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achillesforever6 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5pBZKj1VnA The first time I saw Apocalypto, I honestly thought that the bad guys were supposed to be Aztecs and the Mayans in the film were the remnants of the old civilization that had somehow survived their decline. Granted, I was a first year student and completely ignorant, so I'm happy Hodges covered the film and set the record straight. He really needs to do a review of the Sharpe series soon, though.
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I've been tough on Spoony in the past but to be honest, I think people know he has retired and the Patreon is just goodwill payments for his past work and the livestreams. Him getting off Twitter is good for him. Everyone except news organisations should get off Twitter.
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Spoony gave me that bees video so I can't hate him at the end of the day.
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Tired Moritz posted:Spoony gave me that bees video so I can't hate him at the end of the day. In a similar vein, his review of Dragonstrike and its VHS into cinematic thing was (I'm rather sure) my first Internet Critic Video experience, so I don't think I can hate him either.
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Spoony's FF8 review hasn't aged well at all, but I loved it when it first came out. I haven't followed him in years, though; did he ever give FF9 a chance, or is he still stuck on the fact that Zidane has a tail?
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:I've been tough on Spoony in the past but to be honest, I think people know he has retired and the Patreon is just goodwill payments for his past work and the livestreams. And while there's certainly better ways of handling such a situation, I do find it kind of weird to keep harping on about him pulling in some Patreon money despite not putting anything out in a while. It's kind of a two way road there. Though I guess that has a lot to do with how one views the patron-creator relationship. An underrated Spoony fav of mine: The Terror Trax stuff. The dorky, lo-fi style of him just goofing around and listening to the CDs on camera worked surprisingly well.
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I'm pretty sure this issue largely stemmed from Spoony promising things to his patrons and not delivering.
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TheMaestroso posted:I'm pretty sure this issue largely stemmed from Spoony promising things to his patrons and not delivering. At this point, I feel like unless you're a patron, it's not really worth caring about. Let the poor dude suffer in obscurity; he's not even doing anything to be public anymore, and there's nothing really funny or interesting about his continued flakiness. It's just the dull, sad tale of a boring mental illness.
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achillesforever6 posted:His brother hasn't said anything on Facebook so that's a good sign (friended him years ago when he was more active on the TSE forums and he's a good dude) I don't have his Facebook or anything, but I remember him on the forums and I remember the written movie reviews of box office bombs he was doing for a while. I enjoyed those and he seemed cool. Is his website still around?
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Spoony was my gateway internet critic back in the day, and for a long time he was one of the funniest ones around. I hope getting off of twitter and out of the spotlight allows him to sort his life out. It’s a shame that we’ll never get to see his reviews of the FFXiii sequels, though. I loved them but drat, those games were the sort of glorious trainwrecks that make excellent riffing material. Bakeneko fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:I've been tough on Spoony in the past but to be honest, I think people know he has retired and the Patreon is just goodwill payments for his past work and the livestreams. Actually news organizations should get off twitter, they're the least funny posters around.
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The world would be a lot better off if everyone just got off Twitter.
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MiddleOne posted:The world would be a lot better off if everyone just got off Twitter. give it time, people won't have a choice
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Remember how a while back we were joking about how the Nostalgia Critic mugs at the camera in all his video thumbnails? Well click on this link to Channel Awesome's uploaded videos and check out the mug on the new "Can an ending ruin a movie?" video. I feel like we've hit the peak of the artform. https://www.youtube.com/user/achannelthatsawesome/videos
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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Check the recently trending on YouTube under gaming especially. I guarantee 9 out of 10 of them have some stupid face in the thumbnail. There's a formula people have down pat for getting clicks.
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DeusExMachinima posted:Remember how a while back we were joking about how the Nostalgia Critic mugs at the camera in all his video thumbnails? Well click on this link to Channel Awesome's uploaded videos and check out the mug on the new "Can an ending ruin a movie?" video. I feel like we've hit the peak of the artform. https://www.youtube.com/user/achannelthatsawesome/videos There's a video titled "Does the 60s Batman Show Suck" there and that's what you're concerned about. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:There's a video titled "Does the 60s Batman Show Suck" there and that's what you're concerned about. The answer is no, just saved you x amount of minutes
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Channel Awesome started its life ripping off James Rolfe, now it is ripping off Buzzfeed. yay clickbait
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:I've been tough on Spoony in the past but to be honest, I think people know he has retired and the Patreon is just goodwill payments for his past work and the livestreams.  Well I didn't know. He really has retired?DeusExMachinima posted:Remember how a while back we were joking about how the Nostalgia Critic mugs at the camera in all his video thumbnails? Well click on this link to Channel Awesome's uploaded videos and check out the mug on the new "Can an ending ruin a movie?" video. I feel like we've hit the peak of the artform. https://www.youtube.com/user/achannelthatsawesome/videos Tracula posted:Check the recently trending on YouTube under gaming especially. I guarantee 9 out of 10 of them have some stupid face in the thumbnail. There's a formula people have down pat for getting clicks. The face mugging thing doesn't bother me. If you're not going to draw an original title card, you need to add something of your own to indicate that it's a review in a quick shorthand way. Phelous mugs on his thumbnails quite a lot, though he's particularly gifted in that regard.
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Ema Nymton posted:
Not officially but you might as well call it at this point.
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I forget which video producer talked about this (maybe Dan Olsen?) but apparently its been researched and people are just more likely to click on a video with a face in the thumbnail. I'm sure Phelous is aware of this and I feel his extreme over-mugging on his thumbnails is his way of both indulging in this trend and mocking it. I don't have anything to back this up with, but it just feels like that would be something he'd do.
