Morning Discussion

by Xav de Matos, Aug 20, 2010 5:00am PDT

I always seem to enter bouts of hardcore portable gaming at random times. I'll go weeks forgetting about my consoles or PC and focus on playing games on my Nintendo DS or PSP Go.

Lately, I haven't touched either handheld system but with God of War returning the PSP, I foresee that will change very soon.

I own an iPhone and I've purchased a lot of games for it but I never really use the device for gaming. There's some great software available, don't get me wrong, but I just don't use it. Maybe it's because I'm still stuck in the dark ages with a 3G and it runs like a pirate with a peg leg or because the battery is terrible after years of constant iPod use but it's rarely my portable gaming platform of choice.

What device fuels your portable gaming urges?

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Friday Morning Minecraft Thread!
Nuclear Bunker Edition

Multiplayer Alpha Servers!
MercFox1 : 74.83.233.187:25566
Haxim : 199.216.192.102
zuff : 75.178.46.57
AgentPothead : shackcraft.sytes.net

Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com : 9987

Aug 20, 2010 5:02am PDT

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  Fuck yeah! First post of the chatty :) : Vividvoid
  - DAMNIT! : Snipergen
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  Nuclear bunker edition? Why do I always miss all the fun?! : Clasifyd
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    You should see the tunnel to my basement--I was going for something that looked like it could survive a n... : Vividvoid
    - I should come visit some time if I can ever find it. : patters666
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  Thank god MercFox backed up his server when he did. I only lost a little bit of work : ErikTehRed
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    Oh NOes! when did it crash! I hope my pyramid is ok, I have a lot of work I wanna do to that. : unjustend
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      Your pyramid is good and we weren't making water slides down it... : patters666
      
      lolol : Slowtreme
      
      Then I won't be riding a boat down it later ;) : unjustend
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      Hey! I was messing around in underground lava systems and ended up at your pyramid... Check it out! : nevlos
      
      Looking forward to it! : unjustend
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  SECRET FRIDAY UPDATE TODAY!!!!! Here's hoping for server side inventory and furnaces that don't have to ... : Clasifyd
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    He said on twitter that there's no secret update today : harold.johnson
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      No, he said that he had no intentions of not doing a secret update. : Clasifyd
      
      double negation bitches! : Vividvoid
    - Damnit, nevermind. Just scrolled down. Notch lied! : harold.johnson
- I made a large sand castle last night. : ShadowRam
- I found 137 iron in less than an hour in my SP save last night. Bricks were shat. : Rehevkor
- I'm gonna start playing intensively when survival multiplayer works with enemies. I can't wait to build u... : Snipergen
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  before I decide to check this out, how many weeks into this are you guys? is the Shack New Game ADD start... : zerog83
  - I think about week four for me. : Clasifyd
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    This is the second Minecraft hype fest for the shack. The first one was when creative hit and I don't rem... : AgentPothead
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      yeah, remember it from the first time. I've been reading through the threads and checking out a lot of th... : zerog83
      
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      I only have one screenshot so far. http://agentpothead.com/bulletbillvsbowser.png But it is a pretty awes... : AgentPothead
      
      dude, that's the most awesome thing I've seen today : zerog83
      
      Someone needs to reskin mobs to look like koopas, turtles, etc. SMB skin! : loboca
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  Seecret Friday 8! OooooOOOoo! http://notch.tumblr.com/post/982299297/seecret-friday-8-oooooooooo : kaankasim
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    Something pretty big? I'm guessing monsters! : Hemtroll
    - That'd get me playing again! : Rotten Deadite
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    "There's a day and night cycle in SMP now. Haven't found out anything else yet." : zuff
    - http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1012&t=27094&sid=7249ffd96eccceb18770b4432f2d2dba : zuff
    - I saw chickens, pigs and day/night cycle. : kaankasim
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      day/night cycle??? no way!! : ass-street
      
