something i think people miss in the replies here is that Minecraft is largely a sandbox game.

when it comes to worldgen, some features are meant to serve as setpeices to build around and explore; large lush caves and the newer mountains are great backdrops to build in, and structures like ancient cities are awesome to find and loot.

other features, however, are meant to inspire players to change them in their own way. the most obvious example of this are villages; some players sprawl them out into bustling towns, others shove the lot of 'em into a large trading hall, and some just make their own house to move in.

there are even secret villager types in biomes that don’t have them (jungle + swamp) to encourage players to set up their own.

villages would be less effective, though, if they were already beautiful metropolises that players didn’t ever have to change. the most Mojang ever did towards this were the changes in 1.14; even then, they were careful not to overdo it.

so sure, there are a ton of ways Mojang could make sulfur springs better past this. they could sprawl them out more, have a custom structure nearby using the new blocks, make the springs have richer colours…

… or maybe you should go out, find one, and build what you want to see.

i think a lot of it comes down to how much easier it is to drop Harry Potter than entire social platforms and such.

for example, it’ll take time and energy for me to move from Windows to Linux, which i simply don’t have right now. but all i need to do to stick it to Rowling is not care about Harry Potter.

now, that doesn’t mean i would go out of my way to harass people who still support the franchise, but i could see how that would embolden other people to do so, and i still think it’s important to let people know that J.K. Rowling actively advocates against trans people existing.

carter vail’s stuff is great! some required watching for those not familiar:

dirt man (self explanatory)

song about his taste in women

a cowboy song

and one of his more serious music videos, for good measure

i tend to only comment when i feel like i have something to add, and i only post after putting in far too much effort into perfecting what i made.

i have ideas for shitposts down in writing. the first thing i posted was sort of shitposty, even. with the time it takes for me specifically to make a shitpost though, i figure i might as well create something more meaningful.

and i hope that adds more value to the fediverse than if i posted as often as i could. some folks are better at that than i’ll ever be, anyways.

tell you what. for every post on Funhole specifically, i will add an extra panel in the comments where Tony (the cat) gives his FOSS oriented thoughts on the post.

that way, i don’t have to rewrite anything to include a Tony, and the UNIX mentions are contained in the Funhole, where they belong. does that work?

thanks a bunch for your feedback, and glad you’re looking forward to more! should be done with the next one soon™.

one guacamole is 6.02214076×10²³ guacas

source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lLlwvmu1ZeA&lc=UgzxUpp15TXNo4txA_14AaABAg

additional context; Katie Scott, a former exec at ubisoft, will be the “Head of Vanilla Minecraft” in 2026. this source writes:

Scott left Ubisoft in November, but her role as vice president of the company’s global creative game office saw her specialize in “competitive, live service, and free to play experiences to create games with lasting impact, high retention, and monetization results.” She also writes that she focused on “live service strategies and ambitious retention and monetization” in Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six games

now that sounds bad on paper, but it’s unclear to me what exactly she’ll be doing in this position. best i could find was this linkedin post advertising the position 7 months ago, which reads:

Join us in shaping the future. Minecraft isn’t just a game. It’s a platform for creativity, learning, and building community. We’re seeking a senior leader, based in Stockholm, to guide our talented teams toward Minecraft’s evolution. Help us build a better world through the power of play.

my interpretation of this is that she’ll still be under other managers, and wouldn’t be making any big decisions alone. regardless, this is not a good look for Mojang, especially at a time where the community are getting impatient with Bedrock’s issues.

new response just dropped

friend, you have won the internet argument. i say that with no sarcasm whatsoever. the other person misunderstood you, then politely conceded after you made a more detailed comment, adding that this being a crosspost might have caused the bug.

they didn’t say “oh huh, must be my app”, they said “ohh yeah, it probably is my app, thank you.”

what more could you have asked for? what response would you rather have gotten?

