Miss Wallace posted:

Gyges posted:

Actually, does Patreon count as gift money or some sort of contract payment? If it's the former, as long as no individual is giving you more than 10(14?) thousand a year you shouldn't be responsible for any taxes on it. Unless Patreon counts as the entity being gifted the money, in which case they're just giving the content providers however much a year. Which might be tax free for the first 10(14?)K?

Miss Wallace posted:

New Baywatching: Point of Attack! Eddie inspires a troubled youth to be as least like him as possible.
http://phelous.com/2015/04/07/obscurus-lupa/baywatching/baywatching-point-of-attack/

Miss Wallace posted:

Ah you're right, sorry I got mixed up. Hobart is Dutch actually I think, which segues into Hubert and there's the German connection. I made a joke about this in the Pilot review I think, but it's been awhile.

Miss Wallace posted:

It's a luau party. Wish there was a funnier context to it. Newmie gets a pretty funny subplot that involves him wearing humorous toupees at one point though.


Um, there's only one Baywatch Movie, and that's Hawaiian Wedding.

Seriously though, if it's anything like the Starsky and Hutch movie it might be kind of funny. It seems to be sort of in development atm so who knows if or when it'll ever come out. I'll definitely watch it though. Same goes for The B Team, an unofficial Baywatch movie that's in the works involving a lot of the Baywatch cast.

quote:

Lennon and Garant watched a bunch of old episodes of Baywatch to write the script and were surprised by how strange some of the plotlines were. "The plot of one of the episodes in the first season is that there’s a giant squid stealing people’s surfboards," says Garant. "That’s a real episode." Lennon adds, "It’s called 'Tentacles Pt. 1' and 'Tentacles Pt. 2.' It’s an insane series! They introduced the idea of a ghost in the second season."

Miss Wallace posted:

Thanks a lot man!


That's during the good season of Nights too.

I don't know what the guy's talking about saying it's in season one, because that episode is from season 4. And yes indeed there's a giant squid! There's also one where they encounter a deadly man-o-war jellyfish and it looks like this:



The thing about the ghosts is also season 4. If you want to get technical there's the episode where Eddie may or may not have seen a ghost in season 1 (the one that kills Kirby), but season 4 has an episode about blatant possession. Like there's no ifs on that one, it's literally a ghost.

Mr.Radar posted:

I just got a Patreon backer message from SF Debris which mentioned today is his 42nd birthday. Does that make him the oldest "internet critic"? Do any of the "internet critics" who frequent this thread see themselves still doing it at 42?

Miss Wallace posted:

New Baywatching! Mitch does battle with a dog and Eddie attempts to make Shauni jealous.
http://phelous.com/2015/04/13/obscurus-lupa/baywatching/baywatching-thin-or-die/

Miss Wallace posted:

Oh man, if Nights had had a dog in it they might've lasted longer than two seasons!

Miss Wallace posted:

They gotta do it; it'd be the SECOND Tequila and Bonetti revival!

Miss Wallace posted:

Tequila and Bonetti was redone in Italy in 2000. Same lead actor, different dog. It's amazing it exists.

Mr. Fowl posted:

"This dog is lucky to be alive."
"It won't be for long..."

Miss Wallace posted:

Phelan, Brad, and I watched the show for the first time together and it was a beautiful experience. The dog falling out of a hospital window at the end of an episode made us lose our poo poo.

I'm also on an obsessive Quantum Leap binge ever since I watched it for the first time, so seeing another bizarre and wonderful Bellisario show is great. Lots of Leap actors in it as well.

Miss Wallace posted:

I think the franchise thing is really a spin-off from TV doing so much better nowadays. It used to be TV was kind of looked down on, "real actors" stuck to movies. But now that TV has stepped up its game and been given opportunities that weren't present before, lots of bigger actors are involved and the storytelling is far more satisfying than what can be told in one movie. And comics/superheroes are the perfect venue for franchises because they have pre-existing extended universes and name value. And more movies = more money, so hey.

EDIT: Yes to Rusted Root. Send me on my way...

achillesforever6 posted:

Well its a good thing that the Russo Brothers seem to be the new darlings of Marvel since they are doing the next Avengers movies and hopefully the quality will be as good as Winter Soldier.

