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Re: My New (Sorta) Windows-11 Laptop

By: De_Composed in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 23 Jul 25 5:03 AM | 18 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 11035 of 11035
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Re: “By the way, my five year old grandson is a BIG fan of minecroft.”He must be very bright. You should ask him to teach you how to play.

TBH, my first thought was, "He's probably seen the movie" - because a 5-year-old couldn't possibly play minecraft.

But then I remembered that while most computer games have levels of difficulty ranging from Beginner to Advanced, Minecraft goes one lower - to "Construction" mode, in which you cannot die, cannot run out of supplies, and can FLY - both through the air and through the oceans or earth. I find that dull, but I'm not five. So, yeah. I can see how your grandson would enjoy it.

If you look online, you can find some incredible things people have imagined and built in Minecraft Construction mode: The Taj Mahal, The Giza pyramids, Flying cities, Amusement Parks. Has anyone built Disneyland? Probably. (Yes. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy8wgFjeI8Q ) I can see how a 5-year-old would love that, though I don't think he'd be the one doing the building.

Then I thought about it a little more.

Minecraft has THOUSANDS of shells available, creating worlds that simulate everything from the Jurassic period to life in the asteroid belt to the world's biggest shopping mall. They have under-the-sea worlds. Hell. Ta-ta City (for the Beldins.) You can play in single-player mode or with any number of friends. The record for the most concurrent players in a single Minecraft world is 2,622, but Grok tells me that Microsoft servers have a theoretical limit of more than two BILLION concurrent players. Virtually infinite, the worlds can be large enough that the people don't even necessarily find one another. (In reality, everyone tends to gravitate toward the coordinates 0,0,0.)

My point is that the worlds are enormous - much bigger than a player can ever hope to see unless he's on an X-box one version where the world is only 10,000 x 10,000 blocks, or he's in a shell that permits space travel.

Has anybody created a shell for 5-year-olds? I'm sure of it. No violence, learning about policemen and firemen, the alphabet and counting. Fairy tale characters, too.

I don't think your grandson would enjoy the Minecraft I play - where, even if the monsters don't kill you and you don't fall into a lava pit or drown, you'll starve to death in three days (each being twenty minutes long) if you don't find food. Lightning strikes can burn your house down, or spawn speedy stallions made of bones and ridden by ghouls that will hunt you down. But, of course, you can build bombs and guns and hunt THEM down too, sometimes wearing a Jack-o-lantern on your head so they don't realize you're their enemy until it's too late.

The video below will probably bore you. But skip to the twenty minute mark and watch the last minute or two and I think you'll enjoy it. Or the Disneyland video, above. It's amazing.

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Re: My New (Sorta) Windows-11 Laptop
By: Zimbler0 in GRITZ
Wed, 23 Jul 25 12:36 AM 		Msg. 11029 of 11035

Hey De.
Thanks for the tips and tricks.

My 'tax computer' runs Win-11 and the only thing I do on it is taxes. But I should probably 'correct' several of its 'fixes'.

I've been a long term user of Libre Office. I love it. It's biggest shortcoming is nothing compatible with Microsoft Access. Libre Office seems to open and allow me to work with all my other old Office files.

By the way, my five year old grandson is a BIG fan of minecroft.

Zim.

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