#rt wank

[heisttheblackflag]

happy last birthday, Rooster Teeth

[bioshoook]

Gonna be real with y'all, I think it's a dumb move to put the DB podcast behind a paywall. Like podcasts are usually excellent ways to introduce people to the creators and their vibes, and now you've taken that away for a channel that just started. Also, what if there's important news tucked away in this FIRST only podcast?? Ain't nobody gonna know until like a month later when they announce it on Twitter. Unless someone with a FIRST membership shares it with the world. It's justttt fucking messy man 😮‍💨

[ursifors]

RTX never made any money is really surprising to me.

i mean we don't know what goes on backend wise for rt, and i'm sure it is a lot of fucking money to host a huge convention that grows every year, but also it is a little surprising that they apparently didn't make that back with ticket and merch sales as well as like, extra stuff for pictures ect that i assume they do.

idk, i never went to rtx and the rtx at home i just got a jeremy fancall and the gta thing they did that year.

but personally i think rt has been losing money for quite some time, they have been desperately making changes to try and hold onto it or begging for money via first memberships ect. it sucks for the people who work there, but i'm not really surprised by any of it.

[rimmothy-timmothy]

hypothetically is there a way i can support AH directly? instead of being a first member? bc i genuinely dont like RT as a whole and want to get back into watching AH bc i havent in almost 2 years iirc. just started watching the new sbm and i miss ah :( but god RT sucks

i cant do individual livestreams bc my schedule doesn't allow for it

[monarchisms]

new drinking game: every time you see at least 3 people over the course of one day announcing their last day at rooster teeth on twitter, take a shot

if they worked at rt animation for any amount of time, take 2 shots, plus a bonus one if it was for 4 years or longer

[bioshoook]

Well, what the hell, might as well.

Unpopular opinion I have is that I don't like Geoff, like at all anymore. If he's in a video, I'm not watching it if I can help it. The only exception was that AHWU video and still hearing him talk in that made me want to thrash him around like a chew toy. I don't like shitty bosses, and I don't like bosses who can't apologize for their mistakes and make up for the way they've treated employees. Also not a fan of fuckface because of obviously what was just said, but also because I feel like it's one of the only things Gavin does now with RT when he could be in lets rolls or off topic or lets plays and so I also lowkey blame Geoff for that.

Also speaking of that whole bad boss thing and all the shit that brought that up in the first place (and I know people definitely may not like this, but oh well). I felt for Kdin and know that she has every right to air her grievances about the company and AH and all that. Totally justified. But what I didn't like is that whole thing took eyes away from the fact that Matt (a key member of AH) just got laid off to part time even tho AH wouldn't be what it is today without the shit he's created. Like all of the communities' attention was taken away from him and turned to Kdin. It just, the whole thing rubbed me the wrong way.

Also, one other thing, the Rooster Teeth app sucks. It could be so much better, but I feel like RT management and whatnot just don't care enough to fix that damn app. It's been like that for years, so why start fixing it now, I guess?

Do some of y'all have any unpopular opinions regarding RTAH?? This is a safe space if y'all wanna share

[amberx2020]

Every single person who RT’s this tweet, I’ll DM you a pic of my boobs (must dm me for faster sending of my NUDE'S pics! #cum #cock #wank #horny #sellingvideos #porn #nudes #porn #sellingnudes #spank #tits #ass #boobs #paypig #femdom #findom #slut #cumslut #paypal #buyingcontent

[brutish-impulse]

I was at an arcade for the first time last weekend (or technically, an interactive museum with arcade machines and old consoles) and man, idk how anyone learned fighting games back in the day.

I was playing Killer Instinct against the AI, none of my hits matter because I don't know any combos. How did people throw enough money at these machines to figure it out? And internet access was much less available too, so you'd have much fewer people to compare notes with.

Like, I think the people who wank about fighting games being uniquely difficult (compared to shooters or RTS) are full of shit. But compared to other arcade games? Yeah, I think so. At the other cabinets it's much more obvious what you need to do.

[heisttheblackflag]

not to be a bitch but it really feels like Geoff is just. using his status to fuel narcissism at this point and it’s just getting so fucking boring

[naruhearts]

(— @bookdork1 )

“The writers wrote this DeanCas scene / this queer Dean moment and then still called us delusional.”

