Those that play Minecraft or have played at least once and have explored a cave or two know about coal.. The gray block spotted with blackness, yeah, that’s coal.. Though coal is extremely useful, it is also extremely annoying and distracting! I’d like to see one person, an avid Minecraft player, try to tell me that when they first start a world they don’t grab every piece of coal they can get 
Coal in Minecraft sucks!
YouTube Issues and Bullshit
Minecraft 1.9 Prerelease 2 Released!
Facebook Time line Tutorial
Good for a chuckle
Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease available
Don’t be proud of Your Ignorance
Back up, and running!
First post from my iPod touch
Welcome to Elite-Area 
Coal in Minecraft sucks!
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YouTube Issues and Bullshit
As some of you may or may not know, I am on YouTube. If you weren’t aware of it, or don’t really care about what I’m doing on my channel, then don’t bother reading this post because that’s what it is about
0% Publishing Issue
When you finish uploading a video, you get to the publishing state – basically letting you know that YouTube is “rendering” the video to be viewed. However, the percent of publishing sometimes gets stuck at 0 – even if the video is actually finished publishing.
Broken Subscription Boxes
Due to the 0% publishing issue, I am assuming that is why most user’s subscription boxes don’t show new videos.
Unable to Upload content
Again, thanks to the 0% publishing issue, some people are unable to upload videos. I for one get stuck on the uploading process itself because it says the video did upload, but the percent bar just sticks at 99%
So yeah, this post isn’t really informative or anything.. But I felt the need to post it anyways haha
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Minecraft 1.9 Prerelease 2 Released!
It is finally here! Surprisingly, not too long after 1.9 Prerelease 1 was released.
What’s New/Changed?
- Ender pearls will now teleport you in hardcore or survival mode
- You can now bread animals of the same type (i.e. a pig and a pig) using wheat)
- New music disks
- Hardcore mode added – save as survival, but you only have one life and can’t respawn if you die
- Pressing F5 goes into third person view, pressing it again shows you a front third person view
- Cinematic view (F8) has returned
- New items
- New inventory-related things
- If you have two weapons/items that are about to “break”, you can place them both in a crafting bench and you will get a repaired item
- Enderman cannot be killed with any bow
Click here to download Minecraft 1.9 Prerelease 2
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Facebook Time line Tutorial
With Facebook launching the new time line profile soon, I figured now would be as good a time as any to make a tutorial on how to easily manage your profile once you have the new profile, as well as some changes that were made. Also, as a note, I will be expanding this post as I find more information and tips! So feel free to check back now and then to see if there’s new information 
Managing Posts
While finding and deleting posts on your current profile isn’t very hard, it’s about the same to do on the new timeline. Basically, you put your mouse over a post – two icons will “pop up” to the right of the post. One of them is to highlight that post, which will expand the post to the width of your profile and make it more noticeable than the rest of your post(s).
Finding Old Posts
On your current profile, you don’t really need to “search” for your older posts, they simply load as you scroll down your, or a friends, profile. However, on the new time line you can find posts by year, as well as month.
Highlighting Important Moments
As it currently is, you cannot add a specific moment, i.e. getting your driver’s license, on your profile unless you post it as a status. However, with the new profile you can do just that! Simply go to the year (example: 2010), and roughly scroll down your time line (the middle line) until the time, and add the event. Note: You have to be on the middle line, or you will get confused. One way to know you can add an “event” or occasion is because you will see a little + icon on your line.
Want to highlight one event?
Often times, people like to highlight one event or thing that they do, or have done, that they are especially proud of. For me, I would have something related to website design or coding, as I do both of those things and am very proud of my work. However, say you wanted to highlight your recent marriage with a single picture – you can do just that by adding what Facebook refers to as a “cover”. To add one, simply hover over the right top side of your profile, and click “Add Cover” – from there, choose (or upload) an image; and you’re done!
Need more help?
If you need more help, feel free to contact me on Facebook
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Good for a chuckle
A sign in Stockton, New York
While recently on a vacation with my Mom, Dad and my girlfriend Brie in Stockton, New York – my Mom found this sign. We were all pretty amused by it
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Minecraft Beta 1.9 Prerelease available
With 1.8.1 being released not too long ago, I was very surprised to find that Beta 1.9.1 Prerelease was available for download and test. This prerelease doesn’t have that many new things but some is always better than none, right?
Also, before I get to what has changed, been added, etc. – I must say to not even bother downloading this update
if you like your game to be lag free, as it can lag heavily from time to time.
Change Log:
- Swamp biomes will be generated
- Water now has a “swampy” feel to it if found in the respective biome
- Vines become swampy if by swamp water
- Jumping by holding the space bar is disabled (but will be brought back in the next update, according to Notch on Twitter)
- NPC’s; though they don’t seem to actually do anything besides walk around
Other than that, I don’t really think that anything else was added or otherwise changed.
Don’t be proud of Your Ignorance
If there is anything that annoys me about people, it’s that they are SO fucking ignorant! Is it honestly too much to ask that people not bitch every time Facebook decides to change something? Half the time, the changes aren’t even that bad – including the most recent one which I saw far too many complaints about.
It’s free, why complain? In my opinion, I think that people just complain to be heard. But the truth is, Facebook doesn’t care. Now hearing that may or may not come as a surprise to you – but it’s the cold, hard truth. In reality you can often make a suggestion that will be taken “to heart”, or it can simply be discarded – that is the discretion of the person you are making the suggestion to. In the case of Facebook, however, your opinion often doesn’t matter when it comes to changes they make to their website.
But why? I’m a loyal user of their website! Yes, but you don’t pay them to do their job – the income Facebook makes is based from you returning to the website, and advertisements. Just because you visit a website or register on it doesn’t mean that your opinion matters to the person, or people, who run the website. I’ve said it many, many times: If you don’t like a change, then leave. No one forces you to visit or use the site, so if you don’t like it then no one is forcing you to stay.
I know that this post seems rather condescending, but it’s not meant to be in any way; I am simply sick of people bitching and moaning every time Facebook decides to change something. Chances are you will still use the site everyday and adapt to the changes anyways.
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Back up, and running!
Holy crap, it’s been awesome! So I finally got all of the issues with the site ironed out, got everything updated. Everything should be without error(s), besides maybe a few bad links here and there. Expect to see quite a bit of posts in the coming days; because I have a lot of news to post about since A) my last blog post, B) the time the site was down
First post from my iPod touch
So I have to start off by saying that I am quite impressed so far with the WordPress for iPhone/iPod touch app. Though blogging from such a small “keyboard” isn’t exactly convenient, I can see how it could be useful if you just want to post a quick excerpt or something Even though the app does take advantage of landscape mode, it is still a bit haunting to type a lot of text such as this post. I assume if I typed more on my iPod, it wouldn’t be as bad – but I digress.
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Welcome to Elite-Area
Hey everyone! Welcome to the new, improved, and truly final version of Elite-Area. I know I have went back-and-forth between having the site as a blog, and a forum/community – but this time it is going to stay strictly as a blog (as long as it stays easy-to-manage).
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