i wonder if there’s a limit to adding “slop” to things

live service games are liveslop, fast food is foodslop, making smalltalk is conversationslop, charities are kindnessslop, being awake is wokeslop, dreams are sleepslop, everything is thingslop

and this post, too, is just contentslop

Mr Beast.

not because he’d be particularly good or competent at running a country; i’d like to see if/how he would milk being the president for content.

another reason to not just use the elytra is always a plus, and another bit of regular, tiered gear is great - hoping they do that for armour next, which tends to be really samey compared to the tool/weapon variety the game has.

it’s unfortunate that both the Nautilus and spears were both leaked beforehand, since it got people speculating about a much larger ocean update which was never gonna be the case. Mojang’s official teasers also basically confirmed the Nautilus leak, which didn’t help.

while i’m fine with them doing smaller updates and touching up old areas of the game, i did find myself saying “cool, but that was it?”, like i did when the happy ghast was announced. really hoping they have something good planned for 1.22 - i would be satisfied with something similar in size to 1.21, but it feels like the community will implode if they don’t do an end update at some point soon.

edited to add: there will probably be more stuff added in snapshots than what they’ve announced here, like there has been for every other “game drop”, so that’s probably not it. still, wish they at least said that… unless they did, and i missed it…

Person who took this video is an actual hero. I don’t want to imagine what could have happened to that woman without them.

Also: don’t make the mistake of looking at the replies to this on Twitter. I forgot just how bad it was, but nearly every top reply is by verified accounts trying to justify this somehow. It’s actually insane to me the complete lack of empathy these people show - past party lines and political differences, isn’t this obviously a bad thing that shouldn’t have happened?

Still doesn’t explain the reaction from my friends

I think it’s just really easy to want to backseat-game there with how things are set up, unfortunately.

This was, apparently, the wrong move

Well, not exactly. Keep in mind that Undertale was never supposed to get as popular as it did. The player isn’t really supposed to know about how to get the ““true”” endings from the get go, or that they exist.

can’t wait to sink my teeth into that game… right after I finally get around to getting better PC parts

tried the demo and the framerate was noticeably bad even after messing about with the settings

I mainly blame myself for putting up with Intel integrated graphics until now, but then again, putting “texture quality” below “very high” removes the characters’ pupils, so maybe the game’s just poorly optimised 🤷

He is somewhat right about the ethics of true crime content, but that has nothing to do with him reporting lies as fact.

The better play would’ve been to be upfront with everything being fictional, then go all in - make stories about prisoners using wormholes to smuggle in contraband, or a vampire hunter accidentally killing an innocent human.

If Paul did something like that, he could have kept the channel and made his argument on there to a much wider audience. But maybe this idea would be too much effort for someone who makes AI slop…

doesn’t seem to be much activity in this thread, which doesn’t give me hope… reguardless, I thought I’d make some pixel art for this

I don’t mind if these actually get used or not, since making these designs was pretty good practice - I’d be happy to whip up a higher res version of any of these and/or make tweaks if there’s interest, though

for the first icon design, I tried to follow the gooped-up AI button layout as closely as possible while making it look like something you could actually hold, and I kept the general colour scheme the same - originally, I was going to keep the same orientation, too, but figured out quickly that it was too hard to be worth it at this scale

in the second icon, I removed the random squiggles / half-buttons and fit stuff in places that made sense for a real controller, though I didn’t follow a reference for this to try keep the controller generic - this is my personal favourite

the third is my attempt at mixing the lemmy icon’s features with design 2 - it turned out better than I expected, but I’m not sure how much it reads as a lemming, especially at smaller scales

to change it up, the fourth design has the lemmy icon in a gamer headset, which is technically more inclusive to people who don’t use controllers, but also loses some of the recognisability from the previous icon (there’s a twitter joke in here somewhere)

finally, the fifth design is just number 4’s lemming before I covered up the ears - I mainly included this since there’s no reason not to