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Speaking of musicals, who here remembers Repo: The Genetic Opera? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJoDmZxfMo Warning: this ends up going to some dark places (actual ones in real life, not the edgy set dressing of the movie) because of course it does.
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Oct 13, 2021 12:17
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Solitair posted:Speaking of musicals, who here remembers Repo: The Genetic Opera? I didn't expect to have 'a little glass vial' stuck in my head but here we are and I really don't want it to be because the guy who did it is the worst.
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Oct 13, 2021 20:02
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Hazel's got a video about an old Yume Nikki/earthbound-esque JRPG that came out before yume nikki actually came out???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dofobG4ZQs (also I really love the way Hazel integrates her patreon credits in the middle of the video it's always really cool)
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Oct 13, 2021 21:06
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Dawgstar posted:Oh, yeah. I had Danger Mouse books here in the US. One dropped the tidbit (which might be from the show, I can't remember) that Baron Greenback's pet caterpillar Nero had 'sold his mother to a silk farm' and for some reason as a kid I thought that was hilarious. I had one of the UK annuals which had a DM family tree in it that not only included the superb joke that one of his uncles "Went to Patagonia and never returned, as Gonias notoriously hate being patted" but also that his parents died in a climbing accident when he was a boy - just to make it clear that the writers weren't just Bond film fans, they'd read the books too.
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Oct 13, 2021 21:31
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I haven’t seen any of Evan Hanson aside from what’s in Jenny’s video but that weird whispery falsetto that guy uses every time he starts to sing sounds exactly like Casey from Tim & Eric.
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Oct 14, 2021 02:36
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Learned a fun Cosgrove Hall fact the other week, Bernard Sumner was a tracer for them, before forming Joy Division and later New Order.
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Oct 14, 2021 02:38
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I think they missed a golden opportunity by not doing a The Prisoner parody about a mouse voiced by David Jason who looks identical to Danger Mouse but never clarifies whether he is actually Danger Mouse or a new character.
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Oct 14, 2021 02:49
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Skippy McPants posted:. It can sometimes feel that way because the atmosphere of the thread is relatively chill— And people say goons don't tell jokes anymore.
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Oct 14, 2021 07:34
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Solitair posted:Speaking of musicals, who here remembers Repo: The Genetic Opera? This is great. I'd never watched REPO but new it by reputation from friends, and I was fascinated. She expresses pretty well the feelings I have about learning that someone who made something you love (or... affects you, in her case) is an abuser.
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Oct 14, 2021 10:59
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jackofarcades posted:This is great. I'd never watched REPO but new it by reputation from friends, and I was fascinated. Yeah, the speed at which she went through this reminds me of my reaction to the latest Marilyn Manson album. My introduction to Repo was hearing about it on TV Tropes, and then reading the recap done by The Agony Booth, in which they called it "4-chan: The Musical."
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Oct 14, 2021 13:47
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So I've been getting heavy into Civvii 11's backlog and I love hearing him talk about the history of 90s gaming. Is there anyone else that covered talking about the history of 90s FPSs?
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Oct 14, 2021 17:27
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BigRed0427 posted:So I've been getting heavy into Civvii 11's backlog and I love hearing him talk about the history of 90s gaming. Grimbeard doesn't specifically cover 90s FPSs but he's got a lot of 90s/early 00s in his catalogue.
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Oct 14, 2021 17:31
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BigRed0427 posted:So I've been getting heavy into Civvii 11's backlog and I love hearing him talk about the history of 90s gaming. Errant Signal's Children of Doom series.
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Oct 14, 2021 17:38
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Solitair posted:Speaking of musicals, who here remembers Repo: The Genetic Opera? Solitair posted:Yeah, the speed at which she went through this reminds me of my reaction to the latest Marilyn Manson album. Oh god, Repo, what a joyless slog of a movie. I saw it twice - once in a regular showing where I did not like it, but friends assured me it was "better with audience participation". The Audience Participation version is legitimately the only movie I ever decided to go out to the lobby and browse the internet for a break from most of the audience participation being one guy screaming "Stupid bitch" every time Paris Hilton was on screen. Watching that video now, but being there at the time I think that generation was so desperate for their own Rocky Horror to get on the ground floor for (and that Buffy episode wasn't quite long enough) that they latched on to Repo and tried to cram it into that mold without the fandom growing organically. I had several friends join that, shadow cast and all, and by about a year later just about everyone forgot it had ever happened. Like Rocky Horror has its problems but at least it's fun/campy and has catchy songs, Repo was so... mean spirited, and it had one maybe two catchy songs and when it was bad, it wasn't so bad it's good, it was just boring. Rocky Horror is one of the few exceptions to "you can't make it so bad it's good on purpose" because it was always supposed to be a send-up, and Repo tried to force it into that mold after the fact it seems. Seeing where this video is going already I can only imagine these things are the least of the problems.
