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rudecyrus posted:To get away from fanfiction, Good Bad or Bad Bad's new episode is on After Earth, the Will Smith vanity project. They're not wrong in that AE's main sin is being extremely boring - I mean, how do you make charisma volcano Will Smith dormant - but it is worth a look watching Jayden Smith Try To Act. I guess he's trying to do an accent?
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My wife got obsessed with the tv show. It’s dumb trash but fun in a goofy way with how serious it is with all of it’s nonsense nomenclature. Before knowing that it was based off of a book series I figured it was somebody’s Vampire: The Masquerade fan fiction.
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Dawgstar posted:They're not wrong in that AE's main sin is being extremely boring - I mean, how do you make charisma volcano Will Smith dormant - but it is worth a look watching Jayden Smith Try To Act. I guess he's trying to do an accent? they made a big deal about hiring linguists to create an accent for the patois humans will speak in the future of After Earth because worldbuilding is very important
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Aug 22, 2019 23:13
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nine-gear crow posted:Doubly so because Harry Styles sued her and got a restraining order against her because she was that obsessed with him. Have you got a source for that? I can't find anything on Google.
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Dawgstar posted:They're not wrong in that AE's main sin is being extremely boring - I mean, how do you make charisma volcano Will Smith dormant - but it is worth a look watching Jayden Smith Try To Act. I guess he's trying to do an accent? M. Night Shyamalan has proven time and again to be a charisma vacuum of a director in the vein of George Lucas circa Episode I, II, and III. He casts really great actors who then turn in  performances because they can't do anything with his sloppy writing and directing. One of the best examples of this is Seychelle Gabriel, who's practically not there in The Last Airbender as Yue, but knocks it out of the park as Asami on Legend of Korra.E: OldMemes posted:Have you got a source for that? I can't find anything on Google. Oh, apparently he just blocked her on Twitter. My mind bumped it up to restraining order in the months since I first heard about it because that's usually how this poo poo progresses. Nevermind then. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Aug 22, 2019 |
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Alaois posted:they made a big deal about hiring linguists to create an accent for the patois humans will speak in the future of After Earth because worldbuilding is very important Yeah, they move on to talk about that early on in the GBBB video. Money well spent, clearly. I like in the language of THE FUTURE that they pronounce 'sir' 'suh' like Colonel Beauregard who fought in the War of Northern Aggression. nine-gear crow posted:M. Night Shyamalan has proven time and again to be a charisma vacuum of a director in the vein of George Lucas circa Episode I, II, and III. He casts really great actors who then turn in It's probbly too much for somebody to get into, but I would love a look at what Shyamalan considers a good take. Like, what makes a line read have him say 'cut, print' because even in his good films it feels like that standard is really low. Now that I know at least Bryan has seen 'The Host' I'd love for them to do that film one day because wow.
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Alaois posted:they made a big deal about hiring linguists to create an accent for the patois humans will speak in the future of After Earth because worldbuilding is very important Buncha welwalas who can't talk good like beltalowds. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Aug 22, 2019 |
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Dawgstar posted:Now that I know at least Bryan has seen 'The Host' I'd love for them to do that film one day because wow. Good news!
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ArfJason posted:but rather that celebrating spock assfucking kirk beyond anything than what it truly is, smut wish fulfillment, is as bad or at least as misguided, as celebrating the dregs you mentioned that are rotting in libraries. its not bad to write that to vent, it's not bad to feel identified with the author, or to even discover something about yourself in it, but pretending it's something it's not is not particularly great. Was anyone doing this? Fanfiction as a concept and as a subculture is important. Any given work under the umbrella of fanfic is not itself necessarily inherently important, beyond probably signifying something important about the concept or the subculture. HopperUK posted:I know you don't mean this, ArfJason, but it's interesting and by interesting I mean depressing how much 'making fun of fanfic' involves 'making fun of how it's something women do'. Like there's something contemptible about a 67-year-old unmarried woman with a sex drive. I dunno, I'm not having a go at you, I just think it's telling language. Yeah, I wanted to touch on this too. Not accusing anyone ITT of leaning that way, but a lot of fanfic's reputation is depressingly mired in the fact that it's a thing that women like as well as its penchant for gay (or otherwise LGBTQ+) relationships. And I guess also the smut in general, because some people still flip out at the idea of strangers getting their rocks off to something non-traditional. There's also the fact that a lot of the more volatile outliers tend to come from the most loathsome organism on this earth - the 16 year old girl. Who could've guessed that a hormone-addled teenager in the throes of a heteronormative frenzy over the latest heart-throb might end up writing some weird, embarrassing poo poo? And then get into internet fights over how important and not at all weird or embarrassing the poo poo they wrote is? Probably with other girls who do the same thing? John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Aug 23, 2019 |
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Hey here's another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqCx9xU_-Fw
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OldMemes posted:Mind you, we live in a world where a kid wrote a fan-fic about Harry Styles and her falling in love, but it's not like, the real Harry Styles, but a tattooed bad boy who looks like him but is also him (?). Then she swapped out the name, sold it, and Netflix adapted it into an original film. Making fan-fic of real people is kinda wierd, making a movie about the fan fic version of them is wierder. Man, this was a hella different vision in my head before I realized Harry styles is not Ryan stiles
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I like how in three pages of fan-fic squabbling there was no mention of:
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Max Wilco posted:
It's not fanfic if it's authorized.
