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"omg did you know the hopper clock was invented so that etho s. lab could give his invention wilson a working heart, so it's like this immense act of love" no i didn't because he invented the hopper clock to have a thing to do unethical experiments about how neglectful can you be to a tamagotchi before it dies. for funzies. the hopper clock is tool of evil. so jot that down
i think it's fun that etho is making "mutual stealing" his thing with bdubs this season. bdubs has been doing "my patented etho hopper clock" jokes for years but etho is making such a point of it lately. s10 bdubs had to emotionally support him when suggesting floor texture, s11 etho's saying i'm stealing this floor texture from bdubs. "stealing" moss from bdubs as if bdubs didn't make etho only using bdubs' moss his entire personality for a hot minute. that's my famous leaf trick (lying) abt bdubs' forest floor. leaving notes to rub it in that he's stealing even though, again, bdubs is begging him to take things and does it reciprocally. they're always fighting for the lowest spot on the power dynamic which is itself a kind of power. but why's he gotta sound so enamored the whole time
was looking something up and it is so evident that etho's always been lying about choosing kakashi randomly or bc of the level of detail because when he explains how he used to troll people in worms by using cheats to make his name and team a perfect replica of the other person's just to confuse and piss them off. that's copy ninja shit. that is kakashi behavior. you watched naruto and even IF you retained nothing else you remembered the fucking copy ninja ^_^ troll with a tragic backstory and weird offputting aura that everyone loves and went yeah. anyway call me ersatz (that means copy)
more people should watch tfc/tfp/project ozone bc my favorite etho is the totally absent from fanworks but very charming focused mansplainer arrogant to a fault etho. He lovessssss explaining complex processes and making calculated risks that end in him getting mauled by bears or whatever and you realize that his public setting humility is not low self esteem but a really funny clear eyed self assessment that mostly works. Except when it leads to him getting mauled by bears or schooled by even more mansplainy modpack grinders in the comments. Which he loves bc he is a freak who loves his insane comment section
the most etho shit of the whole episode was probably him using flashback to multitask both doing a timelapse while also real time voice over camera controlling like he was in f4 freecam at normal pace while his guy is still in superfast buildmode behind him then returning to normal timelapse camera tracking. guy who has insane habits but isnt opposed to new tech but Will be even weirder with it when forced to change
i do think a really missable etho trait that is defining to me is that. you may think he's a luddite or opposed to changing his routine on principle. and it's true that he's really prone to doing things whatever fucked up way he's used to. but also he's very adaptable and will pick up whatever new way of doing things with no fanfare at all. so whichever part is more obvious to you makes the other half more consternating. but it's like, if it ain't broke don't fix it - and what is "broken" and what is "beyond repair" is contextual.
he also micromanages contexts if he has control over them so you get tricked into thinking oh he's like This - not exactly, the LP's constraints definitely produce habits such as not using even vanilla-adjacent mods because it's an original Rule or whatever but the moment he isn't controlling the context/has to adapt it's like well here comes freecam and flashback segments in hermitcraft! because the Rules are actually crafted for the audience's sake/engagement.
ultimately he's a guy who puts insane amounts of effort into being maximally lazy. he'll collect 5 stacks every block in the game for his ender chest system at the start of every season... so he won't need to build things first in creative and again in survival. he will "fix" his stupid out-of-production headset until he literally can't anymore so as not to have to deal with replacing it and if the replacement is too much work he'll go back to the garbage familiar thing. it is perfectly logical if and only if you have the exact same preferences, constraints, and habits as etho. but fortunately he also loves pissing people off by being weird and off-putting. so he has very little incentive to change/actually make people understand.
why that font choice. etho. also "wario wares"? wario wares. the wares of wario
what is this terrafirmacraft with the way etho is telling stories about his daily life struggles ? that are also very strange?
