i'm moving
i'm moving and i truly cannot wait to be in my new place. my current place has like 2sqft of counter top space and granted this is partly because the other 2sqft are taken by my airfryer but she's my babygirl and i am not going to live without her. her counter top space is non-negotiable.
but anyway i've been anxiously awaiting moving and i've basically done nothing but sit around when i'm not at work because it's like. Well i'm moving. and then that made me think like damn. it feels so weird and stupid that i am basically unable to do other things without it feeling weird cuz it's like, well i'm moving so why can't i just do that now? why can't i just like pick up my couch between my two loving arms (not strong enough for a couch) and take it to my new place and be done with it?
i feel like i, and probably a lot of other people, have spent and will spend a lot of my life just waiting for something. the next episode, this new game, etc. unrelated to that but related to the house thing, i also had the realisation that this is like my 11th (? 10th?) move in the last 10 years LOL. kind of sucks to be honest but i do think the places i have been living in have been trending upwards in the "me likey" except for the dips in quality attributed to dorm living. there are a lot of straight men who are not house trained.
wait. back to the other thing. i think i was doing something right from between like grades 5-10 because i basically played almost nothing but minecraft (and some other games obviously but mainly minecraft) for that entire span of time. hop onto the computer, get on skype, play minecraft from the time i get home from school to the time i go to bed.
^ that paragraph is the part where you clap at how fucking awesome i segued between topics btw. like it's kind of insane to be frank. anyway continuing
minecraft
now there seems to be a culture, especially attached to minecraft, of playing obsessively for a week or two with friends before dropping it suddenly and being done with that world for essentially ever. why? did minecraft change? did i (or we) change? did society change? get that joker png out of your brain right now i'm not joking. this is serious. it's minecraft discussion time.
in the context of minecraft, i think it has definitely changed. minecraft has, invariably, become less of a sandbox and more of an objective based game in both the way updates have changed it and the way the culture around it has changed; not to say that minecraft is not still a sandbox, but it has now added an additional focus to objectives and progression and adventure - things which are to be achieved or discovered.
the obvious big goal is the ender dragon. there is a large goal of killing the ender dragon. to do this, you'll generally follow the same route of progression: get tools (wood->stone->iron->diamond), go to the nether, find a fortress, get blaze rods, kill endermen, get eyes of ender, go to the end, kill the dragon.
at first, this was the only real goal, but this has gradually evolved; the wither, end cities, elytra, netherite, and so on. with adventure, there's a lot more structures and things to be found now than there were before; in beta, there was just the little box dungeons, and that was it. now, there's a whole load of very varied biomes, there's structures like pyramids and strongholds and mineshafts, and things to find.
i would argue that the biggest difference between old minecraft and current minecraft is this: now, there's a lot that you can achieve and find and a good amount of fun to be had without actually building anything more than a little shack.
in my eyes, minecraft was once a game about building, and the crafting and mining was more of a palate cleanser or something to basically make it so you're not JUST building. now, minecraft feels more like a game about adventure.
i do want to make it clear that i don't think there's anything wrong with new minecraft. it has its merits, obviously, and clearly would not be as insanely successful as it continues to be if it wasn't fun. but i do think that it's different, almost to the point of being incomparible to its early versions.
all of this is to say, i want to play some minecraft beta 1.7.3 and take in the unpolished textures and the saturated green grass and have some fun, and i think that i will sometime. after i have moved.
can you talk about something other than minecraft
sorry (<= LIE) okay. i played dawntrail and it was fun. i hope that they make job identity better and i hope they rework summoner and/or scholar because i love their aesthetics but scholar is unfun because it has 8 trillion buttons and summoner is unfun because you have 2 buttons. please... let the tome lovers have a win.
that's pretty much all i have to say this time. it has been a while since my last post because i had a lot of moving on the brain and not much interesting to say about it. hope you enjoyed my completely insane rambling, and thank you for reading!