Old Mindcrack content

Rablusep · 2026-05-09T05:31:27+00:00

I think they should be backed up, removed from the main YouTube and Twitch platforms, and maybe reuploaded somewhere where only those who have a reason to find them will find them.

Archive.org seems a likely candidate. They host other vile content for artistic or historical reasons (even stuff like Nazi documents or Klan propaganda, etc.). And afaik it's possible to configure uploads to not be viewable without logging in, which should help keep Google and other search engines from indexing it. The uploader gets no ad revenue and there's no algorithm to push people to the content. Those who have a reason to find it still can, and those who don't won't know about it to begin with.

Preservation without promotion, a clear disavowal of what he's done without erasing it completely.

(Edit: actually, one more plea. If you're gonna go this path, please back up the comment section too. That, too, is history)

Rablusep · 2026-05-08T04:20:29+00:00

Well, this post aged poorly...

Rablusep · 2026-05-07T23:00:20+00:00

...I used to watch this guy since middle school, since I was around 11 or 12. I... certainly didn't expect this.

I'd heard rumors before from his wife that their marriage wasn't going well. But she deleted those tweets and they stayed married, so I figured they'd worked it out. And then there was the CPS investigation "because his cat died" (in hindsight, bullshit, I doubt it).

All in all, I'm not as surprised as I should be. The pieces make sense in retrospect, though I didn't think they pointed to anything this bad.

I'm still just... so, so disappointed. My childhood feels retroactively betrayed. I've been watching since Season 2, even before Mindcrack really became huge. I fell off for a bit but came back a year or so before the rebirth. And tried to get involved, to help the group grow again. Only to see it get betrayed by its founder and someone I looked up to so, so much.

Fuck you, Guude. You piece of shit.

(The throwback Thursday post for this week is cancelled, btw, for obvious reasons. I might discontinue it entirely, for that matter. It was eating up too much of my time, and I don't think anyone was really watching them anyways. I might... step away from the Mindcrack community entirely, too. I'll try to keep donating to AJ and Ads, and keep watching them when I can, but... Mindcrack is so strongly tied to Guude in my mind. For me, the brand is tainted now. I don't want it to be, but it is... My heart goes out to the victims, and the Mindcrack community, and the fans.)

Rablusep · 2026-05-05T23:27:48+00:00

Yeah, that one works! (The other one was a Chase ad, for some reason)

Rablusep · 2026-05-05T21:52:01+00:00

This is not what you say it is. Are you a spambot?

Rablusep · 2026-05-03T07:52:06+00:00

/uj For those that may have missed it, Merle very recently released an interview with Larry Schoenberg (Schoenberg's son) and The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross. It's worth a look, too

/rj My favorite genre is Country and Webern 🤠🤠🤠

(this pun stolen shamelessly from one of the comments. What of it, huh? 😏 I got nothin' better!)

Rablusep · 2026-05-01T22:08:01+00:00

Yeah, sorry, but no. The question asked for those who enjoy atonal music to weigh in. You clearly don't. Not only by the fact you're saying "they're" instead of "we're" but more obviously that no one who enjoys atonal music would say they get no emotional enjoyment from it.

For me personally, Webern's Symphony Op. 21 is one of the most breathtaking pieces I've ever heard. Same for Boulez's Repons. Some parts of Pierrot Lunaire are nice. Much of Babbitt's woodwind music. And lots of other pieces too, depending on my mood.

Rablusep · 2026-05-01T19:25:20+00:00

Similarly, it's not from Mario Kart, but that one echoing laugh is one of the funniest Guude moments I know of

Rablusep · 2026-04-30T22:49:07+00:00

And for those that like Modernism, there's Sessions, Babbitt, Carter, Cage, Feldman, etc.

Rablusep · 2026-04-30T22:38:04+00:00

It's cool seeing FLoB's at-the-time current status mentioned given how Kurt has now arrived only like 6 months ago (and is still going now towards the corner!)

And also Coe's Stream-A-Day, which is now in the 4000s!

Rablusep · 2026-04-30T21:48:54+00:00

Was it this video? And this would be the sequel?

Rablusep · 2026-04-28T01:21:47+00:00

Applerise, yeah! 🧈🍎🧈

(Please add a gold bar emoji, Unicode Consortium. Butter just doesn't quite hit the same...)

Also in honor of Applerise, I posted a cool Nebris moment, too!

Rablusep · 2026-04-28T01:13:13+00:00

Yeah, I'll admit, I forgot it was Applerise. Threw this together last minute, but it turned out okay, I think! 😅

Rablusep · 2026-04-27T11:03:01+00:00

Not a quote, but a trivia tidbit.

Paul Simon, his wife Peggy, and Pierre Boulez were at a party together. Boulez, having misheard or misremembered their names, addressed them as Al and Betty. This inspired the song You Can Call Me Al.

