View part one here: https://ahaehym.blogspot.com/2026/03/recent-thoughts-and-journalling.html
There is more gaming drama, and this time it comes from my home turf of Minecraft! I have long since retired from Minecraft PVP. I played from 2016 to 2021, and I primarily played on the 1.8 version (still superior in my eyes). But for a long time now, PvP has moved from 1.8 to the more recent versions. Because the entire PvP community was built on 1.8, 1.9/modern version players have created their own community. Nowadays it’s way bigger than the 1.8 PvP community I used to play in. I like to watch the “new” wave of MCYTbers (the wave after dreamSMP) and they have massive channels: average around 1 mil subs.
There was a server called MCtiers that popped up as the prime PVP server and where you got your skill level tested, from what I know it didn’t even use an elo system, it was based on what OTHER players thought your skill level was (wtf is this bullshit lmao). So you would fight a “tester”, they would evaluate how they thought u did and give you a rating/rank. The top player was a person named “Marlowww” she was also the server owner I believe. She dominated all of categories and was considered the best Pvper..
Anyways, Marlowww was a cheater who used many hacked clients, and was exposed to have not even been a girl and was catfishing. This was huge news because Marlow using their high status in the community would keep people silent by banning, rallying their fans, to silence other creators. The part where Marlow pretends to be a girl is important (and really funny!) because players within the community have BEEN suspicious of Marlow, but people would chalk up any criticism as sexism and jealousy. And I won’t even lie that the Minecraft pvp scene is like 90% guys. Now this is absolutely awful for women in gaming. So far in 2026, we have had the Kingsman situation in marvel rivals, now the Marlow situation: both events basically set women in gaming back 50 years. Now if there’s a good Minecraft pvper who happens to be a girl, people are gonna assume she’s hacking, or that she’s a guy…
Now to my thoughts and what I found the craziest: so apparently Marlow was previously known as “DangerMario” some kid known for griefing in Minecraft spaces. He realized he could use his high pitched voice to pretend to be a girl, gain some legitimacy, and create this Marlow persona. The FUNNIEST part is someone said DangerMario’s balls dropped during the 4-5 year activity of the Marlow persona, so he couldn’t fake his voice anymore, so he used an AI voice changer! If you go to the most recent Marlow videos where he responds to the allegations, you can hear the voice changer, it’s SO OBVIOUS! How did people not immediately realize! This is why the 1.8 community was better (it’s not)
So someone got Marlow in a call and asked them to sing “do re mi fa so la ti do” and Marlow couldn’t because the AI would so obviously fuck it up, so he pretended his electricity cut out… at this point it was cooked, now the memes of “Marlow vs do re mi” were spreading. I think the worst part is a lot of girls actually did look up to Marlow, it must suck for them. But this is why Minecraft PVP is a curse. Technoblade is our king of PVP and the only one we could trust.
I haven't told people but I have been taking Japanese in school for the past 3 months and I think I will be sticking with learning it independently for a while. I've been grinding Anki and hope to take it seriously. There is many reasons why I don't exactly tell people though, because of the connotations... the weeb "I'm gonna move to japan when I turn 18" people, the "Japan is living in the year 3000", and the nature of the people who learn japanese and feel the need to flaunt it. But moving on to my class, I really like my teacher. My class is very small, 7 people in total actually. It helps gives a lot of opportunity to speak, my teacher does many turn and talk speaking activities. And surprisingly, the people in my class are super cool too! I think this is mainly due to the fact the class I am taking is a more mellow class, and people in my class are seniors, graduate students, people who want to learn but are very busy outside of class. But there is one guy who I find interesting.
He a tubby guy who looks rather old, but apparently he’s a freshman. Compared to the masters student in my class, he looks 10 years older lmao. Maybe he is older because he entered college at later date. Anyways, he talks a lot about anime. Sometimes my teacher will do a speaking exercise and ask us things like "What did you do this weekend?" in japanese and have us respond in Japanese to practice. He would respond with: I watched anime. My teacher is very nice, she asked him what anime? I braced myself for the answer he dropped: my dress up darling.
Ok. I know people like my dress up darling, but it my eyes its another ecchi hetslop romcom with a teenage girl with big boobs and the main character is a mid as boy. I know that in this anime the main character is a good person and not a complete BUM like rent a girlfriend, but it doesn't matter because why would you watch that shit when you could just watch cosmic princess kaguya. anyways my teacher looked around and asked was like "wow, has anyone heard of this anime before" and I was holding back ANY sort of facial expression super hard. I basically never talk about this in real life unless it's mainstream stuff like JJK that's easy to latch into conversation. Actually I barely watch anime now, I don't know whats happening in chainsaw man, nor JJK, or spy x family or something. Im an og watching naruto when i was 8. I could tell you most the plot points from Naruto to Naruto shippuden.
Naturally during class we would have turn and talk exercises so I do talk with him and get some pieces of the puzzle. I recall during one instance when I asked him something like "Where would you like to go to in Japan (preset question from my teacher)" he said akiharabara and that he wanted to buy anime figurines and take photos of cosplayers. Ok fair enough, im not gonna judge a book by its cover, but he REALLY does seem like the stereotype; if he's actually a pure soul i apologize deeply for my assumptions. I eavesdropped a bit in a different convo and listened to what animes he said he liked, but he dropped pretty basic ones like love is war, chainsaw man. Like I thought he might have SOME sort of ball knowledge and like maybe at least bocchi the rock or k-on? Those r pretty mainstream, but nah he not even a real one like that. As for me I silently judge everyone's taste in anime because I literally only read yuri manga and unfortunately everything I read is "niche". Not niche enough to be considered cool in actual geek circles but niche that i dont want to talk about it irl. I mean how many people irl know slow start? I wonder if he knows what Touhou is... because he looks like he would have some mediocre surface level ball but maybe he's just hiding it. Or maybe he just watches hentai. I hope the latter is not the case. I am very judgemental I hope I am wrong.
Part 3 incoming... maybe! I actually have a bunch of thoughts I just wanna ramble about
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