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If you are like me and always need to be working on something to keep your anxiety under control, during this quarentine why not helping scientists by looking at pictures of some neat penguins? or even galaxies?Â
Thereâs this site call Zooniverse, where you can help on scientific projects by analyzing pictures and data!Â
Right now my favorite project has returned, called Penguin Watch (where yeah, you get to watch penguins, itâs amazing)
you basically have to analyse photos looking for penguins, their chicks, eggs or even predators and human interaction
But there are lots of interesting projects you can help in areas such as biology, physics, history or even art:Â
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Itâs helping me a lot during this time, so I thought it was worth sharingÂ
c!Dream didnt "step into the villain role", he was already playing an antagonist
And Jack Manifold's entrance into the server proves it!
(PLEASE READ THIS PLEASE IT TOOK HOURS GOD PLEASE AT ONE POINT ALL THE IMAGES AND LINKS DISAPPEARED THAT I SPENT LIKE AN HOUR PUTTING IN THERE AND I NEARLY CRIED AND HAD TO REDO IT)
As someone who's watched all of season 1, from streams messing around, to semi-lore, to lore streams... its actually quite painful to watch the narrative in the fandom be completely rewritten as "Dream was good before L'Manberg villainised him, and he stepped into a villain role that was placed on him"
Early DSMP c!Dream: He already had this idea of the server being a "utopia" (his words), but enjoyed chaos Just as much. He had little moments like fixing Tommy n Tubbo's houses or whatever but the chaos he was involved in way overshadowed that. He hunted down, killed and burned all George's items because he was too powerful with diamond armor and tools while the rest of them had iron - This was Pre-Tommy, Pre-L'Manberg (I know he wasnt playing a character here but this is who c!Dream Used to be canonically so like...)
People have this idea that early DSMP streams cannot be analysed bc they werent playing a character back then but I'd argue Dream n Tommy were playing characters (just not with a script or with the intent to make a story). Like Tommy had his streamer persona which... you know how that can be and is quite different from his irl self, and you can see Dream acting like a chaotic bastard in game messing with Tommy and trying to be scary - when I doubt irl Dream spends his entire day taunting Tommy lmao. Plus I look to these VODs to get an idea of Who characters like c!Tommy used to be, so... and it's not like anything back then doesnt play into the lore, Eret made the castle when they first joined and That's where the idea to make them King came from after the war.
After Tommy: Dream enjoyed messing with Tommy a lot. If you look at nearly every old Tommy VOD, you can see Just how much. Their relationship was not one-sided, it was Not Tommy provoking Dream, it was usually the other way around. Dream Genuinely Loved involving himself in Tommy's conflicts and even Starting them. During the Disc War, he escalated it Twice. The first time was after Tommy stole the discs back and Dream could've gone on with his day but was too stubborn to, and instead spent God Knows How Long digging up the floor of his base and the area around his base to find the discs. I think it's worth it to note him blaming his actions on Tommy happened here, too. He acted like he needed to do this and blamed it on Tommy hiding the discs in the first place. "Its your fault, you hid the discs!"
The "going to extreme lengths to "solve" conflicts" did Not start with L'Manberg. During the Disc War he would do things like hide in Tommy's walls, scare him or threaten him. The second time he escalated the War was when Tommy traded his own Netherite Chestplate for the discs back, and after celebrating getting his discs back fairly, Dream randomly showed up and started shooting at him to steal the discs back and kickstart the war back up, when at this point he had No Right to.
After the Disc War, Dream being obsessed with discs became a literal running joke. I'm assuming... not a lot of people have watched Tommy's early DSMP VODs, which is a shame bc they're Genuinely really fun. I have a feeling the misconceptions around c!Dream once being a morally good mediator trying to stop conflict came from some people not exactly enjoying watching Tommy's streams đ because even back then that's where he showed his chaotic side. He would log on just to mess with him, he would log on Just to ruin him playing discs, he once logged on just to ruin Fundy and Tommy bonding farming music discs. I'd argue that last conflict shows just how c!Dream is, because he shows up just to ruin their day, and when they dare troll him back by stealing his items, he completely destroys Tommy's house and leaves threatening signs, putting all the blame on Tommy for the entire conflict.
