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Scarlet Harlequin Indigo Turquoise Who would have thought that we would be able to match the Mahouka thread. 
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Sep 24, 2014 19:25
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Last I check, Cardinal, Coffee, and Sun aren't colors?
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Sep 24, 2014 19:42
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Solaris Knight posted:Last I check, Cardinal, Coffee, and Sun aren't colors? come on step it up
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Sep 24, 2014 20:11
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the last three pages posted:many posts arguing about objectively wrong opinions hello friends. I like Ruby. She spergs about weapons which is amusing. Gosh this show is fun
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Sep 24, 2014 23:21
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Do you think this is a game you fucker
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Sep 24, 2014 23:24
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Butt Ghost posted:Do you think this is a game you fucker Some Reddit gently caress posted:RWBY Game?
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Sep 24, 2014 23:32
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Solaris Knight posted:Last I check, Cardinal, Coffee, and Sun aren't colors? That color stuff is just imagination limiting nonsense. I'd try to make up some absurd commonality to build a RWBY team, but I can't beat what's already cannon: JNPR is made up of legendary characters who at some point went crossdressing (Thor/Achilles/Joan of Arc/Hua Mulan). So colors? gently caress that. Make a team based on gender swapped Mister Clean, Scrubbing Bubbles, Brawny Man, and the Jolly Green Giant. Teams like MSBJ could be fan-fic-loving-fantastic.
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Sep 24, 2014 23:53
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Take out the gender swap part and we'll talk.
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Sep 25, 2014 00:15
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Ferretts posted:That color stuff is just imagination limiting nonsense. I'd try to make up some absurd commonality to build a RWBY team, but I can't beat what's already cannon: JNPR is made up of legendary characters who at some point went crossdressing (Thor/Achilles/Joan of Arc/Hua Mulan). So it's a RWBY/Food Fight crossover?
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Sep 25, 2014 00:34
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Endorph posted:'things that make you think of colors' So literally anything, then.
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Sep 25, 2014 00:59
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Neeksy posted:So literally anything, then. Now you're on the right track! 
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Sep 25, 2014 03:22
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Level Slide posted:Take out the gender swap part and we'll talk. Alright, then we'll replace Scrubbing Bubbles with Ronald McDonald and call the team MRBJ. Ronald will of course struggle with diabetes induced dirt poor endurance, while Mister Clean develops clearly epic combos with Brawny Man. However, Brawny will be forced to call them all out adding to the internal strife following Dr. Ozpin's choice of a mute as team leader.
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Sep 25, 2014 07:23
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Snow White's German name is Schneewittchen, not WEISS SCHNEE That's my contribution to this sperg party
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Sep 25, 2014 10:28
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Well that's just your opinion.
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Sep 25, 2014 10:38
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icantfindaname posted:Snow White's German name is Schneewittchen, not WEISS SCHNEE Outside of all the bad dialogue and cringe-worthy aethetics, really, the thing that annoys me the most is that they pronounce Weiss with an english "w" instead of a hard "v".
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Sep 25, 2014 14:39
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AlternateNu posted:Outside of all the bad dialogue and cringe-worthy aethetics, really, the thing that annoys me the most is that they pronounce Weiss with an english "w" instead of a hard "v". And then when someone said this, Monty apparently said "gently caress you!" verbatim, which isn't exactly the most tactful way of admitting you're wrong.
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Sep 25, 2014 14:42
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Also, german words pronounced properly are great. That's why animes love them. If you're not even gonna pronounce it properly there's no point. "Like I love anime and am gonna make my own and do all the things animes I like do, but actually not at all. gently caress you" - Monty Oum
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Sep 25, 2014 14:56
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Well did you ever create anything?
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Sep 25, 2014 15:00
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Level Slide posted:Well did you ever create anything?
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Sep 25, 2014 15:01
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Level Slide posted:Well did you ever create anything? I technically worked on RWBY. I'm a computer technician in Rooster Teeth's area. One day I asked Burnie 'hey what's with all the broken keyboards you keep sending me?' Okay that's all a lie. The real answer is, I create lies. Lies are creations. I am a creator. A story-teller. It's like anime, but with words instead of boob drawings.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:11
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The hype train has no brakes
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Sep 26, 2014 01:17
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KasaiAisu posted:The hype train has no brakes CAMPER Jonathan would like to battle!
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Sep 26, 2014 02:12
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Ferretts posted:So colors? gently caress that. Make a team based on gender swapped Mister Clean, Scrubbing Bubbles, Brawny Man, and the Jolly Green Giant. Teams like MSBJ could be fan-fic-loving-fantastic. Well, I mean, RWBY is kind of the Foodfight! of anime so...
