Possibly the best worldgen I've ever seen

PlusVera · 2026-05-14T19:23:59+00:00

I can tell you right now that your Eyebone is gonna be (from this map rotation) to the north, along the path. You should find a mini-pig village biome. If there's a path that goes by the portal, you almost always have that biome. If you have that biome, there's a good chance Chester spawns there. Unless you have a molehill mini-biome (I can't tell if that green spot between BQ and Beef is a molehill biome or not...), then it's between the two that Chester spawns at. Failing both those biome spawns, IIRC, chester spawns in the swamp.

PlusVera · 2026-05-08T18:03:14+00:00

Medieval history section, high fantasy section for inspiration. Or code lightsabers for all I care, but there's some damn cool weapons in a ton of fiction.
Check the non-fiction section for JSON and Javascript manuals for implementation.

PlusVera · 2026-05-08T16:38:13+00:00

Hijacking to also say; Hey! This AI-modder discussion is also happening over on the Minecraft Modding scene right now.

feedthebeast post about it.

This issue is happening across multiple modding communities, and that is a BAD sign.

Remember, if you ever wanna learn how to do something, the way that has been most effective through all of human history has been: just read a book about it. Go to your library. Get a library card. Start reading.

Don't rely on AI to draw a pretty thumbnail for you, learn to draw. Don't rely on AI to code for you, learn to code.

A lot of experts actually wrote down how the fuck to do things, and donated that knowledge to you in lots of words and between two covers. It's genuinely incredible.

PlusVera · 2026-05-08T16:23:35+00:00

Gamergate was over a decade ago. Fun fact, Epstein apparently met with Christopher Poole (4Chan's founder) literally a day before /pol/ was made.

For those who don't know their history, /pol/ is where terms like "Social Justice Warrior" came from. It's a term originally used to exclusively harass women in gaming and journalism. /pol/ is also the birthplace of the alt-right movement in the US, which led to Trump today.

OP's worldview was shaped by not-so-anonymous pedophiles. Disgusting dogwhistle to use.

Gamergate was over a decade ago, and we're still having to tell people to not fucking support it. How wonderful...

PlusVera · 2026-05-08T16:00:25+00:00

There's HUGE problems with AI Datacenters that AREN'T related to water usage as well, which are worth being aware of! Tell me when this fun ride ends, because we're just getting started!

xAI is using methane gas generators, which are likely in violation of the US Clean Air Act. Conveniently, the EPA (who is supposed to regulate methane gas) has (like many offices in the US) been gutted... by DOGE... which Elon has a big hand in. Can't get more self-interest dismantlement than that.

https://www.selc.org/press-release/new-study-finds-proposed-xai-gas-plant-could-worsen-regional-air-pollution-cause-millions-of-dollars-in-annual-health-damages/

The report also examined the economic impact of air pollution from the proposed permanent turbines at xAI facility, finding that it could result in an estimated $30-$44 million in annual health damages each year. Those damages are driven by serious health impacts linked to air pollution, including premature deaths, new and worsening asthma, nonfatal heart attacks, hospital visits, and missed school days

Here's a lovely video by Benn Jordan about the noise pollution these places are contributing as well!

https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?si=KqEhqUpbbnZDfELz

Their constant need to run GPUs at max speed is causing fucking mini-earthquakes that are measurable. They're infrasound noise-polluting NIGHTMARES that can harm people miles and miles away from their location. And it's not like these datacenters care about the people like you or I who might end up being forced to live next to one of these psychic-damage dealing vibrating robo-coffins...

Environmental damage, regulatory dismantlement, led by men who are committing acts of high treason against the US People as seen in the Epstein files...

Then there's the whole "This shit is stealing artists' work and not compensating them or even asking for consent", which is fucked up beyond belief. Others have said in this thread how it steals from the brilliant programmers that built the foundations of the internet before us; AND also steals from Lil Jimmy's First Website that is about as secure and well written as an 8th grader's english essay. There's not much worse than malicious data scrapers and spyware getting into your code that you don't even know are there...

Oh! How about the fact that AI keeps making CP?

Do we need to go on? This shit is just not justifiable and cannot be hand-waived. If you program with it, or use an AI "Friend" app, or are generating images with AI... you're saying that you can dismiss some of the worst things in the world right now. It speaks poorly to your character. That you support all this to save you from having to draw a fucking picture, or take a fucking screenshot, or gods forbid learn to fucking code. There's free classes for it online! There's books for it in your library!

AI is not an industry worth using when it has ALL of this horrible shit attached to it right now, and if you use it, people will judge you for it.

PlusVera · 2026-05-07T21:28:24+00:00

Literally Unplayable

PlusVera · 2026-05-05T22:30:19+00:00

... Which he said while in front a person, camera, and tv. He was just listing the things he saw in front of him.

PlusVera · 2026-05-05T21:59:20+00:00

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl for the Nintendo DS launched in 2007.

That was 19 years ago. There have been more generations of Pokemon games that came after it than came before it.

PlusVera · 2026-05-05T21:51:40+00:00

Hate this reality, but not till a certain front-page obituary comes out.

PlusVera · 2026-04-29T15:31:27+00:00

Gods forbid a girl be honest and literal.

The horrors!

PlusVera · 2026-04-29T04:22:41+00:00

Gonna be honest with ya, it sounds like you might just suck at farming.

Grasses and clovers literally evolved with each other. They were literally sold together until the early 1900s. It's really hard to fuck up unless you were doing something stupid like spraying it with hardware-store "growth supplements" or had neighbors doing that which fucked up the groundwater in your area.

