(#en4agmq) @lyse tchncs.de is offering a minetest server to play for free or host one for yourself

(#en4agmq) @carsten I like turn based that keep mechanics simple, I'm one that never touch the inventory in a fight and only waste time to organize it instead of exploring. I tried Shining Soul (GBA) recently and lost hours in putting in order my herbs and weapons.

(#en4agmq) @prologic aaahm. you could just get an account with a random email forwarding from duckduckgo? Or you could use mailgw.com (which i am using for quite some time for some services) or you could just use apple auto email forwarding thingy wingy?

(#en4agmq) @prologic Back in the days my mates and I only played Minetest, an open source clone of Micecraft, that performed heaps better than the original, but also did not include all features from its model. More than sufficient for us who enjoyed and valued the building part. At least my appeal was to have unlimited construction blocks. We also operated our own server to build stuff together, like our CS building as best as we could. It's been way more than a decade, though, when we had to compile it from source ourselves, not sure how well it works nowadays.

(#en4agmq) @bender Its actually even worse than that. Yes I went through a few extra steps, because I wanted to be in control of the "throw away email" as well. However, as it turns out, Microsoft basically **force** you to have a Microsoft Live Account, which (btw) gives you access to Teams, Outlook (and their own Email?!), Office, etc, etc. It's not just an account for Minecraft 🤦‍♂️ -- Then when you finally sign-in, you get to create your _actual_ Mincecraft Username 🤦‍♂️

(#en4agmq) @lyse oh I played a lot in the past. CS:1.6 in the past in a Clan, WoW and Euro Truck SIM 2. and more than a 1000 hrs in Factorio. still running. nowadays with so many things in RealLufe and Work and with a house, gaming is rare. that’s why I only play on easy these days. I enjoy the story and that’s it 🤣😂😅

(#en4agmq) @prologic make sure to save the information on that “throwaway” email, as you will need it in the future. You could have created an outlook.com account, it is free. I get it you are ranting, and complaining about the way Microsoft has mismanaged the game, but creating a random, used-for-the-game-only email is trivial. There was no need for your 1, 2, and 3 steps, if you, indeed, went through all of that. 🤣

(#en4agmq) @lyse at that time Minecraft was the most hyped game I was playing with this (open source). It allows scripting so you can make full fledged custom games in it, but I only played with the map editor.

(#en4agmq) @prologic I don't think Minecraft itself was ever open-source. Also when it comes to burner emails (that I assume can't be temporary in this case), is there any reason why go through all this, when you can just have an account on something like riseup.net, with a few strange aliases not linked to you?

(#en4agmq) This is very much a "Fuck you" to Microsoft moment 🤬 -- And basically almost every small to medium to large organisation in the world. The whole "Know your Customer" (KYC) laws in many countries is beyond a joke. Every cyber attack, every brach, every leak. We have to get out of this bullshit of having to know "personal identifiable information" about "users". There's no need for it! 🤦‍♂️