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    3. Tildes Minecraft Weekly

      ~games Text 276 words
      Server host: tildes.nore.gg (Running Java 26.1.2) Verification site: https://tildes.nore.gg BlueMap: https://tildes.nore.gg/map/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TildesMC Plugins and Data Packs...

      Server host: tildes.nore.gg (Running Java 26.1.2)
      Verification site: https://tildes.nore.gg
      BlueMap: https://tildes.nore.gg/map/
      Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TildesMC

      Plugins and Data Packs Data Packs:
      • Age Lock [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Armor Statues [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Bat Membranes [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Cauldron Concrete [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Cauldron Mud [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Custom Nether Portals [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Husks Drop Sand [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Mini Blocks [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • More Mob Heads [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Nullscape - End terrain upgrade
      • Player Head Drops [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Renewable Dragon Stuff
      • Silence Mobs [Vanilla Tweaks]
      • Terralith - Overworld terrain upgrade
      • Wandering Trades [Vanilla Tweaks]

      Plugins:

      • BlueMap - Provides a live 3D rendering of the game world
      • 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)
      • DebugStick - Gives the ability to craft debug sticks in survival
      • DistantHorizons - Provides distant LOD map data to players running the client mod
      • EasyArmorStands - GUI for editing armor stands
      • GSit - Sit on stairs/slabs!
      • Hexnicks - Enables Tildes usernames to be displayed
      • hsrails - Allows for 4x speed rail travel
      • LuckPerms - Locks down unregistered users
      • Otherside - Fix for mob farms involving Nether portals
      • 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.

      We recommend you install our mod web-chat so that you can chat while in your web browser. It turns the server into an old-school chat room.

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      10 votes

    5. Tildes Survey #6: Vote for the next four surveys we do! (Results)

      ~talk Ask (survey)
      Original post Submit your response here! Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/-/vote-for-next-surveys-6/ This survey closes on May 31, 2026 at 10:00 UTC The results will be published on...
      Original post

      Submit your response here!

      The current plans for questions that will be asked in the coming weeks are as follows:

      Question Survey opens Survey closes
      How old are you? 2026-04-19 18:00 UTC 2026-04-26 10:00 UTC
      What country do you live in? 2026-04-26 18:00 UTC 2026-05-03 10:00 UTC
      What country were you born in? 2026-05-03 18:00 UTC 2026-05-10 10:00 UTC
      What languages can you speak? 2026-05-10 18:00 UTC 2026-05-17 10:00 UTC
      Pineapple on pizza? 2026-05-17 18:00 UTC 2026-05-24 10:00 UTC
      Vote for the next 4 surveys 2026-05-24 18:00 UTC 2026-05-31 10:00 UTC

      For this week's survey I went over the list of questions you submitted and picked a number of them that would be interesting (and easy to visualize). Now you get to choose which 4 you'd like to see next!

      You may also notice this week's survey doesn't look quite like the others from the past. That's because I've reworked the frontend of the surveys so I can make it look and work however I want. :P No longer bound by what n8n's Form funtionality provides!

      For now I've chosen to get "close enough" to the look of the past surveys however in the coming weeks I will likely start changing it to look and feel more like how Tildes itself does.

      This change also makes it so there's 0 JavaScript involved in the form page, woo! Hopefully that will help those who've had issues submitting their responses (like the submit button infinitely spinning). If anyone encounters issues do let me know! I'll try to fix them. :)

      Please submit your ideas for questions here! Even if they've been submitted already by someone else. All input is valuable! You can view all submitted questions on this dashboard.

      Thank you all for participating!

      The survey has been closed and the results are in!

      Thank you to all the 115 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for the full results! And the next four surveys we will do are:

      1. In first place with 26 votes: What is your gender identity?
      2. Second place with 25 votes: What's your favorite video game?
      3. Third place 24 with votes: How optimistic are you about the future?
      4. And fourth with 23 votes: How often do you visit/read Tildes?

      Thank you all again for participating! Hope to see you in the next survey! :)

      Question for those interested, what would be a good way to pose the next question "What is your gender identity?"

      I have some ideas but I'd like to hear other people's thoughts too since I think historically this has been one of the more debated questions in the demographics surveys. And I think this one's an important one not to mess up. Let me know!

