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this. Minecraft used to ship with it's own copy of Java for the same reason... just in case you didn't have Java.

Yeah that firms up my hypothesis that those two places had more traffic and thus were the places that needed an immediate response. I'm sure once it all blows over we'll get some sort of post here, maybe.

this... all of this. I still don't know why they haven't... but oh well. I guess people are finding out through the grapevine, but the information is so fragmented it's hard to get the whole story. I guess maybe the reasons they addressed Reddit and Discord is that's where the community was going the wildest, perhaps? Too much to guess and too many unknowns there, but hey at least people are hearing the truth, eventually.

to be fair, ConfigLib wasn't his only mod to contain this anti-cheat code. He just forgot to remove it (according to him) and did remove it from the others once he felt its job had been done. It was never about creating a universal anti-cheat, it was about stopping that ONE mod. So to him, his method of detection and delivery was worth the repercussions if it meant that one mod author stopped trying to not only make others cheat, but also make money doing it since the cheat mod was a paid mod at that time. People either seem to forget this or are just ignorant of this fact, either by choice or not, but the information is out there and it is relevant in this case since it relates to WHY Maltiez did it. That is a very polarizing way to put it that is likely to earn you very polarized responses. At the very least it's going to make the statement itself come true in that people will add you to their "ignore" lists so anything you say on the forums goes rightfully (in their minds) ignored. Basically what I'm saying is that first impressions are everything and this isn't a good one. Beastmaster is fun innit?

I see you like ordering from the secret menu at the Pizza Shack...

Fair enough, I was just curious what countries exist in which failure to report a crime is a crime... like how would they even know outside of you snitching on yourself. Seems pretty wild to me, but then again, I live in America so my whole philosophy is generally "Live and let live."

Correct! Also a valid choice. No worries. I found myself recently doing the same thing I was accusing others of doing so maybe we all need to eat a bit of humble pie and just let this whole thing blow over. BTW, I live in the USA. What country are you from?

It's because the book wasn't thrown at him that makes me think there's more going on that we realize, which is why I'm careful to state the facts around this situation and not delve into speculation. Clearly something is going on, but NONE of us here have a clue because we aren't intimately involved with the finer details. We can suppose, infer, predict, and even wish REALLY hard, but none of it matters until evidence proves otherwise...and the lack of evidence is really the limiting factor here. NONE of this is to say that your concerns are invalid, but that they must fit into the known facts of the case which are that: Maltiez did a bad on the ModDB Maltiez got banned from the ModDB Maltiez got handslapped by his boss And that's pretty much it. Also known facts, not relevant to the discussion, what Maltiez did could be a terminable offense for some employers, his own expressed intentions were to shutdown the cheat mod development (which he succeeded), Maltiez does not speak for Anego Studios as a whole, and @Michaloid likes waffles. Do you prefer them with fruit and whipped cream or butter and syrup? And if the latter, which kind of syrup? There is a correct answer here, btw and you will be judged for answering poorly.

I'm out of reactions for the day, so pretend I gave you a cookie for this comment.

Plus you aren't literally losing an entire month just to find and explore the Resonance Archive...or am I the only one who does this without talking to the trader first?

Yeah, I get that. This one of those instances where I said exactly what I meant and expected everyone to take it at face value. Silly neurotypicals reading between the lines. For what it's worth my 9 year old is a very upstanding and respectful person and has really challenged me in a lot of ways to think differently and approach problems and issues with an open mind so being compared to him is a compliment if anything... I jest, but what I said about him is true. The problem is that I can't take back what I said. I can only try to explain my intended framing. I can't help it if people refuse to accept my explanation because they've already chosen to be offended by everything I say. Probably time for me to exit stage left and go back to lurking.

See: You can read whatever you want into it. I was just literally saying that I recognized that you seemed like you weren't being heard so I took a similar approach that I take with my kid which is to stop, back up, listen, acknowledge, and then move on. It's a sort of "reboot" tactic that is used with people of all ages to get them out of their rut and help them move forward with their thoughts and emotions. You chose to read it the other way by being emotional about it. I can't really help you with that except to acknowledge that you feel strongly about this and I'm sorry that you've decided every response of mine to you is a personal attack. I'm just trying to be logical about this so if my rejection of emotion feels like a rejection of you, then I have no words except to again, say I'm sorry and try to move on. I just followed your arguments to their logical conclusions as a literary point to demonstrate the absurdity of what you were saying. That's a debate tactic called reductio ad absurdum in which you provisionally accept your opponent's premise, then trace out its logical implications until you arrive at a conclusion that's obviously false, self-contradictory, or absurd, which shows that the original premise is flawed and must be rejected. The whole field of glass argument was the same reductio ad absurdum with a rhetorical-question delivery. I took your stated principle ("Maltiez must be punished", which you then declared wasn't enough when he got his hands slapped) and pushed it through to asking "What would be enough, this extreme that obviously won't ever happen?" It served a dual purpose: First to expose the absurdity of wanting someone's life potentially ruined for a mistake and second to expose the shifting goalposts you have had throughout your entire arguments. Turns out I was listening from the start. I just tend not to engage with those who can't debate in good faith.

They could be melted down but let's math this out... 20 nuggets to make an ingot 1 ingot makes 9 arrow heads. with some extra waste Yeah that maths out.

Nobody addressed it because it wasn't pertinent to the matter. I only said something about it because after repeating it so often, it made me realize that it was something weighing heavily on your mind and you didn't feel heard on the matter. So I paused, let you speak your piece, acknowledged it, and moved on. I have to do this all the time with my 9-year-old because he will beat a topic into the ground until you think it's dirt if he feels like no one is listening to him. So I listened. What I didn't do was change my mind. I still don't think it has anything to do with how Anego should have treated Maltiez. The reason we have so many forum posts is because we've been around long enough to see the different perspectives and discuss them in a healthy manner. Implying that we haven't looked at or considered other perspectives is a pretty big miss on your part. The problem with those other perspectives is that they rely on personal emotion getting mixed into the matter and thus those perspectives, while valid to the person seeing things that way, are not relevant to the issue at hand, which demands that personal emotion be removed from it entirely. That is why we reject your opinions and substitute our facts. We've seen it all, experienced it all, and can probably explain it to a 5 year old, which is Neil DeGrasse Tyson's litmus test of true understanding of a topic. And reframing your "call out" as a call for people to think is exactly what a call out does. You think you're being nice and having good intentions, but you came in here with the preconceived notion that everyone with a bunch of forum posts wasn't capable of thinking about others and hearing their thoughts when the exact opposite couldn't closer to the truth. If anything you were projecting. Anyway I hope this helps you understand why some of the forum giants around here aren't all that amused with what you said.

The only problem with that is that block breaking, I believe, is shared between players so two players can mine the same block at double the speed.