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KingKalamari posted:
Wait until he learns about X-Wings doing dogfights. He won't. I have a feeling he's both stupid but also trying to feed the culture war beast. Never trust anybody that does a video with Sargon that isn't just 'gently caress you, you suck.'
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Apr 15, 2021 18:04
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Alaois posted:speaking of game journalists and difficulty settings yeah. like i like to laugh at some dude making a game look bad because he can't play for poo poo or is thrown a controler and they take his first 10 min with the game and post it online. but the joke is loving old and not that funny anymore. people are good at different games. if you made me play a souls game or a sports game or 4x strategy game, id suck worse then the polygon doom person. DesertIslandHermit posted:The weekend after TLJ came out was like a nice day on town before the unexpected meteor hit. Out of a group of 4 friends, I was the one who enjoyed TLJ the most. Even the one that didn't like it still liked talking of what she thought were the better scenes of the movie (Rey in the cave, the throne room fight). People loved it, people hated it. People were mixed. Then the meteor arrived. The reason TLJ hit so hard was because people wedged that polarized reception into the culture war. There was someone on Twitter who made an interesting thread of how the likes of far-right and alt-right figures weaponized the movie as some kind of feminist or woke nuclear weapon. Now they do this with just about every blockbuster but the impact was a lot smaller whenever a movie got critical acclaim and a billion dollars. The last movie before TLJ that got this much fire was the new Ghostbusters. I saw the new Ghostbusters years later. I thought it sucked (although I liked Leslie Jones's character). But I saw it nothing more as a weak attempt to be hip with an old franchise. But at the same time I admire the movie basically began the end of Milo Yiannopoulos's career because he harassed Jones and got banned from Twitter. a Good post. you can't have like a "i liked it well enough" on TLJ. i mean you can but you may get poo poo on for not taking a "side". like i thought it was pretty good but it had a bunch of issues. but yeah your friend is right about the new trilogy. DrVenkman posted:This brings up something interesting. I posted over in TV about it but it's more apt here. I read and largely agree with Angelica Bastien's piece on THEM even though personally I couldn't finish it. But then on Twitter she threw out this, which gave me pause. this is the stuff i dislike from the progressive culture critics. like obviously there is legit bad art/media and stuff. but i see this weird "well if you like anything that has problamtic elements, YOUR the bad guy and the sinner" bullshit. it veers way to close to the 90s era lieberman/thompson/satanic panic type moral poo poo for my taste. fun hater posted:i like event horizon even though mike is right and it has all those problems and more. the thing is: those problems are in service of what is ultimately a really goofy space horror movie thats a lot of fun above all else even if its dumb as hell. thats why i like it. i love the hanna-barberra sound effects demo reel at the end lmfao yeah. as the joke has already been made a million times before, its basically 40k the movie. which is probably why i like the ship design.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:05
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Bug Squash posted:TLJ will forever be a perfect storm forever since it is simultaneously excellent and deeply flawed, but people can only pick one side. TLJ is mid with some good bits just like TFA and the idea that it's controversial is an ongoing psyop against me personally
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Apr 15, 2021 18:08
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I don't think I've ever known faster a movie was going to be poo poo than Rise of Skywalker. Second scene I was already out.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:11
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Motto posted:TLJ is mid with some good bits just like TFA and the idea that it's controversial is an ongoing psyop against me personally Every Star Wars movie after A New Hope was in some ways controversial. The Empire Strikes Back was polarized when it came out and the backlash made Lucas quit early and wrap it up with Return of the Jedi (which he made more cutsey with the Ewoks after people said ESB was too dark). And then people got polarized with Return of the Jedi because of it rehasing the Death Star plot, the Skywalker sibling reveal and of course the Ewoks. The reason you don't see people complain about those movies unless you look hard enough was because the internet wasn't there to catalogue and boost every angry opinion. And as the years went on, people looked back on it and said 'Well they weren't too bad and it wrapped up nicely.'. That's going on with the prequels now and at least one of the sequel movies a couple decades down the road. Bug Squash posted:TLJ will forever be a perfect storm forever since it is simultaneously excellent and deeply flawed, but people can only pick one side. I thought the Rey/Luke/Kylo Ren plotline was amazing. Finn/Rose was okay. Holdo/Poe was poop but the Holdo Maneuver made up for it. Kinda.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:13
