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I always thought it weird that a musician / audiophile like Todd so often has audio issues in his videos. That said, though, the One Hit Wonderland series has been pretty fun.
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CanceledTVShow posted:I just watched Cinema Snob's anniversary video The Reviewers and I think Brad and Co have become a little too obsessed with the negativity from their fanbase. I've noticed that a lot of the midnight screening videos have been going in that direction as well. I dunno, I loved The Reviewers. Maybe it's because I see so many of these guys hanging out on the TGWTG forums.
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Infamous Sphere posted:The information in Todd's One Hit Wonderland videos is always fantastic and well researched, and they're always interesting and entertaining - but yeah, the recent two..the audio mix has been *weird* - as if he forgot to turn down the volume of the song when he was talking over it. It's just a bit bizarre, because that's typically something you do when you're starting out as a reviewer, not something you start doing later on. I can only assume he thought he'd done it, but hadn't, or for some reason turning the volume down didn't work. Just seems odd. According to his twiter the headphone jack on his laptop broke. Dunno if that's what happened here, but that might explain it.
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echopapa posted:I dunno, I loved The Reviewers. Maybe it's because I see so many of these guys hanging out on the TGWTG forums. The video's fine on its own, it's just a running trend that Brad tends to take criticism as a personal challenge and not an observation, or if it's acidic, typical Internet whitenoise. He applies the same crusading principle to the 'schlockier' things he enjoys, and conversely, anything widely regarded he doesn't enjoy. Apparently this kind of slavish defensiveness applies to him backing or playing the apologist for some associate horseshit that really should be locked in an isolation chamber for wary observation (Hadley Social Opinions) but I tend to begin and end my relationship with internet critics at the videos so it is a ghost smilie.
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Mace Bacon posted:According to his twiter the headphone jack on his laptop broke. Dunno if that's what happened here, but that might explain it. That and he had to leave for a con this morning so he rushed getting the video out.
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Violen posted:I tend to begin and end my relationship with internet critics at the videos so it is a ghost smilie. Which I'd agree if he didn't pour this into his work as well.
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I guess this fits in this thread, but I'm really enjoying getting into the Night of the Living Podcast. It gives off the same loose goofy vibe as the Giant Bombcast, as a personality-driven collection of funny friends who only sometimes talk about their ostensible subject.
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Jul 27, 2013 09:03
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Dragonbored was pretty decent, but it kind of fell flat for me because I couldn't buy Doug as some sort of hunky MMORPG warrior hero guy. It would probably have worked better if Doug played the everyman main character and got some relatively bulky dude to play the warrior character.
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Jul 27, 2013 10:01
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Spoony reviews a VHS/board game: "Isaac Asimov's ROBOTS". Surprisingly free of bullshit or filler, this could almost be one of Spoony's old videos.
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Terminal Entropy posted:Is there anyone else that does anything with the same kind of depth and breath as the Plinket videos? Preferably nothing in the TGWTG circle. Your Movie Sucks is obviously influenced by Plinkett, especially in how it uses promotional interview footage to make its points. The two-part review of the entire Saw series is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlwVFIHBSKU
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Finally catch up to Todd in the Shadows last two videos. Good stuff - I actually forgot I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) got popular because of a Johnny Depp movie...though I too remember very little about it except kind of liking it. Oh, and, Blip Gods? I appreciate the brief break in your endless Buzz Lightyear/Carsland ad rolls, but now that they're back and you're crashing over and over and forcing me to watch them again and again, I'm this close to driving down to Anaheim and nuking the entire drat park. With my nerdrage.
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Don't you even DARE to mention this to Blip contributors as its the worst possible thing you can ever do to a human being, next to voting 1 on their faulty buggy MEME Smilies app (time at 22:41 in) on google play.
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Rebochan posted:Oh, and, Blip Gods? I appreciate the brief break in your endless Buzz Lightyear/Carsland ad rolls, but now that they're back and you're crashing over and over and forcing me to watch them again and again, I'm this close to driving down to Anaheim and nuking the entire drat park. With my nerdrage. In Canada I get the same 20 second long axe deodorant commercial every break. Consider yourself lucky. EDIT: \/ I miss the 7 second long Hotels.com one. It was easily ignored. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jul 28, 2013 |
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Also from Canada, but I get the same Orange is the New Black commercial over and over again. It doesn't help that the ads are way louder than the videos themselves. At least I'm supporting them a little?
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Kunster posted:Don't you even DARE to mention this to Blip contributors as its the worst possible thing you can ever do to a human being, next to voting 1 on their faulty buggy MEME Smilies app (time at 22:41 in) on google play. What's with the ridiculous hyperbole? They ask people to stop mentioning it to them because there's literally nothing they can do about it, and so there's no point in mentioning it to them; Blip decides what ads to use, not the contributors. It'd be like if you got a pop-up ad in this thread and you told the thread OP about it instead of the admins.
