00:00This story begins like most classics, with sleeping animals, on the brink of a feud that would last centuries.
00:08Panda, ruler of the bamboo forest, and Cat, ad hoc leader of the meh-whatever tribe, locked in serious slumber.
00:16A nap off the likes of which had never been seen.
00:18To the winner, the jungle. To the loser, exile.
00:22The two had been napping for an extraordinarily long time, when, at the very same moment the sun began to
00:28rise,
00:28so did two pairs of opposing eyelids.
00:32It was impossibly, contestably, closer than close.
00:35But the sheep called the nap off for the pandas, which didn't sit well with the cats,
00:39who accused the pandas of going into hibernation mode, not nap mode.
00:43The feud was on.
00:46As time passed, they kept their distance.
00:48Pandas stayed in their jungles, while cats spent most of their time meandering in alleyways,
00:53starring in internet videos, and sneaking into places disguised as ocelots.
00:57As their disdain for each other grew, so did their adoration among humans.
01:02So much so, players of Minecraft requested both cats and pandas in the game.
01:07As one cat and panda expert prone to overly dramatic puns put it,
01:11that would not only be a catastrophe, that would be pandemonium.
01:15Over the centuries, many summits were held in hopes of building a bridge of peace between cat and panda communities.
01:21There was the August Accord, that wasn't, and the burly brawl in Belize, that was best left behind.
01:28Everything changed one fateful day in Winnipeg.
01:31The Paws and Claws Summit was the tipping point.
01:34The tension in the room was...tense.
01:36As the saying goes, one meow could be the bamboo stalk that broke the pandas' back.
01:43Then, with hope once again lost, something unbelievable happened.
01:47An angel of arbitration appeared...with a stickered laptop.
01:52She was a game developer, there to show them a world where cats and pandas could co-purr and co
01:58-growl in harmony.
01:59She showed them something long lost to the annals of ancient cat and panda folklore.
02:04A world where furballs big and small rolled and cajoled.
02:08And naps were napped for pleasure, not for dominance.
02:12This world was Minecraft.
02:15All was silent.
02:17Except for my narration.
02:19Then the rising sound of a meow and growl that hadn't been meowed and growled for hundreds of years.
02:24Two blocky light bulbs went off at the same time.
02:27If cats and pandas can co-exist in Minecraft, they could co-exist anywhere.
02:33It's a little known fact that sometimes facts get in the way of fiction.
02:37And sometimes, a little fiction helps ensure the future's bright.
02:41When cats and pandas are megabytes.
02:46Buy Xbox One S. Get Minecraft.
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