How SkyBlock Collectors Resorted To Communism...

[@anything935]

i just clicked on this video expecting like an ok minecraft video, but this is so good???? i love the editing of this video omg, subbed

[@Takao_o]

😎

[@chengkaigoh5101]

@@anything935 least obvious paid commentor(pay me 1b and I’ll do the same)

[@steampunkWizardStudios]

As a developer it kinda frustrates me that Hypixel isn't really doing anything to help development of community tools that people make to keep the playerbase engaged FOR FREE.

[@cathylin6140]

companies when API:

[@jootan91]

@@cathylin6140 why would they? they gain money by NOT doing it.

[@JacksonB]

@@jootan91 one reason would be to make the community happy, and stay around longer which could in turn could convert non paying playing to paying players over time

[@artsyscrub3226]

@@JacksonB Ok but why would they do that when they uave a game being made? I get it but the Minecraft hypixel is a ticking timebomb once the hypixel game comes out hypixel in Minecraft will very likely get little to not attention Unless you forgot they were making an entire game from scratch and expect them to do everything for you?

[@artsyscrub3226]

It fustrates me when devs expect a dev team that's working on an entire game from scratch to work on small details in their precious block game.

[@Itouchnograss]

Hypixel doesn't care about players making dupe checker mods because they think they're doing a good job themselves. THEY ARENT THOUGH. Jayavarmen is quoting on saying that the skyblock community was lucky to have such easy ways to contact staff. Him calling it easy is its own conversation in itself. he was basically saying that most games you can't contact staff and in skyblock its good that we can contact them at all. In most games players don't get false wiped.

[@TheMaskedNinja_]

This is so fucking real, I got token stolen and someone transferred my stuff from an account I played 10+ hours daily for a couple years but to hypixel I was clearly account boosting and got wiped for it

[@Itouchnograss]

@@TheMaskedNinja_ the only good thing hypixel has ever done is security bans, but even those arent good. My friend got security banned for a week when he got hacked. I thought security bans were a month but ok ig. Since he was security banned YOU WOULD ASSUME that they knew he was hacked. But no. He was banned from ranked skywars when he got his account back.

[@Toader_0]

@@Itouchnograss yeah i confirm, i got token grab like one month losing 4b in the process (almost 1b of skin and half of it was my true warden skin) i reset my token when my friends told me i was online without i knew it, hypixel should secutiry ban me when they saw 2 ip fighting for login into the server, but no i got security ban 3 days after

[@urie9158]

a game where you'll get security banned for accidentally leaving a vpn on or joining from a new pc even on the same network with the same ip address, but you can simultaneously still be ratted and have someone who logs in from an ip in a completely different country come and snag all your shit without getting the account security banned. the recourse for this? "your account security is your responsibility" what we are lucky to have is the ability to easily see how anti-serious the admins generally are when dealing with security and integrity related issues for their community. i've been banned for a month on my main before for accidentally activating a left click auto clicker that i forgot to close while shooting spiders with a bow, but i could go into the pit and find at least 20 people who are reaching/using aura/hopping... and it seems to usually take well over an hour to see those kinds of players dealt with, if they are at all. the amount of players that pay a subscription to the server so they can /nick while they cheat, who also proceed to get away with this behavior... the same admins that let bots automatically deny every single ban appeal posted in their forums, the same admins that could be given definitive video evidence of scamming and totally ignore it because it does not matter to them, the same admins that will PUNISH CONTENT CREATORS who make videos looking to protect the rest of the community from the scummy behaviors that are constantly put on full display that go seemingly entirely unsolved from the server moderation standpoint, going as far as to say that their efforts somehow harm the administration/moderation team's efforts to solve these problems. hypixel as a broader entity than the individuals of the team seems to have always been extremely cocky, brazen, and reckless when handling these kinds of matters, which as OP here pointed out very much contrasts the observable outcome of these issues; "nobody gets false banned" except we've seen it happen to dozens of WELL KNOWN PLAYERS and who knows just how many actual false/unnecessary/ridiculous bans or punishments have occurred against random players that don't speak up about it, which get swept under the rug because they say "false bans don't happen" which their playerbase of 70% 12 year olds seems to just believe by default because hypixel would never lie right oh yeah same server where the largest gamemode is originally touted as strongly rooted in player effort/progress, and the idea that P2W would ever be incorporated was immediately shot down. now there's hundreds if not thousands of players fighting every fire sale to spend their money on exclusive items first, handfuls of p2w-exclusive profile upgrades including ENDER CHEST PAGES and TAX REDUCTIONS, and a buff effect in booster cookies that is so insanely good and convenient that you're nearly obligated to keep it running every minute you're playing the game (yet another thing that must be paid for by SOMEONE along the line) and then people are like "why does everyone keep comparing skyblock to wynncraft" or "haha everyone keeps saying skyblock is dying how dumb lolol" skyblock is dying. the SPIRIT of skyblock is dying, and has been for a while. there might continue to be thousands of players for years to come but as time passes it is so easy to see that the majority of players are losing interest in mindlessly grinding their time away for mediocre returns in a game where money must be consistently funneled in so that even just some groups of players can have a moderately enjoyable experience, or one marked in any way shape or form by convenience. /ah? nah that's cookie buff only. /bz too. and /anvil, and /etable, and /hex, and the simple commands that open the potion/accessory/fishing bags or the quiver. and npc shop selling being available from trades/cookie page, and bits being required for a large variety of useful items (kismets for dungeon chest rerolls, specific types of sacks as well as the sack capacity upgrade, etc.). did i mention that if you don't have cookie buff you lose half the money in your purse when you die? they also added that cool thing where you can toggle potion effects on and off. would be a shame if that was tied to a certain consumable irl-trade based buff. now it sure would be interesting if maintaining this buff was also significant for dropping more rare items and levelling your skills quicker. wait a second... so basically if you aren't funneling money into the game, you better funnel coins to the people who do or everything you want to do is made considerably less convenient. gl! small edit: i do want to clarify that i have had a lot of fun with skyblock over the last few years, i didn't keep playing for no reason. and i also do respect developer/administrative work quite a lot because i have been personally engaged in it and know how challenging and stressful it can turn out to be sometimes. it is just frustrating because on the individual level i actually have basically 0 issues with each member of the staff team, but at the collective level the behaviors of the hypixel administration have led to so many extremely unsavory outcomes that i felt obligated to say my piece. i'd also like to extend a huge digital hug and much gratitude to individuals like our friend tgwaffles here, who put in so much effort to help make skyblock more fun and safe for the average player even when it is such a difficult and thankless job (even from an entire team that is responsible for this job). i know it must be beyond disheartening to see some of the reactions that emerge, considering how natural it is for individuals to be uneducated on complex digital concepts like database management. the maintained commitment to improving the state of the game despite not really being compensated for it when you are dumping energy, time, and money into such project(s) is very admirable, and it is not lost on me

