Today's game is some more Minecraft Xbox 360 edition. I was going to hop into my world, but i was feeling a bit nostalgic so i decided to jump into the old tutorial world instead. It was nice to relive the memories. That wood shack to the left is still my basic, go to design for any quick homes i need to build.

I wandered around the tutorial area for a bit, and i found one of the old villagers. It's kind of surreal seeing the old model after so long of the new ones. In a way i kind of like it more. It's probably nostalgia though.

After wandering around for a lot longer, i came across this tower. I remember when me and my sister would play the Demo, we would always see this tower and want to get over too it. But with the 1 hour time limit we just couldn't ever get over there in time (our naive child brains probably did not help). By the time we got a copy of the full game i think we had visited it and the allure of visiting it vanished.

I went ahead and went in for old times sake. I looked around and kind of found myself looking at the old glass texture. Younger me hated the dashes in the middle. I remember wishing for a texture pack to replace the glass. Now? I miss it. It's definitely nostalgia, but also i think a part of it is what it represents to me.

When this was still the default glass texture, my builds were a lot less focused on looking pretty and presentable. Instead my younger self went "I want to build a big ass house". and you know what Younger me did? He built the biggest looking house ever. Sure, it looked like shit, but there was something oddly endearing about the big ass house that looked like shit. I still built it and i know it looks like shit, but i still like it.

I guess what i'm trying to say is i have more fun when i don't care that my house looks like shit.

It's something i try to apply a lot now when playing games, and especially minecraft, and though i sometimes falter, it brings a sort of comfort not to worry about how things look.