I thought it might be funny to use the WorldEdit plugin on the server and blow up one of my castles – I backed up the world first of course. I’m really shocked it didn’t actually crash the server. I basically drew an invisible box around the castle and then turned the Obsidian blocks to Netherstone (Obsidian won’t blow up and I want big boom). Then I changed all the Cobblestone to Sand which immediately collapsed in on itself.
Then I used the //undo command to return the Cobblestone to its rightful place while the Sand blocks that occupied open air stayed behind.Turn the Sand blocks to TNT and hit one with a lighter… nice.What castle? I really didn’t think it would eliminate some of the lava source blocks. I like how far the explosion went, with an aerial view it’s just a huge crater.
It’s been over a month now since I’ve posted but it’s for nerdy reasons… I’ve now decided that after years of claiming I was going to build an arcade cabinet, I’m actually going to do it. I’ve done tons of reading online over the past few years – looking at construction plans and seeing what other people have done. Now I think I’m ready… I’ve already got an old P4 computer at my disposal and I’ve taken the first step by purchasing one of the essential pieces that I’ll need for this – an I-Pac controller. I managed to get a 2 player version (USB only) for $37USD with free shipping so I’m pretty excited to get started.
I’ve tested this and it worked with both Windows and Ubuntu Linux without any special drivers. Next I’ll be ordering some push buttons and joysticks and building a prototype control panel. There’s no rush but I’m hoping to have most of this done by the end of the summer.
This particular I-Pac VE (economy version) can be found here.
Almost all my Atari 2600 collection was bought used; I rarely bought new Atari games because by the time I was old enough to earn a little money, Nintendo was ruling and Atari 2600 games were liquidated pretty quickly from retail stores. The last place I know of that carried either Atari 2600 or Intellivision games was Zellers and the only game I recall buying from them was called Challenge.
I bought it because it looked like it was a Ghostbusters game from the picture… and by the way, I don’t think there were any screenshots on the packaging either, just this picture to judge the game by – but hey, it’s undoubtedly Ghostbusters! Look at it! Ghostbusters! I was so excited from saving some money and buying this thing that I couldn’t wait to get it home and shove it in my Atari.
“It’s gonna be fun to blast that big green monster”, I thought to myself - “It must be the final boss fight! Hmmm… I wonder why the title isn’t just ‘Ghostbusters’… Oh who cares? That’s clearly Bill Murray on the right side and maybe it’s even two players since there’s two ghostbusters in the picture.” My imagination streaked into countless possibilities as my excitement grew from the wait of the drive home. I think I may have even preformed a little ritualistic dance of joy just before I turned on the system. Ghostbusters! Yay!
Imagine my disappointment when it turned out to be a puzzle game where you have to guide a duck through a maze filled with rats. It’s over twenty years later and my aneurism still hasn’t healed. A duck. A duck? A duck! What? Are you kidding? But the picture… a duck? Rats? No ghosts? Someone must have done that on purpose and laughed their ass off over the thought of kids thinking this game might actually have something to do with busting ghosts. That asshole. I don’t dance anymore.
Oh …and that music – It stuck in my head and drove me insane. If I could have turned into a big green rage monster, I would have – wait! That’s a great idea for a game! I’ll make a game with the picture of the Hulk on it… only it won’t be the Hulk in the game, it’ll be a beaver! Yes, a beaver that is repeatedly punched in the face by a kangaroo. You’ll have to dodge the punches except that it’s impossible – just like dodging rats with a duck because I suck at Challenge! All the kids out there that wanted to play as the Hulk will have their lives ruined from my big joke that only I’ll find funny. I’ll laugh. I may even dance again.
Now that I’ve managed to get some new equipment in place to host Minecraft, we’re ready for people to start logging in and punching wood. Anyone should be able to log in and look around but to build, you’ll need to be added to the permissions file. Should you want to do that, you can email me at christian@miramichi.net with your username or contact me in the game (Major_Ramsey).
The links on the right will tell you the rules, how to connect and some of the commands that are available to you. Also, check out the live map.
We’ve been having troubles with the server we were using for Minecraft so we’ve had it cancelled for the time being. Right now, I’m working on putting together a new server for Nerd-Cave.net and am hoping to have that up and running soon with Minecraft. The same map and plugins will be imported so nobody should lose any data.
Please be patient, you’ll be punching wood with us again soon.
Then I used the //undo command to return the Cobblestone to its rightful place while the Sand blocks that occupied open air stayed behind.
Turn the Sand blocks to TNT and hit one with a lighter… nice.
What castle? I really didn’t think it would eliminate some of the lava source blocks. 
I like how far the explosion went, with an aerial view it’s just a huge crater.
