The visitor lore video from technoblade was too funny!! I'm crying from all this laughing. Spoilers below.
I have to say quackity, techno and dream acting was surreal in this. The way quackity was yelling at dream and you can hear the fear in dream's voice. The rationalization of how important the revival book is because, Techno had a point, if you kill both of them, what comes from it,you won't get the revived book. I feel like quackity is doing all of this just so he can revive jschaltt.
The panic in awesamdude voice when they couldn't found dream and quackity just yelling at him making things worse.
The most hilarious thing was the fact that Philza thought techno told him to wait 3 months to read the will but it was 3 days 🤣
techno was losing it saying "I told you 3 days!!" And Philza was like "oh, I thought you meant 3 months ". that was too funny.
Tubbo: We are figuring out who the mole is, Technoblade.
Techno: I bet it’s JSchlatt.
Tubbo and Quackity:
Tubbo: He is not on our side Technoblade.
Quackity: What are you talk-- WHAT DO YOU MEAN “I bet it’s JSchlatt”!?
Old clip from November 16th’s “Quackity Goes to War Against JSchlatt” stream: featuring Technoblade having a very serious debate with Tubbo and Quackity explaining how JSchlatt is, somehow, secretly on their side.
I'm watching the lore video titled "the prison podcast " and that video has me laughing. Video spoiler ahead.
The way techno is treating being locked up in the prison with dream as a vacation is too funny. He is not phase one bit while dream is suffering in the corner.
What has me laughing the most is one where dream failed to make another version technoblade and ends up making another version of himself which is dream xd. Dream xd then grants them one wish to dream and techno and instead of asking for powerful weapons, tnt, or teleportation out of prison, techno ask for a bell for his prime subs 🤣🤣
Dream was just staring at the lava because of how angry he was at techno.
Another one was where he ask techno if he had a plan to break out and techno was like, he didn't get that far into coming up with one lol. Another face palm.
That man kept messing with dream throughout the whole thing, he was TIRED.
Oh man, that was a good lore video. Time for the next one.
I know there's often complaints about the c!Syndicate and how they didn't really do a whole lot, that their existence almost felt pointless because they didn't do anything. Not even regarding how Techno's condition and then his passing severely affected this storyline, I think these complaints sorta misses the point of what the Syndicate became and why people like this group so much.
Like, yes c!Techno initially created it in the aftermath of Doomsday, a way to ensure no governments were being formed or used to hurt or corrupt others. He gathered others who shared the same beliefs. They had even gone to Snowchester to ensure that nothing suspicious was going on. And before his passing, cc!Technoblade had wanted to work on that plot involving Cyberknife, to give the Syndicate story a bit more meat. Which would've been great, yes.
But then you look, and you have all these moments of them just... they're just bonding; if not as a group, at least in sections: the streams of Technoblade and Phil connecting with Ranboo, Techno and Ranboo becoming mentor and mentee, Technoblade's birthday party. And then you hear how the Syndicate really mattered to these characters: how Niki was beginning to heal around those who made her voice feel heard, Ghostboo saying that Phil and Techno did care for and love Ranboo, Technoblade outright stating he had friends now thanks to the Syndicate.
And then there's the last Syndicate stream, which I think also sums this up well. There's no Syndicate meeting, no talks of taking down any governments. It was Philza and Niki making a cake. It was Philza panicking over hearing voices, and Niki being a physical presence for him when he seemed to be lacking one at the time. It was Kristin finding the members of the Syndicate and taking them someplace safe. The Syndicate made it to the End, alive and not necessarily okay now, but someday.
And it's just... yes, I would've loved to see more concrete stories of the Syndicate combating corrupted governments and tyrants. But just because they didn't serve their initial purpose as much as we anticipated, does not mean that this group coming together was pointless. If anything their story is a solid example of fighting against a constant narrative in the server; the cycle of power and revenge.
Cause I think about Las Nevadas. People who banded together who, for the most part, did not make deep connections or find comradery. Or even if they did, things fell apart (only Foolish really stayed with Quackity by the end of the Las Nevadas lore). All because Quackity lost himself in his quest for, well, power and revenge. Las Nevadas could've been more than Quackity's need for control and power, but it was never able to reach that point.
Then you look at the Syndicate. Where from the start of the Syndicate's creation, Techno made sure everyone in the Syndicate was equal, that no one was in control of another. Where they never sought violence, wanting to only resort to drastic actions if they believed a location was a threat to others. Where they celebrated Technoblade's birthday and took pictures and had cake and were just friends. I just think there's something a bit profound, intentional or otherwise, in how the Syndicate may have tragically been underutilized, but the group wasn't just an anarchist group. It was a group of people hurt by a nation coming together and not actively seeking any goal toward gaining power or control over others. Yes, they wanted to fight against power. But they also wanted to just... be.
Just something I think about when of the few who managed to survive the Dream SMP, the ones who managed to escape with their lives were the ones who formed this anarchist group, a group that people say didn't do much, and... yeah, they're right, but isn't that a good thing?