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temp/staffing agencies. They are middle men whose sole purpose is to be a prophylactic on a shitty manufacturing company's high employee turnover affecting stock prices. Every single one of them is a "rent-a-meat" outfit, and literally no one should EVER work for any of them. They are almost as bad as payday lenders, preying on desperation to turn a profit. The perverse thing is that with one small tweak, they'd be on par with unions as one of the greatest bulwarks of labor empowerment, but nope, gotta profit on protecting the bottom line! (What I'm thinking of is something like a member owned/operated trade union that actively works to continue training, and to place members in viable and long term employment, that will also have your back as the worker, offering legal representation and arbitration services if your contractee employer treats you in bad faith.)

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    TYL, FYI; If you are playing a Druid, an Artificer, or other, potion using Subclass, Werewolf saliva is a legitimate substitution for holy water in your recipes! Delight your D.M. with that nugget the next time you play!

    Sorry ::edit:: So I was thinking that the answer to the question, "wouldn't the resultant potion transmit lycanthropy?" could go one of two ways:

    1. Yes, and "that's why there's a label on the potion that states 'Warning: may cause slight lycanthropy, consult a physician if unplanned blackouts occur at next full moon. Discontinue use if upper mandibular hyper piliations occur. Instructions for use: Only dose in silver vessels!"

    and

    1. (old crone voice, highly cockney) "See, tha's wot ya'd tank woudt happen, but noo, see, Ah Werewolf whot a carise o'Got, roit? And, See tha tang es thah da D'vol only cairst thangs by...ah... "ray-movin'" things. L-Loik ah! Vampires, fair enstunce! Da D'vol takes yer' soul, a'see? But, God, He Carise by puttin' thangs back in!- Er- So ta speak. So what Got didh was make The werewolf cairse ah bacteerium! Et enfectcs yeh, an' a'fore long yare oot en the yaird oo'r ta the neighboors whih yer snoot up Lassies arse, n' thoots ah Howlin' hootn' ta th'Muun. So ya gess goh ta boil it, an' ih'cooks righ' ooff!"

    (ooo I'm sorry,🤣 Try your best!)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    "Your boundary is at hue 174, greener than 55% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue." tbf, a lot of these were on the fence for me. there should be an "even distribution" button for when you can't rightly decide.

    also, i have brown hazel eyes and am male (cis, biological). I wonder how this skews for women, as they have naturally better chromoperception, and eye color because I've heard that darker eye colors add a touch of saturation by absorbing more defractive light.

    can we get a reverse engineered site where it uses other color gradients? This looks like it could have taken some one 45 minutes to code with some CSS and a PERL script.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    actually Werewolves are cursed BY GOD, not Satan (as is the case with most vampires), which technically makes them deal holy type damage. This makes then especially effective against the Undead, of which vampires are a type. That's why Vampires don't like Werewolves.

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    We have a strategic oil reserve and our supplier isn't at war with the nation that the pipeline it comes through sits in. In fact we are well aware that the amount of oil we get from the middle east is paltry at best, and that the increase of our prices are purely the oil companies assfucking us over the fact they can't ship it everywhere else to make profits. (that third mega yacht won't buy itself after all!)

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    After posting the things from my 1.21.X base, (and due to my reddit ban) I decided to FINALLY plunge back in to MC YT Content Creation. "Back in" because I had this very series wayyyyyy back in 2011/12 when the game launched and while I had fully intended to keep doing MC Let's Play content, life got in the way. (kids getting into that loud phase / legal issues surrounding my now estranged sibling / jobs not lining up with time to film).

    Every update would pass and I'd say "I'm gonna do it this time!" but never did. Well now I have! It's a bit of journey, and I'm learning as I go, but I'm taking it seriously.

    The new map for my SMP is up and I'm filming as I go, so, now that I'm about to be 5 episodes in, I'm inviting you all here to take a look. I'm not monetizing (yet), so don't feel like you need to sit through AD reads or endure YT commercials for my sake. This is a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new(ish) creator, if that's something that interests you! Hope to see you there!

     

    Background: I got a perm reddit account suspension back in june and not being able to truly interact with the hermit community on the "Official" Subreddit has been the hardest part (the suspension was nothing to do with HC or even Minecraft, it was in response to some AI rage-bait, FYI) I finally decided to run a lemmy search to see if there was a fanbase here, and you guys popped up.

     

    Hello again! A couple of months ago I dropped in here with some builds and the response has been amazing. Well, I'm here today to inform all of you that the server those builds are from is about to update to one of the newest versions, and that means we are starting a fresh map! We have a bit of a problem however: "Lack of players." Our server owner has mostly moved away from Minecraft, (for now) and as her and her husband and her friends were half the server, this has left a bit of a void in our community.

    Rather than violate rule 3, I will simply describe the server and if that server is something that interests you as a player, perhaps we can discuss further steps privately. The point here is to seek out new players, and to that end, you'll need to know what we are about.

    #A Sharp Miner, The Who:

    ASM is an "18 plus" server, however, as some of the members have children of their own, they occasionally play on it. We are generally left leaning in ideology, and have a strong "personality type first" attitude toward the whitelist. We are almost all MBTI type INXX's (I myself am an INTJ, our server owner is/was an INFP) and do not like drama.

    It is preferred that if you apply to join, you are serious about game play. We are looking for players who have a passion for their builds, not folks who are just popping in to check the latest update, slap together a dirt hut and then not play for several months, or until the map resets. We are accepting redstone savants, lore builders, explorers and/or minigame mavens. Filming on the server is allowed and encouraged!!

