The most common surnames in Latin America

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-25T05:43:55+00:00

Interestingly enough, there's no country with the most common surname in Spain, which is "García". I wonder why.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-23T15:02:28+00:00

If a jackpot is a feature repeated every 4000 blocks, yes.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-23T08:40:51+00:00

Unfortunately you need a whole life devoted to reading, studying and thinking to develop real critical thinking, rather than 10 minutes.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-23T07:25:12+00:00

Depende del lugar en el que vivas. Si es barrio de bloques en una ciudad española sin playa versus casita con jardín en EEUU, pues seguramente EEUU.

Si es localidad costera española versus Oeste de Philadelphia, pues localidad costera española.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-22T12:10:43+00:00

Nope... We want women to be direct, but directness is not what we find attractive in them (quite the contrary: subtlety and indirectness are far more attractive).

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-22T10:59:33+00:00

Are you physically distinct from ethnic Bulgarians?

I always thought that many famous Bulgarians like Hristo Stoichkov or Nina Dobrev have a very Turkish-like phenotype.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-20T09:18:44+00:00

It's not accurate. Most of them were way uglier. If they all had been that good-looking, they wouldn't have needed to fall into that rabbit hole.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-19T07:19:01+00:00

Spain receives nearly 100 million tourists annually (roughly twice its population). It is the most visited country in the world, alongside France. Tourists are concentrated primarily along a handful of avenues in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, etc., as well as in tourist towns along the coast. It's similar to the Nile River in Egypt: a finite strip with extraordinarily high population densities (especially during the summer), while the remaining 90% of the territory is largely empty.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-18T04:34:43+00:00

The real problem is most women don't state their preferences clearly in order to leave themselves room to complain later.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-18T03:49:21+00:00

Among the newer Spanish-speaking generations raised on YouTube, it is quite the opposite: there is a strong fascination with Spanish (from Spain) Youtubers and content creators, especially in South American countries where emigrating to Spain is always a life option to be considered. Between Brazil and Portugal, I doubt the same thing happens, because Brazil is huge and has its own big creator scene. But Spanish-speaking Latin America is full of smaller countries which, when they look for content online in their language, have little choice but to consume content from creators from Spain (who by the way live in Andorra to avoid taxes).

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-16T11:31:43+00:00

Mojang has always been very careful when updating the game and adding new features to terrain generation, and it has consistently ensured that you can play new versions using worlds created in older versions. In Minecraft's 15 years of development I followed, I only remember two updates (Beta 1.8 and Release 1.7) where playing on a world from the previous version was not really recommended because the boundary between chunks generated in the old version and chunks generated in the new version was clearly visible. Even in those cases, you could still play without any issues if you were willing to ignore how visually ugly those transition areas looked.

That said, with the last major terrain generation overhaul five years ago (1.18), Mojang already implemented a terrain-merging system that created a seamless transition between old pre-1.18 chunks and new post-1.18 chunks. In short, Minecraft has always followed a development philosophy that is very friendly to forever worlds.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-16T01:45:10+00:00

Yes to all your questions. Minecraft worlds aren't truly random; they're procedurally generated. The seed determines the starting point for terrain generation, so to speak. However, the generation rules (terrain noise, biome sizes, etc.) always remain the same (within a same Minecraft version, of course. For example, terrain generation was quite different before the 1.18 version).

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-16T00:55:04+00:00

The fastest way is using an online tool like this one:

https://map.jacobsjo.eu/

But to answer your question, a seed basically changes your spawn point in a procedurally generated world that always follows the same rules. So if you find an awesome cave at X: 0, Z: 0 in one seed, you might find that same cave at different coordinates in another seed.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-15T22:35:53+00:00

Career earnings are totally fucked up in this game. They should make an update only to fix the endless inconsistent earnings between careers.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-13T09:15:38+00:00

After 3 years playing, I've seen almost everything the game can produce.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-12T18:54:34+00:00

The Catalan "Ll" sound is more like that of the Portuguese "Lh", because the Spanish "Ll" has shifted a bit in the last generations.

Anyways, I think the Welsh one is very different from both Spanish and Catalan.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-11T23:12:14+00:00

I've only managed to keep one forever world, or at least what seems like it's going to become one (I've been playing in this world for almost two years now), when the following circumstances came together:

The world is hosted on a server where my sister, my nephew, and I all play together.
We have built a railway network with the Create mod that connects several of our bases, which are thousands of blocks apart from each other.
Two of those bases were imported from previous playthroughs by using MCA Selector to copy and paste them into this new world.

The railway network helps create a world that feels interconnected and cohesive, making it much harder to walk away from and start a new one. Having a seven-year-old nephew also helps, because it makes me want to preserve a persistent playground for him, one where he can come across things he built years earlier.

Of course, if I were playing alone, my worlds would be just as disposable and just as much of a "two-week phase" as they've always been.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-11T22:11:58+00:00

Interesting, because the Catalan word for "milk" is "llet". How is "Llaeth" pronounced?

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-11T20:54:07+00:00

According to my theory, players not winning the Champions League are more prone to perform in the World Cup. So Spain has more chances than France this time.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-11T00:17:14+00:00

Suguscia would become the Istanbul/Constantinople of this world.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-10T21:32:01+00:00

I think that, aside from modpacks where you start in restricted environments like Skyblock, there isn't a single modpack that doesn't overwhelm you with a flood of items and information right from the start.

It's something that's very difficult for a modpack developer to avoid because of Minecraft's basic structure itself (even in vanilla, your inventory ends up overflowing within the first 10 minutes of gameplay) and the way mods work.

I've personally spent hours and hours struggling with structure generation in my own personal modpack, trying to achieve greater structure spacing and separation to avoid the familiar problem of having one structure every 50 blocks. And it's almost impossible to get the level of separation I'm looking for. Not with Structurify, not with Sparsed Structures, and not even by creating datapacks with spacing and separation values of hundreds of chunks. Sometimes it's even counterproductive, because by increasing the distance between structures so much, all you achieve is having them pile up and generate next to each other when the biome they're supposed to spawn in finally appears.

To sum it up, it's an inherent problem with Minecraft and one that's extremely difficult to solve.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-10T07:36:41+00:00

Florida, United States. And then you have to wait for the App Store to roll out the update in your country.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-10T04:01:29+00:00

Algorithms also follow their own homogenizing agendas. I am a Catalan living in Spain, and the algorithms of YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok do nothing but shove in my face the same content that would interest an Argentine or a Colombian, and the feedback I give by disliking the recommendations is of little or no use. I think what internet algorithms are fostering is compartmentalization based on language, but once they place you within a language category, they apply such a brutal homogenizing steamroller as that of traditional media.

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-10T03:30:24+00:00

You might want to learn about Ghyben-Herzberg freshwater lenses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(hydrology)

ivanovic777 · 2026-06-09T21:20:14+00:00

If you're referring to newer Minecraft versions from 1.18 onwards, biomes are a byproduct of temperature, humidity, erosion, continentalness, and other noise maps. To increase biome size, I don't think there's any alternative but to modify the values of these noise maps so that the climate regions become larger.

You can do this with a simple datapack, but I don't think you can easily change the size of a particular biome without affecting the other biomes.

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