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Youtube has informed me it's celebrating 1 trillion views of minecraft content.

... anyone know if they celebrated that many views of other thinge? Cute animal videos?

Not enough worshipers inside? Makes it closer to a shrine.

There's like 30-40 trillion microbiome critters inside any particular human, you could probably default assume them as worshippers... religions definitely don't mind lumping in regionally adjacent nonbelievers if they attend church.

I think the real reason it's not a temple is the other temples would start getting real jealous of our attendance numbers. 24/7 devotion by a population roughly 19-20 thousand times the number of folks that only intermittently or not at all attend the largest religon's services? It's an overwhelming difference!

Relax, stop tensing the muscles, steady breathing and whatnot, maybe stretch or massage the relevant muscles, hydrate, try heat or cold... that's 'bout the most you can do without medication, far as I'm aware. Sometimes you just gon' twitch till your body's done twitching.

The ambulatory throne of hypnotoad, presumably.

... mobile colony of symbiotic reproductive collusion, more accurately.

I'm definitely very opposite of that -- adjustable difficulty, especially on the fly, is a genuinely excellent bit of design and one more games should be adapting more fully, imo. I'd frikkin' love if every game difficulty is a relevant setting for just slapped sliders down somewhere for the mechanical aspect of things and let folks go as wild or restrained as they please. Even multiplayer ones (though those on a map or round basis or whatever, probably). Have a default, balance that default around your envisioned design, and then let the players do whatever the hell they want to on their own time.

Confident, as it's being referred to here, design when it comes to mechanics is one of those things that can and does hard lock swaths of the population out of a game's content. Be it mechanical insufficiency (there's basically one proper bullet hell game I can beat without cheating, and that's Starward Rogue playing Redshift, which radically changes how the game plays in the exact way that compensates for my trouble with bullet hell design), time constraints, or whatever, when you design without some form of give you're, well... designing without give.

Some folks are basically going to be punished for daring to try your game, and that honestly kinda' sucks. Especially for folks that don't have the means or awareness of how to beat the shit out of a game that's being an asshole with a memory editor bat. More will be let down because there's just not a perfect design, some folks just really don't or do like something (grind, drop chances being low or high, damage/tankiness values, whatever) and it's going to be incompatible.

Rather than telling one set of folks to get stuffed, you can just... let them adjust it. If you're good enough at what you do, most people won't care to adjust the values, and for those that do it'll be a kindness (and if you're not good at getting the mechanic values right, well, giving folks the means to fix your screwups is also a kindness :V). That, to me, is confident design, a belief their stuff will hold up and be enjoyable regardless of what shenanigans the players get up to, as well as respect for their audience's time and preferences. It's good stuff, even if it maybe pulls back the proverbial veil a bit.

Sometimes it happens, don't question it, just roll with it.

Tornadoes involved were apparently literally record breaking -- previous recorded doppler radar highs were 280, this thing broke that by 3 mph. Reports saying there's likely at least 70 dead in kentucky alone, and five other states got hit. Going to be one hell of a christmas for a lot of people this year