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Kim Justice posted:Behold YouTube's new Million Dollar Quartet, bonded by male pattern baldness and a shared love for food, music, and pop science. Andrew "Welcome back TO Binging With Babish" Rea, Sean "For First We Feast, I'm Sean" Evans, Michael "Hey, Vsauce" Stevens, and Anthony "Nazi Fraud" Fantano. So they are all bald food guys except for one. I still don't get it. 
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Mar 29, 2018 18:27
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Sarcopenia posted:So they are all bald food guys except for one. I still don't get it. Nah, Vsauce isn't - he does like, pop science mainly. Also a HUUUUGE channel. And Fantano does music. They do actually collaborate a fair bit but really I just felt like a spot of shitposting 
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Mar 29, 2018 18:48
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Just going to point out that the studio mandate to make the hobbit three films affected the production so badly they didn't even have complete storyboards by the time they started filming. This is edging into Alien 3 levels of studio mismanagement.
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Mar 29, 2018 19:27
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The Hobbit Trilogy is just another in a series of Worst. Movies. Ever! where the fixation is pathological.
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Mar 29, 2018 19:36
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The Hobbit Trilogy is just another in a series of Worst. Movies. Ever! where the fixation is pathological. You post nothing but screeds about why any given piece of media being discussed is worthless garbage so why are you mad that people don't like The Hobbit trilogy?
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Mar 29, 2018 20:05
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Stop responding to BravestOfTheLamps
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Mar 29, 2018 20:07
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DoctorWhat posted:Stop responding to BravestOfTheLamps he may be out of bounds 99% of the time but he's not wrong here--broken clock and all that
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Mar 29, 2018 20:15
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:For some reason it's really important to be "into" these franchises. Nobody cares if you're really into Homer or Mervyn Peake, but it's a huge deal that someone likes Tolkien. I think it's funny you picked Gormenghast for this example
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Mar 29, 2018 20:23
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Flying Zamboni posted:You post nothing but screeds about why any given piece of media being discussed is worthless garbage so why are you mad that people don't like The Hobbit trilogy? The Hobbit Trilogy is bad, but like the Star Wars Prequels, the enduring attention paid to them strikes one as stranger than the badness of the movies themselves. It seems to be a kind of device to avoid confronting that the "originals" weren't that good in the first place.
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Mar 29, 2018 20:24
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Fellowship has really cool forced perspective shots and beautiful miniatures and I like seeing that kind of old-school film artistry. There's obviously better movies with those things too but it's still a quality those films have the follow-ups lack. I guess the same is true of Star Wars, I dunno, I haven't seen them in a long time. Miniatures are cool and I like to see them.
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Mar 29, 2018 20:29
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:You know what really deserves a reboot? The Golden Girls. Fight me, nerds. You’ve said enough bad things in this thread already today. Just let Betty White rest in peace, please.
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Mar 29, 2018 20:33
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corn in the bible posted:Fellowship has really cool forced perspective shots and beautiful miniatures and I like seeing that kind of old-school film artistry. There's obviously better movies with those things too but it's still a quality those films have the follow-ups lack. I guess the same is true of Star Wars, I dunno, I haven't seen them in a long time. If I had to sum up the Lord of the Rings movies, they're the kind of stuff where the making of documentary is more interesting than the actual product.
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Mar 29, 2018 20:37
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Waffles Inc. posted:he may be out of bounds 99% of the time but he's not wrong here--broken clock and all that The Hobbit sucks, sorry about sane people agreeing with that.
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Mar 29, 2018 20:46
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nine-gear crow posted:Just let Betty White rest in peace, please. DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT
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Mar 29, 2018 20:57
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:For some reason it's really important to be "into" these franchises. Nobody cares if you're really into Homer or Mervyn Peake, but it's a huge deal that someone likes Tolkien. Yeah, it's interesting how in certain contexts professionalism is interpreted as love for a franchise. It's not that Christopher Lee takes joy in acting and brings that enthusiasm in doing his work well to even minor projects, it's that he's doing it in service of Star Wars or Lord Of The Rings.