      29 votes

    9. The one-and-done pen?

      ~hobbies Ask (recommendations)
      I am looking for a Buy-It-For-Life pen. I've had the Parker Jotters for years and love them, but I am in need of something with a little longer life expectancy on the barrel. My first thought was...

      I am looking for a Buy-It-For-Life pen. I've had the Parker Jotters for years and love them, but I am in need of something with a little longer life expectancy on the barrel.

      My first thought was James Brand The Burwell, however I am just now really diving into the BIFL Pen world and curious on what you guys suggestion / use.

      Assume the money cap of $100 for now, unless you have some out of this world amazing option over that cap.

      36 votes

    20. What new poems have you come across this year?

      ~books Ask (survey)
      I've made an effort to read some more poems this year and always enjoy finding out any more when I can. In the UK you can find anthologies of "The Nation's Favourite Poems" and "The Nation's...

      I've made an effort to read some more poems this year and always enjoy finding out any more when I can. In the UK you can find anthologies of "The Nation's Favourite Poems" and "The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems" et alia by the BBC, which is where I've learnt most of my new ones this year. It'd be great to see what poems have left an impression on you this year.

      For brevity, I'll put a short one here and then two longer ones I discovered this year down in the comments.

      Two Cures for Love - Wendy Cope

      Don’t see him. Don’t phone or write a letter.
      The easy way: get to know him better.

      11 votes

    26. How to prevent mold growth under weight mats

      ~life.home_improvement Ask (advice)
      Hey all! I'm currently cleaning out the basement and rearranging some things after my brother in law has moved out. He spent the better part of every afternoon down here working out and (I'm...

      Hey all!

      I'm currently cleaning out the basement and rearranging some things after my brother in law has moved out. He spent the better part of every afternoon down here working out and (I'm assuming) sweating (figuratively) gallons. I pulled the mats up to move em around and was hit with a deep earthy smell which made me IMMEDIATELY panic. There was only one super dark spot which was immediately washed off with warm soapy water and steel wool. There are other places that don't look too bad, but I am seeing markings on the floor elsewhere that match the pattern of the interlocking mat.

      I'd like to keep working out down here, but I'd also like to not cause mold problems in my own house. Can anyone think of a way to essentially insulate the mat from the cement floor without creating a different problem where the plastic bottom ALSO creates an environment for the mold to grow? It's also possible that I'm WAY blowing this out of proportion...

      I'll include pics on a follow up post

      12 votes

    27. May 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 4 Discussion

      ~games Text 531 words
      Week 4 has begun! Post your current bingo cards. Continue updating us on your games! If you did not participate in Week 1 but want to start this week, that's fine! Reminder: playing bingo is...

      Week 4 has begun!

      Post your current bingo cards.
      Continue updating us on your games!

      If you did not participate in Week 1 but want to start this week, that's fine!
      Reminder: playing bingo is OPTIONAL.

      Quick links:

      Week 3 Recap

      11 participants played 10 bingo cards and moved 37 games out of their backlogs!

      There was one bingo win. Congratulations to u/ShroudedScribe! 🎉

      Team mmmeeeelllllllooooowwwwwww

      Team MO! - TI! - VA! - TED!

      Game list:

      Week 2 Recap

      11 participants played 9 bingo cards and moved 28 games out of their backlogs!

      Team Mellow

      Team Motivated

      All but one are listed above.

      u/Wes

      Is he still Mellow? Or did he join the Motivateds?

      He played three different games, which seems very motivated...

      ...but Mellow is also a state of mind, a pace, a vibe.

      With whom will he stand?

      Game list:

      Week 1 Recap

      Week 1 Recap

      ⚔️🛡️ Battle lines have been drawn. 🛡️⚔️

      Team Mellow

      Calm, easygoing, relaxed (<3 games played this week)

      Team Motivated

      Driven, energized, results-oriented (≥3 games played this week, or, like, only one game played but for a LONG time)

      Who will come out on top? Which team will reign supreme? What metric will we even use to determine what counts as a win? STAY TUNED.

      11 participants played 10 bingo cards and moved 24 games out of their backlogs!

      Game list:

      15 votes

    31. Insomniathought: blocking people in social media can be a positive thing

      ~tech Ask
      Most social media sites have options for muting and blocking people. As we know, muting is one-way (they see me, I don't see them) and blocking is two-way (neither see each other). Recently, while...

