Daily Archives: October 14, 2016

Mojang, Please Don’t Remove Bow Boosting via /r/Minecraft

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Mojang, Please Don’t Remove Bow Boosting

After the controversial change to observers (which I completely understand, but that's beside the point), u/poswar pointed out that Mojang is actually planning to 'fix' bow boosting.

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When you bow boost while flying with elytra you can stay in the air forever at the cost of health. You basically have to shoot yourself with a punch 2 bow while gliding and the knockback will shoot you upwards, allowing you to fly infinitely. Bow boosting takes a lot of practice to master and raises Minecraft's (relatively low) skill ceiling, which is always a healthy thing in any game.

Bow boosting is a lot like rocket jumping in the game Team Fortress 2. It was initially a random thing that happened because of the way the game worked, but the community loved it and the devs rolled with it and embraced it and now it's a core feature in the game.

Please Mojang, see bow boosting as a feature instead of a bug because it's so much fun! If you wanna change it however, because I do agree that it is OP at the moment, nerf it instead of removing it. My suggestion is that arrows you shoot to hit yourself will take extra durability from the elytra, possibly ignoring the unbreaking enchantment.

Submitted October 14, 2016 at 07:36PM by MushirMickeyJoe
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Apple Loop: New iPhone 8 Leaks, Apple’s Latest Victory Against Samsung, Fixing The Flawed iPhone 7

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Tthis week’s Apple Loop includes leaks and rumors around next year’s iPhone 8, a reminder on how Apple makes money, questioning Siri’s stupidity, more sensors packed under the curved glass, Apple and Samsung’s latest court adventures, the increasing prominence of iPhone 6 Touch Disease, the smart case that fixes three major iPhone 7 problems, and a look at who durable the Jet Black iPhone 7 actually is.

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Android Circuit: Samsung Kills Note 7, Apple Victorious, Why People Hate The Perfect Pixel

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This week’s Android Circuit includes Samsung’s official cancellation of the Galaxy Note 7, how Apple will exploit Samsung’s mistake, why people hate the practically perfect Pixel, Google Duo taking over from Hangouts, Google’s Android Wear smartwatches leak, Three’s UK exclusive deal with ZTE, and Sony’s promise to bring mobile games to Android during 2017.

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Epic cloud wars lead to AWS – VMware deal

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A decade after the launch of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Web Service (AWS) is still the leader in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing. However, ten years into a market, companies are expecting more than cheap infrastructure.  Cloud conversations have shifted to business agility and advanced services. With cloud computing emerging as a fundamental component of next generation IT architectures, Microsoft, Google, and IBM battle to topple AWS from its throne.

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