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https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/973848908601352192 Are they robots? They have to be robots. I know nothing of making movies but I know that you should provide clean drinking water to humans, especially when they are doing physical activities.
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endolithic posted:https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/973848908601352192 I'm just going to assume that every single one of Dan and Lindsay's quips from the past of "This one time I worked on a set where (X horrible thing)" are about TBF until proven otherwise.
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Mar 15, 2018 21:14
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Leal posted:
The first draft of the original book had a legendarily awkward and explicit VR sex scene between the main character and his love interest that was thankfully cut for the actual real published version, but was on the Japanese version of LiveJournal long enough to get archived for eternity.
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Mar 15, 2018 21:21
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I think that the CA people are not professional filmmakers and that they have been winging their video making since the very beginning.
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Mar 15, 2018 21:23
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Mraagvpeine posted:I think that the CA people are not professional filmmakers and that they have been winging their video making since the very beginning. Of the lot of them, Brad is the only real "filmmaker" of the bunch, and he's more in the Red Letter Media vein of "we know it's crap and looks like rear end, but we're having fun, so what do you care?" Compared to Doug and crew. I mean Allison still works with Brad so that should be proof enough that he's on the level... hopefully 
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Mar 15, 2018 21:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8CEUKJSmew&t=1843s Every time we talk about To boldly flee, I think about that joke.
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Mar 15, 2018 21:51
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nine-gear crow posted:I mean Allison still works with Brad so that should be proof enough that he's on the level... hopefully I think her collaboration with Clevin says all, really.
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Mar 15, 2018 21:57
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I remember watching Doug's stuff back in college and thinking it was entertaining. Yeah, I was dumb, whatever. I stopped watching when he did his Bart's Nightmare video and it was just the most unentertaining thing I'd seen on the site.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:06
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There were a bunch of To boldly flee commentaries back in the day. Any one really goes in-depth to how bad it was?
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Mar 15, 2018 22:12
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It was the worst thing since Eragon.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:13
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MonsieurChoc posted:There were a bunch of To boldly flee commentaries back in the day. Any one really goes in-depth to how bad it was? Allison, Brad, and Phelan did one which I remember mostly just mocking it because it was poo poo. Noah also did one but it was about how great an actor he is and how much people on the internet praised his performances and their depth, a thing I'm sure really happened for real
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Mar 15, 2018 22:16
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CharlestheHammer posted:There isn’t any tentacle rape.
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lornekates posted:I'm just going to assume that every single one of Dan and Lindsay's quips from the past of "This one time I worked on a set where (X horrible thing)" are about TBF until proven otherwise. Mine are mostly about BloodMania (which did finally come out last year, but was so awful I didn't even feel like dragging it much in public).
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Mar 15, 2018 23:03
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achillesforever6 posted:The 2nd season is even better when one the characters is revealed to be dying of AIDS in the real world. I remember going to some other forum and laughing about how dumb it was and man a lot of people got so upset at something so ridiculous. It sounds like another easy target to be pilloried.
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Mar 15, 2018 23:08
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:The first draft of the original book had a legendarily awkward and explicit VR sex scene between the main character and his love interest that was thankfully cut for the actual real published version, but was on the Japanese version of LiveJournal long enough to get archived for eternity. IIRC the author also straight up apologised for it and said "yeah that was garbage".
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Mar 15, 2018 23:37
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corn in the bible posted:I remember watching Doug's stuff back in college and thinking it was entertaining. Yeah, I was dumb, whatever. I stopped watching when he did his Bart's Nightmare video and it was just the most unentertaining thing I'd seen on the site. I'm even dumber because I kept watching until the site got redesigned and Blip died.
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Mar 15, 2018 23:56
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Barts nightmare did give us a fun retsupurae
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Solitair posted:I'm even dumber because I kept watching until the site got redesigned and Blip died.
