Morning Discussion

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?

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    August 20, 2010 5:02 AM

    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

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      August 20, 2010 5:02 AM

      Fuck yeah! First post of the chatty :)

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      August 20, 2010 5:13 AM

      Nuclear bunker edition? Why do I always miss all the fun?!

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        August 20, 2010 5:15 AM

        You should see the tunnel to my basement--I was going for something that looked like it could survive a nuclear blast.

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          August 20, 2010 6:03 AM

          I should come visit some time if I can ever find it.

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      August 20, 2010 5:14 AM

      Thank god MercFox backed up his server when he did. I only lost a little bit of work

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        August 20, 2010 5:23 AM

        Oh NOes! when did it crash! I hope my pyramid is ok, I have a lot of work I wanna do to that.

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          August 20, 2010 6:08 AM

          Your pyramid is good and we weren't making water slides down it...

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          August 20, 2010 6:36 AM

          Hey! I was messing around in underground lava systems and ended up at your pyramid... Check it out!

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      August 20, 2010 5:17 AM

      SECRET FRIDAY UPDATE TODAY!!!!! Here's hoping for server side inventory and furnaces that don't have to be babysat.

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        August 20, 2010 6:50 AM

        He said on twitter that there's no secret update today

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          August 20, 2010 6:52 AM

          No, he said that he had no intentions of not doing a secret update.

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          August 20, 2010 6:53 AM

          Damnit, nevermind. Just scrolled down. Notch lied!

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      August 20, 2010 5:26 AM

      I made a large sand castle last night.

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      August 20, 2010 5:34 AM

      I found 137 iron in less than an hour in my SP save last night. Bricks were shat.

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      August 20, 2010 6:02 AM

      I'm gonna start playing intensively when survival multiplayer works with enemies. I can't wait to build up a fort with some of you guys, fighting off the monsters at night.

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      August 20, 2010 6:04 AM

      before I decide to check this out, how many weeks into this are you guys? is the Shack New Game ADD starting to set in yet?

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        August 20, 2010 6:06 AM

        I think about week four for me.

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        August 20, 2010 6:24 AM

        This is the second Minecraft hype fest for the shack. The first one was when creative hit and I don't remember it lasting this long or being this intense. This is really so improved over Creative it's amazing. Even if you don't play the game until it hits beta or retail, it's hard to pass up for only 13$ which is what it is until beta.

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      August 20, 2010 6:08 AM

      Seecret Friday 8! OooooOOOoo!

      http://notch.tumblr.com/post/982299297/seecret-friday-8-oooooooooo

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      August 20, 2010 7:08 AM

      Awesome!!! Day/Night! Critters! Fences! :P So what's the status on MercFox's server, is it all lost? Is there a recent cartographer?

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        August 20, 2010 7:15 AM

        Yeah, it's been nuked--that's why it's nuclear bunker edition =P

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          August 20, 2010 7:16 AM

          Wait, server reset?

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          August 20, 2010 7:16 AM

          You're an ass! It seems fine as far as I can tell.

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          August 20, 2010 7:17 AM

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            August 20, 2010 7:20 AM

            Someone went exploring, but Merc was able to restore from a previous backup.

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              August 20, 2010 7:23 AM

              It's been fine since the restore last night though, I mean it's not dead now.

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      August 20, 2010 7:20 AM

      First night in Caszuffania]*

      Vivid and I playing with a chicken: http://www.shackpics.com/files/1_2th8p0rwavocno96qrpt.png

      Inside of our new pyarmid: http://www.shackpics.com/files/2_x0ivy5ay9vgcs8d2gp77.png

      Outside of our pyarmid, sun is setting: http://www.shackpics.com/files/3_m1znnfry7lvap90b7t5u.png
      and setting: http://www.shackpics.com/files/4_51rkbaj1uvpmttd0wu7a.png
      and getting darker: http://www.shackpics.com/files/6_yo09tx23wxsyji19c719.png
      IT'S FULL OF STARS http://www.shackpics.com/files/7_5ecvgrdkzy23n3sasv02.png

      Moon: http://www.shackpics.com/files/8_umh36gz3652pkhufxubo.png

      Finding your way around will be easier at night: http://www.shackpics.com/files/11_v5a2s7w856ilih9pache.png

      stuff looks so much more impressive at night: http://www.shackpics.com/files/12_y3t94fuliogjnlj5rtaw.png
      http://www.shackpics.com/files/13_srekoh3sxuul6pfcdovq.png
      http://www.shackpics.com/files/10_tceaiqdhmh7jxw73c751.png

