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Okay but after seeing this I started doing it too and it’s amazing how many men I’ve run into bc they expected me to move

youcangofindatree-deactivated20

Gotta try it

clevermanka

I work (and walk) on a college campus. I’ve lost count of how many men I’ve smacked shoulders with.

emmagrant01

Recently, I was standing outside my son’s classroom waiting to talk to his teacher. I stood on one side of the hallway, not even close to the center. At some point, a man came walking along. I was standing right in his path, but the hallway was empty, so I logically expected him to swerve around me. Instead he kept walking right toward me, got to me, and stopped, as if waiting for me to get out of his way. I didn’t; I just smiled politely at him. He finally walked around me, clearly annoyed that I hadn’t leapt out of his manly path.

Now I’m wishing I’d leapt aside, taken off my jacket and laid it on the floor before him, then bowed deeply and said, “My Liege!”

mercurialkitty

I also work at a college campus. I smack shoulders sometimes, but I find that if I stare straight ahead and follow the advice below, people get the heck out of the way.

songbirde108

Honestly this post changed how I carry myself when walking alone in public, or in a situation where I’m the one leading. People definitely move for the murder gaze.

onethingconstant

Confirmed. I once had to rush back inside a convention hall as the con was closing in order to a retrieve a sick friend’s medication, and I didn’t understand why people in the crowd were jumping out of my way (literally—one guy vaulted a table) until I realized I was dressed as the Winter Soldier and doing the Murder Walk because that’s just how I walk in those boots. I got the meds, got out, and made a mental note.

I repeated the experiment later, wearing the boots but otherwise my usual clothing and mimicking the expression I thought I’d had at that moment. People parted like I was Charlton Heston.

I now wear that style of boots whenever possible. I recently had a man do a double-take as I walked by and ask me, politely, where I had served because I “looked like a soldier.” I’m not current or former military. I was wearing a flowy purple peasant top and looked as un-soldierlike as possible.

Moral of the story: wear comfortable shoes, square your shoulders, and walk like you’ve been sent to murder Captain America.

unschuldsengelaufkalt

Basically how I managed to lead the space ninja invasion at some point.

viralfrog

quasi-normalcy

Right down to all of your faculties being decrepit from relying on a sinister adviser.

thepromiscuousfinger

chaifootsteps

#Please little bird

meriwetherwrites

I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.

nightguardmod

It’s a win win. I get a bit of hope, you get a cute birb photo

scarecrowdrugs

Choosing to believe without any actual evidence that dragging Nihil's corpse out for Miasma wasn't even a Clergy decision, he just had it written into his will because it would be "sick as fuck"

derinthescarletpescatarian

Oh I'm sorry C: you've only got 6GB free? Only six fucking gig? We used to boot the OS off fucking floppy drives but I'm so so sorry that six entire gigabytes of free space isn't enough for you you poor starving thing. You've been experiencing worse and worse memory issues for months and now you're freezing and crashing every few minutes because why, you just can't make 6 gig work? Grow the fuck up.

derinthescarletpescatarian

On the plus side having to hard reboot my computer every 5 minutes is finally convincing me to (very very slowly through multiple reboots) back up my files and switch this machine over to Linux like I've been meaning to do for a good couple of years now

derinthescarletpescatarian

I'll just move some of this junk onto an old external and --

OH COME ON

derinthescarletpescatarian

Computer's on Ubuntu now with plenty of space on its nice clean hard drives. If this doesn't solve the freezing and crashing issues then I'm going to have to peel him open and start replacing his organs.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Downside: now I have to go hunting for all the add-ons and stuff to make my computer experience how I like it again. This is a horrible use of screen space and I forgot that every website has stupid fucking popups and stuff in the corners.

sayahastoomanyblogs

Computer of theseus

derinthescarletpescatarian

Every home computer should be a Computer of Theseus. Right to repair, fuck yeah.

thekijs

When I was dealing with a similar issue I saw a lot of people reporting issues with windows filling up their hard drives by creating log files and temp files and whatnot that just keep bloating in size forever when they absolutely should not be doing that. It's apparently a pretty common problem.

