There’s something timeless about playing Minecraft, especially when you’re playing with friends. No matter how many new games come out or how much time passes, Minecraft always feels like home. It’s simple.
At its core, Minecraft is about freedom. You spawn into a world with nothing but your hands and endless possibilities. You can build a house on a hill, dig a massive underground base, or spend hours exploring caves that seem to stretch on forever. There’s no single “right” way to play, and that’s part of what makes it so special. Some days you feel like mining diamonds. Other days you just want to farm crops, fish by a lake, or terraform an entire mountain because you can.
But as much as I love solo Minecraft, playing with friends makes it ten times better. A simple survival world becomes a shared adventure. The first night isn’t just about surviving, it’s about everyone cramming into a half-finished dirt house while someone forgot to make torches. Mining trips where someone always falls into lava. Even basic tasks feel more fun when you’re laughing over voice chat the entire time. Building together is one of my favorite parts. One friend starts constructing a castle, another builds a modern mansion next door, and somehow it all becomes part of the same oddly charming village. You end up with a world full of personality because every build reflects the person who made it. Walking through your shared world weeks later feels nostalgic, like flipping through a scrapbook of memories.
There’s also something special about the unpredictability. Maybe you planned to organize storage today, but instead you end up fighting the Ender Dragon because someone said, “What if we just did it right now?” Maybe a small prank spirals into an ongoing joke that becomes part of your friendship history. Minecraft with friends thrives on these spontaneous moments.
Even the grind feels lighter together. Gathering resources, clearing land, or traveling thousands of blocks doesn’t feel boring when you’re talking, joking, or planning your next big project. The game becomes a backdrop for conversation. Sometimes it’s not even about what you’re doing. it’s just about hanging out.
What I love most about playing Minecraft with friends is how it brings people together creatively. It gives you space to collaborate, experiment, and just exist in a world you built side by side. Years later, you might not remember every detail, but you’ll remember the laughter, the late-night sessions, and the internal worlds you created together
Another thing about this documentary is how they are still trying to play off his death as normal. It isn’t normal and it certainly doesn’t add up. They say in the documentary that they believe he was mentally ill suffering from a manic-depressive disorder much like Jimi Hendrix and other artists during the time, but the disorder wasn’t well studied at the time therefore they couldn’t have known he had this disorder. I see it as playing it off trying to pin it on something that could happen and that is normal, but spoiler alert it was anything but normal. His last girlfriend, Joan Wasser, a fellow songwriter and musician was also in the documentary and gave a few stories about jeff but one that stook out to me was a story they told about Jeff’s later years. It was maybe a couple of months before he passed. He supposedly told her that he was seeing visions of the devil and had a dream that he had a brain tumor and died but while they were telling these stories the camera cuts back to Joan Wasser who says Jeff told her about seeing visions and talking to the devil but when she says this her face curls into an unusual and odd facial expression one that seemed like she was almost happy, like a smirk but more devious and odd, especially since she was talking about the death of her boyfriend. My theory about this wasn’t really clear at first and then I found out about Duper’s Delight. It is a condition when certain people involuntarily smile, smirk, or laugh while lying. The micro expression is brief and a brief second uncontrollable movement that in turn reveals true emotion. Sometimes they feel this smile or muscle movement happen and try to hide it by biting their lips or tightening their mouth which only makes the movement look like a guilty smirk. It comes from the dopamine someone gets from lying and then in turn getting away with it. The condition is also often associated with narcissism which is an interesting correlation especially in this circumstance. 