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Mine had enough bumps to remember his previous games.
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Dec 5, 2021 08:18
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I can't believe that the Chrono Cross characters are voiced now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4h0QHZbUMg Yeah it's a gacha game crossover event, but still! Serge says stuff!
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Dec 5, 2021 08:27
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MonsieurChoc posted:I can't believe that the Chrono Cross characters are voiced now. Lends some credence to rumours that Square’s working on a Chrono Cross remake/update.
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Dec 5, 2021 09:40
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I haven’t watched Defunctland in a while but I sat down and watched some of the Season 3 episodes tonight and it still amazes me how high-quality they are. It’s easily as good as many documentary shows or films I’ve seen and the length would have made it a perfect TV show In particular I watched the episode about EPCOT, because it’s one of the most complicated parts of Disney’s legacy https://youtu.be/tKYEXjMlKKQ I’ve spent most of my life visiting Disney World on the reg and reading about the man and watching and visiting and engaging with his life’s work, and EPCOT as a true City of Tomorrow is one of those things that is very heavily mythologized, and as I’ve aged I’ve come to see it differently. When I was young I could see the retro-futurist designs of Tomorrowlands past and other things like the Monorail and the Contemporary Hotel and just think of how cool it would look and how cool an entire city built from the ground up like that would be. Now that I know exactly what that would have entailed (the city would essentially have you sign your rights away and would likely be just as exploitative as company towns around the turn of the previous century were) I look at it and think either “oh thank god this never came to fruition” or “this would never have actually worked”. At the same time he was engaged with enough good literature and research about city planning that there were loads of good ideas in there, and his eye for innovation was second to none meaning there were things in those plans that you could pull out and make today and they would still be helpful, especially his eye for transportation, which stood very much at odds with how transportation infrastructure was being developed at the time. A city designed to discourage car use with free, safe, and likely more energy efficient public transportation such as monorails and his PeopleMovers is the sort of wild idea that we ought to start implementing as climate change continues to bear down on us, but his ideas for closed circuit television constantly monitoring every aspect of community life is just a version of tech companies spying on us through the internet, but developed pre-the internet.
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Dec 5, 2021 11:50
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The Dark Id changed a lot, possibly bc of getting a kid and her dying a couple years ago. Bobbin ThreadBare isn't exactly a centrist lover but more like, the kind of person that on his Deus Ex LP he argued with the NSF leader and the Hong Kong Bartender. Which incidently makes it somehow one of the best things I've watched relating to Deus Ex. Zorak has moved on to doing retrospectives on the Gundam series and SKULL videos, helping Chorocojo on his Random Magic Card series. Both occasionally stream!
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Dec 5, 2021 15:35
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The beginning of Infinite is legit amazing when you first get there and you're exploring so I can see why people wanted to cling to it being good or whatever. The funniest was the guy in the thread over in Games that didn't get Booker and Comstock were the same guy even after they'd finished the game.
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Dec 5, 2021 16:14
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There are also people who think Superman and Clark Kent just have coincidentally the exact same build, so that doesn't surprise me
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Dec 5, 2021 16:59
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Wait, what’s this about Superman and Clark Kent?
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Dec 5, 2021 17:13
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Dec 5, 2021 17:27
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SkeletonHero posted:Wait, what’s this about Superman and Clark Kent? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Nov7vSkmU&t=5s This show ruled. Dunno if any notable YouTubers ever did a video essay on it but they should if they haven't.
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Dec 5, 2021 18:15
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Bioshock Infinite is fascinating because you can watch the narrative just fly apart as it approaches uncomfortable truth. The old timey racism is okay. It lets liberals feel like good people for rejecting it. But the cartoony depictions of racism aren’t insightful. They focus on how this particular strain of racism is uncool and out of date. The rejection is more about ascetics than morals. The game tries the same over the top parody of capitalism but it can’t. The horror of capitalism is that no extreme is too extreme. It is a system in a feedback loop. Once the narrative has actual connections to people’s real lives then it is time to disengage and go into excuse mode. If there are infinite realities then nothing matters. The game has entered the mental realm of the liberal. Anything is permissible if you can imagine a world were it is permissible. As a liberal, you immediately start murdering leftists.
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Dec 5, 2021 18:35
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Libluini posted:There are also people who think Superman and Clark Kent just have coincidentally the exact same build, so that doesn't surprise me With how bad conspiracy people are at recognizing faces, I could see someone trying to leak Superman's identity to r/conspiracy and just getting totally blown off.
