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Tae posted:Business executives and research analysts are terrified of female solo leads (lots of stories from directors and script writers that they can only get projects approved if they change their lead into a male), Lucy flopping doesn't help Scarlet's cause. I'm sure you're thinking of thousands of nerds and their endless BRAINS DON'T WORK THAT WAY THAT'S SO STUPID!!! complaints but Lucy made something like $500 million dollars on a $50 million budget.
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Seemlar posted:I'm sure you're thinking of thousands of nerds and their endless BRAINS DON'T WORK THAT WAY THAT'S SO STUPID!!! complaints but Lucy made something like $500 million dollars on a $50 million budget. Yeah, Lucy was tremendous fun. It's ridiculous and silly and the premise is pants but it's way more than the sum of its parts.
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JB50 posted:Thats not Hawkeye. They go together like a plank of wood and an open bucket of paint, really. (Though Jeremy Renner is totally my taste so it saves him from being boring in my eyes) Anyway Sterling made a video about something Fallout 4, there's spoilers regarding romances in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMUBqXkijAw Archer666 fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Nov 9, 2015 16:55
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Archer666 posted:They go together like a plank of wood and an open bucket of paint, really. (Though Jeremy Renner is totally my taste so it saves him from being boring in my eyes) This was good. Though it might need a  Tag, just in case. Can't wait for the game to drop tommrow
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Nov 10, 2015 00:29
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Campster linked a thing made by another dude I haven't seen before regarding games like Postal and Hatred - games it dubs 'rear end in a top hat Simulators'- and tries to unpack them. It's really loving long, I'm only 20 minutes in, and it's a bit pompous, but I'm really digging it so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kivtv6wabBk
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Nov 10, 2015 00:36
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Spiritus Nox posted:Campster linked a thing made by another dude I haven't seen before regarding games like Postal and Hatred - games it dubs 'rear end in a top hat Simulators'- and tries to unpack them. It's really loving long, I'm only 20 minutes in, and it's a bit pompous, but I'm really digging it so far. Noah Caldwell-Gervais is super good, and I was about to link this video here because it's once again loaded with great insights. For more, I recommend his look at what was at the time every single Call of Duty single player campaign, which puts all the weird feelings one can get about the later entries in the series in perspective.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Campster linked a thing made by another dude I haven't seen before regarding games like Postal and Hatred - games it dubs 'rear end in a top hat Simulators'- and tries to unpack them. It's really loving long, I'm only 20 minutes in, and it's a bit pompous, but I'm really digging it so far. Just finished watching this. Felt an awful lot like reading this thread for about 80 minutes, only with all the shitposters gone.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Campster linked a thing made by another dude I haven't seen before regarding games like Postal and Hatred - games it dubs 'rear end in a top hat Simulators'- and tries to unpack them. It's really loving long, I'm only 20 minutes in, and it's a bit pompous, but I'm really digging it so far. I really liked that. I had only heard of the Postal games, never played them. The best thing about this is how it delves into just what made these games popular int he first place. And I love the ending line. "Don't be surprised if most gamers wanna save the world, rather than give it the finger"
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Spiritus Nox posted:Campster linked a thing made by another dude I haven't seen before regarding games like Postal and Hatred - games it dubs 'rear end in a top hat Simulators'- and tries to unpack them. It's really loving long, I'm only 20 minutes in, and it's a bit pompous, but I'm really digging it so far. Dude's good as always. Even if I don't really agree 100% with him on some stuff in this. Loved Postal 1 + 2 when I was younger, but it kinda loses all of its charm once you grow up a little..
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Nov 10, 2015 11:37
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I watched/listened to the Nostalgia Critic's review of Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows while cleaning and I actually laughed. Like, a lot. I forgot he had reviews that were actually funny. Yeah, even this one devolves into screaming/ranting at the very end, but it was still an overall good job lampooning a horrible movie. How things change.
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Nov 10, 2015 12:38
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Hey so are Doug and Rob Walker ever gonna stop running that "oh yeah nothing important happened in this episode" joke into the ground or what?
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Nov 10, 2015 19:38
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Augus posted:Hey so are Doug and Rob Walker ever gonna stop running that "oh yeah nothing important happened in this episode" joke into the ground or what? When you stop watching.
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Nov 10, 2015 20:00
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The Vosgian Beast posted:When you stop watching. If a Doug vlogs in the forest, and no one's around to hear it, does it still run a joke into the ground?
