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In more RT news, Lindsay is now also going by Jax. Theyre still going by Lindsay but Jax when in masc mode

thanks for letting me know :)

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Your tomodachi life klapollo is very cutieful 🥺🥺 I love seeing everyone show off their miis like show and tell

Here’s my little guys, I think that they should be friends 🥰

awwwwwwww

i might as well add more screenshots in exchange

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karina leaving drawfee is absolutely devastating news (but like. good for her truly) but hilariously this whole time all ive been thinking is "wow. being into achievement hunter (since ray) for as long as i have made me well equipped for this kind of news

pffft

i feel the same, kinda. was able to process the news quicker thank to being in the trenches of rt/ah fandom for years, but i'm not gonna lie, the karina news still hit me like a truck

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Matt's still doing his task-a-thon on stream and right now his task is to land a plane on maze bank in GTA, and chat asked him to put a nameburn in the corner like the old days so there's some wild nostalgia going on lol

lol

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hey you've been in the aa fandom for a while right? can i ask where the hell mikeko comes from? seems like everyone is in consensus about the existence of this cat and i tried searching the wikia for it but there's nothing. honestly same with edgeworth's dog pess it feels like these animals were invented by the fandom but they're SO consistent across EVERY writer that there must be like a mention in an artbook somewhere or something surely... please advise

sure! so, mikeko appears in an official japan-exclusive drama cd that released around the same time dual destinies released on the 3DS. the video i linked should have english subtitles.

as for pess, they're mentioned briefly in an old interview with shu takumi from the gyakuten saiban fanbook. you can find an english fan translation of said interview here.

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I went back to check an old video and saw it, so I have to ask if you have seen the new Achievement Hunter channel banner 💀

no, i haven't. what does it loo-

oh my fucking god

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I know AH is long gone but did you hear felix baumgartner died?

perhaps

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im merely curious because of what you mentioned previously, but what do you think is different between the watcher service vs dropout? i /do/ think there is one, but i can't put my finger on it

as of right now, there are two major differences in my eyes: legacy and diversity

the first point, i had to think on for longer because though i'm familiar with dropout because my friends are into their content, my own perspective is lacking. so, i did some minor research to fact check stuff

dropout, i feel, is an exception to the rule in regards to internet-based companies making their own website/streaming services. until recently, they have existed as collegehumor since fucking 1999. they have lots of prior experiences to reflect on, and a long-term audience that often gives them feedback they're receptive to. their older content staying on youtube alongside some new ongoing stuff still being uploaded there is a nice plus. ryan and shane got popular through unsolved comparatively much sooner in 2016, as did steven in that same year with worth it, watcher currently is only 4 years old, so their foundation is more shaky right now

what also helped alongside that was that the transition wasn't as jarring as watcher's announcement. their subscription price on launch in september 2018 was $3.99 a month up until december, when they eased into tiered subs, which must've helped a lot. afaik, watcher tv has no mobile app (yet?), and many fans outside the US are region-locked without a vpn or something similar. with watcher and dropout in its current day each being $5.99, this leads into...

the second point: diversity. dropout launched mobile versions of their service 3 months after the official launch. watcher is exclusive to one official platform, as mentioned before, but in my opinion, what hurts watcher the most is series diversity. they have like, one series going on for a few weeks or months before another starts, so if someone paid them the fee, it'd be for something they might not even be interested in. likely, they'd binge the series they enjoy and unsub until the next season comes out. dropout has the advantages of both legacy series under the collegehumor name readily available, and their unscripted ongoing series coming out concurrently with a fixed schedule so than something new would be coming out i think every weekday at this point. it's reall more bang for your buck

all of this is why i said watcher "wanted to be dropout so bad" yesterday. they've created Yet Another streaming service with a price and catalogue that doesn't justify its existence. this could've been a more focused patreon. this could've been a youtube membership. this could've been a secret third thing. this could've been anything else than what we got, and it would've had the potential to be better.

tl;dr- this is watcher right now: