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[SneakyLink]

I still don't get the point of SpongeBob Spinoffs. Episodes of the series already can pretty much focus on whatever character they want.

I don't get Spongebob at all myself...

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I don't get Spongebob at all myself...

The first few seasons are actually pretty funny. But then after the creator and a bunch of the original staff left it just became kind of soulless.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Spongebob is honestly a franchise that should have ended since the first movie as originality planned.

As with The Simpsons, Family Guy, Ice Age, Sci-Fi classics (Terminator, Alien, Predator), classic Slashers (Halloween notably). Its okay for an franchise to end and if you want to continue it do something different as the Child's Play reboot had shown rather then repeating the same thing from previous movies.

Just my opinion and two cents.

The first few seasons are actually pretty funny. But then after the creator and a bunch of the original staff left it just became kind of soulless.

Without getting too carried away. That's not getting started with the episodes One Course Meal, A Pal for Gary and such. Who thought such episodes would appeal to audiences?

 

[Deleted member]

I'm thinking of doing a Pokemon ribbon challenge, but I can't really decide which one to pick. I'm excluding the purification ribbon from Colosseum/XD because it would severely narrow down the potential Pokemon. I'm trying to decide between Chimecho and shiny Bellossom, as I love them both. And while I slightly prefer Chimecho, Bellossom has the advantage of being in Galar though.

 

[Shyy_Guy595]

CN is in a much better spot than Nick atm in terms of the quality of shows IMO. Problem is the Networking part with the poor scheduling of shows and constant hiatuses.

Nick only has a few things and then otherwise has like a whole bunch of different shows which makes it good for variety, I guess.

 

[Megadoomer]

Ok off topic but.. what is "COPPA"? Two youtube channels I watch are already discussing quitting over it.

COPPA is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act - from what I'm reading, it's unclear what would be considered content that should be labeled as being for children, and if Youtube, the FTC, or whoever else decides that the content is for kids and isn't labelled as such, then the channel could be hit with fines.

Basically, Youtube's making a bunch of big changes while being unclear about who those changes apply to. On a similar note, the terms of use were recently updated to say that entire channels could be shut down if they're deemed to not be commercially viable, even though it's not clear what that means or who they're targeting with that statement. (in theory, if a channel isn't making enough money, it could be shut down, which seems disastrous for basically every single small channel out there)

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Angry Beavers will always be best show.

Change my mind.

 

[Shyy_Guy595]

Spongebob is honestly a franchise that should have ended since the first movie as originality planned.

As with The Simpsons, Family Guy, Ice Age, Sci-Fi classics (Terminator, Alien, Predator), classic Slashers (Halloween notably). Its okay for an franchise to end and if you want to continue it do something different as the Child's Play reboot had shown rather then repeating the same thing from previous movies.

Just my opinion and two cents.

Without getting too carried away. That's not getting started with the episodes One Course Meal, A Pal for Gary and such. Who thought such episodes would appeal to audiences?

Friday the 13th but it's just a guy who put on a hockey mask in school and decided to go on a murder spree.

 

[DerpingPikachu]

COPPA is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act - from what I'm reading, it's unclear what would be considered content that should be labeled as being for children, and if Youtube, the FTC, or whoever else decides that the content is for kids and isn't labelled as such, then the channel could be hit with fines.

Basically, Youtube's making a bunch of big changes while being unclear about who those changes apply to. On a similar note, the terms of use were recently updated to say that entire channels could be shut down if they're deemed to not be commercially viable, even though it's not clear what that means or who they're targeting with that statement. (in theory, if a channel isn't making enough money, it could be shut down, which seems disastrous for basically every single small channel out there)

That's so ridiculous.
I miss old youtube

 

[Arcadenik]

Jessie/James originate from the anime so I don't think they would be eligible. I mean, if Sakurai really had his heart set on including them in Smash, yeah, probably. But characters themselves still have to originate from/be created for video games in mind; usually outside material only gets referenced if it's not a character (Misty's anime design is the Melee trophy but her description still talks about her in the games, etc.).

Ash Greninja originated in anime and yet it is Greninja’s Final Smash.

