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thanks scoob

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Minecraft is two different games
 
the first is the first few hours of gameplay, when you don't know how everything works and creepers are terrifying is an adventure-horror game, and the second game starts when you load up the wiki and start building something big, which is a lego simulator

I need to code a server mod that makes things uphill both ways.

*clears throat*

*clears throat*

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While I can't say if the game is better or worse than what it was in Alpha, I can say I had a much more enjoyable experience back in the Alpha days. Maybe that could be chalked up to nostalgia, but personally, I think it was because how the game was more or less a mystery to us. Digging out that first diamond was something to remember, the fear of the dark was bigger, the threat of dying made sure you knew where your house was if you died, digging out a hole in the wall to look for coal was the ideal way to spend the first night, dungeons seemed like an impossible task, and so on so forth.
 
Nowadays? We know all the little details of the game, and the ideal way of going about our survival. Charcoal and beds have diminished the threat of night, and we know the ideal way of finding diamonds. The difficulty doesn't scale well, and the mobs require additional bonus's in order to be threatening. Stacking foods has made it easier to recover health, and potions give you an inmate advantage over the rest of the game, and other players, if in a multiplayer server. People use mods to try and replicate the feeling of the unknown, but with not all too much success, depending on the user and the mod. 
 
This is all my opinion, and your free to your own, but this is really the main reason I can't find that much enjoyment in Minecraft anymore.

Hunger is pointless once you've set up a home and everything. There are so many food items that dying from starvation or low health because of starvation seem utterly stupid. Also, I could travel to the edge of the Minecraft map and never run out of food, because I can just slaughter every cow, pig and chicken I see. Pass through a jungle or two and you get melons with ease. Villages have wheat, carrots and potatoes, yet more easy food. It's only ever an issue to new players who don't know how to deal with hunger.
 
Potions are needlessly hard to acquire but have a nasty habit of screwing up the already iffy Minecraft PvP side of things. Nether fortresses are a nice addition to an otherwise boring Nether but unless you know that they spawn regularly mainly in the Z coordinate, you could spend forever looking and never finding one, and even then you need to hope there's a Blaze Spawner and a nether farm there. PvP in Minecraft was always rather one-sided, whoever has the best enchantments wins, but potions mean you can just spam instant harming II or instant healing II and that's it.
 
To go off on a tangent, I HATE the MCMMO plugin. On a server with PvP matches in which everyone gets the same equipment, someone with a high MCMMO skill can instantly kill other players, no matter what armour they wear or what enchantments they have on their weapons. Higher ranks also introduce effects that are completely overpowered, like blanking out your entire screen with the nether portal effect for 10 seconds or poisoning you or giving you enchantment effects without the need of enchanting your weapons.

Too soon, man.

Little Cock of Horrors

Nu hat get! Couldn't afford any of the Brims on sale, so I settled for a Slouch. Think my friend will like it, Blizzardy looks nice IMO.
 

 
 
Especially if you do this:
 

Even if the founding fathers used Christian principals when they came up with the laws doesn't mean we should necessarily continue in that. Would you rather we still lived in a world where women don't have the right to vote?

I'd say that "we should do this because some guys 200 years ago wanted it that way" is a very silly argument

I don't think that's what he meant-I think he was talking more about how we can't know what exactly they were attempting to do when they made the laws, or at least what the spirit of the laws originally were.  That's a big part of the whole second amendment debate-there's multiple ways of interpreting it, and due to the fact that technology's advanced so much in the two centuries since, it's incredibly vague about what it does/should mean.