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GoneWithTheTornado posted:Please tell me that is either a not-very-good joke or somebody hacked his account Notch's existence is a not-very-good joke. He spends all his time alienating his friends and moaning about having too much money
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chitoryu12 posted:Today, I heard from the CEO at work that the slaves were better off being enslaved because it got them out of Africa and let their descendants grow up in a first-world country. 
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Tetracube posted:Notch's existence is a not-very-good joke. He spends all his time alienating his friends and moaning about having too much money Look, man, it's just so hard being rich you don't understand. He had to outbid superstars to get that mansion he lives alone in. Do you have any idea what that's like? 
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He also didn't know what AD and BC meant (and didn't actually know how the calendar works) and thought the Hebrew slaves built the Egyptian pyramids. This wouldn't be quite so funny if he didn't have an academically useless theology degree from a religious diploma mill.
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chitoryu12 posted:He also didn't know what AD and BC meant (and didn't actually know how the calendar works) and thought the Hebrew slaves built the Egyptian pyramids. I want to watch a documentary about this person.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:37
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cash crab posted:I want to watch a documentary about this person. As someone who works with him 5 days a week, it can be tiring. He's an old Alabama redneck with an ego bigger than the cranes he used to operate in the 70s. He constantly seems to forget that I'm not a 16-year-old intern.
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chitoryu12 posted:He also didn't know what AD and BC meant (and didn't actually know how the calendar works) and thought the Hebrew slaves built the Egyptian pyramids. Perhaps he is simply a student of the noted historian and documentary film maker Cecill B DeMille. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahkwQhQZWG8
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Mar 2, 2016 02:42
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I wonder if Stephen King will play himself when Roland and that kid travel to his dimension to save him from getting hit by that van. Boy those books got bad.
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Karma Monkey posted:Perhaps he is simply a student of the noted historian and documentary film maker Cecill B DeMille. Why does every boy in 1950s and prior film sound exactly like? Did Eugene Mazzola just play the kid for every Hollywood movie?
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change my name posted:Haha holy poo poo, I had to make sure that was real, and yepppp. I think being a billionaire broke his brain. It's made kinda awkwardly since it's not even a reply to the password tweet but "hunter2" is a reference to the original bash.org quote or whatever that a lot of people probably first saw that on.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:15
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Tetracube posted:
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Garrand posted:It's made kinda awkwardly since it's not even a reply to the password tweet but "hunter2" is a reference to the original bash.org quote or whatever that a lot of people probably first saw that on. I was gonna point that out, but the last time I referenced anything from bash.org I got ragged on  Mak0rz posted:A response to this tweet: At this point, I can't decide which story is sadder: Notch's, or Jack Whittaker's...
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BobbyK posted:I wonder if Stephen King will play himself when Roland and that kid travel to his dimension to save him from getting hit by that van. Boy those books got bad. Yeah, the series jumped the shark big-time right around then.
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Mezzanine posted:At this point, I can't decide which story is sadder: Notch's, or Jack Whittaker's... Notch makes it a lot harder to feel any sympathy for him By this time next year he'll have been caught running around a park naked swinging a sword at ducks and we'll just be like "lol"
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Mezzanine posted:I was gonna point that out, but the last time I referenced anything from bash.org I got ragged on It's really hard to be sympathetic to Notch's story because I've never seen anything said by him that made him not look like an rear end in a top hat.
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NotAnArtist posted:It isn't. It's implied or outright stated (I can't remember, it's been forever since I read the books) that Roland's lineage is Arthurian, which would mean a sort of European ancestry, but neither can I remember his skin being described as white, though it probably was. Either way his race in not an important footnote, and honestly since the choice of actor is so different from what I envisioned I'm more interested than I would be with some Daniel Craig-esque image. Eh, Europe didn't necessarily even exist as a continent in the universe Roland came from (though America did, or at least the Citgo Petroleum Corporation did)
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If they got rid of Susannah's jive-talkin' alter ego entirely, it'd be all for the better. As well as her pregnancy and King's lame attempt to reference Arthurian legend. I don't get people who think Wizard and Glass was the worst book. It had a solid plot and was entertaining. The fifth book was only passable, and it was downhill from there.