The signs to me prove that Dream has... never been interested in playing a morally good mediator who's only interest is stopping conflict. Even if this is not canon, that just means you also have nothing to prove c!Dream was a good guy back then, lol
The L'Manberg War - He declared war on them because "there are 3 defectors from our kingdom", "sometimes you just gotta kill some people", "they have committed the crime of treason". (Hey guess what: Treason wasnt in the DSMP rules.) He says Nothing about how they villainised him or how he wanted peace back, he was offended at them trying to leave his rule. Despite them remaining peaceful and the fact that they hadnt even declared independence yet, he would repeatedly shoot at them, killed Tommy n Tubbo and stole their items, etc. He was being violent to them before they did... Anything, even burning trees inside their walls when c!Wilbur said he wanted him to respect their wildlife. c!Wilbur called him his neighbour and offered him an embassy inside their land.
c!Dream is Stubborn. He didnt care about solving it peacefully, nor did he attempt to. He didnt care about being their neighbour, he also did Not tell them they couldnt make a nation or even insinuate that him attacking them was due to the "drug monopoly", as Dream had NOT been there for the drug monopoly. He didnt care about the drugs, he didnt care that they were peaceful. He attacked them repeatedly and declared war like... an hour after they started existing. There was no "manipulation" on c!Wilbur's part, nothing taking advantage of or villifying c!Dream.
Reminder that Dream held Tubbo hostage which was what made the L'Manbergians rush into declaring independence. And if you say its bc they went after Alyssa, Tommy was scolded and dismissed for that
Question - if we're supposed to believe Dream had good intentions, why did he still seem like a bad guy in his own POV stream? Why did it not give us the sympathetic c!Dream content we wanted, with him crying on the floor about how L'Manberg villainised him? Instead we get Dream and friends setting up TNT canons, burning forests, burning down Tubbo's house, and a lovely little speech about how he will slaughter the L'Manbergians if they didnt surrender! (Go check out this post)
c!Dream had the upper hand and has always had the upper hand. During the L'Manberg war he crushed them, he tired a traitor and took 4 canon lives. Regardless of whether he knew what canon lives were back then he still laid a trap for them to walk into, be betrayed and walk out traumatized. Which they did. I'm not gonna go into detail on the L'Manberg war I've spoken about it too many times I'm tired
Anyway. After the war. The day after the war is the stream that completely solidifies in my mind that c!Dream was purposefully playing an antagonist that was Not forced into the villain role.
Literally nobody had questioned whether Dream was in the right yet, the scene with Skeppy had not happened yet, the Dream Team and Eret's last moments on the SMP that day were celebrating their victory. Etc. If c!Dream was supposed to step into a villain role he wasnt always playing, God Damn did he leap into that role incredibly enthusiastically with absolutely no hesitation because:
Jack Manifold enters the server! This stream is honestly considered a big lore stream to me which is why I'm confused as to why nobody talks about it. The entire streams plot is: Tommy and Tubbo try to convince Jack to join L'Manberg while Dream repeatedly attempts to split the three apart, cause arguments and manipulate them. They used the word manipulate btw Tommy referred to what Dream was doing as manipulation btw reminder this was less than a day after the L'Manberg war lol reminder that literally none of c!Dream's friends had even Hinted at turning against him at this point. Dream repeatedly sends Jack items and money to burn Tommy's items, he offers Tubbo money to do the same. He sends Jack secret messages and urges him to be a spy for him, to try to get him to become Eret 2.0. He's clearly not playing a guy with good intentions here. Where are the good intentions. How can you twist this into him believing he was doing the right thing?
I think the Main thing here I want to talk about is what c!Dream offered to c!Tommy: A Disc.
The thing that got c!Dream to leave L'Manberg alone was getting the Discs from Tommy, so he could continue his game and keep holding the discs above his head. And the very next day, Dream offered Tommy ONE of those discs, if Tommy murdered all Tubbo's villagers.
Note: There had been a stream during the preparations for the war where Tubbo was trying to breed villagers to be more equipped, Dream logs in and says he cant do that. Tommy joins the call and BEGS for Dream to leave his villagers alone because he knew how hard he worked getting them there and how it would give them a fairer chance in the war. (VOD gone. Do not fret though I think I might have Eret's POV saved on my laptop. I've already tried uploading it but its 10 hours long and just... doesnt work đ)
Dream KNEW what the villagers meant to Tubbo, and that's why he wanted to cause a rift between them using the discs.
Reminder that c!Dream clearly didnt see L'Manberg as some sort of huge threat that will destroy the server if he let them have their independence just because he could get his hands on Tommy's discs. The discs have ALWAYS been his priority
The attachments thing didnt start in Season 2 either - I noticed a while ago when I was putting together a clip compilation of Tommy and his cows Henry, Harold and Harvey he made a LOT of comments like "I cant get attached they'll be used against me in a war" "Dream's just gonna kill them" "they're just gonna die". This was Pre-Election, during the OG L'Manberg era. That, alongside THIS? The whole Beebox thing?
Dream has ALWAYS been like this, he just moved on to doing more extreme things. There was no breaking point, there was no "being forced into a villain role", nothing of the sort. He enjoys playing an antagonist and always has. During Manberg he really played into this, see how he talks in these VODs about his shield n stuff. (Tommy VOD, Karl VOD) (especially the Karl VOD I dont think many people have seen it. Dream Schlatt Karl n Quackity shenanigans in Manberg go watch it's very fun)
That being said, the Spirit speech was Not a breaking point either. Not an outburst because he'd been pushed too far. Nothing of the sort. He'd been waiting for this.
