Minecraft.

I played Terraria for a bit and I kept getting into the headspace of wtf am I even doing playing the game?

Anytime I touched Minecraft it felt the same.

I’ve played other, similar builder/mining games, most notably satisfactory and DRG, both of which feel like they have more direction than Minecraft or Terraria.

I don’t need much of a push to care enough to progress through a game; an interesting mechanic, a fun playstyle, interesting things to do and achieve… For the most part I’m really laid back when gaming. I don’t really get involved in PvP at all, so anything cod/modern warfare/fortnite/whatever, I’m not interested in. I’d rather work cooperatively with people to achieve a goal. Even something like left4dead or counterstrike is pretty decent in my mind. Some competition is fine, but free for all and/or small teams in large battles (like with many Battle Royale games), when it’s almost entirely PvP, no thanks. There’s always trolls and people who take the game far too seriously, and those are the kinds of people I don’t want anything to do with.

I struggled with Terraria because a lot of the mechanics were not obvious. There was a logical progression to get more powerful stuff, and even some fairly good quests and bosses to fight, but you either happen across them and you’re wholly unprepared for the encounter, or you have to follow a guide to get the event started. It was a bit convoluted, and the game didn’t really explain anything about what you needed to do to move forward. Minecraft feels like the same stuff. It’s all exploration and discovery based, basically at random. I know there’s some “end game” type stuff in the game, which implies there’s progression, but idk, it’s all kinds of obfuscated.

Compare with satisfactory, which is largely open, but has a pretty clear set of skill trees and progression. There’s no “end” to the game, just endlessly creating items.

There’s direction there. It’s not a lot, and nobody is going to tell you how to get to the next thing, just that it exists and this is what you need to get to it. There’s a hundred different ways to get to that objective, and you have to find your own way.

DRG is basically an endless grind of matches. Procedurally generated, which keeps things lively, but an endless set of essentially the same thing every time. You can get upgrades and cosmetics the more you play, but it’s the same gameplay every time you get into a round.

DRG still has a better plotline than twilight… I mean, Minecraft.

Just getting dumped into an open world with no idea what you can do, or what you should do, isn’t really my jam. I tried with Terraria. No thanks.

I can. It immediately stops itself while the ad rolls. I hit play from the navigation pane, it starts for maybe a second and stops again.

Once the ad stops, I can hit play and it all works normally.

IMO, the worst is pausing my media to play an ad in an unrelated application.

No matter what I try, I can’t get my music to play over the ad. I can silence the ad, go to my player, hit play to resume the music, and as soon as I flip back to the app playing the ad, the music pauses. So I have three choices: uninstall this shit, listen to silence until the ad is over, or listen to the ad.

Ironically, the entire premise of this article is steeped in a class war. It’s the rich trying to keep us focused on fighting eachother, rather than realizing that they’re fucking all of us in the ass.

I just want to be clear, this was like highschool cs classes. I took things a bit more seriously in college.

I never wrote messy code or illogical code, or any code that didn’t work. We were learning C++ in those days and if you know anything about C++, you can basically cram an entire program into a single line. You can also do some shorthand stuff for calculations and updates to variables… So while the class was instructed to use whitespace and comments and update variables like “var = var + #” I would do var += #… I wouldn’t comment it, mainly out of hubris.

I was pretty good at it but I was lazy as all hell with it.

I don’t code, at best I script. I’m a sysadmin, not a dev, so I play around in PowerShell mostly.

I just started to naturally do all of this. Not because I was taught to, but because I’ve written too many scripts that I later looked at, and thought, WTF is going on here… Who tf wrote this? (Of course it was me)…

So instead of confusing my future self, I started putting in comments. One at the beginning to describe what the file name can’t, and inline comments to step me through what’s happening, and more importantly why I did what I did.

The sheer number of comments can sometimes double the number of lines in my script, but later when I’m staring into the abyss of what I wrote, I appreciate me.

I loved doing this is school, just trying to mess up my teachers.

Something about, having it being better than needing it?

IDK.

Oh, I almost never go far from a major metro. I can buy anything I forget, generally a replacement is less than 10 minutes by car at most, and usually less than 5 minutes walking.

There’s just something satisfying about the SO going “darn, I forgot my brush/comb/usb charger/phone cable/toothbrush/whatever” and within seconds I produce one for them.

I don’t usually travel by plane so checking bags isn’t usually a concern.

I’m usually a night-before kind of packer. But I usually over-pack and over-prepare. I’ll bring everything from sunscreen, to rain coats, extras of every piece of apparel, even extra toiletries when I can.

I go from being totally unprepared two days prior, to basically ready to go on a month-long trip for a week vacation, in less than 4 hours.

Renewed scrutiny huh?

I want to know why the scrutiny needed to be renewed. Why did scrutiny diminish under these kinds of allegations?

I can see from the comments something about this being affected by him becoming president, and I’m left here thinking, shouldn’t the FBI/CIA/enforcement agencies, be able to operate without the president getting all up in their business?

That’s just sad, honestly. I won’t assume Trump is guilty until he is convicted of the crime, but there should be nothing that can prevent law enforcement from fully investigating what happened and providing justice for that girl.

The fact that this is a headline at all is pretty dark.

I believe you just described cognitive behavioral therapy.

I think we need a community just for this guys work. He’s brilliant.

Welcome to the internet.

Have a look around.

This has never been forbidden.

Hey, could you kindly shut the hell up?

I already feel old. You don’t have to rub salt in the wound.

Can we talk about the willenium now?

Hey now, there’s nothing wrong with star trek.

Niche communities… Sure.

Funny enough, from some of the replies I get to my posts, some of them relating to us politics, I can only assume that people either don’t notice or don’t care about what instance I’m connected to.

It’s a fun game… At least, I’m entertained by it.