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Reasons why I love living with my wife

I’m making out closet space a little office for my partner to stream at night, so I can still sleep. We have now dubbed it “the cloffice” closet-office.

our childhood stuffed animals are now besties and can not be separated.

i can steal her hoodies, especially the cool ones

Free food from where she works, love the free garlic bread and jumbo cookies

There isn’t a night that I don’t laugh or smile when she’s home

we can just exist together without entertaining eachother.

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Old draw I forgot about!!

Tango tries to do some avian-style courtship by building Jimmy a bower-bird arch for a date night, but his nerves make him build it haphazard, and it ends in a magnificent collapse, some bandages, and pancakes~~

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Turn Grian into a slime?

oh hey jevin

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Would you like to buy his wares?

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his lips are sealed

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"He's a freak, chat"

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Exploding them with my mind

Transcript:

Impulse: "Did you see you and Skizz by the fire out there?"

Tango: "No"

Skizz: "What's up?"

Tango: "Oh"

Impulse and Tango: *laughs*

Tango: "Ehh looking good, look at that physique, yeah!"

Skizz: "So, is it- I get all the static from Grian and Gem when we're playing Guess the Build for not putting clothes on people, why would they do this to me and Tango? What kind of camping trip do they think Tango and I go on?"

Tango: *laughing* "Camping trip"

Impulse: "Think? Oh, they've heard the stories"

Tango: "Oh yeah"

Scar: "What stories about naked camping with Skizz and Tango?"

Skizz: "There's no such thing and don't say that stuff out loud on the internet!"

Impulse: "They like to reenact the show Naked and Afraid so they go in the wilderness buck naked for 21 days to see if they can survive it"

Tango: (overlapping) "Absolutely, it's so good"

Scar: "Oh my god"

Tango: "Just hanging around the campfire, roast our chestnuts on the open fire"

Impulse: (overlapping) "I heard they made it like 8 days last time which is pretty impressive"

Skizz: "Tango's always the one- he's always the one who's like "I'm cold, we have to- we have to, you know, we have to- our body heat"

Tango: (overlapping) "We have to skadoodle, yeah"

Skizz: ""We have to skadoodle" and I'm like "we're not even out of the car yet, bro""

Scar: "Together we're strong"

Impulse: "It is kind of odd that he always calls big spoon considering he's the smaller one between you two, but whatever"

Tango: *laughs* "It's not about how tall you are, I mean"

Skizz: "It just looks like I'm wearing a backpack"

Impulse and Tango: *laughs*

Tango: "It's like Luke Skywalker when he was carrying Yoda in Empire Strikes Back"

Scar: "Did you guys see Andor?"

*more laughing*

Tango: *Yoda impression* "Oh, to the naked forest we will go"

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Minecrafters Using Reference

Reference as in real world architecture, not other minecrafters' builds, though that's a fair way to learn too. Studying real world architecture gives insights about designing buildings, while studying other minecrafters would give insight into how to accomplish certain effects in Minecraft.

I didn't have more than passing interest in architecture before watching mcyt, but now whenever I'm outside, I'm evaluating the buildings around me. Do I like their shape? color? Any interesting details? Any wear or texture? And above all: How would you do that detail/shape/etc in minecraft? (please note: I don't even play minecraft)

Rendition and Inspiration

There's a minecraft project called BuildtheEarth that's replicating the earth in minecraft on a 1 to 1 scale. There's some fantastic builds on there.

On hermitcraft, Joe Hills is known for creating to scale renditions of real world places/objects. In season 10, he's tackled a project of massive scale with Bell Labs. He used a map from the library of congress to layout all the shapes!

These are examples of renditions/replicas/copies/whatever you want to call it (Although Joe's doubles as a community build area in place of massive parking lots).

Then there's using the buildings for inspiration. This may involve just taking bits and pieces. Or maybe you just take a color palette. Or maybe just the shape. Maybe you don't take anything but vibes. As a general rule, I think having multiple sources of inspiration is important so the new build doesn't end up feeling like a rendition instead of its own thing.

Bdubs in season 9 used the bakery from Kiki's Delivery Service as inspiration for his mud cafe. It can be seen in the wood framing, the stairs, the archway, the shape, the shed, the chimney designs. But the colors, the composition, Bdubs made changes that made it his own and combined the addition to his previous shop Moss o Menos.

The aesthetics of Geminitay's season 10 base is based on the video game Dredge. I feel like the most obvious influence is in her research castle and fishing boats. She used inspiration from the spooky sea creatures in the game to create a uniquely frightening angler shop.

In Pearl's Build a Day series, she did a week focused on real world places. Here's the one she designed after a countryside home in Australia (her home country):

Goodtimeswithscar in season 7, when starting Aqua Town, based his shop on old department stores:

I like looking at his Aqua Town builds in comparison to his Scarland Main Street facades, which draw additional inspiration from Disneyland:

I feel like, comparing the builds you can see how he's grown; he's learned new detailing tricks, found colors and textures that work better with the architecture style. The main street has a similar layout to Disneyland, but his buildings are all unique.

Mogswamp is working on a massive build that's based on architecture drawings from Renzo Picasso:

He's incorporating groin vaults from roman architecture too!

I think builders learning about existing architecture is so good. It can give them so many ideas to add into their toolbox. It reminds them of small details that give builds life, like small sheds, some pipes, porches. And the builds don't need to be realistic; My mind goes to work by Shovel and Joel. Or everything Mumbo has done in season 10.

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Skizz: Actually, is Ren on, by chance? I owe Ren a deck. Scar: Here's Ren again. Skizz: Oh, good--gg-goodbye! Tango: See, you can't stop talking about him, I know. Skizz: (faux angry, yelling) We talked about it two hours ago! Scar: Gem, have you noticed that, uh, Skizz has a crush on Ren? Skizz: No I don't. Gem: Skizz has a crush on Ren? Skizz: No! Tango: Yeah, he does. Scar: He does. Skizz: (petulantly) He has a crush on me. Gem: Really? Tango: Yeah. Gem: He is very handsome-- Skizz: See? I knew it! Gem: --It's okay. Tango: See? Skizz: That's why I said to my wife, "you're about to meet Ren, don't fall in love." (Gem giggles, and Skizz exhales a laugh)

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yeah id eat the cigarette ash steak !

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There is something about Pearl being a goddess of sunflowers and agricolture but also being connected to the moon and moths. And Bdubs being the god of the sun but being associated with sleep, dreams and moss.

Which is why I propose that they take turns:

When Pearl is up with the moon Bdubs is on the earth and deals with sleep and dreams and grows moss and other plants that don't like light.

When Bdubs is up with the sun Pearl is on earth to help with crops and sunflowers and other plants that prosper with light.

And since Bdubs deals with rest I'm going to say Pearl deals with working which is why every season she takes jobs like cleaning lady and mailman ecc.

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gem and impulse on the gamers outreach stream right now have me CRYING LAUGHING

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I’m finally catching up on the charity streams and the shock collar has given me an idea. Next year they do the cramp simulator thing and then we can actually project period cramps on Martyn.

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OMG THIS PHOTO FROM SCARS VIDEO HASGAJASDKJ

all the high quality photos are so sweet THEN THERES SIR SCREAM A LOT

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its always something with this guy.

^also had to include the classic