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4 votes
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What do you need to vent about?
What is something that's been eating at you that you haven't found the right place to share yet? Long rants, short grumblings, and everything in between is welcome. Topics can be serious or silly....
What is something that's been eating at you that you haven't found the right place to share yet?
Long rants, short grumblings, and everything in between is welcome. Topics can be serious or silly.
Please specify if you do not want responses and prefer to use this as a venue to scream into the void.
40 votes -
Mortal Kombat II | Official trailer
9 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
16 votes -
The rise of video game doomerism
11 votes -
Thailand’s Buddhist clergy blackmailed for millions in sex scandal
9 votes -
Tildes Minecraft Survival - Final day scheduled for July 17th
The server will shut down on July 17th in the evening (US Pacific time) We will then start up on the 25th for a special 3 day hardcore survival server. After that the server will be offline for a...
The server will shut down on July 17th in the evening (US Pacific time)
We will then start up on the 25th for a special 3 day hardcore survival server. After that the server will be offline for a few months for everyone's Minecraft-o-meter to recharge.
Server host:
tildes.nore.gg
(Running Java 1.21.4)
Bluemap: https://tildes.nore.gg
Playtime Tracker: https://tildes.nore.gg/playtimes.html
Tildes website extension (shows online status & location): Firefox (Desktop and Android) - Chrome
Verification site: https://verify.tildes.nore.gg
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TildesMCPlugins and Data Packs
Data Packs:- Terralith - Overworld terrain upgrade
- Nullscape - End terrain upgrade
- Armor Statues [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Bat Membranes [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Cauldron Concrete [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Husks Drop Sand [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Mini Blocks [Vanilla Tweaks]
- More Mob Heads [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Player Head Drops [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Silence Mobs [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Wandering Trades [Vanilla Tweaks]
Plugins:
- Bluemap - Adds a live 3D web map
- Clickable Links - Makes http URLs in chat clickable (only for registered players)
- CoreProtect - Records all block/container/mob changes (Anyone can look up changes with
/co inspect
) - DistantHorizons - Provides distant LOD map data to players running the client mod
- EasyArmorStands - GUI for editing armor stands
- Hexnicks - Enables Tildes usernames to be displayed
- LuckPerms - Locks down unregistered users
- Nerfstick - Allows survival use of the
minecraft:debug_stick
item (requires admin to spawn in) - Rapid Leaf Decay - Increases the speed of leaf decay by 10x
- WorldEdit - Used for occasional admin stuff
- WorldGuard - Prevents unregistered users from changing anything in the world
The server operates on a soft whitelist. Anyone can log in and walk around, but you need a Tildes account to gain build access.
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Username has changed from @drannex to @macleod
Hey tilderinos, Self-described resident roboticist here, Not really sure if this is needed, but as people tend to quote/@ me on threads semi-regularly, you might notice @drannex has disappeared,...
Hey tilderinos,
Self-described resident roboticist here, Not really sure if this is needed, but as people tend to quote/@ me on threads semi-regularly, you might notice @drannex has disappeared, but you can find me at @macleod now. Thanks @Deimos for the change!
Drannex is a really old username that I've never really enjoyed since I stopped being twelve a rather long time ago, much longer than joining here. So it's dead now.
I'm most known online as tumblr user @macleod anyway, and my website is macleod.ee to match. Homeowner has a meow in it? Glitter coffee? the dress meme? yeah, that was me (or partially). I'm sorry. Plus, it's my irl name anyway and I rather like it (muh-kloud).
Anyways, consider this a reintroduction or notice that my username has changed.
cheers, and remember, there can be only one ⚔️.
60 votes -
Is there still an arcade gaming scene?
I don't have a pulse on this like I used to, but are there still big new arcade games being developed and made? If I went to an arcade, could I play new stuff from the past few years, or is it...
I don't have a pulse on this like I used to, but are there still big new arcade games being developed and made?
If I went to an arcade, could I play new stuff from the past few years, or is it going to be primarily old cabinets that have been maintained?
How many arcades are still out there anyway? Have they been able to survive against the widespread proliferation of consoles, phone gaming, home VR, etc.?
