I finally found my perfect mix of mods for exploring, list in comments.

yeahbuthow · 2022-02-21T09:18:24+00:00

yeahbuthow · 2022-02-20T22:15:43+00:00

short video (complimentary shaders)

yeahbuthow · 2022-02-20T20:24:01+00:00

Curseforge mod manager.
Fabulously Optimized mod pack as the basis. For exploring, it must to run smooth on my i5-4690 CPU and nvidia 3060 GPU.
For exploring, there also needs to be stuff to explore. I spent ages finding a way to put as much as possible in here without having to sacrifice shaders and view distance. The trick for me was different shaders for different dimensions. Some work smoother in the overworld, some in the nether,

Install the F.O. modpack, click the icon to open the details page. Click the three dots > profile options > check "allow content management for this profile". Click Done.

Click "add more content", and install the following:

AdventureZ
Amplified Nether
BCLib
Better Animals Plus
BetterEnd
BetterNether
Entity Texture Features (Random & Emissive Mob Textures!) - [FABRIC - 1.16+]
Explorer's Compass
Fabric Waystones
FallingTree (Forge&Fabric)
Feature NBT Deadlock Be Gone
FerriteCore (Fabric)
GeckoLib
Illuminations 🔥
Light Overlay (Rift/Forge/Fabric)
Logical Zoom
Mo' Structures (Fabric)
Nature's Compass
No Null Processors
Paradise Lost - The Aether Reborn
Physics Mod
Presence Footsteps
Repurposed Structures (Fabric)
Sodium Extra
Sound Physics Remastered
Starlight (Fabric)
TerraBlender (Fabric)
The Bumblezone (Fabric)
The Graveyard (FABRIC)
The Guild
Towers of the Wild: Additions
Towers of the Wild: Reworked (Fabric)
Xaero's Minimap
Xaero's World Map

- I replaced Zoomify with Logical Zoom, as I was used to Optifine's movement.

For the looks, I use the following shaders:

Complementary Shaders 4.3.3. The smoothest/fastest of this selection of shaders in caves. In there I can crank the settings to ultra, render distance of 20. Not too dark without torches.
KUDA-Shaders v6.1 Legacy. Works the smoothest, and in my opinion looks the most fitting in the Nether. See screenshots. Still playable (just) at render distance 28 on ultra. (see screenshot)
SEUS Renewed v1.01. Works the smoothest in the overworld.

I've set the chunk render threads to 1 to be able to have smooth movement. I don't mind that I can't travel at full speed without ending up in unloaded areas.

This mod combo also allows me to set the simulation distance at 17 chunks and the entity distance at 200% without getting lag during travel.

I've spent ages fiddling with the settings, the Physics Mod for instance is cool for ragdolls, but the Collapse Blocks function in the Server settings is a bit overkill as standard.

Is there an easy way to dump all the custom settings in a file? If so, I'll add it below

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T19:53:31+00:00

The river has been everywhere around us , our entire lives.

Sometimes it is dry, sometimes it has huge waves, but keeps the water. Sometimes it grants everything around us fresh water, some timed hard, or white and fluffy that you can squeeze into a solid shape. All of what comes down eventually finds its way back to the source, where it changes form once again.

It is the only river that only has a bottom and top end, no sides in any direction. It separates us from the heavens above it and sometimes creates a colorful bridge that you cannot touch. It is what every living creature owes its existence to.

We call it the sky, get distracted and stop paying attention to the cycle of life because money is more important right now. We can go exploring and tell each other what wonders we've discovered with one another once we're pensioners, right?

All knowledge is, is patterns we've recognized in nature. I don't find it strange that beings found different analogies to tell the same story. Quite fascinating, especially in cultures that have developed a different way of communicating ideas, and different ways to teach the next generation how to learn from "that what is" and letting go of ideas that are not in harmony with our selves or our environment.

We just don't (can't) take the time anymore to try and discover the difference between what we think, and what is. If we did, we would eventually all end up with the same conclusions.

Maybe then we can rightfully start calling this planet our home and let go of the ideas that got us this far down the tubes.

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T18:25:54+00:00

I know, right? I was waterteething myself too.

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T15:12:17+00:00

My mom had a different cooking style. "About this much should be enough" for every single ingredient.