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      No zombies though :( : Vividvoid
      
      that's ok. i don't need to be freaking out all night yet. : ass-street
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    http://imgur.com/MH5Bd.png These? : R@zzle
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      Nope, those chickens are olde. : loboca
      
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      but new to SMP : zuff
      
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      I had no indication it was an SMP server from that screenie. : loboca
      
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      kaakasim said he saw chickens in the post above : Hemtroll
      
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      can't kill chickens or pigs for now though, good thing monsters aren't in! : Xevo
      
      I drowned a chicken just now. >:) : kaankasim
      
      someone on the minecraft forum said fire could kill them : ass-street
      
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      Yeah, also if you ram them against a cactus they'll die. Basically any natural damage will hurt them. : Vividvoid
      
      I'll ram you against a cactus! : ass-street
      
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      That makes sense, those are server-side sources of damage. I think he hasn't added monsters yet because h... : Zek
      
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      Which puts us not far from possible PvP options as well! : Xevo
      
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      I demand satisfaction! : Hemtroll
      
      I throw down my diamond gloves and demand a duel! : Xevo
      
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      Man, it would still be awesome if we had to build environmental traps to kill them!! : nevlos
      
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      If you find a pig/chicken spawner, it's really easy to make one that produces infinite bacon/feathers. : Clasifyd
      
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      Well i meant if zombies were enabled : nevlos
      
      "Get behind the lava moat! The sun is almost down!!" "he's not going to make it, release the lava fall!!"... : nevlos
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    FENCES! : zuff
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      PICTURES!?! : kaankasim
      
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      http://i38.tinypic.com/20t2rko.jpg Apparently they're one block high but can't be jumped over. : Zek
      
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      Fuck yeah! : Hemtroll
      
      Anal rape! Sound the horn!!!!!!!!!! : conandan
      
      SHIT YEAH FENCES AND CHICKENS AND DAY/NIGHT!!! : MurrayTheSkull
    - this was my tweet to him 3 weeks ago! yay! : supermonkeyballz
    - EFFFF YEAH : MercFox1
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    Has the updated been pushed through to the clients yet? Mine isn't updating. : Vividvoid
    - mine did : zuff
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      So what's up with the presister? Old one still working or do we need to wait for an update? : Hemtroll
      
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      It should work as long as you don't have to redownload a new client. : Zek
      
      nope, my client updated (no new .exe) and Persister says it's out of date when you try to run it. : Xevo
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    Are there monsters to go along with the day and night cycle? : Clasifyd
    - Only critters, and apparently they can't be killed yet. : Zek
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    woot, night time on zuff's server now! : Vividvoid
    - check out the radness of our pyramid son! : beedeegee
    - no zombies that I can tell though :( : Vividvoid
    - damn well will be cool to see day/night cycles on the server though. : Shadowdane
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  Awesome!!! Day/Night! Critters! Fences! :P So what's the status on MercFox's server, is it all lost... : kainen1
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    Yeah, it's been nuked--that's why it's nuclear bunker edition =P : Vividvoid
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  First night in Caszuffania]* Vivid and I playing with a chicken: http://www.shackpics.com/files/1_2th8 : zuff
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    BOLD EDITION! : zuff
    - Thick dick edition : conandan
  - awesome!! :O : ass-street
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  Minecraft claims another machine well not really. My server will be down until further notice :( : Haxim
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    what happened? : zuff
    - i broke it. : ass-street
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      I am pretty sure that mc is very hdd intensive on servers : conandan
      
      Apparently people exploring too far will permanently ruin the world. : Zek
      
      It is, I think I'm going to get an SSd for it : MercFox1
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    HDD? Is that number 4 now? What else can minecraft break?! : dedgecko
    - Xboxes : Dong Patrol
  - please tell me you had at least some sort of backup, i spent like a week on my cunning plan and it still : nem00
  - If you have a backup from a bit ago I can host a temp, got an i7 with 12g of ram and a 40gb ssd i can use... : pwnjoo
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  Some dickwad griefed my church with a shit-ton of obsidian blocking things. Anyone who wants obsidian is ... : SolveChrist
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    I'd login and help, but my updated client can't connect to the MercFox server anymore. : Xevo
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      yea i just got to work, update musta happend 5 min ago :( : SolveChrist
      