I'm curious as to whether arcade gaming is still alive or if it's a dead or dying art.
9 votes -
Tomorrowland EDM festival main stage destroyed by fire day before opening, but festival will go on
14 votes -
How electric scooters are driving China's salt battery push
4 votes -
Ideas about this problem?
9 votes -
Michael Levin - "Communication With Intelligence in Unconventional Embodiments"
1 vote -
Assassin’s Creed’ live-action series from Roberto Patino and David Wiener ordered by Netflix
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My recent experience with helping someone out of context
Recently I was approached by someone who begged me to financially help them for a personal problem I could sympathize with. I was just approached on the street. There were several reasons why I...
Recently I was approached by someone who begged me to financially help them for a personal problem I could sympathize with. I was just approached on the street. There were several reasons why I did eventually give them part of what they asked for. Partly since they seemed sincere and partly because they have shown me some papers and an id card. Also since they turned down a smaller sum and offered to repay it which I refused. Some people can well damn seem as what they want to seem, papers can be printed and reused and id can be fake or they can just count on relatively small sums and lack of evidence to dissuade legal action and honestly I don't even know if it would count as crime justice system would pursue.
For context what I gave them was about third to half of a cheap month's rent so not truly substantial but also not trivial.
If they did something constructive with it then that is well. If they did something not so good then now I unknowingly funded that and if they just tallied it as good day's work then what I did is simply stupid. I would like to live in a society where this was just not a thing as in anyone not actually malicious would not be in a position to need to do anything like that but where we live it is statistically likely that I am just an idiot.
In retrospect the halfway I went about it also strikes me. If I believed them and they were genuine I could have given them what they wanted as it would not be all that much more financially impactful. If I didn't and they weren't I should have just walked away as all the other people did and in not doing so I enabled someone at something.
What is truly stupid of me regardless of anything else is at the end when I just didn't know I effectively flipped a coin, as in looked whether the time on my phone was odd or even to decide, though I did flip it a few times.
7 votes -
‘Lilo & Stitch’ becomes Hollywood’s first movie to hit $1 billion in 2025
9 votes -
The Tragically Hip - Born in the Water (1991)
7 votes -
Tildes Book Club - Have you started the Heaven and Earth Grocery Store?
My (used) book just arrived today and I am on page 25.
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What silly complaints would your pets try to report?
Inspired by a conversation with my mom about how our poor dog didn't get fed until 5:08 instead of 5:00, poor thing seemed convinced we forgot she needed food. Mom joked that Zoey would call the...
Inspired by a conversation with my mom about how our poor dog didn't get fed until 5:08 instead of 5:00, poor thing seemed convinced we forgot she needed food. Mom joked that Zoey would call the ASPCA to report animal abuse for starving her. And I realized it's really good animals can't call because the lines would be flooded with reports of their humans closing bedroom doors or daring to stop playing after 45 minutes outside on a snowy day.
So, what silly complaints would your pets make?
40 votes -
Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim.
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
5 votes -
The hidden engineering of floating bridges
7 votes -
Death by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.se
32 votes -
Revisiting my digital security model
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
9 votes -
Denmark wants stricter enforcement of the EU Digital Services Act as part of a range of proposed measures to better protect children online
9 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
5 votes -
Vintage Voltage – I Hate To Love You (2025)
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Shouldn't somebody *stop* "Meta Superintelligence Labs"?
Noted smoked meats enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg has recently been running around collecting ML experts for a project involving an organization called Meta Superintelligence Labs, which is set to...
Noted smoked meats enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg has recently been running around collecting ML experts for a project involving an organization called Meta Superintelligence Labs, which is set to feature compute clusters with names like "Prometheus" and "Hyperion", and which will attempt to "deliver" superintelligence.
Isn't this sort of behavior on the list of things people are absolutely not to be allowed to do? Or has something changed and we now feel it's safe for Mark Zuckerberg to be allowed control of a piece of equipment that can outsmart all his enemies and also Mark Zuckerberg? Are we all safely convinced he will fail?
If it cannot be permitted, who is responsible for not permitting it?
