I can't emphasize it enough, it's
still a really bad idea. The glitches are not necessarily consistent - depending on your PC, they may only crop up occasionally, or not at all. Encouraging anyone else to use Java 8 is an even worse idea, since there's
zero reason to use it over Java 7 and it's just setting them up for potential crashes down the line. I appreciate that you're trying to help people out here, but it might have the opposite effect
Sorry if I'm coming on a bit strong here, but the number of issues being reported by people using java 8, that don't realize they're due to java 8, despite having been warned by the game not to use it, is a bit frustrating. I'd still like to leave it in as an option just in case someone *can't* use 7 for some reason, but I'm this close to just blocking it altogether instead of providing an override in settings.
... well, hopefully, this'll be a lot less of an issue with the next release, when the game will ship with 64-bit java 7.