{"id":24589,"date":"2014-10-07T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T14:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24589"},"modified":"2014-10-07T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:42:28","slug":"waiting-for-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24589","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m back. Well, that was a stupid waste of five days. <\/p>\n<p>Somehow, the designers of the Minecraft mod <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technicpack.net\/\">Technic Pack<\/a><span class='snote' title='1'>These days I&#39;m playing a ton of the Technic &#8220;MoonQuest&#8221; mod collection.<\/span> made it so that if you launch the game in offline mode, then it has no sound. I have no idea why, but I&#39;ll be sure to ask them right after I hunt them down and right before I kill them. <\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#39;t play vanilla Minecraft, either. Once I was off the net and I discovered Technic wasn&#39;t working, I remembered that my Minecraft launcher was set to run in Oculus Rift mode. I tried to turn that off, which meant changing profiles<span class='snote' title='2'>Not change users, just profiles. It&#39;s complicated.<\/span>, which forced me to log in, which I couldn&#39;t do. I&#39;d hunt down the person responsible for this stupidity but I&#39;m not sure who to blame in this case. I always saw the Minecraft launcher as a convenience thing, but after fighting with it for an hour or so I&#39;ll say it feels very DRM-ish. It doesn&#39;t stop any pirates but it did prevent this customer from using the software when he really, really needed it. That sounds like DRM to me.<\/p>\n<p>So my #1 time-killing game was unavailable. Instead, I composed a song. I spent my time waiting for the internet writing a song about waiting for the internet entitled, &#8220;Waiting for the Internet&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/171035597&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You say it&#39;s repetitive? Yes, yes it is. I was trying to capture the tedium and frustration in musical form. The upbeat stuff at the end can be interpreted as the return of the internet, or the sweet release of insanity.  The line between half-assed and avant-garde sometimes gets pretty blurry, but I know which side this song is on. And it&#39;s not the side with the fancy French words. <\/p>\n<p>We will resume our regular posting schedule shortly. Right after I play some Minecraft. And catch up on my webcomics. And some YouTube videos. And blogs. And gaming news. And Steam sales. And email. And comments. And Facebook. And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m back. Well, that was a stupid waste of five days. Somehow, the designers of the Minecraft mod Technic PackThese days I&#39;m playing a ton of the Technic &#8220;MoonQuest&#8221; mod collection. made it so that if you launch the game in offline mode, then it has no sound. I have no idea why, but I&#39;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}