#seeing how i do the same things in every minecraft world because that's just the person i am

[fagatakonin]

I should revisit my minecraft oc omggg omgggg and remake my old skin. I just wanted to play as a pink demon and BEHOLD they added purple wood to the nether so saying my oc is a demon from the nether actually started making sense.

[150en-main]

Etho Minecraft wisdom collection from Ep1 of Past Life. [7min]

It's Etho's (LP) World and they're just living in it. He did 101 episodes in beta Minecraft, his name is not Etho's LAB for no reason.

I can't imagine how happy he is that people are coming to him to learn about Minecraft just like when he first started, how nostalgic it must be, how proud he feels of how far he and everyone else has come. He is the OG and everyone knows it.

Edited from: Past Life #1 - History Repeats (Etho) :: A BLAST From the PAST! - Past Life - Ep.1 (Scott) :: 4 Dudes Chilling In A HOT Tub! - Past Life: episode 1 (Scar) :: Time to Flex Our GLUTES! - PastLife #1 (Tango) :: The Goodest Gluten Guys! | Past Life Episode 1 (Impulse)

Transcript below ↓

Clip 1: Etho’s Intro [0:00]

Etho: I love it, you punch the sheeps and they drop their wool. No drag-dropping. Joel: Yeah I hate that. Etho: Well you know what they say, they say history has a way of repeating itself guys, and we are back in the past. In Past Life. Joel: Has your intro changed since then? Etho: Eh it’s pretty much the same! Um... It’s a- it’s a good intro though! Good intro… Skizz: Same old Etho, man! Joel: Yeah… Etho: It- It’s like my name falling down and it goes [sound of ETHO SLAB falling]

Clip 2: Creeper mechanics [0:30]

Skizz: Alright alright alright Etho: They [Creepers] have different, uh… pathfinding though did you notice that they like curve to the left when you fight them? Yeah. Joel: Yeah. Awful. Scary. Etho: [laughing] I’m loving it! They can jump and everything in this version I- I’m pretty sure. Joel: Yeah ):

Clip 3: Mob respawning [0:42]

Etho: I think we’re good. (Jimmy: Yeah true.) Scott: True. Also I realise with the- the kind of gimmick we’re doing for this time, it doesn’t actually matter if animals die because we reset the world every week. So- Etho: No they respawn, like the respawning is totally different. They just keep popping into existence. Scott: Ohh! So that’s wh– Oh that’s why there were so many pigs. Etho: Yeah so just – if you see ‘em, you kill ‘em. Scott: Niiice. Etho: You can’t breed them either. Scott: It’s gonna make it harder to like have a monopoly on things because… like, new worlds will respawn each week, which kinda make it so that you can’t keep a monopoly. Etho: Right right.

Clip 4: Armor strength [1:13]

Etho: So the thing about this version. The armor works different. Scott: Okay… Etho: So it’s like really good at first and then it gets weaker and weaker as the durability drops. Scott: Ohh! Etho: So you almost don’t even wanna waste your iron on the armor [laughs] - Scott: Okay Etho: - cause leather can be better than iron in this version. It’s weird. Scott: Oh what the- I’m glad I only need to learn these weird things for like a week. Etho: Iron tools are definitely worth it I think. Scott: Apparently Joel, I didn’t realise iron armour doesn’t work the same way it used to, Etho was telling me. Etho: As it takes durability damage, it provides less effect – Joel: What!↑↑ Scott: Yah! Etho:  - so after a few hits, it’s like pretty much trash [laughs] and then leather armor can be better than iron. Like at full strength.

Clip 5: Combat tactics [1:51]

Scott: I’m gonna- I’m not gonna get in the way of that cause Jimmy’s the only damage I’ve taken so far when he hit me. Etho: So the way you play this version of Minecraft, you don’t actually fight the mobs, you block ‘em and then kill them- Scott: Okay. See I feel like- Etho: -like if you try to fight them head on, you’re gonna take damage.

Clip 6: Gravel pillar [2:06]

Etho: So what you do is you put down a torch – I’m gonna go up and then once I’m at the top you break the torch and you use the gravel to get up yourself. Scott: Ohh :O Martyn: This guy… he knows all the tricks! Cleo: Oh the strats, the strats!

Clip 7: One-thick water [2:17]

Bdubs: What a joke! Etho: Were you skinny dipping? What was this? Joel: Wait what? Bdubs: It doesn’t break fall damage! (Skizz: That hurt!) (Joel: What!?) Scott: Wait water doesn’t break fall damage? Bdubs: We took a full bl- you know what, don’t tell him, don’t tell him. Go ahead! Etho: It does, no it does. Bdubs: Go somebody- oh yeah? Okay try it, try it Etho. Etho: …Just when it’s one thick sometimes it doesn’t. Scott: Oh so it’s got to be like two-deep. Etho: Hehehehe Bdubs: [grumbling] Yeah that’s what it was, that’s what it was. Skizz: Ohhh it’s only one-high, huh gotcha.

Clip 8: Water Trap [2:37]

Etho: There was an old glitch where you could get trapped in water. Tango: I knew- I knew- I knew it would be Etho that would be like, “Back in 2004…” All: [laughing] Bdubs: It sounds just like him! Tango: Yeah yeah! Etho: If the water is facing east, you get trapped.

Clip 9: Water tower [2:51]

Etho: We- we gotta play with boats everybody, we gotta go up a big water tower. Scar: Wait why? Tell us about the boats. (Tango: Oh... Boats…) (Bdubs: Wait let’s just follow- let’s follow Etho! [laughing]) Joel: Alright, tell us about the boats old man- I mean Etho! Bdubs: Yeah! Yeah! Etho: Gather round everybody, gather round. Bdubs: Alright here we go. Etho: Who’s got sand who’s got gravel, I need that. We’re gonna have some fun. Etho: Okay somebody make boats and we’re gonna go up into the sky. (Tango: Uhuh) Bdubs: Make your own boats! I’m not a charity! Tango: I ain’t got time for this! Etho: I thought you wanted to have some fun! What is this!? (Bdubs: Okay alright I’ll make some boats.) Scar: I’ll make him a boat! Jeez guys c’mon- Etho: Bunch of grouches! (Scott: You all hate fun.) (Joel: I’ve made a boat.) Scar: -this is- this is his finest moment right now. Etho: ‘kay I’m gonna make a water column and you guys come up it when it’s done okay? Scar: Wooo! Scott: Okay~ Jimmy: Are we all going up? Scott: Yeah Etho: Woaaaa- Ooh…. (Jimmy: Oh!) Scott: You want us to go up Etho? Etho: Yeah yeah, now you- now you ride the boats up here and it’s so fun. Scott: Ohh you ride the boat up there… (Jimmy: Oh!!!) Scott: Okay, here- here’s- (Jimmy: Wait I wanna make a boat.) (Joel: So wait, if I go in the middle will it just take me up?) Scott: -here’s a boat Etho you can use that. Etho: Thank you~ (Joel: OH↑↑Wait- woooah- ohhh↑↑ oh my gosh ---) Etho: Woop↑ woop↑ Wohohoo! Yayayaya~ Joel: Woah… Etho: Woohoo! [damage sounds] Oh no, oh no oh no! Joel save me! Joel: Oh my gosh… Oh gosh, alright, wait wait [punches Etho] Etho: Wowowo don’t punch me- Joel: Oh↑ no! [giggles] [Jimmy screaming] Etho: -I’m almost dead!

Clip 10: Stuck on Fence [4:02]

[Etho glitching on a fence] Scott: You can make- you can make slabs with stone. Bdubs: Oh that’s crazy yeah. Yeah you can. Scar: Interesting. Etho: I’m trapped. (Bdubs: Cobblestone makes smooth stone.) Etho: I’m trapped! Scott save me! SAVE ME! Scott: Wait, wait— Scott: [laughing] This is what I had. You gotta be careful. Scar: The heck? Do you need to break this? Etho: Oh thank you, thank you… [Minecraft damage ‘oof’] Bdubs: [mimicking damage sound] OOF… oof. Etho: Ugh… Scott: Yeah you need to don’t land- (Scar: Oh that sounded like it hurt, I’m sorry Etho!) Scott: -don’t land on the fences, they’re really glitchy. Etho: Yeah they’re really bad…

Clip 11: Torch light radius [4:26]

Scott: How spread do the torches need to be? Like what’s the… the light up range? Etho: It’s not far, it’s like you need one every… 4-5 blocks. Scott: Oh mah gaw…

Clip 12: Arcane knowledge of farming [4:39]

Scott: Hello, they’re about to fight to the death. Tango: Etho! Etho. Etho: Yes! Yes. Tango: Oh humble master of the arcane knowledge [hn!↑] Etho: What’s wrong Tango? Tango: I come- I come seeking wisdom from you! Etho: W-what do you need? Tango: How does farming work? Every time w- Bdubs: Oh brother they got a- they got a bread factory, they don’t even know how to do a farm! [Tango smacks Bdubs] (Bdubs: Ah!) Etho: Uh, very- okay come over here Tango- very simple, very simple. You need- Tango: The water doesn’t go four blocks and our crops keep decropificating and… Etho: -you need, you need light. You have light? Tango: Yeah, yeah we got plenty of light! Etho: You need water. Tango: Yeah but- okay come on now. Etho: You gotta till it. Tango: Yeah we did that. Etho: If you put fences under it you can’t trample it. Scott: Also Scar don’t walk on the crops cause it will just break them. Scar: What’s wrong? Tango: Ah, is that it? Scott: Don’t walk on the crops it breaks them. You can’t walk on them at all. Etho: And don’t walk on them yeah. Tango: Okay it’s not jumping, it’s just- it’s just walking. Thaaat’s our problem. Scar: Ahh… Etho: If you put fences- [Etho hits Scott] Etho: Oh sorry! [laughs] Sorry! Scott: Ow, oaauuuww! )’: Etho: Bad demonstration… Tango: ‘kay if you put fences, what? Etho: So there’s fences under this one- Tango: Uhuh Etho: -and now you can’t trample it. Tango: Fences… fences under the soil… Etho: Under the- the tilled soil, won’t trample it. Scott: Yeah Tango: Look at thaaat… See this is, this is the arcane wisdom I come for. It’s good. Etho: This is arcane right here.

Clip 13: Sand glitch & minecarts [5:51]

Ren: Whatcha doing? Tango: Ancient wisdom! Etho: Okay so I’m pretty sure in this version, there is a way of uh, there is a way of like trapping it with boats or something? Like you put the sand, and it looks like it’s actually there? Impulse: Oh right! Tango: [scoffs] Ren: Oh wow… Impulse: Is that why the sand was glitching over there? Etho: Is it shaking for you or is it solid? Tango: It- it’s shaking and falling, yeah. Impulse: It’s shaking. Etho: It’s shaking, okay. I wasn’t sure if there was a way to do it where it looks solid, I think there was. Ren: It’s pretty cool though. Tango: That’s terrifying, and then you would just fall right through it. Etho: Yup Impulse: …And then you die. Etho: Yup ^_^ Great- great at your front here, I think. Tango: Yeah perfect, perfect. Etho: [laughing] Enjoy! Tango: Those who know, know. Okay! Impulse: Come on in, we have shaky sand! Etho: [running into falling sand] Oh hey guys- WAHBLARGHAGHAGA Tango: BLORORORORO All: [laughing] Tango: Etho you’re just like, in your heaven right now, aren’t you? You’re just like- Etho: Aw I’m having so much fun. I- I really want minecarts. Tango: - All the- all the bag of tricks. Yeah? Etho: The old minecart boosters would be fun to play with too but… Impulse: Oh yes Tango: Oh my god. Are minecarts not- they’re not in the game yet, are they? Etho: Oh yeah, yeyeye. Tango: Or are they? They are? Okay.

