#screwattack

[drowzeeking]

I can't begin to describe how much this blows...

I really hate Warner Bros. Discovery...

[warwaited]

@screwattack

The bounty hunter doesn't sit just yet, and Rakatak can hardly blame her. To be not only recognized but hailed in a place like this could spell danger just as easily as welcome, and free drinks aren't much of a sweetener for a lady who could probably get just the same if she clunked into a watering hole in her signature armour. One of her men raises a brow in return, but she puts a hand in front of him.

"Mind your manners, Kurakor. She has little reason to trust us... very well." The despot-to-be stands from the table herself, revealing her own garb to be rather more ostentatious than what Samus is wearing. If there were any question of her status as a pirate, it would be quickly dispelled by the fact that she's wearing a sword. And a pistol, granted - it looks to be some kind of ion blaster. Likely single-shot, since there's little room on the frame for a power cell large enough for the discharge those arms require, but there it is.

"You address Rakatak First-Among-All, Grand Admiral... and you, the knave of axe and gun, must be looking for work, else you would be in friendlier skies than this. Do I presume baselessly?"

[kururuk0]

Finding out that Stuttering Craig from ScrewAttack is a right wing grifter is really disappointing, but also not surprising.

[aftermathdb]

To the people who are worried about what's going on with RoosterTeeth:

I get it. Don't worry, between the memberships, the sponsorships, and the superchats, Death Battle might be able to go independent and be separate from RT. We just have to be patient with updates regarding the show.

To the people who are worried that this will mean you won't get your favorite matchup: Please have some tact. I know it sucks that your most wanted might not happen, but please remember that these are real people being affected here, not some faceless robots.

[retrokid616]

SAVE DEATH BATTLE

and they just got over 100k

still give what you can

[mechasonicsuperfan]

DEATH BATTLE - Alma Wade Vs. William Afton (F.E.A.R. Vs. Five Nights At Freddy's)

[yarnfactory]

Hello Internet..., Welcome to Game Theory!

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20130520231532/http://www.screwattack.com/shows/partners/game-theory

[thefloatingstone]

Always so bizarre to be someone who doesn't care about Nintendo because they never bothered to have a presence in my country so I have no nostalgia for them nor do I have easy access to their new content either.

[allegedscreenlooker]

Late in 2014, Rooster Teeth was acquired by Fullscreen. Between that and the rapid expansion of projects, it was getting tough to remember everything we did. In early 2015, I put together this “family tree” to help the fans keep track of it all.

[warwaited]

an intergalactic bounty hunter & a warmongering space pirate walk into a bar,

“And there! Did I not say that this is where we would find her? Fools to the last, doubting me as you do.” The laugh that follows calls into question the seriousness of the insult, and across the low-lit floor of the not-quite-upscale establishment, a powerfully built, toothily grinning woman with brick red skin and almost luminous yellow eyes beckons for the bounty hunter to come closer, the similarly hued lackeys to her left and right suitably cowed by her admonition.

“Samus Aran, the great and terrible. I have awaited you - please, come. Sit. I have already informed the bar that your drinks tonight are covered by the Imperial Navy.”

[kururuk0]

POV: You're a Top 10 host for ScrewAttack

[death-rebirth-senshi]

"But Dante and Vergil play swords really fast in the rain" don't care

[mickmeasley]

Homestar Runner just released a toon to commemorate its 25th anniversary of existing as a website.

Let that sink in.

25 years.

Its especially crazy when you realize just how few websites from that era made it out of the 2000s, let alone 2010s, and how much any new website struggles to stay alive today.

As for the cartoon itself, while Homestar Runner really isn't that funny to me anymore, and this cartoon wasn't an exception, watching this gave me a very odd, eerie, hard to articulate feeling.

so let me try to articulate,

i was 13 when i first watched Homestarrunner, and by that time the site was already 16 years old, already a barely relevant, barely alive relic of a bygone era of internet culture that I wasn't even around to see. Not that it mattered to me, as an autistic teenager whos interests were already frequently and completely out of touch with what was relevant to anyone my age. i watched pretty much every toon they ever made, every last sbemail.

I even remember my doomed attempt to make my own Homestar Runner style series, with a pirated copy of flash, crude html skills, and a dream, wondering why I was the only one to pick up the slack on this utterly unique sub-medium of animation.

I'm 21 now, and Homestar Runner now doesn't even just feel old, it feels like something from an entirely different reality, as if my memories of it are totally fake and if I actually look back I'll find out that there was never such a thing as Homestar Runner.

Its probably responsible for influencing much of the shape of internet culture and indie animation, but I can only say "probably". Nothing really links back to it in any tangible sense, you can't trace a lineage of inspiration of any current webseries back to it, and a big part of that is probably due to its format. It primarily existed on its own dedicated website, instead of youtube, or newgrounds, or any pre-youtube video site like gametrailers or screwattack. and on top of that, its production value was more polished than any other flash animation or webseries of its time, and yet its scope and approach to the design of its characters and "world" was ruthlessly efficient and minimalistic.

Where a lot of indie projects aim for big concepts and big style, trying to ape TV animation/anime, Homestar Runner aimed to be very small and quick, with characters somehow less animated than the average stick figure and sharing more of its comedic/narrative DNA with the average weekly comic strip than what most indie animation was trying to be (when it wasn't doing swearing mario parodies). It was a universe barely bigger than your average Garry's Mod TTT map, only as rich and expansive as its most one-off joke. That extreme approach to being the minimum viable product with an above-average quality and consistency gave it a significant edge over most online animation of the time, allowing an (almost) weekly format for its most defining period of relevance.

