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typhy posted:spy revolver was hitscan meaning the tracers didnt mean anything and it just instantly either recorded a hit or miss, the first shot was perfectly accurate but the followups were randomly aimed until you waited a while so theres some annoying inherent inconsistency if you didnt know any of this That was what I was getting at, yeah. The tracers looked like they fired off at weird angles totally independent of what the gun was actually doing, which made it feel infinitely worse than it was in practice. I forgot about first shot accuracy thing though it does also remind of the the weird dichotomy of normal shots having weird tracers and then crits being an unmistakable, perfectly accurate laser beam of death. Edit: Granted, I think most of these problems were largely with the stock revolver, the other ones had a varying but overall less amount of jankiness to them. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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Jan 1, 2021 06:49
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muscles like this! posted:IIRC Amazon is rebooting Percy Jackson as a TV series.
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Jan 1, 2021 07:03
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It was probably a good thing that Overwatch never really delved into its story because then it'd have to contend with how many of its "good" heroes were horrendously bigoted against robot people.
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Jan 1, 2021 07:07
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John Murdoch posted:That was what I was getting at, yeah. The tracers looked like they fired off at weird angles totally independent of what the gun was actually doing, which made it feel infinitely worse than it was in practice. I forgot about first shot accuracy thing though it does also remind of the the weird dichotomy of normal shots having weird tracers and then crits being an unmistakable, perfectly accurate laser beam of death. the initial ambassador release was one of the most broken/fun spy things in the history of tf2, the headshot hitbox was like 3x as large as it was supposed to be and the damage was loving insane and also had the initial perfect accuracy of the revolver they fixed it in a couple days but for a few glorious moments spies were broken snipers with a cloak and i miss it every day
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Jan 1, 2021 07:12
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Cats is a disaster but “Memories” sung by Jennifer Hudson brings me chills every time.
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Jan 1, 2021 07:12
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Ghostlight posted:i want to watch cats again. My last two movies before going into lockdown were Cats and Sonic. I've thought much more about Cats just for the mental exercise of "what could have saved this?" and whether it all just came undone with the CGI or something worse.
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Jan 1, 2021 07:17
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Dear content creators, please stop doing the looping clips thing in your editing process. If you don't have enough good b-roll then stretch, hold or even just show something else entirely. Don't loop it and especially don't do it more than once.
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Jan 1, 2021 07:27
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muscles like this! posted:IIRC Amazon is rebooting Percy Jackson as a TV series.  Actually Disney+, but yes.
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Jan 1, 2021 08:24
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Ghostlight posted:i want to watch cats again. I saw it for the first time yesterday and I was expecting a more enjoyable trainwreck tbh.
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Jan 1, 2021 08:46
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That Sideways video rocked, and was the first time I actually wanted to watch Cats. The original musical.
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Jan 1, 2021 09:00
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Pigbuster posted:It was probably a good thing that Overwatch never really delved into its story because then it'd have to contend with how many of its "good" heroes were horrendously bigoted against robot people. Overwatchs lore is incredibly loving stupid. You forgot about how after the AI uprising they just gave Australia to robots, without telling any of the australians
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Jan 1, 2021 09:01
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Overwatch lore is basically "what if the world's dumbest people tried to rip off the matrix's backstory"
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Jan 1, 2021 09:05
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aK-EK5V2k&t=152s This movie really didn’t deserve like any of the video essays done on it
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Jan 1, 2021 09:25
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Cats (2019) is glorious, sorry. A sublime film made by giving a terrible musical to a terrible director.
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Jan 1, 2021 11:32
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MiddleOne posted:Dear content creators, please stop doing the looping clips thing in your editing process. If you don't have enough good b-roll then stretch, hold or even just show something else entirely. Don't loop it and especially don't do it more than once. That's getting around DMCA bots unfortunately. You'll probably only see it more.
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Jan 1, 2021 12:49
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I saw it for the first time yesterday and I was expecting a more enjoyable trainwreck tbh.
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Jan 1, 2021 15:03
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https://youtu.be/xb-DtICmPTY Tim Rogers put out a six hour long(!) review/documentary/LP video on Tokimeki Memorial. Looking forward to watching this over the course of a week haha. It's gonna rule.
