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I just scrolled down and saw that Lindsay Ellis commented on the video. Her comment has 175 replies, by far the most of all the comments I've seen so far. ohboy
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Apr 14, 2021 10:37
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Pachylad posted:I just scrolled down and saw that Lindsay Ellis commented on the video. I mean, it was a little weird of her to write such an impassioned, lengthy commend in defense of Doug. Real left turn there.
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Apr 14, 2021 10:55
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Love the weirdo in the replies to her claiming all liberalism is actually right wing and Bernie is true centrism. It's like a polar opposite Overton Window.
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Apr 14, 2021 11:09
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Mokinokaro posted:Love the weirdo in the replies to her claiming all liberalism is actually right wing and Bernie is true centrism. Technically correct, I guess.
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Apr 14, 2021 11:15
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Endorph posted:everyone gets mad at the wall video but the worst thing walker ever did is the sailor moon video he did where, in order Funnily enough, I've heard about Sailor Moon for the first time from his videos and haven't watched the show till now, so for the long time my opinion was basically what he claimed in his reviews Also, apart from all the above, iirc in the review he was trying to understand why Sailor Moon was so popular and because he didn't bother to watch more than 5 episodes or do any sort of research, he decided that the show had a genius formula which was just repeated over and over again and apparently that was enough. What an absolute clown But Doug Walker still seems to think that all anime is like the shows that were on TV when he was a kid, so I don't know what I expected macabresca fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 11:18
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Mokinokaro posted:Love the weirdo in the replies to her claiming all liberalism is actually right wing and Bernie is true centrism. listen, I know you're American but that comment is correct. bernie is a shade left of center at best, you've just got a near fascist country
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Apr 14, 2021 11:38
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I'm not American so can the condescension. There's also a huge distinction between American liberalism/neoliberalism and actual liberalism which is certainly center left. Not far left, but left. That person's compass is skewed pretty hard left as opposed to the American skew hard right. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 12:02
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The "Left" and "Right" axis are generally measured in two major ways: pro-revolutionaries on the left and anti/counter-revolutionaries on the right, and anti-capitalist, pro-labor on the left and pro-capitalist, anti-labor on the right. Liberals are ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:20
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Mokinokaro posted:I'm not American so can the condescension. The "Bernie would be a centrist anywhere else!!!!" meme is a favorite among Americans who couldn't name three current prime ministers if their life depended on it. Our nation's myopia spans our whole political spectrum. LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 12:24
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“in the political axis , ur either The Jokester or the Bat-Man... or u live long enough to be in the center with half ur face burned off, and they call you a name, “Two Faces”” -Jim gorton, the dark night , à Christophe Nolan
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Apr 14, 2021 12:24
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america wouldn't know a leftist if it hit them in the face, they put one in the white house and still dont get it
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Apr 14, 2021 12:28
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Bonaventure posted:“in the political axis , ur either The Jokester or the Bat-Man... or u live long enough to be in the center with half ur face burned off, and they call you a name, “Two Faces”” Adding unnecessary dashes clearly needs to be the next trend after Hollywood has finished the adding unnecessary articles to a title. Batman (1989) The Batman (2022) Bat-Man (2055)
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Apr 14, 2021 12:29
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LanceHunter posted:Adding unnecessary dashes clearly needs to be the next trend after Hollywood has finished the adding unnecessary articles to a title. Eventually there will be enough Batman movies in a single sub series of Batman movies that one of them will be called either B4tman or Batm4n.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:40
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It was funny that on another place I go to, someone was confused and upset at why a Content Creator That I Won't Mention That Tends To be Very Unsavory was very popular and I wrote a small ditty on how while their stuff wasn't very good, their work was extremely prolific and had enough resources and frequent scheduling so in a way, in the time span you'd get something like a Sarah Z video or a Folding Ideas video, you'd get hours and hours of quick output from people whose work was let's say, youtube drama watch. If you were on a particularly dry spell and very slow day, at some point you'd just click that just to see what the hell it was to clear out because no one put out anything on that day. Sure enough a bit after that post Quinton Reviews and Izzyzizz both post hour long videos on Animeme and The Warrior Cats fandom, as if fate was like "OH NO I MUST PROVE YOU AS WRONG AS POSSIBLE". I'd say a more blatant example of Doug's Sailor Moon video was his really old Airborne review, where he tries to pin the main character's motives as being fetish driven. The motives of "I was a surf practitioner and I miss being able to do that now that I live in Alaska". I'm amazed no one brings up that particular review when discussing like, one of his weirder ones.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:45
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The thing I’ll never forget about Doug Walker is how he couldn’t understand character motivations in Ernest Scared Stupid and said that made it a bad movie. Has he ever mentioned a movie that he likes?
