Evening Reading

I can only handle a single chapter of Super Meat Boy at a time. I'm not even trying for bandages at this point. Warp Zones are only a cursory concern. I must defeat all of its initial offering before I start attempting bandgage collection and Dark World completion. Man, this game is difficult.

I played a bit of League of Legends for a preview that will be posted in 30 minutes. I really wish I had more time to play games because there are so many great multiplayer games available nowadays.

Gaming News o'the Day

Links from Morning Discussion

From The Chatty
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    October 29, 2010 5:01 PM

    no minecraft thread?

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      October 29, 2010 5:01 PM

      Dong Patrol lets us down yet again.

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        October 29, 2010 5:11 PM

        If he's too busy patroling dongs to even post a thread regularly how can they ever allow gays in the army?

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      October 29, 2010 5:10 PM

      Jesus fuck, go talk to Cain.

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      October 29, 2010 5:13 PM

      When does the fancy new patch drop?

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      October 29, 2010 5:30 PM

      http://www.minersneedcoolshoes.com/

      this is an awesome site!

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        October 29, 2010 5:32 PM

        That's pretty cool!

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        October 29, 2010 5:44 PM

        Holy crap, this (awkwardly) works on my phone

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        October 29, 2010 6:22 PM

        needs layers...but then i think that about any editing app...i'm a total whore for nondestructive editing

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      October 29, 2010 5:41 PM

      also i'll repost from last night:

      http://rhodox.sidemoon.net/minecraft/hellbrick.png

      Painterly skin for the halloween update

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      October 29, 2010 6:07 PM

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      October 29, 2010 6:13 PM

      let's merge the daily minecraft threads with MFC

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      October 29, 2010 6:24 PM

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        October 29, 2010 6:26 PM

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        October 29, 2010 6:38 PM

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        October 29, 2010 6:42 PM

        really? http://www.minecraft.net/boo/

        Explore a scary new realm: done
        Fight scary new monsters: done
        Experience scarier depths: who knows, but it also sounds like it's just tweaking a variable in a config file, so feasible
        Be scared of the dark: Given how much Notch has talked about this I'd say done
        Catch scary fish: Not started yet
        Scare other players online: This one's vague as fuck, but I doubt he's done anything on it
        Carve scary jack-o-lanterns: If this one isn't done it'll take about 5 minutes
        Keep track of the scary time: No idea, but it's like the compass: it's a player display of a variable that's already coded in. Feasible.
        And more (Biomes, more music, better sounds): Biomes done, music and sounds maybe 50%? Although C418 sounds like he's running late too.

        Honestly I think that Notch can deliver on most of that.

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          October 29, 2010 6:42 PM

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            October 29, 2010 6:50 PM

            How do you know they don't work in MP? Honestly I don't see why they wouldn't

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              October 29, 2010 6:51 PM

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              October 29, 2010 6:53 PM

              From the sounds of it, the code paths for single and multiplayer aren't properly unified like most other codebases we've seen. If he's spent time refactoring the code, it's more likely, but I'd still expect a buggy shitstorm for the next week.

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              October 29, 2010 7:28 PM

              The same reason nothing else works in MP.

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      October 29, 2010 6:53 PM

      fuuu, minecraft.net seems to be down.

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      October 29, 2010 9:13 PM

      A couple informative tweets.

      @notch so the core ceiling will be the unbreakable blocks of the lowest level of the normal world? :-)

      @sblancodiez yep!


      http://twitter.com/sblancodiez/status/29092961615

      So I wonder what that means for the 'holes in the world' where sometimes you can go through the bedrock? Will you fall into the underworld? Will you be able to tunnel up from the underworld into the normal world, if you find one of these holes?

      @notch will it be possible to build a home in the hell/slip ? because ghasts let everything explode.

      @MisanthropX they wont shoot if they can't see you. Just don't have huge rooms, or they could spawn indoors.


      http://twitter.com/MisanthropX/status/29092223672

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      October 29, 2010 9:53 PM

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      October 29, 2010 11:51 PM

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        October 30, 2010 7:05 AM

        I don't play minecraft but that looks 100% badass.

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      October 30, 2010 1:52 AM

      I want that pick axe!

      http://www.shackpics.com/files/picky_opt8crkkzey19k7iklxh.jpg

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        October 30, 2010 6:21 AM

        Wait... was that 'post-productioned' in... or is that something he is physically holding?

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          October 30, 2010 6:36 AM

          Assuming it's papercraft or just cut out of foam. Pretty easy since it's just a 2D extrusion.

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            October 30, 2010 6:37 AM

            I know but... in that picture it's hard to tell if it's real or painted in afterwards. Either way, it's pretty well done.

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      October 30, 2010 2:30 AM

      I'm constructing a Menger's Sponge to soak up all the water on Merc's server! Muhahahahaha!

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        October 30, 2010 2:51 AM

        I didn't know anything about Menger Sponges until you posted. Fucking cool!

