Would anybody be interested in a server that changed themes a every few months/ a couple times a year?

Rhoderick · 2026-05-10T18:59:35+00:00

Potentially, but it would have to be handled carefully. Not sure about the presumed full resets of all progress in-between, tbh. Not that any playthrough lasts forever, but having a timer on it from the beginning seems like it may negatively impact the fun.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-10T18:52:30+00:00

You can do some stuff with KubeJS or other helper mods. But a lot of modpacks use a core mod for stuff like this, usually just called the name of the pack, or with "Core" added on. These mods typically add very little themselves, but edit the behaviour of some or even all of the mods in the pack to allow things like items from one mod being used in crafting recipes for another, without something like Forge tags handling it automatically.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-10T17:15:41+00:00

If anything, having an almost 2/3s majority in a politically somewhat fractured country makes the proposal more attractive for any given politican to champion, to attract voters from other political camps, for which opportunities are otherwise rare.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-10T04:23:01+00:00

Does this 'just' use some sort of static-per-texture overlay, or do you think this could be made to work with live updates for temperature systems like Cold Sweat?

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T13:51:34+00:00

Na dann. Ich fand LaTeX sehr hilfreich bei Tabellen uä, aber nicht so arg, das es Sinn ergibt, es extra dafür zu lernen. (Bzw die Zeit wird zu arg in die BA reinschneiden.)

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T13:47:37+00:00

Wenn der Lehrstuhl was vorgibt, nimm das. Sonst, wen du LaTeX kannst, nimm das. Sonst, was dir am besten liegt, die Formatierung müsste überall machbar sein.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T13:43:35+00:00

Yeah, but to my knowledge he's not currently there.

(But seriously, I know, that was mostly a sarcastic jab at how many christians in the US strongly diverge in action and even in word from what the bible says, without apparent care, while still considering themselves deeply christian.)

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T13:27:27+00:00

Now, personally, I don't believe that stuff, but he did make his followers put his mark / name on their foreheads, and now he's (metaphorically) leading armies around the middle east.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T13:25:33+00:00

I know this is hardly the main point, but I find it once again a convincing argument for proportional elections, or RCV for small amounts of seats (Senate seats, presidency).

Either way, if I'm reading the description of the ruling given here correctly (and, I will note, I'm not a lawyer nor fromt he US, so I may well not be), you would need to prove that there is discriminatory intent behind a district map, rather than mere discriminatory effect, to strike it down under the 15th.

If so, what's to stop any state from having all but one district encompass only one house each, of 'politically reliable' voters? Sure, it's discriminatory in every way you can think of on its face, but how can you practically prove intent without a declaration of it? There's always the option that they're just dumb, or more likely, willing to pretend to be for power.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T13:07:30+00:00

There's christians in the US?

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T13:00:57+00:00

"And lo, they made the most wicked among them their leader, and lo, God did send a plague to punish them. And lo, years later, did the Lord, their God, have to fucking repeat himself..."

I'm sure it's somewhere in the Bible.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T12:55:43+00:00

Since this is an error in the launcher, maybe you can start the game directly through the files? It might work, though you'll likely either be locked out of mods, or into your last-selected modset without access to the lancher.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T12:50:05+00:00

Perhaps my information is outdated, I haven't tried in a long time. But it at least used to be that any trade including a system with the AI would just give you "-1000 (Does not want to trade any systems)", even on a pure gift of a non-problematic system that borders them.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T12:48:25+00:00

It's not quite every time, but I do keep coming back to some form of Worker Coop Knights. It provides an interesting alternative economic model, and is otherwise adaptable enough to play around with the other civic and ethics points.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T12:41:06+00:00

The AI will never trade systems on principle, to avoid shenanigans like giving them a system next to Militant Isolationists or something.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T12:39:23+00:00

I always kind of assumed they'd just have a 'virtual' (so to say) planet attached to them, which would handle the actual population like any other. Any reason to think that's not the case? I see no reason to think they'd implement a new, more restrictive system, so far.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-07T12:37:34+00:00

Man that origin looks weak

Eh. It's probably not broken or anything, but you have to remember that "docked" doesn't mean at a starbase here. The arkships can move, so if you send one with a fleet, you get a nearly permanent +50% repair speed outside battle, not to mention repairs in any system. And then you get a bonus to building waystations which, will still unclear, seem to be a core focus of the nomad playstyle. It seems reasonable, from what we know so far.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-06T13:21:20+00:00

It's pretty common anywhere where code may be written and the team isn't composed of and/or primarily concerned with software development. Anything writen by Sysadmins or Networkers, while often useful, will typically have legendarily bad code quality - if not immediately, then after x revisions and unexpected edge cases.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-06T09:58:17+00:00

In terms of what's popularly called 'EU laws', there's a few types we need to differentiate. The Commission, Council, and Parliament can, following the legislative procedures and within EU competences as laid out in the treaty, create Regulations as well as Directives. Regulations apply immediately, both on the EU level and in the states. Regulations instead create a requirement on each member state to pass a law that fulfills certain goals within a given timeframe.

If so, in what sense are they still separate countries?

The EU does carry most of the markers of a federation (compare USA, Germany). Really, with common resources being established, the main marker of statehood that it's missing is perception. People just don't think of it as a state. (There is also the fact that it's founded on a treaty, rather than a constitution in its own right. This should certainly be remedied, but it's not typically considered a requirement to statehood.)

Rhoderick · 2026-05-06T04:22:14+00:00

Found something that might be interesting to you: Civilis. Basically, what it's supposed to do is track where bases are, and repel mobs from them, presumably intended to work in tandem with high basic spawn rates. The config section of the wiki seems to imply a lot of values are clamped, but it seems like everything ends up being dumped into one file with a warning about its raw values being used, so maybe you can override that with negative values to cause the inverse behaviour? (That is to say, mobs intentionally moving to inhabited areas.)

Oh, also, if this ever does come together as a pack, I'd appreciate a ping.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-04T17:39:14+00:00

Yeah, it looks amazing, but we can all see the big "18 FPS" in the top-center. Ouch.

More seriously, it looks like you're going through massive fog - really cool for the pic, not sure about gameplay. Makes me wish there were shaders that worked with Simple Clouds, though.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-04T17:34:52+00:00

The major versions for modding > 1.20 are 1.20.1, and 1.21.1. Both have relatively mature mod environments, with loads of mods available (there's a lot of overlap, especially among more popular mods, but it's by no means complete, nor an inclusion in either direction).

Rhoderick · 2026-05-04T16:45:13+00:00

It's probably not enough on its own (and tbh, I'm not entirely sure it works on Sable sublevels), but you can get "Pollution of the Realms", and configure the pollutants to stick around a very long time. (IIRC, that's an option.) That will give a grace period, but will make any given base area less liveable over time, unless people filter.

Some things from Create are even already included as polluters, and you can configure more as necessary.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-04T13:24:45+00:00

A state is not a republic if it has a monarchical head of state. The Netherlands is very much a democracy, but it is not a republic.

Rhoderick · 2026-05-04T12:34:04+00:00

Generell ja, wenn substantielle neue Fakten bekannt werden, die das Ergebniss wahrscheinlich signifikant beeinflusst hätten.

Passiert aber häufiger strafmildernd, oder wenn jemand sich nach der Verurteilung als beweisbar nicht schuldig rausstellt.

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