I managed to find a fix for myself, but I'm definitely coming closer and closer to following in your footsteps and doing the work to get Linux set up.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Common distributions of Linux aren't all that much work; if you're a casual user like me then Ubuntu's not any harder to install and work with than Windows is. You install it and you go, same as Windows. But installing any operating system on a computer is mildly annoying because you've got to download your programs and install your ad blockers and sign into all your "keep me signed in" stuff again. I use like four programs and four websites so my main problem is reinstalling all my favourite Steam games.

thekijs

That's really good to know!

Gives a solid starting point of making sure I have a list of all the programs that will need re-installing/replacing. (and various backups made) That's a project I can slowly chip away at until I've got a weekend where my brain feels like doing fiddly busy-work, and I've got plenty of reading to catch up on while stuff installs.

derinthescarletpescatarian

The problem with Linux is that people who give advice on Linux are Linux nerds who make everything sound way more complicated than it is. It's like of you go to a Spider-Man fan and say "where should I get started with Spider-Man media?" and they give you a complex timeline of several decades' worth of comics and how they interrelate to each other and warn you about all the crossover events in other heroes' stories and give you advice on tracking down digital versions of the particularly rare comics when really like. You can just watch a random Spider-Man cartoon and it's fine.

If you want to develop software in a hyperoptimised workflow then choosing a really specific Linux distribution and carefully choosing what to install and jury rigging some stuff is probably important. If, like me, you just want to fuck around on the internet, play computer games, and use basic word processing and image editing programs, Ubuntu or Mint or any of the other big distros will work fine for you right out of the box and it won't matter all that much which one you pick.

amemait

My mother uses a Linux desktop just fine and she doesn’t use computers.

biestcallisto

The problem with Linux is that people who give advice on Linux are Linux nerds who make everything sound way more complicated than it is.

Please, if you are new to Linux, please stick to the beginner friendly distros like Ubuntu (I dont like the current version), Fedora (I dont know shit about Fedora) and Mint (FAVORITE). If someone says Arch, Kali, or something else, don't listen to them. Don't try to prove that you're such a cool nerd with computers that you could compile your own kernel. Please, if you are NEW to Linux, please take a distribution that is MEANT for you.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Another advantage of the really popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint is that thousands and thousands of other regular people are also using them, so if you do run into a weird problem, someone else has already run into it and had it explained to them in very simple words on the forums where you can very easily find it. If you pick some cool fringe super-efficient distro that only nine people are using and six of them built it, any problem you have is not getting solved.

Ubuntu and Mint are incredibly casual friendly (I've got Mint on one of my laptops and from memory I don't remember ever having to use the command line on it even once). If you can use Windows or Mac, then you can use Mint, they run exactly the same for a casual user.

coffee-math-chamomile

Can confirm as a new Mint user it's been exactly as easy as if not easier than windows to deal with

I don't think I needed to do any terminal based bullshit to get basic web browsing/media/etc stuff working.

The straw that broke the camel's back in my case was that I could change the audio balance after a windows update unless I went into the registry and did some regedit stuff and added values there.

In linux it's just a goddamn slider on the audio settings page.

anexperimentallife

Also, with any major mainstream Linux distro (like Mint), you will get 99% of your software for free by opening the software manager, clicking a couple of buttons, and waiting a minute or three while it downloads and installs it for you.

teashadephoenix

i dont know how to do anything, how do you trade mint for windows in the first place

derinthescarletpescatarian

You can download it from the website!

https://linuxmint.com/

You will need to put it on something external (a CD drive or a flash drive or something) in order to install it. Assuming you have a modern computer (and probably don't have a CD drive), then the easiest way is to boot it from a flash drive. Most people have a billion flash drives lying around but if you've moved on from flash drives, you can pick them up cheap at any electronics store or even the supermarket. (Once you're done installing Mint, you can use the flash drive for other things. If you're too young to have used flash drives, they are very small external hard drives that you can put files on and plug into your computer to read the files. You might use your phone or a cloud service to do this; we used to do it with flash drives).

If you're a millennial who used to pirate games and stuff, you're already familiar with image booting. If it's new to you, do not panic.

After you have downloaded the iso from the website, Make the bootable USB with these instructions.

Boot Linux with these instructions.

