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A peek inside Notch's housewarming party

Damn it. I should have checked my email for dat E-Vite. Haha.


Kozak said:
Zedd and Martin Garrix are said to be really awesome and down to earth.

Wish I could party with them
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awmg and Dillon Francis too!
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I'd say most EDM DJ/Producers are probably like that (only one that comes to mind as being a douche bag is James Zaviela. And he's not even that good) Most are a bit geeky as well...
 
I see people are skeptical that he has depression in the early parts of the thread. Come on guys, hasn't a recent celebrity death taught us money =/= happiness?

That being said, I hope he's not depressed, because then I wouldn't feel awful for feeling totally jelly of all those candy dispensers!
 
I like how there's several million dollars worth of cars parked in the house, but people are most impressed with the few hundred bucks worth of candy.
 
Good for him, glad he is living it up.


That house is still overkill Imo, prolly spend half that and get something alot better. I would design a personal house and build from scratch if I had his $$.

Still jealous lol
 
Always nice to see someone becoming successful by simply making a honest entertainment product (and selling it to MS for a couple of billions).
 
Well, so much for "I would retire to an isolated, quiet beach somewhere so I could just happily poke at code." More power to him and he deserves to live it up but I have to admit the way he's going about this seems kind of uber flashy, odd and contradictory based on his comments online about desperately wanting to get away from aggressive personalities and drama. If I had that much cash the last thing I'd want to do is pay a bunch of fake, clingy celebrities to come and hang out with me at my house who only want get in some cheap photo ops and further enable their shallow, PR driven sycophancy, yuck.
 
Agent Unknown said:
If I had that much cash the last thing I'd want to do is pay a bunch of fake, clingy celebrities to come and hang out with me at my house who only want get in some cheap photo ops and further enable their shallow, PR driven sycophancy, yuck.
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To repeat what was said earlier, i'd say a majority of the people were from the videogame industry, a minority were friends from the electronic music industry and the rest were the +1's of the above. The same people that created and handled this party are the same people that do his GDC parties in San Fran. So I really don't understand how "mostly friends" is "fake, clingy celebrities"
 
That's like my dream man-cave (as soon as you get rid of all the people in it). I'd invite a few famous people I might be interested in, but the problem is you might end up with Selena Gomez in your house too.
 
Agent Unknown said:
Well, so much for "I would retire to an isolated, quiet beach somewhere so I could just happily poke at code." More power to him and he deserves to live it up but I have to admit the way he's going about this seems kind of uber flashy, odd and contradictory based on his comments online about desperately wanting to get away from aggressive personalities and drama. If I had that much cash the last thing I'd want to do is pay a bunch of fake, clingy celebrities to come and hang out with me at my house who only want get in some cheap photo ops and further enable their shallow, PR driven sycophancy, yuck.
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Notch must never have fun. I know what is best for Notch, and this isn't it. Personally, If I was Notch, I would give this up and go back to developing Minecraft and allow nerds to send passive aggressive thrreats when he doesn't include yellow snow in the Christmas patch.
 
Rukes said:
To repeat what was said earlier, i'd say a majority of the people were from the videogame industry, a minority were friends from the electronic music industry and the rest were the +1's of the above. The same people that created and handled this party are the same people that do his GDC parties in San Fran. So I really don't understand how "mostly friends" is "fake, clingy celebrities"
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Yes? Your point? Obviously any real friends he has attending the party wouldn't be the aforementioned fake, clingy celebrities since friends and colleagues in the video game industry and electronica community =/= attention starved people who frequent the front page TMZ and ET. But glad to hear that you think it's a well balanced soirée. Or something.

Anyways, I'd fill my house full of arcade cabs, gaming rigs, and some classic cars and tell everyone but close friends and family to take a hike but that's just me.
 
Agent Unknown said:
Yes? Your point? Obviously any real friends he has attending the party wouldn't be the aforementioned fake, clingy celebrities since friends and colleagues in the video game industry and electronica community =/= attention starved people who frequent TMZ and ET. But glad to hear you think it's a well balanced soirée. Or something.
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you do know he was there..? he is the one who took the pictures..
 
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Hanmik said:
you do know he was there..? he is the one who took the pictures..
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Ah my bad, sometimes I forget how many insiders we have on GAF, sorry. Glad to hear it.

Man, I would kill for that car room. More power again to Notch. As I said before, first thing on my agenda would be to build the most amazing arcade known to man.
 
cosmicblizzard said:
I see people are skeptical that he has depression in the early parts of the thread. Come on guys, hasn't a recent celebrity death taught us money =/= happiness?

That being said, I hope he's not depressed, because then I wouldn't feel awful for feeling totally jelly of all those candy dispensers!
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Yeah, piles of money keeps you from being depressed about financial issues (assuming you don't royally fuck up, but looking online about net worth that wouldn't be the case with Notch unlike maybe Kanye and Kardashian if they got the place instead) but then you'd just be stuck with other causes for it, if nothing else then just plain old screwy brain chemical balance.
 