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Nov 10, 2015 20:22
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dijon du jour posted:If a Doug vlogs in the forest, and no one's around to hear it, does it still run a joke into the ground? Let's find out! *10 minute skit of making jokes in the forest*
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FourLeaf posted:I watched/listened to the Nostalgia Critic's review of Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows while cleaning and I actually laughed. Like, a lot. I forgot he had reviews that were actually funny. Yeah, even this one devolves into screaming/ranting at the very end, but it was still an overall good job lampooning a horrible movie. How things change. Yeah, for all the past and current faults, there are some NCs that are just, well, fun to watch or listen to. Not much beyond that, but it's a something.
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Nov 10, 2015 22:42
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Compendium posted:Yeah, for all the past and current faults, there are some NCs that are just, well, fun to watch or listen to. Not much beyond that, but it's a something. Dungeons and Dragons.
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Nov 11, 2015 04:15
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lornekates posted:Dungeons and Dragons. No. That one is pretty bad because Doug keeps laughing over all the funny Jeremy Irons bits rather than letting them speak for themselves.
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Nov 11, 2015 04:22
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That's nice sweetie.
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Nov 11, 2015 04:23
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Joel Hodgson is kickstarting a reboot of MST3K. https://boingboing.net/2015/11/10/joel-hodgson-is-kickstarting-a.html (It's the granddaddy of Internet Critics, so it counts)
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Nov 11, 2015 05:28
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I look forward to seeing which new jokes Linkara copy and pastes into his own work. Speaking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyxxsVi3aWU Man, that just has no energy at all.
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poparena posted:I look forward to seeing which new jokes Linkara copy and pastes into his own work. At least there's the Snob and Lupa. And some other internet critics I kinda like/don't hate. Okay, it looks better than To Boldly Flee.
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Nov 11, 2015 06:33
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MonsieurChoc posted:Okay, it looks better than To Boldly Flee. When you're setting a bar, try to set it above ground level.
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Nov 11, 2015 06:51
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Suburban Knights is the worst Channel Awesome special. To Boldly Flee has merit as the Most Doug Walker thing Doug Walker has ever produced. It's a staggeringly indulgent, derivative, inept, and ultimately sincere expression of the manchild passions and pretensions of it's creator. Suburban Knights is just loving around and fan-service that doesn't even attempt to be cinematic and has no Very Important Thoughts About the State of the Reviewerverse to impart. It's boring to watch, and boring to think about. To Boldly Flee is only one of these things.
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High Warlord Zog posted:Suburban Knights is the worst Channel Awesome special. To Boldly Flee has merit as the Most Doug Walker thing Doug Walker has ever produced. It's a staggeringly indulgent, derivative, inept, and ultimately sincere expression of the manchild passions and pretensions of it's creator. Suburban Knights is just loving around and fan-service that doesn't even attempt to be cinematic and has no Very Important Thoughts About the State of the Reviewerverse to impart. It's boring to watch, and boring to think about. To Boldly Flee is only one of these things. Maybe it's because I was caught up in it all, but at the time I enjoyed the hell out of all the specials. I even put them in as background noise now. Do they even need to be anything other than loving around and fanservice? There's a guy who sometimes hulks out into a mad scientist and a guy who pulls mp5's out of nowhere at a moments notice and a guy who had to be deliberately written out because he's a time lord power ranger starship captain who reviews comic books on the Internet for a living. I hate the sharknado/mecha shark vs. Giant octopus films because they have great potential bit have no effort put into them. The specials may be dumb but they're exactly what they're supposed to be. ... I just wrote a lot of serious words about a really silly thing. I'm gonna go have a smoothie and play some video games.
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KayTee posted:I hate the sharknado/mecha shark vs. Giant octopus films because they have great potential bit have no effort put into them. The specials may be dumb but they're exactly what they're supposed to be. Aren't these both the same, then?
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It's the difference between making something you legitimately think is good and making something knowing from the start that it's bad. They're saying they like To Boldly Flee the same way they might like, say, The Room; that the creator was trying for something, even if their attempt totally failed. While with something like Sharknado the creators never had any illusions that it was anything but a joke and it shows in the result.
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The joke is that To Boldly Flee sucks.
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I thought Lost Skeleton of Cadavra was pretty good, though I think it sort of wears out its welcome towards the end.