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Dec 5, 2021 18:43
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Honestly most people just sort of ignored the "both sides are bad" parts, from what I remember. They liked the crazy time travel stuff and the blimp floating city. They ignored it because it made them uncomfortable, and were giving Levine just massive benefits of doubt because of how Rapture was such a send-up of libertarianism they figured he wasn't really saying that it's just as bad to try and solve problems as cause them. I mean, Andrew Ryan kills himself because of his utter refusal to understand that people aren't perfectly able to make choices at all times.
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Dec 5, 2021 18:44
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Grondoth posted:Honestly most people just sort of ignored the "both sides are bad" parts, from what I remember. They liked the crazy time travel stuff and the blimp floating city. I mean, I would be 100% down for a shooter where I get to run through an alt-history old-timey sky-city if it's in a game that didn't try to both-sides chattel slavery.
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Dec 5, 2021 18:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNATsAa9sa0 New Sarah Z video.
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Dec 5, 2021 18:53
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Acute Grill posted:I mean, I would be 100% down for a shooter where I get to run through an alt-history old-timey sky-city if it's in a game that didn't try to both-sides chattel slavery. Yeah exactly. From the maker of "Libertarianism is Stupid and Destructive" comes a game where you run and grapple through a blimp city full of racists that you shoot and use Not-Magic on was the game people expected to play, and when they got to the alternate timelines they pretty much tried their best to ignore that boy, sure seems like the game's saying the slave rebellion is in the wrong here. I think it wasn't until the awful DLC that managed to ruin what people liked about Bioshock's story that the perception on the game really turned.
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Dec 5, 2021 18:57
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i know these forums are not representative of public opinion but B:I's defenders here pretty much ceased to exist after burial at sea was released, and levine himself has basically ceased to exist along with them the man had a tremendous amount of goodwill built up and pissed it all down his leg because he couldn't get over his moral cowardice i read a few accounts that he was also a nightmarish prima donna as a director, but there's no way i could find them now
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Dec 5, 2021 20:01
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is spoony still in the game? still making review?????
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Dec 5, 2021 20:07
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Ash Crimson posted:is spoony still in the game? still making review????? we are all spoony
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Dec 5, 2021 21:04
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I wish Spoony would start a series reviewing therapy and psychiatric medication prescribed by a doctor.
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Dec 5, 2021 21:09
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:psychiatric medication prescribed by a doctor. he already got that, but it got too expensive for him, and he had to stop taking his meds so he could continue eating instead American healthcare in action, folks!
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Dec 5, 2021 21:25
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Yvonmukluk posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNATsAa9sa0 Well thats a nice companionpiece with the Jenny video I guess
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Dec 5, 2021 21:49
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I wish Spoony would start a series reviewing therapy and psychiatric medication prescribed by a doctor. gibbering in the corner
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Dec 5, 2021 21:50
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Apropros of nothing: Watching Cities Skylines youtubers is relaxing as hell. Half of them are at a Bob Ross level of painting cities.
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Dec 5, 2021 22:19
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DeafNote posted:Well thats a nice companionpiece with the Jenny video I guess Yeah like I watched the Jenny video but I'm not sure I can sit through another 2 hours about loving Evan Hansen. This is like when Hbomb made his Pathologic video and then pretty much everyone made their own video about it in the months after. I just don't care! NikkolasKing posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Nov7vSkmU&t=5s This on the other hand I do care about, New Adventures of Superman rocked and that scene's a banger.
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Dec 5, 2021 23:15
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Shyrka posted:Yeah like I watched the Jenny video but I'm not sure I can sit through another 2 hours about loving Evan Hansen. She starts off talking about how it got popular with teens cause of gay shipping and how she thinks it might've been unfairly maligned because of it, which is just a bad Sarah Z indicator.
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Dec 5, 2021 23:26
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Grondoth posted:She starts off talking about how it got popular with teens cause of gay shipping and how she thinks it might've been unfairly maligned because of it, which is just a bad Sarah Z indicator. I'm not sure what you mean, but "gay shipping" is like a massive pop culture thing and probably a big reason Supernatural got as big as it did. Some article for the final season of Supernatural mentioned how a pairing of two male characters from the show was still the number 1 relationship pairing of anything on a major fanfiction site.
