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History Buffs took a look at Lawrence of Arabia with a cameo by Indy Neidell from The Great War, which is a great channel if you're into history You can say internet reviews are a dying breed, but History Buffs shows how research, dedication, and a lot of luck can combine into a thriving show. I mean, he went from doing it for fun to near 100K subscribers and got to interview The Vikings cast and crew. Probably more an exception than a rule as ever, but it's still possible. Miss Wallace posted:The gays almost never exist in MrSlam fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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Infamous Sphere posted:What?!?!?! they didn't even have CODED gay characters? Every film and TV show had coded gay characters! I mean they were usually evil or just suspiciously sassy, but they were still there. That's almost an achievement on Baywatch's part. I mean, I could be forgetting something because it is 11 seasons, although Baywatch Nights does have the drag episode so they do acknowledge gay people at least once. Oh and Mr. Slam, thanks! And man oh man was Xena not fooling anyone pretending to be not-gay.
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Miss Wallace posted:I mean, I could be forgetting something because it is 11 seasons, although Baywatch Nights does have the drag episode so they do acknowledge gay people at least once. Unrelated, but the different portion/version of Currents of Love really threw me off! 
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Spark That Bled posted:One of the things that annoy me about CinemaSins is when Sins can be reduced by rather frivolous means. Like if there's an attractive woman on screen. Something I found creepy and off-putting was the V for Vendetta video when they take off five Sins for Natalie Portman in a dress... a dress like a little girl would wear, while she was also acting like a little girl, to lure in a pedophile priest so V could kill him. How loving oblivious can a person be?
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I feel a little bit bad for CinemaSins, though. Tony Goldmark asked them on Twitter if he was the only person in the reviewing community who actually likes CinemaSins and they responded "yeah, I think so." They've got millions of views on their most popular videos. Over 5 million subscribers. But they don't have the respect of their peers. All the people that they want to like them don't just think they're bad, but think make things worse. The best thing their own fans say in their defence is that CinemaSins is just pointless garbage not worth caring about. How hosed up is that? Edit: For some actual content, Foldable Human has been at some local film fest all week and reviewed a couple horror films that he saw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxs2OMy5zHo - Under the Shadow which sounds pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI_p-0-yNKo - The Lure which sounds really hosed up. LFK fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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Apr 18, 2016 01:57
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They don't deserve the respect though.
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Mr. Fowl posted:Unrelated, but the different portion/version of Currents of Love really threw me off! It's weird, right? I'm just using the end credits music and it changed this season, so it takes some getting used to. Didn't expect how many people would hate it hahaha
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BigRed0427 posted:2) How did we survive as a species before internet porn? Porn stashes in the woods. Dead serious.
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MrSlam posted:History Buffs took a look at Lawrence of Arabia with a cameo by Indy Neidell from The Great War, which is a great channel if you're into history Ooh, neat! I really like History Buffs' videos, he goes far further into the historical detail than I do in my videos. I reviewed Lawrence of Arabia last year at the request of a patreon subscriber and I did bring up some background information, but nothing this thorough, as I was approaching it from a queer perspective - so it's really cool to hear further details about the inaccuracies and the history. Different reviewers have different perspectives, starting from the fact that History Buffs enjoyed this film a lot more than I did. It's a pretty film and really well made, but it's...oh god it's so long, it's just so long.
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Apr 18, 2016 09:00
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LFK posted:I feel a little bit bad for CinemaSins, though. Doug likes him.
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SFDebris started to review Jonny Quest. So, if you always wanted to know what Venture Bros. started parodying, now is the time.
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This is the least surprising thing. Also, do we even know that CinemaSins gives a hot gay gently caress what anybody in the reviewing community thinks? Like, I don't think PewDiePie gives a poo poo what the people over in Let's Play think about him.
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PDP does network with streamers behind the scenes tho (I recall Joel from Vinesauce of all people talking about exchanges he had + there was the response to that slowbeef reaction video), so that's a bad comparsion.
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I wish watching Brad's videos did not make YouTube recommend Doug's videos.
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PassTheRemote posted:I wish watching Brad's videos did not make YouTube recommend Doug's videos. At least it's not the repulsive poo poo they think you wanna see after a couple of hbomberguy's videos. No youtube, I'd rather you not try and push the racists, sexists, homophobes and all the other "Awful human being" fitting people at me after watching some videos making fun of them.
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This is why we use mozilla and install the add on to block youtube channels. Because youtube has no economic incentive to change anything except for that period of time where they kept changing the layout like a fussy mum who can't decide what dress the child should wear.
