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I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

As much as I enjoy hearing an old man just drone on for somewhere between one and three hours in open-ended fashion, this is nice too:

https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1034635841790824449

I’ve been enjoying this series because of how absolutely tight all the episodes are while still hitting all kinds of interesting connections. I’m sure everyone already knows, but the Great American Read digital stuff is on the PBS digital youtube channel, and it’s all really good.

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AriadneThread
Feb 17, 2011

The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.


Linear Zoetrope posted:

Yeah, I mean, if you like Shamus that's fine, but I'm friends with the people he hurt so it's a bit different for me :v:. I do still appreciate some of his points regardless.

man, that whole debacle is what got me to drop shamus's site from my bookmarks. super glad the rest of the crew wanted to keep going as their own thing though, and i've find the post-shamus videos to be a lot more fun to watch actually

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Max Wilco posted:

To your other point, the reason why I really admire people like Ross Scott, LGR, PushingUpRoses, BrutalMoose, and a lot of the various Let's Players, reviewers, and similar video game channels is because they've documented a lot of really old, obscure games that have been forgotten. Seeing Ross Scott do videos on games like RAMA and Arcade America were a great delight for me, since those were games I played and adored as a child, but seldom few people have heard of them.
Game Dungeon managed to confirm that a dimly remembered Amiga game that I was obsessed with as a kid actually existed outside of my brain mixing up memories of Paradroid and something else that the SA name-that-game thread gave me as answers to what it was (Quadralien).

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


Absurd Alhazred posted:

Do studios enjoy throwing money away on completely unnecessary roles?

...Yes?

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Studios will pay out the nose for a big name actor to add market value to their product. See: every Bethesda game from Oblivion onward, or Tyrion Lannister in Destiny, or now Matt Smith in Star Wars 9 playing a very important character.

Solitair
Feb 18, 2014

TODAY'S GONNA BE A GOOD MOTHERFUCKIN' DAY!!!
So I found a video from a complete newcomer that very few people have seen, about a book series that very few people have read, but I saw it and I read it and I think they're both neat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9GRN036EhI

LibrarianCroaker
Mar 30, 2010
Youtube recommended me this professor at the University of Colorado. He goes up into the mountains and talks about Norse mythology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFiILvbKMZM

TheMaestroso
Nov 4, 2014

I must know your secrets.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Studios will pay out the nose for a big name actor to add market value to their product. See: every Bethesda game from Oblivion onward, or Tyrion Lannister in Destiny, or now Matt Smith in Star Wars 9 playing a very important character.

Lol, I didn't know about the Matt Smith one. I'm a lot more excited about Dominic Monaghan, to be honest.

Solitair
Feb 18, 2014

TODAY'S GONNA BE A GOOD MOTHERFUCKIN' DAY!!!

TheMaestroso posted:

Lol, I didn't know about the Matt Smith one. I'm a lot more excited about Dominic Monaghan, to be honest.

NOT PENNY'S STAR DESTROYER

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Arcsquad12 posted:

Studios will pay out the nose for a big name actor to add market value to their product. See: every Bethesda game from Oblivion onward, or Tyrion Lannister in Destiny, or now Matt Smith in Star Wars 9 playing a very important character.

Hell even cheap productions do this, just with cheaper names

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Lol people mad about Plinkett being on "the wrong side of history"

Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Aug 29, 2018

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
Nerds are the loving worst Jesus Christ.

Though lol Bomberguy of all people says that.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Oh no, their serial killer character with long stretches of footage of captive women pleading for their lives a la The Poughkeepsie Tapes might age poorly! They need to get out ahead of this!

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I haven’t watched plinket in a long time but I don’t think they do skits outside the original prequel ones anymore.

stillvisions
Oct 15, 2014

I really should have come up with something better before spending five bucks on this.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Studios will pay out the nose for a big name actor to add market value to their product. See: every Bethesda game from Oblivion onward, or Tyrion Lannister in Destiny, or now Matt Smith in Star Wars 9 playing a very important character.

