Clearing the Backlog

Correction: 191 subscribers for me, 5 for my brother. The video editor on my new laptop will take some getting used to, but at least it works, unlike the version on the one that just died. My original laptop still randomly shuts off, but after what happened to the last one (which is 8 years old and they still couldn’t get a replacement battery for it), I will have to prepare myself for the inevitable. I got rid of Google AdSense and my HubPages accounts too. They were being threatened by CCPA, the California version of COPPA. It’s not being handled any better, since you have to click a button to restrict ads to be in compliance, but when you click ‘save changes,’ nothing happens. I don’t use it anymore, so I had no reason to keep it, but I want to keep YouTube. It’s the Content ID that has me concerned. I didn’t care if copyright holders wanted to put ads on my videos if it meant I could keep them up. However, we can’t trust YouTube, especially since they use language like “We trust you, but if we think you’re wrong or abusing the system, we can reset your audience settings and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Finally finished reading the Dream Drop Distance novel. We get a short bit with Lea meeting the three good fairies, but that’s pretty much all. I would’ve loved an extra scene of Lea going back to Radiant Garden to tell them what happened before going back and going with Kairi to train with Merlin. Still no insights from Xigbar, so that’s disappointing. I’m adding (probably drawing) a scene with Kagemiya having to comfort Ienzo after Ansem “leaves” because everyone else is busy processing their own grief; Xehanort also gives him the purple tie, saying that he can decide for himself whether or not he’s ready. This of course makes it worse, since Ienzo had wanted Ansem to give it to him as a rite of passage; classic Xehanort trying to help but making it so much worse than it already was. Like, I just got him to stop crying and you come and do this? What’s wrong with you?!

Not surprisingly, Maria doesn’t like hacking and would rather people fight each other to the death. I never noticed before how much Jacques sounded like Beerus because that’s who his voice actor is. The new actor for Qrow is getting better at sounding like him, and Caitlin Glass is Willow Schnee. It’s the return of drunk Winry from the FullMetal Alchemist movie shorts!

My favorite episodes of Steven Universe Future so far are Volleyball and Why So Blue?. I also liked the first episode. Segue: Does the Diamond Authority come from coal? Is it bad I wanted to root for Gilbert Gottfried in the TTG Christmas episode? He was a better Santa anyway.

Adult Swim mashup: Wizard: “Slut dragon!” Bitch Pudding: “Hey, I’M a slut!”

Disaster Strikes

According to analytics, my YouTube channel has no demographic data. So…am I safe? Or is it going to be like my bank (which charges a fee on accounts when their balance falls below 10,000 dollars when it was free under the bank they bought out) and find a reason to go after me after the fact? They’re only doing this to recover the costs of their fine in the first place. I’m glad that our complaints are forcing Google to clarify, but it’s still too broad and completely at their discretion. Plus, my brother and I never monetized our channels – only the copyright claims on music do that. So yeah, if that counts, I guess we’re screwed. But Toon Ruins said they probably won’t go after small channels since they know they can’t get anything from them. I have 193 subscribers and my brother had 2, so I'm pretty sure that's small enough. Plus, since his channel's inactive, they could very well just delete it and call it a day if they wanted. Time’s running out to do anything about it, but I’ve just been so busy. Maybe they announced this when they did so that people like me would be too busy to try to defend themselves.

Another reason I’ve been busy is that Sword and Shield came out. My husband caught a shiny (Square?) Stufful and named it Fred Bear. Finally got around to watching the new batch of TTG episodes – did not like the Doom Patrol even more than I already didn’t. And they had to drag Dale Jr. into the two-part Transformers parody. They should sell the Titans-themed cars though. If I had to pick a least-worst episode, it would be the one with Cyborg and Robot Man.