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I tried to watch Darkside of the Internet, but I couldn't make it past seven minutes. I can't watch 30+ minutes of "someone was mean to me on the online  " featuring a bunch of talking heads who are in no way experts on any subjects, let alone the complex sociological issues of humanity and the world wide web. The Dark Side of the internet is the internet, so what's the point of this?bbf2 posted:Dragonbored was pretty decent, but it kind of fell flat for me because I couldn't buy Doug as some sort of hunky MMORPG warrior hero guy. It would probably have worked better if Doug played the everyman main character and got some relatively bulky dude to play the warrior character.
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JO posted a LP of a visual novel she was given at a con called Fading Hearts. She claims it's The Room of Visual Novels. It's trying to get onto Steam Green light so I think we all need to do our duty and make sure it makes it!
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Jul 28, 2013 21:23
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So I'm 3/4 of the way through these The Uncanny Valley videos, and they are pretty disappointing all around. That SciFi Guy's one was terrible, but at least it was short.
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Jul 28, 2013 21:26
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http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/40087-to-boldly-flee-documentary I guess the DVD has been out for so long that they released a special feature from it.
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Idran posted:What's with the ridiculous hyperbole? They ask people to stop mentioning it to them because there's literally nothing they can do about it, and so there's no point in mentioning it to them; Blip decides what ads to use, not the contributors. It'd be like if you got a pop-up ad in this thread and you told the thread OP about it instead of the admins. I would be ok with this if there weren't ads that messed up the system and that there wasn't an equally hyperbolic reaction to folk pointing it out. The problem with The Darkest Hour is that it probably got two of the best people on the site on dealing with feedback and harassment (Mainly Lupa and Linkara), whose contributions were decent, but then painted everything else with honestly either bland or outright condescending and even insulting feedback and advice. I pointed out the example because of how terrible it was both conceptually and visually.
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Ema Nymton posted:I tried to watch Darkside of the Internet, but I couldn't make it past seven minutes. I can't watch 30+ minutes of "someone was mean to me on the online That and the extremely dry narration, completely pointless animations that looked like a bad office meeting slideshow and simple lack of any enthusiasm on the subject by almost everyone involved (with the exceptions of Lupa and Linkara, maybe Phelous) kind of killed any point they were trying to get across. It honestly felt like the product of some extremely out of touch corporate management. EDIT: \/ I don't disagree with the message. Just think the presentation could have been better to appeal to the people it's targeted towards. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jul 29, 2013 |
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Ema Nymton posted:I tried to watch Darkside of the Internet, but I couldn't make it past seven minutes. I can't watch 30+ minutes of "someone was mean to me on the online I'd presume this was meant more for younger audiences, or for people who don't get that there's usually a real person on the other side of any internet conversation (discounting trolling of course). A few of the people featured in the video have dealt with the poo poo Welshy mentioned, so I'm guessing it was meant to give their side of the story and get people (read: the TGWTG fanbase) to stop and think. Given what I've seen of TGWTG's rabid fanbase, someone needed to say "Calm the gently caress down" at some point. If you already try not to be a dick to people on the net, this probably won't mean much. I know most of the people on this thread are great about that--it's probably why some of the TGWTG crowd watch what we say, and even join in on the conversation on occasion. On the other, hand, the TGWTG fanbase might be too dense for this to get through to them and just keep on yelling about how they don't like thing (wow). EDIT: Mokinokaro posted:EDIT: \/ I don't disagree with the message. Just think the presentation could have been better to appeal to the people it's targeted towards. I could totally see that. Whether or not the message was presented well can definitely be an issue. If it was organized a little bit better as opposed to nonstop narration (Pause when you speak Holly!), it might have been easier to digest. Also, a little more about some simple steps people could besides "stop and take a second" could work as well. somekindofguy fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Jul 29, 2013 |
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BigRed0427 posted:JO posted a LP of a visual novel she was given at a con called Fading Hearts. She claims it's The Room of Visual Novels. It's trying to get onto Steam Green light so I think we all need to do our duty and make sure it makes it! Upvoted! Seriously, I wish I'd been around for the unfiltered stream to experience all of it in its glory. I absolutely lost it at "Y2K orphans."
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Rebochan posted:Upvoted! Seriously, I wish I'd been around for the unfiltered stream to experience all of it in its glory. The best part is, the guy who created the game is totally okay with the vid! He strikes me as a super-unflappable dude who either doesn't get that he's made the best worst thing or has made peace with it shockingly quickly. I was genuinely afraid of hurting his feelings, so the fact that he's happy about the exposure makes the whole thing pretty fuckin' wonderful. EDIT: Talked to him a little more. It's the former. He really doesn't get that the game is jaw-droppingly dumb, but isn't angrily defending it either. He's just firmly in this mindset of "It's okay, some people won't get it. But I know it's great."  Again: pretty fuckin' wonderful. Jay O fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Jul 30, 2013 |
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JO, was he the same guy that gave you the game in the first place? Glad to hear he's not upset. Also, the most recent comments on the Greenlight vote are all people quoting your video 
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Jay O posted:EDIT: Talked to him a little more. It's the former. He really doesn't get that the game is jaw-droppingly dumb, but isn't angrily defending it either. He's just firmly in this mindset of "It's okay, some people won't get it. But I know it's great." He also might be like the fellow who makes some of the movies Lupa's reviewed (The Amazing Bulk and Aliens vs Avatars) who doesn't care what level people enjoy his work on as long as they enjoy it. I mean, I made some really dumb movies with friends back in high school that are on youtube that we took seriously, but we uploaded them because they're so dumb and entertaining that way. I mean Tommy Wiseau seems to love people enjoying The Room as a strange comedy. Some people are just very good with taking criticism or just want to entertain.
