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mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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The original twitter thread that I'm assuming that video is based on is interesting. It's basically a mixture of: things that are surprisingly accurate (the clothing, the utensils and other day to day life details of ancient China), things that are inaccurate but probably deliberately for plot/stylistic reasons (the anachronistic Forbidden City, arguably everything to do with the villains), and mistakes.

https://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1314765485087420416

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mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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I realize this is a cold take and a :can: at the same time but I'm always confused at how hardcore lefties can hold up China as an example of an ideal socialist state.

something something at least they don't have MCU movies.

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Oct 23, 2014

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Antigravitas posted:

I'm getting some Disco Elysium vibes from that druids game and that scares me.

"We have Disco Elysium at home"
Disco Elysium at home:


edit: the solution to the first puzzle :stonk:

mycot fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Oct 30, 2020

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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dmboogie posted:

honestly after all the hype i did not expect that game to be so consistently funny on purpose

what a ride

If it were even slightly more playable then I feel like this would basically be the adventure game version of Deadly Premonition.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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The year is 202X. Every post on Something Awful Forums is a repost of a tweet or a reply to tweet to be reposted on twitter.

CharlestheHammer posted:

Isn’t Dan Olsen that contrarian fin critic guy.

Why would anyone care what he thinks about politics.

Might as well ask movie bob his opinion

I don't think that's a good comparison because Moviebob has the exact opposite take on yearning for violence :v:

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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The main thing I get from that Some more News video is: what the HELL is going on in the Super Mario Brothers movie? :psyduck:

mycot fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Nov 4, 2020

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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achillesforever6 posted:

It does depress me how much easier it is for the right to get a ton of views for their bitesize videos because fundamentally they have the benefit of just making up poo poo (Thinking of PragerU videos)

Yeah this is why The Grift will always exist. It's so much easier than an actual job, even by Tube standards.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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You should pay me for having to see this.

edit: lmao at the content warnings for things that are only in their own tweet.

mycot fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Nov 15, 2020

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Dire Lemming posted:

Not really? I stopped watching Contra because I didn't like what she did but saying she's not allowed to feel isolated because she has a successful business is absurd. I've yet to see argument along the lines of "you are x, thus you cannot be a victim of y" that actually holds up, maybe they're actually all bad arguments?

Yeah it's not like hearing positive things cancels out hearing bad stuff, in any real life scenario. Imagine trying to hold onto a good mood when someone accuses you of cannibalizing trans people.

mycot fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Nov 15, 2020

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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CelticPredator posted:

That really isnt true about Batman or Superman though? I dont read comics but half the time I see Superman or Batman panels its Superman telling a suicidal girl off a ledge, or punching the joker through his chest. With batman it's his giant dong, or Joker ripping off his own face.

I have to say this conversation is making a very poor argument that edgy interpretations of superheroes are not terrible dogshit.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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muscles like this! posted:

Online Creators + Reviewers V: To get off of genocide chat,

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Neo_Crimson posted:

Is that Tim Allen cosplaying as Vergil from Devil May Cry in that last one? :raise:
A classic:

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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achillesforever6 posted:

I think like a lot of the bad transformation webcomics of the 2000s they kind of all died out in the 2010s when they could realize they could just post commission stuff on Deviantart, etc

If someone had a softcore fetish webcomic in the early 2000s there's a 90% chance they have a Patreon now.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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It does feel pretty rough for youtubers when something like beandad feels old in a week.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Farm Frenzy posted:

if literally all fiction is fanfiction then that tweet should just harmlessly roll off your back and not mean anything

This logic implies Beandad was right. Someone getting dogpiled doesn't magically make them in the right.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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I'm almost done with Jenny Nicholson's Vampire Diaries video and I'm getting outraged over ships for a show I never watched or will watch.

They did Bamon so dirty!

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Nucleic Acids posted:

This man has literally never had a good take, it’s incredible.

