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D’Angelo Wallace put out an hour long about Blaire White being absolute garbage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4qvPouh1gE It’s genuinely refreshing to see youtubers outside of the “breadtube” bubble call her out like this.
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Nov 3, 2020 19:04
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Kim Justice posted:Funny that we've kinda gone from World Cham,pion vs A FREAKING SUPERCOMPUTER to more laid back GM's (inc. occasionally the current world champ) gooofing online and actually making Chess big on Twitch. It doesn't seem quite as intimidating and stuffy nowadays. Which has, naturally, pissed off a ton of people in the chess world because they feel their exclusive club for the thinking man is now being opened up to twitch zoomers who lack the intelligence to truly appreciate the game. Which is a real  position to take when the current World Champion likes to spin up Chess.com accounts with all the nuance of xXxWeedLord69xXx and get drunk on stream clowining randos who have no idea who they're playing.
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Nov 3, 2020 19:23
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Sydin posted:Which has, naturally, pissed off a ton of people in the chess world because they feel their exclusive club for the thinking man is now being opened up to twitch zoomers who lack the intelligence to truly appreciate the game. Which is a real It's kinda funny seeing the old guard all up in arms while Magnus, Nakamura, Anish and many other Super GMs are super attuned to streamer culture. Chess is going thru a weird transition period where it might legit become an esport.
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Nov 3, 2020 19:27
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I see that half the content creators I follow are melting down about the election. Nice.
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Nov 3, 2020 19:42
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Equeen posted:D’Angelo Wallace put out an hour long about Blaire White being absolute garbage: Watched this over my lunch break. Was actually really impressed that D'Angelo took the opportunity to address his own biases and previous transphobia, that's rare for the big content creators.
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Nov 3, 2020 19:53
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LanceHunter posted:Yeah, chess is this weird thing. It gained all this huge cultural prominence because it was a complicated game where you can have really advanced tactics, and somehow this turned into an idea that chess was just a great way to demonstrate overall tactical thinking ability. So this entire infrastructure started to build around it with global ranking systems, and being a chess grandmaster was seen as shorthand for being a genius. Child chess prodigies (like Bobby Fisher) were put in the same category as Einstein. But in the end chess is just a game in the same way League of Legends is just a game, and being really good at it is cool but doesn't really carry over into any other aspect of your life. (Except potentially permanently loving you up if you start believing your own press.) Back in the day my AI prof would repeat the line "As AI researchers, we've learned the definition of intelligence as 'whatever computers can't do'", because the goalposts constantly move once an expert system beat humans. Going through a degree program focused on AI at the time of Deep Blue versus Kasparov, AI researchers (on both the computer and psyc side) were both totally ambivalent to it other than publicity and a technical challenge. The computer science side realized chess was a "solved" problem, but just needed sufficient processing power, and really the only interesting part was trying to bridge brute force and heuristics by "teaching" a computer what valuable board positions looked like in a generalized sense. On the psyc side, their attitude was "perfect anything isn't intelligence, it's optimization. We want systems that make the same mistakes as humans to teach us something about human intelligence." At the time, if Feng-Hsiung Hsu was particularly bummed out about the whole thing, it didn't show; he came to our school for a lecture series about it and overall seemed upbeat, though maybe that was the victory lap talking. The only remark from then that stuck out which differs from the history account a bit was he was rather dismissive of the current state of Deep Blue, and said something to the tune of "I don't know, I think they're using it to model traffic patterns now". So much of that was rapidly becoming obsolete; rule-based expert systems were seen as the dinosaurs, with neural networks being the academic hotness at the time. Towards the end of my undergrad the juggernaut of Big Data was arriving on the horizon; dump truckloads of computing power onto tons of data and let it figure out how to find the best answer. On one hand, it worked really well, on the other it created black boxes that meant you couldn't figure out *why* it had the answer.
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Nov 3, 2020 20:02
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Here's some C O N T E N T to distract you all from the elections!  Thew Adams takes an early sneak peek at Studios Series Kup! https://t.co/qzDzcYBYOp?amp=1 Quinton Reviews takes a look at fictional presidents from media https://t.co/81UEr5Oyka?amp=1
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Nov 3, 2020 20:50
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Glad he ended on the Gaiman Prez story which is probably up there for best issues of The Sandman (I still like the Emperor Norton issue more imo)
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Nov 3, 2020 22:06
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I was hoping based on the intro that he would actually be talking about Funny Valentine and the president from Sonic Adventure 2 
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Nov 3, 2020 22:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUH_vyT1yg Danny Gonzalez talks about his viral Tik Tok video giving some behind the scenes info and answering questions.