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Max Wilco posted:
Lindsay's video on Stephanie Meyers taught me to ease back on Twilight, or at least dislike it for the right reasons.
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Max Wilco posted:I like how in three pages of fan-fic squabbling there was no mention of: It's actually the second longest work of fiction in the English language  Another fanfic has since come along and knocked it off its perch by a factor of about ~400,000 words.
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Max Wilco posted:I like how in three pages of fan-fic squabbling there was no mention of: I mentioned those in one of my last minute edits that get overlooked because I hit Submit Reply before my brain was actually done thinking about a thing.
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We did manage to get a dig at Cassandra Clare though! Though it wasn't about her history of plagerisim.
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Max Wilco posted:I like how in three pages of fan-fic squabbling there was no mention of: what is the super smash bros one called. also tails gets trolled should be taught in schools next to shakespeare. Edit. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4112682/1/The-Subspace-Emissary-s-Worlds-Conquest holy gently caress.
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John Murdoch posted:I mentioned those in one of my last minute edits that get overlooked because I hit Submit Reply before my brain was actually done thinking about a thing. Oh, I missed that. Sorry. Dapper_Swindler posted:what is the super smash bros one called. also tails gets trolled should be taught in schools next to shakespeare. I mean 'every cat will mew, and every dog will have his day' was basically the original 'gently caress you trolls'. "Hamlet, sometimes there is a need to do whats needed, it it was up to me clad ius would be dead and we would never have to worry" Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Aug 23, 2019 |
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John Murdoch posted:Yeah, I wanted to touch on this too. Not accusing anyone ITT of leaning that way, but a lot of fanfic's reputation is depressingly mired in the fact that it's a thing that women like as well as its penchant for gay (or otherwise LGBTQ+) relationships. And I guess also the smut in general, because some people still flip out at the idea of strangers getting their rocks off to something non-traditional.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Yeah you don't see the same sort of venom spat at video game mods, which for a time were of similar quality and were created for the same reasons, but were mostly made byboys/men. I use the past tense because with developer shittiness and the progression of technology has made the barrier for entry on mods far higher than in the early internet age. I don't know about that. I can't really speak for 10-15 years ago, but nowadays people usually dunk on mod authors for making endless nude/fetish mods for Skyrim, or for being egotistical asses about their work. In fact, based on some of the accounts I've read in the Awful/Awesome mod thread, mod authors fit the bill more for being people who shut out negative critcism (to the point where the I think the Nexus has it so that authors can ban you from downloading their mod.) Still, I think people still mocked terrible mods back then as much they do now (some of the Baldur's Gate 2 mods spring to mind). As to the topic of gender, again I can't really speak for that, since I don't have a extensive knowledge of gender demographics for mod authors (though in a lot of cases, I think mod authors don't typically reveal much of their identity unless they become really high-profile). Off the top of my head, I can only really think of Eliianora, who's done a lot of really good player home mods for Fallout 4. I also remember reading (though I don't know if this is true or not) that one of nude body mods for Skyrim was done by a woman.
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John Murdoch posted:Yeah, I wanted to touch on this too. Not accusing anyone ITT of leaning that way, but a lot of fanfic's reputation is depressingly mired in the fact that it's a thing that women like as well as its penchant for gay (or otherwise LGBTQ+) relationships. And I guess also the smut in general, because some people still flip out at the idea of strangers getting their rocks off to something non-traditional. Ewww, gross, teenage women and non-hetrerosexuals making horny stories because of puberty! Nasty! Why can't they just stay wholesome and normal like straight boys and just go in the woods in search of porn like everyone used to do? Or like, just go to camp and possibly get killed by some psycho with a machete.
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Max Wilco posted:I don't know about that. I can't really speak for 10-15 years ago, but nowadays people usually dunk on mod authors for making endless nude/fetish mods for Skyrim, or for being egotistical asses about their work. In fact, based on some of the accounts I've read in the Awful/Awesome mod thread, mod authors fit the bill more for being people who shut out negative critcism (to the point where the I think the Nexus has it so that authors can ban you from downloading their mod.) She's also a fomer(?) goon who made the Uncle Sheo Loading Screen mod, which replaces the dry and dull Skyrim loading screen lore and gameplay blurbs with the ramblings of everyone's favorite batshit insane Daedric Prince, Sheogorath. And it's funny as poo poo.
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nine-gear crow posted:She's also a fomer(?) goon who made the Uncle Sheo Loading Screen mod, which replaces the dry and dull Skyrim loading screen lore and gameplay blurbs with the ramblings of everyone's favorite batshit insane Daedric Prince, Sheogorath. And it's funny as poo poo. My favorite: "Ysgramor smelled faintly of violets his entire life. It was very embarrassing." 
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nine-gear crow posted:It's actually the second longest work of fiction in the English language While I love reading terrible fanfic, 4.5 million words spread over 443 chapters is way to much. Bless that author however.