Clip 14: Gunpowder vs Sulphur [6:53]

Etho: It’s [gunpowder] called sulphur? Bdubs: Called suphur. Etho: WHAT!? Bdubs: Yeah! Etho: I had no↓ idea↑! Bdubs: Yeah. I didn’t remember that at all. I was tryna make TNT! Etho:  I don’t remember that either.

[alexanderwales]

Movie Review: A Minecraft Movie

Full disclosure: I watched a pirated version of this movie that had unfinished VFX. It showed up on a Plex server run by a friend of ours, and I had asked my son, who is nine years old and a huge Minecraft fan, whether he'd watch it at home or at the theater, and we watched the unfinished version. It said "Story by TBD" in the credits, sometimes you'd see a halo of green in someone's hair where they hadn't finished laboriously keying out the green screen ... I'll be honest, I think this really enhanced my enjoyment of the movie, because every now and then you'd get a scene where, for example, the villagers are all dressed up extras without the heads on, just some motion tracking caps. It cracked me up. I have no idea how different the movie would be with full VFX, nor what changes and cuts ultimately ended up being made. Take this review with a grain of salt.

One of the things I was really curious about when watching this movie was what kind of humor it would have, and I think my takeaway is that it's kind of all over the place. It's at least partially written and directed by the same guy who did Napoleon Dynamite, a forgotten classic, and in a lot of places you can really tell. In other places ... much less so.

My favorite joke of the whole movie was when they've gotten ahold of the mystery orb and there's a note with it that says "don't put this in the shell" or whatever, and then on the back it says "even if you're a struggling businessman who really needs the money", which is exactly the situation they're in. Stupid and meta, that's my kind of joke.

But there's also a lot of slapstick humor, people falling down played for laughs, and there's awkward humor too, where the enjoyment comes from a slightly off person being put on display. In places very reminiscent of Napoleon Dynamite, but mostly only in the "real world" portion of the movie where the first third takes place. And then there's also some "lol random" humor mixed in there.

So on the humor front, something that I was paying attention to, it's a really mixed bag, and I would say that a lot of the humor just fails to come together because of that. I think good humor needs some kind of frame to it, because humor is about subversion of expectations, and with unclear expectations, the jokes are going to land worse. That's just my opinion though.

In terms of story, the main thing I was looking for was "what's the message of this movie". And here ... I guess I would say it's "be yourself", but if that's the thematic core of the movie, I think Jason Momoa's character is a problem. He's already going on his own path, mired in the past but definitely his own person, and his problem seems to be that other people just aren't that into it. And the solution to that is ... make a friend? He notably does not do much mining or crafting.

The actual ending message of the movie seemed to be "yeah, Minecraft is pretty great, but you can take that energy you're putting into the game out into the real world" or something like that, which is how everyone gets their unrealistically happy ending. It's overshadowed by Jack Black singing and dancing, but my son really liked that part, so I guess it's hitting the target audience.

I thought it was a pretty inconsistent movie, one that didn't know what it was trying to be or say, and you know, that's probably fine. The writing was pretty poor, and I'm not sure that the movie really "got" what Minecraft is, but I also don't think it needed to.

There was a pig that waddled onto screen and he was wearing a crown, and my son yelled "Technoblade!" He said it was overall "pretty good", which isn't exactly a roaring endorsement, but it seemed like he had a good time. We neglected to throw popcorn at the screen when the chicken jockey appeared, mostly because I would have had to be the one to clean it up. My son's one criticism was that they were mostly just not very good at Minecraft, and there were times he was yelling at the screen that of course the zombies are spawning, you need to put torches up.

Oh, one other thing: I've always been a Jack Black fan, having seen Nacho Libre in theaters, but I think this movie did some permanent damage to my enjoyment of him. There was something about the singing, and the kicking, and the mugging for the camera that was just too much for me. Like I hit my lifetime quota of Jack Black.

Maybe I'll feel differently if I see it with finished VFX.

[fraux140]

König Headcanons

General, relationship, and NSFW. I hope you enjoy these! It's my first real post :)

General hcs

Had a cleft lip as a child and was part of the reason he was bullied. It was surgically repaired but there is still a scar

One of his parents is German and the other is Austrian which might explain why he has no Austrian dialect (lets pretend this is canon instead of activision just clumping all German speakers into one category lmao)

He has auburn hair but buzzes it so often that its hard to tell

LOVES Minecraft. He plays creative mode when he's trying to make masterpieces like city replicas or fantasy worlds, but loves the challenge of survival mode if he's playing with friends.

He was a total mama's boy as a kid. When his father tried to get him to 'man up' his mother was always there to protect him. Another reason he was bullied.

Chronic mansplainer but its unintentional. If you're discussing a topic he knows a lot about he will hijack the conversation and unload a bunch of info to you. He doesn't mean it maliciously.

Undiagnosed ADHD - explains why he has trouble staying still and was a bad candidate for being a sniper. But it isn't so bad that it is noticeable. He can mask it when he needs to.

Again with the ADHD thing. He hyperfixates on topics he finds interesting and even his job. Mission plan is memorised. Terrain? Memorised. Enemy info? Memorised. The ever-changing locations and nature of his job mean that he doesn't have to worry about succumbing to the boredom of monotony.

When he isn't deployed he is a beer drinker - particularly Stiegl Hell. A total beer snob as well. Any kind of American beer? Throw it away. Carling? Fosters? Sagres? Get that second rate crap away from him and prepare to be mansplained about how much better Austrian/German beer is than any other.

Has an apartment in the same neighbourhood as his parents' house so he can visit a lot when he's not deployed. His apartment is very basic and he stays there so his parents have their privacy. Their house is his home.

His mother is a seamstress and his father was a mechanic in the army. This man knows how to sew and how to keep his car healthy.

Unironically reposts alpha male quotes - not because he's a misogynist but because he genuinely believes he is the definition of an alpha male.

Teeny tiny bit of a superiority complex. Arrogant af. Stems from his size, strength, and skills. Finished Jagkdo selection second in his 'class'. It haunts him every day. Second place is the first to lose.

Is a genuinely unsettling guy. Not in a creepy way. He kind of just stands around and stares when he enters a place before deciding what to do. For example at the pub, he walks in and stares at the bar before deciding where to sit. Or if he sees somebody new, like somebody he thinks is particularly weird or someone attractive he will stare at them. It is a bit more intense than the typical 'German stare', and more off-putting because of his size.

Relationship hcs

If you're dating König, the first stages of your relationship will be spent trying to figure out how to be comfortable.

Like I said before, he is unsettling and might say something as such, coming across a bit too strong.

For example, if someone is annoying you at work he might offer to kill them. "I could hide the body no problem, schatz. Just ask." And he is very hard to read, so you can't tell if he's joking or not.

If his weirdness didn't scare you away and your relationship progresses, he unintentionally tries to manage you.

Packing a suitcase? You're doing it wrong. It's more efficient to fold the clothes like this to maximise space. Want to go for a walk? Not in those shoes. Function trumps fashion every time. Ordering at a foreign food restaurant? Let him do it for you, you're probably pronouncing it wrong. He's your passenger? You had time to pull out, liebling! Go for the overtake! Change lanes! Ffs schatzi, pull over and let him take the wheel.

Unintentionally condescending. You worked really hard on a new recipe? It's good, but he's had better at this restaurant. He recommends adding this and that...

You're complaining about how stressful your job is? Babe, you wouldn't know stress if it hit you in the face. Have YOU ever been shot at? Narrowly dodged an explosion? Being chased by enemies who are actively trying to kill you? Yeah, didn't think so...

Eventually it gets too much. You're on the verge of breaking up with him because he makes you feel like crap. He diminishes your achievements. Undermines your emotions. It's too much and being with him is making you hate yourself. And you don't deserve to feel this way.

After you tell him, he is mortified. He didn't think that his matter-of-fact way of speaking could be so mean and make you feel this way. He's so sorry, baby. Give him another chance? He'll show you how special you are to him!

After you forgive him and he agrees to change, life is much better. He gives more compliments, he listens more attentively and he tries to be more emotional instead of 'logical'. He comes to respect that you can feel a certain way about things happening in your life and doesn't have to compare it to himself.

He takes you hiking very often. So often that your legs are noticeably more toned. He buys you all of the expensive gear you need to hike in any terrain.

Sometimes sews little trinkets for you or embroiders something on your clothes - a skill he picked up from his seamstress mother.

When you tell him his alpha male quote sharing is cringe and makes him seem like an asshole, he begins to question how you see him. Don't you see how big and strong he is, baby?

When he finally gets it, he slowly starts to lose the façade. This front he puts up? It starts to come down. You want to be the big spoon? Go right ahead.

The new König loves to be doted on. Rub his belly. Run your hands through his hair/over his head if he's buzzed. Hug him. Cuddle with him on the couch. Tell him how big and strong he is - he eats it right up.

Loves working out with you. He likes showing you he's strong enough to protect you. Sit on his back while he doe push-ups. See? No problem. Look at how much weight is on this barbell! He can lift it no problem.

You told him that he can't live on ordering food from fancy restaurants every night. He needs to learn to cook. He's annoyed at first because he can afford it for both of you, but you make him learn how to cook. This time learning together in the kitchen brings you closer together. There is something beautiful about working so hard on a meal and enjoying the results together.

Sometimes he wants to surprise you when you come back from work with a new dish he'd invented. Wagyu steaks sautéed in lager and seasoned with rosemary and turmeric. It was disgusting. You couldn't find it within yourself to tell him.

NSFW hcs

When he was insecure and in his 'alpha male' stage, he was a total dom. Not that you didn't enjoy it.

Now that he's grown, he still loves fucking you in doggy or missionary or any position where he's in control. But now he'll let you ride him for as long as you want.

He LOVES laying back and watching you use his dick to get yourself off. Another reason he loves cowgirl is because he loves watching you struggle with the initial stretch of sinking onto his fat cock.

You tried to convince him to let you peg him once. He outright refused. Maybe he wasn't there yet.

Call him dirty all you want, he loves fucking you after you have worked out together. And you don't mind it either. Seeing him all hot and bothered and out of breath is a huge turn on for you.

Can be aggressive. He likes biting you but not to the point it draws blood.

Sends absolutely horrendous nudes when you're in public with no warning when he's deployed. You'll get a whatsapp notification and you open it to see a picture of his raging hard on while you're at work.

He gets creative with the angles. He tries different lighting. In a strange way you found it very romantic. His captions are atrocious though. 'He misses you', 'I wish I could shoot my sperms into you instead of bullets into my enemies', 'My cock is harder than my job'. They are honestly so fucking weird. But you have grown to love his weird little quips.

Likes roleplay. He likes to be a policeman while you're a petty thief. He's a burglar and he'll leave you alone if you give him something else.

Loves overpowering you. Sometimes when he's fresh home from deployment he will drive you two to the woods at night. He will give you a head start and then hunt you down like a predator. He was in the jagdkommando, darling, didn't you know that means 'Hunting commando'?

