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Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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The Vosgian Beast posted:

Hey so I watched the Foodfight review Phelous, Lupa, and Brad did, and have decided Phelous's sense of humor is something I want more of in my life. What are some good reviews to check out?

The thing about Phelous is his humor has a lot of self-referential stuff in it, so if you don't watch him from the beginning you won't get absolutely every joke, but that isn't all there is.

I'm a big fan of all of his low-budget cartoon reviews, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde http://blip.tv/phelous/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-6611996 Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time http://blip.tv/phelous/aladdin-and-the-adventure-of-all-time-6646347 the other Aladdin animated movie http://blip.tv/phelous/aladdin-6223537 He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special http://blip.tv/phelous/he-man-and-she-ra-christmas-special-6713584

He's done a lot more of these lately that are pretty good.

Some of my favorite reviews of live action horror movies, Amityville 4, probably my favorite, has the most laugh out loud moments http://blip.tv/phelous/amityville-4-the-lamp-escapes-6130640

His reviews of Ulli Lommel's comically inept Boogeyman series (He went on a kick where he reviewed like 7 movies called Boogeyman in a row) http://blip.tv/phelous/the-boogeyman-5389086 http://blip.tv/phelous/boogeyman-ii-1983-5413633 http://blip.tv/phelous/return-of-the-boogeyman-5435289

The Time Machine that I found at a Yard Sale (Collab with Lupa) http://blip.tv/phelous/the-time-machine-i-found-at-a-yard-sale-part-1-6696699

Swamp Zombies! http://blip.tv/phelous/swamp-zombies-5302277

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Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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BigRed0427 posted:

What's your guys opinion of Keanu Reeves as an action star in general? He's not a BIG star any more but he still gets work, plus John Wick was REALLY good. And gently caress it, I love Constantine. I thought he did a good job in it.

I actually liked the Constantine movie too, but it had nothing to do with Keanu Reeves' performance, I thought he was the worst part of the movie. He's a baffling choice to play the foul-mouthed, snarking Constantine, since Reeves acting style is stone-faced confusion most of the time.

To be honest, I think the only reason I like the movie is the scenes with Tilda Swinton playing Gabriel and Peter Stomare playing Satan. The opening scene with Constantine exorcising the demon with a mirror was pretty cool too, and I liked the Hell scenes.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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I always saw the Law/Chaos spectrum as not necessarily literally following laws but having an ordered way of looking at the world. A Lawful character believes in systems and codes of conduct. I don't think a Lawful Good character would be bound to uphold the laws of a Lawful Evil society. Even if this wasn't the intent of D&D's creators, I think it works better in actual practice.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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The hell is "BroTeamPill?"

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Order isn't really good in SMT though. Both sides are awful, with Order really being more like stasis, were nothing changes and there is no free will, and Chaos is complete anarchy where the strong always rule over the weak and there is no authority to protect those who can't protect themselves. The only "good" path in SMT is neutrality.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Kunster posted:

I'm kind of surprised of the omission of the boat chase on Ganymede Elegy from the list. It's one of those moments that there's other similar moment on a different show that's strange to see it done twice in 2 different contexts.

That's also a fantastic musical moment. I guess there are so many in Cowboy Bebop it's hard to fit them all on to a top ten.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Kalos posted:

Since Phelous appears to be a goon favorite, us there a particular episode or series of his that stand out? I found him to be insufferable in the past, but as such a consistent goon darling there must be something worth a second look and it's entirely possible I just saw his worst.

The thing about Phelous is his videos are very self-referential. You'll miss a few jokes if you haven't been watching from the beginning.

Some of my favorites of his are any of his animated movie reviews, like both Beauty and the Beasts http://blip.tv/phelous/beauty-and-the-beast-part-1-6976645 http://blip.tv/phelous/beauty-and-the-beast-golden-part-1-7016715 Lion and the King http://blip.tv/phelous/lion-and-the-king-part-1-7001231 Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time http://blip.tv/phelous/aladdin-and-the-adventure-of-all-time-6646347 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde http://blip.tv/phelous/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-6611996

There's also a review of the baffling Time Machine that I Found at a Yard Sale http://blip.tv/phelous/the-time-machine-i-found-at-a-yard-sale-part-1-6696699

Amityville 4 has some of my favorite jokes of his http://blip.tv/phelous/amityville-4-the-lamp-escapes-6130640

Psycho Santa is one of my personal favorites http://blip.tv/phelous/psycho-santa-6702266

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Comment on the new Best of the Worst:



I'm struggling to recall any moment in this video where they acted like "sjws" other than saying that Cynthia Rothrock portrayed a strong female character in the movie.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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achillesforever6 posted:

Doug reviewed the Antonio Banderas and I don't think I can accept that its actually a bad movie, I remember watching it all the time and loving it. :negative:

Wait, he reviewed THE Antonio Banderas? He's just reviewing actors now?

