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Money isn't everything, according to Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson's "increasingly despondent" tweets:
Shortly after the sale of Minecraft's parent company, Mojang's co-founder Markus Persson had reportedly left the studio in order to pursue other projects. Naturally, before immediately moving on to another enterprise, the man more affectionately known in the gaming community as "Notch" has taken several beats to reap the benefits of his success, outbidding Beyoncé and Jay-Z on a $70 million home, and hosting lavish parties in his newly acquired mansion. However, he's also been afforded plenty of time to reflect on how far he's come, and not surprisingly, it's quite lonely at the top.
Recently, Notch took to his Twitter account to air his grievances with the current situation in which he finds himself. Although Persson's net worth currently rests at $1.33 billion as of writing, the famous game designer has confessed that such prosperity has essentially cursed him in the grand scheme of things, as he's "never felt more isolated". Apparently what John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote all those years ago is true, and it's that money can't buy love. Taking that into consideration, Notch's Tweets grow increasingly despondent, as seen below.
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The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
(Score: 3, Interesting) by skullz on Monday August 31 2015, @02:44PM
I'm assuming Notch is experiencing a lack of distraction with his social interactions. You take away the daily grind, the worrying about health care, the stupid deliverables and you are pretty much surrounded by ass holes. Not saying we aren't all ass holes but without the distraction it is hard to ignore. Dangle some money in front of their faces and the really bad ones float to the top quickly. Who among us actually has what Notch is looking for: good, solid friends and fulfilling relationships? Dream on, kid. We are just fooling ourselves.
So, with that in mind, try fixing the US's dairy farms. Get Farm to Table services for inner city kids. Develop a way to compensate media creators without advertising. Make 2016 the Year of Linux, not Android. Subsidize kids in Africa so they can go to school and don't have to work. Fund a project that gives 3rd world folks clean water. I bet you will at least a few honest, lifelong friends along the way.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday August 31 2015, @05:28PM
"Make 2016 the Year of Linux, not Android." I think it would take a lot more than his 1.33 billion dollars to make that happen. The problem isn't that there's no good Linux distributions. It's that people don't know it or how to use it, if they had it. The masses barely know how to use their Windows Boxes. That is also in part due to Microsoft's investment in (Donations to) schools.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by skullz on Monday August 31 2015, @05:42PM
Yup, I don't think this would will be helped by coding alone. But maybe if there was an install that was as easy to get going with as an Apple product and you could have a virtual Microsoft for compatibility. It would require a lot of testing and focus groups, some tweaks to the UI, money for usability folks, etc. Basically a lot of polish. Polish is expensive. 1 to 10 million would go a LONG way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @09:50PM
I am quite simply amazed that 20 years in we still hear this nonsense. Do you really believe that if you dropped someone in front of a Gnome/KDE/etc. desktop, they would be completely befuddled and wouldn't know what to do? "OMG! This screen has a trashcan! What am I supposed to do with it? Where did the Recycle bin go??" All these people who seem to be able to cope with the major UI changes from one Windows version to another, would be completely confused with a linux desktop? Seriously?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday September 01 2015, @03:27PM
All those people are also unable to cope with the major UI changes from one Windows version to another. Please see Windows 8 as an example. Sure, it's not rocket science, but it's like my Father In-Law. He can work on cars and has built a couple of houses. He can't for the life of him figure out how to use Windows 8. He hasn't ever figured out how to use Bookmarks. There is a huge number of consumers that fall into that category. It may be getting smaller with the newer generations, but I would have to see it to believe it.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"