mindcracklove | Today in Guude and Beef

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNpitLA49ns

Beef helps Guude work on his produce farm, but only Guude recorded. They talk about why there's no podcast this week (*shakes fist at Pause*) and taunt us with how awesome it apparently was. Semen/seaman/cement jokes are made, in more ways than one. Bizarre web series from the past are discussed, and connections are made to Pakratt's Pondery. General Guude/Beef cuteness is had. At one point one of them made a comment that they're like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences.

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From:

placeblocks

I haven't even watched it yet and I want to draw big hearts around them with GB+VB in the middle. Also, so sad to hear that there will be no podcast. Again. :( It's become a "something good about Monday" thing for me, so it sucks when it doesn't come out.

Now to watch the episode!

From:

isi

Maybe Guude's initials should be GBF instead. I see GB and first think of Genny B. :P

From:

placeblocks

DAMMIT GENNY. But you're right. Shame since Guude's been around a lot longer. GenerikB should be GkB!

From:

mindcrack_love

These guys are so great. The fact that Guude can't pronounce "cement" like a normal person (just like his weird pronunciation of "pinch") amuses me.

From:

guiltyshirts

Peeeeench.

From:

guiltyshirts

Sucks about the podcast. :/

It was Beef that said 'It's like we're married, we're finishing each other's sentences.' Awwwww.

From:

isi

Hee, that was the moment where I suddenly decided, "Yep, I'm posting this one on Dreamwidth."

From:

guiltyshirts

I love that we have this place for the little things like that.

I just watched the group Chivalry and had a quiet squee that Kurt and Zisteau were on the same team, and spoke to each other a bit. (I am so starved for some Single Malt on their own :( )

From:

isi

Indeed.

Oh, maybe I should watch some Chivalry. I really haven't been keeping up with that game. I saw Kurt's heavily edited montage of all the times he died, but that's about it.

From: (Anonymous)

So far, Chivalry hasn't been super interesting, at least to me - they're not very good at the game yet, and with such a huge group in one call, there isn't much in the way of witty commentary. I'm hoping that they eventually break off into smaller groups of 2-4 players (I'm not sure of the minimum team size, to be honest) so we can actually see some sustained group interaction.

But I feel so bad for Kurt. He doesn't seem particularly excited in any of his Chivalry appearances... It just doesn't feel like he's enthusiastic about playing the game. Hopefully after the official release, there will be enough other players to keep the Mindcrackers who like the game occupied, and the people who are just tagging along to fill out a roster won't feel obligated to play any more.

From:

rills

Oh derp I was logged out, excuse my memory lapse.

From:

isi

Kurt did say in a video that he's not really into it, but he'll give it a fair chance anyway. And yeah, I'm watching one of the videos now and it's not terribly interesting, and there's just the occasional moment when the guy you're watching pulls off something cool.

From:

placeblocks

I agree. I think I'll like it more when it's all Mindcracker vs. Mindcracker teams and smaller ones at that where I can really root for them and figure out their strategies, etc. As is, right now, I've stopped bothering. Loads more things to watch.

From:

placeblocks

On finally watching it though, Guude's reaction was "I want to kill myself" wasn't it? Not exactly shippy there.... :(

From:

mindcrack_love

Making terrible jokes about it: the other Guudian Relationship Defense System?

From:

placeblocks

It's a weird reaction, to be sure. Beef says, "It's like we're married; we're finishing each other's sentences." To which Guude chuckles lightly. Beef then says, in one of his funny/dork voices, "So cute!" to which Guude says, "Oh God. Kill myself." And Beef makes a kind of disbelieving laugh, and then there's some kind of awkward silence...

It's weird because usually Guude totally hams up moments like that, and frequently acts like a boyfriend or "bitch" or husband or lover of any random given Mindcracker, Beef included. I honestly can't figure out why he'd react that way, both in the "THEY ARE LOVERS" made-up-fantasy way and in the "These are two guys who are friends and not remotely romantically involved, playing a dumb game together" way.