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My roommate and I saw TLJ together and neither of us really liked it. We then both had the exact same experience where other friends asked our opinion, and when we said we didn't like it getting dogpiled for it, only then learning that your opinion on a movie stakes out your position in some wider culture war. TLJ is certainly more admirable than TFA or ROS if for no other reason than it actually loving tried to do something but rehash the same nostalgia over and over, I just think its failures in execution far outweigh its successes. I definitely get though why for a lot of people it's the best in the series period.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:13
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Listening to the Lindsay Ellis vid and she makes a good point about white people using the "listen to POC" talking point as a bludgeon against one another, monolithing POC in the process. It's a good point that's been thrown around a lot by online lefties who are critical of the online left. Maybe eventually it'll actually stick.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:14
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Star Wars will probably try to use a future installment to explain how the Holdo Maneuver was a one in a million shot of even working or how at one point the Rebellion/Resistance tried using hyperspeed kamakazie droid pilots and it went to poo poo due to either the expenses of destroying ships or droids outright refusing to kill themselves for what might not even work. I say they shouldn't. Star Wars started out as a sci-fi serial film and crazy poo poo like that should just be in it for Rule of Cool.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:17
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I dont know why people are reacting so ominously to the Lindsay video. It already has a better title than Contrapoints' video did.DesertIslandHermit posted:Star Wars will probably try to use a future installment to explain how the Holdo Maneuver was a one in a million shot of even working or how at one point the Rebellion/Resistance tried using hyperspeed kamakazie droid pilots and it went to poo poo due to either the expenses of destroying ships or droids outright refusing to kill themselves for what might not even work. Didnt TROS basically say that to appease the people complaining about it That was one of my favorite moments from TLJ actually.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:20
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Groovelord Neato posted:I don't think I've ever known faster a movie was going to be poo poo than Rise of Skywalker. Second scene I was already out. like of course TLJ has problems, all blockbuster movies have them, but they're the kind i can think about afterward and not IMMEDIATELY, as was happening after every scene in Rise
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Apr 15, 2021 18:21
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I legit started to write a massive effort post about how RoS is actually thematically consistent with not just TLJ but the franchise as a whole but I am already just so sick of SW discourse and I know it would start a derail that would dwarf even the great CoD derail of 2020 so now I'm just asking everyone if we can go back to talking about One Piece. https://twitter.com/op4kids0context/status/1135607458267897856 I actually really like the 4kids Crocodile voice. That's the voice I hear in my head when I read the manga. I wish his cool voice wasn't wasted on the fuckin 4kids dub lol
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Apr 15, 2021 18:22
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DeafNote posted:Didnt TROS basically say that to appease the people complaining about it I got drunk before watching TROS because I knew it was going to be bad. I might have missed that out. My friend was right. It really did try to push away TLJ. Star Wars is a serial movie about how people use a laser sword in a time where everyone has laser rifles, a legion of soldiers that couldn't hit the heroes to the point it became pop culture mockery, and a death weapon that could have been mended by putting a series of grates on the one shaft that will make it all go boom. Trying to critically explain it to the audience is boring.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:25
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The problem is that the Star Wars fandom has always been defined by people being really angry about whatever new Star Wars thing is coming out. In addition to the Original Trilogy controversies that were already mentioned you also had the fandom defined by people being really angry about the edits to the original movies made by the 90s Special Editions, people being really angry at the prequel movies, people being really angry at no movies, people being really angry at the expanded universe novels, people being really angry at Disney dropping the expanded universe novels, and people being really angry at TFA. It creates a really toxic atmosphere where being disproportionately upset at the thing you're supposed to like is considered the norm. Couple this with the fact that Star Wars is really stupid to begin with (And I'm saying this as a life long Star Wars fan) and you have just an utter cesspit of people who treat their opinions about a dumb kids space adventure movie with more seriousness than they do their political views. DeafNote posted:I dont know why people are reacting so ominously to the Lindsay video. It already has a better title than Contrapoints' video did. Star Wars has had a very longstanding problem of needing to appease dumb, nit-picking weirdos. See also the ridiculous gymnastics the expanded universe has done to justify Han's offhanded comment about making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:28