When Sakurai said no to non-video game characters I think he was talking about characters like Goku from Dragon Ball and Iron Man from Marvel Comics. I don’t think he was talking about characters from anime based on Nintendo’s own IPs.

If Jessie and James somehow actually get in Smash, the game can say Jessie and James are from Pokémon Let’s Go and not from the anime. The trophies can talk about them in Pokémon Let’s Go. Their fighter spirits can be their Pokémon Let’s Go art.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

That's so ridiculous.
I miss old youtube

My favorite movie reviewer Ramboraph4life I've watched for so long is apparently closing his account as a result of it. This really sucks...

Although I'll be following him on Bitchute and I still have ocpcommunications who is staying.

 

[Shroob]

I feel so damn bad for these things.

Spoiler: Porkymans

It's not even like the amalgams in Undertale, these things are literally suffering
Dracovish can't even breathe on land.

 

[Kirby Dragons]

Nickelodeon's quality as a channel has declined severely. I have very little reason to watch it nowadays.

 

[Deleted member]

All of the Youtubers should move to Newgrounds and Twitch.

 

[Diem]

Ok off topic but.. what is "COPPA"? Two youtube channels I watch are already discussing quitting over it.

A new FTC rule that's now affecting YouTube, where you have to mark your channel/videos as either for kids or not for kids.

Millions of kids watch YouTube. It's probably the most lucrative market on the site. My younger siblings watch YouTube all the time, with these videos made by adults that are remarkably stupid, obnoxious, and low-effort, but they're targeted towards kids and they have millions of subscribers and hundreds of millions of views. Think about that in comparison to your own favorite channels, and the difference is likely staggering.

Some of these channels are parents making videos with their kids playing video games or doing other activities, and they even get offered free trips to places like Disney and Atlantis so they can film their family trip there and create free marketing for millions of kids who will then ask their parents if they can go there. And this kind of stuff has been going on for years, but most adults/teenagers just don't notice because this stuff doesn't pop up for older people.

However, some YouTube channels targeting kids have more sinister, mysterious intentions. There's been a lot of videos in these categories that try to spring gore/horror and sexual themes on kids. The infamous "Spider-Man and Elsa" videos are one such mystery, created by adults on camera who are probably deranged in some way. I've also heard of things like Winnie the Pooh videos being made that have horror stuff in them later in the video to try and scare kids. It's incredibly sickening.

I think the main thing, though, was that there was some controversy regarding one aforementioned type of channel with parents and children, where the parents were doing things with/to their children that were pretty close to abusive (I think it was like they were scaring them in some way or something). That channel got a lot of heat and was discussed in the news, and I think it got shut down.

Then of course you have some YouTubers who just simply don't show discretion in how they make/market their videos, making videos about games like Fortnite or Minecraft but using profanity and suggestive content or language despite knowing or not knowing whether their videos are being viewed by kids.

COPPA basically has YouTube deciding to nuke channels that break that regulation. If your videos are marked for kids but are deemed inappropriate for kids, then they'll just take the whole thing down. It's another case of the government breathing down YouTube's neck, because these kinds of things have been going on for years, but YouTube hasn't put any effort into solving them in a reasonable manner. They've had plenty of time, but it wasn't a priority until just now.

A lot of the concern is presumptious. In theory, all you have to do is hit the big button on your channel that says "No, set this channel as not made for kids. I never upload content that's made for kids" like I did this morning and you have nothing to worry about. In theory, it should be the channels that mark themselves as for kids and then produce content that contains unarguably inappropriate content for kids that should be affected.

The larger issue comes from channels who don't explicitly make their content for kids, but aren't profane or otherwise explicitly mature. Arlo is a big example of this, as he's a family-friendly Muppet who never uses profanity or vulgarity and mainly covers Nintendo games, but sometimes covers/discusses horror games or other M-rated games. What's he supposed to do? What if one of his videos covering a more mature video game causes his channel to get flagged and deleted?

And I don't think it's entirely clear how much of this is decided by YouTube's infamous AI bot that analyzes videos, or how much of this is at the discretion of real human beings who browse these videos in search of things that might be inappropriate for kids. Neither situation is good since the infractions are so nebulous that no one knows what will and will not get you in trouble.

