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Oh yeah, I pretty much stopped letsnotmeet videos because they were getting less views as time went on. It might be an okay thing every once in a while, though.
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my parents boyfriend posted:If I had to say, I think he was copying Memology101 who got onto it because of SonicFox. I mean, SonicFox literally likes gay furry porn on his public twitter account as a sponsored pro fighting game player and I was pretty incredulous about that when I followed him but I don't think he's about to have any shame about it. I'd have things to say about SonicFox and his ego but he always wins so I think he deserves it. Hard to say anything. sonicfox fuckin rules
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DoctorWhat posted:sonicfox fuckin rules  Bless that young man and a hearty "get hosed" to all of the CHUDs he enrages.
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I met him when he entered a local Smash 4 event about 2.5 years ago. Then, in January, he stopped by to play Ultimate, and he remembered my tag, my real name, and what characters I played. What a cool dude.
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IME blatant "participation ribbons" were pretty rare. What happened more often was the people organizing an event would come up with a bunch of random bullshit superlatives that tried to basically find "something nice to say" about everyone's performance. This wasn't as common in sports, IME, but was super common in things more miscellaneous extracurriculars. For instance (I think this was some scout-type organization I was in), we'd have these competitions where you made a balsa wood car that slid down a track, and everybody's would be timed and the fastest won. But everybody, including the winners, got some additional commendation like "coolest design" or whatever. Nobody really considered those bullshit, and they felt nice to get, but they weren't used instead of actual 1st, 2nd, 3rd place medals/trophies, just so everyone had some feedback on something they did well. We did something similar when I helped host a camp to get kids interested in computer science. We had them use this simple program we developed to do a project. This wasn't a project that really had meaningful grading criteria (and it was a camp anyway, not a class), or a meaningful way to gauge "best", so we just gave all four groups certificates with something they did well on.
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Linear Zoetrope posted:IME blatant "participation ribbons" were pretty rare. What happened more often was the people organizing an event would come up with a bunch of random bullshit superlatives that tried to basically find "something nice to say" about everyone's performance. This wasn't as common in sports, IME, but was super common in things more miscellaneous extracurriculars. For instance (I think this was some scout-type organization I was in), we'd have these competitions where you made a balsa wood car that slid down a track, and everybody's would be timed and the fastest won. But everybody, including the winners, got some additional commendation like "coolest design" or whatever. Nobody really considered those bullshit, and they felt nice to get, but they weren't used instead of actual 1st, 2nd, 3rd place medals/trophies, just so everyone had some feedback on something they did well. in middle school I got some award from music class for refusing to follow the lesson plan and instead improvising on the keyboards. it wasn't a terrible cacophonous mess or anything but it was way too basic to warrant any sort of recognition.
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Trojan Kaiju posted:Yeah when I played Soccer we got small plastic trophies. I think the first time I took it a bit seriously because our team legitimately did pretty well that season. The second year the trophy looked slightly nicer but our team was literally one of the worst and we were out as soon as the playoffs started. Any chance of that meaning anything went out the door at that point. My soccer team wasn't any good, but I liked my plastic participation trophy and I still have it. I was 6, it was the only year I played, and I actually had a couple of brief moments of athletic accomplishment. I certainly didn't confuse it with the kind of trophy you get for actually winning stuff, but I still think it's a good thing.
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SuperButterBuns has released a new video on Asura's Wrath– calling it her favourite "movie" ever. It's a game but gameplay is so eh that it's better experienced as a movie to see all the cutscenes and characters.
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DoubleCakes posted:SuperButterBuns has released a new video on Asura's Wrath– calling it her favourite "movie" ever. It's a game but gameplay is so eh that it's better experienced as a movie to see all the cutscenes and characters. there was an lp of it here a couple years ago that was pretty enjoyable and i think i got everything i needed from the game out of just that
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AriadneThread posted:there was an lp of it here a couple years ago that was pretty enjoyable and i think i got everything i needed from the game out of just that Despite all the spectacle that is Asura's Wrath, the best parts of that LP were the intermissions showcasing Japanese commercials.
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I always saw participation ribbons as a little memento for the event.
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If you have hbo, there was a pretty ok feature on Contrapoints on their Vice news show. It’s noteworthy both because the interviewer is the same one who did a feature for Vice on incels where more than one committed suicide between the time they were interviewed and the time the piece aired, and because Vice was founded by the piece of poo poo nazi founder of the proud boys who sold it for a song and abandoned it right before it blew up into something huge.
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Yep we have to keep mentioning the fact that Gavin was one of the founders of Vice for no reason
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signed your biggest fan, it's me, it's Stan
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which, as we all know, isn't real work
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SunAndSpring posted:you two are real fuckin comedians lol, nice edit, mate. You're basically this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pbgU_LWrRo
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Vagabundo posted:lol, nice edit, mate. don’t call me a guy prick
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SunAndSpring posted:don’t call me a guy prick Yeah, whatever, you entitled crybaby. I also never called you a guy prick either. Do you honestly think that coming in here and shouting about how some complete stranger is required to help you, and how dare they not respond, is in any way reasonable behaviour? Do you think it doesn't make you look like a colossal fuckwit?
