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Tee hee Would it be good to identify critics who are goons in the OP? I know it took me a little bit to realize that one of the thread posters was actually Lupa, f'rex.
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Annointed posted:The funniest part was that YouTube as far as I know still doesn't get the concept of Double Jeopardy and standing. That poo poo's for fair trial. YouTube's policy is for making nice with the people that give them money.
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Jan 20, 2015 00:43
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Jsor posted:I'm going to go out on a limb and boldly declare a law of fiction and fandoms: Hell, this is true of stories with only one presented reality. Especially kid shows. Basically fans like to pretend they're clever in the same way all over.
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Jan 21, 2015 05:50
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Tracula posted:I've never played L5R but I can't even comprehend being this much of a dick to somebody for no reason really. If somehow I was ever in the position of the duelist and had to defend my ~honor~ or whatever I'd go for wooden or blunted swords at worst to maybe teach the offender a lesson, give him a scar of some sort, etc. Not just loving straight up murder a guy, especially if it's his first character in the setting. Welcome to the world of tabletop gaming, where you're basically playing russian roulette every time you try a new group!
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Jan 22, 2015 17:25
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Metal Loaf posted:Serious question: can anyone explain to me what the appeal of PewDiePie is? I always assumed it was the funny voice and the screaming. I'm not really a fan of his, but I kind of like watching Markiplier, who's known as kind of a Pewdiepie Lite, because watching him freak out at jumpscares in games is funny. Some of us just like seeing dorks be dorky, even if it's objectively not that great.
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Jan 24, 2015 02:47
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Jsor posted:Wait, Penny Arcade are on the GG side? I know they've done some dumb poo poo (dickwolves; transphobic comments), but I really didn't expect that of all things. Especially given how obsessively anti-bullying Mike Krahulik is. If there's one thing I've noticed about slapfights like this, it's that it's really easy for both sides to believe "we are The Good Guys who are noble underdogs, while the other side are the Bullies." And of course just a hefty dose of denial with "Well, there ARE extremists, but No True Scotsman blah blah blah." People tend to forget that someone can be on the "right" side of an issue and still be a bully. (I don't know or really care where the PA guys stand WRT the whole thing.)
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Jan 31, 2015 18:53
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One Hit Wonderland is the absolute best. I like Todd ranting and raving about music in general, but I really love learning all the surrounding history and craziness.
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Feb 4, 2015 01:32
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DoctorWhat posted:No, Gunpei Yokoi was the creator of Metroid. My understanding is that Sakamoto designed the monsters in the original game, though a lot of places seem to have him listed as "director," though I can't seem to find what that entailed from a cursory googling. Here's a funny in hindsight article from before the release of Other M quote:Sakamoto's skills as a writer can be seen in his writing for Kaeru no tame ni kane wa naru, Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero Mission, and Super Metroid. You can see a sample of Sakamoto's design process in his storyboards from the Japanese Super Metroid strategy guide. No doubt this storytelling ability will be taken to new levels with Metroid: Other M.
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Feb 13, 2015 18:03
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quote:Moving forward, The Escapist is eschewing the "curmudgeon" mentality that is so pervasive these days in favor of the "enthusiast" mentality that we want to foster among our community, and geek culture at large. We want to focus on finding the good in the geekspace, rather than focusing on the bad. We want to facilitate enjoyment, rather than disparagement. We want to talk more about the things we love, and less about the things we hate. ...and yet Yahtzee remains onboard.
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Feb 15, 2015 09:22
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MisterBibs posted:Totalbiscuit hates people linking to it on social media, though. I linked to it once on Twitter and the dude blocked me within minutes. Can't blame him; that's the sort of thing that's probably just headed straight for persistent and annoying interactions. Unless like you weren't directly addressing him.
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Feb 16, 2015 03:28
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I'm kind of surprised there doesn't seem to be any skit-free edit available; I've seen a lot of people talking about it over the years. I kind of like the really brief dark humor throwaway lines, but the skits just get tedious when I'm really there for the criticism.
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Feb 19, 2015 20:20
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Arcsquad12 posted:Maybe I want to hear something interesting rather than needless nitpicking once in a while. Why are you watching Daffy Duck Reviews then?
