general

[lunar musk]

yup

[hard iron]

I mean... just today someone was asking if we'd recovered from the server hack. It can be off people's radar if they don't set up alerts or watches for those things.

[short thistle]

PS: April fools

[marsh sentinel]

Their April Fool's jokes are that, just fun jokes. They'd never do something like that.

[hard iron]

"We've decided to invest all the money from Valheim into making Deer-themed NFTs"

[short thistle]

Well, I really wanted to play as a deer. That was years ago but I still do 😦

[crimson inlet]

So there's nothing to be like "feel bad for the devs"

[lunar musk]

inc micro transaction hell, battlepass, cosmetic paid DLC's xD

[hard iron]

Smiffe said he still had that build around somewhere 😛

[crimson inlet]

I feel bad for those who get mobbed here way more

[lunar musk]

those torches burn hot

[crimson inlet]

Like, valheim has what
97% positive reviews?
They can read those if they ever "feel bad"

No sympathy for devs!
Sympathy for regular players! 🚀

[marsh sentinel]

Wow.

That's certainly a take.

[lunar musk]

one of the takes of all time

[crimson inlet]

Damn right

If you think deep about it

[lunar musk]

they do get some "are we there yet"-ing but ig most of it is just inquiry rather than complaint as mentioned

[crimson inlet]

Very small minority

Absolutely harmless

[tardy vale]

I do have it 🙂

[lunar musk]

well if they get too heavy we have mods

at that point it's trolling

[crimson inlet]

So nothing to feel bad about see?

Like Dumbledore once said

[gleaming lance]

I love the blog updates. Hope to see another one soon

[crimson inlet]

Do not pity the devs
Pity the players

[tardy vale]

🤔

[lunar musk]

Dumbledore hates you, apparently xD

[crimson inlet]

[hard iron]

I'm like Mr. T, I pity the fool

[crimson inlet]

Dumbledore just puts his concern where it matters more

[lunar musk]

i want to hear the stories of his misdeeds at Hogwarts

oh wait...

[crude finch]

Can anyone help in #mods-issues ?

[drifting latch]

Doubt I can post the full list here, but if you play a game with EAC, there's currently an RCE exploit that can do all manner of terrible things if you're unlucky.

[marsh sentinel]

The European Archeological Council?

I saw that Sam.

[tough aspen]

i only know UAC

[marsh sentinel]

Ah, the Union Aerospace Corporation.

[tough aspen]

I was trying to find the perfect emoticon

now that I can

[teal quail]

new n lookin for fellow newbies to hop on with

[hard iron]

Best place is to poke around #1024264966712340510 , the other channels here are for topical chats 🙂

[wide void]

Beautiful cool morning, with the gentle sun beam touching my skin 🌞☀️🌅

[drifting latch]

Hitting -2 today 😊

[gleaming lance]

Had a buddy hop on to my world and decided to revamp the storage area... . Can't find anythingg 😭

Idk bout y'all but I like mixed chests for ez drops

[brittle condor]

I tried a new system of a pentagon with each corner being a crafting station with my storage all in the middle/sides of my stations. Works great but it takes up a decent bit of space

[drifting latch]

I use shelves of iron chests; between the top and bottom row on the floor pieces I put signs and use some coding tags to cause the text to hover over the chests as huge white floating labels. You can interact through the label to open the chests; makes finding things a breeze

Just unfortunate that it seems every update the sign tagging breaks requiring a new approach.

Maybe there's some crash text exploit I didn't know about that had to be patched out. vOv

[snow forge]

Mornin'

[tulip mauve]

Top of the morning to ya laddie!

[jade pecan]

Hello everyoune

[viscid canopy]

what are valhim lovers thoughts on Tribes of Midgard? seems quite similar but just a different art style and probably a shorter game(?)

[drifting latch]

Never heard of her.

[viscid canopy]

just tried it for 30min...its no valhiem...seems to be a money grab type of game. the physics are off...i was able to kick someone on a cliff while i was down on the ground. nahhh valhiem is 100% better

[crimson inlet]

🤨

[viscid canopy]

nothing special about it except that it looks and plays llike valhim with different art style. pass on it is my advice

[crimson inlet]

That's a bit harsh 🤨
I'll check the game out now in spite of this

And play it 🤨

[tardy vale]

there is a valheim gatcha clone game made. but it's not Tribes of midgard I think 🤔

[crimson inlet]

Oh I know this game
I know tribes of Midgard

Isn't it on switch?

Good airplane game then

[viscid canopy]

it is harsh 😦 apologies to those devs. it's good and got lots of potential. idk...not much more i can say about it

[crimson inlet]

Not all games need to be compared

Play whatever, no commitment necessary

[viscid canopy]

true. i was looking for something like valhiem to fill the void...im the minotirty that wants a different artstyle to valhim and so i thought this was it

[drifting latch]

I'm still waiting on Valheim-but-space. Space Engineers just doesn't quite do it for me.

[rugged stag]

Breathedge - although it's more like Raft from what I've seen

[drifting latch]

This looks very silly. But perhaps that's a good thing.

Space Engineers is a very good 'look at the neat x I can make out of Lego' game but survival-wise it feels kind of lacking. Doesn't really have that whole taming-the-wilds vibe you get with land survival stuff and no defining 'making it' moment like the first night of peaceful sleep in a Plains spire base

Need some kinda terraforming sim like terra nil but on foot and with spacecraft. Kind of a shame Starbound died because it had a bit of that going on.

[tough aspen]

Omg do i have the perfect game for you

Valheim

[rugged stag]

[drifting latch]

_ _

Heh.

The audit log knows your shame.

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/shame-go-t-game-of-thrones-walk-of-shame-shameful-gif-4949558

[zealous anchor]

7 days to die?
the infected? though that doesn thave "terraforming"
starbound cause thats always fun to return to
Terraria
i cant think off more at all rtn

[proven dagger]

Morning gjall.

[crimson inlet]

I'm going to buy a mattress to put in the car

[proven dagger]

Got the Tuesday blues?

[crimson inlet]

I messed up

I ended up sleeping 3 hours

But I've decided I'll spend the last hour of work sleeping in the car

[proven dagger]

That sucks, I know the pain.

[tough aspen]

I have to go to the bank and I'm taking yall with me

[crimson inlet]

While fasting so you'll have to know more

No tea no coffee

⏱️ 30 more minutes then I'm sneaking out of here, moving to the basement

And just 🛌💤

[proven dagger]

Done it, won't do it again.
Respect that you do though.

I had a few Muslim friends on school and to show support I joined them in fasting one year.
So I know how hard it is and I'm not putting myself trough it again.
My brother in law is from Senegal and a Muslim, he fasts every time but doesn't make his kids do it.

[crimson inlet]

Well not really sneak, I'll just be like "aight cya tomorrow guys"

[tough aspen]

Slap knees, say Whelp.

[crimson inlet]

With 300 back crack noises of unoiled joints

[tough aspen]

Me irl

[crimson inlet]

Whelp good work everyone, gonna hit the sack

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/chiropractor-adjust-simpsons-gif-9500098

[tough aspen]

I wish

[proven dagger]

That'll be me tomorrow.

[drifting latch]

-2. In March. I miss when this planet had seasons instead of spin-the-wheel.

[proven dagger]

It makes it exciting though and better then winter all the time like a few thousand years ago.

[drifting latch]

Don't get me wrong I love the cold I just prefer some time to prepare ha

[proven dagger]

Rather cold than wet except for a warm summer drizzle.

[umbral fog]

mornin everyone 😄

[proven dagger]

Morning, good to see you at a more reasonable time.

[dense hinge]

Morning

[umbral fog]

wdym more reasonable time 😄

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-cute-coffee-gif-8173999760206959925

[proven dagger]

isn't it still quite early for you but like an hour later than a few days last week.

[umbral fog]

oh no, its 10:41 am here, that is quite late in my case since this week i should be up in 4-5 am 😄

[dense hinge]

Well I hope today I’ll be able to set up my forge cause I’ve had it since December yet still haven’t used it

[proven dagger]

Ok, YOUR LATE!

[umbral fog]

i decided to make a longer weekend since i was quite exhausted from the weekend 😄 tomorrow i should be up in the normal 4 am

[dense hinge]

Dang your making me feel quite bad about my sleep schedule cause the past few weeks I’ve been waking up around 4 am

It’s mainly cause I’ll wake up hungry and grab food

[umbral fog]

i have to wake up like this on bi-weekly basis, one week i wake up in 4 am and the other its different day from day, sometimes i have to get up in 6 am othertimes 10 am

[proven dagger]

Put like a muesli bar next to your bed so you can drowsily eat that in bed and go back to sleep .

[dense hinge]

Not enough room in my room for that

I would though if I could

[proven dagger]

Your bed doesn't have a frame? Ducktape it to the frame.

