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McCloud posted:The soldier guy? Didn't he turn out to be an emotionally abusive slutshaming rear end in a top hat? He ended up 'cheating' on her or some poo poo by going a vamp house to get sucked on because he felt insignificant since his lifelong training and experience still made him a joke compared to her.
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Mar 24, 2021 02:30
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Sarcopenia posted:I think that we're going to see a lot of younger people who don't have much knowledge about the dude beyond memes call him out now. Bhad Bhabie just exposed the lovely "therapeutic boarding school", Turn-About Ranch that he sends every single "troubled teenager" on his show to, as being an abusive work camp. I've had a long time obsession with reading about these types of residential behavioral schools specifically because I used to watch the British 2000s reality tv, "Brat Camp" about Turn-About Ranch. The show really freaked me the gently caress out. The adults wore them down physically so they were too tired to argue, stripped them of any individuality, and dismissed any emotional outbursts that weren't "Thank you for doing this to me. I used to be very bad, but now I am so much better.". Super cultish... And this was a show that positioned the camp as the good guys that were never in the wrong. Paris Hilton spoke to the Utah state senate about how horrible and abusive those child treatment centers are. Suddenly all the "lol rich kid" behavior makes a lot of sense when you learn how emotionally and physically abused they were for major parts of their childhood.
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Mar 28, 2021 08:03
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mycot posted:Not disagreeing with your main point but the hilariously obvious nepotism with the white girl playing Katara showing up in blockbusters for a hot minute is always something I remember with the ATLA movie. The whole production was a mess for a million reasons, M Night being a terrible choice for a blockbuster SFX franchise starter being one. The ATLA creators have basically been overridden or pushed out of the movie and live action TV adaptations of the show because someone in charge just ignored them and wanted to do something different i.e "mass marketable"
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Mar 28, 2021 22:50
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Clip-On Fedora posted:I remember hearing that after the civil rights movement, a lot of middle class white people stopped being racist hold up they didn't stop, they just didn't advertise.
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Mar 28, 2021 22:54
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Dr Christmas posted:Some time this winter after Elliot Page came out as transgender, I came across a movie starring him while channel surfing. My cable provider’s info screen didn’t use his dead name, and I thought it was nice how it was resolved. I should have known there’d be idiot assholes waiting to stir up poo poo over this I'm pretty sure like 5 minutes after the press release Neflix had already changed all the credits for Umbrella Academy.
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Mar 30, 2021 21:32
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Yvonmukluk posted:That didn't stop the original! Yeah but the same people who developed a cult like obsession with the original flipped out when the leaks came out about the seque andl they tried to disavow it as a bunch of 4chan sourced ideas because it was so terrible. Then it turned out the leaks were 100% true and people on reddit tried to find some explanation for why it was so bad, like he crowdsourced out the writing or something. In the 10 years since the original there was a massive culture shift in a lot of ways, and suddenly RP2 comes out and is basically worse in every way, plus has a ton of really inappropriate "gamer moments" that are portrayed as seemingly normal.
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Apr 4, 2021 11:44
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KingKalamari posted:This is a major thing that tends to crop up in more niche, nerd-focused mediums where works that show basic competency of storytelling and writing are heralded as genius because most of the competition doesn't even meet the most basic expectations. When all someone consumes is schlock, a work with even the most basic competency seems amazing. I thought it was because it was literally the first time they went beyond the movie canon, and everyone got insanely psyched up because the story of Star Wars was continuing. I read them, and don't remember much about them at all. Until I googled them I didn't even remember it was about the clones. I know the Dark Horse comics that followed up were equally popular despite also being completely insane. It was like the DBZ power creep but for spaceships and weapons of mass destruction. Also, the recent movies basically lifted the entire main plot from that comics series, and the SW nerds lost their loving minds at it calling it a dogshit terrible story. pentyne fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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Apr 19, 2021 00:45
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Katt posted:Starting to watch Elfen lied. being a filthy casual anime fan in my teens and not knowing what actually was out there until I first went to college and met other anime fans Elfen Lied was one of the first things I saw that wasn't Gundam or DBZ. It's not good at all but in the early 2000s when you're thinking anime is just cooler versions of American cartoons it was a pretty amazing experience.