[@AGamer20.]

After about two years of not touching the game, i logged on and all my stats were wiped (still had my items though). And the only response from staff i got was basically them saying they don't undo wipes

[@coolcreeperhenrik6026]

Fun Fact: i have one of the worst exotic sets, which is an unstable dragon set with a slightly different color. The story behind this was that saw people dyeing their armor black, so i did the same, until i realized that it looked worse, so i dyed it back to purple, however, as TG explained in the start of the video, it is almost impossible to dye an armor set back to it's original color.

[@Gamingmouse64]

@@coolcreeperhenrik6026 oof

[@Fangamer1254]

But hey you got exotic! Also cauldron exists.

[@mohammedkebab]

@@Fangamer1254 bro thinks we got cauldrons on java edition

[@olasdorosdiliusimilius2174]

@@Fangamer1254 Even if that feature existed on Java, wouldn't the armor lose its original color and become default leather armor?

[@wahzawahzo2949]

i have a white armor of magma cube set so im the worst

[@elementgermanium]

The admins need to pick one: -Allow and encourage projects that let players check if items are duped -NOT ban players for merely possessing duped items Banning people for something while simultaneously making it impossible to know if you’re DOING that something, however, is 100% unjustifiable.

[@MisterAssasine]

they could give each item some kind of trackable ID + a kind of history for ownerchange so that dupers could easily be found (creating the same kind of item 1000s of times) and understand the flows of the items, how many ownerchanges it has and so on.

[@alimisaye]

@@MisterAssasine they had a basically perfect system. Twice. 2 perfectly functional solutions then they promptly got rid of both. Origin worked, then they literally mentioned uuids which tgwaffles was tracking and they shut that down too

[@deleted-something]

Least crazy skyblock moment

[@ILikeAxolotls-m8b]

@@deleted-something e

[@pat2not]

@@ILikeAxolotls-m8b e

[@Another_useless_commenter]

@@ILikeAxolotls-m8b e

[@kashskitchen7178]

🇮🇹

[@thediam0nddrag0n78]

*least crazy Minecraft Server

[@fish2298]

It's crazy that this video got recommended to me considering I haven't played in years... Four months ago, some stranger DM'd my friend on discord trying to look for me because my friend and I had a co-op on Skyblock. I wasn't sure why somebody was looking for me, and I was super weirded out by the fact that they managed to find my friend and message him in the first place. He wanted my set of Emerald Armor I crafted in July 2019, which I dyed to a green that I preferred. I wasn't aware that armor wasn’t dyeable anymore, so I was thinking of handing it over to him once I finished up my ongoing semester at uni. However, upon looking into it more, I decided against it. After my semester ended, I figured I'd get on just to see how different the game was now, and the moment I logged in, I was blasted with party invites and people in my hub instance were trying to talk to me. That experience pretty much deterred me from returning to the game, and I just found it super weird that people would go such lengths just for a display piece. Anyways, I found the video very captivating, very nice!