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      Looks like some douchenozzle also griefed Caoster's floating city by expanding the waterfall. : limpossible
      
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      wtf is wrong with people? : Xevo
      
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      I blame Dong Patrol : Clasifyd
      
      Yeah not making his MD posts and obviously griefing. Vote for ban? =P : Xevo
      
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      I blame kgargs : ass-street
      
      Gonna have to go with this again. : zuff
      
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      it should sign every block, so you can see who placed it. : dirge23
      
      that's like some Neo shit : ass-street
      
      someone stole my diamond block at my mountain castle yesterday. I was pissed : kainen1
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    Mercfox1, is it possible to version save the logs as well so hopefully we can find these asses? : legsbrogan
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      Merc is fucking golfing right now. As if he's some sort of doctor or something! He cares not of our plig... : SolveChrist
      
      rabblerabblerabble : Hemtroll
      
      Hey hey hey now : MercFox1
  - haha that is a hilarious way to grief someone : mikecyb
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  Persister updated! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?t5gj1qbo3egftic : Xevo
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    where'd you get this from? : zuff
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      http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1012&t=25214&start=30#p483545 : Vividvoid
      
      rofl i thought you had a different version so I'd posted it to that forum as well lol : zuff
- Any plans for underground Duke city stuff or can I just start digging? : Hemtroll
- If any one has minor holes in their walls near spawn, or the odd floor tile dug out, I apologize. My 5 y... : legsbrogan
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    Wut? where did I say this in the main thread? : Vividvoid
    - you didn't say it. that's the point. : ass-street
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      You didn't, that's the point. Loose ships sink servers. The people need to know! : nem00
      
      Oooh, I get it now. I didn't see that not. I just woke up my from nap. : Vividvoid
      
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      in this case loose lips save servers though. : ass-street
      
      This loose lips thread of yours is quite disappointing. : AxeMan808
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    I don't know if this would help, but I think at this point the IP's should stop getting posted. If anyon... : SolveChrist
- Did game rendering get severely slowed for anyone else? I played this morning before the update without a... : vitaminzach
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  Latest Update Woes: Supposedly many of the modders are upset with Notch's half-ass update. SuperLlama : zuff
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    the modders can suck a fat nut, it's a bit selfish to expect all this stuff from him. oh no, their mods ... : kainen1
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      That wasn't the point at all. Notch posted a pretty shitty update and is now going on vacation for two mo... : zuff
      
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      http://notch.tumblr.com/ Read it. And, Minecraft is in Beta. : Teleporting Muffins
      
      I don't see what's going on here : zuff
      
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      no, you're whining. so are they. and with no reason. so fix that. : kainen1
      
      waaaaaah : zuff
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    Shit I hope minecraft goes the way of narbacular drop : kaddar0
    - Haha I thought the exact same thing : OverloadUT
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      haha no shit. compare narbacular drop to portal. now imagine that change in quality for minecraft to so... : mikecyb
      
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      MineCraft is really an awesome genre, it's an RPG without a levelling system. : kaddar0
      
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      Good RPG are good even without that levelling crap. : guigr
      
      Hmm, wonder if someone's made a Minsc Minecraft skin. : MurrayTheSkull
  - lol, look at those entitled pc gamers. : daedraug
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    what bugginess though? that doesn't even get specific. : SolveChrist
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      Chickens and pigs: Indestructible. When they start drowning you just here "BAWK!BAWK!BAWK!" Fences: Can : zuff
      
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      Fuck yeah they're being entitled. We bought the game in Alpha state and it's being developed by a single ... : Hemtroll
      
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      How do you figure? I don't really keep up with patch notes or anything so I can't tell if something's bee... : Hemtroll
      
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      Well, for instance, the inventory being fucked up, the item duplication bug, damage being taken away, thi... : Clasifyd
      
