going by the date of its initial release as a dev prototype, minecraft will turn ten years old on May 17 this year
there are adults now who regard minecraft (especially its soundtrack if youtube is anything to go by) as a cherished, nostalgic childhood memory the same way i think of tony hawk's underground
there are kids who were born after minecraft, who will spend their whole youth in a culture suffused with the background radiation of its influence, and who will grow up regarding it as some kind of cultural eigenvalue
@typhlosion there are kids who already think of Minecraft as Actually Retro
@typhlosion time is a line, culture is a fuck
@typhlosion fuck is a shape, a shape nothing should ever be
@efi are these They Might Be Giants lyrics
@typhlosion never heard of them
@efi @typhlosion we shape the things we fuck, there after they fuck us
@typhlosion time is a flat circle. anything we have done or will ever do will be commemorated by a special edition latte.
@yaodema can't wait for the starbucks mars landing mocha frappuccino
@typhlosion i should read that manga (again)
it's good.
@typhlosion can you explain eigenvalue in this context?
I searched it but I got words like "planar transformation vector" and "scalar" and promptly hit the eject button
I'm pretty sure "scalar" is just a posh word for what it feels like when you pet a dragon, but I'm too sleepy for vector transformations ;~;
@pastelbat oh oops. the prefix eigen- refers to, in a broad general sense, something that stays the same in some way when a transformation is applied to it. (in linear algebra, the eigenvectors of a transformation are ones that don't change their direction when you subject them to that transformation)
@pastelbat here i intended it to mean that minecraft is going to be interpreted by some people born after its release as this immutable fact of culture, because it has had so much staying power and so much influence
@typhlosion thankyou, this makes sense!
@typhlosion I didn't really get into minecraft until i was 15 or 16 but its still a pretty formative game when it comes to the kinda games i enjoy now. It can't hold my attention nearly as much anymore now but I do still appreciate the game and the modding community that all made their own takes of what more they think minecraft should have
i was thinking earlier about how hard it is for me to imagine that starbucks will ever go away, likely just because it's been around since a few decades before i was born - a long time from my perspective, but not particularly long at all in terms of human culture. then i thought about the concept of minecraft nostalgia and i realized that time is a spiral