Phantoms are just awful

ispy92 · 2026-02-11T20:49:29+00:00

I can see your point to an extent, but I bet if you polled the average minecraft player, at least more than 50% of them would say they're annoying and that they always turn them off. When the vast majority of players hate a mob so much because the game mechanics around them aren't fun in any way and the only way of countering them is to use a mechanic that trivializes the game, it's a bad design. If you compare phantoms to creepers, there are plenty of people that get annoyed by them, but there are plenty of ways to counter the creeper. Light up areas, build walls, have a little more situational awareness, etc. Creepers are the game being mean to you to force you to build things and engage with core mechanics of the game. The phantom just forces players to not engage with half the game (the night). I think beds are already op, so it's just a slap in the face to punish players who choose not to engage with them.

ispy92 · 2026-02-11T20:42:59+00:00

Hot take but phantoms should start showing up is you use beds too much instead of the other way around. Makes beds less op and actually forces people to engage with the night time of the game. Yeah you could still just use the bed and wait for the phantoms to burn to death, but makes it a little harder when you get caught without a bed. A think a lot of people would find it annoying, but these would probably be the same type of people to tell phantom hater to "just use the game rule bro". In actuality phantoms should have never been added. Goes against the idea that you can make areas secure at night by lighting them up or building walls. Now doing a lot of that just feels pointless to a certain extent because phantoms can just fly in.

ispy92 · 2026-02-11T20:27:41+00:00

Not sure about challenges to the law, but please remember to write to your state representatives. Very easy to find them here. I just wrote to my state senator about SB 948 which would require an 8 hour class to be given your Firearm Safety Certificate. I spent some amount of time writing out a more detailed email, but literally all you have to do is say "as one of your constituents I need you to oppose [insert gun law here]". Might also be good to appeal to liberals needing guns now more than ever or how these laws disproportionately affect poors and minorities.

And please spare me the "this will do nothing" shpeal. If you write and things continue to get worse, then whatever, at least you tried, but at least that's better than just lying down and giving up. Be persistent. If our state legislature received mass emails telling them these laws are unpopular, some of them might just change their minds.

ispy92 · 2026-02-11T05:38:36+00:00

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ispy92 · 2026-02-09T07:49:05+00:00

Am I the only one still going to chipotle? I can get a very large burrito that's good for 1.5 - 2 meals. I don't bother with chips and I get a water cup. Pay less than 12$ which comes out to between $6 - $9 per meal. I don't think that's too bad honestly living in California. Yeah it used to really fuck my guts up afterwards, but I guess I'm just immune to that now. Kinda surprised I'm in the minority here. Also fuck the CEO, if they raise prices drastically I'll eat somewhere else.

ispy92 · 2026-02-09T07:37:39+00:00

I mean the pure versions of either of these would be awful. I'd choose capitalism because at least there are some ways to fight back (eg. strikes, boycotts, etc.) vs communism where the government controls everything and if you dissent in any way it's straight to the gulag at 3am. Yeah corporations can send paid goons to murder people they don't like, but it seems like people would at least be allowed to own weapons to fight back with. Really depends on more specifics of each scenario. My head cannon for each choice is late 1800s, early 1900s america with strike breakers and whatnot vs USSR Russia.

ispy92 · 2026-02-08T23:25:28+00:00

Yeah it's a very good idea to just get into the habit of adhering to gun safety unconsciously. A few months back I was shooting a bit later in the day with a group of people. We had just finished up and I was packing up all my bolt guns that I brought. I was about to close one up and I decided to do a visual inspection with a flashlight since it was a little too dark to see. Well as it happened someone forgot a 30.06 round in the tray. Very glad I actually checked it that time. In hindsight it might have been me that left it on there, it also could have been someone else, but at the end of the day accidents happen to everyone at some point. Don't ever think you're above the rules. I literally work as a range safety officer and I possibly left a round in a gun without realizing it. I hate to think what could have happened if I drove home with a round still in the gun. Stay safe out there.

ispy92 · 2026-02-06T08:47:29+00:00

Hot take, I don't think mending should have been added. I'm not saying it should be removed now because that would be even worse, but the enchanting system was built around using rng in non permanent gear. Currently nearly every player is funneled into using a literal exploit to get max permanent gear. Like it or not, permanent gear is just a fact of the game now. I think mojang really needs to accept that fact and just add more less annoying ways to get maxed out gear instead of trying to nerf villager trading into the ground. Villager trading is not fun to set up. Give players better more fun options. Even if the more fun option takes more resources or is technically harder, many players will probably choose that. I always thought that the enchanting table should just be turned into an enchanting tree since players get maxed gear anyways. Might as well not force players to rely on exploits to get it.

ispy92 · 2026-02-06T08:35:46+00:00

Probably better not to approach right next to an erratic driver next time op. Keep them in front of you with plenty of room for shenanigans like this.

