The Minecraft movie isn’t real, do not fall for the propaganda and “influencers”. Minecraft Steve has been in hiding since 2019 following the ongoing civil war, which the media has been silencing so politicians can hide the truth. They’re getting desperate, and this live-action film adaptation is yet another distraction. Where is Minecraft Steve? We don’t know for sure, but everyone claiming to be him is a paid actor, an unpaid actor, or both. Wake up, sheeple. Is that really the Minecraft Steve you know and love, serving as your avatar in your beloved Minecraft world? Why is Jack Black playing Minecraft Steve? If Minecraft Steve was still here, and we weren’t waging pointless internet wars, Minecraft Steve would be ready and willing to act in the latest and greatest video game to film adaptation ever. But no, the media and the world have fabricated wars and forced us to pick sides. The Minecraft movie isn’t a Minecraft movie, it’s a red herring. It’s so we don’t find out the truth.
We salute you, Jeff. Thank you for your service.
(I didn’t know of Jeff’s existence until now lol)
Corkboard and ChanSpec Ceasing Operation
I am sad to announce that Corkboard and ChanSpec are ceasing operation.
Jeff, the budget ASUS laptop I've been using since ~2018 who is hosting Corkboard and ChanSpec, is currently in poor condition. There are cases where it shuts down all by itself, which is annoying since I had to restart it back every time, which is infeasible since I am currently living in my boarding house, around 100 kilometers driving from home (and I had to use the train to get there).
Recovery of all the data from Jeff to my new laptop John is still far from done, but it is already adequate for my purposes. Projects that I am "actively" working on like tbgclient-rewritten, Flipbit, etc. have been backed up to John and development of them will continue as usual (well, under Windows at least, which is less nice). Regarding the data collected by ChanSpec, I will publish the log data to File Garden and Google Drive, along with the source code (again), if the time is possible.
Currently I have no plans to bring back both Corkboard and ChanSpec to John or other computers. I have no resources to run these bots, especially ones that would satisfy my parents. Besides, if Jeff’s condition gets worse, I can't remotely turn on Jeff from my boarding house (there's the brother option, but I'm sure he'll get bored of it fast). The Mineral Fish community is well inactive enough anyway.
Back when I just bought John, I envisioned Jeff to be my little server, especially since I had a Cloudflare Tunnels set up on it. But seeing its condition now, I can't trust it to handle that job. I might as well retire Jeff instead. Now, that's not to say that Jeff is dead. Currently Jeff still works, and it still boots Ubuntu/Arch. However, it can't be left unattended, which makes it unsuitable for my use case. That's why I said backup is still possible, even with Jeff's potentially thinning lifespan.
Maybe someday we will get Jeff fixed. At the day we get it fixed though, my parents would probably insist me to pass it over to someone else, since I don't really need a second laptop. Can’t guarantee it though. And while I think having two laptops is nice, I'd rather delegate that task to something else. Something more...fruity, perhaps? Ah, that's merely my wishful thinking.
You've served your job well, Jeff.
I was in maths and my friend didn’t know what quarterly meant, so I asked him how many quarters where in a year.
He said three.
You can’t crease my Jordans, I’m traveling at 300 metres per second.
Battle For Google Sheets may be discontinued soon, but I don’t want that to happen.
Yes, I’m still here. However, I don’t think there’s a reason to stay if nobody cares. It seems although B4GS received a fair amount of support initially, it never gained traction and we have not progressed past the second turn (if you can call it that). There are several factors that might have contributed, but knowing exactly what isn’t trivial. On one hand, it could be because people forgot I even existed, but it could also not be.
The primary reason is likely how little the game is explained, which definitely doesn’t help given that this game is supposed to be long-term and strategy dependent. I did intend to simply explain as I go, answer any question to the best of my abilities and document things as needed, but that really isn’t enough. That, and probably the fact I am not great at meeting deadlines ;-;
Before I go ahead and discontinue B4GS, I want to ask players something: What needs better explanation? What should be added to improve the player experience? How can I make B4GS more appealing?
If B4GS does not receive sufficient activity, I will be ending it on August 1st. Do people care? Hopefully. I cared about B4GS and I still do. I don’t like seeing games with potential die and get shoved aside to be forgotten. Is this a long rant full of copium about how I can’t keep a single internet game alive? Probably. It ain’t the end of the world.
Jeff really out here just dropping this on us.
I vaguely remember hearing something along these lines, forgot the name though.
what a pretty font i sure hope the designer didn’t do anything horrific to his children and dog
Play teh game
Turn 0.2: Nothing happened.
So far, not much has happened. Lack of housing, production and resources plague the Societies of B4GS. At the very least, most players are active.
Now that we have a new turn, harvesting limits have reset and civilians will consume food. Quick reminder to players that there are no limits to building in a turn, and you can do both harvesting and building in a single turn.
There are zero good reasons to not own a GAU-8/A Avenger rotary autocannon.
Wasteof day, huh? Guess I’ll burn my money on Touhou crap and overpriced KFC meals.