seeing people's takes about the whole watcher situation is just a bit.... mind-boggling.
i think the apology they posted was good in the sense that they admitted to fucking up and walked back on their decision, and i think the model they've settled on now is a lot more reasonable (having content be released earlier for those who choose to subscribe), but like.... that doesn't mean that no one should've ever been mad at them in the first place???
like seriously, why does it seem like people are looking at a "good" apology and thinking "huh! they sure did apologize well! i guess that means that it was ridiculous for people to be mad in the first place! no one should have ever complained!!". if no one complained, they wouldnt have walked back their decision! they would've kept going with their dumb completely paywalled option!
and thats not even getting into the fact that their financial woes seem to come from completely mismanaging their money - hiring people when they can not afford to and spending more money on "high quality productions" when they cant afford to.... these are core issues that im not sure will be completely fixed by this? but idk.
also, this situation i think has really helped my own self come to terms with the fact that i do not enjoy many aspects of their content. i sorta already knew that considering i can not remember the last ghost files video i watched because i find that shit incredibly boring and overproduced, and even things like too many spirits have become a chore to watch bc they decided to extend the Not That Funny drink making portion when i just wanna hear some funny spooky stories.
anyway i guess my ultimate point here is: im glad they acknowledged they fucked up, but i also am not sure how interested i am in their content anymore in the first place. oh well
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I need to see corroded coffin trying parkour and being so abysmally awful at it. I need to know that they ‘practice’ while setting up and breaking down for a gig, jumping over amps and drums and bar stools and falling every. Single. Time. I need to have them getting up from the floor with arms raised like they stuck the landing and all yelling at each other. I have to see them falling on their backs or their face and not getting up but sticking a thumbs up in the air before the next person makes their attempt and also failing. I need them to tell people they do parkour and anybody seeing them shaking their heads and walking away because ‘what are they doing?’ While corroded coffin are slapping each other’s backs and gripping each others shoulders and leap frogging (and failing obviously) and just having fun.
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It's a really heartwrenching sequence as it's happening but looking back at the part where jgy grabs jin ling as a hostage in guanyin temple I always crack up when he starts to assure everyone that he really likes a-ling, actually! He practically raised him, he really doesn't want to hurt him so don't worry and please just do as he says.
A-yao. Sweetheart. The point of taking a hostage is that the people you're negotiating with believe you're going to kill the hostage so you can use their wellbeing as a bargaining chip. Saying "Oh yeah I really like this hostage I don't want to hurt him" kind of ruins the point of a hostage. What are you doing?
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What Tragic Horror Character Trope Are You ?
Frankenstein's Monster
This plight is the simplest of them all: you did not ask for this. You were never given a choice. No part of yourself feels human, just a collection of traits you've picked up from mirroring anyone you could, even the people you meet through a television screen. It's alienating to live that way- yet someone has called you the alienating one. Maybe too many people to count. Maybe they treated you so uncomfortably inhuman that it's all you can understand now, or you've dug yourself into such a deep hole in an attempt to keep safe that you can't remember a person living in the home of your body at all. Being alive is confusing and painful and lonely and loud but living is all there is to being human- you're already there. Just take air into your lungs and breathe. Close your eyes and picture a beautiful sky. You made that. You painted that yourself.
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Love it when I’m ridiculed for showing passion during the discussion of politics 🫡
This idea that politics and any discussions surrounding important topics such as Zionism, genocides, racism, classism, and anything that might bring discomfort needs to be sterile and completely dispassionate is absurd. The inclusion of empathy and compassion and anger and sadness and joy are what enable us to talk about these things and to realize that what is happening is harmful and the denial of these feelings is simply another form of silencing. It is basically saying that if there is feeling attached then the point being made is irrational and therefore incorrect. Whatever facts, empirical or otherwise, are immediately discredited due to the tone of voice or facial expression that might be present.
Also, it’s another way of closing off conversation from people. If you can’t hold a conversation without being ridiculed, then people are less inclined to speak about it. I understand that important conversations are uncomfortable and must be so to be productive, but it can be disheartening to constantly experience disrespect, even though we know that conversations must keep happening.
I’m just sensitive though, so what do I know.
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Man, I've got around 5+ Sonic fics in my head and most of them involve Eggman bullying my OCs to certain degrees, some worse than others.
At the same time, though, they also involve Sonic and the gang making new friends X3
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sometimes i think of leon in instructor settings for the dso and i really just think, as an instructor? he's a complete asshole, not in a vindictive sense but above drill sergeant levels of on your case, constantly, he's drawing blood without apology. and this isn't just because i enjoy writing leon as being standoffish and at times outright combative, but i think alot of it comes not only from a point of his first day being thrown into the hellscape that was the raccoon city outbreak, and feeling extremely underprepared as anyone should, but also looking back on it through the years and thinking: there's so many moments as a rookie i should have died, instead of the experienced officers before me. as well as freshly after that, keeping in mind a.u.p.i.t (anti-umbrella pursuit and investigative taskforce) was referenced to be sabotaged & corrupted by those involved with umbrella at a government level (likely simmons's organization The Family), thinking of leon's special ops training and how he refers back to it as an experience that nearly killed him, the way that leon describes punishing missions in the same breath as training makes me think that this was more a trial-by-fire approach, with leon and other operatives being sent repeatedly on what was intended as suicide-missions with training sessions on-site just as often as in between. personally for my leon i don't abide by the remake's decision to have krauser as his instructor, but thinking all the same that leon worked alongside people with the same dispositions and views as krauser routinely, his instructors likely had the same natures that krauser displays during operation javier and interactions in re:4.
i don't think leon should be instructing or training anybody at all, his traumatic experiences endured while he was a rookie leaves too much chance that he would end up projecting, (he could have a "flashback" moment connected to his ptsd, an episode of loss of awareness of his surroundings and mental displacement, actively thinking he's back in raccoon city when in reality he's on dso grounds) (or trying to protect his rookies by being far too harsh on them in an effort to prepare them, putting them through unreasonable conditions that could justify as genuinely harmful if not physically certainly mentally) and possibly continuing a cycle of superior abuse he learned from and experienced while in a.u.p.i.t, (i don't think it would get that far, nor that leon's nature and moral compass would allow that to happen, i think it gets close until leon recognizes) but i think it would be unlikely that he would be given another choice considering leon will not live forever and the industry demands and needs more agents to tackle the spread of bioterrorism worldwide. it's just a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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