Do minecraft, I'm a big big fan of pre-microsoft minecraft. Troons don't realize this, but minecraft is a game about colonizing a foreign world. You start with nothing being chased by monsters & build up your fortress by exploring the overworld & hell, mastering a once dangerous place. Later updates added niggers you have to kill with a reptilian overlord. Microsoft would hire fag developers after notch, who would make the game very pozzed and "cottagecore" after 1.13. Nucraft is also very fast-paced & woke, which is why we went from long lets-play series about tekkit & minions to comparatively short "100 days in hardcore" videos with some gimmick thrown in & having a video-essay format. You can see this with Mogswamp's Flatworld series, which starts as unedited lets plays with his female high school friend & suddenly becomes overly edited mr beast slop about villagers or something. Many such cases, sad!
Honestly the only things I really like about post 1.12 MC is the new nether and new caves, which are pretty kewl imo. Other than that, most stuff added is just boring. The modern day cottageslop is also aggravating. Every single house or base nowadays is a cozy 100 chungus wholesome xitter moment that all look the same. Nasty. You also can’t expand upon these cottages like you could a base in older Minecraft, which is why I think people abandon their worlds after 5 days of playing on it. Even mods nowadays are boring. The only modern mods I really enjoy are Alex’s Mobs, Alex’s Caves, and Create (Yeah, I know troons like Create, for whatever reason, but it honestly is a fantastic mod, incentivizing the building of massive, ever expanding factories). But yeah, that’s it. Most mods now are basic shit that adds like 3 blocks and a “hekin wholesome chonker” mob if you’re lucky. What happened to mods like the Aether or Twilight Forest? What happened to modpacks like Tekkit? Truly, Minecraft has entered its Kali Yuga…
I think 1.13 should be the cutoff, it was the last version before the new textures and the last version on the xbox 360. Not to mention fish are awesome, I love fishkeeping. I own 2 aquariums, both saltwater. This update finally added fish mobs which were absent from minecraft for too long. Also 1.16 is overrated, the nether biomes don't match the Hell theme and they took down the brap-hog name. Also new netherrack sucks
1.13 was a good update, I agree. I do love the fish mobs. But honestly the new nether is an improvement imo. More stuff to explore in what felt like a pretty barren biome. As for the new biomes, most of them are pretty good and do match the hellish aesthetic. Soulsand valleys especially, being completely barren and having rib cage fossils and shit. I do agree with you on the new netherack texture being doodoo. It looks too soft. I think they were going for a “human flesh” sort of theme but it just doesnt work imo.
It just looks like red cobblestone, while the old one was bleeding & chaotic. Also I'm mainly referring to the random blue forests which aren't nearly as hellish as the rest of the nether. Also also that was the first version with leif raine music. ACK alert!
I also miss pre-Adventure update Minecraft. It used to be a sandbox game with no ending: it was up to you to come up with more cool things to build, and more areas to civilize. But then jeb_ and others started shoehorning in RPG elements, and now it has this weird MMORPG type of feeling. I've even heard younger zoomers complain about how the game is "short" and that there's nothing else to do once you beat the Wither. It's a sandbox game, that's your unimaginative nigger-brained problem!
Beta Minecraft was kino: it had a certain ambiance, surviving was harder (enemies were stronger, no enchantments, and food didn't stack), and the much smaller palette of blocks forced you to get creative. Limitations foster creativity. You also didn't have a hunger bar, so you weren't constantly eating food just to survive, and no sprint meant that the game had a more relaxed pace.
Pre-1.13 Minecraft is still pretty good, but pre-Beta 1.8 was very kino.
I think the reason people separate 1.12 from 1.13 is because 1: it was the first big update under microsoft and 2: a lot of mods got left behind in 1.12 (aether mod, mo creatures, etc) and the main reason a lot of people play minecraft during that era is mostly because of mods, so 1.12 became a “standard” of sorts for modding
IDK, I don't think there was much change in management between 1.9 and 1.14 so I assume it was just a change in update direction but feel free to correct me. 1.9 was the first update with the retarded combat/balance changes too
The way you mentioned how women talk and think about games has made me realize the smug media literacy stuff going around recently probably originated with a woman, or at least derives from feminine thinking. Along with the “all art is political crowd. They are all technically right, art as a means of communication has a message no matter what and media promotes unrealistic body standards but men can either, distinguish between reality and media and just enjoy fiction/a narrative or literally don’t notice because men don’t go into recreational activities with a neurotic analytical mind.
