Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org

@gpowerf I'd be happy to answer questions concerning #Minecraft if that makes sense. Minecraft Realms allows you to set up a "disposable server" on the cheap: You don't manage what you don't need to, they offer tons of "game world maps" with everything ready to go, just enjoy. There are certain limitations you would need to be aware of depending on your use case. I have no clue if Robox offers similar, and again, you should go with what you *know*. If it does offer similar to MC Realms, I'd suggest you go with that. But I'm happy to help with MC if needed. :)

@gpowerf I don't know Roblox server management. #Minecraft, specifically #spigotmc has permissions control and various ways to set up how it behaves, but you should go with what you are familiar with. My objection to using Roblox is "I've never played it, and I know nothing to *admin* it." Which should be *YOUR* response to using Minecraft/ Spigot.

That said, you also have the option to use http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page on a server you control. It *really* depends on what your goal is. If it's *just* "icebreaker", and your team is relatively small, Minecraft Realms would allow you to set up a specific server with specific games for a low cost and easy management. They would provide actual game worlds you could all tackle together.

If the goal is more "virtual workspace/ meeting place," OpenSim might be better suited, but I'm not sure how serious *I* would be taken, as I'd show up as a tiny ferret.

And remember, anything not explicitly forbidden is compulsory.

@ovid Thank you. The very first roll-out I was all "Godspeed Artimis I!" Failed on fuel loading. Since then, my attitude has been, "Well? We're WAITING!"

Is there still a betting pool on #starship making its sub-orbital test before SLS launches?

@trinsec I should mention the reason my wife and I are delving into MCBE is to eliminate the ability to use data packs, fabric mods, and spigot plugins for a "pure vanilla, no cheats" experience. When @mikmaqpeek cries out for help, I have ZERO temptation to break out the "cheat hammer" because it doesn't exist.

But we keep hitting differences in game play between Redmond and Stockholm's versions of the game. I'm rather cranky they don't just cut an agreement on "how this works" using the same logic as applies to both and go with *THAT*.

@ovid Thank you. I understood about FTS limitations, batteries drain over time and can only be replaced in the VAB. Wear & tear on the crawler-transporter is an issue that can't be fixed while on "standby" to move the rocket. The eclipse cut-outs I didn't think about. What a mess! If there is a conspiracy to fake all this, as flerthers say, NASA is going about this entirely *wrong*. ;-)

@torq Welcome! #TwitterMigration is a thing!

@trinsec Bedrock Edition is very definitely its own thing. For much of it, I don't actually care which way Mojang should decide to handle it. It should just be handled the same.

#Minecraft Bedrock is really chaffing my undies. Comparator reads a dropper with items, powers on correctly. Comparator *should* power an observer to power a piston raising the observer. When the observer is manually placed, the observer clock works and powers soul sand. I could test to see the powered soulsand correctly pulses the dropper, but I'm getting cranky and tired.

What I need is a way to empty a dropper through soulsand for a tile-able item water elevator. I keep getting burnt on #MinecraftParity issues. And I have to wonder if Redmond simply doesn't give a damn about Bedrock gameplay for normal things works the same. Hell, maybe the one from Java uses QC. But I'm running out of room to care, and I'm tired of getting burnt with Bedrock.

https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1590099869066493953?t=cOiJ6fWRdNi0Lgu7DWbgXQ&s=19

This image is bonkers! I simply can't afford to support the photographer, but this picture of the earth's shadow on the moon in composite makes my day alright, and I hope it does yours as well.

@cajun_cheechako I so badly hope the RCV movement grows! https://youtu.be/NgNQejvHYVQ covers this pretty well, in my opinion.

@leahmcelrath I see yours now. In my case, I failed to actually use the "sace" button on the website. 😳

@leahmcelrath #TwitterMigration for the win!

@rysiek I wish there was a way to store photos such that I could encode alt text within the photo once, then every time I used that image, the text would fill that field in the client. Accessibility is important. Tools to make doing that, at least to my current experience, are horrid. If you have tools that manage this, I would love to use them and be a better Netizen.

Working on a good mast image for my profile. I'm inclined to have some sort of "profound statement" kind of thing, but then I look at the things that bring me joy! There are such things, of course. I'll go with joy here.

@OnNegation

@mikmaqpeek reminds me, Frisco is on the left, don't know why I crossed them. I could have pointed on my screen to the correct one. 😕

@OnNegation There's a #CatsOfMastodon? I'll have to make sure my wife @mikmaqpeek is aware! These are "Da Boyz", but we lost Frisco (the one on the right) in 2020 to kidney disease. Old man Freddy isn't going to be with us much longer for the same reason. :(

@voidedmain @geuder @minecraft

OMG! OMG! OMG!

The idea of making it so my young nephew could use something other than Twitter to participate in MinecraftLive's mob vote was golden, and perhaps prescient. There are so many others I hope to see in the Fedi. Any #Hermicraft ers yet?