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I don't really understand how these topics have been details? They're discussions of media criticism, which I would think is broadly relevant to this thread.
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Mar 3, 2021 06:55
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Dias posted:I like how me jokingly describing mobsters as cool white criminals got us here. Like, not even kidding, that's not the worst derail to have. It's hard to tell it's a joke when that's the predominant discourse whenever Scorsese makes a critique 
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Mar 3, 2021 06:57
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I think they count as derails because it's the same people making the same points on the same topics at least once a week
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Mar 3, 2021 06:58
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grittyreboot posted:I think they count as derails because it's the same people making the same points on the same topics at least once a week I wasn't aware attack on titan and mobsters came up this many times a month.
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Mar 3, 2021 07:10
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Stars-War
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Mar 3, 2021 08:35
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Max Wilco posted:Not certain, but I'm guessing was visiting Zion National Park, because I believe he's said he's visited it before, and that was what inspired Honest Hearts. I don't know what on Earth people got from the Honest Hearts DLC because the instant I found out what was going on, I wanted to kill both of the two... Of whatever their names were and deal with that tribe hired by the Legion myself, because both of them were theocratic shitheads. Samovar fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 08:46
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grittyreboot posted:I think they count as derails because it's the same people making the same points on the same topics at least once a week I think that there are some conversations that truly do come up too often but I also think that this thread occasionally tries to veer too hard away from any sort of conflict by calling extended discussions where not everyone agrees “derails” which seems kind of weird because this is a thread about new media and criticism, which sort of breeds (the good kind of) conflict in its nature Conflict is cool and good in this case. I liked that discussion about Attack on Titan because I don’t watch the show and my vague knowledge about it consisted entirely of “getting very popular in the US” and “maybe fashy?” and it’s good to hear from people who both like and didn’t like it because it gave me a better understanding of it, even if I haven’t watched it. Ditto the conversation about depiction of violent lifestyles. It’s a conversation as old as art itself but just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s not worth discussing in here because not everyone has the same experience with it. Someone who grew up watching them with someone who took the “cool” parts of Goodfellas uncritically will have a different opinion than someone who never saw a Scorsese until they were older and were able to immediately peg what he was doing, and that’s great. We shouldn’t be afraid of conflict as long as it’s productive and no one is being an rear end in a top hat. It’s kinda hard to grok tone on the internet but as long as no one is actively attacking someone personally I think we shouldn’t try to stifle it. If you really have nothing to say or don’t want to get involved, just post another video. The nice thing about this very dead format of communication is that it’s way easier to have multiple long-form conversations without it getting too confusing.
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Mar 3, 2021 08:59
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DC Murderverse posted:I think that there are some conversations that truly do come up too often Thats Snyderchat and Star Wars chat imo DC Murderverse posted:We shouldn’t be afraid of conflict as long as it’s productive and no one is being an rear end in a top hat. I agree! The thing is people did start losing their cool and throwing insults at the end of the AoT discussion. I mean I get this is Something Awful (a website founded on mockery) and sometimes someone does say something genuinely stupid which warrants being clowned on but most of the time its some innocuous poo poo and some people doing epic burns Ben Shapiro style on their posting enemies and it just tanks the chances to have any sort of good faith conversation imo.
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Mar 3, 2021 09:06
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Violet_Sky posted:Todd posted a OHW on Return of the Mack. "Yes. Everyone, even and especially corny white people, loves 'Return of the Mack'" I...I'm corny white people? 
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Mar 3, 2021 09:07
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Samovar posted:I don't know what on Earth people got from the Honest Hearts DLC Cool mummy man with cool guns and SLCPD gear and nice clothes combined with cool nature area.
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Mar 3, 2021 09:49
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Todd is like 95% right about British hip-hop but there is one Brit who truly had a hand in the evolution of rap as a storytelling medium https://youtu.be/OPyl1DHeQGQ https://youtu.be/HjNTu8jdukA Also without Children’s Story, one of those other songs he cited as the best R&B jam of the 1990s would not exist although both The Mack and Montell Jordan do not touch the majesty of No Diggity, the actual best R&B song of the 1990s Edit: oh my god when you search for No Diggity on YT after the song itself and a lyric video it’s nothing but corny white people covering the song (and one k-pop song with No Diggity in the title) The second page has literally Prince himself playing it live on stage but the first page is white beatboxers, Anna Kendrick, a fancily dressed country band, a fancily dressed jug band, soft acoustic boys and Ed Sheeran (but I repeat myself) DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 10:01
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Yardbomb posted:... cool nature area. Ok, that I can agree with.
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Mar 3, 2021 10:06
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Ok I can't remember where I found this video. Hopefully it was from my Recommended tab and I'm not just reposting something I saw in this thread lmao Jessie Gender - Sia's Music: The Trap of Symbolic Autistic Representation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=138y6mtgll8
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Mar 3, 2021 10:21
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SpiritualDeath posted:Ok I can't remember where I found this video. Hopefully it was from my Recommended tab and I'm not just reposting something I saw in this thread lmao Jessie Gender is great and she deserves to be watched by more people.
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Mar 3, 2021 10:37
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fun hater posted:anyway watch "king of comedy" I know most wouldn't catch it but it was bizarre putting De Niro in Joker because it's like they're saying "yeah this is the King of Comedy but bad".
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Mar 3, 2021 14:22
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grittyreboot posted:I always wondered if Scorsese knew some mobsters growing up. Goodfellas was so gleefully disdainful of its characters that he must have been basing them on people he knew I don't know if Scorsese did, but at the least Joe Pesci certainly group around made guys. Famously the "Am I A Clown" bit comes from something he saw while waiting tables, Joe having been the timid guy who knows he's got to ask the violent criminal with a massive support system to pay his tab.
