...imagine what if the suited man first got his powers because of an office joke? Like, he finishes his work, then a coworker asks "How'd you do it that fast? Do you have some reality bending power?"
The whole office laughs, while the guy is embarrassed and says "No, though I wish."
His coworker answers with "Yeah, I know, too bad. Honestly I'd believe if you did have them." And others chime in, agreeing, despite nobody actually thinking he has any kind of power or that them joking would give him that power, because it's too strong and would require thousands of people to believe that, right?
Few months later, long after the joke is forgotten, a new hero quickly claims title of X.
Ewron keeps fanboying over everyone else. This is kinda funny, because he was like "THEY ARE SO MUCH BIGGER THAN ME AND THEY SOMEHOW DECIDED THAT I'M WORTH IT, CHAT, ARE YOU HEARING THIS?!"
He's just so excited over everything, genuinely happy for being there. He kept muting himself and freaking out, because he's also a fan of few creators there.
Context for the polish guys on qsmp2 (mostly Nexe, Ewron and Graf, as I never watched Multi).
There used to be a server called Kwadratowa Masakra (eng. "Square Masacre"), which ran for few seasons then disappeared for ~7 years until they got back together in 2019. Outside of old players, new people got invited to it (the trio above being new). This was, at its time, the biggest polish smp on youtube.
It ran for few seasons, but the most relevant for this are new 1-3 (from what I know, Multi played on old KM, but I haven't watched it, so I can't say anything on it).
Line break for those who don't want a wall of text. This will be split into parts (part 1).
First season of new KM started in second half of 2019 and ended around february or march (I can't remember the exact date) of 2020. Some of the older players got bored and stopped playing pretty quickly, while others have stayed; eventually there were more newer players. There was some roleplay, limited to whatever the members improvised, nothing was scripted. Some footnotes from it, as well as jokes:
Ewron had beef with Mandzio (Łukasz Samoń, mentioned by Ewron during stream) where they would prank one another.
The part of Ewron's house that wasn't underground looked like a greenhouse/glasshouse (pl. "szklarnia), which was sometimes ridiculed.
The "wrath" of the server was Macgajster, who took over a bunch of skyscrapers in absence of Buraczek Cebulaczek and built sewers. The man then mined obsidian in End after fights and turned those skyscrapers fully obsidian on the outside. He was known as someone not to be messed with (which, of course, encouraged players to mess with him by laying traps or building things on top of the man's bases), unless you'd want a wither at your base.
There was a huge skyscraper built by SKKF, server's founder, which was famously ugly until Lokaj came along - Lokaj was a guy roleplaying as SKKF's butler ("lokaj" means "butler") (I don't remember if he was paid to do it or not, I think he was). It was the highest building on the server.
Everyone would build on or around the main island because of a plugin that added radiation further away, which would kill you unless you drank a potion called "płyn lugola" (reference to actual thing that happened in Poland after the Chernobyl meltdown - people were drinking a thing that had a lot of iodine to supposedly protect them from radiation which leaked to the country).
The bread song was originally sung by SKKF, then got picked up by various people, especially Ewron. Here's rough translation:
Bread, bread, I would eat you all day,
Bread, bread, I will make a sandwich with you,
Bread, bread, I'm happy that you exist,
When I put cheese on you!
And polish version:
Chlebie, chlebie, jadłbym cię cały dzień,
Chlebie, chlebie, zrobię z tobą kanapkę,
Chlebie, chlebie, cieszę się, że jesteś
Gdy kładę na ciebie ser!
Graf was given a schematic of a court and built it on the server.
For a while, there was prevalence of zero-tick cactus and bamboo farms as a means of gaining xp (smelting cactus with bamboo), which was later cracked down on by server's devs to prevent lag. Players would steal xp from each other's farms (Nexe had a pretty big one under his base).
KM was laggy at times (partially because of point above) and people joked that Cubixmeister, the server's main developer (who owns the infrastructure it was run on), was either watching porn or cooking sausages over the overheated machine as if it were a grill (the joke depended on how family friendly the content creator was).
There was a progressively more ridiculous prank war, in which members would wire a bunch of tnt to elaborate traps (traps didn't count as griefing, which was against the rules). It got so bad that in later seasons crafting recipe for observers was disabled (there was a way to obtain them added, don't worry). Mandzio once had to be incredibly careful because his whole front lawn was wired to observers.
Nexe was absent for a short time, during which his house above ground was fully destroyed by his friends (who even got Macgajster involved, which led to a wither being spawned). They then cleaned the ground and placed a sign saying that Nexe's house went on a walk (paraphrasing, pl. "Domek Nexe poszedł na spacer"). Eventually, Paczol built Nexe a house which had a layer of obsidian underneath to prevent total destruction.
The server's economy was built on diamonds, eventually leading to inflation. The richest player (not counting Macgajster and Zahaczai) was Nitashi, who made a house out of diamonds and displayed a dragon egg there.
There were a bunch of gambling redstone machines built, most well known being Macgajster's and Zahaczai's lootboxes (which had pretty good prices compared to what could be won even in the worst box) and JDąbrowski's casino (which most called a scam).