Apparently Marzgurl got banned from Twitter for starting KickVic. I had no idea she was involved with this at all. With everything that happened with Justin, she has good reason not to trust Vic or anyone else. Vic lost his case but won an appeal, so I’m not sure how this will turn out or whether he’s innocent or not. This season of Survivor was horribly edited, and the MeToo storyline that ended with Dan getting removed from the game for touching a female production member makes it the worst season in recent memory. Not that they could’ve predicted his behavior before they started filming, but this should’ve been handled better by production and players alike as soon as it became a problem. The fans called him out on being creepy right away, so how could the producers not have acted sooner? Ratings (and other players using it to their advantage to vote out the original victim, Kellee). Before it was revealed on the editing screen, I thought maybe something had happened to Dan’s son, who’d just been there for the family visit challenge. As with previous seasons, Dan should’ve been eliminated right away for causing problems, but they decided to keep going until it affected production. I’m sure if this was Big Brother, Dan would’ve been told to go to the Diary Room and then escorted out immediately, since those are mounted cameras with no human personnel to fondle. Big Brother keeps the peace.

Things I like about my hometown: the land, Hong Kong Chinese restaurant (and the Japanese restaurant attached to it), East Side Pizza (across the street from Hong Kong), Trackside Pizza (a rail car parked next to an active railroad track!)

Things I hate about my hometown: most of the people who live there (apparently, it’s Trump country - and here I thought we were trying to get away from that past)

The End of YouTube?

It’s been a while. I’ve been busy with work and my computer battery died so I had to get a new laptop. Transferred over all the important files but still clinging to hope that the rest can be salvaged either professionally or whatever. Just finished and uploaded this year’s holiday video, but if YouTube is really going to fine every video on a channel marked “not for kids” that contains lots of pretty colors and shapes, anime and gaming channels are going down hard. I don’t want to be among them, so I may just delete my videos on New Year’s Eve. My brother hasn’t used his channel in years, back when you didn’t use your email to sign in. I don’t remember what email he used, but my attempts to retrieve it have failed. I hope they don’t hold his inactive account against him, since he was an MLP channel.

I haven’t watched the newest batch of TTG episodes, but the six-episode dump prior was mostly hot garbage. That being said, TV Knight 5 took a shot at getting political, so kudos. At least we can all agree who public enemy no. 1 is. I also approve of Cyborg hitting Robin instead of Robin hitting Beast Boy; that was great. Raven still has her forehead gem, so I guess that movie wasn't canon or hasn't happened in continuity yet. I forgot to mention this last time, but even though I hate TTG Beast Boy, ‘03 Titans Beast Boy is precious and must be protected at all cost. I saw Linkara’s Secret Origins month video on Cyborg/Starfire/Raven, and I’m disgusted that Starfire and Raven’s creator was kind of a pervert when it came to choosing their body types and rationale for doing so. At least that explains why Raven’s so into dance in TTG. I knew that Cyborg was put on the Justice League to replace Martian Manhunter, but I didn’t know that Hal Jordan was back on the team instead of John Stewart.

I read the Dream Drop Distance light novel, and though I don’t like the way it’s arranged (instead of switching back and forth like the game, the story is divided up into Sora and Riku respectively, whereas BBS was organized by world instead of character unlike that game’s structure – weird). I love the narration when Lea and the others wake up – he remembers that he was responsible for Zexion’s death, and when Ienzo says “What happened?” when he gets up, he says he doesn’t know and Ienzo glares at him. Aeleus says “What the devil?” when he gets up, which I didn’t think was in character for him but whatever. Haven’t finished it yet (no time, and I’ve got more to read), but really looking forward to it. Finally got Clear Card 6 in the mail yesterday. Clear Card 7 is set to come out at the end of April.

“Trust Love” is probably my least favorite RWBY theme song so far, so as my least favorite game (aside from the mobile game series). As far as the KH/RWBY comparisons/designations go, Re:Coded can have it. I enjoyed Rooster Teeth’s holiday merch video parodying Die Hard (with Santa instead of Bruce Willis). “RWBY is a show, you fools!” Neo (and her theme song) were added to BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle; all she does is giggle and have ellipses as her dialogue. Very surprised to see the main character of Arcana Hearts as well. Only played the first game, so if there are more characters besides her, I don’t recognize them.