#its a wild ride for sure

[felinedetached]

The April/May 2023 MCSR Cheating Scandal Saga

(or, as much of it that I can explain as of May 3rd, considering we keep getting new info)

So, it all starts back in April of 2019 — 27 April 2019 exactly, when NikocraftHD posted his 3:59 Set Seed Glitchless Peaceful (SSGP) pre-1.9 WR. At 11 million views, it’s one of the most well known speedruns ever, and unquestionably the most well known run of its type. And four years later, on 30 April 2023, Eliotex dropped a video: NikocraftHD spliced his speedruns and nobody noticed.

Two of NikocraftHD’s runs were cheated: the 3:59, and a later 2:49 (26 March 2022). Both had evidence of a cheating method called ‘splicing’, or cutting videos of two attempts together. In this case, he additionally used a recreated world file and a NBT Editor to manually copy the previous world “level.dat” values for getting good End Towers. 

The 2:49′s evidence is, in retrospect, relatively obvious: Nikocraft had placed blocks during his run that should have been visible from spawn, but when he loaded back into spawn after going through the end portal, those blocks weren’t there anymore.

The 3:59 was harder to prove — until Crafterdark noticed something odd about Nikocraft’s hunger bar. If you’ve ever played Minecraft in peaceful, you’ll know that your hunger bar will never deplete. However, there’s two aspects of the hunger bar: the food level, and the saturation level. In peaceful, your saturation level does decrease, and when it reaches 0, your hunger bar starts to ‘bounce’ or ‘jitter’ every 3-ish seconds. Saturation level persists even between dimensions, meaning even when you load into a new dimension, if you have zero saturation, your hunger bar will continue to make that constant movement. 

When Nikocraft enters the end at 2:54, his hunger bar doesn’t start moving again until 3:30. That’s over 30 seconds without the periodical 3-second jitters. In the 2:49, after he enters the end at 1:50, his hunger bar doesn’t start moving again until 2:14 — roughly 23 seconds without movement. That second run, with a 23 second section without movement — the chance of that happening legitimately is 3.9E-34. That’s 0.00000000000000000000000000000000039.

Sources for this section: Eliotex’s video | Cheating Doc | NikocraftHD’s runs (3:59) (2:49)

Cool. So NikocraftHD cheated, twice, but you may be wondering: all of this was uncovered on April 30th. Why is this the April-May cheating scandal?

That would be because ten hours later, at 8am on May 1st for me, a runner who was incredibly popular and well liked at the time, Lide — who is a huge part of MCSR history — admitted to cheating his world records.

Lide got so many people into running. He was the first to use tower strats in a world record, he worked with so many of the legendary runners of that era. I need to emphasise: that this runner cheated, and sees it as a joke, has been heartbreaking for the community. I think Cscuile explained it best:

Sources for this section: Falco’s tweet | Cscuile’s tweet

Unfortunately, this wasn’t the end of it: around the same time, Loth realised something interesting about a 4:41 pre-1.9 SSGP run by bruono1st — who would have had world record if not for NikocraftHD’s cheated 3:59. bruonost’s run also showed evidence of a splice — the hunger bar once again stopped moving after he entered the end. Unfortunately, upon being called out bruono1st privated his run, and we can no longer watch it, but here are the tweets about it: eliotex tweet | poisonousskely tweet 

As of May 3rd, this is all that’s come out in total, but I hope this was an understandable and informative explanation of what’s going on for those curious!

[lusalemaart]

[aturinfortheworse]

ok i know transphobia has nothing to do with logic or science but nonetheless. weird that transphobes would hit on chromosomes as the One True Sex Characteristic (except when its inconvenient for them) because I feel like in biology when we're trying to apply the concept of sex across a huge range of species with wildly different sex characteristics, it's germ cells (typically sperm cells and ova) that we fall back on. If it has ova, it's female; if it has sperm, it's male; if it has both, it's both. Like purely in terms of "How do we decide which tree is the boy tree?" since we apparently don't want to invent special tree sexes.

like it's definitely NOT chromosomes because that falls apart real fast and also lowkey implies that its male chickens who lay eggs. or else that chickens are neither male nor female but have their own special reptile sexes. so definitely not that.

[infizero]

oblivion theory is the best deltarune theory bcuz every inconsistency with the legend and the knight and everything is just explained away by "this whole premise is fabricated so you'll keep playing the game forever" and it also makes actual perfect sense

[slumbear]

I’d love to see a cow oli- I mean the gate keeper of the festival that definitely is not Oli in disguise

You guys are just lying to me at this point

[asteria7fics]

Dude!! Dude!! Your new banner!! Your new pfp?! I'm so fucking hyped! Raaaah! Let's go!