Wheat Loaf posted:

I think it's been slowly percolating since 2000 or so. It probably started with The Sopranos (and possibly The West Wing, to a lesser extent).

Jay O posted:

I tried to do that sort of thing as a series with Inbetweens, but it didn't get many views, back when CPMs were make-or-break for that stuff, in a pre-Patreon world. So I tried to instead turn as many individual series anime reviews as I could into platforms to talk about larger topics in media or the anime industry, etc. This resulted in them taking way longer to make, of course. Unfortunately also during a time when I was rapidly falling out of love with the format and all its hassles/the hassles of TGWTG """celebrity."""

But I agree, I love videos in that vein. All of the internet criticism stuff I watch now is all talking about larger complicated topics in a conversational way, basically all the Team NChick crew's stuff. Haven't watched a "riff on a bad thing/weird thing" video in forever. I enjoyed some of them when they were educational, like Lewis' best videos where he would talk about the history of comics or specific franchises, but in the case of Doug's stuff or some other videos, where the "reviewer" doesn't know poo poo about their chosen media in general (holy hell does Doug not know poo poo about movies in general, why they're made, how they're made, basics of film criticism, etc.) it's just like...I'm too old for this. Somehow I have become too old for this.

This is not what brings in the clicks, though. My most-watched videos are "reviews" of titty shows and the Digimon retrospectives. Play to the children/adult-children, that's the bread and butter.

Jay O posted:

Ha ha, I loved the changes they made to the season one conclusion, and according to interviews, Isayama was very approving of them too, even though they're quite different in what was up to that point a very faithful adaptation. Given how grim things have gotten in his manga as of late, I'm thinking he was down with a less "yay team!" conclusion to the whole Female Titan thing. Like, yay team is good, yay team is great, but Eren's arc has never really been headed down a "yay team" path, so it makes more sense to me to alter that conflict in the way that they did, where the victory is a little more skin-of-teeth hollow and Eren is not in control of the situation or really his own slowly darkening soul. It honestly matches up better with where the manga has been going over time than the comics' own "and then they successfully worked as a team" conclusion to the conflict. But it's a divisive change, I see people on both sides of it all the time.

WickedHate posted:

This is why Dragon Ball Z Abridged is so good. The people behind genuinely love Dragon Ball, but it's ridiculous and they really know how to have fun with it.

Wheat Loaf posted:

Didn't the Ultimate Muscle anime get an extra season produced because of its overseas popularity? That's the only example I can think of that I've heard about.

OldTennisCourt posted:

That looks....shockingly well done.

Robert Denby posted:

What if Zach Snyder's "Man of Steel" Was in Color? has gotten a lot of attention in the last few days. Its by a group called VideoLab, which given that this is their only video on YouTube, seems to be a new outfit.

SatansBestBuddy posted:

Honestly I get far more annoyed by his blocking and camera work than his writing. He's a very flat film maker, he films a lot of very basic "talking head" scenes where character's spacial relation to each other doesn't matter, what they're doing doesn't matter, the blocking is extremely basic "go here, then there, sit down, stand up", it's not motivated by action, there are almost no interesting camera angles, no playing around with the language of film to tell the story, it's all dialogue.

DStecks posted:

There is literally an entire specific thread for discussing Age of Ultron

Miss Wallace posted:

I gotta point out that last month was also tax time and I lost a chunk of Patreon supporters as well.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Doug Walker needs to stop killing his jokes by explaining it to the audience for five minutes about what the joke is before it falls flat on its face.

Arcsquad12 posted:

How about you both gently caress off with the petty slapfight and talk about how bullshit it is that Channel Awesome expects professional grade artists and is only offering them chump change in return?

lornekates posted:

At the very least-- the number of hours it takes to complete and deliver the piece * the minimum wage. That piece is going to take 10-20 hours, at least. Not counting for time spent designing, going back-and-forth on plans, incorporating client changes, etc. That rate can go up dramatically depending on the complexity, timeline, and skill-level of the artist. They want a two week turnaround from a professional, for a detailed piece. $50-$100 / hour is not unheard of. They should have just put up a posting saying "send us your portfolio. We'll commission an artist we like, and negotiate a rate". And then put aside up to $2k for the piece.