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Apr 14, 2021 12:50
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:The thing I’ll never forget about Doug Walker is how he couldn’t understand character motivations in Ernest Scared Stupid and said that made it a bad movie. As Dan points out multiple times in his review, The Wall is supposed to be a movie that he likes, and the review was meant to be 'a love letter'.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:59
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The astonishing thing about the clips of Doug that Dan uses is that for a man who's built an entire career out of screaming, he isn't even good at screaming. Like in In the Flesh, he plays a bit where Roger Waters screams GET EM UP AGAINST THE WALL and then the equivalent Doug bit and it's just, Doug can't even do that right.
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Apr 14, 2021 13:11
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Bob Geldof played Pink in the movie but otherwise, yeah. The whole dictator sequence is chilling due to his performance.
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Apr 14, 2021 13:14
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Bug Squash posted:In the sci-fi novel Silver Rain, part of the history is the general release of a bioweapon called the Amusica virus which destroys an infected person's ability to hear music as art. An entire generation loses a dimension of their cultural lives, but the greater tragedy is the children who grow up in it's shadow and never know music as anything other than random noises coming from a recording. Was this bioweapon made by Dr. Wily? Because hot drat, that's some useless, but insane bullshit. What, did the makers think you need to see music as art to be able to fight wars? Though I am a bit confused here, seeing something as art and enjoying it are two separate things. A virus which destroys your ability to see a thing as art wouldn't harm your ability to enjoy it, it would just lead to complex, wide-reaching changes in society. (Like music albums being sold under the hand in shady shops, like pornography in our world) Hearing music as "random noises" sounds more like the virus destroyed the ability to enjoy music. So, I must know: Which is it? Destroys the Amusica virus the ability to enjoy, or the ability to see something as art?
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Apr 14, 2021 13:14
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I believe the Sailor Moon video was so bad even Doug had to admit to it and afterwards he brought on guests whenever he covered anime.
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Apr 14, 2021 13:47
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Pachylad posted:I just scrolled down and saw that Lindsay Ellis commented on the video. Haha, she found somewhere worse than twitter to post. Impressive.
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Apr 14, 2021 13:56
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It's considered art because we enjoy it.CYBEReris posted:The "Left" and "Right" axis are generally measured in two major ways: pro-revolutionaries on the left and anti/counter-revolutionaries on the right, and anti-capitalist, pro-labor on the left and pro-capitalist, anti-labor on the right. Liberals are ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.
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Apr 14, 2021 13:56
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This was one problem that wasn’t exclusive to Doug but showed up a lot later on was doing a fairly regular weekly schedule, and doing videos on stuff they had no real interest in but fans demand it, or something that might not be a great video subject, especially for a shallow reviewer like Doug who misreads surface level stuff. So you got even worse videos than their standard because there wasn’t a lot to talk about and they weren’t talented enough to talk about it well.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:01
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Doug has like a good 50 years of life left, doesn't he? What's he going to do at age 50? Age 60?
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Apr 14, 2021 14:05
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The Horrible World of Kinect Games – Caddicarus Glad to see Lindsay getting almost entirely positive responses in the comments of Dan’s video. She’s cool and didn’t do anything wrong, but it was probably smart of her to get off twitter anyway because twitter sucks. Oh, and Dan’s video itself was awesome as always. Just like the anniversary movies Doug's The Wall “review” has so much stupid garbage in it there always seems to be something different to discover no matter how many dissections of it you watch.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:09
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The comment calling current Doug a Doug Walker tribute band was interesting as hearing about Homestuck 2 that also felt like a Homestuck Tribute Band and both were about as good.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:28
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Ghostlight posted:It's considered art because we enjoy it. No it's not. Or do I not count as Human in your eyes?
