{"id":3932,"date":"2015-09-05T07:55:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2015-09-05T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:52:18","slug":"the-curse-of-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 7 year old granddaughter was playing Minecraft<\/a><\/strong> on her IPad. I guess you aren\u2019t C00L<\/span> if you\u2019re a kid and don\u2019t have an IPad. Hers was acquired second hand from her mom.<\/p>\n

Anyway she was smashing and building all types of blocky things and telling me about all kinds of monsters that inhabit the software program. She was spending summer days with us as her parents worked, the game program helped keep her busy. I thought it was a kids game.<\/p>\n

I had just loaded a new version of Ubuntu on my \u201cSandbox\u201d computer and I noticed a free version of Minecraf<\/strong>t was enabled on the new install. So I started it and invited my granddaughter to see what I had on my computer. She was of course thrilled and took over my keyboard.<\/p>\n

It is amazing what a seven year old girl knows about operating a computer and mouse. She was using touch screen on the IPad, but the mouse on my computer was not even a challenge to her. Nothing Poppa (me) could teach her…<\/p>\n

We had an enjoyable hour or so of her showing what Minecraft<\/strong> was all about. So I was hooked to learn more so I could play along with her. That evening I purchased the full version and got it operational on my office computer.<\/p>\n

A month later now and she has started school again, so I have been playing it all by myself having been qualified by an expert. I developed very complex buildings and actually had 6 \u201cworlds\u201d in which to explore. Since I am retired, I was spending many hours playing fantasy world in the lands of Minecraft<\/strong>.\u00a0 Way too many hours.<\/p>\n

I had a long talk with myself that school had started and I didn\u2019t have my granddaughter to entertain and that I was no longer doing anything constructive with my time. She prefers to do her own thing rather than explore (and break) my creations.\u00a0 I was just playing and putting off shop projects I wanted to work on. Minecraft<\/strong> is truly just a non-productive computer game. Entertainment value only.<\/p>\n

So I have pulled the plug. All six of my Minecraft<\/strong> world creations are forever gone. The start icon is removed from my task bar. I am a normal grandpa again. I have returned to my favorite Vectric Aspire<\/a> and am designing and making carvings again. Wow! What happened to me? Ha. Only temporary but\u00a0it was wonderful playing with my grand daughter on a somewhat intellectual level.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll do it again the next time she visits for a long spell and will just love starting all over. Grandkids grow up fast. The kid in me<\/strong> got hooked. But it was definitely worth the fling. So maybe it wasn\u2019t a curse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 7 year old granddaughter was playing Minecraft on her IPad. I guess you aren\u2019t C00L if you\u2019re a kid and don\u2019t have an IPad. Hers was acquired second hand from her mom. Anyway she was smashing and building all types of blocky things and telling me about all kinds of monsters that inhabit the software program. She was spending summer days with us as her parents worked, the game program helped keep her busy....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[25,28,92],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-children","tag-computer","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}