![]() ![]() ![]() This post will be my brief meditations upon how Minecraft, and video games in general, has conditioned an entire generation, reinforced my feelings of absurdity, become a source of meaning for many, and also made me appreciate life.Ī year ago I returned to watching videos by the YouTuber Markiplier, beginning with his series on “Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy,” a game in which you play as a man in a cauldron who must make his way up a massive obstacle course only by swinging a sledgehammer, an obstacle course littered with sadistic, infuriating points at which you risk losing most, if not all, of your progress, forcing you to go through it all over again. I am happy to announce that this dream is not yet dead-that is to say, it is a work-in-progress. After my friends convinced me to join their server with them, I logged on with promise, with hope, that maybe, just maybe, I could find happiness in this virtual block world, and never tire of it. But the 2019 revival of Minecraft, I believed, would hopefully change that. Whereas most Minecraft players never tired of the game in its infinite possibilities, picking themselves up after every setback, I could never seem to fight successfully against the inevitable ennui that would set in during my gameplay sessions, the despair of restarting, the frustration of dying. See, whereas most Minecraft players came running back to Minecraft with open arms and a warm sentiment of reconciliation, I came back to it hesitantly, reluctantly, as if coming back to someone I have not seen for a while, about whom I was not sure how to feel, having been away so long, like an awkward reunion where neither one of us was certain we wanted to be there. Besides some other new features, the game was largely the same, and to most people, that was a good thing-not so much to me, though. When I created my first new world, I was taken aback by the newness of it all, namely in the change in textures that had just been added, and I was opposed to it, just as many were, for who really likes change at first? But then, gradually, I warmed up to it. Upon first hearing of this, I ignored it, considering my Minecraft days as “long gone” but after coercion from my friends, I decided to get back on to see what I was missing, as well as for memory’s sake, to return to one of the games that formed me. ![]() It has re-emerged, as it were, from hiding, and is now back in the limelight, having finally beaten out Fortnite, once again establishing itself as the king of online video games. So recently, in 2019, Minecraft has undergone a revival. ![]()
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