#We somehow beat the ender dragon!

[stevethepigeongod]

I'm doing something I call the dog run that my friend suggested last minecraft live, basically you beat the game with only dogs. You get no kills only the dogs do ( dog kill doesn't count as a kill for the player statistic wise). Now we did do it once but it didn't count ( first reason below ) so I'm running attempts again. Also this time I'm getting every dog breed (9) because why the hell not.

The last few runs ended due to various stupid reasons

- Blew up end crystal at dragon fight ( enderman decided it was a great time to teleport up and got an explosion to the face)

- teamate died to wither skeleton

- my dog pushed me off a cliff and I died ( practically full heath and full diamond?? Also I managed to get every dog breed in this run, made ir all worse :< )

- I punched a rabbit to get the dogs to attack it ( rabbits love to be at low health and jump off cliffs )

- I punched a pig my dog teleported away from ( it had half a heart leftover???)

Here's what I learned

- stop punching animals, getting meat from villagers is faster, safer, and has no risk involved

- you can get bones in structures

- Iron golem hate skeletons

- wolfs hate skeletons

- prioritize getting a shield and boats

- make pitfall traps with trapdoors early game

- get villagers

- trade with piglins for fire resistance potions and ender pears

- it's possible to cure villagers without potions

( aka crossbow with wakeness tipped arrow which is something you can buy off a villager )

- dude, prioritize villagers

- pumpkin probably helps in the dragon fight

It's currently 12 am, I'm devising a strategy to get these weakness arrows by any means possible. Either by somehow constricting an iron farm or using string dupers, creating farms, etc. I'm not leaving my mountain until I'm geared up.

[l00ney-m00ny]

Ive never actually beaten the ender dragon before. Yeah. Anyways, I logged onto Minecraft and we just got Java edition and so i was on that building and stuff and i decided to creat a new survival world and???? Somehow I’m actually not failing??? Its day 3 i have 30 iron, tons of resources, a dirt shack and haven’t died once??? Thats a record for me! I might actually be able to beat the dragon!!!

[dopposhusband]

You said that you loved playing Minecraft, no? So, what's playing with your boys like? :D

@yokairu Minecraft with the boys is always fun!! Although I have a feeling most of them aren’t that good at it but its okay because Im not any better!

Matenrou

Doppo isn't very good at Minecraft, but whenever he’s able to he’ll join me in a game if I ask! We play on peaceful together with cheats on so I can teach him how to play without too much worrying! So far he likes to just explore and mine for resources, he knows he isn’t that great so he tries to be as helpful as possible. I have keep inventory on just in case and whenever he gets too far from home I teleport him back! His favorite part is listening to the music that plays or to the ingame CDs, the soundtrack is so peaceful it’s such a nice contrast to rap music hes become accustomed to.

Jakurai isn’t any better at Minecraft, he tries, but he also isn’t that interested in the game either. When we do play he usually spends it fishing, even though its a little lackluster, and building if he feels inspired. His building range from a small fishing shack to a huge hospital that we keep all our food and potions in, he’s got a pretty good eye for building sometimes!

Since Hifumi works night we always have to time to hang out and play games together during the day! He’s okay at it, right now we play on easy but slowly making our way up to normal! He spends a lot of time mining or building, like Jakurai he’s really good at building, but he’s a lot more into it than Jakurai is. I keep cheats on so I have keep inventory on and so when Hifumi gets bored of chopping trees he can just cheat some logs in. We’ve beat all the bosses together and got all the achievements on a couple of different saves so now we’re experimenting with mods! A lot of decoration and food based mods so he can make me a nice meal before expeditions! He also loves texture packs so he has a thousand of them he cycles through.

Buster Bros!!!

Game nights are just as important as anime nights in the Yamada household and other than board games we play Minecraft! Usually we all plan on a LAN server, or rather Ichiro and I are playing and his bros surprise us by randomly joining. We always play on hard, no cheats and on days we’re bored of our current save we’ll play hardcore to see how long we can all last! Ichiro is super into the slaying monsters and exploring part of minecraft, he gets lost all the time and has died one too many times in the nether. He never gets upset because its all part of the game and he knows it was his fault for running without looking in the nether. His brothers literally throw their diamonds at him so he’s always fully kitted and enchanted even after he took his hundredth plunge into the lava! Boy is he gonna be hyped when he finds out about netherite though!

Jiro plays generally the same as Ichiro although a bit more reckless, he dies the most out of the boys. Saburo spends a lot of the game getting his gear and then spends the rest of it building and using red stone. Hes the only one of us that really knows how to use it and sets up traps for Jiro all the time, Im sure you can guess that our hardcore play through don’t ever last too long... However, when he isn’t being a brat he has made some pretty cool things for Ichiro! We also have so many mod packs we experiment with!

Dice

When he isn’t gambling or in the mood to gamble we usually just hang out and sometimes we play a bit of Minecraft. We just chill really, normal with a bunch of cheats, he’s more into just mining and stacking up everything he has in blocks. Im talking a tacky looking diamond block house with gold and emerald blocks for the floor then a huge beacon on the roof, I had to put a gate around it since creepers kept blowing it up. After doing a little googling I also made him his very own red stone powered slot machine!

Gentaro

Prefers to watch me play over playing himself, but with a little begging I can get him to join me. Most of the time he spends it building traditional houses and just following me wherever I go. There was a point in time when he was trying to learn how to use redstone so he could set up pranks on me, a lot more harmless ones than the ones Saburo pulls. He knows a tiny bit of redstone now but he thought it was too much effort and sorta gave up on pranking me on that end. Even though redstone was too much he some how thought this was a better waste of time, when I turn in for bed he’ll sneak onto our save and leave a bunch of written books in my chests. It ranges from minecraft fanfiction or just his usual fanfiction about him and I, but its always way longer than it ever should be for a minecraft book.

[raindrvq]

ok so, more of the like 2017 au or whatever u wanna call it

this was not meant to be this long and i spent way too much time on this but yknow what that's okay <3

Ralph

skin: the classic cool guy skin with the headphones and hoodie, probably a creeper face on the back

fav mob: slime

fav item/block: jukebox (fav music disc is chirp) and prismarine bricks

fav biome: snowy taiga

play style: starts the game and builds a basic house, gets food, then just starts mining. likes exploring and uses every map he finds. tries to get maxed out diamond armour + tools so he can do boss fights. always has at least 3 dogs. fairly well at combat. hides all his valuables in a secret room that is behind a painting, hes a genius i know. has tried to make an aether portal many times but sadly has not succeeded </3

Jack

skin: another one of the classic cool guy skins, mayb one of those ones with a bandanna and a sword on the back or smth

fav mob: blaze

fav item/block: diamond block bc hes like that yknow

fav biome: jungle

play style: loves pvp. also parkour, one of those ppl who play parkour maps all the time (what a weirdo lmao, not just saying this bc im ass at parkour aha). most of his bases are super tall cobblestone towers. makes super small animal farms bc he hates farming so he just breeds animals instead and they're always overflowing with animals. and they are so incredibly loud. tries to speedrun doing everything while everyones still building their houses. 'jack calm down this is a server you dont have to grind and beat the ender dragon by day 5' 'idc im getting full diamond armour rn' 'we just spawned in???'

Simon

skin: one of those soft pastel skins with a flower crown or smth. probably has overalls or a sweater and heavy blush.

fav mob: ocelot n snow golem (he likes to shear them so they have silly little faces)

fav item/block: magenta wool and lily pads

fav biome: mushroom island and flower forest

play style: collects every flower he sees, favorites are peonies and blue orchids. prefers farming. likes to use cute texture packs. randomly plants flowers around your house and likes to leave random little gifts. likes to build pretty houses (they r usually inspired by LDShadowlady bc hes a Shadow Cadet real) and his pets have their own room in his house. also tries to make a bunch of potions but never rly has any use for them. makes cookies, cake, n pumpkin pie bc hes fancy like that.

