You've seen Doom on a fridge, now here's Minecraft running at 0.5fps on a device you'd never expect

People always find ways to challenge themselves in games, whether the developers intended it or not. I've Nuzlocked more Pokémon games than I've done regular playthroughs by this point, and I don't show any signs of slowing down. Minecraft players also love to make things harder for themselves. Where some people actively seek out the best Minecraft seeds to give them a head start, others embark on challenge runs or try to walk to the end of the procedurally-generated landscape - it took him 14 years, by the way.

Doom is probably the game played on the weirdest devices, from digital cameras to the Google search bar, but a YouTuber who goes by the name of 'smill' has taken Minecraft to the next level. He's playing a version of the sandbox game not on a monitor, a TV, or a phone, but on a little receipt printer instead. You know, like the ones you see in shops and restaurants. Why? I haven't a clue.

He's rigged up the survival game to print out a screenshot every two seconds, and from the teaser he posted on social media, they're pretty blurry. Not only does he have to deal with a framerate of just 0.5fps, he can't make out his inventory and things on the screen keep disappearing.

Smill's 50,000 You Tube subscribers clearly enjoy this sort of challenge, as he has previously attempted similar feats in other games. Whether he plays Schedule 1 as a law-abiding citizen, beats it without leaving the RV, or ascends to Peak's summit while blind, deaf, and mute, he's no stranger to an unconventional playthrough.

This particular attempt has riled people up, though. Many people have commented to say that he's wasting paper and resources, which is undeniably true. It's likely a single restaurant goes through more receipt paper in a busy evening, but this stuff can't even be recycled thanks to the chemical treatments applied during manufacturing.

Smill doesn't seem too worried about this, replying to people complaining about the environmental impact with just the word "funny" and by saying, "I just love deforestation."

Despite the inflammatory social media responses, I've got to admit this is a pretty funny stunt. Imagine coming across a Creeper and not knowing where it moves or whether you've killed it until the printer spits out another blurry screenshot.

The playthrough is already going viral just from a snippet shared on social media, and the full video promises more capers still. Whatever happens in the full thing, smill has my respect for fully committing to this eccentric, expensive bit.