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Apr 29, 2021 21:07
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BigRed0427 posted:Elfin laid was the king of "Dude, why the gently caress are we watching something this hosed up" until Goblin Slayer and redo of healer came out. I been getting some YT anime reviewers linked on the recommendations since I clicked through some videos in this thread, and I don't think anything can compare to Redo of Healer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAe1toh1lZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJ9NNtkFNw Like, it's not only absolutely bad, it's hardcore fetish misogyny poo poo presented as valid by virtue of existing as a seasonal anime broadcast on TV/CR.
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Apr 29, 2021 23:13
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Pants Donkey posted:Bill Gates is exhausting to discuss because you have several legitimate reasons to condemn him, but that’s buried under ten different conspiracies depending on what the angle is, from anti-vaxxer nonsense to NWO nonsense. I mean "follow the money" is usually the easiest way to make people realize what he is doing. Its all 100% public and once you actually think about it he's basically the endgame of capitalist philantrophy. If people want to believe in sci-fi imaginary tech rather then worry about a billionaire using his capital to basically set policy and research for major medical issues I don't think there's any point in attempting to discuss it with them because the underlying premise of unchecked billionaires wielding power has become a highly politicized concept. The best, most exhaustively researched explanations won't mean anything if the person just goes "yeah like Soros, its all a plot to destroy conservatives" while sucking down a diet of Koch funded media and Murdoch's news sources.
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Apr 30, 2021 01:01
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Dawgstar posted:Much hand-wringing, as I recall, was given over to Dot's bosom. So much so she was not really allowed to have any but instead a sort of triangle on her chest. I believe Woolie did an episode on ReBoot at some point when that unlamented live action version was about to drop. At some point in Reboot either they switched production studios or some corporate people no longer gave a flying gently caress because between the season 2 finale and season 3 premiere they went from this  to this 
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May 5, 2021 21:36
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Dias posted:DE's true scorn is actually aimed at centrists, fascism and racism is treated as obviously idiotic poo poo that deserves to be mocked, but centrism is the one that gets you called out the most in a metatextual level, IMHO. Its take on (state) communism is kinda "we are fighting for a lost cause but we still gotta keep fighting", it's sympathetic but it's not the ~right answer~, which made some people kinda miffed (hi Austin). The fascists/racists are shown as being a bunch of sad sacks angry they can't stick their boots on everyone's necks. The moralists are shown as wanting a whole truth in the middle reconciliation idea but only because they've brutally murdered all challenges to their power, and regardless of all that capital must be protected. The communists are shown as unwilling to accept injustice and greed even if it means killing 400 million or more to see a dream of equality. Everyone is equally contemptible in their own way but I'd say the way it presents the Moralintern is the absolute worst. It's basically "the money was threatened, so the money responded" and you end up where the fascists and the communists are both miserable and most of Revechol are just looking for a quick FYGM for being good moralist servants.
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May 5, 2021 23:16
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Nuns with Guns posted:To be clear, I'm not a "bro". And I don't want to gently caress Lindsay Ellis or engage with her content because she and Contra really do need to stop posting about cancelling or being cancelled and find their peace away from twitter because neither of them are capable of handling direct engagement on it well at all. I think there is way too much of a gleeful CAD/Chris-chan tier of hate fandom built up around them that's pretty unhealthy and poo poo too, and maybe you'd find a more fulfilling experience just posting on Kiwifarms if you're going to do poo poo like that here? "I don't want to talk about this person" I scream as I won't stop talking about this person.
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May 7, 2021 23:33
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Vtubers are basically just hired actresses, right? Seeing everyone personalize them and get all highly specific with references to them, it's still a corporate owned mascot they could just retire the second the person doing the voice became a problem or wanted more money.
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May 11, 2021 06:19
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I imagine the really distinctive ones who've leaned into the role, sort of really made the character their own, would have 0 trouble gaining enough of a fan-base to support them if they went independent. The tech start-up cost would be a hurdle, $15k for a full mo-cap suit, and getting all the back-end support, but it seems like a lot of channels can afford that with much smaller fanbases. I imagine the $$$ from the super fans must be at least $100k on average if the most popular ones are making close to $1mil so there's plenty of money to go around. Unless it gets weird like Maker did (I didn't follow too closely but recall several major channels cutting ties around the same time) I don't really see too many problems. RareAcumen posted:One of Pikamee's friends, Jitomi Monoe, got retired for a breach of contract in like February and I don't know if they ever elaborated on what happened. All I can find from a search is people discussing a stream where the other 2 members of the trio and the boss all agreed it had to be done. Can't imagine it was anything they could hide or get away with because either way it's definitely costing them a chunk of money.
