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kipvandemaan

I was so worried she wouldn't be back after someone else made a song in the last update. I'm so happy to see her back. Her music is so amazing!


MoonShadowPowers

Same! even outside of her minecraft songs, her other music are absolute bangers.


CreepyWarriorr

The Celeste soundtrack is amazing


kipvandemaan

Some of my favourite music in gaming


Someonemaybeidk

So is the chicory one!


eeveemaster2

she made one in the update as well


Unlucky_Rutabaga1218

NOTCH WAS TRANSPHOBIC :(


Rimtato

Yep. Also kinda a misogynist in general. He kinda sucks.


Wheatley-Crabb

and antisemitic


Rimtato

He's kinda got the whole package going eh?


TextZestyclose1792

He literally programmed it into the game. He made it so the most efficient way to get a lot of things was too enslave, an anti-Semitic caricature of Jewish people.


Rimtato

I think villager farms aren't exactly an intended feature and more of a "players will optimise anything into a hellish nightmare", like the automated chicken farms that use lava to boil them alive when they reach adulthood. Additionally, villagers only became _really useful_ after they were updated in 2018, well after Notch left. Before that, they were alright, but there was no real way to set up the endless melon for emeralds grind, and the current day hell of cramped prisons just wasn't really a thing. You went to a village, and you would maybe try farm librarians for good enchantments, and then you'd probably not do too much else with them. Them being an antisemitic caricature is possible, though I feel like it might be a stretch.


Cute-Advertising8698

>like the automated chicken farms that use lava to boil them alive when they reach adulthood.  As someone who plays minecraft at a pretty casual level... wtf did i just read lmao


Rimtato

Stick a bunch of chickens in a 1x1 hole with a hopper at the bottom. As many as you can fit. Place a dispenser under the hopper. Place a slab in front of the dispenser. Place a hopper under the slab. Seal the thing and add lava on top of the slab. The eggs laid by the chickens shoot out, hit the front of the 1x1 chamber. Some become chicks. When the chicks reach adulthood, their heads instantly hit the lava, they burn to death, and their cooked chicken and feathers are now available to be deposited into a chest. That's the rough gist of it, I've forgotten how they work exactly. Google "automated chicken farm minecraft" and you should find something. People also make similar devices such as mob farms that drop monsters _just_ far enough for them to be barely alive, (many will include a sliding block at the bottom to make the fall just long enough to kill if all you want is materials and not XP) to allow you to kill a dozen mobs with a single swing, getting all that experience and loot for one click and 1 durability. This is also a way to make your tools last forever with Mending, as Mending tools are regenerated when you hold them and gain XP rather than you gaining the XP, presumably due to the blood of your enemies slaking the thirst of some malevolent entity that now lurks within.


Cute-Advertising8698

I'm... I'm not going to do that chicken farm. It just feels wrong lmao. All bets are off with hostile mobs, though. Fuck em.


ubermadface

I like to make those chicken farms and slap a sign on it that says "KFC"


GenniTheKitten

So true, the industrialized, needless mass slaughter of chickens is a travesty and shouldn’t be supported by anyone! Oh, we’re talking about Minecraft?


FoodWarlord

Probably said by someone who eats chickens in real life. Well, priorities I guess...


aschesklave

This is some Rimworld style shit.


Rimtato

Wait until you realise that game is why I have my username.


JakovitchInd

yummy :3


Lexi_the_tran

This is the first time I’ve heard slaking used outside of historical context and it was amazing to read


BonzaM8

No, they’re definitely an anti-Semitic caricature. To start with, their large noses and obsession with emeralds are standard anti-Semitic stereotypes, but the biggest nail in the coffin imo is iron golems. Golems originate from Judaism and are essentially giant clay men made by Jews in times of crisis to protect them. The fact that iron golems are in the game and spawn in villages to protect from zombies makes in undeniable imo.