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I wonder if a Christian studio will retaliate against Brad and his reviews by making a Christian movie that blatantly attacks internet reviewers.
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Yardbomb posted:At least it's not the repulsive poo poo they think you wanna see after a couple of hbomberguy's videos. Yeah, I keep getting recommended Sargon's repugnant looking videos, like something about the "failure of humanism and multiculturalism."
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Mraagvpeine posted:I wonder if a Christian studio will retaliate against Brad and his reviews by making a Christian movie that blatantly attacks internet reviewers. God, I hope so. 
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Mischalaniouse posted:Yeah, I keep getting recommended Sargon's repugnant looking videos, like something about the "failure of humanism and multiculturalism." Why can't we just call them like they are, the right wing pundits of new media?
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Annointed posted:Why can't we just call them like they are, the right wing pundits of new media? Aurini is the Sean Hannity of skull-based media. EDIT: His name wasn't coming to me so I typed "MRA skull guy" into google. He popped right up.
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Why do you people even look at youtube recommendations?
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Mraagvpeine posted:I wonder if a Christian studio will retaliate against Brad and his reviews by making a Christian movie that blatantly attacks internet reviewers. Seeing as God's Not Dead 3 will be "The Trial of David AR White" (I can't be bothered to look up his character's name), I say we write a treatment and send that poo poo to PureFlix right away for God's Not Dead 4
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You can always go into your watch history and delete videos if you just can't stand it. Also there's probably add-ones to block recommended videos.
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Andrast posted:Why do you people even look at youtube recommendations? They attack me on my Apple TV. There's no escape. God help me if I let autoplay go after watching something I wanted to see.
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All Frogs posted:God, I hope so. *Scene: a basement lit only by a single bare lightbulb. A bald critic in an ill-fitting suit and no shoes is sitting in a chair* Critic: "I for one am offended by these... Christian... movies pushing their religious agendas on me. *the man dramatically smells and then takes a drink of some kind of wine* Being forced to watch these movies is violating my right to not believe in anything." *The man reaches over and turns off the camera. He shakes his fist in the air* Critic: "Just you wait, David A.R. White! Someday I will take you down because I am jealous of your success in addition to your large and handsome penis!" *scene transition to a few weeks later with the Critic sitting in a doctor's office* Doctor: "I'm very sorry. But the test results have come back positive. You have chronic leg-fall-off disease." Critic: Oh my god! *he breaks down sobbing for several minutes* I can't believe it! My life is over! *a passenger train crashes through the wall of the doctor's office and into the Critic* David A.R. White: *jumps out of the train's cab* "Oh my gosh! This was not an outcome I wanted to happen but it sure is fortuitous for me that it did! In any case you should quickly agree with me before you run out of blood." Critic: "I... like all atheists... only... disagree... with you for... personal... reasons... not... theological... ones..." David A.R. White: "lol jk God says no takesies backsies." *audiences around the world give a standing ovation to the feel-good inspirational movie of the decade*
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dijon du jour posted:*Scene: a basement lit only by a single bare lightbulb. A bald critic in an ill-fitting suit and no shoes is sitting in a chair* All of that was gold but "Someday I will take you down because I am jealous of your success in addition to your large and handsome penis!" made me actually laugh out loud.
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WRT Youtube reccomending terrible things, on the home page, if you hover over the offending video, a little triple box will appear. Click that, select the "Not Interested" thing- bam, video no longer recommended. Then click the "Tell Us Why" link that'll appear to tell YT that you don't want anything else from that channel. Also there are various addons for Firefox and Chrome to block videos and channels from appearing, but so far using the youtube method has been effective enough. LFK posted:I feel a little bit bad for CinemaSins, though. I'd feel worse if it weren't clear dude doesn't want to listen to criticism or do basic research. You don't put in the effort, of course you won't get any respect.
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e X posted:SFDebris started to review Jonny Quest. So, if you always wanted to know what Venture Bros. started parodying, now is the time. Huh, I thought you meant the 90's cartoon series,the one with a rather high body count (but only of evil people) and conspicuous early CGI and a weird VR gimmick bolted onto the story.
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And SPEAKING of religion, I have a new episode out - on Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood!All Frogs posted:All of that was gold but "Someday I will take you down because I am jealous of your success in addition to your large and handsome penis!" made me actually laugh out loud. Incredible. I for one was a fan of "chronic leg-fall off disease". I'd watch that movie no I wouldn't.
