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ZakAce posted:Better get out your wallet, DStecks. I've been wanting a new avatar anyway. In honour of the Toxx, it'll be an allusion to the actual #1 worst song, whatever that is. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Senerio posted:Still surprised there was anyone who didn't peg Wiggle as #1 as soon as they heard it. My entire logic was based on Todd usually picking something powerfully mediocre as #1, this year he just did the obvious thing. I mean, you could argue it falls in line with the trend of singling out an artist he hated this year, but I certainly couldn't point to any song on the list that I think is anywhere near as bad as Wiggle. ALSO, since my toxx appears to not have taken effect yet, can I get a REDEMPTION TOXX that Uptown Funk will be #1 best? 
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Jan 19, 2015 19:10
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TODD: Katy Perry hasn't ever sung a song about her boobs KATY PERRY, IN HER LATEST RADIO HIT: Let me get you in your birthday suit / It's time to get out the big balloons
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Jan 21, 2015 06:07
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Jay O posted:You may also come away from the film with "what a boring slushpile of barely-directed nothing," but you know, Clint Eastwood movie. JayO, I'm telling you this cuz you're my postin pal and fellow Correct-Opinion-on-FMAB- Haver, you could not possibly come off as more of an arrogant blowhard in this post if you signed it Of SCIENCE!!!
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Jan 22, 2015 03:22
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Jimbot posted:That's why I don't like watching their streams or watch Previously Recorded because they come off as gaming snobs who have contempt for everyone except indie developers. They play a derivative indie pixel art platformer and they look for reasons to gush over it when they play something more mainstream they look for reasons to hate it. Uh, they kind of absolutely loving trashed indie darling The Banner Saga (and having played it, they were pretty on-point, to the extend that Jack and I had the exact same "... am I Ubin?" moment). I've also actually played Titanfall, and again, their review of it was pretty much on point: the game just isn't viscerally fun. It's got a lot of inventive ideas, and cool bits, but it doesn't quite come together in the moment-to-moment gameplay. I have not seen their review of Alien: Isolation, and am not really planning to, since it does legit sound like they poo poo the bed there.
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Jan 23, 2015 20:24
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There's derivative trash in every form of media, it's just that for indie games it's common; but for AAA it's the norm.
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Jan 23, 2015 20:59
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My question is how long it's going to take for children's television to just outright die, now that it's clear that in the digital era, kids are quite content to watch silly people play video games on YouTube.
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Jan 24, 2015 08:07
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Are you just naturally this dumb or do you actually have to work at it? Sorry my joking observation pissed you off so much
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Jan 24, 2015 08:18
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surf rock posted:If you want a great story, try his early Counter Monkey videos, or if you've got a decent chunk of time, his Thieves World videos in particular. That whole Thieves World story is amazing and legitimately me made consider finding an RPG group to join, because I had no idea tabletop games could be that loving crazy and intense. I don't think anybody can watch the Thieves' World videos and not come out wanting to join/start an RPG group.
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Jan 24, 2015 16:37
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Oh man, do you guys remember Revver? I just thought about it for the first time in forever, just now. I remember thinking how crazy it was that you could actually upload videos to a site and make money at that (not that I ever did, obviously).
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Jan 25, 2015 05:43
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Tracula posted:Didn't everyone quit Revver because it ripped off all of its producers and kept the money for themselves? Eventually the cheques stopped getting sent out, but I don't think what happened behind the scenes at the company itself has ever become public knowledge. Some articles I found seem to indicate that ad revenue couldn't support the running costs after the initial investment money ran out. Can't say for sure if it was take-the-money-and-run underhandedness, or your typical "oops we're a tech startup who can't actually run a business" situation. IIRC they shafted TGWTG to the tune of 40 grand, which I don't think they ever saw.
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Jan 25, 2015 08:08
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If the Oscars didn't exist, then the studios probably wouldn't finance mature adult dramas even to the limited extent they do now. You'd probably still see stuff like Fox Searchlight, where a studio has a division for distributing indie films they've picked up, but without the Oscars the prestige drama would probably be dead. And as much flack as that format (rightfully) gets for so often being blatant awards fodder, you can't deny that a lot of legitimately great films fall under that "genre".
