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dmboogie posted:you have no joy or whimsy in your decrepit heart Hey now, I liked pokemon when I was young too, but you do gotta laugh at some of their choices. Even back in Gen 1 you had such amazing character designs like "Ball" and "Larger Ball".
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Mar 5, 2024 23:13
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Everyone's pokemon takes are annoying, that is how it should be. The universe needs balance. EDIT: ^^ the balls were Mimics and it ruled
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Mar 5, 2024 23:13
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Even as the person who started this, the ice cream and sandcastle own. Anyway the other thing with James and his recent thing is that this is like the third suicide threat/attempt he's done, since the presented context for the first deleted apology is that he just got out of the hospital for doing a suicide and he's fake weepy about it.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:15
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The original Pokemon designs that are universally beloved and held up by boomers as the good, pure designs before they were ruined by sandcastles and keys were like... here's a rat. Here's a pigeon. Here's a group of sentient eggs. Pearl clutching over the later designs somehow being less imaginative is hilarious.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:15
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who are the ad wizards who came up with this one
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Mar 5, 2024 23:15
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turn cringe rpgs
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Mar 5, 2024 23:15
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peaked with snorunt imo
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Mar 5, 2024 23:15
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Crain posted:Hey now, I liked pokemon when I was young too, but you do gotta laugh at some of their choices. Even back in Gen 1 you had such amazing character designs like "Ball" and "Larger Ball". i think it’s cool to have a funny monster that’s an exploding ball with angry eyebrows sincerely, you can make anything in the world sound lame by being dismissive and reductive about it, im not mad on Nintendo’s behalf or anything it’s just the oldest and most tired joke in the book
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Mar 5, 2024 23:16
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Pootybutt posted:Everyone's pokemon takes are annoying, that is how it should be. The universe needs balance. EDIT: ^^ the balls were Mimics and it ruled im the dreaded "pokemon stopped being good after gold/silver" guy everyone wants to hit with hammers
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Mar 5, 2024 23:16
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Sydin posted:The original Pokemon designs that are universally beloved and held up by boomers as the good, pure designs before they were ruined by sandcastles and keys were like... here's a rat. Here's a pigeon. Here's a group of sentient eggs. Normal has always been the most boring pokemon type. The others are like "here's a dog except it's on fire" while normal is "here's a dog except it's a dog."
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Mar 5, 2024 23:17
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simply peak
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Mar 5, 2024 23:17
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fun hater posted:im the dreaded "pokemon stopped being good after gold/silver" guy everyone wants to hit with hammers
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Mar 5, 2024 23:17
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Karasu Tengu posted:
Wait really? He had another one? I thought that was a throw away joke because he'd said that twice before already.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:18
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my favorite is sun/moon because it remembered to have characters and team skull is the best villain team in the franchise
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Mar 5, 2024 23:19
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Endorph posted:when youre positioning these people as the Morally Good Ones in comparison to somerton the whole premise falls apart if any of them ever does anything wrong (and some of them have already said some mildly off stuff - not to the level of somerton plagiarism or him actually going after some rando author, but not that far off from one of his random misogynist comments) Well knowing that they've got some past comments that they'd be ashamed of helps this make more sense. I thought I was just too callously disconnected from all of this because that seems like such a basic concern. Like not taking dating advice from any celebrity who keeps dating women half or less their age, you want to try and recommend people who are actually making their own stuff at the very least in this situation. If some controversy comes out later I think you should just apologize about and maybe talk about it a bit and that's about the end of things right? F.D. Signifier was a big fan of Jonathan Majors' acting and modeling and had nice things to say about him before the allegations came out and he made a couple videos discussing it because you can't assume everyone tracks your Twitter because they like your YouTube videos. I like Shaun, SungWon Cho and Mandalore but I'm not following any of their Twitters personally.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:19
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i am excited for pokemon legendsz but i did not really like arceus nearly as much as anyone esle. boring checklist rear end game
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Mar 5, 2024 23:19
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RareAcumen posted:Well knowing that they've got some past comments that they'd be ashamed of helps this make more sense. I thought I was just too callously disconnected from all of this because that seems like such a basic concern. Like not taking dating advice from any celebrity who keeps dating women half or less their age, you want to try and recommend people who are actually making their own stuff at the very least in this situation.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:20
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someone on a discord server i am on, traded a really rare copy of fire emblem awakening/fates for a life sized dragapult plush that costs like $500 and imo good trade
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Mar 5, 2024 23:23
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Here's a Jay and Josh Re:View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jiZMaMa8gs
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Mar 5, 2024 23:23
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People keep saying, 'Oh Somerton should apologize and then step away from YouTube and take up a hobby' and so on, but unless he's got heaps of cash stowed away to live on, I can't imagine he'd have much luck finding a job to support himself. I have to think most employers, through either asking about job history or doing some sort of cursory background check, would find that his name's become synonymous with plagiarism, which I think would get him rejected. Even if he did get pass that hurdle, there's the chance that either a co-worker or customer might recognize him, which could also lead to issues.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:24
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Sydin posted:The original Pokemon designs that are universally beloved and held up by boomers as the good, pure designs before they were ruined by sandcastles and keys were like... here's a rat. Here's a pigeon. Here's a group of sentient eggs. Droyer posted:Normal has always been the most boring pokemon type. The others are like "here's a dog except it's on fire" while normal is "here's a dog except it's a dog." That poo poo rules. I've always liked that pokemon on a base level are just the natural world, w some dragons and mythical beasties n robots n poo poo for spice.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:25
