• glimse
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    Minecraft was always for kids. But they’re right that kids weren’t playing it at the very beginning. The alpha was $10 and you paid Notch directly

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      2 months ago

      It’s true, I went to his apartment and slipped $10 under the door.

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        Pretty sure it was PayPal, I dunno. My friend just sent me the exe and I played on the SomethingAwful server for a night

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        He is? The only things I know about him are that he made Minecraft and doesn’t like mechanical keyboards. What did he do that makes you hate him?

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          When he sold Minecraft to Microsoft he became a billionaire, quickly lost touch of reality, and fell down the right-wing pipeline to become a total shithead. He kept posting homophobic comments on Twitter, called for a heterosexual pride parade and suggested anyone opposed to one should be shot, and bought into the whole QAnon nonsense. There is a reason Minecraft hardly acknowledges his existence anymore, Mojang distanced themselves from him because of his behaviour.

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            Fair enough, thank you for the information.

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        I didn’t say it wasn’t for adults