    #The Culture:

    We do have a series of QoL mods installed, but otherwise run fairly vanilla. Our server is set to hard difficulty. We usually pre generate chunks out to about 1500 blocks from spawn, and our world border is set to 50K. We do have the sleep limit set to half the server, so it is advised that you keep a bed on you at all times, when out exploring. (people not in the over world are not counted.) We do NOT have a user economy, as such. Instead we have a community storage area, and any "shoppes" at or around spawn are free to take from. ("tip jars" are allowed however.) If you would like to charge for any items, you may set up such shops at your personal base. The end is locked until about a month or two into the server, to allow players to explore, enjoy the early/mid game, and generally "Gear up." Our server map (An external browser based plugin called Dynmap) is also locked until after the dragon hunt, for similar reasons. Server seed is known only to server admin and the owner. At the end of each map, it is saved and posted in our servers' discord, and usually hosed on a google drive, or drop box, for use in single player. All bases must be at least 250 blocks from spawn and 50 blocks from each other, unless you happen to be double/group basing. (this is to avoid drama) Mines are a bit more lax about this rule, but do try to keep it "under your base" or stake a claim farther out where it will be less of an issue. (we've never had any, TBF, so use your best discretion)

    Generally, we have the usual rules: don't be a douchebag, don't be a bigot, don't greif people, clean up after your pranks, PVP is on, but should be consensual, you know the drill. If a creeper blows it up "near civilization" please refill the hole, don't hog/raid all the structures, within reason, etc. We try not to build duplicate public farms, however, you may earmark any farms you personally build as private, in which case this does not apply. If you build a "better" public farm, the old one may be decommissioned.

    #Our Community

    We have a discord server, and chat is usually logged to that, however the pugin is a bit borked at the moment. We occasionally run events (in game) in line with the holidays, but it's pretty relaxed. We have a couple mods specifically for fun like a /joke command, Troll machine, and if there's more than 3 people on a game called "Man Hunt" begins where you have nine minutes to find and click on another player designated. Fabulous prizes go to you if you succeed; The same goes to the chosen player if you do not. It's actually a great way to get some hard to find items!

    So this is what A Sharp Miner is about. Again, strictly speaking, this is just talking about the server I play on and what it's like. No obligation or pitches are in anyway intended. If this server sounds like something that appeals to you though, feel free to shoot me DM, and we can discuss options for onboarding you to the whitelist/contacts for the Admin team.

    #What are your servers like?

     

    This is not my server, just the one I play on. It's been almost exactly 2 years since I started, but there's no more I could add beyond flowers and shrubs. Before the map gets reset, I put my gear off of my person so there's no chance that when the world download happens, I'll accidentally log on with our server admins gear (he forgot to reset the player files one time). Since I do this I took to "hiding" my stuff and sort of challenging the other members to find it. This time, I finally went through with what I've been meaning to do for a while now: A good old fashioned treasure hunt! I hid 9 clues far and wide around our map, often in meaningful places, but a few are just placed for the adventure of it. Each clue leads to the next and tests your knowledge of the map and fellow players through fun little rhyming riddles. If you can decipher all 9, you'll learn the location of my stash (tomb) and take it for your own use if you chose to use this map in single player- And I have FULLY enchanted, trimmed, named Netherite gear, with duplicates for both Silk touch AND Fortune 3, plus fully enchanted secondary gear. basically, if it's a tool, and I can enchant it, it's been enchanted. I also have a mobile base kit, shulkers dedicated to bone blocks, torches, and ender pearls, an ammunition shulker, a rocket shulker, a food shulker, 12 mass mining and transportation shulkers and 4 "junk" crates for the rando stuff one tends to acquire as one plays like hostile mob drops, seeds, and other general flotsam. This stuff is professional level gear, optimised to handle most anything the game could throw at you.

     

    Hello again! Another Build from the A Sharp Miner server! I was tempted to post the entire build progress, but since that's like a dozen images, I thought that might be a bit much. This is not 100% complete, as the interior is still in progress and I may still tweak the outside a bit, but it's "thumbnail" ready as far as I'm concerned.

    I can post interiors later if you guys want. :) [edit] You guys asked for it!

    The entrance as viewed from my base's south gate (the primary one)

    The first floor is a lounge area, with various amenities for visitors. This is still in 1.21.10 so not having cushions is...painful, NGL.

    I understand server etiquette!

    It's Unisex. Whatever. Just wash your hands after!

    Casual discussions, hang-outs, chill vibes. You get the idea.

    SNACKS. You best believe it's stocked!! Cookies, pies, wattah mellone, lava chicken, all the good stuff!

    An overview of my base. Yes, those are actual, functional farms.

    No Welcome Center worth its salt is complete without an Info Kiosk. Here's mine. Has a list of farms and amenities at my base, some simple rules which amount to "Don't touch my shit if it's in my actual house, and my (specific) Horses are off limits, but otherwise 'Mi casa, su casa,'" and a little blurb about what inspired me to build this way. It also lists the other farms I built for the server.

    On Floor 2 we have a meeting room/banquet hall not much to say here. Has some nice art, and I used ascii art to get the hardware on the buffet tables.

    Floor 3 is the Auditorium and Public address space. Perfect for more important gatherings, open mic nights, or concerts. The shaders I use don't really work well with banner gradients, but the lighting was too good to pass up. The server uses the microblocks from wandering trader mod, so I was able to get this chunk of polished deepslate to make a rather believable microphone!

    I kept the upper floor a bit minimalistic because I figure that it would best facilitate large gatherings by not having clutter everywhere.

     

    Yes there were red flags, but the mission was to unseat Collins, so we were all willing to look the other way on some of them and were hoping that we were going to vote for the man he is now, to make this happen. Everyone who was supporting him did say that if something came out that was truly disqualifying, we'd drop him like a hot rock, and this clearly the case.

    We are never gonna unseat Collins. This bitch has more lives than a cat! FML (flips a table)

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