When he catches you, the adrenaline gets to the both of you and you fuck like wild animals. Biting, scratching, howling and begging. He always cums inside of you on nights like these, breeding you like a true animal

When you get home and after you've showered (he washes your back for you and kisses along the nape of your neck), he's showering you with kisses and cuddles while you settle into bed and watch something together on TV.

[jetra4ivor]

The Minecraft movie has the pink sheep get ripped apart by Zombies. We don’t see it but we hear it screaming and it’s never seen again.

Endermen make you hallucinate your insecurities.

Creepers are friendly and only explode when you hit them.

The nether looks the way it does because “they mined it out too much.” That’s… that doesn’t even make sense.

“As a child I yearned for the mines” is literally Steve’s backstory.

The movie spends so much time explaining how the world of Minecraft works, only to then continuously and repeatedly get how the Minecraft world works WRONG.

Steve has barely been to the nether, but thinks he has 3 Elytra in his inventory at all times (he actually only has 2).

The rails in the creeper cave are activator rails, not powered rails. They never bothered to fix this mistake.

The Nitwit hit by Jennifer Cooledge’s character goes on a date with her and they make loving eyes at each other, and NO ONE QUESTIONS THIS.

Technoblade is references as a pig wearing a crown in the city.

The Piglins can talk.

Jack black songs like 4 different songs, complete with dance numbers and dancing pandas. Why?

Jack Black just announces EVERYTHING. “Flint and steel!” “The nether!” “Chicken jockey!” He has to tell you what everything is in the most Jack Black way possible. That’s his whole character.

Jason Mamoa gets routinely beaten up. Every 5 seconds hes being hit, knocked over, smacked, attacked, or does something stupid to injure himself.

Jason Mamoa and Jack Black 69 each other at one point.

When Steve goes back home to the real world he finds out that Alex is living in his old home and it’s implied they’re gonna team up for a sequel (please god NO).

The kid puts swiftness boots on an iron golem recipe to make a “special” iron golem that doesn’t use swiftness or speed.

Steve’s “full set of Diamond armor” doesn’t include pants, despite us seeing Diamond pants in the background earlier in the film.

One of the Piglins is named “General Chungus.”

Someone unironically says “unalived.”

Several prominent Minecraft YouTubers appear…. For about 10 seconds. And then they’re gone.

Jason Mamoa’s character just says Spanish phrases wrong. Constantly.

The green screening in many shots is atrocious, especially when characters are running. Often times it’s clear that some of the actors weren’t even talking to each other the same day or acting together in the same shot,m and they were just comped together later in post.

There’s a bunch of Napoleon Dynamite references for some reason. I know it’s the same director, but wtf who is this for? No kid today knows Napoleon Dynamite.

“First we mine! Then we craft! Let’s MINECRAFT!” Is a thing that is said….

Herobrine isn’t technically n the movie, but Steve appears with white eyes after the kid looks at an enderman and hallucinates.

The movie is supposedly about “creativity” and yet we never see any of the characters doing anything really creative at all. Even when they’re being “creative” they’re making the most generic safest looking builds and traps. The creativity here is if someone spawned into Minecraft and just built nothing but Villager homes instead of anything uniquely interesting.

Everything about this film’s humor comes from laughing at how weird things are. Look blocks! Weird! Look blocky humanoid creatures! Weird! Look day night is fast! Weird! Isn’t it funny that Jenifer Cooledge is on a date with the Nitwit cuz Villager’s are inherently ugly! It feels condescending towards the people who actually love Minecraft in the way The Big Bang Theory is condescending towards actual fans of geek culture. It’s 90’s level “look at this freak” style humor. It’s like if Minecraft is a game for autistic people, the Minecraft movie is for normies to make fun of autistic people.

[ikeuluvr]

asking you to the school dance || enha hyung line

synopsis - how enhypen’s hyung line would ask you to the school dance

enhypen x reader / best friends to lovers / warnings - none! :) / wc ~200 per member

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heeseung is a very straightforward type of man. he’s not shy to share his feelings and wants with you because he knows how important communication is in your friendship. however, for the first time in his fourteen years of friendship with you, he’s struggling to tell you how he feels. “I’m in love with you,” he wants to scream until his lungs give out every time he sees you, but how do you naturally spring that onto a person? tired of not being able to call you his love, heeseung devises a plan to ask you to be his date to the school dance, and, in life. knowing that extravagance isn’t your cup of tea, he carries out his plan on your weekly gaming night so you won’t grow suspicious. he opens minecraft on his tv and tells you to look at the house he had built, only for there to be no house, but the words “can i be your date to the dance?” with a geeky smile he has you look farther to the right of the proposal where another one lay, “...and your boyfriend?”

big and extravagant public attention grabbers aren’t necessarily jay’s thing. he loves to make things intimate and special in his way without eyes always on him. when the winter formal was announced, jay knew he had to ask you to be his date before anyone else could. he invited you to his place for a cozy home-cooked meal made by jay himself. jay is usually a nonchalant type of guy, but he was nearly sweating through his shirt because of how nervous he was. with a little help from his mom, he got you to leave the kitchen while he plated both of your meals, carefully curating the word “FORMAL?” across the rim of your plate with sauce. jay placed the newly decorated plate in front of you after your return from a chat with his mom, a shaky gleam in his eyes waiting for your response. “jay, i’d love to be your date,” you smile at him, pulling him into a hug and leaving a kiss on his cheek that turns him redder than the tomatoes on your plate.

what really sparked your friendship with jake was your mutual love for music. as the two of you grew closer, you would send each other new music to listen to every day. whether it be a new artist, a song, an album, a playlist, or a performance, the two of you always find something that the other would enjoy. you could send a simple “i’m bored” text to jake and he’d have four performance videos, two albums, and three new artists for you to indulge in to cure your boredom. it was nothing out of the ordinary for you and jake to create playlists for each other either, so when he sends a new one titled “hey y/n…” it doesn’t even faze you until it's opened. “I was… Enchanted… To Meet You…” the songs read in order, “So… Let’s Be… The Life of the Party… at Prom?... Be My Date!” you cheesed ear to ear when you realized what jake had just asked you. “P.S. I Like You,” was the last song on the playlist, leaving a whole zoo in your stomach in excitement to tell jake you’ve always felt the same way.

sunghoon is the corniest dude you have ever met in your life. there’s never a day where he’s not spitting bad jokes your way or making the most sarcastic comments that make your eyes roll. he definitely thinks he’s the funniest person in the world. while deciphering through all of his options of how he wants to ask you to be his date to the school dance, he came to the consensus of something cute and simple: a sign. sunghoon loves those cheesy proposal signs that he sees on tiktok and pinterest that use witty play on words. he wanted to make his sign special and make it exclusive towards your friendship. the first time the two of you spent time alone together was after your friends ditched the two of you on a movie night, leaving you and sunghoon to go see the movie Minions. that night also happened to be the night that sunghoon realized he had feelings for you. sunghoon chose to make that night his inspiration for his sign, painting the phrase “y/n, you are one in a minion. be my date?” onto his posterboard. your heart melted at the sight of your best friend standing outside your front door, sign in hand… dressed as a minion. naturally, sunghoon had to go all out. overalls, yellow face paint, goggles, and all. to him, it was worth it to see you smile and laugh the way you did.

[v4mpyrsp1t]

rip arcane crew you would have loved video game

viktor: skyrim. because i said so. he’d LOVE the technical aspects of modding esp because he’d see it as a DIY fuck-you to Bethesda's corporate shortcomings. he’d also start saying “by the nine/by talos” unironically. autistic starter pack fr. also because i’m projecting there would be days where he’s off work and sits up after like 18 hours straight of replaying all the good questlines and cracks every bone in his body when he finally remembers to get up and eat and drink water etc. jayce is also not allowed to interrupt skyrim time. it doesn't even look like skyrim anymore tbh with the sheer number of mods he's installed and every time he boots it up it takes 2 minutes to load to main menu and his custom-built PC starts boiling the mug he placed on top of it for that specific reason. When he wants to branch out he and Jayce sit down and play horror games together. They LOVE alien isolation. Jayce always screams which scares him and makes him scream and then he whacks Jayce with the pillow.

jayce: minecraft. audhd classic. he’d also get really into the modding but specifically to make insane beyond-redstone contraptions. with something like the arcane engineering mod. he prob lost his mind when he found out about it. his builds would look like the most god awful thing you’ve ever seen like some sick beast of ugly ass blocks and gears and he’d be cheesing behind you saying “it’s a linear algebra calculator actually. also it can run doom.” he also does megabuilds from time to time and those projects are the most gorgeous toe-curling and detailed works ever and uploaded to his no-commentary youtube channel as a timelapse over the worst royalty-free edm you've ever heard. it has 15 bajillion views and he posts once every 7 months. He's HORRIBLE around horror games he always jumps straight to the ceiling and screams and grabs onto whoever is nearest to him (usually viktor).

mel: gaming "isn't really her thing" but sometimes she hops on multiplayer with everyone if they're having a game night. if she had to pick a favorite game she regularly plays it would be tiny glade or unpacking. something relaxing that she can have control over to take a break from the chaos during the day. she's also a stealth smash/mario kart pro and absolutely no one can beat her. seriously how does she keep doing that. when the group was really into among us they would PRAY she wasn't the impostor because she would WIPE them across the floor every time. It got to the point where if no one seemed to be the impostor they would just default to assuming it was her because she was so good at the strategizing. she would also get really into the artsy indie game scene and browse through game jam collections from time to time. She played through Gris by herself once because it got recommended to her as she was looking through the related section of one of those games and literally could never play it again because she cried so hard but if you ask her she vehemently denies it.

jinx: project sekai colorful stage and lollipop chainsaw. at the same time tbh. nobody knows how she keeps hitting perfect combos on both when she does that. unfortunately she’d prob also hit the tutti frutti mango cart and play breakcore max volume at the same time i don't make the rules. out of nowhere she sometimes stares ekko down and asks "what if you were bit by a zombie and i had to turn your head into a keychain for my belt to save you and we went everywhere together and saved the world and kissed. what are your thoughts on that." She keeps pointing whenever miku comes onto the screen and says "that's me that's literallyyyy meee." She was the main reason why group Overcooked nights are now banned. Don't ask. She's top three in a handful of any% speedrun boards, some in games she doesn't even play outside of figuring out what glitches they have. Her Portal 2 speedrun is a total of 20 minutes and absolutely nobody can figure out how she did it. She also is a huge horror game junkie and her and Vi play multiplayer horror stuff on a regular basis. She wouldn't really jump or react to jumpscares, even when people around her scream, she just immediately moves on which is even scarier to everyone tbh.

ekko: he would LOVE adventure games. especially if there were quests centered around helping people. his main games would be monster hunter, BG3, and he'd prob also like shadow of the colossus and the last guardian. They're all the perfect mix of fantasy, big fucking creatures, and being a nice person simulator. He absolutely can't do an evil run in any game and stopped a BG3 durge playthrough mid-way through Act I because he hated how cruel his character was acting; his last straw was the Alfira cutscene. He tried to do a playthrough with Jinx but she kept taking the most nuclear option every time and they kept hitting a TPK because of all the fights. Him and Viktor trade modding resources and recommend mods to each other it gets really intense. They have this weird competition with each other over who can pull out the craziest modlist for their respective games and everyone is terrified because nobody can stop them and they're so good at it. He and Jinx play a lot of two-player games though; the ones where they fight always almost end in a real-life brawl because they get so competitive with each other.

isha: cookie run. subway surfers. there are hot cheeto crumbs all over her goddamn devices and some weird crust at the edges of the screen that's fused the tablet case to the tablet. she can also bulldoze everyone and their mother in fortnite and writes :3 :33 in the chat every time she kills someone. Lowkey scary with it because while she's playing games she stares wide-eyed at whatever screen it's on and doesn't blink once. She plays a lot of fighting games with Jinx and literally always wins. When they started out Jinx kept saying "get dunked on" every time she beat her and it activated the sleeper agent that made her practice absolutely nonstop. So now she could probably be ranked on a global scoreboard or something. She also hates when the royal match ads pop up just on principle and lets them play out so the stupid purple robed tyrant can drown or burn or whatever else he does in the ads.

