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Hey guy's Nullatrum here. Today I was showering and thought to myself
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I wonder if I could build a shower in minecraft. And after some more of the
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thought
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I realized that this task could easily be done
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I'd imagine it would just take some fancy pistons work, redstone wiring, and a
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pretty cover over the contraption.
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Maybe it would be a bit gross in size but heck, you'd have a shower in minecraft. I then
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thought
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How many more real things could I build in minecraft? Boats? Buildings?
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Computers? I realized that really anything I could think of could be built in
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Minecraft
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The question then evolved. It was no longer "how much real life stuff can you
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build in Minecraft"?
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My question became "What is the difference between real-life and
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Minecraft?"
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well minecraft being based on many things in earth
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is bound to have similarities. As we all know, precious metals are borrowed into
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Minecraft.
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Plants, animals, food, water, oceans, biomes
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but what else is it that makes up video games? The action?
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Minecraft has that- with swords and bows as well as hunger.
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all ideas which are borrowed from things used in real life. What other categories
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of Minecraft are comparable to real life?
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The soundtrack? Well, music is kind of a strange comparison, so, there isn't
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really much you can say there.
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Graphics? well you can actually build very realistic complex images
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comparable
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to real life ones. What about the story? There's something Minecraft is completely
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different from real life. Minecraft doesn't even have a story, so
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we know there's a difference. Right? That answer is actually wrong.
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First we must ask with the story minecraft exactly is?
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Minecraft is a sandbox game meaning that you can go around with no real objective
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just playing with materials set in front of you. There may be small tasks along the way so
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that you can achieve something,
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but overall there isn't really an objective, for instance you may say in Minecraft
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"I want to build a house!"
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so you go and punch some trees as any other new player would. You take the wood, make it into a
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work bench with that you make the appropriate tools.
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All the materials are then acquired, and you build your house. Huzzah!
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now what? Okay maybe then you decide "Hey, I wish I had a cool tree farm next to my
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house!"
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So you go and plot the land. You seed the area, and prepare your building-like
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structure
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around it. After that you may decide, "Get some diamonds" why not?
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maybe next you want to explore and conquer every area of land available.
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Okay, afterwards maybe decide to expand your original house and
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make it out of diamonds why not? After a while, you seem to get bored and
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now what? quit Minecraft? That's what happens.
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and if it hasn't happened to you it will sometime in your life. You may be saying
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to yourself
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okay maybe in Minecraft I don't have a real objective but
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in real life I certainly do. Perhaps you can claim so
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but ask yourself what truly is your objective in real life?
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Do you want to graduate school? Now what? Get a job?
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Now what? Get married? Now what? Have kids?
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Now what? Become famous? Now what? Retire peacefully?
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Now what? Quit real life? That's what happens.
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and if it hasn't happened to you, it will sometime in your life.
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We all die at some point, we all quit Minecraft at some point, in both worlds
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quitting is inevitable. We have a finite amount of time
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to do as we please within them, and whatever we do
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will have no effect on the outcome. We will eventually no longer exist in Minecraft,
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and we will eventually no longer exist
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in real life. After we have overstayed our visit in either world,
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it won't matter what you did in them, we just simply won't exist within that
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world.
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Just like how being able to build a mansion in minecraft doesn't change your
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reputation in
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Fable 2, stealing or vandalizing won't make a difference
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once you're dead. People will argue
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whether we have some purpose or set goal in this world. People will argue
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what that purpose is.
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But one truth we all must accept is this: No matter what you do,
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you will die. No matter how badly you want to live or how good or
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bad of a person you are, you will die. You could have graduated college and been
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the successful person put as a milestone for us all and will still die.
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You could also just sit in your room for days and die.
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Enjoy it or not earth is all too similar to Minecraft. So similar that it's
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eerie to me.
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Life is literally a sandbox game, there will be a time where we no longer
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play it,
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and this is the biggest truth humanity knows. On the subject of truths,
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I made a video over a year ago talking about the size of Minecraft.
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In it I did some basic math to find the surface area of Minecraft.
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Eventually, I wanted to compare it to earth. I claimed,
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due to the math I found, that the surface area of Minecraft was 7,000
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times greater than the earth.
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It only took me a week to find out, by an insightful post on the Minecraft Forum,
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how I made an error in my math. Turns out,
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The surface area of Minecraft is only 7 times greater than the earth. Not
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7,000.
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Why didn't I change it? Many of you will ask.
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Well call me evil or whatever, but I wanted to conduct an experiment.
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and you, my great subscribers, were one of my experiment's
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variables. That's right, once I knew the truth,
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I wanted to see how many of you would believe me, and how many
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would falsify me. What I found was two groups of people emerging.
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Those of you that accepted what I claimed with nothing telling you otherwise,
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and those of you that dug into the question and proved me wrong.
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by logical reasoning I was clearly falsified
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but that didn't stop people from believing my claim. In fact,
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many of you who believed me continued to, even after exposed to the evidence
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that 100 percent
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falsifies me. This in no way is an insult to any of you.
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For those of you who stepped out and spoke against the crowd,
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kudos. But for those of you who didn't, in no way is it your fault.
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Honestly, it's my fault. But this brought an interesting insight into human nature.
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Like with the video, humankind has done this sort of thing countless times.
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Whether it's lies by governing authority,
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a false scientist, or a prophet, similar results occur like those with my video.
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And in some cases, amplified to a worse degree
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These include things like witch-hunting, crusades,
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genocide, wars, all of these things come from lies.
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But I'm distracting myself. After all this is just a Minecraft video
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I guess if I were to tell you the point of this video, it would be something like this
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Whatever game you play, make it count. Knowing one day you won't be able to
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play the game again
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enjoy the time you have with it.
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Decide what you want to do or think, not what others tell you to,
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help others with the game, make the game better.
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Remember that while we may not always be playing the game,
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countless people in the future will. So why don't we try to create a game
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that's friendly for everyone. Let's make a game where we can all have fun.
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Thanks for watching.