{"id":13018,"date":"2023-08-04T18:17:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T01:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecontrollerport.com\/?p=13018"},"modified":"2023-08-04T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T01:25:18","slug":"the-impact-of-mayor-frog-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onecontrollerport.com\/the-impact-of-mayor-frog-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Mayor Frogcar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love Irasutoya, which, if you don\u2019t know, is where I get all the silly clip art that, in some ways, I\u2019ve kind of adopted as a visual style for my content. Whether it\u2019s good to use something generic like that or not is another question. There are some commercial restrictions, but hopefully, you could afford to move away from them at that point. Masahiro Sakurai briefly used them in his initial YouTube videos but has since moved to custom artwork. Either way, it has a massive database of images, a consistent aesthetic, and, most importantly, is very cute.<\/p>\n

One of the ways I\u2019ve used this art was to tell the story of Mayor Frogcar during our Napple Tale stream. Mayor Frogcar, in my stream narrative, got arrested, broke out of prison, and, if I remember correctly, maybe even died at some point. Was it funny? I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t even know if I care. It was just stupid in the way I like things being stupid.<\/p>\n

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Like a lot of YouTubers, there was a time when I included a bunch of humor in my video. The AVGN effect, you could probably call it. But eventually, I moved away from this style since often I would look back at these videos and not find them all that funny. The Skyward Sword video was a breaking point since I think it only existed as a joke, rather than any sort of review. Since then, I\u2019ve been kind of scared to put my toes into much humor due to worrying about how it ages, though on the podcast and stream, naturally, my humor will come out a bit more there.<\/p>\n

I think Mayor Frogcar made me wish I did more of that stuff still, though. Ultimately, in a stream environment, it didn\u2019t really make much sense to keep doing it anyways.<\/p>\n

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One of the last things I did when streaming weekly was the King of Fishing Tournament, a silly fishing mini-game ranking thing. I love the idea a lot.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been working on reviving King of Fishing in a non-stream format. But one issue I had was that in each video I needed to re-introduce the two basic rules of the tournament, not only as a reminder but for any new watchers as well.<\/p>\n

Rather than remembering what to say off the cuff at the start of each one, I thought about making a stock explainer I could put at the start of every video. But I think that\u2019d be kind of boring. So I kind of delved back into that desire to make almost mini-stories to introduce the ruleset. I\u2019ve been working away at them for the last couple of weeks now in my free time. They\u2019re not done, but I did get most of what I wanted finished in the Yakuza 3 fishing game intro.<\/p>\n