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Star Wars will probably try to use a future installment to explain how the Holdo Maneuver was a one in a million shot of even working or how at one point the Rebellion/Resistance tried using hyperspeed kamakazie droid pilots and it went to poo poo due to either the expenses of destroying ships or droids outright refusing to kill themselves for what might not even work. Dominic Monaghan says in episode 9 "we need some more Holdo maneuvers!" and then he gets shot down with Finn and Poe say "no that was a one in a million shot we can't rely on it." And then at the end of the movie there's a montage of star destroyers falling out of the sky and one of them got Holdo'd and it's implied the Ewoks did it.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:28
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I feel sorry for the dragon. All it wants to do is die with dignity but they insist on bring it for treasure hunting. I like Apis and I hope I never have to see an adult version of her later in this franchise because there's no way that will be done tastefully. I like the marine captain with the moustache and I hope it turns out okay for him. I expected Eric the Sicko to kill him several times already. Marines can't aim cannons for poo poo  I wonder if Commodore Nelson is a dig at the Brits.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:29
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A good movie would have an ewok main character and lean into their psychotic ability to turn anything they lay their hands on into a weapon.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:29
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Apocalypse Now: Endor Yop yop song plays ominously as a scarred Ewok sits in the shadow of a fire
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Apr 15, 2021 18:31
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Wait until he learns about X-Wings doing dogfights. MauLer has yet to realize the slippery slope of an "objective" reviewer means he should have been really upset by, like, the movies having sounds in space. It is fun whenever he takes a swing at Marcus on the Cosmonaut Variety Hour because he cares about it WAY more than Marcus does.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:32
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the last jedis of video games: dark souls 2 zelda skyward sword wolfenstein 2 the new colossus and of course doki doki panic
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Apr 15, 2021 18:34
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Jamie Faith posted:I legit started to write a massive effort post about how RoS is actually thematically consistent with not just TLJ but the franchise as a whole but I am already just so sick of SW discourse You made the right choice.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:34
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Dawgstar posted:MauLer has yet to realize the slippery slope of an "objective" reviewer means he should have been really upset by, like, the movies having sounds in space. An 'objective' reviewer is no more different than the GameFAQs forum arguments of how the Wii is the best console because it outsold another console. It's a title to sound smart and to try to justify your opinions as FACTS like a somehow even more obnoxious Ben Shapiro.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:34
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I know I tried to make myself try not to commentate much on the video de jour as to be fair with it at least before I fully watched, but why did she made a bit about hearing from a pal on the DMs whose identity she had to withhold and then immediately show it was Todd In the Shadows?
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Apr 15, 2021 18:35
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Jamie Faith posted:I legit started to write a massive effort post about how RoS is actually thematically consistent with not just TLJ but the franchise as a whole but I am already just so sick of SW discourse and I know it would start a derail that would dwarf even the great CoD derail of 2020 so now I'm just asking everyone if we can go back to talking about One Piece. loving lol at them making Crocodile hoverhand Mr.3 like that instead of strangling him.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:35
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The 7th Guest posted:the last jedis of video games: Pretty insulting to TLJ not gonna lie.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:35
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What's funny is that I really, really did not like TLJ for a variety of reasons, but for me the bomber scene was a high point—yes it's incredibly dumb, for a variety of reasons, but Star Wars has always had World War II dogfighting at its core and a bunch of space-B-17s slowly lumbering their way to the target was great stuff. ...And then everything went downhill from there.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:38
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Katt posted:I feel sorry for the dragon. All it wants to do is die with dignity but they insist on bring it for treasure hunting. Shes not actually canon so you are in luck
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Apr 15, 2021 18:38