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Max Wilco posted:People keep saying, 'Oh Somerton should apologize and then step away from YouTube and take up a hobby' and so on, but unless he's got heaps of cash stowed away to live on, I can't imagine he'd have much luck finding a job to support himself. I have to think most employers, through either asking about job history or doing some sort of cursory background check, would find that his name's become synonymous with plagiarism, which I think would get him rejected. Even if he did get pass that hurdle, there's the chance that either a co-worker or customer might recognize him, which could also lead to issues. It probably depends on the job; there are a ton of employers who probably wouldn’t care or even look that hard. It would probably suck but many things do.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:26
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hes fucken gaming
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Mar 5, 2024 23:27
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Endorph posted:i think youre misunderstanding me im not saying hbomberguy should be executed and ashamed or that recommending rando youtubers was wrong im just saying the framing was slightly weird English is my first language but I'm terrible at speaking it and have a habit of using too many words to say nothing. I'm not saying you were I was just expecting more to it because that seems obvious. Like how you wouldn't recommend a restaurant that's given you food poisoning ever time you've ordered something there to a friend.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:27
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Crocobile posted:This sucks. The big issue is that James hasn’t done any reflection, keeps going back to the same deflection/victimization tactics he always uses (which Hbomb laid out in his video), and since they aren’t working he’s escalating. It’s a tough diagnosis, but if a person gets good treatment and makes it to their 30s, they’re usually set up to do ok.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:28
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i am excited for pokemon legendsz but i did not really like arceus nearly as much as anyone esle. boring checklist rear end game Pootybutt posted:That poo poo rules. I've always liked that pokemon on a base level are just the natural world, w some dragons and mythical beasties n robots n poo poo for spice. Yeah agreed, I just think it's funny that people whine about stuff like Klefki when that was how Pokemon were designed from the word go. Magnemite is an eye plastered on a ball bearing with some magnets and screws attached, it's the same vibe.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:31
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the best part of pokemon is naming all your pokemon deranged things
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Mar 5, 2024 23:32
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Max Wilco posted:People keep saying, 'Oh Somerton should apologize and then step away from YouTube and take up a hobby' and so on, but unless he's got heaps of cash stowed away to live on, I can't imagine he'd have much luck finding a job to support himself. I have to think most employers, through either asking about job history or doing some sort of cursory background check, would find that his name's become synonymous with plagiarism, which I think would get him rejected. Even if he did get pass that hurdle, there's the chance that either a co-worker or customer might recognize him, which could also lead to issues.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:36
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If he's actually a marketing guy he can just go back to that, they absolutely don't give a poo poo.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:37
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he should get a job at the plagiarism factory
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Mar 5, 2024 23:37
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Endorph posted:he could just say 'oh yeah that was some youtube drama.' its probably killed his chances of working in film or whatever but i dont think most jobs are going to care about your youtube career "yeah that was a different james somerton, having the same name as that guy has been a real headache recently lol"
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Mar 5, 2024 23:38
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what was the deal with that whole "pals were designed by AI" discourse that everyone quickly forgot about
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Mar 5, 2024 23:39
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euroshopper posted:what was the deal with that whole "pals were designed by AI" discourse that everyone quickly forgot about i think it was just part of the whole moralization of the thing, like, connect the game to anything morally bad that people hate
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Mar 5, 2024 23:39
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euroshopper posted:what was the deal with that whole "pals were designed by AI" discourse that everyone quickly forgot about iirc the CEO said something approving about AI usage in an interview and a bunch of people jumped to "that means all of the palworld assets were AI generated" and they weren't so people stopped saying that
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Mar 5, 2024 23:40
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It was brought up in the original video, but another thing to consider is that the stuff that Somerton cheaped out on and plagiarized is the stuff that most other people on the platform or who aspire to be "content creators" find the easiest, which is the actual words they say. For most people who are actually passionate about the work they do, it's not hard to talk into a camera about it for an extended period of time - It's the editing and videography and get equipment and shooting locations set up, etc. But like people were saying a few pages ago, Somerton doesn't really seem to have a passion for anything except being seen as a serious clever smart boy who says smart things on Youtube. Theoretically I think he could still salvage his presence as an entertainer if he had the ability to pivot to videos of something else - Funny skits, home repair, talking about a tv series you like, doing puppet shows. But for that to work, you have to actually be passionate about something other than "being a successful YouTuber" to do that.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:44
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yeah like if you were someone whose skill is in presentation and polish then it would matter less if it turned out your content was just regurgitating wikipedia articles but its definitely different if your desired image is being seen as an incisive thinker
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Mar 5, 2024 23:45
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There are more than enough lovely companies that will hire you to do boring desk jobs short of you having an actual criminal record. Your national supermarket chain doesn't care that you were involved in Youtube drama as long as you can convincingly argue you'd make a good internal communications rep or marketing partner manager. The only thing I will concede is that the process of looking for one can be lovely and demoralizing, but that's true regardless of your level of internet fame.
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Mar 5, 2024 23:51
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euroshopper posted:what was the deal with that whole "pals were designed by AI" discourse that everyone quickly forgot about
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Mar 5, 2024 23:52
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I never named my Pokemon
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Mar 5, 2024 23:56
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Honestly if Somerton had broken out the ukulele and blatantly ripped off that crazy lady I'd have had a lot more respect for him. Just turn into a plagiarism elemental. Film his next couple of videos wearing an old lab coat. Do a word for word remake of Dan Olson's stuff. Talk entirely in movie quotes.
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