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Video about what some children who were infamously bullied online are doing now. I know Rebecca Black's doing decently with her music now, and I feel like the thing with Lil Tay might get worse, but mostly it's surprisingly pleasant to learn many of these kids are doing pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqRv6dsq3NY My favorite part is seeing Kevin Tsimbidis, the boy with progeria, growing up into a healthy adult. But still pretty funny that he became a Funko Pop Youtuber though. Maybe not as funny as seeing a young Czech boy singing a song calling various reaction YouTubers "r***ds". The MSJ fucked around with this message at 15:25 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 15:12
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Rebecca Black's music honestly kind of slaps. I have a few tracks from her latest LP on my running playlist, Misery Loves Company is a standout in particular. A quite unexpected turn of events from 2011.
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May 8, 2024 15:24
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exquisite tea posted:Milo mentions at one point that the process of debunking nonsensical conspiracy theories always takes a lot more time and effort than just spouting whatever random bullshit you found on the internet, therefore truth will always be at a disadvantage in our world of endless content creation. Yep, tale as old as time. A lie can get around the world before truth can get its pants on.
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May 8, 2024 15:45
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It was nice to see Sammy classic sonic fan grow up, go to college, make friends ect He was still weird but in a fun way. He stopped using social media though saying something about lovely people or something in that vein so that sucks. But I hope he’s doing alright!
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May 8, 2024 15:57
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Lord Stimperor posted:The prequels were absolutely hated in the online discourse of the 2000s. Didn't stop them from being very successful and beloved by now. The prequels had the advantage of having iterative tv shows, comics, and games massage it into a more stable and appealing state. The clone wars cartoons on their own did a lot to launder the prequels. Disney has just cut and run on the sequels, on top of alienating the actors for all the main characters. It’s frankly mind boggling how poorly managed their brand cultivation has been. They firmly embedded their Star Wars theme park lands in the sequel setting and then Episode 9 poisoned it for everyone.
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May 8, 2024 16:08
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I am highly dissatisfied with the background lore of this rollercoaster.
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May 8, 2024 16:23
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exquisite tea posted:I am highly dissatisfied with the background lore of this rollercoaster. There are many theme park rides that have a more coherent narrative and better character development than episode 9
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May 8, 2024 16:26
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exquisite tea posted:I am highly dissatisfied with the background lore of this rollercoaster. There is some of that, but also like why would anyone be excited about first order troopers and Kylo Ren marching around the park and Rey hiding behind trash cans over meeting the classic stormtroopers or Darth Vader or Princess Leia hiding in a shed?
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May 8, 2024 16:55
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exquisite tea posted:I am highly dissatisfied with the background lore of this rollercoaster. I think Alton Towers gets that as legit feedback all the time lol
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May 8, 2024 17:13
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Can’t wait for Some More News to have a moment with the rfk jr brain worms story.
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May 8, 2024 17:33
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Lord Stimperor posted:The prequels were absolutely hated in the online discourse of the 2000s. Didn't stop them from being very successful and beloved by now. No way. The prequels, while very hated in the 2000s, also had their sincere fans and ended on a strong note. People hated Phantom, they hated Clones more, but Sith had a lot of people going "oh, ok, I don't know if its that bad all told." Yeah, NOOOOOOOOOOO was widely mocked, but overall people dug the movie. As was mentioned by Nuns with Guns too, there was lots of secondary stuff being made at the same time that grew and cemented the setting, characters, and themes. KOTOR, for example, came out 2 years before Sith; allowing teenage me to be able to tell my parents that the Jedi were supposed to be flawed and Anakin falling to the dark side was a critique of them. I didn't watch Clones, or read any books, or even watch any shows, but I DID play a VIDEOGAME and that made me able to lecture them on this fine and nuanced point of this blockbuster film that contains the name Darth Plageus the Wise. Which brings up another point: Lucas' bad dialogue is, honestly, goddamn funny. The prequels have some of the most hilarious lines ever uttered, delivered with and utterly expected to have weight. It gives them a real lovable B-movie character, that when combined with the off-the-rails choices of names and locations and just... decisions, like having Obi-Wan talk to an alien in a 50's diner named Dexter Jetsster, makes them kinda hard to fully hate. How can you truly despise a movie where someone sells Death Sticks, the lead character says the phrase "I hate sand," and Saruman/Dracula fences with a lightsaber? There's an ironic culture that sprung up almost immediately around these movies because of how fuckin' funny their lines were. From "try spinning, that's a good trick" to "DEW IT" it's full of stuff that's just fun to say. With Disney not having the chops to make the setting interesting or even being able to put 3 coherent movies together, the sequels can't have the sort of longevity or positive feelings around them that the prequels ended up getting. They're probably going to be remembered for the third one being so terrible it finally put out the culture war fires around the second one that had been pretty much the only discourse about star wars at the time.
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May 8, 2024 17:46
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the room has lots of funny dialogue too
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May 8, 2024 18:01
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people are going to love the sequels, a lot. in 20 years.
