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Dawgstar posted:My favorite thing about That Star Wars Girl is she crowdfunded a ton of money for a 2022 calendar that took several months into 2022 to actually come out and the quality level was basically Kinko's level. remembering how he had a Facebook group full of teenage fangirls called the rangers of resembool or something like a washed out car rental worker reliving his high school touchdown moment
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Which was managed and run by his mother, yes.
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Dawgstar posted:My favorite thing about That Star Wars Girl is she crowdfunded a ton of money for a 2022 calendar that took several months into 2022 to actually come out and the quality level was basically Kinko's level. How do you do fellow kids?
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Alan Smithee posted:How do you do fellow kids? To be fair, from the look of it, most of the people in the room with him look like they were teenagers back in 2004 when Full Metal Alchemist was first airing. They've been fans of Vic's long enough that their fandom itself would be the right age for Vic to try and molest it.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:remembering how he had a Facebook group full of teenage fangirls called the rangers of resembool or something Oh, the Risembool Rangers never went away, they're pretty much his personal army whenever he needs people to whiteknight for him, or to go harass someone. They have a now members-only discord where they organize that kind of stuff from what I understand.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:remembering how he had a Facebook group full of teenage fangirls called the rangers of resembool or something Didn't Travis Willingham also have a fan group that he called the Miniskirt Army or something, based on a one-off joke from the same show? At least that group wasn't creepy (...... I hope).
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I. M. Gei posted:Didn't Travis Willingham also have a fan group that he called the Miniskirt Army or something, based on a one-off joke from the same show? I'm pretty sure the Critical Role fanbase could destroy the vast majority of English language anime fandoms.
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I feel like Critters would have destroyed him if it was like that. I don't know the fanlore well though even Matt has to constantly apologize for taking sponsors and roles that the 'dom feel doesn't line up with their values
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Alan Smithee posted:I feel like Critters would have destroyed him if it was like that. I don't know the fanlore well though They had to take down all videos of a one shot because it was sponsored by Wendy's. Specifically, Wendy's made a TTRPG as a marketing thing and this was right when news broke that Wendy's was incredibly lovely to produce farmers, like even compared to other fast food chains (don't remember the specifics, union busting poo poo was involved I believe, but when you look like the rear end in a top hat compared to McDonalds, it's pretty bad). As fun as a fast food themed Critical Role one shot sounds, I'm kinda with the 'dom on that.
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the specifics was wendys was the sole chain to refuse to sign onto an agreement to not use one-step-removed-from slave labor to source their lettuce lol. it was gnarly stuff.
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"but their twitter game is so fire!"
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Mors Rattus posted:Which was managed and run by his mother, yes. this is weapons-grade levels of sad
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Last I checked that group still referred to Vic as “The Fuhrer” too
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MechaX posted:Last I checked that group still referred to Vic as “The Fuher” too Yup. And it's okay because that's a title in the show! Also to dunk on Anime Matsuri a little more: https://twitter.com/ISWV_Losers/status/1554650875016069120 Not so much a big fish in a small pond as a pond with toxic runoff and where people dump old appliances they don't want anymore.
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MechaX posted:Last I checked that group still referred to Vic as “The Fuhrer” too 
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At some point someone needs to make an “issues with anime culture” thread so that this thread can go back to being about vic and the lawsuit, which is the only vic content that actually matters
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MechaX posted:Last I checked that group still referred to Vic as “The Fuhrer” too https://youtu.be/I1583adUqSg
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i'm preeeeeeeeeeetty sure that edward elric was in opposition to king bradley but whatever i don't have a say in his private facebook group/discord
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Every good guy was in opposition. Hell, even Bradley hated his part in everything. He just couldn't do anything about it because Father and Pride would absolutely dumpster him and his wife for it (see: what happened to Greed once he was dragged back home). "My wife is the only thing I chose for myself" and all that. But yea that would require them to actually read/watch and understand FMA.
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Something a lot of people think to themselves is "why are cults so goofy/doing obviously asinine things?" and what they don't realize is often times those goofy things are intentional by design. They serve as a sort of filtration or selection system, where more rational people will be filtered out and the more gullible or desperate people will stick around and be further conditioned into doing whatever the cult wants them to do. Stuff like referring to Vic as "the fuhrer" definitely strikes me as being in a similar vein.
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I suspect that it’s less to do with cultish stuff and more to do with the nerd fallacy that criticising something you like is an attack on you as a person.
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Julias posted:Something a lot of people think to themselves is "why are cults so goofy/doing obviously asinine things?" and what they don't realize is often times those goofy things are intentional by design. They serve as a sort of filtration or selection system, where more rational people will be filtered out and the more gullible or desperate people will stick around and be further conditioned into doing whatever the cult wants them to do. IIRC in the original anime Ed's stated goal was to become the Fuher king, but that was abandoned after it became clear what the gently caress was going on and then he got sent to literal actual nazi germany. In the manga/second anime that goal was abandoned much sooner. But the whole Risembool Rangers thing was always just insanely creepy as gently caress.
