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Quote from Smithite

Try using this, at this time I can not find an earlier beta download for you to test.
http://www.minecraft...arly-heres-how/ Follow the instructions and tell me if this works, I will further look for earlier beta downloads. Good luck.

- Smithite.

It didn't work. However, I did finally find a fix, if not only a very discrete and lucky one.

I was looking at what my video driver might've been contributing to the problem, considered rolling it back, etc. I ended up coming across this page, and followed all of its automatic suggestions and instructions. Lo and behold, the game ended up working! Keep in mind this is after I un- and re-installed the drivers from safe mode a couple days ago, so I wasn't expecting much to happen. But it worked, and now the client and the browser versions are running fine.

Quote from Smithite

Hmm, I've never quite heard of this problem to be quite honest with you. How old have you had your computer? Referring to how old the video card/graphics cards are. I mean if you've re-downloaded every applet needed to play and cleared the .minecraft folder and it still doesn't work, all I can say is. Most likely, it's your video/graphics card, or on the downloadable game client you could try force update, which usually fixes my Minecraft bugs. Hope this information helps as much as intended, thank you.

- Smithite.

I've tried force updating, and reinstalling the client a few times. The video card is old but not exactly "outdated"; it's a lot better than what's normally necessary to run minecraft. Not to mention this laptop has been able to run minecraft before. Actually, do you know where I could download old clients for game, to test if those still work?

In the .exe standalone client, after I log in, it'll go to the mojang splash screen, and suspend it indefinitely if I don't do anything. But if I click where the "singleplayer," or "multiplayer," etc. buttons would be on the title screen, it'll load them properly. If I try to go back to the main menu from the singleplayer/multiplayer/etc screens, it'll hang the image and behave like the mojang splash screen does. If I try to load or create a map to play, the image will get stuck, alternating between map-loading processes, though I can hear minecraft ambiance in the background and the achievement tips can drop down. I suspect it might be a graphical or corrupted file issue, but I've redownloaded the client, cleared the .minecraft folder, and redownloaded java several times. Running in administrator doesn't work, either.

In the minecraft player on the website, the java applet will load, sometimes show me a little bit of updating going on, but then display an indefinite white rectangle, almost as if java wasn't installed.

Video Card: ATI Radeon X1250
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
CPU Driver: AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60
And obviously I have the latest version of java.

Anything else that might be interfering with the game like this?

Quote from jleekas

This also happened a while ago when I tried java -version.

Doesn't this error also occur if you don't have java in your system path?

Quote from starlinvf

Did this start in the last couple days?

It could have. I haven't tried playing minecraft in a while now. But I tried to go back as far as I could by replacing the minecraft.jar file with previous versions; also no luck.

I do think it has to do with something graphical, since it seems it can't load the 3d blocks in either the title screen or the main game. Is anyone aware of anything else I could try, besides reinstalling java or my drivers?

Update/bump: Have reinstalled the driver now too, still to no avail. Tried loading it in previous versions of Windows, and no progress was made. The odd thing is, I've been playing Minecraft in some form or another since before survival was even a thing, and I've yet to encounter a problem like this.

In the .exe standalone client, after I log in, it'll go to the mojang splash screen, and suspend it indefinitely if I don't do anything. But if I click where the "singleplayer," or "multiplayer," etc. buttons would be on the title screen, it'll load them properly. If I try to go back to the main menu from the singleplayer/multiplayer/etc screens, it'll hang the image and behave like the mojang splash screen does. If I try to load or create a map to play, the image will get stuck, alternating between map-loading processes, though I can hear minecraft ambiance in the background and the achievement tips can drop down. I suspect it might be a graphical or corrupted file issue, but I've redownloaded the client, cleared the .minecraft folder, and redownloaded java several times. Running in administrator doesn't work, either.

In the minecraft player on the website, the java applet will load, sometimes show me a little bit of updating going on, but then display an indefinite white rectangle, almost as if java wasn't installed.

Video Card: ATI Radeon X1250
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
CPU Driver: AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60
And obviously I have the latest version of java.

Any help?

I've observed that we shouldn't be so quick to make over-arching conclusions based on observations.