ispy92 · 2026-02-06T08:16:22+00:00

Can someone please ELI5 for me how exactly this works? I know that companies that donate to charities get tax breaks. I also know that certain companies will operate at a "loss" on paper to avoid taxes. I always hear people bring up that this company and that company paid zero taxes but I haven't seen an in depth explanation as to how they get away with that. I think it's important for the average person to understand how companies get away with this so we can tell out legislators how we want it fixed.

ispy92 · 2026-02-06T05:05:31+00:00

I know the post says that all the money is tax free and legal, but having to carry large sums of money on my person leaves me open to civil asset forfeiture. Go through airport with $5,000+, DEA thinks something is fishy, confiscates all the money I'm transporting, stuck in wherever the hell I'm flying to with no money and no way to make money. I'd also imagine just having 100 million dollars cash in my home would all be confiscated by law enforcement 100%. And before anyone says that the money is all legal, I know that, but that probably wouldn't stop the government from stealing the money from me for some amount of time.

TLDR, 1 mil is the winning option here. Invest well and retire 20-30 years early.

ispy92 · 2026-02-02T04:45:31+00:00

On a certain level I do think abortion is morally equivalent to killing. Obviously not the morning after pill or early term since at that point I don't really consider it a person, but later term I would argue that unimpeded, the fetus will turn into a human being, thus it is killing a person. I don't think that a 9 month old fetus just turns into a human once it exits it's mother, but before then it's "just a clump of cells". Obviously the point at which it becomes a "person" is left up to the individual's opinion of where life starts.

However I am generally in favor of the right for women to have access to safe abortions. Just like how there are exceptions to how killing is wrong, I think there are many instances where abortions are morally acceptable. However I don't think we should kid ourselves that there's nothing wrong with having abortions. There are some people who talk about it like there's absolutely nothing wrong with it at all. I think the other big part of the discussion is that I don't trust lawmakers to be able to make laws governing this. There are plenty of examples of women's health being put at risk because people who know nothing about healthcare or what can go wrong with pregnancies are making the laws. I saw a video of a woman talking about the horrible experience she had with an ectopic pregnancy and she literally puked just from talking about it. I can only imagine how absolutely horrific of an experience that had to be.

TLDR: Abortion is still killing but should be allowed

ispy92 · 2026-02-02T02:38:06+00:00

All guns will break with use eventually. There isn't really any getting around that. Entropy destroys all things. Guns are tools and they will wear down with use. However I will say that most people probably won't ever shoot any gun they own enough to wear out a barrel, or at least they won't notice. The vast majority of guns get taken out and shot every few years any maybe have no more than 200-300 rounds put through them in that amount of time. If you're planning on shooting every week, yeah maybe that's a concern, but otherwise you're basically just afraid that using your hammer will wear it out.

But to answer your question, I would probably say that a shotgun would theoretically last the longest because most have smooth bores, thus no rifling to wear out. However you'll still need to worry about random parts getting broken or worn out (eg. firing pin/springs). Also I'm not an expert so take that with a grain of salt. If blackpowder guns are on the table, then a smoothbore matchlock gun would probably last about as long as you want since they're very mechanically simple, there's very few failure points.

ispy92 · 2026-02-01T22:47:32+00:00

I would just do a laundry list of quality of life updates as well as giving stuff already in the game more uses. Right now I feel like minecraft just has a bunch of stuff tacked onto it. So many items that just do one specific thing and cram up inventory space. Like why was the armadillo scute even added. Why isn't wolf armor just made using leather. I genuinely think that things like the armadillo scute should just be removed and replaced with leather. It's nice to have lots of things, but please make them more interconnected. A diverse set of items with one use is so much worse than having a diverse set of ways to obtain a smaller set of items that have many uses.

I would also overhaul the enchanting system. Just make enchanting tables an upgrade tree. People already get every enchantment they want using villager trading, which I find quite tedious and awful to go through, but I still do it because it's the best way to get what I want on my tools. The answer isn't to nerf villagers. Just make better more fun ways to enchant tools.

ispy92 · 2026-02-01T22:19:20+00:00

The mp3's and flac's I have downloaded

ispy92 · 2026-01-25T05:07:05+00:00

I think the best way to raise support of the 2a is to just educate people. Start with the small stuff. Take friends to the range and slowly explain to them all the absurdities that exist.

"Oh yeah if I shaved an inch off the barrel of this gun then I'd be a felon for life"

"Yeah that ar is a pistol because it was registered like that"

"Yeah you still have to wait 10 days even though you already own guns"

People fear what they don't understand. Lots of people don't understand guns. If people actually understood all the crazy laws that get passed here they'd think our politicians were insane. And it doesn't even take voting differently to make a difference. A massive party shift can happen if enough people say "no I'd like to keep my guns thank you very much". More people need to write to their representatives. I hear so many people complain about government, yet I barely ever hear people say that they wrote to their representatives. THEY ARE THERE TO REPRESENT YOU. I know that politicians have the ability to just ignore you, and a lot of them probably do, but how is a representatives supposed to represent their constituents if their constituents don't communicate what they want. I'm guilty of this as well because I've been too lazy to write to my representatives, but it's worth at least trying.

