TD 2023 Review: The Final Chapter
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Episode 9: I ain't gonna lie from the way they structured this episode in the beginning. I already knew Caleb was winning immunity.
Funny screenshot I grabbed ^.
I started off this season liking Mkulia because I saw it as an alliance between two equals. But ever since the cheating plotline, they've only ever used MK as a punching bag. And then the cherry on top is Julia eliminating her for a second time.
Left a sour taste in my mouth tbh. And I can believe the hockey bros were dumb enough to vote her off. But you're telling me that Julia somehow convinced Priya and Damien that MK is the bigger threat between the two? She literally told you guys she eliminated Nichelle. But consistency be damned I guess.
Episode 10: I kinda wish the memory game was more about remembering events that happened through the season and less press a button on a ipad.
This julia vs damien rivalry is cooking. It's about time Julia faced some opposition in this competition.
A bit ironic considering they're athletes but I don't think Wayne and Raj have done well in a single competition this season.
Priya admitting she knows Julia is manipulative and then proceeding to get manipulated by Julia. ://////////
Me going into the elimination scene: Oh so the praleb drama is resolved! Priya or Caleb is going home right?
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WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN DAMIEN GOT ELIMINATED? WHAT THE FUCK???
Ok Julia shared her immunity with Caleb. Vote off Priya? She won last season??? It's not that hard???
"Sorry bro we can't vote off Priya because she's in love with Caleb" WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT LOGIC? That's exactly why you should vote her off!
Damien running around the island looking for his idol and then getting dragged away screaming is legitimately pitiful to watch.
This season loves giving ppl undignified exits but this was the worst one of all.
I want to add on that I knew there was a very low chance Damien was gonna win given how his arc was structured. But this elim was bullshit, should've been Priya.
Episode 11:
Starting off the episode with the hockey bros saying they miss Damien is lame. Ya'll never interacted and you voted him off. Fuck off.
Julia starting an off screen alliance with Caleb is lame. I don't want to hear the excuse "They can only fit so much into 22 minutes." They did perfectly fine in S1? Why the steep downgrade in quality?
We finally get a non gen 1 cameo and it's fucking McArthur. God I hate this season.
This is the worst challenge of the season. This is the third time ya'll have done run around and be chased by animals challenge. At least nobody is farting this time around.
Maturing is realizing Raj was never gonna get a character arc and he's only here to be comedic relief. Sigh..
Julia being a challenge beast doesn't feel as fun as it did in S1. Probably because she's casually steamrolling the game rn.
They waited way too long to boot off one of the hockey bros. We literally only have two episodes left. How are they gonna be able to make wayne idependent and stand out on his own?
Episode 12:
Why is Julia so insistent on gaining Wayne's vote when she has the immunity idol?
Caleb really is whatever the plot demands him to be. He spent the first half of the season being a wannabe f boy. Now he wants to act all sweet n shit and say he don't wanna lie on Total Drama. Like please get the fuck out of here. Not even Millie was this annoying. Steroid ass freak.
Maybe it's the inner fanfic writer inside of me. But imagine if Damien was in this fear challenge and his final fear to overcome was Scary Girl. Would've been peak imo.
They're really giving Wayne a last minute character arc about learning how to be himself without Raj around.
Tennis Rivals cameo? Isn't RR supposed to be an in universe spinoff? Why are there more RR references than like Revenge or Pahkitew? Are those seasons getting swept under the rug?
They really tried to make this elimination suspenseful when we already know Julia has the idol.
I still like Priya overall. But i'd be lying if I said Season 2 makes it hard to do so. Besides a few mentions from Chris, her being a canonical winner has no effect on the story. Her storyline is a near identical repeat of last season but worse. Just change the genre from friendship to romance. And replace Millie with Caleb. It naturally ended in episode 10 but the writers wanted to stretch this shit as long as humanely possible so here's more problems for the two to overcome. I could go on and on but to sum it up, priya x caleb is ass.
The Finale:
Hmm. Who should I root for?
The guy who just became relevant last episode?
Generic romance plotline guy?
Overpowered villainess?
I like Julia the most out of these three. But a complete Julia steamroll would be mid. Like if she won S1, I'd be cool with that. Because she fought tooth and nail to get into the final 4.
First boot to winner is a neat idea but I don't want it wasted on a bad character like Caleb.
Wayne exists.