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Mar 3, 2021 14:38
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grittyreboot posted:I always wondered if Scorsese knew some mobsters growing up. Goodfellas was so gleefully disdainful of its characters that he must have been basing them on people he knew He grew up in Little Italy, Manhattan in the '50s, so definitely.
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Mar 3, 2021 15:27
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https://twitter.com/AllisonPregler/status/1367015397514498049 The 'one time I turned into a dog and Doug helped me' level stanning for the Walkers will hopefully someday cease to surprise me, but not today.
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Mar 3, 2021 15:59
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Ghostlight posted:one of my favourite bits is how stupidly direct all of the background songs are but because they're instrumentals you'd have to know them already. I definitely laughed when he talked about Florida and KKB's "Flamingo" started playing.
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Mar 3, 2021 16:47
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Going to bat for Doug Walker is like going to bat for a glass of spoilt milk. I don't understand what continues to draw people to him.
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Mar 3, 2021 17:11
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Jacob Geller - Dark Souls 3 is Thinking of Ending Things https://youtu.be/lnAWQz34PJs
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Mar 3, 2021 17:36
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Brian David Gilbert made...a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXZy8BbMz_U
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Mar 3, 2021 18:14
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After watching that Demo Reel video I’m kind of surprised he keeps doing the Nostalgia Critic if he really wants to do more than that.
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Mar 3, 2021 18:17
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JordanKai posted:Going to bat for Doug Walker is like going to bat for a glass of spoilt milk. I don't understand what continues to draw people to him. Being ostensibly pro-Doug is just a flimsy excuse to spew hate at women.
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Mar 3, 2021 18:21
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Garrand posted:Brian David Gilbert made...a video genius
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Mar 3, 2021 18:30
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JordanKai posted:Going to bat for Doug Walker is like going to bat for a glass of spoilt milk. I don't understand what continues to draw people to him. Parasocial relationships with internet personalities is a hell of a drug.
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Mar 3, 2021 18:37
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From the look of the Channel Awesome page, Nostalgia Critic is the only thing that gets the views you'd expect for a channel their size. If Doug takes his hat and glasses off and does a "Doug Reviews", he seldom breaks 100k. If he puts them on and calls the video Nostalgia Critic, he gets around 350k. I get the feeling it's just the same people watching and the channel's not really moving in any direction. The Status Quo of YouTube.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:01
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Tonfa posted:
Tragically, giving your villain a distinctively unusual head is the fastest way to get people to sexify him.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:17
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You just can't save people from themselves. Chase that direction far enough and it's like that one indie game that blur censored the villain's face so no one would find him hot.
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Garrand posted:Brian David Gilbert made...a video Well this is loving horrifying.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:21
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bobjr posted:After watching that Demo Reel video I’m kind of surprised he keeps doing the Nostalgia Critic if he really wants to do more than that. The worst part of NC was the skits, so no surprise a whole series built around that failed. I was always baffled at how anyone could watch a feature length video of Doug skits, much less pay for a DVD of them. And he made like four the drat things.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:38
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bird video was good, bdg video was also good turns out the 90s horrify me
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Mar 3, 2021 19:44
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It amazes me how every affiliate on that channel, and maybe especially the ones who were mistreated the most and "punished" with unfavorable terms or driven away, matured into something so much more than doug and his lame bullshit. And he hasn't changed at all. He was just the first person to rip off the angry video game nerd to talk about 80s media. His media crossover appeal peaked with those wretched PBS bumps where he does an impression of Groucho.
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Mar 3, 2021 19:45
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bobjr posted:After watching that Demo Reel video I’m kind of surprised he keeps doing the Nostalgia Critic if he really wants to do more than that. I'm not. Doug is a massive moral coward with a cloying, overriding need to be adored by people, and people loved the Nostalgia Critic. Rather than stick to his guns and keep doing what made him happy and having either the integrity to continue with it or the ingenuity to adjust things to try and get people on board with what he wanted to do, he gave in and crawled back to the role he hated but his audiece loved. Because his need to be loved and celebrated is a bigger endorphin hit than actually doing something that he loves. Though who knows, maybe he's been doing this so long now he's finally won the battle over himself and he loves the Nostalgia Critic now. I can't say. Doug Walker lives in a hell of his own making, and everyone who could have helped him out of it no longer likes him... nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 19:51
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I like bdg's comedy stuff, but I think I like his surreal horror a lot more. EDIT: Or rather I should say, I like BDG and Karen's surreal horror a lot more. Ariong fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 20:34
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I went back and watched this:Kim Justice posted:I fear for Codemasters, I really do. And now I'm wondering what was so offputting about it? I'm guessing the fact that the recipe seemed to mostly be crab meat and egg. Maybe it could've been better with some butter plus salt and paprika for flavoring?
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Mar 3, 2021 20:35
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Pigbuster posted:Tragically, giving your villain a distinctively unusual head is the fastest way to get people to sexify him. People 100% want to gently caress the Headless Horseman, obscuring a face can't stop the horn.
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Mar 3, 2021 20:54
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Nuns with Guns posted:I went back and watched this: I can't imagine fishy, eggy, oatmeal texture is a super great combo. really wet mushed up crab is nasty as hell.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:00
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Yardbomb posted:People 100% want to gently caress the Headless Horseman, obscuring a face can't stop the horn. It's another hole after all
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Mar 3, 2021 21:01
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Famethrowa posted:I can't imagine fishy, eggy, oatmeal texture is a super great combo. really wet mushed up crab is nasty as hell. Oh the texture looks horrible, but they seemed really put off by the taste, too. Anchovy sounds like an awful way to flavor that dish.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:11
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Not sure why Mr. Walker thought a parody of the Wall was going to be anything but roundly mocked.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:20
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