Deadpan

Clyde, is that your base with the three half-finished houses and the mining quarry? I settled not far away.

I think it might have just decayed away in my absence, all the stuff outside survived (like the furnace). I was also parked near your house when I rejoined, that's also still around. Anyway, I've used the opportunity to resettle. Take anything you need clyde, ours is a communist utopia.

Facing a small setback since my house and everything in it disappeared while I was gone. None of the stuff outside of it. I went for more exploring and am currently parked on top of the dome oil tank.

I think I'll be able to, I just left your additions where they are for the added flair. Did you also add those landmines to my chest? Also, can't connect to the server at the moment, it says it needs an update.

Thanks for leaving that nice note at my house clyde! I've left the door open again, feel free to make yourself at home if you come by again. Now that I have a better understanding of where everything is in relation to each other, I've figured out that I actually settled in the bay in the middle of the west side of the island. I also found your house slightly to the north adsmz!

I started playing on the server yesterday. I have no idea where I am in relation to anything else, but now that I looked at the map I think I'm on the south end of the map. So far, I built a house and then proceeded to explore a cool cave that had like a jumping puzzle in it to get to the deepest parts. When I came back out, there was a helicopter flying around, which is apparently an NPC event and players can group up to try to take it down? Went exploring a bit and ran towards a shape in the distance that turned out to be a lighthouse with a bunch of cool stuff. Parked my character there for now but I'm excited to keep exploring later.

I'm currently relistening to Episode 9, the one with the knife-stabbing robot, and you sure are fond of pitching buddy-cop robot movies. Now you just have to cut out the token human character and pair the Knightscope up with the stabby knife arm.

I can't believe nobody challenges Jake's description of the Knightscope K-3: "It spins around and does basic security stuff."

Steve is Reginald Barclay, I think. At the very least, somebody in this crew has to be Reginald Barclay.

Yeah, luckily I was still able to find a Fortress nearby, but I was hoping it would be void and I could zoom directly there with my jetpack. On the upside, I got to catch the Nether chickens immediately.

I don't know what you're talking about, I went into the Nether in my game and it's basically the same as always (except with a bunch of new stuff mixed in).

Jetpacks are thing I never thought I'd be able to figure out given how many different things you need to set up before you can make them, but they are so satisfying. I also sort of expected the Nether to be just as empty as the main world, but I guess that wouldn't work well. Maybe if it had just the Fortresses.

I would say picking the closed box is definitely the way to go. Either you get a million dollars, or you get to hoist this supposedly infallible AI, which is even more valuable. Priceless even.

Nick's Friday the Thirteenth fiasco is the most relatable online multiplayer experience I have ever heard.

I've actually gotten into Sky Factory myself recently and it is amazing. The things I really appreciate about this mod are: You get back the feeling of discovery that Minecraft had when you played it for the very first time, when you start out you have no idea how to do anything and puzzling it all together feels incredibly because each new thing you figure out multiplies your possibility space in terms of what materials you have for building your sky base. The fact that the world is completely empty when you start out forces you to think about the design of functional spaces in a way Minecraft usually doesn't. Like, you can't just plop a crafting table and some furnaces down in a field, you have to actually build a bit of floor where you want them to be, and that leads you to think about what you want the smelting and crafting part of your base to look like and how it should fit into the rest of your base. I love creative games like Minecraft, but most of them take this "build whatever you want" approach. Not only can this be overwhelming for players, it also pushes you in the direction of thinking about pure aesthetics and building something grandiose but empty. Sky Factory opens the game up to much more of a "form follows function" design approach, which gets you thinking about interesting ways to achieve a particular goal with some sort of contraption, like the automated mob crusher/loot collector I built. In standard Minecraft, the sort of considerations that go into shaping the houses I inevitably build are relatively minor: they have to have enough space for a crafting and smelting corner, and enchanting corner, an enchanting corner and some storage space. In Sky Factory, there's so many different functional spaces you need to take into account that it's really interesting to me how you can organize all of them.

I think Chris and Jake's disagreement over the evolutionary effects of the food wish is caused by the fact that Jake is talking about biological evolution while Chris is focused on societal evolution, since the premise of that conversation - what if the ability to summon food was introduced earlier in human history? - is relatively vague. So in a way, I think they are both right in that before a certain point, the ability to sustain yourself without effort would have doomed our species to drown in poop, but after a certain point it would have accelerated progress (towards also drowning in poop). I checked out Alive with Brad and it's highly enjoyable. Normally this sort of post-production mockery might seem a little mean spirited, but it's nicely balanced out by the fact that Brad is acting friendly to the point of almost being overbearing. Any time anybody walks through the background of the shot he's like "Oooh it's my main man xyz!" or has some nickname for them, so the text popups end up feeling more like a cheerful "get a load of this guy". EDIT: Also, a bad Krampus movie was made not too long ago.

I finished my second ever video essay yesterday. It's still not that great, but I'm pretty happy with the improvement from the first one.

I see Jake has been overruled on calling the new podcast "Important XOR True". Also, given the chance to get in on the ground floor for some new shenanigans, I made a potential Twitter ebooks account called True if Important. Please send questions to [email protected], and then I'll throw them into a bin or something.

Judging by those urls, you are citing Spiked, which is a UK magazine for edgy libertarian shitheads that deals in incredibly transparent fearmongering over pc culture (which they think is censorship), therapy and mental health concerns (which they think is coddling), and environmentalism (which they think is propaganda). You might as well be nodding along to Breitbart quotes.

SL1 runs are definitely not the pinnacle of weird challenge runs in Dark Souls.

The realization didn't stop me from putting a few hours into catching up to his progress with a babyman character called NickBredon.

For a while I was tempted to join the attempts to invade the stream, but I don't imagine Nick has cross-regional play activated.

I realize the card has potential but it's for a deck type I have none of the building blocks for.

Got my first Gadgetzan legendary. It's... Patches the Pirate :/

I just wanted to add one more voice to the chorus here by saying that the claim that an isolationist Trump presidency would cause less turmoil than Clinton's hawkish foreign policies feels like a disingenuous attempt to speak on behalf of the rest of the world. I have seen this claim made by quite a few people from the US, but I have yet to see anybody outside of it voice a similar opinion (a trend that seems to be mirrored in this thread). Around where I live, even the right-wing newssources I avoid like the plague are aghast at the fact that the US has elected a man universally (and rightfully) seen as a bumbling buffoon. Trump explicitly ran on a platform of nuclear proliferation, weakening NATO, and turning the US's long-standing defensive agreements into a racketeering scheme. Even if you somehow don't believe he's going to what he said he was going to do (in which case I struggle to understand the appeal of voting for him), we've already seen him bungle the most basic task of dipomatic phone calls because he's both unprepared and unwilling to prepare. At the moment, his only discernible foreign strategy seems to be to cash in US influence for his own profit, make diplomats stay at his hotels, ask international leaders about permits and tax breaks for his businesses *wink wink nudge nudge*. He says he's going to abandon his businesses, but leaving them with his children is hardly an impartial solution, especially not if he's going to keep bringing them along to diplomatic meetings. So I don't see how anybody in the world is better off with a US president who can't bring himself to care about another country unless he has plans to build a hotel there. Safe for his own opportunistic goals, he is likely going to vacate the global stage and let Putin do as he please. And let's not forget he's a climate change denier, which on its own, is likely to cause untold damage to the entire globe.