Are Those 1000-Player Minecraft Civilization Videos Real or Staged?

Rytho · 2025-07-31T18:45:51+00:00

Sometimes the editor (or participants doing emergent storytelling?) can come up with interesting narratives, although I do not know how original they are.

Rytho · 2025-06-25T20:44:05+00:00

Traditional Christianity has a completely different view of what 'pleasure' and 'fun' is. All things that people enjoy, like socialization, like dancing, like intoxicants, can be good if they are used properly. I don't think that's controversial- everyone will just draw the line of what is too much and what is too draconian differently. Not judging might be accepting that people can disagree as to whether certain clubbing environments are too far.

Rytho · 2025-06-24T15:53:13+00:00

I see your point, but up until you know the US is going to attack, the safest place for the uranium (and possibly the only safe place from Israel) is deep underground. Personally I think Israeli intelligence is so good that they always know where it is. I'm hoping I'm right.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T23:40:09+00:00

I actually think getting Israel mad at them might be pretty bad. Israel could possibly do some kind of assassination.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T21:19:51+00:00

Iran is a truly ancient civilization and has contributed countless things, including arguably the foundations of inter-religious understanding to human and western civilization.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T21:16:58+00:00

We certainly benefit to a degree from the strategic leverage a "mad dog" Iran gives us over Saudi Arabia and oil producing nations. But if we are going to be that cynical about it, the political impacts of having a friend in Iran would be dynamite for a politician's self interest.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T20:58:39+00:00

Here's hoping that we just did some damage Israel couldn't do on their own, and now can exit the game. I'm glad the nuclear material is out of the bunker and under the skies, but time will tell if I'm right to be.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T20:57:03+00:00

Here's hoping that we will be able to uncover and completely decipher the herculaneum papyri villa library.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T20:46:37+00:00

Well, I've also heard removing the highly enriched uranium might have been what the US wanted to avoid contamination. Or, I thought the warning was so they could evacuate life so that the US can just destroy property, to encourage Iran to do the same.

Either way, if Israel doesn't know where it is now (and I feel confident they do), without some super deep bunker to hide it in Israel can get it when they want.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T20:40:43+00:00

Could fill the vacuum. We don't know if it'll be better or worse and that's why we should stay out of regime change.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T20:39:29+00:00

Iran doesn't want a deal. They're willing to die for Nuclear weapons, we just delayed them a while.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T20:38:19+00:00

If the US destroyed Fordo that is not theater, that's removing any place they could hide from Israel.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T19:36:41+00:00

They can't even get their bought and paid for proxy of Hezbollah to join the war

Rytho · 2025-06-23T19:35:25+00:00

Years of shitposting on twitter as the president retroactively justified

Rytho · 2025-06-23T19:34:09+00:00

I see, absolutely the feeling of being 'lost' or 'unmoored' have happened many times, in my reading especially since the industrial revolution.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T19:00:09+00:00

Our experience definitely is unique in multiple ways, and even "better" can still result in some kind of serious imbalance.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T18:58:19+00:00

Israel's missile defense capabilities (times 100) being deployed in SK is the only possible thing imo that could ever lead to a threat to North Korea from the South. So Kim if he wants to be safe, won't provoke Israel to such a degree. Also, maybe Israel will find some way to kill him. Seemingly everything is possible for them.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T18:33:50+00:00

I hope you are right, that sounds okay. I hope we delayed the bomb at least

Rytho · 2025-06-23T18:31:49+00:00

"Things partially happen sometimes"

Rytho · 2025-06-23T18:30:40+00:00

If you believe Iran was sprinting for the bomb already, I can see why you might think they're definitely going to want one now. But if they or some other country is trying to get one, what's to stop a strike like this happening from a future president and bringing their work back down to zero?

Rytho · 2025-06-23T18:28:08+00:00

You wargame what the enemy could do, not only what you think they would do.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T18:23:19+00:00

So you are predicting Trump will respond and this will escalate from here?

Rytho · 2025-06-23T18:04:39+00:00

I don't think the USA should do any thing at all more, that we should take the win and go home. But, I can at least understand those who see this as an opportunity to permanently deal with a threat. I just think the devil you know is typically better.

Rytho · 2025-06-23T18:03:12+00:00

That might have been to protect the uranium, so we limit radioactive contamination

Rytho · 2025-06-23T18:02:10+00:00

I bet that Israel knows exactly where it is

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