      Moon at it's peak: http://www.shackpics.com/files/14_oo1tggm5yhje76ovl3t2.png

      beedeegee's lighthouse glowing well: http://www.shackpics.com/files/15_afye940431838e082f7l.png
      http://www.shackpics.com/files/16_cw6y5qb3a1sj6m1gdqh1.png

      Sun rising: http://www.shackpics.com/files/17_dmr7unczuic11phbhhcg.png
      http://www.shackpics.com/files/18_ere55wqr3b8ytbyryubn.png

      PEEEGIES! http://www.shackpics.com/files/19_560rwcy9fa8b9v8lx5ie.png

      Building a fence: http://www.shackpics.com/files/20_6tuobz1f15a2z2xkp73b.png
      http://www.shackpics.com/files/22_tinzue53sw040k8v2ocl.png
      http://www.shackpics.com/files/21_flf7wy4ugvsgnp8abf8x.png



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      August 20, 2010 7:39 AM

      Minecraft claims another machine well not really. My server will be down until further notice :(

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        August 20, 2010 7:48 AM

        what happened?

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        August 20, 2010 8:19 AM

        HDD? Is that number 4 now?

        What else can minecraft break?!

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        August 20, 2010 9:36 AM

        please tell me you had at least some sort of backup, i spent like a week on my cunning plan and it still isn't finished yet. giant turnip

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        August 20, 2010 11:38 AM

        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 for just MC.

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      August 20, 2010 7:52 AM

      Some dickwad griefed my church with a shit-ton of obsidian blocking things. Anyone who wants obsidian is welcome to help mine it out of there for me.

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        August 20, 2010 8:01 AM

        I'd login and help, but my updated client can't connect to the MercFox server anymore.

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          August 20, 2010 8:09 AM

          yea i just got to work, update musta happend 5 min ago :(

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            August 20, 2010 8:15 AM

            Looks like some douchenozzle also griefed Caoster's floating city by expanding the waterfall.

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        August 20, 2010 8:56 AM

        Mercfox1, is it possible to version save the logs as well so hopefully we can find these asses?

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        August 20, 2010 12:10 PM

        haha that is a hilarious way to grief someone

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      August 20, 2010 8:40 AM

      Persister updated! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?t5gj1qbo3egftic

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      August 20, 2010 8:43 AM

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      August 20, 2010 9:00 AM

      If any one has minor holes in their walls near spawn, or the odd floor tile dug out, I apologize. My 5 year old son sat down and started playing on my older son, Autobro's account.

      He is definitely not to blame for the major griefing, he is not using persister and has only made wood tools, but still. I told him he could get us banned and that I would take away his 360 so I doubt it will happen again.

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      August 20, 2010 9:00 AM

      Vividvoid: In the future, post not to explore in the main thread. I know this is obvious to all of us, but casual lurkers might not get it.

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        August 20, 2010 9:23 AM

        Wut? where did I say this in the main thread?

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        August 20, 2010 9:33 AM

        I don't know if this would help, but I think at this point the IP's should stop getting posted. If anyone wants to join and doesn't have the IP, they can msg someone.

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          August 20, 2010 9:36 AM

          yah its in the Steam Group anyway. Well 2 of them, no one has posted the newer server info in the group afaik.

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          August 20, 2010 9:38 AM

          I guess but people will just search for them anyways, better to have the ips and the warning how exploration crashes the server in the same place, then have them find the ip without the warning

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            August 20, 2010 10:21 AM

            Can we just get a list of who is who on the various servers?

            I'm obvious, but I have no idea who a few of the others are.

            Patters helped me with my Canal yesterday, so I guess he's cool, no idea who he is though.

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          August 20, 2010 10:24 AM

          I don't mind having mine posted. The better chance of more people joining the better. My server has max of 5-6 people on it daily, it gets lonely and it's hard to compete with Merc's server's popularity. Taking down the smaller server's IP's would just hurt our servers more.

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      August 20, 2010 9:36 AM

      Did game rendering get severely slowed for anyone else? I played this morning before the update without a problem. After the update, I have to take render distance down to tiny just to make it playable. Even at small render distance, i get 1-2 fps :(

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      August 20, 2010 10:19 AM

      Latest Update Woes:

      Supposedly many of the modders are upset with Notch's half-ass update. SuperLlama being one of them:

      "Arg, due to the bugginess of friday 8, I've lost the will to update my mod, possibly because it's very likely that he'll release a bugfix within a few hours-- also possibly because notch has failed us."

