Firstly, I can't - I'm not good enough. I have seen someone else do it a few times, so it can be done. It just takes skill in timing your rushes forward and your falling back and a bit of patience to keep doing it well for awhile longer than it takes with a sword in hand.
The toughest challenge I can think of is to beat the game without once beating yourselff. Make it all the way through to killing the enderdragon, having built whatever you imagined, all in hard survival without even once exiting without saving or glitching in any way or using any third-party software to modify the gamesave file. When I was little, I once asked my dad how to win at solitaire... He said: "You will never win at solitaire until you beat the devil, and the devil is yourself." Solitaire is such an easy game to cheat... and such a tough, tough game to really win. I think the real challenge of Minecraft is much the same thing.
The toughest challenge I can think of is to beat the game without once beating yourselff. Make it all the way through to killing the enderdragon, having built whatever you imagined, all in hard survival without even once exiting without saving or glitching in any way or using any third-party software to modify the gamesave file. When I was little, I once asked my dad how to win at solitaire... He said: "You will never win at solitaire until you beat the devil, and the devil is yourself." Solitaire is such an easy game to cheat... and such a tough, tough game to really win. I think the real challenge of Minecraft is much the same thing.
Well said. I try my best to be legit at minecraft... at times, not so much (like backing out)
Well said. I try my best to be legit at minecraft... at times, not so much (like backing out)
It's tough - I can't honestly say I've realy beaten the game yet. (It also took me a long time to stop cheating myself at solitaire - not on a computer where the programming sometimes keep one's tendencies in check but in the real game where you truly hold all the cards - and my dad laughed out louded when I finally honestly did.)
build a tower to max height and dig a 1 block hole all the way to bed rock and try to skydive to the bottom. Only then will you be a true minecrafter...lolol
The toughest challenge I can think of is to beat the game without once beating yourselff. Make it all the way through to killing the enderdragon, having built whatever you imagined, all in hard survival without even once exiting without saving or glitching in any way or using any third-party software to modify the gamesave file. When I was little, I once asked my dad how to win at solitaire... He said: "You will never win at solitaire until you beat the devil, and the devil is yourself." Solitaire is such an easy game to cheat... and such a tough, tough game to really win. I think the real challenge of Minecraft is much the same thing.
That rules out anyone who ever used a minecart before tu12. Filthy glitchers.
That rules out anyone who ever used a minecart before tu12. Filthy glitchers.
Lol - I did say that I can't honestly say I've ever won this game and my dad laughed out loud when I told him I figured I had beaten solitaire. You see, he believed that it is just not possible to ever well and truly beat the devil within ourselves. It's human nature to rationalize away the little things we believe we ourselves do wrong. Bringing up alternative extremes is one way in which that is commonly done.
Never being able to beat that devil within, however, may be one reason why lots and lots of people still play solitaire centuries after the game first emerged. Maybe it's also one reason I'm still playing Minecraft despite a year of various frustrations with it.
The difference with minecraft is solitaire is all about trying to beat the game and minecraft can be more than that. It can be to design, to be creative, or to beat it.
It's possible not to cheat in solitaire, but that's because its just cards and has no gain. The key is to try to beat the devil inside when there are little chances of negative consequences and high gain. That is probably what your dad means most of all.
" Trust everyone, just don't trust the devil inside them"
The difference with minecraft is solitaire is all about trying to beat the game and minecraft can be more than that. It can be to design, to be creative, or to beat it.
It's possible not to cheat in solitaire, but that's because its just cards and has no gain. The key is to try to beat the devil inside when there are little chances of negative consequences and high gain. That is probably what your dad means most of all.
" Trust everyone, just don't trust the devil inside them"
I disagree... Minecraft is just pixels, which are less than cards really... mere bits of energy, no substance at all. A diamond in Minecraft (although prized by many players) has no actual value outside of what can be done with it inside the game. Although we can end up with an image of something we "created" in Minecraft, all we ever really can create in Minecraft are images/illusions - rearrangements of pixels.
