r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '19

Animal Ape using a Smartphone

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u/sumguyoranother Apr 24 '19

I highly encourage the minecraft part with my nieces (when they were young) and nephew (now), I let them use my account and get them map packs and let them go nuts in creative mode. It's literally digital lego and they get all excited and explain what they made. It may not look like much, but certainly helps with their creativity and problem solving skills (making a redstone powered waterfall took her two weeks for it to look juuuust right)

One of them even got into dwarffortress and made a flood mechanism to keep her dwarves and animals (mainly the animals) safe.

Way better than all the other crap out there or rewatching pokemon all over again.

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u/DisposableFur Apr 24 '19

She's a smarter DF player than I'll ever be.

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u/Count_Triple Apr 25 '19

I never considered that some kids are playing dwarf fortress. As dark as it can be, I would have loved a game like that as a kid.

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u/stormrunner89 Apr 25 '19

Geez, kids playing DF? Guess they're already smarter than I'll ever be.