Cait: deer hunter pro or something like that. vi tells her the fact that she plays games like that "feels homophobic" for some reason. she also has a deep rivalry with isha in fortnite when they landed on the same server and didn't know it was her for months she would just clench her fist grit her teeth and mutter isha's gamertag in hatred. other than that she's AMAZING at PvP shooter games. she's gone viral here and there for uploading clips where her and Vi make fun of men in the VC while she absolutely destroys them. Her and Vi have also tried to play two-player games like Jinx and Ekko do but both of them got bored ten minutes in and switched back to Valorant. Her and Jinx have gotten into an actual fight during group Nintendo game night because Jinx kept purposefully targeting her with shells or whacking her off the smash arena platform and finding it hilarious. when vi plays rage games and eventually quits she usually picks it up and tries to finish it for her. without fail both of them eventually both give up and take a walk together to calm down so they don't break the controller. other than that she’s a HUGE detective game nerd ofc, and plays those when she has to take a break from work (vi pulls her away from her desk so she can rest). LA noire, disco elysium, detroit become human, evil within. if it’s got a detective in it in any way she hops on it as fast as physically possible. she prob keeps a red string board next to her PC just so she can keep track of clues like a real case and throws a blanket over it when vi comes in the room to make sure she’s turning off her work brain.

Vi: she likes fighting games like moral kombat of course, but she loves horror games as much as Jinx. Unfortunately the two of them are on Roblox horror games literally all the fucking time it's insufferable. She would probably also LOVE stuff like tomb raider; she wanted to buy a lesbian flag with lara croft photoshopped onto it to hang in the living room "because i'm patriotic" and cait told her absolutely not. while playing online with cait the two of them are absolutely unstoppable, esp when VC is turned on. they have a tally on a dry erase board on the fridge that keeps track of how many people they made rage quit. her and jayce also try to play co-op games and everyone physically steps in to stop them because they fumble so bad and blame it on the game design. there's something called "the incident" where they were all trying out the forest and the two of them managed to collapse the group's entire base in two axe swings. She is also now banned from playing rage games like getting over it or chained together.

[hermitcraftx]

Actually, no, I'm not done talking about the Minecraft Movie. I'm so incredibly angry about what could have been. Rant incoming, sorry to any and all witnesses. All ye who enter here abandon all hope.

The Lego Movie was a good movie because it was an homage to animators and the community it had built up during the years, was genuinely very well animated and had good plot points despite maintaining its humor, and was a good watch to people who didn't even like Legos. It did have a couple big name actors placed in there to draw views (i.e. Will Ferrell) but for the most part the movie was completely animated with very sparse real life moments that worked very well to tie into the narrative the movie was creating. You're a little kid and the world is so big and angry and full of structure, and you just want to create the things you want to see without being told what to do. Emmett is an ordinary guy told he's special as a lie to get him to comply with what Vitruvius wanted, the same way he complied with orders his entire life, and he defeated that cycle of thinking by showing kindness despite his terrible treatment, unlike Lord Business (i.e. Will Ferrell). It worked astoundingly well to create something that ticked a lot of boxes: narratively sound, incredibly pleasing to look at, funny, and capable of handling serious topics despite being a Kid's Movie.

The Minecraft Movie... does none of that. There are no well placed homages or tributes to a loving community that has been built up for well over a decade. There are no callbacks to Minecraft animations, to any of the Minecraft covers that were a staple of early Minecraft, no references or respects paid to anybody that has been a big name in the community. For fuck's sake, they didn't even put Herobrine is. Herobrine is, to be frank, the most basic Minecraft reference they could have input into this movie as a subtle nod to the community that almost everyone would have understood, and I remain disappointed.

The art style isn't respectful of Minecraft animators at all, instead vaguely resembling AI slop where they tasked it to make Minecraft in real life with realistic shader packs as the references. To be quite frank, it is a spit in the face of almost every creative person in the community. It's disrespectful to the animators, the parody creators, the modpack creators (highly unlikely but I really hope they get in deep shit for using some of them as references, because it's almost uncanny how similar they look), the Minecraft content creationists, everybody. I know they let a scant few Minecraft youtubers on set, but still.... no well hidden easter eggs? No CaptainSparklez logo? No Yogscast? No EthosLab tnt slab? Not even any of the newer youtubers that have made the Minecraft scene up for the past several years. (Not talking about the green guy, god, no, I'm very grateful for that in fact. But nobody at all? Seriously?) I get that it's a MINECRAFT movie, not a Minecraft youtuber movie, and is supposed to be well-digestible for the average audience that isn't familiar with Minecraft, but there are very easy ways to implement this. Most people would at the very least be happy to see a couple seconds of community references, regardless of what they were. Again, NO HEROBRINE? What the fuck are the Warner Bros doing.

There appears to be no strong structural narrative that ties into the base game either, despite there being a... relatively straightforward way to implement one? Look, man, the game literally has objectives for you, despite being relatively sandbox. You spawn in, you chop wood, mine for diamonds, and fight monsters, you go to the Nether, you beat the dragon. The piglins as an element outside of the Nether don't make sense as gameplay wise they zombify, which has been mentioned a lot, true, but I haven't seen ANYONE mention that they could just... I don't know... Go to the fucking Nether!? Why is the plot line being pulled from Minecraft Legends, a game that everyone thought was boring and forgot about instantly? Why are Mojang and Microsoft trying so hard to branch out from base game Minecraft? So far it looks to just be a bullshit poorly carried out isekai movie with a bunch of big name actors, one liners, shitty quips and "he's right behind me isn't he"s. There's no SERIOUS plot beat at all, not even getting a feeling that this might be any more than "uh oh, they're stuck in Minecraft and piglins are trying to kill them!"

The CGI is terrible. Just incredibly poorly implemented. The people look gigantic at the start and it's not immersed at all, it genuinely looks like some of the worst green screen work I've ever seen. They look like they're standing on a rug.

I don't know. It just makes me incredibly angry. There's a deep lack of understanding and appreciation for the game, and that sounds childish, but I think it is decently imperative to at least understand the basics of Minecraft before you make a game on it. Most people under the age of 30 understand at least a little bit about Minecraft, and if they don't, it is your job to make it enjoyable for them! You can make a story about a man that washes up in a strange world and goes to kill a dragon. Everyone can understand that. That's a very basic story that we've been milking for literally hundreds of fucking years. Nothing in the trailer resembles Minecraft at ALL, it was genuinely unrecognizable and alien to me when I first saw it. The trailers don't have a strong resemblance to Minecraft either, but it's there, and they could have honestly just based it off mostly the trailers and that would have been better? Making the movie fully animated would have given it charm and appealed to kids in the same way, and they could have pulled a Lego Movie and done an in person sequence with Jack Black at some point. I don't know. I don't understand a single cinematic decision in making this film.

A lot of people wanted a deep somber animated film about Steve exploring the loneliness and solitude of the world he's in, trying to thrive and create in spite of that, and while I agree that would be incredible, there is just no universe where that would happen in. But that doesn't mean this is excusable. There are so many better ways to execute and implement the ideas that would do well in big theater for a kid's game and it looks like they spat on those ideas and put them in a blender. It's almost comical how bad the movie is: and such a huge, SAD fucking jump from Warner Bros blowing it out of the water with the Barbie Movie last year. My young cousin finds the pink sheep scary and wanted me to turn it off when we showed it to her. There is truly no audience that I feel this appeals to in a meaningful way, and I hope it flops like Morbius. I hope Microsoft and Warner Bros go bankrupt from this.

All in all, it's a terrible example of a game that has been near and dear to a lot of people's hearts and a significant portion of a lot of people's childhoods and makes a mockery of the people that enjoy it, I feel. It's like if The Mario Movie and Jumanji had a terrible, terrible baby. Unless their plan was to get so much negative attention that hoardes of people go to hate watch it, I have no fucking idea who the hell let any of this be released to the public.

Don't go watch it. Don't give these people your money. Demand better for your community and your fans. Hold Microsoft and Warner Bros accountable for bad quality. Microsoft has been a fucking nightmare since... forever, really, but Mojang has really suffered under their iron fist rule for a long time now. Microsoft has been trying to push Mojang to other games and Mojang, due to Microsoft's restrictions, is unable to function as it's own entity anymore. Any drama with updates? Updates too long? Missing out on content from certain updates? Caused by the copyright being owned by Microsoft. Make no mistake, I'm not defending Mojang, they aren't a small little indie company like they say they are- they're owned by one of the biggest goddamn companies in the world. Microsoft has been working on this movie for a goddamn decade and has been working on this concept specifically for almost four years, and this is what they came up with? It's nightmarish. Knowing them they'll try and push it onto the people that actually play the game too, god forbid.

Don't let them ruin our game. Don't give them your money. Watch something worth your time.

[roonotrue]

Hi, I hope you are having a good day ^^ can I order a fic (M) reader, romantic, fluff, accidental confession & games with Idia? Perhaps where they are both at a sleepover in Idia's room while staying up late to play a video game (something similar to Final Fantasy, or something simpler like Stardew Valley or Minecraft, or a competitive game like Mortal Kombat, choose the game you like the most) and, being influenced by the Reader's gameplay, he simply confesses without thinking about it?

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General Masterpost

Events Masterpost 1

Requested From: Oneshot Request Prompts 5/29 (starts) - 6/19 (ends)

Love this request- I knew Idia was gonna get the gaming prompt- it'd be a crime not to write one for him with it, lol. I meant to finish this yesterday but fell asleep because I have horrifically untreated ADHD and but hey, I got it out for the start of Pride Month! My first gay fic for the season y'all, and I tried my best, cuz I haven't done a lot of Idia writing which is wild cuz he's one of my favorite characters.

I should also note- I love all of these games, and I struggled so hard since you sent this prompt writing multiple different versions of this using different games- and this is the one I liked the most! I might post the others some other time if I feel like going in and polishing them up a bit, but we'll see. Anyway- I hope you enjoy!

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MORTAL KOMBAT 11™

"Why is combat spelled with a 'k'?" Is the first thing Idia asks when you come over to play games and present him with the rarest thing you could have possibly found at Sam's today.

"The fuck if I know, now you gonna play or you turnin' chicken on me, Shroud?" You challenge giving him a well practiced cocky smirk.

One you used to wear more often in your old world when you were the best at playing competitive fighting games in your friend group. You've been humbled since meeting Idia here in NRC though.

This though- this you think you have a right to be cocky about.

Because of all the games from your world to find- of all the competitive fighting games to find- you found this one.

You've struck gold.

