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n3s0 · 3 years

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hi i’m going to discuss the doomsday war streams and overall the conclusion of what i’d consider season 3 of the dream smp because hyperfixation go brrrrr

(for clarity sake: season 1 is from when l’manberg defects from the dream smp to when wilbur decides to host an election. season 2 is from swag2020 vs pog2020 to the manberg vs pogtopia war on nov 16th. season 3 is from the start of tubbo’s presidency to the jan 6th doomsday war.)

tldr: i definitely think the cc’s can look on what happened this season and improve greatly. that’s not to say this wasn’t a good season, there are a lot of things they’ve improved since season 1, but there are also things they can improve on in the future. this season was lacking a connecting thread or goal and it made it feel disjointed and left character’s in limbo. a way to fix that could be either scripting the story more strictly, fixing communication problems and/or making the plot into more self contained but slightly overlapping stories.

i think my biggest problem with this season was the fact that it felt so disjointed. one of the best things about the first season is the consistent plot line: l’manberg is trying to win independence. you had eret’s betrayal, dream’s tyranny, wilbur and tommy’s whole dynamic, and an underlying subplot with the disc war, but it all ultimately connected to l’manberg’s fight for independence. it’s what makes the first season so good and that kind of consistent plot is missing in this season.

even the second season had the main plot of taking back manberg. there was wilbur’s insanity, but that tied back to the elections. there was tension between tubbo and tommy, but it tied back to the elections. even the badlands tied back to bad, ant, skeppy, and sam deciding they’re done with manberg AND pogtopia and deciding to stoke the fire. it all tied back and character’s had weeks to slowly develop with the setting.

this season you had techno retiring, ghostbur reconciling with fundy, tubbo’s presidency, whatever was going on with schlatt and quackity?, george is king?, el rapid mexican l’manberg that whole thing, tommy’s exile, el rapids fighting dream smp/eret’s kingship?, the butcher army, techno UNretiring and teaming with tommy, tommy using techno to get his discs back, techno using tommy to destroy l’manberg, the prison, the bloodvines, and probably more im forgetting. there was a LOT going on, even techno and wilbur have ooc acknowledged this. and in my opinion it was just too much. character’s weren’t given enough time to develop naturally and the pacing had to go fast enough to fit all the plot into it, leaving little time for the character’s relationships to develop with the plot.

most notably this is a problem with character’s like niki, fundy, ranboo (though not too bad with his character) and eret. eret had worked hard on a redemption arc and then had to go back to being king because george didn’t want to be involved (then changed his mind which...okay) which really fucked up all of the development he spent a LOT of time on during the second season. niki had to jump from siding with tubbo and tommy against wilbur’s insanity to suddenly tubbo’s president and her character just...can’t know that wilbur is dead for some reason? and now she needs content so she has to scrap together an anti-hero plot for herself. fundy’s works a little better i feel, with his lowkey insanity arc he’s having as of now, but the problem with him is he didn’t get enough lowkey plot moments to show his character’s devolution from neglected to vengeful. ranboo was thrown head first into the plot and while he’s doing an AMAZING job of keeping himself afloat, he just hasn’t had enough time to make his character’s mental decline seem believable, at least to me. not enought has happened to his character for it to work out, due to pacing. all of these character’s are AMAZING concepts but the fact that they feel so inconsistent can be related back to the fact that there really wasn’t any time given to let character’s slowly develop and change, and instead they had to cram all of their character development into the first 30 mins of a plot important stream.

and i will offer a counterargument here of the fact that season 3 is when wilbur’s writing stopped and also was when it really started catching a large audiences’ interest. so naturally more people wanted to be involved and due to the nature of the way this story is told, where each character is an actual CC who needs content and can’t just be a background support character, there HAS to be a lot going on for everyone to get their slice. and i think that’s the ultimate downfall of using this medium to tell a story. you NEED those background characters, the characters that don’t have to be 3 dimensional, the characters that don’t need to be there for everything and get their lines in. so i can’t fault them for having a clunky story when it has to be that way to be fair.

ultimately i still really enjoy the story, and i hope this doesn’t sound too nitpicky. it’s downfall, of everyone having to be an important character, is also what makes it so good! don’t like the “main character”? go watch someone else, who’s the main character of their own POV of the story. every single character is incredibly complex and has their own unique set of motivations, goals, and traits. it works really well with the running theme of history, and how not only does it repeat itself through miscommunication and ignorance but also how the opinion on events changes from who’s telling the story. the fact that you can tell every CC genuinely cares about their character also really does show in the acting and writing and just everything about the server and story. the flaws of the story are very easy to look over because of just how much time and care all of them put into this server and it really helps the story. an okay story written by passionate people with always be better than an amazing one written by apathetic storywriters; and the smp’s story is definitely more than just okay, at least to me.