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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KayTee posted:

Doug also thinks that Masters of the Universe, The Garbage Pail Kids, Mortal Kombat, Howard the Duck and Jaws 3 are also bad movies, to name a few.

He's wrong about most movies :colbert:

I only see one good movie there.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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John Murdoch posted:

To be fair, what more can you really do with "I am giving my unvarnished first impressions of this video game"? Plenty could be said about TB, but I feel like the format is the least offensive part if you want to talk quality.

I actually enjoy listening to TB talk about video games... and that's it. I disregard all his other bullshit.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Puppy Time posted:

I just use Video Blocker, since I was tired of seeing thunderf00t and the Amazing Atheist every time I watched something from potholer54. (Last I saw, a blocked user's name will still show in the main page recs, but that's all I can see- there's a blank space where the video would be.)

Oh hey, something new I need to download. I just went to YouTube to listen to the video someone linked in another thread and I see one of my recommendations is The Amazing Atheist: ANITA SARKEESIAN, YOU OFFICIALLY SUCK AT FEMINISM and blood started to come from my eyes.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Also, at the end of Linkara's new video he says he'll be reviewing Homestuck next time...

Yeah....

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Jsor posted:

How do you even review that? I do not envy him.

I take it he must only be doing the first act or something.

Homestuck is currently just shy of 10,000 pages, with 18,000 panels and 830,000 words. Not to mention all the animated sequences and mini games. I have no idea how you review such a thing in one episode.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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They're some of my favorite movies.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Boy, this thread is unpleasant of late.

Let's watch Cinema Snob make fun of a bizarre, debatably exploitation movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVevUS2j3Fo

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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He honestly sounds like a crazy person, but I guess that's just a consequence of him reading something presumably written by someone else (?) in a robotic tone. I could be wrong; this is my first exposure to the guy.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Tired Moritz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpd8YvUGhs

Jontron made a video on Food games (part 1). that's some good make up at the end

Yeah, I was surprised how much effort was put into that short gag! Maybe it will show up again, since it did say to be continued.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Cyron posted:

not only that I don't think "SJW" care about games that where it prev on it sleeve. people only get upset when it in a game that is taken itself seriously and have a dev team that we expected better from.

I cannot parse this at all.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Took less than 2 hours for a video from Todd labeled "1987" to get a copyright strike.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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BigRed0427 posted:

I never followed Jon Tron. I didn't know he had a budget, or the backing of some kind of studio.

The bigger budget is kind of recent.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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achillesforever6 posted:


Though they missed out for Fallout 2 adding the INT 1 dialogue

Really, I find most of the dialogue trees in Fallout 4 identical to the rest of these in the rest of the FOs. Usually there's Ask for more Info, Agree, Disagree, Sarcastic and/or Say something aggressive. Sometimes there's a persuasion option, sometimes there's an option based on one of your skills. The fact that they're all voiced makes them more fun too.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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watho posted:

lmao

The two main problems with FO4's dialogue trees are that your character will always be painted as a sympathetic and good character in the story dialogues and that what you chose almost never has any weight aside from how many caps you'll receive.

It usually looks like this:
Quest giver: So, will you help me do the thing?
The Lone Survivor: gently caress you and your family!
Quest giver: That's incredibly rude :(
Quest giver: Well, I'm so glad that you'll do this for me, it means more than you can imagine. :)

"No" means "not right now, later though", "Sarcastic" means "I'll say yes in a really cringe-worthy way", asking for more info means "I'll ask for more info and then say yes".

I like having all the dialogue voiced but if that comes at a price of being way more shallow then it really isn't worth it imo.

*shrug* I've never played another Fallout, so I dunno what options are like in the other games, and I always play a goody two-shoes in games like this so I don't really notice the lack of non-good options.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Annointed posted:

He still has to act like a complete bigot while trying to hide it under "PC culture" aka stop trying to point out what an rear end in a top hat I'm being.

As an aside, holy poo poo most youtube Atheists are or have to associate with anti feminist dickholes.

Yeah, I watch a fair amount of secular or atheist videos and I keep getting suggested videos for anti-feminist or anti-sjw videos from people like the Amazing Atheist or that Sargon guy (who also has a far amount of absurdly blatant racist videos).

Odd to see the atheist community become part of the new right.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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I don't think he was being entirely serious.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Infamous Sphere posted:

Probably one of the most fun examples of this is Simon Fransman's Jam of the Week series, where he combines electronic light jazz with horrific cgi glitchpeople.

This is excellent; thank you for sharing this.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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I got a notification that Todd had a new video up on Patreon, but when I tried to follow the link it just takes me to my Patreon homepage. Also I can't find any new videos anywhere on Todd's page.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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The Vosgian Beast posted:

"Goons defend Star Wars prequels" is a lot like "Goons love House of Leaves". A few goons do, and will occasionally mention it, and then fifty other goons jump on them to talk about how wrong they are and how they can't believe all these mad, mad people who have unacceptable beliefs come to Something Awful.

