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How about adding the occasional frog sounds to the swamp, that decrease as people cut down the bald cypress?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVyOsq87qrs

Make people miss the frogs when they are gone?

On tracks, surrounding the town, with bearmotion detectors.

That cuts bears.

Take the next 6 minutes off, whatever you were doing, and just listen while you think about this game and community, over the last 3 years. About yourself, and struggling to figure out this game; to figure out what was going on in Jason's mind, and what is going on in all our minds.

Hi there.

Just as an example, look at the way that he responded to my post. in his AMOGUS? thread: https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … p?id=10474

"yall writing essays arguing over someone shitposting is honestly hilarious"

That was not spam.
If you don't want people to spam but you do want people here, I suggest not banning them and instead correct your own mentality as to how people should be engaged. Set a good example, talk to people the way you want them to talk to you, and when they talk their way, don't be a fucking dick about it, eh?

Whatever human being Shawn has been trained to be, we can always make contributions to that training, and that goes for you as well, monkey. You, me, Jason, even Donald Trump, can learn to be a better life form, while we're still alive, BUT ONLY, if better people have the opportunity to engage with them.

This is a lot like the cursing and exiling shit in the game, which is still a poorly overused mechanic, rather than employing other methods for, how can I say this, corrections. It's training, period. Education is a part of training, parenting is a part of training, everything, you learn, everything they learn, by observation and engagement, is training. Training to be the person you died living as, at the end of the road. Every action taken, everything spoken, every thought that manifests itself in the experience of shared media, becomes who and what we are, and who we will be remembered as.
Every human being, is an opportunity to make this window of time, as a whole, a greater moment for all the future to look back upon, and say "Hot damn, those Egyptians sure pulled off some shit back then, didn't they!?" "Who knew Chinese history was so fascinating? Look at all these momentous occasions in history they have documented." shit like that.
People like us... you!
You are a historic figure in the making.
So are each of us.
Including Shawn.
He deserves the chance to communicate his way, even if it is spamming the Sinhalese 'nya' symbol, or messing around with non-English language words and characters. Maybe the original Shawn's account was hijacked via some Discord scam, or maybe he's just having a bad day? Maybe, he really just wanted someone to engage with him and he was willing to upset people to receive that engagement - think, the sound of a baby crying or a drunk raising his voice at a bar.

Making banning people a thing, more of a thing, by contributing to it rather than taking the opportunity to do your best for them and leaving it at that, it kinda flies in the face of a community centered around a game about parenting to me. But maybe that's why some of you are here, because like me, you know fuck all about parenting, or the importance of good examples, because you just never gave it much thought. But I bet you want to know?

Consider the good people in your past that made you a better person.
Forget the rest.

(or if you want a real spicy challenge, go back to them and make them better, now that you know your role)

Practice, makes perfect practice.

I don't see your post as shitposting, or my comment as an essay, or fug's post as arguing, but if that is the way you see it, for now, so be it.

Been watching a bunch of Youtube videos on crafting, bushcraft, survival, science - whatever peeks my interest as I wait for your reply. This one caught my eye and I'd like to share it with you.

Learning Languages Ruined My Life
by Phoenix Hou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ_4gzoDDAE

Apply this sentiment to the different groups of people among our community; adults coming from the Call of Duty or Counterstrike communities, or kids coming from Roblox and Minecraft communities.
Or, as the video suggests, to the greater picture of the world and the relationships that we have between people in Korea, Croatia, Canada, Germany and the United States, for example.

I will keep checking back on this forum, keep the Main forum tab open, and refresh every 5-15 minutes or so, awaiting a response from you. Maybe you are done with this forum for the day and I get no reply, if so, well, that won't stop me from having learned a few new things while I waited.

I think overmoderation of such a small community is one of our downsides.

If kids or new players want to make their first post about how to grief or want to talk about other games, I don't see a problem with that. Rather there be babies crying here than it be dead silent. At least with some posts being made there is a reason for others to check in on the place and see what's new.

See it as an opportunity to be like a parent to these people, Tarr. Even if they are 50 year old women who just want to insight others, we could all use someone to guide us towards more productive actions.

I recall a year or so ago, someone asking everyone "What was your first post on the forums." and I looked back and saw that my first post was that I wanted to help people spur on the apocalypses triggered by those desert monoliths with the gold disks and horses. But I wanted to do it because I wanted it made harder to accomplish, because I valued the work that people were doing besides the monoliths. Now, had someone done the equivalent of curse and exile me at that time, here on the forum, I likely would have been turned away from this community entirely and just moved on to other games.

Yet here I am, what, 4500 hours played later, 3 years later, still around, because I wasn't scolded at an inappropriate time for a post the community deemed undesirable. Punishment should not be considered a form of education. It is ignorance and aggression taking over a person's actions, and in that way, it is a form of education, of undesirable traits. If we turn away people we dislike, we miss out on making them into someone we do, as well as pass them on to another community to suffer them; to suffer it, which is the product of neglect that can rear it's head in anyone, of any age or degree of experience.

I can only encourage you to always see yourself as a member of the village tasked with raising it's children.

I remember you used to make posts about discoveries and few people responded to them, but the fact that you made them, made me wonder what sorts of things I could also share with others. They encouraged me to chime in, in much the same way.

Here are some examples ingame.

Windowed Building 1
Built at Lizzeegames's place, this was the first proof of concept.
Check out that base sec/pip & indoor bonus.

Windowed Building 2
Built in Alice Town on the same server, this was a more useful implementation of the windows.
Mutton comes in the left, pies go out the right. This was built to feed people coming in at the airport to the east. There is also a rabbit farm to the north, where wild berries and a small carrot farm server to feed both the rabbits and the sheep as well as the people via BCR&M pies.

Windowed Building 3
This was made for BabyKatiez. It is a multiroom structure where pies are made and stored to feed the player working in the adjacent room. In this case, the smithy. Boxes were placed in line with boxes serving as walls for the sheep pen, so that mutton could be conveniently moved by hand, from the pen to the kitchen.

Windowed Building 4
This is a diner made by MidnightAdrenaline. I was mostly hands off on this one, but through Midnight's work we learned a few lessons from this project.

Windowed Building 5
This one is all Midnight's work.

Making these structures takes some planning and practice. Making them look good takes imagination and foresight. While I am concerned more about function than form, I think it's important to the players using them, that they be happy with the appearance. That said, I don't think Jason foresaw people using shelves this way, otherwise he would have designed them to look better when in place. Don't hold everything wrong with the game against him. We all have our parts to play, as well.

There are a lot of places and times where shelves like these would have really come in handy. A lot of resources would have been saved overtime by their use, especially where two adjacent rooms are connected by a highly trafficked door that when open, negates the indoor effect gained by making rooms of the appropriate sizes.

I know some of you don't care about whether a 'room' has an indoor bonus or not, but for those architects that do, you may appreciate this and see the utility of adding windows to your structures.

Thank you, for your time, and consideration.

Also, easy solution to poverty; just ignore your 150 billion dollars and pretend like it doesn't exist.
That way people who have a dollar are infinitely more rich than you are, in your own head.