Having taken basic circuit design, building and and or gates from scratch, and then working up the stack to assembly language… Redstone is not all that bad.
Well, I would call assembly a pretty terrible programming language, too. 😅
I guess, my point is that Redstone is fine for the occasional AND gate or even combination of a few logic gates. But these folks implement whole programs in Redstone, manually building tons of logic gates and having to invest hours to correct even tiny mistakes in their design. That just sounds more like a job than fun gameplay.
(I guess, this is their job in lots of cases, but you know, they still could’ve chosen to create different content.)
Yeah, that’s the other favorable interpretation, that they just come up with a repeatable design, then put on a video/livestream/whatever and zone out placing blocks. I can see that being enjoyable to some.
But I guess, that’s the part where I’m saying that I personally cannot relate anymore, because I have touched the tools of gods, so to speak.
I will sit down with a specific goal in mind and an expectation of how long it should take. And then seeing it take a hundred times as long is just painful. Especially when it’s silly stuff like wanting to move a section of code, which in actual programming is often as easy as Ctrl+X → Ctrl+V, whereas you’ll spend hours rebuilding the same thing elsewhere in Redstone…
Having taken basic circuit design, building and and or gates from scratch, and then working up the stack to assembly language… Redstone is not all that bad.
Well, I would call assembly a pretty terrible programming language, too. 😅
I guess, my point is that Redstone is fine for the occasional AND gate or even combination of a few logic gates. But these folks implement whole programs in Redstone, manually building tons of logic gates and having to invest hours to correct even tiny mistakes in their design. That just sounds more like a job than fun gameplay.
(I guess, this is their job in lots of cases, but you know, they still could’ve chosen to create different content.)
People do wood-carving, knitting and painting and other hobbies with minute details.
Yeah, that’s the other favorable interpretation, that they just come up with a repeatable design, then put on a video/livestream/whatever and zone out placing blocks. I can see that being enjoyable to some.
But I guess, that’s the part where I’m saying that I personally cannot relate anymore, because I have touched the tools of gods, so to speak.
I will sit down with a specific goal in mind and an expectation of how long it should take. And then seeing it take a hundred times as long is just painful. Especially when it’s silly stuff like wanting to move a section of code, which in actual programming is often as easy as Ctrl+X → Ctrl+V, whereas you’ll spend hours rebuilding the same thing elsewhere in Redstone…