Nostalgia reminds me of yesterday, when I was thinking of last Thursday, when I considered what I was doing three weeks before, dreaming of the future. Did I miss it?
Not Forgotten
A long time ago in a world lost in time
There were towering Eucalypts
Glowing coral and SCUBA-kits
A host of other random bits
Modded beta Minecraft shown at it’s prime
None of his trees are left feast your eyes on
Nor water-shaders psychedelic
Vanished in a puff of Logic
Yet Coral Mod remains, a relic
Thanks Nandonalt for stretching the horizon
Congratulations sir, you are now the official translator for the Bardic Language on the Sponge Wiki. I look forward to your far more eloquent rephrasing of subjects which would otherwise be reduced to layman’s terms.
There is iPod, iPad, iCloud, … so here is some iChing. Silly Symbols a Sponge Specialty.
Sponge iPath
Descending the sacred mountain alone
☰ Clouds and mist obscure the path
☳ Lightning strikes the tallest stone
☴ Hyperboreal winds swell with wrath
☵ Floodwater forces the downhill rush
☷ Arriving on formerly tilled soil
☲ Lanterns light tinder and brush The Sponge cauldron can finally boil
It seems the latest trend in the Bukkit community is for unscrupulous developers to try to get malicious plugins into Bukkit-Dev “as proof of concept” … This one is for them
Jerk-in-a-Box
Make pop-up Plugins of dubious heritage
Encapsulating exploits in fancy plumage
Sneak it into the queue
Jump for joy when your malice is approved
Post greatness on Reddit, your ego soothed
Next, the army of Me Too
The Bus arrived at the intergalactic way-point and two strange fellows disembarked. “Which way is Sponge?”, the furry blue one asked innocently as he floated by the stop. “Up” declared his tall red comrade, profoundly.
Onward to Magrathea
This distillation of creative talents
Mad Science and Technology
Breeding virtual Biology
Is worthy of an eloquent defence
What can Sponge offer to trump Spigot?
Forge modding integration
More flexible implementation
Wisdom that only a fresh start can bring it
What will Sponge lack in comparison?
A standalone implementation
Maturity and optimisation
A vast library of plugins ready to run
So if and when either is arisen
Thank the devs for their trouble
With luck that will be a double
Enjoy the infinite worlds that we are given
One of the things that got me hooked on MC was the Music. I’m a great fan of eclectic electronica. Here is an explanation of why I love music. A psychedelic nod to Dave Brock and Edgar Froese
Sympathetic Magic
Music is a strange mutating language
Motions of muscles generating vibrations
Subtle sympathetic droning of overtones
Drawing our thoughts into harmony
We express our differences in a medium of sound
No literal translations, every meaning is fluid
Unfamiliar patterns are analysed
Free from the shackles of dialectic
There is no math to evaluate symphony
Nor understand our love, hate or indifference
To the arrangements of sounds we encounter
Vibrations penetrate our deepest thoughts
Leading us on a merry dance to seek
The unknown music that permeates the cosmos
Dwelling in fragments as part of us
Yet more tales of olde servers. This time, Celeano and it’s glorious Beta bugginess Many many many thanks to Worm for years of reliable, level-headed Mod/Admin service
The Flying House Incidents
There once was a mod, call him Worm
Who served an illustrious term
His housing disasters
Were memorable masters
As this story will shortly confirm
Movecraft was rather indiscriminate
Few restrictions and no real limit
So he flew his home higher
Forgetting the Fire
Which thereforth decided to trim it
The next flying home traveled far
He fell off, respawned, ta-da
It was lost to his eyes
It’s no real surprise
If you don’t make a note where you are
Number three went on search with success
Then became fused with #2 in a mess
Back home they flew
But little he knew
That Lightning strikes couldn’t care less
WIKIWIKIWIKI. On an almost unrelated topic, thanks to Mr. Perelman for proving the Poincare theorem.
When It Kicks In
There’s a sticky wicket at the tricky Wiki
Sponge staff selection is really very picky
If hicks picket Wiki it could get prickly
Written by the thick it’d be sick and icky
A special bricky clique will be the magic key
To fix the flow of Sponge like the surgery of Rikki
I present a relevant aphorism of the late Lord Acton, retold in the form of haiku. He was also famed for declaring “Power Corrupts. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely”
Aftermath
After the strong man
Is finished with his dagger
The weak man brings sponge
A tale of too many Ops. Testing a release of Vanilla Minecraft some time ago, I invited a number of folks and gave them OP to test it out. This was the result
Entity Overload
Regulars assembled, with new toys to trial
Everyone opped so we could build in Style
Find new bugs was their only instruction
Soon hatched a plot to test to destruction
Masterminds of chaos, Owexz and Pyrii
Drew trusty Worm into their evil theory
Mass producing entities as fast a flash
Filling a pit for the server to crash
Watching the console as TPS dropped
I logged in myself on the very same box
A Myriad of entities lurked in a hole
Lagging and breeding beyond control
“Cannot keep up” Warnings flowed like a spout
Yet the malevolent visitors rarely timed out
No matter how much they bred, broke or bashed
To our amazement, the server wouldn’t crash
(Myriad: 50,000 in the old estimates. I may be boastin’)
It’s X:XX O-Clock, and here is the Sponge News with a beat. If you experience no beat, feel free to beat it soundly yourself. Thanks to the numbers 11 and 35,293, Lithuania, and the letterAlso, Hi @ScruffyRules
Sponge the Epic: Part 15.269
SK keeps Sponge mountain moving
His Sphinx consumed Gollum in it’s vastness
Whilst wiki pics have disproven
Unfounded rumours that FLARD causes madness
Now the glacier of change has receded again,
The valley of wiki is quiet.
The Sphinx stares emotionless out in the plain
Digesting a breadcrumb diet
Descending the sacred mountain alone
The Sponge cauldron can finally boil
Also, Hi