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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-18T18:07:57.268Z",
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  "textContent": "# quick updates\n\nI've been doing a few things on this site and elsewhere that never got Posts here because the process for making a post involved copying and pasting things between like three different files. But through the magic of technology (working out how to iterate over files in Phantomake) I should now be able to put stuff up here a lot easier! For those following these posts via the atom feed, let me know if this broke things in your feed reader; it should still be about the same, and it seems to work to me, but there could be some weirdness.\n\nAnyway, there's also now a couple more things up in the library, inlcuding a card game that I think is pretty good. The \"site last updated\" date in the bottom right should be more correct more often now. I've been occasionally updating the links page to add more buttons. And there is now at least one secret hidden around here somewhere...\n\nWhat follows is the text of a post I was planning on putting on here but then didn't because making posts was too much hassle. I ended up putting it on Mastodon but now that this is easier I may (_may_) make more shorter posts on here like this.\n\n# transference\n\nSome years back I finally got myself a powerful enough computer to play Minecraft with shaders, having run it off a terrible laptop for years before then. I had a lot of fun at the time loading up various shader packs and mucking with the settings and looking at water reflections, sunlight filtering through trees, clouds, shadows, sunsets, that sort of thing. I distinctly remember, then, that I started doing the same thing _in real life_ - I noticed myself looking at, for instance, the shadows cast by a railing, or light diffusing through dust in the air, and thinking, unconsciously, something like \"wow, these shaders look really good\".\n\nAnd now I'm playing Minecraft again and this time the modpack that I'm playing happens to include Presence Footsteps. So now specifically _footstep noises_ have a lot of care and detail put into them, and like before I'm doing a lot of running about and just listening to the way that all the blocks sound different. (As a fun extra thing, Presence Footsteps has support for different \"body types\"; I have it set to \"avian\", which adds some subtle wing-flapping noises when jumping. For some reason it defaulted to \"pegasus\" which made me quite confused at first as to why it sounded like I was quadrupedal). What reminded me of starting to play with shaders is that I am now _also_ paying more attention to the way that my footsteps sound in real life. Noticing the bassy resonance of walking on stone footpaths compared to the soft crunch of low grass.\n\nIt's interesting that Minecraft in particular had this effect. It's not like it's the only game I play and I don't only play weird indies - I _do_ play games with graphics and sounds and so on. But I did gain a great level of familiarity with Minecraft before enabling these extra details, and I think that's what did it. Being so used to the game not looking or sounding like that made me pay attention to these things instead of taking them for granted. Like, boot up any game that just _has_ realistic graphics and it looks good, sure, but I think I just accept that that's what the game looks like within 3 seconds and then stop thinking about it.\n\nAnd then the rest is just regular transference into real life. The Tetris Effect, maybe, or just that paying attention to something in a virtual environment also copies over to the real world. I'm not gonna say that playing this game in this very specific way has given me some great appreciation for the natural world or anything so dramatic. Maybe a _little_ , but for a counterexample: one of the things I appreciate the most irl is the clouds, the sky... and I've always kept Minecraft's square default clouds, even when playing with shaders. Video game clouds just don't feel like they stand up to the real thing for me.",
  "title": "quick updates | transference",
  "updatedAt": "2025-08-31T12:00:00.000Z"
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