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Oct 14, 2021 18:15
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Jenny's Dear Evan Hansen video was good but man what a bunch of bizarre alterations to make for the movie version. Honestly, I thought that the part where Evan sits down at the orchard and types out a new letter to himself was going to be where the movie ended at first.
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Oct 14, 2021 18:49
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BigRed0427 posted:So I've been getting heavy into Civvii 11's backlog and I love hearing him talk about the history of 90s gaming. Ahoy has done his fair share of coverage on older FPS like the id library.
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Oct 14, 2021 20:00
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RareAcumen posted:Jenny's Dear Evan Hansen video was good but man what a bunch of bizarre alterations to make for the movie version. They cut a whopping four songs and replace them with... nothing. The reasoning being they could focus on Evan more, which is bizarre since he's already the main-character. It'll be harder to rag on this one compared to Cats. Since 'poorly-rendered cat-people gyrating' makes for a more lighthearted premise tthan 'creepy outsider fabricates frinehdship with suicide victim for social clout'.'
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Oct 15, 2021 01:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvlWSsZwLn0 This has been floating around my recommended tab for a while so I finally watched it. Guy makes a very good argument for Luke and how he's a pretty unique hero when contrasted against characters ostensibly like him.
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Oct 15, 2021 05:07
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Inspector Gesicht posted:They cut a whopping four songs and replace them with... nothing. The reasoning being they could focus on Evan more, which is bizarre since he's already the main-character. It's not hard to rag on Dear Evan Hansen, but outside of a premise that's tasteless-at-best, the adaption isn't a remarkable uncanny valley fever dream like Cats is. The thing is, Dear Evan Hansen trips and faceplants into every pitfall possible for a movie adaption of a musical, but a lot of other movies have done that, too.
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Oct 15, 2021 05:19
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it feels unfair to compare works of conventional cinema to cats
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Oct 15, 2021 06:07
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Solitair posted:Speaking of musicals, who here remembers Repo: The Genetic Opera? oh that isnt lindsey ellis
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Oct 15, 2021 14:33
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Solitair posted:Speaking of musicals, who here remembers Repo: The Genetic Opera?
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Oct 15, 2021 14:44
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Solitair posted:Speaking of musicals, who here remembers Repo: The Genetic Opera? i never saw it. i saw the cover a couple times in stores but it never was my thing. this is a great video though.
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Oct 15, 2021 17:09
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Farm Frenzy posted:it feels unfair to compare works of conventional cinema to cats It feels unfair to compare conventional cinema to musicals period. The only thing the Golden Globes got right is shuffling those off to a different category.
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Oct 15, 2021 17:12
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I have a half-unironic conspiracy theory that broadway keeps allowing these movie versions of their hit plays to happen even as it's shown multiple times how objectively difficult it is to get it right vs on stage because it gives them a case proof against allowing for recording of stage productions to be distributed. Oh we can't just record Dear Evan Hanson or Les Mis and sell that recording so everyone can enjoy it, look how bad those movies were!
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Oct 15, 2021 21:09
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Sarcopenia posted:I remember seeing this as a stupid myspace emo teen. Even back then it was just too cringy for me. "How is this worse and even more edgelord than Zombie Strippers?". I loved it... when I was 12.  I watched it like three times with the other Weird Girls, but that's probably only more damning. Acerbatus fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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Oct 15, 2021 21:39
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sexpig by night posted:I have a half-unironic conspiracy theory that broadway keeps allowing these movie versions of their hit plays to happen even as it's shown multiple times how objectively difficult it is to get it right vs on stage because it gives them a case proof against allowing for recording of stage productions to be distributed. Oh we can't just record Dear Evan Hanson or Les Mis and sell that recording so everyone can enjoy it, look how bad those movies were! I pray that the Broadway containment fields hold. These leaks have been concerning.
