#god that was a good fucking stream

[lutheban]

Hey remember right before the pandemic when a season of a show was about 15-20 episodes? Remember when having 8 episodes what called "a mini-series"? Remember when we could get a season a year and not wait 2 years to get a continuation of a story? remember when shows had time to grow and form an audience? remember that? yeah? cuz i do

[3416]

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[b4kuch1n]

siren

[svtskneecaps]

dude i fucking love how this server has communication as its premise and built into its fucking core. i fucking love that. bc it's one thing to be like 'this server is about multilingual communication and cultural exchange!!' bc that could present in any NUMBER of ways but like. with the federation and the eggs and a common shared goal they all decided WE ARE A TEAM. and like, ok,

when baghera was sus of jaiden because of the thing when pomme died and jaiden had been the reason baghera left her side for the only time that day, i wasn't even worried. i wasn't worried bc i was like "we just wait. because i know they will TALK TO EACH OTHER." and I WAS RIGHT. TWO DAYS LATER IT WAS ALL CLEARED UP AND BAGHERA WAS HELPING HER OUT WITH CUCURUCHO

and the ordo theoritas is functionally a secret organization. it would be SO EASY to gatekeep the lore, on grounds of "the federation is always watching and anyone could be a spy" and yet the ordo theoritas says that, like bad SAYS THAT, says OUT LOUD, "anyone could be a traitor" and then turns around and goes "hey person i've had a few days' worth of conversations with, here's a detailed rundown of everything we've learned about the island's mysteries, and the secret location of the ordo base". SOFIA was supposed to be secret from everyone, and for a little bit she was. but now like, the ordo theoritas is showing her to everyone. it would be SO EASY to hide things and to gatekeep things but they just. don't do it. here's the supercomputer!!!! don't forget to grab her waystone so you can come back anytime!!!

bad learns something. "i need to tell forever/cellbit/baghera". forever figures out a new way to protect the eggs, and he gets it to everyone within days. cucurucho tries to have a secret conversation and the entire server knows about it almost instantly and there are three people buried in the walls reading the subtitles and giving each other meaningful glances

i love it. i love it. miscommunication plotlines drive me up the fucking wall and the fact that i wasn't even SCARED when jaiden and baghera could easily have angled into an angsty tangled web of that and instead just MET WITH EACH OTHER AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING AND CLEARED THE AIR ALMOST IMMEDIATELY was so fucking breathtaking. and this is a multilingual server. this is a MULTILINGUAL SERVER. i love it. i love it so much i want to cry. it's a server for communication and people Communicate, it would have been SO EASY to slip into monolingual factions and stick to the familiar but they DIDN'T. they DIDN'T. WE GET TO HAVE A THEORY TABLE WITH SO MANY LANGUAGES SITTING AROUND IT. we get to have conspiracy walls in every language!!!! idk sometimes i forget how fucking CRAZY all this is, like the scale of what they've accomplished

so yea thank you to quackity and the qsmp admins for this, and thank you to the streamers for hearing 'this is about connections' and taking it ENTIRELY to heart, and also thank you to whoever the fuck decided to give quackity's school class the job to look after a fucking egg to learn about parenting. bc holy shit. holy shit.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

badboyhalo october 1st stream recap

okay okay quick recap for anyone who couldn't watch the stream/can't watch bad's vod (tw discussion of derealization, paranoia (being watched especially), hallucinations, bad having a BAD time, etc. if any of this stuff super bothers you then you may want to avoid badboyhalo's livestreams for the foreseeable future, he's a long-term storyteller)

Bad started off his stream with a black screen and white text.

"Welcome. Dear cucurucho, why are you in my [the text went offscreen] I just want to talk please come say hello I know your there cucurucho come come come out wherever you are cucuruchoooooooo CUCURUCHSOFIOOGI" [note: keysmash not exact]

When Bad turned his screen on, he was in dapper's room, rocking back and forth. he was calling for cucurucho and talking about it living in his house. He kept jumping at nothing. He spoke to the pictures of the kids as if they were real, and asked "richarlyson" if forever was the one in his house.

he didn't want to leave dapper's room because it was his 'safe room,' but he eventually did. His base is now covered in GIANT signs that have red text and cucurucho's model that say "NO FEDERATION ALLOWED" and "YOUR BEING WATCHED" and one more i can't remember. he put up cameras everywhere and said "Look! I have cameras! Now I know when someone comes in... and when someone leaves." which isn't super important but it was an awesome line

he ended up going to spawn to look for cucurucho, and it was full of scaffolding. bad didn't take this well. It's unclear if the scaffolding was part of his hallucinations or not, but he fixated on it 'being' cucurucho. He suspected forever, cellbit, and foolish were also cucurucho. He questioned what was and wasn't real- including himself.