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Idran posted:They're saying they like To Boldly Flee the same way they might like, say, The Room. Except Tommy Wiseau is a better director.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I thought Lost Skeleton of Cadavra was pretty good, though I think it sort of wears out its welcome towards the end. It has affection for the source material.
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Lost Skeleton is also trying to be a comedy and not just bad for the sake of being bad. The writing is really clever, so it works outside of the purposefully shoddy elements. And yes, like Jack said, it has affection for the source material.
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PiedPiper posted:Except Tommy Wiseau is a better director. You know, for Tommy Wiseau's numerous faults, at least he didn't write "None of you are going have jobs in like two years" into the script of his movie.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Campster linked a thing made by another dude I haven't seen before regarding games like Postal and Hatred - games it dubs 'rear end in a top hat Simulators'- and tries to unpack them. It's really loving long, I'm only 20 minutes in, and it's a bit pompous, but I'm really digging it so far. Noah Caldwell-Gervais doesn't normally have that kind of "pompous" tone unless he has a good reason to, his Call of Duty Campaign Retrospective shows this off real well, where he's very enthusiastic about his critical respect for the games he likes and takes on a much more exhausted, slightly more vulgar tone with those he vehemently disrespects. This is a video where he had to confidently talk at length about how thoroughly loving insufferable the Postal/Hatred devs are while actually needing to cite That 2014 Garbage because one of their biggest spokespersons or advocates (or totally-unrelated-person-because-accountability-is-scary) or whatever is literally in one of the games. It may be late 2015, but inciting that stuff at the lengths that he had to was still bound to cause a shitstorm, on top of having to put up with the abrasive shittiness (and boredom) of the games themselves. So it's no wonder he sounds a bit fed up during most of the video. He really does show no fear, though. Not only in this, but in most other videos where part of his critique are the politics that games (inherently(!)) express. And boy loving howdy I wish I didn't know about that godawful P2 expansion now, that's probably the most egregiously depressing poo poo I've seen in a game in a while, and I'll be nothing but ecstatic if the little shits behind it fade screaming into the void of obscurity, even in their little circle of "persecuted and stoutly rebellious" teen straight white boys with daddy issues. Ugh, this poo poo's never fun to think or talk about, so have a gander at some of his other lighter/more positive stuff get a better feel for his content: Alpha Protocol, L.A. Noire, Red Faction Series Retrospective, Alien Isolation, Isolation's DLC, and his first video, a retrospective of Fallout 1 through New Vegas. His low production values are the one big thing you gotta get past. I find them charming but I realize why hearing him clicking to start a new Audacity track or keeping flubbed lines in might grate on some. He's gotten better, partially thanks to Patreon, but he's still an overworked lower-middle class dude living in a poo poo neighborhood while trying to make regular long-form video game analysis for a handful of internet people. One of his recent videos offered Patreon refunds to people and went back to working full-time because his RV got vandalized and he didn't want to use donor money to pay for something people didn't think they'd be pitching towards. Even if you don't like his content, he's a super respectable and courageous dude. Moartoast fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Nov 11, 2015 |
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Yeah I really love all his bigass talky videos enough to look past the atrocious sound editing, because he's just so good at what he's doing. Dude is super smart and pretty fair in general. Definitely worth it if you have a couple hours to sit down and listen to someone drone on, sometimes stutteringly, about vidya gaems.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Okay, it looks better than To Boldly Flee. For one, the cast and crew were paid.
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Moartoast posted:Noah Caldwell-Gervais words Yeah I don't always agree with his arguments, but his videos are consistently well-researched and well-stated (if not necessarily flawless from a productions standpoint, although they have gotten much better), and overall he's just a really cool dude. He has a couple of car maintenance and travel vlogs that are pretty good watching too.
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lornekates posted:For one, the cast and crew were paid. This is also why God's Not Dead is better.
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Running With Scissors (the Postal developers) linked the video on their Twitter:Running WIth Scissors Twitter posted:Someone who is the antithesis of our target demographic plays our games and gets triggered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kivtv6wabBk … 1/2 Running WIth Scissors Twitter posted:Felt the need to repeat his entire point twice, and states many lies as 'fact'. Worth a watch for a laugh One of the developers (MarphitimusBlackimus) engaged Noah in the YouTube comments: Developer on YouTube posted:MarphitimusBlackimus 1 day ago Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Nov 12, 2015 |
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