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[madelinetess]

Minmaxed S1ep10 Highlights

I'm watching it as a treat for my 22nd b-day today so thank you Minmaxed <3

"The Pseudo-dragon incident" Yeah, we all know this Tater, but it does make for fabulous entertainment

Poop chute time!

Hold for sound shennanigans taking place once again ft. Jacques making silly faces at Tater sitting right in front of him

The fantasy plumbing does not have to make sense to you, it serves a dual purpose, ok?

"lizard. lizard.lizard.lizard."

"I got a lil bracelet :) Who's next?"

The armour of a fabled Hero H'im Bo makex you visibly stronger and happier but also kinda dumber

"I'm Clark's real best friend" Jacques, when I tell you you're on thin ice with one particular sword goblin (affectionate)...

"I have five swords that do things, and we're gonna find out together :)"

"We have microtransactions" Jacques pulling out a bundle of cash to purchase boosts

"Why do you have so many ones?" "Ask your mom"

"Gambling is good" Hahhauahuahahhaha!

"Can we fuck around a bit more?"

Clark Man: Into the Dookieverse

"Soup is also my favourite cleaning technique" It may just be a cartoon logic, but I believe it's quite effective against skunk gunk

Bensai: "Fascinating" Jacques: "Buckle up boys (and Megan) I'm about to break this universe's time and space continuum by talking aqueducts!"

"I'm certain these pipes can hold up Clark with all of his equipped armour and weapons :3"

"Have you ever watched those cave diving videos?"

Bloom: "Elf build, good for shoots" Clark: "Yeah, he shoots a bunch" Jacques: "What about ladders tho?"

Tubian tubularness could be a great name for a person in a fantasy universe

Can someone tell me if Faberge crystals are a thing? I have never encountered that term - Faberge eggs obviously but crystals are usually like... Natural, lab-grown or Swarovski (but I'm not a jeweller nor from and anglophone country so I might have missed the memo)

"There is a door that SOMEONE could have possibly wanted you to come through instead of breaking in through the swewr, yes. Why do you ask?"

"You can read, right?"

Sidenote, 'peruse' is such a fun word, I really like using it, sometimes you just have these words (in your own or foreign language) that scratch a weird itch

"What's an odd odour?" "Pine and mulch"

The quest for a misplaced artifact of fate, the speaker of alea, the agent of fortune (a missing dice) concluded in a success

Gasps of recognition "David, what is it?" "I don't know yet!"

Bovine intervention was so quick... Truly professional on their part. Also Tater's face...

Milk that Nat 20!!!! Yess! More cow jokes!

"It would have been helpful to know that Lord Gray was the bad guy all along... :)" Yes it would Clark, yes it would

"I'm not an intelligent man" "Even less so now"

Lord Gray exposition piece is dope, but it does make me think more about the doomsayer and how he and his wife fit in, but we'll see I guess

"I'm not smart, I don't need to know this"

"Insert the meme of like "We're gonna have to kill this guy" "Aw, man..."

The return of the sword that can cut through anything

"If that brings you joy, I'm happy for you"

The destruction of the altar makes me wanna use one of my favourite Polish words: Rozklockować (roughly, unbrick - it origiates from the Lego Movie (I think) and it is used for when the lego builds are disassembled by an external force, it has a similar feel to discombobulate and is among my favourite words, thank you for coming to my Ted talk)

New Stone WHO DIS!!!! The table devolves into giggles and laughs

Goblin mode David o.O

[marlsbys-dragons]

Hi yes please go on a rant who tf is shad?

Ok, so this is regarding this exchange that @blumineck literally just had so he might do his own explanation, but here's a brief rant about Shadiversity from someone who used to be a fan then got away before most people realized how awful he is.

I should clarify before I begin that this is mostly my opinion, and I'm not gonna bother to double check any of what I remember cause he's not worth the brainpower.

Also, trigger warning: discussion of child abuse and extremist ideologies (this TW also functions as a very basic TL;DR! Neat!)

Shadiversity is an Australian youtuber who started out in the HEMA/Medieval European history space, similar content to the likes of Skallagrim, Metatron, and more relevantly here, Blumineck or Sellsword Arts. I personally remember his castle architecture videos the best, but he covered a lot of related things and often touched on how fantasy books or movies handled or compared to real world historical stuff. I've heard some complaints about the accuracy of his information and supposed experience with HEMA, but I'm not educated enough in that space to really make a call either way.

