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I've re-started this server, with a different set of mods this time.

This mod is old; you should use the Animals Modpack ("MOB Framework") or Simple Mobs instead. the Animals Modpack has fish, and you can have just the fish by only enabling the fish and mobf mods.

I seems to me this mod should be moved out of Mod Releases, since it's obsolete now, shouldn't it?

Aqua, that link you posted is wrong. You linked to a mod called "night_vision".

Well, Tennis for Two wasn't on a digital computer; the first one on a digital computer was Spacewar.

Bounties are great. Money for the guy who does the task, the task being more likely to be done for the guy offering the bounty. I don't think it wise to add business aspects to an open source game. Nonsense. Business is already heavily involved in other free software projects; people are payed to wr...

Nope, there's no joystick support for Minetest. What you can do, though, is use a program to convert joystick axes and buttons to mouse and keyboard controls. Joy2Key is a command-line program of that sort that works on GNU/Linux, QJoypad is a graphical one that works on GNU/Linux, and JoyToKey is a...

I haven't had this situation, because the only Minecraft player I know is my brother and he isn't one of those idiots who cry "ripoff" at clones. But if I did encounter such a person, I would remind them that Minecraft is a "ripoff" of another game. The problem, though, is that these people are actu...

i think he meant minetest/games/minetest_game/default/textures Also wrong. The right path is <minetest dir>/games/minetest_game/mods/default/textures ALSO WRONG like this C:\<location>/<minetest dir>/games/minetest_game/mods/default/textures/wield_hand.png That's totally wrong if you're using anyth...

Doors are opened and closed by right-clicking them.

I think the default hand texture looks like a potato.

It's the biggest thing my brother complains about in Minetest, though he more hates that it doesn't look like it's attached to you.

People can be "victims" of poorly written FLOSS too. Then you misunderstand my position. My position is not that proprietary software is crappy and therefore users suffer. That's more in line with the open source position. My position is that users deserve the freedom to control their own computing...

You don't have to use it, what does it matter to you that others do? Can't FLOSS stand on it's own merits? It's partly selfless concern; I don't think it's right for people to be victims of proprietary software, so I speak out against it just as I would speak out against suppression of free speech,...

If that's all you did we wouldn't be having this discussion. So fine, write your free software, if it's any good people will use it, there's no need to push it on everyone at every turn. It's only you "advocates" that care how "libre" some piece of software is, everyone else just wants to get on wi...

Please, explain the strawman, because I see the same reasoning from many zealots. Creating "freedom" by limiting choices, leaving only those they happen to agree with. I shouldn't have to explain it; a strawman is simply when you argue with a position that isn't the other person's position. You rep...

I wasn't familiar with "VPS", but Wikipedia gave me the answer: it stands for virtual private server . Debian is an operating system, specifically a flavor of the GNU/Linux operating system, which is commonly used on servers. Debian 6 is an old stable release (the current stable release is Debian 7)...

"That's a strawman" is far too simple of a statement to be a non sequitur... you do know what a non sequitur is, right?

I'm far from the only one who thinks zealots are complete hypocrites. Google it if you don't believe me.

That's an argumentum ad populum.

mauvebic wrote:If purists had their way they'd eliminate every non-FLOSS option out there. Calling that freedom is a classic example of doublespeak.

That's called a strawman.

So your argument for not doing it is that it won't add anything to the Minetest community? So you concede that it won't hurt the Minetest community? Yeah, exactly, except it's not a concession. I'm arguing about whether it's actually needed; I think it isn't. I couldn't care less if you make a Face...

Um... 1 completely ignores how social networking works. The proper example is "you post something about Minetest on your Facebook wall, some of your friends see that post and find more information on minetest.net". 2 is just another variation of what 1 would properly be. No difference. The numbers y...

Couldn't we make similar arguments for not making Windows and Mac OS builds of Minetest, since those operating systems are owned by giant, evil corporations who steal away our freedoms and our soul with every cha-ching of their cash register? No, not at all. No Minetest builds for these systems mea...

But you shouldn't forget that Facebook can be a good platform to make ads for minetest. Imagine someone would like a post on the minetest page, then all of his friends may see this and visit the facebook page (and maybe the minetest homepage) too. I don't really agree that that's the case. The only...

Well, those people are wrong, because the whole reason we don't say "swear words" around kids is because they don't know what these words mean and/or don't understand how offensive they can be. Well, I don't agree that marijuana references are particularly bad, and I don't know of any white people w...

Does anyone think Facebook might be about to die? I don't pay attention to it (since I don't use it), but I heard that some people feel that this is the case.

Diaspora > Facebook

Decentralized, no corporate spying, not required to use your real name. Pages can't be created for things like games and stuff, but that's because it automatically groups posts together by hashtags, so there's no need for that.

Copyright didn't exist in Rome. I know everyone else is joking, but I want to be serious, just to be clear: you can't copyright ideas. I don't know why people would be so ignorant of copyright law, yet think that they know so much. Only specific works can be copyrighted. The patent system is what de...

It's not like putting a GB cartridge into an NES (the adapter, the Super Game Boy, was for the SNES, by the way, not the NES). It's like putting the save data for SMB3 into the SRAM of an SMW cartridge and expecting to be able to play like SMB3. ".minetest" is just a save directory. It records thing...

Is there something requiring Minetest to impose a limit, or making it difficult for it to not do so?

Shouldn't rats be more prominent underground?

0.4.10 is better than 0.4.9.

In all seriousness, why would you prefer 0.4.4 over 0.4.7?

ompldr has been down for a long time. There are some mods that can't be downloaded at all because that's the only place they were uploaded.

I do hope it comes back at some point, but it's not looking optimistic. :(

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