Anjin Unleashed, tumblr edition

The blogging stylings of Marty "Anjin" Runyon in Tumblr form. Ask me anything!

[martyrunyon]

Serenity (2005) - Movies with Mikey

I remember seeing Serenity in the theater opening weekend. I had waited so long to be reunited with my friends. I had watched every episode. I bought the DVDs and watched them again. And I wanted them back.

I wasn’t the woman crying in the theater that Mikey describes when Wash died. I was quite the opposite: I entirely shut down. I watched the ending, wondering if the rest would win, or even survive. But I couldn’t care anymore. All of the emotion that I had been carrying since the first episode aired had drained out of me and I was numb.

I still can’t watch Serenity. I appreciate what Whedon was trying to do with the film, but the finality of it still hurts too much.

[martyrunyon]

PAPERS, PLEASE - The Short Film (2018) 

remember to turn on subtitles

[martyrunyon]

The Collapse Of Visceral's Ambitious Star Wars Game

It seemed like a surefire hit: a Star Wars take on Uncharted, published by Electronic Arts and developed by the longrunning studio Visceral Games. But nothing is sure in the video game industry, and on October 17, 2017, when employees of Visceral were told that the company would be closing, some who had worked for the studio found themselves unsurprised. In many people’s eyes, doom was inevitable.

[slagethor]

When will Tumblr let us reblog ads

[philnoto]

The Center

[dannyodwyer]

Here’s a thing I made.

[videowitch]

[jeffgerstmann]

On the Bombcast, you said you had a problem with procrastination. How did you get over it enough to build a whole website from scratch?

When you’re working with the greatest engineering team ever assembled and you have a gigantic chip on your shoulder, it’s really easy to keep moving.

[martyrunyon]

The Mystery Of The Unknown Neo Geo Game Has Been Solved

Hey, remember that unfinished Neo Geo fighting game that was discovered lurking on an arcade board? And how nobody knew what the hell it was? The man behind the game has been found, and he’s been able to reveal all kinds of stuff about it.

This story has been fascinating to watch. Glad more has come out.

[martyrunyon]

Take it or Leave it (but you’d better believe it…)

It is quite the shame that two of the best season-opening races of a Formula 1 season in recent memory have been overshadowed by an argument over how the sport came to set the very grids from which…

[martyrunyon]

Steph Curry Is So Good, NBA 2K Can't Depict Him

There are few better sports stories than the rise of Stephen Curry, a breathtaking human cheat code who may go down as the best shooter in NBA history. He’s so good, in fact, that NBA 2K doesn’t know how to capture him.

[dennys]

[martyrunyon]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQlA6oAyLXg)

[masatokusaka]

[nagishoe]

LMAO

[otoppoi]

I have tears

that audience shot oh my word

[arachnofiend]

This is hilarious and I feel it’d be even funnier with context

Idol fans plz explain

[vanquishedvaliant]

Japanese idols are generally contractually forbidden from dating or marrying because as an Idol their personhood is a commodity and they are selling the glimpse of an idea of a potential relationship to lonely otakus.

Idols are meant to be pretty, fun, cute, and flirtatious, so that fans can fantasize about being with them which drives sales of branded merchandize.

An Idol that has romantic or sexual pursuits is no longer perceived as available, in addition to it conflicting with fetishized virginity.

Basically, the Idol industry in Japan is the epitomy of a misogynistic sex-sells industry where the product is a fantasy relationship with a woman who is performing to make herself desirable. 

Many, many idols are extremely salty about this and will go to great lengths to mock and disparage the system, but they can’t do much to get it changed or go against it because their entire career will be destroyed if it is publicly discovered that they have or have had anything close to a relationship or sex.

And the companies absolutely do fire idols who do so, and destroy any potential they have as a career public figure for the rest of their lives. It’s horrifying.

So, in response for portraying a forever single virgin that can’t date, she savagely drags her “fans” who are more likely actual forever single virgins who will never get a date because they fantasize about getting with a highly fictionalized celebrity personality :v

[witharmswideopen95-deactivated2]

the fucking burn she unleashed oh my god

[elsasketch]

I’m wishing for the one I love to find me today.

[pewdie-deactivated20220115]

Thoughts on YouTube Red.

Since YouTube recently announced their new payed service “YouTube Red”. Everyone has been up to arms about it, for mainly good reasons! 

YouTube doesn’t exactly have the greatest reputation when it comes to new updates.

YouTube Red’s main selling points being: You can watch YouTube without ads, watch original shows, download videos, access to music library, etc. All for $10 a month. (Source)

It’s worth noting right away that my show “Scary PewDiePie” will be available via YouTube Red. (Link)

So how come YouTube, an ad revenue website decided to switch to include payed services? This might seem insane, especially since YouTube comes from the ad giant Google.

Well, despite YouTube being a huge website, YouTube still isn’t profiting. Daily Mail posted earlier this year:

If you read through all those bullet points, the answer behind YouTube Red’s existence becomes a lot more clear.

Either way, it still seems that most people aren’t sold about YouTube Red yet:

Why? Well the answer is simple, people’s main argument being: “Why would I pay $10 a month for a service that I can get for free with Adblock”? 

So out of curiosity, I asked via Twitter how many people actually use adblock:

I can also confirm with my own Google statistics that, that 40% is a correct estimate.

It’s a number that has grown a lot over the years, from roughly 15-20% when I started. And it’s not unlikely that it will keep growing.

What this means is that YouTubers lose about 40% of their ad income.

Personally, I’m ok with if you use adblock on my videos. Ads are annoying, I get it, I’m not here to complain about that.

But for smaller channels, this number can be devastating.

Despite this, it seems that many people’s general attitude towards Adblock is very open loose:

I think what many people still don’t realize is that:

# YouTube Red exist largely as an effort to counter Adblock. 

# Using Adblock doesn’t mean you’re clever and above the system. 

# YouTube Red exist because using Adblock has actual consequences. 

Now, there are questions remained to be answered about YouTube Red. Like: How much of YouTube Red’s $10 actually goes to it’s creators? How come YouTubers don’t get payed for Novembers free trial period? This was changed recently, (Source). Will YouTube Red actually be beneficial for smaller channels? Is the $10 price actually justified?

These are all important questions about YouTube Red. But right now, it’s more important that we understand what the actual problem here is.

[martyrunyon]

Finally! I knew there was a story there. Congratulations to Jason Schreier for running this down.