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It was possibly also related to some folks in the stuff he shared claiming "Lulu" was at one time a man and a woman using that account.
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Takoluka posted:My memories of The Spirits Within are that it's a prequel to Xenosaga, since the enemies are basically the Gnosis. Symphogear also stars Basically The Gnosis as a threat, up to and including graphically disintegrating people on camera and only a few ladies can make them physical to harm them.
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Sep 5, 2021 23:15
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Captain Invictus posted:What even is "annoyingly diverse" Does the Burger King Kids Club count? I feel if anything is going to count, it's that.
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Sep 9, 2021 05:29
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Alaois posted:the only thing i know about Xenosaga is that the tragic tale of Albedo is one of the top 10 most shakespearian video game moments And it was retconned heavily in the Japan-only DS retelling of the first two games. Also I'm still incredibly appalled by how bad the anime adaptation was, throwing out a whole bunch of things for no reason that were... kinda load-bearing plot elements. (I have spent too much of 2020-2021 with the Xenosaga games as the research gal for a podcast and we're all loving morons for taking this too seriously.)
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Sep 17, 2021 04:06
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NikkolasKing posted:The anime is a worse anime than Episode 1 was. It's remarkable We legit had to turn to buying bootlegs to get copies because people wouldn't even seed it. JRPG die-hards, who keep scans of artbooks, extensive lore websites, interview creators, scream for an HD remaster, and so on, would not even make sure that this series stayed available. Also because not enough people can see it on an audio medium: this show looked like this. This was official art. 
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Sep 17, 2021 04:41
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NikkolasKing posted:Also as a Shion fan, I gotta say: I was Fletcher once! If you make it to season 2 it'll click. I am also a Shion fan and I promise as much of a dumbass as I am on mic I'm also the only one of us who has the whole story fresh in their mind so I'll go to bat for the absolute worst girl/best arc in the story she is. As far as I know none of my cohosts are currently reading this so don't worry too hard about spoilers. We're recording the endgame/postgame of 2 this month and prep has begun to try and get S3 done by early 2022.
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Sep 17, 2021 20:54
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realtalk: if you will dip into the manga well, Uncle From Another World is a solid parody of the genre. Guy goes into a coma 14 years ago, the family goes to pieces arguing what to do with him, and his nephew ends up there when he wakes up after having had a whole fantasy adventure in another plane of existence. Except the uncle was a mid-90s Sega otaku so he had a miserable time learning magic and being surrounded by all these warrior women and he never learned anything because he just figured out the spell to wipe his memories and cast it whenever he might have been on the verge of a breakthrough as a person. It's pretty comedic and while it makes a randy joke or two along the way, it's pretty funny and gets some bonus points if you, too, were the sort who would laugh at the fact that this guy's first love was the pilot of Seven Force.
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Sep 20, 2021 04:59
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Trying not to pop in every time we update but since people were interested: JRPG podcast Lightning Strikes Thrice has just wrapped* its season on Xenosaga Episode II, and the final recording actually features multiple hosts breaking to the point only half of us covered the post-game. Even if you don't want to listen, I feel like I need to shout out the amazing shitposting Matt has been doing in the back half with our episode art.   * sort of, we split the very long final recording session in two
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Oct 26, 2021 17:34
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Arc Hammer posted:Eurotrip is maybe the only movie from that crop of trash films that I still enjoy but that's mainly because it treats everyone as a psychopath and revels in bad taste. I've always described Euro Trip as a prototype for Always Sunny. It's got very similar cast and energy but it just hasn't figured out where the line is and it's not locked into one place they can develop. Has some sketch comedy film vibes instead.
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Oct 28, 2021 21:45
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Comrade Fakename posted:Also, it's funny that Bioshock 2 has this reputation as the secret best Bioshock (in classic hipster style, the best one is the one YOU didn't play), when it is easily the most centrist Bioshock. The entire point of the game is to say "oh, did you think atheistic libertarianism was bad? Well guess what: religious communism is also bad." I've never heard Bioshock 2 held up as the good story one, just the best gameplay. The story thing is all on Minerva's Den, a DLC that prototyped an entire genre by going "what if we used the audio logs, ambient world building, and exploring this weird world for purposes of narrative over SICK COMBAT EVENTS NON-STOP BETWEEN CUTSCENES".