Don't panic. You're going to see some new words and do some unfamiliar things but remember: it is impossible to fuck this up. If you somehow mess up making the USB, you can format the USB and try again. If you somehow fuck up the installation, you can reinstall without breaking anything. So long as you don't go randomly fucking around in the BIOS (DO NOT go randomly fucking around in the BIOS), you cannot break anything.

This will destroy everything you have on Windows (unless you keep both OSs which is a bit more complicated). Replacing your operating system is like getting a totally new computer. All of your Windows stuff will be gone. Save all of your files somewhere else first the same way you would if you were going to throw out your computer.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#huh#that changes my opinion on#everything#related to Linux#yeah def gonna do this at some point#I do have a question tho#does installing Linux kill any viruses on the computer?#thats the last anxiety I have about this

Replacing your operating system will replace all of the data on your computer, including any viruses. Depending on the virus, your files (which you should save elsewhere before installing because they will be destroyed on the computer) might be infected.

Traditionally, Linux isn't vulnerable to Windows viruses and vice versa. But I don't know enough about computer viruses to know if that's still true; my information is like ten or fifteen years out of date. People come up with new ways to exploit vulnerabilities in systems all the time and I have no idea whether it's possible to create a single virus that can infect both systems. Traditionally, Linux has also been considered to have less viruses than Windows simply because it's always been much less popular and therefore less worth anybody's time to make viruses for; I'd be very surprised if that one is still true.

But yes, replacing your operating system with Linux or reinstalling Windows on it would both destroy any viruses that are currently on your computer.

purple-hel

the odds of a virus that was on windows still working on Linux are like....if it happens go buy a lottery ticket. It's TECHNICALLY possible, if a bunch of weird conditions are all true, but no one who's creating a general use virus is going to bother to make it so that all of those conditions would be true. It would have to be a situation where someone is out to get you specifically. And also for viruses to work on Linux you pretty much have to run them on purpose.

maaarine

2014 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert with Daniel Barenboim — Johann Strauss I, Radetzky March, Op. 228

@tojibignaturals

revieloutionne

ospreyonthemoon

I love that, like. He KNOWS the audience want to clap and so he's using them as an extra instrument. He turns around and goes hey, stop, and hopes they understand conductor gestures and it works, and then he has clapping he can use when he wants

unschuldsengelaufkalt

@borealopelta you might like this!

artbymoga-deactivated20200516

Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012…

nejire-vs-villains

Good post OP

prismatic-bell

Good post, OP, and if you ever decide to do another may I please suggest “NOT IN HEBREW IT DOESN’T” as a punchline? So much of the Old Testament is HORRIFICALLY translated from the Tanakh, it drives me batty.

end-of--the-line

WAIT WAIT WHAT DOES IT SAY?????? I NEED TO LIKE,, DESTROY MI MUM FOR BEING REALLY HOMOPHOBIC

prismatic-bell

Okay, so, strictly speaking, the infamous Leviticus 18:22 does say “forbidden.” Here’s the thing:

1) The word translated as “forbidden” is “toevah.” While that translation isn’t … wrong, it’s sort of like saying “McMansion” means “really big house.” There are a lot of connotations in that word. The specific issue with toevah is that we … sort of … don’t know anymore exactly what it meant. Based on context, it seems likely that the word referred to something ritually forbidden. This part of Torah was written not only as a guide for future generations, but also to say “so, look around, see your neighbors? DON’T DO THAT.“ Thus, if we interpret “toevah” to mean something that’s forbidden to do as a ritual before G-d, then the verse says nothing whatsoever about Adam and Steve and their two kids and their dog–it’s saying you shouldn’t have sex with another man in the Temple as a sacrifice.

2) Following the same “this is ritually forbidden” logic of toevah, this verse may also be interpreted as “don’t do sex magic,” which was a thing in. Like. A lot of fucking cultures at the time.

3) Hebrew is a highly gendered language, and the grammatical gender in this verse is really really weird. One of the “men” in this verse is given female grammar. Why? Who fucking knows, man, this isn’t the only grammatical oddity in Torah. (There are also places where G-d is referred to as plural, and also as female.) One suggestion is that this is a way of creating a diminutive–that is, that the verse should be read as “a man should not lie with a boy.” Now, it’s worth noting that modern secular scholarship has concluded the written Torah was written down around the 6th century BCE, and most non-Orthodox Jewish scholars are like “yeah, all things considered, that sounds pretty legit.”

