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Jastiger posted:It is the parallel of nerd blackface though. Its obviously not on the level of blackface, but its genuinely the same concept.
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Aramek posted:The main difference is that it is okay to mock nerds though? Their culture needs to be marginalized and eventually destroyed, forcing them to be normal members of the over-culture. Also "nerd culture" doesn't exist. A culture runs deeper than classifying yourself by the poo poo you buy and the movies you watch.
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Jun 11, 2017 19:48
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Chris Hardwick made a fortune selling his "Nerdist" Youtube channel. So I think it exists.
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Jun 11, 2017 19:56
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Chris Hardwick seems like a nice enough dude but his pandering is absolutely shameless.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Unfriended was one of the best horror movies of the decade. 
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Das Boo posted:It's my PHUO is that it's perfectly acceptable to hate a piece of media you've had no direct contact with if everything you've encountered that's radiated from it is insufferable. And boy, do I hate BBT. See also: Dr. Who and Sherlock Sometimes you just have to experience the fans to know you hate something.
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Jun 12, 2017 00:52
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My PHUO is that I don't mind BBT. It's not great (or even good), but it's fine for white noise in the background while I'm doing dishes or something.
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Jun 12, 2017 00:59
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Speaking of which, I like laughtracks, and more shows should have them. I even liked the the classic era of Scooby Doo that had them.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Also "nerd culture" doesn't exist. A culture runs deeper than classifying yourself by the poo poo you buy and the movies you watch. veni veni veni posted:My favorite fantasy is Dark Souls because it's basically all of the cool poo poo and none of the lame poo poo. . The story goes that the creator just made stuff based on imagery and concepts he saw in Western fantasy but couldn't understand because he didn't speak English, so it's this beautiful realization of every wide-eyed imaginative flurry you'd get as a kid browsing the paperback covers of your local library, bookstore, or other public book area. And I say that as someone who can dig traditional fantasy. Aramek posted:Speaking of which, I like laughtracks, and more shows should have them.
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Jun 12, 2017 14:21
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I don't mind the laughtracks (whether it's actual canned laughter or a live studio audience, please don't get pedantic about this people that I'm sure are going to point out that BBT doesn't have a laugh track) as long as the laughs coincide with actual funny things. In Big Bang Theory, people only seem to laugh like a third of the time at an actual punchline. All the other laughs just seem to come when the actors pause and stay silent for a second and I can only imagine the audience is probably getting blasted with "please laugh" signs.
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Jun 12, 2017 14:33
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Peaches, pears, pineapple, blueberries and coconuts are gross.
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YA BOY ETHAN COUCH posted:Also because he churns out books at a rate that makes Chuck Tingle jealous Let me introduce you to my friend James Patterson veni veni veni posted:Conceptually I like some stuff about fantasy but the genre gets up it's own rear end in its lore most of the time. Game of thrones is pretty awesome though. That's probably it for me, like I keep far the gently caress away from EUs and stuff that makes it way less mysterious and interesting
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Jun 12, 2017 14:44
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The Big Bang Theory is mostly the characters being really mean to each other for reasons other than their "nerd" identities. It's traditional sitcom fare (dumb husband/boyfriend & shrew wife) with a superficial coat of nerd paint, and a breakout autistic manchild character (who only says Bazinga in 4 or 5 episodes of the ~500 they've probably made by now). The only reason it's hated so strongly and specifically is because people who don't watch it think it's insulting them because they like games and comic books. And sometimes it does, because a lot of behaviours fanatics engage in are inherently laughable. But it's no more "nerd blackface" than Married With Children was shoe salesman blackface. The nerd stuff is just what the characters do while being terrible people.
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mind the walrus posted:I'm not going to knock this crazy opinion, I just want to know why I don't know...  I just know I do, and I know it's extremely unpopular that I love it. I'm not even talking live studio audience, which is also good, I mean 100% edited in laugh track. It's awesome.
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Jun 12, 2017 16:07
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Back in the 90's, there was a short-lived show called Get A Life! on FOX. The network heads demanded it have a laughtrack as per common for all sitcoms of the day. The creators responded by inserting the laughtrack into weird and uncomfortable places, such as a Clockwork Orange homage and the main character drowning in his cereal and staying there long enough to turn blue. One episode ended with the audience laughing uproariously as the main character staggered, choked and dropped dead from a botched tonsillectomy. That was good use of a laughtrack.