Piggy

skin: yknow like those skins that were like some sort of mob in a suit. what if his is a pig in a suit, which is why everyone calls him Piggy. idk

fav mob: chicken

fav item/block: bricks

fav biome: birch forest

play style: somehow actually understands redstone and uses it to make secret bases. likes to make puzzle maps and force his friends to play them. good with command blocks. refuses to go to the nether unless he rly has to bc he has a habit of falling in lava lol. makes lots of automatic farms and xp farms and what not. tends to set up a base and then not travel very far bc he can and will get lost if he goes too far away (especially because he hides his bases). if he needs something he'll just pay Ralph in diamonds to get it for him.

Roger

skin: either one of those basic skins with the long bangs covering one eye or some creepy skin that he will use to jumpscare you

fav mob: parrots bc he can hide them in ppls bases to scare them into thinking theres monsters near

fav item/block: tnt

fav biome: the nether (not necessarily a biome but)

play style: starts off playing the game fairly normal then quits and resorts to just stealing from everyones chests. if u go afk near him u will come back trapped in an obsidian box or wearing a pumpkin with curse of binding. purposefully builds shitty huts right in front of your nice build. constantly tries to summon herobrine and scares the shit outta Piggy and Simon. he will also change to a herobrine skin and creep around their bases.

[thelittleastronautinspace]

The game that saved the best for last for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8n2DHiGp8E&t=1426s

In this video essay by Jacob Geller, he talks about games that save something for the last bit of the game. And in the intro of the video he asked what games saved the best for last for them. And well, I replied with Minecraft. so this is what I posted

For me, a game that saved the best for last would be Minecraft, and I know many people will be asking why? Why would Minecraft save the best for last? It doesn't have an ending; it's a sandbox.

Massive spoilers ahead for Minecraft’s ending

Well, to answer those questions, yes, Minecraft technically has an end, and yes, it is a sandbox, but Minecraft can be completed, and once you do, you get the end credits. But before the credits, you get something else. 

After making it to the end dimension and killing the ender dragon, the last boss of the game, the portal in the middle of the island opens up. 

Once collecting the ender dragon egg, the only way out is either putting all your stuff in an ender chest and jumping off into the void or jumping into the portal. Jumping in the portal will result in what usually would be the credits rolling, but instead, you get to read the poem known as the "End Poem", fitfully named as it is the end of the game. 

The End Poem is what could be described as two gods of the game talking to each other and congratulating you, the player; they are talking directly to you, on beating the game. They talk about how well you played, the new worlds you will explore and untimely about life. 

However, the last few lines are what really catches most people off guard. The last few lines of the poem talk about humanity, how these gods love you, and how the universe loves you. 

The fourth to last line and the last two lines are so hard to describe, but this is what they are. 

 "and the universe said I love you because you are love." 

"You are the player." 

"Wake up." 

These two lines are so hard to describe, but it is beautiful, these three lines are both a statement of love and a fantasy, one of which is clear on how you need to wake up from that fantasy. 

The End Poem is what I feel Minecraft is; Minecraft is creativity, community and loneliness. Minecraft was based on creativity; you can build and create as much as you want. Minecraft has been able to create such a vast community that I have made amazing friendships in. 

But Minecraft is also lonely; jumping into a new world in single-player can be so lonely at times when you have nothing you can think of doing with only the soundtracks of C418, Lena Raine and Minecraft's ambient sounds. It's lonely, but I just can't resist it. It is a loneliness that shakes me to my soul, and yet I don't hate it. It is a loneliness that is comforting in a way that I can't describe, but somehow the End Poem can. 

"Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things."

This quote, somehow for me, sums up that comforting loneliness; it's a loneliness that somehow makes Minecraft human, how in that moment of loneliness, you can feel the universe, the air in your lungs, the gravity keeping us down and grounded. 

Minecraft is an artistic view of humanity for me. The End Poem only makes it clear to me. 

And well, that's why, for me, Minecraft has the most unexpected ending that I have ever play that was saved best for last.

[dreamhot]

just saw the reset theory and to answer your question about how the server would reset itself, what if they just… beat the game? defeat the ender dragon and the game tells the player they’ve played well and that they are love itself? I kinda enjoy the irony actually, how morally corrupt all these characters are, only to be told that they are the universe tasting itself, reading its own code. it would twist the meaning of the end poem to mean that the corrupted state of the server is a reflection of the characters, of the endless cycle of violence. how minecraft is an open world game where you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t die (survival mode) and this is what these people chose to do with that freedom

or maybe I’m overthinking it </3

ouhh that's a fun consideration... dramatic irony my beloved <3

now i'm trying to connect it to the headcanon of the two voices of the end poem being dxd and ghd (not that the latter is canon but . just Imagine), the primary gods of the server, and how they might be ultimately responsible for restarting everything at the end. if we also tie in the theory of dxd being manhunt!dream (and ghd by extension coming from the same universe, or perhaps an alternate timeline in which george was the one to defeat the ender dragon), then that could also give credence to the idea that beating the game DOES cause a full universe reset - cos the dsmp is obviously nothing like the manhunt 'universe' so to speak. imagining dxd as having watched over this new world as its deity, seeing it fall to pieces, and being the one at the end to reset everything and try again ...

okay wait now i'm having too many ideas and they barely work together BUT . now i'm imagining that ghd doesn't Actually exist yet, but if c!george was the one to kill the ender dragon in the smp, then that would make him into a new deity... it's like. oh i can't think of the term, but something like a self-fulfilling prophecy? there are two voices at the end of the game, and they have to get there somehow, so it's just a matter of how dxd and ghd ascend to those roles in their respective universes, only to become part of the very fabric of mc across the dimensions once it happens ... I DON'T KNOW this is all very incoherent and i would need to stop and actually lay all of this out for it to make any sort of sense

[detective-horse-girl]

Ok so, on ranboos stream (08/01/2021)

(Sorry no cut I’m on mobile)

At one point he mentions that he said a line that is important to his characters lore, but nobody noticed it.

The lines I’m going to be talking about are in the last 4 minutes of ranboo’s “EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE” livestream

So he was doing the panicked rambling about how picking sides only leads to problems and how dream has all the power

But then he said something that feels like very intentional lore dropping, he said “this was supposed to be my opportunity for redemption, redemption from last time”

Now, what is this “last time” he’s referring to? Because the only really bad event that Ranboo has been through that I could think of was burning George’s vacation house, and even that wasn’t that severe because Tommy took all the blame.

Right after that he said “ But it’s just happening again, same things are just happening again, and I couldn’t stop them”

So we already know that Ranboos character tends to blame himself when he inadvertently hurts someone (when Tommy got exiled for burning George’s house)

Ok so here’s my headcannon: Ranboo lived in the end when he was younger, and Dream went into the end to try to beat the ender dragon and got closer to death then he ever had before, so he killed everything there. Since that would have been a traumatic event at a young age, Ranboo developed memory problems, but still has faint memories of his entire family being killed by dream. Ranboo then somehow managed to escape into the nether/overworld and lost his ability to teleport and speak enderman.

