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swearingcactus · 8 months

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Obscure Far Cry Promos and Content

I'm a big far cry fan, which means I have to make my own food in this economy. But sometimes I just want some ACTUAL canon or canon-ish or even just canon-adjacent content, y'know? It has gotten to the point I go into youtube rabbit holes or watch a remarkably below average hallmark movies for 5 minutes of an actor's screentime to hopefully hear Jason or Ajay or whoever talk. And so in these quests, I've found a couple obscure promos. Gonna compile them here for myself mostly :)

Far Cry 3

Far Cry 3 - The Voices of Insanity: Doctor Earnhardt //a live action video with Alec Earnhardt's VA

Far Cry 3 - The Voices of Insanity: Vaas //same thing but with Michael Mando

Hoyt Audition Far Cry 3 //the last part of "The Voices of Insanity" videos, couldn't find the one from Ubisoft's own account but someone else had posted it on youtube

Far Cry 3 for PS3: TV Spot

Far Cry 3 -- Island Survival Guide: Psychopaths, Drugs & Other Dangers // video narrated by Willis Huntley

Far Cry 3 -- The Savages: Vaas & Buck // this video shows a rare render of vaas with tataus on his arm!

Far Cry 3 | The Tribe: Citra & Dennis //this video has a deleted scene where Jason hallucinates the tatau snaking up his arm

Far Cry 3 -- The Tyrant: Hoyt

Far Cry 3 - Insane Edition // this is a promo done for a special edition for the game, Michael Mando probably couldn't shoot the promo himself and just voice acted, and so they used another actor and made it so the camera never sees Vaas's face.

^ There is also a survival guide titled Face Your Insanity written by post-Rook events Jason Brody as part of the Insane Edition.

Far Cry 3 | E3 2012 Step Into Insanity Trailer [NORTH AMERICA] // this has a few close-ups of Jason and Vaas switching places with each other

Far Cry 3 Interviews (via @lulu2992)

Far Cry 3 Tweets by Jeffrey Yohalem, the lead writer. (also compiled by @/lulu2992! Thanks again!)

Far Cry 4

Divya Kandala's Blog (archived on the Wayback Machine) // Divya Kandala is a fictional journalist who wrote a blog about her travels to Kyrat, her blog's basically world-building promo for FC4. You could also find the house she stayed at in Kyrat!

Far Cry 4 TV Commercial

Far Cry 4 | Kyrat Tuk Tuk Stories //this is the MOST we see ajay in third person in promo content

Far Cry 4 - CGI Trailer // this isn't exactly RARE but it took forever for me to find that clip of ajay's eyes reflecting from the kukri. plus he looks EXTREMELY caucasian which really doesn't help the rumors I've heard that they originally wanted Jason again as FC4's protag

Comedy Central Far Cry 4 Commercial feat Danny Pudi & Donald Glover

Far Cry 4 and Childish Gambino: The Collaboration | PS4, PS3 // a music video for Crawl by Childish Gambino done as a collab

Old Archive.Org link to the Far Cry 4 webpage that had a choose your own adventure campaign

^ and the youtube video to promote it

Far Cry 4 | Behind the Scene Trailer 1/3 [Europe] // developer vlogs when they visited Nepal and interviewed the ghurka that became base for Golden Path, you can see the village that resembles Banapur a lot!

Far Cry 4 Performance Capture Interview // you can see Janina Gavankar, Amita's actress doing some mocap in this

Janina Gavankar Talks Far Cry 4 - ^ and the interview with her after

World Gameplay Premiere - Walkthrough E3 2014 - Far Cry 4 // this was to showcase gameplay but they eventually took out this entire mission where you have to wingsuit to Ratu Gadhi (Yuma's fortress), which is a shame because it looked very nice.

Far Cry 5

i'll be honest, im not a fc5 girlie, so i dont usually do a lot of digging, and im pretty sure these are actually not obscure at all. but these are trailers i found that really blew it out of the park. the marketing team for 5 really went HAM

Far Cry 5: Teaser Trailer | Ubisoft //this has a peggie banging someone's head to a church bell rhythmically with the gorgeous view of Montana mountains as backdrop and i for one, find it hilarious

Far Cry 5 | The Sermon - Live Action Trailer

Far Cry 5 | The Baptism - Live Action Trailer //somebody once mentioned this one has Joseph looking like Trevor GTA and i have never quite known peace ever since. it really also shows the reality of how Joseph is actually just really Unwell, and lore that Joseph killed Pastor Jerome's daughter that never showed up in-game.

Far Cry 5: Anything Can Happen, Everything Will - Live Action TV Spot | Trailer // mixes live action and game CGI renders, pretty cool actually!

The Making of Far Cry 5 | Behind the Scenes of Ubisoft [Documentary]

Far Cry 6 Comics

not gonna put in FC6 stuff because they're actually very easy to find! lots of trailers and mocaps and interviews on youtube :) Far Cry 6 actually has a more obscure lore in their comics

Far Cry: Esperanza's Tears comic // this is a Juan-centric prequel comic that features a completely new country, lore about Far Cry universe's political landscape, and lots of cameos from 3-6's characters! very interesting read especially if you're a sucker for backstories like me

Far Cry: Rite of Passage comic // this is more popular as it features Anton telling Diego the backstories for 3-5's villains.

There is also a book titled The Official Far Cry Survival Guide written by a fictional character called Hunter Nash, who supposedly grew up with Hope County-level of a doomsday prepper dad and winds up as a journalist who travels to the locations of 3-6 and wrote how to survive each location accordingly. It's adorned with official artwork of the games and plenty of survival tips. Not much lore-wise, but cool nonetheless! it also fuels my co-workers au ideas but that's personal.

i have actually found stuff like a really old MTV show called Undressed with Gianpaolo Venuta where he uses his Jason voice for his character, and how Patrick Kwok-Choon, the new voice actor for Ajay does voice acting in Thomas the Train Engine and Paw Patrol, and an indie movie with Greg Bryk where he wears fun sunglasses like Joseph, but that's neither here nor there to the franchise, so eh. // i'll edit this post if i find more, so maybe check back sometimes!

#far cry #far cry analysis #far cry 3 #far cry 4 #far cry 5 #far cry 6

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nekoannie-chan · 4 months

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Mind

Title: Mind.

Ship: Steve Rogers X Agent of HYDRA!Mutant!Reader.

Word count: 264 words.

Square: E3 “Mind control.”

Rating: Teen.

