its just that nobody plays anymore

undecided, season 6 is currently continueing until i get S7 prepared.

just currently occupied with:
catching up with pmc content, content creation for patreon/social media,
videos, bluemaps for all the worlds, datapack learning, and website rewrite.

meddon when seaseon 7 of the smp?

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This happens to me on occasion. What I've come to believe is that I'm hearing my Eustachian tube clicking, or else just the middle ear. When running you are moving up and down, so that force is causing that spot to bend slightly or else make contact. That's why it sounds like it coming from inside your head and not from your ear. It is still the ear but deep inside it.

The other two things I have found is posture when running. If I start to relax my neck muscles I'll get that clicking sound. But if I keep a good posture, I don't hear the sound. The second factor could be issues with your jaw. In my case, my jaw isn't seated properly and pops a lot.
So it could be a variety of things, but I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Helpful Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/running/comments/g9woh9/ear_poppingcrackling_noise_while_running/

sounds like anxiety/muscle jerking

i'm not entirely sure if it's what you're experiencing, but under a lot of stress/anxiety, it's not uncommon for it to cause a jerking motion/click sound in your neck, or other parts of your body.

(this is from personal experience, i'm not a doctor)

Thats because we are all clueless, and figure stuff out along the way. And basically find ways to make stuff work or usefull. Then we reiterate, improve, invent, repeat.

if you have issues getting started, thats normal, take a look at other peoples works, break them down into pieces, understand them and then use that for your works in *your ways*.

WRT = with respect to
JFGI = 'just flippin' google it' i.e. just use a search engine
netiquette is a portmanteau word fromed from net + ettiquette (i.e. how to behave well on the net) similar to how smoke + fog became smog.

One can get to a point where there doesn't appear to be any way to progress… [No problem solving technique works all the time :( ]
One possibility is to try to breakup the overall task among different lines.
Sleep on it sounds odd (and may not be applicable) but coming at a problem with 'fresh eyes' can be helpful [Doesn't need to be sleep, maybe do something else, just leave the thing alone for a while so you're fresh when you come back.]
If you can find someone to talk to, going over how you've previously approached things may at least offer some new insights into the structure of the problem. [I sincerly wish you luck with finding someone; taht can be exceedingly hard. (Neither of my parents had much in the way of background in my interests.
The school 'guidance counselors' were a running joke – one which, from what I've seen, the intervening decades haven't done much to improve either…)]


From your saying you want to get into a prestigious college I'm inferring your mid- to late teens, which makes me doubt most of your peers have much of a clue. [Among other things, it is common for undergraduates to change majors at least once before graduating.]
I'd not worry too much about specific steps at your age, concentrate on building up knowledge and abilities and see where they take you. [Overplanning can be limiting: back when I was at Uni, COBOL was king and punchcard machine operator was considered a secure career path. Only a few years later COBOL was a legacy language and punch card computing was effectively dead. ]

Particularly given recent events, the value of a 'name' college is falling [rapidly]. Going to a campus that has a good reputation in you preferred area of study may be more important.

Assuming you aren't from an 'over-represented' group, good grades and a decent spread of extra-curriculars typically works to gain admittance. (It also helps to test well, but that's harder to control.)


In terms of learning the ropes for how a working politician operates, working (which almost certainly means volunteering) for one can be helpful. [You'll likely get stuck with all the inglorious scut work, but keep your eyes and ears open and you should be able to pick up a good bit of info.] Depending on your location, this could well be local, but I'd try for state/provincial offices if you can.

could u explain what u mean with smaller words...
I don't know what netiquette or WRT or JFGI or what a if_you_need_to_ask_we_don't_wanna_know_you club is

"One then proceeds to go as far as one can where one can, then reevaluates to see if the partial solutions one has been able to find offer insight into how to proceed" but at this point i've exhausted all available options im aware of to progress forwards, but the species never fit into place and i'm stuck at the point I am now.


My goals like progressing in my career seem to follow a step by step path - I just don't know how to complete the next step, while all my peers know how to do it.

This is a very nuanced sort of thing…

At the bottom level asking questions like "What's the largest city in Manitoba?" (particularly online) is annoying as one could have typed that into a search engine and had an answer with the same effort and less time than asking the question. "JFGI" is a rude (but not entirely ununderstandable) reaction.

For more complex questions there is a difference between assignments (where thniking through how to answer is often the point [c.f setting up the problem in math]) and real life (which is often – and with some accuracy – characterized as an open book test).


WRT "Is there some sort of intrinsic methodology to completing tasks that you lack relevant context to succeeding in?"
Something that ought be being taught is how to attack problems (when one can't ask an expert).
One important strategy is to try to divide/breakdown the overall problem into smaller and more managable parts. One then proceeds to go as far as one can where one can, then reevaluates to see if the partial solutions one has been able to find offer insight into how to proceed. [As an example, consider sodoku puzzles: filling in the bits that are apparent leads to more information and unlocks better understanding of what to do next. ]

WRT reddit and similar sources:
One unfortunate factor of the net (and a general lack of netiquette) is that any site that deals with how to do things will face an endless stream of people who want free personalized hand-holding through a specific solution to their personal problem. [A MC example would be someone wanting a block-by-block for a specific piston door and someone to download their world to troubelshoot.]
Something that may be helpful on this sort of site-based question is to phrase the inquiry to show that you have indeed done your homework. (typically one does this by citing the things one has already tried to fix the issue {and the results of those attempt} and/or what resources one has already checked.){a question like "does anyone have a minecart unloader station that wil work E-W and fit in the same sized area? is llikely to get a bettter response tahn "the collector is broke need help"}


[There remain, however, sections of the web populated by (mostly) wannabes who ilke belonging to if_you_need_to_ask_we_don't_wanna_know_you clubs. About these my advice is to simply note and avoid them.]

From what I can tell, colleges pay a good amount of attention to the grades of a student, but also their extracurricular activities. So, participating in clubs and programs from the school may be a good shot at getting a college's attention. I think the leadership programs are usually a point that they keep a close eye on.

I myself don't know much about political work, but my mom was actually a trusted assistant of one of the congresswomen of the US for a number of years, so I can ask her about it and whatever questions you might have. I'm not in close contact with her for the next few days, but once I'm able to talk with her, I'd gladly ask her about these sorts of things and tell you what she says.

one time i hid for SO long! :D Im still in a dumpster writing this! hehe my friends are so bad at this! ive been here for 7 years! /j

pfft imagine not

NO, those cows were the family's BREAD AND BUTTER!!!

(literally, we'd grind up the cows into flour, which would make bread. the butter came from the milk.)

HEY GIVE ME BACK MY COWS ITS BEEN 10 YEARS SINCE YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU'RE GONNA BRING THEM BACK AFTER YOU TOLD MY FATHER , IM SO DISAPPOINTED 😞

imagine eating meat

oh, i'm sorry, here have your cows back

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Darkfap have one more :)

the dropdown menu for your settings

Congrats tho

how do u find the analytics :sob:

the muffin song pff

reason unto itself

yeah, I love that song

… but found the will to carry on….

*frick

shockingly yes
I teleported bread one too many times...

Cool

:O

yes

Uhh there are like 4 million users
Also respect for telling the truth in purple tier 🫡

All of them? 😳

of course

the direction opposite to the strongest nearby force of gravity.

Thank you!

you can upload ones

So how do you set custom images as profile banners.. asking for a friend...

holy moly mc smoly

This is honestly breathtaking

Yes!

yeah! keep up the great work!

As someone who loves September, honey, and good kid, I'll have to listen to those others!