A Temporal Storm of a Different Kind

[Zippy Wonderdust]

I recently ran into a rather spectacular looking glitch in my current world, and was wondering if anyone else here has ever bumped into it.  If you haven't and you ever run into this in the future, now you know what to do.

(One upside of me being a stubborn git with programming skills is that I figured out how to patch my game file to eliminate the glitch without losing any in-game time.  Yay me!)

https://youtu.be/SL591LQWDhk

[LadyWYT]

...for some reason I've thought your name was Zippy Wanderlust this whole time. Whoops!

Aside from that, I'm not sure that I've ever encountered this bug. There was one time that I managed to somehow skip a temporal storm by going to bed after getting the first notification(vanilla game, sleeping through storms was not enabled). Character woke up, storm started...and then immediately went away for some reason. Only time I've run into that kind of thing, not sure if it's similar to what you experienced, as I don't recall time passing super quickly at all. The temporal storm just started as normal but then stopped immediately after starting.

[Never Jhonsen]

Hey I've gotten this many a times Taught myself to press 'C' and wait for time to tick through 1-minute increments before logging off

7 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

...for some reason I've thought your name was Zippy Wanderlust this whole time. Whoops!

so did I

[Maelstrom]

No wonder I don't encounter this bug.  It is another reason to just not sleep!  

Edited May 23, 2025 by Maelstrom

[Thorfinn]

Nice! Didn't know you even had a channel. What do you use to record and edit on Linux? Not that it really matters, I guess. I don't have the gift of gab. Intentionally or not, all my content would be without commentary.

[EDIT]

BTW, Wanderlust would be just too far from David Bowie.

Edited May 23, 2025 by Thorfinn

[Zippy Wonderdust]

On 5/22/2025 at 10:47 PM, LadyWYT said:

...for some reason I've thought your name was Zippy Wanderlust this whole time. Whoops!

That's an amazing name!

...i wish I'd thought of it...

If you want to continue to think of me as Z. Wanderlust I would be honoured! 

(Mini origin story: Ten years ago I was creating an account for That Other Block Game and was trying to come up with something that hadn't already been taken.  Zippy Wonderdust just kinda fell into my head apropos of nothing and I decided to run with it.  I've always considered it to be akin to names like Procol Harum or Tangerine Dream; a cognitive placeholder who's only embodied meaning is that which you bring to it.)

I will confess, in return, that I have been mentally pronouncing your name as "Lady Wit", but I have no clue what the WYT signifies!

[Zippy Wonderdust]

On 5/23/2025 at 3:00 PM, Thorfinn said:

Nice! Didn't know you even had a channel. What do you use to record and edit on Linux? Not that it really matters, I guess. I don't have the gift of gab. Intentionally or not, all my content would be without commentary.

[EDIT]

BTW, Wanderlust would be just too far from David Bowie.

Y'know, not until this very moment have I ever made a conscious association between Zippy Wonderdust and Ziggy Stardust.  Yikes!  And I actually own a couple of David Bowie albums!  It seems obvious now that whatever subconscious forces were at play in my head when I created my name, the spectre of Mr Bowie must have been in there somewhere.

Regarding my channel, I don't do it the way many YouTubers seem to. I don't use OBS Studio, nor Davinci Resolve or even KDENLive.  I record my sessions with the incredibly handy GPU Screen Recorder, cut and organize them in Lossless Cut and do the cross-fades between segments with straight-up ffmpeg on the command line.  It's bare-bones but it seems to work. 

Regarding keeping up a monologue while playing, I'm still trying to do that better.  I usually jot down at least a bullet-point list of tasks and topics before I record a session, and I have a post-it note stuck to my monitor that simply says "Keep Talking"!