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Practical Demon posted:If they got rid of Susannah's jive-talkin' alter ego entirely, it'd be all for the better. As well as her pregnancy and King's lame attempt to reference Arthurian legend. I don't get people who think Wizard and Glass was the worst book. It had a solid plot and was entertaining. The fifth book was only passable, and it was downhill from there. Goddamn Honkey Motherfuckers
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Nuebot posted:It's really hard to be sympathetic to Notch's story because I've never seen anything said by him that made him not look like an rear end in a top hat. Don't get me wrong, I don't have any sympathy for him either. I just imagine that before his windfall, he wasn't exactly a terrible guy or anything, just like Whittaker that I mentioned. They each were suddenly given more wealth than any one single person deserves, and they both couldn't handle it. Maybe their respective jerks were there all along, who knows. All I can take away from either story is that, however enticing a fortune would be, I would rather live a modest life than be handed the golden ticket and immediately gently caress over the happiness of myself and everyone around me. Granted, Notch giving his coworkers the shaft was objectively not as bad as Whittaker giving his 16-year-old granddaughter an unlimited supply of drug money. Mezzanine has a new favorite as of 05:24 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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GoneWithTheTornado posted:Please tell me that is either a not-very-good joke or somebody hacked his account Lest we forget the sort of incredible manchild Notch is:  70 million dollar house. Candy wall.
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Mar 2, 2016 05:26
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Footage of Notch immediately after selling Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm4EdHTqLhQ
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GottaPayDaTrollToll posted:Lest we forget the sort of incredible manchild Notch is: how long do these things last can you even finish all of them by yourself in that time
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GottaPayDaTrollToll posted:70 million dollar house. Candy wall. Please tell me that's a photoshop and an adult man didn't spend actual money on this.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:how long do these things last can you even finish all of them by yourself in that time You've obviously never seen Notch.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:how long do these things last can you even finish all of them by yourself in that time Is there really any doubt that he can and probably has eaten all of that? It's supposed to be for visitors but he doesn't get any of those
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I imagine he just lays there using one of the M&M statues as a bed or something and holds his mouth under the slot while he pours the candy straight into his face.
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Tetracube posted:Is there really any doubt that he can and probably has eaten all of that? I know I'm not the only one who thought that was kind of cool. It's colorful and would be nice to have right outside of a personal theater or arcade. It's just incredibly impractical for anyone that can't afford to hire a guy specifically to take care of his candy wall.
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Mar 2, 2016 06:17
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Yeah just a reminder that this dude is rich as poo poo
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The Saddest Rhino posted:how long do these things last can you even finish all of them by yourself in that time I imagine he only used it once or twice, after the novelty wore off he probably just forgot about it. There are more efficient ways for a billionaire to consume M&M's
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I had a job maintaining those big plastic bins of sweets, chocolates, etc. If they sit for a while unused you find insects in them. Don't know the kind of M&M volume Notch goes through.
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Pocket Billiards posted:I had a job maintaining those big plastic bins of sweets, chocolates, etc. I found a baby grasshopper in a self serve icecream machine. Thanks for listening to my story of bribed safety inspectors!
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Can I read up on this fascinating Notch character anywhere/could someone do a writeup? I played a bit of minecraft right before or after it was released but I don't know anything about the drama around it and it seems like a good story
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I wonder what will happen with his money after he dies. Which is probably soon, so I guess we just wait and see.
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This gem just visited (and possibly liked, but I'm not liking back to find out) my OKCupid profile.quote:My self-summary
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Nuclear War posted:Can I read up on this fascinating Notch character anywhere/could someone do a writeup? I played a bit of minecraft right before or after it was released but I don't know anything about the drama around it and it seems like a good story http://recode.net/2015/08/29/minecraft-billionaire-markus-persson-hates-being-a-billionaire/
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Isn't one of the reasons Notch lost a bunch of friends because he bilked his minecraft developing colleagues (who did a good chunk of the actual work while Notch dicked around with online card games no one cared about) out of a shitload of the microsoft money? I think he was technically entitled to it per the letter of their contracts but he could easily have shared it more equally according to input on the game, but got greedy and decided to keep it all. Then when he had it all to himself and lived in a giant mansion, he finally realised money doesn't buy happiness?
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Mar 2, 2016 08:39
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Mak0rz posted:A response to this tweet: Guy has better self-awareness than this thread.
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Henchman of Santa posted:This gem just visited (and possibly liked, but I'm not liking back to find out) my OKCupid profile. Are all the threads I bookmark just bleeding together now? Am I about to wake up from a coma or something?
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