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Das Boo posted:Back in the 90's, there was a short-lived show called Get A Life! on FOX. The network heads demanded it have a laughtrack as per common for all sitcoms of the day. The creators responded by inserting the laughtrack into weird and uncomfortable places, such as a Clockwork Orange homage and the main character drowning in his cereal and staying there long enough to turn blue. One episode ended with the audience laughing uproariously as the main character staggered, choked and dropped dead from a botched tonsillectomy. That sounds like a really lame creepypasta like all those "hidden" episodes of spongebob or whatever, but considering it was a fox show maybe it's true.
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Jun 12, 2017 19:19
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yeah I eat rear end posted:That sounds like a really lame creepypasta like all those "hidden" episodes of spongebob or whatever, but considering it was a fox show maybe it's true.  (Holy poo poo, when did Imgur update their app to be entirely unusable? I had to jump on my desktop to do this.)
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Jun 12, 2017 19:41
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mind the walrus posted:This used to be me. At some point the whole psuedo-medieval thing just "clicked" and I got the appeal. Not sure how to translate it into words though. I agree with this! Really, you don't need any kind of companion piece or reader or even much of a background if you're seeing a competent production of Shakespeare on the stage. It's a thousand times easier than trying to read it.
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Das Boo posted:(Holy poo poo, when did Imgur update their app to be entirely unusable? I had to jump on my desktop to do this.)
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Collateral Damage posted:The imgur app has always been garbage and I hate how they're constantly reducing functionality and increasing nag screens in the mobile site to push you to the app. I know it's gotten less functional with every update, but gently caress. I downloaded the dumb app while trying to upload that picture, but it has no option for link uploads. So I downloaded the gif, and it only provided sharing options for contacts and other social media sites. No share links. I held my tongue when they hid the share links, removed easy multiple uploads and withheld features behind account walls but I mean jesus, how do they think people use that thing?
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fruit on the bottom posted:I agree with this! This is true, I saw a matinee of Macbeth at the Stratford Festival last fall and 2/3 of the theatre was teens and tweens on field trips who ended up being exceptionally stoked on Shakespeare. And my mom's friends with the director and I asked about it later and apparently that was the normal reaction for high school groups. They all thought it was fancy Game of Thrones and the coolest thing ever.
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I want to show Titus Andronicus to a bunch of sheltered middle schoolers.
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sassassin posted:The Big Bang Theory is mostly the characters being really mean to each other for reasons other than their "nerd" identities. How strongly a nerd feels about Big Bang Theory is a good barometer for if they are worth talking to or not.
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fruit on the bottom posted:I want to show Titus Andronicus to a bunch of sheltered middle schoolers. That or the fifth act of Hamlet. Fistfight in a graveyard, a swordfight, a poisoning, two dudes get slashed with a poisoned sword, a stabbing, a dude threatens to poison himself, then a guy who hasn't even been mentioned since act 2 rolls in and becomes prince instead because everyone else is dead.
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We Know Catheters posted:Peaches, pears, pineapple, blueberries and coconuts are gross. Decrepus posted:How strongly a nerd feels about Big Bang Theory is a good barometer for if they are worth talking to or not. Das Boo posted:I know it's gotten less functional with every update, but gently caress. I downloaded the dumb app while trying to upload that picture, but it has no option for link uploads. So I downloaded the gif, and it only provided sharing options for contacts and other social media sites. No share links. I held my tongue when they hid the share links, removed easy multiple uploads and withheld features behind account walls but I mean jesus, how do they think people use that thing? Aramek posted:I don't know...