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      Or maybe it's just an alpha? When you're making serious changes to things it shouldn't surprise you at al... : Conan
      
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      I understand it's an alpha, but why publish it? For fences and pigs? : Clasifyd
      
      Because he has a schedule of doing so? And having people test it makes it easier for him to find problems... : Conan
      
      Oh yeah, fair enough. I can agree that it's a bit sloppier than previous updates, at least from what I re... : Hemtroll
      
      jesus its one guy working on a game... this isn't like a development studio that has a team of people wo... : Shadowdane
      
      maybe he took out damage on purpose because death causes some people to COMPLETELY LOSE INTERNET CONNECTI... : unjustend
      
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      Remembered but worthless? You think Notch is going to implement the amount of features they've added to t... : zuff
      
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      Do I think notch is going to implement working furnaces? Kicking/Banning? Anti-grieifing? Private messagi... : Hemtroll
      
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      Persistent inventory =) : Clasifyd
      
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      That too, if there comes a time when notch posts "it's finished, sorry about not making persistent invent... : Hemtroll
      
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      No no, I'm just being impatient for the most part. I know he'll get to it. I'm just very disappointed in ... : Clasifyd
      
      Oh yeah, I was just reinforcing my previous post. : Hemtroll
      
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      The only things mods have added is basic shit that will be put in to the game proper. : OverloadUT
      
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      Groups? Kits? Ranks? Setting your homepoint? Teleporting? Whitelists and Blacklists? Group specific items... : zuff
      
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      I thought you said "Whistletits and Blacklists" for a second. I was confused. : Clasifyd
      
      I like this post the most out of this whole ridiculous thread. As an aside, I'm glad I slept late so that... : Dong Patrol
      
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      Whitelisting and Blacklisting directly related to banning and kicking which, if I recall correctly, was a... : Hemtroll
      
      Pick me up some cookies, damn it! : Clasifyd
      
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      It's useless to continue this banter. I've obviously lost and it was stupid for me to even bring the issu... : zuff
      
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      Can't really lose an internet discussion. And if he sells out and Valve ruins the game I will still eat m... : Hemtroll
      
      But that will be so long from now and I really won't care as much lol : zuff
      
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      He will be adding proper mod support in the future so people can properly implement stuff that he doesn't... : OverloadUT
      
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      Ugh they're not crying because it breaks their mods and patches, they haven't cried at all the whole time : zuff
      
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      That last sentence is so fucking disrespectful to the guy. He's pouring his heart and soul in to the deve : OverloadUT
      
      I don't have to be an expert to see that the latest update he just pushed is a buggy piece of crap and ma... : zuff
      
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      Exactly. I don't know what's up Hemtroll's ass about this but each update notch puts out is more and more... : zuff
      
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      What's up my ass? What's up my ass is that we all already bought Alpha software. Of course it's going to ... : Hemtroll
      
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      The part "you won't comment on" is the part I'm worried about and the whole reason I started made the fir... : zuff
      
      DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE! : daedraug
      
      he's refreshing his inbox more because whiny fucks keep complaining about Alpha software without really k... : MurrayTheSkull
      
      Notch has admitted in various interviews, on Twitter, and on his blog that he needs help and does not kno... : at0micgarden
      
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      True. And valve is his idol. I'm in no way disrespecting Notch because what he wants to do is his business. I just fear for the future of this game.
      
      The next two weeks he'll be gone and if he leaves the game in it's current state (no mobs, no server side inventory, shitty furnances and duplicating inventory), I think a lot of what makes Minecraft magical will start to fade.
      
      But who know's, I am not in anyway wanting this game to be a failure. I would love Notch to get resources from Valve to have his own studio run the way he wants and not have to go through the valve development process. Having a team make Minecraft polished and beautiful and even add a few more polygons for christ's sake.
      
      I can just imagine him being in their offices, already thinking they are the gods of the gaming world and dropping fat stacks in front of him. How will he react?
      