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Dec 5, 2021 23:41
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Shyrka posted:Yeah like I watched the Jenny video but I'm not sure I can sit through another 2 hours about loving Evan Hansen. In my experience, Teri Hatcher Lois gets a decent amount of (totally deserved) love, but not so for Dean Cain. It's true he wasn't the best "Superman" but he was the best Clark Kent. He combined that folksy small town charm with a level of wit that could match Lois and her city ways. They were perfect together, such amazing chemistry. Just a dreadfully underrated show. My GF likes Smallville - and I guess I can't say if Smallville was good or not since I never watched it - but it sounds like it was a soap opera/romcom too, just aimed at teens. Maybe it had less comedy? I've heard it described as "Clark's Creek." Whatever the case it certainly lasted longer than L&C and that's a drat shame.
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Dec 6, 2021 00:14
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pentyne posted:I'm not sure what you mean, but "gay shipping" is like a massive pop culture thing and probably a big reason Supernatural got as big as it did. I'm aware of the phenomenon of shipping. It's why we have the goddamn omegaverse, after all, people couldn't stop imagining the brothers having sex with each other. I am also aware that people will write pages and pages of fanfiction about anything, especially anything where two characters have sex. I'm on the internet, after all. Sarah Z's videos, when they engage with the fandom, are often times written as though you already have a sympathy towards the idea of it and are actually interested in what the fandom, as a whole, wants. It assumes you're coming from a position in which you've already interacted with the fans of something and care about them, rather than assuming you have no god drat idea about it. In this video she brings up that a lot of people thought Dear Even Hansen was about a kid coming out, even though there's literally no reason to believe this, a take I can't imagine coming from anywhere other than being immersed in people writing fanfiction. This is, I'm a be honest, a tedious viewpoint I am in no way interested in sitting through 2 hours of. The way you make long videos about stupid poo poo work is by bringing in your audience as you walk through the stupid poo poo. Starting off a video about a pretty deeply flawed musical with an astoundingly bad movie adaptation by telling me about the absolute stupidest part of it all as an introduction, rather than something buried deep in which at this point I might care about it, is a bad sign. Combined with her conclusion that the musical was just fine does not give me hope that the next 1 hour and 30 minutes will be interesting.
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Dec 6, 2021 00:26
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i also thought it was about a sad gay kid
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Dec 6, 2021 00:28
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fun hater posted:i also thought it was about a sad gay kid no, its about a sad straight kid and his homophobic friend just guys being dudes
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Dec 6, 2021 00:32
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both the stage show and the movie make it absolutely clear that there is definitely no homo, even for the retconned gay.
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Dec 6, 2021 00:44
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ive never seen it, thats just what i thought it was. learning the real plot really blew my rear end off
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Dec 6, 2021 00:51
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Finding out about the Dear Evan Hanson shipping just confused me because the entire premise requires the relationship to be fake.
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Dec 6, 2021 01:19
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Grondoth posted:She starts off talking about how it got popular with teens cause of gay shipping and how she thinks it might've been unfairly maligned because of it, which is just a bad Sarah Z indicator. She doesn't say that at all? I don't know where you're getting that from unless you're somehow merging where said there was a gay shipping culture around it, and a separate point about some of these "YA Musicals" get maligned because "ugh teenagers" entering Broadway circles for the first time. Grondoth posted:In this video she brings up that a lot of people thought Dear Even Hansen was about a kid coming out, even though there's literally no reason to believe this, a take I can't imagine coming from anywhere other than being immersed in people writing fanfiction. The random tweets she was pulling were not fanfic writers... unless there's some dark secret I'm unaware of with Josh "the Comics Curmudgeon" Fruhlinger https://twitter.com/jfruh/status/1394883288435593223 She could've been clearer but I think she's getting at there being a Mandela Effect where people were mixing it up with Love, Simon. And apparently this was widespread enough for Slate to write some article about it so I guess it's not all in her head: https://slate.com/culture/2021/09/dear-evan-hansen-gay-plot-musical.html
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Dec 6, 2021 01:26
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he has gay hair
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Dec 6, 2021 01:42
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fun hater posted:he has gay hair Evan? I've never seen more hetero hair in my life
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Dec 6, 2021 01:58
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fanfic is good
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Dec 6, 2021 02:00
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Nuns with Guns posted:Evan? I've never seen more hetero hair in my life you must remember how bad we all looked in high school. haha r-right? we all did right??
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Dec 6, 2021 02:18
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fun hater posted:you must remember how bad we all looked in high school. haha r-right? we all did right?? I'm not going to pretend I dressed well or styled my hair well, but I definitely didn't look like a wax model of Howie Mandel from Bobby's World.
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Dec 6, 2021 02:30
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