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i think the controversy is finally finished. its all okay now.

saw someone in the chuggaaconroy tag continue to try spreading misinfo but... nope, forget those negativity obsessed tarpits. the situations finished. you lost your ground to continue making fun of an autistic person. move on and grow, or continue to swim in your endless sea of anger.

good luck to both chugga and masae on their seperate journeys. ill be certain to not associate the two with each other again. they're both wonderful people who truly deserve the best and i'm cheering for both all the way.

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just read chuggaaconroy's statement... wow.

i completely forgive him.

of course he isnt 100% innocent but i see now so much of the situation was things taken horribly out of context or framed in a way to make the autistic guy look creepy and evil.

learning emile and masae were dating cleared up SOOO much of the situation. to me i never felt like masae accused emile of anything? it just seemed like... she was clarifying they werent friends. and. yeah. they broke up. thats why neither wanted to talk about it.

the lady emily part is still so full of cut context and lies im not even gonna touch it. and the lawly part was literally just.... lawly continues to make uncomfortable advances on emile and he wanted a friend but decides to cut it off because he is uncomfortable and doesn't want this. and the fact people actually called emile guilty becahse the accusers framed it with a bad headline when in all reality chuggaaconroy was the one being harassed.

i think what also sticks out to me is how chugga says he still loves his friends and thanks his fans and asks to please never send hate to the accusers and that they did what they felt they had too. he just wanted to make fun nintendo game videos with his friends, and the world treated him like this over some long ago out of context past. and despite all of that he still forgave everyone. heck looking at his statements about his time in hospitals, i feel like the one who hated and despised chuggaaconroy the most was himself. the fact he went to therapy and spent so much time in a hospital to work on himself and try to change things literally just wired into his brain from being autistic. he's gone through so much and i feel so sorry for him and his family for all they had to endure. i will pray for them all i can!

i stopped watching chugga but i think im going to start again. its clear as day to me he really is the wonderful guy everyone once thought he was, just thrown into a really bad twitter-y situation. i feel awful i ever thought of unsubscribing to him, i always procrastinated because i couldnt take it emotionally. but now? im gonna keep staying subscribed!

the chuggaaconroy statement is on his twitter and id really recommend reading it. its really made me finally decide how i feel about all of this situation.

we love and respect and appreciate chuggaaconroy on this website

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dang this year really kinda sucks we lost pokemon tv and thus most ways to watch pokemon outside of shady websites or on tv in general, chuggaaconroy gets cancelled or whatever and goes on hiatus (happy birthday to him btw!), rooster teeth gets shut down, matpat quits, and we lose the 3ds/wii u online

and we dont even get a nintendo direct. all that and all we get is a really bad partners showcase. what the heeeck. come on nintendo now would be a great time to distract everyone from the online shut down by announcing a direct come onnnnnn pretty pleaseeeeeeeeeee

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i find it kinda interesting to look into why nintendos taken down fangames and i couldnt help but notice the few fangames taken down really fall into two categories

-monetized in some way. you have to pay for them, they have a kickstarter, or they're on a website with purchases, such as roblox

-they are a pokemon fangame

and. with that. i cant help but realize "huh most of this is actually the pokemon company making nintendo do it huh"

meanwhile theres so many games that dont fit into this category that are alive and well. super mario bros x 1 and 2, super smash flash 1 and 2, super smash bros crusade, a lot of kirby and fire emblem fan games that have never faced any sort of issues like this

did you know OSU is a nintendo fangame? its a fangame of osu tatakae ouendan, a REALLYYY good and underrated rhythm game. it was localized as an entirely different sequel game, elite beat agents, and then japan got osu tatakae ouendan 2 which is the peak of the series. super SUPERR good ds games id highly recommend

idk, when nintendo is actively making indie directs to hype up indie devs and making games like super mario maker, maker 2, game builder garage, warioware diy, and whatnot, i have a hard time believing this is malicious

heck, toby fox literally started out making earthbound rom hacks. then he made a game inspired by earthbound and gave it a bunch of extra content in the switch port. then he made its sequel avaliable on switch before all other consoles. and now he gets to help make pokemon.