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Ed's goal was never leadership, he joined the military to get all their forbidden alchemy secrets. And money.
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yeah ed's goal was the forbidden knowledge that would get his and al's bodies restored, being head honcho was never on the itinerary for him. it's mustang who wants to become fuhrer, but his stated goal in the manga/brotherhood is "foster a democratic culture in amestris that will put me on trial for war crimes" it's in manga/brotherhood that seeking that forbidden knowledge uncovers the conspiracy about the country Darth Walrus posted:Yeah, the entire point of the leader of the main country in FMA being called the Fuhrer in FMA was to telegraph to the audience that the government were a bunch of genocidal militarist shitbags who would end up being the main villains. how does someone miss this, anyway? they presided over one genocide onscreen, the shadow of which hangs over pretty much the entire cast, and god knows how many others in the past Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Yeah, the entire point of the leader of the main country in FMA being called the Fuhrer in FMA was to telegraph to the audience that the government were a bunch of genocidal militarist shitbags who would end up being the main villains.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:yeah ed's goal was the forbidden knowledge that would get his and al's bodies restored, being head honcho was never on the itinerary for him. it's mustang who wants to become fuhrer, but his stated goal in the manga/brotherhood is "foster a democratic culture in amestris that will put me on trial for war crimes" they don't think genocide is bad because they're pieces of poo poo
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Piell posted:they don't think genocide is bad because they're pieces of poo poo No you see Ed didn't partake in the genocide so when Vic becomes Fuhrer it'll be cool and good fascism, I mean Ed.
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MechaX posted:Last I checked that group still referred to Vic as “The Fuhrer” too Vic wishes he could be as cool a dude as Ed Blaylock (  ).
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…Goddammit how is this the way I found out Bradley’s VA has been dead for 5 years now?
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So this is the closest place to being the right place to ask but when the stuff about Vic came to light I swear there was also stuff about Todd Haberkorn too. Did anything come of that? He seems to be trucking right along.
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Dawgstar posted:So this is the closest place to being the right place to ask but when the stuff about Vic came to light I swear there was also stuff about Todd Haberkorn too. Did anything come of that? He seems to be trucking right along. Todd date raped a cosplayer while they were drunk. There were no charges. He basically kept his head down through the whole situation. That's the gist of it.
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yeah if there's one point the vic stans have its that the industry has plenty of guys like vic, vic just pissed off the wrong people at the wrong time and thats why he got booted, not because what he did was uniquely terrible or that they were somehow unaware of it before it became a big public to-do
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I think the thing that ultimately ruined him is that he did the thing that tons of those chuds think they can do but never follow through and he actually sued people. I think he might, MIGHT have still been able to be in the industry after a bit of time if he just had the beef with the other VA’s. He sued Funimation though, which was backed by Sony. That was pissing off the wrong people (the rich), and also sent a message to the rest of the industry that if this idiot works for you, there’s a chance you could get caught up in his bullshit too. Nobody but the very fringes of the industry will touch him. Even if he apologized and had a miracle epiphany and generally became a better person he is done as major VA because no reputable company is going to work with the idea that you could still, just maybe, have to spend a lot of time and money if he falls back on his BS again.
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It was also around the time Broly came out, so Vic was kinda in the spotlight again after spending the last few years kinda under the radar, whereas Todd hadn't really had any roles that big in that time, so he slipped through.
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Wasn't it the ANN piece that did his career in by substantiating all the rumours of him over the years into actual proven facts, or was yhat just part of it?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Wasn't it the ANN piece that did his career in by substantiating all the rumours of him over the years into actual proven facts, or was yhat just part of it? It certainly didn't help. It's impossible to really say WHAT caused Vic to be ruined unless we invent time travel and mind reading technology so we can go into the rooms where the decisions were made and read people's minds. What can be said is Vic's destruction was a bit of a lightning in a bottle since it involved Vic actually making a terrible, baseless defamation case against every lawyers advice and involved Vic actually being actively vile with a ton of evidence to substantiate.
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But he is not a pile of human feces.
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Endorph posted:yeah if there's one point the vic stans have its that the industry has plenty of guys like vic, vic just pissed off the wrong people at the wrong time and thats why he got booted, not because what he did was uniquely terrible or that they were somehow unaware of it before it became a big public to-do But in typical Vic stan fashion, instead of hitting people like Haberkorn or DC Douglas where their issues were caught on 4K or they admitted to it, they instead go hook line and sinker for the “Christopher Sabat has actually been running a Casting Couch for decades and that’s the only reason a lot of these (women} VAs have their jobs” variety of absolute loving fever dreams
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MechaX posted:But in typical Vic stan fashion, instead of hitting people like Haberkorn or DC Douglas where their issues were caught on 4K or they admitted to it, they instead go hook line and sinker for the “Christopher Sabat has actually been running a Casting Couch for decades and that’s the only reason a lot of these (women} VAs have their jobs” variety of absolute loving fever dreams I won't hear you slander the good names of All Might and Major Armstrong like that
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