#im going to go play minecraft and die in my hardcore now

[goldenwitherphoenix13]

(Sighs) no one asked for it, but Im gonna share it anyways because no ones asked for it and i want to put an end to this Canary curse debockal.

Here is my interpretation of Canary Jimmy in the life series, the canary curse and why i think the fandom has flanderised it. Its extensive, its repetitive, its probably inaccurate, but I want to both clear up confusion on what the curse is and then share my own interpretation. Spoilers below for today's session of Wild Life, if only brief.

The Canary in the coalmine is all about how when the Canary starts to go quiet or die, that there is danger about. There is poison in the air. That if the coal miners do not evacuate, then they will die.

And when Jimmy was seen bringing death wherever he went, or being out first in the first 4 seasons of the life series, people started to dub him as "the canary" and say he was cursed with "the canary curse". But I think the Canary curse has lost its meaning by now. Its been so consumed by the idea of it just being about Jimmy dying first that I think that we all forgot that it's first ever mention was during Scar, Grian and Joel's series, 100 hours in hardcore minecraft, was not solely about him dying first.

Let's recap.

Part way through the 100 hours series, Scar had to go and get some major surgery done, so he couldn't play on the server for a while. So, while Scar was away, Grian and Joel invited some other friends on to fill the void as they waited for their friend to return. The first friend they invited of was Jimmy and they decided to go to a woodland mansion where this resulted in Grian dying.

This event had happened not too long after the finale of Empires season 1, Where Jimmy (and Fwhip) had just accidentally destroyed the entire server, plunging all the kingdoms into a multitude of disasters and starting the event known as the rapture.

And, remember, this series occurred just after Last life, the second season of the life's series, had ended, where Jimmy had been out the series first twice.

It was ALL of these events that lead to the creation of the fandom dubbing Jimmy as a canary. And the Canary curse was born.

Jimmy then proceeded to die first for 2 more seasons of the life series. And that is when the canary became canon as multiple people started referring to Jimmy being cursed, including Jimmy himself, and Martyn wrote it into his lore. It's also where alot of the fans started to associate the curse with just the life series, not really remembering its connections other series.

Back to present day. Jimmy has now gone 2 seasons of the life series and an April fools special without dying first, which is amazing! I'm very proud of him for that! But the fandom feels divided on this, half of them saying him not dying first has broken the curse and now it can't be used as a headcanon anymore, and the other half saying how him breaking it is temporary or that it's only out the first stage and now he's doomed to die second. And to all of you I say... no. No it hasn't ruined the canary hybrid headcanons, no it hadn't been taken to stage 2, the canary curse was NEVER JUST about Jimmy dying first, because it was never just about the life series. The original canary comparisons mentioned Empires and 100 hours, and he never permadied first in either of those series.

Let's go back to the idiom. Canary in a coal mine.

This idiom is based of of a real life practice of taking living, breathing canaries into the coal mines. Coal miners wanted to keep down the costs of having to breed and buy new canaries every time one died, and didnt want to always leave the cute birds that kept them company to die. Its like just using a pet as death foder. They wanted to keep these birds alive for the sake of keeping costs lower and for not killing of the adorable birds. So what would they do? They made chambers to keep the birds alive after they passed out. Oxygen tanks or medicine chambers basically. The canaries didn't always die in the coal mines. They sometimes just got very sick to the point of fainting and passing out, but they could be saved. The canaries don't always need to die to be a warning. They just needed to go quiet. Coming close to death and being kept alive is still a functionable canary system.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

Jimmy isn't cursed as a canary to die first out of everyone. That was never the case. To me, the canary curse has always been about one thing.

The chaos after the canary falls silent. Not after it dies. After it falls silent, after it comes close to death. The curse was never for him. It was a curse on EVERYONE. And Jimmy turning red is enough to trigger it. Jimmy being close to death but not dead yet is enough to trigger the chaos. Jimmy is a canary. His curse was never to die, his curse was never even truly a curse. It was a warning that the games were in danger of ending. That the chaos had only just begun.

And do you know what the cherry on top of all of this is?

The Canary doesn't need to die at all for the coal miners to die.

