Game Theory: The Dark Future of the Dream SMP (Minecraft)

foreigner hello internet welcome to

game

theory

the show that is like a small and unassuming but persistent and dangerous zombie baby today i am here to talk about the

dream

smp and now that i have said it i am sure all my viewers will probably fall in one of two camps: those who shout that our prayers are finally answered and those who wonder what the hell I'm talking about, so at this point, if you are at all interested in Minecraft or YouTube or Minecraft YouTubers, you've probably heard of a guy named

dream

has become famous for many things, including manhunt videos, unsolved mystery videos, as well as an appearance in one of this channel's

minecraft

history videos.

Excuse me, why is there a big neon green blocky creature in my video, but one of the things that's really blown up over the course of the last year is the dream smp or survival multiplayer server, so you might be thinking about the survival multiplayer server, so it's just a dream to play Minecraft with many of your friends and well, yes, the truth is that the dream smp is the survival multiplayer of Minecraft, what is professional wrestling, sport of wrestling, that is, it is structured improvisation, here is a story made by a team of writers, yes, writers in plural, it does not mean that everyone reads a script while the broad strokes of the plot are planned, the whole Connective tissue between those major plot beats is improvised, and of course there's room for many unexpected

game

play moments.

No, no, no, no, I see that was not in the script, it was not in the script, ladies and gentlemen in the world of professional wrestling, that is what we call a shoot or a moment in professional wrestling that it is not planned, it is not written or it is simply a real event in real life. Am I ruining this for anyone in the audience? We all know that professional wrestling is scripted. true, trying to summarize the smp dream timeline is like trying to summarize the 20th century timeline. If I were to try to start, I would have to cover the birth of a nation in no less than four separate wars and that's not me making a joke or trying to make an analogy here, much of the story here is political in nature and the current narrative is the of a nation in crisis with warring political factions trying to gain power over populists by any means necessary and all of this is happening. within the live streams, many, many very long live streams, there have been over 30 people involved in this with the narrative unfolding over hundreds of hours of live streaming, actually just saying hundreds of hours is an understatement because adding them all up Live broadcasts Multiple channels to see the point of view of multiple participants already give you close to a hundred videos to watch and any one of them could last more than six to eight hours, so it seems almost impossible to catch up on this too considering the frequency with which new live videos appear.

The streams are seriously happening, I feel like I have to put a disclaimer here that the script for this video is being written right before Christmas, which almost guarantees that by the time it comes out, the things I'm predicting will have been proven correct or terribly horrible. wrong, at the same time, I couldn't talk about this, it was without a doubt the biggest thing that happened in gaming in 2020, right behind us a group of friends blew up together on Twitch because they are using Minecraft to create a narrative of continuous improvisation. amazing and absolutely worth your attention, plus I was getting a lot of requests on Twitter to make a

theory

about this and by the way, I didn't want to ignore you guys at matpat gt, also, also, I'm a musical theater nerd. i hear a hamilton reference i like i practice law wilbur works next door even though he started at the same time tommy started climbing how to explain his rise to the top man the hamilton references are continuous and since we are on the subject of hamilton hamilton, The musical actually provides a very good framework for how to approach telling a story with the scope of everything that happens in the SMP dream, much like Hamilton took on a series of story-defining events spanning several decades. and condensed them into a three-hour musical character study, this theory will take a series of events spanning several months of livestreams over six hours long and condense them into something like a hero-centered character study. specific and spoilers for those of you who don't know the ending of Hamilton, but this story also ends in tragedy.

In short, today's video is about who history has its eyes on and who you should have your eyes on in the

future

. smp and spoiler alert. I am already dead and with that introduction let me tell you the tragic story of the rise and fall of a tyrant and why he might be about to rise once again, this time from beyond the grave. For a little background, there are several major factions that exist within. the dream smp, the largest of which is rather confusingly called the dream smp for the sake of clarity, most have taken to referring to this faction as the great dream smp and I'm going to follow suit, it's the closest thing to being a neutral faction, almost a sort of default faction for characters who haven't broken off to do their own thing, as you might assume, it's led by its founder.