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Jan 1, 2021 19:13
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Srice posted:https://youtu.be/xb-DtICmPTY I’m always down with Tim Rogers but if you have no idea what Tokimeki Memorial is, or you have a vague idea but that only confuses you more, this article (by Tom James) is a really good initial look into why these games are so important even if they’ve never made their way to the US. I read it a few months ago when Tim first started talking about this video and I went from “uh w/e ok” to legit hyped. Also don’t feel like you have to watch it all at once. I wonder if this “just make one giant video” strat is better or worse for views/money. https://twitter.com/108/status/1345071788808687616?s=21 DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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Jan 1, 2021 21:22
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Srice posted:https://youtu.be/xb-DtICmPTY Already, im facniated by this rabbit hole. But even i think a 6 hour video is a bit much
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Jan 1, 2021 22:23
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Found this video thats about the British version of Family Guy, which looks like the most horrible thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PF_SCNWw_w
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Jan 1, 2021 22:33
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Archer666 posted:Found this video thats about the British version of Family Guy, which looks like the most horrible thing That bacon looks WAY undercooked Edit: Is this the same crew that made Brickleberry? Also, you will never beat Matt Stone and Try Parker at their game. BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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Jan 1, 2021 22:34
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Antigravitas posted:The thing that killed TF2 for me was the decline of the dedicated server. I used to play on two really good, friendly servers with a cast of regulars that were both really good at the game and really fun to play with. The admins were also online very often and would kick assholes from the server. It was a great experience that Valve sabotaged and I haven't played the game since… What killed it for me was the hats. I used to play on a bunch of small, but populated, servers. But then they made unusual hats and those were valuable, so on every dang server I played games would just grind to a halt when someone would pop in and be like "GUYS CHECK OUT MY NEW HAT, IT COST ME TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS" and then hat trade chat began. And if you played the game, by shooting one of the hat guys, everyone would start getting super pissy. So the game stopped being fun.
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Jan 2, 2021 00:11
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DC Murderverse posted:
Based on long vids I've done I think it's fine, if it still holds true that THE ALGORITHM is more concerned with watch minutes over views. I'd hope so seeing as so much is measured in that.
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Jan 2, 2021 01:43
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https://twitter.com/menacenamednat/status/1345150119730155522 This has been an eventful month or so for Minecraft youtuber Dream. After soaring in popularity from under 1M subscribers at the start of 2020 to 15 million today, mainly off the back of bored pandemic tweens, Dream found himself accused VERY credibly of cheating in Minecraft speedruns. This video explains his cheating. Dream went on to deny all wrongdoing and rile up his massive, intense fanbase of impressionable dumb teens to defend him. When not defending his apparent one-in-a-trillion (not exaggerating) luck, some of those fans drew gore porn of Dream and his friends. And then they doxxed him. Dream has never even shown his face. But he talks - as seen above- about how much he LOVES all his fans, cultivated a parasocial obsession, and now is reaping what he's sown.
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Jan 2, 2021 02:03
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It's probably really easy to fall into the parasocial thing from the creator side as well. If you're some nerd and suddenly millions of people are watching and responding to you, that has to have an effect on your own psychology.
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Jan 2, 2021 02:20
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:It's probably really easy to fall into the parasocial thing from the creator side as well. If you're some nerd and suddenly millions of people are watching and responding to you, that has to have an effect on your own psychology. yeah, poo poo cuts both ways, it's how you get creators abusing their influence to hook up with fans IMHO
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Jan 2, 2021 02:43
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Dias posted:yeah, poo poo cuts both ways, it's how you get creators abusing their influence to hook up with fans IMHO Flash stardom and all its pitfalls goes back hundreds of years, though like everything else the internet has turbo-charged it in new and horrible ways. The easiest analog is music stardom. Give any random 20'something a sudden huge influx of cash and social cachet, odds are they'll use it to ruin several lives probably including their own.
