Clearly you don't go to the right book clubs.

I thought of this exactly. Well played!

It's weird how people have different tastes in things.

I assume by "other people" he means people who know anything about gaming culture, and those with advanced degrees in the social sciences.

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That's not what I'm trying to say at all, though I'm not going to have a discussion with you about what somebody else is "clearly talking about" when he's already involved in the conversation.

It was considered fun at the time of its release, and was quite popular; now it seems really archaic because, well...it is. But Donkey Kong was the world's second game of the platform genre, only after 1980's much-less-well-known Space Panic - and it's the FIRST platform game if you consider jumping to be one of the…

I started playing somewhere around 1.5 or 1.6, and never encountered any of what you're talking about, so I can't really comment, sorry! It's always been very stable for me, with just very mild weirdness on a rare occasion. Perhaps I'll have more expectations once it's out of Beta.

Some of them I'm aware of, most of them are truly mild and I've never thought about or encountered. While Minecraft (a beta, remember) has bugs, it is not a truly buggy game.

Shh, don't be scared. It will replace your old, lackluster life with an awesome new block-based life.

...not very?

"Amo ergo snarkum." -Rene Descartes

Thanks! And belated congrats on, y'know, not being a non-parent!

So to clarify your point further: you imagine a strong positive correlation between two distributions, one of intelligence (IQ is always set in a normal distribution), and the other the differential ability to process plot twists. I assume you accept that the mean of IQ is 100, since that's the definition, and you…

What would I do without you?

God, Jesus, you are the worst at spoiling things. I mean, in your Book, you already revealed that you're going to judge me from the Book of Names at the End of All Time. Don't you think I could've just gotten to that on my own!? And now this!?

So to summarize:

My understanding is that Mojang is selling every ticket at a loss. That may not change the value proposition of an individual deciding whether to go or not, but frankly, if you've ever gone to a con, you know that the ticket price is only a small part of it. The total trip cost between $55 PAX and $99 Minecon is…

What's so ridiculous about going to a big event in an awesome place to hang out with like-minded people in a community that's important to you?

Non-parents talking about parenting does tend to show a certain...failure of imagination.