February 24, 2011

Fear and Gaming: Being and Nothingness and “Minecraft”

From The Bygone Bureau:

It is a powerful experience to be cast into Minecraft‘s blocky paradise without direction or preparation. On my first day, I thought the game was about punching pigs. So I punched pigs. Then night fell and a demon, kind of like a Hong-Kong hopping vampire, crept toward me in my loneliest loneliness and exploded, saying (at least in my narrative): “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.” In other words: respawn or quit to title.

(thanks, walt)

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  1. Ben on February 25th, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    I’m guessing it was a creeper.

  2. Nathan Kress on February 25th, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    Followed the link. Read the whole article. Still have no fucking clue what Minecraft is.

  3. Andrew Simone on February 25th, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    Nathan: What the Hell is Minecraft?

  4. Nathan Kress on February 25th, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    Thx, Andrew. Survival mode looks cool for sure.

  5. Andrew Simone on February 25th, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    SO MUCH FUN.

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