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Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by Nullabillity » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:19 PM UTC

stale2002 wrote: post #150

Nullabillity wrote: post #141

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Which is why we need to stop promoting it as the default choice for everything.

Why? I think it is great that the default option is "hey world! Do whatever you want with this!". Anything that promoted the free flow of information, technology, and innovation is a good thing IMO.

> Anything that promoted the free flow of information, technology, and innovation is a good thing IMO.

Absolutely. And MIT fails spectacularly on that, since it doesn't consider the behaviour of downstream dependees.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by Gene_Parmesan » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

andrepd wrote: post #162

skohan wrote: post #44

This reminds me of when I first discovered Minecraft in university. I was just going to play for a couple hours before bed, and I got sucked into the game-loop and before I knew it the sun was coming up. A few days later, I was walking toward the railroad crossing I often had to wait at between my house and campus, and just for a moment looked at those tracks and I seriously thought about where I should place the Min…

>A few days later, I was walking toward the railroad crossing I often had to wait at between my house and campus, and just for a moment looked at those tracks and I seriously thought about where I should place the Minecraft blocks to build a bridge and avoid waiting for the train. This is called the tetris effect. I've had it with, you guessed it, tetris. Whenever I get a bout of addiction and play tetris for an hour…

Try spending ~20 hours in a week playing serious racing sims complete with wheel and real-feeling pedals, then hopping into your car on the weekend to drive cross-state to visit family.

I also got this with programming at least once. I had been spending all night trying to get something with my WPF view models working (and failing). When I finally got into bed, I was having trouble falling asleep because I was just "seeing" endless lines of code scrolling through my head. I very distinctly remember thinking, "What order do I have to call these methods again to successfully enter sleep mode?" Quite a bizarre experience.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by stesch » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:29 PM UTC

Reminds me of "Rainbows End". Remember the scene when the kids go to school and overlay the building on the way? (And all the other overlays/skins.)

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by kragen » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:31 PM UTC

cjbprime wrote: post #127

bonzini wrote: post #124

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When JavaScript is served to a browser, it is distributed and thus anything that uses a GPLed JavaScript library must be GPL too.

I don't think any experts (including the FSF who wrote the license) believe this to be true. That's why the AGPL exists.

Chris, you know better than this nonsense. No experts know the answer, but the FSF strongly advocates the position that JS running on your computer is just like any other software running on your computer. The AGPL was written to require a server operator to free their patches to software running on their server, not in your browser.

https://www.fsf.org/news/announcing-js-labels https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html

It isn't at all clear how courts will decide the case if such a case ever comes to trial.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by unicornfinder » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:32 PM UTC

geophertz wrote: post #78

bo0tzz wrote: post #35

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Based on this paper from 2014 [0], you're probably gonna hit resource limits in the late thousands unless you apply some special techniques. Apparently the highest number of players that's been seen on a minecraft server simultaneously is somewhere around 10 000, but I don't know the details of this. [0] https://exaquark.com/blog/scaling-minecraft-to-millions-of-u...

Yeah but if you rewrite a Minecraft server to scale it would probably be possible. The Vanilla minecraft server runs on 1 thread and is written in Java so there is a lot of space for improvement.

Indeed. Some years ago a friend of mine wrote a Minecraft server in Golang and it ran on something ridiculous like 10MB of RAM with genuinely excellent performance.

It could definitely be done.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by Gene_Parmesan » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:32 PM UTC

hirundo wrote: post #75

beeandapenguin wrote: post #50

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Sounds like you caught a drift of the Tetris Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

When I was playing Assassin's Creed I kept analyzing buildings for the best way to parkour to the top. Now I'm playing Stardew Valley and every vacant space looks like a good spot to plant strawberries.

I always get these weird experiences when I've been really into playing some game, and then happen to half wake up in the middle of the night. I'll be in this bizarre half-awake, half-asleep state where I'm quasi-dreaming that I'm living in the game world and I won't be able to get the dream/hallucination to stop.

Right now I'm getting seriously into Factorio, and I had this experience a few nights ago. I half-woke up and kept having these thought-hallucinations about the best method to use to optimize the way my resource refiners were feeding into my main bus, because I needed to make X% more sleep-cogs in order to go back to sleep.

It's actually kind of infuriating when it happens, sometimes it keeps me in that half-awake state for as long as thirty minutes. Been happening to me since I was a kid.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by FooHentai » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

pnutjam wrote: post #154

jsilence wrote: post #80

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What would be a sensible minimum age for minecraft?

My littlest were scared of the zombie pigmen. I'd say around 7 or 8.

You can set the difficulty to 'peaceful' to get rid of all the scary stuff.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

jordache wrote: post #108

saddestcatever wrote: post #70

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Minecraft is one of the few games that I think everyone should try. It's not just "another video game", but something quite unique. It hits a certain part of the brain in both "creative expression" and "exploring the unknown" that we exercise so rarely in day to day life (or in other games). It's no wonder it really sticks with kids and becomes a way for them to express imagination. Make sure you sit down and try pla…

the tedious mining is definitely unique... holding down the mouse button to mine is creative expression?

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Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by anderspitman » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:52 PM UTC

It would be really cool if this enables "Minecraft artists" to build and place impressive models. I'm an avid hiker and would love knowing I can pull out my phone at the top of a mountain to see a digital model that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. Sort of like an imaginary geocache.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by lloydde » Fri, May 17, 2019, 6:54 PM UTC

anchpop wrote: post #53

lloydde wrote: post #48

You “see a patch of grass” could read awfully dystopian. That opening paragraph might come back to haunt them. With climate change possibly accelerating unless global coordinated activity, I giggled at first to this opener that basically says cover that “patch” of “real-life” nature. > Picture the scene: you’re walking through your neighbourhood and see a patch of grass. Grass is lovely and all, but you see this patc…

Are you proposing that due to climate change, there is a serious possibility of the extinction of grass?

Not by any means. The narrative is covering nature, covering the limited park space with augmented reality. This is likely going to sour some parents on it. It would have been much smarter to speak to an urban setting.