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Nov 3, 2020 23:45
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LanceHunter posted:Yeah, chess is this weird thing. It gained all this huge cultural prominence because it was a complicated game where you can have really advanced tactics, and somehow this turned into an idea that chess was just a great way to demonstrate overall tactical thinking ability. So this entire infrastructure started to build around it with global ranking systems, and being a chess grandmaster was seen as shorthand for being a genius. Child chess prodigies (like Bobby Fisher) were put in the same category as Einstein. But in the end chess is just a game in the same way League of Legends is just a game, and being really good at it is cool but doesn't really carry over into any other aspect of your life. (Except potentially permanently loving you up if you start believing your own press.) with chess being a top-tier esports (can I echo that it is legitimately refreshing after years of over-the-top GAMER stuff like League and Dota?) I would really love to see an in-depth rise and fall of Bobby Fischer video.
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Nov 4, 2020 00:15
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I hate how much the US elections influence stuff otherwise, but please do vote out cheeto.
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Nov 4, 2020 00:20
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I can't remember if it was this thread or the meme thread that introduced me to tomatoanus today. If it was this thread: thanks, this is cool! If it was the meme thread: check him out, he makes cool speedrun videos! I hope he isn't a weird bigot like a lot of speedrunners seems to be for some reason!
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Nov 4, 2020 00:40
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The main thing I get from that Some more News video is: what the HELL is going on in the Super Mario Brothers movie? 
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Nov 4, 2020 01:15
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nothing but good things
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Nov 4, 2020 01:16
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They're arresting a guy, just for being a plumber!
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Nov 4, 2020 01:21
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Augus posted:nothing but good things
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Nov 4, 2020 02:22
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If you're looking for some long-ish videos and are a tremendous nerd who replaces video games with a personalty, like myself, you might find AesirAesthetics' analyses of the King's Field games super interesting: King's Field 1 (the real 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruD8YUQI6Bw King's Field 2 (King's Field 1, internationally): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiDLxRMi-VY King's Field 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u2h4LSRiz4 King's Field 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQS0JtOtkS0 He'll also be doing Shadow Tower in a few months to cap out the pre-Demon's Souls spiritual successors. They're all fascinating deep dives into a lot of the same themes and design choices that have cropped up in all the modern From Soft games from DeS through Sekiro.
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Nov 4, 2020 06:41
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the Shuffle Master opens some Final Fantasy TCG packs, with a special guest! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Sh6xiS0Qo&hd=1&t=1467s
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Nov 4, 2020 13:13
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stillvisions posted:At the time, if Feng-Hsiung Hsu was particularly bummed out about the whole thing, it didn't show; he came to our school for a lecture series about it and overall seemed upbeat, though maybe that was the victory lap talking. The only remark from then that stuck out which differs from the history account a bit was he was rather dismissive of the current state of Deep Blue, and said something to the tune of "I don't know, I think they're using it to model traffic patterns now". A friend of mine was a product manager for Watson at IBM, shortly after the Jeopardy thing and as they were turning it into an actual product. He finally quit in disillusionment, and he told me "This technology was supposed to change the world, help doctors diagnose better cancer and stuff. Instead, it's just doing customer support chat".
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Nov 4, 2020 13:33
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Hey, does anyone need an hour and a half long breakdown and ranking of every single 44 Scooby Doo movies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egly8F-ZCaY
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Nov 4, 2020 15:23
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mycot posted:The main thing I get from that Some more News video is: what the HELL is going on in the Super Mario Brothers movie? The people who say Hollywood shows us the planned future for the world are half-right in that it's only the Mario movie that does that.
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Nov 4, 2020 15:32
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I remember I once saw a cool picture of a prop cop car from the alternate New York in the Super Mario Bros. movie. It had a thing sticking off the top of it to connect it to a power line like a cable car, because in the alternate universe the dinosaurs never died out, so OBVIOUSLY there’s no oil and therefore no gas. Ever since I saw that I’ve found myself imagining a Super Mario Oddyssey world based on the aesthetics of that movie.
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Nov 4, 2020 15:35
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Hey, is there any videos out there on Torchwood besides Alison Pregler's Manic Episode? https://youtu.be/UYvKOmG91iE
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Nov 4, 2020 17:34
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SFdebris also did at least Miracle Day, and was not terribly impressed. It feels like something Hagan would have done, but I'm not sure if she has.
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Nov 4, 2020 17:57
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I have disagreement on how good series 3 of Torchwood was but I've yet to find a person who at the very least had mixed emotions on Miracle Day. But thank you for the tip! EDIT: Now I don't have to watch Miracle Day? But why the hell start with the fourth series? Twincityhacker fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Nov 4, 2020 |
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Nov 4, 2020 18:07
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It's outside of his normal series so it was done on commission, presumably by someone with strong feelings about Miracle Day.
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Nov 4, 2020 18:23
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Is it weird that I find Dr Who and its spin offs absolutely facinating and will lap up any online content criticising or extoling the virtues or episodes/seasons/showrunners but every time I try to watch it myself it bores me to death? Like I can't get past how inconsistent and rubbish the show is to even care one way or the other?