      Most social media sites have options for muting and blocking people. As we know, muting is one-way (they see me, I don't see them) and blocking is two-way (neither see each other).

      Recently, while having too much caffeine in my system way too late, I had the thought that "blocking" is a far more negative term than what it should be. Sometimes it's done in spite, absolutely. You wanna slap somebody for being how they are.

      But sometimes you just recognize that there's someone who you have nothing against, whom you might even like if you met them in real life, but in this context of limited human connect, you understand that the only possible communication between you and them would be toxic. That your opinions, your way of speaking, perhaps your whole existence offends them. Or vice versa.

      So you protect them from yourself by blocking them, in lieu of a better word. I think there should be a better word but I haven't figured out what it should be yet. "Spare"?

      (P.S. I think tildes should perhaps have such a functionality)

      22 votes

    42. Do you prefer to 100% games, or to move on to new experiences?

      ~games Ask (survey)
      Once more I come to you with this eternal annoyance of mine, that just won’t go away, with regard to 100%ing games: I own a Switch 2. It’s my one and only entertainment device (I don’t watch...

      Once more I come to you with this eternal annoyance of mine, that just won’t go away, with regard to 100%ing games:

      I own a Switch 2. It’s my one and only entertainment device (I don’t watch shows, movies, or do anything else).

      I already limit myself to only buying Switch 2 games (meaning, no Switch 1 or classics on NSO), so I don’t get overwhelmed with all the options, but good new games come out so quickly now, and there’s so many that I am dying to play, that I’m still feeling like I can barely keep up.

      I never buy a new game (even if on discount) before I roll the credits on the one that I am currently playing. That would kill me, to just have them sitting there, on my digital shelf, collecting dust.

      For me, anywhere between 20 to 40 hours with one game is ideal, but many of the kinds of games that I enjoy and buy take more than 50 or even 100 or more hours to 100%. I don’t buy them because they’re huge. I buy them because I like their worlds, their stories, and/or their mechanics. If I chose my games based on how long it takes to roll the credits or 100% them, then I’d probably not play almost any modern games.

      By the time I roll the credits, I usually feel ready to move on, I feel satisfied with how much I got to experience that world, story, and/or mechanic, but if I do move on, then I also feel bad for not 100%ing the game. It’s some kind of OCD or “all-or-nothing” mental issue that I have. I don’t know.

      I guess there’s nothing that I can do about it, because I’m even less interested in grinding for hundreds of hours to 100% a game. The magic and newness of whatever world, story, and/or mechanics a game has to offer have usually worn off by the time I roll the credits, so I would just be forcing myself to check off a list of chores and that’s not fun at all for me.

      By that time, there’s also usually a new game that I am dying to play anyway.

      So, the choice is between leaving games behind without 100%ing them, or playing two or three games a year, slowly and tediously chipping away at them. The new experiences tip the scale for me.

      How about you?

      I just wish that I could make this nagging feeling in the back of my head go away and accept that moving on from a game that I didn’t 100%, is OK.

      That being said, on occasion, I play a game that is designed to be 100%able on the first playthrough, and those are by far my favorites. Very few games are like that anymore though, which I find sad.

      Edit: A short poem I made (with some inspiration from ChatGPT) to help me get over my desire to 100% games. I entitle it, “An OCD Gamer’s Mantra”.

      Credits rolled, story told.
      New adventures shall unfold.
      Rolled the credits, closed the quest.
      Move on and discard the rest.
      Credits rolled, I’ve seen the end.
      Loose threads I need not to mend.
      Rolled the credits, let it be.
      The next great game is calling me.

      28 votes

    43. Are you ready for it?

      ~music Ask (survey)
      Yesterday the family was driving home from dinner and ...Ready for it? came up in the playlist: In the middle of the night, in my dreams, you should see the things we do So in the vein of A...

      Yesterday the family was driving home from dinner and ...Ready for it? came up in the playlist:

      In the middle of the night, in my dreams, you should see the things we do

      So in the vein of A Speculative List of Jay-Z's 99 Problems, and other than the boring, obvious answer, what do you suppose they get up to in her dreams?

      10 votes

    50. What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

      ~comp Ask (survey)
      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?

      12 votes