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Minecraft....I don't get the love? (1 Viewer)

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comfortably numb

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My kids 9/6 are addicted to this. All their friends as well. Apparently older people as well.

They can sit nonstop for hours and watch Youtube videos of some Australian dude making stuff and commenting.

The graphics are terrible. With all the advancements in gaming technology people are somehow infatuated with a color Atari game.

I tried following and watching but after 5 min it started to give me a headache.

I just don't get the love for this game

 
I sat down with my brother-in-law's daughter for like 15 minutes once to let her show me this game. She is 8, or was at the time. I don't know, apparently you just build ####. And then it sits there...having been built.

I don't get the appeal but I figure it's better than the games I was playing around that age, which was probably shooting zombies and demons in the face with a double barreled shotgun on one of the moons of Mars.

 
PatsWillWin said:
I sat down with my brother-in-law's daughter for like 15 minutes once to let her show me this game. She is 8, or was at the time. I don't know, apparently you just build ####. And then it sits there...having been built.

I don't get the appeal but I figure it's better than the games I was playing around that age, which was probably shooting zombies and demons in the face with a double barreled shotgun on one of the moons of Mars.
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I guess you can go into other peoples world?

I hear my kids screaming that this one went into his world and killed their goat or something.

All hell breaks loose inmy house.

I have to take away Ipads for the rest of the day.

Serious business!

 
comfortably numb said:
PatsWillWin said:
I sat down with my brother-in-law's daughter for like 15 minutes once to let her show me this game. She is 8, or was at the time. I don't know, apparently you just build ####. And then it sits there...having been built.

I don't get the appeal but I figure it's better than the games I was playing around that age, which was probably shooting zombies and demons in the face with a double barreled shotgun on one of the moons of Mars.
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I guess you can go into other peoples world?

I hear my kids screaming that this one went into his world and killed their goat or something.

All hell breaks loose inmy house.

I have to take away Ipads for the rest of the day.

Serious business!
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Okay, I didn't know about the killing goats part. Maybe I'll download it and #### up some kids' farm animals.

 
I'm shuked on this also. I do know it's not just innocent building. They can kill animals in survival mode, but not sure if they can kill each other.

 
Modern day legos but you can go inside what you make.

Sense of property. Get land, build your castle on it, show off to others. Or build one with them .

 
comfortably numb said:
My kids 9/6 are addicted to this. All their friends as well. Apparently older people as well.

They can sit nonstop for hours and watch Youtube videos of some Australian dude making stuff and commenting.

The graphics are terrible. With all the advancements in gaming technology people are somehow infatuated with a color Atari game.

I tried following and watching but after 5 min it started to give me a headache.

I just don't get the love for this game
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HELLO!! This is Stampy!

 
ClownCausedChaos2 said:
comfortably numb said:
My kids 9/6 are addicted to this. All their friends as well. Apparently older people as well.

They can sit nonstop for hours and watch Youtube videos of some Australian dude making stuff and commenting.

The graphics are terrible. With all the advancements in gaming technology people are somehow infatuated with a color Atari game.

I tried following and watching but after 5 min it started to give me a headache.

I just don't get the love for this game
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HELLO!! This is Stampy!
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He is like a Nanny to my kids

 
Ned said:
I'm shuked on this also. I do know it's not just innocent building. They can kill animals in survival mode, but not sure if they can kill each other.
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You can emable that. If you're in a party the lols ramp up pretty quick once someone takes the first shot. Pouring lava on your friends is not out of the question.

 
You forget the best part.

Destroying what your brother or friends built. And crying when your brother or friends destroy what you built. :yes:

 
Sinn Fein said:
ClownCausedChaos2 said:
comfortably numb said:
My kids 9/6 are addicted to this. All their friends as well. Apparently older people as well.

They can sit nonstop for hours and watch Youtube videos of some Australian dude making stuff and commenting.

The graphics are terrible. With all the advancements in gaming technology people are somehow infatuated with a color Atari game.

I tried following and watching but after 5 min it started to give me a headache.

I just don't get the love for this game
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HELLO!! This is Stampy!
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He is like a Nanny to my kids
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:lmao: That makes me feel a little better about myself. At lease I know I'm not alone.

 
matuski said:
You forget the best part.

Destroying what your brother or friends built. And crying when your brother or friends destroy what you built. :yes:
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Right.