[dense hinge]

My bed frame storage under the mattress

[bold lark]

7 hours from now a couple devs will be talking valheim, maybe some new teasers?

[proven dagger]

Stop teasing us.

[snow forge]

Are you hoping for more onions?

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/eating-onion-spicy-gif-14152735

[proven dagger]

Cruel, eating an onion in front of the one that wants to have it.

[snow forge]

has many kilograms of onions easily accessible.

Around 100kg of various onions, I reckon.

[bold lark]

oh yeah I have my storage

[proven dagger]

Favourite onion?

[bold lark]

I really want another animated trailer

[snow forge]

Wild garlic if onion leaves count. As for bulbs, it's a hard question, but I think I can choose. Not sure of the English name, it's star onion directly translated from Norwegian. It's about the size of a shallot but more like a tiny, sligthly sweeter standard onion tastewise, not as sweet as a shallot.

[crimson inlet]

That was legit 10/10 nap

[proven dagger]

Wild garlic is nice, that isn't a onion I know.

[proven dagger]

I want a nap.

[bold lark]

at my time in a herbarium I had to stich so many different Allium

and I can tell you, stiching bulbs to a sheet of paper is NOT fun

[proven dagger]

What onion would you like to get? @bold lark

[bold lark]

I would like a blooming onion from outback, haven't tried them yet

also french soup, never tried it

[devout trout]

https://tenor.com/view/tom-and-jerry-tom-falling-asleep-too-sleepy-sleepy-gif-14908858

[proven dagger]

French onion soup is so good, I make a mean one.
Blooming onions aren't hard to make.
Loads of recipes on the net for it.

[proven dagger]

Hello there, at least you aint early today.

[drifting latch]

Vårløk?

[bold lark]

I want the big one

[proven dagger]

Yeah the big onion for it isn't always readily available.

[rotund pewter]

You’ve used that gif 3 or more days in a row bud 😂
Should we be worried ??? 👀👀👀

[tough aspen]

Hyperchaaaaaaaaaaaaan

[drifting latch]

Ohhh wait, stjerneløk is another name for Delikatesseløk, right? We'd call those pearl onions.

[devout trout]

[devout trout]

Hallo!

[proven dagger]

It certainly is more. I count 11 of them.

[tough aspen]

So now that I can use emojis........ is there a cap

[proven dagger]

Oeh different flowers.

[rugged stag]

1 every 24 hours

[tough aspen]

My name was too long now with this imposed icon ;-;

[proven dagger]

You are still the priestess of the church of spring though.

[tough aspen]

You know this will all end in midsommar vibes right

[proven dagger]

Yes, we'll all get deflowered then.

[tough aspen]

btw Midsommar, the movie, is 10/10 valheim vibes UP UNTIL A CERTAIN POINT

[rugged stag]

Had to confirm but yes, that was exactly the movie I thought it was and I haven't even watched it

[bold lark]

midsommar the movie where they have the dandelion crown

[drifting latch]

Your pfp reminds me of Braid and Bastion for some reason.

[crimson inlet]

Now it's the time skip nap ⏩

[rotund pewter]

The flowers are back 😂🥳

[tough aspen]

they never leave

[bold lark]

makes sense, I love braid and hades, haven't played bastion yet tho

[drifting latch]

It's a hell of a ride

[bold lark]

same for Alundra 2, where my guy Flint originates from

highly recommend it, it's for the PS1

if you do play it, and play any version other than the original japanese, the Activision port team made a modified harder version and called it normal, so play on easy if you want the intended original difficulty

[drifting latch]

There's a star whose local name is Aludra I think. Wonder if that's related.

I do love me some retro game emu-- collection; maybe I'll look into it.

[bold lark]

since you mentioned braid and bastion, figured I'd also talk about the type of game it is, 3d action RPG puzzle platformer with hack n slash combat

[drifting latch]

Sounds like bastion funnily enough

[bold lark]

well now I gotta play it

I miss the cold

[drifting latch]

Given it's an isometric top-down. Quite a few weapons to choose from but you can only carry 2.

[drifting latch]

Same. This is absolutely not normal weather for this place. ;_;

[bold lark]

interesting

on alundra 2 you can change the camera perspective and angle

and there's technically only 1 weapon but I won't spoil what else you can use

[ruby marsh]

Need more morning tea

[proven dagger]

Can I get in on that?

[ruby marsh]

If you don't mind earl grey

[proven dagger]

As long as it is done the right way I don't mind, meaning don't make it too hot so it turns quite bitter.

[ruby fossil]

hi.

[proven dagger]

Hello. Ni hao. Na nga def.

[lucid ice]

Beans

Hello!

[echo yacht]

Namaste 🙏🏽

[oblique plover]

hello lovely ppl!

[proven dagger]

Hello, stay a while and listen.

[crimson inlet]

Discord sent a survey to anyone?

[proven dagger]

Not to me.

[crimson inlet]

An intense one at that
They might want to send me a request to write a 14-day discord diary for 150 dallaz
O my goodness

The final note I wrote
Pls give me "Blues" nickname
I'm tired of being Blues2

[marsh sentinel]

But that's your username.

[fleet breach]

BluesClues

[crimson inlet]

[snow forge]

Wild garlic is ramsløk, "star onion" is stjerneløk.

[peak prairie]

@crimson inlet perhaps "Dirty Waters" a relative of "Muddy Waters" for a nickname? instead of Blues2? Just a bit of "dry humor" lol.

[drifting latch]

Ya I meant the one you called 'a small onion'

But yeah stjerneløk is probably what we call pearl onions

Given I never used em; I use garlic, leeks, spring onions, yellow onions for the most part.

[snow forge]

I'm not a fan of spring onions, other than that any onion is a delicacy.

[drifting latch]

@tough aspen What

[scenic wing]

This is really random, but does anyone else see really weird ‘horror’ish children’s books at local stores? In my experience, stores like Walmart and target.

For example, I’ll go to the children’s books sections and see FNAF horror novels, or other similar media.

[tough aspen]

What back at you

[snow forge]

What's going on here.

[drifting latch]

I don't really frequent the children's section these days.

Not really seen that. Been seeing a lot of the original Grimm's tales which are a bit morbid for modern kids though.

[drifting latch]

The reaction emote.

[scenic wing]

Gotcha, I was shopping for some books for my son and was a little surprised at what I was seeing 😅 thanks for the response.

[hard iron]

lol. Yeah... the originals are pretty dark.

[drifting latch]

Also coulda sworn I saw Chaucer's uh. ... Canterbury Tales I think it was called? Wasn't that in like middle english and full of prose? I wouldn't think it'd make a good kid's book but it was there as well.

[scenic wing]

Hmm I need to go back and actually write down the titles of the books I’m seeing. But even in the toys sections, I’ll see like ‘rainbow friends’ and other similar toys, which I find to be a little odd for children?

[snow forge]

...I was suddenly reminded of Happy Tree Friends.

[drifting latch]

Hahahaha oh god

I imagine if they made a book it'd be a pop-up book with liquid reservoirs

[snow forge]

Sounds about right.

[hard iron]

Carl, that kills people!

[drifting latch]

The guy who made that made another series, Shadowstone Park that is weirdly good.

Surprisingly deep story for something meant to be a shitpost at that

[snow forge]

So... a deep shit post?

Not a good place to be stationed, I reckon.

[gusty hazel]

Y'all think we will get a Moder Fix with 1.0? 3/4 playthroughs I've done she's been bugged out during the fight

[azure geode]

a part of me believes that she would be too difficult if she wouldn't bug (obviously that's not true)

[gusty hazel]

Was just kinda baffled cuz I am doing a playthrough ahead of time so I can hop into Ashlands and once again Moder was bugged as bad as she was during my playthrough 3 years ago

[hard iron]

I haven't run into her being bugged... what are you calling a bug?

[crimson inlet]

Her probably sitting doing nothing for 5 minutes

Let's not deny how terrible moder is

[gusty hazel]

Yeah 3/4 playthroughs she just bugged out clipped on some terrain and not attacking

[crimson inlet]

Every playthrough I had
And when you see a "normal" behavior from moder on YouTube it's still terrible

So even her "as intended" is terrible

[gusty hazel]

Yeah the one time she didn't bug out she never landed xD

So maybe she did bug out there too lol

[crimson inlet]

If the server didn't wipe
You'd find a whole lot agreeing with it

[snow forge]

#fanart message Didn't the fanart channel use to have an image requirement for posts not to be auto-deleted?

[tough aspen]

Bot died tho

[ruby marsh]

Online always adds another layer of jankiness to a boss fight.

[snow forge]

Yeah but it was resurrected and can probably be asked to do some of its old tricks.

[tough aspen]

I agree!

[high mason]

looking for someone to critique a valheim parody satire video I made, any takers?