I'm sure every major movie studio by this point has their own analytics engine a la Moneyball to calculate how many millions of dollars a given actor/crew member is expected to earn for a movie, and in what market. It might even be right some of the time.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Arcsquad12 posted:

Lol people mad about Plinkett being on "the wrong side of history"

what the gently caress is wrong with these people. the only reason they care is that the Chud loving hate it. if the movie hadn't set off some chud/weird alt right types. they wouldnt care. but now the movie is part of the culture war and it must be defended as a beacon of progressive progress. this is where are start hating the "everything is political" mantra because while true in a academic sense, it turns loving everything into a partisan issue for people. t this finger wagging bullshit doesn't help progressive causes, especially over a comedy review for movie. i could see people being this mad over loving ICE Camps and healthcare and loving cops killing black kids but this is over some Wisconsin dude doing a dark humored review of a movie he didn't care for. but because "everything is politics" is apparently "the wrong side of history" and should be erased.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Dapper_Swindler posted:

what the gently caress is wrong with these people. the only reason they care is that the Chud loving hate it. if the movie hadn't set off some chud/weird alt right types. they wouldnt care. but now the movie is part of the culture war and it must be defended as a beacon of progressive progress. this is where are start hating the "everything is political" mantra because while true in a academic sense, it turns loving everything into a partisan issue for people. t this finger wagging bullshit doesn't help progressive causes, especially over a comedy review for movie. i could see people being this mad over loving ICE Camps and healthcare and loving cops killing black kids but this is over some Wisconsin dude doing a dark humored review of a movie he didn't care for. but because "everything is politics" is apparently "the wrong side of history" and should be erased.

It’s especially sad as these types would make fun of chuds for getting this wrapped up in a movie but they are doing the exact same thing. H. Bomberguy has videos doing this but in the end turned out it was all hot air I guess. Which is extremely disappointing.

DoubleCakes
Jan 14, 2015

Shannon Strucci had a good thread about YMS's reaction to that Stop Talking About Plot Holes video.

https://twitter.com/plentyofalcoves/status/1034499596775579649?s=20

My favourite reply is this one:

https://twitter.com/shannonmanor/status/1034504106319257600?s=20

There's something special about Adum writing four paragraphs before finishing the video. You never do that! Always finish the video before prepping a reply!

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

CharlestheHammer posted:

It’s especially sad as these types would make fun of chuds for getting this wrapped up in a movie but they are doing the exact same thing. H. Bomberguy has videos doing this but in the end turned out it was all hot air I guess. Which is extremely disappointing.

yeah it sucks. to be fair, his comment isnt as bad as others. but like why are they defyning themselves by what the Chuds hate. apparently, It has to be a perfect movie because Nazis hated it because a woman of Vietnamese descent was in it. i hate this kind of poo poo and i liked the movie. this is why i hate the "everything is political" stance because it leads to stupid poo poo like this. people use it as a mantra/chant instead of a academic viewpoint.

but don't worry, brain genius mgee will make the perfect video about how amazing it is by making basic points that anyone with brain or isnt a chud knows already .

https://twitter.com/radicalbytes/status/1034612097865281536

Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Aug 29, 2018

somekindofguy
Mar 9, 2011
Grimey Drawer
They touched my Star Wars, so I touched their brains.

Everything is just performance and virtue signaling, caring means you lose.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

I really doubt hbomb liked TLJ since he's a CineD "the prequels are amazing and ROTJ is about the failure of liberalism" type.

e: ah, I forgot that he can be a bit shallow when it comes to something vaguely flitting with decent themes (see: thor 3) instead of being hardcore with it like SMG.

most of those tweets are mostly not liking the ongoing plinkett gimmick rather than anything strictly TLJ, so weird post still

Motto fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Aug 29, 2018

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Motto posted:

I really doubt hbomb liked TLJ since he's a CineD "the prequels are amazing and ROTJ is about the failure of liberalism" type.

https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/1034589224492777472
https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/983732727965995008

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

somekindofguy posted:

They touched my Star Wars, so I touched their brains.

Everything is just performance and virtue signaling, caring means you lose.

i don't think its like that. i think people get to deep into caring about what the other side likes/hates so that becomes more of a motivation then anything.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

lol. that doesn't really make them better, it just gives poo poo hindsite in universe context. its like how rogue ones sorta gives more urgency to new hope. it doesn't make either better or worse.

40-Degree Day
Sep 24, 2012


How the gently caress is TLJ a political target? Are people still mad about the black character or is it even dumber?

Please stop making Disney movies your hill to die on.

DoubleCakes
Jan 14, 2015

McIntosh might be a pud but his video essays are good especially when they are about subverting maleness in media.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

DoubleCakes posted:

McIntosh might be a pud but his video essays are good especially when they are about subverting maleness in media.

he makes some alright points though most of the time in my opinion its basic poo poo. but then ruins them by screaming about dumbshit on twitter or sex stuff. he never dropped his evangelical moral crusader baggage and it shows. except instead of jesus, its "why isn't everything stephen universe". I agree we should create better male role models but he always goes way of into orbit and pretty much everything is bad. basicaly, if he were more like lindsey ellis approach, he would be fine,

40-Degree Day posted:

How the gently caress is TLJ a political target? Are people still mad about the black character or is it even dumber?