[@OsirusIrdia]

Did you keep the set? If that were me (I never did it I always preferred base colors) I would say screw these scum and keep it or destroy it.

[@fish2298]

I did! I decided that I would just keep it in my inventory and never log back on again. Another reason why I decided against giving the armor away is that it meant a lot to me and although I wouldn't play again, I realized I wasn't comfortable giving it to somebody I've never met. The reason why it meant something to me was that I crafted my set when very few people had Emerald Armor.

[@toluro]

I did get an armor from someone who wasnt playing , but said to him to ask it back whenever he wants it , since im bot selling my dyed armors which are just for me to walk in differents lobbies xd

[@OsirusIrdia]

@@toluro honestly cuddos to you 99+% of exotic hunters are just trying to scam unknowing players

[@its_xen0nn]

@@fish2298 spiritual value > skyblock goblin materialistic value

[@blingdaddyx]

Hypixel should open a museum to store all the L's they take

[@AmaryInkawult]

The Column of L. Just has signs of every terrible update and call the moderators made.

[@catrielmarignaclionti4518]

cant make a museum large enough

[@giulianodenardi7654]

> Thomas wants to work as a developer at Hypixel > Thomas creates solutions for the community to get Hypixel's attention, which has not taken a position on the issues due to _____ > Thomas invests his OWN MONEY supporting these projects in a private data center > Project conflicts with Hypixel's interests, for example, it is costing more to maintain the servers, therefore, they are LOSING MONEY. > Hypixel updates its usage policies; projects become obsolete > Thomas ends up LOSING MONEY that he invested. Do you see the pattern here? Can you fill in the blank?

[@alimisaye]

I think i got it. Hypixel upset that someone is having fun. Not even just someone, someones. Plural even, multiple users. Probably against their tos somewhere

[@giulianodenardi7654]

@@alimisaye And that's the irony, it wasn't in the ToS before for a fair amount of time, so they weren't breaking any rules. Thinking back on it, it seems like they didn't like the project because it was from an independent external source rather than being overseen by the company.

[@Justin-wx1pu]

I do not play Hypixel so i don't know whats so awful about them and all. But The way i see it Thomas created ITEM which constantly sent traffic to Hypixels servers (leading to them changing their TOS due to high cost not just his mod of course). ITEM allowed players to "SNIPE" aka harass Long term players/ old returning players/ any player with High value items. Thomas also publicly called out an Admin for cheating. (Sounds like he had good intentions but how it comes across is everything and it didn't go well). And if i understand ITEM correctly (I DON'T) he made an API that used players allotted ping request to gain a massive amount of info that could be used maliciously, learning all players items, Player lists, and Friends list, received from the ping request but saving peoples communications with the server is a little suspect. I really liked his video and his knowledge on Development is super cool i hope to learn more. The video is well made as well and everything he did seemed in good faith. Just unlucky his product seemed to do a lot of harm.

[@Zonical]

i got scammed into watching a network and database video and honestly i fw that

[@MashClash]

I remember you showing me the early data you collected with iTEM a while back. It’s honestly crazy, coming from someone studying computer science there’s absolutely no way you don’t make back that 1500 soon. I’d wish to have skills like this 😂

[@mogo-wc7xw]

“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

[@farhananasreen1678]

I’m gonna edging to Luther king 😩😩

[@WynnofThule]

The word he used was "individualism" for the poor I think but yeah, the point very much still stands.

[@blorblin]

@@WynnofThule it's really interesting how schools and the rest of the US media ignore that MLK was a democratic socialist who was also antiwar and anti colonialist.

[@WynnofThule]

@@blorblin Yeah. In my opinion he was the last of that oft forgotten "social gospel" tradition that had been a thing for a while up until then. And especially in his later days his words got quite a bit more radical.

[@catrielmarignaclionti4518]

@@blorblin bro whenever MLK shows up in the public domain is a black and white picture of the "i have a dream" speech, instead of the color picture we have and the thousands of other marches and speeches

[@Huskie297]

This video just reminds me about how I had an old set of Rancher Boots before they were changed to be black. Mine were an orange-brown. While farming cactus one day in the Garden, I took them off to change the speed, and then accidentally fat-fingered my Q button and threw them into the cactus, destroying them...

[@lightning_11]

@@Huskie297 This physically hurt to read

[@honchkrowabcd]

they're worth like nothing lol, like 20-30m maybe. people lose way more you'll be fine

[@Huskie297]

@honchkrowabcd It's not about the money lost, it's the principle of losing it lol. I liked those boots...