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Jan 25, 2015 19:55
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Hey, I've been archive binging your stuff, and I gotta ask, where the hell do you find this poo poo? How does one stumble onto Still Flowin The Movie? Like, do you just go to the YouTube search bar and type "make me hurt"?
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Jan 27, 2015 06:07
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BobbyK posted:To be quite honest I'm going to miss deciphering Cyron's posts. I think he said it's because his fingers were too fat for phone posting? It was kind of my favorite part of this thread. At one point he said he had a learning disability.
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Jan 31, 2015 16:36
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johnfw50 posted:Go on... It's a Simpsons reference.
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Jan 31, 2015 20:03
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Love Runs Out would be my pick for rock song of 2014, but Todd's never been a fan of One Republic so I wasn't expecting it on the list.
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Feb 1, 2015 23:28
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HorseRenoir posted:This is only tangentially related to this thread, but Monty Oum of Rooster Teeth died. Holy poo poo. I actually just thought about him for the first time in years the other day. Apparently it was a freak allergic reaction? Crazy stuff. 
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Feb 3, 2015 07:32
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Metal Loaf posted:Oasis are a difficult example, I suppose, because while "Wonderwall" was (as far as I'm aware) their only major Hot 100 hit, they did very well on the Modern Rock radio chart. Oasis is sort of a weird case this side of the Atlantic, because while they only had one technical hit in Wonderwall, I feel like most people here are aware of their titanic success in the UK; or at least aware that they do have more songs, it's just that none of them charted here. And because Todd has said he fudges the "rules" if a band has a legacy of only one hit, then the opposite would also hold (i.e. the Jimi Hendrix rule).
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Feb 4, 2015 15:21
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I made another Sonichu review, a bit on the quick and dirty side (no pun intended). Bad Reviews 15.5: KCWC Epilogue
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Infamous Sphere posted:Uh..congratulations on your signed photo! I bought it from him on eBay. Set me back 40 bucks but now I own a piece of history.  PassTheRemote posted:I did like the bit about the Snowballs. Just an FYI, I'm sure Chirs-Chan was referring to this: That's what I'm being told. I assume they're an American thing. 
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Feb 7, 2015 06:01
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Other M was Nintendo of Japan throwing up its hands and saying "we really don't get why you people like Metroid, at all."
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Feb 13, 2015 14:32
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Nintendo allegedly didn't like the Metroid Prime games, and they were the ones who put Sakamoto in charge. It's not a David Cage situation, where the game is the hack writer's baby project, Yoshio Sakamoto was a godawful writer Nintendo hand-picked to helm Other M. IIRC, the devs of the Prime games wanted to put in bounty hunting missions, since Samus is you know, a bounty hunter, but NoJ were horrified at this suggestion, because apparently they'd never meant "bounty hunter" as anything more than "generic space hero". PassTheRemote posted:That was embarrassing to watch. "Baw, this movie is so bad I;m gonna throw out my Spider-man toys". I thought this movie was boring, not really a lot of nerd rage stuff. ASM2 actually kinda delighted the comic book nerd in me, even though it was a mess of a film. It nails the tone of the comics in a way that the Raimi movies never attempted, even though they are vastly superior films.
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Feb 13, 2015 16:05
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Tracula posted:I'd compare him to John Romero in that regard. The original Quake was loving amazing but when he did his own thing with Daikatana well... The picture Masters of Doom paints is one of John Romero being a man with little-to-no actual creative control over anything id made. John Carmack used his power as "the guy actually making the game engine" to effectively control Doom's design (not sure about Quake's development, never got that far in the book). John Romero wanted it to be a ridiculously expansive RPG, and Carmack told him they couldn't do that. So really, Daikatana is no surprise, since Romero was finally in an environment where he could have dozens of unreasonable ideas and nobody in a position to tell him no.
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Feb 13, 2015 16:56
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Tracula posted:How is Masters of Doom? I've heard of it before but I never got around to reading it. It's a fun read. I absolutely recommend it to anybody with an interest in the subject matter.
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Feb 13, 2015 18:29
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senae posted:Actually, that was Tom Hall that wanted Doom to be heavily story based and RPGish, and Romero and the Carmacks all shot him down. That was why he left the company. It has been a few years since I read Masters of Doom, and yeah, that sounds right. In any case I remember getting the distinct impression that Carmack used his power as lead programmer to also make himself the de facto lead designer on most of id's early forays into 3D.
