Maybe I'm not understanding something, but what Dream is saying in his Livestream doesn't appear to be making any sense.
In his pastebin Dream claims it was a plugin that increased the Peal drop rates, and in his livestream he attempts to defend himself by making the distinction between a plugin and a mod (starting from
20:22), what's odd to me about this, is that he seems to be insinuating that because it was a plugin and
not a mod therefore it couldn't have influenced the drop rate of the pearls and endermen drops in his run. But this doesn't make sense, because Dream would still need to explain
why the drop rates in his run were abnormal, and since he did blame mods, then irrespective of any plugins, there must've been a mod that did the same thing and therefore the criticism still stands. Dream should've realised there was a mod active that increased his drop rates.
Or maybe it's just a petty little distinction Dream made that's of no real substance and doesn't address the criticism at all, which also seems likely. Whether it was a plugin or a mod surely doesn't matter? But then why would Dream insist that the distinction is important? When fireb0rn states, quite correctly, that Dream used the mod (plugin according to Dream) in his challenge videos, he was using it for the same reason (increased drop rates) that someone who would want to cheat at speed-running would use it. Dream doesn't rebut this, he actually affirms it by admitting that he's right when he says "that's like saying water is water", although the inflection in his voice would make you think Dream actually responded to the point at hand, when he really said nothing whatsoever. It's confusing. Dream says:
Yes, obviously my videos, (sic) I beat the game in my videos, obviously anything I would do in my videos is with the intention of making the video either more entertaining or better, you know, better, and in that case for challenge videos it'd be making it so it's more likely that we beat the game
*smug chuckle*, you might as well say I coded plugins in the past for videos like the black hold mod and made them in the way where it's possible. That way it's better to speed-run. Like
yes that's nonsense
, obviously, water is water I understand. That statement is like a non-statement.
Livestream, from: 22:14
I don't know what point Dream
thought he was making, but clearly he failed to make it, and displayed his utter incompetence at comprehending what his critics are actually saying. Fireb0rn's point wasn't a "non-statement", he was saying that Dream used the plugin/mod in a way one would expect a cheater to use it in a Minecraft 1.16 speedrun, to increase drop rates, and beat the game faster. Dreams seemingly stupid response to this was just to essentially say "Yes, I had the pugin to win the game faster, haha you stated the obvious". Okay Clay, but what did you refute? Nothing by the looks of it.
Listening to this man
actually make non-statements (ironic) over and over again is what's truly frustrating because of how confusing it is, so far, he seems to be saying things that don't have any relevance to the arguments against him whatsoever. If you picked this stream of his apart second by second, I can only imagine you'd have a formidable list of instances in which Dream shows he doesn't have the capability of actually comprehending what anyone says, unless it's positive.