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to boldly flee was bad but i still have decent memories of SadPanda's deadpan, though i have no idea who he was or whatever else he did
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Sometimes I'm sad that I missed out on most of where people like Lindsay got their start - a lot of the videos, even if a bit amateurish, still seemed nice when I later watched them on Youtube, and there's a bunch that I only know of because they had a cameo on one of her videos (I think it was about it being okay to like The Little Mermaid). I basically had really lovely/no internet/laptops back in Israel, where I spent the aughts, and then I had a few years in grad school when I chose not to have internet at home at all to focus on school work. But then when I read about how it ran, I think I'm okay with getting to know them all outside of that garbage fire.
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Brad Jones has a bunch of stuff that never made it off Blip that he probably doesn’t care to revisit because it includes people from his life who were involved in what sounds like a lot of emotional pain. He had a whole roundtable series about every Bruno Matei movie. Reading that twitter thread, I’m amazed at how young everyone was. Allison says she was 20 when she started with them, which just makes the endless destructive exploitation so much sleazier and more predatory. I mean, I guess I never noticed because I aged along with them, but it’s lovely that CA got along by exploiting and strong-arming people basically doing their first attempt at an adult job.
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Also, in the vein of horrible video-based exploitation, all of the Cracked video team just formed up as a new group called Small Beans. They want to get going as video producers again but are strictly podcasting at the moment because they have no money. There’s a lot of varied content. I’ve been listening to their movie review roundtable and a series Michael Swaim is doing where he talks about how he became an alcoholic and what it’s like, and then talks to a friend or family member about some aspect of addiction. He’s extremely open, and he gets his interview subjects to be very frank as well. It’s ultimately very life-affirming. https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Their relationship with Cracked leaks out at some points, and it sounds like gross exploitation of young people desperate for some kind of break in comedy or film. I AM GRANDO fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Mar 16, 2018 02:42
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business hammocks posted:Also, in the vein of horrible video-based exploitation, all of the Cracked video team just formed up as a new group called Small Beans. They want to get going as video producers again but are strictly podcasting at the moment because they have no money. There’s a lot of varied content. I’ve been listening to their movie review roundtable and a series Michael Swaim is doing where he talks about how he became an alcoholic and what it’s like, and then talks to a friend or family member about some aspect of addiction. He’s extremely open, and he gets his interview subjects to be very frank as well. It’s ultimately very life-affirming. Michael Swaim was always my favorite Cracked member. I never would have guessed that he was an alcoholic.
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Sarcopenia posted:Michael Swaim was always my favorite Cracked member. I never would have guessed that he was an alcoholic. Same, but then they added Seanbaby and WELP
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Sometimes I'm sad that I missed out on most of where people like Lindsay got their start - a lot of the videos, even if a bit amateurish, still seemed nice when I later watched them on Youtube, and there's a bunch that I only know of because they had a cameo on one of her videos (I think it was about it being okay to like The Little Mermaid). I basically had really lovely/no internet/laptops back in Israel, where I spent the aughts, and then I had a few years in grad school when I chose not to have internet at home at all to focus on school work.
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achillesforever6 posted:Yeah its a shame there is a bunch of stuff missing forever due to being on Blip, hell a bunch of Spoony's stuff was saved because of some Russian Youtube translators. I'm grateful to that Russian channel for the Swat 4 LP.
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Mar 16, 2018 05:39
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So somewhat relevant to internet critics, it seems like someone made a children's book using the names and likenesses of the Game Grumps without permission. https://twitter.com/RubberNinja/status/974420162030977024 https://www.amazon.com/Grumpy-Kid-Serious-Jack-Book-ebook/dp/B074WHK4B8 This is kinda hosed right? I'm not the only one who finds this gross?
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Calaveron posted:Same, but then they added Seanbaby and WELP What’s wrong with Seanbaby?
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sponges posted:What’s wrong with Seanbaby? I thought it was the other way around - Swaim was their favourite until Seanbaby eclipsed him.
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Alacron posted:So somewhat relevant to internet critics, it seems like someone made a children's book using the names and likenesses of the Game Grumps without permission. hah, the grumpy kid, starring the game grumps as kids, and the characters even have the same names probably not allowed, im no lawyer though
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sponges posted:What’s wrong with Seanbaby? I think what they mean is friendship ended With Michael Swaim now Sean baby is their best friend.