Quote from AZilla2498

I'm actually really bad at chess, but the first thing I always do is make a wall with my pawns that sort of looks like this:

= Blank space/ piece not worth mentioning
= Pawn




Or sometimes:


:

As far as effectiveness, well, you'd have to ask someone who's done this before that has adequate chess skills.

Lord_N is correct, that tactic is more of a freelance beginner's first defense. It takes a long time to set up, you are leaving your pieces (in chess terminology pawns aren't considered pieces, by the way) in the back ranks by doing that while the opponent can be rushing them out, and the defense ain't all that great anyway against someone who knows what they're doing.

(Still beats most defenses I see beginners play, but nonetheless I do not recommend relying on that one)

Anyhow, for a good opening, you should always try to castle early, normally on the kingside. And that picture someone posted is actually rather instructive; you should try to bring out your pieces so that they mimic the position shown here, on the white side:

After this, you bring out the queen or castle, and then complete the other, so that you finally connect your rooks. This is probably the best way I can explain the tried-and-true vanilla chess opening.

Moving first with the king's or queen's pawn two spaces forward is always a good first move for a beginner, and is almost certainly how the above situation fomented.

The midgame is a clutter of pieces, and would take a while to explain. But basically, don't be like most beginners I see and make every trade possible. The rook is worth more than the bishop (which is generally equal to the knight), for one, and trading your bishop/knight/rook for a pawn or two is foolish. Just make sure you don't let your opponent's army get too close to your side of the board, and sure as heck keep them away from your king. You must do the opposite to your opponent, and occupy free space whenever possible. Tactics become much more frequent and deadly when you have the best position on your opponent.

The endgame is a much more analytical game. Generally, if you're losing by now, just work on taking your opponents pawns out before they become queens. If you're winning, shove them down the board ASAP. If you don't know how to checkmate with only a queen by now, this is vital to learn, along with knowing how to tie as the one at a disadvantage when it's king+pawn vs king.

And here I was thinking this was a political thread.

Anyhow, I hear it's something while developing in the fetus and/or genetics, although I could be mistaken. I'm a rightie myself.

Why bring so much racism into this? Does it matter if you're human, which also happens to be the race of some stupid people? If you were of another race, then would there be a line drawn excluding "Why am I made out of carbon, like those stupid humans?" using the logic given in the OP?

You didn't do anything wrong. Although she might be going through a hard time, not accepting multiple apologies after you took it down is pretty unacceptable. I was expecting there to be a fight emerging in the chat, but it was just you pleading her to, kindly, suck it up and she wouldn't calm down.

Hopefully she might come to her senses.

There's this thing called "freeviewing," wherein a person can take a stereogram (ie two pictures of the same object from slightly different angles) and view it in spectacular depth (probably about as good of depth as the best 3D animation in movies), without the use of headgear or anything. It can also create the sensation of enhanced graphics, although that is just my personal view.

This is a really great guide on how to learn it quickly: http://www.angelfire...r/freeview.html. Take his second tip on learning parallel freeviewing seriously, too, it really helped me achieve my first view.

However, I feel his picture is a little bland when it comes to jumping out when the freeviewing is successful; if you want an easy, breathtaking picture, I'd take Wikipedia's picture:

If you want a cross-view picture, I'll leave it here:
Cross-viewing can actually be a little painful to learn at first and is in my opinion more difficult, but it can allow for more flexible viewing habits when mastered.

Free-viewing is also apparently pretty old, going back to the early 1800s.

So what are your takes on this?

Arms


John stood above Walton,
who was crying on his knees,
“Please, let me go, I’ll stop!”
Am I really doing this? thought John.
And he smashed the boy’s head in with a rock.

All the other schoolchildren timidly faded from the scene,
shaken but glad that Bloomsberry park's antagonist
was at last, irrevocably vanquished.
The boys fell back to wrestling in fields,
and the girls went away, gossiping in gaggles.

But John was last to abandon Walton’s shell,
now lone carrion that rested on the riverbank,
looking solemn yet conflicted about his verdict.
“You did the right thing,” I comfort his conscience.
"Thanks, Judith."

I told my father, us both going home, on the way,
lounged in the horse-drawn cabriolet,
that I was the one with open arms that day.
"Boys like that aren't meant to stay."