Glad I’m not the only one who hates new games, theres nothing permanent about them at all. Games like Halo (originals), Pikmin, and Dark Souls were so fun and impactful that they are burnt into my brain, I can literally “play” them in my head whenever I feel like it.
Been wanting to play dark souls but I’ve heard it’s very difficult. I’ve watched my roommate play it, he’s very good at it. I love the music and aesthetics of the game and the lore is good too.
Dark Souls is up next to Halo for being my personal favorite vidya gayms. There is a slight learning curve and SOME bosses are hard but for all Souls-like games it’s honestly just a matter of familiarization and attack pattern memorization.
You should play through all 4 souls games. They all interconnect in some way with 3 being the catalyst of all the time fuckery. 3 Is my personal favorite for the apocalypse vibes and late Gothic aesthetic.
Play demon souls first. It’s the earliest prototypical souls game by fromsoft. Plays similarly and basically has everything darksouls has. Just executed slightly worse and made slightly easier. I suggest you play it first because when you get to dark souls the difficulty jump won’t be as bad and you’ll enjoy the QOL improvements and better story even more.
I hate more and more that standards are not being set on any form of entertainment. From social media to television to video games, every awful new addition to the catalogue is lauded and heaped with praise despite obvious flaws. I can’t think of many games or movies (I don’t watch shows) that have come out in the last 4 years that I haven’t had major issues with, and I could kind of extend that to 6 years! Ridiculous! And I’m the one that’s wrong? I’ve just defaulted to hating everything new which feels very depressing, but to ignore the disgusting changes being made to a medium I enjoy is unforgivable!
Great article, but the paragraph about how society has attacked young men since the 1960s is especially good. I would be greatly interested in a Substack article about that, please write one if you haven't already.
Yeah, maybe in the future I'll write more on that but it is sort of something that is true for the entirety of human history. Young men create society but they also destroy it, and old people only want creation without destruction because they are vulnerable and don't produce anything. So the old village elders and the community matriarchs will always hate on young men and constrict them as much as possible, which leads to young men leaving and going to explore the earth like in the ancient Koryos
Interesting to think about the role team oriented sports plays in shaping a young man's mind. Most of us were forced to play in a team largely because there were no other options. An early dose of collectivist subversion?
when i was 13 i played nier automata and was gooning to dat shit simultaneously whenever i saw the commander (still one of the greatest games ive ever played , heil nippon)
I do quite love vidya. I still play 2009 mw2 as my primary online game, it’s still quite fun:). Very pure and straightforward gameplay coupled with an unfiltered chat and NO report system. That’s what I loved about the og multiplayers in CoD and Halo 2 and 3, the Wild West mentality of anything goes. Truly a trolls paradise!!!
You should do a piece on either Halo or CoD, Halo for all the good it did up until Reach and CoD for how fucking evil Activision is and all the bad the series caused to gaming in the long run.
I was jus playin the cod4 campaign yesterday… but srsly play the halo campaigns especially odst and reach they’re my favs and it’s especially good with an online friend
one of your best works sec. i must first mention the boob break, it was very needed and tasteful, and the little touch of its origin was the cherry on top (those jiggle frames... WOW!). i had some thoughts on the section on how old gaming was different -and ultimately better- from new gaming. as a diehard morrowboomer, it is shocking to me some people can't enjoy it. now i will admit some parts of it is very VERY dated; quests, and to some extent the visuals. i don't mean the graphics btw, but the world... construction? generation?.. the towns look boring ok! hence the one million town overhauls. i don't understand the people who get the hd 4k full retexture animation overhaul and whatnot. the game just doesn't look good high definition (also if you ever see anyone who has a headreplacer, you should STAY AWAY from them). but on the notion of old style games, it baffels me how many suffer from china syndrome. they will play for 30 minutes, get bored, download mods or look up cheats and complete take all the fun out of the game. they might even try to play the game again, but just cheat again. I'm currently playing another morrowind character (i do have tamriel rebuilt installed) where I'm role-playing as a robin hood esque khajiit, who uses their influence in the thieves guild and house hlaalu to free and help slaves (while getting rich too of course). most trooners couldn't even get past the census office without looking up console commands and min-maxxing guides.. i know these types of people have infested ttrpg spaces, shame really.
