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Thanks guys. Nice collection Pablo. I haven't listened to all of them, but I have yet to come across a dubstep track I disliked. :smile.gif:

Quote from CosmicSpore

So many problems with this post.... So many.

I'll address a few.
1. People didn't work differently back then. People have always worked the same way. Some people believe what they are told, some do not. Not everyone works the same way, but people in general have always worked that way.

2. You can't "know" that there is no God... and your 'absence of evidence is evidence of absence' is simply illogical. It's a fallacy that has been used over and over again on this forum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance#Distinguishing_absence_of_evidence_from_evidence_of_absence

3. I'm on a philosophical roll today, so...
- Socrates

Believing is something without evidence is an illogical belief.
Not believing something with evidence is an illogical disbelief.
Believing in something with evidence is a logical belief.
Not believing in something without evidence is a logical disbelief.

Catch my drift Confucius? :smile.gif:

Quote from Soulfox

Is there something wrong with illogical beliefs so long as the believer realizes they are illogical?

Short answer "yes".

Question: Do you care if what you believe is true?

Quote from moklon

*Pointless thread*

Did u really have to make a new thread to say this, and besides, notch doesn't really read the forums

Quote from minecraft.net »

Minecraft forums (Official forums, Notch reads these)

You lose.

dubstep.... well ok

*warning massive ****ing dump*

for those who do not know what dubstep is. Yea, dubstep is awesome, especially on my 40w 2.1 speakers.

also this

Erm, is this dubstep?

If so, then I also love it :smile.gif:

It's well known (sorta), but just in case you haven't heard it yet.

Quote from The_Questioner

The first sentence, on the first page, in the first chapter of the big book of philosophy is as follows: "You cannot have a debate about God, because you can not prove he exists, nor can you prove that he does not."

You cannot have a debate about God, you can have a ****-flinging competition, but not a debate.

With that said: continue flinging ****.

I disagree with this. In claiming a God exists, you are creating a fictional character with zero base for it's existence. It would be like me saying there's a pink elephant inside my closet, but it's only tangible and visible when no one besides me can sense it. Yeah, you can't disprove God, but you don't need to. There's a point where logic and reason draw the fine line and this is one of those.

You will most probably need to just move the portal (break and take the blocks move then about 100 blocks away)

otherwise just take loads of sand and place them so they fall into the lava until some shows through and jump on that then make a bridge to saftey :biggrin.gif:

Hello, Minecraft Forums. Long time listener, first time caller. I have a question about Minecraft.

Now, before you reply by saying "your question has already been answered in another thread", let me preemptively retort by saying screw you for not leading me by the hand to that thread, feeding me cookies and milk while I read the thread, explaining all the really big words to me in a language even iPad grannies could understand, and giving me a shoulder to cry on when those solutions still don't answer my highly specific problem as it pertains to the stuttering dung-box I cobbled together, using parts fished from Best Buy's dumpster. You are a poor, poor excuse for unpaid hobbyists, and your unwillingness to baby-step an obnoxious noob through the world of Java on command is why you will all die alone in a syphilis ward.

Sorry if that seemed rude, but my tech issues with a video game warrant this bit of lashing out, as I'm sure you'll agree.

So as the philosopher Will Smith once said, "OK, here's the situation". A couple of days ago, I paid $20 for this "Minecraft" game that the engineers at work won't shut up about. Online reviews and other internet forums promised me a never-ending sandbox adventure, filled to the brim with DIY fun and innovative game play, so I decided to get in on this action. Being no stranger to trading my baby daughter's formula money for digital thrills, I was a little confused when the site wouldn't accept my Nintendo Points Card as sufficient payment. Strike one, "Notch".

Payment rendered and processed, and I'm ready to go. Upon clicking the "download" button, I was immediately plunged into cushion-punching rage when Java leaps out of my DVD-ROM drive, says something very unflattering about my Task Manager's ugliness, poor fashion sense and nocturnal dealings with hobos, and then proceeds to pantomime said habits - using my motherboard as the hobo. It took me 3 Google searches, 7 forum topics and 2 Yahoo Answers to find out that I needed a Java update. Afterwards, Java kept its insults to tame "yo momma" jokes, which my Task Manager still wasn't crazy about, but it coped.

