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current title: the immortal mining evil rekrap2 demon

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fraudsteals richest player is once again thwarted but lava (has not logged on since lava removal)

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@jinlin-at-the-moon @voidjellyy and @sp00ky-gh0stt’s request from stream :3

lgbtq+ dracula trio

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it feels great to Keep Falling In Lava On Fraudsteal... this episode... i had all of my new enchanted diamond gear on me... lets find out if i can be saved by a kind soul...

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the saddle

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PVP CIV SPOILER MAYBE?? IDK IF THIS COUNTS Not sure if anybody has done this yet. My shayla <3

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idc that i drowned multiple times trying to make a bubble elevator im still the immortal demon

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i miss evbo... my blorbo (actively being shot at)

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ive progressed to late stage blorbo disease. if i think about evbo too hard (not very hard at all) i start tweaking crashing out and i get heartburn. what the fuck

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fuck everyone that said drown evwho .making that elevator was so hard. 🖕🖕🖕

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i love vrawn

@ every motherfucker whos asking me why i hate vrawn

YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THIS FUCKING THING. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS GODDAMN COBBLE NETHERRACK MONSTROSITY AND TELL ME THIS DOESNT DESERVE TO BE LEVELED TO BEDROCK????????????? tell me right now you believe this thing deserves to live and i will come to your location. Right Now. I will Come To Your House Right Now.

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idc that i drowned multiple times trying to make a bubble elevator im still the immortal demon

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Today we asked the question: Can fraudsteal survive the end barrens?

More time will tell but so far I think we did a pretty good job!

Fraudsteal end barrens streams are every Saturday from 4-6pm EST, and who knows, maybe next time there will be some interesting variables thrown in...

Also, you can watch the VODs from today's session on Jelly's twitch and Goat's twitch!

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having a cool mutual who’s older than u is wild why are u 20 and hanging out with me dawg i havent even taken precalc yet

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h i i havent talked here in a bit oops

look at this bumny

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lstrn mirrors lifesteal in so many different ways and it’s genuinely so insane. it all obviously comes from the fact that we're lifesteal fans, and tend to recreate things we see in ls becuase they seem cool – like the lstrncord mod election, having our own smp, and obviously “we are fraudsteal”.

but there's also the deeper level, which comes from the way lifesteal’s story is told – also in an unconventional, unscripted format just like lstrn; we also took something random and made it a compelling story with group efforts. a parallel i’ve noticed lately is the recent burnout of the doomed yaouri tournament really reminds me of season 4. it wasn't enjoyable for anyone, i don't think anyone had actual goals they tried to achieve and a lot of unpleasant events happened.

lifesteal works in cycles, and so does lstrn – because lstrn mirrors lifesteal with the very way it works. like in lifesteal we have conflicting relationships and grudges in the multiple stories we fabricate. we tell a LOT of stories, and play roles without discussing lore, and despite some relationships being sourer in lore everyone's still having fun with their friends.

i'm still stuck on the doomed yaouri tournament, i really think the collective burnout was something necessary for every side. it sucked for everyone, but it had to happen eventually. i for one thing hated all the ties and treaties in this; i've resented the ties since the very beginning and same as the people who worked for the tie when they were sad that it failed, i was sad that it even tried to come to fruition. i think it could be very lifesteal-y if everyone wasn't burnt out. i do think it was definitely a fault of how often the polls happen (luckily that won’t be a problem anymore everyone say thank you juniper)

understanding how lifesteal works is essential to understanding the intricacies of lstrn in my opinion. we as lifesteal fans have adapted it's way of storytelling and conduct amongst each other, and it's been like that since the very beginning. the very first conflict on the blog already had a lifesteal-y vibe and it was established from the beginning that conflict was real. this tournament was lacking in conflict and at the same time full of it, both sides were unsatisfied, everyone's burnt out… sounds familiar?

let’s quickly take a look at eclipse federation. it fell apart because vitalasy and subz held more knowledge than zam and didn't share it. same in here, no matter who you're fighting alongside with, they can withhold information – and it will suck for you. information is a very valuable resource; who's frauding for who; who's doing what. when you know those things you can easily plan everything out and use fraud as a tool to create your ending; a reality where you achieve your goals.

the polls aren't fair, they're not meant to be. i think that's a really important thing to remember – you can never fully know what happens, anything can happen at any time and you can never fully prepare for whatever might happen. the polls are unpredictable, and unfair, and for them to be satisfactory you need a winner and a loser.

at the end of the day, this is a tournament; someone has to lose for the other side to win. you can consider something a win, you can consider something a loss, it doesn't have to be the outcome of the tourney itself, but as long as you have a win someone has a loss and if you have a loss someone has a win. there can never truly be a way to satisfy everyone and i think that’s wonderful.

i think it's a huge point in the story we are telling, because lstrn relies on conflict for there to be a story. if there's no conflict there's a high chance the story's going to be lackluster, it's same as lifesteal – you need conflict to push the story forward.

i feel like everyone wants to achieve the lore success of the jumperwho tournament, but what made it so successful? after all it created the base for the worldbuilding of the lstrn universe! i have the answer right here – it's conflict and it's unsatisfactory endings.

the dyd poll was sad; it was sad but there was content of it – we used what was left to further push a narrative with the survivors.

that tournament really relied on the community to create a story, because the tournaments themselves aren't a story. they're a storytelling device which WE use to make a story. you need frauder impact for there to be a story, but everyone was burnt out and they didn't push a story too much, and i think that's why the tournament was lackluster; nobody had the energy to tell a story.

once you have a base to tell a story, look how far it can go – like wemmbob saga or yumeverse these all are just the same thing in a different font. we come together to tell a story seemingly out of nothing.

this tournament really made me think, because i hated it. i hated it all, and i sat down and i thought: "why do i hate it so much?" and the answer came to me. i thought about the meta so much, i formed so many thoughts about it and i truly realized what makes lstrn itself – voter fraud.

it all comes around to voter fraud. voter fraud is a device to make conflict, to cause poll results, to manipulate something seemingly uncontrollable, and with that you can tell a story. you can do anything you want. it becomes a sandbox, where you can play creator. but like most things – doing that alone isn't fun. telling a story alone, where it should be multiple people isn't fun. 

i think about failed ties a lot. the first thing i involved myself in heavily was a failed tie, and at the beginning i was really genuinely upset about it. it's like that with all ties, where as time went on, and i spent longer in lstrn i stopped caring on a personal level. i'm able to appreciate ties failing now because i see how great of a story they created; how great of a community they brought in; and it's so upsetting seeing people get upset on a personal level over them, because that's just harmful to yourself and the story. 

you need to learn how to take those emotions and inflict them into your storytelling. what happens ooc can and should affect your behavior ic – but what happens ic shouldn't affect you ooc; and if it does it's a sign you need to step back.

it's only fun when there's conflict, no one would care if there wasn't conflict. what i resent nowadays is how we avoid conflict, as to not hurt each other's feelings. i think we should embrace conflicting goals and interests and take those motivations and work towards making a good story for everyone – because that's what it's about, at least for me. it's not about who wins it's about how good of a story we told.

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do NOT let your friend type something on your computer.