      And a good quote from FrostyWolf:

      "On top of it, hes about to go away again, for what, two weeks?

      and one of them is to meet with Valve. I wonder what thats about. Last I checked, it was only a web form and a application and email, maybe a phone call, to get a indy game on steam. They dont fly you half way around the globe to meet with them personally. I just hope they don't sit him down, set a bag of money in front of him, and Minecraft goes the way of Narbacular Drop and Tag: The Power of Paint."


      This stuff has me a bit worried.

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        August 20, 2010 10:23 AM

        the modders can suck a fat nut, it's a bit selfish to expect all this stuff from him. oh no, their mods are broken, big deal! SMP is still a total test.

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          August 20, 2010 10:26 AM

          That wasn't the point at all. Notch posted a pretty shitty update and is now going on vacation for two more weeks to go to Valve, leaving us with a half-broken game until he gets back.

          People say he's just going to Valve to put his game on Steam but as Frosty points out that's something that can be done over the internet and doesn't require flying someone across the world.

          Chances are they may give Notch an offer he can't refuse and then things will change greatly.

          And don't shit on the modders, they've made SMP more playable than you can imagine. Llama is the reason furnaces even work.

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        August 20, 2010 10:24 AM

        Shit I hope minecraft goes the way of narbacular drop

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          August 20, 2010 10:55 AM

          Haha I thought the exact same thing

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          August 20, 2010 12:12 PM

          haha no shit. compare narbacular drop to portal. now imagine that change in quality for minecraft to something else. holy balls!

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            August 20, 2010 1:17 PM

            MineCraft is really an awesome genre, it's an RPG without a levelling system.

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              August 20, 2010 2:39 PM

              Good RPG are good even without that levelling crap.

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        August 20, 2010 10:24 AM

        lol, look at those entitled pc gamers.

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        August 20, 2010 10:26 AM

        what bugginess though? that doesn't even get specific.

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          August 20, 2010 10:29 AM

          Chickens and pigs: Indestructible. When they start drowning you just here "BAWK!BAWK!BAWK!"
          Fences: Can not jump over, if you get on top of them you get stuck in a damage loop. Also, they seem to be turning invisible.
          Doors: Work, until the bottom half opens independently of the top half. Also, they seem to open themselves randomly. (iron doors and switches still not working)
          Player Damage: Now off on all difficulties.
          Day/Night: Working. (SO AWESOME)
          Torches: Hurray, I can not duplicate the floating torch glitch anymore.
          F5: No longer "over the shoulder".
          Duplicating Items?: Closing the inventory with an item on the cursor appears to drop the item, but it remains on the cursor when you open your inventory again. This can be repeated for infinite item duplication in multiplayer.
          Inventory: Still client side, but now none of the icons for blocks work when viewing it with "I". *FIXED* Update Client.

          Here's the thread so i can stop having to quote from it and you guys can just stop "assuming" that they are being bitches:
          http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1012&t=23483&p=484029#p484029

          You all think they're being entitled but you guys wouldn't have been playing SMP for this long if it wasn't for these guys.

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            August 20, 2010 10:32 AM

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              August 20, 2010 10:36 AM

              Well, it seems like he's going more backwards than forwards...

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                August 20, 2010 10:41 AM

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                  August 20, 2010 10:43 AM

                  Well, for instance, the inventory being fucked up, the item duplication bug, damage being taken away, things like that. Don't get me wrong, I love this game so hard, but Notch got a little sloppy on this last update.

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                    August 20, 2010 10:45 AM

                    Or maybe it's just an alpha? When you're making serious changes to things it shouldn't surprise you at all that functionality becomes worse before it improves.

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                      August 20, 2010 10:46 AM

                      I understand it's an alpha, but why publish it? For fences and pigs?

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                        August 20, 2010 5:38 PM

                        Because he has a schedule of doing so? And having people test it makes it easier for him to find problems?

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                    August 20, 2010 10:47 AM

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                    August 20, 2010 11:59 AM

                    jesus its one guy working on a game... this isn't like a development studio that has a team of people working on this.

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                    August 20, 2010 2:23 PM

                    maybe he took out damage on purpose because death causes some people to COMPLETELY LOSE INTERNET CONNECTION TILL REBOOT? So.. personal it's a forward move till he fixes that.