Money doesn't buy happiness, but you can buy a lot of shit with that kind of money. He had to take them. He would have wondered his entire life how his life would be, if he didn't.

Really happy for him.
 
sn00zer said:
This is why celebrities hang out with celebrities. They are the only people guaranteed not to leech of each other. Id bet celebrities feel much more comfortable around other celebrities, because no one else can relate to their life experiences. And hell if everyone is a millionaire its not like someone is trying to sell them on an investment.
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You're probably right. I think it's easy for people to have difficulties empathizing with the 1%, so they would definitely hang out with more people like themselves. Seems kinda alienating, but hanging out with Selena Gomez evens it out in my eyes.

EatinOlives said:
Yeah Notch's wealth is totally the reason why you don't have a savings account.
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Sick burn, bro. I really should have pointed out my statement was hyperbole and obviously not meant to be taken seriously. I forgot that stuff like that doesn't translate well on the internet and I'm sorry if I triggered anyone viewing this thread with it.
 
fester said:
Sadly, this is very likely what will happen. There's a reason why people who go from 0 to a billion bucks in 2.5 seconds often lose that money quickly when compared to people who have built wealth over time: they are totally unprepared to manage it.
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Sorry but that is bull****. There are a few exposed/prominent examples of people/stars who burned their money but saying that this is the norm is just wrong. Or did i miss empirical researches about this? Notch has waaay more money than the avarage "won 3 million dollars, 5 years later hobo again." and there will be (hired) people helping him managing his assets.
If indeed Notch is broke in 15 years, i invite you to my house, to see me eating a nike sneaker.
 
It looks like a department store or something, certainly not like a home.

I am not rich though so maybe my idea of a home and his are totally different!

I have no idea who any of the people in the photos are either.

The view is immense though.
 
HP_Wuvcraft said:
And Notch's interpretation was "I want this house". His interpretation, when he quit his company, was "quit game development".

And yes, it could. I don't see why that is relevant. Which, again, begs me to ask: what is your point?

If we've both established that living life to the fullest means doing what you want, then what exactly are you trying to say?
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I did not say this. The reason you're responding to me is because I said buying a multi-million dollar home is not living life to the fullest, so no I do not believe doing what you want is living life to the fullest.

I don't know why you have such an issue with my sentiment? Buddhists view shedding yourself of all worldly possessions as the only way to understand the true meaning of life. All I'm saying is I personally don't put buying excessively expensive things as life filling.
 
If I was rich I'd buy loads of anime figurines and merchandise and fill the main room with shelves of them, have super sugarsweet Jpoppy anime music playing and NicoNico MADs projected on the walls and then invite all those people who just love to come to parties because they are hosted by the rich and famous. Would be worth it just to see the look of their faces where they are caught between wanting to be a suck up vs wanting to get the hell out of there.

As for Notch, I hope those sweet containers have some salted liquorice in them.
 
Notch could probably buy this house and everything inside it at least 5 times over and still have more money left over than he will ever need.

imagine how much cocaine must be on every flat surface of his house afterwards
 
I think a lot of people kinda portrayed Notch as 'one of us' when he was making Minecraft and there was a lot of 'this is a good guy, let's root for the underdog!' thing going on. And now that he's swimming in money and had all that success with his game, I think people are a bit upset that instead of using the money to funnel it back into our hobby, he's using it 'purely on himself' (don't want to imply anything here, I'm sure he's giving to charity, too, or he'd be an ass), which makes people upset, somewhat understandably so.

I'd find it interesting to sit down with the guy and figure out how his brain works right now - I'm guessing he probably wasn't too happy about not finding another game he wanted to make after Minecraft and is probably just looking to get his kicks somewhere else. Usually, with physical shit like that, it makes you happy for a short time and then you're again looking for something, cause a house is just a house and a car is just a car.

I hope Notch comes back to game development and some point and just keeps creating. The kicks you get from creating something and making it work are WAAAAAY better than the kicks you get from buying some physical crap that you ultimately don't really need. And the world would be a better place with a happy Notch just creating games :)
 
Brb. Going to buy $75 million dollar house and invite Selena Gomez, Felicia Day and all other celebrities I want to meet over to party.
 
Gonzo The Great said:
This is so ostentatious and gross. He's a true celebrity now. Ralph Baer didn't get to hang out with Selena Gomez, and he invented the damn medium.
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DJ_Lae said:
I've seen a lot of expensive houses that are way nicer than that one, and cheaper than $70 million too. It's pretty gross.

Still, he earned it.
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Has the word 'gross' took on a new meaning that I'm not familiar with?

Anyways, fair play to the guy. He earned it fairly, so let him do whatever he wants with it. If I was suddenly give 2.5 billion dollars I'd buy crazy shit too. How people can look at that and jump to the conclusion that he's depressed is beyond me.
 
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