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Guys I'm fuckin losing it

I'm sick, I'm on my lunch break, I'm losing brain cells by the second, and this dude won't stop trying to talk in circles

My sick-brain could put reason together better than this dude and I'm not even mistakenly thinking of Tubbo as Tommy the way he has twice apparently

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Tubbo's really just here going

"The only one allowed to talk shit about my Ex-Husband is ME GODDAMMIT"

tubbo is doing so much to defend his ex-husband, im glad the divorce was amicable ✊️😔

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So I wasn't into Dream SMP when it was popular, but watching Tubbo's response stream is probably the closest I'll get to really feeling like I was

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YOOOO BAGHERA ON THE REALM WE FUCKIN WIN THEEEEEESE

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Foolish: Okay so here's all the (probably) good things you get if you join my kingdom

Phil: Okay...

Foolish: Oh and also you get to be enemies with BadBoyHalo!

Philza: FUCK YEAH!!!

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I actually rewatched a lot of Purgatory recently, specifically some of the Bolas POVs I wasn't keeping up with at the time, and I saw the stream where Baghera met Iris and it just hit me so hard WHY the little Eye Guys got introduced

Like Baghera was trying SO HARD to have fun and mess around, but the others were trying to win (I don't blame them necessarily, it's how the event was designed) but it felt like a lot of what Baghera was wanting to do was immediately overshadowed by everyone else trying to win, and it was starting to feel MISERABLE

Until Iris showed up and suddenly things were actually enjoyable for her again. Even Baghera said that she was having a really bad time until Iris showed up. (She also seemed a little salty that Cellbit just arbitrarily changed the name she gave Iris, but didn't really say anything. I could be wrong on that, but that's what it felt like to me)

And just so many of the people who were there to mess around and have fun were NOT having fun for so long in this event, and it made certain things just feel bleak. Sure this sort of thing MIGHT'VE been fun for the tryhards, but because not everyone could enjoy it, it didn't make it any more fun for anyone. It all got dragged down by unnecessary tension that people WOULD NOT stop trying to inject into the situation

Not to mention that watching it with the hindsight of how things ended really drove home how much of this just wasn't planned. I could think of a couple different ways this could've been satisfying, but instead it just felt empty. I remember thinking that at the end, and I had hoped that they had a plan to wrap things up well. But it's pretty clear that they didn't. They should've had the players bring ALL the Eggs back, but instead they probably wanted Cucurucho to bring back the new Eggs back from there, so they had to give him a reason to go to that other Island in the first place. But there were definitely other ways to achieve that if that's what happened

It almost felt like whoever was behind the scenes wanted to personally solve the problem and be the hero of the story, and shoved everyone else out of the way to achieve that. And that's not fun either, to anyone else. I've compared this sort of thing to DND a lot, and this basically felt like if the GM decided that they wanted to be the Main Character for a bit, so they had their self-insert character swoop in and save the day, taking all agency from the players that had, to this point, been the ones we were all following. And that makes for a shitty campaign. And it makes for a shitty end to a Minecraft SMP event

So yeah Purgatory DEFINITELY had some fun and iconic moments and character stuff. And there were even some parts that were pretty fun. But that's basically it. And compared to ALL the other stuff that we lost in the process, it's hard to really justify its presence as an event in the grand scheme of things

One qsmp twt opinion I’ll never be able to agree with is “Purgatory was the best event on the server, actually, and if the ccs couldn’t adapt to the game, then they should’ve stopped playing”

Like damn, okay, tell me that you didn’t see the stream Bagi did where she had to turn her facecam off because of all the hate she was getting for the simple fact of not being BOLAS. Anyone else remember how multiple ccs basically quit the server entirely after Purgatory? How the event made to appeal to the pvp players and bring them back to the server brought nobody back to the server and just made everybody miserable? How the teams were genuinely created to be unbalanced so that their fans would argue and stir up drama? How SO MANY creators logged in on day one with brand new lore they were planning on doing but who never got to do anything ever again? Does anybody else remember how the rules were constantly changing because the admins couldn’t figure out how to make things fair because it was a deliberately unfair event??

But, yeah, Purgatory was the best event. Sure, buddy

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So does anyone know if Etoiles is joining up today? Or if he's too busy right now

(I wish to see his tryhard escapades again I miss him lmao)

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I just checked in on Bagi's stream and immediately heard her asking to eat someone's leg, so this is already off to a great start

(It's the hotdog guy I don't know this man lmao)

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"Uh, btw $100 on Bad's head"

The BBH hate continues, courtesy of Foolish

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"First person to beat the shit out of BadBoyHalo gets free items from me"

I think Phil still has a grudge lmao

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So there was something in QSMP that I don't think I've brought up before, that stuck out to me that I'm being reminded of for no specific reason (Play Enigma of Fear Play Enigma of Fear Do it Do it Do it)

But one of my favorite impacts I've seen is from Cellbit specifically. After he joined, he started calling the puzzles "Enigmas" and basically everyone else started calling them that too (And frequently called for his help and his Discord's help when one popped up, which was always hilarious to see)

Like I'm assuming this is just because that's how they refer to puzzles in Portuguese (Correct me if I'm wrong on that, I really am just assuming here) but it's really neat how I think almost everyone in every language in the server started calling them enigmas too just because that's what he was calling them. I'm pretty sure even people here were doing it too. It was another thing that made QSMP feel really unique, you know?

But yeah, QSMP didn't have puzzles, we had ENIGMAS

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THE PHILS WILL BE REUNITED

(If Philza can get his launcher working lmao)

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Oh my goodness Foolish has finally successfully pulled a faceless employee this is a win for homosexuality everywhere

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OH OKAY JUST SAW THE NIGHT WHAT THE HELL????

PAC, BAD, AND ETOILES GET KILLED ALL AT ONCE LIKE IMMEDIATELY

AND THEN IT'S JUST OVER???

HOLY HELL

(Does anyone know who actually did it, because that was CRAZY)

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Lmao watching Philza's VOD from today, and Mr Philip showed up again, and it's just no wonder Missa married both these dudes, the vibes are immaculate

(And right as I was wondering if this counted as a polycule, Tubbo asked right on cue "So are you guys like a polycule??" Bruh the TIMING)

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Philza: I'm going to die in this game, chat

Top 10 Phrases said before Not Dying in this game

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Would kill and/or die for me? ✔

Named Phil? ✔

Missa: Yep, that's a husband!

Kay so I'm able to actually watch Squidcraft today, and I really wasn't expecting to see two separate Phils basically agree to a suicide pact

So like that was fun