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                  August 20, 2010 10:53 AM

                  Remembered but worthless? You think Notch is going to implement the amount of features they've added to this point? I don't think so. But then again you admit to not reading changelogs so I don't think you really have an informative opinion on the matter anyways.

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                    August 20, 2010 10:57 AM

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                    August 20, 2010 10:59 AM

                    The only things mods have added is basic shit that will be put in to the game proper.

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                      August 20, 2010 11:02 AM

                      Groups? Kits? Ranks? Setting your homepoint? Teleporting? Whitelists and Blacklists? Group specific items?

                      They've added a lot more than you know (or care) about.

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                        August 20, 2010 11:03 AM

                        I thought you said "Whistletits and Blacklists" for a second. I was confused.

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                          August 20, 2010 11:24 AM

                          I like this post the most out of this whole ridiculous thread. As an aside, I'm glad I slept late so that I'll never have to accidentally run across this when searching through my MD Minecraft Thread history.

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                        August 20, 2010 11:07 AM

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                          August 20, 2010 11:09 AM

                          Pick me up some cookies, damn it!

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                          August 20, 2010 11:13 AM

                          It's useless to continue this banter. I've obviously lost and it was stupid for me to even bring the issue up.

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                        August 20, 2010 11:12 AM

                        He will be adding proper mod support in the future so people can properly implement stuff that he doesn't, although I expect most of those things you mentioned will indeed be put in, except for things against the spirit of the game like teleporting. Right now people are hacking the code to add features to an alpha game and then crying when it breaks on a patch. God people are stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.

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                          August 20, 2010 11:16 AM

                          Ugh they're not crying because it breaks their mods and patches, they haven't cried at all the whole time. They've just always fixed their mods and moved on.

                          What they are bitching about is how Notch's updates are become less and less meaty and useful to more and more buggy and meaningless. It's like he's not really putting his all into it like he was before.

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                            August 20, 2010 11:22 AM

                            That last sentence is so fucking disrespectful to the guy. He's pouring his heart and soul in to the development of this game and anyone with actual experience in game development can tell that. But then you have retarded fucks who think they know what it takes to do what he is doing, saying that he's not putting enough effort in to his project.

                            I mean jesus fucking christ there are so little games ever that have had such rapid development with frequent patches like this. And now simply because there was one point in time where he was releasing features at a frequency of X, people are bitching because that frequency has dropped to anything below X, even though X is still greater than it is for pretty much every other game you could buy out there, ESPECIALLY ones done with a one-man development team.

                            He has been doing this whole "open communication" thing for a while now, and that's the problem. It's why so few developers do it; retarded fucks on the Internet, when given too much information, think they have become experts on what the developer is doing.

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                              August 20, 2010 11:54 AM

                              I don't have to be an expert to see that the latest update he just pushed is a buggy piece of crap and may not be updated for 2 or more weeks while he's traveling. That's not good for his game or customers regarless of how you look at it. If he knew it wasn't stable (which would be easy if to tell if you just played around with it for an hour or two) he shouldn't have pushed it.

                              I mean at least he could have pushed it then waited an hour for a response and if it was a bad response and it was obviously broken he could rollback and tell us he'll take care of it after he's off vacation. Now he's forced us to use and we can't rollback. Clients won't connect to old servers and old clients won't connect to new servers.

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                August 20, 2010 10:46 AM

                Exactly. I don't know what's up Hemtroll's ass about this but each update notch puts out is more and more buggy.

                My main concern is the future of this game and what valve's plans are.

                The "entitled" modders have made the SMP playable. And instead of Notch taking their features and implementing into his game he releases an update that's half-ass and doesn't add anything to make the game more stable. He actually makes it less stable with duplicating inventory items.

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                  August 20, 2010 10:52 AM

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                    August 20, 2010 11:01 AM

                    The part "you won't comment on" is the part I'm worried about and the whole reason I started made the first post.

                    It feels Notch is kinda focused on more moneyhats than more customers at the moment. Before the game got real big and he wasn't making $50K a day, his updates were huge and zero to few bugs. Since the game blew up, seems like he's been too busy rubbing corporate elbows then actually caring about the amount of content put in and his workflow just seem's half-ass.

                    I feel he's refreshing his inbox more than being a code-monkey.

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                      August 20, 2010 11:04 AM

                      DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE!

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                      August 20, 2010 11:09 AM

                      he's refreshing his inbox more because whiny fucks keep complaining about Alpha software without really knowing what Alpha software is.