Dream Dream also receives an executive veto over who can enter the server, for example in July when Jay Schlatt joined the server. for the first time he was banned shortly after since Dream didn't know him. When it's your party, you decide who's on the guest list. I suppose the first major faction to declare independence from the greater Dream smp was Lemanberg at the end of that year. July, with the war for independence between Le Mansburg and the Dream Team faction finally settling down in early August, Lumamberg began as an autocratic nation state with a self-proclaimed dictator, President Wilbur Suit, presiding with Tommy as his right-hand man, without However, that dictator for Life didn't really work in the long run, after all, a ruler only rules with the consent of the governed and, even though Wilbur Suit had declared himself supreme leader, the citizens did not take his orders so seriously.

Seriously, so what do you do? If you want to shore up legitimacy as a ruler, you must hold democratic elections. I'm running for president. The reason I'm running for president is because I felt it was unfair of me to decide to be a dictator. Well, then maybe. If you want to believe the man himself, it was because he grew a conscience anyway, Wilverson, along with Tommy Anderson's running mate, ran as the politicians of the game, or pog for short, the problem with democratic elections is that , well, people can compete against you, healer, who? Until that point, an outsider from Lumanburg decided to run against him because, well, you have to have an opposition party.

My name is charlatan and I'm running for president simply because I didn't think it was fair for Wilbur Suit to run. organize a one-party democratic election, or as democratic as he wants to call it, it is very unfair to want wilbur and all the people of le mansburg to vote for a single party. brief choice of george not found as his running mate, who probably lived up to his name by not showing up to the presidential debates way to have a brand and stick to it, man, oh, and you heard me right in the presidential debate on the swag 2020 and pog 2020 matches ran entire campaigns that included key endorsements, quackity was at an immediate disadvantage here, as his supposed key endorsement, ksi, never actually showed up, my only endorsement is ksi, he just hasn't responded to my request yet backup, he is my only backup, ksi.

Rather, Ksi didn't find it and George didn't find it playing Yahtzee on the corner. Wilbur and Tommy wanted to assure voters that they were the party that best represented the will of the people. They touted several key endorsements, the most notable of which came from jay. Schlatt, now you might be wondering, wait Jay Schlatt, didn't I just say it was banned in July, several months before the election took place and that's what the crowd said too, but apparently a server ban wasn't he going to stop Wilbur? and tommy to bring him in to deliver the key endorsement now after doing a lot of negotiations here i have my endorsement here he comes the only people except jay schlatt's endorsement speech went off the rails very quickly democracy is overrated you think?

You need a president, I'll be my own script police president offstage anyway, with this wild card entering the race, things had become completely chaotic with jay schlatt actually challenging him, wilbur and tommy decided to resort to political trading to sort out to avoid the possibility of a j schlapp presidency, why not invite swag 2020 to join pog 2020 to form a giant swag super party? He didn't really want to be president and only ran as Wilbur's challenger. He was willing to give the votes of his party to another party. The bad news was that he chose Jay Schlatt.

I was attracted to your swog idea until you immediately admitted to me that you would do it. use me only for votes, you guys have clearly been trying to use me this whole time, so it's 20 20, it's the kind of thing that makes you think maybe from the beginning that this was all a ruse by Jay Schlatt promising to only endorse pog 2020. to break free and then enter the fray and take control for himself, the man here is executing some big epic brain maneuvers in the end pog 2020 won 45 percent of the votes swag 2020 won 30 percent of the votes jay Schlatt won 16 percent of the vote with loot giving his votes to Jay Schlatt Jay Schlatt wins the election with a combined total of 46 barely beating Pogs 45 and that's where Jay Schlatt's reign of terror begins having effectively hijacked the democratic process decided it was time to run the old party out of town my first decree as president of the exile the pog 2020 campaign no longer existed, but he continued to live in spirit within the nation of pogtopia building his own secret base of operations and working with some members of the administration who managed to avoid exile, it is true, they had a spy within jay schlatt's operation and that spy's name was tubbo despite winning the election, jay schlapp was not really winning over the people who you know calling democracy a lie immediately exiling half of the population.

You're not going to win too many friends, so to get some popularity points, you started planning the Manburg festival as a celebration of democracy with Tubbo to plan the events and give the keynote speech, Tubo, and the old guard took advantage of the opportunity to upstage the festival by placing tnt under the event stage, all tubbo had to do was give his speech and flee before the tnt sounded, but jay schlatt had other plans. Our people have been defeated by royalty and dictators for so long, now we are finally free to choose. who do we want free to live as we want I would like to thank everyone for coming to this wonderful event what's going on no it's just that I was thinking about it nothing sinister about that laugh at the end of the speech that jay schlatt had locked in the undercover spy tubbo specifically yellow feeling its immediate execution help me do something very quickly okay, what are you doing?