Summary: Steve can’t control his mind.

Major Tags: Mind control.

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Steve had faced some mutants who were part of HYDRA before, but what was about to happen? He had never considered it as if it were an option. In the midst of the fight, a new threat emerged: you appeared; no one would suspect you, but the reality was that you could control minds and cause any being to do what you wanted.

You had been recruited by Hydra at an early age because of your unique abilities. You were cold and calculating, totally committed to the HYDRA cause, not to mention what you had been promised, and so it was; you were going to get it.

After several minutes, you could finally see Steve. You didn't need to get close to or touch him; you just had him within your field of vision. You wiggled your fingers slightly.

You saw how Steve tensed up; you smiled; it had worked; and the best thing was that no one would suspect you. Now that you had infiltrated Steve's mind and were going to sow discord within the Avengers.

It took less than a week to hear the rumors. Now that the Avengers seemed to be against Steve, or maybe it was the other way around, the time had come for him to finally go with you.

That night you showed up at a park near the Avengers base; you didn't even have to wait long for Steve to show up; there was no need to exchange words; you simply raised your hand and he took it; they started walking; you always got what you wanted.

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felassan · 1 year

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A few more snippets of interest and insight from Mark Darrah, from an older Mark Darrah on Games YouTube video where he was livestreaming playing Dragon Age: Origins some months ago -

Chat said "One day we will get a BioWare game with good hair. One day." Mark replied, "I hope they have good hair this time. I think they'll have good hair. There's some really cool tech in Frostbite now that FIFA is using for pretty good hair, so might be expensive, but."

[please note this video streamed 4 months ago] "I've been pretty inaccurate on my predictions for DA:D news. I mean I would be shocked if they don't plan to do something for EA Play 2023, but then there would be no reason for them to do anything before then, to try to make their own event, but. Yeah, I would say that, if they're planning to release this year [2023], which would still be my expectation, they'll announce at, they'll have stuff at EA Play and probably date, so they can open up preorders in Europe. If they're still concerned about their date then they won't date. Normally EA Play would be in June, same time as E3. Do we have confirmation of an E3 this year?" Here chat commented, "Could you see them potentially showing up at something like the rumored Microsoft conference?" Mark replied, "It's possible, the problem with going to a console-specific conference is it's implying things that you don't necessarily want to imply. If you're a really big game like GTA or COD or something then it's fine, but for something like DA you never want to even softly imply, you have to be really careful about potentially softly implying that this is a Microsoft exclusive or a Sony exclusive. They could do it, if Microsoft made the deal sweet enough, there's always that possibility. But it's a lot easier for the really big games, you're never gonna be confused that GTA is Microsoft exclusive or that COD is a Sony exclusive, but you could make that mistake with DA, and they'd want to be very careful not to make that happen. But it could happen, but I doubt it."

Chat asked "So for whoever ends up giving the live presentation - would you have any advice for them? I imagine it's a stressful time." Mark replied, "Live, it is stressful, it's interesting though because the press conferences, the stage press conferences, you have a live audience but it's a lot quieter than say doing a PowerPoint presentation to a roomful of say 50 people. So in a way it's a lot easier, but you have to kind've get over the fact that there's 3000 people in the room with you. But if you can then it's easier than a normal presentation, because you can just practise and get smooth. Now EA practises a lot for their press conferences, which is good if you're nervous, but it does have a tendency to kind've squeeze a lot of the authenticity out of the presentation style. You can really see that in the Anthem one where it's me and Casey Hudson. We practised that like fifty times. Maybe not fifty times. At least a couple of times. It's not a good format. It takes a format that's supposed to be authentic and on the fly and turns it into something where all of the spontaneity has been squeezed out of the thing. I do think authenticity is the key, but the problem with authenticity is sometimes you get someone like at TGA saying that the Oscars are garbage. So EA would rather have 20% less authenticity, with 50% less chance of someone going massively off-script. I actually don't agree, I think it's the wrong tradeoff, but they would rather take the safe route."

Chat said "I feel like the Warden and Darkspawn story arcs have taken a back seat to the templars and mages. Do you think it's likely they will ever revisit the Blight threads?" Mark replied "I think the Blight will be probably relevant."

"I would be very surprised if the Architect showed up in DA:D. They could collapse the quantum of him though, if they wanted to bring him back, they would just do that. If he was killed, he body-hopped, same as Corypheus did. They could do that. I don't think they will."

"Isabela is quite quantum."

"Boss design like the Mother in Awakening definitely would not fly today."

"Any of the books that happen after a game are canon only so much in that they, the events that happen in them are treated as happening, but they aren't necessarily treated as 'whose alive and whose dead', for canon. But things that happen before stuff, like The Calling, I think are treated as fully canon. Like I think Absolution will be treated as canon, like Fairbanks will be dead. There's nothing in there that violates any possible worldstate. But sort've like, from a canon perspective, there's sort've like several layers. There's, what is, base canon, in terms of what we choose, like fully canon would mean it applies, is canon for everyone. Whereas there's also the, like, what is the default, what is default canon, what is written to. But if things that can potentially be violated by different playstates, the writers will tend to try to write away from them so that we don't suddenly have something happening that violates your playthrough. So something that can be true for everyone is more likely to occur. Something that might happen for someone else, I mean, obviously that's been violated, like Leliana shows up even if she's dead in DA:I, but that's why it's lampshaded. So that if you kill her, it's explained why she's alive. Masked Empire is fully canon for the same reason, because it doesn't have any way of violating anything. Doesn't mean that some things that are presented aren't recontextualized, but."

"RPGs don't demo [at conferences and events] super-well because they require so much context. The best I ever saw honestly was probably, I saw Skyrim once at an E3 but I didn't play it. They'd set it up in such a way that when you were standing in line to play it or just kinda walking by you could see other people playing it. I actually didn't play it at that E3. Standing there for five or ten minutes watching other people play it was probably the best RPG demo I've ever seen, because you were distant from it, so you kind've accepted a little bit less context. So you kinda want that, but you can't really get that, so you either ended up doing what BioWare usually does which is a behind-closed-doors 45 minute demo, which gives the context, but you can only get a certain number of people through it. Or you have something that's really tight for stage. When demo-ing an RPG you need to set up the story, the conflict, but you also need to somehow sort've establish how this plays. With a shooter you kind've know. Do you show character generation in an RPG demo? You never do but kind've people care about that a lot so you kinda should."