Not even gold ore- pure, already processed bars of gold, because this- this means you stand a chance against this raging nerd who treats gaming like it's his day job, hobby, and addiction all at once. Which it actual might be at this point.

It's adorable though, so you forgive him for all of his ruthless victories and gloating over you in terms of competitive games, because honestly? You'd do the same.

You're about to do the same tonight when you kick his ass at Mortal Kombat™.

"Chicken? Seriously? And what's made you all confident? Just because it's a game from your world doesn't mean I can't master it in like, two rounds max, LMAO." He gives you that overconfident smile of his and you struggle not to melt at the idea of how comfortable it means he's gotten with you.

When you two first started hanging out he was a stuttering stumbling mess, barely able to comprehend that you would even want to hang out with him of all people.

After a while of beating you at every game he introduced you too, and then letting you wallow in anguish while playing a calmer farming based game together- he's become far more used to having you around. Far more confident, cocky, and dare you say happy to have someone else to play videogames with, both online and in his dorm room together.

Sitting on the floor, way to close to his tv trying desperately to- at the very least- inconvenience him at a dumb racing game that reminds you a lot of Mario Kart™ (another game spelled with a 'k' not a 'c'- is that just are weird your world thing for games?) every Saturday bleeding into Sunday morning- sometimes afternoon- has become the best part of your week these last few months.

"Well I guess we'll just have to put that to the test then!" You laugh, moving to sit on the blanket-pillow pile Idia had prepared for you twos game night, surrounded by junk food and carbonated energy drinks. Vil would obliterate you with his mind if he knew about this.

"Fine, but don't go crying to Ortho again when I beat you." He says that, but you know that if you do start struggling, he eases up and will even let you win once or twice.

You pretend you don't know as you brag about the victory, and he plays 'sore loser' grumbling with a small smile on his face as he watches you run to tell Ortho of your 'success.'

It's... One of those little things between you two.

One of the things that you can't decide if the dizzy way it makes you feel is because of how close you two are- legs pressing together still from push at each other trying to throw each other off- or because of the egregious amount of carbonated liquid sugar you've drank.

Either way it always leaves you a little more confused then you where before about your feelings towards him.

You smile fondly when Idia settles next to you, ignoring the rush of instant oxytocin flooding your brain when your arms brush.

"Sure, but only if you don't go crying to him when you don't." You smirk opening the game case and putting it into the game console- which luckily enough, seemed to work with the disc even if it was meant for a playstation.

You hope this doesn't break it or anything.

Probably won't.

Hopefully won't.

Anyway-

"Sooo, you gonna tell me how to play or is part of your strat gonna be throwing me in the deep end to drown?" Idia looks at you with a raised brow and slight smile and you roll your eyes.

"Of course not- I wanna win, not be a dick. We can run a practice round or two." You quickly explain the controls to him- or at least how they seem to translate on these controllers, which, to be fair, are similar enough to ones from your world.

"So there's a ton of characters to chose from- they have different combos that you can look at here-" Idia goes very still when you lean over him pressing some buttons on his controller to show him how to get to the combo move list menu.

"So- you got it?" You pull back to meet his eyes with a wide smile.

"W-what?" He jumps when you lock eyes, his face slightly pink as he stumbles with the controller he almost accidently tossed, making you laugh a bit.

"Do you understand the control? Ready to do a practice round?" You ask, and he gulps nervously.

"Uh- yeah, G2G. I learn better from practice anyway." Where'd all that confidence he had earlier go?

You smirk to yourself as you turn back to the screen, picking your character.

"I'd recommend Scorpion or Sub-Zero- they're my favorites." You point the characters out- letting Idia chose first.

Because you're nice.

He picks Scorpion, so you go with Sub-Zero.

And as soon as the game starts it takes all but fifteen minutes for Idia to absorb everything you tell him, and he's able to go toe to toe with you on your practice fights, and even beats you on the last one.

"Huh- this is legit just a classic 2D fighting game. You do know I'm a pro at those too? Lol." He side eyes you as he puts down the controller with a small scoffed laugh and you bump him with your shoulder as you snort and bring a finger up to the bridge of your nose.

"Um, actually, it's a 2.5D fighting game-" You mimic his voice, making it a bit more nerdy and exaggerated though.

"Shut up-" He shoves you back and you quickly hit start on the next game a real game, not practice.

"Wha- Hey! I wasn't ready you can't-"

"Can and did!" You laugh as he fumbles to grab his control and adjust his grip.

You are kind enough to wait for him to get settled before you start to play though. Cuz again, you're oh so nice. Gamers honor and all that.

And you let him get his hits in.

And then you stop playing around.

See the thing is, when you first started playing video games- it was fighting ones like Mortal Kombat, and when you finally got a copy for your game console you played it nonstop until you where pretty sure you almost gave yourself carpal tunnel in under a week.

So if there is any game- any game in this world or the next that you'll beat Idia at, it's gonna be this one. Even if he learns fast and has years more general gaming experience than you.

The room falls quiet, nothing but the sound of the button mashing of the controllers and the occasional sigh, scoff, and chuckle whenever one of you is winning or loosing.

Idia manages to hold his own extremely well for his first time playing, but eventually-

"YES!" You cheer launching your hands into the air, controller falling into your lap. You fall back into the pillows behind you- back aching from being hunched over and eyes burning a little from not blinking as much as possible.

"Finally! A victory against the infamous Gloomurai!" You can tell Idia is looking at you slightly miffed for a moment before his gaze shifts to something else as you sit back up and make a fake bow.

"I'd like to thank my father- for introducing me to violent fighting videogames at a faaar to young age- and my friends from Earth for their years of trying to beat me at Mortal Kombat and helping me keep my epic skills sharp- and of course Sam, for somehow magically having a copy of this damn game- I won't be able to afford food this week because of it's outrageous price- but it was worthy to be sitting here now with this W!" You monologue dramatically.

In the corner of your eye you can see Idia shaking his head with a genuine smile on his face and slight flush on his cheeks- embarrassment if you had to guess.

"Yeah yeah, gg, you won- one out of three. Now sit back up- I'm still getting used to the game." He scoffs, but the small doesn't fade and you do as he asks.

"Excuses excuses, Shroud- but okay. I don't mind kicking your butt two more times, but if I do, I am absolutely bragging about it for the rest of my life." You shove him and he shoves you back.

"Uh-huh, and if you don't I'm never letting you live down all this cocky smack-talk."

So you both play again- and it's definitely harder, but you manage to beat him again, this time you burst out laughing as he groans at loosing by a hair.

"God, I forgot how sweet victory tastes- no offence Idia, but defeating you is officially the best moment of my life. My crowning achievement." You sigh dramatically draping an arm over his shoulders.

He tenses instantly under the touch and you glance up at him to see that same pink hue on his face from earlier, though this time he refuses to meet your eyes, or even turn towards you.

"Hey- you good-"

"Yep! I'm G-great- just uh- not used to losing." He coughs into his elbow as you pull away, and you tilt your head, watching him carefully.

He really isn't the best at lying to you... But you guess you'll let it go... For now.

"Hm, well, congrats, I'm here to help you officially get used to it." You pat his back and while he doesn't look at you as you turn your attention back to picking a new character for the next round- okay with losing it if only to make him feel better- he does it for you after all- you hear the smallest little scoff from him.

And then-

"You're so lucky you're cute..."

"What was that?" Your brain comes to a screeching halt and you can practically feel your neck snap with how fast you turn to look at Idia- the words so quiet you're damn near certain they were an auditorial hallucination or something.

"Whatwaswhat?" Instantly Idia shrinks in on himself, his whole face painted a dark crimson and his hair blazing up, turning a bright pink that stands out in the blue hues of his Ignihyde dorm room.

Oh.

Oh.

It definitely wasn't a hallucination.

"The thing you just mumbled, what was it?" You ask again, heart hammering in your chest and the dumbest grin making it's way to your face.

"N-nothing- fuck- RIP my dignity, alt f-4, alt f-4, alt f-4-" He chants under his breath as if that will magically let him disappear into the ether, and leans as far back away from you as he can- refusing to turn back to look at you.

"Oh, it was definitely something~" You tease leaning forward as he leans away and at your ton his head darts to look at you like a deer in headlights.

"H-huh!?!? H-hey don't look at me like that! Seven, this is straight out of a cringy otome game and I just got the bad ending for sure..." You knew his hair turned normal fiery orange and red when he was angry or really passionate about something, but you didn't know it could turn pink like this.

You're tempted to reach out a hand and touch the non-harmful flames. Well, they're unharmful when their blue, but they do burn when they're red.

"Would you're hair burn me if it's pink like this?" You voice the thought as you toss your controller to the side and fully turn to face Idia, who has been slowly backing away from the situation.

He freezes at the question and if his face could turn redder, your certain it would.

"I-w-what kind of- I don't- L-look, I d-didn't mean to say a-anything it was stupid, and cringe, and if you want to leave I totally get it and if you don't want to talk to me anymore either I won't bother you-" He starts spiraling and you roll your eyes.

You rise up to your knees and then fall forward, arms open, crashing into Idia's chest and wrapping your arms around him, he let's out a loud startled yelp arms instinctually wrapping around your form to catch you as you send the both of you crashing to the blanketed floor and you can't help but chuckle.

You can hear his heart beating like a drum solo's going on in his chest.

You lift your head, resting your chin on his chest as you grin up at his scarlet face, which looks like the human equivalent to a computer blue screening.

"Hey Idia?" You mumble into the soft fabric of his blue hoodie and his grip on you tightens just a smidge, but he still refuses to look at you.

"Y-yeah?"

"This is definitely the good ending- so calm down a bit before you give yourself a heart attack. I don't wanna lose my new boyfriend as soon as I get him." You laugh and Idia jumps like you just slapped him in the face- finally looking down at you, eyes wide.

"B-b-boyfriend!?!?" His voice cracks so sharply that you flinch at the sound.

"Well, you haven't asked me out, but I can ask you out instead if you want?" You smirk at him and he opens and closes his mouth like a gaping fish for a long few moments.

"I- you-"

"Do you not want to date-?"

"No! W-wait- no! I m-mean- like- yes, I do- i-if you want to- seven this is so- a-are you sure you don't j-just wanna leave- you don't gotta s-stay out of pity or anything-"

"Idia?" You cut him off, pushing up off of him and hovering over him, looking at his blushing face with a small, but very genuine smile.

"Y-yes?" He squeaks, shrinking into his hoodie as your gaze pins him in place.

"Would you like to go on a gaming date with me next weekend?" You ask with the very same confident smirk your wore at the beginning of this night and below you, despite turning his gaze away in embarrassment, smiles too.

"Y-yes please..." He manages to stumble out and you push up off the ground to give him some space to cool off for a moment, offering him a hand to help him up.

"Alright then! Snack break, then we're finishing this final round, k?" You decide and he darts up, baffled.

"What!? Y-you can't just hit me with a six-attack combo and then act all casual like that-!" He shouts, hair still pink on the ends but calming down back to blue, his face though, is still a bright scarlet.

"Oh? Well you're the one you made the first hi- what? Are you scared you'll lose again cuz I'm to pretty for you to focus?" You tease as you rip open a back of the nearest bag of chips and start munching, wagging your eyebrows at him.

"N-no! Ugh- you're-! I'm picking the game next week!" He gives up, ripping the bag from you hands and violently shoving some of the chips in his mouth to shut himself up.

You laugh at the action and let yourself shuffle closer to him again until your sides are pressed together.

