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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Make a pit with lava in it. Enjoy the steak.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My oldest and his buddies used to dig extensive tunnels under their friends "houses" (more like gigantic palaces of the flashy kind), filled those tunnels to the brim with explosives and just for shit and giggles blew up the estates above.

Medieval war tactics rediscovered by preteens. My inner historian held several celebrations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I remember selling god gear to a rather small faction, so that they'd fight another. Then as they died and were focused on that, I just claimed their land. Of both.

I also raided an ally's secret area that their youngest leaked, then conviced them to join me by promising to give them shelter and loot - as a kind ally.

I just kept absorbing factions. Only one man made me ask politely, the one who outwitted me by being a pacifist. Hugger of war, lord of conquest completely enthralled by that which he could not have. He had conquered me and in doing so, conquered the server.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I was reading this reply from my inbox and took longer than I should've to realize this was about the Minecraft post.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

TIL: 5 year old kids play Minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Even younger. The touch screen version is easy enough for a 4 year old or maybe younger, depending on what you constitute "playing".

Now I think about it, I'm certain I've had this conversation, except it was cats not cows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh, yes! And they're really good at it for their age. They're little sponges with everything they see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a whole business, selling skins and other "resource packs" aimed to kids.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

And then they can enhance that business by turning around getting pedophiles to subscribe and pay for in game credits so that they can interact with a bunch of undersupervised children.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

I guess they need a break from all that GTA griefing

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Lmao this has the same energy as me learning about the concept of loaning money for interest at the same age and deciding to put it in action by lending my brother bells in Animal Crossing and deciding that he needed to pay me back twice what I had lent him, a fact that I only informed him of after I gave him the money. We had a big fight about it and our mom had to get involved. Good times lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

With fees capped at 14% and interest capped at 35% APR, a doubling could still be legal if they have 2 years to repay, especially with frequent compounding.

Not that children have the patience to wait 2 years for a return on their investment, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What was the loan period?

Sounds more like you were a loan shark.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I hadn't learned about repayment periods or anything I just said he had to pay me back double, I didn't think about interest rates or anything but yeah I definitely was a loan shark.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is where you have a talk about griefing and consent before the 5yo turns into an open world PvP advocate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But open world pvp is super fun!

(But high risk)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For a game like minecraft where progression is so quick does it really matter? Oh no I lost an iron sword. That won't take 5 minutes to replace...

That is pretty much how our lunchtimes went in the school computer room around 2011 or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Netherite is hard to get, no matter how far you've progressed in the game

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That didn't exist back in 2011. Back then you pretty much "finished" the game pretty easily in under an hour as far as getting the best gear available. Iron was more than good enough though and took even less time to get. At least once you have a bit of an idea how to play anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

My 5yo would have put them there then set them on fire

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

/kill @e

That should fix it.

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