[@givemeabreak5896]

@@Huskie297 It's about sending a message. - Cactus

[@SawBSketch]

@@honchkrowabcd imagine seriously going "Other people have it worse, so your misfortune is invalid"

[@ragingenby]

omg the iTEM video is finally out ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

[@necrongamingthesecond369]

omg the lardian commented

[@ArbitraryCodeExecution]

hi

[@ArbitraryCodeExecution]

@@necrongamingthesecond369 hi

[@ragingenby]

@@necrongamingthesecond369 ?????

[@user-ly1ko6be9t]

XLI

[@ForikiTheRat]

bro casually drops a banger twice a year then leaves

[@sampfrost]

seems like hypixel think that they do well enough that the community should just be grateful they do anything rather than trying to improve on what they have, from what i’ve heard and seen happen this would appear to be moderately delusional on hypixel’s part

[@alimisaye]

hypixel devs have the largest egos for no reason like youre a dev on a minecraft server calm tf down. "Uh but thats our job" then do it a bit better damn. Also how not one player has asked for like half the most recent updates and still no foraging update (as of me least playing like 6 months ago for reference)

[@metropolitanpolice7334]

while there are glimpses of thoughts happening behind the eyes of the hypixel staff from time to time, their goals could almost always be better achieved by working with their community instead of against them to find solutions. no dev wants to burden hypixel with impossible upkeep costs but going "nup. because I say so" breeds animosity leading to more people wanting to inconvenience them

[@FutureThrone795]

I wanted to chime in to say that I really appreciate the proper subtitles in this video- it means a lot!

[@_thomas]

I personally have subtitles on whenever I watch a video, and it always frustrates me when there's a line that neither me nor the automatic subtitles understood, and the creator (especially if they are large/have a team) didn't correct them. Another thing that kills me is putting important content right where the subtitles go, meaning that I either have to turn off the subtitles & rewatch, or just miss out on those details. I add the hardcoded subtitles for those reasons, since it lets me see where I should avoid placing details (as they'd be covered by the subtitles) and lets me enter and correct them as I edit the video. Glad you appreciate it too :)

[@thenexus8384]

​@@_thomasI hate the automatic subtitles so much because it could literally put something different from what was clearly said from the creator

[@GlitchyOfficial]

@@FutureThrone795 FR

[@agent__berry]

@@_thomas literally that effort is enough to make me subscribe. it’s that simple to include people who need subtitles-whether they just prefer to have the words on screen or because they use it as an accessibility tool! Thank you for taking a little extra time to make it a better experience for those of us who need it

[@Hifuutorian]

It's something that is so neglected in a lot of videos, it's great to see them on this. :)

[@giulianodenardi7654]

24:48 Why shut down a specific project when the company has the power to regulate indirectly, in a generic sense? Let's take a moment to reflect on this approach: - Avoids direct conflict (even personal); - Encouraging Compliance (community following a set of rules); - Control of innovations; - Improves risk management.

[@Dabestbro.]

"the only dupe checker to this date that has a 0% false positive rate" I'm starting my own competitor to your dupe checker in this comment that also has a 0% FPR. Every single item isn't duped

[@st.altair4936]

Love seeing games simulating economies eventually becoming communist lol This happened to Dwarf Fortress too (check out Fredda's great video on it), and to an extent Cities Skylines 2 with the devs removing landlords.

[@boot-4704]

Also Victoria 3

[@Frommerman]

It's almost like systems based on isolating, artificially enforced competition and extraction of wealth are unpleasant to interact with or something.

[@sasho_b.]

As we all know, communism is idealistic and not possible and unsustainable. Now if you excuse me ill be investing into Apple so they can invent the same piece of slave made lithium and plastic for the 50th time and that will somehow increase the median quality of life.

[@Depressed_Spider]

Also Frostpunk.

[@devindeocharan8323]

Ya, capitalism while has it's uses, at certain point in time once capitalism hits late stage and technology and society advances, alternatives become feasible and preferable. That is my mindset regarding it at least

[@Koenig_Michi]

This is truly one of the most communistic moments in Hypixel history, but jokes aside, this was a really cool video, certainly a side of the community I haven't really seen myself, as an owner of a Magma Set Exotic I've often been asked to sell the armor, but I have a lot of attachment to it for it was the last set I actively used before quitting for like 4 years (And the reason for getting it was because of Techno's shenanigans on achieving flight or speed in Skyblock lmao). Nowadays I'm just keeping it to see how much people are willing to crank up the prices, but I'm most definitely not selling it off lmao, but seeing the ways people find their way to me is honestly very interesting.

[@C0METSHADE-2]

The world's most dedicated people just play skyblock lol

[@DemiTF2]

Nah thats gregtech players

[@user-zl1vf4me1p]

@@DemiTF2 true

[@BrainGodGenius]

@@DemiTF2 gerg

[@monchete9934]

@@DemiTF2 Gregtech is the natural hypixel skyblock retirement field

[@qfmcreitz5738]

I used to buy glitched items from that hennesG guy, still have them more than 3 years later

[@applecat1784]

It's fun getting to know the story behind this mod, that I have used several times to collect dyed armor of various kinds. Thanks for making this video as well as developing the mod! Also great to include Graphicol here.

