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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I have never liked him. His shtick is not funny. Barbrady was an idiot adult who happened to be a cop in a town full of idiot adults and it was endearing. Yates seems to be Matt and Trey's parody of a gritty detective from a late 90s or early 2000s cop show and would probably have been better served as a one-off character. They made him simultaneously too intelligent and too grating all at once.
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Also, as much as I love Butter’s Bottom Botch, Yates making GBS threads a gallon of jizz into an evidence baggie and then limping back to his car is probably the grossest thing in the series run, tied with a pressurized Kenny slimily squeezing out of the bus driver’s vagina
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Nov 11, 2018 20:26
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Cockmaster posted:Wait, if people are just leaving them wherever, how do the batteries ever get charged? Is this a joke post? I can't tell anymore. Electric engines are not environmentally friendly, you're just having an electric company do all the combustion for you.
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Nov 11, 2018 21:08
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Donovan Trip posted:Is this a joke post? I can't tell anymore. Electric engines are not environmentally friendly, you're just having an electric company do all the combustion for you. Yeah you dumbasses, it's not like its easier to reduce emissions at the power plant level or use renewable energy, in fact power plants are just big car engines they pour gas into that generates exactly the same amount of pollution.
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Nov 11, 2018 21:39
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lol I bet you think recycling is doing any good
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socialsecurity posted:Yeah you dumbasses, it's not like its easier to reduce emissions at the power plant level or use renewable energy, in fact power plants are just big car engines they pour gas into that generates exactly the same amount of pollution. Don't forget that an electric scooter uses something like 1/20th as much energy to go a given distance as even a small car. Cockmaster fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Nov 11, 2018 |
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Nov 11, 2018 22:20
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You idiots think bicycles are environmentally friendly, but since you consume more calories if you're bicycling you're just causing more environmental damage in the form of increased agriculture. Checkmate, cyclists!
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Nov 11, 2018 22:27
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Plus, all the farts the riders are producing and huffing are contributing a ton of greenhouse gasses
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Nov 11, 2018 22:37
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Donovan Trip posted:lol I bet you think recycling is doing any good Do you have anything close to a number to back any of this up or do you exist to say "good thing is bad thing because I say so"
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Nov 11, 2018 22:39
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Sir this is a South Park thread
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Nov 11, 2018 22:44
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Cockmaster posted:Wait, if people are just leaving them wherever, how do the batteries ever get charged? The "Just drive a car thing" was pretty dumb, especially the jokes about how non-car people kept hitting the car people, because yes THAT'S the problem. But that's just South Park.
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Nov 11, 2018 23:33
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socialsecurity posted:Do you have anything close to a number to back any of this up or do you exist to say "good thing is bad thing because I say so" Google “New Jersey Recycling Landfill” and reflect on how good things can often be smokescreens for municipal corruption.
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Nov 11, 2018 23:35
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My personal pet peeve experience with scooters is people leave them all over the sidewalk, making it quite difficult for people in wheelchairs to get by. Big picture, public transit infrastructure is the future and these little bursts of capitalist intervention to the transportation crisis are not revolutionary or particularly interesting. But I'm also really trying to avoid having another big argument in the South Park thread cuz it happens every 3 pages
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Nov 11, 2018 23:45
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Scooters sounds extremely Timmy & Jimmy. Philly has E-Bikes which were a big deal and became normalized over the course of a single summer. A big part of that is the accountability being tied to your card meant you can’t just ditch them in the streets without eating $300 bucks, so it was manageable. If it was literally just people leaving them all over the sidewalk I’d just dumpster them myself.
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Nov 11, 2018 23:53
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socialsecurity posted:Do you have anything close to a number to back any of this up or do you exist to say "good thing is bad thing because I say so" Check out how the recycling business actually works some time if you want to have your mind blown Especially how the whole craze essentially got invented out of fake data by a guy to boost his recycling business
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South Park Studios posted:AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF SOUTH PARK PREMIERES ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 AT 10:00 P.M. ET/PT ON COMEDY CENTRAL
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Nov 12, 2018 07:28
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Why did Yates think the kids were the "school shooters"? Some sort of metaphor the writers were trying to telegraph about the overall episode? He hadn't played enough PLAY RDR2, NOW IN STORES!?
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Nov 12, 2018 16:31
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Other children said the fat ugly mean kid and the detached loner poor kid were most likely to rage and shoot up the school.
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Nov 12, 2018 18:41
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Also Yates is very incompetent.
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He just wanted to get the job done, and someone had to be guilty. The joke is gently caress solving a complicated problem like climate change when I need to get home and play video games, damnit
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Nov 13, 2018 04:59
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I took it to mean that "school shootings are normal now and they happen all the time," and thus being school kids they must be shooters.
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Nov 13, 2018 05:22
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Maybe he knew they were the main characters
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CBJSprague24 posted:Why did Yates think the kids were the "school shooters"? Some sort of metaphor the writers were trying to telegraph about the overall episode? He hadn't played enough PLAY RDR2, NOW IN STORES!? Was this literally the first episode of the season you watched?
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Nov 13, 2018 07:27
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The product placement criticism is dumb. We've had a good dozen episodes where they talked about something popular and it's just as hit or miss as anything else. Also I doubt they actually got paid for their promotion of RDR2.