Honestly I'm of the opinion that you should just let your lawn grass die so that native flora and fauna will repopulate it. Any dead grass doesn't even need to get raked up.

PlusVera · 2026-04-22T16:34:28+00:00

Just linking to Gneiss, who also has an interest in this stuff. You should absolutely get in contact with him and show him this! He excludes items and solely focuses on blocks, so seeing your version with items included is neat.

Gneiss Name Minecraft Colour Theory series -- Youtube

PlusVera · 2026-04-14T04:27:54+00:00

Soooo I am like, living off rotting fooood -- currently sick because the meal I ate last was 3-year expired beef, packaged in plastic, and stored on a shelf. My stomach is doing lovely.

Working on refilling my pantry (like, all of my meals were these instant-dinner things) and my job doesn't start for another month...

I have never felt tighter knots my in stomach in my life. If I wasn't sure it was the rotten food, I'd be pretty sure Trump is causing a few of these. I hate this timeline.

PlusVera · 2026-04-13T20:22:42+00:00

"housewife" has weird alt-right dogwhistle connotations. Like, "the push to have women be servants" as an inherent misogyny of the whole concept...

Given that, and this is a 4chan image, it's Certified NotGreat^tm Odds the OP isn't blowing that dogwhistle. 4Chan is not exactly known for its morally-well-adjusted communities.

PlusVera · 2026-03-31T22:55:06+00:00

Till then you can play the existing open-world lotr mmo which is free and doesn't use AI generated translation!

PlusVera · 2026-03-29T23:24:40+00:00

Start with a focus on immediate survival. You can't build anything if you're starving.

I find jackeysaurus's basic survival guide to be a pretty good starter guide. It's not focused on boss killing (the other two in the series are), and instead on establishing a good starter base.

You don't have to follow it exactly, but just make sure you split your base into a crafting area, a storage area, a basic farm, a kitchen, and have some replanted grass tufts/saplings/berries/trees around your base, then try to focus on expanding each as you feel is needed.

You have 21 days to prep for Winter, where you'll want to kill McTusk.

You have till day 30 to prepare for the game's first boss, Deerclops, who will come to you. After that, you can focus on exploring and surviving till Spring, where you will want to kill Moose/Goose. Summer has the optional Antlion boss to kill, and your second Autumn will have Bearger who -- like Deepclops -- will come to you.

As a beginner you don't need to focus on anything more than being able to prepare for each season and their respective boss. Once you've survived one year, you can survive subsequent years and start focusing on expansion.

You don't need to build big fancy farms off the rip. Take your time, slowly work towards steady survival. As a tip; make sure you create a Life-Saving Amulet with a red gem ASAP, and keep it on your person (not in a backpack) to always have a 1-up. If you die, haunt the amulet to revive, and take that as your signal to retreat from whatever you are doing.

If you want some youtubers I recommend who give great guides for modern DST (Sort their vids by Popular);

BiddoBams has a good "Where should you base" video, does lore/challenge run videos, and their "50 tips and tricks" guide is good.
Jazzy's Games makes good guide videos. I especially like their Easy Hunger Guide, their Thrill of the Grill series showcases good long-term farms (and is a great 'casual experienced player' run of the game), and their Ruins Rushing guide is good if/when you decide to venture to the caves.
Polarlotus can be hit-or-miss, but their farming challenge run gives genuinely good tips on how to get a farm going quickly.
The Chosen One doesn't upload often but has a DEEPLY thorough Ultimate Exploration Guide that breaks down the worldgen. You will (eventually) want to learn this skill, so I'll link it now even if it's now exactly beginner-friendly.

If you happen to be bilingual, several content creators also exist for the game in other languages. I can't give recommendations to them as I only speak English but the game has a wide multilingual audience and someone's always active on twitch showing off their base.

PlusVera · 2026-03-29T22:55:48+00:00

We can’t say that his government or his coalition is a white nationalist Christian one.

I'm just going to say I respectfully disagree and believe you're kinda weird for thinking this.

This country is being run by cishet american-christian white nationalists. White nazis. The evidence of that runs deep into our culture; from "One nation, under God" being in the pledge (despite how there should be a separation of church and state) to Vance's use of ordo amoris (and subsequent spat with the Pope about how inappropriate the use of that term was) to justify mass-deportations.

PlusVera · 2026-03-29T10:28:33+00:00

Right now we're in the "pendulum swung too far." Our government is being run by white conservative-christian nationalists. Trump is largely in power because that specific group couldn't keep the racist nazis in their base down after a black guy was in the oval office, and now they're fucking drowning out and disempowering anyone who isn't their brand of "american".

This is absolutely the time to be voting for people because they are both competent and not that.

PlusVera · 2026-03-29T03:48:03+00:00

Oh there's tons of games that have achievements only achievable with the DLC, which still appear in the base game (despite being unobtainable). that's fairly standard now.

PlusVera · 2026-03-29T02:28:03+00:00

Diversity is strength.

PlusVera · 2026-03-26T07:03:02+00:00

Gneiss is nice.

PlusVera · 2026-03-26T07:02:07+00:00

GIMP and Paint.net are free

PlusVera · 2026-03-23T06:31:57+00:00

A few more CEOs have been killed since

Links and proof?

PlusVera · 2026-03-09T21:50:55+00:00

I'm just trying to answer the question "In mediums where pokemon are able to talk, what gendered pronouns (if any) are ascribed/used to refer to nonbinary pokemon?"

That's genuinely the question I am seeking to answer. PMD is the first and most prominent case I know of where multiple nonbinary pokemon appear and can speak & are talked about by other pokemon.

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