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NikkolasKing posted:I never get enough of shoot interviews or "real life" analyses like this. Although I fear that all the peeks behind the curtain and, hell, the curtain being utterly wrecked, is going to really hinder my ability to find the magic in wrestling I used to when I was younger. From a while back - but Simon from WhatCulture.com Wrestling has kinda offered an answer to this while also talking about a wrestler and his almighty penis. He argues that in order to enjoy wrestling you need a mindset that allows you to flip from the wacky to the serious, and once you've mastered that, you can enjoy the 'sport' regardless of how dumb or real it is. Find that zone and the Curtain you mention just stops existing and you wont miss it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNDj_wUaF4k WhatCulture Wrestling is a pretty good channel (There is a WhatCulture Gaming channel which is hot garbage. avoid that) that churns out Youtube Listicles, Event reviews, predictions and more (specifically their own wrestling promotion) at a rate of knots but manages to keep a pretty high level of information and funny. I'd recommend adding them to your subs list. [/plug] e: hell yeah +2 wrestling pagesnipe combo! KayTee fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:If they stopped existing, middlebrow hacks everywhere would lose a reason to justify a lack of effort your standards regarding what is or isn't worth spending time to criticize seem pretty drat arbitrary
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Augus posted:your standards regarding what is or isn't worth spending time to criticize seem pretty drat arbitrary Okay
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Speaking of wrestling, Bennett has a new anime abandon episode out talking about DBZ
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Arcsquad12 posted:Speaking of wrestling, Bennett has a new anime abandon episode out talking about DBZ what a sell out
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KayTee posted:From a while back - but Simon from WhatCulture.com Wrestling has kinda offered an answer to this while also talking about a wrestler and his almighty penis. He argues that in order to enjoy wrestling you need a mindset that allows you to flip from the wacky to the serious, and once you've mastered that, you can enjoy the 'sport' regardless of how dumb or real it is. Find that zone and the Curtain you mention just stops existing and you wont miss it. Thank you for that link. I've heard a lot about WhatCulture on here and other places so I should be following them. Would Meltzer and Alvarez count as Internet Critics nowadays? Some people on this forum seem to dislike Meltzer in spite of him being like, the biggest non-wrestling guy in the wrestling business. But I just finished Death of WCW and it made me very interested in Alvarez and Meltzer. Dave didn't write it but he and Bryan had a lot of great vids I found on YT after finishing the book.
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The wrestling observer is basically entirely an online product nowadays so I'd say it counts.
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Aug 19, 2017 22:00
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I'd say that they do. I always track down both Brian & Vinny and the Wrestling Observer run downs of WWE PPVs because I'm personally losing interest in watching the WWE shows myself so getting run downs from people that care but are willing to tear down a product when necessary is nice.
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Aug 20, 2017 01:09
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Bryan and Vinny is appointment listening for me. The rest I listen to when I want to.
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Aug 20, 2017 04:19
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Yea most is hit and miss but B&V is always worth the listen.
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Aug 20, 2017 04:23
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Not really an internet critic, but man, I just learned that the dude who wrote that Axe Cop comic is one of those "the Nazis and Antifa are both bad people, it's thought police to consider certain thoughts wrong" people. Ugh.
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MisterBibs posted:Not really an internet critic, but man, I just learned that the dude who wrote that Axe Cop comic is one of those "the Nazis and Antifa are both bad people, it's thought police to consider certain thoughts wrong" people. Ugh. https://twitter.com/AXECOP/status/899068532914241536 https://twitter.com/AXECOP/status/899099931482312704 https://twitter.com/AXECOP/status/899076282645860353 https://twitter.com/AXECOP/status/899101146073055233 Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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Aug 20, 2017 07:18
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Lmao omg
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Aug 20, 2017 07:40
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I was hopeful when he said that, too, but when I noticed he retweeted a dude equating Antifa with the alt-right, combined with him thinking it's worrying to thought police anyone, made me realize he was just bullshitting. It should never be worrying when its the Nazis and/or the alt right.
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That's one hell of an attempted runback at the end, but pretty much yeah people can gently caress off with their crocodile tears over neo-nazis getting socked or whatever else. It's almost always either someone too flimsy to hold a real opinion like "Nazis are bad", that or it's someone fishing for online good boy points for farting out some idiotic "All violence is totally the same and bad" shtick. Like sorry but there are some situations where violence isn't avoidable and historically even was the answer, guess what ideology mysteriously forces confrontations like this way more than others. Yardbomb fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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Aug 20, 2017 08:55
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once someone believes genocide is a legitimate political belief, anything is fair game
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KayTee posted:WhatCulture Wrestling is a pretty good channel (There is a WhatCulture Gaming channel which is hot garbage. avoid that) that churns out Youtube Listicles, Event reviews, predictions and more (specifically their own wrestling promotion) at a rate of knots but manages to keep a pretty high level of information and funny. I'd recommend adding them to your subs list. They just started a comics channel that's much, much worse than the gaming one. But the wrestling channel is consistently great. WCPW seems like a solid indie fed too. One of their earlier shows had a Kurt Angle/Cody Rhodes main event.
