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i love him!!!!!!!!!!!

#hades game

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Baby.

absolutely perfect child.

SHE'S SO CUTE I CAN'T TAKE IT

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all's fair in love and war

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I really love how there like in shadow's kinda and that Melione is lit up meaning she's there light and I just wanna keep screaming about it and how like Zag probably is the kindest big brother ever anyway-

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idk what you think of Hades game but have you seen the Hepheastus art for hades 2 that was released today?

because he seems tailor made in a lab for your tastes

Ohhhh, I love him, I love the choice to give him a wheelchair rather than just a prosthesis and/or a cane, I don't see that often for Hephaestus designs!

I really love how the matchedness of his bracers, prosthetic leg, and wheelchair imply he's made them all himself, this fucks.

Also, I love Hades game! I've played it a lot and I really like it, and while it unfortunately missed out some of my favourite of the Greek pantheon, it has some really cool takes on the mythos that I find really creative and novel.

If you're not familiar with Hadestown, I absolutely recommend it, it's a glorious musical, and also has a tremendous take on the mythos!

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ODYSSEUS, Veteran Tactician Hades 2 (TBA) dev. Supergiant Games

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all the new god portraits (so far) in hades 2 !!!

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THE NARRATOR WAS HOMER!!!! I REPEAT; THE NARRATOR WAS HOMER!!!!

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grandma demeter is ready for war

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Watcher, once they read all the comments to their announcement:

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We all understand wanting to leave YouTube. The issue here is, instead of just getting their own website and shifting the content, they are going full throttle on making their fans pay for every single aspect- including content they’d already been given for free, over multiple years.

Plenty of content creators have had their own content sites over the years, with free content and then content specifically for their paid tiers. Not unlike Patreon but everything in the same place. So that fans could enjoy their content, especially videos they’re already viewed and enjoyed for free, but they are getting their freedom and their subscriptions.

It’s a strictly business decision and that’s fine. I just hope they’re prepared for how many regular viewers they’re going to lose because people can’t afford this, or straight up just aren’t willing to pay for something they used to get to free.

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The most important comment in this whole mess

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idk man i know times are hard but i can't help but feel that watcher putting all their eggs in the basket that is their own streaming service is a bad call. like sure i totally get wanting a platform where you have full control both creatively and financially but i feel they might be misjudging how much loyalty non-hardcore fans might have for what they're creating. in every internet fandom there's a subsection of people willing to pay with actual money to support the creators they enjoy, and that's what services like patreon are for. but to expect that casual viewers will sign up and pay a monthly fee to get access to just watcher content when a large portion of them were likely just watching the content because it was free and accessible on youtube assumes that someone who isn't a diehard fan won't just go "oh well" and find something else on youtube that IS still free? that seems like a miscalculation to me. the massive fanbases online content creators have may literally be only possible because the content is available to anyone-- it seems foolish to assume that every single one of those fans is going to stick around once you try to upsell them.

i hope this new venture goes well for the watcher crew. I really do. but i also know that a lot of brands and startups that bank on the loyalty they earned when their product was free or low cost and expect that to sustain them while they try to do something that historically has not gone well for the vast majority of businesses. at best, they'll have halved their fanbase by alienating those who can't or don't want to pay and made it much more difficult for remaining fans to create fandom products like memes or gifs that promote their shows on social media. at worst, they'll discover in the near future the independent streaming service model is unsustainable with only the fans they have left and by that point they'll have already deleted themselves from youtube and made it impossible to come back to the level of success they had before. any attempt to return to youtube will be an admission of a critical miscalculation and i doubt many remaining fans will tolerate the back and forth. they'll have crippled their credibility, relevancy, and fanbase loyalty over a very short period of time-- and i don't know if it would even be possible to come back and still be beloved after all that.

worst of all-- if the watcher streaming service crashes and burns after they've already removed all their content from youtube, all the watcher shows are essentially going to become lost media, only accessible via reuploaders willing to risk a copy strike or if you know someone who has a copy downloaded. given how genuinely good the watcher content is in the sea of lackluster youtube mush, that really seems like a damn shame.

i hope the watcher team sees how everyone is responding and decides to course correct before it's too late and get away with only the hit to their reputation that they've already taken by announcing this, instead of pushing forward on a path that might lose them everything instead. nothing i've said here is with any hate intended toward anyone involved or those who are excited about the new service, but this just seems like a really ill-advised decision to me.

#watcher #long post

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I expected Ryan and Shane to be a bit more attached to reality than this. The comments on their video are actually soul crushing. If I were them I’d already have an apology video filmed vertically from my phone with a puddle of my own panicked depression vomit in the background

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some of my favorite comments from the new watcher video

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Sooo…

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You guys do realize a lot of watcher fans complaining about the six dollars don't just need to "cancel their disney+ or hulu subscriptions." They're the people who ALREADY can't afford streaming services. It's not that they should be supporting independent creators over big corporations, it's that they literally cannot afford to do either.

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