        You should definitely flood it with magma upon completion. Or milk. Milk improves everything.

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      October 30, 2010 6:08 AM

      T-How long before everyone starts bitching they can't connected to minecraft.net and the updater isn't working it's released?!

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      October 30, 2010 6:20 AM

      You know what sucks? I don't have a single piece of obsidian in any of my games so I wont be able to check out hell/the slip/the core when the update comes out. :(

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        October 30, 2010 6:28 AM

        Do you have access to lava? It's pretty easy to make obsidian, even if you don't have a diamond pick

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          October 30, 2010 6:36 AM

          You know.. it's funny but for some reason in single player I haven't really hit lava. I even have a branch mine starting at bedrock going up 5 levels and haven't hit the stuff yet. But that's a good point, it's probably quickest just to make the stuff. (And I have plenty of diamonds for picks from mining)

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            October 30, 2010 6:55 AM

            I had the same problem, so I just picked a random direction about 15 up from bedrock (lava fills and cavity below about level 10, so I wanted to be above that) and mined in a straight line. Eventually I hit a natural cavern, with a ton of lava.

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      October 30, 2010 6:56 AM

      We'd all guessed it, but SOUND THE FAILHORN

      _Spang
      @notch What everyone wants to know is the status of Health and damage in survival multiplayer.

      @notch Markus Persson
      @_Spang It won't be in this update.


      http://twitter.com/notch/status/29185033951

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        October 30, 2010 6:58 AM

        also Considering skipping the torch replacement until after the boo update. Running out of time here!

        MWEEEEEERRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH

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        October 30, 2010 7:00 AM

        Shocking development.

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        October 30, 2010 7:02 AM

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        October 30, 2010 7:11 AM

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          October 30, 2010 7:12 AM

          Seriously :(

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          October 30, 2010 7:15 AM

          you guys are all carebear without fire and tnt anyways so who cares. damage wouldn't do much since there aren't many spawn points, he'd have to make them spawn randomly at night too.

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            October 30, 2010 7:19 AM

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            October 30, 2010 7:20 AM

            I can't wait for the server population to go full lemming when fall damage goes in.

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              October 30, 2010 7:45 AM

              haha I totally want a kill-list mod for when damage is live, listing who died from what.

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                October 30, 2010 7:48 AM

                yah i hope he does this... if not I'm sure someone could do a hey0 mod to do it.

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                October 30, 2010 7:50 AM

                That would be awesome. I would make a daily FAILPOST of the top Darwin Award contenders on the server.

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            October 30, 2010 7:25 AM

            damage wouldn't do much since there aren't many spawn points Is this even in English? Does not parse

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              October 30, 2010 7:26 AM

              Oh you think that mobs only spawn at the spawners, lol. No, they spawn everywhere if we turn a certain server variable on. Have you played single player?

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                October 30, 2010 8:04 AM

                oh every server i've been on hasn't had this spawning enabled, just assumed it wasn't in

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            October 30, 2010 8:02 AM

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        October 30, 2010 7:24 AM

        fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... I'd rather have working health and damage than ghasts :(

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          October 30, 2010 7:39 AM

          I think everyone would.

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            October 30, 2010 7:44 AM

            I'm very happy playing single player, sir. And I believe that for a majority of players SP is the priority.

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              October 30, 2010 7:46 AM

              I don't know about majority. And even then it's likely because SP is so much more feature complete than MP right now.

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              October 30, 2010 7:47 AM

              Weird - why?

              With all the $ notch has made I wish he'd hire someone to do the coding bits that he doesn't like :(

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                October 30, 2010 7:49 AM

                Why?

                Look at a world in SMP. Giant smiley faces? Rollercoaster?
                Single Player has a very different feel (alone in a huge world) and is obviously more advanced feature wise.

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                October 30, 2010 7:49 AM

                yah definitely he needs a programer to do all the netcode and get smp feature complete!

              • Ebu legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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                October 30, 2010 7:53 AM

                I certainly would like to see him properly implement multiplayer, but SP is a bigger deal for me.

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                October 30, 2010 8:18 AM

                I'm baffled by the fact that he hired a programmer to work on a different game, when this one is so very, very alpha.

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              October 30, 2010 8:37 AM

              I'm happy playing Single Player, but you've got to admit that when SMP reaches feature parity it'll be an order of magnitude better

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          October 30, 2010 7:43 AM

          Yeah, I'm kinda waiting for mp monster/damange before I spend any more time on this "game".

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        October 30, 2010 7:42 AM

        I am Jack's complete lack of shock

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        October 30, 2010 8:33 AM

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        October 30, 2010 8:48 AM

        Eh, bummer, but not surprised.

        I just hope minecraft.net doesn't crash tonight under the load of everyone trying to download the update.

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          October 30, 2010 8:55 AM

          It won't. Since the last mega crash he's moved the update server to an Amazon S3 account.

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