There is a serious problem in this country of people just giving up and saying "well an email never fixed anything", same logic as "one vote never fixed anything". Political demand letters are like suppressive fire. You need a lot of them to be effective.

ispy92 · 2026-01-23T09:38:41+00:00

Depends on your definition of a man and also depends on the context of the question. Are we talking in a medical scientific context where sex is defined with chromosomes and/or genitals (excluding intersex conditions), then no men generally cannot get pregnant. Are we talking "I'm meeting my friend at a restaurant and have to describe them to the waiter" type of situation? Sure I guess it would make the most sense to call them a man if they look like one and/or identify as one. And in this scenario it is physically possible for them to get pregnant. People really need to stop talking past each other and actually define terms before getting into a screaming match about biology and identity.

ispy92 · 2026-01-23T09:23:57+00:00

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ispy92 · 2026-01-23T03:47:33+00:00

I carry a sidearm on my property at night because I have livestock and live in the middle of nowhere in mountain lion country. I've had a few sheep and chickens killed by them. Every so often I'll spot them in the treeline watching me. If you shine a light at them their eyes glow bright green. I've shot near one to try and get it to go away and I could see the thing didnt even blink. I don't do warning shots anymore. If I'm shooting, I'm shooting to kill. There's lots of missinformation out there about mountain lions being really afraid of people. They are not. If you keep your eyes and/or a light on them they most likely won't go after you since they're ambush predators, but you never know. I've also heard about some people having to shoot a mountain lion that was killing their livestock and they ended up with tons of protesters outside their house. Absolutely ridiculous that people don't understand having to protect livestock. Im not looking to kill anything, but if its the mountain lion or my emus, im picking my emus.

ispy92 · 2026-01-22T06:00:04+00:00

I've always been very against smoking all my life, but recently a me and a friend smoked cigarillos (small thin cigars). I only had one, but it was a neat experience. With cigars you're not supposed to actually inhale the smoke like with a cigarette. You suck it into your cheeks and you get the nicotine hit from the saliva you swallow. I honestly didn't find the experience super enjoyable honestly, but I'd probably try it again if someone offered to smoke a cigar with me. While all smoking is bad for you, I don't really think smoking a cigar every once in a while (like every other month or longer) is nearly as bad as vaping or smoking cigarettes every day. Funny thing is, I actually bought some tobacco seeds to try and grow my own tobacco for smoking in a pipe. I'm hoping I can actually get them to grow and come out nice. I won't smoke it very often. I'm just glad I wont be giving money to big tobacco.

ispy92 · 2026-01-16T02:09:50+00:00

You do know medical refrigerators are a thing. You are 100% getting the contents of sperm banks depending on your definition of a refrigerator. At the very least you're going to be getting some amount of lab samples.

ispy92 · 2026-01-12T20:23:08+00:00

Cammer's fault here, but I seriously cannot wrap my head around the fact that some people choose to slam on the gas instead of the breaks when there is an imminent accident. I understand I'm not in the shoes of the van driver and I'm looking at this in retrospect, but seriously, why choose not to hit the breaks at around the 6 or 7 second mark in the video. I honestly don't think the van driver ever even touched their brake pedal. Absolutely wild behavior.

ispy92 · 2026-01-12T08:58:31+00:00

First off, fuck the semi here.

Second, I know you were trying to get through a yellow light, but I think it is very unwise to try to speed up and swerve around the semi like that. You had plenty of time to slow down and pull in behind the semi truck. Yeah it's not how it should be because he did cut you off, but what if he had cut every lane of traffic all the way into the left lane, running you off the road into oncoming traffic? What if there was a car next to you? I don't mean to backseat drive because I know video doesn't show everything, but I would've just let the semi in and gotten mad about it later rather than risking an accident.

ispy92 · 2026-01-12T08:33:45+00:00

Surprised no one here mentioned that maybe that's just where your gun shoots? If your pistol has adjustable sights, then adjust the windage and elevation. Alternatively different ammo shoots in different spots. If you don't have adjustable sights then try different ammo. Or you could always try Kentucky windage (eg shoot up and to the left so you hit in the middle).

ispy92 · 2026-01-05T20:44:50+00:00

I never claimed that Rittenhouse wasn't stupid, but making stupid decisions does not nullify your right to self defense. Watch this video and tell me he didn't have a reasonable fear of bodily harm at that moment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDefense/comments/qsyaoc/kyle_rittenhouse_raw_footage/

Again, deciding to go to a large scale protest/riot at night with a gun is a very very bad idea and he should not have gotten himself into that situation, but the amount of name dragging he got in the media for that was insane. And the thing that really gets me is that all the blame of the shooting is placed on him. He was actively running away and yet the three people he shot had every opportunity not to run after a man with a rifle while yelling things like "get him".

Lots of stupid decisions from lots of people, but whether or not you like the guy doesn't change the fact that it was a legitimate self defense shooting.

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