"Okay by me- just go easy on me, I'm your boyfriend now after all~" You chuckle as you nudge him and he rolls his eyes, hair back to blue but face still flushed a pretty shade of pink.

"After today? I'm fr never going easy on you again."

"Liar, you will."

"... Yeah. I guess I will."

~~~

Word Count: 3,011-ish

Y'all, I was writing this and realized "I still haven't finished book 6 yet" So I went and jumped between writing this and doing that.

And I'm on the cusp of finishing book 6 but I'm struggling with the final boss because I'm so bad at building good teams- it's a whole thing- point is, I still haven't gotten the Crewel card guys and I am GRIEVING.

But it's fine. I'm an adult. I can handle this, and I'm working on the next request tonight, so hopefully I'll have it posted sometime tomorrow, so see you then! Byeeee ~ Roo

[koffizinhomc]

WHITEPINE episode 7 (review)

I don't use this blog as much as I would like to, so here's my review of Whitepine episode 7!

please beware this contains spoilers, watch the series here! and financially support the production here!

Trigger warnings: discussions of violence, police brutality, blood, mentioned bigotry: homophobia/transphobia/misogyny/ableism, paranoia, and stalking. How do I even start? what an episode, god! I suppose I'll give my general thoughts and go from there.

In general, Whitepine falls into the spectrum of Minecraft machinimas that make you forget you're even watching a Minecraft video. The production is phenomenal!

From the get-go my favorite aspect of Whitepine's production was always how the music and slow burn of the scenes ease you into a sense of security, you're fully teleported to this world setting like you too could be a maid or butler from the mansion, sometimes hearing and seeing things from other characters while passing through your chores, the mundane setting helps to bring that calm feeling of a routine, only for it to rip that away from the viewer and throw them into danger and panic immediately after.

not many pieces of media can truly make you hold your breath in scenes, truly make you tense, truly and I mean truly make you dread what's going to happen next, especially Minecraft machinimas and especially in today's age, but Whitepine is patience and it guides you through all of that mundane and simple moments before showing you the darkness that envelopes this story, and it doesn't shy away from making sure the viewer feel the same heaviness in their heart and paranoia as Ivory, the character, does.

as for Ivory the producer, you're such a great storyteller, the power to make viewers truly feel the things happening on the screen is such a powerful one, you know how much you need to convey what your character feels through visual and auditory media, but also the delivery of the lines.

it makes the viewer shrink down, put themselves in Ivory's shoes, see the world from her perspective, only time can tell what sort of protagonist she is throughout the story, but god… I truly feel like I can be in her shoes, simply because this story does a great job at making sure I do.

I've seen criticism of how slow Whitepine is, but in my opinion, the slow burn is its biggest quality! only a story willing to bore the viewer with how mundane things are in their world can truly show them how twisted things can be become in just a matter of minutes, only a patience story can make the viewer feel on edge and anxious over the course of the episodes because you never know what's going to happen next, you're left with enough time to over analyze everything and your mind starts to overthink, enough that anything that happens next will shock you regardless if you're already on edge, because it was designed to make you anxious and the scenes following simply hits harder like this.

Of course, too much time wasted on informational/scenes we don't need could make the story feel stretched out, but I truly believe Whitepine is deliberately produced this way for the sake of immersion in what is like to be in the shoes of the character, living a mundane routine while paranoia takes over your mind.

End Of General Thoughts, let's discuss the episode itself shall we?

Trigger warnings ahead: mentioned bigotry such as homophobia/transphobia/misogyny

I definitely will be skipping some “minor” scenes to discuss what I have thoughts about at the moment, although I feel like I would definitely enjoy going back to re-watch every episode so far and form a full fleshed analysis, I have decided to allow the series to take me on its ride rather than try to do my usual over-analyzing I like doing for Minecraft Machinimas and lore, trying to piece everything together with any information I get my hands on (although I do have my personal theories about Ivory's origin)

Instead, I'll allow myself to only think about the information I've been fed so far, and of course, my focus is on our protagonist, Ivory.

At the start of the episode, Serapter and Ivory follow another character with the suspicion of them doing something “shady”, as followed through the rest of the episode a lot of the staff in the mansion are still tense and suspicious of each other since the murder that took off the series, although this will have much more significance later down the episode In this segment we have a brief discussion of gender, it helps to settle more of the “traditional” setting of the story where it’s clear by their rushed and confused discussion of it that the topic is not something common, maybe even misunderstood by the average person

with the following scene with Ivory we get a wider range of the topic of sexuality in the setting of Whitepine through her discussion with Pyroscythe

It’s really a confirmation that this topic is something worth of gossiping, rather than something normalized, even though is present in the story and pyroscythe says himself “he doesn’t know why others label his sexuality and act weird about it”, which makes the line Ivory says to him after even sweeter, if only it was something she could apply to herself in her own situation… Trigger warnings ahead: mentions of stalking and paranoia

After we go back to our beautifully piano accompanied mundane scene, we have a scene where Serapter reveals to Ivory that The Detective from the previous episodes has been spreading rumors about Ivory’s involvement with the murder to staff members of the mansion, which justifies her paranoia in thinking others are staring and judging her we can even see him in the opening scene at the theater keeping a sharp eye on Ivory from one of the buildings after this we get a very emotional scene, accompanied by the auditory distortion noises that accompany Ivory’s silence while she’s having an emotional breakdown, of her walking outside the house and crying in the forest, in this moment I really felt my heart strings being pulled, this was the sobbing of a person who just snapped when everything became too much, now it wasn’t only paranoia or fear, Ivory had the confirmation that The Detective was doing all in his power to disturb her life, inside and outside the mansion, all due to her not admitting to a crime she didn’t commit.

This moment truly feels like a break in the character, the usual quiet Ivory sobbing from the pure agony of everything happening around and to her.

Trigger warnings ahead: discussions of violence, police brutality, blood, mentioned bigotry: ableism, paranoia

This scene forwards is where we can all agree is the… heaviest part of the episode, in terms of writing, usually in pieces of Minecraft machinima a lot of heavier topics are implied through subtext or mentioned quickly, sometimes even implied as a joke, if they're shown on screen it's not usually with as much tension and rawness as Whitepone does and oh god, it does it so well…

the inside of the car feels claustrophobic, the car scene serves to depict this feeling of inner panic, of something being wrong, and neither Ivory nor the viewer knows what, but the car continues moving, The Detective continues being in control of the vehicle and the situation, and Ivory and the viewer both feel vulnerable.

the whole scene makes you hold your breath, wondering if we'll get a repeat of the scene at the station, you maybe even wonder if the one butler who saw Ivory be taken will say something and maybe she'll be taken out of this situation in some way…

when Ivory tries to ask where are they going, The Detective's response is one of showing control, “I'll be the one asking the questions here.” reads more as “you're not in control of this situation, I am, you're at my mercy now.”

when Ivory moves her head and notices she's being the taken outside of the city, the body language here is phenomenal, you can see her moving her head in panic once she realizes she doesn't recognize where they are going, and after getting another response of aggression, she lowers her head

almost like wishing it will be over soon.

Minecraft body language can tell you a lot about a character/player, and having the ability to utilize that to show true panic, mimicking how an actress in this position in a movie would be asked to move to show the audience her silence panic really deserves the praise.

and the scene where they actually arrive in the forest, the line “step out of the car, Ivory.” sent shivers down my spine, it felt like a death sentence and I watched with dread when I noticed he had taken off his jacket and put on the gloves.

before, you could maybe justify his actions, either by Ivory being an unreliable narrator in how she sees the world and the words being spoken to her, or maybe something along the lines of “determined”, but this scene settled his character for me, I think for obvious reasons.

This is not an emotional character acting on impulse to catch a potential criminal like you would see other depictions of police in media, this is a showcase of power, he took Ivory when there were less people in the house, he took her to a deserted forest where she didn't know where she was and there were no witnesses, he took off his jacket and brought gloves

he knew exactly what he was doing, from the moment he took Ivory he already had planned all of it, and made sure even if Ivory told anybody there would be no proof of her blood on him or any piece of fabric or Dna left on her to legally prove him of his crime

as a form of “Justice”

and oh my god, a big applause to the actor behind The Detective, his calm but aggressive demeanor breaking and turning violent the moment he's truly alone with Ivory and she still refuses to confess to a crime she didn't commit, it truly disturbed me to my core, the whole scene leading to this in fact even today a day after watching the episode I still feel a heaviness in my heart when I look back at it, like my heart is heavy and mind is foggy with fear and a deep sense of wrongness.

like I've mentioned, rarely a movie or piece of media will truly make me hold my breath, make me feel dread and fear, long gone are the times where horror movies and physiological horror actually messed with me, but this? the way Whitepine is written and every single scene is purposely put together to make you feel in the shoes of the character? this truly had an impact on me, and triggered any human emotion I needed to feel in that moment, to put myself in Ivory's shoes.

and going back to analyzing the scene and characters, was it really for ��justice”? Was it really to make Ivory “pay for what she did”? or was it simply a show of power, taking over someone weaker and who doesn't align with the usual way you're expected to act in society, it's much easier to blame the visibly "weird" than to accept a "normal" citizen can hide their sins very well,

a cheap confession, a cheap jail time, to give the detective credit for getting the “guilty person" behind bars so quickly, because he is so sure there's no way in hell he is wrong, as far as to commit a crime himself.

It's clear to me Whitepine won't shy away from topics such as these, power imbalance, bigotry, mental breakdowns and violence

as a commenter under the episode has said; (@norab9112 She finds comfort outside in the gardens. He starts sneaking up on her. She finds comfort in the mansion. He starts lurking around it. She finds comfort in the woods He takes her to the woods and physically attacks her.)

and the ending credits song, we hear Ivory humming to the song she's playing on the piano, only for her to breakdown crying and heavily breathing towards the end... and what a genuine, sincere showcase of human emotion in a piece of media,

not a mimicry of it, not a cheap way to cause terror, true human emotions being shown in this story, true paranoia, fear and sadness.

Ivory, the producer in this case, you have a wonderful piece of art in your hands, you and everyone who helped bring this to life deserves to have an audience get up from their seats to applause your work.

This is not just a minecraft machinima, it's a showcase of raw, pure, human emotion in audio-visual form and I will wait patiently for what's to come next. Thank you for reading my first ever review! 🌺

[isa-ghost]

Yea, undying duo if phil and foolish! Because phil is mr hardcore survival minecraft and foolish is a totem of undying :D

basically, both cubitos have a wack relationship with death (and, I think, aversion to using totems? I know phil for sure but I'm a bit unsure about foolish)

I've done some qFoolish ones before!

qPhil headcanons masterlist

Phil would take another "vacation" with Foolish any time. Especially since the second time around, he actually got to know him really well. He'd like to see him again the next time they're in the same realm. :')

If he wasn't so Fuck The Feds he would consider doing some kind of huge cool build like the kids wanted them to so badly. Maybe in the next realm they'll do it because they won't have some kind of government hovering around. It's just too bad the kids won't see it.