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senae posted:That kind of came later actually. Some stuff went down during Wolf3D, where Hall and Romero were trying to convince Carmack to invent push walls, and he refused (he actually got around to it nd didn't mention it to anyone until a few weeks before launch iirc) but Carmack apparently didn't do much WRT design until Quake because that's not what he was good at. Quake and Quake 2 ruined everything. though, and according to Masters of Doom it's around that time Carmack started to become impossible to work with.  OK I need to reread Masters of Doom. I even just bought it on the Kindle app for my tablet, I just need to finish Anthony Bourdain's book first.  (also a very fun read)
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Feb 14, 2015 05:44
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Robert Denby posted:They very much reconstitute any adaptations they do to fit their ideals, especially "V for Vendetta" and to lesser but still noticeable extent "Cloud Atlas". At the very least, they're always interesting to talk about. I felt V for Vendetta was about as faithful as you'd want a V for Vendetta movie to be. I didn't love the comic, or the movie, but I fully enjoyed both of them and didn't think much was lost in translation. I still can't believe people got pissed that the then-contemporary takedown of Thatcher got updated to a then-contemporary takedown of Bush for an American film. Like oh no, they didn't maintain the specific political undertones that most people watching the movie would have 0 context for, the butchery!
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I think Speed Racer came out at the tail end of when darker and edgier was still very hip and trendy. Now we're starting to see an actual mainstream backlash against it, but at the time it wouldn't have been out of place amongst the other movie adaptations being made. It would have been a terrible decision, but that's somewhat hindsight.
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Feb 14, 2015 18:02
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Mad Lupine posted:I was going to make a joke about how this thread's opinion of Bob would flip as soon as it was mentioned that GGer(s?) had said anything disparaging about him. I didn't make it because I felt it was too inflammatory and unnecessary. Ah yeah man, look at all the Moviebob dick sucking going on here, what with people giving extremely qualified compliments to him, and generally outright disparaging him while saying he sometimes makes good videos.
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Feb 15, 2015 03:53
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I loved Star Trek Into Darkness and thought it pantsed Trek09 despite its messy script.
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Feb 15, 2015 17:30
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Neddy Seagoon posted:We must get a sample of Khan's blood and not one from the 72 people we have readily available! DStecks posted:I loved Star Trek Into Darkness and thought it pantsed Trek09 despite its messy script.
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He's also got a hard cutoff date for anime he'll review, so if you want recent stuff you're boned.
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Unless the GITS movie is being set in the west, in which case who gives a gently caress. It's every bit our prerogative to relocate and recontextualize an adaptation as it is for Japan to make Spider-Man Japanese and give him a giant robot. EDIT: I feel the need to further explain, so nobody gets the wrong idea. If the GITS movie is still set in Japan, and the Major is still named Matoko Kusanagi, then yeah casting Scarlett Johanson is pretty hosed. But if the story's been fundamentally recontextualized, then it's a bit premature to scream whitewashing. DStecks fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Benny the Snake posted:I'm thinking either Rinko Kikuchi from "Pacific Rim" or Rila Fukushima from "The Wolverine". Then again my knowlledge of English-speaking Japanese actresses is limited so judge my casting choices accordingly Also lmfbo if you actually think Hollywood is gonna cast Rinko Kikuchi as the protagonist in a multimillion-dollar film; Asian-American actresses have a hard enough time getting roles while speaking fluent unaccented English.
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Yay! Time for the monthly Plinkett derail!
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The Vosgian Beast posted:A Basement Rapist Reviews was always a horrible idea, and it speaks well of Red Letter Media that they've abandoned it. AND BAM! The derail hits its first word-for-word repost from the previous derail! It's the conversation so nice we're gonna have it twice.
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Feb 19, 2015 19:30
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Here: Some people find Plinkett hilarious. Some people find Plinkett's subject matter too dark. These people will never convince each other of anything. There, that's the Plinkett derail.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:How is it weird? He's kind of an rear end in a top hat when he isn't working on a project, and he gets pretty pissy about stuff very easily when he's not actively working on something like a shoot or whatnot. It doesn't make his work any worse, but it's kind of a personal blemish that comes through to watching his other stuff. Oh my god what the gently caress are you even talking about
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Len Kabasinski is entirely too positive a person to fit in with RLM.
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