"One of the best [demos] from a story perspective that I ever saw was Mass Effect 2, it showed the beginning of the game, the bit with you walking through, the bit where Shepard dies, and showed it as if it was the end of the game. So a big misdirection. But I think that you kind've have to do some sort've, and I guess we did something, not as effective, but kind've the same in DA:I where we showed Future Redcliffe essentially as an ending of the game or as something that would happen."

"The PAX demo of DA:I was the game as we understood it at the time. A lot of stuff we showed at PAX ended up not getting into the final game, so people get mad when demos misrepresent the game, but sometimes that's happening because the game changes after the demo. Not because it was a lie, it was the truth at the moment, it's much more likely to happen with an RPG than it is to happen with other things. With shooters you might get something like big fidelity degradation but you're unlikely to get significant changes to mechanics."

"Hira in Absolution starts out being really bad at [levitating/flying on a disc], and then gets really good in like a later episode, I feel like she should've, or I guess it's in the same episode, she's way better all of a sudden at levitating, at flying."

[source]

He also talked more generally about DA:O and the franchise and things in general. These bits are collected under a cut due to length -

Chat said "I still say Velanna would have made way more sense for turning Justice into Vengeance." Mark said "Yeah, Velanna definitely has a lot more revenge in her than Anders does at this point." Chat then commented "Like, if it was about justice for the elves, that would have been a better fit for Velanna." Mark replied "Yeah it wouldn't have made sense for DAII, like what is she doing in Kirkwall?"

"With darkspawn [structures and items] it's always a little over, there's a lot of decoration for something darkspawn cobble together"

"Awakening is a bit blobby"

In the Mother's Lair, chat said "The lair is the same as the place Morrigan found the eluvian. Is this on purpose or just asset reuse?" Mark replied "I think it was asset reuse"

"The Sacred Ashes trailer was made by Blur. Blur is not cheap. I don't think you can compare it with in-game cutscenes"

Chat asked "Was the thrown dagger mechanic in Mark of the Assassin too large a file packet to be in the base game? It changed everything for rogues." Mark replied, "It didn't exist in the base game, it was added just to give them a ranged weapon, it's not that it couldn't fit. Why didn't it get put back in? It's not so much that it was definitely going to be big, but it would be hard to know for sure without very carefully testing the whole game all over again. Because it is extra memory. Some of the stuff in Awakening for example does actually blow memory on consoles on the main game if you take it back, which, there was some way you could do that. It did something bad, so it had to be changed"

When the Architect appears to the Warden before the confrontation with the Mother, chat mentioned that he doesn't mention how the Fifth Blight started and refers to being "born". Chat said "I wonder if the Architect is just a magister like Corypheus? He says he was 'born' but maybe that's just a play on words." Mark said "At this point he's acting like he doesn't remember. Yeah, he's acting like he doesn't know what he is. Yeah I don't think you learn any of that stuff here. Does he not know/remember? Or is he hiding it?"

Chat said "I've never killed Leliana, what was the explanation in DA:I for her being alive?" Mark replied "The explanation is pretty loose but it's basically, the Urn was right there so it brought her back to life. Though it is possible that you decapitate her in that fight, so that is a bit of a stretch in certain circumstances."

"Solas is the master of 'didn't think this through'"

"It wasn't that it wasn't being contemplated, DA was just never intended to be a series. DA:O was always conceived of as a standalone game, which is why there are all these weird things in the end screens of DA:O, especially where it's like 'oh, you know, the entire world fell into a volcano'. By the time that DA:O was coming out, EA wanted a sequel. It was actually before EA that it was conceived of as a single franchise, it was to work on a sequel to DAII before DA:O was even out. That's when/why I came on. So it wasn't, what became DAII wasn't what was being worked on in that time. The SW:TOR delay made DAII, but it didn't make there be a sequel"

"I don't know if they'll ever do a Dragon Age legendary edition. EA does not like spending money. With DA:O you kinda have to decide if you're remastering or remaking. If you're remastering, you just let all of the iffy bits stand"

"A lot of the end screens in DA:O and Awakening, they're causing weird things for the future. The one I used to bring up a lot was the werewolves. You could literally end DA:O with werewolves just rampaging over parts of Ferelden. Or there's also like a potential dwarven civil war coming."

"DA:I was definitely considering collapsing the quantum state as much as it could, whereas DA:O doesn't care, it's just like whatever, make the world be a completely ridiculous quantum state, you're basically not guaranteed that anyone makes it through this alive"

"The problem with Oghren in Awakening is it's like they rewind him back to how he is when you meet him, so it undoes everything. Oghren is very 2D in Awakening"

"An RPG is more like a buffet, it's about providing a lot of features and you engage with some of them, you kind've like some of them, you can tolerate some of them, you don't engage with other ones. Whereas a lot of other game genres are much more about excellent execution on your core loop. An RPG isn't really about that as much. I think that's to some degree one of the problems with Anthem has, is that, you know, it's made by a company that's used to 70 B features combining into an A+ feature. And for a looter shooter it's not really that, it's two or three A features combining into an A+ feature. So there's just a friction in some of the pieces of Anthem that are fine for RPGs but not fine for a looter shooter. And you know, looter shooters aren't even the pinnacle of that"

[source]

(pls note that in places there is a bit of paraphrasing of the info, the best source is always the primary source with full quotes in their original context)

#dragon age #bioware #video games #long post #longpost #dragon age: dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #the dread wolf rises #da4 #dragon age: absolution #dragon age: absolution spoilers #solas #sw:tor #anthem #mass effect #morrigan #queen of my heart

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maturemenoftvandfilms · 9 months

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The Windsors (TV Series) S2/E3 'Episode #2.3' (2017) - Harry Enfield

This made me think, what if Charles had a twin brother.

Well, for one thing, I’d let Camilla kept Charles and I get his twin.

So I’ll still get a prince to fuck.

But… eventually, I would want to level up.

Well, I could always hit King Philippe of Belgium. He’s rumored to be gettable.

#harry enfield #the windsors #english actor #daddy #actor #handsome daddy #cilf #suited daddy #suit & tie #hats #tv series #celebrities #screenshots

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aggravateddurian · 7 months

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Cyberpunk 2079: Chorus - Rumors of My Demise (Part 3 of 3)

Vega 'V' Hawse and Judy Alvarez (2079)

...and here's Johnny! And also, there goes Johnny! So Mi's new partition program/quickhack sometimes comes in handy.