[novel schooner]

Sure, I am a fellow YT myself, I will critique

[high mason]

appreciate ya! I linked it in memes-and-clips channel

[novel schooner]

Would you like a comment directly on the video or here?

[high mason]

wherever suits ya

[novel schooner]

comments help on the YT algorithm, so I will comment there

[high mason]

well, my account just got banned for some reason anyway

[rugged stag]

hmm?

[drowsy imp]

YT account

[ornate mauve]

why is valheim patchnotes empty?

[tawny pendant]

Hello

[rugged stag]

Server was hacked at the beginning of Feb this year, it's a new channel as the old one was wiped

[ornate mauve]

ah, thanks

[tawny pendant]

anyone know why mange saves do not open?

[rugged stag]

mange?

[tough aspen]

Manage, probs

[tawny pendant]

Manage

[modest moth]

Conjugated form of "manger" (to eat in French)

Je mange, tu manges, etc

[rugged stag]

mmm, mangoes ❤️

[modest moth]

"Why is this relevant to valheim saves?"

Idk

[hard iron]

Might be better to ask in #valheim-help , not sure right offhand on why that might be unless the directories are hosed or something.

[fiery birch]

I will most likely change the world once the Ashlands releases

[zealous anchor]

i remember one called stick figures
not as messed up as happy tree freinds but it certainnly wasnt for kids lol

[lean fable]

hi

[zealous anchor]

hi

[lean fable]

i want my emotes back :Cry:

[marsh sentinel]

You know what to do then.

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/mc-hammer-you-cant-touch-this-dancing-90s-gif-5758313

[tough aspen]

[wooden kiln]

is there a date when ashlands will be ?

!ashlands

.ashlands

[tardy vale]

no there is non

First half of 2024 is the only official statement

[wooden kiln]

good enough expect to see it in april, guess its time for me to build up my own world

[tough aspen]

Don't expect anything

[wooden kiln]

lol why

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/inquisition-monty-python-spanish-inquisition-walk-in-gif-17117394

[merry mist]

https://tenor.com/view/adventure-time-coffee-time-coffee-gif-12925064

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/that-shits-dingo-viva-la-dirt-league-catchphrase-gif-27349731

[merry mist]

Hey, pssst, go to the super duper secret VC.

[tardy vale]

there is like 10 of those 🤔

[tough aspen]

A dev just told you first half and you concluded April, considering it's 10 days away... Likely no :p

[merry mist]

That one.

[wooden kiln]

ya my bad, i thought its 1/4

[wooden kiln]

my english isnt good

[tough aspen]

That's oki!

[wooden kiln]

i need to gather up my pals to play with me!

[tough aspen]

You got time to make an epic base

[proven dagger]

Morning gjall.

[wooden kiln]

So will there be Valheim in Vr?!

i mean like official one

[tardy vale]

we would never ever drop it on April fools day 😅

[tardy vale]

nope

[wooden kiln]

ah sad to hear, i really like vr

[tardy vale]

yeah. but we aren't a VR gaming company :/

[wooden kiln]

:(

[crimson inlet]

There is a VR mod

[wooden kiln]

Yes, i know that

gonna try it soon or later, maybe after a decent amount of time in my new world

[proven dagger]

Still got the blues?

[crimson inlet]

I'm dizzy as hell
I think I need some fruit tonight or something
I feel I haven't had sugar in a while

[proven dagger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o0DxUKqdAQ

[crimson inlet]

So it might be another napper of a day

[earnest anvil]

This

[umbral fog]

morning 😄

[rugged stag]

Howdy officer

[proven dagger]

Morning, are the drakes behaving?

[umbral fog]

may need some punching

[merry mist]

DrakesSky Rats always need to be eliminated.

[umbral fog]

indeed

[dire folio]

And be turned to eyescream

[proven dagger]

I scream, you scream, we all want eyescream.

[quasi root]

Now I've got that song stuck in my head 😩

[proven dagger]

Hammertime!

[proven dagger]

You are a man of culture I see.

[lucid ice]

Guud morning!

[ruby marsh]

No Starscream?

[proven dagger]

Hello Sam.

[lucid ice]

Hey! Lovely day for it! Today i be making a bridge out of logs by painfully running on them xD

[proven dagger]

@tough aspen I saw you rolling your eyes mon.

[tough aspen]

It's not rolling, rolling is 🙄

[proven dagger]

Ok ok, just stop staring at me.

[tough aspen]

Why

[lucid ice]

😂

Silly

[proven dagger]

Good question. Okay, till I come up with a good answer, you can keep on staring, don't forget to blink though.

[tough aspen]

[proven dagger]

You are here being amused?

[lucid ice]

I usually do the amusing! But ye!

[proven dagger]

staring intensifies

[tough aspen]

i was looking at the Samtruder

[lucid ice]

I am invading beep boop exterminate!

[proven dagger]

Sam I am, what color are my eggs?

[tough aspen]

Uh..i'd be concerned if they were anything but yellow/white

[lucid ice]

Maybe yellow?

[ruby fossil]

hi.

[lucid ice]

Hello!

[ruby fossil]

Hello!

[tulip mauve]

Greetings

[ruby fossil]

Eatings

[lucid ice]

My brains turning into cheese

[proven dagger]

You don't know?: Sam I am, I like green eggs and ham.

[proven dagger]

Brie?

[tough aspen]

Oh, right

[lucid ice]

Blue cheese likely

Might be paitant zero of the start of the last of us

[proven dagger]

Sam-I-am has been so to by Dr. Seuss, he's ok.

[lucid ice]

Im ok

It was an egg

[proven dagger]

Humpty dumpty?

[lucid ice]

Indeed tizz thy egg i will devour

[tough aspen]

Humpty dumpty was more likely to have been a cannon, not an egg

[proven dagger]

He sat on a wall and had a great fall.

[fast trout]

Heh, I've never considered the fact that the rhyme doesn't actually mention an egg.

[marsh sentinel]

I blame Lewis Carroll.

[fast trout]

Cannon makes sense, but I've decided that, in my mind, it will always be referring to the king's chamber pot.

[proven dagger]

I can see why.

[hard iron]

He also had beef with imaginary numbers. Which is a silly name for them to be sure.

[fast trout]

Curiosity piqued, and ended up reading an article on Lewis Carroll. Did not expect to go down that rabbit hole today.

[proven dagger]

From Sam-I-am, to Dr. Seuss, to Humpty Dumpty, to Lewis Carroll.

[fast trout]

Exactly.

[tough aspen]

yw

[marsh sentinel]

Rabbit hole, eh?

[zealous anchor]

Ran outs fuel in slaverian trucker and im nowhere near a gas station
Will litterally have to run a ungodly distance to get fuel😭

[proven dagger]

Hitchhike, stop a copper.

[zealous anchor]

Unfortanely thats not a thing lol

[gleaming lance]

Try hitchhiking 👍

[zealous anchor]

Bus stops are a thing but no bus stops exist in a desert

[zealous anchor]

Even less so near a gun smuggler hideout

[tough aspen]

people saying hitchhike like it's the seventies

[zealous anchor]

Its the late 80s in the game xd

[tough aspen]

oh wait i didnt realize youre talking about a game

[gleaming lance]

I've hitchhiked many times all over the place

[zealous anchor]

Picked up 40 liters of diesel
Time to run all the way back

[hard iron]

Desert Bus? 😛

[zealous anchor]

Its either dessert or desert
Ya know
A place thats just sand
I always mix them up

Also halfway back to the truck
My guys about to die of exhaustion

[hard iron]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller's_Smoke_and_Mirrors#Desert_Bus

[marsh sentinel]

Eh?

[proven dagger]

Hitchhiking was a thing during the seventies?
More dangerous now?
I don't get it either.

[marsh sentinel]

Still happens today so yeah, confused.

[tulip mauve]

@untold night I did a bit of driving in high school once my brother graduated (he used to drive me). But still drive to school every day in college

Walking and biking beats driving by far

[untold night]

Ah, college. I don't consider tertiary education "school". It's a different beast.

[tulip mauve]

Feels the same to me. Just study and take tests

[marsh sentinel]

I wouldn't even have been old enough to drive at that point.

[hard iron]

Heh... I drove as soon as I could get my license at 16, bought my grandpa's old car. It's actually part of why I have my online nickname 😛

[fast trout]

Previous to my driver's license it was snowmobile, dirt bike, back of my brother's motorcycle, and an old smashed up car that I had gotten running. And occasionally the school bus.

[hard iron]

I am looking forward to this summer and the weather getting nicer, getting back into racing

[tulip mauve]

I started driving at 15

which felt kinda weird bc I had just moved from Denmark to the U.S. Always find it funny that Denmark lets you drink and potentially harm your brain at a young age, but expects you to be older to drive. And the U.S lets you drive around a 4 ton clump of metal but not let you drink.