Okay, so now I can finally see the title screen. "MINECRAFT - WOOO! FUNNY YELLOW TEXT!" I click to start the game, and it starts innocently enough with blocky hills and blocky sheep. I go punch some sand, and suddenly my screen freezes, all hell breaks loose, and I hate you all for not telling me why before I even asked you. My RAM begins vomiting on my CPU fan, my hard drive is sending the complete works of Shakespeare to its buddy in Hong Kong using Morse code, and my video card starts constructing a noose from one of my unused power cables. My Task Manager tells me, in a timid and weep-quivered voice, that every available resource is crammed to capacity (I think it wanted to do a Scotty "I'm givin' 'er all she's go' Cap'n!" impression, but, y'know, the whole Java incident from earlier). 6 Google searches, 15 forum topics and 4 phone calls to my engineer buddies later, and the consensus seems to be that my computer needs to be optimized.

Now, I don't know programming so well, and I couldn't tell you the difference between Javascript and a screenplay about Juan Valdez, but I'm pretty sure that a $20 program that takes up 50MB of space, should not require me to defrag my hard drive, shut down processes, run de-gunk software, install a game booster, tweak my video card, attach a leaf blower to my GPU fan, forage more RAM out of Best Buy's dumpster, pump Ex-Lax into the IDE controller, take my computer to a monster truck show and give my life to Christ, just so I can play this cobbled-together mess of what I assume is the worst code ever constructed since Dan Brown's therapist suggested novels as an outlet for his daddy issues. If "Notch" isn't the collective term for 35 Swedish house cats walking across a room full of keyboards, I for one will be very surprised.

After many long and excruciating minutes of optimization, I fire up Minecraft again - "MINECRAFT - WOOO! REFERENCES!". Start game, blocky landscape, punch sand, and now I have a sand block. Punch another sand block, now I have two. Then, I punch a sheep. The sheep took this personally, grabbed my video card, and commanded it at gunpoint to move at 5 FPS while it called in reinforcements to crash my computer into the stone age - and where, might I ask, is the forum thread where you jaded Einsteins address this? Believe me, I looked - 47 Google searches, 947 forum topics and the personal assistance of Jeff Goldblum and his Vorpal Macbook +5 later, and all I could find was some user-written mods - proof that you guys CAN help, but choose not to. I'm making a Christmas Card List just so I can take all of you off of it.

So, the mods. After doing my very best to understand and follow a cryptic list of instructions written in illiterate nerd-speak, featuring such gems as "open this folder" and "please, for the love of all that is good and holy, do NOT forgot to delete this file", I manage to install something called Optimine. Notch sensed a disturbance in the Force, and responded by releasing an update almost immediately afterwards. This required me to spend long, agonizing hours waiting for mod updates. In a search for distraction, I stooped so low as to play Civilization IV, Toribash, Painkiller, Warlords III, Portal, Puzzle Pirates, and finally, with my own infant daughter. Finally, the update came out (about TIME, people - I paid almost $20 whole AMERICAN dollars for this game, where's the doggone customer service???), and I repeated the impossibly complex instructions from earlier. The result - now I can play for about 10 minutes before the sheep draws steel on my processor. At this point, I am convinced that Notch is this generation's Nigerian royalty, and that all these technical issues are just a complex scheme to distract me for 7 days and keep my $20. A REAL programmer would abandon their meatspace lives to fix this issue, and stop hiding behind excuses like "beta" and "known issues with Java" and "we're working on it, no really, here's pictures of us working on it".

After all of this, I am starting to get very very annoyed. I'm sick of this community's refusal to stand idly by as a man they don't know is having grief with a video game. I'm tired of being outwitted by a roomful of cats, snickering at me from their evil fortress in Sweden. But I won't let you win, Internet. I am determined to find some joy in this purchase, and so I will keep playing this hunk of tangled code and broken promises in ten-minute increments until I die of a burst blood vessel. And I hope that my experience has encouraged you lazy jerks to finally give people the help that they ask you so nicely for, the first time they offer it, in simple language and without being a bunch of sarcastic trolls, or else face the wrath of a class-action lawsuit, served by a gorilla in a Mad Max costume.

So, now that I've explained my frustration, here's my question:

How come most of the recipes have a 3X3 grid, but I only have a 2X2 grid in my inventory?