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You are so correct abt Etho’s recent behaviours in past life being similar to how he acts w team canada and its just made me more confident in my belief that if you really want to understand Etho you NEED to watch at least one team canada series because they bring out smth unique in him (<<guy who’s first few Etho experiences featured team canada) (but i do think there’s smth special in how they all bully each other and how Etho is either constantly giggling/making nonsense noises/or wailing pathetically)

its every team canada interaction ever except the time he gets almost genuinely angry theyre dissing his mother until he rationalizes that beef is his mom so your mom jokes can be mean if theyre just about beef.

I also think soooo much abt in bdubs mindcrack eps 20-23 when hes like wtf is up with that guude record thing and etho explains he was being mean to guude on purpose as a troll and people got mad at guude for rejecting ethos "nice" gift. and also how the first thing he does on mindcrack when hoppers come out is steal from the bteam quartz shop, and most viewers belueve his joke about the quartz business being so bad and sad bc they dont know how hoppers work yet. Pretending to make amends with people so that he appears innocent but is blatantly making the other people incandescently angry is literally enrichment for him. Shade-e-es is good hecause hes been doing this for yearsssss and also note he was doing insane insubordination to llama boss beef during that whole time.

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beef's insistence on calling this part of the map the "glory hole" despite pause losing it and etho's dead silence. "It's where we go to... get... glory!"

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SIMULATION PROTOCOL

people saying etho expected his clinging to the villies to work can you pleaaaaaaseeeeeeeee watch ruins of the mindcrackers or some such team canada series where etho is constantly going ^____^ we are all having funnn ^_^ together ^_^ best of friends ^_^ *blows up pause and beef with tnt* *etho gets yelled at continuously and acts like the most innocent persecuted angel about it* ^_^

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people saying etho expected his clinging to the villies to work can you pleaaaaaaseeeeeeeee watch ruins of the mindcrackers or some such team canada series where etho is constantly going ^____^ we are all having funnn ^_^ together ^_^ best of friends ^_^ *blows up pause and beef with tnt* *etho gets yelled at continuously and acts like the most innocent persecuted angel about it* ^_^

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the other thing is that. strange currencies 2 is to distant stations what about to change is to do it again. which is to say they are not the same continuity but in my brain the reason etho can create a new body for bdubs to inhabit in worlds of her choice is bc she has the exact cloning tech exeprience and background that distant stations!etho prime (aka multiplayer & EPM etho) has in distant stations. AUs of canon divergent series. or perhaps canon divergent fics of AUs, canon is literally a victorian curse of the holmes invention to support victorian negativity about proletarian literacy and publishing access. but that's not germane mostly to the subject of 80% canon-compatible transfeminine bdubs timelines across the bells peterhazes multiverse.

the problem with strange currencies 2 is that i really want to constrain myself to the experimetnal nature of 3L enabling transfem bdubs to dip her toes into public recognition-as-a-girl with cleo (with heavy fiber arts overtones) and then move into bdubs and etho co-creating bdubs a new more suitable body sheonly wears inlast life & feels safe risking it because etho made it, but now that's a layer of subtext under the boogeybaiting and lack of trust.

but then i think abt newly out & confident transfem bdubs, now more comfortable being out after LL, roleplaying toxic heterosexual marriage with her government assigned husband to spite her lesbian situationship. well that's really fucking funny ain't it. miserable for pacing but it's so so soso so funny

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strange currencies, 4.5k, transfem4transfem ethubs ft. accidentally consensual forcefeminization, comedic miscommunication, and increasingly arcane business deals in the name of love.

"Well?" Bdubs said, hands on hips, heart fluttering. "Do I look ridiculous like you wanted?" Etho smiled, eyes crinkling. "Light red does suit you. You look good, trainee." So that tone of voice had guaranteed Bdubs was going to be an abysmal employee as Etho proceeded with training, as if the ankle-biting silverfish and wither rose thorns weren't bad enough. The end rod of shame for unfinished interiors was easy to brush off, but Etho was a touchy trainer, correcting posture with false politeness and a firm grip. Lightly condescending "suggestions" sent shivers down Bdubs' spine when whispered over a shoulder or with casual projection across the room as Etho watched the endermites chase Bdubs around the office. It was almost like those early days again, except with less confidence, not more.