as an addendum, for my recommended morrowind modlist: openMW 'I heart vanilla' list, Beautiful cities of Morrowind, BCoM sadrith mora expansion, some kind of combat mod (if that is deemed needed), tamriel rebuilt. that is all that is needed for gaming peak. it really doesn't get that much better. anything additional is niceties and bloat.
I tried to get into morrowind but it really is quite dated. I stopped playing when I went to college and never picked it back up. Would be fun though if it was remastered. Being a consolefag myself I have only small experience with mods, I've only used mods in Lethal Company actually. For the census office I did the quiz lel, I hate minmaxxing in RPGs and I know a guy who loves it and it annoys me.
It was one of the big Indie Retro RPG's About Depression (with Retro Pixel Graphics), though my knowledge is limited compared to others of the genre. Setting is a world where all women have disappeared, and men are all losing their minds in post-apocalyptic mad max type hellscape. It's jRPG style combat which idk anything about and I didn't get far trying to progress the story on my own.
Do minecraft, I'm a big big fan of pre-microsoft minecraft. Troons don't realize this, but minecraft is a game about colonizing a foreign world. You start with nothing being chased by monsters & build up your fortress by exploring the overworld & hell, mastering a once dangerous place. Later updates added niggers you have to kill with a reptilian overlord. Microsoft would hire fag developers after notch, who would make the game very pozzed and "cottagecore" after 1.13. Nucraft is also very fast-paced & woke, which is why we went from long lets-play series about tekkit & minions to comparatively short "100 days in hardcore" videos with some gimmick thrown in & having a video-essay format. You can see this with Mogswamp's Flatworld series, which starts as unedited lets plays with his female high school friend & suddenly becomes overly edited mr beast slop about villagers or something. Many such cases, sad!
Honestly the only things I really like about post 1.12 MC is the new nether and new caves, which are pretty kewl imo. Other than that, most stuff added is just boring. The modern day cottageslop is also aggravating. Every single house or base nowadays is a cozy 100 chungus wholesome xitter moment that all look the same. Nasty. You also can’t expand upon these cottages like you could a base in older Minecraft, which is why I think people abandon their worlds after 5 days of playing on it. Even mods nowadays are boring. The only modern mods I really enjoy are Alex’s Mobs, Alex’s Caves, and Create (Yeah, I know troons like Create, for whatever reason, but it honestly is a fantastic mod, incentivizing the building of massive, ever expanding factories). But yeah, that’s it. Most mods now are basic shit that adds like 3 blocks and a “hekin wholesome chonker” mob if you’re lucky. What happened to mods like the Aether or Twilight Forest? What happened to modpacks like Tekkit? Truly, Minecraft has entered its Kali Yuga…
I think 1.13 should be the cutoff, it was the last version before the new textures and the last version on the xbox 360. Not to mention fish are awesome, I love fishkeeping. I own 2 aquariums, both saltwater. This update finally added fish mobs which were absent from minecraft for too long. Also 1.16 is overrated, the nether biomes don't match the Hell theme and they took down the brap-hog name. Also new netherrack sucks
1.13 was a good update, I agree. I do love the fish mobs. But honestly the new nether is an improvement imo. More stuff to explore in what felt like a pretty barren biome. As for the new biomes, most of them are pretty good and do match the hellish aesthetic. Soulsand valleys especially, being completely barren and having rib cage fossils and shit. I do agree with you on the new netherack texture being doodoo. It looks too soft. I think they were going for a “human flesh” sort of theme but it just doesnt work imo.
It just looks like red cobblestone, while the old one was bleeding & chaotic. Also I'm mainly referring to the random blue forests which aren't nearly as hellish as the rest of the nether. Also also that was the first version with leif raine music. ACK alert!
