One thing I'm not noticing anyone else talking about—the production value thing is not because they think it's what the fans want. It's not. They want to go for higher production value, it's important to them. That's not a bad thing. Ryan has stressed multiple times on podcasts, behind the scenes content, even the live appearance I saw him at that it's important to him their new media is better quality than Unsolved. I think part of that is just anxiety that what they make isn't good enough, but I'm also sure it's a natural artistic yearning to want to expand and grow. Shane and Steven probably feel the same way about their shows. Ryan has also mentioned how taxing it is for so much of the channel to be about him, which he mentions again in the video with the comment about wanting to expand with other creators. And there's nothing weird about that! That's just facing realistic burnout. The vibe in the announcement video from Shane and Ryan is extremely telling of burnout. They're growing the content because (1) it's exhausting for them to make the exact same style of content for the 8+ years they've been doing it, and one of the ways to get past burnout is by pushing your boundaries and growing creatively; and (2) just making the shows, all of the shows, with themselves as the camera-facing element has to be exhausting for them.
I still think this is a bad decision but I think it's one grounded in their own creative impulses and how hard they've been working for several years now, not some urge to suddenly live the high life. They want to make stuff they're personally proud of, and right now that's beyond their means. I'd make an argument that they should opt for scaling back instead of jumping forward right now, but that doesn't mean they're making this choice because they hate their fanbase or are suddenly a big corporation. They've made a mistake, and hopefully they'll be able to tweak the Watcher TV system in the next couple days to make it more affordable for all.
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If Peppino accidentally nicked himself with a cooking knife while in the kitchen, do you think Fake Peppino would be concerned, react like Bruce from Finding Nemo, or some other third thing 🤔
felt inspired so you get this response in Doodle Comic Format
hes never seen blood before. so now its convinced peppino is filled with Mystery Sauce that he, for some reason, isn't allowed to lick :(
im also of the opinion peppino is too confident in his knife skills so he regularly neglects safety. usually this works out, and he definitely chops like a beast, but he also cuts himself a lot especially if hes tired
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It's mostly horror stories which are the ones who actually get Told so I'm definitely confirmation biased, but just like ... Minors sneaking into the Adult channel. Adults being inappropriate in not-adult channels. Some Big Drama going down while you're asleep and everyone blames you because it's YOUR server and you weren't around to stop it. General drama at all in what's supposed to be a fun space but also you can't really say "good vibes only" when it's something Serious. Being responsible for minors in general. Just thinking about it is making me not wanna share anything ever lmao
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It's newsletter time babey!!
I've some catching up to do 🏃♂️
I basically ended up taking a complete hiatus from tumblr for several months when my migraines got real bad last year. And then things, as things do, kept on happening. Bastards.
I haven't looked much at the tag yet and I still have to catch up with the first five? Chapters and relearn the ropes so to speak, but hopefully I'll see some familiar faces around this year, and new ones 👀
Last time I couldn't get to the end but what I did get through was a lot of fun and the best part was what everyone else was saying and drawing and discussing! That's what I missed the most, was talking and joking with everyone. Lotr is probably my Favorite Story, and to have this in-time community readthrough is such a treasure. As usual, three cheers for @sindar-princeling for organizing. It's a hell of a feat 😁
I'm arriving uh...Precisely When I Mean To ;] but here's to a great year! 💚🍻
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I wish it was standard for social media to have year based sorting on hashtags or at the least to have an oldest first option. I know for a fact there’s more things in the Castlevania tag than what tumblr shows me because I’ve run into older posts from times when things about the series would still get 1000 or so notes through reblogs, but searching Castlevania gives you only a select amount of recent content and usually caps off the feed super short if you ever block anyone in the tag for any reason (even if it’s just a ton of porn scam link bots alas) making it stupidly difficult to see anything!!! Most older posts are new to me!!! There’s a whole large time period of fan content I didn’t get to experience and I wanna see it!!!
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I went digging through my screenshots and found more pics of the Original Stadium so I am sharing them here for posterity
Here's me (left) posing on top of the small platform with the blue butterfly and a stranger I ran a race with. Note how absolutely barren the stands in the background are
Here is a shot of what it was like flying into the stadium once you slid off the edge and took flight. As you can see, it's basically all cloud all the way through
This one is an aerial shot showing the front of the temple. We also don't have the giant statues in this shot (those were added in a later update I believe, though iirc the statues present in the Twins' cutscene have always been there). That ledge way up at the top between the long ramp on the left and the temple is where the winged light once was, and because of how the stands were set up, the only reliable way to get it when you had few wedges was to land on the ramp and run up it
Here is another aerial shot showcasing the stands better. That side of the stadium was where Cheer used to be. There really wasn't much else going on in the Stadium before Dreams. Cheer was the only Stadium spirit that even had memories at this point. Bow and Proud had Nothing. Nada. Zilch. They were just little lights that you'd collect during the races, and then you'd free them at the end and get the stance/emote
This one shows the bonus candle on one of the pillars. This set is already lit, but if you were unlucky enough to end up on a server where they weren't lit, your odds of successfully flying to the pillar from the central platform were basically zero
This is what the entrance to the stadium looked like from the central platform. You could sometimes land on the pillar right in front during the end-of-race cutscene, before you were teleported to stand right in front of the small platform in its center, just like what happens now following the final collect lights portion
And this is what the small platform looked like. That light would always be there, even if you already got both Proud and Bow (and this was back in the days when the spirits didn't even have names!). You also could not jump onto this platform, because it was too tall. If you wanted to stand on it, you had to fly
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shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs
tagged by @rjshope + @ncytiri thank u icons !!!!
rainy days, v
dna, bts
seven, jungkook feat. latto
forg_tful, rm feat. kim sawol
trouble, twice
no.2, rm feat. parkjiyoon
hate you, jungkook
people, agust d
lie, bts
shot glass of tears, jungkook
tagging: @cordiallyfuturedwight, @94ishlove, @jiniekook + anyone else!
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