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The Nostalgia Chick is posting a new set of videos, this time focusing on 90s adaptations of old TV shows. First up The Adams Family Edit: Wasn't there a MST3K Skit where they say that the Adams Family and The Munsters were the only "Normal" TV Family in the 50s and the 60s? BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Aug 21, 2013 |
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Blip.tv has been sold to PewDiePie's agent. BRB, going to go dub me screaming "RAPE!!!" over all my videos.
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Aug 21, 2013 22:30
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echopapa posted:Blip.tv has been sold to PewDiePie's agent. Uhhh...this might need to be explained me. 
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Aug 22, 2013 00:02
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BigRed0427 posted:Uhhh...this might need to be explained me. This and this are pretty much all the explanation you'll need.
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Aug 22, 2013 00:20
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BigRed0427 posted:The Nostalgia Chick is posting a new set of videos, this time focusing on 90s adaptations of old TV shows. First up The Adams Family Weird timing on this - I actually just started watching the 60s series recently and was kind of floored by how out of the norm it was for its era. I never saw the film's sequel, but I seem to recall hearing it was funnier than the first film. I'll be interested to see if she's going to hit up on any of the other "classic TV shows turned into movies" films though. Technically, she already did Wild Wild West (though that wasn't a sitcom.)
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Aug 22, 2013 00:44
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Trash Boat posted:This and this are pretty much all the explanation you'll need. The nice thing about the former link is that, unlike the latter, they don't feel it necessary to call him a human being in order to be "funny". I love it when the anti-fanbases are just as obnoxious as the actual fanbase to begin with.
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Aug 22, 2013 00:44
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Trash Boat posted:This and this are pretty much all the explanation you'll need. I think he was referring to the "blip.tv being sold to his agent" thing.
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Aug 22, 2013 00:45
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Rebochan posted:Weird timing on this - I actually just started watching the 60s series recently and was kind of floored by how out of the norm it was for its era. It still was kind of out of the norm until recently. A lot of family sitcoms still rely on the stupid but in charge husband-largely ignored but bossy wife dynamic. The last one I can think of that did this was According to Jim. The only difference is that they acknowledge their sex life. Maybe Mike and Molly, but that's more about a married couple just starting out. I don't keep up with TV so maybe someone else can give better examples. Does the old Adams Family TV show still hold up? I kind of want to watch it now. BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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Aug 22, 2013 03:10
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Why would anyone want to invest in Blip? As I understand it that site has never turned a profit and most of the content creators (at least most of the content creators that people watch) that use it only upload their stuff to Blip because it would be taken down for violating copyright law if they put it up on YouTube. Blip, to me, seems like a site that's doomed to fail in the near future.
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Aug 22, 2013 03:49
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Guess I'm the only one who watched Nostalgia Critic's Les Miserables review, eh? It was pretty good stuff. I'm glad he paired with Paw and Oancitizen, as both know what they're talking about when it comes to music and theatrical/artsy stuff. All three combined to give a pretty balanced view on the film. The musical bits were pretty solid, and Linkara's part in particular had me in stitches. I wish Oan would sing more. Between this episode and the occasions when he's sung in his own series, the man can really carry a tune.
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Aug 22, 2013 07:36
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I'm watching it now. It's great. Loved Brentalfloss's part. Also, I mostly liked the musical, though I did spend about a week and a half laughing about Javert's head cold afterwards.
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Aug 22, 2013 09:12
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ApeHawk posted:I think he was referring to the "blip.tv being sold to his agent" thing. Story here. It's Maker Studios, who also run a whole bunch of other Youtube channels.
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Aug 22, 2013 10:48
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echopapa posted:Story here. It's Maker Studios, who also run a whole bunch of other Youtube channels. From that article : "Many major networks and creators have spoken out against YouTube’s revenue-sharing model. Creators typically take 55 percent of the cut of revenue from ads on their videos, while YouTube owner Google keeps the rest." Uhm... Blip takes an even 50% at the moment, more than Youtube, so could this mean Blip producers could get a larger cut under our new overlords? (Assuming they're keeping all Blip producers, now that the Blip culling of producers seems to be in its final stages.) Cause that would be spiffy.
