Re: Minecraft: Makes children sex slaves and destroys our economy!
I apologize for being gone so long, i have spend a lot of time on the Galilean moons project me and my friends are doing. As I am an avid minecrafter myself, i felt a need to comment on this.
I have never heard of a gamemode such as this but there is another universe (I don't like using the word dimension for this, its definition is better used in other ways) you can visit called the nether, a popular nickname for it is hell. While you can escape it (go back through the portal you took to get there), its not exactly a desirable place to be. Its filled with lava and the only real source of food there are various mushrooms, agriculture is impossible there (water evaporates immediately). The nether is also filled with enemies that can kill you easily. There are hordes of zombie pigmen that can kill you very quickly if you provoke them, giant flying jellyfish things called ghasts that shot fireballs at you (if one hits your portal, it becomes inactive, stranding you there until you activate it again which is hard), blazes, living collums of fire that also fly and spit fireballs, and lastly, wither skeletons that poison you. There are very few resources in the nether so i would not think the trip is worth it.
Nowhere does it suggest genetic manipulation. The blocky nature of the animals is supposed to go along with the blocky nature of the world. Curved surfaces make it trickier to fit things together but cubes always fit. And you can tell that the creature there is a pig, not a genetically manipulated mutant. Looking at the picture, it seems the player has two hearts left and is about to kill the pig so they can eat. But there is very little graphic violence in the game, upon death, the pig flips over, disappears, and a raw porkchop appears where the pig was.
Playing on minecraft for more than a year, i have never seen or heard of something like that happening. You also seem to not understand what the term griefing is. Griefing is the willful and excessive destruction of a players creation by another player, thats it, nothing creepy. It is not considered griefing if the player simply blows a hole in a wall to steal stuff (this is called raiding), it becomes griefing when just for fun, the player blows out other walls and sets it on fire. Curse words may fly aroud some minecraft servers but there are many servers that have screens that delete fowl language.
Do you see the little 0.24 at the top of the screen, this indicates that this is when the program was in its alpha testing. The thing you see before you is a creeper (the gray design was replaced with green) and it does not resemble anything like what you said. It is the most famous creature in minecraft due to their silent approach and their tendency to destroy your stuff (they explode)
The object the player is holding in his hand is a pickaxe, a diamond one at that. A pickaxe is basically essential to minecraft play as it is needed for mining various things, like stone or coal or iron. His creation appears to have taken a lot of time (by my estimation, at least 9 hours of game play)
You must be joking. The traditional American way is hardy individualists who conquered the wild west. Did the pioneers go to wallmart when they needed food, no, they got it themselves. Minecraft teaches many important lessons, such as conservation. After a long day of mining ore and fighting zombies, you realize your tools are beaking away and you need more wood. But then you realize that the forests keep getting farther away as you cut them down. You then come to the conclusion that you need to start planing your own trees so you can continue to live. It also increases spacial awareness in kids who play it and it helps them learn about engineering. Kids can build anything they want, even a church if they want to.
This is a texture pack, a player designed and installed system where the appearance of the blocks change. The carved pumpkins are likely flowers or ferns and the growing pumpkins are likely potatoes or carrots.
I apologize for being gone so long, i have spend a lot of time on the Galilean moons project me and my friends are doing. As I am an avid minecrafter myself, i felt a need to comment on this.
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