[@pwall]

First the fucking KZbin algorithm fucking nailed this video, mixing statistics and coding and Minecraft. Either way as a developer, and a frequenter of scenes (like homebrew, game APIs, etc), (and maybe with the vantage point of hindsight) I could tell that Hypixel was not going to like your program. Although your approach is very clever and that signature scene feel and joy, it is that kind of thing that tends to piss off the companies above. From the perspective of the video you seem to iTEM, you were a "benevolent dictator" (akin to Linus Torvalds in Linux, but more extreme), as it didn't seem you had to "pay" contributions to use the project.

[@_thomas]

I do have to pay but I have so many since I was contributing from the beginning 😅

[@alimisaye]

@@_thomas when you were asking for a dedicated api key, they could have asked for payment but didn't. I think this was some amount of pettiness to be honest, they clearly disliked it and kept calling it scraping, a technical misnomer that directly contradicts the point of your request. Realistically, they were probably upset that you'd called them out for their incompetence around duped items and false bans.

[@lukamiler5824]

"Can you explain how sniping works?" "Oh yeah, so basically I defraud the player or more often just rob them :)"

[@thebookman1036]

@@lukamiler5824 nah it’s just imperfect information in the market. It’s how every capitalist market works. Petrol might cost 1:50 down the road but you have no way of knowing that and most often you won’t check you just pay 2:50 and move on

[@lukamiler5824]

@@thebookman1036 Yes, I consider that to be false advertisement and also fraud

[@thebookman1036]

@@lukamiler5824 it’s not tho, unless they specifically state lower prices than everyone else it’s just how the market works. It’s the governments responsibility to fix market failures, not the market’s.

[@swayvyalt]

@@thebookman1036 nah its stupid basically gaslighting someone

[@Infovorousness]

6:45 Minecraft community moment

[@masterdef2209]

@@Infovorousness who was it?

[@Kuda_Kapmes]

@@masterdef2209 Frozie

[@clashfordoom]

You should just go Dctr (or Minikloon), but skip the Hypixel developer part. Also, I was here before this blows up!!! ... (I had no idea iTEM existed)

[@sweetaplle]

Towards the start of the video I was getting super nostalgic as a player that hasn't played for a while. Seeing the community back in 2021 do this stuff gave me hope that maybe it would be fun if I were to come back. But as the video went on, I felt more and more dread. It sucks that this story ended so horribly due to actions that are so cool to hear about being denied... Maybe I won't be coming back to Hypixel after all.

[@k4kadu]

I haven't played Skyblock in years and probably will never again, but this is very cool. I really hope you'll find a new project that is more in line with Hypixel's ideas and maybe score that job one day.

[@alimisaye]

Or maybe one not including hypixel, that last response sounds pretty personal. With how petty they can be, odds they hold a grudge is decently high

[@Abhdull33]

as soon as i heard the 240 request problem my first tought was exactly your idea of using other peoples requests capacity to spread the workload a great solution that works best when its free to use by others

[@Lyoishi]

Absolute outsider here. (I barely remember hypixel being a thing, never got around to trying skyblock) Well made video, interesting comment section since it seems people have strong opinions on hypixel. You definitely imposed on hypixels goodwill a just a little early on, the fault is shared though since they knew about the use case eventually and allowed it. I found it interesting that you seemed to have fully realized the impositions your projects eventually placed on others and kind of grew as a person over the course of the video. This is just the impression I got though. Hope hypixel properly responds to their playerbase desire for changes. As long as you are self aware of the costs associated with certain database projects I hope others at hypixel can appreciate your desire to offer unique player services such as the statistics you mentioned. Projects and communities like these need the passion to program you like you have.

[@tommyluo1409]

Why do I feel like some Hypixel dev/admins have huge ass egos. People doing their job better or developing something that does their job for them? NOPE, NOT ALLOWED because it violates *random user guidlines they pull out of their ass*. Just Losers wanting to keep their job but not do them. Try contacting admins in any other game, you can at least get an email address within a week.

[@alimisaye]

On god, like bro you're an admin/dev/whatever on a MINECRAFT SERVER. Youre not the pr manager at wells fargo, you work on a minecraft server

[@ControversialOpinionGuy]

Hypixel admins only take Ls

[@mr3colio661]

lol, I got so confused seeing this, because I’ve been working on a boss datapack called LS. For a sec, I thought it might’ve been a hypixel skyblock thing. (I don’t play hypixel skyblock)

[@andidyouknow8208]

@@ControversialOpinionGuy real

[@KwikBR]

@@mr3colio661 wait till you hear about the biggest pvp centered minecraft SMP the LS SMP

[@mr3colio661]

lol, good one! One of my friends thought that’s what it was.

