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The internet has allowed for new forms of entertainment, including watching others doing hobbies. Either as video or live streaming, you can watch people draw, crochet, build model kits, open trading cards, rebuild an F1 car engine, perform open heart surgery (probably), learn how to do things of various levels of importance to the universe or teach you how to do them. AMSR is just someone making noises that calm people. The trick is that the creator has to be entertaining, interesting, and/or informative if not all three. They even made vacation videos interesting, one of the big running gags of conversation and television, proving it was just that your Aunt Edna got more out of her trip to Oxnard that you do watching it versus when Jackiechanfan85b showed off his.
From the early days of the modern internet, one of the first internet born entertainment options are “let’s play’s”, where you watch other people play video games. Now there are streaming channels on Sling and Plex among other freestream channels that are just people playing video games. That started with short videos posted to YouTube and let’s play websites. Then Twitch came along, and now livestreaming those games while talking to and with the audience made the let’s play, live or recorded, a big part of internet and gaming cultures.
And yet there are people who make the games would rather that didn’t happen. Not all, mind you. Smaller studios see them as free advertising, and it wasn’t just Markiplier making Five Nights At Freddy’s so successful it has novels, it’s own theatrical movie, and enough imitators to fill a pizza parlor. No matter how many people were playing the games on the internet, it needed other gamers to also buy the game and play them…or at least buy the game. They have your money, then it’s only the developers who want to see people playing and loving their games unless they’re in it for the messaging or the money. Or both.
An article came out recently by Japanese site Nikkan Sports. Translated by Google Translate for me, comedian Hidetaka Kano was discussing his own streaming and brought up a conversation with Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. He also said he went to Capcom for permission to stream the game. We’ve seen Nintendo of Japan push back against anyone streaming their games in the belief that watching a stream means less sales rather than more, though there are plenty of indie game developers who would beg to differ. So then the president of Nintendo Of America at the time, Reggie Fils-Aimé, who fought for the let’s play community. I learned of this interview from a Bleeding Fool article by Mike Murphy. I understand where Mikami is coming from, but I’m not sure I share that perspective, which still isn’t as harsh as Murphy made it sound.
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I was going to save this for Friday or maybe a little closer to when the movie came out, but I didn’t sleep well last night and I need the time without going through all the buffer I built up on my week off. Also, we’ll be talking about the spoilers to Avengers: Doomsday so if you want to avoid that, maybe just scroll down to the video by Linkara of Atop The Fourth Wall if you’re curious or look for the “Secret Wars” video from 2026, just last week as of this posting.
All indications are that the plot for Avengers: Doomsday and the two or three movies that will follow will be based on the 2015 version of Secret Wars, and it’s not the best showing for Marvel heroes if that’s the case. Keeping spoilers off the homepage, it’s also about the end of the multiverse and features Doctor Doom as the villain, using cosmic power to recreate reality in vision because that’s what Doctor Doom does. His ego and quest for the power to control everything has led to take advantage of godlike beings before and this was no different, though the one in the comic isn’t the same as the MCU reimagining out of necessity.
It’s not the worse comic to fall under the “Secret Wars” banner, originally meant to push a toyline but became the first case of Marvel’s Eventitis illness back when they only did it as a summer event to keep readers coming during their vacations. Now every storyline in comics is practically a mini-event. Linkara, the internet persona of Lewis Lovhaug, does “Event Comics Month” every year, or at least tries to. Like my recent issues with all the anthology comics coming my way, these take the most time to read, write, and review, which is harder on him since he has to get more than a cover. He has to get sample pages and pan them to make the video work. It just so happened that among this year’s remaining list of events the fans chose this version of Secret Wars before the MCU spoilers leaked, and the recent trailer seems to prove much of what they said. So let’s watch Linkara go over the comic event that inspired the movie event and see what they’re working with.
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I’m surprised it took this long, actually. Some years ago DC Comics moved from their New York home to be closer to Warner Brothers, under the thought that everybody should act like one happy family under one proverbial roof. That hasn’t helped either entity, but that’s another conversation. Still, it makes it strange that Disney ordered Marvel Comics to move to California when everyone seems to be getting OUT of California…but that’s a whole other conversation, half of with doesn’t fit the topic of this site.
Does this move signal bad news for Marvel Comics? Not really. I don’t know who does their printing, so it might make things harder to get the proofs and maybe it affects distribution. I don’t know how DC was affected by any of that, but it’s been the least of either publisher’s problems. It’s also not going to fix anything at Marvel. Distribution will be just as limited, new Editor In Chief Steven Wacker probably won’t fix the Spider-Marriage (and undoing the Mephisto deal that’s gone one so long it has it’s own baggage with Peter and MJ’s relationships) or restore Tony Stark’s lineage, and by now I don’t even need Leon (if you read my comic, you know) to tell people that changing the editor won’t necessarily fix anything because the last few certainly haven’t.
Like with Warner and DC we know instinctively that this has nothing to do with helping the comics. It’s all about Marvel Studios, and the “important” media to Disney. I keep hearing people talking about Kevin Feige’s influence on the comics as well as James Gunn with DC. I don’t know for certain how close that runs, since we know neither studio runner could give two cents about the source material. Marvel Studios even more so because I’ve not heard anyone at DC Studios telling creators that knowing the comics will keep you from working for them and they’re still adapting or being inspired (badly) by comic stories. Supergirl was loosely based on a comic miniseries. Who does this move help, and how does this tie into my tinfoil hat theory that this could be tied to the spoilers for Avengers: Doomsday and the films to follow? That last part may sound clickbaity, but let me go through the sane stuff, then hear me out…if only for fun.
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I post this so you know I’ve seen it. I don’t care. With everything that’s happened recently and every stupid thing that’s come out about what’s going on behind the scenes, the fact I know Marvel Studios doesn’t care anymore, and being based on a comic storyline I already wasn’t interested in, apathy is all I can manage for this thing.
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I think the problem is that the superheroes came first, responding to crimes the police couldn’t handle. It was catharsis that someone was able to stop mobsters, even if it was in a fictional world where mad scientists would also come about. Once the superhero evolved from the “mystery men” and pulp heroes, they needed someone more interesting to battle, hence the supervillains. So every new universe usually starts out with the superhero and the supervillains come later. Imagine if the supervillains came first and the superhero rose to stop them.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on July 23, 2026 in DC Spotlight, Marvel Spotlight and tagged Comics By Perch, commentary, superheroes.
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