[mouseonvenus-main]

Minecraft AU or whatever

(Sorry long post ahead) Nobody can stop me from combining my two biggest interests so here’s headcanons for if all the Nekoma boys played minecraft

Inuoka is obsessed with bees, collects every flower he sees and brings them back to the hive that's always by his house. Legitimately super good at building, his base is always the biggest and the grandest. His storage is always a mess though, he just puts all his chests in a shed and makes new ones when he needs them, there's no system. Gets really sad whenever he kills an Enderman, has a small garden filled with nothing but grass blocks that they've dropped

Lev prefers Creative Mode and refuses to play Survival without cheats and Keep Inventory. He has a sign outside his house that says "It's not a dirt house, it's a dirt home." Tames every horse he sees even if he doesn't have a saddle, is very invested in creating the most efficient cow crusher. He listens to all the music discs religiously, Cat and Blocks are tied for his favorite. Found diamonds once and got so excited that he accidentally jumped into a lava pit almost immediately after. Absolutely terrified of silverfish and is unironically trying to learn the enchantment table language

Teshiro owns the most cats anyone's ever seen in one place, but he just keeps breeding them. Only just started playing recently but is insanely good at parkour. Watches mcyts and drops everything to go mining when he finds a good cave. Doesn't fear anything, shoots at Ghasts from really far away just for fun

Shibayama is a true Minecraft vet, has probably played for longer than everybody except maybe Kenma. His skin is a character that he made in like 2011 and refuses to change it. He knows every song and all their names, not just the music discs but the songs that play in the background. He turns the volume way up when Sweden or Wet Hands comes on and is always inevitably scared half to death by the cave ambience noises. Really good at PVP but freezes up when he has to fight a creeper

Kuroo is not "good" at the game by any means, he played it all the time with Kenma when he was introduced to it but somehow hasn’t picked up any of the skills. He likes to watch other people play it and has never beaten it without somebody else (probably Kenma) doing most of the work. He has a crazy amount of dogs for someone who runs away from Skeletons. But the nerd is a part of the endangered population of potion masters, he knows like every recipe and has the "A Furious Cocktail" achievement (even though he's terrified specifically of the Elder Guardian)

Kai has only beaten the game by himself once and he sat through the entire "end credits." Dedicates himself to increasingly impressive farm/garden designs but doesn't bother with huge houses. Chronically addicted to campfires and lanterns, the people he plays with have to hide their torches. He's also really good at redstone and his contraptions confuse and amaze me. He is always willing to share his supplies (unless he doesn’t have enough for himself, then he’ll challenge the person to fair duel for them) and he always partners up with/spares people doing the crouching thing in PVP. Really likes Iron Golems and builds one for any village he finds that doesn’t have one

Yaku makes his career in failed speedruns and surprisingly good build designs. The huge amount of achievements he has is suspect at best (Kuroo is half convinced he paid Kenma to get half of them for him). He is the unofficial defender of Drowneds, Strays and Husks and has a deep respect for Baby Zombies. He blows up his friends' houses for fun (Lev is his main target) but will start a war if anybody else does it to them. Cried when the Moobloom didn’t win the 2020 Mob Vote

Kenma doesn't even need an explanation, we all know that he's been playing since Java Edition and definitely has more merch than he knows what to do with (I like to think he has at least three creeper onesies). He would be one of the best speedrunners out there if he didn't despise the Nether. He has his own Manhunts and his rages are the worst for this game, he's probably broken a few controllers because he fell in lava. Once beat the Ender Dragon with a diamond hoe

Yamamoto wouldn't even be playing the game if it weren't for his mcyt phase in like 2014 (he would have been crazy for PopularMMOs, prove me wrong), probably used to pretend that he didn't so that he could look "cool." Participates in the said Manhunts for the sole purpose of beating Kenma (and he probably has at least once). Went insane when the Nether Update came out, has since been trying to live there permanently. Jumps off buildings and down ravines even though he can't do the water bucket trick and is convinced that he can shoot an Enderman if he tries hard enough

Fukunaga is an unprofessional chicken farmer. Has the skills to beat Kenma in a 1v1 but prefers to spend his time collecting every dye in the game for his sheep army. Shockingly good with a bow and arrow but doesn't understand how to use crossbows. Doesn't scare very easily but he likes to go in places where people can't see him and shoots them once before leaving. He's not very good at building but he's dedicated to The Craft so he watches tutorials to make his farms look nice. Could kill the Ender Dragon at a moment's notice but he refuses to out of respect

Thank you for your time

[myriad-of-things]

Minecraft Lore: headcanons

I really like lore and I feel like Minecraft has the vaguest but most fascinating lore out of any world I’ve seen. Below the cut is the overarching lore I’ve come up with playing Minecraft from 2009 till now. Be warned it’s a real chonky post:

The worlds of Minecraft used to all be populated by humans. They were the ones that built the structures that we see ruins of in our Minecraft worlds. As the Universe’s favored civilization, they were granted a unique ability to place and break blocks, as well as craft new things out of raw materials. They quickly took over every world they set foot in, and even began spreading out in the two other dimensions. Eventually human greed drove them to claim more and more resources, stamping out other species in the worlds and abusing game mechanics.

This all came to a head when a powerful entity born out of all the glitches caused by human abuse crashed down on the human civilizations, destroying them with all the powers of the natural world. Humans that stood their ground and fought were struck down, their bodies cursed to wander the Overworld and hunt down the living. Those that fled to the Nether met a similar fate, confined forever in their fortresses. The few that made through the portals in their strongholds hoped to take refuge in the End Cities, but the Enderdragon had her own plans for them. She dipped them in the Void and warped them with its magic until they became her own, tall beings shying away from the gazes of the creatures that they once were. At long last, the humans were overthrown.

The Universe decided to be more careful after that, selectively choosing Players from the survivors and giving only them the powers once wielded by all humans. They were spread across the worlds as guardians, to keep watch over the world as each new Update slowly returned things to what once was. As Players were far and few inbetween now, the Universe also granted them an additional power: the ability to respawn after death so that they may continue to protect the worlds they played on.

The humans had only reached such levels of world domination through the kindness of the Universe, and to prevent such events from ever happening again, the entity of glitches created its own version of the Player, a dark twin. The surviving humans named it “Herobrine,” a sarcastic jab at the power that defeated them, as if a force of destruction could somehow be hailed a hero. In a way it was, as the Herobrine entities kept the balance between Player and Universe.

Some notes:

The idea of humans being the “bad guys” came from the original human mob in Pre-Classic/Classic Minecraft. They were hostile mobs referred to as “monsters” in the game code. That seemed pretty darn poetic for me, since your typical monsters like zombies or skeletons or creepers or even the ender dragon weren’t actually called monsters in the game code. It had to be the one mob that looked like us. The real monster of the game was us.

It’s considered “beating the game” if you defeat the Enderdragon because she held the last group of humans prisoner. They might not exactly be humans anymore, but endermen are the only living mob that the original humans got turned into. All the Overworld humans became undead mobs such as zombies and skeletons, and same with the humans in the Nether. It makes the “Freeing the End” achievement make a lot more sense.

To better explain the timeline, our game experience as Players starts after the humans were wiped out. The worlds were all destroyed by them and Herobrine, and it’s our job to rebuild them with our own creations. Each Update is simply restoring the world to what it used to be, which explains all the new biomes and mobs being added.

[arkt-nehrim-archive]

For the asking thing: Thoughts on Lexil Merrayil? :3

I adore Lexil.  He’s -brilliant-, and he felt very genuine to me compared to other characters. He was always happy to see us, -thankful- that we came back in one piece, and sets himself up to be trying as hard as you are even while not giving himself the credit of -honestly carrying nearly this whole thing himself-. I really feel like more could’ve/should’ve been done with him. And I don’t just mean for like, content that could’ve been added in Forgotten Stories, I mean from a -total- narrative sense too. This might get lengthy. And also spoilers, so many spoilers.