I heard my kids crying one day i walk in and my son says his sister destroyed his building.

He was all pissed.

Im looking all over the room for the parts of legos or blocks.

Then he tells me it was in his minecraft world

:confused:

 
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You guys know that Stampy makes somewhere around 200,000 GBP per month from his videos? Makes me hate him even more...

 
I'll never forget the day my younger daughter discovered dynamite.

For the sake of peace in the house, we had to ban dynamite, unless she was setting a trap - that is still fair game. Blowing up everything, just to blow it up is off-limits...

 
Sinn Fein said:
I'll never forget the day my younger daughter discovered dynamite.

For the sake of peace in the house, we had to ban dynamite, unless she was setting a trap - that is still fair game. Blowing up everything, just to blow it up is off-limits...
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:lmao: griefers

 
Yep, my kids are always either playing or watching Minecraft videos. Stampy and Dan are their favorites.

 
TenTimes said:
Modern day legos but you can go inside what you make.

Sense of property. Get land, build your castle on it, show off to others. Or build one with them .
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:goodposting:

It sounds simple, but I see how it brings the creativity out in my kids. I love it. They have a blast building houses and chasing wild animals. Then, when the creepers, zombies and spiders come around, they freak out and have a blast.

 
(HULK) said:
Who is Stampy and how is he making money via Minecraft?
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He's a British guy builds worlds in Minecraft and makes YouTube videos of playing in them. Thousands of people then watch, like, and share his videos. Advertisers pay him to put ads on his YouTube channel.

Voila - Internet riches for playing a game.

 
MikeIke said:
Yep, my kids are always either playing or watching Minecraft videos. Stampy and Dan are their favorites.
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This is another thing. This stupid game has videos and people actually watch this BS? I weep for our future.

 
What is an appropriate age to introduce your child to the game? My son is 4 and was introduced to the videos by another child at the babysitter's. At this point, he doesn't know that it is anything beyond videos, which I'm pretty fine with at this point.

I've heard of Minecraft, but the knowledge that I have of it is limited to what I've seen monitoring the videos that he watches. It seems innocent enough, but I'm always skeptical of anything that allows for adults and children to play in the same sandbox.

I think 4 is too young, but I'm just curious as to when others let their children play. If it is like "modern day Legos" and has an educational aspect to it, I'm interested in finding out more about it. And while I know there is some division in society about how much time kids should spend on computers (if any), I'm of the belief that indoctrination them on computers is fine if monitored and at a healthy level. It's the future and there is no avoiding it.

Should I set up my own Minecraft account and start fiddling with it?

 
Ned said:
MikeIke said:
Yep, my kids are always either playing or watching Minecraft videos. Stampy and Dan are their favorites.
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This is another thing. This stupid game has videos and people actually watch this BS? I weep for our future.
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I've watched a few videos with my kids. Some of them are funny. :shrug: My kids are older though, and I don't think the videos are from this Stampy guy.

Some Tobuscus videos are funny.

 
ClownCausedChaos2 said:
What is an appropriate age to introduce your child to the game? My son is 4 and was introduced to the videos by another child at the babysitter's. At this point, he doesn't know that it is anything beyond videos, which I'm pretty fine with at this point.

I've heard of Minecraft, but the knowledge that I have of it is limited to what I've seen monitoring the videos that he watches. It seems innocent enough, but I'm always skeptical of anything that allows for adults and children to play in the same sandbox.

I think 4 is too young, but I'm just curious as to when others let their children play. If it is like "modern day Legos" and has an educational aspect to it, I'm interested in finding out more about it. And while I know there is some division in society about how much time kids should spend on computers (if any), I'm of the belief that indoctrination them on computers is fine if monitored and at a healthy level. It's the future and there is no avoiding it.

Should I set up my own Minecraft account and start fiddling with it?
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My son started playing at 4 but i suck at parenting

 
ClownCausedChaos2 said:
What is an appropriate age to introduce your child to the game? My son is 4 and was introduced to the videos by another child at the babysitter's. At this point, he doesn't know that it is anything beyond videos, which I'm pretty fine with at this point.

I've heard of Minecraft, but the knowledge that I have of it is limited to what I've seen monitoring the videos that he watches. It seems innocent enough, but I'm always skeptical of anything that allows for adults and children to play in the same sandbox.

