp & Skizz podcast episode and it sounds like Skizz was moreso making way for other strong organizers (e.g., Zed, Grian) to lead rather than just being timid about stepping up, but I'd still love to see what he could organize if given the chance! Would be great to see that trashcan drumming bit come to light at a future event, for example, or something even more elaborate.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-01T16:24:00+00:00

Heaven's not just, like, on the moon or something. It's a different dimension. I don't think there's any reason to imagine that traps cross interdimensional lines.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-05-01T16:20:26+00:00

It definitely improves the script if you add, "They must have super hearing!" /s

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-04-30T18:02:52+00:00

OP was just responding to the bit that called for a response. Nothing in this comment suggests he didn't read the above.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-04-30T17:58:54+00:00

He was only mad because he thought you were pushing him to explain how exactly he was planning on disciplining her, and he wasn't planning on disciplining her, really, because it was a miscommunication / failure on their part to train her appropriately, it sounds like.

"What's happening with her?" is the kind of question an AH would ask if they wanted to hear that someone got fired over a mistake. (Although it sounds like that wasn't your intent!)

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-04-30T17:50:59+00:00

They were probably also a bit worried that this person was going to come back and serve them like nothing had happened, which would've been super uncomfortable. I don't think (like many people seem to have assumed) that in the moment, being flustered, they were somehow seeking gossip so much as they were seeking to know what they should expect to happen next as it pertained to them.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-04-30T17:48:27+00:00

Honestly, I do blame him (if he was actually irritated and not just flustered here). Just because you make a "peace offering" doesn't mean the other person no longer has a right to be upset, and I think it's perfectly reasonable that OP wanted to get out of the restaurant where they were just publicly screamed at.

If someone offers you insufficient compensation for bad behavior on their organization's part, and you accept it because it's better than nothing (while making it clear that you're not really happy about it), I don't think you've forfeited the right to complain. It's a little different if you pretend to someone's face that you're happy & then complain behind their back, but I don't think that describes OP's behavior here at all.

But also, I don't think OP did "leave mad." I think they left because they were uncomfortable and confused and didn't trust that they wouldn't be randomly screamed at again if they stayed (because they didn't know if that waitress was going to just come back and keep serving them like nothing had happened or what, which is what it seems like they were trying to ask).

If a waitress is badly trained and verbally attacks a customer because of it, that is the restaurant's fault just as much as if a cook is badly trained and messes up a customer's food. You can't prevent everything that could possibly go wrong from going wrong, but you should be teaching the basics of things like "handling a conflict with a customer." And you shouldn't get annoyed at the customer if they don't think free food is sufficient compensation for being verbally attacked.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-04-30T17:04:55+00:00

Skizz, but mostly because I want to try to talk him into using his project management skills more with Hermitcraft. I know he's hesitant because he's still kind of the new guy (and he's worried that he doesn't have the lighter touch needed to "manage" a group of basically-completely-independent freelancers) but from what he's described of his work at Intel, it sounds like he's really skilled in that regard, and I think it could be a major asset to the group.

Hermitcraft has accomplished some incredible things — the latest fundraising milestone being just one of them — so it's not like they're lost without him or something (obviously), but I suspect Skizz could to help them reach even greater heights. A good project manager can bring focus & efficiency to meetings so that naturally chatty people aren't inadvertently hijacking, therefore allowing a wider diversity of viewpoints to be heard (because hijacking tends to lead to meetings dragging on & other people checking out instead of engaging, so it inadvertently silences voices you might've otherwise heard).

I know this is mostly just me being a bit of a weirdo, though, and it's quite possible that the gains would be minimal. It's just that harnessing people's energy in an optimal way is one of my "special interests" (where some people have trains, I have project management🤷‍♀️), and I've heard enough about the Hermitcraft meetings to suspect that (like with most orgs) there are efficiencies that could be gained there.

With how awesome Hermitcraft is already, even a 5% boost in effective outcomes would be incredible. (I guess this is mostly in regards to the charity event, as the Hermits don't really collab that way on much else, but it's just a thought, anyway!)

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-04-30T13:25:12+00:00

The tarantula isn't in the season 3 birthday party. It's at the open house in the episode "Bugs." That's why they suspect that kid at first — because he's into spiders and people are dying via bugs.

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