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      True. And valve is his idol. I'm in no way disrespecting Notch because what he wants to do is his busines... : zuff
      
      I see your point and I think we agree on most things. I can't wait for mobs to come back because right no... : Hemtroll
      
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      Fuck fear, just keep playing the damn thing and getting the word out. It's in Alpha, but even then, it's... : MurrayTheSkull
      
      I don't see how what I said makes valve sounds like the monopoly guy, but what I'm saying is by "valve de... : zuff
      
      The only thing Notch owes you is completing the game past Beta. Once it goes "retail" it is complete and ... : Zek
      
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      A-L-P-H-A spells alpha : OverloadUT
      
      But you can also spell HALPA with it! : Dong Patrol
      
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      Expecting the developer of an alpha release to be constrained by backwards compatibility with mods is com... : Zek
      
      Beyond asinine. I can't believe anyone here is defending these modder whiners. It's so fucking ignorant i... : OverloadUT
      
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      It's being destroyed by its own success. Frankly, it wont matter soon, valve will take it inside and it's... : Visceral Monkey
      
      His blog posts have indicated that this is definitely not his vision for the project. It could still happ... : OverloadUT
      
      also once Valve buys the game i bet they'll take it down from the internet and sue all the people still p... : Zek
      
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      "you guys can just stop "assuming" that they are being bitches" They are being bitches. It's alpha sof... : OverloadUT
      
      This, and he's also made it clear that he uses these "secret" friday updates to throw new stuff in there;... : daedraug
  - oh boo fuckity hoo. "alpha" : dedgecko
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      what's funny is that he'll probably do it anyways : MurrayTheSkull
      
      yah i hope he does so no one burns down my server :( : zuff
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    - He'd still be working on multiplayer though, even if he hadn't released the current server build. He said... : Haxim
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  - cure=curse : Visceral Monkey
  - This makes me think of a STALKER type game where you've got to find shelter for the night, or you'd get f... : Creepin_Jeezus
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  I'm done golfing but I wont be back until later today : MercFox1
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      When does he buy another sports car? Before or after sex? : Hemtroll
      
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      Message him yourself; he replies by sending you an iPad with the answer set as the background. : Dong Patrol
      
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      One can only hope it's delivered by a dozen white doves as well. : Clasifyd
      
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      You guy are thinking way to small. I'm sending you guys white Siberian tigers with the letters of my resp... : MercFox1
      
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      These tigers had best be carried by pterodactyl's, or I'm returning them to sender. : Clasifyd
      
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      Fur-cryption : Clasifyd
      
      ...goddamn misreply... : Clasifyd
      
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      So we have to shave them to read it? Seem like too much work. : Xevo
      
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      shave em? No, you must pluck the hair with a mis-shaped tweezer. : dedgecko
      
      ah ok, much easier then, I withdraw my complaint : Xevo
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  Caszuffania Latest Cartograph: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1125473/Caszuffvania-After.jpg Before: http://dl.... : zuff
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    Augh that pyramid is hurting my eyes, what the fuck is going on with those dimensions? : Dong Patrol
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      That's good to hear; my eyes kept straying back to it when trying to look at the rest of the map. : Dong Patrol
  - I already replaced my cobble walls with brick. I like the change :) : MurrayTheSkull
  - Cartograph Updated as of 7:00pm EST http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1125473/Caszuffvania-After.jpg : zuff
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  ALRIGHT BOYS I'M HOOOOME!!! I'm going to take a quit shower, and after that upgrade the server. Hopefu : MercFox1
  - ice cream, huh. Cool slang, bro. : SolveChrist
  - Server crash 5 minutes after THE FEMALE arrives: confirmed : Dong Patrol
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  SERVER UPDATED!!! Running the new Llamacraft mod, updated Persister link is below. Make sure you updat... : MercFox1
  - stop living your life and manage your server 24/7, gosssh ;) : zuff
  - * I C E C R E A M ' D * : Dong Patrol
  - put up a torch ring so spawning fgts don't get scared if it's night time : MurrayTheSkull

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