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Dec 6, 2021 19:31
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Blood Nightmaster posted:I'm not sure what surprises me more here, the fact Bloom County is still going or that it's apparently still pretty good It's definitely the former, Bloom County/Outland doesn't have a lot of misses I still remember when he returned with BC the first time and it made one of the other, shittier newspaper comics so mad that he was instantly back in the groove, the guy kept inserting a stuffed Opus into the series as the devil/monster under the bed/etc. I think it was Non Sequiter It's not even worth looking up, that dude sucks and I guarantee he's anti-mask now
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Dec 16, 2021 19:13
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If you would like to hear the beginning of a lot of arguments about the best mini game in JRPG history, HaKox, do I have a podcast for you! It has now derailed two entire sessions as the people who are right and the people who are wrong get into it, to the point we had to split one episode in two parts. We might have to cut it from future recordings and just come back in endgame.
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Dec 20, 2021 21:19
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Feel free to get mad at me in the comments because you are wrong! 
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Dec 20, 2021 21:37
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NikkolasKing posted:Something I never hear about the Xenoblade games is the villains. Considering how pivotal the villain cast is to both Xenogears and Xenosaga, I couldn't help but zero in on the comment about Takahashi's having cryptic villains in all his game. He surely does love them in Gears and Saga but maybe I just don't know enough about the XBC games because I've never heard either of them has anything like Grahf/Miang/Ramsus/etc. or Margulis/AlbedoYuriewv/etc.. The bad guys are a huge part of why Gears and Saga are so good, though. NikkolasKing posted:Also who was the person who said they didn't like Episode III's music? I'm pretty sure that was Matt, our editor who bought the OST and then had to go find the GST. Captain Invictus posted:weird, I assumed clicking this link would take me to a discussion about The Ancient Cave from Lufia 2, one of the best roguelikes out there that is squirreled away as a sidequest inside a JRPG, but it's just some people talking about some random nonsense that ISN'T the best minigame of all time, which is The Ancient Cave from Lufia 2.  We are in prep for an upcoming season jointly covering Lufias 1 and 2, and while I don't know that I'd call Ancient Cave a minigame, I am so on your side in this that I'm gonna be loving obnoxious.
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Dec 21, 2021 01:34
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NikkolasKing posted:Also who was the person who said they didn't like Episode III's music? I've always seen a few scattered haters of the game but one thing I've never heard criticism of was its score which is a triumph and if anybody cares one bit about music, they owe it to themselves to find XSIII's soundtrack and listen to it. FWIW: we did our first post-holiday recording today and I brought this comment up with Matt to dig in. Matt posted:Most of the tracks are pretty bland orchestral or rehashes of previous tracks if you listen through it. I keep going to put something in the show and I check my notes (I track what I've used where to avoid duplicates) and find out I've already used the song it's quoting in XSI or XSII. When I'm listening through an OST I try to find things that grab my attention or have enough melodic or rhythmic shape that it's memorable, and everything that catches my ear is something which hooked me in a prior title already. I don't want duplicates.
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Jan 2, 2022 05:37
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It feels like a lot of wizard society would have benefited from trying to actually enjoy life. Yes, I know the author is British and that's why nobody does, but still!
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Jan 13, 2022 21:34
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It is only due to ads on a few channels I watch that I learned what R:SL looks like, and this is how I identified that the game which nearly got one of my coworkers divorced when he whaled on it and hid the charges from his wife was indeed Raid! He still plays. It's running on his phone right now on a desk while we both gently caress around in this meeting. Hey Dave.
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Mar 10, 2022 20:42
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Did you know that literally a third of Xenosaga Episode III takes place in the same loving place you've blown up twice already in the series, the tower Labyrinthos?  Bonus: the above cursed image will make more sense if you do. (We're finally at the part where we can stop dancing around spoilers for the most part!)