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Feb 20, 2015 21:12
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WickedHate posted:Doug Walker is such an rear end in a top hat, I mean, morally, a bad person, that I don't think it's an overstatement to say he deserves to fail. My impression from what people who've worked with him have said is that he's just super dumb and naive and has trouble with understanding others' points of view, so he doesn't get why certain jokes are offensive as gently caress. Whether that counts as rear end in a top hat or not I guess depends on your opinion. I tend to give people more leeway if they seem to be clueless instead of just callous. The former seems to be less of a choice and more a handicap. Either way, I don't exactly like him as a person, and I think his sense of humor sucks, but I wouldn't personally say he deserves to fail. At least for that.
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Feb 21, 2015 18:01
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I agree that it's a slur and all, but a lot of people haven't been exposed to the reasons why it's a problem, and a lot of people don't really understand why "but I don't MEAN it in a bad way!" doesn't really matter. It doesn't really make them terrible people, despite the fact that it's kind of poo poo. Sometimes you just have to accept that there's poo poo parts of everyone, and they can have crappy aspects without being bad or immoral or whatever overall. Going the tumblr route of "I can only like someone who has no problematic aspects ever!" is only going to end in madness and isolation. I say this as a recovering tumblrite.
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Feb 21, 2015 20:24
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I'm not super-comfortable with saying any small-time entertainer "deserves" to fail, but if I were I'd say it's because he's dumb, screamy, and has a super-stupid sense of humor. WRT "tumblrite" if you have a better term to describe the echo chamber slacktivists that get wound up beyond all sanity over social justice "issues," please share. I'm too lazy to type that description out to distinguish them from the less-crazy tumblr users. ETA: WickedHate posted:The only slurs I think are "alright" by ignorence is stuff like "st*pid" or "d*mb*, which okay, I can get things like that are too entrenched in modern vocabulary to know they're bad. I... are you serious, or is this some kind of goofy trolling?
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Feb 21, 2015 21:28
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Can we go back to the dumb arguments with HBomber? At least those had some vague appeal via goofy interpretations. WickedHate is just being a whiny baby.
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Feb 22, 2015 01:27
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:To get back on track... I just watched the linked episode and it was pretty great. Sort of like if Phelous and AVGN had a baby.
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Feb 22, 2015 08:25
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Jack Gladney posted:Yeah, I don't know, I may have committed myself to an untenable position, but that still seems like something you're doing and not a narrative you're reading. Like, I could say the same thing about tic tac toe or that cup-and-ball thing or any other children's toy. Just because there are ways of reading the dynamic of a child's interaction with a toy, that doesn't make the toy narrative. There's a phenomenological relationship between me and a narrative in a novel, too, and sociological/economic relationship between me and the book as a commodity, but those are distinct from the narrative inside the book. Am I saying that narrative is something I associate with other forms? Yes. Am I saying that just because I think video games are boring and really unsatisfying in narrative terms? Maybe. OK I'm just gonna say: I don't get into poetry. I think it's kinda boring, I have kind of an idea what's supposed to make it great, but it's never given me any kind of satisfaction that I couldn't get better from other art forms. But I accept that poetry can be considered art, and that I'm just not into it.
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Feb 23, 2015 04:14
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Jack Gladney posted:The problem with being funny is that most people think that they are. I have embraced my unfunniness and just do boring careposts most of the time. quote:Also, do people really look at who they're quoting or posting to? The only people I notice are SMG if it's about Lacan and Dickeye because he used to go out to GBS to be reasonable like a hero and I learned about him that way. It makes things much easier to just post post post and treat the internet like the perfect utopia of shifting identities that the early 90s expected. gently caress web 2.0 I notice Cyron's posts because of his terrible grammar and spelling mistakes. And HBG because of his cute doggy avatar and also usually his stuff is entertainingly insane. I have no idea why anyone gives a poo poo what gibbis says about this thread, or about anything in particular. I'd really rather talk about internet video people- even stupid discussions like "Doug is a Bad Human for not having his finger on the pulse of tumblr despite being notoriously dumb in general." On that note, I have been enjoying Kinamania's Dendy Chronicles, though his posture makes him look like some kind of horrible circus freak. Not helped by him being skinny as hell anyway. Dude's really good at showing off the complete batshit that is the Dendy Mario library without resorting to screaming at video games and/or boring skits. I'm hoping I don't run out of subbed episodes soon!