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Sep 26, 2014 03:43
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Well, I mean, RWBY is kind of the Foodfight! of anime so... Man, I wish. Foodfight is the special kind of bad. It's like peeling an onion, there are just so many layers and the deeper you go the weirder it gets. Since RWBY cribs so much from shonen anime and young adult stuff, there's not even a morbidly fascinating terrible message underneath it all. I mean, Foodfight wants to say that generic brands are literally Nazis. Something like Sword Art Online says that excessive escapism is actually cool and good, instead of bad. Mahouka? The poor and downtrodden deserve to be crushed. As far as I can tell, RWBY is just giving off generic messages about friendship being good because that's what they tend to emphasize in the stuff it wants to be. That's no fun to dissect at all! There's a reason why people talk about the thoughts behind its creation when criticizing the show. It's just a much more interesting thing to talk about. Srice fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Sep 26, 2014 05:15
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KasaiAisu posted:The hype train has no brakes
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Sep 26, 2014 06:35
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Solaris Knight posted:And then when someone said this, Monty apparently said "gently caress you!" verbatim, which isn't exactly the most tactful way of admitting you're wrong. Definitely not. Later the guy he told to gently caress off went and switched the 'v' and 'w' characters on his keyboard as a kind of layered payback and you know what happened? Monty went to the guy's house and shot his Labrador. The dog is fine now, fully recovered and being a Labrador still loving loves Monty, but it's still messed up if you think about it. Oh. And about episode 8... That was pretty awful, not gonna lie. Ferretts fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Sep 26, 2014 07:45
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Not a very funny joke dude
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Sep 26, 2014 08:17
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Ferretts posted:Definitely not. Later the guy he told to gently caress off went and switched the 'v' and 'w' characters on his keyboard as a kind of layered payback and you know what happened? Monty went to the guy's house and shot his Labrador. Jesus, I wasn't really on the side of the other guy getting really mad at your asinine responses but after that "joke" you must have the media taste equivalent of a gutter palate if you thought anyone would find that amusing or funny in the slightest. As much as people have posted that even though RWBY is popular its consumed by people with poo poo taste and doesn't make the show objectively good in any capacity, and as defensive as you get, you're coming off as the absolute definition of a RWBY fan; someone with no taste, consumes lovely media en masse and defends it with "go make something better  " and likely in general makes conversations awkward and uncomfortable with what you think passes for wit.
pentyne fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Sep 26, 2014 09:07
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Ferretts posted:Definitely not. Later the guy he told to gently caress off went and switched the 'v' and 'w' characters on his keyboard as a kind of layered payback and you know what happened? Monty went to the guy's house and shot his Labrador. Was that, like, a reference or something? I'm not... quite sure what you're going for here?
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Sep 26, 2014 09:12
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He's trying to make fun of people who said Monty might be crazy (i.e. me) in probably the most tasteless and also most unfunny way possible I mean it doesn't even work, no one made up anything about Monty. You could maybe go for a "you guys are blowing up a small thing" angle by massively over-exaggerating something. It wouldn't be funny still but what we got instead was something just plain dumb.
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Sep 26, 2014 09:18
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ninjewtsu posted:He's trying to make fun of people who said Monty might be crazy (i.e. me) in probably the most tasteless and also most unfunny way possible I didn't even bother trying to parse the Labrador thing, because if I understood enough about Monty to maybe get whatever reference he was trying to make I'd probably hurl myself off a bridge. This thread's OP went from "Hah, yeah this is a weird anime inspired internet show but its an amusing distraction" to "Oh, you want to criticize the work and the creators? Must be high up on your pedestal judgmental scum go make your own version if you think you can do better also tons of great works were made by quirky people Monty is just like them"
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Sep 26, 2014 10:09
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Ferretts, not to police you or anything, but you should go back to trying to smokescreen yourself with silly jokes about fan-characters. You don't seem to be up to the task of defending the show/Oum. It would have been more funny if you'd replaced 'labrador' with 'anime'.
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Sep 26, 2014 10:54
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Hbomberguy posted:It would have been more funny if you'd replaced 'labrador' with 'anime'. "Definitely not. Later the guy he told to gently caress off went and switched the 'v' and 'w' characters on his keyboard as a kind of layered payback and you know what happened? Monty went to the guy's house and shot his anime. The anime is fine now, fully recovered and being an anime still loving loves Monty, but it's still messed up if you think about it." Eh. I give it a 6/10. There is potential here.
