Minecraft is a game with a lot going for it. I, however, am going away from it. Building blocks as a world is a powerful concept, and the complexity behind the facade of simple graphics is endearing. However, it's an incredibly (spoiler alert) unfinished friggin timesink.
Yes, I knew that at the outset, and I knew it was in beta, but having large creations disappear for no reason is tiring. So I've learned a few things about building and planning, and I've learned to fear the hissing noise a creeper makes. If someone makes that little Death-Gumby SssSss while I'm napping, I will scream for a few minutes at least.
On top of a deeply entrenched fear of the sun setting, I now fear that the good people at Google have forgotten about my blog for longer than I did since the last post. It's been a solid month since they added any of my content to search results. Seriously though, it's a free service. They've now directed over 10,000 unique viewers to me, and paid me for it so I guess I'll cut them some slack.Here, have some randomly assorted pictures of neat things that have nothing to do with minecraft:
Off I go to monkey around on Rosetta Stone. I've got 14 languages up to advanced level waiting in there, and by Jove that's enough to fill up the rest of my brains I bet.
Minecraft's Adventure Update has been released, after a long time of development (that was definitely worth it!). The combat looks a lot better, you can run, you have a food bar (showing when you need more food) and there's a new monster. There are also new NPC towns! And some other new places as well. Quite a few new things other than this - go ahead and see this to find out more:
