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  • The biggest issue here is the server using the trademark “Minecraft”. This feels like a threat to take actions for using that name if they don’t align with what Microsoft wants. Which is reasonable, the server calls itself “MinecraftOnline”. Microsoft does have a reasonable right to put a stop to that usage if it reflects badly on their branding.

    Once the server stops using their branding, then Microsoft loses a lot of it’s teeth, especially outside of the game itself (like on discord). Even in the game, if it is java edition and requires a direct IP connection Microsoft has very little ground to stand on, but they could kick them off Realms, if they are present.

    That’s one thing I miss about old games. Anyone could run a game server, and you could always directly connect to them even if they weren’t listed on the server list, or gamespy was down.







  • Breaking the 3D rule you set, there is Super Mariomon. It’s a romhack for Pokemon Emerald that does a complete conversion to into a Mario based monster hunting game. The story, the map, the monsters, all 100% replaced. Because it isn’t Pokemon, the creators took some fun liberties on some of the core concepts of Pokemon like gyms. They also masterfully mined Mario lore to fill out a full dex of 151 critters.








  • I haven’t gotten too far, but right now I’ve got persistent volumes being pushed by NFS from my NAS. I’m using rocky Linux VMs as my target, but for this use case, Fedora CoreOS should be the same.

    I haven’t yet tried using Ansible to create the VMs, but that would be cool. I know teraform is designed for that sort of thing, but if Ansible can do it, all the better. I’d love to get to a point where my entire stack as Ansible.

    I don’t yet have Ansible restarting the service, but that should be a simple as adding a few new tasks after the daemon-reload task. What I don’t know how to do is tell it to only restart if there is change to any of the config files uploaded. That would be nice to minimize service restarts.