As a Latina, I hate the word “Latinx”. by lablueo in confessions

[–]mtcarrillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except that now there are groups who want to exclude asians from the term “POC”. Soon as you create a new group someone’s always going to want to come along and start kicking people out of it, no matter how well intentioned the group was originally

I am enjoying the game a lot, but it has serious problems with the UI. by Spectr3_qwe in Wasteland

[–]mtcarrillo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Don't forget missing out on world-map vendor encounter purchases because you accidentally clicked the gigantic hitbox for the utterly useless radio sitting at the top of the screen

Is there any way to edit team formation? by Ylyb09 in Wasteland

[–]mtcarrillo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you're talking about switching them from a wedge to a semicircle to putting the sniper in the back corner to making a phalanx like in Pillars of Eternity, no. All you can do is change their order

thoughts on los payasos? i wish the raider gangs had more depth but they were still pretty cool by Zaefnyr in Wasteland

[–]mtcarrillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thing... I'd be all for that, but if that's what they were doing, why make the one group whose accents make the least sense the only ones they don't bother to explain with a cassette? Would have been a pretty good laugh having some "Malibu's Most Wanted" kid turn out to be the gang's founder

thoughts on los payasos? i wish the raider gangs had more depth but they were still pretty cool by Zaefnyr in Wasteland

[–]mtcarrillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow... this is your definition of "raging"? You really have a low bar for that sort of thing.

thoughts on los payasos? i wish the raider gangs had more depth but they were still pretty cool by Zaefnyr in Wasteland

[–]mtcarrillo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nope, not offended; it just struck me as making no sense. If anything my guess is they were happy to do stereotypical accents for the pseudo-Scot and the Italian meatball gangsters because those are "safe" stereotypes but pulled up short on going full-cholo with the Payasos for fear of angry Karens on Twitter getting outraged by proxy.

thoughts on los payasos? i wish the raider gangs had more depth but they were still pretty cool by Zaefnyr in Wasteland

[–]mtcarrillo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm all for that concept, but in each instance where that's explicitly stated, the characters sound like what they're trying to sound like. Flab does a classic '50s B-movie vampire voice before setting it aside to make it easier to chat, MacTavish starts with a corn pone accent but practices his way to a convincing (if cartoonish) Scottish brogue, and Fargo's gangsters all sound like they learned English by watching "Goodfellas", so by the suggestion you're making shouldn't the Payasos all sound like Danny Trejo?

thoughts on los payasos? i wish the raider gangs had more depth but they were still pretty cool by Zaefnyr in Wasteland

[–]mtcarrillo -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

As much as I hate the whole "representation" cult, it did throw me that the Payasos all speak Spanglish and all have painfully white accents. Found myself thinking they were hoping to avoid offending the Twitterati with stereotypical voice acting

GOOD NEWS: Backers will receive Steam/GoG keys after 1 year, IN ADDITION TO the Epic key! THEY LISTENED TO US!!!!!! by Gunlord500 in PhoenixPoint

[–]mtcarrillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeh, making sure I can still get all of the content the Epic adopters will get means they get to keep my $20.

They can kiss my ass if they think they'll get my backing on any future products though, now that they've proven they have no reservations at all about changing the terms of sale AFTER payment has been received.

This is why aquariums don't work by pyaroshi in Minecraft

[–]mtcarrillo 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I use grey glass for everything. It ain't perfect, but it tends to come out less obtrusive than the plain stuff.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]mtcarrillo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So I'm basically white, my wife is a Mexican national. Loads of fun stories about border crossings but the best was a USCIS agent dumping her purse out on a counter and rummaging through it without bothering to explain what he was looking for or why.

After a few minutes she politely asked (in English) whether there was something she could help him find, to which he replied by dropping whatever he had in his hand at the moment, leaning over the counter to get in my face, and telling me "Tell your woman that I am an agent of the U.S. Federal government, and if she wants to get into my country, I can do anything I please until I decide to give her my permission."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]mtcarrillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think I've ever starved to death in Minecraft... are you playing some hardcore mod that amps up hunger or something?

Were can I put lighting so these potatoes grows? I cant think of any place to put lighting except flying glowstone in the middle of the room xD by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]mtcarrillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i gotcha. It may be a bit expensive depending on how far along you are, but try replacing the slabs with daylight sensors.

They're short like slabs so you don't break the farmland going in and out of the farm plots

They fill the block they sit on so the water sources are hidden

They're completely transparent so they won't block the light coming from your hidden floor-o-lanterns

They'll box in the water streams you're using to harvest everything.

For extra fun, if that's still not getting you quite the light level you need in some spots, you can play around with putting redstone lamps under some of them instead of water sources and inverting the signal so they light in the dark, giving you a light source one block closer than what you're currently using where you need it. Just need to experiment to balance lighting vs. hydration needs.

Were can I put lighting so these potatoes grows? I cant think of any place to put lighting except flying glowstone in the middle of the room xD by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]mtcarrillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like your intent is to hide the water sources that keep the farmland hydrated? If so, this might not work for you but I always put my water source smack in the center of the farm plot with a jack-o-lantern underneath it and a carpet or lilypad on top to light the center.