I've changed my mod setup a bit and I'm now using an E3-inspired LUT. Makes some of these shots look like they were rendered rather than taken from the game imo.

#cyberpunk #cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk 2077 photomode #cp2077 #cp2077 photomode #virtual photography #my vp #fem v #cp2077 au: chorus #oc: vega 'v' hawse #johnny silverhand #photo story

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bamboobrat · 1 year

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succession s4 e3 recap: i just called to say are you a cunt? 2/2

part 1

how are we dealing so far? personally, i am not.

tom calls his boyfriend with the news of logan's death, which turns out to be a huge mistake because greg is a dipshit with no poker face and a simp for journalist ass.

guys, i even feel bad for tom. wtf is this episode.

roman is still in denial.

the genius of the writers confirmed: i spent ages wondering if it was real myself, since we never really saw logan and it felt unreal. so thanks for the torture, i guess.

just as the kids receive news they have stopped doing compressions, the ship leaves the dock.

stress level: uncut gems.

hugo is here.

if i saw this man on the worst day of my life i would jump ship.

he informs the sibs that the board is drafting a statement and the reactions are who tf asked.

we see a shift from grief to strategy. new leadership means they need to position themselves.

tom wants people to know he was with logan as he died. karl, gerri and frank need their name on the statement. and although the healthy thing probably would be to grieve in peace, the kids need to stake their claim too.

calling a confrontation in a karaoke bar a family function is controlling the narrative. words are just complicated airflow.

this screenshot is just in here because it has gerri in it.

roman continues his denial tour, this time featuring gerri.

bla bla bla the marked bla bla bla stock prices bla bla shiv casually suggests they leave the plane in the air for a while because of business.

shoot logan into deep space for all i care.

inside you there are two wolves: one who cares about legacy and one that is suicidal.

in this scenario, i would be connor:

actually, i'm shiv, turns out:)))

i'm sure the mommy issues comes as a surprise to no one.

kendall is on the funeral planning commitee.

"funeral off the rack" was the alt title of this week's recap.

and then, just as roman has pointed out they can just be children who have lost their fathers, who need to grieve, rumors of logan's health leak.

fucking greg.

i'm always here for a good sibling huddle.

how "inspirational quote on a boomer facebook group" of them to believe they are actually needed at waystay.

don't stop believing and all that.

i repeat, don't stop believing:

you go, gerri, give him nothing!!!!:(

the way she looked so concerned for them when she entered the room:(( but then he acted like an asshole:((( and now everything is horrible:((((

WE ARE LOSING THE LESBIANS!

DOSE OF FANFIC NEEDED, STAT!

help

help!!!

indeed. how will i ever survive the six days leading up to the next episode?

(it's fanfiction, the answer is fanfiction)

i know that hugo referred to the journos when he said he had briefed "their friendliest" but i like to believe he's talking about shiv.

guys, i'm so drained.

more business. logan is the stock price. anthropomorphic shit that would probably mean something if i cared enough to focus on logan rn.

HUG!!!!!

at this point, it seems impossible that these three will turn on each other, but a lot can happen in seven episodes.

roman's adhd brain needs visual conformation.

this is very important, says woman who forgets the produce if it's at the back of the fridge.

connor wins this episode.

he got his way: statue of liberty, weirdly patriotic band, no cake.

the healthiest relationship in this show is the one that is openly transactional.

speaking of transactional relationships: shiv goes home with tom under the pretense that he has to explain to her the details of what happened on the plane.

what are we thinking? is there hope? (of course not) do we care? (i do, i do a little)

we end on kendall alone and the siblings separated. bad omen.

"i'll be broken when you die"

we await an unpredictable road ahead, friends. buckle up, fuckleheads.

part 1

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incorrectsmashbrosquotes · 2 years

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The Super Smash Questionnaire

Sakurai: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the 1st anniversary of Sora's playable debut in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate!

(Much hooting and hollering ensues. King K. Rool even shoots his Blunderbuss.)

Sakurai: Thank you, thank you, and please don't shoot that anymore.

Sakurai: I know this game has seen better days in the past year, between competition from other conglomerates, and my own YouTube channel being a thing. But this is going to ask the one question people have on their minds.

Sonic: Are we getting paid for this?

Sakurai: Except for that question, which does not need answering now.

Sakurai: The question is: Which third-party characters could get a callback for the next Smash entry? Now, may the first non-Nintendo character step up to the plate?

Snake: Kept ya waiting, huh? If you guys simply must know, I was part of Brawl's E3 trailer to drum up extra hype, as it may. I also represent Konami in the gaming pantheon, if that helps.

Mario: But not only is Konami not the most cooperative studio to work with, but you missed out on Smash For. Next!

Sonic: Sonic here. I'm the mascot of Sega, the progenitor of 16-bit chaos, and I appeared the most in this franchise.

Link: You know, this guy has potential. Next applicant.

Mega Man: Hi! I'm Mega Man. People still think of me as the face of Capcom, and my franchise was a big part of the NES legacy. We don't talk about my animated past, though.

Captain Falcon: I dunno. If we're restricted to just one rep per company, it'll be hard to justify bringing you back.

Link: Said the second most likely Smash 64 vet to be cut...

Falcon: Hey! At least I'm in the game at all!

Mario: We'll keep in touch. Next.

Pac-Man: How ya doin? The name's Pac-Man, but you can call me Pac. I'm the face of Bandai Namco, who helps develop Smash games nowadays, and I'm one of the most mainstream gaming character ever conceived! How's that for good reasons?

Mario: Allow me to be biased for a moment, as we go way back here. You didn't have to bring up the developer credits to justify your return.

Pac-Man: R-Really?

Link: Really, really. Next.

Ryu: Sup. Name's Ryu. It has been my life's mission to fight alongside and against anyone I meet. And for the business side of things, I'm the face of Capcom that they don't want to remove.

Mega Man: What did you say?

Ryu: Nothing personal, but if it was up to them, you and Zero would have swapped representation tiers for Ultimate.

Link: To prevent any harm in this stage, I will say that it's a really tough decision. Cap's right. If we do pick a single rep for each company, it would be a hard choice.

Ryu: Fine. I won't judge you for this. I'll be waiting backstage.

Mario: Next!

Cloud: Hey.

Link: No offense, kid, but Square Enix is already quite stingy, and there's also that persistent rumor that Sony's gonna buy them. However, in your favor, there is the fact that you are the biggest name from that company in terms of fighters.

Cloud: Thanks. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get a say in this.

Link: Just be thankful you're still in the game.