I have to admit "so woke/contrary you defend hedge fund millionaires" is new ground.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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DesertIslandHermit posted:

I don’t know where Bob picked up his background but some of it may have fermented from that American period in the 00s when the culture war was brewing over things like teaching evolution in schools or prayer in class. So he does what plenty of teens and young adults did, take pride in science and intellectualism. Nobody would object to science. It’s all facts! Combine that with consuming lots of 00s media where dunking on the Bible Belt was all the rage and voila.

And he, like many people that get too online, assume the absolute worst when it comes to opposition of what he likes. Which was why he got so angry over a poll showing people not wanting to go to outer space for various reasons. Going to the moon or space is seen to some as the next breakthrough to science. It’s why he kept saying things like ‘If it weren’t for stupid people, I’d be talking with robots on the moon!’ Instead of seeing it as a change of preference, he saw it as an opposition to science and intelligence that he banked his identity on.

Yeah. I don't think it's anything more complicated than "all the world's problems would be solved if all the money went to white science bros" mindset aging very very poorly.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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RareAcumen posted:

The Sherlock Holmes video was so good and the MIB one was fine too but Filmento what the gently caress, why are your comment sections like this?! :psyduck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeX4qvP5mGg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBi2WyPVaMI

So many people going 'Uh yeah, we had good female characters before. Their names were Amanda Ripley and The Bride :mmmsmug:' And no one pointing out 'Wait, what the gently caress, surely there must be more examples beyond two characters from a movie that's 34/16 years old right?'

This is giving me flashbacks to a goon in the CineD Spider-verse thread who insisted that black representation was a solved issue because of Will Smith in I-Robot.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Yardbomb posted:

Also like what "myth", china is still trying to ethnically cleanse tibet, they're still constantly trying to tread on taiwan including passing ever more transparently abusable laws (Because HK's legislature is filled with party toadies) against like "disrespecting" the chinese anthem and limiting the size of groups in public and a guy just got out of prison after like two years for merely commemorating the tiananmen square massacre. Where's the lie in any of their big authoritarian shitfits over those three and more.

In an area that most people in this thread are probably more familiar with, there was also the recent case of the Taiwanese indie game Devotion basically getting annihilated off the internet due to complaints from mysterious parties.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Dapper_Swindler posted:

so why are teens going full "think of the children" over weird dumb poo poo. like its one thing to be grossed out by weird underage ship poo poo or obviously toxic stuff. but i see poo poo like "himbos are ablest" and "height difference = pedos". hope zoomers don't become a generation of Jonathan McIntosh types but somehow way way way dumber.

Keep in mind A LOT of this is trolling and shitdidnthappen because it is now a thing to look cool owning dumb teens.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Microcline posted:

the other thing they don't understand is how necessary Uncle Iroh was for cutting through his bullshit to make the character enjoyable instead of unbearable

I like how Iroh is set up to be the bumbling henchman but he actually had the right idea that it really is in Zuko's best interests to take any opportunity to bail from his outrageously lovely family.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Augus posted:

The infamously whitewashed Last Airbender movie had an Indian-American writer/director/producer who hand-picked the actors he wanted to be in the movie.

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.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Inspector Gesicht posted:

Nichola Peltz? Is she supposed to be the poor man's Hailee Steinfeld?

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Peltz was born in Westchester County, New York, the daughter of billionaire businessman Nelson Peltz and model Claudia Heffner.[3]

:v:

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Dapper_Swindler posted:

thats the thing alot of the chuds trying to false flag poo poo tend to show their hands/asses really hard because they don't know how to actually sound woke/progressive but if the blood is already in the water it doesnt matter anyway. jenny also isnt terminally online and doesnt really get in fights so she is actually hard to fake poo poo well. also no one cares about fake star wars tweets outside weird reactionaries who don't like her already.

