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I was called to a friend's house to try out this "new building game" - So I grabbed my laptop and went down. When I got there I was introduced to Minecraft, I was not impressed, ill be honest, I thought this was a kid's game.

Two weeks later, I was hooked nonstop playing and then introduced to the first modded pack called "Tekkit". Add this to normal Minecraft, I was so hooked it was a joke, I stopped playing Eve, I stopped playing C&C, I was on Minecraft all the time, my wife started playing (we only had 1 child at the time) and I owe a lot of my relationship closeness to this game because for around 2 years after we put the little lad to bed we would sit and play together for hours.

Ah well this one has a rather funny story attached to it. As a 30 something year old, I had no previous interest in Mincecraft until EveOnlineTutorials convinced me to join his heavily modded server and try it out. Was a little daunting at first but I managed to get the hang of it and had built a, somewhat presentable house. Buuuut it wasn't presentable for very long.

Both he and TheGreatestBanana12 thought it would be hilarious to fill the whole damn place with sheep. This was the result (quality isn't the best, was on an older gpu);

i found a youtuber called the syndicate project and he was just a small time content creator and he inspired me to buy the game and start making youtube videos ( not that i knew how still dont XD) still play it to this day

After chatting with my wife, we pieced together how it all started. One evening, I passed by her workplace and noticed a new game. When I asked about it, she introduced me to Minecraft and suggested I give it a try. Thirteen years later, we’re still playing it occasionally. Now, my kids are into it too, and I even run our own server in docker on a NAS.

So, my story with Minecraft is an interesting one. I'd heard of Minecraft in the early 2010's by various people mentioning it on social media, maybe with the occasional screenshot as well but all I really knew about it was it was a blocky game. I didn't know the depths of the creative building (albeit much less than nowadays) and I didn't know any of the lore at all. But one day, when randomly surfing Youtube for something to watch, a channel that I'd recently been watching a few of their videos of popped up with a Minecraft video and that channel was Achievement Hunter. I'd only discovered their hilarious content a couple of weeks before that and had been watching some of their series so, of course, more and more of their videos were appearing in my recommended. I saw a Minecraft video and decided that it was FINALLY time for me to see what it looks like to actually play this game. By this time, Achievement Hunter had made a fair number of Minecraft videos- roughly about 80 (they go on to make approximately 500 videos of Minecraft in total) so I had some content to binge. I'd already loved the team's chemistry and comedic delivery but their Minecraft series quickly became one of my favourites with their various gameshow-esque ideas and each week competing for The Tower of Pimps (IYKYK) to be placed like a trophy outside of their house. It felt very Survivor or I'm a Celeb in those weeks. Then sometimes they would do more chill build episodes to expand their city and its lore. The creativity and fun they had then inspired me to get the game and play it with my friends... although we never quite got to their level of inventiveness. And while Achievement Hunter may no longer be around, they left their mark on the internet and in certain games like Minecraft.

Fun fact 1: Achievement Hunter cast member Jeremy Dooley also wrote a song about the Tower of Pimps (and it's a banger!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB3ifaFDObc&ab_channel=RoosterTeeth

Fun fact 2: The Tower of Pimps did appear as an Easter Egg in one of the tutorial builds for Minecraft... as well as there being many other references to AH content scattered about the internet and in other games too.