#we can make some rational assumptions and best guesses and whatnot

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

statistics and astrology both operate on the magical principle of cosmic sympathy. they each have their uses for prediction but are obviously limited (by chaos, error, outdated assumptions, biased interpretation, etc).

[ranboo5]

ever since the stream ended i’ve been trying to rationalize why (from a character standpoint) techno acted Like That and everything i’ve come up with has been lackluster at best and downright inaccurate at worst. like “eret is an unknown factor” doesn’t make sense, “he was overwhelmed by stress/emotion” and “he was really angry so he wasn’t thinking straight” both ignore precedent to at least some extent, “he’s just a hypocrite” not only ignores precedent but ALSO leaves techno’s remarkably consistent ideological stance completely unacknowledged!!!! i guess there’s the argument that people aren’t walking talking ideology machines but imo that feels pretty weak, especially with an action so extreme as locking someone in prison. like, it’s not even that such an action isn’t anarchist so much as it’s just not something techno would do. i can hand wave that stupid dictator line as just hyperbole or speaking without thinking or something (as much as i don’t like it) but with the prison thing it’s just sitting there and i can’t rationalize it! of course i know that there were probably scrip reasons why things had to go the way they did and i’m all for analysis in the context and constraints of the medium and whatnot but at the same time i just care so much more about character analysis and understanding why they do the things they do with the assumption that their world is more than just narrative convenience. ALSO it felt like this stream had so much in it that was just brushed over? like when techno eret and tubbo were confronting sam it felt like there was so much that wasn’t being said. and doubly so for the section with ranboo at the end like WHAT? WHERE’S THE REST? WHY AREN’T YOU TALKING TO EACHOTHER???? honestly, and this might just be personal preference, but what i love so much about roleplay isn’t the big set pieces or events it’s the character interactions and how the narrative spins out from them. like i don’t intrinsically care about sam being put in prison, especially if it feels like the characters are acting in service of that (or any event!!!) being the foregone conclusion. i care about how characters and groups interact with each other and their situations and seeing how the plot unfolds organically from there. sorry for the long rant i just had so much i wanted to say

NO YOU'RE SO RIGHT. LIKETHIS STREAM WAS CHARACTER ASSASSINATION FOR REAL LIKE ACTUALLY LITERALLY #NOTMYCTECHNO

AS TO THE END PART W/ RANBOO LIKE... YEAH. LIKE GHOSTBOO EXISTS AWESOME COOL I CRIED BRIEFLY BUT THEN LIKE. OKAY WHAT

THE STREAM WAS CALLED AVENGING RANBOO WE SHOULD'VE FELT RANBOO'S PRESENCE THROUGHOUT AND WE GOT NONE OF THAT I GOT 20 SECONDS OF PEERPRESSURE TEARS AND AN HOUR OF "WHO THE HELL IS THIS"