Guude

Guude
Guude in August 2014
Personal name	Jason
Born	(1981-01-28) 28 January 1981
Country	United States
Nationality	American
Gender	M
Other names	Jason GuudeBoulderfist Kinski

Guude, also known as GuudeBoulderfist, or his personal name Jason, is an American Let's Play commentator, and the creator and head of the Mindcrack community.

Biography

Guude from his first public appearance

Guude grew up in the Southern United States. He currently lives in Harnett County, North Carolina. His father was an engineer of Polish descent, while his mother was of German descent.

He has talked about living in Quinlan, Texas, Colorado, and Wingate, North Carolina as a child. He says he was going to attend Columbine High School (and would've been there during the 1999 massacre), but his family moved to South Carolina before he started there.

Guude has mentioned working at Southern Junction in Royse City, Texas at age 12 or 13, and at a Shoney's during his teenage years. He briefly worked at Advanced Internet Technologies during his adult life.

Contact

Guude accepts fanmail through his PO box, and shares what he receives through episodes of "Mail Time with Guude".

Guude
PO Box 811
Holly Springs, NC 27540

Let's Play

GuudeBoulderfist

Guude has shared that he identified with fictional character Creighton Bernette from the TV series Treme, even feeling empathetic of the characters' suicide. He says Bernette's production of vlogs inspired him to begin his own Let's Play, creating purpose in his life.

On 4 March 2011, Guude became a YouTube partner. On 14 November 2011, he partnered his channel with IGN. In July 2013, he announced he had left his partnership to join BroadbandTV.

Mindcrack

• Guude's builds on the server
• Guude's involvements in the prank wars
• Guude's videos on the server
• Guude's videos on the modded server

Mindcrack began on 19 October 2010 with Guude's singleplayer Minecraft Let's Play. In December 2010, Guude established the Mindcrack Server as a way of playing with friends in Minecraft. Since then, he has hosted three contests and invited a multitude of Let's Play commentators to join him on the server. At the beginning of the Season 3 map in September 2011, Guude invited OOG partner BdoubleO100, The Spawn friend Mhykol, and contest winners Pakratt0013, just_defy and Arkas to the server.

In February 2015, Guude announced his return to the server, travelling to new terrain and revealing that he would only record a new episode for every $500 raised on his Extra Life page. He settled in an extreme hills that neighbors a birch forest, and a swamp. He named a nearby roofed forest island "Beef Island", where he populated the island with cows to create a free range cow farm. Using 4 of the 5 monster spawners he found below his base, Guude built a giant mob trap to celebrate his 500th episode on the server.

On another extreme hills he began building a hospital, with plans to have underground floors to honor the donors to Extra Life. Guude rebuilt the hospital alongside CH33ZY_89, the top donor to his Extra Life page, using CH33ZY's design.

Livestreaming

Prior to June 2016, Guude had rarely livestreamed to Twitch due to his poor Internet speeds. One of his earliest streams took place on 24 March 2011, during which he invited stennett to join the Mindcrack Server. Since then, some of Guude's more noteworthy livestreams include his celebration of the 5 year anniversary of Mindcrack on 19 October 2015, and the live UHC on 21 May 2016. His Twitch channel was partnered on 9 April 2015.

During the 2013 Mindcrack Marathon in October 2013, Guude had been listed as host of three segments, but on all occasions, his co-host was the one that streamed. In September 2014, Guude was one of only a handful of participants that did not livestream the UHC Season FTK event, instead uploading his perspective to YouTube soon afterwards.

During an emotional vlog visiting his father's grave on Father's Day 2016 (19 June), Guude shared his recent disillusionment with his YouTube channel and his viewers, citing community drama as a major de-motivator. He has since begun livestreaming regularly on Twitch, and said on 3 July that he liked the change of pace and the community connection livestreaming brought him.

easycgi

Guude owns another Minecraft handle known as easycgi. He explained that "[he] doesn't really use this character for anything... this is basically [his] cameraman." The account was unused for some time but was later used to record time lapses of the rebuilding of the arena roof and the vacation prank against PauseUnpause.

On the Season 4 map, easycgi was used to record a timelapse of the Beginning of the World which was shown during episode 44 of the Mindcrack Podcast, and then later the Slaying of the Wither event, shown in episode 45.

