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Alaois posted:i just finished a 12 hour Oblivion retrospective video and i don't know if i would recommend it but i enjoyed it well enough
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Sep 7, 2021 04:05
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Ghostlight posted:It should be bannable to post this without mentioning that it's titled "A quick analysis". its a sequel to his 8 hour long Morrowind retrospective, also titled A Quick Analysis the names are tongue in cheek he also has a video called A Serious 50 Hour Analysis of Cyberpunk 2077 thats 25 minutes long
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Sep 7, 2021 04:07
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Same but the Anhk vs Eiji beach fight from OOO. Well that's heated drama between men, peak kino.
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Sep 7, 2021 04:11
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DoctorWhat posted:Well that's heated drama between men, peak kino. Just two guys romantically fighting to the death over their ideals.
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Sep 7, 2021 04:24
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What's better than this? Just guys being bugs.
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Sep 7, 2021 04:47
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The only thing that could be better is if Toei finally like them just kiss instead of constantly building romantic attention for a whole season.
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Sep 7, 2021 05:00
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I prophecy that whenever gay marriage gets legalized in Japan they'll bring Ankh back for real.
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Sep 7, 2021 05:44
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Alaois posted:its a sequel to his 8 hour long Morrowind retrospective, also titled A Quick Analysis cult stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eM7pb5M5DU
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Sep 7, 2021 06:53
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Came across a really well researched, put-together, and told gaming history video series that plans to document every single playable woman in video games in the 80s. According to the mission statement video, across 8000+ video games released in the decade, there were only 84 playable women. First full video came out today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYXAoUQ_LI (It's age-restricted bc,,,,, the first playable women were naked and there's titties abound)
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Sep 7, 2021 07:48
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riderchop posted:Came across a really well researched, put-together, and told gaming history video series that plans to document every single playable woman in video games in the 80s. According to the mission statement video, across 8000+ video games released in the decade, there were only 84 playable women. Ooh good find, especially since the channel is so small. There's actually a video before that one that goes over an earlier playable woman, but unfortunately there are apparently zero screenshots of that game, only descriptions of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRyAjI1mXVY
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Sep 7, 2021 08:42
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GigaPeon posted:Heh. You’re probably right. I think I lucked into a couple puzzle solutions so I never got fatigued setting stuff up so it was “a ride” from start to finish. I feel like it's someone trying to solve the problem of telling a story with shocking twists and turns with a very limited cast set over a short period of time.
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Sep 7, 2021 09:54
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Techmoan, old dude audiophile who makes videos on all manner of (old) audio tech, takes a look at a novelty k-pop cassette player that has blue-tooth functionality. It does look pretty cool, but quality-wise its exactly what you'd expect out of a novelty cassette player. He also compares it to the other personal cassette players on the market today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-gIAMvQNs
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Sep 7, 2021 10:02
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I feel like it's someone trying to solve the problem of telling a story with shocking twists and turns with a very limited cast set over a short period of time. Isnt that Steven Moffett's gimmick? No matter where the Doctor ended up the metaplot always revolved the same 2.5 people.
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Sep 7, 2021 12:36
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Yes because the "metaplot" was just... the relationships between the main characters. Moffat came up through sitcoms. Sitcoms don't have cosmic metaplots about outside agitators and interstellar warlords, they have stories about what the characters mean to each other.
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Sep 7, 2021 16:28
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Archer666 posted:Techmoan, old dude audiophile who makes videos on all manner of (old) audio tech, takes a look at a novelty k-pop cassette player that has blue-tooth functionality. It does look pretty cool, but quality-wise its exactly what you'd expect out of a novelty cassette player. He also compares it to the other personal cassette players on the market today. I can kind of understand the appeal of wanting to listen to music on vinyl but I don’t see the appeal of tapes. Minidisc is more of a novelty.
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Sep 7, 2021 18:15
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Isnt that Steven Moffett's gimmick? No matter where the Doctor ended up the metaplot always revolved the same 2.5 people. I mean Doctor Who has always had the excuse of using a time machine who somehow knew where he would need to be next.
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Sep 7, 2021 20:25
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 look inside a mushroom lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJVXAALRfRo
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Sep 8, 2021 00:40
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Dorktown Presents - The History of the Atlanta Falcons (Complete Series Playlist) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXSZMIiUfFSzzgEL4N9aYBXPmGVen3zW
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Sep 8, 2021 00:56
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No.1 Special posted:Dorktown Presents - The History of the Atlanta Falcons (Complete Series Playlist) This is insanely good btw
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Sep 8, 2021 01:52
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https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1435315922126970880 Here's something mildly uplifting for a few moments anyway. So the whole roster of QAnon, But For Movies all lined up to declare in unison that Shang-Chi would be the biggest box office disaster in the history of cinema, only for it to... break box office records in its opening weekend. They're now all getting dunked on by the entire internet after Simu Liu shined a spotlight on the giant gaping L they just posted. All the usual suspects are here with their asses on full display; the Quarterman, the Film Drunk, Clownshoes TV, "an idiot with a microphone who used to own a comic book store", the internet's second-most hateable Jeremy, the weedy kid who started crying when Zack Snyder said he thought racism was bad, the 500 pound baby--the entire USS Enterprise of lovely men with web cams and YouTube accounts just got torpedoed into oblivion by a single Instagram post. You love to see it.
