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grittyreboot posted:In lighter news, Quinton Reviews talks about Chills. https://youtu.be/CtyzUM3gWSU (skip to 9:30 to get to the main topic) Watching this video right now and getting mad lol It's amazing just how these lazy charisma black holes can get mega popular on youtube. (Chills, not Quinton lol) This guy has 5 million subscribers? How??????? 5 million people really enjoy this guy taking hilariously fake videos at face value while sounding like an unholy mixture of a condescending kids tv show host and Microsoft David?
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Mar 26, 2021 09:45
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Chills is boring but a pure soul. He’s very earnest and that’s always nice to see. Kinda why I love the report of the week so much.
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Mar 26, 2021 09:52
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Jamie Faith posted:5 million people really enjoy this guy taking hilariously fake videos at face value while sounding like an unholy mixture of a condescending kids tv show host and Microsoft David?
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Mar 26, 2021 09:59
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Nah, Quinton owns. His history channel vids are some of the funniest poo poo on youtube
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Mar 26, 2021 10:11
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The fact that he’s done all these Nick vids and not one on Zim is just nasty 
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Mar 26, 2021 10:19
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so you know how sometimes you just watch a random video and youtube casts you into a hole of suggestions? i am currently living for the barbie fandom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qt_V0yhEt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGcbkT_J-RQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yH50oT7Epc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxo0G9h_T0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA6HtE4ZeBQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGcbkT_J-RQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdYQv5w4Hu4
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Mar 26, 2021 10:51
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Jamie Faith posted:Watching this video right now and getting mad lol It's amazing just how these lazy charisma black holes can get mega popular on youtube. (Chills, not Quinton lol) This guy has 5 million subscribers? How??????? 5 million people really enjoy this guy taking hilariously fake videos at face value while sounding like an unholy mixture of a condescending kids tv show host and Microsoft David? The fake stuff I can kinda get (those X CALLS ME AT 3AM videos still do numbers I think) it's the really awful cadence is what blows my mind. Like I said earlier there's a fairly popular true crime channel where the guy has the same obnoxious way of speaking (monotone dragging out the syllables of the last word of a sentence like an alien) and I wonder if Chills saw him and started mimicking him. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 13:34
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It’s always fascinating to learn about which fandoms exist. I did expect a dedicated following for Thomas the Tank Engine, but there is!
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Mar 26, 2021 13:42
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it's a lot easier to understand when you remember there's literal children on the internet
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Mar 26, 2021 15:55
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Kali Muscle is one of the most perplexing figures on Youtube. He's got 2.32 million subscribers, and he started as a fitness channel. His hook was that he was a former felon turned bodybuilder who would show "prison workouts" you could do without equipment and pre-workout/high calorie meals you could make with stuff from a prison commissary. But he dropped most of that a long time ago and now only posts the occasional workout video. Now, his content has gone all over the place. He'll do mukbangs, fitness community drama rants, he was streaming FPSs for a while, he's done prank videos, he did a trap album and some music videos, and now he seems to be pivoting again to test driving cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA8-o3ElmL0
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Mar 26, 2021 15:57
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nine-gear crow posted:Also that's just part 1 of a 2 part series, so here's the follow up Man, I've only played the original trilogy but it's hard to believe that the games got even more cynical than Killzone 2. That game is a relentlessly grim affair but holy poo poo KZ Mercenary is downright callous. Guerrilla really, really hate the military industrial complex and the war economy.
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Mar 26, 2021 15:58
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LanceHunter posted:Kali Muscle is one of the most perplexing figures on Youtube. He's got 2.32 million subscribers, and he started as a fitness channel. His hook was that he was a former felon turned bodybuilder who would show "prison workouts" you could do without equipment and pre-workout/high calorie meals you could make with stuff from a prison commissary. But he dropped most of that a long time ago and now only posts the occasional workout video. Now, his content has gone all over the place. He'll do mukbangs, fitness community drama rants, he was streaming FPSs for a while, he's done prank videos, he did a trap album and some music videos, and now he seems to be pivoting again to test driving cars. Did he also give people a steroid program because lol if you take fitness advice from him if you're not juiced to the gills
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Mar 26, 2021 16:23
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McCloud posted:Did he also give people a steroid program because lol if you take fitness advice from him if you're not juiced to the gills The only fitness people on YouTube that are open about taking steroids are the channels that call out fake naturals and actors.
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Mar 26, 2021 16:28
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTmkCGYrPk nine-gear crow posted:Also that's just part 1 of a 2 part series, so here's the follow up like i was like 15 when i first played 2 and i didn't appreciate how loving BLEAK that game is. 3 is really fun but its also a giant mess story/world building wise. yeah. its makes me want to play a remaster of 1/2/3 on ps4/5 someday. Arcsquad12 posted:Man, I've only played the original trilogy but it's hard to believe that the games got even more cynical than Killzone 2. That game is a relentlessly grim affair but holy poo poo KZ Mercenary is downright callous. Guerrilla really, really hate the military industrial complex and the war economy. shadowfall is even loving bleaker. though its ending is weirdly hopeful and like the dude says its a good place to end the series. like id be cool if they came back to it someday down the road after HZ trilogy but its fine whatever they do. also like he says. "ever we fight on" is a loving beutiful piece of music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h-W1qLcTSA
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Mar 26, 2021 16:53
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Those videos have convinced me that Boris is best Helghan and those ISA dogs loving crucified his corpse.