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May 8, 2024 18:09
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I do think there's a bit of a Morbius effect going on where people mistake memes as purely affectionate. The reason why the Prequel Trilogy is easy to meme is because they're very strange movies that everyone basically had to watch if you were a certain age range in the 2000s, so there's that collective knowledge. Everyone gets the reference. Not that there aren't people who genuinely like them or that there isn't a real fanbase (Anakin Skywalker is an Internet Sexyman in 2024) but I wouldn't take shitposts as entirely accurate metrics. mycot fucked around with this message at 18:18 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 18:13
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Nuns with Guns posted:The prequels had the advantage of having iterative tv shows, comics, and games massage it into a more stable and appealing state. The clone wars cartoons on their own did a lot to launder the prequels. Disney has just cut and run on the sequels, on top of alienating the actors for all the main characters. It’s frankly mind boggling how poorly managed their brand cultivation has been. They firmly embedded their Star Wars theme park lands in the sequel setting and then Episode 9 poisoned it for everyone. Yeah I feel like this effect really cannot be understated. If you were a kid in the naughts you weren't just watching the Prequel movies as they came out and then disengaging. You were playing Republic Commando and Battlefront and Star Wars Racer while also getting to watch Clone Wars or read all the Darth Maul comics. The result was that it all kinda blended together in a way where you only remembered the cool/good parts of the actual movies and filtered out all the rest, which combined with all the excellent secondary media rounded things up to "Star Wars good, Prequels good" at least in my head for a long time. The ST meanwhile got basically gently caress all tie-in games, no tie-in live actions even as Disney is vomiting shows out left and right, and like one tie-in cartoon that was aimed at preschoolers. Just absolutely dogshit franchise management. You can't even say it was the result of Disney getting spooked by the fan reaction to the ST because when it initially dropped the reaction to TFA was insanely positive, and that would have been the perfect time to go make Rey's lightsaber adventures or X-Wing: Poe or whatever.
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May 8, 2024 18:28
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mycot posted:I do think there's a bit of a Morbius effect going on where people mistake memes as purely affectionate. The reason why the Prequel Trilogy is easy to meme is because they're very strange movies that everyone basically had to watch if you were a certain age range in the 2000s, so there's that collective knowledge. Everyone gets the reference. J.J. McCullough once referred to these as "irony cults," commonly recognized cultural touchstones that kind of occupy the grey space between genuine appreciation and outright mockery. See: Lasagna Cat, Shrek memes, etc.
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May 8, 2024 18:30
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it was very funny when sony released mobius a second time to try and get the irony watches and it flopped ever harder lol
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May 8, 2024 18:32
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Alaois posted:people are going to love the sequels, a lot. in 20 years. "They fly now," I say to uproarious laughter.
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May 8, 2024 18:40
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:it was very funny when sony released mobius a second time to try and get the irony watches and it flopped ever harder lol yes lol
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May 8, 2024 18:44
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Sydin posted:Yeah I feel like this effect really cannot be understated. If you were a kid in the naughts you weren't just watching the Prequel movies as they came out and then disengaging. You were playing Republic Commando and Battlefront and Star Wars Racer while also getting to watch Clone Wars or read all the Darth Maul comics. The result was that it all kinda blended together in a way where you only remembered the cool/good parts of the actual movies and filtered out all the rest, which combined with all the excellent secondary media rounded things up to "Star Wars good, Prequels good" at least in my head for a long time. The ST meanwhile got basically gently caress all tie-in games, no tie-in live actions even as Disney is vomiting shows out left and right, and like one tie-in cartoon that was aimed at preschoolers. Just absolutely dogshit franchise management. You can't even say it was the result of Disney getting spooked by the fan reaction to the ST because when it initially dropped the reaction to TFA was insanely positive, and that would have been the perfect time to go make Rey's lightsaber adventures or X-Wing: Poe or whatever.
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May 8, 2024 18:45
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sony making movies out of the lamest and most obscure spider man characters + venom ftw lol
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May 8, 2024 18:45
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:sony making movies out of the lamest and most obscure spider man characters + venom ftw lol Kraven is still coming out 
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May 8, 2024 18:46
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they're going to make kraven's last hunt but there wont be a spider man
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May 8, 2024 18:48
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Alaois posted:people are going to love the sequels, a lot. in 20 years. They absolutely aren't I would bet money on it
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May 8, 2024 18:51
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the prequels as bad and weird as they are have a story with payoff the sequel trilogies are a mess of different ideas and directors and executives meddling with the product that they are confusing at best and horrible at worst i dont think anyone will have as much nostalgia for them as they have the prequels and their unlimited meme potential
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May 8, 2024 18:52
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May 8, 2024 18:54
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mycot posted:I liked Grievous entirely because of the tie-in Genndy cartoon and lore comics and I was not alone in this!  The Genndy version of Grievous as a straight up slasher movie monster who 1v10's a group of Jedi including one of the masters on the council was impressionable enough that the actual movie version of him just kinda slid off my smooth young mind and I thought he was cool as hell and always wanted to roll him in Battlefront 2. 16-bit Butt-Head posted:sony making movies out of the lamest and most obscure spider man characters + venom ftw lol Comics must have seemed like an infinitely deep well of content back at the start of the modern superhero movies craze but they've become so voracious about making GBS threads as many out as possible that they're somehow actually starting to see the bottom.