It's just another bullet point in the long list of things YouTube is doing to make things difficult for the average content creator because they're completely out of touch with normal people on YouTube.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

COPPA is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act - from what I'm reading, it's unclear what would be considered content that should be labeled as being for children, and if Youtube, the FTC, or whoever else decides that the content is for kids and isn't labelled as such, then the channel could be hit with fines.

Basically, Youtube's making a bunch of big changes while being unclear about who those changes apply to. On a similar note, the terms of use were recently updated to say that entire channels could be shut down if they're deemed to not be commercially viable, even though it's not clear what that means or who they're targeting with that statement. (in theory, if a channel isn't making enough money, it could be shut down, which seems disastrous for basically every single small channel out there)

Oh look , something else all Children and dumb parents ruined for everyone else

 

[Aurane]

Just beat the fifth gym leader. Probably my most favorite gym so far.

Spoiler: Pokemon Team

Cinderace: 42
Boltund: 42
Corviknight: 41
Linoone: 41
Mr. Mime: 41
Weezing: 41

Weezing is ****ing amazing.

 

[Icedragonadam]

All of the Youtubers should move to Newgrounds and Twitch.

I'm surprised P-ornhub haven't made a general video branch site yet. With the great PR social media team they have, they could easily draw in content creators and wreck Youtube.

 

[Lamperouge]

I wanna work more on my Paper Mario game ideas tonight and I decided to gather up a lot of species/enemies exclusive to this universe and I wanted to ask stuff like which would you like to see return or which I could try and do something special with like an NPC, Boss, new variant, maybe even a new partner.

Spoiler: Lotta images here.

View attachment 247079 Bristle
View attachment 247080 Bzzap!
View attachment 247081 Bul-ulb
View attachment 247082 Craw
View attachment 247083Doogan
View attachment 247084 Gulpit
View attachment 247085 Koopatrol
View attachment 247086 Clubba
View attachment 247087 Ember
View attachment 247088 Wizzerd
View attachment 247089Spiny Tromp

View attachment 247090 Spinia
View attachment 247091 Smorg
View attachment 247092 Cleft
View attachment 247093 Boomboxer
View attachment 247094 Koopa Striker
View attachment 247095 Ruff Puff

A Boomboxer partner who would help you solve music related puzzles could be pretty neat.

 

[Plank08]

Hypothetically speaking, if I were able to choose the remaining newcomers, it would be

FP1
5. Lloyd Irving

FP2
1. Phoenix Wright
2. Ryu Hayabusa
3. Master Chief
4. Heihachi
5. Dante


FP3
1. Monokuma
2. Doom Slayer
3. Sora
4. Scorpion
5. Jill Valentine/Leon Kennedy


FP4

1. Chosen Undead (Dark Souls)
2. Crash Bandicoot
3. Kratos
4. Gordon Freeman
5. Monster Hunter

How would you all rate this?

(And Steve is a bonus character)

It’s fine, Kratos over Sackboy hurts so it’s fine

I still think it's a little disrespectful for Nickelodeon to order all of these spinoffs after Hillenburg passed away. From what I can recall, he was against the idea of a Spongebob spinoff.

Yeah, he also said he never wanted the Origins of Spongebob to be shown, but guess what’s happening in the new movie
That’s why I refuse to watch that movie, too disrespectful

 

[Dyllybirdy]

Hey Dylly! Have you gotten SwSh yet?

Hey Wadey! And no, not yet. I think I'll wait until it's a bit cheaper.

What kind of things do you enjoy doing?

Uh, I guess I enjoy playing video games?

also sorry i took so long

 

[Lamperouge]

Uh, I guess I enjoy playing video games?

also sorry i took so long

Oh okay, that's cool. :-P

What games are you currently playing? I've been dabbling in a little Dragon Quest 3 and Pokemon Sword myself, although I haven't really touched the former in a couple of weeks now.

Oh, and no worries about being a little late in answering; a late response is better than no response at all lol.

 

[Deleted member]

Felt the temptation to make the meme:

 

[Shyy_Guy595]

IIRC those Spider-Man kids videos on YouTube were part of some elaborate cult ARG game. Nexpo has a video on it, I believe.