I think 4 is too young, but I'm just curious as to when others let their children play. If it is like "modern day Legos" and has an educational aspect to it, I'm interested in finding out more about it. And while I know there is some division in society about how much time kids should spend on computers (if any), I'm of the belief that indoctrination them on computers is fine if monitored and at a healthy level. It's the future and there is no avoiding it.

Should I set up my own Minecraft account and start fiddling with it?
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We have it on PS3 and havent had a single person come into our 'world'. I'm guessing the kid-adult exposure is pretty minimal. My 4 year old loves watching my other 2 kids, 6 and 8, and will even run around a bit, but doesn't really have much interest in playing herself.

 
comfortably numb said:
ClownCausedChaos2 said:
What is an appropriate age to introduce your child to the game? My son is 4 and was introduced to the videos by another child at the babysitter's. At this point, he doesn't know that it is anything beyond videos, which I'm pretty fine with at this point.

I've heard of Minecraft, but the knowledge that I have of it is limited to what I've seen monitoring the videos that he watches. It seems innocent enough, but I'm always skeptical of anything that allows for adults and children to play in the same sandbox.

I think 4 is too young, but I'm just curious as to when others let their children play. If it is like "modern day Legos" and has an educational aspect to it, I'm interested in finding out more about it. And while I know there is some division in society about how much time kids should spend on computers (if any), I'm of the belief that indoctrination them on computers is fine if monitored and at a healthy level. It's the future and there is no avoiding it.

Should I set up my own Minecraft account and start fiddling with it?
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My son started playing at 4 but i suck at parenting
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So do I, so...

 
ClownCausedChaos2 said:
What is an appropriate age to introduce your child to the game? My son is 4 and was introduced to the videos by another child at the babysitter's. At this point, he doesn't know that it is anything beyond videos, which I'm pretty fine with at this point.

I've heard of Minecraft, but the knowledge that I have of it is limited to what I've seen monitoring the videos that he watches. It seems innocent enough, but I'm always skeptical of anything that allows for adults and children to play in the same sandbox.

I think 4 is too young, but I'm just curious as to when others let their children play. If it is like "modern day Legos" and has an educational aspect to it, I'm interested in finding out more about it. And while I know there is some division in society about how much time kids should spend on computers (if any), I'm of the belief that indoctrination them on computers is fine if monitored and at a healthy level. It's the future and there is no avoiding it.

Should I set up my own Minecraft account and start fiddling with it?
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My kids 8/10 now, have been playing for a couple of years, they do everything locally - first on the computer, then ipods/ipads, now xbox. We don't let them go on anyone else's server - and as far as I know, none of their friends do either, but they will have friends over and they get on each others worlds on the pocket edition (I think they have to be on the same network to connect).

 
Ned said:
MikeIke said:
Yep, my kids are always either playing or watching Minecraft videos. Stampy and Dan are their favorites.
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This is another thing. This stupid game has videos and people actually watch this BS? I weep for our future.
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You almost need a mechanical engineering degree to build some of the systems in this game. I needed youtube tutorials for that.

 
TenTimes said:
Modern day legos but you can go inside what you make.

Sense of property. Get land, build your castle on it, show off to others. Or build one with them .
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This.

Great game for kids IMO... builds spatial reasoning, creativity, math, etc. Some kids get a little TOO into it if left unchecked (Buddy's kids never look up from their ipads when playing), but when rationed responsibly there's not many games I'd rather my kids be playing.

 
I find the youtube watching most fascinating.

I'm trying to think back to my youth if I would spend hours watching video commentary of some dude playing Zelda or Mario Bros.

 
watching/getting stampy is :headsplode:, but the game is pretty great- as has been said, it's Legos but getting to inhabit and share the virtual world and space.

not a fan of the killing component, but :shrug:

 
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TenTimes said:
Modern day legos but you can go inside what you make.

Sense of property. Get land, build your castle on it, show off to others. Or build one with them .
Click to expand...
This.

Great game for kids IMO... builds spatial reasoning, creativity, math, etc. Some kids get a little TOO into it if left unchecked (Buddy's kids never look up from their ipads when playing), but when rationed responsibly there's not many games I'd rather my kids be playing.
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soooo letting the kids play is a good thing.

I don't suck that bad at parenting

 
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