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Jan 2, 2021 04:53
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Srice posted:https://youtu.be/xb-DtICmPTY
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Jan 2, 2021 05:02
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DoctorWhat posted:https://twitter.com/menacenamednat/status/1345150119730155522 The part that baffles me the most is why anyone would be tracking or cheering speedruns that are tantamount to winning the lottery. Like I get some luck, some skill, but for something like this you're speedrunning a slot machine if there's no way other than farming and hoping to get lucky as the primary measure of success or failure. Skippy McPants posted:Flash stardom and all its pitfalls goes back hundreds of years, though like everything else the internet has turbo-charged it in new and horrible ways. It was like how B list celebrities were more likely to get stalkers, because they were the ones that had to show up at conventions and other events without a wall of bodyguards. The appeal of an internet personality is they're "just like you" and it's more easy to convince yourself that you've formed a relationship with someone who actually responds to your comment rather than being the mentally ill person who is convinced Madonna was speaking to them by blinking in code.
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Jan 2, 2021 06:07
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I hadn't actually watched it until now, but Jaiden's Platinum Nuzlocke video is just fantastic, as good if not better than her Ruby Nuzlocke.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejys3sT2LHw&hd=1 her animation chops have just gotten better and better over time, it really adds to the expressiveness of the characters. the bit with Turtwig etc being super happy about killing the things she's trying to catch like an idiot puppy is hilarious. And it all ends with an interesting twist.
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Jan 2, 2021 06:15
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stillvisions posted:I'd say internet personality stardom has a bigger pitfall: With the internet you live and die on direct engagement more than a musician does. A musician is allowed to have a persona where they're famous, on stage, and don't know you. Internet commentators don't have that luxury, because they live and die on engagement. It'd be like billboard charts based on how many fans you talk to. Plus you have (hopefully) a manager making sure you don't get in trouble backstage with someone you shouldn't; when all your contact is the internet, that isn't going to be prevented. Yeah, hence the turbo-charged bit. Online celebrity is a minefield of potential abuse and exploitation for everyone involved.
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Jan 2, 2021 08:22
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I saw it for the first time yesterday and I was expecting a more enjoyable trainwreck tbh. It really, really cannot be emphasized enough that the Tom Hooper’s Cats Experience really needs to be felt in at least a semi-populated theater to really get it. I saw it a couple days after release in a reasonably full theater and between someone actively saying “what the gently caress?” at Dench’s bit at the ending, some teens in the row ahead clearly having taken some kind of hallucinogen and getting way more than they bargained for, and the just general shared psychic damage of moments like Jason derulo doing Foot Stuff against our consent, it really elevates it above watching it yourself in a controlled environment.
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Jan 2, 2021 09:02
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:It really, really cannot be emphasized enough that the Tom Hooper’s Cats Experience really needs to be felt in at least a semi-populated theater to really get it. I saw it a couple days after release in a reasonably full theater and between someone actively saying “what the gently caress?” at Dench’s bit at the ending, some teens in the row ahead clearly having taken some kind of hallucinogen and getting way more than they bargained for, and the just general shared psychic damage of moments like Jason derulo doing Foot Stuff against our consent, it really elevates it above watching it yourself in a controlled environment. Yeah this was in a lounge room on a relatively small screen (which probably ameliorated a bit of the uncanny valley) with two people who have seen far more musical theatre than I have. It came across as weird and bad, but more weird than bad. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Jan 2, 2021 11:10
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My mind must have blocked out the Derulo foot stuff because the only bad poo poo I remember is Rebel Wilson showing her crotch and James Corden getting waterboarded.
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Jan 2, 2021 11:36
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I watched Cats a month ago with some friends who went on about how it was the most ridiculous thing ever and honestly I was just kind of bored? It wasn't even an enjoyable trainwreck for me, I just wanted it to be over. Maybe all the think pieces and videos over the last year overhyped its badness for me.