  The Star City, for example.  Lexil clearly showed interest and ability in being able to go along for that trip, but instead his mentor/mother figure Yaela gets shoe-horned in as a random expert in Starlings, when if -she mentored him-, Lexil could’ve have just as easily been.  “Didn’t he need to stay to work on the Beacon?”  Development on the Beacon was at a stand-still at the time, he would’ve been free to go on the trip with you. Cue actually getting to speak to him on the ship, and the opportunity for a romance dialogue -if- there had been one as an option for him (providing us tall ass Aeterna players with a not borked cute scene).  Carrying forward into the journey where -he- would’ve figured out the everything, with -all- the relevant data running amok in his head since he’s basically been doing 90% of the work here and it -could’ve- been a stressful thing. Not this “GASP! I FIGURED IT OUT!  -barfs exposition out of nowhere coming to conclusions for the sake of plot convenience over it actually making any sense to magically know these things off of some pictures that could definitely be interpreted in like 20 different ways-”.  Lexil, you, and Jespar/Calia could’ve spent that 12 hour window to explore and get back to the ship smacking your collective heads against the wall to figure this out, having another moment that Enderal prizes so much to truly -discuss- and potentially argue your points, before Lexil (after hearing all the counsel) could more -realistically- come to the conclusions that Yaela came to.  Oh no!  The big dragon boss reeeee!   Now there’s a character defining scary moment where you can CHOOSE to either leave Lexil behind to hold the line while you escape -OR-, if you got the chops for it, -fight the lvl 100 Steel Dragon- with your best pal Lexil, getting to finally show him in -combat- for once, paired up with your choice of bestie. “But wait, if we chose to let Lexil die, how would we finish the Beacon-”  YAELA! Who could be JUST as sad about losing her basically adoptive son to Tealor’s magical adventure quest to be famous save the world, and -she- could finish the Beacon. Or Yuslan could, I mean he contributes quite a lot too, especially when we hit snags. Oooor, we beat the boss and Lexil is proven a total badass that we -all know him to be-. But wait then why would they have any reason to flee in the drop pods?  Easy!  The steel beast still destroyed the ship and there’s no other way down, plus the alarms are still in play at that point (thanks Kurmai), so it’s not like it isn’t still dangerous to be there. It could’ve given him -such- a deeper role to play even if that was the only quest we got to really -do- with him out in the field.  Alas~  Such is only the dreamy realm of headcanon. Before I stop, I want to add in that Lexil had an effect on me that’s -never- happened in a videogame, ever.  And that was at the -end-.  Already striking was just -seeing- the Cleansing happening, but it’ll be forever burned into my memory seeing that subtitle at the bottom of my screen, “Lexil Merrayil: -wheeze-” I whirled my camera around trying to find him, and by some awful luck, he was -centered- in my camera in such a way that took my damn breath away. He looked like he might’ve been running for the very place I was going, before he collapsed. Took the few steps needed to get closer to him, in which I saw just how awful he looked; the shivering I remember the most.  It froze me solid, I just couldn’t -do- anything for -minutes- while the Beacon roared in the backround and that heart-wrenching music played, and somehow, for whatever reason, -all- of my failures and triumphs up to this moment in the game did not feel like -this-.  I felt awful that I didn’t even -know- a healing spell, in the off chance that would help. I couldn’t bring myself to try to put him out of his misery, despite the obvious terrible pain he was in.  I don’t honestly remember what happened after, at some point I had to have moved, because I finished the game.  But I legit barely recollect between waiting there with Lexil aaand waking up in the Star City for the Brave New World ending, it’s all a haze. Maybe it was the fact of anybody I’d encountered, he well and truly -did not deserve this-. It made me wonder what sort of writer would -want- to write that. And y’know, some people think that helplessness expressed in their stories is provocative and -good-; and for some it -is-.  For me it’s...overdone and unnecessary, as its so often accompanying other tragic circumstances that are already bad enough on their own.  Lexil’s situation was obviously no different, I mean. The Cleansing and all that. Yes, some writers desire to load their stories up with grimdark awfulness, that’s tragedy as a genre in a nutshell, some kind of reminder of “real life” where bad things happen and you can’t do anything about it.  Buuut... Lexil was a bit much in a game with several other prior character deaths, one of which is a -suicide-, another a -child-. There’s a point when it is -too much-, even for a tale of that genre, -especially- in a conclusion that just ends in -everyone- dying. Lexil’s fate required such a disconnect that I don’t really remember the end, as I said, and I still haven’t been able to go back and play again, because everytime I see that Beacon at the beginning, I think of Lexil and the fate that awaits him and me; it puts this firm -stop- into it that questions what about another trip through could possibly be worth it when -that- is the end? And it -sucks-, because Enderal is such a fun game! I genuinely -loved- it, up until that. It’s one of the greatest games I’ve ever played, but man... Lexil.   How’s the saying go?  Straw that broke the camel’s back?  Maybe one day I’ll manage to play again, but so far I never make it past that first meet with Jespar.

Huuh. Wow, that got long winded.  So uhm, to answer the question.  Lexil Merrayil left quite an impression. He’s very special to me; if not just for being a solid, under appreciated character, than for the emotions he invoked. I really wish he got a better hand dealt to him, but, alas.

@cat-with-a-keyboard   Thank you!  Apologies for the feels trip! 

[koiyyo]

DR1 “modern” MC server HCS!

thx for the ask anon :) this is (one of) the most chaotic things we’ve written but thanks for the prompt because the universe needs more chaos u know (and more minecraft) - mod irusu

ALSO ILL POST THE OTHER GAMES IN LIKE .3 SECONDSD I DONT LIKE BIG BOY POSTS (this is DR1) AND TO THE ANON I PROMISE WERE PROFESSIONAL THE ASK GOT DELETED BY ACCIDENT - mod corn

-by mod irusu, mod cass, mod dragon, mod corn, mod chie and mod kiwi

makoto - “guys we have to go vegan” - started an alliance with kyoko, byakuya, toko and komaru - they don’t kill people they just leave gifts uwu - is to scared to go mining - when he does go mining he finds diamonds within 10 minutes it’s terrifying   - just vibes and decorates the house - named a dog byakuya and gave it to toko to make her happy - toko appreciates

komaru - accidentally hits her dog - cries - has made it her goal to get every flower - so close!! - settles in a flower forest and sees gonta frequently   - they vibe together and find bees - baby talks to her animals

kyoko - tries to strategize ways to get diamonds faster - makoto and nagito ruin that whole idea - found the end portal like 30 minutes in with shuichi - has a whole villager dungeon - results in really good enchantment books - when peoples items get stolen, she pulls a sherlock holmes - has gotten tons of good items as payment

byakuya - literally sucks at minecraft - renews the server monthly cause makoto begged him to - pays others to get him stuff - has literally bought a whole set of diamond armor from nagito with real money - is a nomad because toko hunts him down - steals gold from celeste and makes gold pictures of himself - has a diamond throne - forces toko to fucking throw herself into lava

hiro - “welcome to my how to get high in minecraft tutorial” - claims minecarts go to fast - even if they’re not moving - lives his life as a hermit in the mountain - tho he likes to go around like a merchant giving fortunes - gets paid an emerald, “in the future.. i see u being broke…”

hina - has multiple autofarms   - will eat even if her hunger bar is down only one (1) - convinced sakura to build a martial arts stadium - likes sailing the ocean - attempted to swim across the mc world - gave up midway through cause her hands got tired

toko - antagonizes byakuya daily - leaves him books in all of his chests - when she’s not horny on main she likes hunting flowers with komaru - had to help komaru after she tried making friends with an enderman - has built a library - fills it with chests of her own books - the back has NSFW books,,, komaru will never know - forcefully puts cakes infront of byakuya’s house

sayaka - has pixel art maps of herself all over her house - they have karaoke night on calls - tries to do choreography   - it’s just her walking side to side bless - prob has skins made after her,, uses them - shift unshift shift unshift shift unshift - always goes to ibuki's music venue

leon - has 50 bows for some reason? where’d he get them? nobody knows. - god at snowball fights - lots of papers that are renamed to “autograph by leon” - throws them at people - makes a mansion in mc cause he cant afford one irl

chihiro - co-owns the server with chiaki - has admin commands - probably abuses them - doesn't cheat things in, just uses /smite on kokichi - probably tps people if they ask - has to assist kaede in helping new players cause hes a pro   - in his freetime he makes mods for mc,, server doesn’t know this

mondo - probably a koser - taka stops him from kosing most of the time - has a minecart that he calls his motorcycle   - denies it, but he thinks the cockatiels are cute - has a gang of them now dedicated to his biker group - lives with taka and chihiro