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Infamous Sphere posted:And SPEAKING of religion, I have a new episode out - on Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood! I'd watch it if Brad actually played the critic.
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I'd watch it if it had the production values of the movies Brad made.
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Who want's a Jimquizition that will make them wanna sing the soviet national anthem afterwards? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RCV0UWJgE
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BigRed0427 posted:Who want's a Jimquizition that will make them wanna sing the soviet national anthem afterwards? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RCV0UWJgE I know a number of people who were let go at my last job. Most of them did low amounts of overtime (averaging like...5 hours a week? On a 40 hour job with shifts), including me. Uh. I can't be sure it's the reason at all, but I've always been suspicious since.
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BigRed0427 posted:Who want's a Jimquizition that will make them wanna sing the soviet national anthem afterwards? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RCV0UWJgE Jesus christ. Alex St. John comes off more as a caricature of that kind of person than someone who actually exists. Truth really can be stranger than fiction.
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BigRed0427 posted:Who want's a Jimquizition that will make them wanna sing the soviet national anthem afterwards? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RCV0UWJgE Jim's character can run thin for me at times, but I always do love when he gets genuinely angry about something just objectively awful, especially when it's so well deserved as tearing Alex St. John's weird privileged baby rear end a new hole.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Jim's character can run thin for me at times, but I always do love when he gets genuinely angry about something just objectively awful, especially when it's so well deserved as tearing Alex St. John's weird privileged baby rear end a new hole. It's kind of interesting to look bad at old stuff Jim Sterling used to do (namely his Dtoid days) when that was almost genuinely how he was. Not quite that arrogant but very close and he used to also unironically bitch about femanazis and the like. Now he's really pulled a 180 and grown the gently caress up and gone full SJW according to a lot of people.
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Another thing with crunch - it's actively, utterly counterproductive when you're in a technical field. Pretty much all my Comp Sci professors made an anthem of imploring us to start our assignments early explicitly because when you sit down and try to hammer out a serious bit of code in a single go, there inevitably comes a point a few hours in where you hit huge diminishing returns when you're just sitting there hammering on the same program and won't recover until you walk away for a bit and refresh. I don't think I ever had a serious assignment go well that I didn't finish a good day or two early. When it comes to coding, good planning and good scoping trumps pure effort every single time.
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I remember that the ideal number of hours per week working for productivity is actually lower for mental jobs than physical one:something like 35 for mental jobs and 40 for physical ones.
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Hey poparena, I finally came around to watching your last Animorphs review today and I wanted to say, great job! Not just on the three parter, but on your review series in general. You struck a great balance between analyzing the books stories and their themes (and jokes), without neglecting either too much. Which is harder than it sounds, since a lot of "nerd" reviews tend to favor the story a lot more, almost sneering at the idea that any kind of message or deeper meaning could be present in the text at all. So, I really appreciated that it was present in your reviews. I also have to be honest and say that a lot of the enjoyment probably came from me mostly agreeing with you an many points when it comes to the strength and flaws of the series, e.g. Cassie being kind of a terrible(ly written) character, Jake committing a war crime, a lot of interesting things being introduced, only to be underutilized later. I also agree that the morphing, while the initial draw, was never really what was truly remarkable about the series. Honestly, it became a little silly with time that a Space Empire with access to laser beams regularly lost fights with animals. Or that they never figured out that they were probably humans. And I have a feeling that some authors at least caught on with time, since the focus really changed away from direct confrontation, more to covert ops. A lot of the earlier books have the But eventually, it always comes down to characters and Animorphs definitely had some great ones, if only because they didn't assign themselves to stereotypes. Honestly, the series biggest strength in that regard is probably that different books had different narrators, as it allowed the reader to see each characters persona view on the events. It also gave all of them the chace to shine, which I think is important, given that the majority of stories feature one main protagonist who gets to do all the cool stuff. But in Animorphs, even Jake, despite being the "leader", isn't really more important or competent than the others (Arguably, i would say less so). One point I want to mention though, since I can't remember if you brought it up, but I always thought that Yeerks really ended up being pretty multilayered villains for a young adult series. I generally think that most of the aliens Applegate created for the series were kinda bland, especially the Andalits. But the Yeerks were developed to such a degree over the run of the series that a lot of the things that got introduced earlier on seriously clash with the way they are presented later, i.e. Visser 3 being in charge of anything. Anyway, all in all, I really enjoyed your looking back and I always looked forward to your videos. All the best for your future projects!
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