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Sep 8, 2021 05:09
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Of course this was always going to happen. MCU movies will always make money despite the  purity of the articistic format whinging of certain kinds of poeple. This poo poo, specifically this the womans and the minorites politically politicking my politics-free white bread movies poo poo, has happened before, https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3085718021/ multiple https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3492762117/ loving https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3458290181/ times https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr922309125/ in the last few years and these chucklefucks didn't learn a goddamned thing. I mean, it's almost as if there are audiences other than your usual whypeepo, and enough people want to watch something other than WHITE PERSON TYPE 9 SUBSET B in the lead role for a change. Why don't these loser-rear end bitches go have a crywank over Ghost In The Shell, with its white lead star being the only person in the universe possibly qualified to play one of us non-whites.
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Sep 8, 2021 05:57
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Wonder if they're gonna blame it on China market pandering or something.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:00
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edogawa rando posted:Why don't these loser-rear end bitches go have a crywank over Ghost In The Shell, with its white lead star being the only person in the universe possibly qualified to play one of us non-whites. I seem to recall that movie being championed by these losers leading up to its release. They said it would totally blow some other movie they took issue with out of the water. Captain Marvel maybe? My memory is failing me. They certainly stopped talking about it pretty quick after it bombed.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:04
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Ariong posted:I seem to recall that movie being championed by these losers leading up to its release. They said it would totally blow some other movie they took issue with out of the water. Captain Marvel maybe? My memory is failing me. They certainly stopped talking about it pretty quick after it bombed. You're thinking of the dumb fringe that tried to create some kind of Battle Angel Alita vs Captain Marvel culture war thing
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Sep 8, 2021 06:12
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Yeah, that was it!
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Sep 8, 2021 06:16
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Ariong posted:I seem to recall that movie being championed by these losers leading up to its release. They said it would totally blow some other movie they took issue with out of the water. Captain Marvel maybe? My memory is failing me. They certainly stopped talking about it pretty quick after it bombed. Wonder Woman, maybe? They were in the same year, but Wonder Woman was the one that had the "get woke go broke" poo poo from these scrub-rear end losers. Ghost in the Shell had a $110,000,000 budget, vs a $18,676,033 opening weekend, for a $169,801,921 world wide box office at the end of its run. In comparison, Wonder Woman had a 149,000,000 vs $103,251,471 opening weekend, for a $821,847,012 world wide box office. Captain Marvel also had the misogynist brigade screaming red-faced like the loser gammons that they are, but it came 2 years after. It had a $160,000,000 vs. a $153,433,423 opening weekend, and made $1,128,274,794 world wide at the end of its original theatrical run. It's the second-most successful solo MCU movie, only losing to Black Panther in the solo film rankings, and the four Avengers movies overall.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:20
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edogawa rando posted:Wonder Woman, maybe? They were in the same year, but Wonder Woman was the one that had the "get woke go broke" poo poo from these scrub-rear end losers. They're already beginning to trot out the same "Disney bought out theaters, cinemas running empty 'sold out' screenings" conspiracy theory for Captain Marvel to try and cover their asses this time too.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:24
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nine-gear crow posted:They're already beginning to trot out the same "Disney bought out theaters, cinemas running empty 'sold out' screenings" conspiracy theory for Captain Marvel to try and cover their asses this time too. Yet they don't take the logical 'corporations are the true villain, full communism now' step. Because they are dumb.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:30
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I only really remember people hating the live-action GitS pitch honestly.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:39
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Yardbomb posted:I only really remember people hating the live-action GitS pitch honestly. That movie basically didn't just poison its own well, it was loving dumping cyanide into that poo poo. The best I've heard in its defence is "it's not that bad." I think it was Bennett the Sage, whom in his review video nailed exactly where that movie killed off any chance of doing anything interesting - the Mamori Oshii-directed 1995 adaptation had serious discussions about what it means to be a "person," with the main character basically trading in everything that makes her an individual for the sake of her job (which makes the scene where she's out on the town, and sees both another person and a mannequin with her face all the more significant). Looking at the shithouse film in a vacuum divorced from the context of its release, there's a massive failure when it's revealed that The Major is actually an Asian woman, that was something that the film could have done something interesting with - she traded in everything that makes her a person, including her ethnic and cultural identity. That in and of itself isn't the issue, but the fact that they then did sweet gently caress all with the concept is.
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Sep 8, 2021 06:46
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Ibblebibble posted:Wonder if they're gonna blame it on China market pandering or something. its not even scheduled to come out in china lol. black widow also never came out, so IDK if they're just done with marvel or what it's sorta weird. Free Guy is cleaning up at the Chinese box office, tho.