On the contrary I feel like Jenny never has any real twitter dirt because she is extremely online.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Augus posted:

I got recommended this video about 100%ing Balan Wonderworld and wow is this game just a deep rabbit hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhulaUqpWPQ

Balan is such a weird bad game because there is actually so much effort in places that very few players would see or notice. Everything about the secret costume that actually gives you air options and turns the game into a NIGHTS clone is :psyduck: . I wonder if it would have been better received if it actually was a tap-to-jump phone game, but Genshin Impact came out and was a "real" game on mobile so maybe not.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Asuron posted:

His bedroom and the ambience of the show in general are just embedded into my brain.

Was there ever an explanation on why Arnold had such an awesome bedroom?

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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McCloud posted:

Also her having thst weird relationship with a dude that's not even technically her boss?

Like what was that all about

The Adam/Samus relationship is literally just a genderbent version of Master Chief and Cortana. Like, I wonder if that was on purpose.

The funny thing is that Other M showed Adam the Guy and made him so hated nobody wants to see Adam the AI ever again :v:

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Alaois posted:

did she do a patreon-only video about a bleedman comic without knowing bleedman is a notorious pedophile

The patreon vid subjects are voted on, so, kinda.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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As someone who only experienced the plot of Harry Potter through the Shrieking Shack, looking at just the text on its own I was honestly impressed at how consistently unsympathetic House Slytherin is and how the books never throw a single bone to the massive fanbase that was desperately holding out for Slytherin Not Being That Bad. I would almost take it as commentary against people trying to see the good points to the Wizard Nazi faction if it wasn't for....all the context in real life.

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Oct 23, 2014

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Pigbuster posted:

It’s easy and fun to do and also maybe one of the greatest problems with how the human mind works.

I was going to say "the secret is figuring out a way to have video essays in twitter hot take format" but that's already kind of what TikTok (and the TikTokification of Youtube and Instagram) is.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Bleck posted:

star wars is a franchise where everyone's so busy being upset about racial caricatures

I mean. That seems fair to me.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Raya sucks anyway the absolute nicest thing I've heard said about it is that the water looks nice and that the MC and female villain are shippable (but no homo because of Chinese cuts)

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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fun hater posted:

allergic to saying "poo poo im sorry, i was coming at this from a defensive place" so instead i peel out screaming my head off

I think admitting that you were wrong is illegal on the internet. SA forums doesn't have a delete post function so that's the closest thing.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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KingKalamari posted:

You need to take responsibility for this!

I am your opponent.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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I agree that legitimate translation criticism gets buried because of all the twitter hot takes but it's not like someone from the perspective of not knowing Japanese (e.g. me) is happy with it either. Every time someone starts complaining about a localization I always have to double check their profile to make sure they're not Weeb Hitler or believe that the West literally invented LGBT people.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Endorph posted:

see how the fire emblem fates tl was terrible but the entire conversation was about the facetouching minigame.

I mean that was because people legitimately cared more about the face touching than the plot. Fates is the game that went massively all in on the dating sim/shipping elements of the series.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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e X posted:

Basically every story that tries to juxtapose Batman and the Joker ends up pretty shallow, since there aren't really that many similarities between the two, outside one being the hero and one the villain of the story.

Every time the Evil Batman thing circles around I always think of that video of Mark Hamill saying that there's no thematic connection between clowns and bats.

mycot
Oct 23, 2014

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Libluini posted:

In the world of personal anecdotes and experiences, good experiences don't negate negative ones, I fear. This doesn't work like math, you know

Nonsense. Now let's do another Roko's Basilisk thread tangent.

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Oct 23, 2014

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MonsieurChoc posted:

Apparrently making bad posts on twitter makes you such a terrible person that everyone must disown you. Like that's it, afaik Alice has never done anything terrible IRL. It's all just bad posts. And she's fine on the podcasts she's on, if you like that style of humor.

That level of anger is usually reserved for people like Jontron, an actual white supremacist.

I mean by that standard Jontron, Moviebob, the Coffin person and all the other thread laughingstocks etc. also hasn't done anything but make bad posts. Words aren't real.

edit: I don't think Moviebob has even ever actively tried to harass someone unlike the Alice person!

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