Around a week after November 16th, during peacetime, Dream decided to go around blowing up TNT in people's bases, leaving signs that framed Tommy. Tommy had not done anything to him at this point btw - their last interaction was Dream randomly blowing up Tommy's house on Nov 16th. There is No VOD of this, but they trended a hashtag during it so look up #Tommydidit on Twitter as proof this all went down. What he said during this time was interesting,
^ talking about how when Tommy logged on next he would confront him for the griefing he supposedly did. Almost like he wanted him to get into trouble!
Not only were there No rules about messing with the king - seriously Fundy, the L'Manberg presidents son, had a whole ass prank war going with Eret back during Season 1 then where they would grief eachothers bases (Fundy trying to kill Eret's dog and turning the throne into dirt, Fundy shrinking/destroying Eret's tower, Fundy flooding Eret's other tower, Eret flooding Fundy's base, Fundy and Jack literally claiming the throne lmao, etc). You expect me to believe that looking at the king wrong is suddenly a massive war crime and deserves punishment and reflects harshly on all of L'Manberg? My question is, if there was suddenly an unspoken law that prohibited messing with the king as a L'Manbergian, how would Tommy know this? How would he expect consequences for something that has never had consequences before? Especially considering the reason he picked George is because he was rarely on the server. And the fact that he wasnt supposed to be Vice President yet.
During the Pre-Exile conflict Dream once again had the upper hand, everything was going his way. They were listening to him and trying to negotiate (if they didnt respect/fear him as the Ultimate Authority on the server, they literally couldve told him to leave. But they didnt bc they know he has more power than them and they're powerless to stop what he wants. And he wanted Tommy exiled.) It was ALL going to Dream's plan. During the Meeting, Dream would repeatedly send Tommy messages to try to provoke him for a reaction, and when he succeeded, we had the Spirit speech.
(Seriously Dream clearly wasnt on the brink of an emotional breakdown here. C'mon.)
I dont believe this speech was an emotional breakdown for a second, considering everything was going his way And he has had Spirit used against him in the past, and didnt panic, and remained cool and collected, not having an emotional breakdown because 1 attachment was used against him (because he knew it was fair. He was holding Tommy's disc against him.). I think it's worth mentioning that he probably knew Tommy wouldnt go through with burning it anyway, because he knows how much attachments can mean.
And the reason Tommy had Spirit in the first place is because Dream gave it to him. During the Railway Skermish, Tommy stole Dream's items and wanted to trade them for his discs back. Dream thought the discs were too important to give, so he offered Spirit's leather to him instead. Without much hesitation. Once again, the discs were of utmost importance to him
And he clearly didnt care about griefing, as when he took Tommy away Tommy pointed out the Safe Haven him and Tubbo made. Dream immediately blew it up.
Damn. As I was writing this yesterday I saw Patchwork's essay and now mine seems so much less detailed in comparison lol go check theirs out it goes into a lot of stuff I didnt, with even more proof
(I'm really fucked if the videos dont open to the specific timestamps for others like they do for me-)
Edit: some of the timestamps work some dont. Too tired to fix it
disney built the biggest and most expensive animatronic ever in their history and then built a mountain around it and it BROKE a couple of months after the ride opened and itâs impossible to fix it without dismantling the entire mountain structure and thatâs honestly the most hilarious verified disney fact⢠ever
the second most hilarious being that the chum animatronic on the finding nemo ride at epcot used to pop out of the barrel to scare guests but one time a cast member was walking past it during an opening/closing procedure and it popped out and smacked them clean in the face so now itâs turned off permanently
The really hilarious part is that the busted Yeti is even worse than this description makes it sound.
TL/DR version: the structural layout of the Expedition Everest attraction is so complicated that Disney had to use a technique called âprevisualisatonâ to construct it - essentially a four-dimensional blueprint that specifies not only how the structure should be put together, but the exact point in time that each step should occur. That precision in timing is actually kinda critical, because if certain parts of the structure are subject to stress too early (e.g., before the concrete is fully cured, before additional supports have been installed, etc.), theyâll be permanently weakened.
Well, long story short, when the ride went into action, Disneyâs engineers quickly discovered that the numbers werenât adding up: the internal stresses the ride was producing every time they turned the animatronic yeti on were literally tearing the whole mountain apart. Itâs clear that something got screwed up during construction: either somebody performed a step with the wrong timing, or in the wrong order, or the previsualisaton was messed up to begin with. The trick is, they have no idea what the actual error was - and the ride canât be repaired until they figure out what went wrong in the first place.
So now they just point a moving strobe light at the motionless yeti to create the illusion of motion, which is why itâs been nicknamed the âdisco yetiâ.
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