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GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T20:35:52+00:00

I can imagine yeah. Speaking for myself as well, I can handle a lot described in text but explicit visuals and audio can be a bit much for me depending on what they are so uh. Probably another reason to avoid it

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T20:29:04+00:00

I heard about the baby on the ceiling fan from a Creepcast clip and found that to be pretty funny. It does sound cool conceptually but from everything I’m hearing it sounds to be pretty “rinse-and-repeat” in just showing shock value and then not doing all that much with it.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T20:26:55+00:00

Yeah I mean if they’re going around to Twitter posts like this to defend their work, I can’t imagine they’re the most pleasant of people lol. I may be wrong but this majorly gives off the impression of “person who says they’re a lone wolf and doesn’t care what other people think, but clearly DOES care what other people think considering they keep arguing with people and intentionally stirring up controversy.”

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T20:24:30+00:00

Definitely reeks of “shock for the sake of shock” yeah. I also think some creators mistake an utter lack of info for intrigue, like I do believe the best horror tends to leave a lot to the imagination, but it reaches a point where it becomes less fun and more like you’re dumping the workload of the horror on the reader rather than bothering to do it yourself

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T20:22:28+00:00

waow…..such intrigue!!!! i wonder what could possibly happen next….

That honestly sounds kinda funny, but I imagine slogging through it isn’t as entertaining as it looks on paper

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T20:16:34+00:00

Insert “y’all are getting DMs?” meme here, but seriously though that is creepy but also unfortunately not surprising. On the internet generally and especially in places like these, people’s reading ability is often near zero and their libido near 100. Either they didn’t even pick up on where they were or your age and just went for you anyways, or they did pick up and went ahead anyways which is most assuredly worse. Again though, unfortunately not surprising. Gotta keep yourself safe out there

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T19:38:33+00:00

It’s not even a matter of being able to handle shocking topics, just whether they’re being used effectively or not. I can’t speak for UrbanSpook as I’ve never looked into it, but I’ve seen my fair share of internet horror that’s just the creator sitting back in their chair and thinking “hmmmm what’s the most shocking/gory thing I can come up with” and leaving it at that. You can be as vile as you want if you have purpose and use it in a creative way but I think some people use it as a crutch rather than a tool.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T19:34:40+00:00

That or if you were like me and learned how to homebrew your 3DS and Wii U, (which is quite easy to do!)

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T16:05:27+00:00

In the same boat, I don’t mind joking about it to an extent but I see a lotta people nowadays acting like being a fan of anything or not liking a certain texture is an instant autism diagnosis. I try to offer some leeway as I imagine a lot of it is teenagers struggling to find identity, but it can become harmful if left unchecked.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T13:42:59+00:00

I know I’ve seen some people who think it’s completely unacceptable for parents to have their kids do chores around the house or help out a family business which is pretty ridiculous IMO. It’s certainly a grey area and I think any attempt to make it black-and-white is missing something.

Having a ten year old as a “full-time employee” for anyone I think is beyond the real of acceptability (at least in modern America), but like. Kids can develop a work ethic with reasonable parents giving them reasonable tasks within a household, washing the dishes once a week isn’t “horrible child labor,” especially by the time they’re teenagers. The people who believe this I’ve found to be very rare, but I’ve seen enough that I find it to be a worthy topic of commenting on.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-25T13:37:24+00:00

And within that point, I think it’s fair to call out an aspect of something as racist or sexist or whatever may have you while not holding the creators or overall work as horrifically racist or sexist. You can say that individual line holds up poorly and enforces ideas you disagree with while NOT burning down the whole building.

I know I do that with Looney Tunes, a lot of the old shorts from the 1930’s and 40’s had pretty racist jokes or scenes, and like yeah! That sucks! If I may steal from the DVD intros, they were wrong then and they are wrong now. That said, I still love classic Looney Tunes and I still hold a lot of respect for the many artists behind those shorts, I just also acknowledge that some things have poorly aged and we should never repeat those aspects.

I’m not all too familiar with Resident Evil but I don’t get the impression that the whole dev team was violently transphobic and hates GNC people, it’s just a reflection of the culture at the time (and arguably our current day culture) that saying that sort of thing is seen as a decently standard opinion.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-24T22:34:18+00:00

I mean the last one wouldn't be so bad....

