u/CasualHooligan7

I'm so pissed rn and I have to rant. I'm on a server and I was trying to go for a Jump pattern shiny Magikarp. I eventually fished one up, but it looked yellow. I'd seen regular patterned Magikarps before, so I thought "damn, must be a non-pattern shiny" and so I offered it to someone else so I wouldn't break my chain (we have Unchained). Turns out, it WAS a shiny pattern, and I didn't know because **I DIDN'T HAVE THE TEXTURE PACK ENABLED** because I didn't KNOW it was a separate texture pack at all!!! Of course the guy I offered it to only told me it was a pattern after they caught it. And to add insult to injury it was a pattern I was hoping for too (violet raindrops).

Why the actual fuck are patterns and pattern shinies in separate texture packs??? Why are non-shiny patterns enabled by default but shiny patterns aren't??

Trying to shiny hunt a Magikarp with a Jump pattern, not really going for any pattern in particular, any will do. The server I'm on has the Unchained mod.

• Will fainting any Magikarp increase the streak, regardless of pattern?
• Is there some way to make it so I'm not automatically pulled into a battle every time I fish? If I have to faint Magikarps to keep the chain going, but I keep getting Staryus and Arrokudas and w/e, it means I constantly have to run from those every time, and running like 30 blocks nearly every battle sounds annoying.
• What would be the best biome to hunt a patterned Karp, are they more common in some biomes than others?
• What would be the recommended seasoning for the bait, I've been doing 1 gapple (not enchanted I'm not rich) and 2 starf?

I know(?) that horizontally, they're limited to just the chunk you place them in, but what about vertically? One time I was trying to go for Ogerpon, followed a guide where I had to dig out a 16x16x3 hole with oak planks for the floor. I didn't manage to find a dead spot but I figured it was good enough, there were plenty of blocks above and below me. But then I kept getting stuff spawning in caves that were like 40 blocks under me so clearly it wasn't good enough.

Trying to hunt for Ogerpon with them and I know (I think?) that horizontally they're limited to the chunk you place them in, but what about vertically? Tried googling it and got absolutely nothing.

Made a spawning hole that I thought might be good despite some close caves, I thought surely stuff can't spawn like 40 blocks below, right? I was wrong, as I place the snacks at y26 and get stuff spawning at like -18, maybe even lower.

I'm in a server that has base Cobblemon 1.7.3 + AllTheMons. Ogerpon is my favorite legendary so I wanna shiny hunt her. But I noticed when I google "shiny ogerpon cobblemon" I get nothing, only normal Ogerpon. Do people just not care to shiny hunt it or is it shinylocked for whatever reason? I'd like to know for sure before I use any more pokesnacks than necessary.

If it can be shiny, what's the best pokesnack to make for it? Preferably without using enchanted gapples since those are gonna be a pain to get.

I've been wanting to try modded MC, but my laptop's really old. The actual Modrinth page doesn't say anything about a minimum system requirement. But when I googled it, I found a comment on GitHub from (who I assume to be) one of the devs, saying "The Rust toolchain we use to build the Modrinth app no longer supports Windows 7 and now requires at least Windows 10." The post was talking about Windows 7, but I can't find anything on if it works on 8.1 or not.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm new to mods and just anxious about something going wrong.

Edit: no I'm not switching to Linux, if you can't give me a simple yes or no then don't bother replying

I open the launcher, I select my account. A red popup appears that tells me "Something went wrong in the login process", then gives me the option to log in via either Microsoft or Mojang.
I click on the Microsoft option, put in my email, then another popup appears saying "Your device will open a security window. Follow the instructions there to sign in." But the security window never shows up, it just infinitely loads until I close out of everything.
I can login to Minecraft dot net just fine. I can even login to Microsoft's website just fine. But I just can't login through the Minecraft launcher.

• Windows 8.1
• I dunno what version since I can't even get past the login screen so I'll say uhhh 1.21.9 cuz I think that's the last version I played
• No mods, zero at all, 101% vanilla (funny enough I tried playing again BECAUSE I wanted to try and see if I could get mods to work)

Can't find anything on this and it's driving me nuts (why tf can't I say cr4zy???). For about a month now I've had this problem where I make a post in a subreddit, and then when I go to said subreddit, the post I just made doesn't show up for me, even if I sort by new.

I know it's NOT a case of my post just being filtered as spam or awaiting mod approval or anything like that, because other people can see and even comment on the post. It's just invisible to me and me only unless I go on my profile. It's not an issue with old or new Reddit, it happens on both of them. Not an issue with devices, happens on both my laptop and phone. Even tried logging out and back in, still happens.

I noticed this happened sometime after I downloaded the Reddit app on my phone, but I don't know if that's related or just coincidence, I deleted the app and I still have this problem.

Whenever I post in a subreddit and then I go to check said sub, I can't see my post. I can see it from my profile just fine, just not within the subreddit. I know it's not removed or filtered or whatever because OTHER people can see and reply to it, it's just invisible to me and me alone.
It's not an issue with old/new Reddit, because it happens on both. And it's not an issue with devices, I try both my laptop and phone and my posts are still invisible to me regardless (I know I put "desktop web" in the title but there was no "all" option). Can't find ANYTHING about this from googling and it's getting frustrating that I seem to be the only one with this glitch.

Happened like 3 times now, for some reason whenever I post something in a subreddit, I can't see my post from within the sub. I can see it from my profile just fine, and I know a mod didn't remove it or something because OTHER people can see and reply to it, it's just invisible to me and me only. Thought it was a glitch with old Reddit at first but no, it happens on new too. And it's not a device issue, regardless if I use my laptop or phone I can't see my posts in subreddits.

Also second unrelated problem that I just found out while trying to post this: it would not let me post here if I was using old Reddit, I had to open the app to do it.