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Violet_Sky posted:Not as yikes as this but weren't there tumblr people stalking a Peter Pan character actor? Yeah, there were tween girls obsessed with the roaming Peter Pan actors for a while, and sharing STDH stories about how they were cute and would quipply own bigots. Jenny actually did a Patreon video discussing them. They'd give the different actors nicknames and such because they didn't know most of their IRL identities. One was actually dating (and later married) a woman who was playing Wendy, and I guess they still have a big social media following they leveraged off of their Disney fans.
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Nov 5, 2022 18:21
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https://twitter.com/Worthikids/status/1588676120077127680
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Nov 5, 2022 18:54
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DeafNote posted:edit in reference to the post below: As another European, I look forward to her video about The Efteling.
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Nov 5, 2022 18:57
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Garrand posted:Three hours forty eight minutes fourteen seconds This is really confirming my sense that millionaires are mad princes who can do whatever crazy thing they want and nobody will stop them. I feel bad for those actors who moved to Utah to serve as toys for a weirdo who wanted his dnd game to feel real, and then fired and abandoned. Sure hope none of them were gay. I guess a series of failed sci-fi/fantasy businesses is fairly benign for the harm a bourgeoisie can do, but people’s lives depended on this freak and at no point does he seem to understand or care how to make a go-kart track.
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Nov 6, 2022 00:41
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I AM GRANDO posted:This is really confirming my sense that millionaires are mad princes who can do whatever crazy thing they want and nobody will stop them. I feel bad for those actors who moved to Utah to serve as toys for a weirdo who wanted his dnd game to feel real, and then fired and abandoned. Sure hope none of them were gay.
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Nov 6, 2022 01:15
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It was interesting how Jenny's video seemed to dance very carefully around the issue of some of the cast members themselves kinda being creeps (and possibly enabling/encouraging some of the bad behavior from the regulars). The closest she got was the "bet your shoes for my pants" guy. The fact that this place seems to basically be a combination larp group/year-long ren faire, and they are drawing talent from those circles, means it's a mathematical impossibility that there aren't some creeps on staff. I can see her not wanting to muddle the message about how the workers are getting screwed here (and lord knows the video was long enough), but the subject seemed to hang as subtext in the background in a way that felt a bit distracting. But really, the thing I want most now after watching that video is for Jenny to do a full breakdown of her time at Omega Mart (and maybe some other Meow Wolf experiences).
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Nov 6, 2022 02:45
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LanceHunter posted:It was interesting how Jenny's video seemed to dance very carefully around the issue of some of the cast members themselves kinda being creeps (and possibly enabling/encouraging some of the bad behavior from the regulars). The closest she got was the "bet your shoes for my pants" guy. The fact that this place seems to basically be a combination larp group/year-long ren faire, and they are drawing talent from those circles, means it's a mathematical impossibility that there aren't some creeps on staff. I can see her not wanting to muddle the message about how the workers are getting screwed here (and lord knows the video was long enough), but the subject seemed to hang as subtext in the background in a way that felt a bit distracting. She alludes to this issue when talking about her concerns with consent around performer-audience interactions. Thing is, whenever you get a large number of people together for a business venture, some of those people are going to be creeps and weirdos—especially when a high percentage of those people are creatives. Jenny, rightly I think, lays this responsibility at the feet of management rather than the troupe. It's on the bosses to provide training, supervision, and a safe environment. I mean, they don't even care enough to protect their own staff from being randomly groped, why expect any higher regard for the safety and comfort of the public?
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Nov 6, 2022 04:24
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Surprised Jenny didn’t really draw attention to how hosed up it was the park bought real headstones to use in the park. Like, the money aspect pales in comparison to how disrespectful it is to buy a literal person’s tombstone just to be used in some tech bro’s ren faire project as a loving prop. Mad prince, indeed. These people are so divorced from reality.
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Nov 6, 2022 04:44
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Pants Donkey posted:Surprised Jenny didn’t really draw attention to how hosed up it was the park bought real headstones to use in the park. Like, the money aspect pales in comparison to how disrespectful it is to buy a literal person’s tombstone just to be used in some tech bro’s ren faire project as a loving prop. I mean at that point, what's left to say? It's not just disrespectful, it's a straight up bad idea that doesn't help your park. It's just... insane.
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Nov 6, 2022 07:04
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Pants Donkey posted:Surprised Jenny didn’t really draw attention to how hosed up it was the park bought real headstones to use in the park. Like, the money aspect pales in comparison to how disrespectful it is to buy a literal person’s tombstone just to be used in some tech bro’s ren faire project as a loving prop. From the comments:  So not only is it tacky, it also cost him a potential investor (though given what's happened since then it was probably for the better).