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Mar 14, 2022 04:37
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Hel posted:BTW was the Smash Bros Paz bomb joke actually real or just a photoshop? because an all ages fighting game making jokes about the whole child rape vagina bomb thing is tasteless as gently caress, if slightly less so than doing it seriously like MGS 5 did. "Starts with a bob-omb" is real, yes.
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Mar 22, 2022 17:25
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Oxxidation posted:KH1’s voice acting was generally fine, it all dropped off a cliff in subsequent entries The fact that one of the series' main villains has become a kiss of death role for VAs doesn't help. I'm expecting Christopher Lloyd to go anytime now due to this.
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Mar 24, 2022 17:48
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I will repeat the same thing I do every time Death Note comes up: the best version of Death Note was the contemporary-to-the-series live action film trilogy. This is because it decided that it wasn't going to be a 1:1 adaptation. Spoilers for films 2/3: L outmaneuvers Light by writing his own name in the book and giving himself that maximum-length year to live period... meaning he can bait Light into trying to kill him openly, which doesn't work because he's already got a note written for himself, and so Light is arrested and defeated. The third film then has a knowing-he-can't-die-yet L decide he's going to try and change the world for the better, becoming absolutely reckless and taking on an ebola-wielding bioterrorist with zero fear of catching the disease being what does him in. His final act as he captures the guy up against his time limit is saving an orphan who goes on to become his successor... M.
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Mar 31, 2022 05:45
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We have wrapped up one disc of Xenosaga III on Lightning Strikes Thrice, meaning that the game is about to begin falling apart in a race to the finish line, sort of like some other famous Xeno-something with two discs. I forget the details. We are very mature.
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Apr 11, 2022 21:13
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nine-gear crow posted:That was the most laugh out loud ridiculous moment of Episode III. There was a lot of ridiculous poo poo in that game, but the reveal that Sellers was a paraplegic because he sassed Mizrahi during the apocalypse and Mizrahi straight up whipped out a gat out of nowhere and put two in his kneecaps was just loving hysterical. I'm firmly with you that Sellers is in the most absurd moment of the game, but my candidate is a little into disc 2: the incident where you get to the center of a massive battleship and he just sasses you endlessly, tells you "this was a trap, dummies", exposits at how loving bad Jr. is at family and seeing the obvious, and then he floats away and goes "you expected a boss fight? I'm a dude in a wheelchair, gently caress off" and hovers out of your range into the sky.
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Apr 12, 2022 03:54
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Captain Invictus posted:Kenny Lauderdale is going through this exact problem right now He just put out a patron-only(?) companion video to his last one talking about this, for context to those who haven't seen it, and some of the things he discusses in the half-apology video for the latest release he did are: - the earlier mentioned "I cannot say X words in the video or I get flagged and demonetized immediately" problem - the anime he's discussing has a lot more meat on its bones in some weird ways but he can't show roughly 45% of the footage because of random boob, making it harder to work with interesting visual material - with Toei and some other japanese companies going hog on claiming videos, he specifically sought out a test topic which was from a company who is long dead, just as bot-bait to see if it's ACTUALLY companies trying to take these down or someone just spamming claims - one of the actresses was doing probably-porn (he doesn't clarify, but reading between the lines) at the time of the project before she transitioned out of that into voice acting/a music career, but again, can't really say those words OR show any of that footage in the slightest... - basically the current state of anything to do with the material he most knows and was trying to discuss is such a minefield due to Google trying to save every possible penny on moderation and throwing AI at the problem instead of staff in such a way that all of his current projects are "safe" videos because he's going to be in algorithm jail if he goes with anything remotely spicy or attention-grabbing from what he has in progress -- tied to that last one: the terrible state of the platform's "spam protection" in comments hides or deletes things with no control from the channel owner, or buries them in a horrendous pocket of the site which you have to actively seek out to discover people trying to leave (what he has found to be) very helpful messages at times that might also push discussion on a video... if people could see them. It sucks because the incredibly frank video that he posted but won't make public is so much more fascinating than the thing he put out to try and keep himself in the algorithm's graces edit: what the actual gently caress at the actual ending of that OVA or some of the footage he couldn't use in the main one for age restriction reasons: somewhere in the middle magic goes awry and clones the MC, so he SHANKS HIMSELF AND THE CLONE VISIBLY BLEEDS OUT AND DISAPPEARS, and then in the final act the protag dies in a bike chase, causing him to enter a dream realm filled with naked witches, at which point his love for the girl wins over the god of that plane so he is revived, and POPS OUT OF HIS OWN COFFIN in a hermaphroditic form fused with the witch. What. I see why he wanted to talk about this before all the content flagging made him slice it to death. claw game handjob fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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Apr 16, 2022 09:19
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Oh, think Sluggy Freelance more than that.