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Nov 13, 2018 07:50
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There have been a bunch of episodes where they talk about whatever new video game
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Nov 13, 2018 09:14
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Pretty sure it's as simple as them being into video games
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PaybackJack posted:The product placement criticism is dumb. We've had a good dozen episodes where they talked about something popular and it's just as hit or miss as anything else. Also I doubt they actually got paid for their promotion of RDR2. Honestly, I find that hard to believe. Matt and Trey are businessmen and I'm sure they are well aware of the power South Park has for advertising. I would find it VERY difficult to think that they don't have a team (or Comedy Central) that spends time reaching out to companies for product placement. It's certainly not the first time clear product placement has been used on the show, and it certainly won't be the last. (Occupy Red Robin for example) Also, it's literally part of the media, and you're dumb to get upset about it. drat near every popular TV show is going to have some paid product placement in it.
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Nov 13, 2018 10:21
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Then there's stuff like the one where Cartman really wants a Wii, where Sony had paid for a whole shitload of ads during South Park.
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Nov 13, 2018 11:02
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I think it's mostly "what is the current thing everybody's doing or talking about, let's work that into this show we're making in a week". You guys aren't getting it, Yates is Trey and Matt. They didn't want to do a show last week, they just wanted to play Red Dead Redemption 2.
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Nov 13, 2018 15:23
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Or the literal 3-episode arc about Xbox vs PS4 for Christmas, which is definitely extremely good.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Honestly, I find that hard to believe. Matt and Trey are businessmen and I'm sure they are well aware of the power South Park has for advertising. I would find it VERY difficult to think that they don't have a team (or Comedy Central) that spends time reaching out to companies for product placement. I didn't take the Red Robin reference as intentional product placement, I thought it was pretty clear they needed to use it to set up the Red [Robin] Wedding subplot. What other restaurant name could they have used instead? Quote-Unquote posted:Then there's stuff like the one where Cartman really wants a Wii, where Sony had paid for a whole shitload of ads during South Park. Say what you will about Towelie, but that episode got me to buy an Okama Gamesphere!  Bust Rodd posted:Or the literal 3-episode arc about Xbox vs PS4 for Christmas, which is definitely extremely good. Didn't that set up the Stick of Truth though?
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Nov 13, 2018 18:44
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Guys they love video games ok
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Atomizer posted:I didn't take the Red Robin reference as intentional product placement, I thought it was pretty clear they needed to use it to set up the Red [Robin] Wedding subplot. What other restaurant name could they have used instead? Fun fact, Okama is a (possibly derogatory) Japanese word for crossdresser/drag queen.
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Atomizer posted:Didn't that set up the Stick of Truth though? Yep. The whole thing was a setup for the single reason why the kids are at war for a stick. And it included a lot of great jokes about never pre-ordering games. But really: Donovan Trip posted:Guys they love video games ok
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Atomizer posted:I didn't take the Red Robin reference as intentional product placement, I thought it was pretty clear they needed to use it to set up the Red [Robin] Wedding subplot. What other restaurant name could they have used instead? Red Lobster.
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thexerox123 posted:Red Lobster. Fair enough. So we have two(?) possible restaurant names (incidentally, I've been to neither chain) for them to use in their Red Wedding parody, and if they use either one they'll get accusations of product placement instead of just picking a pop culture reference (kinda) for convenience. (I think "Red Robin Wedding" sounds a little better than Red Lobster, personally; it's a little more alliterative I guess.  )
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Some product placement bothers me and some doesn't. In this case I feel like it makes it funnier. The whole thrust of the gag is that people sound like they're talking about serious problems but then you find out they're actually talking about something mundane: a video game they're playing. The fact that it's a real game that many in the audience are also playing makes it feel that much more commonplace and unremarkable. If they invented a fake game it would add an unnecessary extra layer to the joke which would actually make it slightly less funny IMO. An example of product placement that does bother me is the various car ads they did in New Girl. The most egregious was in the Superbowl episode (which was otherwise awesome because it had Prince in like his only TV cameo ever, at his own request). For no real reason they brought up the fact that the car had a feature where you can touch the bumper to open the trunk, and then they showed a close-up of the character doing that. And then they moved on. Sir Lemming fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Nov 13, 2018 |
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Yeah, product placement just for the sake of marketing/merchandising is pretty despising, but if the products are legitimately part of the show/movie and it all fits together (e.g. the characters were going to use that thing anyway) then that's acceptable.
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Atomizer posted:Fair enough. So we have two(?) possible restaurant names (incidentally, I've been to neither chain) for them to use in their Red Wedding parody, and if they use either one they'll get accusations of product placement instead of just picking a pop culture reference (kinda) for convenience. Yeah, I don't actually think it was product placement, just playing devil's advocate.
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It does suck when the product placement is disrupting the organic flow of the story but that falls on the writer/director/producer. The problem I have is that most arguments against product placement come from people who aren't engaged with or fans of the product in the first place. Apple people bitching about Android placement, people complaining about the inclusion of references to a tv show they don't watch, or in the case of the people I see on Twitter complaining about RDR2 all happen to be Switch or PC people. I guess it isn't really shocking that people only care about stuff insofar as it affects them but the product placement argument always comes off as so disingenuous and transparent.
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