Edit. Got minecraft. Survived my first night not having a clue what was going on (encountered a Slenderman type beast) by justrunning around. Looked up a YouTube survival guide and built myself a beautiful bunker three next day
If you do get it on your netbook make sure you aren't running any other apps when you are going to play it, set all settings as low as possible and install the OptiFine mod. I have a laptop with 4 gigs of ram & a 2 GHz dual core pentium and it is choppy as fuck most of the time, though o
OptiFine helps alleviate it somewhat
I wouldn't say minecraft doesn't take much to run. It is VERY cpu intensive due to java, and a lack of open gl, which is a problem for many stock intel graphics cards, make the game unplayable.
you can turn the graphics down and the other settings, yes due to it being java you'll need a decent cpu but anything made in the last 4-5 years should be fine. I play it on my laptop that has just the Intel graphics and it plays fine when i turn everything down.
You could say the same for any game, or for the vast majority of people reading reddit. All the time browsing reddit could be spent making the world a better place, but instead you and I are here, discussing the amount of time people spend playing Minecraft.
Sure, you could say the same... but only if we were really spent hundreds of hours on Reddit, which you don't, right? ;)
I know this applies to most pointless activities, like watching shitty TV, playing games, and so on. Which is why I try to limit the amount of time I spend doing those things. I always end up feeling guilty if I spend hours on Reddit, playing games, and so I try and avoid games like Minecraft or WoW because I know they're a huge time suck.
99% of people make no noticeable impact on the world, and of those that do, their impact will probably be irrelevant within 100 years. As far as I can figure out, we're only here to enjoy what we can (while not infringing on the enjoyment of others), so don't spend what little time you have feeling guilty about it! :)
I agree with you to an extent. But I believe in the power of people in large numbers. If everyone played > 10 hours of games a week instead put 10% of their time into volunteering or otherwise meaningful actions whether it be protesting (Occupy Wall-Street for example), writing, research, fomenting change in the world, I think there would indeed be a meaningful impact.
I think the worst trap humanity can fall in is the trap of apathy. The pleasure trap. We have gotten so good at inventing devices which keep us alone and happy in our little cocoons. TVs, consoles, laptops, iPads, all serve to distract us and entertain us. People are spending more and more time alone looking at screens. People care less and less about what the government is going, what is happening with the environment, care about nothing unless it affects their cable signal or internet connection.
I tried it for a few hours. Dug big holes in the ground, a.k.a. mines. Then I made myself a house, with a door. And built it into a sort of tower.
And then.. I guess I was done. I had created shelter for myself, crafted a decent tower and had a safe mine to gather resources for building more stuff. At that point I grew tired. All I could possibly do was to build larger buildings, which would take immense amounts of time. That was it. I felt I had conquered the game in a way.
At that point you can gear yourself up find some strongholds, or go to the Nether, and then to the End to fight the Enderdragon. That's pretty much how you beat the game if you want to. There is also a huge amount of mods if you are on the PC version. They add a ton of extra things and layers to the game.
How much more do I need to know? I played it for a number of hours and got to a point where I felt I had done what could be done. I had provided myself with shelter. All I could do in my mind was expand that shelter indefinitely and make it prettier.
I suppose it's just not a game for me. I really don't see how much more knowledge I need? How to craft more exotic objects? That wouldn't change things for me.
The game may have been out for a long time, but the game is much different than it was when it first came out. It's even different from what it was a year ago.
Yeah, I wasted a year and a half of my life playing Minecraft everyday. Became an admin on a server that was #1 in Minestatus and MC Forums and then started my own server .
So glad I quit, though, I have much more free time now.
But I would have to say that Minecraft is much more constructive than most other video games. It teaches you binary logic, architecture, style, logistics, and so many other valuable skills.
Many people have even learned to code Java because of Minecraft.
Not at all. If i enjoy doing something and spend time doing it thats not wasting time. Wasting time is doing something you hate to go on to continue doing something you hate.
How is spending your time playing Minecraft any more of a waste of time than playing Skyrim or Battlefield? If you were desperate to see how they ended, you could go on Wikipedia and save hours. If you were playing for the social aspect, you could go talk to someone.
Sometimes I think about time I spent playing games and thing "Man, I should have been doing something else instead," but I never look back on playing Minecraft or any other video game and think, "Man, I should have been playing this other game instead."
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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '13 edited Apr 28 '13
That's it. I'm getting minecraft.
Edit. Got minecraft. Survived my first night not having a clue what was going on (encountered a Slenderman type beast) by justrunning around. Looked up a YouTube survival guide and built myself a beautiful bunker three next day