Do you know what else was happening around the 6th century BCE? What laypeople tend to mean when they say “ancient Greece” was happening.

Do you know what happened a lot in that time period in Greece? Dudes forming relationships with younger boys, like ages 10-15, and using them for sex in exchange for financial gifts, mentorship, etc. While we don’t know just how young some of these younger boys may have been, we do know some were prepubescent. In light of this, and also something I mentioned under the first point–”see your neighbors? DON’T DO THAT,” if this verse is interpreted to say “a man should not lie with a boy,” then it’s pretty clearly “my dudes, my fellows, my lads, don’t be fucking pedophiles.”

4) Because of the grammar I mentioned in #3, it’s also possible that “should not lie with a man as with a woman” is actually referring to a place, not an abstract personhood: a man shouldn’t have sex with another man in a woman’s bed. In the time period, a woman’s bed was sort of like–that was her place, her safe sanctuary. It was also a ritually holy place where babies were made. By having sex in her bed, you’re violating her safe space (and also introducing a man who may not be a male relative, thus forcing her into breaking the laws of modesty). If this verse is read this way, then it should be taken to mean “don’t sexually violate a woman’s safety and modesty.” 5) And as an offshoot of #4, this may be a second verse relating to infidelity. Which woman’s bed is any random dude in 600 BCE most likely to have access to? His wife’s. But laws were administered differently based on whether the person they pertained to was slave or free, male or female, and so on–thus, a man committing adultery with a woman would be treated differently than man committing adultery with a man (especially because the latter would carry no chance of an illegitimate pregnancy).

So you’ll note, there are a lot of ways to read this verse, and only a one-to-one translation with no cultural awareness produces “being gay is wrong, all of the time”. (You’ll also notice the word “abomination” is nowhere to be found. That’s like … a straight-up fiction created for who only knows what reason.)

the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99

Apparently tumblr mobile doesn’t want to show @prismatic-bell ’s long and in-depth essay, so here’s the screenshots, because it still shows up on mobile browsers:

prismatic-bell

Much appreciated.

kuriquinn

I love when scholarship and history debunks bullshit

mandalorianreynolds

…I sadly have more bullshit to report.

“removed for violating guidelines”, EVERY screenshot.

the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99

…goddamnit

pulmonary-poultry

Let’s try this again

the-invisible-self

I am horrified that @prismatic-bell keeps getting censored + this info is gold.

prismatic-bell

Many thanks, @pulmonary-poultry. This isn’t the only Jewish post of mine that’s mysteriously stopped showing up in searches and/or vanished from my blog entirely, but it is the one I get the most requests to repost, so this saves me from having to rewrite the whole damned essay. @the-invisible-self, thanks for bringing it to my attention that someone was able to preserve the post!

cheshire-cat-lenalee2

unclefather

can’t risk it

bentejam

THIS PIECE OF PICTURE WORKS.

fakesurgery

Gotta take all the chances…..

fit-beach-tea

Never risk it

reshipped

i had to

superchubly

Need some good luck. Really do.

what-owo

Why not haha

marciereynard

i only rb the positive ones, fuck the negative ones lmao

yesthefandomfreakblr

might as well

bubblespalace-deactivated202501

GIVME PLS

nunezs-stuff-deactivated2025102

PLEASE

a-bookworms-teashop

Might as well

berylcups

🍀 Gimme dat luck bb 🍀

beartoothbarry

Dear Powerwolf's Werewolf Santa, all I want for Werewolf Christmas is an awesome fire sword like in the monumental mass. You can trust me with a fire sword. I will be very careful and responsible with the fire sword

warmfigure

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

unlettered-heathen

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

loth-catgirl

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

millenniallust4death

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

millenniallust4death

Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

psycorax

Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

leavescrown

Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going

millenniallust4death

@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.

millenniallust4death

@sseanettles

#hello again martin and bosco!! sending you boys round for another go :)

Reading your tag made me laugh out loud. It’s like two old friends unexpectedly stopped by your porch for a quick visit. XD

petermorwood

I’ll always reblog Martin and Bosco when they splash across my dash, because of Reasons.

What’s loved, lives.

vaspider

There is something truly beautiful in seeing a comment like that from someone so very loved and recently lost.