Cloud: Oh, I am.

Falcon: Next up, please.

Bayonetta: Hello, boys. While I might not be the biggest third-party character, my company, PlatinumGames, has a very good relationship with both Sega and Nintendo. Especially the latter. I even think they want to be on the same level as Retro and Next Level before it.

Falcon: At the risk of dating myself even further, woah Mama!

Mario: I sure hope Peach doesn't see that.

Link: What they're trying to say is that you might have more of a chance than the Smash community would hope to think. Some of them still think that you rigged the ballot.

Bayonetta: Oh, really? That's a shame.

Mario: Next.

Simon and Richter both show up.

Mario: Okay, why are both of you here at once?

Simon: Because we're apparently Echoes of each other, according to Sakurai.

Richter: But at least we're more Nintendo-friendly than Snake.

Mario: That is true, but we only need one Belmont for the franchise. Which one shall it be.

Simon: Let's just cut to the chase. If we're getting one Belmont, it's gonna be me. Richter can be an Assist or something.

Falcon: Good concept, but I wouldn't put Richter on that level if I were you.

Richter: See? He gets it.

Link: Next.

Ken: Hi, guys!

Mario: If I can be blunt for a second, I'm not sure if Echo Fighters are gonna make it in the next game, and we already have Ryu and Mega Man duking it out for the Capcom invitation. So, you should probably prepare for the worst in your case.

Ken: Alright. I'm already a big part of Street Fighter 6, so I don't need Smash to stay alive.

Captain Falcon: I take offense to that, you know.

Ken: I'm sure you do. See ya!

Joker: Hey, is this spot taken?

Mario: For a Sega rep? Twice over, but state your case anyway.

Joker: Thanks! For one, Atlus is an actual Sega division, meaning I'm higher up on the totem pole than Bayonetta. For two, I'm the Cloud of Persona, if that makes sense. For three, since Sega also owns TMS, you can give me a Lupin III-esque skin for the next game if people want their "anime in Smash" comparison.

Link: Yeah, but we were thinking of using your gimmick to keep Marth in the game. If you've seen the Engage trailer, you could see where we're going with this.

Joker: (beat) Okay. Save a spot for me next month.

Captain Falcon: We'll try.

Luminary: Hi. As the main Hero skin, I'm gonna speak for all of them. The four of us are some of the most well-known Dragon Quest protagonists, and the worst part about how we went into the game probably isn't a big factor anymore.

Mario: Hmm... You make a fine point for you and your colleagues, but Cloud outranks all of you in popularity. However, I suppose I could see you make the cut, with or without the other Heroes, like we can see Ryu or Snake representing their companies second.

Luminary: Thank you, thank you! You won't regret this!

Captain Falcon: Shall the next combatant come forth?

Banjo: Guh-huh! Hiya, folks!

Mario: Banjo! My old buddy! How's it hanging, pal?

Kazooie: Not as well as it should be, but it's nice to be wanted.

Link: Kazooie! Be nice.

Banjo: For once, I agree with her. It is nice to be wanted. Plus, the folks at Microsoft are pretty chummy with the Nintendo bigwigs nowadays, which means we have hope to return. Right?

Kazooie: Please say yes. It's all we have left now!

Mario: I'm thinking, I'm thinking. And from the fandom's perspective, we'd probably have some beheadings if you guys got cut.

Banjo: (sigh) Yep. You likely would...

Mario: Just don't count your Jinjos before they fly.

Kazooie: Fine by us. C'mon, Banjo.

Captain Falcon: Next.

Terry: Let's get to business. While SNK is a more minor player in the video game field, they were more than happy to let me in the game. They don't say they got a free newcomer with the purchase of a soundtrack for no reason, after all.

Link: He's got a point. Plus, Sakurai was inspired by King of Fighters to make Smash more inclusive in its gameplay.

Sakurai: That is correct.

Terry: So, I can make it back?

Mario: Perhaps.

Steve: Hello, fellow Smash fighters. I'm Steve.

Alex: And I'm Alex!

Steve: Not only is Minecraft now the highest-selling game ever made, not only is it a Microsoft IP that provides a steady income for the executives, not only is it recent despite the style of the game...

Alex: But if we return, there's actually more than eight starter skins for the game now. No more Zombie or Enderman or other skins for us!

Mario: All those reasons sound great! I'll just tell Banjo and Kazooie when the show's over.

Steve: Okay.

Sephiroth: (evil chuckle)

Mario, Link, and Captain Falcon: NO!

Sephiroth: Oh? You won't even give me a chance?

Captain Falcon: No offense, pretty boy, but FFVII has too much exposure.

Link: I get enough trouble from Ganondorf, thank you very much.

Mario: And your trailer was the closest I ever got to death since Ridley's debut at E3 2018!

Sephiroth: Okay, fine. I can take a hint. Send the folks at Wooden Plank my regards.

Cloud: OH, YOU AGAIN!

Sephiroth: Save it for Final Destination, Cloud.

Cloud: You bet I will, fly boy!

Mario: Next, please!

Kazuya: Hmph. It's not like I wanted to be here, anyway.

Captain Falcon: Well, it's not like you have a shot at returning, either. Pac-Man's a better Namco rep, Ryu and Terry are better fighting game reps, and Cloud's a better PS1 rep. In short, good luck getting that lucky phone call.

Kazuya: I can say the same thing about you and mean it.

Falcon: That does it! I'm going through All-Star Mode after this.

Link: Looks like our next guy is the last third-party character.

Mario: A-ok! Let's see who it is.

Sora: (inhales)

Mario: Owned by both Disney and Square Enix, with Disney having more of a say.

Link: The obligatory "too many swordfighters" claim that I'm surprised hasn't been brought up by this point.

Captain Falcon: And your lore makes the Encyclopedia Britannica look like a picture book.

Mario: Sorry, but you're not making it in next time. It's just business, and business stinks right about now.

Sakurai: That's all the time we have left. Tune in next week for the non-Nintendo characters who want to get in the game.

Captain Falcon: Dogpile in 3. 2. 1.

Mario: CHARGE!!

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mrxcreepypastamadness · 5 months

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For: @toxic-and-the-gang

Mario's Madness V2 muses!

