MabusIncarnate

Minecraft has turned from a simple 8 bit concept to an instant gaming hit on the PC and now on consoles. Upon it's release on the Xbox live arcade this past Wednesday, it broke the sales record for most downloads sold in the first 24 hours of any Xbox Arcade title to date.

The premise is fairly simple, you are thrown into a world where you mine for minerals and gems in order to craft a shelter, equipment, and weaponry. During daylight you are free to explore, chop wood, harvest plants, whatever you feel your project of the day should be. Come sundown is when the creatures lurk, and you must seek out shelter or fend them off in the dark in attempt to survive. Once you have a well fortified shelter you may choose to sleep through the night as long as no creatures can enter during that period of time.

Everything in the world is destructable, from the terrain to the animals. If you want to build a city in the sky that towers above the clouds, or dig hundreds of feet into the earth until you tap into lava, the world of Minecraft allows all of it. It's a true sandbox experience that has little limitations on what you can build or create.

I just played this for the first time upon it's release and i've been enthralled by it since, has anyone else played this game and what are your thoughts on it? Graphically the game may turn many away which is unfortunate because there's a very solid and original premise underneath the retro NES visuals. If you haven't tried it, check out the demo. It's not for everyone but if you get into it like I have you'll be happy to have tried it.

I'm not particularly "offended" by this, and i'm not sure really what the rage is all about. He's not standing on a podium saying historically the original six is now the original twelve and throw the tradition of the original six out the window. He could call them part of "The First Expansion six" but that's just kind of dumb. If you want to get technical the Wings joined the league 15 years after Toronto and Boston, but neither of them are trying to claim they should be "The Original Two" or anything like that.

St. Louis is one of the first 12 NHL teams, just like Vancouver and Buffalo are part of the original 14, and so on and so forth. He isn't claiming to change the historical original six to the original twelve, I think the quotation was taken very out of context if you read it again, all that's being stated here is St. Louis was one of the first 12 teams to join the NHL, which in fact they were.

Guys I know it's the offseason and we are really bored, but come on. If I can be honest, they can market whatever they want, I remember growing up and there being a lot of speculation if there would even be an NHL in the future because of the lack of fan base and it was a struggling sport for a long time. Anything he does to improve the status of the sport, bring in more fans, and keep it afloat doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I don't even think it will go as far as a marketing scheme or anything like that. I think it was just a completely misinterpreted quotation from an article.

Just because, here's a timeline of the NHL teams and when they entered the NHL.

1917- Montreal, Toronto
1924- Boston
1926- Chicago, NYR
1932- Detroit
1967 (Expansion)- Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Dallas (Minnesota and California)
1970- Vancouver, Buffalo
1972- NYI, Caroliona (Hartford),Calgary (Atlanta)
1974- Washington, New Jersey (Kansas City and Colorado)
1979- Colorado (Quebec), Edmonton, Phoenix (Winnipeg)
1991- San Jose
1992- Ottawa, Tampa Bay
1993- Anaheim, Florida
1998- Nashville
1999- Atlanta
2000- Minnesota, Columbus

Let's get this guy to come coach.



What's your major malfunction Franzen?!

How about Josh Hamilton going 5/5 with 4 HR and 8 RBI tonight?

Rare feat, and a very impressive showing from Hamilton.

I just sold my soul to the Devil for Parise and Suter.
We can all breathe easy.

Way to take one for the team.

I see it.

Really though, i'm dying to see the movie, gonna go see it this weekend.

Devils lose Parise, Brodeur retires, open enough cap space to bring in Luongo. This would make the most sense imo.

Keep up the good work guys, one of the very few sites I visit regularly and post on.

Looking forward to watching some game 7's in the next couple days. Congrats NJ for forcing a game 7.

Wasn't directed at you or this thread actually, it's more the 30+ threads about Suter, Parise, and adding players this offseason. It seems like half of the General Discussion is filled with them. It was more sarcasm then anything. I normally am not the type who goes out of their way to be rude, as that wasn't my intention.

I predict a ton of repetitive threads until July 1.

Ken Holland should come visit the boards here and magically consolidate all 20 of the "Whats happening this offseason" threads into one.

Prust please  

Unrealistically i'd love Cal Clutterbuck and Chris Neil on this team.

Good poll and a big question for the Nucks. I think Luongo is gone this offseason, New Jersey or Tampa are prime locations for him. Once the devils lose Parise to us they can afford him.  

I seem to remember him leaving the Habs on bad terms where he pretty much quit playing for the team after getting blown out and embarrassed when he wasn't pulled. What team did that to him again.. that put 11 goals past him.. oh yeah it was the Wings.  

I don't know how he feels about the habs since that game and incident happened.