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Aug 22, 2013 16:51
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Senerio posted:I'm watching it now. It's great. Loved Brentalfloss's part. Also, I mostly liked the musical, though I did spend about a week and a half laughing about Javert's head cold afterwards. Yeah, that was a pretty fun review. Those musical ones always have a lot of effort put into them.
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Aug 22, 2013 19:45
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echopapa posted:Story here. It's Maker Studios, who also run a whole bunch of other Youtube channels. Holy poo poo that's an awful idea! I like how they truly think that people in mass will go to Blip in order to see their favorite e-celebrities rather than forget about them move onto the next Z-list YouTube celebrity. As brought up earlier Blip was never a super successful website and is estimated to worth about $512,771 dollars. To give some perspective, Dailymotion is apparently worth $29.4 million dollars, Vimeo is worth $17.1 million dollars, Veoh is worth $990,136, and Viddler is worth $969,416 dollars. Yes even loving Viddler is worth more than Blip. So even if content creators do get a bigger cut of revenue from Blip than YouTube they will still get less money due to the fact that YouTube is a much more profitable site than Blip. I wonder what Maker Studios are going to do with the creators because it was clear that the previous owners of Blip played favorites with Channel Awesome personalities since they were essentially the most popular and profitable shows on the site. Blip has other shows that are not reviews but they are all pretty much poo poo and no one knows of there existence. Just look at some of the typical non-review programs that are on this site. Blip theater: http://chipandironicus.com/videos/blip/ With the YouTube superstars moving in I wonder if Blip is going to continue to support the channel awesome brand or will Maker Studios push them to the side in order to market their own properties. Another part of what makes this purchase interesting is that Blip got a lot of money from several venture capitalist firms, which are Bain Capital Ventures, Canaan Partners, and Ambient Sound Investments. That was several years ago and I wonder how the change of leadership would effect the politics of Blip. There is a chance that Maker Studios could gently caress up this venture which would lead to these investors cannibalizing Blip in order to make up for their losses. This is a legitimate possibility since Maker Studios and their content producers have a history unprofessionalism as seen in the Ray William Johnson dispute. In short buying Blip is a bad idea and will result in financial lost and humiliation. It was never a secret that Blip over the years was losing viewers and advertisers. Hell, they even have an official YouTube channel where they put videos made by their internet critic breadwinners in order to get extra revenue. When a company uses their competition's services that's a bad sign. The League of Super Critics: http://www.youtube.com/user/LeagueOfSuperCritics This change in management could possibly lead to Blip to finally collapse in on itself. LateToTheParty fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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Aug 22, 2013 19:49
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Increased traffic to blip could also lead to them being forced to adopt the rules that made the CA folks leave youtube in the first place as well. This is something that could kill Channel Awesome itself.
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Aug 22, 2013 20:01
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High Warlord Zog posted:Why would anyone want to invest in Blip? As I understand it that site has never turned a profit and most of the content creators (at least most of the content creators that people watch) that use it only upload their stuff to Blip because it would be taken down for violating copyright law if they put it up on YouTube. Blip, to me, seems like a site that's doomed to fail in the near future. My guess is they want to find a way to make it turn a profit. They see that there's definitely an audience for material that Blip uploaders provide, it's simply getting that monetized successfully that's a challenge.
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Aug 22, 2013 21:00
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LateToTheParty posted:As brought up earlier Blip was never a super successful website and is estimated to worth about $512,771 dollars. To give some perspective, Dailymotion is apparently worth $29.4 million dollars, Vimeo is worth $17.1 million dollars, Veoh is worth $990,136, and Viddler is worth $969,416 dollars. Yes even loving Viddler is worth more than Blip. So even if content creators do get a bigger cut of revenue from Blip than YouTube they will still get less money due to the fact that YouTube is a much more profitable site than Blip. Just out of curiosity, where are these strangely precise estimated values coming from? It's unusual for anyone to estimate the value of a company down to the dollar, to say the least.
