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I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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Post by rosywoozlechan »

That's a lot of anger, negativity and bitterness, and entitlement (one of the game's creators for writing the ending text?). Reminds me of the kid on the cover of the Nevermind album and other people that are kinda tangentially connected to something massively successful, but not connected enough to benefit materially, and they let that define who they are and ruin their lives.

Could have been a neat personal story, "hey you know I wrote the ending text to Minecraft?" Instead, it's this.

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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Post by mgrthrow »

dcow wrote: post #23
hoten wrote: post #15

Certainly there's a world where the author just knew, at some point in this process, "let me just give this giant stressor of a problem to a lawyer"—without losing whatever it means to "be an artist" or opportunities at growth he attributes to only occurring because he was awful at business.

Yeah I feel a twist in my gut for this guy. He is so frustrated it's incredible. He wrote 90% more than he needed to on this topic. The essay is long and rambling and I've missed any point he's trying to make... much like the words of his "End Poem". They are senseless and, ultimately, meaningless. They are not deep. They are incoherent. No wonder he's stuck in a narrative of his own creation. That's his life. If his…

I found it the opposite. I felt touched, it was very human and raw and real.

It's not an essay about a problem, it's an essay about experiencing a problem. The former can be solved with a lawyer, the latter with... Well nothing really. It's an experience.

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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Post by krisoft »

jesterman wrote: post #18
hoten wrote: post #15

Certainly there's a world where the author just knew, at some point in this process, "let me just give this giant stressor of a problem to a lawyer"—without losing whatever it means to "be an artist" or opportunities at growth he attributes to only occurring because he was awful at business.

There definitely was, as they mentioned in the article. They choose not to though, opting instead to just sit on it for a long time I guess? Hopefully they talked to a lawyer before releasing this though, and hopefully Microsoft doesn’t go after this guy.

> hopefully Microsoft doesn’t go after this guy

Let’s not spread FUD, what would they go after for this guy and why?

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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Post by mgrthrow »

nl wrote: post #4

This is a great (long!) piece. I think one important thing for people on HN here is this: > I think Carl, with his background as a Corporate Finance guy, seeing the world through that filter, must have believed that I was trying to blackmail them; trying to maximise my revenue, like the “rational agents” that populate economics textbooks; that I was refusing to sign it to hold up the deal, because I wanted to get pai…

The number of times I've been told I don't believe my beliefs because they don't make rational economic sense is innumerable.

I'm happy when my tax rate goes up. This apparently really bothers people. (Me being happy about it.)

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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Post by gary_0 »

Gigachad wrote: post #22
pfoof wrote: post #6

Well, and karma apparently works, as notch's life after becoming billionaire doesn't seem to be too positive

What negatives were there? From what I know he bought a mansion and became a twitter shitposter.

And that's the pinnacle of what anyone would want out of life?

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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Post by whatshisface »

rosywoozlechan wrote: post #41

That's a lot of anger, negativity and bitterness, and entitlement (one of the game's creators for writing the ending text?). Reminds me of the kid on the cover of the Nevermind album and other people that are kinda tangentially connected to something massively successful, but not connected enough to benefit materially, and they let that define who they are and ruin their lives. Could have been a neat personal story,…

How can you call asking for nothing entitlement?

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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Post by vintermann »

An interesting thing is that C418 (Daniel Rosenfeld) did not sign away all his rights. That is why Minecraft: Volume Alpha and Minecraft: Volume Beta are copyright C418 on Spotify, whereas the later albums are copyright Microsoft Studios Music - and it's also why all new music to Minecraft is made by people other than Daniel Rosenfeld.

So it seems Julian should have been able to get a similar deal. I bet Jakob had no power to actually go through with the threat of taking out the end poem - Notch would have intervened if it came to that.

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