Incidentally, the word "idiot" originated as a medical term, similar to "retard" - you can still see this in terms like "idiot savant" to refer to autistic people with supposedly superhuman talents. It's why I don't use that word either, although it's not on the same l...

It's basically what FlowerChild was talking about earlier - it's not about the thought police telling you to be politically correct, it's about making minuscule changes in your behaviour to avoid hurting real people. Well, we won't agree on everything man :) I am not a particularly "nice"...

A lot of the hypotheticals people are bringing up are kind of weird to me because it's already stuff I've had to deal with? Like, I stopped using the term 'grammar nazi' because I feel it's inappropriate to compare a simple grammar prescriptivist to the people responsible for a genocide. I guess I f...

I just got back from a day out at uni, and all I can say is thank you, FlowerChild. I really appreciate it. I can't exactly explain what I feel when people actually listen about this sort of thing, so all I'll say is that it's very, very rare, and it means a lot to me. Edit: to explain how rare this...

I'm sorry, I should have been clearer - "you" was meant to be a general you, not directed at anyone in particular. It might have been better if I'd used "one" or something instead. Since this subject is very close to my heart, I do get quite worked up about it, and that shows thr...

I usually only lurk but I have a personal stake in this. I'm mentally ill and physically disabled and I do have a developmental disability, although I'm lucky enough that it doesn't affect me as strongly as it does some other people. And yes, I find words such as "retard" and "cripple...

Quick question about this update - did it reduce the amount of seeds dropped by pumpkins? In the last version I seem to remember getting 4 seeds from every pumpkin, while this version I am only getting 1 or 2... my sample size is not very large though, so it might just be my bad luck. I've grown se...

DaveYanakov wrote:Chiwetel Ejiofor is likely to be tapped as the 12th Doctor.

That is all.

Yes please.

As an aside, I think that video just confirmed horses will be getting the axe from BTW. But how will I make lasagne now? As an artist, the fact that they haven't even tried to make the horses look like they fit in with the rest of the Minecraft world just... offends my delicate sensibilities. Even ...

Pucc wrote:"I hope you're wearing your heat-be-gone booties."

Man, thanks for reminding me. I don't want my Dave's Syndrome to flare up again.

The howling is excellent. I haven't gotten far enough to say any more than that. Scared me half to death when I heard it.

I'm having the opposite issue with dxtory. It's recording my voice quite well but I can't get it to pick up the game sounds. Going to press on with it as in game sounds aren't exactly vital but if anyone has some familiarity with the software I would appreciate advice. Very basic question, but have...

I was recording this for the Let's Play thread, but technical issues mean I won't be able to upload a video, so I'll just put my adventures in the spoiler below. It's written more as a story than a transcript of what happened, so I've put a short summary outside the spoiler that's written with the c...

Well, all 70-odd minutes of usable footage I thought I had turned out to be corrupted. No idea why. I'll be working to fix it, but unfortunately it looks like I won't be able to put up a video. I could record again, but obviously it wouldn't be the first time through and that was what this thread wa...

I've got about an hour's worth of footage to edit (from about two hours of play). Probably going to do that in the morning and try to squeeze it into fifteen-minute segments. Audio quality will be fairly bad, but you can still make out the screams! It probably won't be up for a while, because I thin...

Nope, I got that problem too. It's with 4.65 and 4.65b.

And yeah, turning custom colours off fixes it, so that's where the problem is.

I think I found a thing. Did a ctrl+f of the entire changelog in the readme and couldn't find any mention of it with the terms I used, so... yeah. Of course it is entirely possible that this thing is not a thing from this release, but it's definitely a Better Than Wolves thing. "Thing" doe...

...Challenge accepted.

And it was so warm and safe in my little lurker-hole, too.