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May 8, 2024 18:54
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:the prequels as bad and weird as they are have a story with payoff the sequel trilogies are a mess of different ideas and directors and executives meddling with the product that they are confusing at best and horrible at worst i dont think anyone will have as much nostalgia for them as they have the prequels and their unlimited meme potential Like yeah half of that is meme lines and the obiwan grievous misadventure is entirely filler just so obiwan isn't around for dew it but there's a coherent cause and effect. Rise of Skywalker is just things happening, you could rearrange half the scenes to no measurable effect.
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May 8, 2024 18:59
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lol snoke
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May 8, 2024 19:00
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i had to look up who snoke was becuase i forgot his name
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May 8, 2024 19:00
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Also episode 3 has the best bit of character building in any star wars media where when you see anakins bedroom he has a pod racing poster on his wall. This dude 100% still watches the races every week with the volume on low so Yoda doesn't yell at him
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May 8, 2024 19:01
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anakin rules
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May 8, 2024 19:01
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Anakin posts on space reddit about how sebulba is a washed up rear end in a top hat
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May 8, 2024 19:02
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that time george lucas said he could make anything he wanted canon and to prove it he named a planet after john stewart and said thats where Obi Wan was born and within minutes wookipedia made an article for it
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May 8, 2024 19:04
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:i had to look up who snoke was becuase i forgot his name Snoke was a very funny bit. Look, he's like the emperor! Oh, he's just some guy in a gold robe that gets unceremoniously merked. No wait, he was a cloned.... guy... that Palpatine made? For some reason?
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May 8, 2024 19:04
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:i had to look up who snoke was becuase i forgot his name Snoke not being a giant like the hologram in the first movie implied is the biggest whiff in the entire series. He's an alien, you can do whatever you want, why the hell not make him a giant I guarantee you no one would be going "who was snoke" if he was a giant. People who didn't even watch the movie would be saying "oh yeah that's the giant guy right?"
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May 8, 2024 19:05
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there was so little plot actually in skywalker they had to explain it on twitter
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May 8, 2024 19:05
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:there was so little plot actually in skywalker they had to explain it on twitter https://twitter.com/elijahwood/status/1229632586760081409?t=wfV2vJgJR6l_gECbNKajQQ&s=19
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May 8, 2024 19:19
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Nuns with Guns posted:The prequels had the advantage of having iterative tv shows, comics, and games massage it into a more stable and appealing state. The clone wars cartoons on their own did a lot to launder the prequels. Disney has just cut and run on the sequels, on top of alienating the actors for all the main characters. It’s frankly mind boggling how poorly managed their brand cultivation has been. They firmly embedded their Star Wars theme park lands in the sequel setting and then Episode 9 poisoned it for everyone. Honestly, the thing I could potentially see happening with the ST is it gaining a cult following 10-20 years down the line on the angle of squandered potential. Like, fans online who grew up with it talking about how the stuff that was set up in TFA or TLJ that they found interesting and ways those elements could have been better paid off in a third film that wasn't ROS. Basically I can see a fix fic community eventually cropping up around these films and the fact that this entire era of the franchise got unceremoniously abandoned by Disney might even make it more appealing for dedicated fans to latch onto. Sydin posted:
A lot of this is just media companies playing the speculation game with IP rights. I don't think the executives at Sony legitimately think that any of these "Spider-Man rogues gallery movies without Spider-Man in them" titles are going to be successes, the important thing is that it allows them to maintain the movie rights to those Spider-Man characters, which means if Disney wants to use them in their own Spider-Man films they'll have to work out a deal with Sony. It's pretty much the same thing that's been going on with the film rights to the Fantastic Four for the past 40ish years. It's actually really interesting how the success of the MCU kind of changed who the big headliners for Marvel comics are: While characters like Iron Man, Captain America and Thor had always been important figures in the comics, back in the 80s-early 2000s they were much more secondary in popularity to the likes of Spider-Man and the X-Men. But because those two IPs were Marvel's most popular, they were the first ones they sold the movie rights to before they found success with their own studio. The Fantastic Four is another interesting case study, because they're absolutely foundational to the universe of the comics, with pretty much every part of the Marvel Universe being tied back to them somehow, but because Marvel sold off their film rights decades ago and never got them back they ended up having to construct the MCU entirely without them.
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Arc Hammer posted:https://twitter.com/elijahwood/status/1229632586760081409?t=wfV2vJgJR6l_gECbNKajQQ&s=19 also somehow palpatine returned. for more on this story, please play fortnite
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