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Apr 17, 2022 08:59
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DC Murderverse posted:[...] Cruella and Maleficent where it just uses a character and spins off in its own directions. The latter end up being most interesting just by virtue of having to have some level of creativity to them. Cruella was the closest I got to wanting to see one of these because the setting and vibe were mildly interesting (and also Emma Stone) So I actually just saw Cruella this weekend for the first time, rented it as part of a mother's day hotel trip, and I'll say this much: aside from the stinger* it was a very weird, never-boring film? It doubles down on being a period piece with the constant 60s-into-70s rock score, but then does a lot of fake outs and isn't afraid to go gently caress reality as rooms full of cameras and laser vaults show up in a fashion designer's house, and every single revelation and double-cross escalates to the point where we laughed all the way to the end. It in no way makes sense as a prequel to 101 Dalmatians, but "puppy-killer takes on admitted multiple-murderer in the fashion world" was a hell of a ride. Highly recommend. I legitimately wish more of their nostalgia-mine output was that weird. Cruella could have been a loving Kingdom Hearts stage. * I actually turned to my mother as it ended and went "it's so nice they didn't hammer home the Anita/Roger bit and let that be subtle in Cruella's story" and then the stinger ran where she gives them, independent of one another, Pongo and Perdita just to go "DO YOU GET IT" and I had to eat crow as she laughed.
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May 9, 2022 18:02
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Kunster posted:The longest Chrontendo episode, episode 60, has been released! 2 hour and half! He actually ADDED MORE footage since the Patreon preview. What lunacy. I'm just gonna throw this out there since I know a few people have said they were listening to the show now: new Lightning Strikes Thrice is out as we enter the endgame stretch on Michtam and our body count rockets skyward. I'm mentioning this one because we're a) taking fan questions/feedback for a post-game episode just covering the timeline and questions hosts had about the story, and b) we all had a big discussion at the end of the XS3 finale and tried to begin planning out show improvements for future seasons. There's a doc here (Guess we'll find out if Chris set up permissions correctly, I can't look from work) with stuff we're working on and didn't know if anyone else had feedback/gripes/ideas we should look into before we kick off FFVIII recording in a month. Thank you for loving Michtam.
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Jun 21, 2022 17:09
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Farm Frenzy posted:you should watch a movie for grown ups. this is directed at whoever is reading this post. give it a try DID YOU KNOW: You can watch a classic of Australian cinema, the 1970 film Wake In Fright, for free on YouTube because a government program helped restore it after people thought there were no clean film copies to restore until the 2000s? You should watch it if you'd like a psychological thriller about human kindness and cruelty! https://youtu.be/uLUIi02FMK0 Absolutely one of my favorite films from the region. Warning: does contain a sequence with kangaroo death.