Woodland of Lies

1st Muse (Current):

Beta Luigi

Aliases:

• Luigi

• Sad Luigi (in chromatic folder)

Relatives:

• Mario (compromised brother)

Relationships:

• King Boo (Enemy)

• Pissing Mario (friend)

Occupation:

• Plumber

Age: 25

Place of birth: Mushroom Kingdom

Birthday: October 11

Status:

• Alive (Official Nintendo Canon)

• Deceased (Somewhat debatable)

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Eye Color: White sclera

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Created by:

• Nintendo

Voiced by:

• Charles Martinet

• KINGFOX (chromatic)

Appears in:

• Luigi's Mansion (E3 2001)

• Friday Night Funkin' (As a Mod)

Debut:

• Luigi's Mansion (E3 2001)

About: Beta Luigi is Luigi's appearance in the game over screen for the beta version for the beta version of Luigi's Mansion, where he fails to save Mario and falls into a depressive episode. He is the opponent of the warp zone song "Alone".

Gallery:

Beta Luigi (Sitting)

2nd Muse (New):

Beta Mario

Aliases:

• Alone Mario (Files)

Relatives:

• Luigi (Brother)

Relationships:

• King Boo (Enemy/Captor)

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Eye Color: White

Debut: Luigi's Mansion (E3 2001)

About: Beta Mario is Mario from the E3 2001 Beta Build of Luigi's Mansion. He's been trapped in a painting by King Boo, and since Luigi failed to save him in time, he's doomed to remain imprisoned within said painting for all eternity. He appears in "Alone" as an additional opponent for a brief section.

3rd Muse (New):

L is Real

Aliases:

• Luigi Mario

• Luigi Drowned

Status:

• Undiscovered

• Dead (SM64: Classified)

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Eye Color: Black

Hair Color: Brown

Created by:

• Nintendo (Original Luigi)

• Nintendo Community (Rumor)

Appears in:

• Super Mario 64 (supposedly)

• Friday Night Funkin' (As a Mod)

Debut: Super Mario 64 (Supposedly)

About: L is Real is a character based on a long-standing urban legend surrounding Super Mario 64. The L is Real rumors center mainly around on the fountain in the Castle Courtyard, which many interpreted as "L is Real 2401". This lead many to believe there was a way to unlock Luigi in some fashion. With the rise in popularity of the "Mario 64 is Personalized" rumors, more horrific versions of the L is Real rumor were since created. He is the opponent in the song Thalassophobia and the scrapped song Drowned.

4th Muse (Current):

I HATE YOU Luigi

Aliases:

• Luigi

• Luigi Mario

• IHY Luigi

• Burned Luigi

Relatives:

• Mario (despised brother, accidental murderer)

Relationships:

• Bowser (ally (Creepypasta)

• Martin (friends)

Occupation: Plumber (formerly)

Age: 25

Place of Birth: Mushroom Kingdom

Birthday: October 11

Status:

• Dead (Creepypasta)

• Undead (Mod)

• Alive (Official Nintendo Canon)

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Eye Color Black

Hair Color: Black

Created by:

• Nintendo (Original Luigi)

• Slimebeast (Creepypasta)

• Ersanio (ROM Hack)

Appears in:

• I HATE YOU (Creepypasta)

• I HATE YOU (ROM Hack)

• Friday Night Funkin' (As a Mod)

Debut: I HATE YOU

About: I HATE YOU Luigi is a character created by Slimebeast for the I HATE YOU creepypasta. In the original creepypasta, Luigi develops hatred for Mario and joins Bowser's side in order to kill him. However, Mario ends up killing Luigi by knocking him into lava, turning him into a living corpse. He is the opponent of the songs "Oh God No" and "I Hate You".

Gallery:

I HATE YOU Luigi (Alive) (Oh God No)

5th Muse (New):

I HATE YOU Mario

Aliases:

• Mario

• Mario Mario

• IHY Mario

Relatives:

• Luigi (brother, accidental victim)

Relationships:

• Bowser (arch-nemesis)

• Drowned Mario Clones (Old lives of him; enemies)

• Princess Peach (love interest)

• Yoshi (Best friend)

• Toad (friend)

Occupation: Plumber

Age: 25

Place of birth: Mushroom Kingdom

Birthday: October 11

Status: Alive

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Height: 5'11" (155 cm)

Eye Color: black

Hair Color: Black

Created by:

• Nintendo (Original Mario)

• Slimebeast (Creepypasta)

• Ersanio (ROM Hack)

Appears in:

• I HATE YOU (Creepypasta)

• I HATE YOU (ROM Hack)

• Friday Night Funkin' (As a Mod)

Debut: I HATE YOU

About: I HATE YOU Mario is Mario as he appears in "I HATE YOU". In Mario's Madness, he's the player character of "Oh God No."

6th Muse (Current):

Wario Apparition

Aliases:

• Wario

• Wario Head<br

Relationships:

• Players (victims)

Place of birth:

• Yoshi's Island (Nintendo Canon)

• Super Mario 64 1995/07/29 Build (Creepypasta and E3 Debut)

Status: Active/Alive

Species:

• Apparition

• A.I creation

• Human (Official Nintendo Canon)

Gender: Male

Eye Color:

• White Sclera

• Green (left pose)

Hair Color: Brown

Created by:

• Nintendo (Original Wario/technically)

• Anonymous /v/ user (Creepypasta)

Voiced by:

• Charles Martinet

• KINGFOX (Mod)

Appears in:

• E3 1995

• 4Chan

• Super Mario 64 1995/07/29 Build (supposedly)

• Mario 64 iceberg

• Every Copy of Mario 64 is Personalized

• TAPE ONE

• 12. 20. 95

• Friday Night Funkin' (As a Mod)

Debut:

• E3 1995 (Original)

• 4Chan (Creepypasta)

About: The Wario Apparition is a floating apparition of Wario's head. In initially appeared during Nintendo's "Focused on Fun" segment in E3 1995, preparing the audience for Nintendo's main presentation. Many years later, it was popularized by the Mario 64 horror community due to a Creepypasta based on the theory that every copy of Mario 64 is personalized, and that there exists a cursed beta version of the game from July 29, 1995. Allegedly, the Wario Apparition materialized in Mario 64 out of people's desires to see Wario in the game, and it caused horrific mental trauma upon these who saw it. He is the opponent of the Warp Zone song "Apparition", The now used Forbidden Star in the Legacy section in Freeplay, and the unused song Gaze.

7th Muse (New):

Turmoil

Relationships:

• GB (Friend)

Species: Human/Yoshi Fusion

Gender: Male

Voiced by: RedTV53

About: Turmoil is an EXE created by Scrubbdubb. He used to be Mario until he accidentally ingested a mushroom containing Yoshi's code. He has since turned into a primal, blind beast who feeds upon the inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom.

