Ether portal

be me

20 years old when Minecraft Alpha is released, buy it in Alpha to get all future updates

feel like playing recently

sold to Microsoft and they deleted my account

I hate you Microsoft

Exact same thing happened to me. Still salty and refuse to play it again
- Agreed. And pirating it is now more difficult because of the shitty garbage movie that made a billion dollars. Plus I don’t know that I can play with my partner on a pirated copy.
- !luanti@lemmy.zip is a great open source alternative—especially if you played Minecraft a long time ago, and if you refuse to play Microsoft’s Minecraft.
- Vintage Story is an excellent game, worth checking out.
I was always wondering about this. Also had an alpha account, assumed it ended after the sale. Sad to see it confirmed 😔
- They had a long time period where you could port your mojang account to a Microsoft account, but eventually they shutdown the mojang authentication.
I might just spam these comments, but, check out Vintage Story.
- Vintage Story is just a better game all around and I will die on this hill. It's a very pretty game too
Same thing happened to me. Still pissed off
- Just pirate it, who cares?
sold to Microsoft and they deleted my account
Yeah, there was a period where you had to join your Mojang account to a MS account, then they eventually shut down the Mojang auth entirely. If you didn't change over during that time you're SOL. It was announced it was coming over a year before they actually did it.
I go back and play Minecraft every now and then, usually heavily modded. Been playing through the Material Energy 5 modpack for the past little bit.
- I'm still stuck bouncing between 1.7.10 and 1.12.2, the former of which came out over a decade ago (oof) but there's just so many quality packs from that era (GT:NH comes to mind but I also really dig stuff with RotaryCraft). I do more factorio and satisfactory these days but wow do some of those packs take a solid amount of time to get through.

Best Father’s Day story I’ve read so far. I really hope it’s true. But since this is EXACTLY the kinda thing I would do for my boy so I’m sure it is.

The aether mod has been around for a long time, so dad probably found that.

be me
hate greentext posts
encounter one that must be upvoted

My dad is a living trash human.

I hope I can be remembered fondly, like this dad, by my kids.

My dad is a dead trash human. I was kinda sad when he died, but life has been so much easier since.
I will only remember that your dad was a living trash human. Sorry
This is why I chose not to procreate, I wouldn't be a good mom and so there wouldn't be any grown kids using me as an example of what not to do
I specifically didn't have kids because of my own father.
Turned out later in life I regretted it and wished I had made more of an effort to have a child, I think I would have been an okay father. I learned from the worst how to not be the worst, I just had way too many demons to battle through adulthood before I felt remotely capable of raising another human and not breaking them also, so it's probably good that I didn't, but having nieces and nephews made me really wish I could have experienced that kind of love.
It's too late now, but I think about what alternate lives would have been like. I wonder if we get to experience every possible instance of our own lives.

I don't understand why the dad would lie about the mod. Wouldn't that be a great thing to teach your son?

I never played Minecraft, but I was a teen when the original Quake came out, and I LOVED exploring all the different mods.

In the early days of minecraft modding, it was a real pain in the ass. You had to extract the jar and replace class files directly and rejar it. Mod loaders didnt really exist at that time.

Fake: It's a feel good story posted on 4chan

Gay: it made me cry

Very wholesome, my dad would do something like that. I miss him every day.

Dad's in the ether now. Build a portal, go get him back
- Thanks, the thought made me smile
He loves you. ❤️
Loves. You.
- Thanks friend 🥹

"sometimes?"

Very very wholesome, thank you.

Well, mine always said I was stupid for wasting my time with video games.

- Why would something fun that you like be a waste of time? Why do you hate yourself?

I don't get it? The portal is in the base game?

That's a nether portal, we're talking about an Ether portal. ;)
I played a mod that introduced portals between arbitrary locations, I'm guessing that's what the dad installed.
- Does the Ether mod just put you to sleep lmao -- I prefer the Aether mods
- The Aether mod was a comprehensive addition to the base game that added a plane much like the nether. You made an aether portal with glowstone and water. It was magical - sky islands, lots of unique enemies, dungeons with bosses, new gear. One of the best Minecraft mods for sure.

Anon misses his dad, but only sometimes. Hmm.

This is OK. You don't have to weep bitterly 100% of the time for the rest of your life. It gets easier over the years because the hardest of the pain happens less frequently. People mourn how they mourn. Let them be as they are. Happy memories are very helpful.
It felt weird to me as well after such a heartwarming story.

Cool story. I might believe one could learn to make a "portal mod" in a day, but not a new dimension and worldgen.

Aether mod is a thing.
- It's one of the first big mods.
Poster is saying his dad installed the mod, not that he made it
- Thanks, I see that now. While reading it, I think the story lost credibility for me around "time mechanic" (which likely was Dad's white lie), and I presumed it was another one of those posts that takes a hard-left into fantasy land... also didn't help that my son watches and believes the plethora of minecraft hoax videos, and that I knew about the water portal hoax, but not the mod... also curse of knowledge painted the ambiguous "learning mods" as a development effort, not learning how to install/use.
Are you trolling or just dumb?
- Just dumb expert-blindness...