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May 11, 2021 09:46
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Yardbomb posted:TVD (The dev, old name) is weird and sucks but Age of Decadence is pretty good. It's an amazing game with a ton of varied content depending on what you do. Most of the single class playthroughs are almost 100% different. It's also complex and crunchy as gently caress though, and the combat is intensely difficult. A "max content" guide for the game had several times where the writer said "if you don't knock them down in the first turn, quit and reload" pentyne fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 08:40
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josh04 posted:Pretty sure every cop in Bright other than Will Smith and Orc Cop is corrupt. Yeah but making the Orc Cop "one of the good ones" when literally all other orcs are presented as thugs and gangbangers was like grade A chud bait. "Fairy Lives Don't Matter" too, I don't know how else to read that. pentyne fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Aug 4, 2021 |
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Aug 4, 2021 09:34
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Alaois posted:Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is an incredible movie that was passed over when it came out because it goes so hard on specific biopic jokes that i don't think people knew what to make of it Isn't there a scene like when they copy the sink ripping from Johnny Cash biopic and it's like three stooges hilarious.
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Aug 6, 2021 05:23
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I Before E posted:https://twitter.com/allahliker/status/1234460854860513280?s=19 that tweet is like 90% of YA twitter too
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Aug 8, 2021 08:38
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Acute Grill posted:Lifehack: get coffee ready to drink when you wake up with premade cold brew from the grocery store and drink it straight from the bottle like an animal you piece of poo poo. Too expensive. By instant grounds and just eat a tablespoon at a time to replicate the effect of a cup of coffee.
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Aug 8, 2021 23:52
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Grouchio posted:Since when have Dream and Death been 'tremendous dumb assholes?' Famous not-assholes such as Dream, the god who, after several thousand years, finds the women he condemned to an eternity of suffering for daring to refuse him, and goes "huh, maybe that wasn't good?"
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Aug 13, 2021 19:06
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So, Onlyfans is planning to eliminate pornographic content soon because they want that sweet, sweet investor cash. Surely there's no way this could backfire on them, a massive content hosting platform that suddenly tries to go clean to raise their stock price.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:11
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e X posted:How exactly does this Christian group exerts pressure? Like apparently the influences MasterCard, I just wonder what exactly did they do? They get a lot of free media attention by always claiming everything is sexual abuse or human trafficking and have deep pockets from fundie supporters. Politicians don't want to object to it because they're worried about being smeared as pro-sex slavery. With all the Qanon Adenochrome baby eating propoganda it's such a popular smear that no one wants to go "you moralizing assholes are hurting real people" because sex work/workers are still considered acceptable targets for scorn, derision, and public humiliation. Like, the reality is complex, but in general SOESTA and FOESTA were a problem for law enforcement because they lost a ton of sources of information for busting sex criminals, especially the customers. It was a huge problem for the sex workers because it pushed them onto more unreliable and sketchy sites and made it harder to do business in any safe manner. The online payment processors also get the final say, and that's basically a monopoly of the big 3/4 who all agree to do the same thing for sex services and sex sites. Even for regular banking it's a problem as adult actors and sex workers have said banks have closed out their accounts and shut down business lines of credit when they find out it's for a sex business, even a legal one.
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Aug 20, 2021 00:35
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:part of it is also almost certainly that, yes, fundie pressure on payment processors was a thing, but OF was probably entirely willing to fold on this point so the top level execs could pump and dump it for a clean sex worker-free IPO and were not expecting the massive amounts of bad press that would have ruined their plans. The weird narrative that "oh no OF doesnt want to do this, its just the mean banks forcing them" was hella weird! So, you're mad that OF didn't basically nuke their entire company, and everyone who worked for them directly, along with all the OF creators, by standing up to the massive banks and telling them off? This isn't new. Banks and banking institutions targeting and hurting people (mostly women) involved in sex work has been a thing for decades. The rule for porn sites for the past 20 years was make sure to toe the line for what Visa/MC/AMEX payment processors will allow because if they decide to shut that down you have no other options. You can criticize OF management for a lot, but the decision to adopt strict content guidelines when they were going to lose their banking services isn't part of a stock price scheme.
