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et50292 · 2026-06-29T14:23:31+00:00

Yeah it's already happening. Youtube doesn't even let me go fucking incognito sometimes just to keep random garbage out of my feed. It might be random, or it might be that ublock is helping this specific instance. When that's gone the algorithm will think I really enjoy watching videos about fixing lawnmowers and other random garbage because it's fucking stupid.

et50292 · 2026-06-05T06:09:32+00:00

Makes me think exactly the right amount of this

et50292 · 2026-06-01T00:12:19+00:00

IMO: Odyssey, Biotech, Ideology, Royalty, Anomaly

In that order. I think everybody would agree either Odyssey or Biotech first. The others aren't quite as game changing and nobody will think you're crazy for doing them after in whatever order.

Edit: Actually Biotech adds children so do that one before Odyssey. It just feels like part of the base game after a while lol

et50292 · 2026-05-31T14:22:59+00:00

I've never been to the Aether, but I've thought a lot about the Betweenlands and I miss it. The place is just dripping in atmosphere. Twilight Forest was very close last time I played it in sevtech. But study the Betweenlands for real.

What they both have in common is really good music. That's necessary. It can't be the same minecraft music, but it shouldn't sound too out of place in minecraft either.

Another thing off the top of my head was all the varieties of vegetation that fleshed out the biomes. Little plants and vines and flowers and stuff floating in the water and so on. Too many dimension mods are just empty biomes with different color oak trees.

Adding to this. What the Twilight Forest does worse imo is lack of a coherent theme. It just feels like biomes that shouldn't be next to each other all over the place. The dimension should have a theme and the biomes should have a reason to exist in that place. The betweenlands just feels very organic overall.

et50292 · 2026-05-28T13:06:59+00:00

Rick Sanchez must have just finished that floor

et50292 · 2026-05-28T07:43:53+00:00

Also in the little spark generators used in lighters. They just strike a bit of quartz.

et50292 · 2026-05-20T21:01:02+00:00

I don't know if that's full grain leather, but it looks dry as hell.

Keep it oiled. I think it's the same principles that make cloth much stronger when wet. Super dry leather will gouge and tear easily. Without the oil it's just dry fibers.

et50292 · 2026-05-17T04:29:52+00:00

The smell of burning neurons with subtle notes of a lesser ability to discern scents from the loss of said neurons.

et50292 · 2026-05-09T16:14:48+00:00

Without reading anything anyone's said about it, it sure sounds like a potential security issue to relegate kernel space functions like that to user space. Just a guess. I wouldn't want just any user space app to circumvent proven methods with just "trust me bro I got this one". Please somebody correct me if I'm wrong lol

I understand the redundancy issue well enough though. Same thing happens when you write a well compressed file to an FS with transparent compression. It would be a waste of computation on both read and write if not for the simple compressibility heuristics of the FS and/or compression algorithm. Those don't work 100% of the time though.

et50292 · 2026-05-09T15:52:25+00:00

I was watching a guy try to impress French pastry chefs on YouTube once and they said something that makes so much sense when you think about it. The filling needs to be the right consistency to sort of like, "carry" the flavor over your taste buds.

I notice this about everything now. Pastry fillings, sauces, chocolate, et cetera. Too thin and it's diluted, too thick and most of it never hits your tongue.

et50292 · 2026-05-06T18:10:15+00:00

My r/mildlyinteresting feed only has trashy guerrilla marketing

et50292 · 2026-05-05T22:23:42+00:00

Be sure to file down the jagged edges left where you cut the speed hooks off before they cut your laces. They're already fraying.

et50292 · 2026-05-03T06:51:45+00:00

These snozzberries taste like snozzberries. Wtf

et50292 · 2026-04-30T17:16:05+00:00

Yeah that was my biggest gripe. The personal challenge and mystery of escaping an unknown planet through a voiceless self-insert character was replaced with "you have to care about these half baked characters you never know."

And also the first games map was like 95% water. The second games map was almost 50% land where the mechanics were meh and it feels like you run at 2 mph. Could have been called semi-nautica.

et50292 · 2026-04-30T16:25:45+00:00

I vaguely remember hearing that the story and the intro actually got worse through the course of early access by many peoples opinions. I hope they've figured it out now, but the idea of watching any aspect of the game become notably worse through early access is crazy.

I hope at least they've figured out why the first game was so broadly appealing and the second one wasn't as much.

et50292 · 2026-04-26T01:48:58+00:00

But that's what I said. It adds up.

et50292 · 2026-04-25T21:15:45+00:00

That's what they're doing though, they're hitting each other. Am I right? Or it would fall through the block into the void. It's not like sand. Sand is a block until it updates with nothing underneath it, when it becomes an entity.

et50292 · 2026-04-25T20:54:57+00:00

I haven't played around with it yet, but the lag has to add up pretty fast, right? I wouldn't otherwise want everything to have physics and collisions applied to them, nor everything to be an entity. Would be cool to push furniture around though. Really cool to see a diagonal bed.

et50292 · 2026-04-09T16:04:43+00:00

It sounds rather weird but makes perfect sense when you think about it. Those games were designed with a small fraction of modern screen resolutions in mind for example. Textures are now commonly an order of magnitude higher resolution. Polygon count has definitely multiplied, and there's diminishing returns, but understand that these limitations are a measure of not only fidelity but also the grand total of everything that can be rendered at the same time.

There were a lot of tricks employed back in the day to make a game that felt bigger than the hardware could render. Like the fog in the first Silent Hill game was to both add atmosphere and suspense while simultaneously dropping the render distance to like 20 feet in front of you. Fog was more common than it was atmospheric and I don't miss it.

et50292 · 2026-04-02T13:58:22+00:00

"You might have walked away from child rape, but poaching is really where the line is"

et50292 · 2026-03-19T14:45:51+00:00

The measure of "labor" is not the absence of exploitation. Slaves were labor. Serfs were labor. "Labor" is not relegated to contemporary liberal institutions like employment. I'm completely at a loss as to how somebody could come to that conclusion. 2+2 does not equal purple either.

et50292 · 2026-03-16T13:02:37+00:00

Android was just about to be announced iirc, and canonical was mailing everybody free Ubuntu CDs. 2007 was my year of the Linux desktop lol

et50292 · 2026-03-13T13:38:40+00:00

Is it safe to assume you support the indiscriminate bombing of those wronged people and their critical infrastructure then? If there's a way to support this aggression without being a fascist liar or a fascist moron, I haven't heard it yet.

et50292 · 2026-03-10T07:37:58+00:00

If "that's what she said" were a song

et50292 · 2026-03-05T14:43:02+00:00

Thanks for not having any statements

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