eh?

When you mod a game you're usually overwriting something or injecting something, generally speaking.

So for The Sims, let's say, I'll make a mod that makes the hunger motive drop 2x faster. I alter a tuning file like this. Not what the actual xml structure looks like btw.

After saving and installing my mod, I start the game. When the game is loading mods, instead of loading the version of the hunger tuning present in the game files I got from Steam (left), it loads my version (right) instead.

You know, overrides it. Sims now get hungry 2x as fast.

NOW if EA were to release a Sims 4 patch, that altered the hunger tuning like this

My mod would break, because the name of the stat I altered was changed to "loss_per_tick". The game now expects that file to define a stat named "loss_per_tick", but my file doesn't provide one. Instead it defines a stat named "decay_rate", which the game doesn't know what to do with.

Whatever happens now, is behavior neither EA, nor the modder, expected or intended. The mod needs to be updated to reflect the change in stat name.

IN CONCLUSION it is neither modders' nor the devs' faults that game patches break mods. That's just how modding works on a fundamental level and I'm tired of seeing the same shitty arguments about who to blame every time a game patches.

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

Hi there! The person behind this sheet is そらまめ(Soramame). I requested the English version, and they graciously created it for us! You can grab it here or from Soramame's X page.

Also, they're a talented artist, so I highly recommend checking out their art!✨

Moon Joy June artists!  This is the second week of Moon Joy June, and the prompt is “Moon.” If you’re an artist looking for some inspiration, we have a treat for you: four new and previously unseen images from our Artemis II mission!

All four of these images were captured on April 6, 2026, during flight day 6 of the mission, when the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft conducted the lunar flyby of their ten-day journey. During the lunar flyby, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen captured photographs and collected scientific observations of the Moon in meticulous detail.