who knew making games out of love for nintendo rather than spite would be a great thing (sarcasm)

it kinda feels more like "dont use our ocs to make money, use your own". and like. yeah i dont think anyone here would want someone else using their ocs to make money. i kinda get it actually. and when most of the anger at nintendo comes from twitter or twitter users who moved to this site.... yeahhh nintendos awesome sorry

plus its not like sega pretending they love fan games because they know theyre beat by them, id Never wanna play a mario fan game over the real deal lol. sorry sega ily

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no ill intent meant towards any of these games but a type of video game i always hate is "this is exactly like a game that already exists why would i spend money on it when i can just play the game i know and love instead"

"hey have you heard of palworld?? its like pokemon" thats nice. i dont like spending money though im just going to play pokemon instead 👍

"you heard of nicktoon all stars brawl? dang that games just like smash bros!" it sure is! anyways im gonna play smash bros instead! 👍

"have you played a hat in time? its Soo much like 3d mario" i actually did buy this game and honestly the entire time i just wished i was playing 3d mario instead. what was the point of this when 3d mario is right there. i wish i could refund it.

"you should try pizza tower! its just like wario land!" it doesnt even have wario in it! im good! thanks though!

"that unicorn overlord game sure is like fire e-" WHY WOULD I SPEND MONEY ON THIS WHEN I CAN JUST PLAY FIRE EMBLEM

i mean im not saying "oh get these bootlegs outta here!!" i just dont see the point more or less. video games are expensive and precious why would i want to buy a buncha games that are kinda like a series i love when i can just play the series i love

idk i feel like a lot of devs these days kinda try too hard to be a series they arent instead of making their own unique things. its good to take inspiration but so many games feel like theyre trying to replace or rival another series and its boring actually

i also think if a game is so obsessed with trying to be another series, it ends up being really bad because all it ends up doing is loosely echoing the originals gameplay and nothing else. it doesnt have the passion and heart that made the original so special, nor does it try to have its own unique world and characters. think of the hundreds of indie games desperately trying to be the next earthbound. theyre all so obsessed with trying to be earthbound they dont get what made earthbound so special was its own original fun ideas

shout out to undertale though. undertale does it right. like yeah its clearly inspired by earthbound but it does its own thing and has its own gameplay and world and characters and feels completely different. undertale is the right way to make these kinds of games

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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

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theres no such thing at failing at life. life is full of endless possibilities and styles of living and doing what you want to do. there are countless ways to be alive and your worth is not determined by work or some other random buncha stuff. you live to be you. you owe nothing to the forced social contructs of people who constantly expect you to fit into a mold or teachers who try to demand we surrender our uniqueness or work taking our time and soul and energy. life cannot be described in such small pointless things. we live to live.

unless you're one of those twitter/tiktok dudes who spends every waking moment getting angry about the graphics of pokemon games and gaslighting themselves into thinking they're bad games. then youve definitely failed at life. please find a different hobby. everyone else is great though

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pokemon is a wonderful fun series that is for the girls the gays and autistic people but its explosion in popularity has unfortunately chained it to a constantly unpleasably angry void of twitter users who obsessively praise graphics and performance as the only meaningful parts of a video game and have lost their concept of fun because they view games as nothing more than a product and form of content rather than passion works of art that can tell stories while also being fun

they cling desperately to an idea that pokemon games got bad when in all reality the series constantly improves on itself and continues to be incredibly fun and tell great stories with wonderful pokemon. however, enraged critics absorbed by nostalgia or an obsession with framerates will stoop low enough to the point of telling lies about the game in a desperate attempt to make everyone feel as miserable as they are

the cycle is a continous exhausting void that will really never be fixed so long as people think critics matter (they dont) or angry people on twitter continue to think graphics matter above all else (they dont)

pokemon is a fantastic and wonderful series that unfortunately falls into the eyes of the wrong audience that continues to complain about it being something it isnt. they demand it to look like xenoblade, but insist on playing a game that isnt made by monolith soft. they complain about bipedal designs, but then play a gamr that has always had those as a major focus. they complain about cutscenes, but then play a jrpg. the fanbases foolish complaints are like being mad about a mario game having jumping in it

in the end i always just wonder the same question

why do people try so hard to stop themselves from having fun

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you know what sucks so much about the whole gta6 could be 150 dollars thing

thats already being normalized

the final fantasy 7 remake is $200. it is released in three seperate purchases- ff7 remake for $60, ff7 rebirth for $70, and the upcoming third part most likely for at least $70

it's already been normalized. everyone was so against gta6 being that pricy but then square enix shows up and pretends to be all fancy releasing a game in three """"chapters"""" and everyone falls for it in an instant.

