Minecraft
 

My kids play that game and I just don't get it. They have every fucking game available on every game system available, but they sit there and play Minecraft for hours and hours on end. Am I missing something because that shit looks like it should have came free with your purchase of a new Commodore 64. Back in 1982.

This has been debated on GFY few months ago. People were talking about nostalgia, but what nostalgia would kids have.
I will try to find that thread.

Found it quickly: https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1135626

Thanks. :thumbsup

No problem, broski :)

Mine are young. 4,5 and 6

They have Minecraft on their tablets, old laptops and they even hound me to play HD modded versions of the game on my desktop. They only "instruction" they've gotten on the game was via YouTube videos.

The stuff they've built is pretty nuts,

It's incredible it's the best selling pc game in history. 16 million copies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...lling_PC_games

No kidding, my two boys love that game, once they played it on xbox now Pc spend hours on that game. I watched and watched and was thinking the same thing, WHAT am I missing? LOL

there are big youtube channels dedicated to minecraft too - it's huge popular and I too don't see the attraction but it's solid.

yeah, I don't get it. When my kid isn't playing minecraft, she's watching the YouTube instructional videos!! for hours!!
:Oh crap

My 8 year old girl builds crazy stuff in that game. Then at school they take turns building ok the same world / level. I think it's good for them. Quite creative stuff.

It's like a virtual lego set, apparently it's a pretty deep game as far as resource management goes and the possibilities are endless, if you can get over the blockiness. Kids have good imagination. Substance over style, it's a great idea.

My boys play Raymont, I do purchase the games, shit like Minecraft I dont buy.

How about becoming a parent and cut that shit out ?

can't get my twins to stop. There's been a study though that the gameplay is quite beneficial to the development of a child's spatial inteligence, so i guess its ok

If it's fun it must be wrong, right?

great advice :thumbsup thanks.

Why? My kids get plenty of sun and exercise. Using your imagination and your brain is just as important.

Well.

I assume being a little more narrative then simply watching what they are doing . . .

Did you read the original post?

"but they sit there and play Minecraft for hours and hours on end" - its a complaint.

I have given the answer to.

Again, letting kids understand what is ENOUGH is a part of your job.

No. But enough is enough at times. Knowing where to stop is a part of growing up into
an adult.

It may not have been. He said he didn't get it--not that it bothered him. And then for you to go off on his parenting? Brilliant :thumbsup Passion breeds success. Maybe there's a future architect/landscape engineer in the making. I'd say encourage, don't curb. But hey, this is a Minecraft thread so....

Minecraft is great in its simplicity. I'm still trying to get the Oculus to work with it. Virtual reality minecraft may be the death of me.

online version of lego.. with a purpose?

I don't get it either, but for $26.95 one time fee, it keeps my kids entertained for hours. We did setup them on the server to have their own world.

This too. We had our youngest son start doing his own instructional Minecraft vids.

Since when Minecraft became a cure for everything? I simply refuse to look at the disgust
of it's visual presentation, and since this is a parental call whether it's "getting it" or "not getting" it's about your being able to control it as a parent.

Tomorrow I'm going with a flow and fuck all day long, I assume I am becoming a new Ron Jeremy.

A friend of mine who is 44 plays and watches streams online.
It's not like occasionally, at times, but every evening he is back from
his computer job.

He defo needs more sun.

I can't say if it's good or bad but I refuse to believe falling into that too deep
would matter today or tomorrow.

The Cloud is sucking our brains out. :helpme

Your kids could be doing much worse things. At least this game is about creativity, and not full of violence.

Try playing it yourself, you may like it. Your kids would probably think you're cool as fuck for playing it with them.

:thumbsup indeed! too many violent cartoons and games.

It's a sandbox. Kids like playing in sandbox, many like creating something much more than playing flashy 'Press X to win' kind of games on consoles.

I'm sorry if i hurt someone's feelings about parenting. I had Carmelo contacting me via skype even to sorta make me miserable about giving advice of cutting the shit to a user named cb1015cb apparently being a CEO of a huge company that would hire me in a blink of an eye ( as he said ) . . .

Come the fuck on, it's gfy.

ya... cut that shit out. get that kid out to the soccer field and into school sports. make sure they become a jock or a cheerleader. this industry is filled with them. in fact, so are most internet companies. they dont have geeks that played video games all night friday and saturday. they dont have geeks that sat around coding up patches, hacks, and their own games. internet companies with multi millionaires are filled with the star football players and water polo heros.


99% are here because we played with computers and video games. video game geeks now rule most the free world and helped design the keyboard you use to be a warrior.

the next generation of geeks will be fucking amazing.

Perhaps you need to learn when it is needed to shut up.

So all the Minecraft players suddenly became a new world domination power, and World Of Warcraft fans, too?
Cutting the shit means being a parent - know where the line is.

I dont mean teen agers but here we have pre-school kids being on a $26/one time fee full time entertainment spree.


I'm thinking about buying a telescope for my kids, get them involved into creating and programming lego robots so they
could understand the connection between virtual and real world.


That is my opinion of course.