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Feb 24, 2015 21:07
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Lichtenstein posted:He'll also become next HBomber's most wanted for his propensity for gay jokes (also some really dated AVGN copycat stuff). I haven't run into any of this or the stuff about Chinese people, other than mentions that the pirate stuff they got was from the PRC.
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Feb 24, 2015 23:58
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I just like dorky nerds overanalyzing things. ...actually, "dorky nerds" describes a lot of my entertainment choices.
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senae posted:given that the thing it was definitely, intentionally a metaphor for (discarding societal expectations in order to become the person you want to be/already are) is basically the same thing as coming out, I'd say that's definitely a valid reading, and there's no way it wasn't in the back of at least some of the team's mind while they were making the movie. Let It Go posted:Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I tried! I WONDER HOW ANYONE COULD READ A COMING OUT MEANING FROM THIS 
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Testekill posted:Counter point, a lot of people on poo poo like tumblr reacted to the whole act of true love stuff between the sisters and instantly clicked 'oh my god, they're loving each other' so I don't trust their ability to understand themes or relationships. If there is one thing I have learned about fandom, it's that it doesn't matter WHAT the theme is, or even whether the characters have ever met or are in the same work: people will talk about them loving. The fact that people are doing porn of two characters isn't really a sign of anything beyond "I can vaguely come up with an excuse to have them do sex." Gross as this particular porn is.
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Feb 26, 2015 01:58
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Yeah, I totally understand the dearth of ladies-in-love media, I just rreeeeeeaaaalllly find incest stuff gross and offputting. (And I get kind of pissed at the movie's "love isn't just about romance" theme getting tossed aside.)
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Feb 26, 2015 02:13
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Hbomberguy posted:If the let it go lady is the villain then it might be a good movie I dunno. I'll watch it when the hype dies down so I don't have high expectations. She's not really a villain, more a sort of... I guess deuteragonist. There's a couple of shoehorned-in villains, who have almost no real impact. It's not a traditional Disney story; it's about the relationship between sisters, albeit with a lot of other stuff thrown in because Disney is terrified of going too far out of its comfort zone. If you're inclined to give a poo poo about said relationship, and/or you like Disney fluff, it's pretty enjoyable. Otherwise, I can't see a reason to watch Frozen. It's kinda unfocused for anyone who's not already inclined to check it out. (I really freakin like it, but it hits a lot of my personal enjoyment points, and I tend to be a sucker for "superpowered girl with related angst" stories.)
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Mraagvpeine posted:Why is there a part of our monkey brains that condones this? Presumably, in a setting where there are a lot of threats to your (and your species's) continued existence, it's better for your survival if you go along with someone else in your group who says, "That duder over there is a threat. Let's go kill it/drive it off!" rather than going, "Well, hold on a minute, maybe they WON'T have us all as a snack. Let's wait a while and see." When the situation is "what pop culture do I care about?" it's not exactly HELPFUL, but doesn't really pose a threat to the species, so it hasn't gotten selected out. ETA: Arcsquad12 posted:Thomas the Tank Engine While I am all for pointing out how full of poo poo NC is, this was very silly. Puppy Time fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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HBG I like you but you keep making a lot of erroneous assumptions about what other posters are thinking and saying, and then barfing out textwalls based on that. You should not do that. It is annoying and dumb. Stick to analyses of movies and videro games. You are good at that. Also laughing at fake skulls.
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Mar 8, 2015 19:23
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If there's any non-CineD thread for overthinking bad media in general, I'd say it's this one. Also that PYF Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments thread.
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Hbomberguy posted:Confusion, and information loss, was the point of the scene. Something can be the point and still suck. See: every bad artist going, "BUT IT'S MY STYYYYYYLE!"
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I'm impressed by her dogged insistence of doing her thing despite being about Osama bin Laden level for a chunk of insane people.
