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    posted a message on Skydoesminecraft stole my account/used on vid.
    Quote from Akynth

    FuriousFajita, here are a few things to consider:

    1. You're not that important. It's pleasant to think that you're such an important person that Sky (whose videos I've never watched, mostly because his fanboys are so annoying, but he is a big deal to many) would want to copy you -- YOU! -- but, really, I seriously doubt if he would want to copy you because of your supreme importance; it's doubtful that he even knows you exist.

    2. Your name is not nearly as obscure as, say, Akynth. He could very well have come it on his own. Likely? Maybe not. But the odds are 175 million to 1 that someone will win Powerball, too ... yet people play anyway. What are the odds that this week's $400 million winner bought their ticket at somewhere I've bought gas? Slim to none? Yet they did. "Improbable" is not "impossible".

    3. That Link skin is also very popular. If he was just picking a skin more or less at random, he could very easily have chosen that one. It's not like there are 175 million of them out there, like there are Powerball combinations -- and yet someone picked those, too.

    Once is chance. Twice is coincidence. It takes three times for it to be enemy action -- and you only have two elements here. If you had actually talked with the guy at some point, for instance, and he knew your name and preferred skin, that might be something. But without any known connection, there is at least a reasonable doubt that he's copying you (what's in it for him?) and a decent probability that, when he picked a name and skin at random, he happened to pick one of the millions that someone has used.

    The question to ask yourself in anything -- whether it's some dude making a video, or a politician making a proposal -- is this: Cui bono? Who benefits? What would be the benefit to Sky in jacking the identity of some random dude he's never met? Anything? Anything at all?

    I don't watch his videos; millions of other people don't either. And of the ones who do, how many are going to remember what name and/or skin he used at some point? Your life is not ruined. Even your MC playing is not ruined. If, as has been said, Sky uses random names so that people don't know who he really is, then if someone shows up on a multiplayer server using a name he's used, anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows that practically by definition, it's not him. So you're not going to have a legion of rabid fanboys hanging on your every word.

    Again, cui bono?

    What's the benefit to him in impersonating you? Anything?

    p.s. Your account has not been hacked. Just because someone dressed up as you -- if he even did -- does not mean he had access to your account or anything else whatsoever about you. He didn't steal your account. He didn't touch your account. Even if he really did see you somewhere and say "wow, FuriousFajita is such an awesome name, and that skin he's using is mind-blowingly wonderful, so I'm going to copy them for my next video" he still didn't steal your account. At the most, he dressed up to look like you. Period. That's a different thing entirely. Your account remains untouched.


    What are you talking about? He's worried that his account was hacked, not that Sky chose his name/skin because he is popular. And this is the Minecraft forums; you're not writing an English paper. Be a bit more informal.
    Posted in: Discussion
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    posted a message on Snapshot 13w22a Ready For Testing!
    Great, you took a week to add a few new sounds and fix a few bugs. You'd think that a game as huge as Minecraft would get a little more content without horribly long periods between updates (not to mention that Mojang has millions of dollars to hire more employees).
    Posted in: Minecraft News
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    posted a message on Horses- what will you do when they are added?
    Ride them.
    Posted in: Future Updates
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    posted a message on Your farm?
    Quote from christhemazta

    Maybe show a legit farm?


    Don't see why this is unbelievable to make in survival. But holy cow, that's a lot of bovines (see what I did there? Hahahaha!... yeah... I'll shut up now)
    Posted in: Survival Mode
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    posted a message on Stairs take too much to craft
    Why is everyone only talking about cobble? You can make stairs out of other things too. The biggest issue in this case is brick, which is rather time consuming to get in large amounts. The non-1:1 ratio for stairs when using brick adds up a ton. And yes, I agree with the OP if you couldn't gather that.
    Posted in: Survival Mode
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    posted a message on Quick suggestion for half slabs
    I think it would be a nice little patch if you could combine half slabs into full blocks again. Sometimes I end up making too many half slabs and I need more regular blocks. Instead of having to get more, I could just use my half slabs to make more in a second. It would be a helpful way to get rid of unneeded slabs and get something back in return.