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Aug 22, 2013 21:01
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OrangeKing posted:Just out of curiosity, where are these strangely precise estimated values coming from? I checked it out on Freewebsitereport.org. The website seems legit and thorough with its calculations for the most part. The actual values of those website are most likely not the same as the estimated values from Freewebsitereport.org but the values should at least be somewhere in that ballpark. Link: http://www.freewebsitereport.org/
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Aug 22, 2013 21:21
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LateToTheParty posted:I checked it out on Freewebsitereport.org. The website seems legit and thorough with its calculations for the most part. The actual values of those website are most likely not the same as the estimated values from Freewebsitereport.org but the values should at least be somewhere in that ballpark. I'm not so sure that site has accurate information. For instance, it says it valuates websites based on traffic and ad revenue only, which gives a pretty limited picture of a site's worth; even within that limitation, the site estimates that Blip takes in $702 in ad revenue a day. I know little about the internal workings of Blip, but I would still feel pretty confident saying that this must be off by an order of magnitude, as that would only be a little over $250k per year, and if half of that goes to content creators, it would mean that they all make about $128k a year...combined. I know there are relatively few people who post videos on Blip as their full time job, but still, that number is impossibly low (or so I imagine).
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Aug 23, 2013 00:04
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In which I talk little about The Angels Take Manhattan and mostly about Doctor Who as a whole.
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Aug 23, 2013 17:30
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Nevermind.
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Aug 24, 2013 01:14
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I stopped watching the vlogs long ago, but I thought the love triangle was fine and the hate was overrated. Actually, most of the LoK hate was overrated, and especially the childish Mako hate (msotly from people incapable of understanding character complexity if it isn't Zuko, who would just flat out tell you how complex he was). I just decided the farthest I get away from that fandom, the happier I am. And that includes vlogs on it.
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Aug 24, 2013 06:57
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Korra had horrible pacing issues and stuck on thing that should have been secondary. It was a completely mediocre show where the high highs and the rock bottom lows cancelled each other out. Mako, to his credit, does do the absolute perfect impression of a block of wood, so there's that. The soundtrack and animation can only carry things so far. I found the morals and message of the show to be completely deplorable. This show is why I'm completely indifferent towards Book 2. I see the potential but I doubt the execution.
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Aug 24, 2013 17:22
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Akett posted:Huh, new One Hit Wonderland. The funniest thing was how precise about it he was. Not only had I barely heard the song before, but I had only heard it on that drat MONSTER BALLADS commercial.
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Aug 24, 2013 19:43
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The TGWTG Charity drive is going on right now. http://www.justin.tv/channel_awesome_charity#/w/6605957184 http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/ Pretty fun so far.
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Aug 24, 2013 21:36
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Jimbot posted:Korra had horrible pacing issues and stuck on thing that should have been secondary. It was a completely mediocre show where the high highs and the rock bottom lows cancelled each other out. Mako, to his credit, does do the absolute perfect impression of a block of wood, so there's that. The soundtrack and animation can only carry things so far. I found the morals and message of the show to be completely deplorable. This show is why I'm completely indifferent towards Book 2. I see the potential but I doubt the execution. My favorite part of the moral was that it did show that the people without magic powers were actually being treated like poo poo but then never did anything to address it because the main bad guy blew up and that solved everything somehow. Korra was decent but it suffered from that whole 'it started as a mini one shot and got expanded into a show' thing. I hope that the next season is better but I don't have a ton of hype for it. Honestly if it was just Korra being a big meathead and Asami being Lady Batman just hanging out and lady-broing out while punching jerks it'd be kinda awesome.
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Aug 24, 2013 22:13
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Korra was actually planned to have its first season plot stretched over multiple seasons. Instead they rushed it because they didn't think there'd be more than one which caused a lot of its issues.
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Aug 24, 2013 22:41
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Bad Wolf posted:The TGWTG Charity drive is going on right now. Huh, I never realized justin.tv has viewer caps per country. Coming from regular twitch.tv use that seems a spectacularly stupid move to make. Ah well, at least what little I did catch seemed pretty drat boring, so I'm not missing much.
