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SHOAH NUFF posted:What is it about the game that helped your son and those refugees? Just curious It's empowering to the player, giving them the ability to create unlike any other game.
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SHOAH NUFF posted:What is it about the game that helped your son and those refugees? Just curious Obviously not scientific, but he had a lot of issues interacting with other children, exhibited depression and anxiety symptoms. Minecraft allowed him to control interactions with other kids, and express an interest that they were also interested in without fear of reprisal or being ostracized. Also being able to control things and some escapism as well. Obviously lots more involved but that's the gist of it for the trump thread :-)
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It's the first virtual world immersive enough and full of enough variety and controllability to while playing make it seem absolutely not a stretch that other computing technologies are about to make huge re-configurations and changes to actual reality soon. Obviously replacing reality and the status-quo is good for hope. The unusually good immersion is attained through huge 3D maps you maintain in year head as you play and try and make sense of things, especially when you start investing in building your own stuff and making changes. boner confessor posted:minecraft is just digital legos, it's simple to understand the rules but has enough depth to be interesting and is a decent sandbox for children to be creative and play since you can't troll kids too hard using it (knock over their sandcastle and say mean things via text but no voice chat or ability to follow and harass a player continually) This, unfortunately, is not the case. It is incredibly easy and common for someone to log on to a map they've never been to, fully erase or ruin something that a kid spent days or weeks constructing, and then log off, with no repercussions and usually no backups in place. Also trivial and common to follow someone around on a map they've invested hours in, while harassing them on chat. So you have to be careful about multiplayer. Happy Thread fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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hanales posted:Obviously not scientific, but he had a lot of issues interacting with other children, exhibited depression and anxiety symptoms. Minecraft allowed him to control interactions with other kids, and express an interest that they were also interested in without fear of reprisal or being ostracized. Also being able to control things and some escapism as well. That's really cool
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BardoTheConsumer posted:2024. Possibly much longer. He's old and in terrible shape, and he's constantly being told he sucks. That's terrible for a narcissist. There's a solid chance he just dies, or the stress accelerates his family tendency toward dementia. Old people die, even rich ones.
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Trump might be expecting more than he's going to get out of Rubio, Cotton and the like, if he's wanting to see a big fight. Here's what Cotton said today to lizardperson and radio host Hugh Hewett:quote:HH: The, and I, by the way, I have no idea what he’s going to testify to. He could very well end up supporting President Trump. He could end up being a critic of the President. It doesn’t matter to me. I just want it to be consistent. Not exactly fightin' words. Cotton also indicated that he, personally, hadn't seen evidence of the memos. Hard to tear into a guy when you don't know what cards he might be holding.
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Mulva posted:He's old and in terrible shape, and he's constantly being told he sucks. That's terrible for a narcissist. There's a solid chance he just dies, or the stress accelerates his family tendency toward dementia. Old people die, even rich ones.
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farraday posted:https://twitter.com/CNN/status/872173614581383168  this is a Happy Post thank you.Al Borland Corp. posted:Somewhere Notch shouts "NO! I never wanted to help THESE PEOPLE!" And this just makes it better.
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boner confessor posted:minecraft is just digital legos, it's simple to understand the rules but has enough depth to be interesting and is a decent sandbox for children to be creative and play since you can't troll kids too hard using it (knock over their sandcastle and say mean things via text but no voice chat or ability to follow and harass a player continually) Minecraft always seemed like a really interesting game, but I never got into it. One of these days I should give it a shot. Is it goon approved?
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People aren't paying attention to NJ because that governor election in November is a foregone conclusion, but the Democrat candidate is leading that poll by more than any democrat since 1989.
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/833863025434251264 McMullin MIGHT be my favorite Republican
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Wasn't McMuffin also pretty obviously the leaker of Kevin McCarthy's "Trump paid by Russia" joke?
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-Blackadder- posted:Minecraft always seemed like a really interesting game, but I never got into it. One of these days I should give it a shot. Is it goon approved? Years of lovely games have robbed me of any creativity so I've found it ugly, tedious, and boring. But if you are creative minded and like to build things, it seems like a space in which you can do that to your heart's content. Apparently there is a full scale version of the Ent-D, which kind of blows my mind just imagining the scale and how long that must have taken.
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cult member at airport posted:https://twitter.com/bykowicz/status/872161289900105728 here ya go: https://www.facebook.com/GreatAmericaAlliance/videos/vb.1109620582499338/1237360046392057/?type=2&theater
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-Blackadder- posted:Minecraft always seemed like a really interesting game, but I never got into it. One of these days I should give it a shot. Is it goon approved? It is by far the most influential game of the last decade. It deserves to be played just as much as Star Wars should be watched to understand where games/movies are currently. Try it out and try building a house with a fireplace. Triskelli fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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theflyingorc posted:McMullin MIGHT be my favorite Republican He supports every aspect of Paul Ryan's agenda.
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Triskelli posted:It is by far the most influential game of the last decade. Try it out and try building a house with a fireplace. Out of wood.