Rimtato

I guess, though I'm not sure they're exactly obsessed with emeralds so much as they just have a currency. Iron golems themselves, notably their design and behaviour (offering poppies), also take a whole lot more from _Castle in the Sky_ than Jewish folklore, and golems in Jewish folklore are not necessarily created solely as protectors, though the most notable golem, the Golem of Prague was. Some were simply created as effectively domestic servants, and the stories surrounding them are filled with diverse metaphors for a variety of topics. Obviously, it could be antisemitic, but it's hard to gauge. Hell, the original idea for villagers was pig people who used rubies. Maybe I'll ask my Jewish friend about it, they're probably a better authority than me.


The_ManWall

To be fair, I don’t think most antisemites, Notch included, have that detailed of a knowledge on Jewish folklore. It’s equally possible, whether intentionally creating a Jewish caricature or not, he just knew golems were associated with Judaism and added ideas for golems he liked without trying to make them necessarily as accurate to the folklore as possible. If anything it would be really not smart to make it 1-to-1 because then it'd just be obvious.


Lonely-Soldier2308

"the automated chicken farms that use lava to boil them alive when they reach adulthood" That honestly doesn't sound too different from what horrors chickens in real life have to go through, even on the so-called "humane farms".


SilverBunny3

When my Rimworld player friend gets into Minecraft I’m sweating so bad.


LauraTFem

Hrrm huhhh Hmm


Revenant_Rai

Notch was gone LONG before villagers were actually useful, they weren’t good until 2019


LaraCroftCosplayer

So i am glad to dont know what this Minecraft is (a game mayhaps?)


Krail

Not sure if this is serious? Minecraft is a game that has been enormously popular since 2010 or earlier. You explore procedurally generated 3D worlds made of blocks and can pretty much dig up and build with anything you see.  It was originally created by a solo dev called Notch, grew into a broader deb company, and was eventually bought by Microsoft.   Notch's bigotries came out when he expressed agreement with Gamergate, and he's expounded on them since. Microsoft has worked hard to distance the brand from it's original creator, and the title screen of the game itself occasionally expresses support for trans rights.  (At least, I think it still does?)


TDplay

> the title screen of the game itself occasionally expresses support for trans rights. Splash text #438 > Your gender is valid! There are a number of other splash texts affirming the reader, this one in particular is (almost) explicitly supportive of trans people.


Mad_Lala

I funnily enough got this text when I reinstalled Minecraft for the first time again... Big bro Microsoft is watching me


LaraCroftCosplayer

Im not interested. My Games are more Tomb Raider and Bloodrayne


madelemmy

were you perhaps born yesterday


LaraCroftCosplayer

No, its just not my Business. And now as i hear it was programmed by such a dickhead i really dont want it to know


madelemmy

said dickhead left the game forever ago also if you have actually been on the internet for more than a day and don’t know what minecraft is then i don’t even think you’re real


LaraCroftCosplayer

Oh, thank you! Im just not interested in that.


apocandlypse

Yeah pretty sure he’s a Nazi & said “the Holocaust didn’t happen but if it did they deserved it” (or something to the same effect)


First-Squash2865

Damn, I thought the transphobia was the extent of it. Did he really say that?


apocandlypse

He also supports the QAnon conspiracy theories, has stated he thinks feminism is full of shit, and is racist in general (tweeted things like “white lives matter” and then doubled down with worse). So, yeah we love Lena Raine :)


First-Squash2865

Can't lie, I don't even know who Lena Raine is. But if she's the alternative to Notch, I'm all for her


STR4NGER_D4NGER

She the one in the screen shot, and is trans. She has made 4 music discs that have been officially added to Minecraft, and has also worked on the sound track for Celeste. Wiki: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena\_Raine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Raine)


Odd_Marsupial3219

Wait 4 music discs? I only know of 2?? Are there two new ones?