24 votes -
California hospital chain Dignity Health accused of losing track of bodies, failure to notify next of kin
9 votes -
Italy scored a dramatic 90th-minute winner as they beat Norway to advance to the semi-finals at Euro 2025
4 votes -
What’s something that’s more complicated than most people realize?
Yes, I realize the answer is “everything.” I intend the question to be less about simply naming answers and more about surfacing their associated complexity. Walk us through something you know...
Yes, I realize the answer is “everything.”
I intend the question to be less about simply naming answers and more about surfacing their associated complexity.
Walk us through something you know well so that we can appreciate how not simple it actually is!
77 votes -
Brad Pitt drives an F1 car for the first time | Full day with McLaren
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of July 13
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week!
Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle are most worth my attention?”
Rules:
- No grey market sales
- No affiliate links
If posting a sale, it is strongly encouraged that you share why you think the available game/games are worthwhile.
All previous Save Point topics
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When/Why/How did Cloudflare become such a critical/integral part of the Internet?
Presumably, my understanding of Cloudflare is too simple, too rudimentary, or even entirely lacking in some aspects. As far as I understand it, the main feature is just faster and more reliable...
Presumably, my understanding of Cloudflare is too simple, too rudimentary, or even entirely lacking in some aspects.
As far as I understand it, the main feature is just faster and more reliable access to sites, right?
If I host a website on a server in New York, and someone tries to look at it in Tokyo ... that's a long distance and a lot of potential hops to retrieve the file(s) directly from the NY machine. Cloudflare provides closer-location mirrors of websites so there is less lag time, plus having multiple copies makes my website more readily/reliably available.
That's good, I get that, especially for big, professional business-critical-type sites/services.
But it's not actually essential, is it? Anyone, anywhere on Earth could still visit my NY website w/o the existence of Cloudflare.
Is there more to Cloudflare than this? I realize they are getting into a variety of 2ndary "value-added"-type features, like their own "are you a robot" tests and probably a bunch of other stuff I don't know about ... but fundamentally, are they actually necessary for the Internet?
Why is Cloudflare such a big deal?
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Tildes Video Thread
Find yourself watching tons of great videos on [insert chosen video sharing platform], but also find yourself reluctant to flood the Tildes front page with them? Then this thread is for you. It...
Find yourself watching tons of great videos on [insert chosen video sharing platform], but also find yourself reluctant to flood the Tildes front page with them? Then this thread is for you.
It could be one quirky video that you feel deserves some eyeballs on it, or perhaps you've got a curated list of videos that you'd love to talk us through...
Share some of the best video content you've watched this past week/fortnight with us!
4 votes -
‘Legend of Zelda’ live-action movie casts Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Zelda and Link
28 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
5 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
7 votes -
Steam updates guidelines and begins removing games "that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers"
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What are your AI-generated guilty pleasures?
Most people here dislike AI, more specifically LLM generated content, for reasons such as environmental impact, stealing people's work, etc. Despite that, is there anything that you enjoy? I've...
Most people here dislike AI, more specifically LLM generated content, for reasons such as environmental impact, stealing people's work, etc. Despite that, is there anything that you enjoy?
I've been listening to this artist's music for a while. It's mostly video game music "re-imagined by AI" into City Pop and other styles. Artist says they use AI to generate samples, then do the rest of the work like any producer would. I have no idea if it's true or not, but I gotta admit that most of it is really good.
Today I also watched some "AI ASMR" videos out of curiosity. It's stupid, I know. But watching a knife cut glass can be so damn satisfying. I'm sorry, planet.
40 votes -
Tildes now supports Unicode 16.0 emoji
62 votes -
Finland's deep affinity with nature is blossoming in its restaurants, where a new generation of chefs are fusing local wild produce with more exotic flavours
15 votes -
Roger Waters - Déjà Vu (Live in Amsterdam, 2018)
6 votes -
Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
6 votes -
Necaxa (ft. Eva Longoria, Rob Mac, Ryan Reynolds) | Official trailer
3 votes -
All the ghosts you will be
15 votes -
Why is the right so fascinated with fantasy literature?
22 votes -
Nebraska sues neighboring Colorado over how much water it’s drawing from the South Platte River
18 votes -
Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out (2025)
17 votes