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Apr 14, 2021 14:30
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Doug has like a good 50 years of life left, doesn't he? What's he going to do at age 50? Age 60? Milk the remaining core of his fanbase with live chats, twitch and whatever other means of engagement are popular, DSP-style. He's already been pitching his gaming sessions and such, which made me flashback to the Restsupurae of his Bart's Nightmare LP. So like now, just even less meaningful. After you reach a certain treshold of followers, you will retain a residual 10k or so paying fans no matter what you do. Not enough to be a bigshot or anything close, but enough to live a comfortable life. Between DaddyOFive, Onision and others I think we have established only going to jail for a good long while can sink someone, and even that is not a given.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:43
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Yvonmukluk posted:Wait, what? Synydyne, probably the shittest professional ARG group, unceremoniously abandoned their actually kind of interesting project This Is My Milwaukee and secretly bought horse_ebooks and the YouTube channel Pronunciation Book, on which they hosted a mysterious countdown that lasted a little over a month. People were going nuts over what it could mean and at the end of the countdown, they revealed Bear Stearns Bravo, a CYOA/ARG hybrid nobody asked for about the 2008 economic collapse, where you were a cyberpunk auditor or something? Nobody cared and people were and are angry because they effectively killed three mildly fascinating internet things to make it.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:47
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The only piece of real art ever produced by humanity is 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:51
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Sephyr posted:Milk the remaining core of his fanbase with live chats, twitch and whatever other means of engagement are popular, DSP-style. He's already been pitching his gaming sessions and such, which made me flashback to the Restsupurae of his Bart's Nightmare LP. There are (or at least, were) local radio DJs in mid-market towns who were never big enough to be number 1 in their town or to get syndicated, but were able to scrape out a career doing their morning zoo program for 30 or more years. The 21st century version of being the most popular (local) radio personality in Sheboygan is having a mid-five figure number of followers who continue to check out your content. It's not easy or luxurious, but it's a living. EDIT: The big difference between the theoretical Sheboygan morning zoo host and Doug, though, is that if the morning zoo guy pissed off someone who later went on to be a lot more successful, the successful person left Sheboygan forever. All the people Doug has pissed off (who have since gone on to be much more successful) are still right there on youtube, ready and willing to take some swipes. LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 14:53
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SkeletonHero posted:Synydyne, probably the shittest professional ARG group, unceremoniously abandoned their actually kind of interesting project This Is My Milwaukee and secretly bought horse_ebooks and the YouTube channel Pronunciation Book, on which they hosted a mysterious countdown that lasted a little over a month. People were going nuts over what it could mean and at the end of the countdown, they revealed Bear Stearns Bravo, a CYOA/ARG hybrid nobody asked for about the 2008 economic collapse, where you were a cyberpunk auditor or something? Nobody cared and people were and are angry because they effectively killed three mildly fascinating internet things to make it. hahahah that is incredible.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:58
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Libluini posted:Was this bioweapon made by Dr. Wily? Because hot drat, that's some useless, but insane bullshit. What, did the makers think you need to see music as art to be able to fight wars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uh_z_LpV1Y This is what a person who was never given given the ability to experience art looks like. Now imagine the psychological damage that having that ability to taste stripped away from you would cause. Key to winning wars is making your enemy lose the will to fight. Destroying their capacity to enjoy art seems like a viciously cruel tactic for undermining someone's will.
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Apr 14, 2021 15:01
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fun hater posted:im so late to this conversation but its about my two favorite things: authorial intention vs user/viewer experience and dark souls. can we start over. won't be long until we link the shitposts so we can then start up new derail+
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Apr 14, 2021 15:06
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uh_z_LpV1Y I dunno, i would think that removing their ability to enjoy something they once held as precious would piss them off
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Apr 14, 2021 15:10
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Libluini posted:Was this bioweapon made by Dr. Wily? Because hot drat, that's some useless, but insane bullshit. What, did the makers think you need to see music as art to be able to fight wars? Also yes, the comment section on Dan's The Wall video is the best Youtube comment section I've seen maybe ever
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Apr 14, 2021 15:15
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Froghammer posted:It's also, you know, a science fiction novel, so whether or not it makes sense to have ever been invented means less than assuming it exists as an intellectual thought exercise. It's weird. There's not a single bad comment. Even the hundreds of replies to Lindsay's comment are people saying supportive things to her.
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Apr 14, 2021 15:32
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uh_z_LpV1Y Was really expecting this to be a link to Nostalgia Critic's The Wall. Droyer fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 15:34
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Droyer posted:Was really expecting this to be a link to Nostalgia Critic's The Wall. I was about to say Weyoun and Doug operate on the same level but then I remembered that Weyoun is competent.
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Apr 14, 2021 15:44
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uh_z_LpV1Y Yeah, I know. Which is why I was confused when the original poster started mixing "enjoying thing" and "seeing as art thing" as if both were the same. Stopping the latter would just be weird, but the other would be utterly vile. To go back to porn as the go-to example, many people enjoy porn, but the number of people who are also convinced porn is art is minuscule compared to them.
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Apr 14, 2021 15:45
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