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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @02:02AM
Wow, someone has a massive load of unresolved anger issues. And obviously lacking any kind of outlet so you have to hate on people you have never met.
You are mad at Richie Rich too? He's a fictional character.
Seriously, your flame had no discernible focus. You had better get some help before you hurt someone, possibly yourself.
(you would get modded -1 Troll if I had an account)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @04:45AM
Yes, Ritchie Rich. Don't you remember him? Probably not; you're probably too young to have developed any sense of responsibility, empathy, and self esteem. The tag line on his comics were Poor Little Rich Boy. That's what we got here. Oh, poor little rich boy!
I don't have any anger issues, except maybe towards pretentious dickwads like you. Like I said, good on him for selling out and I am the last to criticize or think ill of him for it (are you one of the dumbfucks who thinks ill of him for not turning down a billion dollars because "selling out to the Man" would ruin YOUR game?). However, I don't have to listen to him whine about how awful it is to be a billionaire. There's a Joe Walsh song that sums it up pretty good: Everybody's so different, I haven't changed. He could fuck movie stars for the rest of his life, or pull a Kurt Cobain, and it would make zero difference to me or my life, but forgive me for calling him out for being a whining little shit because he apparently has some need for attention and to receive confirmation that he's just a lonely regular guy.
I dunno, maybe you go walking through the homeless shelter complaining about how awful it is that because you have so much food, too much of it spoils in the fridge before you can eat it. Yes, clearly those homeless guys have unresolved anger issues towards you. It can't be that YOU are a unempathetic and ignorant jackass.
(I'd mod you -1 Dumbfuck, but you're not worth the effort of logging in)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:53AM
Case in point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @02:31PM
What case in point? You make no point. I think this anger you perceive has been explained pretty well. If English is not your native son, then forgive me, but otherwise it is not on me if you are too dense to understand coherent sentences.