By "it", do you mean the free Creative mode, or the actual game? My guess is, it was the former, since it'd be damn near impossible to get TNT in the actual game within an hour, without some sort of cheat-y method. In Creative mode, the majority of the blocks don't have an actual use, they just have different outer textures. You have to remember, Creative is Alpha version 0.30 of the game, and is well over a year old at this point. The actual game is up to Beta 1.3 as of today, and is practically a different game from Creative, and is an amazingly different game from Garry's Mod, since the last time I checked, you didn't have to mine for resources or build your own tools to do so in Garry's Mod, or have a health bar and enemies hounding you daily.

Very clever of you to pass judgment on the game based on a version of it that was not even current at the time you played it, Excel. I didn't think I'd need to repeat myself, but Creative was version 0.30 of fucking Alpha of the game. TNT had no purpose in it, the same as nearly every other block had no purpose in it, because the game was not done being developed at that point. Hence, you know, being a game in the alpha stages of development. By your standards, there is no actual "point" to Creative, no consequences, no goals, but that's what a lot of people out there love about it. Take five seconds and look through this thread and you'll see that your fellow Syd Lexians made a shitload of cool stuff and enjoyed themselves pretty damn well, all without any consequences for their actions or any ultimate goal to the game.

Also, if you take half a second to search Youtube, you'd see that TNT eventually was programmed to work, as you can find dozens of videos of people blowing the fuck out of anything and everything you can think of. As for you not finding anyone else in the world, that'd be because Minecraft isn't some kind of MMO where everyone plays on the same server, particularly at the time you played it. You likely went into a single player server for Creative, or blundered into a multiplayer server that was empty at the time.

Minecraft is a game where you get out of it what you put into it, if you go in expecting the game to tell you what to do and what's expected of you, you're up shit creek without a paddle, because it's not that kind of game. It's a game of freedom, exploration, and creativity, of surviving on your own or with some friends when you start with nothing, of building whatever the fuck you want, of exploring the land in any direction you choose, for however long you choose, considering the world will keep randomly generating until either your computer gives out because the map is too massive or you reach the size limit of roughly 8 times the size of the Earth. If doing all this stuff alone truly upsets you, there's hundreds, if not thousands, of multiplayer servers advertised on the game's forums, including more than one Syd Lexian server, I can think of Knyte's and my own off the top of my head, and I know Mr. Satire wants to start one, too.

Also, for the record, if someone doesn't like Minecraft, I don't mind at all, to each his own and all that. I just get pissed when someone passes judgment on the game based on a version that hasn't been current in God knows how long, and thinks that the game hasn't improved one tiny bit in all this time, despite not knowing a blessed thing about the actual game.

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