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  • As I expected from the initial hype.

    Let’s just realize that these are not what make a good unique game:

    • Minecraft but better
    • Minecraft but not Java

    Many games of course have minecraft like elements, that work, they just do try to be their own things:

    • FortressCraft Evolved: Voxel factory game with tower defence elements
    • Colony Survival: Voxel building game where you protect and grow a colony

    Moving away from games with Voxel building for those that “want better graphics” you have games like

    • Valheim - build/adventure.
    • ARK: Survival Evolved - build/adventure/poop jokes (sorry never got into the game the let’s play poop jokes got old for me)

    Also might add there are minecraft aspects to the 2d games, but most have unique gameplay as well

    Factorio Stardew Valley Terraria - I really should like this… But every time I try it I don’t

    None of these are “Minecraft killers” because while they may allow for some sandbox play they are unique games. Same for some others I see in this thread.

    Sure you have Luanti as well if you want to make a highly modded minecraft like, or just other voxel game to play test, and maybe prove why its better. But it never tried to replace minecraft.


  • I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I hate the term “Genocide Joe”:

    • it doesn’t put enough fault on Netanyahu
    • its an in group term, if you are in the group you know what it means, if not its either has no meaning, or is taken too literally/incorrectly.
    • The middle east is a mess, we make it worse in every attempt to improve it, but some of those religiously using this phrase I don’t think want peace, just wish a different group was winning. This is a small subset of those using the phrase, but seem to be driving the political outcome by an oversized amount.

    See the expression should be Netanyahu is treating the Palestinians like Hitler did the Jews. So why are we [Joe/Harris] so blindly following this.

    And I know the political answer to this is Joe/Harris were trying to use there position for political pressure… I’d say it failed but they did get a last min ceasefire, so history may prove otherwise.


  • First realize what is being talked about is the generally agreed upon open source definition https://opensource.org/osd

    While it seems they have simplified the license removing some reasons it’s not to be considered open source, it’s still restricting commercial uses in the following two restrictions:

    "You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.

    Notwithstanding the above, you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others."

    In short open source would only require the software be distributed with source under the same licensed as recieved, thus can’t restrict it to non-commercial, nor prevent the changing of payment details.

    Obviously it’s a reasonably permissive license, and possibly won’t impact you from using it as an end user. It’s just has some restrictions for the creators to request payment, and to prevent third parties profiting off the product. Think Creative Commons, share alike, non-commercial for software. (While most will consider this fair its not quite fully open)

    One reason they went this route was to prevent third parties form distributing their software with ads and using it in systems they are actively attempting to provide alternatives for (ie software that may spy on your system useage/and call home) the non-commercial clause has more teeth than say MIT where it would be relicensed, or GPL that while the software source would need to be provided might still be embedded in a ecosystem.