[@COND4D]

Yeah, all I did was buy blue mushroom armor from auction house and put it in my museum, never knew this happened

[@peika8324]

As a fellow Computer science students who will soon go to software engineering. You have such great data analysis skill and use it in Minecraft….. BASE and respected

[@sasho_b.]

As a cs student and communist, i am also commenting here.

[@Arnut-stuff]

If I had a nickel for every time communism was used in a famous Minecraft server, I’d have at least 2. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s interesting that it probably happened a lot more times than 2.

[@stoneman210]

Play stoneworks, you might have a bit more than 2 nickels

[@mycatilovehim]

Got a person who got a slightly different colored lapis armor set. Cool kid, I don't play the game anymore, so the dude just took it off my hands. I'm glad to see that people are trying to fight against collecting markets.

[@sirborkyes]

6:36 The camera moving around and this entire scene was way smoother than it needed to be, holy moly

[@Iani3001]

yooooo at 4:51 "Iani3001" thats me lol

[@SrVerataro]

Bro really said "i used Communism to facilitate Capitalism"

[@KelvinWarren-eh9jp]

"Dyed armor is so stupid" *Ceases to exist* "Now I want dyed armor 😢"

[@LilacMonarch]

yup that's exactly how it works. people start wanting things just because they're rare

[@lartum1]

When people are so desperate they spend probably thousands of dollars for a dyed leather armor:

[@wabc2336]

The lower stage of communism is "To each according to his labor." Marx wrote about this in GothaKritik. The Soviet Constitution quoted the Bible for this: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat."

[@devindeocharan8323]

Going into late stage with any economic/social system is general a bad thing. Being able to maintain an early stage of a system or composite system is likely the best

[@wabc2336]

@@devindeocharan8323 That’s why Marx didnt actually believe in restructuring companies. Just nationalizing huge monopolies

[@qfurgie]

fuck Hypixel they just made every wrong decision in this video

[@CaptainAwsome]

13:00 and it actually works in practice

[@Charles37400]

False. Communism has never been put into practice in the first place. The 3 main things you need to achieve communism are: -Abolition of money -Decomidification of goods -Dictatorship of the proletariat (Rule of the working class. Not in the sense of modern dictatorship, but in the sense of democracy because there is no other way to spread ultimate decision making power to an entire class of people) Every attempted communist experiment has failed to implement all 3, usually the last one. I wouldn't call Stalin a communist for example, I'd just call him a liar and a power hungry maniac. If you can name a single attempt at communism that managed to achieve all 3, I will concede that it's been tried and failed. But since I base my definition of communism on what was actually written down by Marx and Engles, I can't in good conscience say that communism has ever been tried, as much as I wish it were the case. in terms of classical Marxism, there can't be communism without democracy of some kind and the abolition of money. AT BEST you can say that the so called "communist" states were varying degrees of socialist pursuing the goal of communism but never achieved it. At worst they were a series of parties and dictators lying to and manipulating the working class into accepting a different form of government while they hid behind a red flag and chanted the words people wanted to hear. In all liklihood communism is just a dream we will never put into practice, but it doesn't mean it can't be a good goal to strive towards by being as democratic as possible and reigning in the worst tendencies of greedy people for the benefit of everyone. It doesn't mean we can't share the benifits of our labor by giving what we can and not taking more than our fair share. It's better to see it as a goal than a form of government, because no government will ever give up enough wealth and power to let it happen.

[@limeslyx-z9453]

@@CaptainAwsome true

[@Depressed_Spider]

If only it could work in reality as well eh...

[@limeslyx-z9453]

@@Depressed_Spider you must live in a different reality from rest of us. /rhetoric Your ideology is called Capitalist Realism

[@Depressed_Spider]

@@limeslyx-z9453 I live in a world where Communism has been tried many times and never ended well. Liberalism however has proven itself to work.

[@archdiangelo7930]

I've literally never played Hypixel, I barely even know what it is, so I'm not sure why I was recommended this video. But I'm glad I was, this was a fascinating and entertaining watch!

[@orangeman4329]

1:09 I dont think the subscribe button is red anymore, its white when your not subscribed now.

[@KaptenN]

This sort of thing is really annoying when you're on the other end. I got a really rare TF2 item from an event on Steam and for a long time I kept getting random people trying to contact me to buy it. I don't know if people eventually lost interest or if Steam secured the information about who have what items, but luckily I haven't been contacted in years.

[@superspyjim]

3:33 hey its me

[@Jamstaro1]

I get why they did what they did. But I think a bit of communication with you could have lightened the API load and maybe have given you a way to go around the issue and provide a healthier service to the community... There was no malicious intent. And sometimes the pathway to hell is paved with good intentions. Wish It could have worked better... But maybe there's stuff we don't know about in the background. Oh well. Great video!

