So I Was Rewatching Third Life Recently And I Thought It Was So Funny How In The First Few Episodes Grian

my favourite headcanon when dealing with whatever the hell mcyt’s names are is that everyone just has a fucking universe assigned string of characters (the username) which everyone knows and is what the universe calls you by, but serves no actual functional purpose by itself

in society, the username is used as the legal name because its convenient - at any given point a username is unique to one person and you can easily identify someone by username

but obviously, the username is random and as a casual name it may not work - “Grian” is a fine name but “BdoubleO100” is a nightmare to say, so people develop nicknames based off these. some people go as far to have nicknames completely divorced from their username - e.g. “Jimmy” for “SolidarityGaming”

usernames probably bring up a lot of questions. they seem random, not affected by environmental or genetic factors in any discernible way. they’re more likely to contain words - or things that are kind of like words - than a truly random string of letters. I imagine there being a lot of meaning ascribed to them - like certain numbers symbolising certain things or certain words detailing something for your future. example: people with “7” in their name are more serious (supposedly. it’s kind of equivalent to our zodiac signs. belief varies)

I like to think about all the implications of this naming system. xB off-handedly said that Joel’s username is “SmallishBeans” so he’ll only be calling him “Beans” and not “Joel”, does this imply that some people believe your nickname must be derived by your username and consider nicknames that aren’t illegitimate? what about people that want to change their username? there’d be less name changes than our world (since names aren’t family or gender related) but it’s certainly possible (as you change the username of your minecraft account), but is there a stigma against it? rejecting the very name the universe gave you? are “rare” names (such as with small character count or palindrome etc) considered lucky or unusual?

(using the term “nickname” for ease of understanding because that’s our closest equivalent but in-universe this isn’t really what they are. better term “casual name”? “nickname” implies it isn’t your real name or is a cute shortening, whilst this would definitely be considered your name, just one of two types)

i just have… thoughts.

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Itchy veins.

Spoilers for Simple Life SMP and the Winner of Simple Life SMP.

SCOTT YOU DID IT OMG. HE’S A REPEAT WINNER. I’M SO PROUD AND HAPPY AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAAAAA

I was watching his video, and I could tell you the exact moment I knew he was going to win. I mean, it was quite clear the whole time, but when Joel died I knew he would win. I could feel it in my bones, and it was clear that there would be a repeat winner for even longer than that. I knew for sure that there would be a repeat winner when Gem, (who was the biggest competitor) died. (Gonna state this just in case) I’m not trying to come off as rude, or smart, or condescending, or anything else, I’m just super happy that my favourite YouTuber won, and wanted to share with the few people in the world who will see this.

HermitShift/EmpiresShift

Part 1

Jimmy (Grian's role)

(Demise + Regular skin)

Became a Watcher at the end of Evo after praying to them for help during the series.

Joined Hermitcraft in season 6 but mostly stayed on his own for the first part of the season because of an inferiority complex over the skill difference.

Needed diamonds and sold his services as a singing canary, even.had a whole cage.

Started Demise by accident, tired of everyone saying he died a lot he made it a personal challenge to not die at all, in the end everyone joined in and Demise was the result. Demise 2 was much more planned.

Started Third Life after some insistance from the Watchers... ended up winning the series, no one could believe it.

Rebelled against the mayor of the shopping district in season 7, created the grayscale resistance.

Created a literal rip in reality in season 9 that brought the hermits to another land...how? He doesn't have a good answer for that.

Grian (Bdubs' role)

(Crossover + Life series + Regular)

Joined for a short while Hermitcraft season 1 but had to go back to Japan to finish high school and after that some...complications arised.

Joined officially in season 6 where he became part of the NHO.

His eyes used to be smaller but a challenge resulted in him having much bigger eyes.

In the life series he ties his jumper around himself as It's much easier to move around, ends up getting grabbed a lot by it.

Also kinda became a god during the crossover with Empires, just your regular tuesday afternoon.

Bdubs (Scott's role)

(Life + Regular)

After a falling out with his brother he end up joining a lot of modded smp's.. From Crazycraft to Kindomcraft to eventually X-life and from there Empires.

Also ended up being MCC's mascot, begged for Hazel Horses to be added as a team.

Had to kill himself to stop his brother Pungence to save his anthropomorphic horse empire...and the rest of Empires too but it was mostly about the horses.

Won Last Life and came second in Double Life... And Third in Limited Life...and Fourth-

Sun theme.

Scott (Scar's role)

(Secret Life + Third Life + Regular)

All that Scar says by accident he says voluntarily, mostly to Jimmy.

His old server kinda fell apart after a zombie apocalypse, as soon as he escaped the zombie hordes he joined Hermitcraft in season 5 where he joined Convex.

Became the Jangler entirely to mess with Jimmy, they totally did not flirt the whole time.

Used his diplomacy skills to get elected mayor in season 7, made everything extremely colorful.

Sacrificed himself to Jimmy at the end of Third Life... He felt like he owed Jimmy for saving his life and he wanted to get even with him. Jimmy felt like he was cheated out of a chance to have a real win, Double Life ended up being akward.

Got sacrificed a lot to the Boatem Hole in season 8, what can he say? He has a thing for that.

Won Secret Life, everyone was waiting for it considering his general skill at the game, they were more surprised by how long it took.

Scar (Impulse's pov)

(Cyberpunk + Regular)

Have you ever wondered how Hermitcraft would be if Scar had learnt redstone instead of Terraforming? Chaos, the answer is chaos.

Has those shoes that light up with colours, It's certainly distracting.

Loves making minigames, especially shooting minigames.

Got backstabbed by Grian in Third Life, he wasn't very happy about it... At least they had Double Life to get better...by messing with everyone else there.

Really good at adapting to the chaos and go with the flow, the natural charisma definitely helps.

Five words: Cyberpunk motorized off-road wheelchair.

The secret third definition is “I would lay down my life for you in a heartbeat.” Some examples of each category that I will attempt to describe as obviously as possible without revealing personal information are

Category 1: I’ll just message you these

Category 2: Star Wars and Tanks, Star Wars and Tanks’ friend who always wears that green sweater, and Tall and Blond.

Category 3: You, @tvvigjuice, and the Fourth (who may or may not be coming depending on whether or not we can meet up in person soon).

But yeah, I would say this is pretty accurate. (Please ask me more about this in person, I could talk about it for hours.)

Life tips for fellow autistic people; "friend" has two definitions

1. A person who I am fond of and willing spend time with in most situations

2. A person whose name and face I recognize. Also know as an acquaintance

Further research is needed in order to differentiate between the two during conversation and how to ask for clarification without causing offense

autism regression needs to be talked about more.

you can lose so many skills. lose the ability to mask. lose the ability to control stimming. lose the ability to use motor functions. lose the ability to take care our yourself.

it's so hard.. it's so scary.. we just got able to write again and it's so bad. you can come out of regression, you can gain skills back in some areas or all areas affected but it's so hard and you can always be forced back. it's not fair.

Have you ever gotten legal revenge on someone without them knowing through online? What did you do?

I haven’t? I’m a minor, I don’t know how to do that.

Exactly.

How this derpy guy pull 2 beauties is beyond me