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I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

padijun posted:

felix = little brain
virgil = big brain
brendan = galaxy brain

Amber's anecdote about Brendan's delicate features leading her to assume he was a trans man is very believable because goddamn he's got some sculpted cheekbones

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I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Bryter posted:

Wait what?

Vilerat?

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Felix has said he was a lurker, Jesus this topic has been settled for months but it keeps coming back up

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Under the vegetable posted:

the only famous goon is WWE wrestler "Kane"

He was Isaac Yankem, not The Goon

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Maybe it's just because I'm not listening to the podcast through eight thousand dollar headphones but Matt sounds fine imo

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Pac-Manioc Root posted:

lorica with denim?

who is ur commanding legatus?!

I bet he doesn't even pronounce Caesar right

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Moist von Lipwig posted:

God dammit Travis, once again the worst brother

How can this be true when Justin exists

Also Hamilton is mostly annoying in the context of the most annoying people in American federal politics promoting it as a great American artwork, outside of that it's just a lovely version of 1776

I Before E fucked around with this message at 11:13 on May 8, 2017

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Conrad_Birdie posted:

counterpoint: 1776 sucks balls and forgets to be a musical for long stretches of time and Hamilton explicitly shows Phillip Hamilton as a cocksure rear end in a top hat who starts fights and then gets chumped for being a dick.

Counter counterpoint: 1776 owns, gently caress you, Ben Franklin is the best

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Trabisnikof posted:

is But Mr Adams about volcel or incel?

Thomas Jefferson plays the Violin, giving his wife triple digit orgasms which inspire him to write the Declaration of Independence

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

So you're saying Felix should go on Real Time

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Personally, I prefer to empty a book into my Brain

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012


I missed that five so I read it as The Jeeter and I was so hoping Jeet had a gaming alt

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Gene Hackman Fan posted:

were my browser history to be leaked, i think the most shocking revelation would be just in how vanilla my porn preference are.

Targeting close associates, eh

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Saints Row 4 is better because you can kiss everybody

Except Keith David :(

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Video games can be good but for most of their history have not been given the serious critical scrutiny that would open up space for more intellectually adventurous work. Matt's article explores some related problems with tv, where the critical culture exists, certainly with a greater degree of influence than the culture of games criticism does in the games industry at large, but is ecstatically positive to a fault, praising one series after another that doesn't actually do much different from the rest of TV at large, taking the veneer of philosophical complexity in something like Westworld and blowing it up far beyond its actual merit while ignoring how most "prestige tv" stylistically regurgitates the advances made by Sopranos et al. I disagree with Matt that the material context of TV production intrinsically holds it back, but his criticisms of TV criticism itself are solid.

"So you'll have a steakburger then?"

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Guy Goodbody posted:

What does receive serious critical scrutiny? Movie criticism is just fat youtube nerds doing Lootcrate unboxings in between sining the praises of comic book movies, and nobody gives a poo poo about book reviews

That's a super reductive view of both film and literary criticism

yoober posted:

so critical tv culture does or does not exist?

It does, but it's seriously flawed. The same is true with games criticism.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

The problem with tv criticism is exemplified by the fact Emily Nussbaum won a Pulitzer despite the fact she wrote this poo poo.

Also, I'm not going to pretend film and literary crit don't have these same sort of white noise writers, hell, Nussbaum shares a magazine with Anthony Lane, who essentially writes two page surface level summaries that wouldn't be acceptable on Letterboxd, but they've had time to grow past that sort of entry level stuff that TV and game criticism haven't.

I Before E fucked around with this message at 02:40 on May 14, 2017

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

sexpig by night posted:

is King Arthur bad in any funny ways? It seems to be crashing and burning in amazing fashion, is it just a boring failed summer blockbuster or did it try to do something dumb?

It seems to be half fun Guy Ritchie movie about King Arthur mating about with his lads and half boring wizard poo poo.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Sushi in Yiddish posted:

Lol at you guys talking about batman vs superman when the best chapo movie review was REIGN OVER ME.

Saw that poo poo in theaters and was knocked out by how bad it was. Though to be fair that was my fault for going in the first place.

The Conqueror is also a good one

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Alaois posted:

Snake, watch out! He's using DARVO tactics against you. Try using the Nikita guided missile launcher to counter it!

