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O lamb of God

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otherside 🎶

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Actually everything will be solved by the power of love. Pac will adopt Madagio Cat and Madagio will learn how to be loved and he'll settle down as a comfy sleepy housecat and then- *the guard locks the door of the solitary I'm in*

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Love in the air? WRONG! Gas leak <3

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You guys ever think about how Bagi's life has been marked with loss since she was a child? First her brother, then her cat, her parents are never mentioned so it can be assumed they either died or just were not very present.

Then she escaped the island, and we don't have many details about her life before but, she lost herself really. Her whole life only dedicated to finding her brother, did she ever had time to herself? To find out that she loved a specific type of books, to find out her favorite color?

Then she arrives at the island, where she finds her brother but loses him again to the island.

The her daughter who quickly becomes the light of her life dies and Bagi can do nothing but watch as her child mourns that life, she can do nothing as she watches her daughter become riddled with fear. All she can do is plan a very long term revenge.

And now, she is about to lose the first person on the island who gave her a hand, her best friend who she loves like family. And who knows who she might lose next? Loss will always follow Bagi doesn't matter where she goes.

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Tubbo being like "i thought being with foolish would negate people constantly stealing and messing with me". Brother, people respect qfoolish even less 💀💀💀 you have just merged two punching bags into one

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all of pepito's parents are doing their best w pepito & i love that a lot...... beautiful beautiful family nunca cambien

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l love everyone like crouching near acau liek observing him waiting their turn to speak with him, its liek meeting with a celebritiy

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acau shocked how hes just talking to a french speaking person thats so awesome his reaction to the translator

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everyone speaking in their native languages is making me cry<3 acau said this is his first time speaking to people of so many different languages

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Crazy Pomme screenshot LMAO

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Town of Fobo and tubbo's homophobic arc in general is so funny to me, cause like no one on that server is gonna tell him that foolish was 10 bajillion times worse with vegetta then fit and pac are with each other. Like brother doesn't even know his worst enemy is his co-mayor

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man im just like. thinking about egg signs and how they've evolved over the course of the qsmp and how the qsmp has evolved over the course of the qsmp and just feeling so much love and affection for every part of the project. i dont have any grand overarching point with this just. like. here's a history of egg comms bc of the kind of person that i am

so wayyyy back ten months ago now at the start of the short and sweet egg event that was planned to last maybe a month at most, the eggs had their own custom, decorated signs!

[ID: Leo with a pink sign with an egg on the bottom corner that reads "hello" in all caps. Her nametag reads Leonardo. End ID]

They were extremely simple, single word signs. There was hello, hola, story, feed, sleep, and maybe one or two more and each was its own separate sign. The eggs could only communicate the most basic needs in words and everything else was through minecraft body language or just hoping their parents guessed right.

But obviously, there was a lot more that parents wanted to hear from their children. I'm not sure who was actually first, but the earliest departure from this system I know about is BadBoyHalo giving Dapper a simple oak sign so he could name his pet slime. (Screenshot from @/lxrd-ren)

[ID: Dapper wearing a diver's helmet standing next to a tiny slime in a boat with an oak sign reading "Bouncy (slmecicle but better)" End ID]

Parents quickly realized how much more convenient this was and pretty soon every single egg had stacks of signs to communicate with.

The next innovation came from Vegetta, who was the resident mod knower at the time. He knew about colored canvas signs and gave Leo signs in her favorite color purple because he loved her and gave her everything she wanted.

[ID: Leo's bed in her room under some Fooligetta fanart with a purple sign reading "<3" End ID]

Colored signs obviously had a lot of advantages. Being able to tell at a glance which egg placed which sign was a huge step forward in eggs being able to have long, complicated conversations as well as leaving obvious marks of their personality everywhere they went. It took a little while for them to be standard for every egg though. Bobby never stopped using oak signs even after Richas and Pomme both showed up with colored signs.

[ID: Two signs reading from right to left a red Pomme sign reading "we already started working on a guillotine factory" and a dark grey Dapper sign reading "thats the most french u have said so far pomme" End ID]

And this was the system for a while! And it worked pretty well for most people! The biggest struggle most people had was egg signs not being translated, but streamers adjusted to that by reading signs out loud so the translators would pick up on them. This also lead to adorable and fascinating dynamics like Richas swearing in signs he wrote for Bad and then warning Bad not to read them out. There was also the genuinely phenomenal development of Leolingo where Leo writes only in Spanish to Foolish because it's easier for her to write and he takes his time to puzzle his way through it and learn in a way that's super cool to watch someone else do onscreen.

