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hiii I'm al, 20s, white, & he/she/they prns ^_^

longtime listener, first time caller - aka I've been lurking on mcyt tumblr since like 2019 but have only worked up the courage (or desperation??) to make a side blog now :)

honestly can't say if there'll be explict/nsfw stuff here, but it'll prolly get at least rpf adjacent

ok everybody go watch etho's project ozone 2 and a team canada series NOW 🫵

#pinned

tomorrowillbeyou

When will we get another epm episode with interesting technical developments and experimentation

#literallyyyyyyyyyyy #Etho you need to make another farm that prioritizes using interesting game mechanics over max efficiency/the generally accepted and expected #ways of doing things #cmooooon you know you want to make a fun farm that requires lots of problem solving and innovation #you’d have so much fun who caaaares abt the ppl in your audience who don’t like that do it for yourself and also for me #also ☝️ I want another modded series it’s been so long and I want it to be on the more technical side

tomorrowillbeyou

"i need a shulker farm" OH SO THE SHULKER REACTOR IS JUST SMALL POTATOES. ITS NOT THAT IMPORTANCE.

#FUCK I NEED TO WATCH THE NEW VIDEO #ETHO MAKE ANOTHER SHULKER REACTOR AND BE REINCARNATED AS A LOTUS GOD WHEN WILL MY WIFE RETURJ TO WM

froglightz

i do fear she has overcommitted in her letsplay again

#she would neverrrrr #just wait until the tour in a few months and we’ll see how few unfinished projects there are #it’s gotta be like. 4 max #totally

ethocomments

liloinkoink

Hey What

sarioh

22 seconds · Clipped by rio ^_^ · Original video "ARK Survival Evolved #26: Penguins & Angler Fish" by EthosLab

cobblestone-butch

"stop trying to find loopholes, I will just make up the rules" is the difference between grian (who said it) and etho (one of the people he said it to)

cobblestone-butch

tags from @sparksagainstthesun:

this is exactly how I've felt about it!!! like they're both about entertainment and subversion of the expected rules of play but for etho the confines, the in-between of those rules are what drives the creativity and for grian it's the anticipation of the snap when you bend the rules and the aftermath of what happens when they break

#love this post #I think abt it a lot in respect to how Etho approaches a lot of social/rp dynamics #I think shade e e’s is a really good example here of how Etho likes to create entertainment thru loopholes and not-quite breaking your word #(also yes op this was the post i was thinking abt ty for rbing it again <3)

hermitcraft season seven is like a dead wife to me

#I could elaborate on this in several different ways but I shan’t #she does mean the world to me tho #mine(craft)

shade-e-es

New header, here’s the full image!!! Deltarune shop style <3

cobblestone-butch

typing from memory so I'm bound to miss or misremember something but: a couple of my favourite Etho moments from LimLife are exclusive to povs that aren't his because they're largely just moments of Etho expressing frustration.

The first is when Gem (as Cleo) unceremoniously kills him maybe a second time after he goes to the clockers for 'family dinner'. Bdubs does warn Etho about his impending death but what bothers Etho is that he was playing into a creative roleplay angle and essentially got punished for playing along. The second is similar, when he tells Scar he's about to break character, because again he's playing into the dad character trying to play around with his sons and is instead being hit a bunch for it in ways he doesn't see as befitting the scene or framework. I think this tells us a bit about Etho's concept for the function of improv in the series and its relationship to the death game competition they are all participating in.

It's also further substantiated by Wild Life, where Etho talks to both allies and enemies about events from his perspective and the upcoming plans, namely that he will go along with riding Scar's very-obviously-a-trap 'rollercoaster'. iirc Etho doesn't actually call out the game being played here explicitly, but he evidently wants to give Scar a payoff for what has largely been a season-long plan with team skin theming that hasn't really amounted to a substantial effect. Etho knows the rollercoaster is likely to kill him, knows Scar in particular likes to kill him, and still chooses to play along because of the value Etho has placed on improv and creativity for the series.

The LimLife death frustration isn't from dying, but from how rote, uncreative, and therefore meaningless it is. I think these moments of minor frustration are really interesting to me because it's reflective of Etho's thoughts for what the life series is, where it's value is, and what his place in it 'should' be - it isn't just a logistical or detached choice but instead a mindset he plays in that can drive emotions in him if things get misaligned, negative emotions which he doesn't want to indulge in as part of a character development, which i dont think is necessarily true of everyone.

cobblestone-butch

tags from @draculism:

really good examples that didn't immediately come to mind!! I think what's telling through all of these is that Etho is an active collaborator who sets up scenarios to be knocked down. I think when I've seen some people discuss Scar's play they refer to this as somewhat intentional manipulation of the social setting in order to have people "yes, and" to their death, and while I really can see that read I think it's worth saying that in Etho's case it's clear that he also lets himself be the one disadvantaged by it very often, confirming that this isn't just to get ahead in the game. I imagine Scar would also feel similarly about this. I also like that Etho's sense of good sport, as Jon put it, is something he has feelings about! It's a social contract within a game that has explicit and implicit social rules, and when he felt that it was broken, it became frustrating. It speaks to his sense of fair play and improv collaboration, because it is something you have to actively work at rather than let passively become just hitting each other with swords (as much as I think we're due some more of that especially in the end game).

#to me the way Etho approaches rp/improv is another facet of how he’ll bed rules but won’t break them #*bend #where’s that post abt how Etho finds entertainment value in working under/around the constraint of rules whereas grian finds entertainment #in ‘subverting expectations’ and breaking the rules altogether