Make a pit with lava in it. Enjoy the steak.
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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.
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.
I was reading this reply from my inbox and took longer than I should've to realize this was about the Minecraft post.
TIL: 5 year old kids play Minecraft.
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.
Oh, yes! And they're really good at it for their age. They're little sponges with everything they see.
It's a whole business, selling skins and other "resource packs" aimed to kids.
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.
I guess they need a break from all that GTA griefing
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.
Well it's good your mom was the judge, interest that high is criminal
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.
What was the loan period?
Sounds more like you were a loan shark.
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.
This is where you have a talk about griefing and consent before the 5yo turns into an open world PvP advocate
But open world pvp is super fun!
(But high risk)
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.
Netherite is hard to get, no matter how far you've progressed in the game
My 5yo would have put them there then set them on fire
/kill @e
That should fix it.
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