Reminded me of the extension work I've done with massive buildings in (creative mode) minecraft. Same thing, really, except that I saved one half of the building, deleted it, and then stamped the pre-constructed extension in its place. Followed by stamping the deleted part onto the end.

With legos, wouldn't you have blocks overlapping each in order to create structural stability? (Like when constructing a brickwall.) Unless you're cutting through the overlapping pieces with a saw or something, isn't this process more complex?

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Virtual 3D Printer in Minecraft has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow on that post.

3D Printer inside Minecraft has been added as a related post - related requested by deathcow.

One persistent world kinda makes the whole "procedural" generation pointless. I'm hoping it's more along the Minecraft model of someone being able to have a server with a bunch of people connected to the same randomly generated universe... it's persistent only in that sense of being connected to one server. Someone else can host another server with an entirely different universe.

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He promotes this shameless sequel but shits all over Minecraft

Granted there are no lap dances or missile firing helicopters in the craft. It's tough to ignore instant gratification, I suppose.

give this man minecraft pre-Alpha and let him do this in voxel space...

just kidding.. the reason he is so good at this? his vision is blurry so he sees a smoother image you too, could put some glasses on and try this without a computer or with... interesting

I can't wait until all the kids are like: "Hey cool, it's one of those things from Minecraft!"

Likely that America will breathe out a collective "meh" in a few weeks as their attentions become, once again, waylaid by Twitter, Facebook, XBox, cell phones, Minecraft, Duck Dynasty, VideoSift... It's as if the ability of a society to resist the oppression of its government is inversely proportional to it's advancements in distraction and entertaining itself.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of citizens of Turkey are risking, and ocassionally paying with, life and limb over a few trees.

It's burning so consistently and spread out. Looks like something out of Minecraft...

So it's got something to do with Minecraft?

Now if only someone could make a Minecraft-DOOM mashup so that I could take out my frustrations on all those creepers....

There was a time when I was excited about the future of gaming. I mean, I'm still excited, but it's taking way longer than it should... When the most exciting game to come out in 10 years is Minecraft (IMHO), that's when I call shit on the entire industry and realize that's just the shitty way that the shitty world works. Things become less awesome the more that everyone gravitates towards said same things. Companies see the money being generated and the only return on interest is to keep doing that thing that people say (more like "think") they like about the game(s).

As a consumer I think: Big business is fucked and always will be. I don't want to be marketed to. I don't want people to anticipate what I desire. When that shit starts happening, I'm done and I no longer desire. Because what I desire most is freedom from the constraints of this awful, mind-numbing, driven-into-the-ground system control. Stop, just stop trying to figure us out and by design minimize our being.

Trends are like two sides of an ascending roof coming to meet in the middle. On one side are publishers and on the other side are developers & consumers. When the two sides meet in the middle, business happens. BUT development and consumers (developers are consumers, thus are driven by the same motivations, albeit with the ability to make change) want to keep ascending to a new spot... AND PUBLISHING WON'T LET THEM GO HIGHER BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE UNCERTAINTY LIES. NOT. PROFIT.

Profit. Profit. Profit. YAY FOR THE FUTURE.

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