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                      August 20, 2010 11:17 AM

                      Notch has admitted in various interviews, on Twitter, and on his blog that he needs help and does not know what do do on the business side of things. His little game was awesome enough that he figured out he could charge people to play the buggy, unfinished in-progress version and he's made damn near a million dollars from it. Now he needs to figure out his business and how to keep these rabid fans happy.

                      Thank God for the modders, without them we could not have as much fun in SMP as we've been having. BUT... I have been focusing my efforts on single player, which is far, far less buggy and way more feature-complete. This word alone should be enough to quell any argument about the state of the game itself: "Alpha".

                      I had a long conversation with my brother last night abotu what would happen if this game goes to Valve like Narbtacular Drop or Tag, or Left 4 Dead, or CS, of TF2. Tell me this, are ALL of those games not some of the best PC games ever made? Luckily, Valve is my favorite developer of all time. I look forward to hearing from Notch about their conversation, but again, he has stated multiple times that he wants to move forward with his own company, that he and he alone will be heading development, and that he will never "sell out". That's all left to be determined, but we shall see. Notch is the shit and so is Minecraft.

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                    August 20, 2010 11:01 AM

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                      August 20, 2010 11:10 AM

                      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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                        August 20, 2010 11:14 AM

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                        August 20, 2010 11:15 AM

                        Fuck fear, just keep playing the damn thing and getting the word out. It's in Alpha, but even then, it's still fun (unless you happen to be a modder who cannot handle recoding shit cuz you're a big baby).

                        Plus that comment about VALVe makes them sound like the Monopoly guy. Yeah sure, they're successful, but it makes them sound like greedy corporate assholes which, from their track record, has been the complete opposite.

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                          August 20, 2010 11:20 AM

                          I don't see how what I said makes valve sounds like the monopoly guy, but what I'm saying is by "valve development" is like "where the fuck is episode 3"

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                    August 20, 2010 11:19 AM

                    The only thing Notch owes you is completing the game past Beta. Once it goes "retail" it is complete and anything he decides to make for us after that is a nice bonus.

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                  August 20, 2010 10:56 AM

                  A-L-P-H-A spells alpha

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                August 20, 2010 11:07 AM

                Expecting the developer of an alpha release to be constrained by backwards compatibility with mods is completely asinine.

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                  August 20, 2010 11:13 AM

                  Beyond asinine. I can't believe anyone here is defending these modder whiners. It's so fucking ignorant it hurts my brain.

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                August 20, 2010 11:19 AM

                It's being destroyed by its own success. Frankly, it wont matter soon, valve will take it inside and it's going to vanish for a few years anyway.

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                  August 20, 2010 11:23 AM

                  His blog posts have indicated that this is definitely not his vision for the project. It could still happen, but I believe he really wants to keep the "openness of development" he's got going on.

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                  August 20, 2010 11:23 AM

                  also once Valve buys the game i bet they'll take it down from the internet and sue all the people still playing for lots of money

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            August 20, 2010 10:59 AM

            "you guys can just stop "assuming" that they are being bitches"

            They are being bitches. It's alpha software, and he made it VERY VERY clear that he was releasing multiplayer in a broken state so that he can get more eyes on it. We're TESTING the game.

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              August 20, 2010 11:02 AM

              This, and he's also made it clear that he uses these "secret" friday updates to throw new stuff in there; it's not surprising that some stuff breaks, and I'm pretty sure he's not too worried about it. In short, stop whining.

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        August 20, 2010 10:27 AM

        oh boo fuckity hoo.

        "alpha"

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        August 20, 2010 10:29 AM

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          August 20, 2010 11:06 AM

          what's funny is that he'll probably do it anyways

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            August 20, 2010 11:31 AM

            yah i hope he does so no one burns down my server :(

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        August 20, 2010 11:01 AM

        I personally think Notch screwed himself by releasing multiplayer. When it was single player it was all in fun just waiting for the friday update and messing around seeing what Notch put in.

        Now that multiplayer is out the problems alone with implementing it are preventing work from being done on new content. Now the new content is probably going to be lower quality and quantity.

        I mean multiplayer is cool and all, but I liked MC before it went multiplayer.

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          August 20, 2010 11:18 AM

          He'd still be working on multiplayer though, even if he hadn't released the current server build. He said himself that if you don't think he should be releasing the multiplayer in it's current state, then just pretend the last few SMP server releases haven't been happening. The thing is that he's been busy with BigJam and this Valve thing, which has cut into more of his SP development time (and development time as a whole) than just releasing/supporting SMP.

