Mindcrack Love: an alternative Mindcrack community

Any of you watch the Team Canada prank just pulled? I won't spoil it for anyone, but it has some really fun Beef and Etho interaction. Nothing obviously flirty like with Beef/Pause or Pause/anyone, but there are definitely some moments, especially with Beef directing Etho around, and Etho sort of mind-reading and knowing what Beef wants before Beef says so. And just other playful banter that we don't usually get sometimes. These two do a lot of pranking together, but they don't tend to spend a ton of time together, and they seem rather compatible. I'd love to see them do more together.

So, in the recent B-Team casino episode, GenerikB and Bdubs decide to keep Beef's castle chapel so they can conduct weddings. GenerikB suggests marrying Beef/Pause and Doc/Anderz, which amused the heck out of me:

Generik: "For the quickie-wed, you know, for the love birds, like Pause and Beef can go get married here."
BdoubleO: "Yeah, yeah! I like it."
Generik: "I mean, Shree can wear a dress."
Bdubs: "Mm. Of course."
Generik: Doc and AnderZEL can have a little wedding."
Bdubs: "True."

Time stamp on Bdubs' video.

They also talk about spending the night together (IRL) at GenerikB's house before they head to Minecon, which... INTERESTING. They talk about doing things together that they could only do physically together...



Also, in today's podcast, there's a lot of discussion about gay LPers, which I thought was of interest to the community since we've discussed that recently. Sadly, it's a more serious topic that sort of gets joked-over. There are a few times I thought someone was going to say something good and then someone made a joke/interrupted and it was lost. Still thought it was worth mentioning here in case people wanted to have any sort of discussion about it.


EDIT: We need an AnderZEL tag, and maybe a podcast one?

- Guude some what recently commented on a "new" downvoted Reddit thread asking about Etho going to Minecon with something akin to, "He's not going, not even in secret. Just accept it." It got me wondering--why do you think he's content to defend Etho's decision not to go to Minecon, but has been harboring on Beef to attend for months, even going so far as to threaten to buy him a Minecon ticket? True Nancy Drew union, or is there some deep dark secret Etho's hiding from us all?

- While catting with mindcrack_love earlier, we came to the topic of religion. It's somewhat well-known Guude is a non-believer and BDubs is a believer, but I couldn't immediately produce videos to prove either. Can any of you recall times Guude's gone on about religion, or anything BDubs has said? (I remember Guude once saying he couldn't make an event because he had to go to church.) And while on the topic, does their religious stance translate into your interpretations of their Minecraft characters, and if so, how? Given Pakratt's display of Christian symbolism in his skin and builds, I personally feel like there must be some sort of religion in Minecraftia, even if it's a one-man religion, but I'm atheist myself and I've never really thought about it. I figure it might be an interesting topic...

- What does everyone think of the idea of women eventually joining Mindcrack? In general I really would love to see some women on the server because I want to see more females represented in gaming, and as much as I love the slash, it makes me sad to see such an awesome community full of only men. On the other hand, I really do worry that it might somehow change the way the guys play or act. I'm guessing Guude won't let anyone on that doesn't fit, so it's probably an unfounded fear, but I do find myself still sometimes worrying about it. Is that horrible of me? I feel like such a hypocrite, but other than occasionally popping into a Sixelona stream, I don't watch any women LPers. (Some of it is the culture that crops up around them. I can't stand all the fanboys mindlessly fawning over the fact that ZOMG GURLS and their disgusting/embarrassing comments. That's something I'd really hate seeing brought over to Mindcrack. I'd want a female gamer who was popular because she's entertaining, not because she's female.) Perhaps this doesn't really fit the vibe of the community, so feel free to ignore.