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fire season

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thinking about limited life 💭💭💭

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the difference between Martyn and Ren when doing treebark bait is that Martyn knows when he’s doing bait. It’s usually equal parts throwing a bone to that part of his audience and poking fun at them but it’s all tongue and cheek and done in good fun. Ren on the other hand is just a weirdo and I don’t think he could stop these things from coming out of his mouth if he tried.

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@ja50nt0ddwa5h3r3 all of f1 perchance ?

Sometimes it's not rpf. Like it literally happened.

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Sometimes it's not rpf. Like it literally happened.

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Sometimes it's not rpf. Like it literally happened.

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i love trying to rationalize bigB because sometimes there is an explanation, it's just the most confusing moral compass ever. "why did bigB form an allyship with the villies" well you see with the other rejects close to being eliminated, bigB felt that they were no longer a good longterm commitment and wanted another team to fall back on. gem actually offered allyship to him earlier in the season. "why did bigB just arbitrarily lie to grian then" well you see bigB only promised the rejects that he wouldn't lie to them and grian is not a reject. "but he's trying to build trust with him??" yeah i mean bigB also lies to the rejects sometimes so like. you can't trust him to not do that. that'd be silly.

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It's not that Etho isn't loyal (he isn't) it's that he Chooses to be loyal or not at the Weirdest fucking times.

Secret life Boogie pandemic 100% no one would blame him for turning on his team but NOPE, that's His Roomies >:(

Literal last session of Limited Life Grian doesn't even Call On the blue sword alliance but Etho still offers it up as a be-all-end-all.

Has a great team in Joel and Gem lined up and still chooses to side with the Tuff guys that have spent the whole season being 'Loose' allies at best.

And Once Again; he turns and betrays the Villies, probably the strongest team on the server, to seemingly 0 benefit to himself.

Everyone else is playing social chess and Etho keeps tossing pokemon cards on the board.

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The minecart sneaking around behind the trees like a fucking cartoon is killing me

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Btw.

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Happy Simi day!

bonus:

"I promised Kimi that one day I would beat him [at badminton]. We're both getting older. I'm eight years younger than him, so at the latest when he's really old and I'm just a younger old man, I'll beat him in that game." - Seb, 2008

"He said to me that he is gonna beat me when I get older, but so far it hasn't happened." - Kimi, 2021

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For now, the only soul The Rejects are playing for is Tango (rip)

Reference photo under the cut:

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cozy times

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Funny friends that make you laugh / And maybe you're just a little bit dappy

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they don't call him Ladders for nothin!

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okay not to waste energy being mad about the minecraft movie of all things but I am actually kind of heartbroken by how cynical it feels.

for example, making the creatures that inhabit the world offputting is so indicative of the underlying attitude the film seems to be taking to me. how many millions of minecraft animals, despite being pixels and code, have been genuinely loved by players around the world?

minecraft, despite everything it’s associated with these days, is incredibly earnest in a way that I feel few properties are these days… and genuinely one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing. in its surprisingly melancholic moments in a solo survival world. in the laughs it’s given those far apart from beloved friends, allowing them to be roommates in a beautiful forest cottage or a volcanic fortress or a treehouse palace they’ve built together when thousands of miles apart. in the things people working alone and together have made of it- libraries of banned books made accessible through the medium of the game, scale models of worlds real and fictional, redstone machines with intricate circuitry and incredible intelligence and diligence behind them, in the friendships forged in the pursuit of these creations.

minecraft is collaborative and creative and contemplative in a way few games can be. minecraft, to those who have ‘beaten,’ it, says: everything you need is within you, the darkness you fight is within you, the light you seek is within you, you are not alone, not separate from every other thing, you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code.

minecraft, when so many games are about escaping from yourself, is about connection with your self, your creativity, the plants and earth and animals and structures around you, the people around you.

for it to be, in this context, a self-referential, debasing cash grab, is not a surprise to me but does feel like a disservice to what the heart of this game is, and symptomatic of a wider trend in a storytelling climate increasingly dominated by spin-offs and reboots and tie-ins and remakes. the writers could have had the courage not to break the fourth wall, not to point and laugh and decry the silly memeable ‘get a load of this guy,’ block game, (and by extension ridicule themselves,) but I understand. it’s the same instinct to make the self-effacing joke before you can be laughed at by others for showing your honest self, to cringe from the vulnerability earnesty demands. that’s fine. personally- and I’m probably not alone- I just wish it wasn’t this game.