#it isnt really ranboo neg but just in case yknow?

[enderwoah]

hmmmm many thoughts about cc!ranboo right now

gonna preface this by saying that ranboo is one of my favorite if not my favorite ccs atm and that i really respect what he's done and am very proud of how much he's grown over the past nine or so months

that being said. i cannot stand the amount of hypocrisy that this man has in his frigid cold takes about how lore works on the smp

ranboo is known for complaining that semi-lore doesn't really happen all that often on the smp anymore and that he wishes that people could just approach each other and start rp interactions like how it used to be. i agree with the fact that semi-lore is really fun!!! i love it myself and i wish people did more of it...but here's the thing. ranboo says that he wishes there was more semi-lore and then proceeds to have his in-game chat off 85% of the time, only do grinding streams, and almost never go into the main area of the smp where the majority of the people are. he says that nobody logs on anymore, but when punz and purpled are having more in character interactions with other people than you are, you've gotta start questioning whether you're right about that or not.

as we've seen with phil, "in-character interactions" and "semi-lore" can literally just be talking through game chat -- that's canon enough for the fans, and it's fun to do.

he talks about pre-recorded lore like its a disease and swears to never do it, but it's literally only q and karl that do that and it's simply because that is the form of presentation of lore they feel the most comfortable with. very few people actually prefer one over the other -- we like semi-lore, live heavy lore, pre-recorded heavy lore -- it's all good. none are better or worse than the others because they all have their ups and downs.

i think he just has to understand that any lore, heavy lore usually but also semi-lore is a two-way street. he says that he doesn't want to dm people on discord to do lore, which is totally understandable, fair, and valid!!...but the lore he's preaching about doesn't require dms (or at least, he doesn't want it to). there are so many people that would be willing to strike up an in-character conversation with you if you actually went anywhere on the smp where people are. or if, y'know, you could actually talk in game chat and then move to vc.

for example, foolish!! foolish is a master of semi-lore, he'll dip into character when a dono asks something about it and then flip right back into ooc in the next minute! foolish would be! very willing to talk to c!ranboo! hey, y'know that entire mansion he built for you?? go over there and talk to him about that! hell, even the bee 'n' boo hotel streams were a decent bit of semi-canon that we could appreciate! why don't you go out and finish that, or maybe decorate the empty mansion that foolish worked on for a month!!

he has so many avenues out of the situation he's talked about and just chooses to,,,complain about it and y'know i love him as much as the next guy but my man...it ain't that hard to strike up a conversation in character. especially for you of all people.

/lh /nm

(6/8/21)