[hard iron]

With a permit? I did a bit on some backroads and such before 16, but solo driving on public roads wasn't until 16. They actually changed a lot of the rules for 16 year old drivers in my state because of some kids in my class that ended up pulling in front of a semi on the first day the driver had their license.

[tulip mauve]

Yea drove around with Learners permit. Public roads, highways and all tho. Just had to had a 18+ adult with a license next to me

[marsh sentinel]

The US is weird.

[hard iron]

Yup. Doing that with my kids now 😉 At least some of them.

Biggest issue with the US is that our public transport is absolute shit and our infrastructure very much discourages alternative types of transport by forcing you onto surface streets with cars when walking or biking much of the time.

[tulip mauve]

I miss the culture of walking and biking

[grave vine]

Yes, it's easier in Europe 😸

[tardy wagon]

My city just started converting a lot of the busy streets to have the bike lanes near the sidewalk so the parking is a buffer between bikes and the car lanes. It's so much safer now except maybe visibility at intersectiona

[hard iron]

A lot of America was designed after the car, and around the car. But yes, I'm glad a lot of cities are starting that. The other thing to realize is the scale and sprawl of the US compared to Europe. Going from NY->LA is roughly equivalent to going from Moscow->Lisbon, IIRC.

[tardy wagon]

I have a 14 hour minimum car ride coming up to get back home, and that's only crossing half the country 😅

[fast trout]

Agreed. As someone who works on rusty old school buses every day to make sure the kids can get back and forth safely, I can testify to the truth in that.

[hard iron]

I once did a 24 hour straight drive with a friend, and that got us from San Francisco to Denver with just stops for gas and food.

[grave vine]

@hard iron I think it's easier in the cities of one-story America with bikes and walks, but it's harder in the big cities 😼

[hard iron]

Many of those suburbs don't have walkable sidewalks, and car drivers are actively antagonistic to bicyclists. Depends a lot on where that city you're talking about is located... might be ok in Ohio, but it's super dangerous in Texas

[warm silo]

Where I live, snowshoes are still kept near the front door

[indigo void]

Good news when ???

[grave vine]

Well, I meant the Northwestern states 😼

[hard iron]

Sometime before the end of June 😉

[hard iron]

You can go to id:customize and join the public tester role if you want to get in on the beta whenever it drops, but it's quite possible it will have bugs and changes eventually.

[indigo void]

🤭

[scenic wing]

Similar, I did a drive from California to Dallas (Texas), it was pretty fun though!

[grave vine]

My city is not too big, by world standards, only about a million inhabitants, but there is quite a long embankment, more than twenty kilometers, so there is a place to ride a bike and Go Fishing😸

[warm silo]

Last consensus there were 500 people in my town

[grave vine]

For everyone, their hometown seems small and cozy, no matter how many millions live there 😸

[warm silo]

everyone? Most New Yorkers I've met don't consider their city small and cozy lol

[grave vine]

Yes, they all moved there from other cities 😹

[fast trout]

I'm double of you, but everyone is very spread out.

[hard iron]

My high school had 500 kids between the 3 grades, and it was one of two in town

[scenic wing]

We only had one high school, but there were like 600 students I think? Roughly? 4 grade levels.

[grave vine]

In mine it was 1500 😹

[hard iron]

Yeah, same with my kids here 😉 Moved to the Denver area, it's a lot more populous.

[fast trout]

205 kids in the pre-k though 12 I work at...

And our numbers are up this year, heh.

[tulip mauve]

In my middle school we were sub 100

[grave vine]

@fast trout Always wanted to ride the yellow school bus 😺

[fast trout]

It can be pretty exciting. They're actually excellent in the snow (because of the weight and wheel base), but they sink out of sight when the ground softens up in the spring if the driver isn't careful.

[grave vine]

As a school student, I meant 😼

[fast trout]

Then you need two more buses - one to load all the kids onto, and one to pull the stuck bus out, haha.

[warm silo]

Seeley's Bay Ontario, colloquially and affectionately known as Bumfuck Egypt, there isn't even a school here. Well, we all went to school, but we either hiked our asses to the nearest town which is about an hour walk through prairie or we got homeschooled lol.

[grave vine]

Yes, it can be difficult on dirt roads in spring 😸

And I went to school across the street from home, but my house, although it was in a big city, was on the very outskirts of a large natural park, in the bay of a large river, and we often went into the thickets of reeds to look for trouble 😹

[fast trout]

Haha, nice. One of my closest friends is from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and a group of us spends two weeks north of Searchmont every summer. We constantly talk about how much it looks like Valheim up there.

[grave vine]

Well, the wolves still haven't eaten you😸

@warm silo

[warm silo]

Yet, we'll see. The coyotes around here get pretty damn big though!

[grave vine]

Well, we have big steppe wolves, no coyotes 😺

[warm silo]

My grandparents live not too far away and own a small island on the lake their property sits on, when I was a wee lad me and my cousins conoed out there to camp for a week, nearly got eaten by a brown bear

[grave vine]

And where did you hang his skin? 😹

[warm silo]

Searchmont is a wonderful area

[tulip mauve]

oh whenever my school bus got stuck (happened twice) all the students just went out back and pushed it free while the driver steered 🤣

[warm silo]

Legend has it he's still hanging around there 27 years later, though it's probably their cubs by now lol.

[grave vine]

😹

[warm silo]

Lessons were learned, noted were taken, that island is now dubbed Bear Island and is viewed through binoculars only

[fast trout]

Hah, that's what we did when I went to school as well. So many rules have changed now, though, that we have to be really careful.

There aren't any rules against having the kids rock back and forth inside the bus, though!

[warm silo]

The whole lake freezes in the winter, near as we can tell the bear does a good job hibernating and staying out of trouble. My grandpa may be 102 years old but he's still got his wits about him and 2 well-kept shotguns on the wall haha

[grave vine]

They won't fall farther than the floors😸

[fast trout]

Yeah, brown bear are nothing to mess around with! Plenty of black bear around here, and they don't even phase me anymore. A brown bear would be a whole different story...

[warm silo]

No sir, not browns. Not even once.

[tulip mauve]

102 with wits intact is quite impressive, hope he keeps it up!

[warm silo]

He still chops his own wood for the wood furnace in the winter! haha

Well, about half of what he uses. We all take turns hiking over and doing some upkeep and chores even if he doesn't appreciate the concern haha

[grave vine]

And when will he be told that he can heat with electricity? 😹

[grave vine]

That's the way it should be 😼👍

[warm silo]

There's only 2 things he's willing to pay a hydro bill for, the refrigerator and a tv to watch his Blue Jays lose every year

He won't ever pay a cent for heating if he doesn't have to

[grave vine]

It's a pity that solar panels are not cheap until now, they would be a great solution for such homes 😼

[hard iron]

I've got solar on my house. It offsets most of my electrical bill, which is nice.

[warm silo]

Funnily enough we've tried to convince him to get solar panels installed. Almost worked, even offered to do the whole process for him.

[grave vine]

My friend has the whole roof in panels, he doesn't pay for anything, and he also sells electricity to the electric company 😹

[warm silo]

But, and I quote: "I'm too old now and I don't understand how it works, if it breaks that's it, firewood can't break"

[tulip mauve]

My parents have solar panels which give them most the electricity they need. Most days I think they also produce extra and sell it to the power company

[fast trout]

We set up solar panels on the little camp we built up there. Was surprisingly cheap and easy, and it's plenty to keep the trolling motor batteries and fridge battery charged.

[hard iron]

Yeah, some months I go positive, others I don't due to snow, clouds, and just being kinda a somewhat northerly latitude. But in general it offsets almost all of it.

[fast trout]

He's not wrong, haha.

[tulip mauve]

I once did an essay on the UK wanting to send a solar satellite into space and have it beam electricity back down to Earth. Wonder if that's gonna actually happen

[warm silo]

Yeah solar panels are nice but they're not something you can run 24/7 in Canadian winter because, well, snow. And even if it doesn't snow, it's certainly going to be cloudy.

[grave vine]

There are special nets that heat up and melt snow on the panels, and they can work even in bad weather 😼

[grave vine]

At first, it will be made into a weapon 😹

[tulip mauve]

well just it being cloudy will significantly lower output

[warm silo]

I'm sure the efficiency of panels have come a long way since conception though

[grave vine]

But it will still be there, and the batteries can work for several days 😼

After all, the main part is not panels, but converters and energy storage devices that these panels provide 😼👍

[tulip mauve]

fact

[grave vine]

As soon as cheap and energy-dense batteries become available, the panels will become very efficient 😼

[warm silo]

I pay for hydro and all that like your typical citizen but I do heat my house with a woodstove, too

[grave vine]

I don't see anything wrong with that, you're doing what is beneficial to you at the moment 😼

[warm silo]

Well it's mostly out of circumstance, if something were to go wrong and I lose power, which happens frequently in storms, we wouldn't have anybody around to fix it for probably weeks and in the winter that would be disasterous so gotta have some alternative method to keep warm in emergency

Luckily I'm surrounded on all fours by forest, so wood stove it is!

