:elon-deference:

Dwarf fortress modding is very easy to learn

I had a personal adventure mode mod that added a ton of reactions for the player to use: butcher any corpse, leather curing and crafting, bone crafting, weapon sharpening, item decorating. Also changed necromancers to different elemental magic schools, each with their own set of spells to unlock via tome/slab

I had another that removed all the fantasy races and creatures, then split up humans by biome into the standard western fantasy trope races (Northmen, steppe riders, desert people, marsh people etc), each with their own distinct appearances, clothing/armor/weapon styles, cultural preferences, and even custom conlangs based on real world language groups

:deng-costanza:

This “popular movements fought for rights, but credit goes to the legislators who actually implemented them” take is reminiscent of when Jordan Peterson credited the British Empire with abolition of slavery

he was eq’d

My baby started stacking their blocks omg I can’t wait to make block towns together

Wtf my car got stolen night before last as well!

No prob https://archive.ph/NZaP1

baby bok choy halved lengthwise, tossed in sesame oil, sprinkle of coarse salt, then put them on the grill

hideo is an A24 Guy

https://www.newsweek.com/us-diplomat-found-dead-kyiv-hotelreport-1917644

US Diplomat Found Dead in Kyiv Hotel—Report

The body of the unnamed embassy attaché was found Tuesday at Kyiv’s Hilton Hotel, online newspaper Strana UA reported Wednesday, citing law enforcement sources

Ukrainian news outlet New Voice (NV), citing unnamed sources, also reported that the attaché’s body was found at the city’s Hilton Hotel on Tuesday.

U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller later confirmed the death, saying during a Wednesday press conference that the individual was a U.S. government employee “who was under chief of mission authority” at the embassy in Kyiv.

“I hate to even bring this up—but I know sometimes conspiracies theories spin out of control—that it is our understanding that he died of natural causes, and there’s no sign of foul play,” Miller said.

“Yesterday at about 11:00 a.m. the body of an attaché of the U.S. Embassy was found in a hotel room. No signs of violence were found on the body. The man arrived in Ukraine on June 15,” one source said, Strana UA reported.

“According to medical data provided by the U.S. Embassy, the man suffered from high cholesterol,” a source added, according to the report.

NV said that there were no signs of bodily injury and that the hotel room’s door was closed from the inside.

“No autopsy was performed—the body was taken by the U.S. Embassy. It is known that the man had high cholesterol levels,” NV reported.

Repeatedly dying and running through a branching castle overworld

Mario 64 is a souls like

1v1 me in Kengo (PS2)

I watch all the big movie YouTubers: Filmhole, Plotfollower, Tradgaze, the MovieDrunks, ManVsFilm (especially after he split from his wife)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxxjzlg89zo

The schoolchildren being lured by rebels on TikTok

Fighters belonging to breakaway groups associated with Colombia’s largest rebel movement are posting videos on TikTok to entice young people to join them.

The BBC has investigated the growth of guerrilla “recruitment” videos, with dissident factions yet to agree to a peace deal with the Colombian government.

“One or two start the trend and it becomes fashionable in the classroom,” says Lorena (not her real name), a 30-year-old teacher in Cauca, a rural region in south-western Colombia.

She says as she enters her class, she is often met by students filming themselves on their smartphones, drawing symbols inspired by the now-demobilised Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrilla group (Farc) on the blackboard, or dancing to revolutionary tunes.

I want an ogre battle with advance wars theming

Chaos route, every time

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/europe/ukraine-prison-soldier-recruitment-intl-cmd/index.html

From prison to the trenches: Inside Ukraine’s attempt to turn inmates into soldiers

The push to recruit inmates into the military appears at first glance to parallel a campaign of prison recruitment by Russia’s mercenary company Wagner early in the war, and continued by the Ministry of Defense since last year. The lives of thousands of Russian convicts have been expended in so-called “meat grinder” assaults, particularly in the fighting for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

But Ukraine’s Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska, speaking to CNN in Kyiv, rejected the comparison.

“In Ukraine, motivation is largely based on patriotism. Our prisoners join the army voluntarily. In Russia, it was voluntary and forced. I personally saw (Russian) prisoners who were forced to join Wagner,” he said, adding that in Russia, inmates were recruited into the notoriously brutal private military company, whereas in Ukraine, they are joining the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“This is a regular state military service with all the guarantees: salary, social insurance, payments in case of injury, death, and so on. This is a completely different story in terms of motives and mechanisms.”

patriotism