taka - his lifelong goal is to find kokichi and put him in jail for breaking the laws of minecraft by burning down people’s houses - tried to enforce rules on the server - tried to make being horny a crime because of miu - cries cause he can’t catch them all - made a funky jail doe - “STOP! you violated the law. pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. your  stolen goods are now forfeit” - people just leave as he types this out

hifumi - tried to make a build of a vagina but taka stopped him - copies pixel art and puts big titty anime gfs in the world, scattered around randomly, taka had to convince chihiro to ban him, but he refused - does celeste’s dirty work, like getting materials - works out more in mc than irl tbh - has an anime girl skin o god o fuck - tried to add his fanfictions to toko’s library once, got his ass beat - probably uses x-ray texture pack

celeste - honestly just vibes - has a bucket of lava on her incase hifumi tries to interact with her - lives in the nether - has like 3 sets of netherite armour, will beat your ass - “its my aesthetic” - double wields two enchanted netherite swords - shares her tools with kyoko - has made pixel art of victorian paintings - maps them, hangs them around the house

sakura - hina’s bodyguard - sails with her across the sea - has one of the highest kill counts - owner of the martial arts stadium - everyone fights with sticks - sakura is still somehow on top,, - “i don’t need armor im buff” - tried to fight the ender dragon head on,, nearly won - enjoys spending time in her backyard garden

mukuro - tried to convince chiaki and chihiro to put a gun mod on - they refused, almost shot a bitch - unironically listens to hunger games by bajan canadian - “if i can’t have my guns chiaki can't have her house” - got arrested by taka for arson - opts for a crossbow instead - people have to tell her no, it’s not battle royale, just thrive - ‘mukuro is using aimbot’ ‘no im NOT WHAT THE FUCK DO Y-’

junko - spends 20 minutes getting a minecraft skin just to go find another one - changes her skins as fast as her personalities - barely on the server because of this - house is trapped constantly because nobody likes her - therefore she traps other people’s houses - always has a sign saying “it’s punishment time” in front of said traps - constantly stealing so they “feel despair” - always on instagram live streaming her antics - the only person’s house she hasn’t trapped is kokichi’s because she honestly has no fucking clue where he lives i hope these are to ur liking!!! literally all the mods went feral AJKGJKA also ty for taking the time to send a request it made all our hearts uwu - mod corn

[dumbhypmicheadcanons]

minecraft headcanons

no one asked for this but i find i have strong opinions on the hypmic boys and minecraft and i found it necessary

first things first: it was the buster bros who started it. ichiro bought a copy of minecraft and he enjoyed it so he forced his brothers to join as well. eventually ichiro had a plan. he convinced samatoki to get minecraft so they could have pvp matches and samatoki accepted because that’s just more opportunity to fight. ichiro started a server where he, his brothers, and samatoki all coexisted. samatoki thought it was unfair that ichiro had two people helping him out so he forced jyuto and rio to get accounts. eventually the fights and weird shit going on in minecraft began making their way onto twitter and ramuda was like “hmm whats this tea i want in” so ramuda got himself an account and forced ichiro to hand over the ip. ramuda was having a good time so he forced dice and gentaro to join (and bought dice a shitty laptop from walmart so he could play. it is kept in gentaro’s care so it doesn’t get gambled away). ramuda wanted to be problematic so he forced jakurai to get an account. doppo and hifumi joined shortly afterwards because everyone else, including sensei, was playing minecraft and they didn’t want to be left out.

ichiro and samatoki started off by having pvp matches, but these soon grew really boring. they eventually moved onto a system where they would both get rid of all of their belongings and spawn themselves into random places in the world. they would then compete to see who could defeat the ender dragon the fastest. every time someone wins, they would respawn her and try again. sometimes saburo and jiro tried to help out ichiro, but ichiro wouldn’t accept it because he wanted to prove he was better on his own.

saburo? redstone god. he spends all of his time building really complicated structures and is constantly one-upping himself and proving himself better. he’s disappointed that the group’s server is survival mode but he treats it like a challenge. he’s constantly making flying machines, piston doors, resource farms, etc. everything he does is beyond extra and he’s always bragging about how impressive his inventions are

jiro does not understand redstone but he does understand tnt. his favorite hobby is making tnt cannons to blow up all of saburo’s shit. he can also be found griefing everyone else’s houses, stealing everyone else’s shit, building terrible dirt houses in the carefully constructed cities, and generally pissing everyone off. at first the only one he didnt troll was ichiro, but he has extended that liberty to samatoki after ichiro went on a rant about how it wasn’t fair and made the competition too easy.

jyuto doesn’t know how to play minecraft. he doesnt know about the end or the nether, he doesnt really understand that diamonds are good, and he’s just existing. he’s just trying his best to survive in the world with his square wooden house. he’s slowly getting better at killing monsters.

rio? rio is a survivalist. he doesnt have a house. he constructs square dirt rooms filled to the brim with chests that are filled with wood and stone and ores and monster drops. he doesn’t do anything with these, he simply collects. he doesnt have armor or weapons. he punches everything to death. he recently found out from saburo that he can create minecarts and he is now on an expedition to link all of his item collections together by railroad. he has given everyone free access to use his railroads and resources because he does not need them, he simply has them and wants them to be used. he accidentally found the nether one time because he found one of samatoki’s portals and he has been stuck there for about 6 days someone please rescue him

ramuda is in creative mode. he really shouldnt be, its a survival server and ramuda shouldnt be opped but somehow he is??? ichiro tried unopping him once but when he woke up the next day not only was ramuda opped again, he had also left several extremely graphic death threats so ichiro decided not to do that again. ramuda’s main hobby is designing extremely aesthetic houses in a variety of styles, he’s an extremely good builder who adds so many details and terraforming and texturing and it’s so nice??? but also if you build something that he finds aesthetically unappealing (so if you build anything, ramuda only likes his own builds) he will come by in the middle of the night and either a) rebuild your house entirely and make it aesthetically pleasing (and steal your stuff) or b) blow it up. 

gentaro builds scenes and locations that he’s written about in his novels, he also builds things that he’s planning on writing so he can try to plan out a scene better. gentaro tried to start a roleplay group once and he got jyuto and ichiro to join but jiro blew up all of their buildings so he gave up. gentaro also lives in a village and he’s always trading with the villagers who he has adopted as his friends. he’s also really into farming and has bred a lot of animals that he refuses to kill because he’s attached to them.

dice has a dirt house that he keeps making bigger. dice is really, really good at finding and mining for ores so he has chest after chest full of them. he agreed to trade his ores to saburo in exchange for a working redstone casino, which saburo has been working on for weeks. he has made a working slot machine that dice abuses the fuck out of. there are no stakes but dice has an addiction to it

jakurai did not know how to punch for the first few weeks of playing. he started off slowly, not really understanding the basics. then he found out about the wiki and how there are walkthroughs for literally everything and now? jakurai is so fucking good at minecraft. it’s gotten to the point that ichiro and samatoki have tried to ban jakurai from their server because he kept beating the ender dragon in the middle of their competitions. like one time ichiro and samatoki randomly spawned really close to each other and both got to the end at pretty much the same time and jakurai? was already there??? and he had beaten the dragon with a bunch of snowballs???????? like this 35 year old man with a steve skin beat the dragon faster than these two idiots who have been doing this for months? thats illegal;;; but then jakurai was disappointed about it on twitter and they felt bad so they unbanned him

hifumi and doppo live together. they have this cute house in the mountains in the middle of nowhere and they keep adding to it to make it seem more like a home;;; its fully decorated and has a kitchen and a bedroom and everything even though none of its necessary. hifumi really likes building and he has a bunch of crops and animals and just a really nice farm and also a flower garden that he’s always tending to even though the flowers dont need anything? and he’s built a really cute pond area and a bunch of waterfalls and its all adorable. doppo meanwhile is out fighting monsters and mining for resources and he’s just trying to make life easier for hifumi. one time jiro came by and instead of fucking up their house, he just replaced all of hifumi’s cows with mooshrooms. no one knows how he got this many mooshrooms or where he found them or why he decided to do this but it happened. at first hifumi was deeply upset because the mooshrooms were staring into his soul but doppo adored them so hifumi grew to appreciate their mushroom friends.

