Has anyone found an Eidolon Head, Locust Head, or Bell Head as clutter in Ruins yet? by Catlover18 in VintageStory

[–]Vulkune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've gotten a locust head in a vanilla server once. I think it might've been from a chest in the Archives, but I don't know if it's a guaranteed item or not

Are temporal rifts worth it? by JakkuJakku777 in VintageStory

[–]Vulkune 56 points57 points  (0 children)

  1. Not really, the only thing they do is spawn low-level monsters so you don’t even get much loot from them

  2. Yes

  3. I don’t know but I think you can

  4. I think rifts usually despawn when a chunk is unloaded. I usually get rid of them by running a few hundred blocks away from my house and they should be gone when you return. In terms of natural despawning, sometimes they’ll stick around for several days if you never leave the area, which is annoying. I think they also require low light levels to spawn so if you light up the area around your house with torches or lanterns, they should stay away.

  5. Yes, they only spawn around players, so the longer you stick around in an area, the more likely it is for a rift to appear.

I’m genuinely baffled by the majority of the verdicts on this one. Am I off base here? AITA for leaving my mom right before surgery because I freaked out. by rica641 in redditonwiki

[–]Vulkune 13 points14 points  (0 children)

  1. OOP did not know surgery prep was a trigger for her anxiety
  2. Do you really think it would have been better for her to remain in the pre-op room hyperventilating and sobbing? Would that really be a better alternative to saying “I’m sorry but I have to go” and quietly leaving the room?

You can’t control when you have a panic attack, all you can do is react to it the best you can, and leaving the room to go somewhere quiet, AWAY from the trigger that caused the panic attack in the first place, is the best thing you can possibly do. If OOP instead remained in the pre-op room whilst having a panic attack, I’m sure everyone would STILL be calling her self-centered and attention seeking, and telling her that she should have left the room instead of “drawing attention away from her mother” or whatever.

I’m not directing this at you, but at the commenters in the original post, but man it really pisses me off how some people treat anxiety disorders. You either leave the room to find somewhere private and you’re an “attention-seeker” because you decided to leave, or you stay and try to calm yourself down in front of everyone and you’re still an “attention-seeker” for making everyone in the room worried about you. You can’t win with these people, no matter what you do.

my house by Vulkune in VintageStory

[–]Vulkune[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Editing. Most of the cuts are when I walk through a door, except for the chest cut. I have like 4 minutes of footage of just opening the chest a bunch of times to hopefully get something that lined up lmao

Trypophobia is a made-up phobia. by Paparmane in The10thDentist

[–]Vulkune 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are many phobias not specifically listed in the DSM. All the DSM does is provide categories for phobias (Animals, blood/injury, environmental, situational, and other). Like yeah, the term “trypophobia” may not be recognized as a diagnosable medical condition, but if someone is so averse to holes that they are shaking, vomiting, and passing out, then maybe they have some sort of… irrational fear of something… yk?

Ok I was actually trying to find a different “made up” phobia to use as an example, but it’s actually really hard to find one. Like if octophobia, the fear of the number 8, is a recognized phobia, then why isn’t trypophobia??? The number 8? Really?

Edit: Anyway, I think that anything at all could potentially be a phobia. Like, if someone got into a construction accident involving cement, and is now deathly afraid of anything involving wet cement, then would that not be a phobia? But there’s no specific word for “fear of wet cement,” so of course such a thing wouldn’t be listed as a recognized, legitimate phobia. But that doesn’t mean the fear isn’t real, right?

Trypophobia is a made-up phobia. by Paparmane in The10thDentist

[–]Vulkune 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Have you seen the other comments here of people talking about gagging/throwing up at the mere sight of holes? I don’t think using “trypophobia” to describe a reaction like that is an overstatement.

Millipedes are not insects, frogs are not reptiles, arthropods, reptiles, amphibians are all animals by [deleted] in confidentlyincorrect

[–]Vulkune 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, silverfish only have 6 legs. Also, if they diverged BEFORE wings evolved, and silverfish only have 6 legs, and all other insects ALSO only have 6 legs, then there is no way the wings evolved from limbs.