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Sep 26, 2014 13:36
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It does, however, lay bare the real relationship at play between the show and its fans. "I love RWBY, because RWBY loves me!" Another example: I'm not saying the Plinkett reviews aren't worth watching or shouldn't be popular, but their popularity is in part because the fans have always thought the prequels were bad but were never quite sure why - beyond cultural touchstones like jarjar being bad or whatever. Those videos fulfil their own desire for the prequels to be as bad as they think they are. Similarly, RWBY is 'good' because calling it good retroactively validates your decision to watch it and shows like it. This is why there's so much fanfiction. The fans, on some level, are aware that the show exists as their own wish fulfillment, so they are adapting it to fulfill their wishes in a more specific and personal way.
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Sep 26, 2014 14:03
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pentyne posted:after that "joke" you must have the media taste equivalent of a gutter palate if you thought anyone would find that amusing or funny in the slightest. Coming from someone who doesn't recognize the comedy gold that is RWBY. FYI: I edited the OP to be more reasonable and less insane. For what it's worth, thanks for the albeit brutal reality check. Ferretts fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Sep 26, 2014 16:31
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Hbomberguy posted:It does, however, lay bare the real relationship at play between the show and its fans. I don't know about you, but when I watch something I don't like, I stop watching. I hated Avatar: Legend of Korra and still haven't watched the third season because of it. Are you saying that the existence of fanfiction means the show is bad? Because that means everything, everywhere, is terrible. I'm pretty sure the enormous amount of fanfiction/art is just because RWBY appeals to the same demographic as, say, Homestuck.
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Sep 26, 2014 18:12
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KasaiAisu posted:I don't know about you, but when I watch something I don't like, I stop watching. I hated Avatar: Legend of Korra and still haven't watched the third season because of it. Are you saying that the existence of fanfiction means the show is bad? Because that means everything, everywhere, is terrible. I'm pretty sure the enormous amount of fanfiction/art is just because RWBY appeals to the same demographic as, say, Homestuck. It's not that the show is bad, it's that the show hasn't completely satisfied something in the particular viewer - but since they want the show to be good (for reasons I explored before), they are taking it into their own hands to 'rectify' that. "This show would be perfect if X happened instead" is the central conceit of fanfiction - a simultaneous admission that one likes, or wants to like, the show but that they are a better creator than its originator (and, in a sense, they are - who better knows what show they want to see than the audience?). Plenty of joke fanfictions parody this attitude mercilessly, but the ultimate punchline is that sometimes the fan-work is so different you can literally change the names and make millions on Kindle. RWBY itself smacks of fanfiction but with the edges sawn off in a similar manner.
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Sep 26, 2014 18:43
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Hbomberguy posted:"This show would be perfect if X happened instead" is the central conceit of fanfiction - a simultaneous admission that one likes, or wants to like, the show but that they are a better creator than its originator (and, in a sense, they are - who better knows what show they want to see than the audience?). Plenty of joke fanfictions parody this attitude mercilessly, but the ultimate punchline is that sometimes the fan-work is so different you can literally change the names and make millions on Kindle. RWBY itself smacks of fanfiction but with the edges sawn off in a similar manner. RWBY is a pretty poo poo show but you're coming off way more insane and project-y than you're accusing the people who like it of being. Endorph fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Sep 26, 2014 21:45
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Hbomberguy posted:"This show would be perfect if X happened instead" is the central conceit of fanfiction - a simultaneous admission that one likes, or wants to like, the show but that they are a better creator than its originator Building a Lego set with variations from the instructions isn't necessarily asserting your superiority. I got what you said about the Plinkett reviews, but I don't see the connection.
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I'm not saying fanfiction creators actually believe that they are superior to the creator, but they are tacitly doing so when they rewrite the original story. If you write a story where Kirk and Spock gently caress, you are rewriting the context of the show to suit what you 'wanted' to see. This extends to cross-canon fanfiction, there are simply better reasons why Yugi and Goku never met than normal. The Lego comparison doesn't quite work. Lego is a constructive thing designed for creative freedom. A show is a necessarily complete story that people are rewriting by introducing new characters. Claiming that a show is 'just like Lego' completely misses concepts like themes, or storytelling, or whatever. At that point all shows are just a box of random ideas you can switch out with other things on the fly instead of more cohesive pieces of art. Which strikes me as incredibly cynical and not in the spirit of anime at all. Fanfiction tends to be more rife in communities where the work has a very powerful effect on a specific group and a new subculture forms around it. 'Team Edward/Team Whoever' etc and the prevalence of Twilight fanfictions are part of the same thread of fandom. First you think someone else 'should' have ended up with Bella, then you simply write a version where that happened. Hbomberguy fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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