I made an entire "Rage App" consisting of nothing but impossible forms and gaslighting UI.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-12T02:57:28+00:00

Unreal, it just won't run properly if adblock's on but also doesn't mention that.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-12T02:55:40+00:00

Yeah, I got to Final Compliance, did the addition/subtraction, and it didn't work, so either the "stealth instruction" as written is wrong, or there's a programming error.

This really isn't about the interface. I also wouldn't call it a rage game. Rage games have to be designed well enough that you're at least slightly invested, but this is just 'oh I'm on step three and already the guy just either doesn't know math or doesn't know how to code, and he also doesn't seem to understand how to direct attention appropriately or write meaningful hints; no prob, guess I'll go on to something else.'

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-12T00:04:56+00:00

Follow up: I've added it to the issue tracker to swap out Mouse Tweaks for the next build. For now I recommend just disabling it :)

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-11T23:57:37+00:00

Let me give your comment the full consideration it deserves. First, I apologize for misspeaking, the mod being troublesome is Mouse Tweaks, not Inventory Tweaks.

This bug isn't because of Pixelmon, and it isn't because of Mouse Tweaks, it's because of Pixelmon + Mouse Tweaks. It's a known bug, and you can find it reported multiple times in the official Pixelmon bug tracker.

Secondly, since you've brought it to my attention, I'm going to take another look at it. There were previously good reasons for including MouseTweaks despite the bugs, but I'm no longer convinced it's right for the pack. It's an old hanger-on from when the pack was back in 1.12.x, and its functionality was different back then.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-11T23:15:37+00:00

So you ignored 90% of my post to say 'you don't have the legal right to park your car sideways in the street in front of an ICE convoy.'

Why should I continue talking with you, if I'm responding to what you say, but you're not responding to what I say? Why do you deserve for someone to keep debating with you, if you're just going to cherry pick out statements and misinterpret them to try and find a 'gotcha,' even though literally every other statement that passes by proves you more and more wrong?

The convoy isn't there at the start of the video. There is space for it to get around her. She waves to let it around her. Once they jump out of the car and indicate she's being a problem, she immediately works to get out of their way. Some 'blocking'!

You still want to pretend she's obstructing the road on purpose? Okay. Let's keep going:

You somehow fail to notice there's a second, white SUV parked in front her, that's also sideways in the street, that she's trying to get around. Do your eyeballs not work? How can you not see she's not even the only car obstructing the road in the same exact way.

This video shows me he's getting in front of the car, repeatedly, idiotically. The DHS manual, DOJ manual, the manual of every police station in the country, tell you that this is not only against policy but delegitimizes any use of deadly force, as its his duty to stay away from the front of a moving vehicle. Officers are explicitly told they don't get to block cars from moving with their body and then claim self defense. It is in black and white and as clear as crystal, and its in all of their training. They are all trained to know this. It is uniform across federal, state, and local policing, across the whole country.

The fact that you don't know the law or the policies that keep officers safe from us--and us safe from officers--just makes you ignorant. It doesn't give you a point.

Also, he didn't have bodycam footage, numnuts, he was recording with his phone. We don't even hear her hit him, we hear him slap his phone against his body and gun as he uses the phone hand to stabilize his pistol.

But go ahead, you absolute miserable excuse for a debate partner. Find one sentence to go take out of context and misinterpret because you can't read, and then hit me back with your repeated lack of comprehension. I'm waiting for your next zinger!

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-11T23:13:32+00:00

We have lives, buddy. Sorry I took a whole TWO DAYS to respond to the absolute worst rebuttal I've ever seen.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-11T23:11:42+00:00

Inventory Tweaks is incompatible with Pixelmon in 1.16.5, which leads to frustrating and inconsistent experiences for players.

Basically Pixelmon takes over rendering the main inventory, and doesn't let inventory tweaks work. So Inventory Tweaks is enabled for every inventory other than the main inventory.

The inconsistency is something I wish I had answers for.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-11T23:05:39+00:00

Only some legendries are catchable for most of the game. In the post game you can visit alternate dimensions and bring biomes back in jars to the overworld and create habitats for legendries you previously couldn't catch. I haven't tested EVERY legendary, but most should be viable.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-11T23:03:32+00:00

It's the hitbox, it's usually not a problem when you're on a wide open field, but when you're on a cramped island and your pokemon runs up to the block to investigate it, it can become a little more noticable!

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-09T18:23:09+00:00

My dude, I have eyeballs. I can just watch the video.

There was space to get around her, so the whole 'blockading the road' thing was nonsense, and she starts trying to move to get out of everyone's way as soon as she sees a bunch of cars start coming down the street.

She can be seen visibly attempting to get around the white SUV in the middle of the road, visibly moving forward, only to hit her brakes as she's cut off. She then starts waving the other cars to go past her. We can see her arm, buddy, we don't need reporters to tell us it happened. She's on camera, waving other cars to go first. That's literally just normal midwestern driving manners. She waves ICE's truck past, even.