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Oct 15, 2021 21:58
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Repo was absolutely huge with a certain subset of edgy young people. I remember being in community college a year or two after it came out and having peers that did shadow casting for it in the next town over. I never got into it myself because the gore aspects put me off  The channel that did that video has some other good content too, I watched one bit she did chronicling every Swan Princess sequel. Not only did it go the Land Before Time route with the wholly unnecessary continuation but apparently they also turned it into... 3D animated Christian propaganda, of all things
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Oct 15, 2021 22:07
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Famethrowa posted:oh that isnt lindsey ellis I thought about making a "mirror universe Lindsay Ellis" joke so I'm glad it wasn't just me who had that reaction. Blood Nightmaster posted:The channel that did that video has some other good content too, I watched one bit she did chronicling every Swan Princess sequel. Not only did it go the Land Before Time route with the wholly unnecessary continuation but apparently they also turned it into... 3D animated Christian propaganda, of all things https://twitter.com/jennyenicholson/status/1250203222213443584
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Oct 16, 2021 05:22
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sexpig by night posted:I have a half-unironic conspiracy theory that broadway keeps allowing these movie versions of their hit plays to happen even as it's shown multiple times how objectively difficult it is to get it right vs on stage because it gives them a case proof against allowing for recording of stage productions to be distributed. Oh we can't just record Dear Evan Hanson or Les Mis and sell that recording so everyone can enjoy it, look how bad those movies were! I buy it.
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Oct 16, 2021 07:58
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conceptually I get it, but cats has a stage recording that's...I mean, a 100 times better than the movie but still not very good because the spectacle of going to cats in the theater is like 3/4s the point of cats i think it just comes down way more to "theater is a different game from movies and you have to go in understanding that, and basically no one who makes them actually does"
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Oct 16, 2021 08:02
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I recommend watching cats after eating a couple of tabs of lsd or a few pods of Datura, really livens up the experience
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Oct 16, 2021 08:13
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stillvisions posted:It's probably a weird follow-up to a semi-hit record produced by a Surprisingly close - https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1449272898477170695
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Oct 16, 2021 08:20
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Arc Hammer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvlWSsZwLn0 On the one hand, nothing this dude says in the video is exactly wrong, but on the other I've found myself increasingly becoming sick of the YouTube hagiography of Star Wars in general, so by the end of the video I felt like I was gonna throw up.
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Oct 16, 2021 08:35
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i appreciate a video about star wars not being longer than the movie, at least. those are rare!
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Oct 16, 2021 09:26
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Max did a couple streams where he went over all the smash character reveal trailers for both the WiiU smash and Ultimate. fun to see the major reveals back then vs the ones in ultimate. I didn't really pay attention to smash WiiU and only heard about the characters being added but never saw most of the trailers, but I remember seeing the Megaman and Cloud trailers and being blown away especially by the latter getting into smash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPkdTrSA1KE&hd=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT7hmgUfSNg&hd=1 and while it's up, some stuff he didn't add to the youtube version of the WiiU trailers, like going back and watching his own cloud trailer reaction where apparently his reaction is the only one that exists that recognized what was going on instantly lol https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1175295945?t=1h46m37s
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Oct 16, 2021 11:33
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TheFlyingLlama posted:conceptually I get it, but cats has a stage recording that's...I mean, a 100 times better than the movie but still not very good because the spectacle of going to cats in the theater is like 3/4s the point of cats It's funny because pro-shots seem to be reliably very good. Like, in recent memory, Hamilton (whatever you think of the underlying musical) and especially Come From Away had solid camera work that got the emotions of the show across. And I'm skeptical that Come From Away would work as a proper movie at all. I'm hoping the long shutdown on Broadway and success of Hamilton leads to more pro-shots of recent shows, because touring productions aren't the same as original casts in their broadway venues...which cuts both ways. It also means a pro-cam won't substitute for a ticket when the show rolls into town.
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Oct 16, 2021 13:25
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Captain Invictus posted:and while it's up, some stuff he didn't add to the youtube version of the WiiU trailers, like going back and watching his own cloud trailer reaction where apparently his reaction is the only one that exists that recognized what was going on instantly lol I feel like most people started watching that trailer, saw the stars and thought "WOLF" since he was the big character people wanted back that didn't return. So people didn't really pay attention to the music literally until the logos started appearing cause people started hyping themselves up on Wolf
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Oct 16, 2021 14:28
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Macaluso posted:I feel like most people started watching that trailer, saw the stars and thought "WOLF" since he was the big character people wanted back that didn't return. So people didn't really pay attention to the music literally until the logos started appearing cause people started hyping themselves up on Wolf Were people really that hyped up for Wolf? A minor character from a fourth string Nintendo franchise?
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Oct 16, 2021 14:35
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Gripweed posted:Were people really that hyped up for Wolf? A minor character from a fourth string Nintendo franchise? Wolf is cool
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Oct 16, 2021 14:51
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