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          August 20, 2010 11:20 AM

          Multiplayer is a huge deal, lots of people bought the game only for that. It's buggy but the work had to be done eventually. He's just one man, he couldn't do all the testing privately.

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        August 20, 2010 11:05 AM

        They're whiny fucks. It's Alpha. Man up

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        August 20, 2010 2:32 PM

        Doesn't have me worried in the slightest. Quit armchair quarterbacking a lone indie developer. These past two months have been probably the most hectic of his life, has he mentioned that he's getting married at some point to his gf?

        Lol

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          August 20, 2010 4:16 PM

          He needs to dump that hoe and make this game PEERRRFECT!

          But in all seriousness, it's kind of unfair for you to jump into this all late and expect me to defend my position when I already have countless times to others in this thread. :/

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      August 20, 2010 10:36 AM

      Cure this game, now every time I play an RPG I try digging and building a shelter to fend off the mobs :(. Really, I don't think I can get use to NOT being able to alter the environment now.

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        August 20, 2010 10:36 AM

        cure=curse

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        August 20, 2010 1:11 PM

        This makes me think of a STALKER type game where you've got to find shelter for the night, or you'd get fucked by radioactive bastards of doom. Fuck yeah.

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      August 20, 2010 11:22 AM

      I'm done golfing but I wont be back until later today

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        August 20, 2010 11:26 AM

        I understand, sex with supermodels after a hard day of golfing is the perfect way to unwind before dealing with a shitflipping server.

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          August 20, 2010 11:52 AM

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            August 20, 2010 12:04 PM

            Message him yourself; he replies by sending you an iPad with the answer set as the background.

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              August 20, 2010 12:08 PM

              lol

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              August 20, 2010 12:42 PM

              One can only hope it's delivered by a dozen white doves as well.

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                August 20, 2010 1:50 PM

                You guy are thinking way to small. I'm sending you guys white Siberian tigers with the letters of my response tattooed onto their backs.

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                  August 20, 2010 1:57 PM

                  These tigers had best be carried by pterodactyl's, or I'm returning them to sender.

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                  August 20, 2010 1:58 PM

                  So we have to shave them to read it? Seem like too much work.

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                    August 20, 2010 2:01 PM

                    shave em? No, you must pluck the hair with a mis-shaped tweezer.

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                      August 20, 2010 2:03 PM

                      ah ok, much easier then, I withdraw my complaint

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        August 20, 2010 1:30 PM

        Augh that pyramid is hurting my eyes, what the fuck is going on with those dimensions?

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          August 20, 2010 1:57 PM

          It's even but there is land covering one side of it which makes it look wonky. We're clearing out the surrounding land today.

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            August 20, 2010 2:00 PM

            Ah I see what you're talking about. It does look really weird but I think that's due to the angle of the cartographer shot. We measure it out, it's 45x45.

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            August 20, 2010 2:00 PM

            That's good to hear; my eyes kept straying back to it when trying to look at the rest of the map.

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        August 20, 2010 2:49 PM

        I already replaced my cobble walls with brick. I like the change :)

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        August 20, 2010 4:10 PM

        Cartograph Updated as of 7:00pm EST
        http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1125473/Caszuffvania-After.jpg

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      August 20, 2010 3:34 PM

      ALRIGHT BOYS I'M HOOOOME!!!

      I'm going to take a quit shower, and after that upgrade the server. Hopefully, I'll be able to do THAT, render a new Carto for you fgts, and take a new world version before THIS FEMALE I'VE BEEN TEXTING gets here.

      This'll pretty much be the only free time I have to mess with the server tonight, because after THIS FEMALE and I get some ice cream, I'm heading a to friend's birthday party.

      Fuck yeah green apples.

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      August 20, 2010 4:02 PM

      SERVER UPDATED!!!

      Running the new Llamacraft mod, updated Persister link is below. Make sure you update your client, and then run the new persister!

      http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7834948/persister-20100820.jar

      Cartograph and new version are in progress, but I'm not going to have time to post those.

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        August 20, 2010 4:11 PM

        stop living your life and manage your server 24/7, gosssh ;)

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        August 20, 2010 4:38 PM

        * I C E C R E A M ' D *

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        August 20, 2010 5:18 PM

        put up a torch ring so spawning fgts don't get scared if it's night time

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