Nuggets of Embedded Weirdness

It started as the name of my next band, and ended up here instead. I don't have a specific theme, and most of what you find here are reblogs. You'll see mostly fannish stuff, food, amusements, understanding reality, art, photography, etc.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

Meet the TikToker Going Viral by Baking His Way Through Great Depression-Era Cookbooks

When B. Dylan Hollis started making lost-to-time recipes like broiled humdingers and pork cakes, he had no clue he was on the path to TikTok

this part seemed relevant to this blue hellsite ⤵️

It's safe to say that a bunch of people bonding over 100-year-old recipes is not what typically comes to mind when you imagine TikTok food content. But, also, Hollis's current online popularity isn't solely thanks to TikTok. He's also attracted a sizable fandom on the sometimes forgotten, but immensely powerful corner of the internet known as Tumblr. In fact, he's so popular that, in April, he entered into the site's top-20 list of web celebrities, according to Cates Holderness, head of editorial at Tumblr. Holderness told Eater the spike was likely because Hollis did a live video where he finally acknowledged his growing fandom on Tumblr.

"It was really funny to see people freaking out in an excited way, like, 'Oh my gosh, this guy that we love has acknowledged us and thanked us in this really sweet and sincere way'," she said. "He's aware that the Tumblr audience is there, but he's very nervous to interact with it."

Hollis's videos are regularly downloaded from TikTok and re-uploaded on Tumblr, where they have long, very viral second lives, which is actually common for popular TikTok, in general. But, according to Holderness, the thing that really ignited Hollis's fandom on the platform was a text post from 2021 written by a user named @thestuffedalligator. It was shared 25,000 times and reads:

The main thing I get from Dylan Hollis cooking old recipes is this:

Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are great, and I suspect it's because they were made by someone with limited resources. But they found a way to make something good, maybe even something fantastic with those limited resources, and they wanted to write it down and share with their friends so that they could also make something out of saltines and potatoes. Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are written down and shared in love.

The recipes you should fear come from the 1950s and 1960s, which I'm pretty sure are written down and shared as a form of McCarthyism.

"The history side of Tumblr is a very large community," Holderness said. "So it's kind of not surprising that a lot of the recipes that he makes, the older recipes, from the '20s, from the Great Depression, tend to be very popular. The recipes that are either extremely good or extremely terrible, in general, get the most traction."

For what it's worth, Hollis agreed with @thestuffedalligator's post, saying the Great Depression recipes are his favorite and the ones from the '60s are his least favorite; though he doesn't think that McCarthyism is to blame for why recipes from that era are so inedible. Instead, he thinks it was because bringing Jell-O to a potluck was a way to signify that you had enough money to own a refrigerator, and gelatin was marketed to women as a way to stay slim.

[cutecutejames]

B Dylan Hollis moodboard/t-shirt ideas

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

[vicshush]

[ID: A captioned TikTok video by user @stixywixy of a bearded man wearing a sweatshirt that reads "Sorry". He is speaking against a background that is a screenshot of a Tumblr exchange. The exchange starts with user victini posting "You can control white people by giving them cheese". User 0ndo replies "cheese is so good tho". Victini replies "I got one".

Stixywixy indicates the exchange as he lectures: "I've seen this circulating a lot, and as the veil between the worlds grows thinner this time of year, we need to talk about it for everyone's safety. Summoning, binding, warding, and dismissal are four distinct disciplines. They don't overlap. Cheese will summon white people; it will give you no command over them. Now you've got a swarm of uncontrollable cheese eating white people. Congratulations, you just made France. Now what? Conjure responsibly." Stixywixy looks away and drinks from an insulated tumbler. /end ID]

[nuggetsofembeddedweirdness]

😂 🎃🧀

[insomniac-arrest]

people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to

your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:

Befriend

Tell story

Make Thing

Investigate

Share knowledge

Laugh

Sing

Dance

Empathize with

Create

we are cholk-full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands

your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way

[persephinae]

[reasonsforhope]

Canada Agrees 200 Islands Belong to the Indigenous Haida Nation

Rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits the Haida Nation always owned these islands.

"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

[letsjustbecatsok]

Press release by the Haida Nation about the vote

Two really great things about this:

1- they didn't have to go to court. Cases like this usually take years or decades and are incredibly expensive for First Nations, even if they win.

2- to quote the press release: "In the agreement, British Columbia recognizes and affirms that the Haida Nation has Aboriginal title to the lands of Haida Gwaii. This recognition does not create title – Haida Title is inherent." That's a big deal!! The difference between Canada granting title versus recognising Aboriginal title is incredibly important in matters of sovereignty. Haida sovereignty and Aboriginal title is inherent; it does not need to be "given" by the Canadian government.

[reasonsforhope]

All true!! Thank you so much for the excellent additions

[spiralstaircased]

due to inflation you must answer my riddles five

[zouffle]

due to budget cuts i will grant you two wishes

[lesbiancinnabun-deactivated2023]

due to recent layoffs there is only one of me and I lie 50% of the time

[copperbadge]

Due to supply chain issues, Khajit no longer has wares.

[mxlxdroit]

Good Omens is even funnier when you realize Gabriel is the angel who told Mary she was pregnant with Jesus

Imagine this guy

showing up to your house like, “hey guess what?”

[gaslightgallows]

Mary: but how can this be since I am a virgin?