He wishes he could've actually had time to actually enjoy having the titan by the wall but the Feds relocated them all like right after. After the way Foolish and his builds were disrespected last time they shared a realm, Phil is PISSED the Feds had the audacity to basically do the same. Especially when Foolish (kind of) worked for them!!!

Of everyone he got close to on the island, Foolish is one of the ones he wishes he had more time with. He feels like they were weirdly in different worlds despite them both being present so often. That's,, probably kind of Ender King's fault, honestly. He feels like he fell away from multiple people when things got bad.

Tbh he kinda wanted to ask Foolish about wtf he was up to in the last realm they were both in (aside from building) but decided against it bc a majority of his memories from that one are awful. So either Foolish was suffering too, or Phil wouldn't trust himself not to envy him for not having a horrid time.

Insert "MCC is some kinda canon interdimensional death games" hc here. Phil has SEEN Foolish kick ASS in a way that wasn't hysteria-driven Bolas rabies.

I'd like to think there's been at least one event or something where they just sat together and gave each other building tips.

The historian part of Phil's brain wants to talk to Foolish about what his Literally Undying ass has seen and lived through. How long has he been alive?? As long as Phil? Longer? He needs to know.

He's not sure where the eternal banana came from and at this point he's too afraid to ask.

Phil thrives on being a bystander of Foolish and Bad's find each other in every universe curse. He's not sure if the last realm before QI started it or if they've crossed paths even More before QI, but boy does he love getting to watch their beef.

See, Foolhalo might find each other in every universe (derogatory), but Phil knows the REAL one is Foolish and Tina finding each other in every universe (affectionate).

Something something Foolish totem something something Phil refusing to use totems when he's home in Hardcore. Is this anything. Someone cook for me I'm too stupid.

Phil is never gonna understand when or how Foolish became "King of the Capys" or why they chose him specifically. He assumes Foolish just hung out with them the most or something.

He barely got to know Vegetta but he just KNOWS he was Foolish's type. Which is wild bc prior to getting government assigned spouses, Phil didn't even think Foolish was fruity. Somehow. Looking back, it actually kinda makes sense to him. From what little he knew of Foolish before QI.

Inversely, Foolish was absolutely STUNNED to know Phil is some flavor of poly let alone fruity at all. Which is hilarious bc Phil is too tunnel-visioned on other things to try hiding that fact. But no, shark man beyond baffled that Phil lowkey adjusted to having a government assigned husband almost instantly. AND became possessive of said husband over time.

[aquaquadrant]

Hi. I don't know if anyone has asked this question yet. But it seems like the time in your story is the same as in real life. But players don't age! However, they grow up from children.. Is there a limit to the stage of development and growth in your world? Then how old are the main characters? Such as Bravo, Timmy, Tango, Jimmy, Patho (you said he is a very old player, but they describe him as relatively young) and Atlas. I'm just curious to know their real and physical age (that is, what they look like). Of course, I would also be glad to hear the ages of the secondary characters, if you don't mind. That would be cool!

ah, so i’ve gotten into this over various chapters and asks here on tumblr but i don’t mind going over it again though i’m not sure how much clearer it’ll make things.

players spawn into existence at an age that we would consider to be about 5 years old. from the moment they spawn, they can walk and talk. in-game, it’s like baby villagers. most players spawn on private homeworlds, but can occasionally spawn in on multiplayer worlds (mini game hubs more commonly, and hels is the major exception). then they grow at a normal rate until they gain access to inter-world travel via their communicators (usually around the teenage stage).

every player will continue to age up until a certain point, and then they stop physically aging. for some, it’s shortly after the teenage stage, but others can age for decades after that. it’s completely random. socially, any adult player is considered to be in the same category, whether they physically appear 20 or 50. chronological age isn’t super important, either. a player that has lived for 30 years is considered just as much of an adult as one that’s lived for 200.

now, the reason i don’t like to give specific ages is because i don’t really have a solid timeframe for my minecraft universe. i like the idea of it feeling ageless. i can’t compare it to how long minecraft has existed irl cuz that’s like, only 16 years. i can’t make it match our real life world cuz that’d be billions of years, which just feels wrong. so i do sort of a hand-wavey “really really old” deal. also, the fact that everyone starts out looking 5 years old sorta complicates the situation.

so like, for example. tango was a young adult at the time he escaped hels tek and joined hermitcraft, which was about 10 years before the current time of the story. so let’s say tango appeared ~18 at the start (meaning he had actually only lived for 13 years, because he spawned in at about 5. 18-5=13), then one decade later, he would be chronologically 23. he also appears around this age because he has stopped physically aging at this point. this is the same case for bravo; counterparts spawn at the same time and stop aging at the same time. but in another 10 years, tango will be chronologically 33 and still appear to be in his 20’s.

complicated, you see. so in terms of physical age, i just go off of mel’s art. for chronological age, i’m afraid i don’t have exact numbers for you. every character in HTP is an adult, and the details beyond that aren’t important to them (AKA once i go past tango’s lifetime, it all gets fuzzy).

[jetra4ivor]

I saw a video talking about why Minecraft seems to have stagnated a bit lately and doesn’t have the same appeal as it once did. It talked about the usual complaints, such as inventory bloat, new blocks, structures, quality of life advancements… but the one aspect I didn’t see them talking about was ABSTRACTION.

I think that as Minecraft has been pushed closer towards reality, we’ve lost the inherent FEAR that comes from the abstract in the old video games Minecraft was emulating its style from.

Maybe it’s because I grew up with Atari as my first console, but there was a level of unnerving fear that was created through the hardware limitations and graphics during that era. Because everything was so abstracted, you let your imagination fill in the blanks. This blocky room with goofy eyeballs became a darkly lit haunted house where monsters could appear around every corner.

And Minecraft is clearly going for this level of abstraction. The entire world is just low resolution pixelated blocks, but there’s JUST enough definition that if you squint your eyes the world seems to mimic our own. It produces an uncanny valley effect that, coupled with survival elements, makes the game absolutely TERRIFYING at times.

And a perfect example of this is the creeper. What a horrifying monster! But the details of what it actually is are obscured through abstraction and pixel limitations. What exactly IS the creeper made of? Some people have interpreted the green blotches to be leaves, others see a wrinkly leather-like texture, others see fur. How do you interpret that grimace? Is is a permanent scowl? A sad mourning? There’s JUST enough detail to make the creature recognizable, but not enough detail to make it perfectly clear to everyone what it’s made of. That’s terrifying!

That so many artists can have such wildly different interpretations of the creeper is a testament to its intentionally unnerving design.

But over the years those terrifying edges have been smoothed out. Textures have been refined to be less garish and harsh. New more recognizable animals have been added. A parrot, for example, looks like a parrot. And just with the colors alone you can tell what kind of parrot it’s meant to be. There no ambiguity. No unsettling interpretation.

And even the enviroment has been smoothed out and changed to reflect reality.

So I think that the reason Minecraft today doesn’t feel like Minecraft of 10 years ago is because too much emphasis has been placed on mimicking reality. Even in the more recent additions these things have real world equivalence which reduce the inherent terror and unease that abstracted environments would evoke. The Nether today is far less scary than the Nether of 10 years ago, even if it’s still as dangerous.

There’s just something really unsettling about a perfectly square house in high contrast mossy cobblestone that you won’t get from a village of friendly NPC’s bathed in soft ambient lighting, you know?

I genuinely believe that Minecraft has leaned too far into realism. If they want people to keep playing longer, it’s not to add MORE structures, it’s to add back in some of the abstracted nature of the original game. Don’t make things inherently clear what they are. Allow people to interpret things in different ways. Stop trying to emulate realistic environments when the trees you cut down don’t even fall over. This is Minecraft! Minecraft is meant to be WEIRD and CREEPY almost like an alien’s failed interpretation of our word.

[ninjagirlstar5]

AVA Chosenweek - Day 1: Stargazing/Cloudgazing

Ignore the fact that this is literally minutes away from midnight on the 28th where I'm from, I was a lot more busy than I thought I'd be-

I'll just clean things up in the morning but enjoy this little piece of writing I did for day 1!

Edit: Did the clean up, and here's an AO3 link!

When Chosen had first stepped into Minecraft, it wasn’t anything he had expected.

Well, seeing the red rocky terrain with lava almost as common as the Sea of Data’s waters and dangerous mobs in nearly every corner wasn’t the best first impression for a game he had never touched before, let alone heard of. But once Mango had led him to another Nether Portal, the scenery had quickly become something remotely familiar: a lush forest of grass and trees as far as the eyes can see and a river flowing nearby. It was just a little bit different from what he’s seen in the OuterNet.

Different as in, Minecraft is literally a world made of blocks. Blocks that he can break down and pick up, suddenly having an inventory where he can pick and choose what he needs with just a glance in his mind’s eye. And with just a wave of the block in hand, he can place down those blocks and build whatever he wants, even a platform he can hop on to reach a ledge he can’t get to. Not that he needed to, having the ability to fly and all, but Chosen had seen Mango do it a few times as he and his child helped scope out the area.

An area where Chosen can make his new “house.”

Well, the “house” they’ve started making was less of that, and more of a hole dug into a cliffside and blocked off with (temporary) cobblestone for the front, and a wooden door. He's not sure why Purple was so insistent that they use this spot in all honesty.

Maybe it was because Chosen had been chilling on the cliff and he had taken it as a sign that he liked it.

Maybe it was because it was the exact same spot where Mango and Chosen had stopped to rest during his first day exploring Minecraft.

Or maybe it was because the view was as nice as the OuterNet’s Data Bay and decided that it'd be good for Chosen to see it every time he woke up.

Chosen wasn't sure and he didn't really ask. He simply thought about it for only a minute before deciding it was “good enough” as a base. But when he had said that he'd need a house made of stone to avoid accidentally burning anything down, Purple immediately jumped at the chance to suggest that they build Chosen's new house into the cliff. Despite his surprise, Mango had backed his child up on their idea so long as Chosen approved and, well, he couldn’t really bring himself to say “no.”

And that was that.

Chosen was lying in a bed in his new “house,” staring at the ceiling they had dug out into a decently sized square and torches to light up the room to prevent monsters from spawning in. They had made decent progress between the three of them, with Mango helping Chosen with crafting and building the balcony while Purple measured out how much space he would need living in this base. But they had just finished the balcony’s staircase around the cliffside when Mango and Purple had to leave due to how late it had gotten. They needed to attend to their lives back in the OuterNet, Mango juggling his jobs and Purple with her classes, in order to pretend they had some kind of normal routine that didn’t involve hiding a(n ex-)terrorist from the world. And now, here he was, all alone in this tiny Minecraft bed that was surprisingly soft…

And Chosen was unable to sleep.

Figures.

Chosen sighs, dragging his hand down his face. It’s not as if he didn’t like the idea of living in Minecraft. It was probably the best option considering his circumstances, even if it wasn’t a perfect solution.

It just didn’t fully sit right with him.

Not when it felt like they were, in a way, running away from a fight.

Running away from their problems.

Running away from their own crimes.

Chosen furrows their brow, feeling a familiar urge rise in their code. It was an itch of wanting to do something when they didn’t have to do anything. When they had to lay their head down and close their eyes to sleep.

But they haven’t been able to do that in a long time, forced to jump from place to place just to avoid getting arrested by RocketCorp. And just when they were finally letting their guard down at Mango’s house…

Chosen swallows.

They don’t want to think about this.

Not right now.

