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[luminouslumity]

Mario & Luigi Brothership | The Return of the Kings

[lorekeeper-backset]

I was rewatching AntDude's Return to Dream Land Deluxe video and he talked about how Sand wasn't the 69th ability, it was the 68th and I went "Wait, so then what was the 69th?" because I forgot that 69 comes after 68.

For those who don't know, I have dyscalculia and I don't know if forgetting which numbers come after which numbers is a symptom but if it is then my dyscalculia is really showing.

[sorio99]

Okay, who had “Nintendo YouTuber AntDude directly referencing H.BomberGuy” on their 2023 bingo?

[wombocombo4x3]

The Rabbids Series Drives Me Insane | How Rabbits Killed Rayman

[aestheticreservoire]

Spin the watching a female YouTuber roulette

- makes an edgy joke and immediately apologises

- pandering (hating on jk Rowling, talking about Palestine, “this video includes trans women!”, white guilt, cause du jour mentioned)

- the one nerdy video without immediate pandering is a TiF, and halfway through there’s a tangent about her gender feels

- it’s not even a woman but some programmer socks incel retard baiting you

[autisticlio]

Saberspark and Antdude are the kinda YouTubers where their only crime is annoying me too much.

[luminouslumity]

The (almost) COMPLETE Mario & Luigi Retrospective | The Bros' Wackiest A...

So, with the announcement of a new M&L game, I thought I'd share this! Enjoy!

[fabysaturn]

🌈🎨 PFP Gift Art! 🌈🖌️

Profile picture gifts for these wonderful individuals:

Andrés Guerrero

Otterboy VA

AntDude

Michael Kovach

[brambleghastblast]

i think a depressing truth of the internet ill always hate is that negativity is what leads to success

negativity, in forms of content creation, leads to comments of people arguing or saying "but i like that thing". comments lead to the algorithms of social media boosting said piece of comic. algorithm favoring your stuff leads to more views. views get you money

often times, i think most youtubers and tiktokers and people on twitter and whatnot actually force themselves to be negative out of necessity. because its the quickest and easiest way to get a post out there. and its really become a norm in social media thats made the internet suffocatingly bad lately

like.. take pokemon for example, youtubers and tiktokers and twitter users such talking about pokemon will complain to no end about graphics, taking the worst possible screenshots they can get or setting up elaborate glitches so they can take a picture, put it next to another game with the prettiest picture they can get, and then go "WOW CAN U BELIEVE GAMEFREAK MAKES STUFF LIKE THIS" which then starts arguments and spreads like a wildfire because people are pointing out "wow you really took the worst picture you could huh" but then random people desperate to argue go "UHHH GAMEFREAKS NOT GONNA MARRY U DUDE LOL" blah blah blah

or take some specific youtubers for instance, like videogamedunkey is a critic who usually lies about video games he dislikes, makes up stuff or complains about really little stuff, or tries to get glitches to happen to pretend the whole games like that. a reallyyy scummy youtuber but thats literally what he has to do to make money and that sucks! or like... alpharad whos kind of just an obnoxious jerk all the time and thats how he gets his attention because being a jerk gets you comments and comments get you views etc etc

the youtube channel gamexplain got exposed for not paying employees and fell off HARD.. but they made a full recovery and comeback. they used to post informative nintendo and other games news, but lately theyve just been posting negative memes or complaining about really little things or posting negative news with a clickbait title. like.. nintendos doing some reconstruction at their headquarters. so gamexplain posts this

its... just reconstruction. but the big letters, the sad mario, it looks Worrying and causes clicks and comments. its literally just reconstruction. but oh wow with a thumbnail like this they can fearmonger and milk it

it stinks too because generally positive youtubers are... Rare. most positive youtubers fall really hard and barely get any views compared to the big bad youtubers out there, cause theres not a ton to comment on without negativity. and thats so.. sad. (bumping a youtuber i love a lot here; nekolacey is a really great and positive pokemon youtuber and i love her videos!!! but her videos dont really get a lot of views compared to other channels which i find so sad. shes awesome!!)

i think the only generally positive gaming youtuber i know of who actually had a big following was chuggaaconroy, and he was making videos on youtube for MANY MANYYY years to even just get 1 million subscribers.