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Mar 29, 2018 21:14
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I Before E posted:Yeah, it's interesting how in certain contexts professionalism is interpreted as love for a franchise. It's not that Christopher Lee takes joy in acting and brings that enthusiasm in doing his work well to even minor projects, it's that he's doing it in service of Star Wars or Lord Of The Rings. You seem to have imagined that I'm criticizing the late Christopher Lee for liking something.
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Mar 29, 2018 21:21
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Someone who claims Gormenghast is "satisfying" either has never read the books, or is a really weird fucker Seriously, they're impressive from a linguistic standpoint and you can derive a lot of enjoyment from how strange the books are, but describing them as "satisfying" is a tall order. Maybe they satisfy BotL's craving for really weird poo poo?
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Mar 29, 2018 21:21
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Hmm, yes, these long prose works have some impressive prose, but you must be weird to derive enjoyment from how books are written.
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Mar 29, 2018 21:23
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Yes, I'm criticizing the late Christopher Lee for liking something. RGD > Internet Critic Discussion Thread 4.0: Criticizing People For Liking Something
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Mar 29, 2018 21:25
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Waffles Inc. posted:he may be out of bounds 99% of the time but he's not wrong here--broken clock and all that i am going to crush your bones with my incredibly powerful hands, feet, elbows and knees using the well-rounded techniques of Muay Thai kickboxing Alaois fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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Mar 29, 2018 21:34
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It's just funny to pick the books that had such a big fanbase and academic movement that there's been multiple radio and tv adaptations and a fake sequel written by someone else as the example of something with integrity and without a needy fanbase.
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Mar 29, 2018 21:40
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I wish Christopher Lee had been Gandalf. I mean, McKellen was perfect, but Lee wanted to be Gandalf so much. 
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Mar 29, 2018 21:52
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corn in the bible posted:It's just funny to pick the books that had such a big fanbase and academic movement that there's been multiple radio and tv adaptations and a fake sequel written by someone else as the example of something with integrity and without a needy fanbase. Adaptations and sequels are not made because of needy fanbases or academic movements. What I'm talking about is the "unsatisfying" quality of genre franchises, that inspires insatiable need for more and which is the basic impulse behind all fandom activity. The Gormenghast book, even unfinished, are so satisfying that they discourage any real fandom. Likewise there's no Homeric poetry fandom, or Brueghel the Elder fandom, or Jose Saramago fandom. This is largely based on how their success depends on form rather than on content. A large part of Tolkien's appeal is in the scope of content that can be reified and reproduced in imagination and in media - enchanting places, wondrous or terrible creatures, complex fictional histories, all of which have become hallmarks of imitators - while the appeal of Gormenghast is almost purely in the formal qualities of its prose. The former is something that's ideal for fandom, while the latter is not. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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Mar 29, 2018 22:20
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Adaptations and sequels are not made because of needy fanbases or academic movements. What I'm talking about is the "unsatisfying" quality of genre franchises, that inspires insatiable need for more and which is the basic impulse behind all fandom activity. The Gormenghast book, even unfinished, are so satisfying that they discourage any real fandom. Likewise there's no Homeric poetry fandom, or Brueghel the Elder fandom, or Jose Saramago fandom. This is largely based on how their success depends on form rather than on content. A large part of Tolkien's appeal is in the scope of content that can be reified and reproduced in imagination and in media - enchanting places, wondrous or terrible creatures, complex fictional histories, all of which have become hallmarks of imitators - while the appeal of Gormenghast is almost purely in the formal qualities of its prose. The former is something that's ideal for fandom, while the latter is not. good luck enjoying that form as i put you in a d'arce choke, i'll leave you needy for air as you tap out. your life is in herb dean's hands, boy
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Mar 29, 2018 22:33
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Alaois posted:good luck enjoying that form as i put you in a d'arce choke, i'll leave you needy for air as you tap out. your life is in herb dean's hands, boy Sounds hot.
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Mar 29, 2018 22:36
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Sounds hot. the inherent eroticism of mma only strengthens its appeal
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Mar 29, 2018 22:40
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Alaois posted:the inherent eroticism of mma only strengthens its appeal If anybody is still looking for a tirle for the new thread....