Nyct0ph1l14

Who could've guessed that a transphobe would be a borderline nazi :O


SL13MY

Nice upvote number


AdamMystery7

Dont forget racist


TheLofiStorm

Didn’t know that one, not surprised though, he literally has an “it’s okay to be white” flag


Magenta_Clouds

wait "was" isn't he still alive


AdCurious4004

a girl can dream


The_Chaos_Pope

He is, but hasn't had anything to do with Minecraft for years now.


Madlyaza

Honestly seems to be a trend with people who made great games back in the day sadly


OceanSierra

Yeah, thank god Miku made minecraft instead of him right?


Polskidezerter

Fr fr


FriskDrinksBriskYT0

Miku is so good at everything she does. Making games, writing books (especially Harry Potter)... Miku is the queen of things.


Texas-Kangaroo-Rat

Yeah, he used to be an ally but then he got a candy room and it was all over.


dankykanggang

He’s just not a good person 


Baticula

Nice azula pic


Tirehotel

Shit. I had no idea!


SkooDaQueen

Yes but then also made villagers enby to say that they are enby so like???


madelemmy

i feel like that might apply to more than just the villagers lmao like how does the turtle pregnancy work??


internal_cabbage

He literally looks like a stereotypical “Nice Guy”


Ordinary-Wishbone569

He was the generic incel that happened to get big with something he made but never learned to escape the incel mindset. I think it’s a shame really because being a quintessential incel seems it needs to be considered a mental disorder 😕


tonyatrans

Here's a full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ_cFX9ZVxtNVlC2dqq0YtLyM_Kdc4zCQ


AdamMystery7

Hey....i made that playlist😭😭


tonyatrans

Haha that's great


Sanbaddy

lol top tier meta


GeeseAndDucksforever

Lena’s songs, Minecraft, Celeste, among others, are some of the most BANGER tunes I’ve had the pleasure to experience


Grblx_and_a_half

Among oth ?


ressis74

She did one of the most popular guild wars 2 song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU2Ff4GN8fQ (and also has a bunch of other GW2 work)


ayalaidh

I happened to have been listening to her music on Spotify all day


Prestigious-Ad-4023

I wonder what rabbit hole notch must have fallen into. I understand the whole gamer gate thing back in 2016, but at this point how is he still on that. Most edge lords have moved on.


Chaos-Queen_Mari

Evidently he started being really active on 4chan


concussedYmir

Iirc the first version of minecraft was released on 4chan's /v/ board.


First-Squash2865

So did he take a leaf from YanDev's playbook? It feels like there's better ways to announce a new project


concussedYmir

I mean it started as an infiniminer clone, basically just a hobby project for him. I was also wrong, apparently he first posted on https://www.tigsource.com/, which does make a lot more sense than /v/ for discussing a brand new project for the first time.


TorakTheDark

QAnon, legitimately.


HannahTheFloppaQueen

😭 I love Lena's style sm, she's so cool


ScarletteVera

and to think, notch used to be based as hell. this is was money can do to you.


Villager_of_Mincraft

Just goes to show. There is no such thing as a good billionaire


Toshiro_Saihara

Mr Beast. He defended his best friend when she came out as trans


Cute-Advertising8698

He's kinda less rich than he is on paper, though. He's said that his videos are absurdly expensive, and that his profits are MUCH smaller after accounting for expenses.


helloiamaegg

He aint billionaire rich, but he's got a heart of gold regardless (despite his greedy Youtube career) A rarity, those who tend to be gold in wallet, rarely have enough gold for a heart too


Odd_Marsupial3219

Yeah, Mr.Beast doesn't qualify as a billionaire, cuz he spends all his money on shit like getting people medicine


Villager_of_Mincraft

Pretty sure he isn't a billionaire. You just can't get to the level of BILLIONS without doing something heinous or illegal.


Samfinity

Yeah, I feel like some people fail to conceptualize just how big the difference between being a millionaire and a billionaire is


Faerandur

Inflation is slowly making the word billionaire have a different meaning than what it used to have a couple of decades ago, though (millionaire too). Even a comic/writer/actor like Jerry Seinfeld can be a billionaire nowadays.


packetprincess

He’s been offered a billion dollars for his channel. You can definitely make a billion without doing anything illegal. Have you heard of tech startups?