Bad started SEEING cucurucho in the distance, watching him, before it would disappear again. When it came back, sometimes it was renamed. "ENJOY THE ISLAND" and ":)" were some of the renamings, and I cannot remember them all. Bad started out by chasing cucurucho, shouting at it and asking if it were various items/mobs. He saw two of them at once at once point and was lead up into slime's hold house, through flippa's room (where there was a single block of scaffolding), and then out off of jaiden's balcony.

As the chase went on Bad started to become more frightened. Cucurucho was flying. he started to lose sense of where he was (shown by the admins teleporting him around) and hallucinated a nether portal he threatened to go through.

At some point Bad questioned if Dapper was cucurucho, too.

Eventually Bad retreated to the wall to cower in a 1x1 hole that went beneath the wall. cucurucho broke several blocks in front of him and appeared, revving its chainsaw. when it disappeared again there was a hole broken into the floor that lead to a cave and LONG tunnels beneath the wall. the visual was terrifying i promise.

cucurucho chased bad through the tunnels. he was screaming “please please stop I’ll be good I promise please go away.” At one point cucurucho appeared behind bad with the name "Bad?Boy?Halo?" and bad freaked out about potentially being cucurucho.

cucurcucho chased bad through a cave system until two cucuruchos cornered him to blow bubbles. their names were "do you?" and "YES". bad ran from them and found some scaffolding loose on the ground, (which had been built up to lead him out of the cave), said "this is it, this is you" and threw into lava.

Bad warped back home, insisting, "You can't come here, you can't come here." He was calmer in his house, but then was hit by the blindness effect and started yelling about the signs and "NO FEDERATION ALLOWED." he sang a little song about it

short story short: cucurucho appeared in his house. he saw it behind a glass wall. he was furious and terrified and growling "you can't be in here." he ran into dapper's room, where it appeared AGAIN with the name "WITHOUT M***" (last few letters were in the wall lmao). bad started sprinting around his house trying to find a safe place. cucurucho chased him with a chainsaw down the aquarium hallway.

Two cucuruchos kept popping up and disappearing, both with different names each time. Bad asked them "who let you in my house?" and went through a series of names such as: foolish, forever, tina, cellbit, baghera, antoine, fit- and finally settled on Ron.

Bad went to go see Ron. The hallway was dark, and Ron's room was unlit. When Bad opened the door, Cucurucho, with the nametag "RON" above its head, looked back at him. Bad said, "I knew it. It was Ron. He let you in." A second Cucurucho appeared with the nametag "ALWAYSHERE."

Bad was given blindness again, and he started to laugh as a chainsaw whirred. We heard bubbles blowing. Then the screen faded entirely to black, and Bad said, "Come here, Ron. Come out, come out, wherever you are..."

We heard rapid damage sounds, and then the sound of eating.

(the END of his stream had black and white text "SEE You NeXt tIme :)" as an example. The other messages were classic streamer "thanks for watching" and "make sure to follow" messages with similar fucked up cases, but this was supposed to be a fast recap lmao)

TLDR: Bad's paranoia has increased to the point of hallucinations. He's now frightened of Cucurucho, and suspects that everyone on the island is/could be helping Cucurucho get into his base. He associates cucurucho with scaffolding now. He is NOT sound of mind. He ate Ron Lemons.

If I missed anything important, feel free to add on!

[soups-archive]

Im in love with the implications of tape 1 of Roier's lore because he either:

1) Was legitimately turned into a rat by the federation, which, beyond the goofy fucking model, is genuinely frightening body horror that I think roier (the guy not the cubito) has the full capacity to explore knowing his rp abilities.

or

2) He was hallucinating getting turned into a rat because of all the drugs he the feds are pumping him with. This comes with the extra terrifying implication that the feds ARE actually experimenting on him, but what they're actually doing to him is being obscured by the effects of the drugs.

Either way it's fucking horrific and I love it. I can't wait to see what he has planned next.

[goldenboydisaster]

Just finished the new episode of mismag and laughed my ass off oh my gid that was so freaking good

[let-them-sing-of-others]

so 👀 what did you think of epic? 👀

yeag 😁

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

You ever think about what's gonna happen when the Welcome Home website updates in December? Hopefully, at least for what I think, we'll get to see the fabled Julierella! Or any visual parts of the show in general. Probably something fit for the holiday spirit.