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Mar 29, 2018 22:46
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Hbomberguy posted:This is a problem with the 'pseudo-objective' approach in much modern media analysis. It takes what are ultimately subjective complaints (I didn't personally like this scene for reasons that are complex and relate to my personal relationship with the books and previous film adaptations, a relationship that's ultimately very common to internet nerds who watch films) and attempts to justify them in the form of overly simplistic truth-isms that actually only deflect from the core reasons why people didn't like the film. I mean, I was trying to do a really basic summary of the way things usually work for someone who didn't seem to have much background in critical analysis period, so I didn't feel like dropping a goddamn book on narrative theory was an optimal approach to be understood, but sure, I guess saying "usually following the basic formula in a formulaic genre is good" is too reductive. Do you think that breaking that rule is not the reason that Lindsay was reciting all these crammed-in scenes? What do you think was actually meant, if you disagree? What do you think I have missed in my quoted post that would be relevant to this particular discussion, as opposed to a general discussion of narrative?
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Mar 29, 2018 22:56
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Libluini posted:Someone who claims Gormenghast is "satisfying" either has never read the books, or is a really weird fucker I've read the books, and I found the first two very satisfying. It's a shame about the third one. I can't deny the charge of being a weird fucker, though.
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Mar 29, 2018 23:35
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gently caress all this books poo poo, get a load of who's back in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO1fGxtbrhI New Bores for 2018, what a time to be alive
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Mar 29, 2018 23:51
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Solitair posted:I've read the books, and I found the first two very satisfying. It's a shame about the third one. I forced myself through the first book and then got stuck halfway through the second one. I'm still planning on finishing them sometimes. Kim Justice posted:gently caress all this books poo poo, get a load of who's back in the game: Ah, the Irate Gamer. I've tried watching him once, and decided to go back trying to read Gormenghast and Night Land. Yes, he is that boring
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Mar 30, 2018 00:15
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The Aeneid is Homer fanfic
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Mar 30, 2018 00:21
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Libluini posted:Someone who claims Gormenghast is "satisfying" either has never read the books, or is a really weird fucker Seriously. I liked Titus Groan but to act like anything past that book is undeniably good is a weird hill to die on. Titus Alone was meandering and dull in a way that makes it a bore to get through.
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Mar 30, 2018 00:33
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I don't care how many ghosts he catches I can't accept him back after seeing how far he's waded into the deep end in #Pizzagate conspiracies and the like. And then when I went to look that up to make sure I wasn't remembering things wrong I found this moment of his hadn't even ever seen before: https://twitter.com/remberhappyday/status/979486216323203075 Irate Gamer please stay gone.
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Mar 30, 2018 00:38
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Kim Justice posted:gently caress all this books poo poo, get a load of who's back in the game: This is all that and a bag of chips!
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Mar 30, 2018 00:45
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I like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars and I could give less than two squirts of piss if someone makes more poo poo for them. Like, if tomorrow they shoved all the copyright paperwork into a freezer and went "No more adaptations for you!" I would not be the least bit upset. I don't even like original Star Wars that much, and wasn't excited or expectant about the prequels or the new Disney stuff. I just don't care. I would rather have something new, every time.
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Mar 30, 2018 00:49
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Viewtiful Jew posted:I don't care how many ghosts he catches I can't accept him back after seeing how far he's waded into the deep end in #Pizzagate conspiracies and the like. Ooooooooooohhh. Hmm. Yeah, that's pretty poo poo. I mean, what kind of bad taste must you have to think that IG's videos were better than JewWario's? (Seriously gently caress Chris for that. There's really nothing here but morbid curiosity at his frankly unwelcome return - like jeez, as far as early YT AVGN-style folk go I'd rather have UrinatingTree or Armake21 or Bogart or He11sing (R.I.P) or literally anyone else back. Also, he makes Blockbuster Buster look like Pauline Kael.)
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Mar 30, 2018 01:11
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Kim Justice posted:Ooooooooooohhh. He's a complete turd, but he's fascinating to me. He actually has been doing a puppet show called Puppet Steve, where he reviews poo poo like Five Nights at Freddy's toys. I haven't watched one of those videos in a long while but last I saw, he had quite a lot of subscribers. I'm a little surprised he's coming back to video games.
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