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thanks to you, i got a chance to see all the beauty of the universe

#fanart so good i had to see what the series was about lol #just watched and it was peak #anyway i adore all the colors in this piece #it’s so pretty #the tears dripping down their faces :’(#sfawtde #fave

finals was so so so so good

#had a blast watching hax’s stream ngl #like w commentary #i get so many things from him + chat that i wouldn’t have picked up myself #but i’ve never been so glad that we have ranked. what an experience :’)#mcsr playoffs #fish.txt

everyfree

Rant, be warned.

Discourse about the MCSR ranked team and playoffs is so funny to me because wow what a startling demonstration of lack of self-awareness! How is it so difficult to understand that this community is absolutely nothing. Like genuine nobodies. There are no multi-billion business daddies handholding its development and stepping in when things get out of hand, there is no well-established playerbase that will stick with it when times get hard. This is a passion project that until a few months ago ran purely on sunshine rainbows and the power of friendship. Can we be serious for a second.

I am not a coder myself so I will not comment on the difficulties with making and maintaining the mod itself, but just looking at how the official Minecraft updates are should give an indication as to the effort it takes to make changes without breaking anything. More importantly is the issue of game-balancing. How much do we modify from vanilla? How will changing seed filters impact competitive play? What do we standarise, what do we remove, what do we do with RNG? The thing is, top runners can complain all they want but THEY ARE NOT THE PEOPLE MOST QUALIFIED TO ANSWER. How much change is too much change? Will people get put off by it and stop playing? Would we lose what makes Minecraft unique? What's the healthiest for the scene in the long run? Yeah these are questions companies hire some very very smart professionally-trained people to analyse and try to predict. The ranked team is TWO GUYS who have to juggle a playbase that balloooned in size, management of events, and who also need to you know eat and sleep. Would you prefer it if different things are tried out season to season? Do you think most people would? If anything turns out to be bad and the ranked team get inevitably trashed for their short-sightedness, would you stand up and share the blame? Be. Serious.

'Why doesn't the ranked team expand then?' Oh, you mean the ranked team who until very recently is reliant on ONE GUY DONATING MONEY to even have a prize pool for their most significant event? That ranked team? 'Oh but MCSR is so popular now-' it's popular because Ludwig aka Big Streamer brought attention to it. The very definition of an unstable playerbase. Yeah man, let's definitely employ a bunch of people and then when the hype wears off we will pay them with air and lint. Oh wait, nevermind, employing people requirs registration of a company and legal documents and a whole bunch of complications. Should we exploit the free labour of volunteers instead? Never gone badly for a Minecraft project, nope!

The biggest strength of MCSR is its community. It attracts viewers, mediate play (why not go for 1-eye? well it's in bad taste), and is the entire reason ranked exist in the first place, from Oliver and Redlime's passion, to Feinberg's financial support. It literally ran on the power of friendship. This is not a corporate thing.

So, 'the Ranked team shouldn't be immune to criticism' is true. What is also true is that people are giving criticism in completely the wrong way. With another Esport, you can be loud and toxic and exaggerate and call something trash because that's how you let a multibillion company know that you are serious, so hopefully they will panic and try to save reputation. The Ranked team physically does not have the capacity to respond in the same way. The only thing people achieve by spewing hate and negativity is sour the opinion of the layperson. If you say that Ranked sucks and should die, it will actually die.

'We want MCSR to be an Esport' is used as a slogan because it is a dream. An unrealistic phrase to demonstrate ambition and passion. It is in no way an Esport yet, and it seems like most people are trying to get it there by mimicking toxicity instead of anything productive.

nxvala

shoutout to all the insanely beautiful hax art that’s been made since playoffs its inspiring stuff to look at

kinda unfinished i got lazy with bg

#mcsr

a little couri & jumper thing i wrote during midoffs s1! (ao3 link)

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“I need you to trust me,” Couri says, and his voice is steady even though Jumper's practically vibrating from the adrenaline, the stress, the thought that they have to make time on this bastion or else Joonah pulls ahead. She'd— void, she'd already messed up on the portal earlier, she can't afford to throw anything right now. The pearl feels glued to her trembling hands.

“You're going to pearl over there,” Couri cuts in, his voice the one thing that her panic-riddled mind can cling to. “And you need to follow exactly what I say.” The trust me command from earlier rings imminent in her mind. She'll need to—he's pointing directly at a massive pool of lava, and a well-timed second pearl will be the only thing saving her from a fiery death and loss.

“Alright,” Couri says. Jumper rocks back onto the balls of her feet, readies her hand to throw. “Go.”

She launches the pearl, and the world is thrown into dizzying motion for just a second—blurs of red filling her vision, just enough time for her to chuck a second pearl over the cliff to her right—until she slams into the lava and heat engulfs her senses. She's safe, she knows she is—she's still got a few minutes of fire res left, and the next pearl will land any second now—but for now she's suspended in an all-orange void, its light searing her vision white.

Three seconds for the pearl to hit the ground. That’s all she needs.

The lava gurgles. One.

Swirls. Two.

It’s like it’s swallowing her, flame licking her skin on every exposed part of her body—

Three.

She closes her eyes.

The pearl lands with a vwoop. She's out.

#couriway #jumperwho #midoffs #midoffs s1 #midoffs season 1 #mcsr #fanfic #fish.writes

i also visited disneyland recently and it's really cool looking at a thing and realizing. wait ! scar talked about that !

#my streamer...#esp all the stuff about weenies and landmarks lmao #fish.txt