Minecraft nut and general nerd.
Heaven would be living in Minecraft; Hell would be programming for it.
"I can vouch that corrective measures may be necessary" ~Joe Hills
I absolutely earned this dressing down. I have brought shame to myself and damaged my standing in the Hermitfan community.
and also maybe I'm a little bit pleased to be recognized as a chaos gremlin?
Joe: "OpenBagTwo is a community member of mine."
Cleo: "Oh yeah, me too."
Joe: "You're totally fair to time him out for that. That's the sort of reinforcement that OpenBagTwo occasionally needs..."
Cleo: laughs
Joe: "I can vouch that corrective measures may be necessary."
Full transcript:
Joe: "Heyy, got our first tip of the stream from Emily who says, 'Thought I'd tip you 7 degrees instead of my normal boring five.' Hey! Thank you Emily!"
Cleo: "Is five a boring number compared to seven?"
Joe: "I don't know. Maybe because there's no $7 bill so if you gave someone $7 using cash it would be three pieces of paper? That's... more fun... It feels like it's more money because it's more pieces of paper, but it also is, numerically, more money."
Joe: "'It's variation from the norm,' says Kobali My Chemical."
Cleo: "But why is five the norm, though? It's just a number."
Joe: "Well, no, I think Emily usually tips five."
Cleo: "Okay, that's fair."
Me in chat: "Don't know what the most interesting single-digit number is, but it's probably 6-7"
Cleo: ::deep sigh:: "No, OpenBagTwo, you're going to get yourself timed out if you carry on. I see what you're doing."
Joe: ::snorts:: "Yeah, no. I know Open. OpenBagTwo is a community member of mine."
Cleo: "Oh yeah, me too."
Joe: "You're totally fair to time him out for that. That's the sort of reinforcement that OpenBagTwo occasionally needs..."
Cleo: laughs
Joe: "I can vouch that corrective measures may be necessary."
Cleo: "Oh, I know. I know."
Me in chat: Moi?
Cleo: "You are not allowed to use other languages in the chat, because we might not be able to understand what you're talking about. Mwah."
Cleo: "You want to be facetious, I can be facetious. I'm good at it!"
Joe: "I put the face in facetious! (is that something?)"
AQI > 150 today in the DC burbs. Wear a mask if you have to go outside, and check in on your friends with breathing issues and substandard air filtration.
Broadly speaking, this timeline sucks. But I do love that we exist in a world where the online populace semi-regularly has massive, violent crashouts over word games.
Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody got a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter.
He also solidified the idea of rabbits loving carrots when carrots actually carry very little nutritional value for rabbits. The funniest part of that is that the original joke was a reference to a Clark Gable film where Gable munches on a carrot, it was never meant to imply that rabbits love carrots. The Clark Gable reference would’ve been obvious to audiences in the 40s but it has been pretty much lost to time.
"Average Minecraft player builds a nice house to live in" factoid actualy just statistical error. Average Minecraft player lives in a dirt hut. Megabuilds PearlescentMoon, who lives in a 6 story mansion on day 2 of a server and never sleeps, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
It’s trendy to claim that individual choices can’t do much to improve the environment, but I’ve been reading a lot lately about the global best-in-class ecological impact that families in Ukraine have been making by eating less meat and decommissioning oil refineries. Very promising!
Probably a weird art request, but can you do more muscular PearlescentMoon art? I really love how you did it with buff past life Pearl, and I was wondering if you were willing to try it again (maybe with a different smp version of her). Anyways, love your art!
Firefighter Pearl 🔥 Hermitcraft S11 ft. Karn
I’m always happy to take any excuse to draw Pearl and buff women so i am easily convinced to do so ✨💪
Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like
Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.
The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.
In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.
Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.
Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life
Woke up this morning to a Google Calendar reminder I couldn't remember setting, linking me to this video and telling me to wish Oli "TheOrionSound" a Happy Birthday.
I have no idea what sort of Internet Stalking Sleuthing Past Me carried out to determine that this day precisely was his Birthday, but who am I to argue with my own time-travelling consciousness?
So Happy Birthday, Oli! Our musical king and Fastidious Queen!
"Oh hey, didja hear about the kayaker who got accidentally eaten and then promptly spit back up by a humpback whale? You know, as long as neither me nor the whale were permanently harmed, I think I'd be into that."
