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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Their final youtube video had over a dozen staff listed in the credits (including roles such as 2nd unit director of photography, production co-ordinator, art director, etc) so they sure seem to think they're the equivalent of a TV production company quote:In the video, Bergara says Watcher strives to produce high-quality material “that you would find on say, a Netflix.” But that means that each season of a show like “Ghost Files” costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Bergara, when factoring in travel expenses, location fees, hiring freelance production staff, studio fees and post-production costs. He says with the subscription service, Watcher will be able to invest in expanded content — for example, “Ghost Files” will be traveling to the U.K. in upcoming episodes. Netflix does not make money and is currently carrying $8b in net debt.
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Apr 22, 2024 06:22
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ah drat you edited it in time
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Apr 22, 2024 06:22
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pentyne posted:Netflix does not make money and is currently carrying $8b in net debt. mad?
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Apr 22, 2024 06:34
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I know they teased the return of Worth it but I am not paying money to watch them eat food
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Apr 22, 2024 06:41
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:the culture war bullshit surronding games is stupid and i want everyone involved on both sides to get killed by falling anvils
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Apr 22, 2024 06:53
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Crain posted:Please link some because this is so fascinating to me. NASCAR has such a weird history and every generation of fan has a completely different view of it. Like my grandpa knew of it as this barely legalized version of what he'd do as a teen and young adult, racing bootleg liquor through the mountains. My dad was aware of that, because grandpa told him, but really only knew about it as the era of crazy innovation and experimentation by barn loft inventors willing to risk blowing up in a fireball to see if their cheat....I mean innovations...would give them a leg up. I basically only kinda knew about it as the Jeff Gordon era of "Go fast, turn right" and never really got onboard (and eventually just gave up on it and went over to F1). Here op. I was being uncharitable to be fair, it's more that like, they'll talk about 2014 or something as an all time great year and I personally stopped watching since every season after like 2007 was horrible because they hosed the car specs up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijvYtguWVvw Also frankly the guy copies too many of Jon Bois's mannerisms and any time I see that with anyone copying someone else I want to be like "find your own voice dude"
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Apr 22, 2024 07:00
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Here op. I was being uncharitable to be fair, it's more that like, they'll talk about 2014 or something as an all time great year and I personally stopped watching since every season after like 2007 was horrible because they hosed the car specs up. i watched some bobbybroccoli videos because i love stories about Huge Frauds and its like yes i know he actively and consciously says that jon bois is his influence on how he presents information but like dude you're just doing the exact same thing lol
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Apr 22, 2024 07:08
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This is the first ToddyBoya video I watched and it's hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teS-yyH_t7s tl;dr : You can use AI to make Facebook stickers of "woman covered in white goo" or "Kim Kardashian and Ray J" with surprisingly accurate results (and I mean accurate to what you think of when you read them).
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Apr 22, 2024 08:17
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muscles like this! posted:Watching the latest Jeff Gerstmann ranking of NES and it devolves into pure nonsense in just 5 minutes. This game just looks fake. The Adventures of Rad Gravity, A NES Strider-like with a old scifi style aesthetic is one of those things that you'd expect on a microcomputer, not on something like the NES. It's mixed reception is certainly understandable! The comic that came with it was cute.
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Apr 22, 2024 08:18
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I got rad gravity as a kid because my dad was super into buck rogers(? I think that's the one, the one with the rockets with fins on the backs, bubble helmets and ray guns with the weird ribbing on the barrels) style space stuff when he was a kid. It was incredibly incomprehensible for a small child. I think I made it through three, maybe four of the worlds, and died an infinite number of times to fire bugs on the volcano planet because I couldn't figure out where else to go
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Apr 22, 2024 08:33
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The MSJ posted:This is the first ToddyBoya video I watched and it's hilarious.
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Apr 22, 2024 08:34
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Did he also AI generate his own headshot for that thumbnail
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Apr 22, 2024 08:35
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Alaois posted:Did he also AI generate his own headshot for that thumbnail lol
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Apr 22, 2024 09:27
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lol at the Longest Drink In Town cups, that's some kiwiana right there
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Apr 22, 2024 09:32
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Crain posted:Ugh, tell me about it. I'm at that age where me, my siblings, and my cousins are having to deal with how to handle these things. Massive Clothing collections, Purses, Fine China, Silver Services, Thomas Kinkade paintings, Coin collections, etc. Everyone of my Aunts and Uncles has SOMETHING they were just super into, spent way too much money on, and were too credulous to second guess the marketing about "it'll be work X+++$$$ in 30 years". This is gonna be hilarious in 50 years when our kids and grandkids try to offload millions of pristine, yet worthless Funko Pops.
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Apr 22, 2024 10:51
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Bad Wolf posted:This is gonna be hilarious in 50 years when our kids and grandkids try to offload millions of pristine, yet worthless Funko Pops. Reminds me of this classic: 
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Apr 22, 2024 11:06
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Reminds me of this classic: Also this 
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Apr 22, 2024 11:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1WjTsWFCw A video about a guy who went to two of the biggest caves in Vietnam. They are very pretty and I recommend watching this, and also for the massive army of porters with even more coming from the other end of the trek to come cook insanely delicious hot local meals for him every day and it's a trip that cost him $3000
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Apr 22, 2024 11:46
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Actually watching the Jeff gerstmann rad gravity bit and yeah this sums that game up pretty well
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Apr 22, 2024 12:52
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Let Northernlion inspire you this Monday morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yutsIpLK2Rs
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Apr 22, 2024 13:01
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Captain Invictus posted:Actually watching the Jeff gerstmann rad gravity bit and yeah this sums that game up pretty well I haven’t looked up anything about this game, but it looks like a port of a British platform game, like the Dizzy games. And after a quick google, it seems I was wrong: this wasn’t some import job Interplay did in their early years, it is a Brian Fargo original!
