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• We added even more pointless legendary items that won't drop after level 30
• Legendary items now have an increased chance to roll stats that would only work on your other characters
• The stash from every character across all Battle net games from every player will now be loaded into memory (Player have been asking for an improved stash since D2, so we are happy to deliver.)
• Seasons will introduce more bugs that will be quickly fixed with patches that contain more bugs
• Infinite CC will now be replaced with random suicides. All spells now have a 5% chance to kill you.
• Your battle pass token rewards dropped from 666 to 333
• Dozens more useless unique items will be included that you have zero chance of ever getting. We worked hard on this one.
• You now get to pay yearly for promised improvements we will absolutely never deliver on
• Sorcs can now teleport completely out of the open world. Previously, this was limited to teleporting inside of walls and under the ground.
• Barbarians are getting removed. We are replacing the barb with a paladin that is so broken, you will be begging for your Barb back.
• All useless skills will be buffed 200%
• We are including gem stacking! Since you really don't need more than 20 gems per character, have zero sell value and have tons of weird stats, we wanted to give players a way to collect thousands of them.

Blizzard would never be as successful as it is without community feedback! Thanks for giving us loads of creative suggestions that we will never, ever implement.

Spoiler: I hope to have many more years on this planet, so y'all are stuck with me for the time being. :)

Once the party alure of shrooms wore off, I was still stuck wondering how deep the rabbit hole actually was.

After months (or eons?) of searching all the galaxies in the universe and turning over every metaphorical stone in my brain, I still never found the mystical "42" that everyone kept talking about.

For me, the years of searching for the meaning of life ended right were it started. I had nothing and still have nothing. And I was baffled.

Yet, I felt that this primitive form of life, ney, this thing, this humble fungi, was trying to teach me something. Many times before, my brain has formed this idea: Listen to what the mushroom is telling you.

So, I stood back and looked: Mycelium, in its most basic form, bridges the gap between life and death. It is an extremely efficient nutrient eating machine and it poops out more life wherever it goes. It is a simple, yet extremely elegant and complex creature.

The it hit me like a freight train filled with PE: The mycelium quite literally dissolves the barriers we are taught in life: You are born. Hard stop. You then die. Hard stop.

Life never dies. It gets converted millions of times over into different forms, but yet, it is still life. The artificial and insignificant barriers of life and death are meaningless to mycelium. If one cell of it manages to survive my compost heap, I can say with near certainty that in a few thousand years, that one bitch of a cell will have multiplied a trillion times over and eaten half the neighborhood. (Life, uh, finds a way.)

Mycelium is quite literally the honey badger of humanities rules and honey badger don't give a fuck what you think.

My main takeaway from this is something that the fungi figured out 650 million years ago: You are already immortal, you idiot. Sure, this body will die eventually, and get converted into some other form of life.

What is life? I am life. It took billions of years and several iterations of stars, and here we are. The universe had to cram a fuck ton of actual energy into what we are now. In the words of one of my heros: We are starstuff.

You, me and everyone in this planet is a glorious example of how the universe is becoming self aware. Right in front of our eyes, we can see the infinite number of combinations life is testing. Every living thing on this planet is an example of how life itself probes trillions of different combinations of things at the exact same time. Like it or not, we are the sum of all the good and evil on this planet.

Now it becomes clear that the geometric patterns and the fractals that we see during our trips are a bit of delicious humor: If you keep zooming in to those patterns, you are only going to end up where you started, friend.

So, today, I actually believe that I was the closest to death that I have ever been and it was the most humbling and beautiful experiences of my life. I truly believe I held the lightswitch of this life in my hand and could have easily pushed that button, but it didn't matter. Life is immortal. We are immortal.

Today, I saw nothing, but yet, I saw everything.

Coco Coir, Vermiculite for the substrate and that is it.

Could I be growing rice? Lol! (This might be a hint as to why I had issues with Kroger brand precooked rice bags...)

I am doing research into setting up a mini farm for gourmet and medicinal mushrooms and am currently looking into long term mycelium storage.

On the surface, the answers seem simple: Once the mycelium runs out of nutrients, it dies. So mor food mor better? However..

Slants seem to be the #1 recommended long term storage method. However, the most economical types of slants I can get seem to hold about as much agar as your standard petri dish.

Questions that come to mind:

• Is the goal of a slant to reduce the propagation of mycelium to save on its nutrient supply?
• Is there a measurable difference in nutrient uptake between the different methods?
• Does it all just boil down to which method is more space efficient for storage?
• What questions do I really need to be asking myself in the context of this thread? ;)

Regardless, I think I will have to "update" or "refresh" my cultures every 12-18 months by transferring the mycelium to fresh media. Correct?

(Obviously, for substrate inoculation, the different methods have their own benefits which I am already aware of.)

This is just a super nice to have: Custom plugin support. ie: Something to think about during this stage of development as this app matures further.

As the Lemmy community grows, there are new functions that are getting released as separate apps and as open source that would be nice to incorporate into the "core" Connect app. Since our hailed dev probably has a life and a job outside of Connect development, it would be nice to be able to develop features outside of the main branch without causing too many headaches.

From a legal perspective, OSS licenses could be maintained separately from the main code branch which should push any liabilities to the third party developer. (I no lawyer, but this seems to make sense.)

Things like account sync between instances, custom community sorting and listing, blocking management (outside of filters and such) and many other on-a-whim features would be nice to develop on the side. The possibilities are endless. The core app could even stay closed source for now, which is totally cool at this stage.

The best functionally of all is that I could develop, test and YOLO new features myself without breaking everyone else on a global scale. If third party features become decent enough, they could possibly be implemented into Connect "core" at a later time.

I am fully aware this could cause a fundamental redesign of the application as a whole, so there is absolutely no rush. (TBH, I am thinking the implementation time of this request could take a couple of years.) Personally, I am a fan of applications that are somewhat modular so that is my bias.

Cheers, stay happy, stay healthy!

Zooming on static images is fine, but zooming on videos does not work.

While I personally prefer my SFW videos, I am sure the NSFW community would love this as well. ;)

Refresh one:

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Sometimes there will be three different pages? Regardless, it'll go back and forth.

Just a quick note for the intertubes archives and for my fellow shroomers. My experience may support or contradict your own.

I have had about a 50% failure rate with Kroger brand 90 second brown rice. From the ingredients and the Nutrition Facts label, it seemed to be a perfect match to Uncle Bens. It was about 30¢-40¢ cheaper per bag I think?

Of the same inoculation batch (6 UB & 6 Kroger w/ 1-1.5cc LC) under the same conditions, 3 of the Kroger bags either suffered wet rot or contam. The surviving Kroger bags took about twice as long to fully spawn.

I suspect that there is more moisture in the Kroger bags, btw.

(I am anal about keeping things sterile and utilize a laminar flow hood these days.)

This is not a perfect sample size! However, with pure UB Tek, I am still sitting at a 100% success rate for approximately 20 bags total. (No contam, no rot) Your milage may vary, of course. Additionally, I have just completed my lab today, so UB Tek is going to be rare for me from here on out. Regardless, no more Kroger brand rice bags for my mushrooms.