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is this just selection bias or is this a new phenomenon?

specifically, rather than just long run theatrical movie releases being in theaters, a lot of one-off theatrical events are happening for franchises that already have a lot of fans who don't necessarily have to go to the theater but CHOOSE to because they want to engage in fandom culture in person. a lot of these are series premiers/finales rather than movies, and a lot of these are indie productions.

my best guess is that gen Z especially is extremely prone to engaging in fandom culture, which is primarily online. theaters/studios see this and understand they can cash in to fandom culture by showing certain fandom culture media in theaters. it allows people in fandoms to engage in their fandom in person without needing to attend a convention or work hard to make meetups happen. most of these examples ive listed are series, which are much easier to build up good will from fandoms than movies are.

gen z people also "grew up" during covid, with many being teenagers, around the time of their life that they might start engaging with fandom culture more. covid pushed a lot of teenagers onto the internet much more, increasing the chances theyd engage with fandom culture even more. a lot of people have already talked about theaters losing relevance due to covid, so i wonder if theater execs know this and are wanting to "win back" these fandom types to theaters. and on a personal level, as a gen z early-twenties person who was a teen in covid, i dont really go to the theater much anymore for theatrical releases, but i did go see TADC in theaters and am planning to see Jet Lag in theaters as well. if it is an intentional strategy, its working!

The idea is to make it so villagers have at least a baseline of comfort that they must meet in order to be able to function. If they go three days without any one of those comforts, they lock their trades (and eventually will also stop summoning iron golems, farming, and reproducing). The required comforts so far are socializing, sleeping, and being within 150 blocks of their spawn.

The idea is that villagers in naturally-generated villages will always meet that threshold of comfort, but villagers in trading halls and farms will not meet those comforts. I also made it so once they are uncomfortable, it takes a few days for them to unlock their trades if reintroduced to a village (to prevent players from letting villagers see one another once every three days). The idea behind the 150 block restriction is to prevent players from forcefully relocating villagers against their will, and to make villages fixed points of interest on the map!

Later I also want to make it so if you improve a villager's home, they will unlock secret bonus trades!

What do you think?

was messing around with custom worldgen a bit and made this! what part of this do you think is impossible in vanilla?

answer: >!the taiga borders plains. in vanilla, taiga cannot border plains without forest being in between!<

To preface, I don't think this is something that vanilla should necessarily change. This is something I want to change for *my personal server*. Please still give your feedback!!!

Something I've had an issue with in the past on servers is that people tend to like spreading out and building bases far apart. This leads to less collaboration, as players are less likely to naturally build together due to increased distance; players have to actively go out of their way to collaborate. I really want to naturally encourage this, and I believe changing the transportation meta could fix this.

Thesis: Increasing friction in point-to-point transportation will encourage players to live closer to one another and build infrastructure to overcome that friction; players will also naturally build near infrastructure, making a network; when players are physically more restricted, spontaneous collaboration is more likely, making servers more lively.

I think most forms of transportation are already decently balanced (such as horses, boats, and walking), but Elytra and minecarts stand out as being extremely unbalanced. Elytras are cheap to use, fast, point-to-point, and ignore local geography; minecarts are expensive to build, very restrictive, and extremely slow.

The way I'm planning on buffing minecarts is by making them travel faster when on rails on certain blocks. That way the existing slow minecart speed is still usable for redstone contraptions, but high-speed rail can exist to fill the niche of extremely fast predetermined routes. I want minecarts to be faster than ice boats as ice boats are more maneuverable since the player is directly controlling them (maybe ~100 b/s?).

I think I want to nerf the Elytra by making rockets more expensive. I know most of my friends would be disappointed if I drastically nerfed the Elytra, so what I think I'm gonna do is use Green_Jab's idea of making rocket boosting not work unless you craft custom Dragon fireworks using Dragon's Breath. That makes Elytra travel vastly more expensive to use while not mechanically changing anything, keeping the fun while encouraging players to use other forms of transportation more regularly that might be cheaper. It might also encourage players to build rocketless Elytra infrastructure such as launchers, which would fulfill my goal of having players build infrastructure. Dragon rockets could make the Elytra more useful for exploration than for commutes.

What do you think?

For a server I want to make I want to rebalance transport to make it more varied and to encourage players to build infrastructure for transport. Because of this, I want to heavily nerf rocket boosting, but I don't actually want to nerf the Elytra itself. This is one of my ideas for rocketless Elytra infrastructure, with the niche being very long-distance journeys that don't warrant building high-speed rail. I can't see it being all that useful in vanilla (since it costs a ton of Wind Charges) but I thought it was a fun concept!

i noticed this when playing around with my wind charge elytra launcher thingy. i cant think of any uses for this LOL

490 mixins in every mod

I'm planning on making a server where rocket boosting is significantly more expensive (requires Dragon's Breath), but you can still glide with the Elytra! So I wanted to make a little wind charge cannon as an alternative to firework boosting (as a side note the goal of removing rocket boosting is to encourage players to build infrastructure, including Elytra infrastructure). 64 wind charges can get you to ~2200 blocks! Also, because of how wind charges work, you take zero fall damage

I didn’t design the wind charge stasis mechanism; I found it online, but I couldnt find the original creator. I designed everything else though! I made it so you can load up the dispenser with as many charges as you want :p

i keyboard smash when i text because im annoying. recently my phone has been autocorrecting these keyboard smashes as i text, which is really annoying.

he looks a little different doesnt he

This is about the Hank Green AI scandal.

The tag highlighted in yellow on this tumblr post. The original user has comments, asks, and direct messages disabled, so I couldn’t directly ask them without reblogging and tbh I just didn’t feel like doing that. I tried searching on DDG, but I didn’t get any results about this. I don’t want to comb through years of vlogbrothers videos for this either. Does anyone know what exactly this was referring to? Explain it Peter

One problem with buffing minecart speed as-is is breaking existing redstone contraptions that rely on rail's 8 block/sec speed for consistency and timing. Instead of adding alternate rails (copper rails?) like a lot of people suggest, what if the blocks below the rails affected the speed of minecarts?

In this example, rails on stone (or any other block) go at the default 8 b/s speed, dirt (and sand) go at 16 b/s speed, cobblestones go at 32 b/s speed, and gravel goes at 64 b/s speed (though I'd prefer it to be more like 80b/s at max). The idea for the block choices is that rail in real life is built on gravel to keep it stable, so the closer something is to gravel the faster the cart should go! I also added dirt and sand because I thought it would be useful for the base ground block to get a speed boost if someone's being really lazy with their railroads

This change has a few benefits. First of all, it buffs rail without changing minecarts for redstoners. Second of all, it allows for a wide breadth of minecart speeds without adding a bunch of different rail types. Thirdly, due to the fastest block being a gravity block, there's a minor architectural challenge for building with the highest-speed rail as you need a block below

EDIT: forgot to link to it earlier, but this was inspired by this older suggestion!

It’s been my absolute favorite song as of late, but I’m having a hard time finding anything else like it. I’ve listened to the Orbit album and while I like the other songs, they don’t scratch the same itch Orbit the song does. I haven’t listened to all of Alice Phoebe Lou’s music so maybe I’m missing something else that scratches that itch, but do you have any other recs?

https://youtu.be/BspiVgfaJR8