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[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 192 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 153 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 86 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hard agree, fuck him for his dumb views, also I feel like I'm getting some downvotes because of him 🤣

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

I feel like I hadn't heard shit about Notch since Trump's first term. Is this a bad sign

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

I assume he is still transphobic trash.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 99 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Didn't he get all fucked up and miserable from all that money from the sale to MS?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's why his new game is going to suck, on purpose. 😃

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago

So it's going to be AAAA

[–] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

Ten years of early retirement is probably enough time to refuel his interest in creating

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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 85 points 5 months ago (2 children)

His controversy section on wikipedia is fascinating. Is he still a Q believer?

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I was wondering the same when K saw a similar post earlier... Can't find anything about his current views or beliefs.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

His positions have swung around a lot, and apparently he's inclined to depression and moods swings? I hope he's come out of the cult thinking, at least, and making a new game is a sign he's not in that obsessive mindset anymore. I'm not interested in giving him my money, but it'd be better for everyone if he wasn't into conspiracies.

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

That's good to hear, I think. Not all bad.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago
[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 44 points 5 months ago

Notch is a fascist.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, to this day I haven't played a Minecraft clone that left me satisfied so I doubt Mr. Bored Depressed Billionaire over there will manage to capture lighting in a bottle twice...

(And I doubt he's using his free time to learn a new programming language either so it's gonna be Java again god help us all)

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Real talk what's wrong with Java? It's runtime is rock solid at this point and it's a very mature lang with a great ecosystem.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

To be fair I'm being a dickhead.
I'm sure Minecraft's slowness has more to do with how it was built/tech debt and such than Java itself, as the mods that massively boost performance show.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You know why villagers cause so much lag if there's too many and they're allowed to roam free? Well, rather than optimise their pathfinding logic they just... recalculate their paths every goddamn frame. They also take shortcuts in calculating their paths to reduce this overhead, so their movement is derpy and frequently kills them.

You could make the path then record all the blocks they will interact with, and only recalculate if one of those blocks changes. Boom, millions of operations eliminated, and you've got some spare time to make sure the paths will actually work. You could also stagger pathfinding so if a bunch of villagers need a path all at once - like you just blocked a path to where they were all going - you could spread out that load, and prevent lag spikes.

But they don't do that, so people end up sticking them in tiny boxes on top of carpets so they stop trying to pathfind. Just absurd stuff.

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[–] 2ncs@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I believe he has been using JS now so all is good 🙏

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago
[–] missingno@fedia.io 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who's Notch? I thought Hatsune Miku made Minecraft.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 5 months ago

kagamine ren #1

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought there already was a spiritual successor to Minecraft: Vintage Story

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Huh. That looks neat. Any favorite parts you'd like to share?

[–] NOPper@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Friends and I have had servers up for years now. It only looks like Minecraft on the surface, it plays pretty differently beyond placing cubes of stuff down. It's survival focused, so there's cooking and hunting etc. Making in pretty minimal and then you need to smelt the ores down, hammer ingots into what you're crafting voxel by voxel, and climb up the ladder of materials while dealing with more and more complex processes to make better items.

There's seasons that affect crop growth and animal health, and your internal body temp is tracked so if you don't wear warm enough clothing or let it go to tatters you'll freeze to death in winter. If that starts to suck hard enough you can travel thousands of blocks toward the equator and the average temp will go up as you do. There's no biomes like MC, areas are populated based on average seasonal temps and rainfall dynamically. Altitude affects these too.

It's neat.

[–] boringbisexual@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Don't forget about the cosmic horrors. Those are fun too.

[–] dracs@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

WHAT IS VINTAGE STORY? https://youtu.be/HbUKmXhDuZg

Love the game!

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I haven't played it, I've only seen clips on YouTube.

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Notch has a track record of announcing things he wouldnt add

I am still waiting for fortress mode to be added to Minecraft, for the planned dlc and for the game to be licensed under an open source license

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago

Don't forget the story mode he said they're be adding.

[–] Earflap@reddthat.com 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 5 points 5 months ago

Did they ever actually specify what they meant with that promise?

I mean, datapacks ARE a modding API. Not the kind we would have liked to see, but if a modding api is all they promised, then they did deliver on that.
It's called data-driven modding, and not exactly a rare approach among official modding APIs.

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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yes, the DLC we were promised for life for buying it during alpha.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We already have Dragon Quest Builders.

[–] MotorCade93@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

The superior game and it already has a sequel!

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I eagerly look forward to not playing it.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago

Okay, but haven't we already had this in the form of [ Insert Failed Game Here ] or Luanti?

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

There's no Infiniminer 2 for him to crib ideas from though so hows that gonna work

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Note it says work on, not finish.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

He still never finished Minecraft.

At this point, he should just rehire Jen's to do it again.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 15 points 5 months ago

Sounds like he finally ran out of that Microsoft money.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 15 points 5 months ago

We have that. Its the mods on top of Minecraft. Nothing made will ever come close to those.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully it will be a banger like the first!

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What a Lemmy moment. A positive comment of a person excited about a new game getting a negative vote score.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

The site can be fun sometimes. ;p

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[–] style99@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure Terraria already exists.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Only white people will be allowed to play.

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