[hard iron]

My uncle had a wood pellet stove, and a regular fireplace. The pellet stove was crazy efficient and got hot really quickly, so it was his go-to in general, and it produced a lot less smoke and was in general less dangerous than burning wood directly.

[tulip mauve]

I feel like I need to get myself a power source for when I have power outages

[warm silo]

Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it

[grave vine]

But unfortunately, it's full of hungry bears that your axe will wake up 😹

[warm silo]

What's life without a little risk And I chop all my wood in late summer to avoid that anyway. It needs time to dry out naturally which takes a handful of months regardless

[grave vine]

Yes, in many homes we have such ovens on pallets 😼

[hard iron]

Aww c'mon... resin filled logs popping and showering you with flaming sparks is half the fun! 😛

[grave vine]

Yes, I know, I used to chop wood for my grandfather, his house was far away in a remote village 😼

[warm silo]

If I want to feel the burn I'll go cook some peameal bacon shirtless lol

[grave vine]

Sparks set the floor on fire... And the fun begins 😹

[warm silo]

My wood stove setup is quite safe, and I always, always make sure I do it by the book.

[grave vine]

Marinate large pieces of pork in onions and spices, then string them on skewers and place them over the coals, but make sure that there is no open fire, it will be delicious 😼👍

[warm silo]

I do that but lamb instead of pork usually

[grave vine]

Pieces of pork should be cubes, about five centimeters, to the coals should be 15-20 centimeters 😼👍

[grave vine]

The lamb is a bit dry, as for me 😼

[warm silo]

I wrap it in tin foil

[grave vine]

It's also delicious, but a little different from the taste on skewers 😼

[warm silo]

It's skewered, but also wrapped in tin foil

to keep in the juices

[grave vine]

I would wrap potatoes and bacon in foil and put them in the coals 😺

[grave vine]

Yes, I see what you mean, I ate this too, it's delicious too 😼

[hard iron]

It's a good thing it's lunch time now, y'all making me hungry

[warm silo]

And this way if I fk up and forget about it, it isn't dry as hell when I take them off haha

Even though we're all Canadian, my family is Germanic/Scottish by heritage and it's leaned into quite heavily. So I grew up eating lots of germanic dishes, and I continue the tradition

[grave vine]

Oh, oh those traditional dishes, delicacies for us, and a challenge for a foreigner 😹

[warm silo]

If you don't know what you're doing, or don't have the right gear, it can be difficult to immitate haha

My girlfriend's folks learned I was germanic so once for a gathering they tried their hand at germanic dishes. Honestly turned out horrible but I choked it down, smiled and said it was great

[grave vine]

Of the Scottish dishes, I liked the stuffed sheep's stomach, I didn't eat it in Scotland, but they cooked it according to the recipe, I guess 😹

[grave vine]

Most likely, they are not from Europe 😸

[warm silo]

Nope, they're asian hahaha....... it was rough

[grave vine]

😹

@warm silo And what did you give them? 😸

They just didn't know that any German dish is edible if washed down with beer 😹

[coral flower]

Could antler pickaxe break muddy scrap pile in the past or is it a new thing? Because I legit feel stupid right now after I crafted a bronze pickaxe.

[warm silo]

They said they wanted me to bring something I specialize in. So I did a full Earth Oven Pig Roast in their backyard

It turned out amazing though

[grave vine]

So it's a royal treat 😼👍

[tulip mauve]

Always been able to. Bronze pickaxe and Iron axe have always been kinda useless

[warm silo]

Yes! Was quite difficult to find a full pig to roast tbh

[tulip mauve]

Iron pickaxe is also barely needed. Can dig out a whole silver vein with Antler, but still need the iron to give it a couple hits and make it collapse

[coral flower]

so you're telling me I was always making it for no apparent reason? BRUUUUUUH

[grave vine]

Don't breed pigs in Canada? 🙀

[tulip mauve]

You were making it for the slight durability and damage increase

[warm silo]

Not much outside of legit farms, which is precisely where I ended up having to go. Took a while to find a farm willing to sell me one

[coral flower]

[grave vine]

We have no problem with this, you can at least buy a whole ostrich and roast it 😹

[warm silo]

An ostrich farm in Canada, that'll be the day!

[grave vine]

We have them, and we are at the same latitude, I think, and most likely there are farms with ostriches in Canada, they are very tasty 😼👍

[warm silo]

Latitude maybe, but the climate here is too cold for Ostrich to roam outside in the winter so only very well-equipped farms or farms specializing in Ostrich would be able to breed and sell them

Certainly not anywhere near where I am haha

[grave vine]

They run through the snow as if they were long-legged penguins 😹

[warm silo]

It can drop to around -40c here so gotta have an enclosed area for Ostrich

[grave vine]

Well, it's rarely colder here in winter – 15 degrees Celsius 😼

[grave vine]

Yes, they most likely have heated enclosures 😼👍

[deep geyser]

you are from Canada? what a nice guy

[warm silo]

Haha, yes I'm from Canada

[warm silo]

All the farms around where I am aren't big farms and don't have the money for anything fancy like that

[grave vine]

Why does everyone think Canadians are nice? 😹

[warm silo]

Because we typically are, although we are still humans and humans can be assholes

[nimble patrol]

it's only people who went to America first

[deep geyser]

i wanna move to an english speaking country but canada is too cold and america is well pretty bad so australia it is

[gleaming lance]

New Zealand

[warm silo]

If you're rich you can still move to Canada, go to Vancouver the weather is very nice

[grave vine]

It's not cold there 😼

[deep geyser]

cold where

america?

[grave vine]

Canada

[deep geyser]

yes it is

Lets just say I like playing basketball outside so its not ideal anyways

[grave vine]

Or to Quebec, with your English 😹

[warm silo]

Don't go to quebec, they're all assholes 😂

[grave vine]

It's cool there only in winter 😸

[grave vine]

I knew it 😹

[deep geyser]

Im from central eu and its already cold here so no thanks 🤯

[tulip mauve]

What about England?

[deep geyser]

Too much rain

[grave vine]

Good joke 😺

[tulip mauve]

I like rain

[deep geyser]

i dont.

[tulip mauve]

Not a joke, they do speak English in England (went there a couple times)

[warm silo]

Canada is only really cold about 45% of the full callendar year, summers are still pretty warm

[deep geyser]

I still like australia more

[grave vine]

Have you heard their English? 😹

[tulip mauve]

Indeed

[deep geyser]

Im from the puny land of Slovenia if anyone has heard of it😆

[deep geyser]

yye mate is pwetty weird innit

[grave vine]

It is still often confused with Slovakia, a beautiful land 😼

[deep geyser]

Some americans really piss me off when they say that ngl

[gleaming lance]

What language do slevens speak?

[tulip mauve]

why specifically Americans?

[unique berry]

any new info about the ashlands leeked by the devs?

[deep geyser]

Because they dont know any other country besides usa most of the time

[deep geyser]

Slovenian

[gleaming lance]

Oh

[deep geyser]

slovene?

idk exactly in english

[grave vine]

Well, they don't have to, everyone develops themselves as they want 😼

[gleaming lance]

Is it more like Italian or German?

[deep geyser]

neither its a part of the balkans so its similar to croatian, serbian, russian...

[grave vine]

It is a Slavic language 😼

[tulip mauve]

Understandable

[deep geyser]

Its pretty damn hard ill tell you that

I prefer talking in english because its so much simpler

[gleaming lance]

Man so many branches of Slavic.

[warm silo]

@grave vine I hate you, now you've got me planning my dinner as Kartoffelknödel, Rotkohl and Beers

There goes my whole afternoon

[gleaming lance]

I tried to learn Russian, gave up pretty quick lol... All I learned was its a very direct language

[grave vine]

I speak three languages, not counting English 😹

[deep geyser]

I understand some of it by deafult

[deep geyser]

I speak 3 languages including english and some broken german😉

[gleaming lance]

Computer is computer

[warm silo]

I only speak 2 languages lol

[deep geyser]

probably french

[tulip mauve]

I speak 2 languages fluently but can converse in a couple others and can speak a bit of broken Spanish

[grave vine]

As far as I know, our languages are similar, our ancestors diverged only about 1,500 years ago 😹

[warm silo]

No, actually English and japanese funnily enough

[gleaming lance]

I can barely speak English

And that's all I know

[deep geyser]

what language do you speak?

[tulip mauve]

I learned English before I started studying it lol

[grave vine]

Ukrainian, of course 😼👍

[deep geyser]

same it was thanks to youtube when I was 7

[tulip mauve]

Yea movies and games carry

[deep geyser]

you live in ukraine or?

