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I said during my Grindworks video that I would livestream Corporate Clash April Toons on release day. Unfortunately, they are releasing April Toons at a time that is inconvenient for me to stream, so I decided to just not do it. I'm honestly relieved about it because I thought it would be too stressful for me anyway. Going live with a face cam makes it difficult for me to do other things on the side, or that I have to keep talking to keep the audience entertained. if I do make a video, it'll just be me, without a face cam or microphone, just doing all the content. I already have over 1000 Unstable Cogs defeated, so I'll probably only do one OFTF throughout the entire event (if you don't believe me, I'll attach a screenshot to this post). I'm gonna primarily focus on spamming High Roller and maybe do some standard Find the Family for fun.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 7

ToonTerraMine Gamer

HAPPY HUNTING!

6 months ago | [YT] | 1

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With Cartoonival returning and the Token Tasks having not been nerfed, I would like to bring attention to my guide for the fastest way to earn Tokens. With this guide, you can reach max Tokens (32,000) in 8 hours of gameplay. This is even faster than the Duck Tank and more easy to control as well. Be sure to make use of it soon in case it does ever get nerfed!

The only thing in the video that I would have changed is that it might actually be worth it to take a break at the Cavalcade. It has the potential to give lots of Tokens very fast.

Enjoy!

7 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

ToonTerraMine Gamer

What cog?

7 months ago | [YT] | 7

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Should I consider making YouTube shorts?

7 months ago | [YT] | 5

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Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about the vlogs I recorded from ToonFest OKC (ok, I did kinda forget. But I remembered them again a few weeks ago). I’ve edited some of them already and have been uploading them privately on YouTube. They will be public soon™.

Currently, I am confident that I will be able to make it to ToonFest in Columbus. My class finals do not take place on that same week, so I can most likely just take those days off from school. But ToonFest in Orlando is a definite yes. If I really had to miss one, it would be the Columbus one since that one is smaller anyway, but I currently plan on attending both.

I’ve been posting these Free Birds memes on Discord whenever a big event is a certain number of days away (I also like to post the “6 MONTHS?” meme from Venom whenever an event is six months away). Here’s one for the occasion:

8 months ago | [YT] | 5

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ToonFest 2024 was around the 4-year anniversary of me getting banned from Toontown Rewritten. I've been thinking about this a lot, and I've decided I wanted to share how I felt on the day I got banned and the days leading up to my reinstalment. This is a very long community post, so I don't expect many to read the entire thing from start to finish. But this story still means a lot to me. I am still inspired by it to this day. Unfortunately, due to the character limit, I had to remove some details from the story.

I was an arrogant fool. I thought it was fun to abuse a glitch that reset the districts and wanted the clout of sharing it around with close friends, as discovering glitches with that kind of power was very rare. I've stated this before, but I technically did not discover that glitch. I found this video, which included the setup for the glitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Hfs....
Then I found this video of the same person using that setup to reset the district: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-PTh....

I then got banned for a few days for doing it multiple times. During this time, I ended up emailing the staff about how to recreate the glitch so they could fix this. Deep down, I only did this to make it seem like I was helping them. They responded by telling me that they already knew how to do it as someone already told them. This confused me. How could that have been possible? I never told anyone how to do it yet and most of my attempts were in private parties. Are the staff lying to me, or did someone spy on me?

Once I got unbanned, I planned on doing it one last time to make my own video on it and share it around with friends. Somehow, the staff found out about these plans, which should have been impossible unless one of my friends went behind my back and reported me. They sent me an email before banning me kindly asking me not to go through with it. I did, of course, go through with it (mainly because I did not see the email until it was too late). I ended up making this video and sharing it around but not making it public until after I got banned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Wx4....

I began gaslighting myself that what I was doing was for a good cause because I could help TTR fix it, but really, abusing the glitch wasn't helping anyone. While I was still busy resetting them, I really thought none of the players would notice an uptick in district resets, but as I was looking at the r/toontownrewritten Discord, people did end up noticing. I became worried about what this could mean for me, as the technical operators and developers probably had ways of finding out it was me who was responsible for it. All I could do was hope I didn't take it too far.