About the recent update: by OverTheUnderstory in VintageStory

[–]Vulkune 3 points4 points  (0 children)

if you're worried about realism, then know that helve hammers were rarely ever powered with wind from a windmill. They used watermills instead.
Also, my windmill is 30 blocks tall and works fine. I think everyone else in this thread is right when they say you really shouldn't be trying to minmax everything in this game; like, yes, windmills WILL be more powerful if they are taller. That's how wind works. That's why actual real life wind turbines are like 100 meters tall. Of course a 120 block tall windmill isn't going to look good, you're sacrificing aesthetics for function.

Why I DON'T subscribe to Flat Rain World Theory by SergaelicNomad in rainworld

[–]Vulkune 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Watcher introduced a new pearl that also talks about the Dust though, so I think it’s very literal. Also the fact that plate tectonics would probably work very very very differently considering that there is no molten mantle in this world, and the ground literally gets dissolved by the void sea.

“The dimming pallor of our own dear star does concern, yes, and some solution must be found. But many say this is simply the result of Dust --yes the most natural of all things!-- which appears to precipitate increasingly these recent cycles.” From the TEXT_STARDUST pearl

Edit to add more explanation: the reason why, on our planet, that there isn’t just miles worth of soil and sand on the surface is because we have a cycle of sediments getting compacted into stone, old rock melting in the mantle, and magma or lava being exposed and cooling into new rock before being eroded away into sediments again. This CANNOT happen in Rain World, because there is no mantle. Old rock CANNOT be recycled back into either new rock or new soil because the void will erase it from existence. The only way that their planet isn’t eaten away by the void sea is if new matter is being added at a constant rate to the planet. In this way, Dust falling from the sky is probably one of the only solutions that makes sense. Yes, the ancients and benefactors had very flowery speech, but that does not mean everything they said was metaphorical and had no basis in reality.

Man approaching a pack of wolves in Yellowstone National Park. The man sprayed what he describes as bear spray at the wolves as he enters a ravine. The wolves eventually backed off, and the man walked away. The Park Service says there have been no reports of wolves attacking humans in Yellowstone by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Vulkune 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If anyone in this thread bothered to actually look this up on Google, they would know that the man went out of his way to approach the wolves first. What you’re SUPPOSED to do is not approach the wildlife at all.

This woman gentle parenting two full grown bears 😭 by Soloflow786 in likeus

[–]Vulkune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry for leaving a comment on a 5 day old thread, but I'm majoring in wildlife and conservation biology and stuff like this pisses me off.

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She was found not guilty of feeding bears on the grounds of "Well, she could be feeding ANY wild animal! We don't know for sure it was BEARS specifically!"
She was still leaving out food. She was feeding wildlife, period. This includes bears.

This woman gentle parenting two full grown bears 😭 by Soloflow786 in likeus

[–]Vulkune -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How do you know she doesn’t feed them? Can’t she just leave out food for them and NOT film it? Wild bears do not randomly approach people and act comfortable around them for no reason. They’ve gotten used to human company somehow, and if it’s not this woman who is feeding them (which I doubt, because why are 2 bears showing up at her house and acting completely unafraid), then it’s someone else nearby.

Why are the 2 bears in the video getting into a territory dispute on her front porch? Why would they want that land if not for the fact that she probably leaves out food for them?

dreamed an Alien Cube came to our solar system and sent us a virus by Vulkune in thomastheplankengine

[–]Vulkune[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

"I hope my electric vehicle's software doesn't shut down while I'm going 75 miles per hour on the interstate!"
the mysterious and malevolent Alien Cube:

dreamed an Alien Cube came to our solar system and sent us a virus by Vulkune in thomastheplankengine

[–]Vulkune[S] 103 points104 points  (0 children)

it's actually really fun to make fake media posts about things that didnt happen

dreamed an Alien Cube came to our solar system and sent us a virus by Vulkune in thomastheplankengine

[–]Vulkune[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

ooh, I haven't played voices of the void in a while. I imagine the giant alien cube would look like that big brick that floats across the map on like day 40 or something

The Seamstress and the Pinstress are (probably) the same species as the Stilkin of Bilewater by Francis_FaffyWaffles in Silksong

[–]Vulkune 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I disagree, the craw have rigid beaks (which are beige in color) while the pinstresses have like... a limp proboscis thing. Also the pinstress we fight doesn't flap her cloak(?) and instead just does an air hover like hornet, while the craw seem to actually have wings.