I never even knew Minecraft had an ending until now.
It didn't for the longest time, and then one day suddenly there was this whole dragon thingy
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
#72This 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.)
Would you be happy if only your tax rate went up, or is that tied to other people in your tax bracket also paying out more and thus, presumably, benefiting society more than they would by hoarding/wasting the money?
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like it's time to play it!
Making a server is surprisingly terrible for such a ‘mature’ game. However playing it with your kid is so excellent. Farming, fighting, building, raiding, landscaping, tunnelling, rowing, flying, whatever. Pick your path and it is great fun.
I don't think Microsoft has much incentive to make creating servers easier than it is; there would be somewhat less incentive for players to buy Realms if setting up a server was just a click.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#74Anybody have a pointer to the "iHole" story mentioned in the article? It seems to have been purged not just from the author's website, but archive.* as well. https://www.juliangough.com/the-ihole-in-original-apple-fl/
Is this it, further down the page?
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/2684207-an-open-...
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
He made it pretty clear that he didn't have any money (and thus no legal access).
He also made it clear that he had an agent. And he had worked with large corporations in the past given his background so I'm surprised he tripped up here. It's not like this was some first time author learning about how cruel the real world can be.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Making a server is surprisingly terrible for such a ‘mature’ game. However playing it with your kid is so excellent. Farming, fighting, building, raiding, landscaping, tunnelling, rowing, flying, whatever. Pick your path and it is great fun.
> Making a server is surprisingly terrible for such a ‘mature’ game. The official Minecraft server software is exceptionally unoptimized, but a number of independent open source forks exist, some of which can substantially improve performance. Unless you're talking about maintaining the community aspect, which is definitely not so easy... :) For anyone getting into Minecraft for the first time, be sure to check out t…
I don't see why it can't be as easy as Multiplayer -> Host -> Select World. The average player shouldn't need to download a server jar, accept a eula, edit the config, run the jar with command line arguments for ram allocation, and set up port forwarding just to play block game with their friends.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, seriously. You didn't create Minecraft you wrote a poem that shows up in the credits. Notch wasn't your friend he found you through a recommendation on Twitter and contracted some content. 20k for something less intelligible than Kubla Khan seems pretty fair to me. Be happy your acid trip is preserved forever in one of the most successful games in history. And get over yourself.
I feel you are being a bit too harsh but also had to laugh at the kubla khan and acid references
Yeah I need to stop. The more I brood over what I just read the more unbearably frustrated it makes me. I want my time back. I am sorry if I'm being overly harsh. This one really hit a nerve.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#78I love the idea of the public domain so much - the idea that these bits of culture may have been created by a single person, but that they ultimately belong to everyone as members of the culture. I've always wanted to host a New Years Public Domain Day party to celebrate everything already in and entering the public domain, but I'm not sure my friends are quite as excited by the idea as I am...
The public domain has no culture. It's everyone in the planet. The planet has no specific culture.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#79This needs another side of the story.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#80so I said, OK, I’ll take whatever the first thing you offered was If he said that in an e-mail, doesn't that constitute a written agreement to transfer copyright to Mojang?
For usage rights, probably so. But a transfer has stricter requirements in most countries, and it doesn't mean he agreed to all the other clauses in the contract that he hadn't even seen at the time.