I've seen people say stuff like, "Hermitcraft fans new to Joel are all talking about how deranged he is, which is because funny he's been less deranged than usual."
And I didn't fully feel that, except in one instance.
Which is that there's been a lot of buzz around the fact that Joel intentionally does ship-bait for Boat Boys. Like REALLY obviously. For the bit, ya know?
But I can say, without a doubt, that when it comes to Joel shipping himself with people, this instance is INCREDIBLY tame.
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hi :D
xisuma talked about the theory (the one game theory stole) about 38 minutes into the latest stream! (Feb 4)
he once again mentioned that yeah, he belives game theory plagiarized it, but he also mentioned that your theory included the point that was based on a rendering issue (and GT "made the same mistake") and idk if he mentioned it before but now I'm wondering what that part is 🤔
that's it ty byeee
HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.
2/4/24 Hermitcraft 10 | First Stream with Sicksuma! 31:48:
“Hey X, big fa[n], wanted to know if you watched the Hermitcraft game theory and what you think about it.”
Yeah I did see it, and…
I still, I still have very mixed feelings about it. I don’t wanna get dragged into, yknow, um… A sorta calling people out or anything like that, but the explanation, that we were given about that had never been satisfactory for me.
I-I really think that that was plagiarized. Um- The biggest reason I think it was is because… Apart from the theory being SO on point with this fan theory, like beat for beat, the fan theory, the original one, has a detail in it, which is a complete and utter misunderstanding of something that was just a rendering issue? There was a rendering issue in the video that this fan extrapolated into meaning something. And then, so did the Game Theorists, um… fan theory or whatever you wanna call it, right? They made the same extrapolation on a rendering error, to me it was just… too uncanny, and… supposedly, no, the writers never did that, uh, y’know I’m not here to say they did or they didn’t, it’s of course entirely possible and you can never know, it’s just it never satisfied me, it never felt right.
So um, yeah, I-I still feel not too great about that. Like it was nice to have my story in a big video, that- that felt really cool, but the way in which it happened, not cool I don’t think. It just, uh, I don’t buy it.
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34:35: “X doesn’t buy his own lore, that’s so damn cool” says memcbest- I don’t know what you mean by that, I’m not saying I don’t buy my own lore I’m saying- I think- I think it was plagiarism. I really do. Like I said, an uncanny amount of similarities, like beat for beat with this fan theory, and then even misinterpreting a rendering error the same way, it just- it didn’t feel right AT all. It really felt like this had been ripped off.
…So yeah, so therefore, I feel bittersweet about it. Like it’s cool that there’s a video out there on Evil X, but it… it should’ve been made by someone else, y’know. Or with the original theorist’s consent. That’s how I feel about it.
Later on he goes on about other channels not citing their sources and furthering the same misunderstanding/false info because they’re just plagiarizing from each other, but it’s not directly related so I won’t transcribe it. He says plagiarism is an interesting topic to think about. He also talks about how AI will make it worse, and about having seen the hbomberguy video ^^
I THINK. THE RENDERING ERROR HE'S TALKING ABOUT IS the point of EX's eyes reflecting as Jeff's i put at the end of my first post:
BUT ANYWAY. THIS MEANS A LOT TO MEEE THIS REALLY DOES MEAN A LOT. the stance xisumas given before this to my knowledge is "it looks suspicious but we cant know unless they say something" so to hear. someone who absolutely has all the facts, is unbiased towards either of us, say firmly game theory's statement doesn't hold up and it's Obvious it's copied from mine. IT. MEANS A LOTTTT
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Joel smallishbeans' base is Amazing btw. It's smaller than he usually goes for but it's so lovely and so detailed and so well thought out. He wanted a crowded-in, close feel and he achieves it. It looks gorgeous and his video is so good, he details it so well, go give his vid a watch
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