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We all have to deal with trials and adversity. I've dealt with a lot of stuff just in the last couple of years. In this podcast, I talk about a few things I've learned over the years that help me deal with adversity.

I'm getting settled into my new farm. Now it's time to whip out the Create mod and get started on some automation. The first thing on my list is a lava farm. This will be really useful later on. The next thing I want to add is a furnace and smoker setup for quick and easy cooking of all the things. The best news is that Create mod makes it super easy to do and I don't even need fuel! 00:00 Intro 00:52 I've learned how to cook 01:42 Farming all the veggies 03:02 Prepping the farm area 04:47 Powering the pumps 06:04 Plumbing 07:40 Just add lava 11:36 AFK with care 14:53 Furnace: Create mod style 25:53 Outro

I finally got around to watching The Little Mermaid so it's time for another Really Late Movie Review!! In this spoiler filled review, I dive into the 2023 live action remake of Disney's The Little Mermaid. tl;dr: I liked it but there are some things that didn't work for me (like Akwafina) and there were some things that were pretty amazing (Halle Bailey).

There's a lot going on in my modded Minecraft world in this episode. I'm going to a new storage system but I need a few things first and that means a trip into the nether to get blaze rods. A few dozen deaths later, it's time to get started on a villager trading hall and my storage system. This system uses Tom's Simple Storage mod to make storage easy. Once the storage is place, it's time to add a kitchen and start making the place pretty. I got to deploy my new Create mod powered drill to get a bunch of diorite for the floors. I also made my first meals from the Farmer's Delight mod. 00:00 Intro 00:51 Quest for blaze rodes 08:11 Villager trading hall 11:42 Storage system 19:02 A pretty storage system? 20:06 Elevator to villagers 22:04 Drilling for diorite 24:28 Adding a kitchen 29:45 Outro

With Thanksgiving coming up in the US, I want to talk about gratitude and positivity. Two things that are sorely lacking on social media but I hope are present in your lives.

It's a spoiler filled discussion of season two of Loki on Disney+. There are some great things in this season but, for me, the show was fairly forgettable. The one thing that is interesting is that the Loki show might have given Marvel Studios the ultimate way to bail on the Kang storyline.

Welcome to Going Green! In this modded Minecraft series I'm going to use the Create mod to automate the creation of all of the foods available in the Farmer's Delight mod. In this first episode, I'm getting settled into my new place and have to get the essentials going. For me, the essentials include an iron farm and a villager breeder. 00:00 Intro 02:21 Farmer's Delight 03:39 Villager breeder 05:14 Kelp quest 08:12 Iron farm 10:54 Just add villagers 14:28 Golem drop shaft 16:53 Outro

I'm still getting settled into my new farming home but that doesn't mean that I can't use Create mod to start farming for me. I also got to play with a few of the Farmer's delight mechanics. The knife is fun and I think I'm going to need to spend more time composting. 00:00 Intro 00:37 He's got a knife! 04:47 Mine! Mine! 06:38 Compost 09:03 Gettin' glue 11:08 Simple machines 13:01 Automatic wheat farm 17:04 Outro

When my dad died two years ago, I was crushed. It's been a long road and a lot of pain. I wanted to spend this time to talk about Dad and what it's been like going through the process of getting out of the darkness.

I'm on the mansion raid phase of world domination. I have plans to build a new honey farm in my hardcore Minecraft world and I'd like to use allays to do it. One of the best places to find allays is woodland mansions. The world download is available at https://ko-fi.com/musicfreegaming/shop 00:00 Intro 01:00 Raid prep 03:31 Mansion raid 08:21 Let it burn 12:22 The aftermath 12:41 Mansion no. 2 16:06 Outro

Sometimes I have ideas and other times... not so much. Let's talk about idea generation, what happens when the ideas don't come, and a look at some my thought processes for ideas.

The entrance building is looking pretty good but I think it needs a nice rooftop garden. Oh, and a giant fountain. Giant fountains are good. I have plans to get a few allays for a honey farm I want to do soon. To prepare for that -- and to get a few more pottery sherds for decorative pots -- I want to raid a trail ruins to try and find a music disk. 00:00 Intro 00:47 Landscaping 02:53 Fountain 08:45 Memorial garden 12:20 Trail ruins 20:15 Spawner 21:14 Finishing the memorial 21:55 Outro

I so rarely talk about things I dislike but Halloween is one of them. I've never liked bugs and creepy things. I don't like gore. I don't like being scared. More than that, I don't like the celebration of evil that Halloween has often become. "Live. Laugh. Llama." merch is still available from my merch store for a limited time. https://store.musicfreegaming.com

I want to put a new entrance hall on my base. I also want to have an easier way to get down to my boat for river access. I think the end result is looking pretty good. This was one of those builds where I had to trust the process. The first pass as I blocked out the building ended up being way too big. It was out of scale with the rest of the valley. On top of that, the big gray box it started as was too closed and intimidating. I wanted something that was much more open and welcoming. 00:00 Intro 00:37 Start boring 05:04 Ugly awkward phase 05:52 Decorating the pond 07:05 Boat dock 07:43 Glass cover & other details 09:33 It's too big 11:16 Main entrance 13:02 Feature window 12:18 Second wall 16:51 Stairs & base connection 20:38 Outro

I read Pride and Prejudice for the first time. It was about time that I formed my own opinion about the story and simply rely on what I've heard from the people around me. It's so important to learn what you like and what you don't and, more importantly, that your likes and dislikes don't have to be dictated to you by "influencers."