i didn’t want to write this just to complain and then offer no solution, so i do have a few ideas on how i’d like to see this fixed or at least improved. they actually already somewhat do this, but i feel like they could start breaking up the plot more. similarly to how there was the bloodvines plot going on at the same time as tommy’s exile plot, i feel like they could take a chunk of say 5-10 members and they each have their semi-contained plot. especially with l’manberg now destroyed, the thing that way tying a lot of the members together, it would be easier to do this. there can be connecting threads through the stories, like how tubbo and fundy would see the bloodvines or bad would visit tommy in exile, but ultimately not every character has to be involved in everyone else’s story.

say you have tubbo, tommy, quackity, fundy, ghostbur, and dream for one plot of trying to get the discs back and making dream revive ghostbur. at the same time you can have techno, phil, ranboo, dream, and sam dealing with the prison and techno or someone being put in the prison with dream manipulating ranboo through his memories. bad, ant, sam, puffy, and skeppy can continue with the egg. eret, fundy, niki, and ghostbur work through the trauma they’ve gained from everything with l’manberg and their interpersonal relationships. similarly to how karl is doing the tales of the SMP right now, these storylines are self contained but characters can overlap and therefore so can relationships.

my other solution would honestly be to just work on the seemingly lack of communication. make sure everyone is getting the content they need (with people having to understand that not everyone is going to get the animatic worthy lines every stream, and not everyone gets to play a huge part in each event.) however this entails having a much more concrete script, which highkey removes the charm of the smp. it also means that inevitably someone is going to not be getting good content, or content at all, and that’s not fun or good for anyone. ultimately i’d like to see an improvement on the communication for the plot (niki feeling excluded, george and eret not being told about important events, communicating when people are trying to have genuine canon important speeches and not BMing them (cough cough tubbo at niki about her taxes cough cough techno during tubbo and tommys reunion)) and that doesn’t necessarily have to mean a fully fleshed out script.

in the end, what everyone on this server has managed to do with this storyline is something that’s genuinely impacted me! it’s opened my eyes to new ways stories can be told and this fandom is the first big one i’ve been in since probably fucking voltron or homestuck in the mid-2010s. i love what the CCs have managed to do, and while i think this was a healthy amount of criticism for the story i in no way want to demean just how much passion and effort the CCs put into this server. none of these people are professional story writers or actors so the amount of talent we’ve seen is astonishing. this is simply me expressing what i think the problems are, because every story has problems, especially one that’s being made with such a unique medium like improv roleplay streaming. if you have anything you wanna add please feel free to add to this post or reply! i’d love to see :) thank you for reading if you made it this far lmao

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Cultivate compassion to make it humanity’s urgent fashion – New Delhi Times

Compassion is that extraordinary competency that may sense and expertise one other’s ache – as miraculous as the power to see mild

My mom, who’s remembered by family and friends alike because the world’s most buoyant and caring individual, spent the previous couple of months of her life ailing in mattress with most cancers. But irrespective of how sick she was, the very first thing she did each morning was to unfold bajra on her balcony for the birds. She mentioned the happiest a part of her day was to lie again in mattress and watch the day by day drama. First would come the fats feisty pigeons who would jostle one another off the ledge and spend extra time combating than feeding. Then the rose-ringed parakeets (a few of whom from a batch that had been rescued and launched close by) who ate rapidly and quietly. And then got here the timid little sparrows pecking on the seeds furtively and vanishing as magically as they appeared.

My personal mornings start with a bathe. My lavatory adjoins the backyard and invariably there shall be ants which have made their means in to search refuge from the solar or rain, so bathing is all the time preceded by scouring the partitions and ground, rescuing and relocating ants earlier than I activate the bathe. Similarly, my 5-12 months previous granddaughter Anasuyaa all the time rigorously picks up and strikes slugs, snails and earthworms to the grassy kerb, once they make the occasional foray into the driveway, in order that they don’t get stepped on or run over.

Then I make Prasad for my Guru – suji ka halva – and that is distributed to folks and animals. The utensil that it is cooked in, is washed with water, and the water placed on a secluded pavement in order that the ants can choose up the crumbs.

When I made a home in Maharani Bagh, I put a faucet outdoors hooked up to the wall. Anyone passing by may drink clear water and there was all the time a bowlful for animals. Some years in the past, I used to be going out for dinner once I noticed a person with all his possessions draped on his wheelchair. I finished to supply him some cash. He took it after which mentioned – I don’t actually need a lot cash however is it doable for you to give me water on daily basis? He comes each morning to choose up the water and I’m grateful to him for permitting me to do that small factor.

