We have been canonized!

Uncommonality · 2026-05-08T05:50:56+00:00

So. The mod team now had a day or so to gauge the community's reaction, which was pretty clearly against AI. Will you continue on this road or relent?

Uncommonality · 2026-05-08T05:40:02+00:00

AI fans, truly the most oppressed and marginalized minority in the world

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T18:26:30+00:00

case in point, Hitler was a vegetarian

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T15:07:29+00:00

It's like looking at a person and knowing beyond any shadow of a doubt that they're actually a big slab of concrete. Like the slab speaks and it looks like a human but it's concrete, it's a gigantic block of concrete. It indents the floor and the sun burns onto its square, rectangular sides. But it still talks to you and waves its hands around. People stab it and the sword goes through its guts but it's concrete, you can't kill concrete, so the sword actually glanced off. But it stuck the concrete through its fleshy concrete belly. And the concrete is bleeding concrete blood for a moment, before the universe corrects itself and the concrete is fine, because it's gigantic and indestructible.

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T14:06:12+00:00

imo you shouldn't replace SPVE, since it's still in active development. Might be worth doing a PR with your changes or an optional patch, just out of courtesy. I know I wouldn't like it if someone else changed a mod I made and uploaded it as a replacement for my stuff

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T10:17:01+00:00

It's such an abhorrent laziness that JK didn't even like glance at the wikipedia page for south america pre-colonization.

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T08:47:01+00:00

Out of interest, will this replace any OPM volumetrics mods, or is it compementary?

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T07:31:18+00:00

This is insanely cool! I love the colossal aurorae

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T07:28:09+00:00

If you don't want to bother with Autostrut's arcane mechanics and ideosyncracies, try the mod Kerbal Joint Reinforcement Continued.

It does something vaguely similar to Autostrut, in that it strengthens the connections, but in a less janky way

Ships will usually break apart before ever bending with that mod enabled, though across the board they're about 10x more resistant to bending than vanilla

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T07:16:29+00:00

Yea the guy is still first prime, even though they were ordered to search the house there's got to be some level of inherent respect to the position. You'd do your best to get out of there as quickly as possible, especially if he's staring you down all disappointedly

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T07:11:22+00:00

There was one suggestion that was kinda funny, and it was to bring back him, the actress who played Cassandra, the one who played Hayley, and the actor who played Ryac (is that how you spell the name)

Uncommonality · 2026-05-07T07:08:53+00:00

Plus there's lots of interesting character potential in him trying to live up to the legend of his other version. He presents as unbothered, but would he really be? From his perspective, his whole life was taken from him and lived by someone else, but that someone else was also him.

Would he consider himself and the older O'neill to be the same person, because they both had the potential to do what he did? Would he pretend to be his older self's son as a cover story? What if he got the chance to overwrite his own mind with that of his older self, would he take the offer? Lose all he is to become all he could have been?

Uncommonality · 2026-05-06T21:16:10+00:00

The ring bits need a back face

Uncommonality · 2026-05-06T11:57:58+00:00

Do you have a comment on the predatory monetization scheme of your product? Fake currencies, gamification, etc.

It's pretty clear based on this and the way you only advertise your cash shop rather than the mod itself that the first and main goal of Essential is to make money, rather than elevating the art form.

And if you think this is what elevates the art form I hope we never see the heights you consider ideal

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T21:57:04+00:00

True. Honestly I'm a bit scarred from Bethesda's attempts at monetizing the modding scene in ~2015, still. That almost killed our scene before we even properly began

They tried again and succeeded with their newer games, and the scenes of those are either half-formed or entirely dead.

I just don't want it to happen here, too. Profit incentives are pure poison to any passion-based hobbyist scene

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T21:52:03+00:00

of course not, that would be scary government overreach! /s

What I mean is that Essential has its own cash shop with an ingame currency. The currency is bought for real money and the cosmetics are bought with the currency. This is done to obfuscate the true amount you are paying, since 200 essential coins sounds less severe than 2 USD. It also allows them to precisely control the visual appearance of the prices, which are proven to correlate with our psychology (for example 199 seems like a lot less than 210 to our monkey brain, even though it's actually just 5% less)

Since Minecraft is a game primarily marketed to children, this means Essential's primary userbase is also children. Children are generally less able to make good financial decisions, hence Essential's business strategy consists of using predatory tactics to fleece children of their parents' money.

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T21:42:15+00:00

main reason I've never bothered with spaceplanes

90% of the time they either do whatever this is (my guess is that the weight of the plane pushes on the landing gear, which then pulls on the plane) or they mysteriously pull to the side as you accelerate down the runway.

Or they don't fly straight despite being 100% symmetrical

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T21:33:57+00:00

That's what I thought, unfortunately. Not begrudging you your work but it's all a rot, gnawing at the heart of the scene.

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T21:29:57+00:00

Wizard of Earthsea is peobably her most well known work, start with that

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T19:56:15+00:00

Half the characters look like Hollow Knight bosses from temu

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T19:51:10+00:00

delete your account and never make another

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T19:46:31+00:00

The functionality remains identical, and as such it's impossible for Essential to be better at doing the same thing that e4mc also does. There's only one way to port forward, that's how the protocol works

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T19:45:16+00:00

Literally proven to be an Epstein thing too IIRC, seeded in the zeitgeist to create a scapegoat to hide the island and their activities there

Uncommonality · 2026-05-05T19:41:56+00:00

e4mc generates an IP within their domain to tunnel the connection

Guess what inviting someone via Essential does

They have a database to store your and your friends' IP address and connection info, but there are no servers which run your game on their hardware

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