[grave vine]

Of course 😼

[deep geyser]

Is the war near your house?

[grave vine]

You can't write about it here 😸

[warm silo]

I'm back in Canada now but I spent about 10 years in Japan so that's why I know Japanese, I should know french because I'm Canadian I just don't lol

[deep geyser]

damn

[deep geyser]

why were you in Japan?

[gleaming lance]

Are there any open chat rooms anymore

[grave vine]

I've always wanted to visit Japan 🙀

[warm silo]

I was an instructor for an underwater welding course at a university

[deep geyser]

underwater welding...

[warm silo]

Yep

[grave vine]

Cool and dangerous 😼👍

[warm silo]

Also known as Hyperbaric Welding but most people know it as Underwater Welding

[warm silo]

Mostly dangerous, I'm retired now It can be fun though just depends on what you're using it for

[deep geyser]

Did you guys go to college?

[grave vine]

Sink a cruiser, for example 😸

[grave vine]

A very, very long time ago 😹

[deep geyser]

You must be very old

[grave vine]

But not in college, but at the university 😼

[hard iron]

Hey now, whippersnapper, you watch your tongue...

[warm silo]

A lot of my fieldwork was doing contract work for the military in that regard, not sunk, mostly deluged craft or craft too big to drydock lol

[deep geyser]

😱

I am just a young lad

[grave vine]

I guessed it 😸

[hard iron]

I can tell 😉 I've got kids older than you.

[deep geyser]

How old are your kids?

[hard iron]

Oldest is 28 today

[warm silo]

Careful, that's thin ice son

[deep geyser]

I was about to proudly say im about to be 19 but nevermind...

[gleaming lance]

Valheim seems to attract an older audience

[warm silo]

Indeed it does

[grave vine]

Well, all the joys and sorrows are yet to come 😸

[warm silo]

Mostly sorrows 😂

[deep geyser]

I dont even really play valheim

[grave vine]

Rather, those who are accustomed to thinking and then acting, thorough people 😼

[deep geyser]

its definetely a game that takes patience

[warm silo]

If there's only 1 skill learned through Hyperbaric Welding, without a doubt, it's thinking before you act

[gleaming lance]

It's a casual game that you can spend hours doing seemingly nothing on.. But enjoy doing it anyway

[deep geyser]

my acting made me attempt to build a house in the dark forest

notice how I said "attempt"

[warm silo]

Black Forest homes are quite nice, just be a bit mindful of the trolls

[grave vine]

You're just describing a dude in his early thirties 😸

[deep geyser]

yeah thus it was the unsuccessful attempt

[gleaming lance]

Lol that's me

Trolls are the worst. Always ruining my staircases

[warm silo]

My 30s were just work, travel, work, travel, drinking, rinse repeat

[deep geyser]

My 30s are a decade away

[gleaming lance]

That just sounds like life in general

[hard iron]

looks at his 30s in the rearview mirror...

[warm silo]

That's the long and short of it, yes haha

[deep geyser]

I decided to study computer science

[hard iron]

That's what I got my degree in. Well, technically math, but emphasis on Computer Science. Stick with the theory, it will serve you much better than worrying about specific languages or code.

[umbral fog]

More* than decade away, don't worry 😄

[deep geyser]

Yeah well ill still try my luck in 3D modeling while attending college

[deep geyser]

12 years😼

[gleaming lance]

I went into vfx but somehow wound up doing data entry and technicical stuff for cities

[umbral fog]

Plenty of time still 😄

[gleaming lance]

School was a waste of time n money for me 🤷‍♂️

[cedar spade]

i do stupid brain teaching

[deep geyser]

Its free here in europe though

[hard iron]

The difference between computer science and programming are theory and practice. Programming is putting the theory into practice, and if you understand the theory doing the actual programming is much easier and ends up with a better product. By all means learn 3D modeling and such, but if you want to really get ahead learn the complicated parts of why, not just the what.

[deep geyser]

Well yeah I dont want to spoil too much but I have big plans with 3D modeling and youtube

I have connections...

[warm silo]

My actual degree was in Criminal Law, but then I did about 5 years in courses culminating in my Hyperbaric certs, did fieldwork for about 10 years, went back to school for teaching certs, 10 years in japan after that as a course instructor and now we're here, retired.

[hard iron]

Just have a backup plan 😉 For every successful streamer there are 10000 that don't make it. Pursue it as a hobby, set up your life to support what you love, but don't count on it paying the bills.

[deep geyser]

Thats why im going to college😁

[gleaming lance]

It's a lot harder than it seems, I thought I could do something like that too but I'm not good at working for myself. Need directions constantly

[grave vine]

The hardest thing to do is to conquer yourself 😼

[deep geyser]

Im most likely going to get a masters degree in cyber security though but I havent decided yet and ive got time anyways

[hard iron]

Give yourself some flexibility. I was planning on getting a degree in Electrical Engineering before I pivoted. Still got a minor in engineering, but things change as you get experience.

[warm silo]

You've got time, until you don't. I'm not your Dad and it's your life, just be mindful that a decade is only 3500 tomorrows

[gleaming lance]

Learning a trade is pretty good money though. And last couple years I've just been pickin up contract work, travel and camp, then onto the next thing when the weather gets shitty or I get bored

[grave vine]

It's better to study algorithms for creating artificial intelligence, they are the future 😸

[deep geyser]

Im not that smart😢

[snow forge]

I was planning on becoming an eternal student. Turned out that's not really a viable option. :(

[hard iron]

Hah. An AI wouldn't make heads or tails of what the business people in my company try to tell it. They don't even know what they want half the time 😛

[warm silo]

as a career, no but as a hobby I would certainly recommend

[hard iron]

May as well lay down and die if you're not learning new things 😉 Big or small.

[grave vine]

But he will figure out how to steal and protect their money 😹

[warm silo]

That's every business man

[deep geyser]

Im already attending a high school of economics I know it all

[snow forge]

I had two dream jobs as a kid. Cartographer, or scientist. No specific type of scientist, just some sort of scientist.

[warm silo]

I've 55 years old and the only thing I know is that I know very little

[deep geyser]

you are as old as my dad

🤯

[snow forge]

Time came to choose upper secondary school, I had no idea what i wanted to be when I grew up beyond wnating to study something, so I tok the "this is what you take if you're going for higher education" standard variety of upper secondary. Then I just wanted to study. :p

[deep geyser]

I hate studying...

[grave vine]

😼👍

[snow forge]

I love studying, I just hate writing papers.

And I was lucky enough to like the job I started with as a part time job beside my studies, so I've stayed with that since.

[hard iron]

Slow down there Socrates... 😛

[warm silo]

I learned i hated writing papers towards the end of my criminal law degree but it was too late by then haha

[deep geyser]

Im going to study computer science and I dont know how to code haha

[snow forge]

I learned it early on but I did finish a BA, but scrapped the plan of getting a MA and Ph.D.

Writing a BA thesis was bad enough, higher than that and they place actual demands on you. :p

[deep geyser]

What are you guys even talking about

[hard iron]

Studying is just learning. If you figure out how to love learning, studying comes easily. The hard part is when you have to study something you have no interest in... sometimes that's beneficial to just force yourself through, but I've found it more beneficial to expand my interests.

[snow forge]

My choise of study was purely based on what I found interesting and wanted to learn more about.

[deep geyser]

Sadly all of the high school subjects are severely not interesting

except english but come on...

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/that-shits-dingo-viva-la-dirt-league-catchphrase-gif-27349731

[warm silo]

One of my lifelong friends did a Masters in Physics and had to write a Dissertation in his field, that was painful even to watch

[deep geyser]

yeah exactly

[hard iron]

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

-Robert A. Heinlein

[deep geyser]

i can make eggs

i feel too young to be here now

[tardy vale]

as long as you're older than 13 😮

[snow forge]

If it's any consolation I don't know how to make eggs. :p

[deep geyser]

im 18

[snow forge]

(I can make other stuff though, some of it tasty.)

[warm silo]

I can at least do most of those! Maybe I'll leave retirement and become a shipwright lol.

[grave vine]

🙀

[deep geyser]

i can even make waffles

[hard iron]

You're definitely welcome here 😉 You're also in the middle of an old guys' club that has 2x your life experience on average, it would seem. We've formed some opinions 😛

[snow forge]

Age is just a number anyway.

[tardy vale]

*level

[deep geyser]

interesting

i still feel like im 15

[grave vine]

And even on gravestones 😼

[warm silo]

We all get wiser, not smarter. And no matter how wise or smart you are, you are but a human and a human is but an animal. We all do stupid shit! And nobody can know everything.