KM had a website, where you could see a real-time map of the server. Graf used this and built a sign in the sky saying "subscribe to Graf", which Jawor changed to say "don't subscribe to Graf" (and Graf later fixed it). The map was also used by Macgajster to detect if someone was in the obsidian skyscrapers.
JDąbrowsky built a moon and a rocket, with which he sent a villager to the moon.
Nexe had a shop, which had an angel statue built on top of and was called the God Shop (pl. "Sklep Boży").
There was a head of Baby Yoda built when Mandalorian was airing.
Jawor was the server lolcow, people frequently pranked him.
YoshihitoMayoshe made a video in which he read fanfiction about himself on wattpad; later also making a vid on fan quizes (which were hosted on website samequizy).
There was an advent calendar, over which the players would fight.
In winter, the biome was changed to a snowy one. A bunch of people unleashed snowmen all over the server (even before the change), and Macgajster started flooding it (using the fact that water would freeze). The biome was not changed back.
Nexe, YoshihitoMayoshe, Sitr0x and Jawor formed a gang, annoying the hell out of Buraczek Cebulaczek. The gang's symbol was a turtle shell which they all wore, while the codenames were names of famous polish people.
On the season's last day, the admins caused tnt to rain from the sky.
The list will be updated when I remember if there were other important events. That's it for now, gonna write for seasons 2 and 3 later.
Also tell me if you'd like a rundown on the (small and barely alive) fandom and ships.
Nexe (to Ewron): Multi decided he wants to be a chemist, so he became a chemist, you (Ewron) decided you want to be gay, so you became gay, Graf decided he wants to be the Witcher, so he became the Witcher, so I decided I want to be Spider-Man and so I fucking am the Spider-Man.
Do not read further if you don't want a rant full of spoilers for episode 7.
So, for starters: Yang Cheng never had a chance, because his Uncle Rock was a fucking Mighty Glory CEO, who bought a cafe to manipulate Yang Cheng for years.
So, the man is a groomer with complete disregard for human life - sacrificing his employee to replace him with a younger/newer version that could be even more easily controlled - can I also mention how he first employed the two brothers only to fire them for purpose of orchestrating YC's rise (via kidnapping Pomelo, knowing that YC would follow and try to save him - and outcome wouldn't matter, because if YC failed it would break him similarly to Shang Chao's death, making him motivated to look for the kid; and since YC won, he gained trust) then blackmailing one of the brothers to kill Chang Chao; killing them when their use was expended.
Shang Chao being killed to further break YC (could also be something that was either in revenge or something that motivated Shang Sr. to leave MG and start Treeman Corporation). We all know that YC and Shang Chao had heavily (like a brick to the face) implied feelings towards one another, which the guy supported then exploited.
OG E-Soul was getting older - and slower, weaker, etc. that comes with age - but also harder to control. A young man, groomed since childhood and full of energy, would be a perfect replacement. Darth Vader pararells everyone.
Watched Iron Lung yesterday evening and here's thoughts:
I love the slowness of the movie and fixation on details - how shots highlight the rising temperature, dripping of blood and Simon's reactions to all of those events. And the use of light and shadows, which is always nice to see.
Mark played phenomenally (I wonder which scene had the most takes) part of abroken down character. Through the whole movie I was thinking to myself "ain't no way Simon's gonna survive, don't get attached" and failed because I genuinely felt sad at the end (new character to fixate on unlocked).
Overall - great movie. Will definitely watch again (and buy a dvd if they start selling).
EDIT: Also the pacing. Damn it, I'm so frustrated with how fast paced movies are this days that they need extra hour to make up for it. Iron Lung held me in a moment and felt like 4 hours of delightful madness I can immerse myself into.
I expected having more questions than answers at the end of today's episode, and I do, but let's celebrate that at least two (or few, but I'll have to check how many theories were there) theories were confirmed; Nice is not dead, and X was watching events of the series unfold. And, hey, we have confirmation that X gave Cyan that coin!
X is semi-omniscient I guess? Like, he doesn't know everything, but he knows much more than average person (or even Commission exec).
He was definitely remembering Smile when eating the skewers. Mourning. He bought two drinks :(
Tho, the casual "I kinda care, but I also just wanna spend some time by myself" energy is the introvert in X speaking.
So that wasn't Wreck then (I'm referring to the shadowy crown guy that I didn't catch name of with how fast everything was going). Still that whole segment was awesome, I love how they animated it - so chaotic and beautiful. Just. The whole episode looks gorgeous. I am SO normal about it (I AM NOT, INSIDE I AM SCREAMING).
Also does anyone remember joking that we would be satisfied if the last episode was just X talking to the camera about everything that happened? We did kinda get that and so much more.
Also. X. This little shit. Aura farming at the end by showing up as civilian IN THE CENTER OF THE FREAKING TOURNAMENT.
Aaaaaand we still don't have his name. Should've expected that. Guess we can continue to make it up or joke about it.
Delicious animation goes brrrr.
Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to rewatch the episode.