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Aug 25, 2021 23:18
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Dawgstar posted:You're right, it was Kristin Kreuk. She apparently bailed some years ago but Allison Mack went all in. If I still thought highly of Down the Rabbit Hole that whole thing could make a good video. Yeah Mack was a 100% convert, and tried to get some of the Smallville cast to join. Micheal Rosenbaum detailed a night where Mack called to come by, some cult buddies came over with her and he was so shocked at their behavior he legit wondered if he hadn't been with a friend if he would've been safe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_H_8r_dEo
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Sep 26, 2021 06:25
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people complaining about streamers making 6 figures have the same energy as people who scream when they hear about "burger flippers" getting $15/hr in that they want to blame the laborer not the capitalists doing little to no work who see immense profits off that same laborer like, what do you not understand, if X streamer is making $1 million then some exec or corporate shark is making a boatload off them as well just from taking their cut.
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Oct 8, 2021 19:16
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fun hater posted:i have a zeal and passion for the arts because you're leveling your vitriol at the person who does actual work, not the corporate execs who makes 100x as much just from sitting on their rear end and taking a cut of the profits from the work generated.
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Oct 8, 2021 19:52
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Garrand posted:An hour long video about a show(?)/movie(?)/whatever the gently caress I don't know anything about. Time to make some popcorn Does that also go into all the weird poo poo with the Broadway play as well? It seems like the weird, hosed up movie has open the door to a ton of criticism about DEH that didn't really get too much traction while people were gushing over it and giving it Tony awards.
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Oct 13, 2021 01:05
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Yardbomb posted:Oh yeah the Telltale GoT game sucked too, getting sand kicked in your eyes simulator for 5 episodes or whatever. Besides Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, and Borderlands, I've never seen any Telltale games regularly discussed or mentioned and they made like 10 other games before they folded. In 10 years Telltale went from the future of adventure games, modern LucasArts, to a lovely cash grab company churning out IPs like Disney.
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Oct 19, 2021 17:44
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Sydin posted:Caldwell-Gervais imo put it best that KOTOR 1 and KOTOR 2 are artistic companion pieces that are lessened when viewed individually, not just in terms of their connected plot but more so the philosophy behind each's development. The first game is the formula played completely straight, just a perfect capture of the spirit of Star Wars as a property. The second game is the formula completely deconstructed, picked over, ruthlessly criticized, and pointedly never put back together. It is a refutation of not just KOTOR 1, but the underpinnings of the property itself. And IMO, both games are good for what they are and are fascinating to play back-to-back. Yeah it sucks that KOTOR 1 has so much cringy bullshit in it like Bastilla's tsundere romance and it really sucks that even with restored content KOTOR 2 just... doesn't have an ending, but I love 'em both despite the flaws. Kotor 2 is like the greatest blursed example for a game I can think of. Obsidian was given no real direction, so they decided to take the loving piss out of the entire Star Wars mystical Jedi/Force ideology and rip into the entire idea with one of the core companions as a mouthpiece. They reasonably expected that someone at LucasArts would tell them no loving way, but they got the story pitch back from LA with a "sure, go ahead". One of the devs was pretty sure Kotor 2 was so low priority that no one actually read it past the first few pages, and now the entire team was excited to make a 'subversive' Star Wars game. Then, after being 6 months into development for a 18-24 month dev cycle, they get told "finish it by Christmas" which was a little over 6 months away. It's like no one aside from the actual developers had any interest in the game beyond a byline in a quarterly report, and that it turned out to be so good as it is and the first piece of official Star Wars media to just poo poo all over the space wizards was just a massive amount of luck and the game was shoved out the door in a barely finished state.