But still, so far, so good, right? Well... not for much longer. See, Shad wrote a fantasy book, called Shadow of the Conqueror, citing among others Brandon Sanderson as a major influence (Shad is also a Mormon. No hate to Mormons, but this is not a good sign). I to this day love Brandon, but I was a big enough fan of Shad's that I actually got my library to buy a copy when it released.

And. It. Sucked.

I'm theoretically a writer, so I have a lot of thoughts about the quality of his writing and Worldbuilding, but I'll avoid getting into that and just focus on the problematic elements. Long story short, his main character was the leader of a rebellion in the style of fantasy communism or maybe the French revolution, became a bloodthirsty mass-murdering tyrant (I do not have a problem with any of that), and then once he became ruler or whatever, began sleeping with 14 year old girls who his advisors kidnapped at swordpoint.

The book REPEATEDLY says that the age of consent was 14, and he was having mental issues and maybe drinking or doing drugs and his advisors were manipulating them so really it's not that bad. Like seriously, despite the guy being supposedly suicidal with guilt over all this, any time it's actually discussed (which is almost constantly), all these supposedly mitigating factors are reiterated by the text, clearly trying to make us the readers THINK HE'S OVERREACTING AND FEEL SORRY FOR HIM.

Did I mention one of the other main characters is one of his victims? How about that she's explicitly horribly traumatized, but the book treats this as somewhere between her being a bitch and being weak? Or that she's forced to forgive him (after travelling with her abuser for idk how long without knowing) because he just apologized so hard and so well you guys, plus he's somehow the most powerful/dangerous person in the world and if she doesn't say it's ok that he raped her then he won't be able to save the day, because he's just sooooo depressed.

So yeah, that turned my stomach and I unsubscribed immediately lol.

Now this happened ages ago, Shadow was published in 2019, so imagine my surprise when I randomly remember all this, look online wanting to make sure other people were as squicked out as I was, and find out he's apparently gone fullll right wing grifter.

He's pro Trump (Again, Shad is an AUSSIE), he made a huge fuss about Peach wearing pants in the first Super Mario movie, he's extremely pro AI (his brother is Jazza, a pretty popular online artist so... yikes), and in general he's just devolved into right wing stupidity, trying to start beef for a little attention, collabing with extremist influencers, attacking his viewers if they don't agree with him, all the good shit.

It's a mess, and he's an asshole

Actual TL;DR: Shad is Shadiversity, a right wing Mormon creator who at least nominally makes similar content to Blumineck, and who has written a mid fantasy novel that's mostly child predator apologia, is pro AI, anti-vax, extremely misogynistic, and basically all the usual things you expect from right wing online personalities.

Blumineck in no way deserves the comparison, he's a good and cool person, Shad is an evil pile of roughly person shaped offal with an overinflated ego.

Fin.

Tagging people who asked for this rant:

@food4dead @thisthatwhenwhere @bring-us-back-light

[madelinetess]

Minmaxed S1e09 highlights list!

We're back baby, let's go!

The recap makes me wonder if the wife is actually the fertility/harvest deity... we'll see

"Hold the room tone!" *Jacques makes the funniest and most contorted faces at Tater, who sits right across him

David has a splinter and for a second I though the game itself decided to go meta and nature is fighting the players as well as the PCs but it's a fictional splinter, I think...

very elderly, magnificently elderly, violently elderly...

"Husband. We figured it out"

Jacques making sure they're getting credit for the fight

"A younger man, you go girl" David!

"I believe in making it hard" Jacques scores with David's assist

SLAYYYYYYERRRRRR!

Bloom channeling a British football chant energy to lead a guy who is now just happy to yell stuff away

A yo mama joke from Jacques again followed by reclaiming of the title of "Sellshire Slayer"

Fried waters mentioned again

"Is it less capitalistic all of a sudden?" "Uh..."

Thet moment when Tater has to try and remember why Bensei/Bensai is holding his hands above his face (it's just a highlight for me, no particular reason other than the fact that I liked it)

Moral dilemma of "Do I wanna beat up an old guy or a kid" (Jacques being the devil? neutral advisor? on David's shoulder telling him to go for the kid)

Dear reader, Jacques then proceeded to not actually support the decision to beat up the child

David v a 5yo girlchild... The way she is described in the protective gear...

Sneak attack on the child! This is the moment when he finally gets how it works?

