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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Accelerator wasn’t inherently evil though, he was practically cultivated to be a killing machine for the sake of Level 6. Like yeah what he did was absolutely horrible and fucked up, but that’s kinda what happens when you make a child kill more than 10,000 people that were actively attempting to harm him.

    I did always like the twist of fate where his life is now dependent on his former to-be victims. I had no qualms with his redemption arc.




  • What irks me the most is the effort these idiot parents will go to give their baby as basic a name as “Allison” or “Ashley”

    • Ashlie
    • Ashlee
    • Ashly
    • Ashleigh
    • Ashlea
    • Ashli
    • Ashely
    • Ashlei
    • Ashleah
    • Asheleigh
    • Ashelie
    • Ahshlee
    • the list goes on and on and on

    No amount of vowels is going to make your kid’s name stand out when at the end of the day it’s the same pronunciation as the most common, basic form of it.

    Mötley might be weird but it’s at least unique.


  • To be brutally honest with you, the left one has a terrible thumbnail and an even worse title if the goal was to gauge interest and get people to check the video.

    The right one has a thumbnail that says the name of the game and “First Look” which tells you everything you need to know about what you’re going to watch.

    The first look at a new game called ____.

    Meanwhile “GREY ZONE GREY ZONE GREY ZONE,” while flashy, doesn’t convey anything to someone who hasn’t already heard of the game. The actual image used is also better on the right, they’re both reloading, but the right one at least has something going on with the two teammates and not just a non-descript background, right one is even framed better with the mountain and field being clearly separated by the text.

    As for the titles, “So I played ____…” only works for games that already have some sort of buzz around them, whether that’s because they’re popular, infamous, controversial, etc. otherwise people aren’t going to have a clue what the video is going to even be about. Is it a review? or just someone talking about their experience playing it? is it going to be gameplay footage? That title gives the audience nothing to work with. For example, “So I played The Day Before…” would work as a title because that game was getting a ton of coverage across the board due to the controversy surrounding it, most of it was commentary about it so seeing that someone actually played it would grab the attention of a viewer wanting to see/hear first-hand experience.

    The other title, while verbose, says everything enough that needs to be said to grab anyone’s attention. The only thing that irks me is the “that’s actually real” because it just come across as a shallow clickbait tactic. The rest of the title is rock solid:

    New [genre/type of game] - [game name] [video content]

    Yeah, I’m not at all surprised why one video is greatly outperforming the other. Not sure what the point you were trying to make was.




  • I really liked YuYu Hakusho for having big title cards whenever some characters would use attacks (and sometimes equipment/weapons) without yelling. It was also nice that the narrator would sometimes explain things quickly to not detract from the action, though they stopped doing that pretty early on, presumably because they assumed the audience would have a better grasp on things as the show progressed, or because the characters actually had a reason to assess or explain things.