[@thisisabandonedgosomewhereelse]

COMMUNIST?!1?1? “Those darn liberals now day making minecraft communist” (This is a joke)

[@turtleburger200]

Those commies can't even leave Skyblock alone

[@sasho_b.]

The funny thing about conservatives and "apoliticals" hating on communists for being too liberal or vice versa is that, where they capable of reading, they would know communists are the single most determined opponents to liberalism since the fall of the feudal lords.

[@JustAlexaa1]

I dont even play Skyblock but these videos about rare items are so well made that I watched them for 2 years now but I still don't play Skyblock

[@alimisaye]

good. keep it that way, anyone whos played the game for any decent period of time will tell you you're missing nothing, myself included

[@jiayinpan-ow3nv]

The one guy who black dyed all of his wither armor pieces: 🗿

[@ericquiabazza2608]

YOU JUST GOT ART MARKET! Dont feel bad What you did was give all people and oportunity. What you suffered is human nature. We are individual, not a hive mind, thus cant really know how other feels, just guess by what empathy evolution give us. Thing of it this way, you got 10 of thousands of inquiries, and people participating in this project. While around a 100 scummy abusers who repeatly harras others. AND Even if you created this public server this scummy harrasers had other PAY ways to do the same. They choose to be parasite and scamers as theyr way of living after all. And like i said, art market, this RARE items have an subjective value given my the comunity, MAINLY a bubble of weirdos who try to scam each other. You can see it in the interview, guy was trying to underpay for pieces who he really didnt care to obtain, just to RESELL. Basicly a Scalper.

[@thetester1158]

@@ericquiabazza2608 ngl, it kinda feels more like 1k out of 10k. Half are mostly inactive, 4k are somewhat chill, and then 1k will make you quit hypixel for having a piece of armor that got tye dyed

[@sneakyroom335]

I am confused by how this is communism You provide your api key (provide good/service) Gain contribution (money) Then you can spend it to make request (buy a good/service) Seems like a basic economy to me maybe I misunderstood Still a great video and you have been great contributor to the community hope you gain something from all your hard work

[@_thomas]

true but the database is also usable for free, just not to the same extent as those with contributions "How Skyblock Collectors Resorted To Socialism" doesn't have the same ring to it though, or the same theme song >:)

[@ezdispenser]

if i had a nickel for every time i heard of someone using distributed computing to find rare minecraft stuff, i would have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[@lucascoffinger5810]

holy shit dude i remember you advertising the cake soul club, i had even joined the discord when there was like 1k users. It's crazy to see how far you've come, congrats!

[@tommuller6373]

Tbh the exotic community collapsed with the dye update, there was so much hype and buzz about exotics before it.

[@ArnWuhridenn]

when i clicked, i was expecting a video about collectors building a public museum or something... but what i got from this video is more impressive

[@moz9359]

Sniping = scamming

[@Nonary-j8g]

Sniping = scamming

[@athytical5696]

Most sane skyblock player: "I wanted to track every single item in Hypixel Skyblock"

[@oliviashepherd-uq1ji]

Have you read Catch-22, with Milo Minderbinder's syndicate? This seems rather similar, and I'd recommend reading it anyway!

[@ned6204]

i remember feeling so smart for not dying any dyed items or "falling" for the sup dragon dyed Armour scam. I could've been a billionaire by now god dammit

[@AKABeestYT]

Reminded me of when i dyed my lapis armor white many years ago. Really great video! I learned a lot on mass scrapping and (almost) DDoS lel. In all seriousness, this was a great watch.

[@GlitchyOfficial]

under 20k gang

[@E3AloeLi]

@@GlitchyOfficial yup

[@GlitchyOfficial]

OMG AINT NO WAY THIS GOT A PIN anyway good video

[@alexaccount1]

Here

[@DeXyfero]

aye

[@DeXyfero]

here at 14.1k

[@129ster]

first skyblock video i watched fully in like a year props to you

[@That1Kid-cr8zy]

You should’ve named it “Pure Exotic Zaza Scanner” aka, PEZ scanner (you will only get the joke if you ate the actual candy, holy shit they taste so good)

[@alimisaye]

Im just lost as to what the joke is, you made an acronym to make PEZ, a candy, and just used funny word zaza i guess? Im so lost on the punchline

[@That1Kid-cr8zy]

@@alimisaye the joke is that I am on drugs (I was like half while I wrote that so I’m just gonna add some meaning to it for the sake of making it make some sort of sense)

[@gooberbuster8892]

Brings a new meaning to the word "blockchain"

[@monke_gaming2419]

saw communism, came for communism, glad i watched for communism.