The key to both solitaire and Minecraft is what we can learn about ourselves... and fortifying our knowledge of our own integrity can offer a person very high gains indeed.
Also, it is as entirely possible not to cheat at Minecraft as it is at solitaire. It actually only requires being true to oneself (which is a difficult thing to do, really). In some ways, solitaire offers a more perfect opportunity to cheat because in old-fashioned solitaire with physical cards, the player literally held all the cards in their own hands and cheating would seldom be detectable by anyone... except the person themselves. Minecraft on the other hand detects some cheats and penalizes the player for them - e.g. disabling the leaderboards for a world that has been loaded in creative mode.
My dad's message was really... stay humble... and know thyself better, man.
I disagree... Minecraft is just pixels, which are less than cards really... mere bits of energy, no substance at all. A diamond in Minecraft (although prized by many players) has no actual value outside of what can be done with it inside the game. Although we can end up with an image of something we "created" in Minecraft, all we ever really can create in Minecraft are images/illusions - rearrangements of pixels.
The key to both solitaire and Minecraft is what we can learn about ourselves... and fortifying our knowledge of our own integrity can offer a person very high gains indeed.
Also, it is as entirely possible not to cheat at Minecraft as it is at solitaire. It actually only requires being true to oneself (which is a difficult thing to do, really). In some ways, solitaire offers a more perfect opportunity to cheat because in old-fashioned solitaire with physical cards, the player literally held all the cards in their own hands and cheating would seldom be detectable by anyone... except the person themselves. Minecraft on the other hand detects some cheats and penalizes the player for them - e.g. disabling the leaderboards for a world that has been loaded in creative mode.
My dad's message was really... stay humble... and know thyself better, man.
I disagree with what you said about minecraft. You call it images/illusions but I call it art. Not much difference than using 3d studio max, autocad, or sketch up. Or even building with lego blocks. Just because its not usable doesn't mean it is not creative. Solitaire not cards is a game with one goal and that is too win. I don't disagree with what your dad said or even if that he meant it to say stay humble.
I disagree with what you said about minecraft. You call it images/illusions but I call it art. Not much difference than using 3d studio max, autocad, or sketch up. Or even building with lego blocks. Just because its not usable doesn't mean it is not creative. Solitaire not cards is a game with one goal and that is too win. I don't disagree with what your dad said or even if that he meant it to say stay humble.
Now where in anything I said did I imply that Minecraft wasn't also creative? What is a painting? It is a image... perhaps even an image of something completely unreal and therefore also, possibly and illusion. Isn't a painting also art (most of the time anyways). The diamonds in Minecraft still are not real diamonds. They have no value on the NYSE or anywhere outside the game. If something truly thinks to themselves that Minecraft diamonds are real...then they are, quite simply, not seeing the situation accurately.
However, what I disagree with about what you're implying is that Minecraft being creative somehow diminishes what solitaire is and what a person can learn about themselves by playing a little of it. Just because solitaire is not art doesn't mean that it can't teach us something about where are lines are regarding "cheating" or not - even when it's likely that we ourselves are the only ones who'll ever know that we cheated. It's not necessarily about how the "world" judges what you do or how you judge what others do, but how you yourself judge what you yourself does and knowing what might motivate you yourself to do it at any given point in time. To discover this about oneself, my dad believed that you had to "stay humble" - i.e. I couldn't just keep telling myself I wasn't cheating whenever I took a little peak at the care after the next card in the deck.
It doesn't diminish what solitaire is. It diminishes its ability to be what solitaire is. Solitaire can still be hard to beat while not cheating, but it is possible. Where minecraft can be played in a way where there is no way to cheat and tells us different things about ourselves. How ever when minecraft is played in a way where you have to follow what you believe is "cheating" then it is harder to not cheat because it is so complex. When you have to make the rules then you can easy bend the rules.Solitaire has its own rules that everyone agrees with. Looking at the next card is cheating for example. Playing on peaceful may or may not be cheating. Solitaire however is not as much of a temptation as so much other things in life. I'm not saying it doesn't say anything about you. But stealing our of a candy machine when no one is looking and the guy has left it open or not doing that says much more!