Wait so Ripaxel is still together? Why was she so distant towards him in their elimination episode? So Ripper legitimately quit for no reason then? And didn't Chris say last season if you quit then you owe him a million bucks? Is that never coming back up?
Say it with me everyone, "This season is ass!"
Team Caleb not giving a shit about him is so real.
Why is Julia surprised that only MK wants to be on her team?
I don't know how many of you have seen it. But there's this fanmade show called Disventure Camp. And the finale challenge for that show is almost identical to this one. Not accusing anyone of copyright.
I just thought it was interesting to point out.
Considering Chase's pizza obsession that got him eliminated in season one. Shouldn't he have been the one to go back for pizza? This season can't even remember the minor details.
I thought they were gonna do bald julia for a second lol. Mullet Julia looks cool though.
Wayne won. My honest reaction: :/
I can't be the only person who thinks it's sus that Terry McGurrin. The white straight ally who likes hockey. Wrote the final episode where the white straight ally who likes hockey wins. :/
People have been comparing his win to TDI Owen.
Owen was a goofball but at least he had a S Tier social game and interacted with loads of ppl (cody, gwen, trent, heather, duncan, izzy, noah)
And he was decent at the challenges. (dodgeball challenge, eating challenge)
Wayne sucked in every challenge and only talked to Raj and sometimes Julia.
Honestly might be the 2nd worst winner this series has ever had. Mike still holds the crown for worst winner.
If they really wanted an underdog finalist they should've went with Damien. He was an underdog and actually did shit in the game. And they built a rivalry for him and Julia. Only to throw it away immediately.
Kinda wish these were the two pairings instead of Ripaxel and Praleb.
I know they teased a S3. But if it's the same level of quality as S2, I don't want it.
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Ridonculous Race
Taking a break from the Island Runs to to RR!! Also just as Pokemon, since there are SO many teams. Under the cut
Starting with
THE GOTHS: Crimson & Ennui are both Meowstics, since they're the most in-sync with each other and the most supportive toward each other in the entire series. Thus, a Meowstic Set makes sense since Psychic types can learn Dark type moves, and Meowstic has seen and survived the horrors.
Bonus, their Bunny Loki would be a Bunnelby
THE ICE DANCERS: Josee would be a Weavile, graceful but scheming, while her partner Jacques would be a Gallade; also graceful, while more well-meaning, loyal to a fault.
THE BESTIES: Devin would be a Slowbro because he is useful but man is this man dumb how tf did he never notice Carrie liking him like c'mon bro its OBVIOUS. Carrie is a Goomy as I think she means well, but she came off as a little clingy.
THE SURFERS: Geoff makes his return, and he is a Surfing Pikachu still, joined by his surfer friend Brody, who is an Alolan Raichu. Again, both of them are pretty chill and pick on vibes easily enough, but can get caught up in their own egos from time to time.
THE POLICE CADETS: Sanders is a Growlithe and MacArthur I made a Herdier as Sanders seems to be thoughtful and figure things out, While MacArthur is very loud and charges ahead without thinking things through all the time. By the time things wrap, they would both evolve into their final evolutions, to showcase their growth.
THE DATERS/THE HATERS: Stephanie and Ryan are pretty much constantly arguing and breaking up/making up, plus are self-proclaimed gym rats, so I made them Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee; constant rivals, working out, working well together but also easily becoming each others enemies, like they do in the show.
THE TENNIS PROS: I made Pete a Gumshoos and Gerry a Crabrawler. Honestly, I just picked pokemon that looked like old men for them, since that was their schtick.
THE SISTERS: These two took a while, since I wanted a related set of Pokemon. I eventually settled on making Emma a Gardevoir and Kitty a Kirlia, as both girls are reported to be smart but can get overwhelmed by emotion
FATHER AND SON: I couldn't figure out what to do with Dwayne for the longest time, until I settled on Delibird, because although it is cute, it could be considered a little goofy, dorky and older. It is why I made Jr a Shinx; younger pokemon, but a completely opposite type, to explain his disconnection with his father at times.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: Since they were clearly Kardashian parodies, I had to go for wealthy, fancy pokemon. They are also the least adept, so I went with Normal types for them. I made Kelly a Cinccino and Taylor a Delcatty.
THE FASHION BLOGGERS: I made them similar types or similar looking types of Pokemon, that had a lot to do with Fashion. Jen I made a Leavanny, which is noted to make its own clothes and the judgement of the middle evolution never left them. Tom I made a Lurantis, to differ him a bit but also keep him stylish.
