I have a lot of nostalgia for Minecraft because I grew up playing a pirated version of its Alpha version that somebody handed my older brother in middle school. Many of my best memories from that time come from messing around with tools, like the time my brother used a cheat tool to spawn in ice blocks and TNT to create a tsunami and then used that TNT on my savefile to dig me so far inside of a mountain that I had to create a new savefile.

I have respect for the game as it is.

But I just gotta level with you, man; Minecraft has never clicked with me. I can't put my finger on it, but games like this always begin and end with me returning to them every few months and then abandoning them out of boredom. When I try to play with people who don't get bored immediately, I'm outclassed by people who have been playing this for years, so it becomes a pretty boorish showcase of feeling like I'm behind the times.

Again, again, again: I get that it's a good game. But it's just not for me.