Advntrbuddy01

Galvantula: Electric/Bug

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I love that Nintendo game origins are like, "One day Miyamoto went outside and then he made Zelda."

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@BasedPota18 Toto doesn't talk but Dorothy's pet chicken won't shut the fuck up

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@LonelyGoomba @screentime I really liked Bonnie in 5 but don't remember her (or Andy) being characters in the first four. Only Sid and Al. I don't care about Andy but think his room was more memorable

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@fryspati @TwinkTheory The implication

[Robin Poe 🐑 @RobinPoedev]

Super Mario Odyssey is a good game, but it's not a good Zelda game

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@finalfantasyvii The Revelation

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@The24thFrame "Who is that woman?"
"She is in the new Zelda game!"
And that's all we had for like two years

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Very unfortunate that Toy Story 5 is about how children should be texting internet strangers their addresses

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@The24thFrame Love at the end when Bo Peep is like "Did you help your friends?" and Woody is like "No, I wasn't really in this one"

[TayZonday @TayZonday]

BIG PICTURE REASONS WHY "CHOCOLATE RAIN" WENT VIRAL:
• With no algorithms, the Internet was driven by novelty, not loyalty. Weirdness wins novelty.
• Myspace was #1 in social media. YouTube was unproven and Facebook had just opened up beyond colleges. YouTube needed a "model home" for what its cultural real estate meant.
• One person uploading a video that thousands of strangers parodied became YouTube's behavioral "model home." No other platform had that social dynamic.
• Soulja Boy, Chris Crocker, and other talented creators had viral YouTube videos that got widely parodied. "Chocolate Rain" became identified with a type of "shareholder safe" virality. YouTube's human editors promoted it on the front page.
• YouTube was an unproven business for both Google and creators. The idea of creators earning Internet money was not mainstream. I was added in round two of YouTube's experimental Partner Program. I believe round one had about thirty creators.
• Television remained the eight-hundred-pound media gorilla. Viacom's billion-dollar copyright lawsuit was an existential YouTube threat just as the first YouTube videos went viral. The fact that "Chocolate Rain" began on YouTube and transitioned to me being on CNN, Jimmy Kimmel, discussed by Carson Daly and dozens of other celebrities... came at a time when YouTube needed a Rosetta Stone. They needed to translate a massively subsidized, high-risk venture into understandable cultural value. "Chocolate Rain" became a stenographer of YouTube crossing over. I got parodied on South Park, Saturday Night Live, nominated for a People's Choice Award, sang with Boyz II Men on Tosh.0 etc.
HOW DID "CHOCOLATE RAIN" GO VIRAL?:
• "Chocolate Rain" was rushed to completion in April of 2007 since I had another song ("Love," made with Kooby) featured on YouTube's front page and wanted other new content. It sat at around 30,000 views until summer.
• "Chocolate Rain" got posted on Digg in July of 2007, an early Reddit-style social bookmark site. Someone saw it there and posted it on 4chan.
• 4chan worked to meme "Chocolate Rain," "Numa Numa," Rick Astley, and other things. In 2007, 4chan was dominantly "Howard Stern liberal." Being offensive, outrageous, and highly speech-tolerant used to be identified with leftist, avant-garde identity. My first inkling that "Chocolate Rain" was going viral was 4chan prank-calling Tom Green's self-produced show and the caller busting out singing "Chocolate Rain!"
MORE FACTORS IN "CHOCOLATE RAIN" GOING VIRAL:
• YouTube had no stereo sound in early 2007. I posted a free "Chocolate Rain" MP3 download, with a giant video banner announcing it, purely to circumvent this. I wanted my songs heard in stereo.
• "Chocolate Rain" begins with an instrumental and loops. This, combined with the MP3 download, made parodies easy. This was totally unplanned luck. It's like it was made to be parodied.
• I looked like Janet Jackson, moved like Mr. Bean, and sounded like Barry White. Not trying to mean-girl myself, just being blunt. I was a unique combination of attributes but also not self-aware. Social internet video of everyday life was a new experience. Like, "If that guy is singing 'Chocolate Rain,' what's MY neighbor doing?" Everyday life was transforming into a democratic video content frontier nobody had given much prior thought to.
• It's worth noting that 2007 was before mainstream mobile Internet video consumption. YouTube was overwhelmingly consumed on desktop computers and laptops. The later shift to engagement-optimized and loyalty-optimized social video was heavily influenced by phones.
PERSONAL FACTORS WHY "CHOCOLATE RAIN" WENT VIRAL:
• I built a bedsheet box in my living room to sing "Chocolate Rain" in because I'm agoraphobic. That's the opposite of claustrophobic. Boundaries supercharge me. It also turns out that lots of people have bedsheets to hang up.
• I moved stiffly and sang "Chocolate Rain" with elongated vowels because of dyspraxia, a neurological movement difficulty tied to me being autistic (first diagnosed at age sixteen).
• "Chocolate Rain" musically captured my tendency towards echolalia and echopraxia — repetition and reinvocation of speech and behavior. These are adaptations to being a partially verbal autistic who has to blend-in with speaking society. They also help in making catchy songs.

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@Ohlem_ Something in the way
In Zora's Domain
(King Zora doesn't want to move)

https://t.co/geb1a2stwu

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@AOTY2024 Yes, Stevie Nicks, with friends like yours, who needs enemies?

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Happy Pride to literally every Zelda character other than Link!

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@Bizcuthammer I worry about remakes that don't follow 95+% of the original strategy guide. We're about to get a ten-minute cutscene of Link learning how to cut grass like it's season one of the Surf Dracula reboot. Look what 7R did with the House and Goblin enemies. Goofy details get canonized

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@Bizcuthammer Is that what Crash and Spyro got?

[Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes_]

punk capybara spending quality time at grandma's house

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@autocanceller You have to use the train station under the Knicks game

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@JayIsJoly The most "I need to play that one" of the entire franchise

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@GameXverse Someone pressured me into subbing to unlock some random mechanic, but you can never go back to the trial. Ended up spending hundreds on the game but got bored in the first expansion. Left a real sour taste in my mouth