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Aug 24, 2013 23:06
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Mokinokaro posted:Korra was actually planned to have its first season plot stretched over multiple seasons. Instead they rushed it because they didn't think there'd be more than one which caused a lot of its issues. Nickolodeon also tried to cancel it mid-production because they were still being derpy about the protagonist being female. Goodness knows that wouldn't help. As for the rest,  <--- me vs. Korra haters
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Aug 24, 2013 23:17
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The main complaint I saw in the goon thread about Korra was the comically overpowered villain.
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Aug 24, 2013 23:24
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Mokinokaro posted:Korra was actually planned to have its first season plot stretched over multiple seasons. Instead they rushed it because they didn't think there'd be more than one which caused a lot of its issues. 
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Aug 24, 2013 23:30
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Nick has been...comically stupid about everything Avatar related.Tae posted:The main complaint I saw in the goon thread about Korra was the comically overpowered villain. Oh, glad I dodged that thread then. Sounds like it was overrun by the social justice tumblr brigade.
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Aug 24, 2013 23:37
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Now, gonna make this on topic. Caught up to FilmBrain's last two Happy Madison reviews. Obviously the Jack and Jill review cannot possibly compare to RedLetterMedia's bluntly cynical deconstruction, though I did enjoy his comparisons of Just Go With It to its source material in Cactus Flower. FilmBrain is clearly a stronger person than me for being able to watch so many of these back to back. I had a brief window in my life between 14 and 15 that this Sandler seemed absolutely hilarious..which I suspect is true for most people and might be why these movies keep getting made. ...but dude, seriously, I know Sandler has children, so why are his child characters so alien!? It's like they've never met a child before.
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Aug 25, 2013 00:10
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Take what you've read here about Korra's production with a grain of salt. I've now read about 5 completely different accounts on these forums of what the show's length was initially supposed to be. The version I remember reading before Season 1 premiered that the show was only ever meant to be a 12 episode mini-series from the beginning, then somewhere during season 1's initial run it was announced that Nickelordeon had green lit Korra for 3 additional seasons but it happened internally towards the end of Season 1's production thus the reason for all of the pacing problems (they thought they only had 1 season in which to wrap everything up neatly at the end, so that's what they did). Recently someone in the Korra thread said that the account that I just wrote is apparently only unique to SA and that you won't find that anywhere else on the internet. So who loving knows what really happened 
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Aug 25, 2013 00:10
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Rebochan posted:I had a brief window in my life between 14 and 15 that this Sandler seemed absolutely hilarious..which I suspect is true for most people and might be why these movies keep getting made. Part of the problem I think is that Sandler simply is too old to do this sort of movie now. You can see all of his characters are written like they were 20-something goofballs even at his age.
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Aug 25, 2013 00:18
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Tae posted:The main complaint I saw in the goon thread about Korra was the comically overpowered villain. During the show's run, yes. The main complaints after the show ended was the rushed ending and complete lack of badly needed character development for everyone not named Asami. beep by grandpa posted:Take what you've read here about Korra's production with a grain of salt. I've now read about 5 completely different accounts on these forums of what the show's length was initially supposed to be. People keep trying to pin the problems of the show on it's production schedule, which is weird since even as far back as the first season of Avatar the show has had production problems and delays every other week or so. I'm of the mindset that the trimming of the writing team from a dozen people working together down to just the two original creators of the show were probably the more likely culprits, particularly since if you break everything down it's really obvious that the writing is where the problems with the show are, everything else about Korra is fantastic and a real step up from Avatar.
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Aug 25, 2013 00:40
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Angry Joe now has over one million subscribers on Youtube.
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Aug 25, 2013 04:05
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I really can't say anything bad about Joe now since I found out about PewDiePie.
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Yea I'm not a fan of Joe but everything I'm not a fan of he does lots more people do way worse so I guess he wins in my mind by just virtue of being the least bad of the type.
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