8th Muse (New):

Coronation Day Peach

Aliases:

• Ghost Peach (common given name)

• Coronation Peach

• God of the Forest (herself)

Relationships:

• Mario (Attempted Victim)

Date of death: July 31st, 1992 (implied)

Status: Active/Alive?

Species: Unidentified

Gender: Female?

Eye Color: Black

Hair Color: Blonde

Created by:

• Nintendo (Original Peach)

• Medic

• Torchkas

• underway

Appears in:

• 'the (Super Mario World Coronation Day)

• Friday Night Funkin' (As a mod)

Debut: 'the (Super Mario World Coronation Day)

About: Coronation Day Peach is the main antagonist of the popular rom hack 'the also known as "Coronation Day". One day, Peach wandered into the forest where she either killed herself or was killed by a mysterious entity. She, or an entity of unknown origin, now inhabits the forest. She is the opponent in "Dark Forest".

#mario's madness #friday night funkin #overworld #Woodland of Lies #creepypasta #theories

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wygolvillage · 1 year

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new castlevania rumored to be planned for announcement at e3. iga and ayami kojima doing a con appearance together rn (with kojima doing castlevania art at the con no less). id say "not getting my hopes up But" but my hopes are already up. i am being so normal about thissssss

#how am i gonna wait for e3 the suspense is killing meeeeeee

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seffien · 1 year

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whats different squid ghosts, manta maria knocking rumours, and the hero mode titles? :0

different squid ghosts: in splatoon’s e3 demo, lots of things were different, including squid ghosts. here’s a clip from a nintendo world video:

manta maria knocking - since it was a while ago, i have no chance of finding it, but i saw a tweet saying that knocking could be heard on manta maria. i foolishly reconned it during the day, not at night, and since splatoon 2 splatfests are over, i can’t verify if these rumors are truez

hero mode titles

#splatoon #splatoon 2 #asksef

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nekoannie-chan · 4 months

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Mente

Título: Mente.

Pareja: Steve Rogers X Lectora agente de HYDRA y mutante

Palabras: 240 palabras.

Cuadro: E3 “Control mental.”

Clasificación: B.

Sinopsis: Steve no puede controlar su mente.

Advertencias: Control mental.

N/A: Esta es mi entrada para Captain Bottom Bingo round 2. CABB2024.

Links: Wattpad, Ao3, versión en inglés.

Si te gusto por favor vota, comenta y rebloguea.

No doy ningún permiso para que mis fics sean publicados en otra plataforma o idioma (yo traduzco mi propio trabajo) o el uso de mis gráficos (mis separadores de texto también están incluidos), los cuales hice exclusivamente para mis fics, por favor respeta mi trabajo y no lo robes. Aquí en la plataforma hay personas que hacen separadores de texto para que cualquiera los pueda usar, los míos no son públicos, por favor busca los de dichas personas. La única excepción serían los regalos que he hecho ya que ahora pertenecen a alguien más. Si encuentras alguno de mis trabajos en una plataforma diferente y no es alguna de mis cuentas, por favor avísame. Los reblogs y comentarios están bien.

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Tags: @sinceimetyou @black23 @unnuevosoltransformalarealidad @azulatodoryuga

Steve se había enfrentado a algunos mutantes que eran parte de HYDRA con anterioridad, pero lo que iba a ocurrir, nunca lo había considerado como si fuese una opción. En medio de la pelea, una nueva amenaza surgió: apareciste, nadie sospecharía de ti, pero la realidad era que podías controlar las mentes, provocar que cualquier ser hiciera lo que tú quisieras.

Tú habías sido reclutada por Hydra desde una edad temprana debido a tus habilidades únicas. Era fría y calculadora, totalmente comprometida con la causa de HYDRA, sin contar lo que te habían prometido, y así era, ibas a obtenerlo.

Después de varios minutos, finalmente pudiste ver a Steve, no necesitabas acercarte ni tocarlo, simplemente tenerlo dentro de tu campo de visión, moviste levemente los dedos.

Viste como Steve se tensó, sonreíste, había funcionado, lo mejor era que nadie sospecharía de ti. Ahora que te habías infiltrado en la mente de Steve e ibas a sembrar la discordia dentro de los Vengadores.

Bastó menos de una semana para escuchar los rumores, ahora los Vengadores parecían estar en contra de Steve o tal vez era al revés, había llegado el momento para que finalmente fuera contigo.

Esa noche apareciste en un parque cercano a la base de los Vengadores, ni siquiera tuviste que esperar mucho para que Steve apareciera, no hubo necesidad de intercambiar palabras, simplemente alzaste tu mano y él la tomó, comenzaron a caminar, siempre obtenías lo que querías.

#cabottombingo #cabottombingor2 #Steve rogers x lectora

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auraofazure · 2 years

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G4 2.0: A Longwinded Eulogy

November 16, 2021 - the G4 cable channel relaunches after seven years away, a rare second chance for a mainstay from the era of niche-catered cable television.

November 18, 2022 - the G4 cable channel shuts down after spending a whole month on zombie autopilot mode.

First, a bit of backstory: the era of niche-catered cable television was a wonderful time, channels for anything and everything filling cable platforms in the late 90s and throughout the 2000s. This was the peak of television, and if you had a maxed out cable package you were set.

One such channel that exceled in this wide open market was a channel based out of San Francisco called ZDTV, a channel focused solely on the growing tech and computer market, though it would change to a more recognizable name in 2000: TechTV.

Unfortunately, though, when you’re in a hypercompetitive niche cable market, you either have to stand out or you’ll fall behind. They inevitably fell behind with layoffs and programming cutbacks, though they did have three core staples to them: The Screen Savers, X-Play, and Anime Unleashed. But it was in the latter years of its singular life where it veered away from business tech talk and shifted toward a more general male audience who happened to also be into casual tech talk. This worked… for a short while.

In May of 2004, TechTV merged operations with G4, a venture and channel helmed by Comcast in direct competition with TechTV, and relocated operations to Los Angeles as the very longwinded G4TechTV before becoming solely G4 in 2005. And those three staples remained, with one having a new name: The Screen Savers become Attack of the Show, X-Play remained X-Play, and Anime Unleashed also hung around for a short while longer.