Interviews

Date published	Interviewer	Recording(s)	Topics
10 Mar 2012	nocxx	"[Let's Talk]GUUDEBOULDERFIST![English]"
29 Nov 2012	RubenDelight	"Interviewing MineCon! - Guude"	Beginning of his YouTube channel
30 Jul 2013	OMGchad	"Special: Interview with Guude"	PlayOnCon Video games and Let's Playing Mindcrack
22 Oct 2014	TGN	“I CRASHED MY SERVER GROWING WHEAT.” – AN INTERVIEW WITH TGN PARTNER GUUDEBOULDERFIST	Mindcrack, his channel, his videos YouTube Video games Daily life

Personal life

In the week following PAX South 2015, Guude returned to the locations of various childhood memories. He uploaded videos of himself revisiting and sharing stories of the farm he lived on, his walk home from the bus stop each afternoon, and the flea market he robbed as a child.

On 12 August 2015, Guude uploaded a video titled "My New Parking Lot" in which he accused Harnett County of trespassing and causing damage to his property by parking heavy equipment illegally. The video was posted to /r/videos on Reddit where it went somewhat viral, receiving 4939 upvotes and 826 comments. The following day, Guude said on Twitter that the situation had been resolved. WGHP picked up the story, reporting that the equipment belonged to the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Guude later shared his perspective of events in further detail during a Mindcrack Server episode, explaining that he didn't make the video searching for widespread attention or social justice; he just "wanted to bitch about it." He concluded by saying that "it doesn't seem like anything too crazy happened as a result; no one lost their job or got hurt."

On 17 November 2015, Guude tweeted an image of a truck parked on his property, similar to the previous incident. He released a video the following day parodying the "Here In My Garage" video by Tai Lopez, using the truck as the topic of the video.

Health

Guude says he had a stutter as child, which he gradually grew out of. He is allergic to citric acid.

Relationships and family

Guude met his wife in high school. On 3 November 2011, they had their first child, a daughter. In December 2016, Guude stated that he and his wife "aren't doing well right now." He later referred to himself as a "single dad." In April 2017, he clarified "my wife left me 6 months ago and lives 5 hours away from me now. So I am a single guy these days."

Guude's mother died on 10 November 2019 from cancer.

Guude's daughter joined the Mindcrack Server at the start of Season 8 in June 2020 as VioletApple.

Interests

Guude's favorite movie is Labyrinth.

Guude's favorite video games are Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy VII.

Guude's favorite TV series of all time is Six Feet Under. He is a big fan of Survivor and has watched every season. He has enjoyed Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who.

Guude says he enjoyed the Under the Dome novel, but was dissatisfied with the TV series due to the differences between the two storylines.

Guude's favorite artists are O.A.R., Counting Crows, Dispatch, Pearl Jam, and Eric Hutchinson.

Social and political views

Guude has a life view of "I'd rather work until death for myself, rather than work an hour for somebody else."^{[citation needed]}

Guude opposed Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign; he would click on the Republican Party's YouTube advertisements so as to cost them more in advertising. Guude described the Presidency of Barack Obama as "great", while also saying that "there is absolutely no way that [Donald Trump] can win President." Guude supported Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential campaign, and has actively promoted him on Twitter. He voted for Sanders in the North Carolina Democratic primary. He supported his 2020 presidential campaign and again voted for him in the primary.

Guude said in August 2015 that he was not a member of any religion. He supports the separation of church and state. Responding to a video of his daughter singing a Christian children's song, Guude said "my daughter's religion is for her to decide when she is old enough to understand the concept."

Minecraft skin

Guude's Minecraft skin is a representation of himself in sprite form wearing his G shirt. Guude received a Cape for attending MineCon 2011 and MineCon 2015. It is unknown if he redeemed his 2012 and 2013 capes.

Previous/Alternate skins

Guude's original skin was a modified "Steve", with his G logo and MC on the back.

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  Guude's previous primary skin

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  Suit from the Etho v. B-Team trial

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  Halloween costume, based on David Bowie

Trivia

• Guude's first experience with "Let's Playing," was when he recorded himself playing an Atari Jaguar on VHS to show his friends in school.
• Guude's exwife attended South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics with Aziz Ansari.

External links

• The Mindcrack Network
• Guude on YouTube
• Guude on Twitch
• Guude on Twitter
• Guude on Reddit
• Guude's Spreadshirt Store
• Guude on Steam