[@COKTilYouDrop]

free mod guys are legit, the rats trying to get money from it are who ruin gaming

[@alimisaye]

Someone hasnt heard of a certain 2b2t incident lmao

[@Т1000-м1и]

Would be weird if they didn't Edit: my fears were realized. They ended up making copies of databases Edit 2: 25/32 million, not bad

[@Т1000-м1и]

At the time there were so few people that a literal roblox clone of it had more

[@СемёнЗаболотский-ц8г]

8:47 isn't she lovely isn't she wonderful Can't unhear it now cause the cord progression is very similar.

[@atlas7309]

I have never played on any larger public Minecraft server (at most around 20players on some modpack server - the rest all being private servers for me and my friends). This video was still interesting and I’m astonished to what lengths people go to for some armour. Also questions: Are these armours on Hypixel or just their skyblock sub server thingy? Why would someone wear leather armour instead of something stronger? The economy seems insanely inflated. So why isn’t bartering more common?

[@peanutsveryepicchannel8699]

Someone tell JT!

[@themustatio7079]

28:15 is how I learned about all of this, I have a set of exotic armor from back when I played and I was getting discord msgs about hypixel skyblock

[@FireFusionYT_0]

2:30 Is that Panic Betrayer from ULTRAKILL that I hear?

[@gaster2411]

legit what i thought

[@FireFusionYT_0]

@@gaster2411 It legit isss

[@gaster2411]

@@FireFusionYT_0 yep

[@Benetheburrito]

Bro does all this for the love of the game. Gotta respect it even tho I quit years ago

[@Willwaterprism]

So you're telling me that iTEM has a has a deeper backstory than like 90% of superheroes??

[@eternal-gamerdude2119]

I like how bro said he wont be named, but at 7:53, ryan clearly types Frozie.

[@googoogaagaayt]

ah, the sin of greed, as old as man itself

[@justlazykid]

i have a crystal dyed set of young armor. like i chose the only white armor set to color in a white-gray-black color spectrum 😭

[@Swagpion]

I wonder if any armors have multiple glitch traits. Also if one peice has them all, then we have found a time travler.

[@ItsJustChri5]

...wait, dyed stuff is rare? i think i have like, 2 exotics just sitting in a chest somewhere. i'm probably not gonna sell them, bc i like rare stuff, but cool to know. edit: just checked. apparently i sold them.

[@jupitersky]

Gotta love players doing Hypixel's job for them...

[@KyubiHitashi]

i guess its a good thing i dont waste my time on servers anymore, although i miss mineplex, meloncraft, mcbrawl and some others

[@Entification]

no way people didn't manage to realize the armor pieces will become hella rare when they patch the bug 😭

[@swayvyalt]

no way people didnt realise that bitcoin was going to increase after media and news and popularity of crypto😅

[@calmigames585]

@@swayvyalt nah, crypto value is very stupid, because it goes down and up

[@swayvyalt]

@@calmigames585 but the general trend then was going up

[@swayvyalt]

@@calmigames585 but unlike real crypto exos and skins increase lol ive made like 50b no joke just by holding onto shit bro

[@ezrakornfeld8436]

6:51 Ryan?! I didn’t know he still played skyblock!

[@ezrakornfeld8436]

Also his IGN was skif so he changed a 4 letter IGN which is insane and imma ask him why he did that

[@dogman4422]

Maybe ads on the website could have helped with the costs.

[@nexpersonal5066]

@@dogman4422 websote Ads kinda make peanuts money and only make the user experience worse.

[@windws7137]

This video makes me think I dont belong in CS when such geniuses do the work

[@bee5464]

Of course a Minecraft KZbinr got exposed as a groomer LMAO.

[@Huge_M]

I dont even know if i was there at the time it was allowed but i still could wash clour off the lether.

[@marcostsuna1]

wait, a minecraft youtuber ACTUALLY AND PRECISELY using the term "communism" to describe the thing??? what????

[@FahimPlayz]

honestly wish I played skyblock earlier on, maybe I would've gotten some of these items but im playing now tho at least

[@Peztllence]

if we want to get into semantics this is less of a true "communist" system and rather a labor voucher system. rather than the "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" the system more closely followed "from each according to their ability, to each according to their contribution" via the quite literally named "contributions."

[@_thomas]

fr but that is much harder to squeeze into 6 catchy words

[@Peztllence]

@@_thomas it do be that way

[@_thomas]

@@Peztllence "How SkyBlock Creators Resorted To ALabourVoucherSystemThatRewardedThemAccordingToTheirContribution"

[@Elf0911]

This explains why ive been continuously spammed on Discord even though I haven't played since like 2020.

[@MaunomauClips]

9:45 "didn't break API rules at the time" Yeah, that sounds like a potentially good way to get them changed. Was there a reason to not just ask if they could pay or something to get an exception to the 120 requests per minute?

[@aheadsounds2522]

did not watch full videohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh🎉

[@akumatensei5466]

Why hasn't hypixel hired this guy yet?