There are many, many, many ways for coal miners to die in the coal mines. A cave in could crush them, they could find a massive cave that they could fall into, they could turn on and attack eachother. But the Canary can be spared. The Canary may die eventually. Gases or hunger or predators may find it. But it could be the last one to go when the circumstances line up.

It's why I still believe in Canary Jimmy, and why I think he can still win a life series simultaneously. Because it doesn't matter what place he comes at, the canary curse will always trigger. It was never about how Jimmy was "so bad at the game" that he died first. It was never about how the watchers kill him every season because its funny. It was about the death and destruction that hovered around him. The doomsday that chaos brings.

And do you know what's even better? Jimmy is completely unaware of this purpose. He thinks the curse was him dying first because that's what the fans made it out to be.

Jimmy broke this unlucky death streak, but he did not break the canary curse.

Because the canary curse was never JUST for him. It is EVERYONES problem.

Tldr; the canary curse has lost its original meaning and been flanderised to the point of people forgetting that its origins don't require Jimmy to die first and it doesnt need to end in tragedy. The Canary curse is just everyone's problem, including Jimmy, but also including everyone else, and no one has realised this yet. Not even Jimmy. They just think his curse is him dying. But he doesn't even need to die to let the "curse" activate. His presence is more than enough, and even with it he can still win. He's just gotta find the right time.

Anyway I'm done rambling, I hope you guys enjoy my thoughts, I'm going to go finish my Uni Presentation and Evaluations of my project!

[twiixr4kidz]

How about Scott Pilgrim characters (Mainly the league and Scott) playing minecraft with their S/O?

THIS OMG. HERE YOU GO ANON <33 i'm thinking of doing a part two with some more characters, so yall might wanna look out for that!!

Scott Pilgrim:

he considers himself somewhat of a "gaming professional"

that's how he puts it, at least

prefers survival because he likes the concept of it

"babeeeeeeeeeee can i set up the game??" he says, pouting like a 5 year old

he HATES hardcore

he makes a lot of fancy looking houses and will not show you how to make them

"cool right? no im not showing you how to make them. they're my secret, shhhhhhhhhhh"

Matthew Patel:

only plays creative

scared of mobs spawning and killing him

"WOAHHHH IS THAT AN ENDERMAN?? WAIT WHY IS HE COMING AT ME OH GOD AHHHHHHHHH"

insists minecraft must be some kind of horror game

"if this were real life, i'd survive so much better than this. i promise babe. i totally would. haha, totally..."

gives the world's really questionable names

"balls" "orphanage" "i hate pizza hut" "AJJJDIJSOIDJ99999"

believes in herobrine

accidentally causes raids in every single village you come across

Lucas Lee:

"tch, lame."

you're gonna have to beg him to play with you /hj

when you finally do get him to play, he's like a good luck charm

all of a sudden, you're coming across incredibly rare things

you'll point them out, and he just goes "oh shit, really?"

"so... how do you beat it?"

give him 2 hours and he'll figure it out eventually

Todd Ingram:

"a game? where i have to kill animals to survive? i'll pass"

you eventually get him to play with you, promising that you'll give him apples to help him survive

definitely gets hooked on it though

he really likes going into creative mode and exploring stuff with you

wants you to explain every biome, mob, literally everything you come across

absolutely fascinated

you've enticed him

Roxie Richter:

you BET she plays minecraft

she's probably the one to ask you to play with her, tbh

shows off all of her achievements

she's beaten the ender dragon and won't stop flexing it

she has a bunch of creative worlds with some of the most incredible things you've seen

fancy houses, villages, statues, things that looked like they took HOURS to make

and she'll show you how she did EVERYTHING if you really want her too

Kyle Katayanagi:

"oh, i know that game. never played it before though."

he definitely wants to check it out once you explain it to him

excitedly grabs a controller and asks you how to play

he figures it out within 10 minutes

you expected that you'd have to give him a walkthrough

"uh... what's that stuff i got?" you check his inventory and somehow he already has netherite

you stare at him in awe

he will dominate you at the game, whether you want him to or not

kicks ass at survival

and will spawn kill you

laughs at you if you die, and then immediately dies after because his guard dropped

Ken Katayanagi:

just like kyle, he's heard of it, but hasn't checked it out before

he thinks the concept is pretty cool, but he wants to watch you play it before he checks it out

watches you play intently

"oh... so that's what you have to do? can i try?"

king of avoiding getting killed by endermen

he LOVES mining

it's calming to him

his entire inventory is filled with pickaxes tbh

Gideon Graves:

"...isn't that a kids game?"

don't let his dismissive attitude get to you

show him the kinds of stuff you're doing or making and he's fascinated

"oh, i get it now. it's like a little simulation kinda thing..."