"Because of the... floppy... tip..." People at the table try not to lose it, they are failing

Tater: moving on, David: "Oh, I'm not done" -> he basically goes "I want that [child] obliterated

Child had been safe (not obliterated, she got delicately set down and patted on the head)

Avatar Cabbage man joke? Did I get that right? I loved that!

David-Jacques bonding via silly faces

Pet shop, they were so happy

We got our answer to what animal would Jacques' fursona be (I can't believe I actually wrote this out, also insane pull on the shorts today bc I just got served that video a few hours ago and it is fresh in my mind again)

"We're gonna put a monocle on the pet shop guy"

Jacques finally making good on his promise to name a person and/or thing "N*than"

Tater could however use the typical pet owner strategy of morphing the name into something that is very hard to believe came from the original name ending the chain at "lil bastard" or sth. There will be a chance for that if he either thought of that when they recorded the first season or if he somehow sees this suggestion somewhere before filming season 2

"Fourteen" "Hmm"

"I give the turkey leg to my dagger" "My dagger's hungry"

David holding the two turkey legs, eating none of them, just feeding his friends like the parrot seed stick feeder thing (I had a parrot, we gave him those, I don't even know the name for it in my native language)

*deep voice* "Um, yummy"

When somebody makes "Top 5 shadow daggy lines" video, please send it to me (I should learn how to make video edits...)

Throwing shade at N*than via the fictional animal

"That seems like a pretty valid use of the orange goo"

"What's the worst that could happen?" "Do you push or pull the door?" "..." "Do a strength check" "Is it a handle or a knob?" "It swings both ways"

Jacques using his knowledge for good (?) (Maybe not relatively to Tater)

"I see you've found the catalogue"

The confetti <3

Bensei describing the sticky hand that Bensai has

"I'm happy to help you test things" gives me the 'famous last words' energy

"I feel the need to warn you not to drink it"

"Is that normal?" "No. If it is normal, I'm concerned for you."

Nope, never met a warlock in our lives, ha ha!

"You gotta start treating yourself better, take time off work" "Yeah, play a game with your friends"

Clark trying to get David to steal the ALREADY DISCOUNTED SWORDS

"Is your armour dirty? is your cloak billowing?" (Mom, can we get artefacts on our way home? No hun, we have magical items at home.)

I would never Dare accuse MM of metagaming

Mystery item bundle, buy now, open later (takes time to ship it to you, even though you bought it at the physical location)

How are we only at the halfway point? Also, Clark be Clarkin' it

"We have drones and radios in my heist"

"As you go down into the sewer you can see..." "The doomsayer." "Gunk."

"If he can say yeet, I can say dookie" - Yes, yes you can, please give me more fun, memeable words, they are the best words and if I learn a new one? Oh boy oh boy (I am a dice goblin but if the dice are words)

"You navigate the poop maze perfectly" "Have you done that before?" "Once or twice..."

Lord Gray is watching you poop

Giant anime sword callback

"You are at a place that I want you to be but you're coming at it from an angle that I was grossly unprepared for"

Heist time in two weeks! Lovely <3 Love heists

[blumineck]

Bluminarmour Project Update (sorry for the croaky voice)

Hey folks, it is with great sadness that I need to let you know that it looks like the Bluminarmour Project on Kickstarter is going to have to take a backwards step. Due to some communication issues with one of the people I was working with on the project, there has been a copyright dispute that has resulted in its suspension.

Unfortunately after several days of communication with Kickstarter and the affected parties, it seems like the best way to proceed will be to first ensure that Kickstarter refunds all backers, and then cancel the project and begin again. Obviously I will update you all if anything changes but for now this seems to be the best option.

I do have an armourer that I’m very excited to work with moving forward, and I still want to do this the best way that I can, but that means I need to take a different approach for now.

I’m extremely grateful to everyone for the support, and apologise for the inconvenience and concern. You’re all awesome, and I still hope to be able to meet as many expectations as possible with this project when I can!

[workingonit-currently]

Min-Maxed ep 8!

[starribyrd]

tumblr bugs are great because they cause things like this. Get the fuck out the way pole dancing archer twunk, there's ps1 punk girls making out sloppy style, I'll look at you after that. Get back in line.

[pricklylittleloaf]

An Archer’s Guide to Archery

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You get it by now: Go sign up! (If you want. Really this is an excuse to make memes to promote the sign-up.)