Lessons I've learnt from Minecraft
Minecraft was probably the first video game I ever loved. I remember when we first got a family desktop computer, it came with a Microsoft trial version of the game. For sixty minutes at a time, my brother and I would squeeze side by side, arguing with each other as one person manned the keyboard and another the mouse, as we walked around the blocky world and punched whatever we set our sights on. The first time the day turned into night, the square sun setting and a square moon rising, the very first enemy mobs began to spawn. And the first one we encountered – the first one we died to, in fact, looked to a fresh pre-teen high living in the age of the internet creepypasta phenomenon, just like Slenderman . Took this screenshot exploring the latest update on creative mode. I like to think they're distant cousins. Tall. Long limbs, completely pitch black save for glowing purple eyes. The power to teleport. While now the Enderman is recognizable to any twelve-year-old with int...