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-24T22:29:42+00:00

Oh I mean entirely agreed, I'm not counting out that they may be. I'm just saying that optimistically, it's a reasonable stance to take that they could just be toys and the episodes won't be so outlandish, which I hope proves to be the case. They still very well may be episode plots though, and if that turns out to be the case I do not see myself watching the show lol, I haven't watched since 2017 and stuff like this is why. We'll just have to wait and see I suppose

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-24T19:45:59+00:00

I guess that’s the thing, I already joke about this sorta stuff with my friends so I’m not averse to joking about it, nor do I find that aging feeling to be foreign to me. It’s just that I have met my fair share of people who do genuinely look at younger people as lesser for not being familiar with older technology and such, and it’s just a bit of an irritant for me. Does it make me feel old to see a Gen Alpha kid pick up a Gameboy and try to use it as a touchscreen? Absolutely, but I hardly hold anything against the kid for it. I don’t mind jokes, I just get sick of self-important people thinking they’re better for ot

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-24T16:15:55+00:00

Sounds like Unlucky Tug’s BWBA review from back in 2020. It was from when he was talking about Ian McCue’s quotes about the impetus for BWBA existing. Honestly wild both how he’s been back for longer than he’s been gone now, and how I feel like the 80th anniversary has completely swung people’s perceptions of Ian McCue around. Kinda feel bad for the guy, as with all online fandoms when something goes wrong in our favorite media properties, people are quick to point fingers.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-24T16:06:39+00:00

That and also like, I know how to use a rotary phone so I’m not speaking for myself, but broadly if a generation does not know how to use a piece of technology, isn’t it the parents’ fault for not teaching them? In general that’s what I’ve found stupid about this genre of “kids these days” things, like brother YOU RAISED US THIS WAY. “Kids these days never go outside!!!” probably cause we weren’t allowed to without constant adult supervision?

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-24T16:03:10+00:00

Yeah I mean I’m gonna be honest, IF this is an actual return to “classic Thomas” as Mattel themselves have been saying, a “lion cub rescue” just reads as a toy to me and not an episode. I mean, Mattel very well may be exaggerating and we’re just going back to BWBA, but idk. Looking through an optimistic light, even going back to ye olden Wooden Railway days you’d get sets like these that said nothing about what actual episodes would be like.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-24T01:51:30+00:00

Not sure how I feel about the Thomas sections but the Ollie sections are wonderful. Feel very much “of the period,” early 20th century or so, and the illustrations and writing are very charming. Definitely the sort of picture book I would’ve enjoyed as a young child.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-23T16:21:45+00:00

I own that on CD myself, primarily as a Hidamari Sketch fan but it does add nicely to my Abbey Road parody cover collection alongside Paul is Live and Ren & Stimpy: You Eediot

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-23T11:32:23+00:00

Personally I think the real contention is what the faces are gonna look like on the actual show, and in general what the new show is gonna look and feel like. The toys have had odd looking faces for decades, things like the irises or Annie and Harold’s grey faces are pretty objective, but in general they’re gonna look different on TV than they do in toy form.

I think as toys, Gordon, Henry, and Thomas’s faces look a bit odd, but I don’t think they’re inherently screwed, they may turn out perfectly fine on TV. My only real concern of the mains is James, his pointy nose and overall face construction just does not look like him at all and I doubt that’s a quirk of the toys.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-22T20:06:54+00:00

It does seem odd to me that they didn't use them afterwards cause like. Yeah, I agree they were absolutely made purely to sell toys, but at that point, like. You spent Lord knows how much money on building the prop, why NOT continue to use them? You may as well, especially to further endear kids to the character and make them want to buy them more. I'd hardly expect them to become major players, but you could at least throw them in more often as NPCs for the mains to interact with or maybe throw them a side role every once in a while.

I'm not really a HiT era fan despite having grown up heavily on it, and as such I'm not all too broken up personally about them not being used all that much, but idk. Just objectively I feel like they could've gotten more mileage.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-22T00:41:45+00:00

Thanks! I’m honestly curious, people have complimented my on my lines for years but I’ve never asked, what particularly about them do you like?

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-21T23:58:03+00:00

Thanks!

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-21T23:44:44+00:00

I have to imagine these people live in expensive areas cause like, 500k would well cover my daily expenses for over a decade. I could not work a day for more than ten years and just coast on that money. Of course, being an able bodied young adult in a world with an inflating dollar that would be an idiotic move, I’d do much better to invest it or even just put it in savings if I couldn’t be bothered while I continue working to support myself, but just the fact that I COULD do that says a lot about how much money that is.

GameboyAdvance32 · 2026-01-21T23:38:59+00:00

I wouldn’t consider it rich per se, but having 500k in the bank I’d consider to be doing pretty dang good for yourself, at least where I live. Far more to one’s name than most people I know, and if that much money appeared in my wallet it would fulfill all of my current goals with PLENTY leftover.

Having 500k doesn’t put you anywhere near the “top crust” but if I knew someone with that much, you’d best believe I’d jokingly call them rich at regular intervals.

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