if you disagree with me on any of this we can throw hands in the parking lot tomorrow 3pm

[shipinthewoods]

look.ship Presents: The Best Music of the Year, 2017 -- I’m sat in my office trying to sum up 2017 as a whole. So far, all I’ve come up with is: Like 2016, but worse. Which, while reductive, is true. I don’t think it’s worth either my or your time to hash out why 2017 was mostly trash, because, frankly, it’s totally obvious, and will be covered ad nauseam in other year-enders. I do think it’s worth pointing out that, for all the bad, it’s possible that we’ve already begun a long, laborious course correction thanks to the hard work and bravery of those who will no longer accept the status quo nor remain silent. 2018 will be interesting. And difficult, but difficult isn’t always bad. Although, it could be bad. Like, really bad. Who knows? Musically, this was a phenomenal year. Culturally speaking, the underground was vital, galvanized, queerer, and less commodifiable than ever--awake, engaged, prodding gleefully at the fringes of human experience. As most of you know, I occasionally write for The Quietus. Over there, they’ve spent much of the year exploring what they’ve termed New Weird Britain, an amorphous, loosely defined movement of diverse, idiosyncratic artists engaged in exploring the complete potential of their specific place and the experiences they might have in it. It’s a holistic approach, in terms of both topic and execution. There’s room for everything from the landscape to history to alternative religion to politics to sex to etc. It’s brilliant. The real deal--not just white-bread garage rockers playing at being strange-o. But what I think--or at least, what I hope is that what John Doran, Luke Turner, &co. have identified is their regional variant of a global phenomenon. Maybe 2018 is the year New Weird bubbles over. New Weird Everywhere. We’d all be better off. This year, we’ve decided to do things a little differently here at look.ship. In lieu of breaking down our albums-of-the-year list into shortlists organized by genre, we’ve ranked the top 25 of our 75 selections in order to give you a better idea of what dominated our editor’s home stereo (and make the list a bit more digestible). The remainder of the selections are arranged in alphabetical order. It should be noted that these are not runners up or honorable mentions or somehow lesser than. Though definitively not comprehensive--how could we listen to everything?--this is our list of the best records of the year, period. On some level, given the constant apples and oranges comparisons inherent in such an endeavor, we still think ranking albums is a little bogus. Ranking beyond 25? That becomes a frustratingly arbitrary exercise. However, selecting our album of the year was easy. Nothing came close to Hiro Kone’s Love Is the Capital, 38 nearly perfect minutes of desolate soundscapes, crystalline industrial techno, and incisive political bangers. A supremely confident record of rare grace and generosity, it demands the listener’s complete attention and begs to be repeated, proving more rewarding with every listen. (For more, feel free to click through to my interview with Hiro Kone -->here<--)   In addition to our albums of the year, you’ll find our top ten live recordings, compilations, and reissues; top ten EPs & 12″s; live performances of the year; and labels of the year. Where possible, we've included Bandcamp embeds. Otherwise, we've used Soundcloud or YouTube, which really mucked up our formatting. Read on to explore the wide array of sounds that made 2017 worth tolerating.

-- Albums of the Year, 2017: Top 25 -- 1. Hiro Kone – Love Is the Capital (Geographic North)

Love is the Capital by Hiro Kone

2. Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas – Square One (Smalltown Supersound)

Square One by Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas

3. Fever Ray – Plunge (Mute / Rabid)

4. Equiknoxx – Colón Man (DDS)

5. Perc – Bitter Music (Perc Trax)

Bitter Music by Perc

6. Virginia Wing & XAM Duo – Tomorrow’s Gift (Fire)

Tomorrow's Gift by VIRGINIA WING and XAM DUO

7. Bicep – Bicep (Ninja Tune)

Bicep by Bicep

8. Country Florist – Waveland (Drawing Room)

Waveland by Country Florist

9. Moon Diagrams – Lifetime of Love (Geographic North / Sonic Cathedral)

Lifetime of Love by Moon Diagrams

10. Andrew Hung – Realisationship (Lex)

Realisationship by Andrew Hung

11. Forest Swords – Compassion (Ninja Tune)

Compassion by Forest Swords

12. Colleen – A flame my love, a frequency (Thrill Jockey)

A flame my love, a frequency by Colleen

13. NoinoNoinoNoino – 8 (Caoutchou)

8 by NoinoNoinoNoino

14. The Cyclist – Sapa Inca Delirium (Hypercolour)

Sapa Inca Delirium by The Cyclist

15. Clark – Death Peak (Warp)

16. Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives (Warp)

17. Lindstrøm – It’s Alright Between Us As It Is (Smalltown Supersound)

It's Alright Between Us As It Is by Lindstrøm

18. James Holden & The Animal Spirits – Animal Spirits (Border Community)

19. JASSS – Weightless (iDeal)

20. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid (Western Vinyl)

The Kid by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

21. Blanck Mass – World Eater (Sacred Bones)

World Eater by Blanck Mass

22. Ninos Du Brasil – Vida Eterna (Hospital Productions)

Vida Eterna by Ninos Du Brasil

23. Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting – Undone Harmony Following (Type)

24. Snapped Ankles – Come Play the Trees (The Leaf Label)

Come Play The Trees by Snapped Ankles

25. Gnod – JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE (Rocket Recordings)

JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE by Gnod

-- Albums of the Year, 2017: 26 - 75 -- Auburn Lull – Hypha (Azure Vista)

Hypha by Auburn Lull

Basic Rhythm – The Basics (Type)

The Basics by Basic Rhythm

Ben Frost – The Centre Cannot Hold (Mute)

The Centre Cannot Hold by Ben Frost

Blondes – Warmth (R&S)

Warmth by Blondes

The Body & Full of Hell – Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light (Thrill Jockey)

Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light by The Body & Full of Hell

British Sea Power – Let the Dancers Inherit the Party (Golden Chariot)

Coldcut & On-U Sound – Outside the Echo Chamber (Ahead Of Our Time)

Outside The Echo Chamber by Coldcut x On-U Sound

Dale Cornish – Aqal (Entr’acte)

Aqal by Dale Cornish

Dalham – Waves (Public House)

Waves by Dalham

Dominowe – SiyaThakatha (Gqom Oh!)

Dominowe - SiyaThakatha by Dominowe

Downtown Boys – Cost of Living (Sub Pop)

Cost of Living by Downtown Boys

Emptyset – Borders (Thrill Jockey)

Borders by Emptyset

Escape-ism – Introduction to Escape-ism (Merge)

Introduction to Escape-ism by ESCAPE-ISM

Feature – Banishing Ritual (Upset The Rhythm)

Banishing Ritual by FEATURE

Golden Teacher – No Luscious Life (Golden Teacher)

No Luscious Life by Golden Teacher

Great Ytene – Locus (Faux Discx)

Locus by Great Ytene

Grey Hairs – Serious Business (Gringo)

Serious Business by Grey Hairs

H. Hawkline – I Romanticize (Heavenly)

Hey Colossus – The Guillotine (Rocket Recordings)

The Guillotine by Hey Colossus

Institute – Subordination (Sacred Bones)

Subordination by Institute

Jack Cooper – Sandgrown (Trouble In Mind)

Sandgrown by Jack Cooper

James Place – Voices Bloom (Umor Rex)

Voices Bloom by James Place

Jon Brooks – Autres Directions (Clay Pipe)

Autres Directions by Jon Brooks

Karen Gwyer – Rembo (Don’t Be Afraid)

Rembo by Karen Gwyer

Kedr Livanskiy – Ariadna (ариадна) (2MR)

Ariadna (ариадна) by Kedr Livanskiy

Kelela – Take Me Apart (Warp)

Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound)

Kelly Lee Owens (Extended Version) by Kelly Lee Owens

Kemper Norton – Hungan (Self-released)