Yes, I know what you have been doing with the tyrants that we expelled from this server that we expelled from this great country, do you know what happens to the merchants? tube tubbo was sentenced to death by rocket launcher and tubbo's ally technoblade was the one who served as executioner. There was a little accidental collateral damage and jay schlatt also died in the explosion, but don't worry. improved through all of these events one thing should be painfully clear jay schlatt is in terms d d totally legal evil wilbur soot not the character but the out of character writer who is the closest thing we have to a creative authority for this chapter of the sp confirmed in a reddit post quote schlatt is very lawful evil schlatt follows a creed i was fairly elected i will rule until i lose the next election he uses this power malevolently to assert dominance and punish rebel factions the emphasis on the punishment schlatt is not very concerned with maintaining order or even maintaining justice, his priority is to bring suffering and pain to those he considers deserving it according to the law now, after this failed attempt at insurgency, it was inevitable that manberg by jay schlatt Off to war with Pogtopia with Jay Schlatt's reign of terror coming to an end in the most anticlimactic way possible, fleeing the fight, stumbling upon the hot dog truck that originally served as a nexus for Wilbur Suit and Tommy and their empire. of drugs, getting drunk and experiencing what appeared to be a stroke. or an attackcardiac for those of you who don't know that smelling toast is actually a classic symptom of having a stroke.

Anyway, the much-loved leader received a mass funeral and everyone behaved with exactly the level of reverence and decorum that would be expected of them. to show jay schlapp that his entire body was destroyed the remains that were not taken as souvenirs were recovered by quackery as part of his own plot i have a plan in my possession these are the five bones of jay schlatt i opened that grave and took it wait, you're going to try to bring jay schlatt back to life we ​​bring jay schlapp back to life but you know what frankenstein did when he brought frankenstein 2 back to life frankenstein 2 was under his command you know what this means we can use jay schled as a political puppet, uh, quack, did you actually read the book because if your takeaway was frankenstein it animated a monster and it was completely under his control and it wasn't counterproductive?

You might want to reread some of those chapters, so, leaving that level aside, what follows are my predictions about the

future

of the smp dream and it all focuses on one man in particular. In the first case, it was not obvious. We haven't seen the last of J Schlatt and I'm not just talking about him appearing as a ghost in a live broadcast of questionable canonicity. Is this part of the plot you guys write? uh, it's nice, you know what's good. it's fine how you're doing it, he's been too important a player for too long to simply eliminate him and, more importantly, the groundwork has been laid for his eventual resurrection.

Wilbur Soot mentioned in a livestream that the team was playing with the idea that every character gets three cannon kills before it's considered permanent everyone gets three everyone gets three cannon kills before dying in real life yeah even if we count Jay Schlatt's death during the festival's rocket launcher explosion it's a canon between that and his heart attack that he hasn't yet used his entire life plus this is too good an opportunity for history to repeat itself in an absolutely poetic way Because while Jay Schlatt is legally evil and motivated to punish people for going against him, his role as a punisher is much more central than that Jay Schlatt. he's almost like a karmic force of the universe that punishes people for his arrogance.

Remember that the only reason he was able to rejoin the server in the first place was because the pog 2020 party thought it would be politically advantageous for them to be endorsed by him. use jay schlatt as a tool to achieve their own political ends and it backfired terribly, leading to them not only losing the election but being forced into exile by the monster they had helped create, ultimately leading to a total war against the faction he usurped them and now we have a charlatan who laughs saying that he plans to use the powers of necromancy to reanimate Schlatt as a political puppet so that he can now take control of the charlatan birdman haven't you learned nothing based on the comment about Frankenstein's monster?

The answer seems to be yes. In my opinion, Jay Schlatt, more than being a simple villain, is more of a force of nature, something that people have tried and will continue to try to exploit for their own ends with predictable results every time. they start to think about taking power for themselves like wilbur did in the early days of manberg and like quackity did more recently, it will end, unsurprisingly, with jay schlatt hatching some plan that will result in him returning to the game and eventually He sits on the throne with the people around him forced to fight the same monster they helped create, just like the

dark

knight's wild card, his true power depends on his ability to bring out the worst in others and The only way to lose is because of the people. around him to allow his better selves to take over until then, jay schlatt will remain a relentless force delivering karmic irony to those who think they can use him as a puppet, but hey, that's just a theory, a game theory, thanks for seeing you.