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Sep 8, 2021 07:09
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TBF there's a lot of ethnic Chinese outside of China in Asia looking to get pandered to by the MCU. Because I'm one of them. Probably not gonna watch much post-Endgame MCU stuff outside of Shang Chi and maybe the more fun stuff like Spider Man or Thor.
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Sep 8, 2021 07:40
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nine-gear crow posted:They're already beginning to trot out the same "Disney bought out theaters, cinemas running empty 'sold out' screenings" conspiracy theory for Captain Marvel to try and cover their asses this time too.
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Sep 8, 2021 08:03
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Terrible Opinions posted:I find it funny that this turned out to actually be true for several Chinese theatre chains using it for money laundering, but never actually on Marvel movies. Those are poplar enough on their own. Nope the biggest offender for Chinese money laundering was the Warcraft movie. Do you have any sources about this you'd recommend? I'm pretty fascinated by the churn of barely-tracked money around film distribution.
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Sep 8, 2021 11:15
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edogawa rando posted:That movie basically didn't just poison its own well, it was loving dumping cyanide into that poo poo. The best I've heard in its defence is "it's not that bad." I think it was Bennett the Sage, whom in his review video nailed exactly where that movie killed off any chance of doing anything interesting - the Mamori Oshii-directed 1995 adaptation had serious discussions about what it means to be a "person," with the main character basically trading in everything that makes her an individual for the sake of her job (which makes the scene where she's out on the town, and sees both another person and a mannequin with her face all the more significant). Here's the frustrating thing with the live-action GiTS movie; Someone on the production staff put legitimate and earnest effort into it. The movie doesn't just draw from the original film, they actually took the time to draw from Innocence (The sequel film), Stand Alone Complex, and the manga as well for source material, with a clear understanding of the setting and general worldbuilding. The casting is pretty good outside of Scarlett Johannson, the set designs, props, and costuming are legit great... and it's all just derailed by a script that's atrociously bad. Ailumao posted:its not even scheduled to come out in china lol. black widow also never came out, so IDK if they're just done with marvel or what it's sorta weird. Did Free Guy turn out to be any good? It looked like a good bit of dumb fun and I'm always down for that.
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Sep 8, 2021 11:52
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nine-gear crow posted:All the usual suspects are here with their asses on full display; the Quarterman, the Film Drunk, Clownshoes TV, "an idiot with a microphone who used to own a comic book store", the internet's second-most hateable Jeremy, the weedy kid who started crying when Zack Snyder said he thought racism was bad, the 500 pound baby--the entire USS Enterprise of lovely men with web cams and YouTube accounts just got torpedoed into oblivion by a single Instagram post. My favorite of those is, of course, 'this movie will break records but ALSO flop' by the aforementioned Clownshoes even as I know what they were going for. The obvious answer is 'you're half right.' I remember watching like half a video by the Critical Drinker who kept the mask on for that long and then realized he was just a Scottish chud. The dude always talks like he's very constipated. (Possibly from all the drinking.) Seemlar posted:You're thinking of the dumb fringe that tried to create some kind of Battle Angel Alita vs Captain Marvel culture war thing It was a delight to watch them briefly trumpet a film about a woman resist and break free from the men in her life who want to control her, even as they thought it was for her own good, was somehow less feminist than the movie about a woman who is essentially a square-jawed action hero but female and for some reason that made them really mad.
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Sep 8, 2021 13:10
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it's because in the second case they view being a square-jawed action hero but female as an usurpation of a traditional male role and therefore an attack on the social hierarchy; while in the first case, they recognise that she's trying to escape controlling men but within their misogyny this is acceptable as simply an escapist fantasy, because all stories of women escaping male control necessarily portray women in what they view as a traditionally female role: being under male control. imo.
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Sep 8, 2021 13:36
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It doesn't stop being amusing that there are people stupid enough to think a Marvel movie will do badly. Its the McDonalds of movies, poo poo's gonna make money regardless of what they serve up.
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Sep 8, 2021 14:00
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Ghostlight posted:it's because in the second case they view being a square-jawed action hero but female as an usurpation of a traditional male role and therefore an attack on the social hierarchy; while in the first case, they recognise that she's trying to escape controlling men but within their misogyny this is acceptable as simply an escapist fantasy, because all stories of women escaping male control necessarily portray women in what they view as a traditionally female role: being under male control. imo. I think it’s less complicated than even that: their concept of the world stopped updating circa 1994, so in their eyes a Cameron-esque female action hero is the peak of empowering narratives for women, and anything else is ‘pandering’ that is actually secretly bad because Reasons. (It should be said that characters like Alita and her precursors are great and it’s good they exist, just the idea that’s the One True Path of Feminism is ludicrous.)
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Sep 8, 2021 14:31
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I'll check out Shang Chi when it's available on streaming that doesn't require a 30 dollar fee. Enough word of mouth got me interested, which is more than I can say for most of the Marvel movies. That said, I hope this film puts Tony Leung's name in the mainstream and folks seek out his body of work. Also gets people interested in kung-fu films. The state of releases for them, even of Jackie Chan films, in the US is goddamn abysmal.
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