Hungan by Kemper Norton

Kevin Morby – City Music (Dead Oceans)

City Music by Kevin Morby

Liars – TFCF (Mute)

Mogwai – Every Country’s Sun (Temporary Residence / Rock Action)

Every Country's Sun by Mogwai

Nathan Fake – Providence (Ninja Tune)

Providence by Nathan Fake

Nidia Minaj - Nídia É Má, Nídia É Fudida (Principe)

Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida by NÍDIA

Panayotis – Hawaiiprus (Honest Electronics)

Hawaiiprus (HE04) by Panayotis

Part Chimp – Iv (Rock Action)

Phillippe Hallais – An American Hero (Modern Love)

The Proper Ornaments – Foxhole (Slumberland / Tough Love)

Foxhole by The Proper Ornaments

Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent (Domino)

Relatives In Descent by Protomartyr

Richard Dawson – Peasant (Domino)

Shackleton & Anika – Behind the Glass (Woe To The Septic Heart)

Behind The Glass by Shackleton with Anika

Shinichi Atobe – From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art (DDS)

Spoek Mathambo – Mzansi Beat Code (Teka)

Mzansi Beat Code by Spoek Mathambo

STILL – I (PAN)

I by STILL

Teengirl Fantasy – 8AM (Planet Mu)

8AM by Teengirl Fantasy

Terry – Remember Terry (Upset The Rhythm)

Remember Terry by Terry

Tim Darcy – Saturday Night (Secretly Canadian)

Saturday Night by Tim Darcy

TLC Fam – Isbethelo seGqom (Gqom Oh!)

TLC Fam - Isbethelo seGqom by TLC Fam

Turinn – Eighteen and a Half Minute Gaps (Modern Love)

Ulrika Spacek – Modern English Decoration (Tough Love)

Modern English Decoration by Ulrika Spacek

The World – First World Record (Upset The Rhythm)

FIRST WORLD RECORD by The World

-- Top Ten Live Recordings, Reissues, & Compilations -- 1. Blood Sport – Live at Café OTO (Howling Owl)

Live At Cafe Oto by Blood Sport

2. Normil Hawaiians – More Wealth Than Money (Upset The Rhythm)

3. Bamboo – The Dragon Flies Away (Upset The Rhythm)

4. Maximum Joy – I Can’t Stand It Here on Quiet Nights (Silent Street)

I Can't Stand It Here On Quiet Nights: Singles 1981-82 by MAXIMUM JOY

5. Dub Syndicate – Ambience in Dub: 1982 – 1985 (On-U Sound)

Ambience In Dub 1982-1985 by Dub Syndicate

6. Hood – The Cycle of Days and Seasons / Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys (Domino)

7. Jay Glass Dubs – Dubs (Ecstatic)

8. Various – Mutual Ground (Honest Electronics)

Mutual Ground (HE03) by Various Artists

9. The Knife – Live at Terminal 5 (Rabid)

10. Pye Corner Audio – Sleep Games (Ghost Box)

-- Top Ten EPs & 12″s -- 1. Blood Sport – “Harsh Realm” / “Boiled in Dust” (Return To Disorder)

2. Dale Cornish – Cut Sleeve (Halcyon Veil)

Cut Sleeve by Dale Cornish

3. The Bug – “Bad” / “Get Out the Way” (Ninja Tune)

Bad / Get Out The Way by The Bug

4. Panayotis – Sawaiiphur (Honest Electronics)

Sawaiiphur (HE06) by Panayotis

5. RAW SILVER – Thanatos (Honest Electronics)

Thanatos (HE05) by RAW SILVER

6. Forest Swords – “Congregate” / “Free” (Ninja Tune)

Congregate by Forest Swords

7. Total Control, Laughing at the System (Alter)

Laughing At The System by Total Control

8. Café Ale – Transformative Nature (Geographic North)

Transformative Nature by Café Ale

9. Holy Fuck – Bird Brains (Innovative Leisure)

Bird Brains EP by Holy Fuck

10. Fujiya & Miyagi – EP3 (Impossible Objects of Desire)

FUJIYA & MIYAGI by Fujiya & Miyagi

-- Live Performances of the Year -- Steven Warwick and Benjamin Wardell performing "Figuring Space (on the Mezzanine)" to close out Lampo's season at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago -- Cattle live at Supernormal, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, UK

-- Labels of the Year -- Geographic North Gqom Oh! Honest Electronics Smalltown Supersound Upset The Rhythm

-- Label of the Year, Emeritus -- Faux Discx

-- In the next couple of weeks, keep an eye out for special episodes of SHIP/SHAPE/SUNDAY featuring our favorite recordings of 2017. – Bernie Brooks is the editor-in-chief and bloggist of look.ship. *Everything* he writes or compiles or otherwise makes–or has *ever* written, compiled, or otherwise made–for A Ship In The Woods is editorial content, and as such reflects his opinion alone, not necessarily that of Ship as an organization. Actually, this applies to all the content on look.shipinthewoods.com, regardless of who wrote or said it. He can be e-mailed: bernie [at] shipinthewoods [dot] com -- Image of Steven Warwick and Benjamin Wardell performing at Stony Island Arts Bank by Bernie Brooks.

[bunnyribbit-ow]

I'm having a hard time trying to keep Hana and Lucio in character in my fic. Its especially challenging since they have no shors/comics so i can only assume their character from the game. Do you have any tips on how to keep these two in character?

Apologizes again for the tardiness (under cut because of length)

Hmmm…I’ll split them up in this post.

Lucio:

-first and foremost stay away from black stereotypes.

-Please also check out the #reference tag. Because I reblogged some posts from Brazillian tumblr users explaining what Lucio would sound like.

-Lucio is a very generous person, but I like to think he’s no pushover. Think of Wilt maybe from Imaginary Friends?

-He’s also a revolutionary so it’s possible that he might have a few objections to authority, but somehow he’s polite about it (this is great to use as conflict in the story or convo w/ another character, even better if Lucio’s calm throughout the whole argument).

-I like to think Lucio’s a friend to all children (New Year’s Resolution line).

-Blizzard definitely applying the Trickster motif to Lucio(esp with the frog being his mascot). He’s wisecracking, rebellious, and only is confrontational to people who deserve it. Think of Bugs Bunny or Ber’Rabbit.

-Have Lucio have some medical background which will hearken back to the fact he’s a healer in-game.

-This boy is a nerd, you see the way he gushed asking for D.va’s autograph.

-Lucio is a rags to riches celeb so I don’t think he’d be stuck up but instead be humble. Also would donate to charity. 

-There’s other ways to show his humble beginnings in writing (without it becoming poverty porn). Such as him always finishing a meal even if he hates it (he might remember only having one meal a day as a child). Constantly reusing, tinkering or modifying things even when he has enough money to get a new thing. When you’re poor you don’t throw many things out (also this would be a great way to show his intelligence, critical thinking, and mechanical skills)

-Lucio’s clever maybe almost sneaky about it(I like to think he uses his upbeat attitude to make people think he’s more harmless than he really is). This boy toppled a powerful corporation, he has to always stay one step ahead. Ties back to the Trickster archetype.   

-Lucio’s very protective. 

(Killing enemy Symmetra)“Stay out of Rio, that’s my turf!” 

 D.va

-first and foremost stay away from the Asian Dragon Lady trope and the submissive sex doll trope.

-D.va is confident. You have to be when you’re a celeb and surrounded by criticism. However you could choose if this a coping mechanism.

-D.va could be a workaholic and extremely organized. She’s pop star, movie star,pro- video gamer, and a soldier. And a successful one, it’s amazing she can juggle all of that.   

-D.va is definitely sarcastic “Don’t worry I still love you” (kills person). Maybe even bit of a Mean Girl. Again there needs to be a reason why for this: coping mechanism, childhood memory, etc. 