THE GENIUSES: Obviously, both are psychic types. Ellody I made an Indeedee due to the tireless amount of work she puts into everything, and I made Mary a Farigiraf, as clearly the TD team design wanted her to be weird, but she's actually pretty cool; she's also more willing to adapt to other things, unlike her partner.
THE VEGANS: I made Laurie a Bayleef, as she seemed ready to throw down, especially after the food challenge and Bayleef is noted to kind of give of a vibe of aggression while being a plant pokemon. Miles I made a Lilligant, as once again another plant pokemon, whose performance can be quickly outstripped by others.
THE LARPers: Wow another one joke team. Anyways, to kind of match the vibes, I made Leonard a Medicham and Tammy and Escavalier. They were there so briefly, it was hard to think what others would fit.
THE ADVERSITY TWINS: I made Mickey a Feebas and Jay a Magikarp, as both ugly fish are portrayed as going through adversity and once they evolve, they do become better at surviving everything.
THE REALITY TV PROS: Owen and Noah have evolved from their stints on Total Drama to a Xatu and a Snorlax. See that post for their original pokemon choice.
THE ROCKERS: Spud is almost dumber than Devin, so I made him a Slowpoke, and Rock I made a Luxio; kind of in the middle of being useful but not too much.
Finally
THE STEP BROTHERS: Chet is a Pikachu-Colored Pichu and Lorenzo is a Spiky Eared Pichu. I specifically chose these Event pokemon because they were presented as a pair and are literally nearly identical, which the Step-Brothers, in personality, definitely are. They grow closer through the challenge and end up becoming friends, but enemies at first.
Bonus:
DON, THE HOST: Persian, as he's also part of the original 151 like Chris, but he's a much less successful host as we only meet/see him in RR, but he's got better stats. More than likely because he invested his time/money better
BLAINELY: I don't care for her enough to give her a pokemon. I guess she'd be a weezing or grimer, considering? Poison Type, anyways
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Today
Art Walk is going on this week here himself in so this is a piece of heart behind me that's been installed for me
Digitizing so Tech Brown should try the construction sites with scaled robots
I didn't get a chance to a video last week, but I added this story
hmm to episode 44
It's interesting how they map over
the construction site and so
Current cycles can be seen so prior to the process of construction to be build in the digital environment
What the building is gonna look like you start to build and until the very end. You usually don't see
The progress or the process or where you're at or how far things are compared to what you designed them to be?
And there's a robot driving around
all of digitizing construction sites with scaled robotics
That they're mapping what's currently happening so you can compare it to what we designed it to be
As it wants to do that
Cyber
Severus
The reason raises 200 million for its enterprise security platform
Security is always a big business financial services market compared age' group raises
20 million in new funding led by experienced
He is go work, all right
Maybe these two we can talk over
Then it's sorry if I missed him and I'm looking forward to chatting with you
Okay, so I'll link over on Twitter here
So India's go work raises 53-million
Serious in debt, my name is Amaya so they took on debt and away equity
based business
They had something build some people they needed to hire or whatever the case may be and they know they have a process
so if they inject this amount of money
into this process it's going to
pump out X amount of revenue that will then cover that debt, so they're definitely
My hope would be that they've run the numbers well enough existing business debt, they know they can cover
Whatever carry that debt holds
The debt round for the
two-year-old startup not to be confused with an Indonesian startup to the same name that operates in the same space Wow, so
India
India and Indonesia
Have a company with the same name in the same space go work
Is financed by private fund made by black rocks private credit team and CLS a Capital Partners
special situations group
Prior to announcement into the race. I'm just closed amount from another fund. So they've already raised some
Plans to expand its accommodation capacity to
25,000 people up from 12,000. Yep, so it's going to
Allow more people to work
More more capacity it makes sense
You have the process and you know, it's working and you know, it's running. You know, how
Rejecting more into it's only gonna make that grow. So do you have the people and
capital to to make that happen
Processes
So go work is taking the brick-and-mortar aspect of co-working concept further as well as consistent measures to ensure young businesses
to enable young businesses to reach their highest potential
We look forward to go work offering optimal operational efficiency for startups as well as corporates
Interesting, they're not just focusing on space. They want to enable young businesses to reach their highest potential
It tells me they have some sort of secret sauce going on
Baked in to the space, maybe some mentorship resources connecting to a network
That would make sense
I'll be over here
Couldn't get youtube to
Stream this morning. You usually can do your encoder or you can do your YouTube live and YouTube
There's so much changing about it
I'm gonna figure that out applying later not a priority right now
Alright so