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Rebochan posted:JO, was he the same guy that gave you the game in the first place? Yup! Mokinokaro posted:I mean Tommy Wiseau seems to love people enjoying The Room as a strange comedy. The best people are just very good with taking criticism or just want to entertain. Fix'd. 
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Mokinokaro posted:I mean Tommy Wiseau seems to love people enjoying The Room as a strange comedy. Some people are just very good with taking criticism or just want to entertain. Speaking of Tommy Wiseau, has anyone checked out Greg Seatero's book about the making of The Room. Granted, I'm not sure if it's actually out yet but I read a preview on the A. V. Club and it looks like it might be interesting.
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Rebochan posted:Upvoted! Seriously, I wish I'd been around for the unfiltered stream to experience all of it in its glory. EDIT: "What was the rumor?" "That my boyfriend is bad news!" 
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Max22 posted:Your Movie Sucks is obviously influenced by Plinkett, especially in how it uses promotional interview footage to make its points. The two-part review of the entire Saw series is amazing. Really surprised he didn't use the "how do you know that? Did you read it in the script?" with how much he tries to be Plinkett.
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Metal Loaf posted:Speaking of Tommy Wiseau, has anyone checked out Greg Seatero's book about the making of The Room. Granted, I'm not sure if it's actually out yet but I read a preview on the A. V. Club and it looks like it might be interesting. The book is not coming out until the first of October but if you want to get something to tide you over check out the How Did This Get Made?'s episode about The Room where Seatero is a guest expert. He talks about how he meet Tommy and how the production for the movie was a colossal but fun train-wreck due Tommy being Tommy. How Did This Get Made: The Room: Director's Edition: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-room-directors-edition/ Also is the version of Fading Hearts that is downloadable on Amazon the original non-proofread version or is it the fixed up patched version? This is impotent because I want to play the version that would cause Strunk and White to roll in their graves.
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Terminal Entropy posted:Really surprised he didn't use the "how do you know that? Did you read it in the script?" with how much he tries to be Plinkett. I tried watching a couple of this guy's videos, and nitpicking gets to a ridiculous extent. It really reminded me of this article I read a while ago, in how some people seem to think that pointing out an endless series of tiny mistakes makes good criticism. It really doesn't. The Plinkett reviews focus way more on why a movie fails in terms of connecting with the audience or telling a coherent narrative the audience can keep up with. Sure he does nitpicks too, but those are mostly meant to be funny asides rather than using them as a lazy way to deconstruct a film.
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miscellaneous14 posted:I tried watching a couple of this guy's videos, and nitpicking gets to a ridiculous extent. It really reminded me of this article I read a while ago, in how some people seem to think that pointing out an endless series of tiny mistakes makes good criticism. It really doesn't. It's like the The Onion expanded the Autistic Reporter to start doing movie reviews.
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LateToTheParty posted:Also is the version of Fading Hearts that is downloadable on Amazon the original non-proofread version or is it the fixed up patched version? This is impotent because I want to play the version that would cause Strunk and White to roll in their graves. Already getting into the spirit of the game, I see! As for Amazon, I don't know which version that is for download, but unbeknownst to my past self mentioning it in the video: the rewrite patch is actually *the version I was already playing.*That's right. Originally. The script was even more incomprehensible. You can see side-by-side comparisons here. So either way you go, it's hilarious. I think the rewrite is funnier just because there's more scenes and dialogue added as well as the rewrites which didn't fix a drat thing, just reworded bad script to different bad script. If you download from Amazon and then download the patch on their site you should be fine either way.
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So Channel Awesome is launching an Indiegogo campaign to start up a new game show web series. It actually looks pretty fun and the rewards look pretty good.
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Writer Cath posted:So Channel Awesome is launching an Indiegogo campaign to start up a new game show web series. It actually looks pretty fun and the rewards look pretty good. 
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achillesforever6 posted:Of course now people are bitching about Doug e-begging. That's a shame. It looks like a really well thought out project. Channel Awesome has enough rabidly devoted fans that they've already started designing the set.
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Writer Cath posted:So Channel Awesome is launching an Indiegogo campaign to start up a new game show web series. It actually looks pretty fun and the rewards look pretty good. This is the one Brad is hosting right? It's been in the works since Demo Reel.
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