[deep geyser]

i waved at a random car once and the driver went in reverse and threatened to beat me up🙂

[grave vine]

Our wisdom is written in blood and sweat, on the scars of our souls 😸

[hard iron]

If it helps, I still feel like I'm in my early 20's. This comic hits deeper every day: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-06-24

[deep geyser]

very deep

[peak prairie]

@warm silo Certain nameless politicians? Doesn't matter what country you're in either lol

[snow forge]

I feel a lot younger than I am except whenever I try to actually use my body for anything. :p

[grave vine]

Don't talk to strangers 😹

[deep geyser]

Why not

Im a big boy now

[tardy vale]

more like this 🤔

[deep geyser]

I am the one that offers candy now

[grave vine]

For example, he wanted to wink at a girl, and dozed off 😼

[warm silo]

That boy ain't right

[deep geyser]

Its unfathomable I can order a beer now🤯

covid really took away my mid teens

[grave vine]

That bear will grow up and devour him 😸

[grave vine]

And what prevented you from getting it before that? 😸

[deep geyser]

My age?

[tardy vale]

I hope common sence and laws 😄

[grave vine]

Although, in any case, moderation is important 😼👍

[deep geyser]

I dont drink anyways

just hardcore meth

[grave vine]

Yes, yes, of course it is 😼

[snow forge]

Eerything in moderation. ||Especially moderation.||

[grave vine]

Being drunk is not the best state for a man 😼

[warm silo]

I spent nearly half of my 10 years in Japan hungover because the university staff were all alcoholics and took me with them whenever they went for afterwork drinks lol

[deep geyser]

excuses🗣️

[warm silo]

It was pretty fun, not going to lie, no regrets were had but sometimes it got wild

[grave vine]

And what prevented him from drinking until he was slightly drunk, and then drinking non-alcohol? 😸

[echo yacht]

Did the alcohol thing when I was college too. Dropped out because of it.

[warm silo]

A mix of cultural expectations, being brash, and not knowing better? lol

And I'm not one to turn down free drink

[grave vine]

Yes, I don't mean, everyone chooses what they like, I thought they made you drink and you didn't want to, but if everything was fun, then why not? 😸

[warm silo]

I wonder, at what age do we stop getting to say we didn't know better

[grave vine]

Let's just say that because I'm too hot-tempered and don't want to offend those who don't deserve it, I try not to get drunk 😹

[grave vine]

I think we'll talk in the next world 😸

[warm silo]

Luckily I am a very happy drunk, always good vibes

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/no-nooo-nope-eat-fingerwag-gif-12358308896192153975

[grave vine]

🙀

We're talking about tea, of course 😸

@warm silo I think it is necessary to conclude this topic 😹

[tardy vale]

https://tenor.com/view/this-deathmonkeyxl-deathmonkey-this-post-this-message-gif-24125642

[grave vine]

@tardy vale Vikings around the campfire sometimes like to reminisce about past adventures 😸

[tardy vale]

sure

tho we got 120,000 vikings of all ages around that campfire

[grave vine]

That is why I say that it is better not to continue the topic 😼👍

When you get carried away with a conversation, you often forget which server you are on at the moment 😸

[umbral fog]

must be nice and big campfire 😄

[grave vine]

The front rows have singed beards 😹

[tardy vale]

closing in on 130k

[grave vine]

After the big update, it will be lively 😺

[tardy vale]

oh yes

[umbral fog]

if you singe your beard while siting around campfire you are not experienced enough with campfires 😄

[grave vine]

Just imagine a bonfire for 130k Vikings, and what will happen to the beards of those closest to it 😸

[warm silo]

if it's a bonfire for 130k vikings, the first 2 rows of people are probably just dead lol

[tough aspen]

Fun old fact, when I was a teen and was obsessed with C&H I had Rob on MSN and we'd chat very often

[tardy vale]

😱

[tough aspen]

Kris too! I was very active on their forums, shame they're gone 😦

[deep geyser]

most american thing ive heard today

[tough aspen]

Nowhere near

[deep geyser]

what does that mean??

[marsh sentinel]

It means it's nothing to do with America.

[tough aspen]

Okay let's simplify... I had the author of that comic on what would be Discord's grandma, MSN.

And the comic reminded me of it, since they weren't crazy popular back then!

[snow forge]

Eew msn

[hard iron]

In my day, C&H meant Calvin and Hobbes 😛

[deep geyser]

Ive read those

[warm silo]

Heh

[tough aspen]

I'll just go :c

[gleaming lance]

MSN was the shit
Good times. And that's really cool, Rob was the best. Kris my 2nd favourite

[warm silo]

I'm not sure if I should go for a high five or not for this one

[marsh sentinel]

What does that make IRC?

[tough aspen]

The George Washington of text communication

[tardy vale]

Ancient

[snow forge]

still uses irc.

[tardy vale]

like smoke puffs

[gleaming lance]

What's irc? I remember correctly?

[tardy vale]

we all are since discord is IRC 😄

[tardy vale]

Internet Relay Chat

[snow forge]

Discord is irc with extra stuff. I use actual irc (if not very actively). :p

[warm silo]

Internet Relay C- yeah that

[tough aspen]

I used to go to internet cafe's to talk to bois on IRC and pretend im 15

[gleaming lance]

Huh new tft set already

[tough aspen]

To clarify, I was like 13, not pretending I was younger but older 🥲

[hard iron]

A/S/L? Or are you old enough for the AOL slang? 😛

[tough aspen]

33/f/MK

Ofc I'm old enough, I grew up on the internet

[deep geyser]

I am the youngest person in this server i see

[umbral fog]

stares on these weird numbers and letters in gen Z XD

[gleaming lance]

I first learned asl on runescape lol

[lucid ice]

Im an artifact

[fast trout]

Late to the party, but my friends and I are all in our early 40s, but their 8 & 10 year old kids both play Valheim. And, the 8 year old is actually quite good.

[deep geyser]

bro what

[fast trout]

He survives a lot of the situations that end up killing us off, heh. Maybe he's just better at running.

[deep geyser]

thats crazy

when I was 8 I was wondering how they got the cars in a mall

[zealous anchor]

8 today and 8, 40 years ago arent quite the same lol

[deep geyser]

I was 8 ten years ago okay

[zealous anchor]

thats still quite a difference and how people got raised, i was 8 almost 20 years ago and there wasnt much tech for me almost 20 years ago

[snow forge]

I think I had my first computer when I was around ten. We also started learning about them at school around the same time I think. For some reason we had a computer in the classroom for a while, not sure when but based on which classroom I was between 10 and 13 (I guess it was towards the end). It had two games on it, a math game and a geography game. :>

[zealous anchor]

hmm

[tough aspen]

We got a PC when I was 4, one of the first games on it was wolfenstein and it took 4 floppies to install 😄

[snow forge]

I had a computer because my uncle who is a wossname, someone who builds and refusbishes houses, needed to replace it in his office. I got the old one. :p

[tough aspen]

all I'd do is draw in MS paint, was called Paintbrush then I think

[snow forge]

Playing in paintbrush was super fun

[tough aspen]

Yes!

But I didn't know about Undo and I'd cry when the bucket would fill my entire page 🥲

[snow forge]

The whole point was to full the page1

[fast trout]

Haha, Wolfenstein, nice. I think the first PC game I played was Wings of Fury on an Apple II.

[snow forge]

First draw random lines and curcles and all kinds of shapes and then start filling them with random colours until the entire page was one colour. :p

[tough aspen]

Yes! But I'd draw stuff like houses, cats, girls, etc 😄

[snow forge]

I can't draw and I couldn't when I was a kid either. :p

[deep geyser]

I played far cry primal

[tough aspen]

My dad took a vid of all my saved drawings once, still have it ^^ on a vhs

[deep geyser]

wow you guys are so old

[snow forge]

Sam's young.

[tough aspen]

I was 26 when that came out apparently....

[deep geyser]

33 is very old

[snow forge]

Not really. It's the coming-of-age age for hobbits.

Are you a hobbit, Sam?

[zealous anchor]

thats, well i dont even know when that came out

[marsh sentinel]

33 is nothing.

[tough aspen]

I'm the same height as one probably

[deep geyser]

imagine

[warm silo]

I was 47 lol

[umbral fog]

i am not gonna disclose her exact height but she is quite short 😄

[tough aspen]

Who summoned you

[deep geyser]

I am taller than John cena

[umbral fog]

the height talk obviously 😄

[zealous anchor]

looked it up and i was 17 when that came out, didnt even know about it much till like a year ago lol

[deep geyser]

fc primal was like the first game I played on my ps4 years ago

I had a xbox 360 when I was little

[tough aspen]

Are you underage

[deep geyser]

no im 18

[snow forge]

Are you a human or a hobbit or something else?