While trying to get reacquainted in season 7, Bdubs begins to suspect that Etho has some pretty specific ulterior motives behind all the years of unorthodox deals and teasing.

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the problem with strange currencies 2 is that i really want to constrain myself to the experimetnal nature of 3L enabling transfem bdubs to dip her toes into public recognition-as-a-girl with cleo (with heavy fiber arts overtones) and then move into bdubs and etho co-creating bdubs a new more suitable body sheonly wears inlast life & feels safe risking it because etho made it, but now that's a layer of subtext under the boogeybaiting and lack of trust.

but then i think abt newly out & confident transfem bdubs, now more comfortable being out after LL, roleplaying toxic heterosexual marriage with her government assigned husband to spite her lesbian situationship. well that's really fucking funny ain't it. miserable for pacing but it's so so soso so funny

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ok today im working on the strange currencies sequel because i got my blood stolen listening to that song and i think it's time

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the thing abt any rts things is i could literally be playing age of empires 2 instead. And if i wanted it to be in space i could play star wars galactic battleground (literally age of empires if it had x wings)

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[guy who can't get past the first level of many older video games because i can't manage complex UIs] anybody ever theorycrafted a fragile alliances/system shock crossover on account of . tetracorp. ?

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these ancient haunted robots also have auras that "blush" different colors according to their moods. and i'm obsessed with them

ok etho's onto something with this whole fragile alliance deal. i like the agender ultraloyal secretively psychic NOT VAMPIRE aliens.

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ok etho's onto something with this whole fragile alliance deal. i like the agender ultraloyal secretively psychic NOT VAMPIRE aliens.

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thank you for the confirmation, adding this to my notes for the future.... trying to resist the temptation to design a "if you had a group of fresh people, what would good life mechanics look like" but i think that's a trap. and also i hate playing games

I can't remember which series it was but I distinctly remember a series having a "yellow mellow" time (like I remember them calling it THAT) where the reds all died and the server was in peace again. so I guess that must've been before the killing-upwards rule

okay yes, so i was misremembering a real event. i do really want to do a substantiated analysis of how various mechanics impact gameplay & how different cases and combinations impact the sense of play - and then, separately as a complex interrelated web, how video production constraints and frameworks constrain or impact the rules and the social dynamics. real & implied rules and all that (though idk if that's the best framework - it's certainly easy lol).

but then i'd have to watch secret life :( and i have gotten away this long with never finishing it :( and also i hate doing chores which is why i never even started ruinsfic pt 2 (i'd have to watch empires crossover and king ren again) :( so no promises

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guude: i bet hansel and gretel was your favorite story as a little kid.

bdubs: Breadcrumb!

etho: never read it... [...] i've heard of it but i haven't read it!

etho not knowing who hansel and gretel are goes way back and i believe that etho also has never heard of rumplestiltskin. however him doing this bit where he pretends to confuse goldilocks and the big bad wolf is really good. scott can't stop explaining things to him. you can't fix him! he's unfixable

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etho going "you USED pearl?" and saying the villies treat her like an old rag

using fake affection to be extremely annoying (can i move my bedroom upstairs, ignoring that he's kicked out in an inverse 'bdubs kicking me out of the snow fort' move for drama's sake)

pointedly mentioning being cool with joel and bdubs scoffing at that + immediate cut to saying 'i worry about you' to bdubs about his shitty broken pants.

etho leaving in but yet completely ignoring gem saying "i do feel a little bit bad... he [bdubs] loves you" after bdubs calls gem greedy for trying to kill people with etho

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etho not knowing who hansel and gretel are goes way back and i believe that etho also has never heard of rumplestiltskin. however him doing this bit where he pretends to confuse goldilocks and the big bad wolf is really good. scott can't stop explaining things to him. you can't fix him! he's unfixable