During this lockdown, hundreds of individuals have risked COVID, risked going hungry themselves, risked going out at evening and being herded by the police, to feed road animals who’re bewildered as a result of their sources of meals – the dhabas, the wedding halls, the rubbish, the lodges, the folks on the road have all vanished. Many of those feeders have misplaced their jobs. Many of them have been abused and mistreated by their society organisations who, tired of nothing to do, took out their frustrations on these courageous carers. I salute them 1,000,000 occasions. They are the spine of India – an India identified for its compassion. Do you assume this is able to have occurred in another nation? Never. We ought to rejoice this high quality in ourselves.

What is compassion? Compassion is that extraordinary competency that may sense and expertise one other’s ache – as miraculous as the power to see mild. But it’s extra than simply noticing and feeling unhappy for another person’s ache. That’s empathy. Compassion means taking that disappointment and turning it into an motion that eases the harm. The motive that animals have it so arduous is as a result of we don’t even discover them or their plight – like puppies which might be routinely separated from their mums, thirsty birds that fall from the scorching summer time sky, or the tens of millions and billions of bugs, birds, monkeys, and squirrels, and god is aware of what different native animals that lose their properties after we resolve on one more “scenic” resort.

Why animals get neglected is that, it’s hardest to have compassion for these it’s possible you’ll not love or those that are most dissimilar to you. So, it’s possible you’ll not love ants so you’ll hardly discover stepping on them. It explains why our hearts break after we hear of canine tied up and bought in meat markets, but we cross by scores of stalls with gutted fish with out shedding a tear.

Just as we study maths, historical past or French, compassion is one thing that has to be taught and developed. Buddhist monk and writer Matthieu Ricard says our minds are like gardens. Left uncultivated, they’re influenced by the climate and no matter seeds are within the wind. Some issues will develop, and others will perish-and ultimately we might not just like the outcomes. We have to intentionally domesticate compassion by studying compassionate consideration, compassionate considering, compassionate feeling, and compassionate behaviour. We want to study to be open to struggling in others-after which we will act to alleviate that struggling. In this manner, we change into the folks we would like to be-in different phrases, to have the backyard-thoughts we would like.

Compassion is commonly confused with weak spot. It is probably the most excessive type of braveness. It is simply braveness that permits us to transfer into areas of deep struggling and ache. It is really easy to flip away from “graphic” or “disturbing” photos and conditions. For instance, folks don’t like to volunteer at previous age properties, hospitals, animal shelters or orphanages as a result of it’s upsetting to see misery at shut quarters.

Compassion is nearly seeing issues. The means to develop compassion is to practice to discover, discover, discover. Here are some easy on a regular basis methods to follow compassion:

– If you’re feeling scorching and thirsty in the course of the summer time, discover that others may not have entry to water as simply as you do. Put out clear cool water in your balcony, backyard or terrace for the birds and a bowl of water close to your gate for canine and cats.

– Biscuits are a straightforward choose-me-up. Keep them in your automobile for the hungry and homeless, and anybody in want of a deal with.

– Clothes and bedding you now not want, or use may imply heat within the winter for the homeless, each people and animals.

– Avoid shopping for something that causes cruelty- shampoos that take a look at on animals, leather-based which kills cows, brushes comprised of animal hair, pillows filled with fowl feathers, and naturally the apparent no-nos like meat, dairy and fur.

– You get pleasure from fruit, however monkeys and birds want it to survive. Plant fruit timber in your backyard specifically for them.

– Pest management is a tidy time period however merely means poisoning tens of millions of tiny creatures. It’s a lot simpler to preserve your kitchen clear than to use cockroach killers.

– Instead of emptying leftovers into the trash, put out that meals for hungry road animals.

– Celebrating events is such enjoyable. Extend the get together to an animal shelter or previous age dwelling that seldom experiences such pleasure.

– Bring dwelling a pet from the road or an animal shelter. Buying canine and cats perpetuates terrible cruelty.

– If you hate heavy masses, take into consideration horses, donkeys, bullocks, camels and elephants. Don’t experience them your self and do you have to see an overloaded animal, be certain to get him unloaded, fed and watered.

– Don’t be afraid to verify or confront cruelty. Stand up to bullies who choose on the weak and weak like ladies, youngsters and animals.

Compassion doesn’t imply being meek. No one in India will say that I’m mild in my method to cruelty. It angers me and the power I get from anger brings justice.

Compassion has a radiating impact that has the potential to heal a drained and troubled world. One of my favorite strains sums it up properly: Be type, everyone has such determined lives.

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NOTE: The views expressed listed below are these of the authors and don’t essentially symbolize or mirror the views of New Delhi Times (NDT)

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