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what the fuck.

[transcript/video description:

a clip from a session of the hermits (and jimmy) playing among us together, taken from gem's perspective. gem is currently an impostor.

gem, leaving security and checking her map: Alright. Okay...

[gem walks into reactor, and grian appears from the top hall and enters as well]

gem: Hi, Grian!

[grian glances back and follows her out.]

[gem immediately kills him.]

grian, echo-y (i really do not know how to transcribe this noise. trust me when i say whatever you're imagining it to be it is ten times worse): rrreeeeEAAUUH-

[gem departs wordlessly.]

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Ren: Great. Um. Cleo: (softly) It's really cute. Ren: And yeah. That was our first--(overlapping Cleo) first group dinner together. Cleo: (overlapping Ren) I am so stressed about meeting you guys. Ren: Nooo, don't be. It'll be fine. Cleo: You just explained to me how stressed you were, Ren. (two seconds of silence) Ren: It was a good stress, though. It was like a, "oh, these are my friends that I've known forever, but now I get to look in their eyes, this is so nice." Kind of stress. Scar: You can touch their hair. (two seconds of silence) I'm just kidding-- Cleo: Oh, I'm-I'm gonna have--(Ren bursts into laughter, and Scar laughs as well) Scar: I'm just being weird, I'm doing-I'm being weird. (they calm down) Ren: I did touch Cub's hair, Cub has a magnificent head of hair. Cleo: He does have like. Hair hair, doesn't he? It's really thick. Ren: Oh, dude, his hair is-his hair is amazing. It's like (he makes an explosion sound with his mouth) It's like a poof, dude, it's so awesome. Scar: And he's also good at everything. Ren: Yep, he is good at-he is good at everything. Cleo: Oh, we knew that-- Ren: --Including dive bombing into lakes. Scar: Talk about "dive bombing into lakes" (Ren laughs) See, the best part about it, Cleo, if you get annoyed with me-- Cleo: (reacting to Pearl's message) Aww, Pearl. Scar: --you can literally just wheel me away. Be like, done with you now. Cleo: I--Scar, I've never managed to do that on this server, how would I start in real life? (Ren and Scar laugh) I can't walk away from anyone. But Pearl's just said, "if it's any consolation, this group is the most comfortable group of people I've come across." Aw.

Ren: Aw. Cleo: "I'm more comfortable being around the hermits than those I've known since high school." That's really sweet. Ren: Awww. Wait, who said that. Cleo: Pearl. Scar: Pearl. Ren: Oh, Pearl! Scar: Pearlie Pop. Ren: Pearlie Pops. Cleo: (softly, sweet) Pearl is with me--Pearl's just listening to us talk about this. Ren: Aww. Cleo: (same soft voice) So, yeah. (normal voice) It's-it's nice, it's nice to hear.

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absolutely cannot get over this cold open from etho’s let’s play 13 years ago

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perfect time for a walk in the rain

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Might be a weird compliment but I think part of why Cleo and Scott are such an effective team in the life series is because they're both really really good at bluffing.

Cleo is very outright with the fact that she doesn't consider herself very strong at pvp, even compared to other members of the server. But people are still very consistently scared of them. Why? Well, I think a lot of it is that Cleo acts like someone who is really good at pvp. They're often very threatening, very overtly aggressive, as a preventative measure, just to make sure they're never seen as an easy target. Cleo tells everyone that she can and will ruin them at the first slight against her, and frankly, people aren't interested in testing that. Even if Cleo doesn't actually consider themself to be the strongest fighter, it matters more how they're perceived by other people. Fire- which Cleo is very famous for using as an easy punishment for any wrongdoing against her- is also a very good threat display. Usually minecraft fire is, honestly, not that hard to deal with, and the damage is usually superficial (unless you're joel and just kinda stand in the fire until you die), but the thing about fire is that it's big and dramatic. Surround yourself in flames twice your size and make sure you don't flinch when they point their weapons at you and people will be scared of you without you having to fight, because you look like more effort than you're worth.

Scott isn't overtly threatening in the same way most of the time, but he achieves a very similar effect with his ability to keep consistently calm and collected. I've watched multiple scenes where people come to kill Scott just to literally panic and backtrack as soon as he acknowledges with calm amusement or irritation instead of seeming threatened (i also think this is how mumbo got him in wild life- scott is literally so used to startling people with a mostly calm acknowledgment of their murder attempts that he genuinely didn't expect mumbo to actually still activate his trap, even when scott was standing on it). I've watched multiple scenes where Scott is objectively outmatched or even outnumbered in a fight just for the others involved to falter or outright retreat because Scott wasn't acting like someone in any danger, because even if he's on four hunger and one heart, he often still talks like he isn't scared. If you he just smile or roll your eyes and don't flinch back from them, people will eventually get really confused, wary, or tired, and will, again, decide you are more effort than you're worth.

It's honestly a testament to their intelligence, social and situational awareness, and emotional control, that both Cleo and Scott are so good at bluffing (albeit with slightly different forms of it). I don't know how to wrap up this post, they're just really good at this competition, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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bro said he couldn't stop thinking about cogs all week. he said he likes massive cogs so i put him between a bunch of them.

btw yeah something possessed me to draw this last week and then it went away. but heyyy mumbo is still talking about cogs all the way so it's still relevant.

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The Tomb of the Red King

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sniper

@notlegallyresponsible

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Oh Mumbo Jumbo, you will be buried in my tomb

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shine bright, legend. happy b-day, mumbo!

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Take a seat. Welcome to your re-orientation.

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Okay unsettling corporate propaganda videos… I’m catching up on hermitcraft and fully committing to the Severance-ification of mcyt 🫡

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he’s redstoning

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> strange...

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Made by @rrenpup on TikTok.

Grian is one of my favorite Minecraft YouTubers.

🦜🦜🦜

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chimken

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SPOILER FOR GRIAN'S 28th EPISODE OF HERMITCRAFT

i am obsessed.