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Apr 22, 2024 13:12
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Mr Interweb posted:Oh I'm sure this anti-asian stereotype was true at one point, but I recall that being more of a prominent thing back during the 2000s. I feel like once we reach the tail end of the Wii/ PS3/ 360 area, most of that stuff died down quite a bit.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:38
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i am tim! posted:I haven’t looked up anything about this game, but it looks like a port of a British platform game, like the Dizzy games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lh40GRnK1k Gametal included it in one of his medleys but even he couldn't do much with it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sukeGQAAjVM Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Apr 22, 2024 13:42
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and if you wanna spin beyond japan, basically the moment genshin impact was announced every single western gaming site was referring to it as a 'chinese bootleg' of breath of the wild and gleefully talking about how it was clearly a ripoff and nintendo were going to sue them, and even when it came out they were like 'uhm, this sword slash looks vaguely like one from nier automata??? chinese frauds???' and then it got big and they just started posting guides without ever addressing the fact that two months ago they were comparing the game to a bootleg family guy dvd. that was just a few years ago. anti-asian racism is insanely prominent in these circles because east asian countries are basically the only majority non-white countries with a strong gaming industry, and shockingly racism was not defeated when everyone agreed that persona 5 was pretty good.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:43
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Endorph posted:its definitely still a thing lol. kotaku's deleted its comments so i cant dig it up but literally last year i saw multiple kotaku writers replying positively to a comment on it saying 'whenever i see a japanese game i just assume its going to be juvenile crap for incels.' and when elden ring got big there was basically nothing but crying and screaming from western devs about it not failing western AAA design trends Also the recent ff16 series of what I can only call attempted debacles where so many freak games journos read everything YoshiP.said as incorrectly and poorly as possible after he pointed out how weird they can be over J RPGs specifically.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:44
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kotaku literally running an article going 'if japanese devs want to release a game in the west, they NEED to adhere to western cultural standards' ftw. just the most insane racism presented as the only woke option. like maybe blizzard should have to not make wall jumps a japanese genetic trait before they release in japan. no? its only japanese devs who have to bend over backwards for americans? weird.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:48
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Captain Invictus posted:please allow the title theme of RAD GRAVITY to assault your eardrums. This is even more confusing for me because the title theme makes it feel even MORE like a NES jank port of a British platformer, specifically.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:48
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wait holy poo poo the original composer of the title theme for rad gravity commented on that gametal clip and he has a video talking about that theme and how it's considered one of the worst themes of all time and he likes that lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMxnwHxHG4Q Basically he wanted to have some influence from the Jetsons, rocky and bullwinkle, and other things in it I honestly don't think it's necessarily completely terrible as a melody, but they just didn't work it right with the available sound chip. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Apr 22, 2024 13:51
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Endorph posted:not make wall jumps a japanese genetic trait? it's not???
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Apr 22, 2024 13:51
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every japanese hero in the game can wall climb/jump obviously, this is because all the japanese heroes are from the same ninja training facility or w/e, and not literally because its a genetic trait. however, it is weird, and stereotypical, that the game has 3 japanese characters, and they are all ninjasamurai. Obviously, Overwatch's characters are universally broad stereotypes, but America has two cowboys and also Reaper and Soldier 76, both of whom play to more aesthetic trends in American pop culture rather than one specific stereotype. Likewise, Mei doesn't really play that hard to any specific Chinese stereotype, beyond maybe a vague sense of them being good at the sciences. Endorph fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Apr 22, 2024 13:53
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I do think the opinolns that soulsborne games' interfaces are confusing and clunky are correct. But they're also largely consistent between games and I've committed them to muscle memory so it doesn't matter much.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:53
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I’d take those criticisms more seriously if the same people making them didn’t hold up games with dogshit UI from the west as examples to follow in the same breath.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:56
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Captain Invictus posted:I honestly don't think it's necessarily completely terrible as a melody, but they just didn't work it right with the available sound chip. I think that’s why I am getting this “crap port” vibe because it absolutely sounds like someone dumped a song designed in something else into the NES sound chip.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:56
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yeah. The comparisons to early PC games like commander keen and such, but a really lovely knockoff of that kind, are apt.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:58
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Sleng Teng posted:I’d take those criticisms more seriously if the same people making them didn’t hold up games with dogshit UI from the west as examples to follow in the same breath. yeah thats my main point. elden ring's UI has issues and there are plenty of criticisms to be made. they should not be made by an Ubisoft UI designer.
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Apr 22, 2024 13:58
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Ubisoft… *spits on ground*
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Apr 22, 2024 13:59
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Watching a video on the Watcher debacle and I can't believe they didn't do anything for their Patreon subscribers (other than the kind of discount any streaming service gives new customers). Like the bare minimum would be to gift them either a year or six months so they can feel like they're being recognized for already supporting.
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Apr 22, 2024 14:00
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Pigbuster posted:Let Northernlion inspire you this Monday morning
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Apr 22, 2024 14:01
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:the culture war bullshit
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Fil5000 posted:What if I remade quintons videos word for word but used a face rig that looked like James Somerton and an ai voice based on hbomberguy
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