I thought troony laine’s music got added in 1.15? Dios mio…
IDK i stopped playing modern frequently after 1.14
I also miss pre-Adventure update Minecraft. It used to be a sandbox game with no ending: it was up to you to come up with more cool things to build, and more areas to civilize. But then jeb_ and others started shoehorning in RPG elements, and now it has this weird MMORPG type of feeling. I've even heard younger zoomers complain about how the game is "short" and that there's nothing else to do once you beat the Wither. It's a sandbox game, that's your unimaginative nigger-brained problem!
Beta Minecraft was kino: it had a certain ambiance, surviving was harder (enemies were stronger, no enchantments, and food didn't stack), and the much smaller palette of blocks forced you to get creative. Limitations foster creativity. You also didn't have a hunger bar, so you weren't constantly eating food just to survive, and no sprint meant that the game had a more relaxed pace.
Pre-1.13 Minecraft is still pretty good, but pre-Beta 1.8 was very kino.
pre 1.14* leave update aquatic alone1
Sure
I think the reason people separate 1.12 from 1.13 is because 1: it was the first big update under microsoft and 2: a lot of mods got left behind in 1.12 (aether mod, mo creatures, etc) and the main reason a lot of people play minecraft during that era is mostly because of mods, so 1.12 became a “standard” of sorts for modding
1.9 was the first big update under microsoft thoughbeit, real chuds remember 1.8 and 1.7 being the last versions of old minecraft
I thought 1.9 was like, half mojang half microsoft. Also i mean big updates under microsoft completely, 1.10-1.12 didnt add all that much
IDK, I don't think there was much change in management between 1.9 and 1.14 so I assume it was just a change in update direction but feel free to correct me. 1.9 was the first update with the retarded combat/balance changes too
I do agree 1.13 was kino doebeit
The way you mentioned how women talk and think about games has made me realize the smug media literacy stuff going around recently probably originated with a woman, or at least derives from feminine thinking. Along with the “all art is political crowd. They are all technically right, art as a means of communication has a message no matter what and media promotes unrealistic body standards but men can either, distinguish between reality and media and just enjoy fiction/a narrative or literally don’t notice because men don’t go into recreational activities with a neurotic analytical mind.
I have an old ‘stack on here criticizing political art. It’s a pretty good read
Was listening to the substack audiobook tts thing and its very weird hearing a w*man read out the women and aesthetics tangent
Glad I’m not the only one who hates new games, theres nothing permanent about them at all. Games like Halo (originals), Pikmin, and Dark Souls were so fun and impactful that they are burnt into my brain, I can literally “play” them in my head whenever I feel like it.
Been wanting to play dark souls but I’ve heard it’s very difficult. I’ve watched my roommate play it, he’s very good at it. I love the music and aesthetics of the game and the lore is good too.
Dark Souls is up next to Halo for being my personal favorite vidya gayms. There is a slight learning curve and SOME bosses are hard but for all Souls-like games it’s honestly just a matter of familiarization and attack pattern memorization.
You should play through all 4 souls games. They all interconnect in some way with 3 being the catalyst of all the time fuckery. 3 Is my personal favorite for the apocalypse vibes and late Gothic aesthetic.
Play demon souls first. It’s the earliest prototypical souls game by fromsoft. Plays similarly and basically has everything darksouls has. Just executed slightly worse and made slightly easier. I suggest you play it first because when you get to dark souls the difficulty jump won’t be as bad and you’ll enjoy the QOL improvements and better story even more.
I hate more and more that standards are not being set on any form of entertainment. From social media to television to video games, every awful new addition to the catalogue is lauded and heaped with praise despite obvious flaws. I can’t think of many games or movies (I don’t watch shows) that have come out in the last 4 years that I haven’t had major issues with, and I could kind of extend that to 6 years! Ridiculous! And I’m the one that’s wrong? I’ve just defaulted to hating everything new which feels very depressing, but to ignore the disgusting changes being made to a medium I enjoy is unforgivable!
I feel basically the same way
Great article, but the paragraph about how society has attacked young men since the 1960s is especially good. I would be greatly interested in a Substack article about that, please write one if you haven't already.
