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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @02:04PM
Whatever it is, don't rush into a relationship just because you're afraid of being alone[1]- it's better to be alone and lonely than to be married/attached and lonely/frustrated/trapped.
Perhaps you may never find a soul mate, but some people keep pet dogs/cats for company, if you're a billionaire you could probably afford to keep some pet humans (even if some leave eventually). If you think that's terrible you should realize that many pet lovers treat their pets better than they treat humans, sometimes even better than their close relatives and friends ( Many pet lovers are fussier about humans than their pets - e.g. the very characteristics they find acceptable or even endearing in their cats they find intolerable in their bf/gf!).
[1] It's not that bad to rush into it if there's great chemistry "the stars are aligned" etc.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @02:42PM
<sup/sub> tags work if you'd prefer them for footnotes. They're just not in the list for reasons of sneakiness.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @05:39PM
Aaaagh. Kill it with fire. How is it that people feel the need to put footnotes into one paragraph? God, it is annoying as shit. In almost every instance I've seen, their footnote would have been much easier on sentence flow if it was either stuck in parenthetically, or just stuck between two commas. Do people feel smarter or more scholarly if they put in footnotes?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @07:35PM
What can I say, I just like footnotes.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Monday August 31 2015, @02:50PM
it's better to be alone and lonely than to be married/attached and lonely/frustrated/trapped.
There are even worse outcomes. To paraphrase the old saying, he could save a lot of time and effort by finding some chick he can't stand and give her half his money.
His best hope is probably to go on some reality TV matchmaking show and lie to all the women and claim be just another java programmer, some money and he's never going to starve, but not waving a flag of "hi there gold diggers, the feeding frenzy is over here"
When I was young and single and a little less than his age, and not nearly as wealthy but pretty well off engineer dude, it seemed like I went thru a phase where all the women I met saw me as $$$, it was pretty weird being pursued. Being a rich dude is kind of like being a hot young woman, at least wrt the pursuit. Something to do with their biological clocks ticking, they just go absolutely nuts around his age or just slightly younger. Also you have to be realistic, by his age, the "good ones" have been getting married off since half his age, so its going to be all single moms and foreclosing homeowner-esses and generally just women looking for a paycheck, possibly hoping to double down on alimony and child support. Of course the woman point of view is since half their age the "good guys" have been getting married off so how the hell is a guy with a good job, new car, and nice apartment walking around unattached? It was fun, but golddigger chicks are crazy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @09:33PM
But I bet the sex was great if they're the ones doing the pursuing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:16AM
A fair number might still keep pursuing.