Maybe wondering about their relatives and loved ones living outside the neighborhood, and the fact that the residents haven't left to see them in some time.

Stuff like that! Maybe even some new recipes!

i try not to think about it or i'll become so nervoucited that i'll get nauseous

[bramstr0k3r]

I was literally sound asleep and my roommate (not even into iwtv/tvc) sent me the video, and then proceeded to to text my phone, call me, and then when I did not wake up, she came and knocked on my bedroom door so I woke up to “they dropped rockstar lestat, you need to wake up, you’re gonna want to see this”

[nomidreams]

god i finally watched new episodes my honest reaction is jgiwoaoKzmxmkwkakkak

[kaelidascope]

Hey there! Just wanted to say that I started reading this toxic ooc rwby au of yours. It's actually incredible how good of a writer you are!

I mean, I've only read like 2 chapters so far, but I really like how you reinvented their original stories and used those aspects in their background. It feels very real, the characters are well written (at least I feel that way).

And I usually don't like to read tbh, I rarely find something that can actually make me want to read more, that keeps me intrigued.

I want to see more of your works after this one, I think I'd like them. You're really great 💙

Hey excuse me while I just

Anyway

HELLOOOOO OH MY GOSH I AM SUCH A MEGA FAN OF YOURS THIS IS REAL LIFE I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS 😭😭😭😭

I'm so honored you like my work, thank you so much!! It's also refreshing and relieving to hear that despite Toxic Bees being OOC on purpose, they're still true to their source material so I know I'm doing something right there LOL

Ah and another big thank you for finding my work worth it to endure reading!! I hate reading as well, so the work has to be exceptional for me to actually sit down and read through something without giving up halfway through. That means so much to me thank you thank you 😭🙏

Bless you dear 😭🙏🌺 you are one of my all time favorite artists and I feel like this is a DREAM I'm so honored and I hope you enjoy anything else you find in my kitchen <33 (Midnight Menagerie is the most popular atm)

[unknownarmageddon]

fell off his chair

[cinemaocd]

Why is it that Oscar season is the worst time for me as a film fan? It's like being a thrift store shopper on Halloween and a bunch of sorority girls come in an make fun of the clothes for a half hour and then leave to go buy a sexy penguin costume at the Spirit Halloween store...

[svtskneecaps]

friends and fiends if this truly spells the Over for the qsmp i may let the brainworms that have been festering in me for MONTHS--A YEAR, EVEN--win.

i may summarize the goddamn fucking lore.

[windrunnered]

spoiler prey for me!!!!!!

you can tell i was so fucking excited to ramble because of my use of caps. anyway.

The game starts you off as Morgan Yu, the younger sibling (you can choose either male or female, but i’ll go with second person because this game is so good at making it feel like it’s you) of Alex Yu, and the child of two extraordinarily wealthy board members of a space program called TranStar. You start off the game being told that you’ve been chosen to run a few tests for your brother to eventually go up on TranStar’s space station, Talos I. Pretty ordinary. You wake up in your bedroom, fly in your private helicopter across San Franscisco, and arrive with your brother to get some tests done. They ask you.. weird questions. Hide in this room, as fast as you can. Move these boxes, as fast as you can, touching them as little as possible. What do you see in the glass?

It’s normal, up until you watch something slimy and black take the form of a coffee cup. The guy who’s taking your answers picks it up, and it attacks him.

You fall asleep. And wake up, realizing you are already on Talos I, and something has gone terribly wrong.

SPOILERS (ask me about my obsessions)

You’re told, that Morgan - you - has been running copies of this experiment for months with Alex. Waking up in a real room, going to TranStar HQ in a real helicopter but in a simulated room, and running these tests. Your memory gets wiped at the end of each experiment, and you’re given new powers. Strange powers. Alien powers. They change your identity, the way you think, with personality fluctuations until Alex barely recognizes you anymore. 

You also have a little bestie floating robot “Operator” named January, who you, Morgan, made a couple of runs of experiments ago. January is your backup you and is your guiding moral compass for better or worse. Morgan made January when you didn’t trust Alex to keep you safe anymore, to serve as a backup check-in on reality. You also have another bestie Operator named December, who January murders, because that was a Morgan who was trying to tell you how to escape. January thinks you should blow up Talos I for the good of mankind. Up to you to decide who’s the real Morgan.