A few hours after I shared the video around with my friends, I got kicked out of the game for "exploiting a bug." As I tried to log back in, I found my account to be terminated. I was speechless. I went to my email and found both the ban email and the previous email they sent me about warning me not to share the glitch with my friends. I had realized that one of my friends betrayed me and reported me to the moderators. I had further evidence to believe this because, as I mentioned earlier, somehow the TTR staff said someone already told them how to recreate it. This could not have been a coincidence. I broke down in tears. I did not know what to think. Was my Toontown career over? And which one of my friends betrayed me?

I went back to my friends, demanding to know who did it. Which one of them ruined my life? A group chat was soon formed which included everyone who had prior knowledge of the glitch. We never found out who it was. I have some ideas nowadays, but I am not certain. I've had trust issues since that day, and I still kind of do. I thought I could trust these people, that whoever was responsible was my friend, but clearly I was wrong.

I made this video soon after I got banned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1kk.... I was crying. I wanted people to know how I felt. I was not afraid to hide it. Many friends messaged me on discord in response to the video. They all gave me very kind words, telling me that they feel bad about what happened and that they were there for me if I needed them. I was actually very happy to hear that these people cared enough to reach out. It let me know that I meant something to them. I will not forget it.

The next few days were very hard. I did not know if I would ever play TTR again. Emails went back and forth between me and the staff. I was an arrogant fool who was unwilling to accept that this was my own fault and truly believed I did nothing wrong. I made this video as an update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOZ9....

Months would go by as I tried again and again to appeal, with no luck.

I grew more and more depressed. I spoke to my mom about my feelings, and she told me that she would help me try one last time to appeal and get my account reinstated. If that did not work, I would have to move on from the game for good. Moving on from Toontown? That is not something I would ever be able to do. But she reassured me that she would help me move on from it, no matter what it took. Field Offices would release soon after this conversation, but this made things worse for me. My original goal was to get unbanned before Field Offices released. I had failed. Despite this, we still needed to form that email.

After sending our email, I planned out what I would do if they rejected this appeal. My plan was to leave every Toontown-related Discord server I was in and any other Toontown social media that existed. I would also unfriend all of my Toontown friends. I would delete all of my Toontown videos except for one, which is one that I would make right after doing all of this, explaining what happened and that I needed to remove myself from the community forever or I would always be depressed. I even updated my Discord status to tell people to check my channel if it did happen. I at least wanted my friends to be prepared in case it did happen.

Sometime later, my mom called me on my phone asking me if I had read the email Toontown had sent back. I was not aware that they had responded, so my heart immediately started racing. This was it. This decision would determine my future. I opened the email.

They had accepted my appeal. They unbanned my alt accounts, however my main account would remain banned. I was frozen. I did not know how to comprehend what I had just read. A few moments later, I broke down in tears. I had so many thoughts racing through my mind. I did not know how to feel, but I had done it. I regained access to the game. I was conflicted with the fact that my main toon would remain banned, but I really needed the positive emotions to drown out the conflicted ones. I had not felt tears of joy like this in a very long time. I went around to many of my friends telling them of the news and that I would log on later to enjoy the game again. I really needed to let people know about this. The moderators also told me to be very careful, because they will not unban my account if something like this happens again. My behavior would change.

Later that day, I would make this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cclqN.... I was finally back. The timespan of my ban was from May 15th, 2020 to January 7th, 2022. About 1 year and 7 months, which I claimed to be "nearly 2 years." I finally felt whole again. To this day, I still have hope that one day my main toon will be unbanned and that my permanent mute will be lifted.

It was my own arrogance and stubbornness that led to all this in the first place. But I have since changed. I would forever be shaped by this experience. I even made a presentation about Toontown as my Senior Presentation the same year I got unbanned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHktm.... This game made me who I am, and I will be forever appreciative to the TTR moderators for accepting my appeal and reinstating my accounts. Had they not done that, I probably would not be here in the community today. I would be off making other videos outside of Toontown, and I would never have met all of the great people I have met through this game. I know that this community is where I belong.