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Nov 6, 2022 07:44
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I'm picturing Ye going off at a grocery store errata aisle for disrepectfully selling virgin mary candles and lmboing, not gonna lie
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Nov 6, 2022 09:03
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I can get the idea, in abstract, behind the gamble goblin. He probably doesn't actually have anything on him for gambling in order to prevent him actually either losing those pants or winning guest articles. In a park with actual resources, the goal would probably be bringing him a bunch of weird stuff to see what kinda ridiculous, whimsical outfit he's rocking by the end of the day. Buuuut even in that most innocent interpretation you still have a mostly nude man going "oh boy oh boy I hope nobody take my pants", and when that's someone directly interacting with you it'll always feel creepy.
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Nov 6, 2022 13:34
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Honestly a fun thing you could do with that character is have guests play games with him to possibly win a souvenir shirt or something. Definitely need to change the concept of gambling his own clothes though.
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Nov 6, 2022 14:55
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Another thing that was hinted at but left unsaid is the type of nerd who would be a regular at this place. Jenny mentioned how it was difficult to stay in the tavern for any length of time because of the smell, which painted a picture that was at once slightly vague and extremely precise. The more I think about it, the more I'm realizing that the various Meow Wolf locations really are doing exactly what Evermore is trying to do (just without the ren faire aesthetic). Being born out of Burning Man culture instead of ren faire culture probably helped them a lot, both by not being tied to specific genre conventions and because burners generally set up their installations with the idea that every random person who approaches could gently caress around with it (and could be high as balls while loving around with it). Meanwhile, ren faires tend to have a much higher wall of separation between cast (and the turbo-nerd attendees that the cast knows) and the attendees, and that wall of separation also tends to involve a degree of contempt for the non-turbo-nerd attendees. So yeah, if Jenny is ever able to make a multi-hour video on Meow Wolf, it may be the crowning achievement of her channel.
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Nov 6, 2022 18:52
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The Evermore CEO talks almost exactly like Gregg Turkington in On Cinema only somehow with less charisma.
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Nov 6, 2022 20:47
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If you've never been to one of the Meow Wolf installations they are all amazing!
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Nov 6, 2022 23:05
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I jsur went to the one in Denver not that long ago. Fuckin badass.
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Nov 6, 2022 23:13
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LanceHunter posted:It was interesting how Jenny's video seemed to dance very carefully around the issue of some of the cast members themselves kinda being creeps (and possibly enabling/encouraging some of the bad behavior from the regulars). The closest she got was the "bet your shoes for my pants" guy. The fact that this place seems to basically be a combination larp group/year-long ren faire, and they are drawing talent from those circles, means it's a mathematical impossibility that there aren't some creeps on staff. I can see her not wanting to muddle the message about how the workers are getting screwed here (and lord knows the video was long enough), but the subject seemed to hang as subtext in the background in a way that felt a bit distracting. Her line that she'd never done LARPs might mean she may not have the context on the sort of people you find in every LARP, both on the "the woman bawling her eyes out every day has always chosen a character who bawls her eyes out every day" side or the "the character wanting to trade pants always has a gimmick focusing other peoples' clothing" on the creepier side. Skippy McPants posted:She alludes to this issue when talking about her concerns with consent around performer-audience interactions. Thing is, whenever you get a large number of people together for a business venture, some of those people are going to be creeps and weirdos—especially when a high percentage of those people are creatives. Yeah, any scenario like this needs a GM (not a character with mod powers, a non-playing GM) who is there to keep all that stuff out of the game. Like the small cast size might mean they kept that under control but that's the sort of stuff that runs rampant in games if left unchecked. Management just letting everyone wing it is a recipe for disaster; letting the general public in without the usual filter a renfaire provides for people is even scarier.
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Nov 6, 2022 23:53
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This entire park concept sounds like something that could theoretically work, but they half-assed the entire thing. Also holy poo poo, running through a crowded park screaming at the guests to run for their lives is just about the worst possible thing I've ever heard. How on earth did that idea get entertained for even a single goddamn minute 
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Nov 7, 2022 00:41
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ninjahedgehog posted:This entire park concept sounds like something that could theoretically work, but they half-assed the entire thing. "Hey guys, what is we add a mild poison to the park food, and when people start to feel ill, we say that it's a wicked curse put on the whole crowd by the evil sorcerer Rot Heart? What? I said a MILD poison!"
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Nov 7, 2022 02:34
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New Hbomb video is up on his Patreon, but it's only an hour and forty minutes. A shameful drop in Edit: I'd gotten so used to his old backdrop that I didn't even notice it was a greenscreen until he did the reveal. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Nov 7, 2022 07:29
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Flying Zamboni posted:The Evermore CEO talks almost exactly like Gregg Turkington in On Cinema only somehow with less charisma. I was just about to post that Tommy Tallarico sounds uncannily like Tim Heidecker in On Cinema. Huh. I guess when you got movies like Tom Cruise in them, you really can't lose.