-D.va is a tactical genius, I think. I often compare her to Ender from Ender’s Game 

-She’s definitely outgoing and an extrovert, she likes the spotlight. “This is my kind of city! Light! Camera! Action!” (when spawned on Hollywood map) 

-This is just my personal headcanon, but D.va  don’t give a f***. D.va will turn into this: (ง'̀-‘́)ง. Even if the opponent is bigger than her (good to play off with Lucio as the cool headed one)

-D.va might not be as humble as Lucio. We don’t know D.va wealth growing up, but apparently she gamed with her father as a kid (and she still can’t beat him at SC), but video games equipment costs a lot of money so we can speculate. Perhaps she might not be able to relate to Lucio’s frugalness or maybe even ignorant and insensitive about poverty and Lucio has to school her. 

-D.va definitely has sex appeal and I like to think she knows it.

- D.va’s addicted to bubble gum.

-D.va is also a nerd, but a closeted one. “A gorilla! Just like in those old videogames! (sees Winston)

-D.va of course has a more somber side “The destruction done to this place…it reminds me of home.” She also might keep it more underwraps.

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Hope that helps!

[virginieboesus]

7 Of The Worst Movies Based On Games

The video game and movie industries have had a very rocky relationship ever since they first got together. That much is pretty well documented already. I mean, there have been some good, or at least average, movies that were based upon games… The first Resident Evil movie comes to mind, as does the first Silent Hill movie. However, there have also been some outright terrible attempts to create video game related movies.

From films that utterly miss the point of the games to ones that would have been better off without the video game connection, we’ve had our fair share and more of bad tie-ins. Everyone knows that a video game tie-in to a movie is usually going to be terrible, but the same is true the other way around. That’s why, today, we’re going to look at 7 of the worst movies based upon video games that have ever been created!

7. Doom

The Doom game franchise was once the king of first-person shooters… Whilst the gaming side of the franchise may have reinstated this title in recent times with the release of DOOM (aka Doom 4) on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, it will never escape the legacy of the live action movie. Rather than dealing with the religious aspect of Doom, whereby the creatures are literally coming from Hell, the movie decided to go down a much more generic route. With scientists on Mars bringing to light an artificially created chromosome that subsequently infects the entire colony, people who lived and worked there are turned into a variety of different monsters.

However, to make this change in the base plot even more detached from the actual games, this infection will only turn you into a monster if you were already inherently evil. I mean, I would like to say that this feels like it could have been written by a child, but then, they would probably have come up with something better. Add to this the fact that the characters are wholly unrelatable and just unlikeable, and you have a recipe for disaster. The movie even features Karl Urban (a tremendous actor) and The Rock, but even that super-team couldn’t make this movie work.

Also, why does a movie based on a first-person shooter end with a battle of fists?

6. Double Dragon

Now, you’d think that taking a beat-em-up gaming and turning it into an action movie would be one of the easiest things you could possibly do, right? I mean, the entire formula is there for you already! Sure, the storyline of Double Dragon isn’t exactly Oscar-worthy, but then, you wouldn’t expect a particularly deep story from an action movie anyway. So you would need to really do a bad job to screw up a movie based on Double Dragon, right?

Well, that’s exactly what the director and crew of the Double Dragon movie decided to do! Taking place in the year 2007 after a huge earthquake totalled most of Los Angeles, leaving it a flooded shell of a city, the movie features some of the most un-gang-like gangs ever! On top of that, they somehow managed to make Robert Patrick (of Terminator 2 and X-Files fame, amongst other great roles) look even more pointless as an antagonist that Samuel L Jackson’s character in Kingsman – the big difference being that Kingsman did it on purpose and it worked well because of that.

Everything about this movie screams a misunderstanding of the game itself, or a blatant lack of care about it.

5. Resident Evil: Extinction (And All Subsequent Sequels)

Now, I’m in the minority of gaming fans who actually enjoy Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the second movie in the live action series. Yes, Paul W S Anderson had made his wife (Milla Jovovich) the main character, pushing Jill Valentine to the background, despite the movie being (very loosely) based upon Resident Evil: Nemesis… But it was still an entertaining action movie (but not a horror movie in the slightest). For me, the entire movie series went downhill when we got to Resident Evil: Extinction (and onwards).

RE: Extinction featured Alice (Jovovich’s character) using telekinesis to move flames around the air and burn all of the zombie crows. It took one of the video game series’ most beloved characters, Claire Redfield, and stripped her of all likeable qualities (likely so that attention would be focused on Alice), and turned an already messed up Carlos into a shadow of his former self. From there, things just got worse, with the characters that we loved from the games being treated like afterthoughts! The first movie was an interesting take on the Resident Evil idea, but the reason it worked was that Alice wasn’t an over-powered Goddess and it didn’t feature any of the characters from the games to tarnish. The second was an average yet entertaining affair, whilst everything after that would do best being put in the nappy-bin where they belong.

4. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

The first Mortal Kombat movie was an entertaining romp featuring some reasonable fight scenes and a plot that actually managed to fit in with the game, mostly. But by the time the sequel came around, we were all in for a laughable excuse for a movie! To begin with, they recast a number of returning characters, killed off one of them right at the beginning, and had some of the worst CGI I have ever seen in a film. Even as a young lad, I knew how absolutely terrible the movie was!

The dialogue is also atrocious, making the original Resident Evil (with it’s “Jill sandwich line included) looking like Oscar-worthy gold! In fact, the only reason I would ever put this movie on again is to listen to the epic theme song. But then, I could just listen to it on Spotify and save myself the torture that is Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.

3. BloodRayne

Looking back on the genre as a whole, Vampire movies haven’t had a very good time this century. From being absolutely tarnished by the likes of Twilight, to the fact that the Underworld series started off so well and then just went downhill with every movie after the third, the genre has had a lot of trouble. One movie that did nothing but make this even worse was BloodRayne. Now, the games that this movie was based on are actually really rather fun to play. Sadly, Uwe Boll got hold of the movie rights, and that spelt doom for the film straight away.

With everything from the wrong time period for the setting, action sequences that look like they would be more fitting on an episode of East Enders, and acting from top quality actors that feels like the “phone in” equivalent, it really is an awful movie. How did it go so wrong? Oh yeah… Uwe Boll.

2. Super Mario Bros

Well, here we are; the video game movie that started the crossover industry, and also the first one to let us all down. It is rather common knowledge that this movie is utterly terrible, but what you might not know is that the directors actually wanted to make a cyberpunk movie, which is why everything in Super Mario Bros looks so dystopian and futuristic. As fans of the games, this caused a lot of confusion and outright annoyance for viewers, due to the complete change in the way that the Mushroom Kingdom looked. On top of that, the goombas look horrific, bearing no resemblance to their video game counterparts.

Another interesting fact about the movie comes from the casting; Mario and Luigi are supposed to be brothers, right? So why are they from two different ethnicities? Everything about Super Mario Bros is confused, contrived and just downright badly made. This movie set the precedent for video games movies to come, and for that alone, it would feature high up on this list. However, add to that the fact that it is just a generally terrible movie, and it more than earns the number two spot!

1. House of the Dead

Zombie movies are everywhere these days. In fact, zombies, in general, have taken over the big screen, small screen and gaming industry like a digital apocalypse. Sadly, that means that you’ll naturally get some films that were best left to rot. It should come as no surprise that this particular “gem” of a movie was directed by Uwe Boll (again). It starts off as a generic teen horror movie with a bunch of people going to a rave on an island that then because infested with zombies. From there, we get one of the most confusingly directed movies ever. Scenes will switch between the teenagers screaming and running for their lives, to shots of them pulling of Trinity-esque slow motion kicks from The Matrix!

This, plus the complete lack of a connection to the game, makes you wonder how Uwe Boll ever manages to get the rights to anything anymore!

And That’s All Folks

Those are 7 of the worst movies ever made based on video games. There are, of course, a reverant tonne of others that could have made this list, so I may make a sequel to this post in the future.

What video game movie do you hate the most? Let me know in the comments below!

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