No, they didn’t. But I’m sure as fuck calling you delusional right now for repeating this completely fabricated bullshit for the past decade without once stopping to wonder “but wait, which writer said that and when?”

Because if any of you had ever bothered to do that you’d realize that not a single one of the 52 credited writers of spn has EVER said anything remotely close to this.

Several writers have, in fact, said the opposite–and feel free to do your own homework on that, because the receipts are out there, and maybe if you dig them up yourselves you might actually pay attention–but people have been projecting and playing fandom telephone for so long that baseless bronly quotes have been falsely attributed to the people who were actively and deliberately writing this stuff into the bones of the show for years, and who eventually made it as canon as they possibly could within the confines of the network’s grip on a dinosaur Bush-era TV show.

I swear this take was exhausting to see continually crop up when the show was still airing, and I’ve gotta say it’s even more exhausting now because THE WRITERS UNEQUIVOCALLY WROTE IT INTO THE TEXT OF THE SHOW. AND THEY STILL HAVE NOT ONCE SAID THAT WE WERE DELUSIONAL FOR SEEING WHAT THEY PUT THERE.

For crying out loud the core emotional arc of the final goddamn season was Dean and Castiel’s relationship.

Castiel flat out confessed his romantic love for Dean in a scene that was written first thing in the season, that was built toward with deliberate intent for multiple years. Through that confession the show retroactively confirmed that all of the subtext and parallels and on and on that meta writers had been pointing out for years was in fact exactly what we thought it was.

So unless you think that somehow we managed to be spot-on correct about everything on Cas’ side but forgot how to interpret layers of text on Dean’s side, you should be able to understand that we were given two equations and one answer.

1 + 1 = 2 is what they gave us for Castiel.

1 + 1 = ? is what they gave us for Dean.

If you think they did it by accident you’re kidding yourself. If you think they left Dean’s answer as a question mark for some malicious reason you’re kidding yourself. If you think that “the writers” think we’re deluded for reading into all the layers the deliberately included in the story then you’re kidding yourself.

Quit uncritically spreading anti trash around like it’s truth.

[gascon-en-exil]

Do you have any interest in Unicorn Overlord, the upcoming game by Vanillaware?

For context, the developer's trademarks are gorgeous visuals, complex plots/lore, and enough sexual shamelessness to rival FE; this is certainly true of both VW games currently available on Switch (13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, GrimGrimoire OnceMore). Both also have a bit of notable queer content (M/M in the former, F/F in the latter).

Incidentally, GrimGrimoire has a demo on the Switch eShop.

I might look into it. The initial trailer for Unicorn Overlord didn't really grab me, and Vanillaware's past games don't look too appealing to me because of their real-time strategy elements. I've never been able to get a feel for RTS. More recent information on UO has piqued my interest a bit more though, so it's possible that I'll check it out come March. Unfortunately 2024 is looking pretty barren for me in terms of new games, with the only other two releases I'm even sort of looking forward to being remakes/remasters of older Mario games - and as my Super Mario RPG run showed me, those aren't great for content unless I can think of something short and clickbait-y.

On that note however, I have no idea how well UO would go over as channel content. I never got great numbers out of my Octopath Traveler or Triangle Strategy videos, despite being FE-adjacent Switch RPGs. I dislike the idea of being pegged for a single series, especially one with nothing new announced on the horizon *crosses fingers for FE4 remake in the February Direct* but at least now that I've gotten talking about the Discourse™ out of the way I feel like I have more room to revisit Three Houses and older FEs for video ideas without having to sigh over all the wank. I've already got two such ideas for the relatively near future, with one I'm planning to have out in January.

But yeah - Unicorn Overlord is a maybe on playing, and a shakier maybe for video content.

[mike-wheeler-faggotry]

Midlevens scare me so much 😭 i wanted to see if they had any proof/parallels for mileven endgame and i checked out a few accs in particular and IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY WANT TO H-RT BYLERS SO BADLY they’re just scary 😭😭😭

Not every mileven is "scary" as you say. I've talked with many milevens in this fandom, and the majority are actually rather chill. Many are queer themselves, not just the homophobic straight girl stereotype I see floating around.