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Das Boo posted:Back in the 90's, there was a short-lived show called Get A Life! on FOX. The network heads demanded it have a laughtrack as per common for all sitcoms of the day. The creators responded by inserting the laughtrack into weird and uncomfortable places, such as a Clockwork Orange homage and the main character drowning in his cereal and staying there long enough to turn blue. One episode ended with the audience laughing uproariously as the main character staggered, choked and dropped dead from a botched tonsillectomy. Chris Elliot is an underappreciated comedy genius.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:That sounds like a really lame creepypasta like all those "hidden" episodes of spongebob or whatever, but considering it was a fox show maybe it's true. It was true. I actually watched that show. It didn't last long (surprise surprise) but had some downright brilliant bits of anti-humor thrown in. Other episodes they overdid the laugh track like crazy and just had laughing over every single line. Mostly though the show was just bad.
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the new gorillaz album is subpar, and I feel they should cool off of the collab albums. gotta say though, Strobelite, Saturnz Barz, and Andromeda are good
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Spiderjelly posted:Chris Elliot is an underappreciated comedy genius. quote:There’s a fascinating moment where new cast member Chris Elliott comes on screen for the first time and is greeted by a short but distinct burst of laughter and applause. At least some audience members clearly recognized this weird-looking goofball from Get A Life and David Letterman’s late-night show. Yet the moment Chris Elliott recreates Clinton in his own image—as a W.C Fields-style surly misanthrope or a Lou Costello slapstick stooge—that laughter and applause gives way to the silence of confusion and non-comprehension. It’s as if the crowd likes the idea of an eccentric, hip goofball like Elliott in theory, but once he starts doing weird stuff, they start pining for the fat guy to fall down again. spit on my clit posted:the new gorillaz album is subpar, and I feel they should cool off of the collab albums. gotta say though, Strobelite, Saturnz Barz, and Andromeda are good
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mind the walrus posted:I've always felt the Gorillaz were kind of "eh" outside of their singles tbqh. I dug Plastic Beach though. Personally I feel that Kids With Guns and Dirty Harry are their best songs. And Strobelite
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Jun 13, 2017 01:12
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Isn't Gorillaz like one guy?
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Mu Zeta posted:Isn't Gorillaz like one guy? Damon Albarn is the mastermind but there are dozens of collaborators on everything
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You guys remember Herman's Head? Maybe I'll rewatch Herman's Head.
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IMO Gorillaz is 2 dudes
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It was true. I actually watched that show. It didn't last long (surprise surprise) but had some downright brilliant bits of anti-humor thrown in. Other episodes they overdid the laugh track like crazy and just had laughing over every single line. Yeah I looked it up after posting that (and saw Das Boo's post), I was just saying it sounds so ridiculous that it reminded me of those fakeposts.
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I wish DnD was a readable forum. I tried reading a thread and I could feel the fedora emerging through my screen like the chick from the ring, and I'm pretty left wing. Ironically it seems like one of the forums with the fewest honest debates and discussions and a lot of circlejerks and reducing your opponents to caricatures.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I wish DnD was a readable forum. I tried reading a thread and I could feel the fedora emerging through my screen like the chick from the ring, and I'm pretty left wing. Yeah it's gotten pretty bad lately. The main problem is the lack of actual posts with content. It's everyone just going into petty endless derails.
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Das Boo posted:I know it's gotten less functional with every update, but gently caress. I downloaded the dumb app while trying to upload that picture, but it has no option for link uploads. So I downloaded the gif, and it only provided sharing options for contacts and other social media sites. No share links. I held my tongue when they hid the share links, removed easy multiple uploads and withheld features behind account walls but I mean jesus, how do they think people use that thing? You can copy a direct link to the image.
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We Know Catheters posted:You can copy a direct link to the image. I figured out how to use it again today, but only after I remembered my log-in info and accessed my account on my phone. Looks like you can't anon use the mobile site anymore.  Edgar Allen Ho posted:I wish DnD was a readable forum. I tried reading a thread and I could feel the fedora emerging through my screen like the chick from the ring, and I'm pretty left wing. Lawdy, yes. Even worse is you risk probation for slight dissent or even questioning the tide. Back when GBS had occasional news stories, I thought it was pretty neat you had folks pulling from multiple sources to try and validate info in the thread. That never seems to happen in DnD where if it fits the political narrative, good, don't question it. If it doesn't, you're a bigot making things up lalalalala! An echo chamber hosed us last election, I'm not sure what good doubling down is meant to do.
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Das Boo posted:An echo chamber hosed us last election, I'm not sure what good doubling down is meant to do.
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