in minecraft functional programming magic mod trickster we just finished making a spell that will scan a region and consume any grown sugarcane into mana

the argument passing into subcircles is a mess,,

anyways we put this spell into a spell construct, gave it a diamond knot, and that knot is now being charged up with mana whenever a new sugarcane grows in the dedicated farm we built :3

some things involved in the making of this spell:

• a spell that, given another spell, casts it repeatedly forever via recursion.
• a spell that, given another spell and two corner coordinates, casts that spell for each block in the box between those corners.
• a spell that, given a block, checks if it's non-root sugarcane, and if so consumes it for mana.

we all know the classic thought experiment, what would you do if you were given a million dollars. it’s not very interesting these days

here’s one I find more interesting: what would you do with a hundred million dollars, when you’re only allowed to keep up to 1% of it for personal use?

so, assuming you keep that 1% for whatever you personally need or want, you have $99,000,000 left to use on things that don’t benefit you directly. you can’t be a capitalist about it and buy a company or invest it all or anything like that, you need to spend the money on the world around you

compared to the other version of this game, the goal shifts from selfishness to selflessness. you could just donate it all to various nonprofits, or you could get more creative and try to build your own thing with the money. the game is about trying to figure out how to make the largest possible lasting difference with the money

every once in a while, I find myself thinking about this kind of thing for one reason or another, and my answer shifts a little based on whatever I’m feeling at the time. lately, foster care and elder care have been on the mind more than usual

I think it would be neat to build out a whole campus to house foster care, elder care, a dedicated hospital and school (both with actually helpful mental health services), and plenty of park space. set up an interest bearing trust to keep the place funded as a nonprofit without having to rely primarily on government subsidies and grants. if there’s enough money left over, add an apartment complex or two to the campus and house the homeless there. of course, nobody living there would have to pay anything, though they could donate if they wanted to, and all donations (from residents or otherwise) just go straight into the trust. the biggest challenge of running the place (aside from the politics of it) would definitely be ensuring that the people working there don’t abuse anybody, and that if they do, there is a way for the victims to report that safely and confidently, and sufficient trust in the system that they would actually do it

it’s a nice fantasy

my doctor will get a $50 tip on their copay if they can perform the visit in fucking esperanto

I hate the academic style of writing that seems to value concision over clarity. because it ends up so terse and choked with jargon, with no clarifications or examples, that it’s basically unreadable to me. I bet even serious academics have trouble reading this style of writing

like for example I tried reading the standard for the Scheme language, which was very interesting in the places that I could understand, but it was also filled with phrases like “lexical syntax” – without any context to infer what that means

@erin woah huh! it being a browser bug never even occurred to me as an option. that’s good to know though

I miss the 2006 era internet. when userscripts worked, user-styles were easy to make, and there were only like 3 troubleshooting steps if a page broke

YouTube just broke for me in such a way that:

• reloading the page didn’t work
• force-reloading the page didn’t work
• highlighting the address bar and pressing enter didn’t work
• the only way to fix it was to copy the URL, close the tab, and paste the URL in a new tab

how does that even happen? this isn’t the first time either

@bea
Hail satan.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g6cjum5aHsE

Feels like many of my followers could use these images in some wonderful memes. Or in flirting. Or you can just be happy knowing that the Deaf community tends to be very queer-positive and that even "mainstream" apps teach LGBTQ+ terms, etc.

But also, yeah, I know some of you -- even hearies -- are gonna be dropping these screenshots in non-ASL conversations, heh. 🤟

In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away: In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles of reciprocity. [...] the economic unit is "we" rather than "I", as all flourishing is mutual.

-- Robin Wall Kimmerer "The Serviceberry"

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Digital planned obsolescence (of video games) must end!

fuck the ensweattification of multiplayer

multiplayer games need more casual gamemodes. and by that I specifically mean:

• gamemodes where winning vs. losing mostly comes down to luck
• gamemodes that go on forever, like 24/7 TF2 servers
• gamemodes with “blue shell” mechanics that make things harder and harder for the more skilled players while making things easier for less skilled players
• gamemodes where there is no concept of “winning” vs. “losing” (for example: a gamemode where you change teams each time you’re killed, and the first team to have every player on it wins)

okay so, I’m glad that they’re remastering Deus Ex 1 but I don’t think I like the new look at all tbh. it looks like an Xbox 360 era game and not in a good way. I actually prefer the original’s look a fair bit over this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1RdKezTYNk