*mumbling*

Minecraft is possibly the worst tutorialized game ever released

The entire game play requires you to know this it never tells you

Ie: tool progression, there is nothing actually telling you that diamond ore and redstone require an iron pickaxe, you need to figure that out through fucking up or cultural osmosis

Or nether portals prior to the addition of ruined portals having nothing to tell you how to make them

This is all to say that if a data or mod pack does a shit job telling you how to get started, that is actually completely in line with Minecraft's design philosophy

Genuinely, how is someone expected to know that right clicking dirt with a water bottle is how you make mud, a mechanic notably unused in any other blocks

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

Btw I recently found out about the fern Sticherus truncatus and i don't like it. Why is it so bad to look at??? I hate it so much??? Cursed Cursed Cursed

If i post a picture of it I feel like there should be some kind of warning on it, in a similar category as trypophobia, but what

Okay there's an actual mathematical reason it looks Wrong. That's neat thanks for sharing

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

i think there'd be alot less discourse around "fanfic vs literature" if more people treated fanfiction as it's own medium with it's own strength and weaknesses, rather than comparing it to traditional literature, because most of what i love about fan-fiction just straight up does not work in original fiction. at all.

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

disgustedly throws youtube autodubbing onto the pyre pile