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Max Wilco posted:I don't know about that. I can't really speak for 10-15 years ago, but nowadays people usually dunk on mod authors for making endless nude/fetish mods for Skyrim, or for being egotistical asses about their work. In fact, based on some of the accounts I've read in the Awful/Awesome mod thread, mod authors fit the bill more for being people who shut out negative critcism (to the point where the I think the Nexus has it so that authors can ban you from downloading their mod.)
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Mods are fanfiction and speedrunning is just modding but changing the rules via social convention rather than mechanical enforcement, ergo Speedrunning is fanfiction and GDQ should be up for nomination the next Hugo.
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Mods are a lot more obscure than fanfiction, and less accessible. The only time most people will hear about a mod is if it’s a relatively high-profile success, like the ones for Bloodlines and KOTR2. Bethesda games do have a flood of terrible low-effort mods, but you aren’t likely to hear about those unless you go looking for them. By contrast, any piece of media that gains any sort of popularity will immediately attract page after page of fanfiction. It’s much easier to create, and it’s also much easier to consume, meaning there’s going to be a lot more crap out there and more people are going to stumble onto it. On the subject of expanded universe books, I did mention them briefly and while they don’t exactly have a great reputation they can certainly be good in some cases. At the very least, you know one has been looked at by a professional editor and at the very very least, you know it’s a finished book and that the author didn’t just get bored halfway through and give up. Getting the rights to a certain property also implies that the rights-holder has at least a little faith in the author that they won't gently caress it up, though this isn't a guarantee. Bakeneko fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Aug 23, 2019 |
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Sven Coop should get a Hugo. Also Counter Strike started as a mod.
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Super Bunnyhop did a great review for Metal Wolf Chaos XD. Perfectly sums up the relative blandness of the gameplay with the incredible hilarity of the story, dialogue, and action of america viewed through the lens of japanese devs. One of the comments pointed out it's a similar feeling as Command and Conquer: Red Alert for Russians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABovohwbKvY&hd=1 and RichaadEB did a Minecraft cover. Decide for yourself if he likes it or hates it. It's still a good cover though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adsgpfBY3aM&hd=1 edit: oh hey, SNESDrunk did a Mischief Makers review. Man I loving love Mischief Makers. One of my favorite N64 games for sure. Wish it'd get a rerelease in some form, maybe with less blurry graphics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LgGNBtFG8&hd=1 the stuff they did especially with the bosses was nuts, some straight up Gunstar Heroes poo poo(obviously, since it's a Treasure game). https://giant.gfycat.com/TightEquatorialKestrel.webm though this one looks quite a bit nicer, I'm guessing it's via an emulator that gets rid of the blurriness. 
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Sarah Z on the background to those rather unsettling music videos starring pre-teen girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjov-gt6YCw
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I’m shocked as all hell that that Patrice guy didn’t turn out to be a pedophile. I guess he was just in it to enrich himself by exploiting rich parents. But good god that Chinese food video where he takes the panda head off at the girl’s sleepover.
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PS this is the greatest of the vanity videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_PO32nT4g
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Terrible Opinions posted:Yeah you don't see the same sort of venom spat at video game mods, which for a time were of similar quality and were created for the same reasons, but were mostly made byboys/men. I use the past tense because with developer shittiness and the progression of technology has made the barrier for entry on mods far higher than in the early internet age. I think a great example would be the Newgrounds era. Mindless, edgy violence inflicted on popular characters, "funny" parodies of popular movies, and frequent crossovers between properties (what if Mario WAS IN THE MATRIX???? or a true classic, Harry Potter/DBZ ), messy attempts at making spooky horror games, and of course all the porn.Obviously people look back at a lot of that stuff and cringe, but you don't see actual vitriol over it.
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Looks like Contra is putting a video up soon according to twitter. I "think" its gonna be about men who like trans girls. As with a lot of things Vontra people are having discourse over it and...I dont know how many other trans girls are here, but why do I get the feeling that trans girls who like cis dudes are the "weird" ones in the community?
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FYI Olly's charity stream (where he is reading all of Shakespeare's plays to raise money for a mental health charity) is going on right now (and probably over the weekend).
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https://youtu.be/NvQXkGjHXKM Speaking of Sarah Z, she guested in this video about weird musical adaptations (Jesus Christ Superstar, Hamilton, Great Comet, Hadestown...)
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BigRed0427 posted:Looks like Contra is putting a video up soon according to twitter. I "think" its gonna be about men who like trans girls. Contra has had enough really weird skeevy takes in her vids that I don’t watch them anymore Also wouldn’t really say they’re weird unless you only consider the nutjobs on twitter as the entire community
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AstroWhale posted:Sven Coop should get a Hugo. Also Day of Defeat and Team Fortress. While DoD never captured the hearts and mknds of the mainstream, it was big enough to get a standalone release and Source remake, and while the original Team Fortress was relatively obscure, it's sequel became the template by which modern hero shooters barely pretend they're not copying. Also DotA spawned a multi-million dollar global industry of people copying it. Also in the case of Dotes, the original heroes bios and framing device for the battle were literally fanfiction. buddhist nudist fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Aug 23, 2019 |
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