Viridian

During the very end of August, I crashed into a weird and deep depression. The GamerGate movement was starting to spring into action and was exposing a lot of fucked up corruption that had already taken over the gaming media. That, on top of the already bogus levels of corruption that I already knew had been going on for years, I thought that was it, gaming was doomed. Erik Cain claimed that the gamer is dead, and that old nerds like me, who had already faced seclusion for decades because of the nature of our hobby, were even going to be even further segregated by the communities now buying their way into the industry. I practically had nowhere to run because someone like me was now strawman for bigotry because of the games I play, or the websites I visit. Thankfully GamerGate leveled up, but before the months it took it to happen, I found The Promised Land.

Viridian is a virtual town within one of Minecraft's many online servers, CivCraft (mc.civcraft.vg). CivCraft is basically a social experiment to see what kind of civilizations users can create and how they decide to interact with each other. Other than deterring hacking and sock account abuse, there are no rules. Over time, many websites have jumped into the server to claim a bit of land as their own, and/or conquer others. One such community on a certain video game centric imageboard I frequent decided to take part and create our own promised land. We settled in an area formally known as StoneArk, whose owners entrusted us with, and let us ultimately claim as Viridian. This is pretty much where I took shelter for about two months straight to keep me out of the whole gaming journalism debacle thing until most of it could blow over. When I poked my head out, gaming still seemed to be alive, and in the mean time, I had a lot of fun experiences with my little autism town and its 100 or so users that came and went in that time. Over time I took little video clips around the city, eventually planning on editing together a video to draw new citizens in, but as the town population became inactive, I couldn't get any interesting footage, and finally, after like four years, the premium Minecraft account that I borrowed from an anon was reclaimed with a new password and I can no longer log in. Here's the footage I have left:


I had plenty of neat screenshots too, but I'm a fucking idiot who deleted them all in the folder I saved them in once YouTube finished processing this video.