Backstory. TranStar made most of its money selling advanced memory chips called Neuromods, where you learn a language or proficiency in a musical instrument instantaneously. Neuromods also give you strength. And they also wipe your memory from the moment of implantation the second you take them out, no matter how much you knew. Say, you got yourself a Neuromod that gave you the ability to telepathically move boxes, and also that this experiment was happening. When that Neuromod was removed, so was that knowledge. Fucking crazy, right?

Plot. Talos I is infested with monsters called Typhons, alien lifeforms that Talos I was studying in order to figure out their abilities, and implant it into people. These things are black, slimy, spiderlike and multilegged, with no discernable eyes and function in a hivemind. They function by duplicating themselves when they eat, or resurrect human corpses into Typhon organisms called Phantoms. Creatures that repeat not only their host’s last words, but any last words the hive mind has access to.

TANGENT, some of my favorite fucking dialogue is through the Phantoms’ dialogue. They mutter to themselves while on patrol in nearby areas, and have different dialogue when they see you, are looking for you, or are attacking you. My favorites are: “Shh… someone’s coming.” / “Are you alone? Are you… angry?” / “I used to wish we weren’t alone in the universe.” I love that the Phantoms take the fear of imminently dying humans, some dialogue explicitly said right before the surviving crew members died, as echoed refrains by the enemy. Gorgeous. Absolutely stellar environmental storytelling. Tangent over.

You are an active threat against the Typhon, and is the only crew member seen to be able to actively defend yourself against the alien threat. You can take Neuromods and give yourself Typhon abilities, eventually making yourself Typhon enough that Talos security systems attack you on sight. My favorite instance is after Morgan is done rummaging through the crew quarters and comes back out to the arboretum, you meet the Nightmare, a specifically crafted Typhon organism whose only purpose is to find you and kill you. It shrieks when it sees you, never moving far away. It has a minimum respawn time of 20 minutes (real-life twenty minutes it has to wait before it can respawn) and lasts for three minutes real-time before it despawns with a timer in the top left. Your only options are to survive or kill it. And the best part is that it was made just for you.

You meet several people whose survival hinges entirely on you. A scientist, trapped inside of a cargo box that ejected during the outbreak, and you have the choice to bring him inside or open the airlock, killing him instantly; to save or let die an entire group of survivors including their security chief, who never really liked you anyway; a woman who hates you and your brother, but she’s asked you to kill a man who killed her girlfriend, entirely unprovoked and because he could in the madness of the Typhon outbreak; and a woman who lied about her medical diagnoses to be able to be on Talos, an ex-lover of yours who didn’t know about your experiments and wonders why you forgot about her, who you can save. A person you don’t remember, who you can save. You meet Alex, and he begs you to consider the you Morgan used to be. Don’t you remember?

You don’t.

The most fun part of the game is the subversion of expectations, very similar to me like the Last of Us with Prey’s antagonists. You’re fighting against the Typhon the entire time, but near end-of-game, your parents have heard about the mess that Talos I has become, and they’re going to shut it down by bringing guns for hire and slaughtering everyone on Talos I, including you and Alex. It’s for the better. Can’t have news escaping about what a fuck up Talos I has become, after all. (And what you do with Dahl depends on who you’ve kept alive. I’m a very conscience-heavy person, so I kept everyone that I could keep alive, alive. They helped me rewire Dahl’s memories to forget Morgan’s parents’ order and not murder everyone. Up to you. You can murder that sonofabitch.)

Walther Dahl becomes an end-of-game antagonist that gives you a lovely amount of endings. You can either escape Talos I by using Alex’s executive escape pod much earlier, abandoning everyone to die; you can either sit with Talos I and destroy it and yourself, while making sure everyone gets off of it; or you can find a way to nullify the Typhon hivemind, and leaving Talos I unharmed, while still being able to get off of that goddamned space station.

Prey is such a good fucking game. It really tears apart the lines of what is you and what you can ethically define as yourself. You are, fundamentally, alone. No one can fight the Typhon like you can, and even if they could, they don’t know the Typhon like you do. The Typhon don’t talk to them like it talks to you. There’s an excellent dialogue sequence in which you find a recording of yourself talk about a dream you have. You’re staring into this inky blackness between the stars, invisible, but something’s there. You see it. It sees you. And it hates you.

Is it right if you use Typhon abilities, that probably was torn out of Typhons through unethical experiments, and Neuromods tested on unwilling experimentees? Do you deserve to reap what you did not sow? And are you really that different, anyway? When they look at you, are you human too, or just pretending?

anyway listen to semi sacred geometry (it’s on spotify too but this is the version in the game) or may I suggest, into the tunnels? the first time I went into the GUTS, oh my god, I think I cried