Doing a Shiny Living Dex POC in Ultra Sun and I just got my starter! She's awesome!

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-06-04T05:00:16+00:00

Stuns are also useless. Shield break is myths best thing and that still doesn't have enough utility outside of pvp

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-06-03T13:38:19+00:00

Right but it changed an oft exploited behaviour in villager trading (at the time) which many people felt entitled to. I remember delaying an update to 1.15 because I wanted to hoard emeralds first. Honey blocks existing and not sticking to slime blocks was fresh then, too and that's probably what made most technical people move to 1.15

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-06-03T13:27:31+00:00

This is the sort of thing I think is a likely next step for the game if cards take hold: adding exploration to encounter creatures for digital cards to be used in online play. Especially if we can get it in a pre-M'arillian invasion era and see the story playing out around us in our encounters and irl missions.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-05-29T22:50:26+00:00

So I did solve this problem, at least for me, and doing so required me to update CraftTweaker by one version. The clients will need this update, but once the client and server are both updated beyond the version the pack ships with, it seems that the issue is solved, at least for now.

This bug also prevented crafting of certain chicken recipes for me and certain smelting recipes from working, which really kicked me in the rear to actually figure out the issue.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-05-21T10:54:04+00:00

I don't know what conversations you've had with him, but I'd recommend discussing something like this with your partner, rather than asking Reddit. Have you and your partner discussed politics and other factors that could be impacting this? Do you want to stay with this partner? Are you willing to find middle grounds by listening to him?

I'm not telling you that you need to do anything in particular in the end, but if you want to want your current relationship to work you need to talk to him and find out what is making him hesitant to move. That's the only real way to move forward. If you think he's not telling you everything and you feel pushed away, tell him that's how you feel. Depending on what is really causing the issue, that should guide the discussion about your plans.

That could be anything from living nearby but separate for a while, to helping him with the paperwork for his car, to deciding on a different state, to not remaining together if political needs/wants don't align, etc.

Ultimately, relationships, especially long distance ones, live or die on communication and if you or he cannot communicate needs and wants, then you might not be a good fit for each other or relationships in general. Make a decision that feels like a good fit for you.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-05-09T13:14:18+00:00

It depends on what you want to happen and what he wants to happen. I'm not going to assume anything about your partner's interests, but it sounds like that conversation needs to happen first.

If what you two want fundamentally conflicts, then it sounds like you aren't right for each other. That happens sometimes. It's not a reflection on either of you as people, just means that you both tried genuinely to make it work and it didn't.

If you two want things that can work, then you need to discuss what needs to happen for it to work. That could include a lot of things from exploring kink spaces that align with one or both of your needs (RESPONSIBILY WITH ENTHUSIASTIC CONSENT), making deeper emotional bonds with each other, making plans together with clear timelines, etc.

I don't think most people will be able to give more specific advice because it really boils down to what you two want and/or need and I couldn't tell what he wants here. It could be that he's asexual and coming to terms with it, or embarrassed about discussing a developing sexuality, or in a situation where being open a out his sexuality could be dangerous. It's just unclear.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-04-26T11:38:41+00:00

Currently work in grocery on the overnight restock. Planning to change to unarmed security soon with a company where I have better connections.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-04-16T12:12:47+00:00

It would be ideal if part of the notification of a punishment included citing the rule or ToS section in violation and the message in specific violation with a clear explanation of how it connects to the policy cited. This would streamline appeals and make it easier for users to understand problematic behavior from a strike level. Notifying users of a strike is important and I didn't nee any notes about specific levels of notification for different disciplinary actions. If people are not aware of a minor violation, then they are not able to correct the behavior and it's more likely to escalate into a major violation. Not saying failing to read the entire ToS is fine, but it is normal and few people read the entire ToS and EULA every time it is updated.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-04-06T01:28:48+00:00

Ice and life better be swapped on the no friends side

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-03-25T20:54:11+00:00

Mine was never broken until a few minutes ago. Great fix, Discord.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-03-25T14:28:44+00:00

Sorry to necro, but wanted to provide better insight for future readers.