Yes, Peter, you’re absolutely right. What’s loved, lives. You three boys all come back around again to see me again soon, okay?

leefsnakesnake

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

veranthia

SUPPORT BELOW 50% OF THE THRESHOLD IN THESE COUNTRIES:

Bulgaria - 35% Croatia - 45% Cyprus - 12% (!!!!) Czechia - 47% Greece - 27% Italy - 41% Latvia - 43% Luxembourg - 20% Malta - 11% (!!!!) Romania - 48% Slovakia - 47% Slovenia - 38%

SEVEN countries out of 27 have met the threshold so far. Deadline is 31st July, 2025.

syn4k

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minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags

windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)

FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)

image to 3d effect gif

vaporwave image generator

microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)

you're welcome

mmelete

hroethvitnir

I am needlessly riled by all the posts and humans' inherent goodness.

Humans are *neutral*, man. That's why improving society really needs to look like making doing the right thing the path of least resistance.

A majority of people sit right around the tall bit of some sort of bell curve with "does selfish shit that could hurt others by default, is generous under the right circumstance" is one side of the peak and "is generous by default, will do selfish shit that could hurt others under the right circumstances" on the other.

You can observe it any day by observing people under stress (eg: bad traffic, busy supermarket, an unexpectedly un/pleasant interaction with a stranger who is very different to you) - and in yourself in circumstances you find particularly stressful.

findingfeather

Humans are inherently socially oriented mammals, which is another important key to unlocking this. Both our sins and our sainthoods are linked to this fact. We are cursed and blessed with the ability to bond to other humans and feel their pain as our own and that will often lead us to doing very generous and heroic things especially in the short-term and when the cost to ourselves is relatively low -

. . . but in the long term, or when we can't do anything, or when the cost to ourselves is punitive, that very capacity to feel their pain as our own is actually a significant factor in the need to dehumanize them so we stop seeing ourselves in their mirror, and thus stop feeling pain we can't get rid of.

Humans are inherently stressed out social mammals in a big ugly complicated world full of stressors. It is within this context that we then with our thinking cognition try to be what we understand as "good" and "bad". Designating us as either will both lead to erroneous predictions and also unfortunate actions. But realizing that we're scared, stressed, social (nay, hypersocial) mammals trying to live really complex lives?

Then you can start optimizing strategies to make being good easier and being bad unrewarding.

That doesn't mean "when you see good things, be cynical and dismissive and denigrate human nature". Absolutely look at good things we do and go this is us. Hold that really close: this is part of our potential. This is part of our capacity. It's important.

. . . however, you also need to actually look at the horrific shit and also realize this is us and take the fucking warning and do not, ever, fall into the trap of believing that only some ~*other kind of person*~ could possibly do the things (or that it's magically being forced on us by some system or other or whatever).

It's also important.

Humans have astonishing capacity for good shit that mutually reinforces into making the world a better place for everyone.

We also have a legacy of most of our time on this planet being really fucking violent, xenophobic fuckers who have come up with every possible way to hurt, maim and kill one another and even find philosophical justification for it.

And we've also just been stupid and desperate for millions of years too.

All of that is ours. All of it is part of us. All of it has to be engaged with if we want to be better.

dubiousculturalartifact

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people." -Terry Pratchett

niceinchnails

>listening to nin

>hear a new layer to song ive relistened to over and over

>"wow i cant believe i never noticed this before! i wonder what kind of synth he used. its very forboding in a specific way only nin can achieve"

>pause song to write post praising nin

>the synth specifically keeps playing despite the rest of the song being paused

>look outside window

>garbage truck

same energy

la classique

You know, a Minecraft Movie could have been a literal masterpiece if you had the right mindset to do it, and I'm not joking. I feel like nowadays studios are afraid of being genuine like a teen is afraid of being genuine. If a movie suddenly gets too excited about something, it needs to put it down so it doesn't sound "lame" or "cringe". You cannot be honest, and you cannot show love or absurdity without pointing out that it's stupid because you think OTHERS will believe it's stupid. So please bear with me:

Currently we have only a teaser trailer, it looks bad, it puts itself down, it's afraid of being genuine, it somehow managed to whitewash Steve (again), and I doubt that it will use things like the End Poem or how it feels to play Minecraft for its themes and story. I hope that I'm wrong, but I'm very cynical. So, let's think about it together.