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Mischalaniouse posted:I forget which video producer talked about this (maybe Dan Olsen?) but apparently its been researched and people are just more likely to click on a video with a face in the thumbnail. I'm sure Phelous is aware of this and I feel his extreme over-mugging on his thumbnails is his way of both indulging in this trend and mocking it. I don't have anything to back this up with, but it just feels like that would be something he'd do. I know there's a similar reason a lot of streamers use face cams too since, based on some psychology or whatever, it helps you connect more with the person playing if you see them as well.
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Mischalaniouse posted:I forget which video producer talked about this (maybe Dan Olsen?) but apparently its been researched and people are just more likely to click on a video with a face in the thumbnail. I'm sure Phelous is aware of this and I feel his extreme over-mugging on his thumbnails is his way of both indulging in this trend and mocking it. I don't have anything to back this up with, but it just feels like that would be something he'd do. I can definitely say that people are more likely to click on a video with tits/a racy title/if you tag it with a popular thing/if you appeal to a really specific and very thirsty demographic. I'm studying Hungarian and watched a video of a Romanian woman and a Hungarian woman trying to speak each others' languages, to find that most of the top comments were people saying they'd watched it because the Romanian woman had a set of breasts. Yeah I dunno either. "Specific niche" - my most popular video of all time is one on a Dirk Bogarde movie. I thought nobody would care when I did my Dirk Bogarde series, but I didn't realise that Dirk Bogarde fans are very loyal, and always looking for more Dirk Bogarde things. So I got quite a few new viewers from that.
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Infamous Sphere posted:I can definitely say that people are more likely to click on a video with tits/a racy title/if you tag it with a popular thing/if you appeal to a really specific and very thirsty demographic. I'm studying Hungarian and watched a video of a Romanian woman and a Hungarian woman trying to speak each others' languages, to find that most of the top comments were people saying they'd watched it because the Romanian woman had a set of breasts. Nah that can't be true, if that were true... *log into Youtube* *look at subscription list* ...well I'll be damned.
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MiddleOne posted:The world would be a lot better off if everyone just got off I'm sure this is especially true for people on the internet.
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They'rrre the best. 1973
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Ema Nymton posted:The face mugging thing doesn't bother me. If you're not going to draw an original title card, you need to add something of your own to indicate that it's a review in a quick shorthand way. Phelous mugs on his thumbnails quite a lot, though he's particularly gifted in that regard. I get that feeling from him too. When it comes to thumbnails I like Jas Townsend and Son. Instead of mugging he just smiles for the camera. It's usually contextual, it could be a picture of the old timey food he's making or the person he's interviewing or what they're doing. This video on old timey nutrition doesn't feature the vegetable he's holding, but he took the time to make it look like it could be a screencap. Look at him here peeking out from behind that lettuce being cheeky Tune in next time to Rule of Thumbnails where I'll be discussing Guru Larry: Cluttered Thumbs and Anti-Negative Space? (Positive Space???) Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe, follow us on Twitter and
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MrSlam posted:I get that feeling from him too. When it comes to thumbnails I like Jas Townsend and Son. Instead of mugging he just smiles for the camera. It's usually contextual, it could be a picture of the old timey food he's making or the person he's interviewing or what they're doing. This video on old timey nutrition doesn't feature the vegetable he's holding, but he took the time to make it look like it could be a screencap. Not really "reviews" per se but Jas Townsend and Son's videos are really good and if you're interested in history and/or cooking you should definitely watch them.
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Phelous gets away with the mugging because his whole gimmick is over the top sarcasm and he's clearly exaggerating.
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Infamous Sphere posted:Not really "reviews" per se but Jas Townsend and Son's videos are really good and if you're interested in history and/or cooking you should definitely watch them. He is also super,super earnest about it to the point of being endearing.
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Kunster posted:He is also super,super earnest about it to the point of being endearing. oh yeah I love him, I love that wonderful earnestness as well. Similarly earnest - the MRE reviewer Gschultz9. And if you haven't seen Great Depression Cooking that one's also pretty cool.
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Brad Tries The One Chip Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QV54Pbpbwg Oh god, why would you do that?
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New Night Mind about... a guy confessing to a murder and going on the run. Simple concept, very whatever, but it's so well done that it made people think it was actually real? And there are at least some news articles on it being a real thing...?  Like, okay, this has nothing to do with Nick's stuff but... wow. Paying half-attention to the source material at all makes it obvious that it's fiction. How could anyone think that "ah yes, this random kid killed someone and is on the run and uploading many youtube videos while doing so" is even remotely real for even a moment?
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Dragonatrix posted:New Night Mind about... a guy confessing to a murder and going on the run. Simple concept, very whatever, but it's so well done that it made people think it was actually real? And there are at least some news articles on it being a real thing...? Remember that Jeff The Killer is a well-loved piece of fiction on the internet, never underestimate how absolutely bottom of the barrel some people can go with spooky story stuff.
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Dragonatrix posted:New Night Mind about... a guy confessing to a murder and going on the run. Simple concept, very whatever, but it's so well done that it made people think it was actually real? And there are at least some news articles on it being a real thing...? I pretty much figure that it is either an act, or NM is the most easily amused guy around, or horror stuff on the Internet is just that dire, because there was one series where he was like "this isn't like the other bad black-and-white and grainy series out there" *chanel is exactly that* As for the rest of youtube thinking it's real, uh, no clue. It feels like spooky stuff has a really low bar on the net, hence every story being hyper-realistic blood and skeletons
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