Hey, nice kicks you got there. Wonder what I'll get. My turn. Here you go shop keep one gold ingot. Wait this is just a wad of string.

Fine, here's another one. What do I get?

Random barters suck. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's taken a netherdive

into the deep end of Minecraft's hidden lore.

It's been almost two years since we started journeying down into this lore rabbit hole,

but there's one area of the Minecraft universe that I've yet to cover in depth.

My friends, we are long overdue for a discussion of the Netherlands.

I meant the nether lands, the nether space lands, the lands of the nether,

the nether regions. Oh, you know what I mean. The nether, the nether regions.

Oh, you know what I mean.

The nether is, in my estimation, one of the most misunderstood parts of the Minecraft

canon, and it all stems from the widespread misconception that the nether is located

deep beneath the overworld.

Now don't get me wrong, I get why everyone thinks this.

The nether is located entirely underground with no sky above it.

Dig up and you'll only hit a bedrock ceiling.

And the fact that distance traveled in the nether translates to a much greater distance

traveled in the overworld makes a lot of sense if they're concentric circles around a single core.

Even the fact that they named the game starting position as the overworld seems to imply the existence of an

underworld, a world associated with Hades, the fire-filled dangerous hexcape filled with dead souls,

which is exactly what the nether is I mean you

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