I have managed to keep a clean slate since I got unbanned and have formed very positive relationships with many of the staff, including Joey himself. I'm very happy about where I've come, and I hope it continues to improve from here. I am always trying to do better. However, I still have slight trust issues from before. I'm afraid of something going terribly wrong again because I thought I could trust someone who I thought was my friend.

My next and final goal is to become a TTR staff member. I think the Community Ambassador position fits me well. I tried applying some time ago, but unfortunately, my infraction history caused me to be rejected. I have hope that I will one day be able to join their team. Once that happens, I will have finally proven to myself that I changed. The day TTR accepts me onto their team is the day that I will have fully transformed into a better person. It will happen one day. I just know it.

Despite how long this is, I had a lot of fun writing it. I appreciate you all taking all this time to read this. Even if you only read certain parts, it still means a lot to me. If anyone wants to talk about this further, don't be afraid to reach out. Someone once reached out about how they got permanently banned for something they did and were truly saddened by it. I am willing to support other people who have this happen to them. I feel like this is a rather unique case as many people who get permanently banned AND muted just stop playing or find other ways around it, but I never gave up hope. I am a loyal fan who cares deeply about this game, not a troll who could care less. I feel obligated to help others get through something like this. Just let me know.

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10 months ago | [YT] | 5

ToonTerraMine Gamer

Waiting for the meet-and-greet two hours early. Here with Smirky and other friends.

11 months ago | [YT] | 9

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Super Mario Sunshine.

This was the one of the first games I played on the GameCube and the first Mario game I’ve played as well. I’ve posted a few videos of this game a couple years back, but there was something else I wanted to get into as well regarding it. Something I, and I’m sure many other players, have overlooked on this game is the NPC dialogue. There are very few instances in the game where the player is forced into a conversation with an NPC, and most of the time they skip over all the other ones. The thing is, many NPCs in the game actually have dialogues that evolve after each mission in the game, giving them character development while Mario goes around collecting Shine Sprites in that world. Some of their stories are really funny or interesting to hear, while others are just weird or random and don’t add anything to the lore.

What I want to do is start a “series” on my channel where I go around talking to the same NPC throughout every mission that they appear in to showcase how their story changes as the game goes on. I have a few ideas already and, while I doubt anyone will do this, people can shoot me some suggestions as well. While Piantas are the most prominent NPC in this game, there are others as well. There are Nokis, Toads, and even a Racoon that appears in two areas in the game. I’ll even include niche NPCs like Princess Peach, Shadow Mario, Il Piantissimo, the sunflowers in Pinna Park Beach, and even signs. Basically any NPC that can be talked to has a chance to appear in this series. Princess Peach and the Toads have always been interesting to me… she’s around during the beginning of the game, then once she gets taken to Pinna Park you can never see to her again. The Toads remain worried about her for the rest of the game, never to see her again even after defeating Bowser and collecting 120 Shines.

I don’t want my channel to suddenly be clogged with a bunch of random Sunshine videos when I mainly like to focus on Toontown (and I’m sure that’s what many of you are here for as well), so I think what I will do is create a playlist of these videos and upload them as unlisted so people still have a way to view them, then slowly make them public as time goes on. That way, people who view my channel (or people who have notifications for my channel turned on) won’t be bombarded with these off-topic videos and will instead see them gradually appear over time.

Most of these videos will done on the 3D All-Stars version of the game, but there will be some videos where I will have to use a hacked emulator to get footage, such as when I need to get dialogue from different variants of the Plaza, because it is impossible to return to previous instances of Delfino Plaza without playing the game over again, or by using the aforementioned hacks. I will make it clear in the video when I do that so it can explain why it doesn’t look as good as the 3D All-Stars version.

If I have the motivation for it, I may even upload other videos about Super Mario Sunshine that aren’t part of this series. I will think about how I will go about it if I do decide to do that

Below are some teasers for one I have been wanting to do for a while, and one that actually explains a lot about a certain mysterious character: What do the Piantas think about Il Piantissimo?

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1 year ago | [YT] | 3

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As a big fan of Henry Stickmin and the Toppat Clan, I was very quick to make this connection. I think they would get along very well. ‪@CorporateClash‬

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