#PlayMindcrack

[edwardos]

This online Minecraft subgame slapped, and if you remember it, you are a true gentleman veteran motherfucker.

[concorp]

2014 r/mindcrack time capsule reopened today. man.

[tybalt-you-saucy-boi]

With every new year it hurts more and more like real aching in my chest that I am one of so few Mindcrack fans left in a fandom that EXISTS because of Mindcrack.

That with joy I see people discovering moments from Mindcrack that I take for granted, but it's bittersweet because I know that's not really what they're here for. That they haven't watched the videos I have, and that's fine. In turn, I missed most seasons from this fandom.

But a big part of me longs for anyone to understand what Mindcrack really was, for anyone to care because it has inherent value in and of itself and not just in relation to another thing.

Sometimes I catch myself thinking "you would have LOVED the UHCs, or OOGE, or The Building Game, PlayMindcrack, Dwarves Vs Zombies, the Podcast, Race for the Wool, the E-Pranker, their Minecon panels, Team Nancy Drew, the Crackpack..." but there's just too many good moments that people are missing out on, and I don't even know where to begin.

I feel so old when people comment about how jarring it is seeing Bdubs' old skin.

How people don't know anything good about Genny.

There are people who don't know SethBling, or who've never heard of Super Hostile.

I understand, but I feel overwhelming sadness thinking about it all. Seeing people who have never watched a Mindcrack video in their life talking about it like it's part of the past when I'm not ready to let go yet.

And then Tango and Impulse will laugh together on stream about a reference I know so vividly because it's been part of my heart for more than half my life, and I remember that they were just like I was, that they still remember fondly, maybe even bittersweet too, everything I do. I can't help seeing myself. They didn't know they would eclipse Mindcrack ten times over. Do they worry about their future too?

Usernames etched into my school binders and sketches scribbled across homework a decade old, created with the fondness and admiration of someone excited for new videos. The same list over and over again.

I'm driving myself sick with nostalgia. Anyone who loved YHS, you know it too. I just never believed it would be so empty someday, and much like YHS it would not be the same for someone new to start watching now. In several ways, those chapters are over. Still there as an echo of that era, but on the thinnest of threads.

Mindcrack, you will always be loved.

[tybalt-you-saucy-boi]

Someone new is starting to watch Mindcrack on purpose? And really cares about them? I'm gonna start crying

I did really like their dynamic, I loved OOGE, I loved all the collabs, I loved their UHC team and I miss them. You wrote many thoughts about them so beautifully. I like how you talk about Guude pushing Etho's buttons, I want to point out Etho loves doing this to Guude too but pretends that he isn't. Like that spider eyes prank with the golden record, taunting Guude with what he could never find on his own, but framing it to his audience as a gift because he knew it would bother Guude even more when fans left stupid comments -- the ultimate prank. And I also think it's funny when Guude takes Etho's trolling at face value. During the Team Canada mushroom prank Etho or Beef left an additional sign that blamed Pause entirely for the prank, despite the wording not making sense out of context, but Guude either missed the other signs or they were blown up. He ends up believing Etho is entirely innocent even though he's acting shady (hanging with Pause, spying on Guude, staying on the server late the day before waiting for Guude to log off) until Etho himself admits it accidentally. I love that moment. You can hear so much in their voices.

About Etho and Bdubs leaving Mindcrack and in some defense of Guude, there were a few more things going on that less people knew about. The reason contracts were involved was because Guude hoped that being a company would give members legal protections, and enable them to make a living since a lot of Mindcrack was collab content that was only being watched from a few peoples' POVs (meaning smaller members who were big parts of the videos didn't get views or make money off their projects as easily). This was also the intent of the Mindcrack Podcast channel. The reason legal protections were so important at this time was because Nintendo was blocking any LPs of their games, which hugely affected several Mindcrackers, but prominently Pause. Around the same time Millbee was also struggling to get his social media accounts verified so that he could get a YouTube Partnership. Then his channel was deleted over a minor censoring error in a dating sim LP. Other Mindcrackers had issues with people stealing videos, builds, and impersonating them online. The reason for the fall out with Bdubs and Generikb was because they were being paid under the table for undisclosed advertising of scammy servers to their largely underage fanbases, and Guude had strong moral oppositions and didn't want Mindcrack associated with illegal advertising. They've since stopped this though. Guude and Bdubs also partially made up a few years ago and met up again in person, and Etho has played on either the Mindcrack season 9 or 10 server briefly and all of them have always been whitelisted to my understanding and are considered VIP members.

I wish they would still play together like old times though. It's been a decade now since Mindcrack was in its peak, and almost a decade since Etho left. I miss the pranks, UHCs, collabs, RftW, CTM maps, DvZ, dragon fights, death games, podcasts, building games, roleplay, minigames, PlayMindcrack, Crackpack, and everything they did together. I'm just glad we have Hermitcraft, that Etho's still here, that some things are still the same or changed in ways better than I could imagine, but it'll always be bittersweet.