The closest I can come is sort of the way people sometimes act when they're overcompensating for fear of their feelings being found out. It's a sort of high school mentality, though. Say you have a crush on the Popular Cheerleader or something and your buddy is like "You've totally got a crush on Brittany, don't you?!" in a tease-y way and you're embarrassed (and afraid of her finding out and making fun of you / rejecting you, and of people saying a loser like you doesn't have a chance), so you go, "What? NO WAY!" or the faking-naive "Who?" (as if you don't know who the most popular cheerleader is, etc.) or whatever other sort of over-the-top lie vs. the more naturally "She's hot" or "Who doesn't have a crush on Brittany?" sort of casual reply that someone who doesn't really have a crush would say.

"We're like a cute old married couple!" teases Beef. "KILL ME THAT WOULD BE THE WORST THING EVER THAT COULD HAPPEN" overreacts has-a-crush-on-Beef-but-desperately-doesn't-want-him-to-know-he-does-Guude.

But even that doesn't really work, it's just the closest interpretation I can think of.

Alternately, I could see it being a reaction to "Oh god, the fanbrats are gonna ship us more now because of that" but I've never gotten the impression that sort of thing bothers Guude at all, so that seems like an even more unlikely reaction.

I AM CLEARLY WAY OVER ANALYZING THIS SORRY.

Edited Date: Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 01:35 am (UTC)

From:

crystalllized

Have I told you I love you recently?

By all means, continue overanalyzing things XD

From:

placeblocks

I am just so glad I have a place to ramble at length about this sort of stuff that welcomes or at least tolerates such randomness.

From:

isi

Clearly the next logical step is to write a long, super introspective fic exploring all the possible reasons and implications of that one little line.

From:

placeblocks

Hahahahaha! I NOMINATE YOU FOR IT.

From:

isi

Oh god. Even when all I've written for this community has been a super creepy golden record fic that wasn't even remotely shippy? Actually, I have been wanting to write some kind of Guude/Beef thing since their episodes exploring 1.4. But I make no guarantees!

From:

placeblocks

YAY!!!!!

From:

isi

I SAID NO GUARANTEES!

(But seriously, if I come up with a more concrete idea for the plot, it may have to happen)

From:

placeblocks

:D

Plot could be Guude has a crush on Beef and is afraid of Beef finding out because It's Complicated and there's the whole Pause and Bdubs thing, and poly stuff... IDK. IDK. IDK.

Or if you want to go a more Jason/Dan slant, because Jason has recently developed a crush, and doesn't want to Make It Awkward, and Dan doesn't know Guude's bi/pan/fluid/whatever... (Surprise, Dan's down with it? IDK) DID I MENTION I DONT KNOW?

But I think there should definitely be cuddling on the couch watching each other's favorite movies together.

From:

isi

(I'm responding to your last comment to me up here because that comment train has gotten too awkwardly skinny)

I'll actually be taking the post apocalypic angle, so I don't think I can make the watching movies thing happen. And it probably won't directly be about anyone having a crush, though it may come up.

From:

placeblocks

Hahahaha, excellent. And hey, you never know, movie projectors could still work in a Minecraft world where you can build jukeboxes out of wood and redstone and get records from skeleton's shot by Creepers. XD

But as NO Guude/Beef fic exists, I am sure anytihng will be amazing.

From:

isi

Oh wow, I didn't even hear him say that the first time. But I like Ms. Mod's theory. Or maybe he's just reluctant to admit to anything.

From:

placeblocks

As I said in my lengthy reply to Ms. Mod, it's hard for me to interpret it either way, though. It's almost harder to interpret in a non-shippy way than a shippy way. Like, since when does Guude NOT ham up gay-jokes with Beef? And you can tell Beef is a bit taken a-back by Guude's non-playful-in-return response. Beef's clearly expecting a "Yes, dear" sort of playing-along reaction.

From:

isi

Yeah. The only other reason I could think of is just the commitment aspect of being married would make Guude want to kill himself. Clearly you're the one with all the ideas and over analysis here.

From:

placeblocks

I thought about it being the whole "married makes me want to kill myself" aspect, but even that doesn't make sense since he's clearly happily married, and I'm not sure what's negative to the point of suicide about a married couple finishing each other's sentences. (It's a lot different than "We're bickering like an old married couple." / "Kill myself". It'd make more sense as a reaction there.)

Just call me Captain Over-Analysis!