Games

Terraria is an awesome game...

Tom Charman

Aug 16, 2011 — 1 min read

Terraria is an awesome game, if by awesome game you mean evil, evil timesuck. It’s Minecraft for people who can’t quite be arsed.

It’s also extremely dangerous. Andy kindly hosted a world which, when translated onto my machine, somehow developed a few very, very dangerous bits of solid rock in a most unfortunate location. Come on down, said Andy. The water’s fine. O RLY?

Inspect the two scenarios above and ponder the stupidity of the man who trusts his stupid well-making friend. Twice.

Andy's made a diving well.

... or is it a TRAP of DEATH?

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