So Chosen pushes the covers off of them and gets out of bed. They didn’t plan to do anything that took up too much energy, not tonight. They weren’t in the mood to go fight a random mob in the forest. No, they just wanted something small and quiet to do. Chosen passes by the crafting station as they walk, their mind blank on what they could even make without wasting resources. They didn’t want to get scolded by Mango if they did that so Chosen left it alone for now. Instead, they step outside for some fresh air.

The balcony wasn’t completely finished and was made out of wooden planks as a placeholder until they create more “aesthetically pleasing stone blocks,” Purple’s words, not theirs. Honestly, Chosen doesn’t really care too much about decoration as long as they had a roof over their head. Although some railings would be nice since they didn’t want anyone to fall over the ledge. They wouldn’t be able to recover unlike them, who can fly. But Chosen didn’t bother to make some even though they had the wood to do it. They just sat down on the edge and stared at the view.

The stony shore biome where his base was placed overlooked an ocean where it meets the mouth of a nearby river which flows through a meadow and goes on as far as the eye can see. The sun has long since set, with the moon taking its place with a soft, white glow. In its own blocky way. The chill of the night made Chosen shudder but they didn’t move from their spot. They simply let it envelop him as they take slow, deep breaths. They can hear mobs in the distance hopping around on land or splashing in the water but they weren’t approaching and that was more than enough for them. As long as the mobs don’t bother them, then they won’t go out of their way to attack them. At least for tonight.

Tonight, they simply stared at the sky.

Honestly, there wasn’t anything that interesting in Minecraft’s sky. The clouds weren’t as malleable or easily formed shapes like the OuterNet, restricted by the game's design of blocks for nearly everything. It’s not as if an occasional shape can’t naturally form like any other cloud in the OuterNet. It simply wasn’t as recognizable for Chosen in the world of Minecraft. Perhaps it was even less interesting than the times he would gaze at the sky on the roof of the home he actually wished to return to.

But the sky was no less beautiful than before, the stars glimmering down at him alongside the moon. In fact, Chosen still found it amazing even after the initial wave of awe had passed by after his first day in Minecraft.

And just staring at the sky of Minecraft reminded Chosen of one important fact that even the OuterNet couldn’t free him from:

There were no PCs of all the Creators in this world.

No IP address written across the sky, too tiny for most sticks to see from down below but still hovering above them all.

No distracting lines that criss-cross each other to represent a PC as he tries to pay more attention to the clouds and stars.

No reminders of what he had escaped all those years ago.

Just a giant, vast atmosphere that greeted him the same way it did when he first stepped into Minecraft’s main world.

It was wonderful. Like an invisible stone in his gut dissipating without another word.

Here, Chosen didn’t have to see a single PC as he stared at the sky.

Here, Chosen can just stare at the sky simply because he can and bask in its beauty.

As the wind blows through his hair, Chosen lets out a soft sigh. It wasn’t much, but stargazing at least gave him the feeling of doing something, despite how little he has to do. Despite how much this new “house” did not feel like a “home.”

But it was nice.

Nicer than anything the sky of the OuterNet could provide him with.

And Chosen, upon feeling a wave of calmness approaching, embraces it.

Just for tonight.

[budbuddnbuddy]

Little obey me headcanons pt 7

A/n: It’s been a while since I came on with one of these babies huh? Well I’m here with a new one now back and better then ever! Enjoy!!!

The Little D’s have transformation powers nothing extremely powerful, they can only really turn into objects or small animals, perfect for sneaking around as that is what they were made for.

With this information in mind, Barbatos was the one to send a bunch of the Little D’s off into different parts of the human world to gain information for candidates, using their disguises as objects and animals to spy on various humans of various different backgrounds….totally not illegal.

While Lucifer and Satan are different looking at first glance they do look a lot alike in the face, the same nose, shape of the eye, the way their brows bend and curve with each and every expression they make, you get the deal.

I wasn’t exactly sure how to feel about Mammon smoking, but after seeing a lot of art and reading drabbles with it, I really warmed up to the thought of it. Don’t get me wrong, it was definitely because of peer pressure and he’s not good at it at all. He just does it to put up his “Nonchalant Bad boy” persona. loser

Yes. There are infact Cliques in RAD, popular demons, Nerds, Jocks, Delinquents, Normies, Gamers, Loners, Social floaters, etc. You get the deal, it’s painfully obvious too. You see it all in the cafeteria like in a stereotypical 2004 highschool movie and yes you are the new kid.

I have a feeling that MC would put Luke onto human world cartoons. Powerpuff Girls, SpongeBob, Adventure Time. You get the deal, but I think his personal favorites would be Gravity Falls and Adventure Time. He gives off the vibe that he likes shows with deeper meanings other than your daily life lessons. Ya know?

Also same thing with video games, I have a feeling that he’ll take a real good liking to Minecraft and Undertale. (He’ll fall in love with the sound tracks.)

All Demons have sharp teeth yes however Gluttony demons tend to have longer canines and just sharper and stronger teeth in general. This is how Beel is able to bite and eat all the things that he does, other demons can’t really do that.

It is true that Diavolo had your D.D.D altered so that it would be able to work in the human world when MC left, yes. HOWEVER, MC accidentally left the charger for it in their room in the Devildom so like after 2 days it died. It was mailed back to you after like a week but…I think you can imagine how that week went for the brothers…

“Why the heck ain’t MC returning any of my calls or texts?! It’s been a whole week!”

“lmafo, maybe they finally realized how annoying you are.”

“Shaddup!!”

“As much as I hate to agree with the idiot of all people, it is a tad bit concerning…they don’t usually go longer than a few hours returning a text…”

“Maybe they’re busy?”

“Yeah, Beel’s right…they have a life too ya know. They’re probably catching up on work.”

“Everyone!!! Look what I found!”

“…Is that, their charger?”

“Yeah! I found it in their room! It was still plugged on the side of their bed. Our human can be so forgetful sometimes. <3”

“Waitaminute! The heck ‘ere ya donin’ in there room anyways!”

“Yeah! The hell is up with that? Last time I checked I don’t remember MC’s last words to us being: ‘Asmodeus can come into my room anytime!’ So don’t think you get free reign!”

“Oh don’t act like you two any better.! Mammon, I’ve seen you digging around their closet! You too Leviathan!”

“!!!” “!!!”

“Well at least we found it, now hand it to me so I can mail it to them.”

“No way, I wanna mail it!”

“Nuh uh no way you’ll probably sell it, I’m gonna mail it to them!”

“Hello??? Are you guys forgetting I’m the one who found it? It only makes sense for me to send it to them!”

“I wanna send it to MC too.”

“Me too.”

“That’s enough. All of you.”

With Lucifer being the only one out of the seven to actually know where you live he ends up sending it to you in the mail. Along with some cash to spoil you for the next month of course. Lol.

There are royal guards on school grounds at RAD, though they mainly stay and guard the outside to make sure no intruders get in. If you aren’t wearing a uniform then you can’t come in!

Don’t let any of the brothers come with you to any sort of medical appointment you may have in the future. One cheeky joke from your doctor and they might be killed.

“Well MC your knee seems to be badly infected.”

“What will need to done doctor?”

“We might just have to cut off your whole leg.”

“……”

“Haha! Just kidding! We’ll clean ya up and have you bandaged and sent home in less than 15 minutes. It’s not that bad, don’t be so serious!”

MC’s just like “haha…yeah.” while patting their slightly growling demons leg in a “He didn’t mean it, he didn’t mean it.” fashion. As he’s literally determining the best way to kill the doctor you had for the past 4 years, Sorry doc.

[sburbian-sage]

I don't think I want to escape the game anymore.

I have my roles, and I fill them. At this point I can practically autopilot through most sessions.

I have no idea what I would do, if I could actually live in a universe I created. The game teaches you some stuff about governance and economy and whatnot sometimes, to prepare you, but it doesn't feel like enough.

Actually setting up a civilization, ruling over it as a god- hell, even just participating in it as a normal citizen- just sounds somehow both overwhelming and boring at the same time now.

What do I do, if the door ever does work?

"I don't think I even WANT to escape the game at this point" threads happen seemingly every other week. However, this template vent post is a bit more unique, because it actually does raise a question a lot of people wonder about. "Once I create a new universe, what do I do with it".

First of all, I can tell you what NOT to do.

Get your hopes up lmao. If the Door does start working it's not happening anytime soon.

But if it ever does happen, post shit like this. Don't do it if the Door works for everyone, because you will immediately identify yourself as a contrarian, a half-dead wanderer in the desert who finally found an oasis and has the gall to complain about it. DEFINITELY don't do it if the Door works for you alone. I want you to imagine, thousands of people suffering in Purgatory forever, sometimes falling into Hell and never returning. When ONE guy makes it into Heaven and starts bellyaching about how the grass was greener. Sometimes we can keep our thoughts to ourselves. Someone is already yelling at you for posting this, and they don't even have a face to direct their fury towards.

If you decide to roll up your sleeves and learn how to build a civilization, look at online guides. Yes, they exist. Yes, they are 100% speculative, seeing as how nobody's ever done it yet. And yes, it's mostly people with extremely fringe and untested politics writing wankfics about how once they plant the seeds for new humanity, Merito-Monarchy with Maoist characteristics will be their guiding polestar. SBURB is also a bad teacher in this regard, because you're basically doing middle-school projects and dealing with Consorts, but SBURB is bad in the way a bleeding wound is bad, as opposed to "the bone's exposed, dump it into raw meat ASAP".

Carry the SBURB discs you used to play THIS Session to immediately start a new one. I don't even know if that'll work, considering the discs are basically magic, but that's the worst possible idea and your Coplayers should communally kick you around for even considering this idea, that I implanted in your head.

But as for what you should be doing... It's a bit difficult to talk about, because I actually have no idea what the state of this hypothetical "universe we step out into" would look like. A lot of people on the "here's how I build a new society" threads assume they'll step out into a flat, featureless grassy plain which they'll need to terraform and popular through ectobiology, and "unpopulated but randomly generated terrain, like Minecraft" is the second most common assumption. But in the same way we keep New Game +'ing into a pre-existing world with millennia of history, who's to say that won't happen on a successful Session, but it's a world that knows what you did and is expecting your arrival gratefully? Who's to say that there will even be *anything* in there, and that you'll have to initiate a Big Bang-esque event as your first act upon entry? Is there a SBURBan post-game we don't know about, featuring new tools in the Phernalia Registry that allow you to reshape reality like a painter with an inkbrush?

But I get ahead of myself. I don't even want to do the "lmao it'll never happen lmao don't worry about it lmao" thing because I myself enjoy being contrarian and want to start making you imagine a world where you enter a new universe which you now have to *live* in. Because you're being a bit of a whiner right now and I want you to suffer, because life is suffering. And I mean that positively. I've suffered in the course of running my blog, suffered attempting to 100% video games (even the ones I like), suffered producing art. But the only one who's never suffered from making art, is someone who's never made art. Desire leads to suffering, but a life lived without desire is a life lived without direction or purpose. Most self-help posts end with "develop a hobby" but really you should develop a hobby. Avoid "auto-pilot", not only because that's a particular flavor of pride before the fall (and the falls tend to be pretty lethal), but because if you ever end up getting killed, it'd suck to realize you died before you were killed.

That will get the juices flowing in your brain enough to find the prospect of building a society from the ground up a lot more feasible. A challenge worthy of taking on. I guess I did never end up actually answering the question of "what do if I end up creating a new universe for real this time", but considering how much is unknown, I would have to establish multiple courses of action depending on which assumption is true. Which would be a lot to just dump on someone, and all for the purposes of being another piece of non-actionable speculation on the pre-existing mountain of the same. It might make for an interesting post in the future, however.