There are toxic milevens, and they should be called out as such. But there are toxic bylers too, as every fandom group has toxic people. Don't get too involved in shipcourse and forget its just fandom wank at the end of the day. That's how the toxic shippers become toxic.

[rwdestuffs]

So some WB animation & CN staffers are trying to unionize now. No clue whether this means anything for Chicken Dentures, but at this point I'm waaay more hopeful about that & other Texan 'pay us already' animation developments than this hashtagnewvolumelaborwhatlabor? sewage. Lately fndm/rwde wank seems to get very lost in the weeds of in-show character crit, but the former clique's nonresponse to so many disclosures remains fucking awful.

I'm hoping it means that the animators, writers, voice actors, and everyone involved in the show gets decent pay. I get why fans want to see the show continue. For a lot of people, this is how they met online friends, made connections with other artists or writers, and found a community where they belong. But I think that that community can survive even if the show gets delayed like hell.

If fans can keep shouting at Sony to delay Beyond the Spider-Verse so that the animators, writers, VAs, etc. can be paid properly and have the time they need to make a good movie, then so can the fans of RWBY. The main issue is that greenlighting the show is very much out of their hands, so while Spider-Verse is pretty much greenlit, RWBY isn't, so fans need to show enough support to prove that there is enough demand for the show in order for it to continue.

Fans can wait a few years for RWBY so that the animation is good, the writing is good, and so that the people working on it aren't worked to death. And while I'm somewhat curious as to what the show will bring us (good and bad), there needs to be an understanding that a good story is one that takes time.

Legend of Korra once had a filler episode just so they could keep their animators and other such personal on the show, I don't see why RT can't have some delays to make sure their show would be of both quality, and of humane production.

I admittedly, haven't been around the rwde/crtq tag as much lately, so I don't know what's going on. And that's mainly because I've come to the conclusion that any flaw in RWBY is also a flaw in other shows. Say what you want about Emerald, at least they didn't take a doll off the corpse of a girl and send it as a halfhearted idea of a gift to a family member while giving another family member something that was actually had thought put into it, like Iroh. Say what you want about Ilia, at least she didn't hire an assassin to go after the main heroes because she was unsure of her place in the place that rejected her, like Zuko. Say what you want about Ruby, at least she didn't claim to be a non-killing pacifist while also burying people in an avalanche, like Aang did.- Basically, any flaw within RWBY is also a flaw within other shows that are also critically acclaimed, like AtLA.

The main point I'm trying to make here is that the story does deserve to be told. It does deserve to have its ending. But that shouldn't come at the expense of animators, writers, voice actors, or anyone really. If RT can't make the show in a humane way, then they should hand it off to a company that will. If that means they go down, well… They brought that on themselves. And maybe if these guys can get unionized, the show can be made without the expense of people around them. And I'd like to think that the show itself would improve if it were made humanely.

So while I have no idea what the future will hold, I'm hoping that it'll be at least somewhat better than what we have right now. If we fail to make the world better for the next generation, then we've failed as a generation. And the same can be said about previous generations. And future generations too.

[dread-master-styrak]

I didn't like rogue trader.

I tried playing it and found the combat a complete number wanking slog lol. I don't think that game is for me.

And it's kinda weird because the gameplay is similar to Mechanicus which I don't really have issues with. But also Mechanicus battles are a bit more bite sized and you only need to worry about like two armor types and three damage types.

As opposed to the numberwank with tons of stats, bonuses, and damage types in multiple party members.

Also what helps the Mechanicus game is that it's an aspect of 40k I really like, as opposed to RTs that I'm neutral about.

[mirandamckenni1]

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[heisttheblackflag]

None of the RT podcasts have been saved/ sold. The Roost is the business side which matches up podcasts with advertisers and networks, so thats what has been purchased- the networking/ management side of things. The actual podcasts are still in the same position as everything else RT related.

ahhh okay, that makes a lot of sense with what I’ve heard. it was never super clear to me what The Roost as an entity was so that clears that up, thank you!

frustrating we still don’t know the state of the actual podcasts but that does track a little better with what RT/WB have said and with the company The Roost just got sold to