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Jun 26, 2022 02:27
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Hel posted:Let's post something chill then: Very similar but from a different angle: GSTMix is a channel that usually focuses on mixes of game music by system, genre, or artist's career, with rare exceptions. One of their latest was an hours-long video about the evolution of 3D in computer graphics, showing a year by year breakdown of real-time games, Hollywood effects shots, demoscene projects... It's a wild timeline and well worth the watch, and is similarly commentary-less barring some of the interview or news segments on different events. https://youtu.be/NAHJVa4Gkm4
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Jul 5, 2022 18:54
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The 7th Guest posted:I’m actually kind of surprised there isn’t a notable YouTube content creator that covers webcomics. When am I gonna get a “Octopus Pie is good and here’s why” 3 hour essay?? Since it's stalled out and I feel less concerned about someone stealing my GENIUS IDEA: the long Sinfest chronology and read-through from earlier this year made me try to set up similar projects as video essays but for comics which were more middle-tier and less overt meltdowns. I figured I'd do it as a kind of "remember the web comics of the 2000s" angle and hit up the ones who were still going, reached out to the creators on the pair I was starting with, who are active on social media... And got silence. It was a bit demotivating because I figured that was the interesting hook to work with, just being able to say "hey, what led to this art style shift in 2006? What did you pick up in 2014 that led to your schedule becoming way more consistent?" with a couple of specific questions, since it wasn't going to veer off into TERF town or drama by the end.
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Jul 9, 2022 17:40
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Also Bill Oakley was shopping around a pilot for a Gus and Walley spinoff last year (set in the same time period) that seems to have been rejected across the board.
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Aug 12, 2022 22:42
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Catgirl Al Capone posted:having caught bits and pieces dbz seems to exist in a strange space where everything is part of an overarching gag but also taken entirely seriously at the same time Z is actually the serious one a lot of the time. Super returns to being zanier. Kinda wild.
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Aug 23, 2022 19:40
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KingKalamari posted:You even got a little bit of that near the tail-end of Z: The Majin Buu arc started to sneak a lot of the doofy weirdness from earlier in the series back in. Yeah, Buu and Hercule add so much, but it's still way more uptight than "this is the space cop. He sucks so bad. ACAB even in space, but also he's gonna keep hanging around because he can take credit for everything our cast do to his superiors and Bulma bullies him as a space taxi" and that's just one dude before we get to things like the clown universe or "I'm never fighting a gag manga character again". What a gap in comedy.
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Aug 23, 2022 20:29
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Guy A. Person posted:The pepperoni's look like the dots on a domino I was sitting here going "No, they totally send you the two square ones in a rectangle box, domino-style" and then I remembered that's Little Caesar's, so yeah, who the gently caress is responsible for that foul
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Aug 26, 2022 18:29
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Arc Hammer posted:The only videos I recall seeing on HGS that weren't hateful Chud stuff came from the Spilling the Milk guys who are just annoying. It's kind of a timebomb show to discuss because the hate crowd following it around will latch onto any critical analysis video and poo poo up the place. Mother's Basement did a video on the Crunchyroll Originals program as a whole, and the HGS saga got a chunk of the video just because it seemed to be this string of unforced errors dragged out over years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkgiHGgz64M
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Oct 5, 2022 19:56
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DaysBefore posted:is HBO just dumb It's the latter, the documentarian seems to be on the side of one of the subjects and while they're all ancaps the editing is very careful to work around that phrase.
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Oct 14, 2022 16:30
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It is. I was writing it off until Minion Death Cult covered it and it's a combo of dumb filmmaker and even dumber subjects and that's before you get into the most obvious ending to the saga. Go in blind if you watch it.
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Oct 14, 2022 16:36
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Alaois posted:i still miss That Awful Sound Same, I legit didn't discover it until it was already dead and that's the saddest
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Oct 14, 2022 19:27
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That chunk of the video was definitely the first time I went from "Wow, this is bad" to outright speechless. Somehow it kept escalating from there until the end. The suicide hotline sequence left me aghast.
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Oct 30, 2022 04:53
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Delphisage posted:I think the most damning part of this is how this is EXACTLY what happened in RWBY Season 8. Glorifying suicide as a solution and then linking to a suicide hotline at the end of the episode. ...how do you do that twice?! I'd make a joke about something in the water at the studio but it seems ill-fitting given, y'know, multiple years of abuse and mismanagement and burnout at Rooster T- ohhhhhhhhh
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Oct 30, 2022 07:12
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