Scene from the Minecraft server logs

[dblume]

Our household server logs reveal that stratestar110, a 10 year-old girl was playing with bumppup, an 8 year-old boy, playing as the admin. The first transaction was innocent enough:

[INFO] CAN I HAVE BRICK BLOCKS
[INFO] CONSOLE: Giving stratestar110 some 45
The girl asked the admin to give her some blocks, and "CONSOLE" shows that he issued the

Comments

[pastilla]

There is indeed something archetypal about that exchange.

Especially the last line, which suggests (linguistically, at least) that she gets 45 instead of 64. If she had only looked right away . . .

[dblume]

Oh, that's funny! But that's not actually how to read the last line. "45" is the ID of the "brick blocks."

The console doesn't report exactly how many brick blocks he actually gave her, but I presume she was rewarded with all 64.

[pastilla]

I had a feeling that was the case --- still, it looked pretty damn funny.

[dblume]

Ooh, thanks! I'd love to hear about any other useful tips, too.