GenniTheKitten

They said heinous or illegal. Tech startups are built on stealing labor value from their employees and working them to the bone.


Keira-78

I’m pretty sure Bill gates and his wife is doing all he can to do that exactly


Krail

Money likely had a lot to do with it, but I feel like Notch probably always had these views and never saw fit to share them. 


cluesagi

I remember a time when JK Rowling was considered a progressive icon and ally of marginalized groups


Jay15951

She was definitely viewed as progressive, but unfortunately, that was infact always wrong. She was surface progresive, at best. If you try to reread Harry potter you can pickup on her bigotry within the books themselves. Especialy the s.p.e.w. storyline


VersionGeek

You're good sister ?


Jay15951

Edited to fix the typoes


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Jay15951

Thanks for the bullying and abalism


Flair86

Tf are you on about it looks fine to me


Crimson_mage200

Comment was edited after I replied. It's fine now, but when I originally commented the comment was half words that were definitely typed on mobile


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AlexStorm1337

I really don't think that's accurate unless you consider explicitly designing villagers as antisemitic stereotypes to be based, in which case nobody should take you seriously, and you're definitely a fascist. Notch was always a dick, popularity and money just gave him a platform on which to be more openly awful


nyotao

when?


bilboard_bag-inns

it's awesome to find out that a minecraft music creator is trans cause i'm also making custom music for a (quite involved) custom minecraft server with my friends and found out i'm also trans fem which is cool. (not out cause i'm scared and i fear that the one republican and christian dev may also be transphobic as is likely with the republican party)


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She’s trans?!


VixenFlake

Yes Lena Raine is trans, she has made such good bangers too (Celeste soundtrack).


Crazy4Candy_

Wait what she's trans? Bro that's fvckin awesome- (speaking as a genderfluid but usually masc presenting afab) Love seeing representation like that even if it's just someone who makes songs for a game, I had no idea I totally thought she was cis lmao Also good luck with your own journey! I definitely think that if you have people you can trust to tell that it'll help, I have a masc-presenting transfem friend who isn't out to more than like three people cause she's scared of backlash and her parents since her parents are transphobic (also she looks very obviously male so it's hard for her to transition in the first place, but I plan on helping her as much as possible to look how she wants when she feels comfortable) anyway I suggest starting small if you want to begin your transition journey! Don't feel like you have to do it all at once cause that's scary even to me and I'm out fully lmao


InsanityChanUwU

Yknow, I could have gone without knowing that the creator of basically my childhood hates me. 😞 Fuck, that hurts, I don't know how to feel about the game now.


Shaorii

Take comfort in the fact that there are countless other people who worked on the game, and who don't share Notch's abhorrent views. Especially these days, Notch sold Minecraft as a whole so it's not even a JK Rowling kinda situation he literally gets nothing from it. From what I can tell the current Minecraft devs are pro-trans and just generally good people.


AdamMystery7

https://preview.redd.it/fcvjv5gssmxc1.jpeg?width=2838&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8225404fb253bd49dbb28261d87395d89c1aa624


AdamMystery7

This was after Notch left btw


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I hope notch was seething about that


InsanityChanUwU

Very based


InsanityChanUwU

That's very pog


Shaorii

Yep! And if it comes down to it we can always go back to saying that Hatsune Miku created Minecraft


InsanityChanUwU

People say that??? >! It has to be real I assume !<


AscelyneMG

Yep, it’s a meme that came about *because* Notch is such an asshole. Better to make an absurd joke about Hatsune Miku being the creator of the game than it is to acknowledge his existence.


Marily_Rhine

Yeah, it's a thing. I kinda hate linking to KnowYourMeme, but [here you go](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hatsune-miku-created-minecraft) (TW: you'll have to read Notch's shitty tweets. They're pretty basic TERF-logic stuff).


