kerzain
4863
Notch is still one of my favorite people for no other reason than his ma$$ive contribution towards the creation of Age of Wonders III (one of my FGOATs) simply because he loves the series.
He’s contributed to such a degree that Dutch developer Triumph Studios (Overlord) doesn’t need a publisher for Age of Wonders 3, although distribution and co-publishing deals aren’t ruled out.
Why is Notch doing this? Because he’s a fan of the Age of Wonders series.
Too bad about his Minecraft legacy being retconned.
RTFM. His name is still in the credits. He just doesn’t get his name in the bouncy title string anymore.
I kind of feel sorry for the guy. If becoming a bazillionaire turns you into a neocon misanthrope, I guess I’ll scratch that off the bucket list (the neocon part, anyway)
I believe the term to use, if you’re a millionaire, is eccentric.
in this case, asshole also works
I love AoW3 (and the whole series, for that matter) too, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s a white supremacist fucknozzle.
kerzain
4871
Dang. I just heard he was crazy. I didn’t know about his racial hatred.
His Twitter feed is a sea of horrors, from QAnon conspiracy crap to raging against women to screaming about how white people are being oppressed. I didn’t really know about this until today myself but holy shit - he got rich and went completely off his nut. Maybe he was always awful, but at least ten years ago he knew enough to keep his mouth shut.
Man, if I were a billionaire, the last thing I would be is an incel. Money can’t buy happiness, but boy can it rent it.
I was guessing he had wasted a lot of money already :)
My kids and I have been enjoying working on our little corner of planet earth on the Minecraft Geographica server.
(The world has evolved quite a bit since then)
Here is the current state of the world:
http://geographica.xyz/map.php
It’s laggy. There are queues to get on (you can pay a few dollars to support the server, which gives you a rank and shortens them). But the fact that you can claim and build up your own little corner of planet earth and that the game is built to foster diplomacy (or let nations go to war, though with consequences) is pretty cool.
I don’t know that I would recommend trying it on on your own. The queues are very long and it’s much better playing with friends and collaborating on developing a nation. Our you could join an existing one. All in all, it’s a fun experiment.
mok
4876
Has anyone used the Realms service? Does that work with the Windows 7 Java Version - I am seeing contradictory information.
It did the last time I used the service less than a year ago.
single player dwarf fortress my ass
SamS
4879
How about Dwarf Fortress in Minecraft
It’s a very strange parenthetical, especially since Dwarf Fortress is already single player. And also Minecraft plays nothing like it.
Minecraft, except with raytracing, actually looks pretty good.
