Day Three: The Minecraft Space Mission

6/14/13, 10:39 AM PDT

Dropped my sister off really early again. I think I'm getting used to getting up at 7 AM.

Actually, no. No I'm not. My mom practically had to drag me out of my bed to drop my sister off.

Then, went to go watch Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. I never knew that movie could be so ridiculously funny, I thought it would just be a stupid, vulgar film. Well, it was pretty vulgar, but still very funny. I'd recommend watching it, but it's pretty inappropriate in a lot of parts, so I can't do that.



Same day, 2:03 PM PDT

Had a pretty successful server run today. Eight entire players online at once, which made for lots of pretty awesome assassinations, especially since I modified the Assassin kit to have a HIDDEN GUN. It's pretty much an instant kill that has infinite range and takes a minute to reload, but oh my GOD, did it spice up the PVP on the server. I actually think it's kind of overpowered now. Considering either nerfing it or buffing the other kits.

Then, I picked up my sister from school and saw the MOST ADORABLE PAIR OF POMERANIAN PUPPIES AT THE PARK. Oh my GOD, they were so tiny and SO FRICKING CUTE.

LOOK AT IT. OH MY GOD, IT'S SO CUTE.

I WANT IT. NO, I NEED IT.

They remind me of the pomeranians in the story I wrote awhile back. They'll probably grow up to destroy the world. But I don't care, they're adorable.

Same day, 7:06 PM PDT

JESUS CHRIST. FIVE HOURS OF MINECRAFT STRAIGHT. MY EYES BURN WITH THE FIRE OF A THOUSAND SUNS.

Did a LOT in Minecraft. Played the "Dropper" map on Brandon's server, which was pretty easy since I had optifine and could see infinitely. After Brandon logged out and left his server on, we decided to push the limits on his server by causing AS MUCH LAG AS WE COULD. First, Ivan spammed bats EVERYWHERE.

And I do mean EVERYWHERE. This is barely a fraction of the total bat
density in the server.

Then, Christina put out a bunch of chickens, which made me crash a few times. To which I retaliated by pulling out my autoclicker and summoning a MILLION BOTTLES OF EXPERIENCE.

Everyone was blinded by the sheer XP volume.

Then, when most of the people left, Ivan and I decided to make a player cannon made out of TNT. We started this quest at around 3:00.

WE DID NOT FINISH UNTIL 7. FOUR HOURS OF ENGINEERING, REDSTONE CIRCUITRY, PISTONS, AND DISPENSERS. At times we wanted to stop. At times, it felt like our eyes would burn out and our brains would be come cube-shaped like the blocks that filled them.

Mark 1. Spectacular failure.

Mark 2. Getting better, but failed roughly 70% of the time.

Mark 3. Launched us HIGH, but broke half of the time due to its
design.

But at long last, our efforts culminated into the GREATEST PLAYER CANNON EVER BUILT.

Mark 4. Pure perfection.

This behemoth right here could launch me 1,400 BLOCKS STRAIGHT INTO THE AIR AND IT CAN GO HIGHER. I was launched so high in the air that even with OptiFine and render distance set to max, I could NOT see the ground. I WENT SO HIGH THAT I COULD SEE THE MOON WHERE THE GROUND WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. AND IT WAS DAYTIME.

I only got this screenshot from my second time in the cannon. Still
ridiculously high, no?

The cannon worked for Kayla too, but for some reason, Ivan's launch height was capped at 500 blocks. Probably because I programmed the cannon to be racist and Ivan's Mexican.

My eyes hurt and I almost completely forgot about parkour that's about to happen in about an hour, so see you until then!

Same day, 11:32 PM PDT

Aww yeah, great day of parkour. Brought my camera out to take pictures and videos, but because my camera's not exactly fantastic, I couldn't get very good shots at all. Got some pretty awesome videos, but I don't really want to upload them here since I'd like to keep this blog strictly photos and stories. But since half of my audience is from Facebook, you can check the videos out there if you'd like!

Did some pretty crazy stuff. Made a few pretty far double kongs and equally far dive kongs. Also tried my hand at precisions, wall ups and worked a bit on my wall spins.

...This terminology's just flying over your head, huh? Well, I did cool stuff.

Oh, Seth brought a few of his friends from tennis along too. One of them was in my math class, the rest of them I vaguely remember from various Facebook posts that lie in my subconscious. They didn't really do much, but they did give an honest effort, which was pretty great. Especially Andy, he was AWESOME. He did pretty much all of the vaults and managed to do a BACKFLIP into the foam pit, something that even I can't do in my three or four years of parkour.

After gym hours, had some pretty awkward conversation with one of the coaches and recycled a joke that I heard literally a few minutes before I talked to him. Recited some SpongeBob lines with my sister on the drive home. Eventually, my dad got in it too and we sang the song Sandy wrote when she was homesick for Texas.

My family's awesome.

RFotD: Vacuum cleaners in the early 20th century were large, powered by coal, and required three people to operate.

SGAT: Exercised a lot.