Stealing candy from an open machine is not cheating yourself... it's cheating someone else. I'm talking about cheating yourself only out of your own goals. Different thing entirely.
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Wait! What? Can you do this?
Firstly, I can't - I'm not good enough. I have seen someone else do it a few times, so it can be done. It just takes skill in timing your rushes forward and your falling back and a bit of patience to keep doing it well for awhile longer than it takes with a sword in hand.
It's tough - I can't honestly say I've realy beaten the game yet. (It also took me a long time to stop cheating myself at solitaire - not on a computer where the programming sometimes keep one's tendencies in check but in the real game where you truly hold all the cards - and my dad laughed out louded when I finally honestly did.)
Lol - I did say that I can't honestly say I've ever won this game and my dad laughed out loud when I told him I figured I had beaten solitaire. You see, he believed that it is just not possible to ever well and truly beat the devil within ourselves. It's human nature to rationalize away the little things we believe we ourselves do wrong. Bringing up alternative extremes is one way in which that is commonly done.
Never being able to beat that devil within, however, may be one reason why lots and lots of people still play solitaire centuries after the game first emerged. Maybe it's also one reason I'm still playing Minecraft despite a year of various frustrations with it.
It's possible not to cheat in solitaire, but that's because its just cards and has no gain. The key is to try to beat the devil inside when there are little chances of negative consequences and high gain. That is probably what your dad means most of all.
" Trust everyone, just don't trust the devil inside them"
I disagree... Minecraft is just pixels, which are less than cards really... mere bits of energy, no substance at all. A diamond in Minecraft (although prized by many players) has no actual value outside of what can be done with it inside the game. Although we can end up with an image of something we "created" in Minecraft, all we ever really can create in Minecraft are images/illusions - rearrangements of pixels.
The key to both solitaire and Minecraft is what we can learn about ourselves... and fortifying our knowledge of our own integrity can offer a person very high gains indeed.
Also, it is as entirely possible not to cheat at Minecraft as it is at solitaire. It actually only requires being true to oneself (which is a difficult thing to do, really). In some ways, solitaire offers a more perfect opportunity to cheat because in old-fashioned solitaire with physical cards, the player literally held all the cards in their own hands and cheating would seldom be detectable by anyone... except the person themselves. Minecraft on the other hand detects some cheats and penalizes the player for them - e.g. disabling the leaderboards for a world that has been loaded in creative mode.
My dad's message was really... stay humble... and know thyself better, man.
I disagree with what you said about minecraft. You call it images/illusions but I call it art. Not much difference than using 3d studio max, autocad, or sketch up. Or even building with lego blocks. Just because its not usable doesn't mean it is not creative. Solitaire not cards is a game with one goal and that is too win. I don't disagree with what your dad said or even if that he meant it to say stay humble.
Now where in anything I said did I imply that Minecraft wasn't also creative? What is a painting? It is a image... perhaps even an image of something completely unreal and therefore also, possibly and illusion. Isn't a painting also art (most of the time anyways). The diamonds in Minecraft still are not real diamonds. They have no value on the NYSE or anywhere outside the game. If something truly thinks to themselves that Minecraft diamonds are real...then they are, quite simply, not seeing the situation accurately.
However, what I disagree with about what you're implying is that Minecraft being creative somehow diminishes what solitaire is and what a person can learn about themselves by playing a little of it. Just because solitaire is not art doesn't mean that it can't teach us something about where are lines are regarding "cheating" or not - even when it's likely that we ourselves are the only ones who'll ever know that we cheated. It's not necessarily about how the "world" judges what you do or how you judge what others do, but how you yourself judge what you yourself does and knowing what might motivate you yourself to do it at any given point in time. To discover this about oneself, my dad believed that you had to "stay humble" - i.e. I couldn't just keep telling myself I wasn't cheating whenever I took a little peak at the care after the next card in the deck.