sucks too square is starting to use ai art in video games with foamstars. so like. ai art using company is selling games for $200 and people are literally praising and adoring said company. disgusting.

anyways why would you pay $200 for some remake of final fantasy 7 when a way better jrpg paper mario: the thousand year door is getting a remake this year in one release for $60 go buy that instead. literally well below half the price, one purchase, only 5gb, way better game in general, square sucks lol

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capcom makes me so sad because they have so many good series and so many good ideas. theyre like the one company that in terms of several beloved recognizable ips i think could actually compare to nintendo (companies like sega usually go all in on 1 or 2 series and companies like sony are too obsessed with hyper realism to have recognizable characters that dont look like regular dudes. capcom has a big line up though that actually could be compared to nintendo's roster of beloved awesome series)

they've got mega man and all his spin offs, ace attorney, okami, darkstalkers, viewtiful joe, devil may cry

but instead of doing anything with that they just focus their entire staff and production on making like. 20 monster hunter games. with obligatory hyper realistic art styles and really slow and clunky gameplay. and then maybe they'll make a street fighter game every now and then. and that is it

so much potential just wasted and it sucks. they could be something special but instead "nooo we need more hyper realistic game where hyper realistic man with big sword slowly hits hyper realistic dinosaur" W h y

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rather nice updates on the chuggaaconroy situation

ive thought about this thing. a lot. literally so much. chugga and trg are the only (formerly) consistently uploading youtubers i actually love watching. most gaming youtubers are just too angry or negative for me to get into. so i've been really bummed honestly. i have stopped watching chuggaaconroy and trg completely since january

but i've gotta say..

the fact that chuggaaconroy is taking therapy and fixing himself seriously, and has been doing this since before being called out, and the main allegation being from 2009.. i'm going to be completely honest. while i will never defend what he did, i am fully willing to forgive him.

many youtubers just post a short apology and go right back to making content and never change. but chuggaaconroy is seriously taking this to heart. he is clearly trying to change for the better and i really respect that

that, combined with all the good he's done for the gaming community in the past and how much happiness he's brought others.. i can't stay mad at him. he screwed up but like. humanity is all about changing and growing, making mistakes and then fixing yourself afterward. and the updates from nintendocaprisun really show he's taking this seriously.

i mean.. if i'm not mistaken what is calling out if not exposing the bad deeds of one and then making them change? i dunno, i just can't get throwing someone away entirely for some mistakes they regret. that sounds cruel.

and i don't think i'm alone, actually. the trg reddit and youtube comments were initially extremely angry and disappointed in emile.. but checking them again, they're now actually full of support, after tim's updates. people saying they overreacted, people wishing him well in therapy, youtubers he was friends with expressing support and saying they're still friends, people saying they miss him.

the situation was awful because it blew up everywhere and so many people hopped on. clout chasers trying to profit off drama, ableists using it as a ticket to bully autistic people, undying defenders claiming emile did nothing wrong, it was a horrible mess and such an awful time to be online.

but now that it's in the past and we get to hear actual fans and geniune peoples opinons, i think things are really leaning towards the better and more positive.

i don't defend chuggaaconroy, i am disgusted by what he did, but i will absolutely forgive him because he's geniunely working on himself and i believe forgiving regreted mistakes is the most human thing i can do, so long as he never does anything like this again.

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video game news on the internet will be like "sony has raised the price of the ps5 from $400 to $450 dollars, and is charging $70 for every game they make. square enix wants to push ai art in video games, and is selling a remake of final fantasy 7 for $200, splitting it into three seperate purchases of $60, $70, and $70 again. microsoft layed off like, every employee, for some reason."

and then there will be an article thats like "nintendo told the super mario bros wonder devs to take their time and gave them full creative freedom. also they removed gender from animal crossing and made everyone in fire emblem engage bisexual. they've also been holding presentations to boost indie devs games lately! oh and miyamoto had a tuna sandwich at subway earlier"

and then tumblr, twitter, and every social media is like "a tuna sandwich? instead of a meatball sub? i knew it, nintendo is despicable and evil. this is all part of their plan to suck the souls of humanity. they're evil!!! evil i tell you!!!!" and say absolutely nothing about the other companies letting all these things become extremely normalized