and then he got cancelled because of... uh... a chatlog from 2009. and... uh...... some out of context discord messages from some youtuber whos been known to falsely accuse autistic people to get allegations on them. and.... apparently some randos named antdude and missfushigaming made up allegations to get some clout but they got proved false... uhh... and also chuggaaconroy went to therapy, apologized a ton, asked everyone to please not harass the accusers, and has been deeply working for years to work on himself because he did have a geniune falling out with masaeanela over him not following set boundaries.

but.... yeahhhh its. uh. when you point out "wow did anything bad happen beyond a falling out with masaeanela" you're kind of just quickly hushed by a bunch of random people and to accept it and quit. they can't afford for that positivity to change the way things are, they need negativity to thrive.

its.. the internet trying its hardest to push down one positive creator who made it so they can hype up a dozen negative ones.

i think the internet has always awarded negativity but it was never really bad. like.. many youtubers back in the day would make top 10s, listing something like "zelda bosses" or "gen 4 pokemon". these were great because they got to gush about something they like, BUT they'd get comments and arguments because of things like "well i would've put ths boss over that boss" or "why isnt crobat on this list!". it worked great because they got clout from comments, but they weren't being actively negative

or, talking about an internet show i LOVE, death battle! this is a fun show where they take two fictional characters and make them fight! and they research to see who wins and have really great animation!

it thrived because not only is it super good, but it causes arguments. most viewers dont care about the real reasoning and numbers, they just want their prefered character to win. so if there preference loses, even if its right, they will get mad and argue, causing comments which cause views which causes success.

unfortunately, the positive ways to get comments just... hardly last. its sad but in the modern internet, being mad and angry is literally how you succeed. its near impossible to make it online if you arent angry or doing stuff to upset people.

it sucks. so much.

and it sucks even more because people trying to make a living on the internet Have to be negative. thats how they make a living. they literally have to complain to make money and survive and it sucks!! so much!!!!!!!!!

i think overall success on the internet always depended on causing arguments and negativity, but its really become suffocating in recent time. everyone tries so hard to be mad they've geniunely become mad. positivity is rare and out of style, negativity is what everyone wants. its.... so....... miserable honestly

[cory-the-hedgehog]

Was rewatching some Antdude videos and got reminded of these goofy lil sonic rom hacks and wanted to draw em

(If you want the separate PNGS check out the post on my newgrounds)

[strawberry-s0ap]

For the ask game:

39 - youtuber you’ve been obsessed with and why?

i've been watching a lot of choctopus and antdude lately! i've watched them both for a while, and i really like both of their content. i've just moved away and started college so while so many things in my life are changing, i really like their simple, nostalgic content, it's really comforting <3

[colinlegameboy]

Yammering About Pumpkin Jack

A while back, AntDude put out a video about Nintendo Switch Eshop hidden gems. One of the games shown was Pumpkin Jack. Among a few others shown, I decided to pick it up, and only recently got around to playing it.

Pumpkin Jack is the kind of action game you'd expect to find buried in your PS2 collection- Platforming elements, several weapons/fighting styles a la Devil May Cry, and simple level based structure with different costumes being your reward for finding collectibles. If this was the vibe the dev was going for, I'd say they nailed it.

The writing is really good too- The story is that you are actually playing the bad guy, but he and his little crow companion are so well written that you are endeared to them despite their goal of "dooming the world". The antagonist, the wizard, is also well written- One of those "does bad shit in the name of good" types. Not a good person, but all the good guys have that can stop Jack.

The action itself is fun, if not slightly clunky. I think I'm just used to the fluidity of Kingdom Hearts, where I can button mash and then quickly get out of the way of or block oncoming attacks when necessary. Jack unfortunately can't do that- If you button mash, you commit to your attacks and can't move out of the way of oncoming ones unless the weapon you're using allows movement during it.

There's another odd thing. Despite there being your basic 1-2-3 combo system, the game... Remembers how many times you've attacked? If you do the 1-2 part of a weapon's combo, wait a few seconds, and then hit the attack button again, it will still go into the weapon's finisher. Not... Sure how I feel about this.

In the end, I favored the shotgun weapon. Getting up close and personal with the enemies was a recipe for disaster with how I was playing, so having some distance was welcome.

The game was overall fun! I uh... Just wish the fight against Santa (yes you fight Santa, you are a villain, after all) didn't play out like it did. You have to launch different shaped presents into magical holes that pop up in those shapes. But, if you didn't do it in time, the boss's health would go back up. So it was a mad dash to launch these things, and because of iffy physics, I would constantly launch the things in the wrong direction. The second, harder version of this fight took way longer than it should have.

Definitely recommend the game if you're into this sort of thing.