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-Blackadder- posted:Minecraft always seemed like a really interesting game, but I never got into it. One of these days I should give it a shot. Is it goon approved? there are probably better clones of it out there that scratch the same itch, by objective standards minecraft is a bad game but being the originator of a subgenre it's insanely popular, doubly so among kids because it has a lot of attributes attractive to them as someone said above though it is a hugely influential and popular game so it's worth playing a bit just from the perspective of game history
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mcmagic posted:He supports every aspect of Paul Ryan's agenda. but not enough to support donald trump, incompetent traitor, as president to implement it
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-Blackadder- posted:Minecraft always seemed like a really interesting game, but I never got into it. One of these days I should give it a shot. Is it goon approved? It's like legos but better.
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-Blackadder- posted:Minecraft always seemed like a really interesting game, but I never got into it. One of these days I should give it a shot. Is it goon approved? It's pass it's use by date. There are many voxel block builders that do more and better in every way that can fill your specific needs. If you want plainest of plain vanilla then Minecraft I guess.
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Triskelli posted:It is by far the most influential game of the last decade. Try it out and try building a house with a fireplace. Make a giant golden bull that poops a constant stream of magma. Ah actually there's my evening taken care of
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eviltastic posted:For instance, the accounts of these memos he allegedly wrote would be at least triple hearsay, what Donald Trump said according to Jim Comey according to someone who saw the memo, according to the New York Times’ reporter who had it read to him, didn’t even read it. What we have is almost certainly an accurate representation of what happened, but we're pretending that the source isn't reliable (that was certainly verified from other sources) because we don't want to believe the president committed Obstruction.
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minecraft and dwarf fortress are the yin and yang of early 2010's indie pc game innovation
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-Blackadder- posted:Minecraft always seemed like a really interesting game, but I never got into it. One of these days I should give it a shot. Is it goon approved? It's a really what you make of it kinda game. I'm not that creative but I find it fun and relaxing just exploring the random worlds in survival mode. It's on just about every platform now including phones so check it out.
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mcmagic posted:He supports every aspect of Paul Ryan's agenda. yeah, but it's kinda like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dojZx82n73U&t=50s he's "third best" boner confessor posted:by objective standards minecraft is a bad game 
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Minecraft is fun. I return to it for like two obsessive weeks once a year. It's best when you make your own goals for yourself, and you can really get in the zone and relax. It's also moddable, though I haven't messed much with that.
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Javes posted:https://twitter.com/JonathanCohn/status/872173900981051394 who was the pick and why are they bad?
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Oh also important, every experience you have in the game is unique just to you and gives you a good story to tell the other kids. This is because the map makes itself using random rules as you travel in any direction, giving you things that no one else has exactly seen before. Billions of things, potentially, depending on how mature the map is.
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-Blackadder- posted:Minecraft always seemed like a really interesting game, but I never got into it. One of these days I should give it a shot. Is it goon approved? Beyond what others have said, check the threads in games, particularly if you want to mess with mods. Some of them are pretty cool and change the game up considerably, but you don't want to try to mix and match and assure compatibility on your own unless you absolutely have to.
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Javes posted:https://twitter.com/JonathanCohn/status/872173900981051394 I can't think of any reason any democratic senator should ever vote for a Trump nominee. No matter who it is.
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Javes posted:https://twitter.com/JonathanCohn/status/872173900981051394 I'm going to need to know who it was and why they were bad before I give even the slightest poo poo about who Trump picked for that office
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mcmagic posted:I can't think of any reason any democratic senator should ever vote for a Trump nominee. No matter who it is. We should figure out... evilweasel posted:who was the pick and why are they bad?
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evilweasel posted:who was the pick and why are they bad? From the previous person to hold the job under Obama: quote:“Courtney is an excellent choice for this demanding position. She is intelligent and level-headed and will be inheriting a highly experienced and dedicated team,” said Caroline Krass, former CIA General Counsel.
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mcmagic posted:I can't think of any reason any democratic senator should ever vote for a Trump nominee. No matter who it is. I can, the government still needs to function for the next 4 years and most offices have at least some necessary power that can't be delegated to an unconfirmed person.
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boner confessor posted:minecraft and dwarf fortress are the yin and yang of early 2010's indie pc game innovation You leave dwarf fortress alone. It doesn't deserve to be tarnished like that.
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boner confessor posted:there are probably better clones of it out there that scratch the same itch, by objective standards minecraft is a bad game This is also completely true. The attention to detail is lacking and technical opportunities to make it look visually more appealing and less blocky were passed up. Problems with gameplay (such as combat, or amount of variety underground, or inability of bots to interact with the map / each other much) that get tiresome if you play for long are not addressed. Terraria is a 2D clone of Minecraft but exactly the opposite in every way; infinitely better execution, better controls, more challenge, and tons more varied content added in via updates since the release. You can download it on your phone for $5 right now and play on the same map as any of your friends who do the same and are on the same WiFi network. To do that is just one button push away from the splash screen. With this type of game as soon as it starts to get boring, start over with a new map and practice speedrunning yourself back to the same status. This gets you more interested in reading about it and speed tricks people have discovered / made videos of. It's also inherently challenging because the world record holders are so far ahead of the pack. Happy Thread fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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