I also came across a giant fish skeleton but on land. It was pretty impressive- then I traveled south and found another copy, exact same orientation and even the exact same x co-ordinates :

Yes, it’s from When Dungeons Arise. This structure is apparently called Keep Kayra. I don’t have a problem with giant elaborate structures, even if this specific one I do think is ludicrously gigantic compared to the other ones. After all, I downloaded the mod myself and had an idea of what I was getting into. What I do have a problem with is that these buildings tend to repeat way too often. While I was mapping out the corner of the continent I started on I ran into several copies of the same exact structures multiple times, and since there is no randomisation when it comes to layout with these, they will always be the exact same structures which takes the fun out of exploring them.

Way south of this enormous tower I found a cool Arabian Nights-themed fantasy palace complex in a desert. It looked great! But literally right next to it was a copy of the same palace rotated 90 degrees which kind of took the impact away

I like caves too but I don’t like how infinitely sprawling they are. I get kind of anxious when I think I’ve mapped out a cave system only to discover an opening leading to another one that’s 10 times larger, which leads to 10 other cave systems, which open to 10 more cave systems, etc

Fabric Seasons

Oh well. Serene Seasons looks to do similar things though.

I believe this one is the one I looked at:

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/continents

I tried installing it mid playthrough but you get really harsh borders where the generation changes. I guess I could go edit them in an editor but that would take hours.

There seem to be a few mods with “Seasons” in the title, which one do you mean?

This one? https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/serene-seasons

I’ve been occasionally dipping into Minecraft since 2011 and it’s the exploration that keeps me coming back. Despite essentially just being randomly generated noise, I find Minecraft’s landscapes really pretty, especially with a nice shader installed and it’s always a great feeling when you crest a hill to discover a unique canyon or valley on the other side.

I started a new world in September after not playing the game for at least a year and to keep exploration more interesting and fresh this time around I installed Alex’s Mobs, Aquaculture, Exotic Birds and mods that add every losing mob vote mob as well as the mobs from Minecraft Earth to make the world feel more alive. The way Alex’s Mobs distributes appropriate animal species to each biome makes a huge difference in immersion, even if I have some issues with some of its more unbalanced monster mobs.

I also installed a couple of mods that added more randomly generated structures and dungeons though I basically had to go in and reduce the rates in which they spawned when it felt like the same graveyard got generated multiple times in one square kilometer. If anyone has more suggestions for more dungeon/ruin/structure mods that aren’t too crazy, I’d be happy to hear them

The only regret I have with my current world is that I discovered a mod that changes world generation into continents and islands separated by water as opposed to Minecraft’s usual endlessly stretching patchy landmass when I had already played the world for over a month

I’ve never used it though

This was in Microsoft’s Minecraft launcher, so probably whenever that got introduced. I’ve only got the Java version though.

Back when I played multiplayer games on the Xbox 360 I had my voice chat volume permanently turned down to zero because I didn’t see how hearing obscenities yelled into those horribly low quality Xbox microphones added to the experience.

When the Master Chief Collection and Gears of War 5 launched on PC I ended up leaving the voice chat on because I became deeply amused and fascinated by the Xbox players I crossplayed with. People noisily munching Doritos into the void, middle-aged parent gamers talking to their children in between callouts, people who have really loud music blasting in their living room, groups of friends who like to play and chat together but for some godforsaken reason don’t just use Xbox parties or Discord.

Naturally, there have also been horribly racist moments, like the one time some -brained gamer started being racist to a black person on the same team from the moment he heard his voice, at one point telling him that his ancestors were building aqueducts while the black person’s ancestors lived in mud huts

In response, the black guy just made fun of how nerdy the white guy’s voice sounded and how badly he was playing. I kept dying in that match because the absurd banter had me dying in real life

The Switch is very emulatable at this moment, which annoys Nintendo to no end

It’s the PS4 that’s still very much in its infancy when it comes to emulation, but it’ll probably be more and more of a thing in the coming years

I meant GTA Online’s expansions, several of which feature DJs, musicians and music producers whom I assume are very big with the kids these days as themselves

No single player DLC for you

It looks like they instead tried to repeat the GTA Online model with Red Dead Online but it failed to gain enough traction so they just gave up on the whole game. It’s frustrating to see how much time and money they put into multiplayer updates, each one has several cutscenes with new characters, cutscenes and celebrity cameos and all you can think of is how cool it would’ve been if they had used those resources for another Undead Nightmare or GTA IV-style expansions.

It’s not the button icons themselves that are tripping me as much as the menu confirm & cancel buttons being flipped on Nintendo devices compared to the usual Xbox and PlayStation setup.

Just tried it for a bit and the performance seems slightly better than on Xenia. Crucially though, the game just looks much cleaner right out of the gate presumably since the game just looks nicer on Switch than it did on the 360. I’ll try a 60fps unlock patch and see what that does.

The worst part is the wack Nintendo button layout. It’s like I’m playing Japanese PS1 games.

Well, I’m going to give it a shot, let’s see how it shakes out.

I don’t think anyone is emulating PS4 in any meaningful sense currently- AFAIK PS4 emulation only runs homebrew and maybe 2D indie games at the moment.

The Xbox 360 is even farther behind than the Switch and it’s not trivial to run on my system. Then again, Switch emulation has much more interest and work put into it, so it may even out

I just looked that up and it’s definitely what these guys were copying, they just put Xbox buttons on it.

Well, I have the battery in the phone right now and I’m attempting to charge it since it didn’t seem to have any juice left and it’s acting a bit weird.

First, the phone’s charging LED blinks, then the screen shows the battery charging screen for a split second, then the first frame of the boot sequence pops up briefly, then it goes back to black and the charging LED flashes briefly again, rinse and repeat.

I assume it’s not looking good for the battery. I’ll give it a moment and see if it holds a charge

Thanks! I’ll give it a go, hopefully there’s still life in it