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Cinemasins pisses people off because: a) It's poo poo. b) Everyone has sat in a room with a friend or family member whose has done the exact same thing; talked all the way through the film and try to prove how smart they are by trying to one-up the film, but been wrong and annoying at pretty much every turn. who then loudly complains that "it doesn't make any sense" because they talked over the bit where the film explained what was going on. So it's not so much cinemasins itself (which is indescribably poo poo still), it's that everyone who hates it is probably thinking of "that" person in their own life.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43vWEPkceM Holy poo poo this film! 
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Karloff posted:Cinemasins pisses people off because: a) It's poo poo. I will fight you if what you're doing here is lumping riffing in with whatever Cinemasins is doing.
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Aug 21, 2017 20:09
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Riffing can be bad if not worse. It's also impossible to be funny if you don't have jokes already written out or thought of before hand.
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CelticPredator posted:It's also impossible to be funny if you don't have jokes already written out or thought of before hand.  Just making GBS threads on bad things as they go is a good time and you don't need some script for that.
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I think the point is more it can be fun to watch something bad and riff with friends, but then there's also That Guy who just wants to poo poo on Star Wars and constantly point out poo poo like "there's no sound in space you know".
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CelticPredator posted:Riffing can be bad if not worse. It's also impossible to be funny if you don't have jokes already written out or thought of before hand. If you need a script to have a good time watching movies with a buddy then maybe you're doing this whole friendship thing wrong.
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You said riffing not having fun with friends. Also you can still be obnoxious at it if you won't shut up and just make bad jokes the entire movie non stop.
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Making bad jokes is a local cultural fascination where I grew up 
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Linear Zoetrope posted:I think the point is more it can be fun to watch something bad and riff with friends, but then there's also That Guy who just wants to poo poo on Star Wars and constantly point out poo poo like "there's no sound in space you know". To extend the parallel with musical riffing, there's playing variations on a theme with friends, and then there's one guy strumming the intro to Wonderwall over and over again.
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MiddleOne posted:Making bad jokes is a local cultural fascination where I grew up Oh, you grew up on the forums too? 
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KayTee posted:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Holy poo poo. I think we found the next Neil Breen.
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WampaLord posted:Oh, you grew up on the forums too? That would explain so much, sadly no
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Linear Zoetrope posted:Star Wars and constantly point out poo poo like "there's no sound in space you know". "This is a different Galaxy. Space works different. Also, a long time ago the Universe was denser, so interstellar particles were closer together, making rudimentary sound transfer possible, even through space. Also, shut the gently caress up, you douche-nozzle, no one likes you"
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lornekates posted:"This is a different Galaxy. Space works different. Also, a long time ago the Universe was denser, so interstellar particles were closer together, making rudimentary sound transfer possible, even through space. Also, shut the gently caress up, you douche-nozzle, no one likes you" There's a sci-fi book ive been trying to remember for years that explores this idea but with dark energy and dark matter.
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lornekates posted:"This is a different Galaxy. Space works different. Also, a long time ago the Universe was denser, so interstellar particles were closer together, making rudimentary sound transfer possible, even through space. Also, shut the gently caress up, you douche-nozzle, no one likes you" "It's a movie about laser swords and magic powers. Nobody cares about the physics, they're here for pew-pew lasers."
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Linear Zoetrope posted:I think the point is more it can be fun to watch something bad and riff with friends, but then there's also That Guy who just wants to poo poo on Star Wars and constantly point out poo poo like "there's no sound in space you know". Even if you're poking fun, sometimes people still take issue. "Oh man, he must've fallen fifty-seven stories! Good thing they put the pool so close to the hotel. Thank goodness for those water-softening pellets." "I know people still die from falling from great heights into water. Can it with your jokes and let me watch this in peace!"
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"He woulda bleed to death after jumping through the glass!!" I love Double Toasted a lot, but they do this poo poo all the time. It's really off putting.
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CelticPredator posted:"He woulda bleed to death after jumping through the glass!!" "It's sugar glass and it's a stuntman with protective gear just in case. You idiot."
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Karloff posted:Cinemasins pisses people off because: a) It's poo poo.
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In other words, it's using an arbitrary set of standards against which they ding the movie every time it violates said standards. None of the errors attack the central conceits of the films they criticize, they're surface-level nitpicks built around making the author appear deeply discerning rather than just thick.
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Neeksy posted:In other words, it's using an arbitrary set of standards against which they ding the movie every time it violates said standards. None of the errors attack the central conceits of the films they criticize, they're surface-level nitpicks built around making the author appear deeply discerning rather than just thick. But enough about Doug Walker
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Max Wilco posted:Even if you're poking fun, sometimes people still take issue. The worst part is that they never want to avail their cosmically enlighted super brain to every part of ridiculousness in the entertainment. "You drove into that guy doing 80 MPH, force field or not, he's dead." "Wow, a beanbag from a cannon that big would kill him." Yet never a word about the woman/plant or the genetic abomination combined of man and bat.
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