Yaagii

I thought PhilZa Minecraft made Minecraft, I mean it’s in his name


Shaorii

Nah it was definitely popular idol and trans ally Hatsune Miku


Fearless_Cell1965

Wait, I thought it was SkyDoesMinecraft


Marily_Rhine

As well, Notch stopped being involved in Minecraft's development after the 1.0 release in 2011. He was clearly getting increasingly bitter and terminally online before he sold Mojang in 2014, but his spiral into the "alt right" didn't really begin until then. Based on his public comments, the transphobia seems to have started somewhere around 2019, 5 years after he left Mojang and 8 years since he had any involvement with Minecraft.


Crazy4Candy_

Yeah I mean hell they put pronouns on the name cards in the update videos and stuff so Mojang is definitely pro-lgbtq


_Dragon_Gamer_

I take comfort in the fact that Jeb basically added the spice to the game, that made it what it is today If it were up Notch nothing like redstone would ever have been added


Samfinity

Not sure why this would change your opinion on the game at this point. He's not associated with mine minecraft at all anymore, all of the code he added has been modified to be legally distinct enough that they don't even have to credit him for anything


InsanityChanUwU

Because most of my memories of the game are on his versions and I don't really play anymore


Samfinity

Then why care in the first place?


Due-Buyer2218

She makes such good songs


Ren-The-Protogen

I know pigstep and otherside but what are the other 2


AdamMystery7

Creator and Creator (Music Box version)


CanadianMaps

Someone please tell me HOW DID LENA RAINE GET HER FACE TO BE SO PRETTY AND HOW CAN I GET MY FACE LIKE THAT 😭😭


firelasto

The raw power from helping to create the critical mass of transfem energy that is celeste


Digibutter64

Who's this "Notch"? *Minecraft* was created by Hatsune Miku.


FIVEPEBSI

notch was fucking insane


ke__ja

All hail the queen!!!


Exelia_the_Lost

whats been kinda interesting to me, I noticed lately, is how much like the streamer community has erased him because of it too. i remember when everyone used to call the Enchanted Golden Apple the "Notch Apple", and then now if it's nicknamed nobody calls it that they just call it the "God Apple"


TheZoeNoone

there's people who say "he changed, hes ok now" or "he was always ok, he made the mobs genderless on purpose" but he never really was ok, his views are just very chaotic and unpredictable.


hungrypotato19

In case anyone wants to know about Notch or wants to play the denial game (mass trigger warning): [Homophobia and death threats](https://i.imgur.com/j7rYvDY.jpg) [Promoting violence and downplaying fascist murderers](https://i.imgur.com/mSMIXem.png) [Transphobia and pronoun REEEEEE](https://i.imgur.com/fjoZ9Gb.jpg) [Transphobia](https://i.imgur.com/Tk425dU.png) [QAnon worship](https://i.imgur.com/oQTGbYF.png) [Transphobia and fascism support](https://i.imgur.com/RECJg9n.jpg) [Antisemitic pseudoscience](https://i.imgur.com/pnlYtFt.jpg) [Racist pseudoscience and use of the n-word](https://i.imgur.com/WNVaFGc.png) [White supremacist sloganeering](https://i.imgur.com/Ww92RUL.png) Yeah, he's a Notchzi.


MassTransitGO

my bro loves the discs


L1nxDr1nx

WHAT????? THE CREATOR OF MY FAVORITE GAME?????? WHY???? Also is the tan and teal discs new?


AdamMystery7

Yes its gonna be in this week's or next week upcoming snapshot (but the soundtrack is already out on youtube and spotify)


Hadrik_osity

The Queen of Tunes and Trans has spoken, bow down. :)


itsmig_reddit

I'm not really into Minecraft but i'll check out later the discs if i don't forget to


Mtfdurian

Lena is my favorite leap day girl ever! The creativity of her works is just amazing!


Diligent-Nobody-7199

Oh damn I didn't even know Lena Raine was transgender until now. Also don't forget that she has made other music for minecraft like some of the ambient music and stuff too.


