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Looks like I forgot to link this last Friday:

Experienced Points: Mine all Minecraft

The article is about the reason I forgot to link it in the first place. It’s also the reason behind yesterday’s ridiculous mishap. I put up the Spoiler Warning video and then went and played Minecraft for five solid hours. When I came back I discovered that I’d neglected to set the video to public, so nobody could watch it. Normally I check on the site regularly and catch blunders like this within a few minutes, but I couldn’t even bring myself to alt-tab away from the game for a minute or two to do that.

Luckily, nobody was annoyed in the least and everything was fine. If people noticed at all, I’m sure they have forgotten all about it already. So that’s good.

It really it a crazy addictive game.

Obligatory:

My house. This was a featureless hill when I began. A staggering number of hours went into building this monster.

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Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

Everyone makes jokes about how addictive their favorite game is. Which is fine. 90% of humor is about looking at the truth from unexpected angles. Here is that joke again, for Minecraft. I know I actually made the joke recently, about Chime. I’m actually sorry I did that, because that fling with Chime was nothing compared to Minecraft.

How do we measure the addictiveness of games? Maybe we need some sort of unit of measure. Like pong.

Pong has 1 pong worth of addiction strength.

Space invaders has an addictive rating of 10 pong.

Your average browser game has between 10 and 100 pong of addictiveness.

Tetris is a kilopong.

Chime is a few kilopong.

Starcraft is a megapong.

World of Warcraft is about 10 megapong.

Minecraft may be the first game that scores a gigapong. (Perhaps Dwarf Fortress took that honor. I wisely avoided DF.)

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

I almost titled this comic “The Oneders”, but I wasn’t sure how many people would get the reference.

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.