[warm silo]

I'm not too tall, but I'm still pretty well built for my age although I can feel it being harder to maintain every year

[tough aspen]

is it all the tofuburgers

[deep geyser]

I went from being 5'7 at 16 to 6'1

[warm silo]

No it's the lamb and onion diet lol

[zealous anchor]

im 1.85M and feel skinny ass hell even though im almost 90kg

[umbral fog]

in that case you are the same height as john cena 😄 not higher

[deep geyser]

hes 6'0😠

[umbral fog]

6,1 😉 (at least by google)

[deep geyser]

no

[warm silo]

Last i checked im 1.75m and almost 100kg on the nose

[snow forge]

I'm just tall enouhg and don't know how much I weigh.

[zealous anchor]

ill just go with "heavy bones"

[warm silo]

I chop all my own fire wood so that helps lol

[snow forge]

One of my bones is bigger since I broke it and it grew a little bit off. :p

[zealous anchor]

ive never broken a bone, though i did squish muh finger asa kid and well lost the nail but no broken bones

[snow forge]

It took me until I was thinks 29.

[warm silo]

Oh and i don't do it much anymore since im back in Canada but when I was in Japan I took up judo for 8 or 9 years

[snow forge]

Don't ask me how it took that long, I was climbing alot as a kid

[tough aspen]

same, didnt break anything

[snow forge]

Can't ju do that in Canada?

[zealous anchor]

isnt that illegal in canada?

[umbral fog]

well yes, google says 185 cm thats VERY close to 6,1 in imperial measurements 😄

[warm silo]

Village I live in now has 500 people in it so, not really lol

[deep geyser]

no

im probably 6'2 anyways

[snow forge]

You only need one person to fight with though.

[umbral fog]

sure 😄

[warm silo]

And that's 1 more person than I've found to be willing, most people my age aren't very physical anymore and just about everyone left in the village these days are at least 40

[tough aspen]

There will be... a chosen one.

[warm silo]

Woops wrong person lol

Even with 8-9 years of experience I doubt I'd be able to keep up with lads in their prime

[umbral fog]

i thought this doesent seem like reply to me XD

[warm silo]

Took me an embarrassingly long time to notice that pun smh

[fast trout]

I feel that. Went dirt biking with some friends that are 12 years younger last summer, and I was wrecked by the time we got back to the trucks. And, I've been riding them since I was 5.

Plenty of broken bones through the years too, though.

And all of that definitely adds up.

[snow forge]

I broke my front teeth as a kid, but I'm not sure that counts as bones.

[warm silo]

Yeah.... part of the reason I stopped Hyperbaric Welding in the first place was an on-site accident, even though everything's mostly healed now it's never quite been the same

I'll never be out for the count, too much energy to be a couch potato even at 55 but I do have to moderate myself these days lol

[fast trout]

Ouch!!

[fast trout]

Yeah, exactly. Respect your limits, hehe.

[snow forge]

Ouch, yes. It probably hurt. :p

[warm silo]

Too young to remember?

[snow forge]

I remember it fairly well, think I was 9? Don't remember pain, only blood and mild panic (and a very concerned mum rushing us to the dentist 20km away).

[fast trout]

Haha, one thing about getting hurt as a kid was always thinking, "oh man, I'm in so much trouble"

[zealous anchor]

oh my cousin chiped his front tooth
though no rushing to a dentist and it was just a tiny corner of his front tooth

[snow forge]

Also the fascinating view when the dentist showed me what my then filed-down-to-get-protheses-on-them teeth looked like (though that was a bit later). :p

[zealous anchor]

that was also a very long time ago

[warm silo]

I was too young to remember the pain, but apparently when I was 3 my brother blindfolded me and I ran full tilt into a doorknob with my eye lol. Stitches were had

[snow forge]

Chipping is one thing, I came home with one front teeth pointing outward and one pointing inward. Concern and rushing was in order, I think.

[snow forge]

Ouch!

[zealous anchor]

closed i got a bone breaking was my jaw being cut off and moved a tiny bit back to ix my bite

[umbral fog]

how did you manage that? 😄

[warm silo]

Bah! Close enough

[snow forge]

I fell.

[zealous anchor]

thats very muich ouch

[fast trout]

The exposed nerve endings in the broken teeth...ahh man, memories.

[snow forge]

Landed face first on a hard surface.

[zealous anchor]

i landed face first ona tarmac, all i got in return wasa torn upper lip that hung down

[snow forge]

Sounds hurtful.

[zealous anchor]

nota single bone broken, not even my nose, litterally all i hurt was my upper lip

[warm silo]

My worst injury, aside from my field accident, was during a Rugby tourney in highschool. Got 2-way'd and shattered my femur+rib fracture

[zealous anchor]

i never liked sport much to begin wth, i played inline hockey and some tennis in school and that was all

[warm silo]

I was cursed with an abundance of energy, so I found a few good and not-so-good ways to channel it. This was also in the sticks, so back then you didn't have too many options like you do now. Probably wouldn't have changed much, and frankly it was my bad 100% I went for a play I had no business going for so it's on me

Classic case of fucking around and finding out

[fast trout]

We call those "life lessons".

[warm silo]

Life lesson indeed 🤣

[zealous anchor]

i was just a bundle of depression in school and got into some fights in middle school and was just the quiet one in high school lol

[warm silo]

7 months of watching paint dry to cure my ailment

Did a lot of fishing though!

[fast trout]

Haha, I was just going to say, injury recuperation time was the perfect time for video games if it was cold, fishing and camping if it was warm.

Actually, still is.

[warm silo]

Didn't really have videogames back then to be honest

I'm sure they existed but I wasn't even aware of them

We still fished in the winter, ice fishing is fun

(Canada)

[lunar musk]

i remember memories

[fast trout]

You know, I always thought that as a kid (loving ice fishing), but really don't feel that way anymore.

[onyx merlin]

Where is the public test chat?

[lunar musk]

#valheim-public-test

[warm silo]

It's an awful lot of setup if you've gotta go out of your way, not always worth it lol

[onyx merlin]

Don't have access : (

[fast trout]

Especially to catch one perch, heh. Nowadays, if I need to shut my brain off while it's cold, I just shut off base raids and catch a whole mess of fish in Valheim.

[umbral fog]

go to id:customize and give yourself the role 😄

[warm silo]

ironically I despise fishing/breeding in valheim, who knows why

[onyx merlin]

U Da Best!

[lucid ice]

Its all ogre now

[merry mist]

cries in tall people problems

[tough aspen]

Oh boohooo Mr I dont have to ask people to reach things for me in supermarkets

[merry mist]

Hey its not fun walking into ceiling fans.

[warm silo]

My girlfriend unironically has a grocery stepstool

[tough aspen]

[warm silo]

[umbral fog]

cmon, dont be angy 😄

[lunar musk]

hey we have to celebrate life's small perks

[lean fable]

just crouch smh

[crimson pier]

Yep, improve your sneaking skill.

[umbral fog]

your legs start to hurt after a while tho 😄

[tough aspen]

reported yall for bullying

Funny thing is, only Asatru knows my height so why are the rest of gjall engaging

[lean fable]

because i don't need to know it to know that i'm probably shorter than you

[lunar musk]

nothing more than harmless teasing here 🫶

[umbral fog]

but isnt it so adorable when someone short is getting angy? 😄 (okok i will stop now)

[lean fable]

there would be so many bap reactions flying around if i still had nitro

https://tenor.com/view/cats-slap-i-boop-you-gif-8482066

[umbral fog]

we still have no info other than first half of 2024 unfortunately (and we should talk here only in english 😄 )

[lunar musk]

aww poor kitty

[marsh sentinel]

Are you saying they're short tempered?

[umbral fog]

kitty got booped 🥰

[umbral fog]

i would neve- well...

[lunar musk]

we shall rise above it

[tough aspen]

[leaden yacht]

[trim ember]

does anyone know if theres any way of finding silver without wishbone or has everything been patched out?

[lean fable]

sometimes they generate partially exposed, and the sledge exploit has not been patched out yet.

[warm silo]

"too hard!"

[lean fable]

(stagbreaker works better for this than iron sledge, as iron sledge iirc has a tool tier high enough to damage silver, despite not dealing any pickaxe damage. so if you're using iron sledge, you'll get "0" instead of "Too hard", making it easy to confuse with other rocks. only stagbreaker gets the "Too hard.")

[warm silo]

Iron sledge is also just annoyingly expensive for the tier it is

metric fuckload of iron + ymir flesh, nawwww.

[lean fable]

yea i've only made it once for collection purposes and then never used it 😅

[warm silo]

and the upgrades also require ymir flesh, even frostner only requires silver only for upgrades

I consider it a meme weapon

I just hang it on my fireplace mantle and call it lol

[trim ember]

i was under the impression it has

[marsh sentinel]

No, it's still there.

[trim ember]

big ups

[grand cliff]

Sooo is there a server list on the here somewhere 🤔 or ........

[drowsy imp]

#1024264966712340510

[lucid ice]

Oooooo its night time!