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  1. The Mewtwo DLC reaction was one thing, but the most lasting impact for me of course was the most over the top reaction of them all... Okay, the Mewtwo one he was louder in initially, but this was more long winded. That shirt he wore afterward too... The red color alt for Ridley was apparently his favorite to use, which I'll remember whenever I use that skin again on the game... R.I.P. fellow Ridley main. edit: Perfect tribute.
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  2. There is a pretty sizable market out there for people with high end smartphones that could run fairly complex games so it's not exactly out of the ordinary. There was a lot of this kind of chatter going on as mobile gaming took off in Japan with CEOs, like Ishihara, wondering how traditional gaming would fare with the rise of mobile as a viable delivery platform for gaming. I mean, a lot of this was heard even as the 3DS first started making waves and was a big point of contention when the 3DS struggled in its early years and is often used as a bulletpoint by people explaining why the 3DS, having done well enough, had total sales that were well below the Nintendo DS. There have even been budget mid range smartphones released in the past few years that could run some of those games as well with little to no problem. Technically, he's not wrong to question things back then but the problem was leaving his thoughts out there as a general assumption of the market, something that he admits he was wrong about (and continued to be proven wrong about in the two years since the article was written) when it came to the Switch. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with Ishihara at all and we've seen the market react similarly. But at the end of the day traditional Pokemon software continued to be produced for Nintendo's hardware while other kinds of Pokemon software were being produced for mobile devices. Both types have been able to succeed on their own offerings independent of one another. If this article is reflective of anything it's how Ishihara's thinking was challenged years ago as the Switch saw and continued to see success and he has admitted as much.
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  3. To be frank, TPC (not GameFreak) wishing they could forgo Nintendo for smartphones isn't exactly *news*. Like, PGO is their most lucrative product in history, of course they want more of that. But I don't know how much that applies to GameFreak. The latter is a game developer, and all their games are for Switch; notably, Town, a self-published game is heading for Switch so I think they're generally happy to make games for that console.
    1 point
  4. borders aren't real and our country is only good at perpetuating war crimes and exploiting communities for resources
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  5. Etika had a knack for creating hype around Nintendo and really whatever he did for the most part, and that is the reason I subbed to him on YouTube. It wasn't just his reactions, but also how his audience interacted with him that made the energy of his streams appealing to me. To me, it's rare to see contributions be something epic, and Etika made it happen. I got the news of his passing from my little brother, and I thought he was joking due to events that occurred over the last year. It was a shock at first, but I've come to accept the news as the evening went. I love seeing the positive messages he is getting on social media and the awareness that's being given to suicide prevention. In one instance, over $16,000 was raised, so I'm glad that Etika was able to leave such an impact on the community during his life. Hopefully his family and friends celebrate that good as they try to cope and hope Etika has gone to a much better place where he's free of whatever had been troubling him.
    1 point
  6. I can't remember what first got me into checking out his videos but for a time I enjoyed seeing his over the top reactions because they were funny. But more than just that, as much of a clown as he saw himself as there were moments where I really just enjoyed watching his playthroughs of some games (especially Xenoblade) and watchthroughs of some anime and seeing his genuine and legitimate reactions to things that happened. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is one of my favorite playthroughs of his because he pays attention to what is going on and actually reacts to what is going on with the story or with certain characters or certain events and more than that he dedicated a LOT of time to that game. But when the moments that could be considered cries for help as he started acting out in weird ways started happening I slowly drifted away. More than just losing my taste for what he was doing I think the breaking point where I really stopped paying attention to him is when that first incident that blew up on social media . At the time I took it more as a cry for attention rather than a cry for help and couldn't stand the fact that he betrayed the help and empathy of so many people who wanted the best for him. I don't apologize for how I felt at the time or getting to a point of pushing his antics away but it does make me question my own actions if this was someone much closer to me rather than a youtuber I used to spend a lot of time watching. Being able to parse why people may be doing what they're doing from our own feelings of why they're doing that is a tough thing and giving the benefit of a doubt when it's not always obvious that there is something else beneath the surface makes it that much more concerning. I did end up watching the video that's going around about his final message and it's incredibly sobering to hear him speak about everything in such a real way. For me, hearing him talk as if he fully understands his issues, fully understands what he's done, fully understands the consequences and yet fully understands how he wants to "solve" it was the toughest thing to think about. Hearing him aware of the fact that he's going to miss out on things that he enjoys, miss out on seeing friends and family grow up and prosper, miss out on things he is looking forward to it starts to hit harder and harder about just how far gone he may have been. It's a terrible thing that this is how it turned out. If nothing else, hopefully he's been able to find his peace now.
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