But $100?!?

Would you do whatever work you do, at a skilled, professional level, for $5-$10 / hour (before taxes)?

Would you do all that work for the CHANCE to be paid $5-$10 / hour for it? Keep in mind, if 100 other people apply, you only have a 1/100 chance of actually getting paid.

So would you do 20 hours of labour, for a 1% chance to maybe be paid half-to-a-third of minimum wage in most places?

(By "you", I mean the generic You, not Benny the Snake specifically).

And would you do it for a company that brought in $90k for the express purpose of paying to produce new products?

Benny the Snake posted:

I get you. Personally speaking though, I have no frame of reference for freelance work so I was going in this completely ignorant. But yeah, even *I* could tell that the powers that be at Channel Awesome were criminally under-charging the artist.

And you know what? Doug's an artist, too! He should know better than to lowball an artist so much. This makes it official, Doug walker is a straight-up a hostile an exploitive employer, him and his brother Rob and that other chucklehead Mike.

Miss Wallace posted:

New Baywatching! Eddie is accused of statutory rape. Hilarious!
http://phelous.com/2015/05/14/obscurus-lupa/baywatching/baywatching-the-trophy/

Miss Wallace posted:

And the next Baywatching: If Looks Could Kill, wherein Mitch falls in love with a murderer.
http://phelous.com/2015/05/15/obscurus-lupa/baywatching/baywatching-if-looks-could-kill/

SatansBestBuddy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m_X0TdbdmQ

achillesforever6 posted:

Uh Cane Toads can kill you if you like them, check and mate spoony

Baka-nin posted:

New Pre-Rec is up. This time Rich and err the bald guy talk about the ********* a recent release by Nintendo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3w8ZNYoFEQ

achillesforever6 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UP8daKWu00
Things I learned about Doug, he thinks Thunderdome is the best of the original Mad Max movies

OldMemes posted:

Max is wearing leather because he's still wearing the scraps of his cop outfit. Why his cop outift leather? Because MFP weren't cops per say, they were the government's desperate attempt to try and control the gangs and social decay before the war - black leather is imposing, and you need to be imposing if guys like the Toecutter are the norm. Things are so bad in the first film that it seems that Max barely noticed the nuking of the world - Austrialia is in a pretty bad shape in these movies.

OldMemes posted:

George Miller stated that Fury Road is the "word burgers of the History Men" of the future. That explains any errors in the canon of the films, the History Men made mistakes in their oral history, so they have a bunch of stories about Max, but don't know all the right facts.

Also: "word burgers".

Oh, George Miller.

achillesforever6 posted:

Much how they failed to realize that Brutal Legend was more about the Multiplayer than the singleplayer (and that it was an RTS, but EA made sure to hide that in its commercials)

Though I wish Brutal Legend's singleplayer was a bit less fast after the midway point. Mainly because Eddie Riggs is unironically my favorite character in any media ever, like for someone voiced by Jack Black he's surprisingly humble and not wanting the center of attention, it was really refreshing to see a main character like that in a video game.

Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjQR9UQg7Wg
Suburban Knights is the worst Channel Awesome special for me at least.

achillesforever6 posted:

I actually remember on the old Internet Critic thread that it was okay, but you know in retrospect it is pretty offensive with how much they just ape scenes from movies and call it "Parody"

MonsieurChoc posted:

To boldly Flee did give us the Spoony Dune scene, for what it's worth.

Miss Wallace posted:

Someone once compared me and Brad by saying that if he's a steak from a fine restaurant that makes me cold hospital peas. It was the second best insult I've ever received.

DStecks posted:

It's a fallacy because it's making a decision based on the imaginary prospect of a middle between two opposed decisions, rather than looking at the problem on your own and making a decision based on your observations. Taking a middle option is not inherently a fallacy, but presupposing that the middle option is correct by virtue of its middle-ness is a fallacy. It does not mean "compromises are fallacies" as many goons like to think.