"you want me? to play with you? ugh... i suppose i could. but only for a little while."

he proceeds to play with you for over 6 hours, insisting that he was wrong and that his work wasn't important anyways

[lunatic-fandom-space]

Okay, you know how I said I wanted to watch all these german minecraft series and then watch 3rd Life SMP? Yea, I actually dont have the attention span to watch a bunch of white bread boys fuck around in minecraft with little to no story, regardless of wether theyre american or european so Im just gonna write this post and them start watching 3rd Life SMP so yeah.

First, I kinda want to discuss what Im hoping for on like, a meta-level I guess. The only other minecraft RP Ive watched that seems similar to this is Dream SMP so expect lots of comparisons.

I like to split dsmp into three major parts: no story/non-rp, story/non-rp and story/rp.

The first part was literally just a live streamed vanilla minecraft let's play and it was boring as shit. It felt exactly like watching a bunch of dudes play minecraft and unless they acknowledged the people in their donations (who could uncomfortably pushy and even shippy at times) you did not at all get the impression they were even aware of the stream. And as much as I appreciate some level of authenticity in this type of content, I also expect to be entertained by it and this did not even meet my bare minimum standard of entertainment. Admittedly, my attention span is very low so that definitely has something to do with it, but still. I personally have never felt anything but boredom and occasionally intense discomfort while watching anything from this 'era' of dsmp.

The second part was the start of the first conflict, and thus the start of some semblance of a story. They were kind of 'roleplaying' already (both in the sense that they obviously have their personas for their content and in sense that they didnt actually have grievances with one another and were just playing it up for the sake of entertainment) but it was more on the fly, even less focused and less serious. However, it was already legues more fun to watch.

And then we had the third part, where, starting with Wilbur Soot joining and deciding to larp Hamilton, they started to plan things out more and have more complex and/or dramatic conflicts. Needless to say, this was/is the best part in my opinion and what made me see the appeal of dsmp.

What Im hoping for 3rd Life SMP is, that they skip atleast the first part. From what I can tell, it was created sometime after dsmp has been in that third part for a bit and it is a minecraft rp, so Im assuming the people behind it wanted to do something similar, just with the story aspect there on purpose and from the get-go, if you know what I mean. And by the way, I dont think thats wrong or even "copying" in the slightest. Dsmp very much seems like a case of "they did it first, not best" and if anything, I think it would be a shame if people didn't want to do their own spin on this basic concept.

What Im personally hoping for in terms of the 'style' of roleplay itself, I really hope that they dont seperate it as rigidly into lore and non-lore as they did in dsmp. Ideally, they would do it like Ranboo (Wilbur when he was playing Ghostbur to an extend too, but he didnt actually stream and have his own POV back then), where he's always kinda 'In-Character' even when there isnt really anything happening in the plot at that moment. Again, I just dont have the attention span for no story in series like this anymore, so I'd appreciate it on a personal level, but I also think that it could humanize the characters more and potentially add additional depth to them. Especially since it looks like 3rd Life is made by the Hermitcraft group and if the stuff Ive read about Hermitcraft (especially in comparison to dsmp) it wont thrive off intense conflicts and wars in quite the same way, so that could also be a way of making a calmer rp interesting.

And now, some actual plot predictions!

So, the way I found 3rd Life SMP was this really neat 'Pitiful Children' animatic by ZylisticArt. I didnt actually 'watch' it because when I look up animatics I just kinda stare at the screen, not processing anything because Im too busy imagining my own OC animatic to the song, but I did read the description and was mildly intrigued, and its the main reason I wanted to watch 3rd Life so Im going to properly watch it now and post my predictions for the plot below.

