#announcing this on ALL PLATFORMS

[octochilli]

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[izzyspussy]

the fact that they made it illegal to make ads louder than programs on tv in 2010 but haven't updated it to apply the same regulation to streaming. who do i have to call.

[hi-im-kaybee]

the mech brainrot continues

[owlsie-hoot]

We need something good right now. So I did some more writing therapy yesterday and today.

[expelliarmus]

[shinigami-striker]

[NASB2] Mr. Krabs Revealed! | Friday, 02.09.24

It's official: Mr. Krabs is joining Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 on Thursday, 02/15 as the game's first post-launch DLC character!

Plus, he'll be voiced by Clancy Brown himself!

[deathinfeathers]

//Lute is the only muse I've had duplicate anxiety over.

[tarnishedxknight]

{out of dalmasca} Welp... I ended up working all night to resolve a really bad glitch with my course sites... that I was ultimately not able to resolve. It prevents an important, essential function of the course. Classes begin Tuesday. This is fine.

I'm frustrated and super tired, so I'm just going to get some sleep and then I'll be on tomorrow night most likely. Thanks to everyone who sent in ask memes today! I got over 20 of them, haha. So I'll be getting to as many of those as I can tomorrow night. =)

[cocolacola]

hey are we still down with fulfilling that goofy bit from yesterday (hellsing powerpoint night) cute mutuals interact with suggestions plz

[essential-randomness]

Hi, essential-randomness! Hope you're having a good day. I've pledged to your Kickstarter, and I'm super looking forward to the book!

Kinda unrelated question, but I'd like to ask, how do you pull through big projects like these? You seem to be in charge of several long-tem projects that require a lot of planning and grit, and I'm really impressed at your project management skills. I'm terrible at staying on track (both during work and personal projects), and I've never been good at finishing long-term, big projects on time. If you have any strategies to being successful in your endeavors, I'd love to know your ways (no pressure tho!).

I really appreciate & look up to you and your team's effort and dedication to the kickstarter. Good luck w/ everything!

Hello! It's a very busy time (even more so than usual), but–life's penchant for being "kind of a bitch" aside–I'm doing well.

Re: "how do you pull through big projects like these?" The answer is, broadly, a mixture of "weaponized ADHD" and an above-average amount of what people usually refer to as "hubris". If you're looking for more specific, practical advice on delivering projects, I usually recommend people start with Amy Hoy's excellent Just Fucking Ship. I read it at the very beginning of the @bobaboard's journey, and still actively use some of its techniques (like backwards planning).

There's obviously a lot I could say about this, but the tragic side of having the privilege to work on such projects is that it's also about knowing what to say no to. Unfortunately, that is "nerd out about product strategy on tumblr.com" today. Trust me, it's taking all my inner strength not to start rambling.

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If you really want to hear me infodump on this topic (or any topic, really), pls consider giving me money supporting me giving me money for the privilege of sending in questions for the next town hall. I don't exactly know how any of this works yet, but the first one will be next week so I'll have to figure it out by then 😂

Additionally, if people are actively seeking advice (especially for fandom/online community-related projects), I've been considering offering coaching sessions, either for a fee or as a mutual skills exchange.

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Anyway, thank you for the well wishes, and for the kind message and question, anon ♡(˶╹̆ ▿╹̆˵)و✧♡ I'm really excited to get this book in everyone's hands, and I'm incredibly grateful that people showed up in such big numbers and with such great energy to support us!

[v-iv-rusty]

I'm going to be completely honest I briefly thought that this specific shot of the new armored core trailer was the stone platform where you fight radagon and in those short few seconds before I realized it wasn't elden ring my soul fully fucking left my body

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

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[thesearchforbluejello]

With the popularity of Ted Lasso, I'm genuinely just so glad that we got such a phenomenal show that has made an impact on so many people, and of course now we've also gotten the first season of Shrinking, which also knocked it out of the park.

But I still mourn Whiskey Cavalier every time I watch an episode of either of those.

There hasn't been a whole lot of tv I've actually enjoyed in the past several years, and these three feel like an absolute trifecta, but WC feels like the holy ghost at this point because there is SO MUCH of it in Ted Lasso and Shrinking-- it's so many of the same writers/directors/producers, but they're also just so similar right to their foundations. All three interrogate tv tropes and relationships (of all kinds!!!!!) and mental health through comedy, and Ted Lasso and Whiskey Cavalier actually interrogate an entire genre. I'd say that WC is more on that side than Ted Lasso even is, because although they definitely interrogate some of the tropes of sports fiction (toxic masculinity, anyone?), WC actually parodies spy fiction while playing itself as straight.

It just makes me absolutely feral to think about what more of Whiskey Cav would have looked like. A second season? A third? The development of the show from the original(-ish, one of the drafts) pilot to what was actually filmed shows so much growth and an acknowledgement that they could really work with what they had-- it turned from a show about a guy (hence the name) to a show about an entire team. Frankie took the spot as the second main character with Will once they cast Lauren Cohan (I don't think that happened before she was cast but I may be wrong) and another character was completely rewritten into Jai when Vir Das was cast. They had an entire plan for how to flip the TV trope of the will-they-won't-they relationship to a how-will-they-make-it-work relationship!!!!!! It would have been so good!!!!!! The amount of character development we got in just one season was far above and beyond anything else I've seen besides Ted Lasso and Shrinking, and honestly I think more actually happened specifically because they didn't have the assurance of more seasons (good thing they didn't assume, I guess) to build on things like the Ted Lasso Method™ but they still managed to do it without rushing it.

Honestly I feel like I could make a venn diagram of how all three of these shows all overlap and it would be hilarious. Excellent theme songs by well known artists without it feeling cheap? ✅✅✅ Excellent episodic music by well known artists also without it feeling cheap? ✅✅✅ Really well executed character development for ALL of the characters? ✅✅✅ Interrogation of tv tropes? ✅✅✅ More specifically, hilariously camp villains who still manage to take advantage of tropes to work? ✅✅ Incredibly well developed character relationships OF ALL KINDS that don't all hinge on only one romantic relationship as the centerpoint of everything? ✅✅✅ Queer characters who don't exist for the butt of a joke or solely as token queer characters? ✅✅✅ Every line is delivered with perfect comedic (or dramatic) delivery and timing? ✅✅✅

Anyway, this has been a barely coherent and very meandering way of saying that the fact that ABC put the episodes out of order really screwed things up, but Whiskey Cav really hit its stride there with the second half of season one and absolutely nailed the vibe they'd been working towards with the foundational episodes that came before them, and I just get SO ANGRY when I watch Ted Lasso and Shrinking despite the fact that they're both so good and I enjoy them so much because it makes me think about just how good a second (and third, damn it) season of Whiskey Cavalier would have been.

[mikittalabs]

something tmnt could really capitalize on rn is like. a good fighting game. idk which iteration but like, tmnt has enough characters for a pretty solid roster and interesting moveset potential methinks. i know the turtles are in injustice 2 and nick all star brawl but those're crossover titles and don't count for semantics reasons. also vaguely aware of that platform fighter based on the 2007 movie but that was like 12 years ago or something.

[love-fireflysong]

Finally got me a couple of switch games yesterday, which means that tonight is the night I will actually get to play the switch for the first time ever!

And in a twist that I'm sure will surprise all of you, the first game that I will be playing on my oh so swanky and pretty zelda patterned system is... Lugi's Mansion 3!

[alphadog]

me if I hear ‘been gone more days this year than I have been home’ on a glitchy ass livestream