 

[Lamperouge]

Felt the temptation to make the meme:

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The bottom image should have said "push them somewhere else" and the logos for Newgrounds and Twitch could've been in the corner next to where his hands are.

 

[Wademan94]

A Boomboxer partner who would help you solve music related puzzles could be pretty neat.

Yeah, I was thinking about incorporating a bard like partner, originally considered a Crazee Daisy but I feel like the aesthetic would be overkill with as a partner already. I’ll probably go for it as I started thinking of some abilities already

 

[DerpingPikachu]

I miss the good ol days of youtube in 2009. Full of extremely stupid videos and no one cared about making a profit. God I feel old.

 

[Lamperouge]

Yeah, I was thinking about incorporating a bard like partner, originally considered a Crazee Daisy but I feel like the aesthetic would be overkill with as a partner already. I’ll probably go for it as I started thinking of some abilities already

How many partners have you already decided on?

 

[Deleted member]

I just realized all the characters I voice, evil or good, are characters people like.

I’m not voicing anyone the reader despises.

Guess I gotta fix that. /s

 

[Wademan94]

How many partners have you already decided on?

8 total, 4 for and 4 for , I currently have 6 planned out so they both need one more partner, and I’ll probably give the bard to Peach for reasons.

 

[Shroob]

IIRC those Spider-Man kids videos on YouTube were part of some elaborate cult ARG game. Nexpo has a video on it, I believe.

No, that was only a very small handful.

Greetings Nexpo fan.

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

Guys...I don't know if this was shared yet, and if it was, please don't hate me for saying it again, but...

Spoiler: Best news you'll hear all day.

They are making a spinoff of Spongebob with Squidward as the star.

Spoiler

There is now new meaning in life.

 

[TheMightyP]

Tbh, Spongebob is still carrying Nickelodeon nowadays. I don't have time to watch it being in uni with no cable, but when I do, I still end up laughing quite a bit, even with the latest seasons. The last couple of seasons in particular stepped up their game a lot, I mean, the 20th anniversary special is amongst my favorite Spongebob specials, and would have been an amazing way to end the series.

The Loud House is fine too, just... it can't carry Nick, like at all.

 

[Dyllybirdy]

Oh okay, that's cool. :-P

What games are you currently playing? I've been dabbling in a little Dragon Quest 3 and Pokemon Sword myself, although I haven't really touched the former in a couple of weeks now.

Oh, and no worries about being a little late in answering; a late response is better than no response at all lol.

I unfortunately haven't had the chance to play many games lately. And I have a lot of games I need to play lol

 

[Shyy_Guy595]

No, that was only a very small handful.

Greetings Nexpo fan.

Yeah. And those few are probably the ones with the dark imagery.

And yeah. I hate it cause it freaks me out but I still watch him for whatever reason.

 

[Shroob]

Yeah. And those few are probably the ones with the dark imagery.

And yeah. I hate it cause it freaks me out but I still watch him for whatever reason.

Nah.

There are a LOT of Elsagate **** not connected to the Palsare arg.

 

[TheMightyP]

Also, if you guys want to talk of Nick shows going downhill, the Fairly Odd Parents got it WAY than Spongebob. You could still salvage and redeem Spongebob, the FOP was at the point of no return.

 

[Shyy_Guy595]

Nah.

There are a LOT of Elsagate **** not connected to the Palsare arg.

Ahh gotcha. Oh well. Children can take it. They're practically devils themselves.

 

[Megadoomer]

I just pre-purchased Halo: the Master Chief Collection on Steam. (probably foolish of me to do that before reviews come in, but I figure it will run fine) My Xbox 360 doesn't play original Xbox games, so it seems like a good opportunity to play Halo 1 and 2. (I haven't played Halo 1 before, and I only played a bit of Halo 2 - my first Halo game was Halo 3, so I was a little confused about the story as a result)

 

[Shyy_Guy595]

Also, if you guys want to talk of Nick shows going downhill, the Fairly Odd Parents got it WAY than Spongebob. You could still salvage and redeem Spongebob, the FOP was at the point of no return.

Imagine if they brought Jimmy Neutron back.

I know Danny Phantom had a proposed reboot but never got greenlit unfortunately.