that was the
Go work automotive market place
karo acquires Indonesia's
Giallo
Extending stairs being it's a 90 million borrow
Let's see what car is doing
There you go follow along up on the Twitter
See an automotive marketplace and car financing startup based in Singapore
Is that true
This is tennis, okay
so carro
CA RR Oh reminds me of Turo but as I'm reading an automotive market place car financing started up in Singapore
Raised 30 million close. It's 90 million round
wants the skills business into another
geographic market Southeast Asia
Around
was funded by
Softbank ventures government linked to local investor
EDB I
Detrick
Foundation and and poor ventures
And the series if there's no overflow of interest, of course in
our serious beat which we initially close to at the end of the year at a lot of quality strategic investors coming to and
coming to
and there and uh
Coming to the and therefore decided to extend the round around so officially closed
As a masked 40-minute million monthly active users transactions worth 1 billion per year interesting
Rollo
One of the Indonesia fast growing market places really sellers trade new used Goods
so karo acquired a new and used Goods
calm
forty million monthly active users
transactions worth a billion dollars last year
So karo maybe wants to
Continue that business but and and amassed those users
So when it does come time for them to purchase a car make that big purchase the car can be
Already in their lexicon already in their ecosystem. Okay
Karo and Turrell, I guess karo is really focused on actually trading a car here. Here's a car
Here's money or or whatever you want to trade for it Turo is more
let me rent your vehicle while I'm in some place or whatever period
Carro which sees more than 70% of its transactions come from outside home Singapore will reveal expansion plans to new markets new
Acquisition deals later in the year. The subscription service will also be extended
Rival does any startup including Bella Mobile in?
Indonesia are some high car age' and rocket Internet's are movie. Although with its new raise and
Bank. Karo is the best funded by some margin
So far as the marketplaces for deals and just
Bartering barter systems to see more and more of those
What's back on beta codes
Shopify to host program for developers re-entering tech industry after extending leaves
Interesting
All right. So let's do Shopify first. It says Shopify
Your Shopify to host program for developers
re-entering tech ministry after extended leaves this whole
40 to 60 year old age range the boomers and the tail end of the boomers
re-entering the workforce
In some capacity whether it be something they wanted to do and didn't or something they were
Doing they wanted to do a new role or have a new capacity with those skills. Very interesting to me
you definitely have
30 40 more years to live people think they're done because they retired they they killed it for 30 years
You definitely have some years ahead of you
so if the Walmart and breeder thing got boring after a year - if sitting on the beach or reading a book
Got boring after a year or two
What?
Boomers are gonna start to do is reenter the market or do phase two of their career or start a new career
Start a new business start a new project and
Ran during the workforce in what capacity?
It's interesting
what is it they're going to reenter as
You're bringing
30 plus years of experience with you
You're gonna you're going to be dangerous
All right, so here we go
Five - host program so the talent shortage reportedly being
Enduring endurance of growth in the Canadian tech ecosystem and everywhere across the globe
Shopify has created a program supporting engineers developers who choose to take time off work for personal reasons and want to reenter the industry
The welcome back program is what they're calling it. Love it
Like
like a college freshman
Welcome me something like that. Welcome back the program. I'll link you over to it
It's a paid program designed to support software developers will take an extended leave for the absence from the tech industry to re-enter the workforce
The program focuses on helping talent refresh developers then skills through hands-on workshops and custom programming
Led by the company's engineering and learning development teams
Qualify for the program applicants must have been out of a software development workforce for a minimum of two years
Have more than three years of experience of professional software developer strong foundation and object-oriented principles
And fluency and the in at least one
object-oriented language and a passion for
Curiosity of software. All right passion for curiosity. I love that
Three-month program will run from October to December in downtown Toronto
Successful participants will be partnered with Shopify
Mentor after the first month to support their growth and well-being applications will close September 13. So get your applications in
September 13, that's exciting. Alright, so you have to go up to Toronto. There's three months
Well, that's one way to go Shopify
Love to see more programs like that in high tech in engineering and manufacturing and fabrication and assembly
All these high skilled trades jobs
Just get people to re-enter the workforce
Doing something they know and love
have a lot of experience and
probably
Then right having this long experience of them then retraining the people who are entering the workforce for the first time
If anything they can be the trainers
And don't do the actual thing
We go to markets for energy