Yeah, maybe in the future I'll write more on that but it is sort of something that is true for the entirety of human history. Young men create society but they also destroy it, and old people only want creation without destruction because they are vulnerable and don't produce anything. So the old village elders and the community matriarchs will always hate on young men and constrict them as much as possible, which leads to young men leaving and going to explore the earth like in the ancient Koryos
Interesting to think about the role team oriented sports plays in shaping a young man's mind. Most of us were forced to play in a team largely because there were no other options. An early dose of collectivist subversion?
when i was 13 i played nier automata and was gooning to dat shit simultaneously whenever i saw the commander (still one of the greatest games ive ever played , heil nippon)
Have you ever played dragon’s dogma? It’s a very flawed game, but it is still fun and has some cool ideas.
No but with breasts like that maybe I should. Out of a tasteful appreciation, of course…
I do quite love vidya. I still play 2009 mw2 as my primary online game, it’s still quite fun:). Very pure and straightforward gameplay coupled with an unfiltered chat and NO report system. That’s what I loved about the og multiplayers in CoD and Halo 2 and 3, the Wild West mentality of anything goes. Truly a trolls paradise!!!
You should do a piece on either Halo or CoD, Halo for all the good it did up until Reach and CoD for how fucking evil Activision is and all the bad the series caused to gaming in the long run.
Never played Halo, only played 2 CoD games and really only their campaigns
I was jus playin the cod4 campaign yesterday… but srsly play the halo campaigns especially odst and reach they’re my favs and it’s especially good with an online friend
skrub newfag award
Y r u always hating man
Actually I was defending cod
Go jelq to ur Niki Minaj skin …
I know im just messin with you lol, hating is a LIFESTYLE!!!!! MOM WOULD NEVER UNDERSTAND I DAY IN MY LIFE!!!!!!
I loooove being an offensive hater
Gorgeous post, Sect. Very eloquent and enlightened. Keep 'em coming.
Deus Ex
Paradox Games
Both rather right wing coded, with the latter having a grip on alot of our autists.
one of your best works sec. i must first mention the boob break, it was very needed and tasteful, and the little touch of its origin was the cherry on top (those jiggle frames... WOW!). i had some thoughts on the section on how old gaming was different -and ultimately better- from new gaming. as a diehard morrowboomer, it is shocking to me some people can't enjoy it. now i will admit some parts of it is very VERY dated; quests, and to some extent the visuals. i don't mean the graphics btw, but the world... construction? generation?.. the towns look boring ok! hence the one million town overhauls. i don't understand the people who get the hd 4k full retexture animation overhaul and whatnot. the game just doesn't look good high definition (also if you ever see anyone who has a headreplacer, you should STAY AWAY from them). but on the notion of old style games, it baffels me how many suffer from china syndrome. they will play for 30 minutes, get bored, download mods or look up cheats and complete take all the fun out of the game. they might even try to play the game again, but just cheat again. I'm currently playing another morrowind character (i do have tamriel rebuilt installed) where I'm role-playing as a robin hood esque khajiit, who uses their influence in the thieves guild and house hlaalu to free and help slaves (while getting rich too of course). most trooners couldn't even get past the census office without looking up console commands and min-maxxing guides.. i know these types of people have infested ttrpg spaces, shame really.
as an addendum, for my recommended morrowind modlist: openMW 'I heart vanilla' list, Beautiful cities of Morrowind, BCoM sadrith mora expansion, some kind of combat mod (if that is deemed needed), tamriel rebuilt. that is all that is needed for gaming peak. it really doesn't get that much better. anything additional is niceties and bloat.
I tried to get into morrowind but it really is quite dated. I stopped playing when I went to college and never picked it back up. Would be fun though if it was remastered. Being a consolefag myself I have only small experience with mods, I've only used mods in Lethal Company actually. For the census office I did the quiz lel, I hate minmaxxing in RPGs and I know a guy who loves it and it annoys me.
Was curious if you had any familiarity with the LISA series + fan games, all seem to be heavily targeted towards inceldom
Never heard of them, unless LISA stands for something.
It was one of the big Indie Retro RPG's About Depression (with Retro Pixel Graphics), though my knowledge is limited compared to others of the genre. Setting is a world where all women have disappeared, and men are all losing their minds in post-apocalyptic mad max type hellscape. It's jRPG style combat which idk anything about and I didn't get far trying to progress the story on my own.
That is a weird plot, it sounds like it should be a comedy game
NGMI