As you can see, the blog’s back up. While it was down last night, I was writing a blog post in a .txt file for when it comes back up.
Last night, I was typing this blog post as if I was taking pen to paper, with an old ink pen and using candlelight as light. This is what will happen if this shit with SOPA and PIPA gets passed in Congress. Angry took the site down last night to protest, and I was typing this into a .txt file for when he brings it back up, which he has.
First of all, you might be asking… “Benie, why are you posting this in your Games blog, when it’s not game-related?” Think of the end of online gaming. Hell.. maybe gaming all together. I mentioned about SOPA before, but I think it’s been several years since it was last discussed. I don’t have my blog infront of me to tell you exactly how long, at this moment. Now that I do, I’ll try to find that info.
PIPA is the Senate’s “backup plan” if SOPA fails in the House, which is more serious due to it being in the Senate. Now, I ask you, are you going to sit there and read this blog (aka .txt file) and do nothing afterwards, and let the Government walk all over us? Yes, sometimes even to me it feels kinda pointless when it feels Congress is just going to do whatever the fuck they feel. But, this is also messing with our fragile US economy.. and I won’t stand for that.
So what are you waiting for? RISE UP and tell Congress, FUCK NO to SOPA and PIPA! You have rights as an American citizen. You voted these assholes in. They’re supposed work for you, not against you! Show them you’re the boss and sign petitions! Congress will vote on both on the 24th. We cannot allow them to pass! The internet belongs to US! Not them!
A good way is to go like sites like americancensorship.org, which is a non-profit organization with thousands, if not millions of anti-SOPA/PIPA supporters.
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Anyway, back to the real reason this blog exists. As the, how you say, preparations to shut down minecraft.net, and the login server begin, mod authors have been busy coding their lives away updating their mods to 1.1.0.
Yesterday, alot of mods got updated. Infact, all of my critically-needed mods have been updated… except for the Zeppelin mod. Which is the reason I made an airport. However, I may have a substitute for that until blakmajik, the author of the Zeppelin mod, updates it.
It’s called “Flan’s Planes mod”. It’s mainly, scripted planes. Some biplanes, and others old WWI and II war planes.
There’s also this “Dragon Mounts” mod, that gives the Dragon Egg from the The End, a use. A right click turns it into a ridable Enderdragon, with amazing animations.
The only thing I don’t like about it, you can’t make it walk when landed. The author is aware of this and has it as a planned feature.
Today, I was shocked and amazed that the Minecraft Forums were still up. But this allowed me to get the correct download I needed to make Railcraft work (grabbed the wrong ModLoaderMP Client).
So far, the update has gone smoothly. As I type this (and this time in my blog), I’m preparing to test Railcraft. Then I gotta move my maps over to 1.1.0.
Funny, how they call this version 1.1, when 1.1 has been done and gone a long time ago. There was 1.1 Alpha, and 1.1 Beta.
Anyway, I also downloaded some other mods. Like this Team Fortress 2 Sentry mod. It. is. awesome. It doesn’t even give targeted creatures a chance to get near it. I tried spawning 50 Creepers though SPC, and one Level 3 sentry took them all down in under a minute. Impressive.
This will be useful for Line Defense of keeping animals off my tracks. Especially when Mo’ Creatures gets updated.
EDIT: Zeppelin mod got updated to 1.1.0 as I was finishing testing! No fixes, just an update.