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The description mentions something about the animatic being based on some kinda theory, but I only skimmed it in order to not get spoiled so idk what thats really about. Im mostly intrigued by the fact that the description mentions it being a hardcore SMP (with a twist!), that, combined with the name and the visuals of the animatkc lead me to a couple conclusions;

I dont really know how Hardcore mode works in multiplayer, but in singleplayer you just get permanently kicked out of your world when you die, so Im assuming it works like that on a server too, except on a server, Im pretty sure you have the option of being 'reinvited' onto a server by the admin(s) so you could theoretically have three lives while keeping it a hardcore project where you cant regenerate without potions or golden apples and all that. Again, idk if thats actually how hardcore works but I sure hope it is, because thats what Im basing pretty much all of my predictions on.

In the animatic there were like green people, yellow people and a red guy who was like, the antagonist I guess. I think the green guys still have all their lives, the yellow ones are down to two and the red lads are all down to their last one. Maybe theres gonna be a thing thats like, if you lose a life you lose a part of your soul and that makes you evil or something? Yknow, like the whole "character comes back wrong" thing, except its the conflict of the entire series. Pitiful Children is very much a 'Manipulating Others Into Doing Harmful Shit' kinda song, and I feel like that would be very in-line with a plotline like that, yknow?

Im not expecting there to be wars/conflicts on the scale of dsmp (no blown up countries here bois) but I am expecting to get ridiculously attached to a place that inevitably gets blown up/set on fire by an antagonist.

Speaking of antagonists, theyre definitely also doing the whole multiple POV thing, which means everyone is an antagonist in one way or another and Im a solutely watching every POV from every characters so that I know the full context and story of everything, so I can have the most correct opinions on them, which is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

Since these are the Hermitcraft guys Im expecting some beautiful builds that make me feel insanely untalented and the same thing with redstone shit.

Ghosts. If they havent added some kind of ghost mechanic/lore at the time Im writing this, they will add one in later, mark my words 3rd Life fandom, mark my words...

Thats pretty much it. This is all going under my mcyt tag too, and I dont think I'll be live blogging it, but it really depends on how interesting it is.

Also, if youre a 3rd Life fan who already watched all of it, the only thing youre allowed to respond to this with is a meme that is horribly incomprehensible to anyone who hasnt watched it.

Have a nice day!

[49scribes-a]

Lavi: I--

Kenny: Nah. Gotta take on one.

Lavi: Y'know what Lavi: zombie sized chickens

Ben: .....i dont kn o w Ben: are the chicken sized zombies still slow

Kenny: No, but they're dumber than the zombies.

Ben: ....ok then those

Lavi: dumber than? How so?

Kenny: Zombies still follow base instincts. They can track ya across a continent sometimes. Kenny: Chickens just. Sit there and be birds.

Ben: ...tho zombie sized chickens would. have a lot of meat on 'em. -NOW HES LEGIT THINKING ABT IT GG MIKE-

Lavi: True.

Kenny: ...True... Heh. It'd be a helluva lot of free food.

Ben: ...second thought, ill take those

Lavi: ........

Kenny: -lowkey la ug hs- easier to hunt too, 'cause theyre bigger

Lavi: helluva way to die

Kenny: Hah. Truth.

Ben: 'least no one would forget how you died

Kenny: Imagine tryin'a fry that though.

Kenny: naaah you gotta carve it up, right Kenny: skin it, cut it up

Lavi: yep

Ben: dry some of it

Kenny: Yeah, true.

Ben: youd be set for /so/ long

Lavi: okay so better question Lavi: would chicken sized zombies be fast? Lavi: because let me tell you Lavi: I've played Minecraft

Ben: -sn OR TS-

Lavi: *lavi y this*

Kenny: ... Kenny: Well... Kenny: They're /chickens/ Kenny: Of course they're quick.

Lavi: No I mean the zombies that are chicken-sized

Kenny: Ah. No. Kenny: They'd probably be slow as molasses. Like the Blob.

Lavi: *strokes chin* Hm... slow, small zambies, or a year's supply of chicken at the end of the world?