    Just a small suggestion that I hope can reach the Mineraft team. I doubt it would take a very long time to code the recipes.
    Posted in: Suggestions
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    posted a message on Sand Quarry
    In need of massive amount of sand or sandstone? Want a giant hole in your desert? Sounds like you'd benefit from a sand quarry.

    A sand quarry is, as you might have guessed, a quarry that generates a lot of sand. You'll also get a ton of sandstone, cobblestone and some iron/coal too. It gathers materials very quickly, and once you're done, you can do whatever you want with the giant hole in the ground that's left over.

    What you'll need:

    A desert
    Pickaxes (stone are fine, iron are better of course)
    Shovels
    Torches (you only need a few for the actual quarrying, but bring a lot for light sources)
    Chests, or wood for chests
    Survival gear (food, armor, the works)
    Blocks (if you decide to make walls; you'll have lots of cobblestone from the quarry)

    Head off to the desert. First off, you probably want to set up a base nearby the quarry, with chests and crafting stations. You'll need several large chests to store the quarry yields, and you'll need to craft tools.

    You need a large desert area for this project. I recommend finding a flat area of sand (explained later), but hilly areas work also. Mark a large rectangle in the sand, either by building a wall or digging a rectangle in the sand.



    The outlined area will be your work area. To begin, dig down on an edge until you reach the last level of sandstone. Now, the real technique for this project begins.

    Mine the lowest block in a column next to you. Place a torch in the area where the mined sandstone / stone was, but make sure the torch is connected to another block that you will mine later. Now, mine out the rest of the non-sand blocks above the torch. Once you only have a column of sand left, it will fall onto the torch and break itself. You don't have to mine the sand yourself this way, which is a very fast way of collecting it.



    Now you basically repeat this process until you've mined out the entire area. I recommend mining out the border of the place first, so that you don't quarry outside of the area (since it's hard to see the boundaries when below). The reason that you place torches on other blocks is that when you mine that block, the torch comes off too. You don't have to manually break every torch as if you had put them directly on the ground.

    Also, if you want, mine out any sandstone in the floor if there is any. Place cobblestone in the leftover hole. This also has to do with why I recommended a flat working area. All the sandstone will end at the same depth, so you end up mining less stone. If working with hills, upon reaching a higher area, the sandstone gets shifted up a layer, and that results in you mining more unnecessary stone.

    When you've gotten the whole place dug out, you can leave it as a gaping hole in the ground, or you can decorate it! The quarry serves as a nice base, or you could come up with your own creative idea. I've personally turned one of my sand quarries into a mining base, and it looks quite stylish, I think.



    That's it! Enjoy your surplus of sand / sandstone / cobblestone.



    Tips:

    Light up the bottom of the quarry constantly, as mobs will spawn in it and can be annoying (or deadly) if they come up behind you while mining.

    Make a 2-high wall around the quarry to keep mobs from dropping in. You still have to deal with spiders though.

    Keep some furnaces going with glass smelting in them while mining. I'm assuming that you're quarying to get sand for glass, so to speed things up, smelting while mining is a worthwhile time saver.



    Thanks for reading and I hope you've gotten something useful out of this guide. :)
    Posted in: Survival Mode
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    posted a message on Most useless item?
    I use gravel for roads sometimes, or as flooring for my farms/greenhouses. Dragon Egg is useless, it doesn't even look that good.
    Posted in: Survival Mode
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    posted a message on 5 Million Minecraft Sales, Many More Registered
    Haha, I remember Notch's post on his blog when MC hit 1,000,000 sales. This game really has come a long way.
    Posted in: Minecraft News
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    posted a message on Am i the only one?
    Quote from ChargedCreeper

    Crying over words is a bit weird, especially since its over a video game.


    It's no different than reading a book, and a book has more than enough potential to muster up strong emotions. And so what if it's a video game? It still sends a message that some people might take in deeply.
    Posted in: 1.0 Update Discussion
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