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[lyinginbedmon]

B-banned Minecraft mod??

Okay I can probably explain it here, so:

During Minecraft version 1.12.2 there was a mod called Kidnap.

It mainly dealt in adding ways to hinder other players (as one might expect from the name) in terms of how they could move around, what they could interact with, and to an extent even how they were able to use ingame chat. But for game balance, and in a stroke of genius game design, everything you could do to someone else, they could oppose, even without specialised tools. They could struggle out of being tied up, they could pick the locks on their manacles, so on and so forth. This meant that despite the mod giving you ample ways to debilitate your fellow Steve, they always had some way to respond to it.

Additionally, you could counter-act their escape efforts by checking up on their restraints regularly, which created a kind of emergent mind-game mechanic as abductees tried to outwit their captors and escape (or just wait for them to log off). The captor in turn had to stick around to ensure their prey didn't disappear from under their nose. The restraints were also very rarely absolute, even gagged you could type gibberish into chat.

If you haven't yet spotted the problem here, well... Kidnap was a BDSM fetish mod, and it did NOTHING to hide that fact. The basic rope binding was straight-up fetish knots, there was a variety of ball gags to use, there was even blatant slave/domme mechanics you could enact on your captives.

Mojang quite swiftly caught wind of this, and in a move unheard of before or since they stepped in and forced the one-man mod team for Kidnap to pull it offline in very short order. Almost overnight the mod became vaporware, nowadays even the wiki is barely visible on Archive.org, and it took me a good while even to identify the screen name of the author. From what I gather, Mojang were so intimidating that they deleted the source and basically quit modding altogether after that.

There's basically nowhere to find Kidnap in a downloadable form, though there are copies floating around outside the anglosphere and foreign language mod showcases for it still pop up on YouTube occasionally. As they say, nothing ever quite leaves the Internet.

At time of writing Minecraft is marching towards version 1.21, and in the intervening time absolutely no mod has ever come close to replicating the game design elegance that Kidnap did. For a lot of projects, it continues to be a tough question of how to impede players without utterly spoiling their play experience. Most of the time it's either done with status effects that can't be meaningfully opposed or by keeping the stats low or just giving up all pretense and hosing the unfortunate recipient.

But in a kind of Streisand Effect, Mojang stepping in to squash one brilliant mod with a proud and upfront adult thematic did more for it than the author likely ever could: It created a legend.

[isawthismeme]

She’s brown and a democrat, gotta get that birth certificate, that we’ll call fake news anyway. Apparently, if you can’t win in a fight, you gotta at least try to get your opponent disqualified.

Sad and weird.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

getting back into the untamed and i had a thought. / follow for more yllz babygirlism

[slingbats]

some headcanon stuff a little bit, I'm pretty sure her natural hair is either shaved or veryyyy short but I couldn't imagine she'd do anything without wearing some kind of head covering so I didn't actually depict this at all you'll just have to trust me teehee

[bread-that-draws]

Flowey’s so funny and has me so fucked up like he’s a talking flower. He tries to kill you upon your first interaction. He is ten years old. He is damaged beyond repair. He’s a flower named Flowey. He’s become friends with every single character. He’s killed all of them countless times. He knows everything about everyone. He doesn’t care anymore. He takes care of his mom when she can’t take care of herself. He’s killed her before. He doesn’t care if you kill her. He thinks she’s trying to replace him. He just wants to be himself again. He wants to destroy everything. He hates you. You’re the only one who understands him. He wants his best friend back. He’s terrified of them. He believes in kill or be killed because he died by giving mercy to the wrong person. He believes himself to be the wrong person. He doesn’t understand when you show him that kindness he showed others, even when you know he could kill you for it. He’s tried every route. He asks you if you have anything better to do when you try to do the same. He’s a direct reflection of the player. He’s a fucking talking flower named flowey and his only voice line is by Ronald McDonald and his officially licensed plush does a little dance for you

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS

[hitwiththetmnt]

Will the turts take a wish from totally reliable wish dragon Dai?

They will, once they can get them back (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵) @sweeneydino

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

When exactly will we see Lapis and Peridot again?

You'll see them on 2025, August 21st, 6:03PM PST exactly.

[zivazivc]

The Floyd JD and Branch sitcom in your head is the funniest show I’ve never seen

can the third movie's spin-off series just be this please?

[lyinginbedmon]

When Lying doesn't have to do anything:

Fae's Day Off

[isawthismeme]

[pseudophan]

do you think philslion was Dan?

ok so i've always gone very back and forth on this, like any time i've read through the account i've been convinced it's dan but then as time passes i'm like ehh. probably not. and then i read the tweets again and am like hm.. no it is though...

@dnpbeats' masterdoc is a great read, if anyone's missed that somehow i recommend it, but i think for me there's only really one piece of evidence that usually has me leaning towards yes it was dan

without this one tweet, there's still a lot of interesting tidbits that suggest it could be, and all grouped together you get a picture that's like... well it would make sense! but it's kinda 50/50 cause i can pretty easily explain away most of it. some of it would be pretty big coincidences but not at all unheard of.

but obviously the kicker is

like, literally just disregard everything else actually. this is the one i can never get past because i just can't wrap my head around any explanation that would make sense because? lol? i month you? on nov 19th? come on.

also one thing i actually never realised until i read emma's doc is that phil retweeted that as well. which.... yeah.....

so i guess ultimately i do think it was dan. but i also think he's more likely to show full hole on the internet than he is to admit to this because that is so embarrassing LMAO. he can have his jokes about how he's a phil stan account but i just can't see him actually admit he ran a genuine honest to god amazingphil lion roleplay twitter, before they even talked to each other once. like he will take that to the grave. this is a challenge howell i dare you to admit it you loser

[14dayswithyou]

Meowdy Saint! ^^

This questions been brewing in my head for a while, how would Ren turn out if he never met Angel? Ignore this if it’s been answered! :)

✦゜ANSWERED: It'd have to be in a universe where Angel doesn't exist, seeing as almost 90% of Ren's childhood and backstory involve meeting them ^^

However, if he had never met Angel (or they never existed), then Ren would most likely become a yandere for River instead! And if not River, then Olivia.

[buwheal]

Hello, Spamton!

How's life? Also, do you have any opinions on the Addisons? (Pink, blue, orange, and yellow)

If so, what do you think of them?

[eddiegettingshot]

“i guess so” was so insane of buck to say. what do you mean you guess so. there was no reason to respond like that. why not just say yeah. YEAH. YOUR ATTENTION. what was the point of i guess so. he looks soooo relieved to have an answer for his feelings but he’s saying i guess so. girl what. what! you’re guessing? you still don’t know for sure? he’s standing in front of you and you still can’t conjure up an emphatic yes? you’re acting in ways so strange your sister is baffled? you don’t even know why your father figure would approve of your relationship? you don’t know what you’re ready for? you don’t know why you lied to your best friend or why you hurt him? you’re just not certain of anything? “i guess so” WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY KNOW!!!