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Mar 26, 2021 16:59
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Arcsquad12 posted:Those videos have convinced me that Boris is best Helghan and those ISA dogs loving crucified his corpse. it could have been the helghast after they eventually killed him, they would have more reason to do it. also yeah killzone mercs is great for the game it is.
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Mar 26, 2021 17:18
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Groovelord Neato posted:The only fitness people on YouTube that are open about taking steroids are the channels that call out fake naturals and actors. Yeah, Kali Muscle doesn't call himself natural (which in the fitness youtube community is as good as admitting you're juicing). But he also refuses to directly answer when people ask him about if he uses steroids, because he has a record and isn't dumb enough to talk about illegal activity in his videos or streams.
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Mar 26, 2021 18:01
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Dapper_Swindler posted:it could have been the helghast after they eventually killed him, they would have more reason to do it. also yeah killzone mercs is great for the game it is. Either way Boris is the only person with anything resembling a moral compass. Don't shoot civilians, radicalized militaries are bad, I have a machine gun and if you shoot that kid I cut you in half. The stuff about fighting the militia/conscript miners in KZ2 is really, really uncomfortable when you consider its also the level where you get the boltgun which is just one of the many warcrimes guns in Killzone.
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Mar 26, 2021 18:29
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SF Debris is taking a look at Shin Godzilla (main review drops tomorrow): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMyLfQsPIyY Thought Slime shares his thoughts on Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFvBCvCl4sk EDIT: BriHard talks about game preservation, and how game publishers are increasingly using FOMO from intentional limited availability (both in time and quantity) to push pre-orders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYEbCBn2up0 Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 18:31
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Groovelord Neato posted:The fake stuff I can kinda get (those X CALLS ME AT 3AM videos still do numbers I think) it's the really awful cadence is what blows my mind. Like I said earlier there's a fairly popular true crime channel where the guy has the same obnoxious way of speaking (monotone dragging out the syllables of the last word of a sentence like an alien) and I wonder if Chills saw him and started mimicking him. Friend of mine's former roomates were obsessed with a particular Truecrime Mukbang channel. Like they'd watch the videos turned way too loud for hours on end to the point it became a major point of contention and conflict. I tried watching one and it was raw pain. Eating obscene amounts of food in the nastiest slobbering way possible while prattling in a obviously put-on drawn out drawl about actual crimes in a meandering yet extremely certain way, that almost always came down to the Mukbanger managing to find reasons to blame the most vulnerable party in the particular incident. I could not bare it for more than a few minutes. To discover that they were one of a whole community of channels just like that, almost carbon copies of each other was a Lovecraftian moment. Mr.Radar posted:
Speaking of Lovecraftian revelations. I feel like I'm going mad whenever I see NFTs come up. Had to unfollow a whole bunch of artists I liked from various places for jumping on the bandwagon. It's just... the most banal possible means of loving the enviroment, so some jerkoff with too much kiddie porn monopoly money can go "yeah I own this jpg of sonic the hedgehog JUST ME AND ME ALONE".
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Mar 26, 2021 19:16
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NFTs make no goddamn sense. If you want to donate a million dollars to an artist for nothing you can easily do so without also destroying the environment.
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Mar 26, 2021 19:25
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SteelMentor posted:so some jerkoff with too much kiddie porn monopoly money can go "yeah I own this jpg of sonic the hedgehog JUST ME AND ME ALONE".
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Mar 26, 2021 19:26
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Can someone explain how the environmental impact of NFTs works?
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Mar 26, 2021 19:27
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SkeletonHero posted:NFTs make no goddamn sense. If you want to donate a million dollars to an artist for nothing you can easily do so without also destroying the environment. How do I lander any money then.
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Mar 26, 2021 19:30
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Arcsquad12 posted:Can someone explain how the environmental impact of NFTs works? They're used in crypto mining which uses a fuckton of electricity.