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Nov 4, 2020 19:09
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Torchwood literally started with one of the principle characters committing sexual assault, so, yeah, there's that.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:25
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I remember trying to watch Torchwood on Netflix, and being bored out of my mind. I think I watched 2-3 episodes, but my brain immediately forgot everything after I stopped. The only impression I have left is of a more boring version of Dr. Who.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:31
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Torchwood was supposed to be "Doctor Who for adults" but they interpreted "for adults" as "with sex and swearing," two things Doctor Who really did not need to begin with. If you want to watch any of it season 3 is generally considered the best by far, and it's not really all that great IMO (I'm saying this as someone who was a big fan of Doctor Who at the time). The rest of it ranged from medicore to complete and utter garbage.
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Nov 4, 2020 19:58
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I must disagree with my colleague, Mr. Radar. Torchwood is that special flavor of "bad but so good." Like, if you are tickled pink about a cyborg fighting a dinosaur? This is the series for you! Like queer representation? Congrats all the main charecters are bi! Series three was "dark and gritty" TM shock value garbage. And the sexual assault is a joke that aged Incredibaly poorly, and it was poo poo to begin with in 2006. No one does anything like it again, nor is it brought up. Twincityhacker fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Nov 4, 2020 |
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Nov 4, 2020 20:29
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Mr Phillby posted:Is it weird that I find Dr Who and its spin offs absolutely facinating and will lap up any online content criticising or extoling the virtues or episodes/seasons/showrunners but every time I try to watch it myself it bores me to death? Like I can't get past how inconsistent and rubbish the show is to even care one way or the other? I feel the same way, and for me it comes down to how sloppily it’s written most of the time. Hamfisted social commentary, thinly-sketched guest characters, plots that make no sense, out-of-place camp humor… it’s like they keep trying to find new ways to gently caress up, but that variety also makes it interesting to dissect. But sometimes, just sometimes they get everything right and the result is brilliant. Generally the show is at its best when it’s doing horror and suspense, so long as it can resist the urge to spoil the moment with a dumb joke. Horror also lends itself to being made cheaply, which is a better fit for its limited BBC budget than the epic adventure it so often attempts.
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Nov 4, 2020 21:13
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I think part of it is that I'm 100% down for campy nonsense but the hyper serious stuff about how the doctor did a war crime or is so sad just bounces off me. However sometimes the show manages to produce a compelling trainwreck of an episode thats imposible to take your eyes off. Iirc I gave up sometime early in Tennant's run but I don't think I enjoyed any post Eccleston episode more than Absorbaloff, the episode's villain was based of the winning entry to a Blue Peter design-a-monster contest. The the winning monster was designed by a 9 year old child. The episode ended with one of the victims of Peter Kay being reduced to a still living face trapped on a floor tile and proceeded to heavilly imply that blowjobs were still on the menu for the floor tile face's boyfriend. I feel like from what I've seen of Torchwood is that its just Dr Who but with the already insane tonal shifts turned up to 11, where every episode is either an Absorbaloff level mess of writing that feels like its from a childrens show but the characters gently caress all the time or its a special miniseries about an alien in a box and Jack has to do the trolley problem with the life of his own kid versus the enslavement of 50% of the earths population of children. I guess because the franchise is all over the place I need other people to pick out all the coherent serious bits and explain them to me to be able to engage with it at all, unless its being completely bonkers in which case I'm here for the ride.
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Nov 4, 2020 22:56
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https://twitter.com/9_volt_/status/1324129479208456193 Joe Biden is going to end the era of the Ballasck Beard YouTuber. thank You God and jesus For President biden
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Nov 5, 2020 00:38
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nine-gear crow posted:https://twitter.com/9_volt_/status/1324129479208456193 Isn't Crowder part of Glenn Beck's BlazeTV? He's literally a corporate Youtuber. Not an independent bone in that man's body. Also, if Section 230 were to be reformed Youtube would get torpedoed by the courts for hate speech and intimidation immediately. It's the only thing that keeps channels like these afloat.
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Nov 5, 2020 07:37
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by independent they mean not part of the mainstream media, and by mainstream media they mean the one that reports things they don't like. and by reform they mean the republican bill to remove immunities from platforms unless they swear to the ftc that they will stop discriminating against political beliefs by kicking people off their platform for things like hate speech and intimidation.
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Nov 5, 2020 10:28
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JordanKai posted:Isn't Crowder part of Glenn Beck's BlazeTV? He's literally a corporate Youtuber. Not an independent bone in that man's body. I was working support for Apple way back in the day when Crowder was still a small-time diy guy, and had a call with him where he was melting down about trying to find "the panel" to update the settings for his podcast listing on the iTunes Store. He thought there was some secret login that would allow him to access a control panel where he could update things on his listing, but (as was explained in the podcast host FAQ) everything was just scraped from the podcast feed and if he wanted to make any changes he just needed to update them in the feed. He was such a dick on the call that his name was burned into my brain, and it was a real surprise years later when he started to get all this mainstream attention.
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Nov 5, 2020 18:57
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So Jarvis Johnson's latest video, is he aware that the whole video he's watching appears to be a clearly scripted bit to drum up some publicity?
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Nov 5, 2020 23:04
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who the gently caress is jarvis johnson
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