A spoiler filled discussion of the final episode of first season of the Ahsoka series. I loved this show and am really looking forward to seeing what happens with the two different stories. How will the New Republic defeat Thrawn? What's Skoll up to? How will Sabine & Ahsoka get home? Lots of fun to be had in future story telling.

I'm getting pretty comfortable in my hardcore world. So, it's time to start building out a village and I have a perfect hill for a tower. Once the tower is up, there's a perfect spot for a little building. I wasn't planning on putting villagers in this new building but this is what my life has come to! It's actually a great spot to setup stone masons so that I can get terracotta and quartz blocks when I need them. 00:00 Intro 01:13 Starting the tower 04:00 Tower details 04:41 Tower roof 08:07 Attached house 12:15 Lower entrance details 14:15 Upper floor 14:55 Interior space 16:17 Villagers?! 18:57 Outro

It's a spoiler filled dive into Ahsoka part 7! We got to see why Thrawn is so feared. Ezra is rocking the lightsaber-free lifestyle. Skoll and Hoti go their separate ways. Lot's of fun and lots of questions that will be answered (maybe?) in the final episode.

It's time to kill the dragon! I'm a little scared because if I die in hardcore, the world ends. Of course, I had to make life hard on myself... Spoilers, I survive to raid an end city and get my greatest treasure and greatest danger: An elytra. It was a fun adventure and now I ready for more peaceful pursuits. 00:00 Intro 00:27 Blaze rods 02:35 Finding the portal 04:44 Dragon fight 08:32 End raiding 11:41 To the victor... 12:34 Outro

More Spoilers. More Sabine. Less Ahsoka. We're hitting all the fun with Thrawn, Ezra, and Night Sisters! There's lots of fun and excitement in this episode. What are Skoll and Hoti looking for? What's up with Thrawn's troops? How's Ezra doing? I dive into all of it!

The villager trading hall in my hardcore Minecraft world is pretty cave like. I'd like to clean it up and make a real focal point of my base. As part of the design, I'd like to update the storage from my iron farm into something that will sort out the poppies and give me a lot more space to store the iron. 00:00 Intro 00:31 New villager area 04:15 Iron farm storage 08:32 Decorating the iron farm 10:18 Trading hall walls 12:06 Sugar farm updates 14:14 Entryway 17:56 Outro

More Ahsoka; more spoilers; and more Anakin! It's a deep dive into Ahsoka's trauma in this week's episode and I want to talk about it. The whole sequence between Ahsoka and Anakin was amazing.

Food is becoming a problem in my Hardcore Minecraft world. I also need a good quantity of wheat so that I can use it in packed mud. As I'm working on bigger projects, I keep forgetting to work my steak farm. This is leaving me a short of food. The solution is to switch to golden carrots which I can buy from villagers. I just need emeralds. All of these problems can be solved by building automated farms for carrots, potatoes, wheat, pumpkins, and melons. Villagers can be used to farm the carrots, potatoes, and wheat. Pumpkins and melons are harvested by redstone. As an added benefit, this becomes a new source of emeralds for use throughout the trading hall. 00:00 Intro 01:21 Villagers & output location 03:20 Carrot & potato farm layout 05:18 Farm mechanics 08:49 Melons & pumpkins 12:31 Wheat farm 15:08 Trading hall & storage 16:44 Farm exterior 18:46 Support tower 20:24 Farm house is "done" 22:18 Outro

I am loving the Ahsoka series and these are a few of my spoiler filled comments on part 4 (The Fallen Jedi). This episode has some amazing lightsaber action, great character moments, and poses more questions. It also contains the stupidest thing I've seen in Star Wars in a long time. Seriously, Sabine?

It's a beautiful day in Hardcore Minecraft but it can be made even more beautiful by adding froglights! Today's adventure is to build a friglight farm on the nether roof without freezing in powered snow or getting killed by magma cubes. This is a pretty simple farm but it generates over 16,400 items per hour. It's one of those great farms where I can AFK the farm for five minutes and get all the froglights I need. 00:00 Intro 00:59 Frog breeding 03:22 Murder snow & green frogs 08:42 Starting the farm 09:51 Collection system 11:24 Killing chamber 14:02 Spawning platforms 16:26 AFK spot 17:17 Watching it work 18:11 Outro