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Nov 7, 2022 10:01
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Uncle Roger has been kidnapped once again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqm8Tkyjzk Also, I've been randomly picking episodes from his podcast and the one where him and his cohost Evelyn Mok solidify the character of Uncle Roger is a riot. https://player.fm/series/rice-to-meet-you/ep-58-introducing-uncle-roger
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Nov 7, 2022 10:51
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Skippy McPants posted:New Hbomb video is up on his Patreon, but it's only an hour and forty minutes. A shameful drop in What’s it about? Do we finally get the prequel-defense video? Edit: Apparently it’s about Roblox? Huh. LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Nov 7, 2022 13:32
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LanceHunter posted:What’s it about? Do we finally get the prequel-defense video? I mean it kind of is? For some of it? It's very much the video equivalent of going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole where the place you end up is absolutely not what you expected to be learning about when you started.
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Nov 7, 2022 13:43
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in terms of CG in anime houseki no kuni is the one that people point to a lot but D4DJ is a decent 'girls doing club music' comedy that uses CG for just characters standing around and chatting. its not a masterpiece animation-wise but it looks perfectly competent even though its not a production you'd really 'need' CG for. the studio, sanzigen, is pretty much what i think of when i think of CG that is decent and looks better than most other TV anime these days. which, low bar considering how much cheap LN adaptations there are, but still. i think its totally possible for full cg anime to look decent even outside of the obviously well-executed ones. the bigger issue with CG in anime is when its implemented into a 2d anime in a way that is jarring. people can mostly accept stuff like CG cars or giant robots but when, say, you make a really cheap CG horse and just have the characters petting it, it gets kinda jank. That said people also have a really hard time realizing that there's a ton of CG in anime that they just aren't noticing. For instance, the curse monsters in princess mononoke were mostly CG, and that's from 97. Most Ghibli films after it also use CG to some extent, or CG that is then traced over by an animator. No-Face in Spirited Away was executed using some, for instance, especially for moments where he moves between visible and invisible. When CG is used to supplement 2d animation, it's largely intended not to be noticed or make that big a deal of itself, so people's minds tend to stick to bad examples, which creates a negative association.
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Nov 7, 2022 14:51
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LanceHunter posted:What’s it about? Do we finally get the prequel-defense video? It was supposed to be a video about the fraught nature of crediting artists in the digital age, using the Roblox "oof" sound effect as a case study. It, uhh, remains about that first thing, but during the process, HBomb stumbled into a much better example for his thesis.
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Nov 7, 2022 15:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g Good vid by People Make Games again, this time about Valve's negligence when it comes to the fact a lot of their games are linked to gambling.
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Nov 7, 2022 16:43
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Skippy McPants posted:New Hbomb video is up on his Patreon, but it's only an hour and forty minutes. A shameful drop in Uh... right okay well today I learned that a guy who I just sort of hazily remember as having done a bunch of sound and music work for games I played as a kid is actually an insane narcissistic con man pathological liar, oh and also a chud. What a loving rabbit hole.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:50
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SpiritOfLenin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g Cool, I've been reading Addictive By Design and have been on a "casinos are evil scams" obsession for over a month.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:52
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SpiritOfLenin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g watching this while having the CSGO major on another screen is quite the headtrip. turning my head and seeing a million viewers have betting sites and flashy thousand dollar skins blasted into their eyes.
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Nov 7, 2022 18:55
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Sydin posted:Uh... right okay well today I learned that a guy who I just sort of hazily remember as having done a bunch of sound and music work for games I played as a kid is actually an insane narcissistic con man pathological liar, oh and also a chud. What a loving rabbit hole. Well, that tells me what this is about and I can't wait.
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Nov 7, 2022 19:00
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I'm about a third of the way through the new Jenny Nicholson video and I have to say I really like the way she's edited in the costume changes, since it makes it look like she just spontaneously changes her whole outfit in an instant. It's also a weird thing, but I kind of appreciate her specifying she's California-based in this video because I am terminally unable to differentiate between Disney Land and Disney World beyond "The Florida one" and "The California one", so now I have a point of reference for which of the two parks she was talking about in earlier videos.
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Nov 7, 2022 20:00
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Her new video slayed me. I giggle thinking of that unfinished chapel
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Nov 7, 2022 20:49
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That 'evil night' thing at Evermore was so hosed up. Wasn't that mass shooting in Vegas not that long before it too? How could not realise how that would turn out.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:10
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That red dress lady losing her poo poo and trying to involve a regular guest was some hosed up poo poo.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:46
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secretly best girl posted:Well, that tells me what this is about and I can't wait. Tommy Tallarico?
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Nov 7, 2022 21:47
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Fil5000 posted:That red dress lady losing her poo poo and trying to involve a regular guest was some hosed up poo poo. Guests trauma-dumping on the actors was pretty bad, too.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:49
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https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1589721944819372033
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Equeen posted:Guests trauma-dumping on the actors was pretty bad, too. Also yes, really not OK to use the park's equivalent of Donald Duck as a therapist.
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