Yeah, this is the thing. If my President told me "That building has been taken by traitors and communists and foreign agents," I would go in there and the enemy would actually be killed.
I want to make that clear.
I am not calling for violence, I am not saying we should do violence, I am not saying that I will do violence. Violence is the LAST resort. But if the Legitimately Elected President of the United States spent weeks showing data of an illegal coup, and I saw that data, and it all appeared legit, and everyone who is supposed to act on that data in the legal channels not only failed to correct the error but also refused to even ACKNOWLEDGE the data... and then the President said to me "Okay, we tried to do everything the right way. Now we must fight for our nation," then we would not sake a selfie in Pelosi's chair or carry a podium away or anything else that amounts to A FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR PRANK. We would be washing blood out of carpets for a very long time.
NOBODY WANTS TO HAVE TO DO THAT. I am a Christian Man. If all of these people who have 100% been compromised by foreign actors, their Chinese Whores and Drivers and whatever else, said to me "Okay, you got me, please, please, PLEASE let me live!" I would consider life imprisonment in some sort of Tower Prison that can only be accessed by Helicoptor, has walls that taper inward making it impossible to climb down, has a ten story concrete and rebar base with NO internal passages, and is surrounded on the ground for acres in every direction with three foot spikes at all angles. But this is digression.
My point is, if the President, the Actual President, who at the very least is STILL OUR PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW until the Inauguration, even in a "worst case scenario," if that PRESIDENT who is the COMMANDER IN CHIEF gave that COMMAND, to storm and take a building, that building would be TAKEN and HELD.
In actual Literal Minecraft, I like to try and build huge structures on survival mode, with either weird mod packs that make everything super difficult or just by imposing ridiculous goals onto myself. I once, on vanilla, years (probably a decade and a half, honestly,) decided to do everything entirely in a winter biome, with the added Roleplay that I had to remain inside a "heated" room at night, or be within like 10 blocks of a fire source, or within 20 blocks of lava. I even set up lava as a heat source for my crops, so they wouldn't "freeze." Eventually, though, my ingenious lava radiators burned down my log cabin during the night. I think they updated the game, made the way that sparks get thrown different, and, well, there ya go.
But it's probably been 2 years since I've fired up Minecraft at all, and at least 5 years since I've actually had the time to give it a serious go beyond checking out a mod pack and realizing that there's too much reality to take care of. Sometimes being a grownup sucks. Because I DO love to get home after a long day of making and building with my body, and be able to make and build with my mind while the old muscles and joints recuperate.
Fun story, will dox me if you are one very specific person:
One time, I was on a public minecraft server. I built everything I did entirely on ships. I had a farming ship that looked like a Chinese Junk, a simple sailboat that my bedroom was on, a frigate with my chests, and was working on a grand galleon just to be cool. There were some people settled on the hills at the shore nearby, nice people, a dude and his girlfriend had a little cabin they built, some other guy was living hobbit style, it was a nice place for amateurs to just kinda chill.
Well, some asshat came on one day. He took half of that little cabin, left signposts with swastikas all over them. He blew up that hobbit hole. He encased my bed with obsidian, and poured lava on my ships.
He made the mistake of taunting me in the game's chat. Which exposed me to his account name.
Which was also his Facebook account name.
Which had pictures of his car on it.
With his Texas License Plate.
Rabbit hole later, there he is at work, when he gets an email on his company account that begins with "Listen to me, you motherfucker, who the fuck do you think you are to waste HOURS of my time put into building those ships?"
I know that this is the kind of thing that is always a LARP, and there's nothing I can say to convince you that this is factual, but that dude swore up and down that he let his friend use his minecraft account, that it wasn't him, he's sorry, all that shit. Whatever. I was honestly already tired of all the effort it took, and just glad that I'd scared him. In Minecraft.
Yeah, this is the thing. If my President told me "That building has been taken by traitors and communists and foreign agents," I would go in there and the enemy would actually be killed.
I want to make that clear.
I am not calling for violence, I am not saying we should do violence, I am not saying that I will do violence. Violence is the LAST resort. But if the Legitimately Elected President of the United States spent weeks showing data of an illegal coup, and I saw that data, and it all appeared legit, and everyone who is supposed to act on that data in the legal channels not only failed to correct the error but also refused to even ACKNOWLEDGE the data... and then the President said to me "Okay, we tried to do everything the right way. Now we must fight for our nation," then we would not sake a selfie in Pelosi's chair or carry a podium away or anything else that amounts to A FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR PRANK. We would be washing blood out of carpets for a very long time.
NOBODY WANTS TO HAVE TO DO THAT. I am a Christian Man. If all of these people who have 100% been compromised by foreign actors, their Chinese Whores and Drivers and whatever else, said to me "Okay, you got me, please, please, PLEASE let me live!" I would consider life imprisonment in some sort of Tower Prison that can only be accessed by Helicoptor, has walls that taper inward making it impossible to climb down, has a ten story concrete and rebar base with NO internal passages, and is surrounded on the ground for acres in every direction with three foot spikes at all angles. But this is digression.
My point is, if the President, the Actual President, who at the very least is STILL OUR PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW until the Inauguration, even in a "worst case scenario," if that PRESIDENT who is the COMMANDER IN CHIEF gave that COMMAND, to storm and take a building, that building would be TAKEN and HELD.
In actual Literal Minecraft, I like to try and build huge structures on survival mode, with either weird mod packs that make everything super difficult or just by imposing ridiculous goals onto myself. I once, on vanilla, years (probably a decade and a half, honestly,) decided to do everything entirely in a winter biome, with the added Roleplay that I had to remain inside a "heated" room at night, or be within like 10 blocks of a fire source, or within 20 blocks of lava. I even set up lava as a heat source for my crops, so they wouldn't "freeze." Eventually, though, my ingenious lava radiators burned down my log cabin during the night. I think they updated the game, made the way that sparks get thrown different, and, well, there ya go.
But it's probably been 2 years since I've fired up Minecraft at all, and at least 5 years since I've actually had the time to give it a serious go beyond checking out a mod pack and realizing that there's too much reality to take care of. Sometimes being a grownup sucks. Because I DO love to get home after a long day of making and building with my body, and be able to make and build with my mind while the old muscles and joints recuperate.
Fun story, will dox me if you are one very specific person:
One time, I was on a public minecraft server. I built everything I did entirely on ships. I had a farming ship that looked like a Chinese Junk, a simple sailboat that my bedroom was on, a frigate with my chests, and was working on a grand galleon just to be cool. There were some people settled on the hills at the shore nearby, nice people, a dude and his girlfriend had a little cabin they built, some other guy was living hobbit style, it was a nice place for amateurs to just kinda chill.
Well, some asshat came on one day. He took half of that little cabin, left signposts with swastikas all over them. He blew up that hobbit hole. He encased my bed with obsidian, and poured lava on my ships.
He made the mistake of taunting me in the game's chat. Which exposed me to his account name.
Which was also his Facebook account name.
Which had pictures of his car on it.
With his Texas License Plate.
Rabbit hole later, there he is at work, when he gets an email on his company account that begins with "Listen to me, you motherfucker, who the fuck do you think you are to waste HOURS of my time put into building those ships?"
I know that this is the kind of thing that is always a LARP, and there's nothing I can say to convince you that this is factual, but that dude swore up and down that he let his friend use his minecraft account, that it wasn't him, he's sorry, all that shit. Whatever. I was honestly already tired of all the effort it took, and just glad that I'd scared him. In Minecraft.
Well, because of Minecraft.