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Mar 26, 2021 19:31
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The Corridor Crew had an artist on for their VFX react video last week then they put out a video of him explaining NFTs. I already read a pretty long article on the things but I was curious to see if he added anything new or insightful to it. The first 30 seconds of the video were them talking about how he made millions of dollars selling his art as NFTs and I immediately closed the video. I'm sure this guy has a completely balanced and not a gently caress-you-got-mine perspective at all. Nosiree! Good luck cashing in that (even more) fake currency into something you can actually use, fella. Edit: A really good site http://cryptoart.wtf/ was made to show the environmental impact of each NFT transaction. Some art just to write it to the blockchain used up to 3 months (!!!!) of power useage as a single residence in the EU would. It's disgustingly wasteful. Unfortunately, because it's the internet, that site was used to harass artists instead of being used to show how crypto-anything is a bunch of garbage trash crap. Jimbot fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 19:33
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Arcsquad12 posted:Can someone explain how the environmental impact of NFTs works? NFTs are built on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum uses Proof of Work as its consensus mechanism. They've specifically designed their PoW algorithm to be optimal for GPUs, rather than the special-built ASICs that do the majority of bitcoin mining. So people with GPU miners are burning a large country's worth of electricity to play a complicated game of "guess the number" a trillion times a second in hopes they are the one to hit the lottery and mine the next block. Mining the next block is now all transactions are recorded, and you can basically track exactly how much electricity is being burned for each block/transaction. Throwing more transactions (and more importantly, more money) on top of the Ethereum blockchain means that it is going to burn more electricity processing those transactions (because there is money in it). Jimbot posted:The Corridor Crew had an artist on for their VFX react video last week then they put out a video of him explaining NFTs. I already read a pretty long article on the things but I was curious to see if he added anything new or insightful to it. The first 30 seconds of the video were them talking about how he made millions of dollars selling his art as NFTs and I immediately closed the video. I'm sure this guy has a completely balanced and not a gently caress-you-got-mine perspective at all. Nosiree! That Beeple interview wasn't terrible, because Beeple knows it's a bubble and has sold all the ether he got in the auction for actual cash. Now, the aside that Corridor Crew did on why the environmental impact of NFTs is "a question for another day" is why I turned it off...
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Mar 26, 2021 19:37
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The best part is that NFTs do not even do the thing they supposedly do! They’re supposed to validate the authenticity of digital art, but all they are is a pointer to a third party archive site, and when that goes down your NFT is nothing!
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Mar 26, 2021 19:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsNpP5uuiaUquote:Most people fight with their siblings, but the conflicts between Moses and his siblings are pretty epic. But we can learn a few things about forgiveness, hatred, love, holding grudges, and healing broken relationships from the stories of Moses, Rameses, Miriam, and Aaron.
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Mar 26, 2021 19:45
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It's heart breaking when you're following an artist that made sense on social media for a long time and then all of a sudden they start shilling NFTs.
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Mar 26, 2021 19:48
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Katt posted:It's heart breaking when you're following an artist that made sense on social media for a long time and then all of a sudden they start shilling NFTs. I missed when he posted it but I guess Matt Furie (creator of Pepe) tweeted one out and the backlash was so severe he deactivated his twitter. I saw someone retweet a reply calling him out and by the time I checked the thread Furie's account was deactivated. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 19:52
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Groovelord Neato posted:I missed when he posted it but I guess Matt Furie (creator of Pepe) tweeted one out and the backlash was so severe he deactivated his twitter. I saw someone retweet a reply calling him out and by the time I checked the thread Furie's account as deactivated. You either die a hero or live to become a villain (or something like that) I had an artist that started shilling "environmentally friendly NFTs"
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Mar 26, 2021 19:53
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Katt posted:You either die a hero or live to become a villain (or something like that) I guess that's possible, if the NFTs are on a different blockchain that uses a different consensus mechanism you could have an NFT that doesn't require more electricity than what we're utilizing posting here on the forum. I don't know if any NFTs that aren't on ethereum, though (and if there are any, it's unlikely there is much money flowing into them).
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Mar 26, 2021 20:02
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SkeletonHero posted:NFTs make no goddamn sense. If you want to donate a million dollars to an artist for nothing you can easily do so without also destroying the environment. Alternatively I could commission a ton of porn. Both of these things would be more valuable to the world at large and have very little environmental impact.
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Mar 26, 2021 20:03
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Lindsey Ellis is catching some flack today for a comment she made about Raya and the last dragon and comparing it to The Last airbender. Turns out saying equating an asian fantasy story with a show made by 2 white guys rubbed people the wrong way. This thread covers the main jist of why it was a dumb comment https://twitter.com/junescribbles/status/1375442496092839945?s=20 Lindsey then followed that up with a long thread explaining her comments but in doing so she included this unfortunately worded tweet: https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1375511216286625798?s=20 People reacted to the usage of "squint" in the context of talking about asian-inspired properties . This seems to me like a situation where an apology would have avoided a lot of grief and just chalked it up as a learning lesson. Now she can learn that doubling down instead isn't a good idea instead! Her comments are certainly not well timed considering the recent tensions and rise in discrimination against asians.
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Mar 26, 2021 21:51
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Isn't Raya the last Dragon also a Disney movie made by Americans?
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Mar 26, 2021 21:58
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I think some people have nothing better to do on a Friday than get upset on Twitter.
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Mar 26, 2021 21:59
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:I think some people have nothing better to do on a Friday than get upset on Twitter. It's this.
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Mar 26, 2021 21:59
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McCloud posted:This seems to me like a situation where an apology would have avoided a lot of grief and just chalked it up as a learning lesson. Now she can learn that doubling down instead isn't a good idea instead! Her comments are certainly not well timed considering the recent tensions and rise in discrimination against asians. hahaha Lindsay Ellis taking an L and trying to learn that's a good one.
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Mar 26, 2021 22:00
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The original criticism is fair, the thing with "squint" is bad faith as all gently caress but that's Twitter for you.
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