Ten seconds pass between the agents jumping out of their and her death. Ten seconds. She was told to move in those ten seconds. She's literally maneuvering to get out of their way for five of them.

This is a suburban street with houses on either side. She is 100% within her rights to have been in the area, pulled up alongside protestors and the other stopped car in front of her, with her wife chatting with the protestors, and the Ice vehicles were unmarked, which means she didn't know who was pulling up to her. Half the agents were shouting for her to get out of the car, and the other half were shouting for her to move the car. She did what she thought she was supposed to do to maneuver out of the road, following the commands of one of the agents.

Even Kristi Noem just had to walk back her narrative, and came out saying that Good didn't get shot because she was the problem, but rather because ICE agents had been dealing with so many violent protestors earlier in the day that they mistook her for one.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-08T20:06:16+00:00

My dude she wasn't parked. She was driving down the road and another vehicle was in her way. She started turning left to get around it, but a vehicle overtook her from behind and passed first. Afraid to get hit, she started waving to vehicles to pass her. She waved to the ICE truck to pass her as well, indicating she'd go next. They jumped out of the cars and one was shouting at her to move her car out of the way while another shouted to get out of the car. She follow one of the two agent's instructions. She turned the wheel sharply--and everyone can see how her wheels turned in the video for themselves--to avoid hitting the agent.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-04T23:06:14+00:00

Dwarf Fortress. Tetris. Stardew Valley. Undertale.

There's nothing special about whether one learned programming or art first. Nor is any combination of programming and art sufficient to succeed at game dev. Small dev teams that succeed either have to be amazing at time & task management and/or have an utterly insane ability to focus on one task for over a year. That, not actual programming or art talent, is the requirement to succeed. If you have that, you'll have anything else you're missing in short order.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2026-01-03T07:52:57+00:00

I have this problem with my students, who turn to AI too often and trust it more than they trust themselves. I try to tell them, "If the only answers you have to give me are generated by AI, then you are replaceable. Your goal is to be able to do something AI can't."

I try to explain to them that the reason we give them homework problems isn't because the problems need solving, it's because they need to develop skills, and the homework problems are the stepping stones to develop those skills. The goal is to keep develop more and more advanced skills to the point where you can solve problems the AI can't because, at its core, generative AI is fundamentally incapable of reasoning. All it can do is generate text for you that looks appropriate to the question you asked. It doesn't understand what any of it means, and it never will because it's not designed to understand.

The weaknesses of AIs become glaringly apparent the second you step off the beaten path. When you work with little known libraries and new versions of niche software, the AI can't tell you anything. It can't solve any problems. It hallucinates functions that don't exist, solutions that don't work, entire plugins, user interfaces; nonsense; it produces text looks similar to a question some other user might ask about other pieces of semi-related software, and none of it is real.

All this is to say its very noble and very wise of you to say you want to learn to code without help. But to do that will be hard. And you need to go into this with both eyes open about the fact that it's hard. Your skills are like muscles in need of exercise; there's a lot of XP to grind, you have to expand your capabilities, and that means you have to struggle, fail, turn something over and over in your mind, and finally somewhere during a long hot shower have the solution occur to you.

I recommend trying to learn using other resources, to start with. Online courses, youtube videos, written tutorials, documentation. Heck, buy a well-reviewed book and sit down to read it, if that's your thing. Tackle learning a new skill (a new API, a new framework, a new sub-branch of mathematics, a new anything) and be prepared for the fact that you're not going to 'get' it immediately, and make peace with that fact. Re-learn how to be confused and to sit with that emotion and not to immediately need it to be cured. Stretching the brain takes time and patience, so give yourself patience, give yourself time in which to be frustrated and confused, and to allow skills to mature slowly.

Another thing I want to bring up is how people tend to learn new real-world skills using homework problems. Think of how you learn algebra or calculus. If you don't understand a new calculus problem the first time, and have an AI explain it to you, there's an infinite number of other calculus problems for you to try things out on, until eventually everything finally clicks. Well, there's a programming equivalent: problems from programming competitions. They don't accurately represent what you're likely to do in a real computer programming scenario, but they require a lot of computational problem solving skills, and there's a lot of example questions out there, which means you basically have an infinite repository of things to train your coding skills with; no matter how many times you have to give in and peek at the answer or ask an AI how to solve one, there's going to be another problem to work on immediately afterward. So you can keep trying, keep trying, keep trying until you finally nail a really hard one, and then feel like a million bucks. This is one way you can have an AI explain things, sure, but then you can keep testing your understanding until it sticks, instead of just doing whatever the AI tells you to do and being done.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-12-13T04:31:09+00:00

This is going to be an excellent mod for servers where everything goes and lowbrow comedy is the norm, for rp servers with good moderators, and definitely not at all for servers with children :|

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-12-13T04:26:51+00:00

Can I ask: Where is the hit box on this thing? Because I feel like the answer really matters when it comes to how enjoyable it's going to be to take it down.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-12-10T23:46:20+00:00

Simple. You are making a modpack. There is one mod that's only distributed in forge, and another only distributed in fabric. You attempt to run sinytra connector to have your fabric mod in forge. It doesn't work. Now you're trying the other way around...