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Jan 2, 2021 12:25
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Mischalaniouse posted:I watched Cats a month ago with some friends who went on about how it was the most ridiculous thing ever and honestly I was just kind of bored? It wasn't even an enjoyable trainwreck for me, I just wanted it to be over. Maybe all the think pieces and videos over the last year overhyped its badness for me. It could also be that your taste is just different. I certainly don't want to watch Cats: The Movie, I already didn't want to watch the musical. Cats is not something I find interesting. If someone forced me to watch this movie, I'd just gnaw my own neck off to escape before I die of boredom
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Jan 2, 2021 12:47
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:It really, really cannot be emphasized enough that the Tom Hooper’s Cats Experience really needs to be felt in at least a semi-populated theater to really get it. I saw it a couple days after release in a reasonably full theater and between someone actively saying “what the gently caress?” at Dench’s bit at the ending, some teens in the row ahead clearly having taken some kind of hallucinogen and getting way more than they bargained for, and the just general shared psychic damage of moments like Jason derulo doing Foot Stuff against our consent, it really elevates it above watching it yourself in a controlled environment. I saw it in a crowded theater and there were lots of groans & uncomfortable murmur-laughs, like when Rebel Wilson was eating roach-children or whatever. Also, Jennifer Hudson's snot-covered face grossed everyone out. Without other people there, it would have been so bad it's bad instead of so bad it's fun. I don't think I've ever seen a protagonist more devoid of charm than the white striped cat (Victoria?). Inspector Gesicht posted:My mind must have blocked out the Derulo foot stuff because the only bad poo poo I remember is Rebel Wilson showing her crotch and James Corden getting waterboarded. The only notably bad stuff I ever that I didn't previously mention were Judi Dench lustily eyeballing Ian McKellen, (Stimbleshanks? I don't remember) going from the size of a mouse to the size of a human to the size of a cat in like two scenes, and Macavity just...in general. The songs were awful, but not especially so.
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Jan 2, 2021 14:15
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Another interesting channel I found is this guy talking to people in VRChat about their life experiences. War vets, drug dealers that start dealing young, people living with rare diseases and the like. Its obviously pretty heavy stuff, but also fascinating if you're into that kind of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiXZECAe094
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Jan 2, 2021 15:25
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I watched a few clips from Cats on YouTube the other day (the catnip scene, SKIM BIL SHANKS THE RAILWAY CAT); the extras in those scenes shake and jerk around in a way that makes me think they're like zombie infectees about to succumb to the infection.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:It really, really cannot be emphasized enough that the Tom Hooper’s Cats Experience really needs to be felt in at least a semi-populated theater to really get it. I saw it a couple days after release in a reasonably full theater and between someone actively saying “what the gently caress?” at Dench’s bit at the ending, some teens in the row ahead clearly having taken some kind of hallucinogen and getting way more than they bargained for, and the just general shared psychic damage of moments like Jason derulo doing Foot Stuff against our consent, it really elevates it above watching it yourself in a controlled environment. There were audible gasps and at least one "oh no" when Ian McKellen first showed up in focus for the first time. I don't remember the foot stuff, but Derullo's scene definitely tried a little too hard to exude sex appeal and so early on it made the audience uncomfortable. Everyone freaked out when Idris Elba disrobed. You could hear a pin drop during Memory; amazing what happens when you don't try to layer on gobs of CGI insanity during a musical number. Then again, Judi Dench's scene had gotten to the uncomfortable laughter and squirming phase of the night. Skimbleshanks we well done for music and dance, but holy hell the CGI made it very hard to see; anything set outside of the ballroom and the initial alley looked like they had run out of budget and just greenscreened whatever they could find. I think a lot of the reviews and deconstructions take a very literal view of the Heavyside layer part of the musical; I remember seeing it on stage back in the original smash hit phase and it was much more played as "you get to go to heaven/be reborn and be young and happy again", and all of the literalness was painted over with something that was a little more universal; If you've ever had a pet grow old and die it's a solid punch to the feels. I'm not sure if the taped versions of the musicals went far more literal as time went on or critics have been playing that part up for laugh points. My parents saw the OG London production and it was all glowing staircase to the sky, a quick change to a beautiful young coat, etc. The movie went full literal with a hot air balloon and it almost got played for a laugh during the end; the camera cut over to the balloon in the middle of Judi Dench's bit, still floating off, and the audience lost it. As a viewing experience, it's definitely near the "so bad it's good" range, but I think that one definitely needs the right crowd. Also the horrorshow CGI isn't nearly as bad looking on the smaller screen which might also detract a bit. MechanicalTomPetty posted:I watched a few clips from Cats on YouTube the other day (the catnip scene, SKIM BIL SHANKS THE RAIL WAY CAT); the extras in those scenes shake and jerk around in a way that makes me think they're like zombie infectees about to succumb to the infection.
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