Minecraft Movie. I saw a post suggesting stop-motion animation for it, and, honestly, it feels perfect, just like stylized 3D animation. Live action actors do not work with how Minecraft looks, and that's okay. Let's do an animated movie.

The plot. There's so, so many possibilities, but the beauty of making a Minecraft animated movie is that you won't ever be able to tackle all the possibilities it brings to the table. The community has made so many stories for the game, so we might as well just think of an "official" movie as a homage to the game and its community. We are adapting the way Minecraft feels.

End Poem, one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. Let's take that and put it in the movie, simple as that. You can only find it by defeating the Ender Dragon, so this will be how our movie ends. If we want it to end like this, then the objective of our protagonists must be to defeat the dragon.

Let's have Steve as our protagonist - not a whitewashed version, just Steve with his actual skin color left just the way it is. He'll represent us as players for our hypothetical movie. Have him wake up in an unknown world, not knowing why he's there. Just like how the game was all the way back in 2009, he's alone in a very lonely and foggy world. We follow him trying to look for other people, and then he has to survive his first night. This first part is both whimsical and a bit scary, because that's how many players felt when they first started it when they were kids, aallllll the way back.

Steve survives his first night. He's horrified, and then he realizes that he'll have to do it again. He doesn't know the "rules" of this world, but he's figuring them out, and the idea of "rules" and "what to do" will be important. Because, at its core, Minecraft doesn't have that many rules. It has no actual objective. You can do whatever you want, and this will be very (very) important.

Steve ends up building a small base with wood. Survives a bit more, and then, someway, somehow, he finds Alex. While he's more careful around things and very thoughtful on how and what to build, Alex is more of an adventurer, following the little tidbits of personality we see from them during Minecraft trailers. They're happy to know that they aren't alone, and we follow them build a very strong friendship and teach each other new things, just like how it is playing Minecraft in real life. They find a village, and find out that maybe they can leave this world, or at least find some answers, if they defeat the Ender Dragon.

From there, we have a good objective. The two continue progressing, and their base ends up becoming a castle, because who didn't want to build a castle when they were kids? And the world seems progressively more alive thanks to their interference on it, thanks to them helping the villagers, thanks to them being the players that they are. If you want more conflict, just add the pillagers as well.

Eventually, Steve and Alex have an argument about their points of view. They both want to know what's going on, but their way of doing things are different, and they care a LOT about each other, they're best friends, but who is doing things the "right" way? I don't like the idea of them separating because that happens in way too many movies. I want to see these two stick together, but their insistence on trying to do it "correctly" ends up putting them in a lot of trouble because they can't cooperate anymore. Y'know. How people fight and argue about a "correct" way of playing the game. How we as players miss old Minecraft - or do we? Do we miss the simplicity of older times, or do we miss our childhood creativity and willigness to do whatever comes to mind?

Anyways. A good alternative to this conflict would be either Alex or Steve - I'm leaning more towards Steve - being hesitant at completing the End Portal. He doesn't want to end his "dream", he doesn't want answers or to escape this world (aka leave good memories behind), he wants to stay there, but Alex knows that they can't be like this forever, even if she wants to stay. Regardless, they eventually come to a mutual understanding, and, TOGETHER, they go and fight the Ender Dragon. They win, and then the End Poem happens.

The fight against the dragon wasn't the ending; the realization that there are, indeed, no rules to put them down, or that they HAVE to leave everything behind, is the ending. They hear the poem while sitting next to each other. The world changed because of them, and sometimes it was for the worse, and sometimes it was for the better, but it did become much kinder, and they weren't alone. They don't HAVE to be. Just like how it actually happened in the actual game, through the 15 YEARS since it started to exist, and oh my God it's been 15 years already?! Oh my God-

Anyways. Movie ends with Alex and Steve having a lighthearted argument over what to build next. Steve wants another castle, Alex says that she has amazing ideas for something she's calling a "mob farm", and "trust me, it'll make our lives SO MUCH easier". And they're just being silly, because there are no rules.

Anyways thanks for reading this post, feel free to add your own things to it! Just had to get it out of my chest.

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