Although now this got me thinking, as a man in my forties who shares a Minecraft Realm with his childhood best friend, how I could go about getting 80+ cows into my friend's base. We're working on stuff a few maps away, so I've got time before he goes back there, but it's a long trip and he'd notice I'm gone. I might have to hollow out a space and breed the cows over time.
I think every generation just tries to do better than the previous one. I don't know if I really got in trouble for my "big feelings" growing up, but I was often made to feel like my emotions were silly or too strong for a given situation. It got to the point where when something genuinely bad happens I almost revel in it, like I crave authenticity so much that I look forward to "legitimate" pain.
So I try to keep that in mind. When one of my kids cries about something silly, we have a discussion about whether it's a big thing or a little thing. Sometimes I'm strategically dismissive, because they need to have a little thick skin, but if that doesn't work then we go into feeling sharing mode.
Then we make a distinction between what we're feeling (which is always legitimate, no matter what), and what we do about it. They can still get in trouble for bad behavior, but then we try to give them the language to express their emotions in a healthy way.
And if it's just a genuine emotional breakdown, whatever the cause, I remember back to when I did that as a kid and was met with a cold response, and I stop what I'm doing and hold them until they feel better.
Children get upset about all kinds of things, and it's important to help them understand and resolve their emotions, no matter how silly it is.
Eighty cows is a minor inconvenience at worst and like four stacks of steak at best.
So I feel like the confusion here isn't just coming from how to handle the griefer child or how to get the cows out of the house. I think it's more to do with the novelty of the situation.
Why is the child upset by this? Does he not like to kill cows in the game? Is there something preventing him from luring the cows out of the house? Was he just unpleasantly surprised by it and hadn't thought through whether or not it was a big deal? There's a lot of layers to this.
That only works if you didn't start in a messy kitchen. I'll pour the eggs into the frying pan, but I can't clean the bowl until the sink is empty. I can't clear the sink until the dishwasher is empty. I can't unload the dishwasher until my kids stop hugging my legs.
Would it be so bad if it follows the same path as Twitter? If it connects people and organizations in an honest and helpful way for fifteen years?
Or we could all just keep shitting on it while it facilitates social and political movements and enables rapid communication across the planet. Then more than a decade from now when some Ultra-Nazi trillionaire buys it, we can all say "I told you so," and be real smug about it.
You've never seen a cockroach in a restaurant? I'm guessing you live somewhere cold, because in warm places cockroaches are just a part of life. I'll still avoid anyplace I've seen a cockroach, but it's not like those places get shut down. They just need to up their pest control.
Super heroes are an individualist power fantasy. In the real world , real power comes from groups and collective action. Super hero stories imagine a world where the power to do good resides in the individual.
I believe it's a reaction to our powerlessness in the face of things like this.
Even 30 years later, Black Hole Sun blows my mind. Chris Cornell's voice walks this impossible line between sounding so full of emotion that it's about to burst, and sounding somehow soothing and precise.
That's not even a line that exists to walk; he creates a line that cannot logically exist, just so his voice can walk it.
It's the internet hate machine. Everyone has hobbies, and some people's hobby is to hate things. All kinds of things. Celebrities, sitcoms, children's movies, but especially video games.
It doesn't matter what you put into the internet hate machine; the only thing that comes out the other end is hatred. It's not fact-based or even experience-based. It's just pure negativity, perpetuated through shitty memes and circle jerk forum comments.
The claim in this meme isn't even true. It was debunked days ago. Doesn't matter. It'll keep getting repeated by people on the internet who copied it from other people on the internet. The definition of a circle jerk.
The internet hate machine has killed lots of good media. It's a shame to see Nintendo get caught up in it. I hope it doesn't stick.
It's not even way too much. Plenty of big games cost that much in the 90s. Accounting for inflation and the fact that games are way more expensive to produce nowadays, $70 is extremely reasonable.
He'd be disappointed that he doesn't end up doing anything epic and world-changing, but then he'd immediately be relieved that he's mostly got shit figured out. Wife, home, job, driving, cooking, all the basic stuff.
Then he'd realize he only thought he needed to do something epic because he couldn't picture himself having those basic things figured out. This would take him a few minutes to process, so he wouldn't say anything.
Sweet. I love this one.