Gabriel:

[starrose17]

He doesn’t tell her, he just walks up to her in all his glowing angelness and goes:

[sexycraisinthanos]

Gabriel: *pulls her shower curtain open* Hey- stop screaming it’s just me - you’re pregnant with the child of God.

[marveladdicts]

The God of Stories

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

[jokerous]

WONKA 2023 | dir. Paul King

[mossingvines]

I wish sometimes I hadn’t seen the Wonka movie because I’ll be tryna focus on something really important and suddenly- NOODLE NOODLE APPLE STRUDEL SOME PEOPLE DON’T AND SOME PEOPLE DOODLE

[randomluck-ofthe-universe]

#🥺♥️

[mistysblueboxstuff]

I will get you home

[urbek]

Create a mod

Useful links

In-game names with English names

Temperate biome rules

Some voxel models used in Urbek as reference

Make your mod

Making mods in Urbek is very easy, and best of all, you can draw in the same style using MagicaVoxel, a very fun and easy to use program. If you want to make a mod simply and quickly, go here.

Otherwise, if you want to make more complex mods and want to understand how, read on.

Let’s first start by looking at what a mod is.

A mod is a folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Urbek\Urbek_Data\StreamingAssets You can get to the exact location by looking at where it sends you when you press this button on the game:

This folder must have certain elements.

Look at the 4 mods that already come in the game, ignore the .meta files, you will see that they have:

Folder name, this defines the name of your mod, we recommend: modName_author

Short description stored in description.txt

3D models, in the folder 3dModels

Rules, one or more .txt files that must start with replace, add3dModels, or newBuilding, what comes after that doesn’t matter, it’s only useful for you to organise yourself.

Draw a 3d model

Download MagicaVoxel, last version

Draw your construction (one tile in the game is 40x40 voxels)

If it’s a corner building it should be to the right and down, you can check it by loading the file again, it should look like this

If you want some elements to go over the edges, you can make it 46x46, for example, and then you have 3 voxels for each side.

Export file as .obj

If you use the old version of magicavoxel 0.92, the file must have “mv92” in its name.

The file should be in a subfolder called 3dModels, inside your mod folder.

Every time you save an .obj file, 3 files actually appear (.obj, .png. .mtl), all three of which are useful. It would looks like that

Types of Mods There are three types of modifications possible. The mods Urbek already has use all three types, so you can learn by seeing what’s in them.

Replacing models This is the easiest one, you can replace some existing models of the game with other ones. You must create a file called replace.txt (the important thing is that it starts with replace, it can also be called replace_testing.txt or replace_firstattempt.txt, for example). First you must recognize the name of the model, check the Temperate biome rules and look for the construction you are interested in, in “codeName:” you will see the name I use inside the game, if you want to see the equivalent of the name in English with the names inside the game, go to In-game names with English names). So to modify the farms look for “codeName”: “campo” in the file.

A few lines below that, in “models”: you will see that there is one called KCampo_2x3. to replace that model, you must write in your replace.txt file

code_name_of_the_build,old_model_name,your_model_name

So, for example, one line of the onlyFarms mod says:

campo,KTrigo,KCampo_1x1_mod_mv92

it means: replace the KTrigo model of the farms (campo) with one of yours called KCampo_1x1_mod_mv92 I added mv92 to the model because I did it in magicavoxel 0.92, which is different from the others, I’m very used to that version, but if you do it in any more advanced version, you don’t need to add mv92 to the file name.

Add model You can only add buildings and cars, not roads or nature (or maybe it is possible but I haven’t tried :P ). If you use a mod that adds new models and then delete the mod, there will be problems loading the game where you have already used it. The file must start with add3dModels and each line must have 4 or 5 values: inGame name of the building, name of the new model, width, length, if it’s a corner. For instance:

cabanha,KCasa0020_mv92,1,1

In case it is corner, you add an E at the end, like this

cabanha,KCasa0020_mv92,1,1,E

Adding construction This is the most difficult thing, the best way to learn is to check in the game rules what each thing means, the only different with respect to existing buildings is the UpgradesFrom field, in case you want the construction be an upgrade from another, it is a vector whose elements have 2 or 3 fields:

original_construction,mode,reference,

For example, if we want our new building to be one of the possible upgrades of the downtown house (inGame name: ciudad) as second priority, First let’s check what a downtown house can be upgraded with

“updates”: [“pechonhos”, “ciudad2”, “ciudad”, “parking”, “pobla”, “poblaPobre”, “villa”, “pueblo”, “puebloPobre”, “callampa”, “cabanha”],

It means it will upgrade first to pechonho (religious neighbourgood) as first priority, then ciudad2 (2-storey downtown house), then it appears itself, i.e., if it does not satisfy the requirements, it will downgrade to parking lots, and so on.

We then set

UpgradesFrom: [“pobla,after,city2”],

In this case it would be equivalent to putting

UpgradesFrom: [“pobla,before,pechonhos”],

And if we also want it to be the first priority for the upgrades of the suburban house (poblaPobre), we will put

UpgradesFrom: [“ciudad,before,pechonhos”, “poblaPobre,first”],

The other values of the constructions like requirements, prices, etc, you can check other constructions to compare, for now let’s continue with the lights.

Lights If you have a 3d model that has the same name as your building but also has a “ luz” (with space) at the end of the name (in the same folder) then the game will automatically recognise it as the places that should be the yellow light. If it ends in “ luzRoja” it will be the red lights.

[tasty-tiktoks]

[nuggetsofembeddedweirdness]

So many of us understand this. 😂

[dayiiting]