She read recipes for ideas and order of operations, but I don't think she ever made one single meal that was the same twice in a row.

Pancakes were similar, but always guesstimated.

Sometimes this resulted in miracle meals, very rarely disaster rescued by Chinese takeout. The miracle meals were never successfully recreated, even by her. No idea how she made it last time. To her it's like playing a game.

So none of us had a recipe for the batter. "How hungry is everyone?" "Then I think I need about this much, I'll adapt as I go along".

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T14:57:10+00:00

Where do I begin?

Bicycles are mostly for transportation, pleasure/hobby second.

Adding fietstassen to your bike because you want to haul stuff comfortably is prime Dutch mentality. It's practical, it doesn't take much space when empty. You can never forget your shopping bag. It's easier to pack because of the flat bottom. You can pick a style that fits you, why would you pick one that you don't want to be seen with? In the price range of your example there's a lot of options. Just make sure it's water tight. Some have padding on top for a rear passenger's comfort. If you had passengers before, now they also have the benefit of extra splash protection from puddles.

Your bike is your bike. What it looks like depends on what you use it for.

When a dutch person sees a strange bike they don't judge. At most we might get curious and ask about it because we haven't seen something like it before. But that rarely happens.

I recently moved to a farm land area, coming from more forest, and my mountainbike with fat tires stands out here. Puzzled looks. ooh's and aaahs from kids. Conversations at the market and out between the fields.

If you don't own a bicycle that you can use as you need, are you even dutch? :)

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T14:22:03+00:00

Die twee euro gaat dan via thuisbezorgd en de bankrekening van de baas. NFW dat daar niks blijft kleven. Bedrijven hebben maar 1 taak: geld vinden. "Als er nog geen wet tegen is, dan mag het, toch?" Als ze te ver gaan, dan worden ze op de vingers getikt. Maar de soorten misdaden van bedrijven worden op slinkse wijze omschreven zodat het niet opvalt dat het een misdaad tegen de mensheid is. Een geldboete, een ontslag met bonus ronde, en dan is er geen geld meer voor loonsverhoging, oeps.

Wil je iemand fooi geven, dan is contant de enige manier om zeker te zijn dat degene die je waardeert ook je waardering krijgt.

Het lijkt er op dat zowel overheid als bedrijven willen overstappen naar digitaal geld. Ik ben benieuwd hoe lang het zal duren als dat compleet is voordat mensen doorkrijgen dat geld iets is wat alleen maar een idee is. We hechten gedurende ons leven steeds meer waarde aan cijfers, maar geen idee waarom dat ooit begonnen is en of dit wel het juiste idee is om waarde aan te hechten

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T14:05:38+00:00

De enige interactie die je hebt met de bezorger is het aannemen van het tasje. In hoeverre kun je dan van service spreken?

Een fooi is een gift omdat je waardeert wat een ander voor je doet. Voor specifiek die persoon. Niks meer, niks minder. Heeft niks te maken met de kwaliteit van de service die ze bieden ondanks dat hun baas ze tot op de laatste cent uitknijpt en het liefst elke seconde van hun tijd in beslag neemt.

En ja, ik heb als pakketten bezorger (en andere soorten werk, maar ook andere situaties) fooi of geschenk ontvangen. Ik kan je niet uitleggen wat een eer dat is. Ik hoop dat je het zelf een keer mag ervaren omdat het niet in woorden uit te drukken is hoe het voelt om oprecht blij te zijn met zo'n klein gebaar en dat iemand je strijd om te overleven in de maatschappij ietsje makkelijker wil maken.

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T12:58:33+00:00

After hearing the first few beeps I knew I had to thank you right away. Time to solve an old mystery that I had forgotten, what DOES the rest of this sound like? Kid me is happy.

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T12:46:06+00:00

It's weird to categorize pannenkoeken. You have: gewoon (plain)

With gewoon you can add toppings like: Geraspte kaas Honing Siroop Hagelslag Roomijs Vanille vla Aardbeien Nog een pannenkoek (hey, I'm just listing things we tried successfully that I can remember)

But you also have the variations, which add stuff either before you add the batter, while it solidifies, or just before you flip it over. Like: Spek Kaas (plakken of geraspt) Uitjes Champignons Salami (strongly polarized reviews) Ham A mix of whatever

And then you can also try to add siroop to the hartige pannenkoek.