Tools or startups and lessons learned helping ecobee challenged industry incumbents
Axis experience with eco be in that industry
Hear what they have to say a
Ticket, all right. There you go. It's the preview up on Twitter
There's a nice picture of a bunch of white dudes just like me
every year thousands venture-backed startups
Did that coffee, you know, thanks chicory cafe
Every year venture-backed a-- and viciously go to market challenging entire category and industry incumbents companies like Airbnb
Casper we were gonna show you how a dedicated team with the great idea can knock the pins out from under the fiercest market giants
The Challenger brand is not defined by its size the midget up and its status quo. Yeah
you can go in steal market share because you have something better some secret sauce about service or you
Identify the customer base better
It is what it is. The market will decide not your longevity
Now because you've been doing it for thirty years if you've been doing it the same way for thirty years
You're in trouble
That means someone else is gonna come in and better serve your customers, you know better identify your customers
It's just the market will decide not you and your opinion about your business. It doesn't work that way
So here are three tips that a to successfully take on long established leaders startups must define what they want
To be in the world. So this is
Beta kit and eco B's challenge to industry incumbents by the way industry
incumbents
You could be doing this exact same thing to yourself
Right you're serving the market
So there three things are the powerful value proposition a clear target customer and a strong competitive response
So you could be doing those three things for your market by bringing a value proposition
That is clear a clear target customer
Well, you know who you've asked about who you listen to and a strong competitive response
You could bring a strong competitive response to yourself
Hey, we've been doing these things, but we're hearing from you that you want these things
Just do them
Don't have to be an incumbent rookie veteran you could just serve your market
So it says we'll break down each of these with some helpful links and resources for startup founders or incumbents
So first was the value proposition value proposition is your promise to your customer. It must tell them how to solve their problem
How you solve their from?
Qualify the value you deliver and explain why they should choose
There's some more ways to think about value prop
Having talked about value prop quite a bit and in front of
FIRST robotics teams and that startup Ekans and with entrepreneurs one on one
Who I like at the end how they give clear value props from
From companies so ways carpools save time and money by writing together fair. Get the car on your phone get a car on your phone
Jiffy home maintenance without the hassle
Whether that meets a customer segment or not, that doesn't that's not the point in the value of profit
Is it a clear? Is it a powerful?
clear value proposition
Concise clear and powerful does it drive home a mess efficient?
Separately, then you have a target customer
So there's second outline identified target customer allows you to focus your marketing dollars in brand messaging on a specific market
That's more likely to buy from me. You're looking for 20% of the market that will make up 80% of the revenue
Okay, so they're saying that a simple and expensive place of starters with an outline review of your competition
It is what it is you outline the market and listen to those people
Those people will define market or a market segment that you can target
Competitive research tools that here's some tools
And we got paid for some of those and the competitive response
So competitors Fonseca understand their competitors anticipate our action to your market and trigger
Just hustle against your target audience
Check your marketing to relaunch
Aiming to win with a customer
ID feel be responded to
our competitors by aiming to win with the customer designing a beautiful product address the fundamental design flaw and
alternate stats
Yeah that last one I would I would reorient to
Competitively go after your market or your market segment and just out hustle out
Out-innovate any
Competitors and you don't have to worry about yours focused on serving your market or your market segment
Anyway, that's a fun outline. There's some
there's some good resources and tools it seems like I
might give some of those a read or a look into to
Orient to a market or orient to how they thought about their market
Definitely understanding, someone else's way of thinking helps. You understand then the landscape you're dealing in
that landscape
Perspective can be super helpful just to know where you sit within it. I always say there's three things. There's you understanding yourself
You're understanding the world and the hardest part is understanding yourself within the world
And you can apply that to business - right and that's the business and how it works a market and the world you're playing in
and then understand
Yourself within that market you're playing in
You can be
If you can work on that work on that fast and of a fast
You can be
Competitive you have the opportunity be competitive right the opportunity to be competitive. So
What are you looking at? What are you working on?
What's new in the news where you're at tech news or otherwise news business startups entrepreneurship?
Jerris from South Bend
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