Otsonny!! VSF animal control... can they fix my plumbing too? I quite enjoyed Minecraft earlier today. The title said redstone, but that was just a piece of the puzzle and it took him quite a while to even get to it. Now that he's settled back into more of a routine, I'm realizing how much i missed Minecraft streams. There's just something about them... MC is inherently comforting and aside from TF2, it's still the best zatsu game. It's just nice to see him WANTING to play it again. Even before the nuke, you could tell he was starting to lose steam, and when he talked about being burnt out I was actually somewhat confident he wouldn't be addicted to it again for a long while... for once I won't complain about being proved wrong. All that aside, after gorging himself on spaghetti bolognese that he still hasn't posted a picture of, it was time to get back to work on HQ. Still fussing over details in the interrogation room, oh sonny... Bit by bit, working to achieve maximum inhospitality. The katsudon has made a comeback, and the observation room has also started to emerge once more on the other side of the glass. The lighting situation in this area was really giving him hell today... with how intricate interior design can become in mc, it's kind of funny how many retarded roadblocks you'll run into. He struggled to work within the confines of the game while adhering to the prison aesthetic as he tried to get away with as little lighting as he could in the observation room. The solutions he came up with in the end got the job done, and I do think the interrogation room itself looks better now, the raised lights are a good improvement. He got sidetracked a couple times, from burrowing around to find the source of rattling bones, to slaughtering bunnies en masse... all in a day's work. Finally though, he got around to trying out redstone. Just a simple 2x1 piston door, how hard could it be? I think he somewhat quickly realized he was in over his head as he started fiddling with the mechanics. I'm no tensai myself, but there was something really nostalgic about watching him primitively trying to figure things out from scratch... it was cute when he'd go out to some different redstone-based structures in the area and peak inside to see how they'd work. The little contraption quickly grew into something more complicated as he realized he'd need a lowkey way to get in and out of the room. I'm proud of him for experimenting with things for as long as he did before he caved and looked up a guide. Even then, in all his autism, he opted to look up a general guide instead of a specific tutorial... you could see his brain melting in real time as he tried to comprehend it, it was kind of funny. That infodump combined with backseating ESLs that were confusing him even more did not make for a super productive day; in the end after struggling with sticky pistons for a while he uh... ragequit redstone? Something like that. It wasn't a total waste of time though, he came up with some new ideas, got a feel for what some of the basic mechanisms did, and got a slightly better idea of how much space he'd need for it all. Progress! To let off some steam afterwards, of course he got out of the claustrophobic confines of his home and ended with an adventure, as is routine by now. Looting and pillaging heals the soul. I am happy to report that after shaming more villagers for their socioeconomic status, he at last found some cats to take home! Actually he gathered quite the herd, including a few parrots and an ocelot he found in a jungle; the way he brings the leashed masses of animals home over bodies of water and drags them through the air will never get old. He made it back with minimal casualties, though was a bit at his wits end and very much ready for bed as soon as he stepped foot back in his house... trying to wrangle three of the most unruly species in the game will do that to a man. He didn't get around to starting the sewer system in this stream, and each of the activities he partook in all frustrated him in their own ways, but it was still a fun time! He talked about how much he enjoys going out and finding animals to bring home, and I'll watch that cycle as many times as he wants to do it. Besides, even if the premise is simple, he inevitably gets into all sorts of shenanigans along the way. If sonny's having fun then I'm having fun, and sometimes I'm having fun even when he isn't. He wants to mess around more with redstone offline so he can understand it better before coming back to it on-stream which is perfectly understandable, hopefully he can wrap his head around it eventually... I doubt he'll become the next ethoslab, but it would be nice if he can learn to have some fun with it. Ganbare sonny! No promises for a stream tomorrow, but he wants to have a schedule out this week. I look forward to more mc soon. Thanks for a comfy stream taichou, sleep well and please post your spaget when you wake up. See you soon! o7