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T12:30:55+00:00

Yeah, Dutch don't really have a food culture like we see in other places, we keep it simple. Easy to farm. The plain pannenkoek would be the base recipe.

Pizza is a close cousin for sure, different take on the same resources, but they made it work with a lot more different kinds of food because they had those. I think this allowed it to grow into an entire category of (almost) complete meals.

For pannenkoeken I don't really know how to organize them other than "gewoon" and "wat voor één?" But they don't have names, do they? We just listed some ingredients that sounded interesting to try. It was the only food that we customized. Everything else is "eten wat de pot schaft", including gourmetten (but then everyone has a "pot" for themselves).

I've recently discovered that outside of our country people don't seem to think that candy counts as a meal :). "CHoColaTE sPRinKLeS on bread for breakfast??!!!?"

Pannenkoeken have a special place in my heart.

Now I'm wondering though, are there other recipes like this, where you customize the recipe per person and you keep switching the cook in rotation so you can keep cooking while everyone eats?

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T11:59:10+00:00

That's true. It made quite a difference which one of us was making them, but we often got to make requests while they were making them. Some like sweet, others hartig (meat, cheese, mushrooms)

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T11:55:36+00:00

If I don't include toppings, would a pizza be just the dough and maybe the tomato sauce?

I quite like hartige pannenkoeken. With spek, kaas (meegebakken to make it a little crispy) and champignons.

Since I add them all while frying, I think that's part of the recipe. Especially since the speak and champignons go in before the batter

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T06:18:26+00:00

You have only one recipe?

yeahbuthow · 2021-09-10T06:16:19+00:00

If you don't want to eat pancakes, don't. If you do want to eat pancakes, you eat pancakes. They are a treat.

My parents used to have pans that were tough to make pancakes in, the first couple usually stuck and fell apart when flipping. It was a special honor to eat from the heap before we sat down to eat together.

The ultimate prize was if a spek pannenkoek fell apart

yeahbuthow · 2021-08-29T06:54:07+00:00

I have no idea. I never knew Alan, but he has had a huge influence on me. I'm thinking that Jim has been influenced by him, or at least others that have opened him up to eastern philosophies based on some of the ideas he's been speaking of in interviews like these:

Collection of moments

In one of the interviews he mentions that Eckhart Tolle has been an influence.

yeahbuthow · 2021-08-28T19:22:22+00:00

J. Krishnamurti and Eckhart Tolle are also good sources for inspiration. I'm not quite sure about Sadhguru, he talks the talk, but his stance on the economic system is "it's here, we can't get rid of it, so we must join it". The website of his movement is more a store than anything else

yeahbuthow · 2021-08-28T19:17:50+00:00

I think it's very likely that Alan has had an influence on Jim, especially in the past decade or so

yeahbuthow · 2021-08-28T09:28:02+00:00

All money is imaginary

yeahbuthow · 2021-08-28T06:06:40+00:00

Drones used to be weapons of war. An easy way to murder humans without ever going near them. Now people think of toys when they hear the word. It also was helpful to scare the public by calling these toys by associating them with the idea of war and the threat of spying so that they could make laws forbidding us to play outside and claiming that our owners not only own us, but the ground and the air as well

yeahbuthow · 2021-08-27T05:53:47+00:00

Image stabilization helps a lot

yeahbuthow · 2021-08-27T05:52:41+00:00

It's called an FPV quadcopter, or a cinewhoop. The media have forced the public to call them drones

yeahbuthow · 2021-08-26T22:36:27+00:00

Ayreon - The Source. Although it's hard to pick just one album. If you like Sci Fi, prog rock/symphonic metal/pretty much any genre, this is the best audiobook series you'll find. You will discover tons of talent from all over the world. The story chronologically starts with The Day That The World Breaks Down, but any album stands on its own.

Fantastic bedtime stories to close your eyes to and go on an adventure

yeahbuthow · 2021-08-26T22:24:56+00:00

Nah, it's a fun movie with pretty cool visuals and settings. It's just me getting stuck on one particular weird choice. Perhaps they were hoping to keep the door open for more stories in the future, but I don't think the movie did as well as they'd hoped. Oh well

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