-shhh-secret-time

I see you noticed the rebrand (˵ ¬ᴗ¬˵)

I hope you're ready for some serious shenanigans to drop very soon!!!!!! ˙ᵕ˙

[crzyimp]

Shit, I'm suddenly struck with an idea of making a Wukong muppet and I'm at work....whelp better brainstorm till I get home.

[defiledtomb]

I read the new update and Lou... I would sell my SOUL for Leith and Sene.

Your ability to draw such depth into your characters is just freaking amazing! Not many people can do that and you just seem to do it so effortlessly. The lore, the story building, its just so good 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Honestly I am waiting for the next update with shaky hands, and nervous sweats

I don't even know what to say I want to smoosh-hug you!! Hearing this is like... Idk. It makes me feel so alive. I can't wait to share more with you! I love writing this story and these characters so much, it feels like a home away from home. Sharing it with you is a privilege I cherish so, so dearly.

Thank you for this 🥹💖

[gayfrasier]

HAD THE. CRAZIEST INSANE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS AT UNIVERSAL TODAY

[oofuri2003]

I would love to know what you guys think being a phd student who studies bats is actually like

[adhdheather]

just found out that only 3 other ppl opted out of the bike tour one of my professors is trying to plan for my class next semester (im p sure theres 25 ppl in this course)

and im having a moment of shock of “wow, 21 ppl in my class know how to ride a bike well enough to do a multi-hour bike tour???”

[koipalm]

[TMA SPOILERS]

jesus christ. jesus fucking christ.... so either they both died there.... or jon got pulled along with the tapes to "somewhere else", maybe with martin with him. jesus christ. jesus fucking christ

[schoolhater]

god. its really frustrating the way internet virality works. everyone who sees success can only do so at the expense of others.

both shahed and shaima+mohammed (wafaa's siblings) were the initial targets of the recent wave of scam allegations, yet only shahed's gofundme was spread and received support as a result. maybe this is because and shaima and mohammed are slightly older, more traditional people who can't work the internet as well, maybe because they were less willing to share the intimate details of their pain online. maybe it's plain luck. either way its pretty shitty that only one person received the proper support after all that abuse, and that everyone else is being ignored.

since shahed reached her goal i want to redirect all of our righteous anger and empathy toward some of the other palestinians who were primarily targeted by this hate campaign. many of the campaigns on this list are stagnating in the amount of donations they recieve, despite the amount of attention they've received lately. of course, everyone here is vetted by either 90-ghost or el-shab-hussein:

shaima and mohammed @wafans-blog, who was accused of being a scam for having the same organizer as shahed, even though that is very common with gofundmes. [verification]

mahmoud balousha @helpfamily, who was targeted by one of the biggest blogs on this website and likened to a porn account. [verification]

amira alanqar @amira-world , who was targeted by some arrogant bitch who thought they knew better than actual palestinians how to vet a fundraiser and who also claimed that there was no point in donating to palestinians because evacuations are uncommon. [verification]

basel ayyad @basel-1995, whose posting habits were scrutinized to an inhuman degree as an excuse to dehumanize him. [verification] (he has been vetted twice!)

basel's cousin fadi ayyad. [verification]

heba al anqar @heba-baker, who was accused of being part of a belgian botnet because of her surname. [verification]

ahmed and abdulrahman al-nabih @ahmedalnabeeh11, who were accused of scamming for having relatives with chronic illnesses during a genocide. [verification]

and of course:

omar saad, ahmed @/90-ghost's brother, who is still in khan yunis with his family. ahmed, our sole vetter for a while, has gone through immeasurable abuse in the past week and we all owe it to him as people who have benefited from his labor to take one burden off his shoulders. [verification]

tagging for reach,, i'm sure you understand i am desperate

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@rhubarbspring @schoolhater @pcktknife @transmutationisms @sawasawako 

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@ot3 @amygdalae @ankle-beez @communistchilchuck @dykesbat 

@watermotif @stuckinapril @violentrevolution @mavigator @lacecap 

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[afawnintheforest]

Tell me why Alice Hoffman is my most read author of the year so far.

[echo-rambles]

speaking of other kpop music I'm into; I recently found these 5th gen boys and this song has been stuck in my head for four days straight, so. shout out to dxmon.

[mrbeeboi]

Tempted to make a short comic based on the events that took place on the old SMP my friends and I made together