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Last blog post I already wrote about Cemetech Contest 25. The contest ended on 31 March after being prolonged by nine days. I made a text adventure about a dragon that had a cold. I made a map for myself and started writing.
One moment I started stressing, bevause I had to do much stuff in a few days time, but at last I got it done. The last day of the contest I did ho to sleep two hours too late because I had to do some final edits, create the executables and hand it in. The next day I found out that even the Python file won't work on Windows10 because Windows10 has the HOME variable, whereas Windows7 has HOMEDRIVE and HOMEFOLDER and I used Windows7 in a virtual machine, QEMU, to test for Windows...
Recently my friends got me into Minecraft. My twin-sister got me to play on her account once and I actually liked it, though for me it wouldn't be worth €25,- for something like Minecraft. Hence I started looking for alternative ways to play it with my friends without having to spend my money, of which I don't have much, on it.
I found out about TLauncher, which lets you play singleplayer and on servers with 'online-mode' switched off. So I thought it would be possible then to play with my friends if they would turn off 'online-mode' on their server, but I found out they have a realm, which doesn't work with TLauncher...
Then onevof my friends bought Minecraft for me and I can now play with them. Yay!
The disadvantage of this is that I am not good with stopping in time, which sometimes results in me playing Minecraft non-stop for two or three hours. Once I even played it a full day.
This is something that I don't like, because I also want and have to do other stuff on a day. So I decided to make a program to shut Minecraft down after one hour of playing. This is what I am currently working on. I am probably going to do it with Shell Scripting and Crontab.