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  • I completely get where people are coming from with that opinion, but I’ve been playing MC for almost 15 years, and I’m having just as much if not more fun with the game now as I did at any other point in its development.

    Minetest is super cool and can be very fun. I play a bit on it as well, but exclusively advertising for it on the platform of hur dur mineshit sucks, which isn’t necessarily what you’re doing, I just see that a lot, definitely isn’t the best way to go.
















  • It’s definitely not a contraction.

    -er is the agent suffix in English. Effectively it turns words into those who do something related to that word.

    Hawk > Hawker = One who “hawks” Run > Runner = One who “runs”

    In principle this implies the existance of a verbal form of the root word, such as the two above examples.

    Witcher, as used by the fantasy series, is a weird one because it’s actually not related to the agent suffix.

    The Polish title of The Witcher is Wiedźma which just means “witch”. When it was translated to English they adopted “witcher” as a masculine form to the oft feminine “witch” by using the ability for the -er suffix to indicate a profession or association with a noun in English i.e. Cash > Cashier, someone who handles cash/payments (actually derived from french with the -ier suffix, but point still stands). In the cass of Witcher it is one who works as/with witches or else one who is associated with Witches.