By the mid-2000s, people who knew G4 knew what they were all about, with a strong lineup of in-house originals: Cheat!, Cinematech, Arena, G4 Icons, X-Play with Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb, Attack of the Show! now with Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn (later with Candace Bailey), live convention coverage from places like E3 and CES, this was a channel hitting their true stride. But the good times wouldn’t last long, as Comcast does what Comcast always does: cut back to save a few bucks.

Layoffs, schedule decreases, and drops in viewership were leading things into a bad spot, and by 2011 there were talks and rumors of the channel being sold to either the UFC or WWE to be their own channel. Then in 2012, Pereira and Sessler were let go by G4, with all original programming ceasing production by the end of the year. And that’s all on top with what Comcast had planned for its channel space: replace it with something else in 2013.

Short version, that replacement never happened, it instead went to another Comcast-owned channel space, and G4 was essentially left on zombie autopilot mode while more and more cable providers cut the channel from their lineups. And on December 31, 2013, its final day of broadcast on whoever still had it in their cable package, it capped off its 11-year run with their Top 100 Video Games countdown retrospective and the 2003 “re-debut” episode of X-Play, before signing off with how the G4 channel launched in 2002: Pong.

And then it went away, left to remain in the vast mental vacuums of our collective nostalgia.

Then the word came out in July 2020 that this was going to come back. Cue up the nostalgia excitement.

So how do you restart a 2000s-era cable channel in the 2020s, and in the middle of a global pandemic and health crisis? Very slowly.

It took nearly a year and a half for the relaunch, now helmed by Comcast Spectacor (the division of Comcast who owns several Philadelphia sports teams), to kick off, and while the initial fanfare was jovial the final product handled for the network was… lacking.

Keep in mind that when G4 was in its stride in the mid-2000s the internet was a much differnet place. There weren’t 24/7 HD quality live streams and 4K quality video on demand that can be pulled up on a moment’s notice, and instant communication was limited to specific messenger clients and text forums. YouTube and Facebook were only just mere ideas and Twitch was still many years away. So what do you do in a world that has all of that, and more?

You cross the streams. But that didn’t work, either.

Newer audiences may only know of G4 for its past and weren’t there during its heyday, so they wouldn’t be interested in what a linear television channel about gaming would have to offer. And older audiences who remember those old shows would be very much interested in those shows being revived, so long as the focus is on the linear channel - it wasn’t, as their primary audience was being catered to its YouTube and Twitch livestreams, a different audience altogether.

Therein lies the major issue: trying to cater to two completely differnet audiences who don’t cross over. And in contrast to how G4 originally adapted to new media in the 2000s with the growth of podcasts and the introduction of Twitter, this stream-crossing felt like a lack of singular focus when there could have been both.

And here’s where that works: X-Play and Attack of the Show would be returning, but in very differnet forms, first as livestreams and then being aired as glorified “highlight shows” in the days following on its linear television channel, alongside other previously-streamed programs that served to fit the gaming niche audience who, by 2021, mostly migrated away from television toward other internet platforms and personalities. Simply put, nobody is going to go to a television channel first to hear about e-sports drama or a “causal Friday” Twitch stream.

Also, I’m fairly certain nobody watching television wanted to be told by Kevin Pereira that “NFT art is great, you’re all too stupid to get it” but at least he got properly roasted for it almost immediately and THAT snafu was never mentioned ever again.

Then there was the novelty and oddity of Scott the Woz being shown on G4 in the form of ten hour-long compilation episodes of some of his videos, albeit not on the best foot forward as its 6:30pm debut broadcast was upended due to an Amazon Web Service glitch and instead aired at 10:30pm that night… with a few censor bleeps missing. Again, a novelty and oddity if there ever was.

In terms of other programming on the channel, it was mostly filled with constant reruns of their first-run programs, while they did have a later G4 staple in Ninja Warrior back alongside Takeshi’s Castle and the 1980s Starcade to fulfill the needs for people watching the linear channel. One could surmise that those would be insufficient offerings, but at least there’s plenty of games coverage to be had, right?

Yeah, about that. The video game industry in 2022 is much, MUCH different than the video game industry was 15 years ago. The entire industry has been caught in a tech-crunch arms race and games riddled with constant delays, updates, and microtransactions, and coupled with the current state of E3 and Geoff Keighley’s presentations being less-than-stellar one could argue that the video game industry is in a low point at this current moment. There isn’t much excitement to be had across the board.

And then we come to the big problem with how G4 was relaunched: its main audience of 20-something males from the 2000s have moved on toward other channels and services, and a lot of those attitudes and its zeitgeist was left behind long ago. You couple all of those issues together, and you end up with a channel without any real identity.

If you’ve followed this thread this far and you know what happened with G4 in 2022, you’re wondering when I’ll mention THAT incident. So here it is.

No, Frosk did not singlehandedly kill G4 with her on-air rant. Anyone who honestly believes that one individual can tank a cable network like that is either a goddamn idiot or a sexist clown. Or maybe both, it’s certainly believable, given the reports of harassment and doxxing that happened which is NEVER okay.

Instead, Comcast does what Comcast does best: layoffs to save a buck or two. And, much like before, when coupled with record-low viewership (hovering within 1,000 average viewers per night), the writing, as they say, was on the wall. A lot of details come from an excellent writeup by Nathan Grayson of the Washington Post, digging far deeper than any of us would have ever guessed.

Appearances and stream raids paid for with five figures, virtually invisible talent relations, constant production flux, and then the final straw last month: a memo leaked to Deadline outlining the channel’s sunsetting. Except said memo wasn’t sent to talent and crew, first. So they all found out at the same time we did. In an instant, all of the work and plans the talent and crew still had for the network was gone and ignited into ash. No more X-Play. No more Attack. No new Icons. And no new Starcade.

And for a month after that, the channel has been operating on zombie autopilot mode, somehow in far worse shape than its year-long zombified state in 2013. Until now, on November 18th of the year 2022, where after 367 days G4 has, once again, shut down. The fact of the matter is, in the year 2022 going on 2023, we don’t really need G4 on television. There is a plethora of off-air recordings all over the internet of its peak era for us to go back to watch and laugh with and even cringe at, but those come from a bygone era of television that, sadly, doesn’t exist anymore and won’t be coming back.

G4 2.0 tried - goddamn it, they somehow tried - but they just couldn’t find an audience or be given enough time and resources to correct its trajectory before the plug was pulled. It could have been something greater, but in the end, all G4 and Comcast can get for this is an honor truly worthy of its disastrous run:

The Golden Mullet.

#g4 #television #longform

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