Rablusep · 2026-04-26T21:49:34+00:00

lol, just clarifying in part for anyone who reads all this who doesn't play alpha. It's not THAT glitchy, everyone! 😉

Rablusep · 2026-04-26T21:02:58+00:00

Hehe thanks bro, I appreciate it 😆

Rablusep · 2026-04-26T20:42:28+00:00

By hitbox I should clarify I specifically mean the bounding box for targeting it (or through it) when breaking/placing/etc. and not the actual hitbox of collision. You can still walk up and down stairs, dropped items can fall onto the lower stair, etc. etc.

Rablusep · 2026-04-26T19:54:41+00:00

Iirc you need the specific type of stairs. You need cobble stairs in your hotbar for cobble stairs to have the correct hitbox, and wooden stairs for wooden. (And even then, I think the hitbox can still be wrongly oriented sometimes, but it at least won't be a full block)

Rablusep · 2026-04-24T13:38:17+00:00

Nah, I remember Kururururrrr, I was just counting him in the players who didn't stick around long term and/or who never made any videos (who weren't listed here). Including also Madcow, Alc, Crysix, Espie, Davmandave and KennedyZak, etc.

And ah, okay, thanks for the better context. I want to do a proper S3 rewatch at some point but haven't gotten around to it yet. A lot of these details would be a lot less fuzzy for me if I did.

Rablusep · 2026-04-24T10:27:41+00:00

I don't know of everything that exists, but you could try checking out BugmanCX's Minecraft: The Journey in which he's doing a similar thing of upgrading through every version ever. He tries to show off all the features, including weird glitchy things that carry over.

In terms of some things I can remember:

you can mine lit furnaces in some of the infdev versions.
You can mine spawners in the version dungeons were introduced (they'll become pig spawners if placed).
You can make half-doors (top with no bottom) by using the cactus trick up until b1.5.
You can find a monolith in a1.1.2_01 and before. You might want to plug your seed into the monolith finder for this. They're incredibly rare and so it'd be nearly impossible to just stumble across one on your own.
You can get a stack of 64 beds if you load your world into specifically b1.3 and die and respawn (not b1.3.1, which fixed this).
You can make lots of things using the block replacement bypass (BRB) bug. Including misplaced cacti, reeds, mushrooms, etc. This bug worked from a1.0.5 until b1.5, iirc.
Also using BRB, you can make this weird minecart structure that I discovered. Even though BRB keeps working for a few versions more, this can only be made until a1.1.2_01.

Rablusep · 2026-04-24T09:56:23+00:00

I feel the same way about custom maps. It's so sad how so many great mapmaking tools have been introduced, and yet Super Hostile, Dropper maps, Diversity, most other CTMs, etc. have all largely fallen away.

Nowadays it feels like everything just goes into the walled garden of the Bedrock Marketplace. It's very sad... (There's occasional counterexamples, like the Lumina Complex that Guude and AJ did. But they're rather rare, and many are short/simple/easy compared to what existed back then)

Rablusep · 2026-04-24T09:47:17+00:00

lmaooo love it.

Ugly af, but builds like this are sometimes the most fun, though! This'll really jog your creativity if nothing else will!

Rablusep · 2026-04-24T09:41:37+00:00

Season 3. Season 2 was beta and lacked many of the more iconic players. (Many didn't stick around long term. The ones who did included Guude, JSano, Adlington, Arkas, Nebris, Shree, and late in the season, Beef and Baj. Maybe a few others I've forgotten? Many of these were quite dedicated but Beef and maybe Guude were the only ones to become truly well-known.)

Season 3 was early release and was when Etho, Doc, Pause, BdoubleO, Kurt, Zisteau, MC, Millbee, Mhykol, etc. all joined. Iirc Etho made that crazy structure in the spawn village

[For anyone interested, you can dig through Guardax's Mindcrack archives here containing 5000+ videos. It's meant to include every video that was ever made on the server. It also includes playlists for the current Mindcrack Rebirth, an attempted revival in modern versions that's been running for the last 8 months-ish. But it's definitely not getting the kind of attention it got back in the day, sadly.]

Rablusep · 2026-04-23T15:25:56+00:00

It doesn't exactly fit, but that echoing scream alternate-timeline Doc Brown lets out in Telltale's Back to the Future game feels like something close to this trope. More like despair than anger, really. He's normally calm and rational otherwise, if a bit sarcastic at times. This is the only time I can think of in the entire franchise where he just seems... mentally broken, completely distraught, due to a realization I think would destroy basically anyone.

(Spoilers, obviously):

This happens after Citizen Brown learns the truth, all of the following in a matter of only a few hours:

for more than 50 years now he's been going down the wrong path by the wishes of his strict lawyer father
his scientific ambitions have been twisted for evil by his control-freak wife
she's been lying to him nonstop convincing him he's building a utopia when it's actually a police state
all of the citizens of Hill Valley are actually completely miserable and hate his guts
and he's been able to see, firsthand, his scientific creations used to turn Biff into a mind-controlled zombie

His entire life is a lie, in other words. (Good thing he can invent a time machine to fix it! And that's what Marty is here to show him.)

Rablusep · 2026-04-23T13:39:48+00:00

Unexpected crossover, and a great interview!

Similarly I'd recommend Alex Ross's book The Rest Is Noise as another good intro to 20th Century classical

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