documenting the joe hills difference

is there such thing as the Quinn Hills difference

But we do know he conquered death, you can ask @quinnhills

I tuned in late yesterday to see a bit of the hermitcraft charity stream, only a couple minutes in I saw a fully green man walk into frame, processed what I was looking at and he was in roller skates and a turtle costume my first thought was "who is this", then I caught a glimpse of his face and I'm not sure why I even had to ask

I think if there was a Hermitcraft movie, either Quinn or Weird Al should be Joe

hope Oli Orionsound is brushing up on his Quinn Hills discography knowledge because by the look of the Joe Hills discord, he's performing the entire lot (please please please please please please etc.)

Oli got Joe in to help with a couple. We got Joe's attempt at hit the merch store and then a go at lay your head down and dream during the hermitcraft qna. They finished off with Joe very excitedly launching into we didn't start the fire. Joe mentioned you would not be impressed with his singing

@joehills

One thing i really appreciate about Joe Hills is that he's in the hermitcraft bubble but is often reaching out of it. More often than not a Joe Hills stream will raid a small Tennessee creator rather than a hermit or a big name minecrafter. Joe will send us to pinballers and musicians or hermitcraft fans rather than to hermits we already know. For MCC and for the guest tours, a lot of hermits brought lifers or members of servers that overlap highly with hermitcraft. Joe picked Jamal, who he'd never really met but he liked the vibes of. And if you've watched Jamal's vod of that first tour, he's living his dream. I like how many MCC newbies the hermits brought and I have mad respect for every hermit who asked for someone who's never had the chance to play rather than someone who's played quite a bit. I appreciate that, I do

sometimes writing appreciation posts about Joe Hills feels like I'm shouting out Joe for normalising doing above the bare minimum and it feels a little sad that finding someone who is committed to never going below the bare minimum is such a treat online nowadays. Like yeah let's celebrate artists who pay their staff a fair wage and look into the ethics of merch and sponsorships before committing to it. Let's celebrate artists who work to share knowledge and make artmaking accessible. Let's celebrate artists who are fierce about guarding their communities from bad actors and who speak up for trans rights and against many forms of bigotry. Let's celebrate artists who will abandon their stream the moment there's a worrying noise in the room where their child is playing. let's celebrate artists who take great effort to give credit for the work and ideas of others, who take the time to thank people for their contributions to a project, who learn about their colleagues' goals and projects. Like yeah of course that's all great, but it shouldn't be so special to get all at once. It should be the norm and it's sad that it's not