Then Tubbo joined the server. And Tubbo himself had no problems at all with the system, but he is dyslexic and he casually mentioned offhand that it was getting kind of annoying to read signs after a ten hour long stream and the admin team Fucking Cooked.

Within 24 hours, they had TTS working on the signs. Within 48 hours, it was working on books too. I can't remember how long it took to get translation working, but it was definitely under a week.

And this opened up a whole new world of possibilities for the entire QSMP. The admin team has been on top of capitalizing on it for story purposes, but also just allowing the egg admins to speak in their native languages to everyone whenever they want has been so enriching for everyone involved. Leolingo is awesome but Foolish has been learning Spanish insanely fast and his process is a lot slower and more frustrating than most people can do in front of an audience of thousands of people without feeling discouraged. That's also one language. We've had everything from Foolish being able to check his work a bit more faster to Phil insisting on his eggs taking a day to speak to him in their native languages to Ramón writing a book for Fit in Cantonese, a language we haven't even seen on the server in any other context!

And all of it is fully understood and fully communicated! Sometimes the translators mess up but no one expects them to be perfect and people ask for clarification if the translator says something that doesn't sound right. It's not only a massive step forward in communication technology, but it's a great demonstration of how to use it and when you can and can't rely on it.

And finally, the most recent innovation! One of BBH's viewers sent him a dono saying they had trouble reading certain signs because they were too low-contrast. Bad, Richas, and Pomme just. Took it upon themselves to fix the problem right there and then. Based on One (1) bringing up their own personal struggle, those three came up with new signs that innovate tremendously on the originals.

[ID: Two separate images of the before and after. The first is the egg signs in their original colors with the corresponding egg's name written on them to demonstrate the font color and the second is in the new, higher contrast colors with the same text. The new signs also have custom decorations for each egg. The second picture also has two signs from Pomme in all caps that read "Send all the love to Richas he spent a whole night making this he's the best <3" End ID]

There are three main innovations visible in the above pictures

1: Obviously, the colors are higher contrast. The signs with white text have darker colors and the signs with black text have lighter colors.

2: The colors themselves are lower saturation. Richas said this made it easier for him personally to read them so he corrected that way, but that's open to change if it causes difficulties for more people than it helps

3: The decorations are for accessibility reasons! People with various different forms of colorblindness will find different sets of colors easier or harder to distinguish, but any of them can look at the decorations and use them to identify whose sign is whose instead.

But! Those innovations are not why I made this post! It's these ones!

[ID: The backs of the new signs when placed on the ground. Most visible are Chayanne's with vines and a hardcore heart, Sunny's with shining sunglasses, and Pomme's with an apple and the Eiffel Tower. End ID]

Richas added distinguishing marks to the backs of the signs too! This is something that Bad brought up specifically as something he wanted because it was hard for him to tell who was talking when he was using TTS from behind signs and couldn't see the colors at all.

We went from custom egg signs (a hotbar or so of words and nothing else to communicate with) through a long journey of expanding communication and expanding who we're bringing along on the communication and how easily they can join in and we've circled all the way back around to custom egg signs (they can say anything they want in any language they want and anyone will know it's them saying it from any angle)

and i guess i have enough feelings abotu that to write All This about it

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THE QSMP IS ABOUT LOVE. NOT EVEN JUST THE FUCKING PLOT. THIS SERVER IS A LABOR OF LOVE. LOVE IN CONNECTION, LOVE IN COMMUNITY, LOVE IN INCLUSIVITY, LOVE IN EFFORT. JUST LOVE. THESE SIGNS? LOVE. THE ADMIN TEAM'S ENDLESS WORK? LOVE. MAN. FUCK.

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qjaiden has been missing longer than bobby was alive. btw

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it’s all “I miss qroier” this “roier will stream again soon 🙏” that. and when roier comes back feeling better with a month’s worth of repressed cubito suffering to rp then what. tengan cuidado con lo que piden amigos

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Foolish: You need to stop whimpering all the time

Badboyhalo: I'm SORRY! It's a LIFESTYLE