additional context; Katie Scott, a former exec at ubisoft, will be the “Head of Vanilla Minecraft” in 2026. this source writes:

Scott left Ubisoft in November, but her role as vice president of the company’s global creative game office saw her specialize in “competitive, live service, and free to play experiences to create games with lasting impact, high retention, and monetization results.” She also writes that she focused on “live service strategies and ambitious retention and monetization” in Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six games

now that sounds bad on paper, but it’s unclear to me what exactly she’ll be doing in this position. best i could find was this linkedin post advertising the position 7 months ago, which reads:

Join us in shaping the future. Minecraft isn’t just a game. It’s a platform for creativity, learning, and building community. We’re seeking a senior leader, based in Stockholm, to guide our talented teams toward Minecraft’s evolution. Help us build a better world through the power of play.

my interpretation of this is that she’ll still be under other managers, and wouldn’t be making any big decisions alone. regardless, this is not a good look for Mojang, especially at a time where the community are getting impatient with Bedrock’s issues.

new response just dropped

friend, you have won the internet argument. i say that with no sarcasm whatsoever. the other person misunderstood you, then politely conceded after you made a more detailed comment, adding that this being a crosspost might have caused the bug.

they didn’t say “oh huh, must be my app”, they said “ohh yeah, it probably is my app, thank you.”

what more could you have asked for? what response would you rather have gotten?

i wonder if there’s a limit to adding “slop” to things

live service games are liveslop, fast food is foodslop, making smalltalk is conversationslop, charities are kindnessslop, being awake is wokeslop, dreams are sleepslop, everything is thingslop

and this post, too, is just contentslop

idk where you get that impression from, you can definitely find nice streamers if you look for them.

take RTGame. no controversy whatsoever. swears a bunch, but only as a result of being irish. fantastic community. but he streams on twitch, so i guess he’s trash?

is it because streamers ask for donations? because they play games as a job? i’m genuinely curious.

Mr Beast.

not because he’d be particularly good or competent at running a country; i’d like to see if/how he would milk being the president for content.

me, personally, i wouldn’t want to open up a comic where two characters are having sex while i’m at work, which makes it not safe for work. you could argue it’s not that obvious until you look closely, but the same can be said for an NSFW text post.

this in general feels like a non-issue, though. the post is a sonichu meme, not a news article, not an OC you spent months on, nor an interesting discussion post. either you give in and tag it, or the mods give in and remove it, then we all move on with our lives.

if moving on involves you not posting on certain communities anymore, sure, go for it.

yeah, i’d say there’s a difference between borrowing a word from another language/dialect and using a word that was invented to be racist.

English specifically has a ton of loanwords - “tycoon” is from the Japanese 大君 (taikun) meaning “great prince/high commander”, “balaclava” is from the name of a settlement in Crimea (Балаклава), “pet” is from the Scottish Gaelic “peata” meaning “tame animal”… and that’s just three words out of thousands, from a little digging on wikipedia.

so i’m not sure if excluding AAVE from contributing to the development of English as a language out of ‘respect’ is strictly good or not.

now, i don’t speak AAVE, and i haven’t done any reading about if AAVE speakers mind their vocabulary making its way into broader English slang - if so, then i rescind what i said here. i just think it’s interesting to think about.

another reason to not just use the elytra is always a plus, and another bit of regular, tiered gear is great - hoping they do that for armour next, which tends to be really samey compared to the tool/weapon variety the game has.

it’s unfortunate that both the Nautilus and spears were both leaked beforehand, since it got people speculating about a much larger ocean update which was never gonna be the case. Mojang’s official teasers also basically confirmed the Nautilus leak, which didn’t help.

while i’m fine with them doing smaller updates and touching up old areas of the game, i did find myself saying “cool, but that was it?”, like i did when the happy ghast was announced. really hoping they have something good planned for 1.22 - i would be satisfied with something similar in size to 1.21, but it feels like the community will implode if they don’t do an end update at some point soon.

edited to add: there will probably be more stuff added in snapshots than what they’ve announced here, like there has been for every other “game drop”, so that’s probably not it. still, wish they at least said that… unless they did, and i missed it…

This was, apparently, the wrong move

Well, not exactly. Keep in mind that Undertale was never supposed to get as popular as it did. The player isn’t really supposed to know about how to get the ““true”” endings from the get go, or that they exist.