And all of that is not even getting into how it made the most of being a flash web application with its interactivity. Every single menu on the site, even the plain text buttons under the main window, was a flash element. Every single page jam-packed with interactive animation with a unique skeumorphic approach to menus that puts even the most kitschy, lively DVD menu to shame, and to this day is a breath of fresh air from overly rounded-off and soullessly minimalistic web design of today. And if you clicked on the right nooks, crannies, and lines of text strong bad somehow typed out with his begloved hands, you got a pop-up easter egg or even a little extra bit of cartoon to reward you.

Somehow, none of its approaches to format, or interactivity, or web design ever caught on. It was undeniably a product of its time, of course, the idea of entirely flash websites were an extremely awkward peach-fuzz era between web 1.0 and the integration of javascript and dynamic web elements, but theres a strange, dare I say liminal charm to that. And I can't really humor the idea that its ever going to come back.

Sure, we have the rise of "Old Internet Aesthetics", with people making plain html websites with neocities to try and stroke some hauntological intrigue boner and wax wistful about the lost, wild west era of the internet buried by time, but it remains to be seen whether or not thats ever going to manage to become more than a neat little novelty art project that people eventually abandon because it's so outmoded in its ability to generate clout/dopamine by the digital megacities of Xitter and uhh.. Instagram i guess? And of course, the era of flash websites is hardly as resolute an aesthetic as the web 1.0 html site, so its been completely passed over and will likely see its day in the sun, and neither will the pioneering format of homestar runner unless the entire structure of internet culture bends over backwards.

Its the first and last of its kind, a format never tried before or since, a successful and wildly ahead-of-its-time but nonetheless shelved experiment forever gathering dust, like the laserdisc, or one of those strangely designed pre-apple cellphones, a window into what the internet was, and could have been before the iphone came along and derailed everything.

Its an eerie, abstract kind of feeling.

[doom-nerdo-666]

Anyway, might as well write my thoughts on the Death Battle episode:

First thing first: They did not mention whether or not the first video inspired the new Doom games, which is the one reason to make this episode to begin with.

In fact, they didn't even treat this like it was round 2.

They used Doom RPG related footage but don't bring them up as sources to the concept of Doomguy being related to BJ.

Or Wolf 3D Strategy Guide as the source of BJ and Keen being related.

Lots of Doom "loretubers" are guilty of this because Doom lore is taken seriously but only with the new games while info about the classics is based on second hand hearings and shit like that.

"But Doom story was never taken seriously back then" if you're gonna lore analyze Doom, go all the way in.

D3 didn't need to be mentioned because it's a seperate timeline with a different guy, but they did use the logo at some point.

The texts mention both Unmaker and Unmaykr as seperate things but the footage and Boomstick's talking makes it seem like they're the same.

They did the usual bit of mentioning weapons and items that the character won't use at all.

Because a funny item to use is the 2016 Hologram since an upgrade makes it actually hurt demons.

Regeneration? You mean the 2016 MP power up? Might as well give him the Kinetic Mines or Wall Shield too.

Fuck it, give him the Soul Cube, the Artifact, the Grabber, the Holy Water Pistol. Go MetaDoom to the extreme.

Again, bringing up outrunning rockets when that was a game bug GZDoom sort of fixed.

Don't think they brought up how Chief has a 2 weapon limit or has to reload, did they?

Cortana hacking VEGA is kinda funny because modern Doom is the same series that made cybernetic demons as UAC creations and then there's Immora and all.

It goes back to what i said about how they could always make hell weirder and stranger

"Who brings a chainsaw to a gun fight?" What's with this type of dialogue? How will this get anyone immersed?

Also i admittedly watch DB anymore but what's with the BrickleBerry style animation?

You'd think a show about "who would win in a fight" would make its original characters look like the same cool comics or manga they talk about. Something a bit more "idolized". Then again, they do put characters from fucking Gravity Falls because i guess that "goes hard" more than a Heavy Metal comic.

Since after the first DB video, Doom got a reboot that empowered Doomguy while Halo fell from grace… what if the opposite happens this time around?

Also, when are they going to do Doom's Hell vs another videogame army?

I can see them mix up demons where they'd have a DE Arch-vile borrow mechanics from the classic one or mix up both modern possessed soldiers and the classic gun wielding Zombiemen.

But anyway, after 14 or so years, Doom fans finally got their revenge.

But remember, the first video is probably why the new games exist.

So make sure to thank ScrewAttack (Or just Death Battle) for the new Doom games.

Edit: might also add.

Doomguy's Microwave beam avoid Chief like it was a Lightning Gun for some reason.

And they make a bit of a joke about the Halo show ("Chief hates Paramount plus") but still acknowledged 343 in general lol.

[mechasonicsuperfan]

DEATH BATTLE - Link VS The Luminary/The Hero (The Legend Of Zelda VS Dragon Quest) "Legendary"

[plottwiststudios]

Fun fact! Did you know ScrewAttack , a while back, used my music without credit, getting permission, or of course, compensation? When I emailed them about credit, they didn't respond at all? Which, what a fitting theme for my life.

Timestamped Uncredited Music:

My original upload:

I really do need a reality where what I create and give isn't just A) Disproportionately ignored and B) taken without asking.