I have generated some thoughts about guudetho, a ship which I have never before considered, using my two monthly allocated brain cells from the inbox mine union. These are RPF flavored but really just analysis after watching hundreds of hours of etho content over the last two years.

I’ve watched a lot of older videos w guude and etho and honestly the dynamic is like…guude pushes etho’s buttons by saying things etho will have to cut from his videos. lol

There’s more to the dynamic there, though. Guude helped etho come out of his small town shy kid shell and made a space for him to have real close friends to goof around with online. Three clips I’m thinking of:

1. Etho talking to guude about being bummed he wasn’t invited to Mindcrack right away, and Guude saying he didn’t realize Etho wanted to join because he thought Etho was busy doing his single player. (# Unrequited pining tag)

2. Etho basically writing a love letter to collaborative SMP servers in his let’s play where he said they were the future of the medium. (Guys please let him in he wants to play touys let him in let him be friends)

3. The clip from one of the secret streams where he talks about why he left Mindcrack. When Etho got choked up talking about leaving Mindcrack…the subtle betrayal due to the potential that he would have to expose his real identity to the group to stay a member (and potentially some issues related to his other friends including his bestie Bdubs being ousted at the same time)

A lot of Etho’s relationship to Guude is tied to his experience with Mindcrack, which makes it really tragic. The last few videos of his Mindcrack series where he’s walking around and barely anyone is on the server are eerie to watch as a viewer now. The dramatic irony is almost physically painful. Very weird pieces of media to watch as someone who only started watching vids from the Mindcrack era recently.

Guide still has positive things to say about Etho and Bdubs based on that recent drunk stream, but that bridge was probably burned a long time ago.

Juxtaposed with these things:

Hermitcraft six Etho skipping the season of hermitcraft because he thought his viewers didn’t care for it (no one wanted to play touys and he didn’t have strong relationship with any hermits that weren’t former Mindcrackers)

Hermitcraft seven Etho rejoining because (?)

(mostly only hung out with bdubs, beef, and doc. )

Hermitcraft ten Etho’s relationship with the hermits. (Friends to play with and a nice stable community-he feels safe and is coming out of his little goofball shell again)

you seeing this shit guys? My anons are more invested in guudetho than I am

[single-malt-scotch]

Going through my old PC from the Era of LOM and mindcrack... finding screenshots from playmindcrack too. Most of the art is stuff that I technically have but! Now I actually have the original files. High quality. A few sketches and other doodles I did lose... and I think an unfinished fanfic or two 😬 ill see if there any art worth sharing, there's some alternates I forgot about... Not the fics tho.

[marikyuu]

I miss the PlayMindcrack server. :c I miss playing Missile Wars.

[greetingsfrommindcrack]

It’s been a long time, GFM. And I come out of hiatus to bring sad news.

Sadly, due to financial issues, PlayMindcrack will be shutting down. Click the link for all info you may need

[greetingsfrommindcrack]

Mindcrack changed my life for the better.

Because of mindcrack, I got into Minecraft hard, where I met my current girlfriend who I’ve been with for 3 years.

Because of Mindcrack I started my own Mindcrack based fan server, Tumblrcrack.

Because of Mindcrack I was a senior staff member of the PlayMindcrack server.

Because of Mindcrack I met a lot of good people.

I may not be a Mindcrack fan anymore, but it did a lot for me.

10/20/10 - 10/20/17

[edwardos]

Revenge of Cookie, Feb 2015.

[zzzzombroccoli]

Casual talk on Play Mindcrack’s UHC.

[tybalt-you-saucy-boi]

I miss Mindcrack UHCs, and I miss PlayMindcrack, and I miss the Mindcrack Podcast, and season 3 of the Mindcrack server, and all the posts on the Mindcrack Subreddit, and all the fanart of the Mindcrackers, and all the Mindcrack videos. I missed so many events and so much hype, it feels like I arrived to the best party ever three years too late and everyone’s left now :(

[prom-t-moving]

//// I’m gonna try my first ever UHC in less than 15 minutes!!!

ouo’’ I’m probably gonna die first but i’ve been wanting to try one for like 3 years now and DARN IT NOW IS THE TIME.

[single-malt-scotch]

was trying to dig up old minecraft screenshots from playmindcrack or LOM but i cant find them on my main hard drive... will have to keep looking, but i did find a video from 2019 i took on LOM where i took a look at all the books i wrote from 2014-15 and looked around my old house/district. maybe ill cut that up and throw it on my side channel for safe keeping, because i have a feeling ill forget that one video exists on my drive lol

[zzzzombroccoli]

I was doing so well on my first UHC. ):

[tybalt-you-saucy-boi]

Arkas needs to keep his Lords of Mindcrack boots on his default skin because damn they’re fine.

“I want an umbrella. I want a peasant to follow me around holding an umbrella.”

“Ugh, my shoes are getting wet.”

“Oh no, my attire.”