Please stop making Disney movies your hill to die on.

chuds hate it because various dumb poo poo. progressives are mad that RLM made a plinket review about it and are saying really dumb poo poo about how RLM is on the "wrong side of history" because star wars is now culture war.

Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Aug 29, 2018

Garrand
Dec 28, 2012

Rhino, you did this to me!

40-Degree Day posted:

How the gently caress is TLJ a political target? Are people still mad about the black character or is it even dumber?

Please stop making Disney movies your hill to die on.

Once something is drawn into the culture war there is no escaping the culture war.

Jimbot
Jul 22, 2008

I liked the new Plinkett video and thought TLJ was merely OK. It talked about things they didn't like about it on the writing level and showed examples. They compared and contrasted with Empire and I thought they had a lot to say about the film and didn't once go into chud arguments about Mary Sues and other dumb crap like that. Honestly, I think a lot of reviewers tend to recommend a bunch of asinine changes to movies (RLM is not exempt from this) more often than not but their recommended ending to the film would have been pretty amazing.


So I think that makes me a status-quo loving Centrist with kinda bad taste and very meager critical thinking skills.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Jimbot posted:

I liked the new Plinkett video and thought TLJ was merely OK. It talked about things they didn't like about it on the writing level and showed examples. They compared and contrasted with Empire and I thought they had a lot to say about the film and didn't once go into chud arguments about Mary Sues and other dumb crap like that. Honestly, I think a lot of reviewers tend to recommend a bunch of asinine changes to movies (RLM is not exempt from this) more often than not but their recommended ending to the film would have been pretty amazing.


So I think that makes me a status-quo loving Centrist with kinda bad taste and very meager critical thinking skills.

yeah, they never go into the chud territory. they make some off color jokes sometimes but people who act like they are secret chuds are loving sad. also your fine. it makes you not insane over a movie.

Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Aug 29, 2018

Jimbot
Jul 22, 2008

Their humor falls flat because of the Plinkett character. They go for the Carlin-style of saying something completely hyperbolic and outrageous after something critical but since the character is already an outrageous joke, it doesn't work when he says something hyperbolic as a goof.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Jimbot posted:

Their humor falls flat because of the Plinkett character. They go for the Carlin-style of saying something completely hyperbolic and outrageous after something critical but since the character is already an outrageous joke, it doesn't work when he says something hyperbolic as a goof.

ehh, if they did plinket all the time, id get annoyed but they only trot him out like once or twice a year, if that. i do love wheel of the worst better though.

e X
Feb 23, 2013

cool but crude
I think we can all agree that the most important, and most noble, form of activism is to defend the movies of multi billion dollar companies from altright twitter trolls.

40-Degree Day
Sep 24, 2012


e X posted:

I think we can all agree that the most important, and most noble, form of activism is to defend the movies of multi billion dollar companies from altright twitter trolls.

Activism through posting and consumption baby!

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
star wars talk again? what the gently caress

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Look it's absolutely ridiculous to think that chuds still hate star wars because it has A Black in it.

TLJ has An Asian Woman Who Isn't Like My Japanese Porn Stars in it too

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

40-Degree Day posted:

How the gently caress is TLJ a political target? Are people still mad about the black character or is it even dumber?

Please stop making Disney movies your hill to die on.

Welcome to the internet, literally everything is a political target. Everything. I'm sure if there was a webcam broadcasting my life people would make accusations of what political faction I affiliate myself with depending on if I get out of bed on the left or the right side. Complete with a link chart.

E: Also whether I eat pancakes or waffles for breakfast.

40-Degree Day
Sep 24, 2012


Pancakes are alt-right because they are smooth like a chud's smooth brain.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

on the other hand: waffle ss

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Bakeneko
Jan 9, 2007

The latest Plinkett videos have definitely benefitted from getting rid of the skits. The concept of a crazed murderer who also reviews movies is a funny one, but only if you use it sparingly and don’t spend too much time focusing on the details… like having the victims beg for their lives on-camera. That was just creepy and awkward.

It was a shame that the prequel videos had those parts in them because the actual criticism of the films was solid.

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