Kenny: They go at the average 'shuffle' speed. And they're...tiny. They'd probably go about a meter in one day. Hah.

Lavi: *snorts*

Sitara: ..so Sitara: what did I zone back to? - kinda gets off her phone- Sitara: why are we Sitara: talking about zombie chickens?

Ben: ...chicken sized zombies and zombie sized chickens -@sitara- Ben: which would you rather fight

Sitara: mmmm chicken sized zombies

Hige: I'd rather be eviscerated by a chicken than bit to death by toddlers.....

Ben: okok but zombie sized chickens Ben: think of all the food

Lavi: *laUGHS* Lavi: Same.

Kenny: All that delicious potential fried chicken. Hah.

Sitara: but you can kick Sitara: chicken sized zombies

Ben: ok but: food

Lavi: Okay but if they're just big chickens who says you even gotta fight 'em.

Kenny: ...Oh God she has a point.

Ben: ///food tho///

Sitara: but what if the meat is tainted?

Kenny: Imagine fuckin' punting one of the tiny bastards through a football goal.

Ben: ....when ur starving u dont care

Sitara: you'll care when you're dead

Lavi: Okay but isn't everyone infected anyway?

Ben: ...yeaaaah

Lavi: Okay okay but Lavi: Consider this

Kenny: ...maybe you'd build up an immunity -sno rts-

Hige: I don't know about you guys, but I'd be riding me a 6 foot tall chicken into battle.

Lavi: Human sized chickens lay really big eggs, probably??

Kenny: ...True!

Ben: likE I SAID, FOOD,

Sitara: ... it'd be like Final Fantasy

Kenny: Perfect food source.

Lavi: BEFREIND THE GIANT CHICKENS

Ben: e x a c t ly

Lavi: CREATE THE CHOCOBO RACE

Ben: new food source Ben: which i am SO down for

Kenny: ... Kenny: If I can manage to find any surviving scientists.

Lavi: I always said th' world needs more chocobos

Kenny: I will make them create a giant chicken.

Ben: if they aint working on a cure, get them to make huge chickens Lavi: Okay but if you got a bunch of Brahma chickens and selectively breed them you could probably do it without scientists

Ben: .....we just gotta find the chickens

Lavi: WE JUST GOTTA FIND THE CHICKENS

Kenny: Well...I ain't got chickens, but I have an eagle.

Ben: ...god if we didnt move around so much we could totally make this a thing?? but travelling w chickens Ben: would be hard Ben: ...theyre noisy

Sitara: just carry them Sitara: befriend them

Ben: like i said, noisy

Kenny: Like 'clucky cluck, come eat me zambo'

Ben: YEAH BASICALLY Ben: which no?? i dont need that

Sitara: cover their mouths

Ben: ...cover. their mouths. oh my god Ben: do you want me to tape it shut, sitara

Arvo: can i just mention how weird this conversation is

Sitara: yes

Arvo: bc it is

Ben: -hE LAUGHS- sor rR Y ARVO

Sitara: tape the beak Sitara: it's fine

Arvo: -sno Rts- n O JU ST Arvo: IT IS. VE RY RA ND om

Kenny: ...so arvo, how do you feel abt us finding chickens and carrying them around,

Sitara: don't be /chicken/

Ben: just,,, gonna tuck a chicken into the bag,,,,

Arvo: oh my go d -he l augh- i space out Arvo: for five mintues

Ben: we're adopting chickens, arvo

Kenny: Ah-ah, hol' up Ben. Kenny: You need the Chicken Adoption Papers.

Sitara: if Wrench can adopt a robot you guys can adopt chickens

Ben: ........the government has fallen apart Ben: i dont–– i dont think adoption papers mean anything Ben: -he laughs-

Kenny: I know. I'm fuckin' with ya. Kenny: -snickers-

Ben: ill just–– write it on a piece of paper Ben: 'i do what i want'

Kenny: Like Ron Swanson?

Ben: //rebel// Ben: ...yeah

Kenny: Heheh.

Sitara: ...Ben as a rebel Sitara: would be something

Ben: im hardcore!!

Lavi: *chasing chickens here chickie chickie chickies cOME TO DADDY*