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Oct 20, 2021 00:23
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Blood Nightmaster posted:Yeah tbh I don't really get his obsession with needing the highest resolution possible/needing it all in one video, I watched his Tokimeki Memorial review a while back and while I enjoyed the deep dive (as somebody who tried to brute force the game with next to no translation multiple times as a bored preteen, lmao,) I couldn't help but feel like it would have massively benefitted from being cut up into like, five videos instead. I mean it was cool of him to use the chapter marking system but there were way too many times I went to pause the video on my phone/backtrack by a minute or so and accidentally lost my place. Some of these people probably have legit workflow issues where everything must be a certain way or its a deal-breaker for them. There were stories about how Monty Oum would refuse to upgrade from his old version of the animation software and literally ripped keys out of the office keyboards because they worked as shortcuts or something
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Oct 22, 2021 21:23
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Cinema Sins gets people riled up like crazy but it really is the most bottom of the barrel game the algorithm trash imaginable. Even worse is when they vacillate between pretending its a joke then pretending they are serious critics.
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Nov 3, 2021 22:08
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This video kind of explains all the problem with Cinemasins, at least as of 2 years ago. I doubt they've changed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELEAsGoP-5I I like the comment that calls it Schrodinger's joke, where if you disagree then it's humor, but if you agree then its critical review.
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Nov 4, 2021 01:01
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KingKalamari posted:It was also a problem you'd see crop up a lot in the early days of Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation reviews, which was especially ironic given he had a pretty clear "Form your own goddamned opinion on this stuff" message in his early videos. It's part of a larger problem in the way mass market audiences tend to view critics and criticism - That there is a singular "correct" opinion on media and thus if a critic they like dislikes something they have not seen, that thing must be bad, whereas if that same critic dislikes something they have already seen and liked, that critic must be incorrect or uninformed. I remember Yahtzee was gonna post it on Something Awful but Lowtax refused to pay him claiming the site made no money.
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Nov 4, 2021 18:50
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egg tats posted:farscape is perfect and should not be revisited because it would not be allowed to remain perfect There's no way a remake would work because good puppet sfx is insanely expensive. The new Dark crystal show was wildly expensive for that reason and probably why it didn't get a second season.
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Nov 29, 2021 02:14
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Endorph posted:nobody should ever read a dark id lp Why does that name always come up when talking about LPs?
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Dec 3, 2021 23:17
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Grondoth posted:She starts off talking about how it got popular with teens cause of gay shipping and how she thinks it might've been unfairly maligned because of it, which is just a bad Sarah Z indicator. I'm not sure what you mean, but "gay shipping" is like a massive pop culture thing and probably a big reason Supernatural got as big as it did. Some article for the final season of Supernatural mentioned how a pairing of two male characters from the show was still the number 1 relationship pairing of anything on a major fanfiction site.
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Dec 5, 2021 23:41
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Dias posted:I think the issue was that Ben Stiller performing as the neurodiverse character was played for laughs and not really treated with the same disdain as RDJ's decision to go blackface was. It was more of a career fuckup and a bad performance instead of method acting as an excuse for racist poo poo. It felt like it was a shot at Radio, the Cuba Gooding Jr movie and similar real films that basically turn a person with severe mental disabilities into a melodramatic "one of the good ones" mascot story. It's like how people will coo over videos of a person with down's syndrome doing a basic task the same as when they see a cat or dog do something uplifting.
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Dec 19, 2021 06:28
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Is it the Boondocks or similar where someone wrote an article about how satire is only effective up to a point? Like it can be the most well written and damning portrayal of something but it still doesn't matter because satire will always fail to reach a portion of the audience. RDJ's speech about comparing Gump, Rain Man and similar was good at pointing out that Hollywood loves fawning over neurodivergent portrayals so long as it makes people warm and fuzzy, and an actually seriously disabled person is where they go "eww, gross". The language is certainly dated but it nailed the absolute contempt awards and critics have for anything other then saccharine feel good stories over overcoming adversity. pentyne fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Dec 19, 2021 06:37
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Jimbot posted:Tell Me Why is a funny case because I've seen quite a few trans reviewers trash the game for how it handled trans issues while all the cis reviewers fawned over that aspect. It's a pretty good example of how there needs to be more non-white and non-cis voices at these publications that can write about these things as the ones already there get buried under all the noise. I don't really know how well the trans issies were/weren't handled but a big problem is they make such a big deal over having a trans character and after the first 30 minutes the game really does nothing that couldn't have been done as with a cis character aside from 1-2 blatantly telegraphed "oh youre a trans now" lines from NPCs. Game felt rushed and unfinished, and that its entire commercial identity was "you play as a trans character"
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Dec 19, 2021 18:06
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