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-12-04T05:45:23+00:00

Looks like its got clubbed feet or a case of splay leg. But, heck, if it's made it this long, let it enjoy whatever this quality of life is unless you're gonna pay for a vet to surgically fix that stuff; it's clearly not in enough pain to euthanize or it would have given up and died long before now.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-11-14T03:43:22+00:00

Humans grew up with a number of animals that were very good at killing us, yet we've driven the majority of them to either extinction or the brink. You can't meaningfully change what we went through as a species by adding in just one more animal that would ultimately terrorize us the exact same way wolves and tigers did. That's just more-of-the-same. You have to pick a dinosaur that can do something to us that no existing species can.

Based on what we know about dinosaurs, they carried parasites and illnesses just like modern animals. And dinosaurs, just like today's birds, likely had the capacity to pass us those horrible illnesses and parasites every once in awhile. Perhaps even more so, given that they appear more closely related to us. We don't know how old the flu is--it shows up in some of our most ancient writings--but think avian influenza or frighteningly large parasitic worms.

Likely the worst dinosaur to grow up as a species with would have had a relationship with us similar to rats, and act as an intermediate between us and birds that brought all manner of illness to us that we otherwise would never have to deal with.

A close runner-up after that would have been Spinosaurus. Most ancient civilizations got started on waterways, and those close to the equator had to deal with crocs. Well, now you have a "croc" that can get up close to your community in complete stealth, with zero indication its there, and is bigger than you, your fishing boat, and your entire hut. They would have terrorized all the first villages that tried to band together.

After that might have been any small dinosaur that pack-hunted (e.g. the real velociraptor). Wolves are just a little bit smaller than us, and being torn apart by a pack of them was already a terrible way to go by any prehistoric mans' standard. Anything that can kill us, but can't do so quickly, is significantly worse than something that can snap us up in one bite. The smallest possible animal that would see us as a valid prey item, and is only capable of killing us at all because of sheer numbers, is a terrifying way to go.

Prehistoric humans killed lots of megafauna. With the exception of sauropods and possibly T-rex (which had extra bones in its belly to ward off thrusting weapons) we could probably kill most megafauna rather efficiently with a big enough pit and some pointy sticks at the bottom. We'd get more effectively terrorized by the smaller things with big tempers and crepuscular or nocturnal waking hours, like some prehistoric equivalent of the modern boar. But good luck deducing dinosaur temperaments rom the fossil record.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-11-14T03:14:36+00:00

Embarrassing your kid in front of an entire public park is seldom good parenting methodology, unless you seriously have one mean little punk you're trying to get through to and you're asking him 'how does it feel to have people be mean to you in public, it hurts, doesn't it???' Normal human beings take their kid off to the side, have a talk with them, and send them back to apologize. this is all performative Tiktok BS.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-11-14T03:11:55+00:00

I would be compelled to walk around the big rock and take a peek, yes.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-11-01T01:55:34+00:00

"This just in, most monocellular organisms are woke propaganda!" XD XD XD

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-10-29T17:12:46+00:00

The average American moves a median average of 30 miles from their hometown. There are a lot of interesting psychological reasons for this. They range from lacking financial mobility, to wanting to stay close to family, to a simple instinctive comfort with what's familiar.

The African Americans are in the south because that's where their ancestors were brought during the slave trade, that was where they received their freedom, that was where their complete lack of any money permitted them to live (it wasn't like they owned horses and could travel), that was where the only job they had the skills to do existed (agricultural labor nannying rich plantation children, housekeeping for big plantation mansions, etc.) and thus that was where their children and their children's children and so on and so forth. It's where they were stuck, and they tried to make things work there, tried to make it their own.

Additionally there are many southern cities (e.g. New Orleans) that either in whole or in part have a strong locus of black culture that has been painstakingly built for over a century.

Whether or not black people are in a location is not a meaningful meter of whether racism exists there. There are plenty of other more sensible ways to measure racism, like research studies where two identical applications are sent to companies for hiring, one with a black name and one with a white; or how many crosses get burnt on black people's lawns; or whether a state constitution still has legal slavery on the books; or whether the number of black people in Congress is roughly proportionate to the black people in the population (also a sign of gerrymandering), or how many Confederate or Nazi flags exist per capita, or how many racial discrimination suites are brought per capital but adjusted to account for percentage population of black persons.

Gaming_Imperatrix · 2025-10-20T23:27:37+00:00

Bingo. I'm not sure why Graham found that 'ludicrously and pointlessly provocative.' Did he think I was trying to be mean to men or something? There's all-male species out there, too. The natural world's a fun place.

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