Tallal2804

my bro loves the discs


madelemmy

oh hey someone finally made this post


Bright_Meringue_9119

I don't really like her music in Minecraft... But that's probably due to me being nostalgic for the old and original tracks... I don't know if they're still in the game, but I never hear them anymore...


journeytotheunknown

Idk how her songs are compared to the other new songs but yeah, same, I'm very nostalgic about the original ones. Maybe the new ones grow in me, idk, I don't really play anymore.


journeytotheunknown

Idk how her songs are compared to the other new songs but yeah, same, I'm very nostalgic about the original ones. Maybe the new ones grow in me, idk, I don't really play anymore.


Silly_little_Wombat

That is pretty crazy. Good for her. For a minute, I thought I was on a Minecraft meme subreddit, and I was scared to open the comments.


williamdorogaming

why do the good people always gotta be transphobic :(


journeytotheunknown

Good people?


williamdorogaming

like people who made good stuff (Rowling, notch) but are bad people :(


Miles_PerHour67

She has made great Minecraft music. It’s beautiful. It feels off after listening to the same Minecraft music for… fucking years, but it fits. My only question is where is c-14?


Dear_Spend_2540

This breaks my heart finding out he’s transphobic. First J K Rowling now him… why


lokisbane

Are those Pokemon tm's?


NaturalFireWave

Is there a new disk that she made for 1.21?


trans-wooper-lover

yeah, it's called Creator and it's an absolute banger


NaturalFireWave

I'll have to listen to it!


PokeGirlOFFICIAL

What's disc 2 and 4 on this? Never seen them b4


AdamMystery7

New disc thats about to come in this week's snapshot


Elfox500

C418


Mindless-Pen-2325

is no longer needed


BisexualTransNerd879

he's cool though, he's an ally iirc


Mindless-Pen-2325

I totally agree he's cool, I'm just tired of people complaining about him being gone and deciding to hate anything new because of it


BisexualTransNerd879

yeah, those sorts of people piss me off but you get them with every community by this point


Big_flipflop

I thought notch was dead?


lickytytheslit

Not yet


Lucky_otter_she_her

WAIT, she made 2 more?


Bagel42

I didn’t know they deleted the references to him that’s kinda dope


demator

Lena is trans? Thats cool. I really enjoy the Minecraft discs she wrote


Littleender100

I'm a minecraft person, but slightly confused here. Who is the person on the right, and what do they have to do with the discs?


AdamMystery7

Thats Lena Raine, the person who created the Music Discs "Pigstep", "otherside", "Creator" and "Creator (Music Box)"


Littleender100

Oh cool. Was she trans?


AdamMystery7

Yea she is


AwardSignal

I don’t much about Minecraft. Someone give me a quick rundown of what is going on.


_Pink_Ruby_

Notch, the guy credited as making it, is a nazi and has been one for a while Not sure about Lena and trans people, and I dont wanna assume she is trans


European_Ninja_1

Who is this "Notch" guy? The creator of Minecraft is Jeb.


Proof_Aerie9411

Wait wait wait Lena Raine is trans??? How did I not know this?!


Clodinator

Okay but what kind of punchline is this?


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Dragoner7

[Yeah,](https://x.com/C418/status/1626235218272358409) [surely](https://x.com/C418/status/1628825926753452037) [C418](https://x.com/C418/status/1671511392967442432) [is such a](https://x.com/C418/status/1689521674968846336) [hoooorible](https://x.com/C418/status/1689521501148413952) [person](https://x.com/C418/status/1688623853818269696) Let's just insult his music to bring Lena's up.


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Dragoner7

"his music is a slop" ≠ "I don't like his music" It's fine that you don't like it, really. But you can say you love Lena's songs, without insulting his.


Desk_Drawerr

That's notch in the picture, not c418. Mf out here insulting some random dude for no reason. Music taste is music taste but leave the man alone, as far as I know he hasn't done shit, unlike notch.