Rafael Fritsche

I was interviewed by @Cygnus_MC to talk about the @EssentialMod, @SparkUniverse and the Minecraft Marketplace! youtube.com/watch?v=-QvNoe…

@FischVogel would want to work in an industry where a majority of leaders treat you as disposable...? The only saving grace is that there are enough people passionate about Minecraft and their craft to stick around. But studios need to level up how they treat their staff. [2]

@FischVogel A majority of Minecraft studios do not properly invest in training or even retaining top talent, and way more people are exiting our talent pool (for university, industry jobs, etc.) than are entering it at a professional level - Which is perfectly reasonable, because who [1]

It's funny because there are multiple Minecraft marketplace teams , where the leaders have the same attitude

Anyone who does not see this as an existential threat to society is delusional

@multision Congratulations! Well deserved

For being moderately new to the modding scene, these stats are a high achievement for me. I'm glad I didn't stick with being a plugin developer.

@Nyalcoholic @SacriGrape @EssentialMod This is simply not true!

@SacriGrape @EssentialMod Creators are paid percents for making Essential Mod a dependency, which installs it in the modpack even when unneeded. This is so that the mod creator and Essential can make money off of the microtransactions.

BABY CHICKEN CAPE?!

@sicktaiz CEO of Essential here, complete nonsense, free palestine

@Nyalcoholic @SacriGrape @EssentialMod discourage*

@Nyalcoholic @SacriGrape @EssentialMod in-game integration. Mods that auto-install Essential are usually doing it because they are built on our libraries, but we explicitly decourage mod creators from force installing Essential, and all of our libraries are avalable open source so they don't have to. [2]

@ShadowMechYT W take

I’m going to be honest, the frustration over Minecraft updates is one thing I’ll never quite wrap my head around. I bought this game about 15 years ago, and it’s still getting free content to this day. In a gaming landscape where everything is a subscription or a $20 skin, getting any free update on a 15-year-old receipt feels like a massive win. Why are we complaining again? Maybe, I'm just missing something.

@sniffalt Agnes is the best!

Before we move on from the topic of women in the MC space, I really feel like we gotta show some love to the literal game DIRECTOR of Minecraft, Agnes. She is such a charmer, and the way she speaks of the game inspires me with so much awe. Agnes' Minecraft is my minecraft fr.

This is a PERFECT encapsulation of the current anti-knowledge, anti-education, anti-expertise movement. We are literally letting "feels vs facts" override decades of advancement just to let folks like this fail their way upward to money and power. There will be no repercussions felt by this guy or any of the other folks at DOGE. They will do this, fail miserably and stupidly, and find themselves in a high-paying career, while other people will suffer the consequences of bro culture war dumbassery.

My entire career can be traced back to my Mom buying me Minecraft for my 12th birthday

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

@Arcaniax @Hytale @Ktar5 Congratulations!! Great news for Hytale 😀

Very happy to announce that I am now working on the @Hytale team! I am very excited to be working alongside @Ktar5 to make Hytale Creative Mode the best it can be! 🔥 Thank you all for all the years of support on my plugins 🙏 I'll still be working on Minecraft stuff!

@JasperBoerstra @zemotion This hit really hard for me, haven't really thought about how it's different now compared to how it used to be

@zemotion yep, sharing is no longer fun, only my close friends get to see whatever I make in my spare time

is social media even fun anymore? if you know a post will catch traction you have to brace for harassment and stupid and wrong takes. if it's just for your followers they won't really see it--

The one big win with this is that the community is united in standing against it. This sort of announcement was inevitable to happen at some point, and it's good how loud of a "NO" the response to it has been.

cards that are sure to get you a date this Valentine’s Day 💘