YES YES YES YES FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS!!!! I GOT SO HAPPY EXCITED DRAWING THIS U HAVE NO IDEA
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me: i wish i could turn off certain mobs. i’d love to play more survival mode but the spiders really upset me :(
my dad, the most stoic person in existence, LEAPING out of his chair with great concern: I AM NOW OBSESSED WITH THIS PROBLEM. I WILL PROCEED TO SPEND THE NEXT MONTH SCOURING THE INTERNET FOR NICHE MODS OR CONSOLE COMMANDS IN HOPES I CAN BRING YOU AND THE ENTIRE MINECRAFT PLAYERBASE PEACE.
my dad, a week later, more distraught than i’ve ever seen: brittany it’s awful. i’ve been googling around for solutions to your spider problem and lots of little kids have asked for help on the same issue and people online were Mean to them. i cannot type fast enough to stop all of them. this is a crisis right now
hi!! i do play java edition, and any help would be amazing!! my current method involves a small redstone machine in the spawn area and command blocks, but i’ve not looked into datapacks since getting back into playing. they seem like they’d be more intuitive though, so i’d love some help!! :0
not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’
for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker
I understand it all boils down to personal preference and I’m able to be the bigger person and walk away from it but I would be lying if I said that I don’t feel a momentary, straight up thermonuclear outrage inside whenever someone makes fanart of my beloved ugly (affectionate) Blorbos where they’re conventionally attractive.
*gripping your shoulder* by making them more visually palatable you’re erasing what makes them so compelling otherwise. They’re wouldn’t be themselves if they had lived a life where they were immediately easy on the eyes. Their story wouldn’t be the same. To paraphrase that one Tumblr post, in a world where beauty and attractiveness have become so commonplace and mundane, the exceptional ugliness has become divine. Can you hear me
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