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Oxxidation posted:to boldly flee was bad but i still have decent memories of SadPanda's deadpan, though i have no idea who he was or whatever else he did Him and Welshy were together doing... I never watched anything he did either. I just remember the two of them did a couple of "poo poo TGWTG Folks Say" videos where they burned folks like Michaud, Doug, Noah and Blockbuster Buster pretty drat good and then they got booted from Channel Awesome shortly thereafter. I guess he was CA's resident composer for the site and its other talent, but gently caress me if I've ever actually seen anything he's done. Dude was like Deep 13 level Channel Awesome. Not watching To Boldly Flee was one of the best decisions I've ever made, right up there with not going down into my basement and drilling a hole into my foot with a Black & Decker Power Pack despite the many opportunities to do so over the years.
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I remember I wanted to send in some videos and try to get hired by MIKE MICHAUD and well, maybe I would have made good but probably I'd be hosed right good if anything came of it at all. He is trash in human form.
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I was staying with my sister for a couple of days last month and we were talking about online video guys. Our tastes generally line up and she was asking me why is Nostalgia Critic so poo poo; I just told her that he got really popular doing his shtick and then never loving evolved even though people these days seem to more prefer more serious analysis. I did get her onto Monster Factory, Hbomb and RedLetterMedia so that's a good thing.
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nine-gear crow posted:Of the lot of them, Brad is the only real "filmmaker" of the bunch, and he's more in the Red Letter Media vein of "we know it's crap and looks like rear end, but we're having fun, so what do you care?" Compared to Doug and crew. No, Ed Glazer is a filmmaker too. Sad Panda did a lot of theme songs for others, but him and Welshy, well, the best way I can describe them is they were the Statler and Waldorf of CA. Welshy did some good videos on the SAW and Scream series, and on other films. Some of them have been preserved on Youtube, though some are gone because of contentID. The thing about Channel Awesome back in the day was, aggregate sites like them were the only way to get exposure if you weren't on Youtube. If you were on Blip, sites liked CA were the only way to get noticed, since Blip's ability to promote talent was as robust as their business model. Youtube, deeply, deeply flawed as it is, gives you much more and better opportunities to get noticed nowadays. The current Twitter thread (that's been going non-stop for two days) also shows just how many people have left/been "fired" from CA over the years. Far more people than I realized. (And yet, the Blockbuster Buster is allowed to continue his Dark Crusade against the very concept of comedy unabated) The thread is also the first time I've seen producers that are still currently on CA joining in and admitting poo poo's hosed.
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Bad Wolf posted:The thread is also the first time I've seen producers that are still currently on CA joining in and admitting poo poo's hosed. Even-odds on their employment changing enmasse inside of a day or two.
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Bad Wolf posted:The thread is also the first time I've seen producers that are still currently on CA joining in and admitting poo poo's hosed. I like the people coming in and going LEAVE CHANNEL AWESOME ALONE
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I'll probably be sounding like a defense of the walker brothers but every time i hear or see management issues with CA, I always think Mike Michaud. The dude has always been an rear end. One of the earliest times i saw this was when Angry Joe was 1st one the site, he ended up getting into a debate with a user for about 8 posts in the comment section before going "banned" over small but valid criticisms about the video. I've seen his kind of site admin so many times it makes my head explode. The kind that stick to their own values in how the site should be run, change poo poo without the knowledge of the people who should be 100% aware of the changes. Never sort out any vital poo poo that's needed; Marzgurls mentioned in her interview where they never had private forums, TGWTG has had forums since loving day 1 and yet no area for the contributors outside of skype (question here, was anyone informed of the change from TGWTG to CA?). And finally, if the site owners even try to make a stink loud enough about something, it's a few steps away from salting the earth over whatever dumb poo poo he might have access to outside of the site. I guess thats me being on the outside looking in, I just see Doug making dumb videos that occasionally are good background noise and being stuck with a fucktarded site admin. *have never taken the time to watch to boldly flee in any form*
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