I've endured enough Star Wars prequels discussions to know about the former, but the later is a new one for me. I didn't know Goons had a thing for/against House of Leaves.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Errant Signal talks about the Kickstarted game about a family's battle against cancer, That Dragon, Cancer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INL3UFXC1JA

(good god, stay out of the comments)

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Moartoast posted:

Poe, Finn and Rey in a mutual, open, bisexual relationship, Rey being the most confident and dominant one, especially so in any scene directly pertaining to their relationship.

It would be incredible for a lot of reasons, but the main thing is every regressive group remotely related to nerd culture literally melting from all of the liquid in their body turning to boiled piss.

This would be the ideal.

But, but hey, I'll settle for gay Poe and Finn, or at the VERY LEAST, not turning Rey into a romantic interest for one of the main trio.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Beefstew posted:

Oscar Isaac seemed to hint at it in an interview. And Poe and Finn have a pretty great bromance going on already. And people are reading into stuff like Finn's inquiry of whether Rey had a "cute boyfriend".
But even if Poe/Finn doesn't happen, we can always fall back on Kylo/Hux.

I'm pretty sure too I read somewhere that the actors agreed to play it like it was a romance between them.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Augus posted:

I mean the majority of the time it's either
A) Random dudes spamming channels with frivolous claims
or
B) The auto-takedown algorithm being a dick again
so I'll just assume it's one of those again until further notice. In both cases it usually doesn't take that long for the channel to be fixed.

I remember back in the heyday of the YouTube Poop, people would constantly troll each other with false DMCA's, which is technically a crime, but, given that they were YouTube Poop channels, no one ever contested the claims and just made more channels, thus the false DMCAers never got caught.

It's gotten a bit more serious now that, you know, people actually depend on this service for their livelihood.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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As others have said, the actual quality of the criticism or humor or whatever doesn't matter, transformative use in this sense is covered under fair use. Also, you've been provided with multiple instances where YouTube's content ID system has been used to just outright steal the ad revenue of others where the claimant had no rights to the claimed material or where one's own work was somehow claimed under content ID.

You're not arguing in good faith.

I've never used SA's ignore function before, but there's a first time for everything, Christ.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Hbomberguy posted:

That is far too benign for an Assassin. The first time Ezio fucks someone his entire city explodes.

If we're going to have a gay protagonist I want the explanation for their presence to be amazing. I want no-one to know how they have this dead gay guy's DNA. People are sitting around the Abstergo watercooler like, this doesn't even make sense! I want a fakeout where there's a lady he considers pretending to marry to pass in society. And then I want him to say 'no thanks' and get cryogenically frozen inside the loving pyramids and then kill those watercooler guys with his actual gun the egyptians somehow developed, and then also kill Desmond Miles and Watch_Dog Man and usher in an age of interesting protagonists.

I want you to be making AAA games.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Or people who ostentatiously refer to themselves as "Followers of Christ" but NOT "Christian."

"It's not a religion, its a relationship with Christ."

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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poparena posted:

The Noah Who Posts Things just put up a pretty nifty retrospective on Wolfenstein.

Noah's videos are always incredibly interesting, but he could really use some editing tips. He doesn't edit out his occasional stumbling over his words and accidentally cut himself off at the end of the video. I do like the lo-fi aesthetic of his intros and outros though.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Kunster posted:

When I heard Phelous did a review of an Hunchback of Notre Dame cartoon, I thought it was gonna be the Dingo Pictures one.

I wholly expect him too. I have only seen two short clips from this "film" and both have made me laugh so hard tears came to my eyes. I can only imagine Phelous riffing on the whole thing.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Oh no, Blizzard shut down people who stole their intellectual property and were using it without their permission, creating a direct competitor to their business! Those bastards! Seriously, everyone needs to shut the gently caress up about this, Nostralius was in the wrong, Blizzard was in the right, end of story.

Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Yardbomb posted:

At least it's not the repulsive poo poo they think you wanna see after a couple of hbomberguy's videos.

No youtube, I'd rather you not try and push the racists, sexists, homophobes and all the other "Awful human being" fitting people at me after watching some videos making fun of them.

Yeah, I keep getting recommended Sargon's repugnant looking videos, like something about the "failure of humanism and multiculturalism."

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Mischalaniouse
Nov 7, 2009

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Speaking of Hbomberguy, check out his short video on the latest moronic video game scandal (love the little puppets): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozf2hwEOWHE

Along those same lines, a new video from Rantasmo about the transgender character appearing in a Baldur's Gate game and the accompanying "scandal:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r51IZ2qiq4

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