Gorka is always five DARVO moves ahead, Mr. Chapo!

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Halloween Jack posted:

I'm very interested in the MGS series, but frankly don't have time to play all the games and don't particularly want to play really old games. Is there a particular LP that's ideal for experiencing the first games, and any particularly good sites/threads/whatever for analysis?

Poking around online reveals this fandom stuff that seems to miss any actual analysis. Like I get that Johnny Sasaki is a joke on the concept of the invincible super-soldier, but the MGS wikia just humourlessly documents his struggles with IBS throughout the series.

The Chip and Ironicus ones have both informed discussion and high level play.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Meandering is actually good.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Punkin Spunkin posted:

Does anyone pull that move other than Clinton

I know they mentioned someone doing it on the DNC episode but I can't for the life of me remember who

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Pac-Manioc Root posted:

i'm the chump slump pose and weirdo smuggo frown for his headshot

He looks like the lovely American Charlie Brooker.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

padijun posted:

is it weird that I get a sense of enjoyment out of cleaning the bathroom? when I go in there afterwards its like making GBS threads in buckingham palace

There's a difference between cleaning for yourself and cleaning for others, out of obligation to a boss or even a family, in the "cleaning is the role of the wife" way that's been a part of patriarchal society for centuries, not "ugh my mom is making me clean". It's your labor being used to improve your residence and you see and benefit from the fruit of that labor instead of the bulk of it being exploited by... okay this is getting away from me. It's like Marx said, "two men can't poo poo in one toilet, it's just not enough toilet." Wait, wrong section of Capital, hold on

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

The_Rob posted:

Nick Mullen is honestly probably a good roommate. He probably just sits in his room alone and hates himself as he researches death camps or something.

What about his wooden sirens, those can't be fun to be around.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

I'm not super up in arms about the name thing I'm just not sure what purpose revealing this particular guy's name on national tv serves. If it was local then I could maybe see "hey this pretty vocal racist guy is part of the community maybe be careful" but implying you could reveal the name at any moment on national news just seems like flexing nuts on CNN's part in a way I'm not comfortable with a news outlet doing.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Big Coffin Hunter posted:

bring back the pisscast

Felix go on pisscast

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Zombocom

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Pac-Manioc Root posted:

is it really a gift when you're getting consideration in exchange for your pledge in the form of premium content you can enjoy but also immediately send to your moocher best friend on google Drive?

Galaxy Brain: just giving people the patron rss url

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

the second best is amber, the third is the lady from adam's lyft who's podcast is the most turbowoke thing known to mankind, holy poo poo

Brendan is most underrated

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

maybe if he talked more so that we could hear him

He's on for a good time, not a long time

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

sleeptalker posted:

The Real Centrists

https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/889491033163169792

tl;dr: Being mean is alt-right, so Chapo can't care about REAL leftism (being nice).

Man that's a weird piece. He makes this leap from "Chapo mocks corporate feminism and doesn't use their episode on a superhero movie to go deep into the history of imperialist feminism" to "Chapo is trying to play the center between feminism and the alt right" that I just don't understand.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

I've been in Matt's position before, in games and irl, so it was nice to have that.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

As somebody who is regularly owned, I formally denounce corncob

As someone from Indiana, I must support the corncob.

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

X-Ray Pecs posted:

Jen Kirkman had a bit on Drunk History where she talked about how much of a "badass" "the first female President" Edith Wilson was, because she secretly ran the US government after Woodrow Wilson had a stroke. At the end of her segment, she said she didn't know if Edith Wilson passed good policies, but at least 9/11 didn't happen on her watch. Liberals.txt

Biplane fuel can't melt iron beams

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

Any recs for good LGBT leftist podcasts? Or just anything that's left of like, gay neolib comedians at least?

I haven't gotten around to them yet but I've heard good things about Humorless Queers.

Halloween Jack posted:

Kevin Nash is no longer one of my least favourite wrestlers

Low workrate is high praxis

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

His shirts always looked like a dishrag, rest in power

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Mugsbaloney posted:

What even is cum town I tried it and I'm thoroughly confused

It's basically an unstructured rambling conversation between pals and is as inconsistent as that implies.

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I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

Imagine Henry Darger with a DeviantArt account

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