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Jamie Faith posted:I legit started to write a massive effort post about how RoS is actually thematically consistent with not just TLJ but the franchise as a whole but I am already just so sick of SW discourse and I know it would start a derail that would dwarf even the great CoD derail of 2020 so now I'm just asking everyone if we can go back to talking about One Piece. Real talk, I'd be down for people having more optimistic takes about TROS. As much as I hate the movie, it's more than likely going to, forgive my TV Tropes terms, be Vindicated By History. The saga as a whole has been plagued with sudden rewrites and changes ever since Empire Strikes Back hit the theatres. Lucas was very haptic with feedback given the tone changes of VI, I, II and III. You ignore the ugliness of behind the scenes, you interpret movies a bit more optimistically. But maybe now is not the time to talk of that.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:38
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Kunster posted:I know I tried to make myself try not to commentate much on the video de jour as to be fair with it at least before I fully watched, but why did she made a bit about hearing from a pal on the DMs whose identity she had to withhold and then immediately show it was Todd In the Shadows? Pretty sure it was a joke. Like, "for privacy's sake I have to withhold this person's name, also they're half-Vietnamese, also they're Todd" Groovelord Neato posted:I don't think I've ever known faster a movie was going to be poo poo than Rise of Skywalker. Second scene I was already out. I saw it opening night and was cackling at "The Dead Speak!" For all the movie's faults, it lays down exactly how bad it's going to be right from the get-go, and I was laughing with my friends the whole way through. Best comedy of 2019.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:41
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Kunster posted:I know I tried to make myself try not to commentate much on the video de jour as to be fair with it at least before I fully watched, but why did she made a bit about hearing from a pal on the DMs whose identity she had to withhold and then immediately show it was Todd In the Shadows? well, because Todd is in the shadows
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Apr 15, 2021 18:43
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It's not exactly a secret that Lindsay and Todd are friends.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:44
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Best comedy of 2019. No, Cats.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:48
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I do wish Graphic Cards came with a contingency-feature whereby they cause a deadly house-fire in the event of being used to mine bitcoin. But the sad truth is that Nathan For You wrapped up years ago. so we'll never see any counter method to this shortage.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:53
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https://twitter.com/AllisonPregler/status/1382615334792888321 Could it be? Is somebody trending downwards but for real this time?
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Apr 15, 2021 18:53
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I wish I could erase Star Wars from my brain... and everyone else’s brain too. If I had a time machine, I’d go back to 1975 and talk George Lucas into doing a sequel to American Graffiti instead.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:53
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Jamie Faith posted:I actually really like the 4kids Crocodile voice. That's the voice I hear in my head when I read the manga. I wish his cool voice wasn't wasted on the fuckin 4kids dub lol also Marc Diraison was a better voice for Zoro than Chris Sabat imo
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Apr 15, 2021 18:55
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nine-gear crow posted:I wish I could erase Star Wars from my brain... and everyone else’s brain too. If I had a time machine, I’d go back to 1975 and talk George Lucas into doing a sequel to American Graffiti instead. There was one! Not made by Lucas though. It feels crazy that Lucas was an exec producer on Mishima also.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:58
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nine-gear crow posted:I wish I could erase Star Wars from my brain... and everyone else’s brain too. If I had a time machine, I’d go back to 1975 and talk George Lucas into doing a sequel to American Graffiti instead. I'd say THX 1138 but that would probably lead down the same path as Star Wars.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:58
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Jamie Faith posted:I legit started to write a massive effort post about how RoS is actually thematically consistent with not just TLJ but the franchise as a whole but I am already just so sick of SW discourse and I know it would start a derail that would dwarf even the great CoD derail of 2020 so now I'm just asking everyone if we can go back to talking about One Piece. I love that you can clearly see that he is supposed to be choking him.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:58
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I do wish Graphic Cards came with a contingency-feature whereby they cause a deadly house-fire in the event of being used to mine bitcoin. But the sad truth is that Nathan For You wrapped up years ago. so we'll never see any counter method to this shortage. Nvidia released a series of cards a while back that disabled mining at the firmware level... and then pushed a driver update a few days after release that accidentally disabled this firmware lock, immediately making them viable for mining.
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Apr 15, 2021 18:59
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Augus posted:also Marc Diraison was a better voice for Zoro than Chris Sabat imo Chris Sahar would be a better kaido tbh
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