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Mar 11, 2015 06:24
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KayTee posted:And SJWs were a different beast back then too - I always assumed the term referred to 'end fursecution' or 'why I should have 'Sepheroth' listed on my birth certificate' type loonies and using it as a byword for feminist/woman with an opinion is a thing that only recently started happening. The problem with SJW as a term is that it covers everything on a spectrum from "activist for feminism/gay rights/antiracism" to "seriously believes they should be cared for because they are a flying dog and a toddler and thus cannot work." It has no actual meaning for any objective observer, since everyone has their own personal definition attached to it. I've seen people with relatively sane opinions apply it to themselves. I've seen it applied to people who think pronouns should be like hairstyles and gently caress you if you don't memorize my new one RIGHT NOW. I've seen it applied to regular, everyday, mild feminism. There's just no way to figure out without further context what definition anybody's using- even in a discussion where everyone should presumably be on the same page as far as terms.
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Mar 11, 2015 17:08
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Rebochan posted:This is #unbelievable OH!
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Mar 11, 2015 21:04
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Arcsquad12 posted:I have a feeling he just doesn't get satire or parody, which both of these particular films thrive on. This would explain a lot about the movies...
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Mar 12, 2015 18:19
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Arcsquad12 posted:Again, Small Soldiers is a Joe Dante film. I'd be more surprised if it didn't have satire. But the bery fact that the GI Joe and Barbie knockoffs in the movie are the bad guys should have made it obvious. Doug says that the commando elite made the gwendy dolls alive to be their sex slaves, when the first thing out of their mouth is declaring themselves cannon fodder gwendies. Miss Wallace posted:I think they meant the anniversary movies. Yeah, what Lupa said; if Doug seriously doesn't have a grasp of satire, it explains the terribleness of the movies. At least, the terribleness that doesn't come from the amateur production stuff, but I'm always willing to let some of that slide.
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Gyges posted:How can you possibly get mad at someone for putting up a Patreon, Kickstarter, Indigogo, whatever crazy flavor of donation aggregator? Oh no, they want money for whatever product/service they're offering. Those fiends! There's this weird idea among a LOT of people that, if you do anything creative and/or entertaining, you should be doing it solely for the Love of the Job and not make any money off it. The consumer shouldn't have to pay for entertainment because. But God help you if you DON'T churn out the material steadily while you're actually working to get money for food and shelter! I think a lot of people don't realise how much work goes into creative stuff. They just hear people talking about how enjoyable and satisfying creative things are and assume it's all goofing off and throwing glitter and I guess living in a fairy tale cottage where food magically appears in the pantry.
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Mar 13, 2015 02:02
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Lichtenstein posted:Hey Kyle, Wanna make sure this doesn't get buried because Kyle Citizen owns.
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Mar 13, 2015 21:29
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Now I want some juice, too.
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Hbomberguy posted:It's no surprise that the same people have problems with feminism. "Oh yeah? Well, show me 'the patriarchy'. You can't, can you? That's not a patriarchy, that's just a bunch of men doing bad stuff to women!" For a group that loves describing itself as free-thinking, new/alternative ideas are like this alien concept. I don't see how this is interpreted as gender being some kind of strange concept; it's pretty clearly saying that a lot of internet atheist types refuse to accept a term describing less tangible things like systems of belief or cultural patterns because they tend to be very concrete thinkers who are only happy about things that can be clearly and objectively measured. The logic is literally, "You can't show me a bunch of moustache-twirling men literally plotting the downfall of women, therefore sexism is over," just like the logic of their atheism is, "You're stupid for adhering to a religion/spirituality that has scientifically unprovable beliefs."* Like, this isn't a strange thing, it's something you see all the drat time. I know HBG types out his rear end a lot, but he's not really wrong here. * I'm cool with people who choose not to believe because of said thing, but it's poo poo when you decide that there's something wrong and stupid about someone else going with other beliefs for their own reasons.
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There's a list of full eps available on YouTube Some of them are taken down once in a while, but for the most part it's been pretty reliable for me. (My favorite ep is either "I Accuse My Parents" or "Girls Town.")
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I kind of like Monster a Go Go, just because nothing makes any sort of sense in it. It's like some kind of Dada B-movie. Also I like the terrible soundtrack. I think I generally prefer the old black and white crap to the later schlocky things in MST3K, other than the musical ones. I wish I could get the soundtrack of TISCWSLABMUZ...
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