Norway does not host bad reality docus...ffs!

How did you know? Sometimes you spend loads of time building up resources before you attack.

If you think that is weird...i once saw gyrls playing counter strike...IMAGINE THAT.

Also...just to finish this...fun is a louse description of..:ANYTHING!

If its FUN its a Game?! WTF!

This ISNT a subjective thing...if a game does not have coherent, rules, obstacles and goals its probably going to be lacking...if it lacks any of these aspects its not a game at ALL.

Sims is a spin of of Sim City... although the scale is much lower and not as challenging, in the bare essence the same concept. Organize/build/budget a city, organize/build/budget your household.

There is nothing peculiar about your AoE example, its a strategy game...and the game is to devise your own strategy...if focusing on priests and walls works...it works! Its a risk if the enemy breaches the wall and reaches the defencelss priests...but its still within the scope of the game.

Now that said I'm defending Minecraft, not for its gameplay but for the fact that its more or less a platform, for modding and emergent gameplay.

That said...for most other computer games in the genres i care about...I CARE about the being provided a challenge...because that IS fun, its why games ARE FUN, game design is the art of providing play through interaction and stimulation. That does not exclude giving the player a wide range of options, but absolute freedom is pointless without limitations.

If you are annoyed that some people thinks games are objectively shit, then you should experience the smoldering rage of people who have had a decade with the one disappointing let down after another.

And yes, I am an angry cunt...

And if you either wasn't interested/got bored of minecraft and the vids are tickling your fancy.
And then got dissuaded by having to hunt down individual packages and modify the jars with several frameworks(its not hard but it can be tedious as hell).

I suggest you spoil yourself with some accessibility and head over to http://technicpack.net/ and grab a launcher.

Technicpack was originally created by some Goons just wanting to a create modpack with all the more technical mods, already configured and simple to install.
Was suppose to be an internal gig, but got spread around and gained a shitload of popularity after it got promoted on a webcast called Yogbox...and went from being hosted on a SA thread, to having its own webpage and package manager.

Minecraft as a game...pretty much sucks...the survival aspect did add to it...and quite recently Notch added the final boss, which gave you an overall goal to reach.

But it felt kinda tacked on, since building palaces don't really help you much in that goal when you could just build an bunker with much less effort, not that there isnt alot of things you must construct items, transportation, etc to help gather resources and being systematic about it certainly gives credence to free form building as a challenge.

But its the ingenuity and complexity to build shit that makes it fun and with mods its been transformed from Duplo to Lego Mindstorm.

Though I leaning towards the notion that the engineering challenges you set yourself, classify this directionless sandbox enviroment as a game. But specific game design whether from Vanilla or mods is mostly pointless, you don't use one mod like how counter strike was for Half-Life.

Its several mods at a time which adds shit ton of variation and possibilities by combining them.

That end-boss can go fuck himself, I'm building a automated cooling system for my Nuclear reactor.

Well, there is more to it then that you see(though there is no denying the modders motivation and joys of hack'n'show)...Red Power started out with logic gate blocks and bundled signal cables.
They provided functionality for the player, not just as a gimmick.

Same applies for this mini computer, I belive part of the incentive was to add something bit more versatile and compact then hardwired circuts and logic blocks.

She released a frame-block, the idea is that you design a machine using whatever components you see fit(dohickies from her mod or from other mods) using the frames as a chassis, a motor block(s) can then translate the entire structure on block at a time when activated.(yes it supports recursion)

With the minicomputer as a microprocessor, you essentially got robotics in minecraft.

I have hopes that this will recreate the "look what i can do with my C64" era, kids playing multiplayer lego, and then suddenly bit by bit move from simple logic operations to assembly because they want to create more and more cool and complex stuff.

Free food and drinks.

WHAT A DEAL!

methinks you are thinking of "irreducible complexity".

As for metric of complexity...I'd guess results in which normal erosion and the like can't account for.

The googles! They Augment objects!

...intricate trolling attempt directed to make Alex Jones even MORE wonko.

This might be Liao's scene but his fix idea is not only completely unacceptable, but also...before we would had such a grandiose project underway we would probably already have perfected invitro-meat.