#minecraft man rambles

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I never understood fascination with blob skin Minecraft characters and then I started watching Zam and now every time I pick up a pencil I'm like damnit I want to draw the little yellow blob guy again. Ideal shape tbh

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minecrafts updates or drops or whatever

honestly i know on the surface theres not huge amounts exciting about this next update/drop or whatever theyre calling them rn. (honestly im calling them updates sure, 1.21.5) but i really like the direction its heading.

i'll be real i don't have strong opinions on the movement thing but i'm glad community wise it was reverted, mojang really need to work on their communcation game. ignoring those changes,

they're making a lot of what people would know as the "optifine texture pack" features a thing in vanilla, resource packs will be able to like, change textures based on names and enchantment on items. Animals can have spawn variants based on biome temperature and also just like, different variants built in. and this is probably just the start!

oh and blocking with swords and maybe other items coming back? damage blocked being changable? sick, fire, amazing I love it.

idk theres a lot of underlying changes i think are really useful for the game as a platform for creation which is the best way to look at minecraft :3

excited to see where they go with this stuff, yipeee for data driven things

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random thoughts on whitepine & minecraft rp

Honestly one of the things I like sm about Minecraft storytelling/roleplay in general is when people do just, use their own skins/character designs.

Like Whitepine is a period drama with multiple furries and it doesn't need to be addressed because thats just how it is when the medium you use to tell your story is a platform like Minecraft.

And like it just works, I don't have any exact words to describe why it works, but I know for me it just does.

Genuinely Whitepine is off to such a cool start, the eerie atmosphere, wp!ivory gives me Violet Evergarden vibes with the whole, like, unasumed talent? (Granted very different talents but the idea is still there) I can't wait to see where it goes and also I want to buy the poster so badly.

More people should use Minecraft as a story telling medium and not just in the SMP context I think that would be cool.

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minecraft movie thoughts n stuff

okay finally digested that movie time to ramble although i don't know how much i have to say! usual stuff applies, this isn't a thought out essay this is me rapid fire typing thoughts as i think them.

first, yes it was aimed at kids, kids might even enjoy it, but as someone else said, my dog enjoys eating shit i'd be an asshole if i fed it to her. kids deserve better movies! i don't think it should've been live action but thats like, it was live action and here we are.

a friend of mine said the movie felt like a funny moment compilation for a movie that didn't exist and i really couldn't agree with the sentiment more. the timeline of the movie is like a day even in a weird minecrafty world that not physically enough time for much development, we barely get to know the characters or the world.

also the isekai stuff is just annoying in general, why at the end of every story is it "oh we must go back to the real world" like, none of them were actively benefiting from that choice, the movie went out of its way to establish that most of them didn't have any real-world connections to go back to aside from each other who all could have stayed anyway!

the movie fundamentally doesn't want to take minecraft seriously to any degree, which means the weird tone changes when they need to have a serious moment like discussing the Dead Mother and presumably Absent Father (who isn't mentioned) giving everyone whiplash. the "beauty" of the Overworld is purely surface visuals, it isn't about the deeper aspects of creation, the stories something as open as Minecraft lets you tell, etc.

i appreciate the technoblade moment, glad that was done how it was, he'd hate the movie but damn would he love the clout.

it has funny moments, theres comedic value in the movie especially if you go in with like, lower-than-floor level expectations, i wouldn't say the movie itself is funny overall because its impossible not to notice how bad it is.

also it felt like they wanted what [arcane S2 spoilers] viktor and jayce had for garret and steve in that they wanted a weird undefined relationship between them but viktor jayce made it work because they became space and time gods together and just skipped dating altogether, steve and garret didn't have that. they should've stayed in the overworld together or something idk. i do still ship it though don't fight me i won't engage.

i had a fun cinema experience, i went with like 20 people, some close friends who are as invested in minecraft as me, we struggled our way through the whole thing, screamed about how bad it was in a pub after until we were the only people left in the pub.

but just, what was the plot they wanted, it feels like the whole movie was just "and then".

summary: movie didn't want to acknowledge the games true nature as a powerful media that has build incredible communities, it wanted to take the "creative game" and use it for laughs at the funny things people can make. 5/10 and thats probably only because i enjoyed the cinema experience and its so bad its laughable.

don't destroy your local theatre when steve says chicken jockey, for good minecraft tv content watch WHITEPINE by IvoryTV btw.

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got to meet some lifestealers and kristin+philza at twitchcon!! It was so much fun omg! It is really cool meeting people you've been watching for years in person but kinda impossible to find the words to say to them yaknow, anyway yeah gamers gaming or whatever,,,,,

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watching Hannah's stream and taking psychic damage every time Prime Path comes up

Welcome back Prime Path born again on the lifesteal SMP in 2024.

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Hey are you alright? You're sitting reading The End Poem from Minecraft (2011) at midnight on a Sunday.

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I need to make a longer post about 73 Yards but god damn what an episode that was amazing.