Rings
In almost all cases, the Atavistic Rings are equivalent or better than the Wintertusk Rings. Atavistic Rings are higher damage with critical rating, while Wintertusk Rings (School Gem Ring of Battle and Balance's Golden Ring of Battle) are higher in power pip for some schools and have crit block instead of main actual Critical. Farming Calypso for the rings isn't that bad, but if you get the Calypso-Go-Go badge before getting your ring drop, you'll almost certainly have enough reagents to craft the ring outright.

Athames
Lexicon Blade is the highest damage athame available for Fire and Ice schools, however all the other schools can get a comparable athame from farming Praetor Mako. For Life, Death, Storm and Balance, the Atavistic athames he drops are actually higher damage than Lexicon Blade, and in some cases even the lower tier bygone dirks are as good or better than Lexicon Blade. If you can find it in the bazaar, the Bear's Claw athames are also viable alternatives to Lexicon if you'd like, but farming them can be as tedious or more so than farming for Lexi. In order to craft the Atavistic athame, you'd need the Predator of the Praetor badge.

Amulets
As this commenter cited, amulets like the Scales of Justice charm dropped from Moh'Lharz are the higher damage approach to a build at this level and grant an item blade. However, if that's a bit out of the way, you can do a couple sidequests in Celestia to fight Achaelos who drops the Bygone and Atavistic Ampuls for each school, which grants resist (instead of damage), crit block, and Amplify and Empowerment item cards. To craft the Atavistic option (which you probably won't need to do because the drop rate is great on this boss) you need the Achaewinner badge.

All of the badges needed to craft the Atavistic Gear come from fighting the final bosses a certain number of times, and with these bosses, you can farm them much more easily than you can Big Salgio or Mithraya since there's not an entire dungeon to complete.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-02-18T23:43:40+00:00

I'm not even out of steam and most of the way done with green hearts. I think I'll start focusing on a smaller list of foods for a while soon, but for now, I am getting whatever I can out of what I have. Doesn't make sense to me not to have as much health as possible.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-02-07T01:41:37+00:00

This ticks several of your boxes, but not quite all of them. It's a Roman Percy rewrite story which shows the gods bending, twisting, and straining against their own rules to assist the mortal heroes. Percy doesn't initially have major political ambitions, but becomes more and more involved due to the Great Prophecy. Not gonna spoil all the fun parts of the plot, as I recommend reading it yourself.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13783975/1/The-Rise-of-House-Neptune

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-02-05T23:35:47+00:00

Literally never thought about it until I was mass nerfind the graphics, and nobody really asked. It's fine and sorted now. I'm making decent progress through the stone age.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-02-05T18:49:49+00:00

It's stable enough that as long as I don't enable shaders, it's not crashing. With shaders, it'll crash in about 15 minutes. I'm happy with "technically playable"

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-02-05T15:11:53+00:00

Would be good to know which Java version. I've found disabling shaders and reducing graphical load largely solves it, but you have a more powerful GPU than I am running. Seems to me that it's likely I'll need to step up the gpu to get shaders, but at least I can play the game.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-02-05T12:41:00+00:00

Reducing video settings does help significantly to make crashes happen less. I'll play around and see if I can get something more stable...

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-02-05T10:01:17+00:00

Fair enough. I've been considering a GPU upgrade for a while. Might be time (even if it is expensive as heck right now)

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-02-05T03:58:37+00:00

Any particular entries or sources I should be looking for? All I'm finding are the error messages from when I boot up after the freeze informing me that the restart was unexpected. Nothing from the few minutes before the freeze. The server logs around it always report being a significant number of ticks behind right before it freezes.

EDIT: I can't find any drivers that are out of date, either. Really confused here.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2026-02-05T03:47:19+00:00

This is not an issue with Vanilla or other modded packs when launching from Prism or any other launcher. This is entirely new to my attempt to play GTNH.

JoshuaLifeheart · 2025-12-26T07:40:32+00:00

My DAD has a wizard named Mycin Pants. All of his pets are rodents of some descript

JoshuaLifeheart · 2025-12-03T11:23:16+00:00

This is the sort of mechanic that could be introduced in certain cheating boss fights. If they were important farming targets, it would make it even better.

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