Unoptimized Bird

Reality is so quiet

@SeanMombo Most dumb exposition: - dumb - I don't care about the Kingdom of Riverwood Star Wars text exposition: - Epic - Raises more question than it answers - Civil war?? Spaceships!! - evil empire??? DEATH STAR!!

interesting the star wars text crawl is thought of so fondly given that, “never put a big exposition text dump on the screen” is one of the most fundamental rules of film. i mean people even mock how ridiculous it is and yet, it’s still iconic and endearing

@Simon_Hypixel Reminds me of how in Factorio QoL mod creators love it when their mod "graduates" to be part of the base game

I want to explain clearly why we’re pushing modding so hard in Hytale. It’s not because we expect modders to carry the game for us. It’s because I believe the modding community is going to be one of the foundations for where we take Hytale next. This contest is part of that. I want to put modders front and center. I want people making incredible worlds, NPCs, systems, and experiences to be recognized, celebrated, and rewarded. Think esports, but for modders. There’s another reason I care so much about this: we hire from the community. Over the last few months, most of the people we’ve brought onto the team (now over 70) have been people we already knew, respected, and saw building amazing things, especially in the modding community. We’re not trying to build some giant corporate machine with layers of people giving orders. We’re building a scrappy, agile team full of people who actually make things. That matters to me a lot. Everyone here is expected to touch the game. Even people in leadership. Even me. I pushed a small visual fix myself yesterday. I’m in the game constantly, and if I see something wrong, I either fix it or make sure it gets worked on. That’s the culture I want around Hytale: close to the work, close to the game, close to the community. On a personal level, I care about this because I genuinely love making games. Getting Hytale back lit that fire in me again. It’s stressful, sure, but it’s good stress. The kind that comes from building something you believe in. The truth is that building for modding makes development harder. A feature that would be simple in another game often becomes much more complex for us because we have to ask: how can creators use this too? How do we expose it in the right way? How do we make sure it becomes a building block, not just a one-off feature? That work costs us time in the short term. I know that. But I believe it pays off in a big way later, because every good system we build can become a hundred great creations from the community. And when someone in the community makes something exceptional, that creates a real bridge. Maybe we can collaborate. Maybe we can learn from it. Maybe we hire them. If somebody makes an incredible fishing mod before we’ve even tackled fishing ourselves, I don’t see that as a threat. I see talent. I see proof that the ecosystem is working. That’s why I’m pushing for this so hard. Not because modding replaces the studio, but because it makes the game bigger than the studio. It helps us discover talent. It helps us build better in the long run. It keeps us connected to the people who care the most. If we do this right, modding won’t just be a feature of Hytale. It will be one of the strongest foundations for its future. This is just the beginning. We are still in early access.

@zeta_globin Or maybe human body is great in a way that you can have many "health issues" but still be healthy. Or a lot of people are just living in low level background misery that isn't worth to fix because medicine has side effects and lifestyle changes are hard.

I feel like half the reason doctors don't want to monitor healthy people is they're scared that a lot of classically considered pathogenic signs have a low correlation with a condition when you have a full comprehensive data set

@animalologist Too much stress makes it hard to get hard too. Towards the end of my last relationship it was taking longer... But while being a healthy place all of those 100% work every time lol

ummmm. Isn’t that literally all men, ever? What man doesn’t get hard from making out? Sometimes men get hard because you moved too much when you sat on their lap. Or nibbled their ear a little. Or looked at them tooooo intently. I’m slow-blinking in confusion right now.

Emotional tears have higher protein content. They move slower, stay on the face longer. When will someone see these tears of mine, and accept them, I wonder. Maybe never. When will I accept them, I wonder.

@IsaacKing314 Oh and letters are like $12. Insanely cheap if you think about it.

@IsaacKing314 USPS will ship a decently sized box internationally for like $60. And commerical is usually 2x that. An international flight is more like $350 one way at the very least if you pick a cheap day of the week.

Physical shipping doesn't seem to be particularly efficient. The price to safely ship a valuable item is comparable to buying a plane ticket and transporting it myself. Odd.

@IsaacKing314 But unless your item costs several thousand, insurance shouldn't cost more than the shipping itself. And if you are shipping something so expensive, then it's not too crazy that it costs extra. You are paying to buy back the time you would spend protecting it by buying trust?

@UnoptimizedBird Insurance costs money!

Funnily enough, I figured out how it works while recording that video

I can't believe windows 11 did this to search. At this point I'm just amazed at how they even managed to get that working like that (also this is making it really annoying to find sound effects to use)

Me in the past week, slowly realizing how much I can put in there

I still find it funny that you can ground yourself by literally lying on the ground

Like during that entire time I only managed to go from 1 clean pullup to 3 clean pullups. That's also kinda a lot, but in the same time I went through 3 different pushup variants (diamond, arches, and now pseudo planche), going from 0 to 5 in all of them.

It also helps that some of those gains are neurological and stability gains. Rep growth is faster when you are growing in 3 fronts instead of just muscles.

Boring: I'll go to gym consistently Fun: I will train to do a one handed pushup

Cyberpunk but the currency is umami and toilets that you need to raid restaurant megacorps to get