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.

This story reminds me of some friends of mine who are super adamant that you shouldn't tell your kids Santa Claus is real, because when they grow up and find out you deceived them how can they EVER trust you again? My only reaction was that humans aren't robots, we operate on fuzzy logic, and empirically we know we somehow trust our parents anyway, logical contradictions notwithstanding. Their response was just an argument-stopping, "But do we tho?" Whatever dudes, I know I do. Anyway, your dad did an awesome thing, and it's also awesome that Minecraft has been around long enough for people to grow up and have fond childhood memories of it.

Dude we can differentiate between someone lying to us to deceive us or someone 'lying' to us to make us happy/help us. At least in retrospect.
Sure maybe the kid in this post can't trust his dad anymore. But he can 100% trust that his dad always wanted the best for him.
people who try to live 100% deception-free are deceiving themselves
it's more important to teach kids when to be truthful (when they're young, that's almost always) and when to be politely or justly deceptive (when the next door neighbor asks if you liked her cookies you say "yes" even if they sucked, and when a police officer asks if you've seen the kid in this photo you say "nah, I don't know him")
"mom lied about Santa!" eventually gives way to "I'm glad my mom created Christmas magic for me when I was a kid, so that I could enjoy child-like wonder and traditional holiday mythology"
I get what you are saying but at the same time I can relate to your friends as well. It's definitely not a hill I would die on and I wouldn't judge a parent who made a different choice than me, I don't think there is a objectively correct answer here. I also don't think it's a huge deal either way.
I think OP's story would have hit a little different if the Dad had been the one to tell the son about portals to the Ether in the first place.
I'm sure everyone reacts to the information differently and it probably depends on how young you are when you find out, what kind of relationship you have with your parents, and how sensitive you are about honesty.
It wasn't a big deal for you when you learned the truth and I'm glad. I'd be willing to bet your friends had different experiences though. I think they are both valid.
It wasn't a huge deal for me, but I remember how I felt when I found out and it isn't a happy memory. I didn't exactly never trust my mom again, but I did learn that no one in life- no matter how much you trust them- will ever be 100% with you all the time. That's part of growing up and every one has to learn it sooner or later, but it just seemed like it was unnecessary. I was also 5 years old when I figured it out, I'm not sure if this is particularly early or not but I remember it was kind of a bummer.
I'm sure from my moms pov she had fond memories of believing in Santa and wanted the same thing for her kids. I don't' ever remember thinking it was like a malicious thing, but I also couldn't help but notice how it was used to keep my younger brother and sister in line. "If you don't behave Santa won't come this year" type thing, so at least part of it was feeling manipulated.
TLDR: don't judge your friends too harshly. They probably have reasons to feel like they do.

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.

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 🥹

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

Gay: it made me cry

Rest in peace.

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?

"sometimes?"

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.

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...

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.