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Vagabundo posted:Yeah, whatever, you entitled crybaby. just let it go jesus i’m sorry
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SunAndSpring posted:just let it go jesus i’m sorry I wouldn't go so far as to call myself Jesus, but I do appreciate the comparison.
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And that, everyone, is a great example of why having even the most modest of platforms is a recipe for developing a bottomless anxiety disorder.
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FoldableHuman posted:And that, everyone, is a great example of why having even the most modest of platforms is a recipe for developing a bottomless anxiety disorder. why are you even jumping in on this
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FoldableHuman posted:And that, everyone, is a great example of why having even the most modest of platforms is a recipe for developing a bottomless anxiety disorder. The entitled begging, or the acknowledgement of my christ-like qualities?
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SunAndSpring posted:why are you even jumping in on this I honestly don't have a good answer for that. I don't even know if it was me, I only saw the first post before all the edits, but given the number of people matching your original vague description it's pretty much a coin toss between me and Harry, so of course that sparks a good old flash of panic, because what if it was me? What if it's my own inability to personally shoulder the weight of everyone else's problems that have made this person so miserable? Do they hate me because I failed, because I had a day or a week or a month where I felt like I just didn't have the emotional space to parse everything, and in that weakness I inadvertently made someone's life worse? Do I ruin lives when I look at that "new emails" "new DMs" "new notifications" message and decide that I just don't have the capacity to parse whatever it is? I'm still just a nobody but people keep asking me to fix their problems does that mean I actually can fix all their problems or do they just not know that I can't?! Anyway, I dropped in to post Pushing Up Roses' week old video on Murder, She Wrote's VR episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur-5WCtSl10) and share stories about Vice being complete tools about paying people and got to feel like garbage about something I don't even know if I didn't do.
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ah I’m just really loving drunk and had a loving bad moment, sorry to be stressful like that, I shouldn’t have even posted all that poo poo because it’s loving dumb and I should’ve just found another way to not like loving go broke instead of getting mad at people not obligated to help.
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Kids, don't drink and subtweet.
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Anyway my classic VICE story is that they called me from Toronto at 6:45 am to ask me to buy supplies and then drive up to Edmonton (3 hour drive) to pick up a reporter and their camera op and drive them up to the forest fires in Fort McMurray (5 hours from Edmonton) for a location report that will last an unknown number of days. Oh and also can you be second camera and also can you mentor the reporter she's new and also can you be a general fixer and can you leave within the next two hours? So I quote them my full day rate and they say "okay, yes, absolutely." I go and do the job and it's miserable. It ends up taking four days, the camera op is a complete piece of garbage who drinks on the job and gets pissy when I don't park in the handicapped space "because it's closer." Anyway, it's an awful time, so I make sure I charge VICE for every last dime I spent. Couple days pass and I get a call from the producer I'd spoken to originally. "Hi, yeah, I got your invoice, and this day rate is really high. We were wondering if you'd be willing to resubmit at (half what I'd quoted) and also we looked up what you made on the previous times you worked for us and it was way lower and you can't just give yourself a raise like that, you understand?" "Well, what I made last time is irrelevant, those were for jobs where you wanted me to show up at a nightclub, watch a concert, and get a sound bite from the performers; this time you wanted me to drop everything and drive eight hours across the province into an active forest fire." "Yeah, but you can't just give yourself a raise." So it goes on like that with me trying to explain how, you know, freelance works for A While until I assure her in no uncertain terms that I won't be lowering my invoice. The producer then makes an impassioned plea because, you see, my day rate is fifty dollars over their day rate cap. Astute readers may notice that knowing VICE's day rate caps is both not my problem and not my job, but also that knowing VICE's day rate caps is both very much the producer's problem and quite explicitly her literal job. She then lets me know that that will become my new rate "in the system" and because it's over cap they probably won't call me again. "Do you think, after this conversation, I have any intent of working with you ever again?" They did eventually pay it all and they haven't called me since.
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DoubleCakes posted:Yep we have to keep mentioning the fact that Gavin was one of the founders of Vice for no reason I know it doesn't apply to everyone but it's news to me. Helps me keep track of everyone too, because that's how I sort nazis. By what dumb thing they've done in recent memory.
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speaking of Gavin McInness, I recently learned that the reason he left Fox News was because they kept promoting former WWE wrestler Brodus Clay/former TNA wrestler Tyrus' appearances over him, which led to his descent from bog standard right wing talking head to full blown neo-nazi and founder of the Proud Boys the Proud Boys were created because of a funky dinosaur
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Alaois posted:speaking of Gavin McInness, I recently learned that the reason he left Fox News was because they kept promoting former WWE wrestler Brodus Clay/former TNA wrestler Tyrus' appearances over him, which led to his descent from bog standard right wing talking head to full blown neo-nazi and founder of the Proud Boys I mean, the alt-right in general was born because one ratfaced dude couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that his girlfriend was more talented than he was and assumed she was loving her way to success, so it’s kind of par for the course.
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man if you are gonna have a big meltdown fight don't delete your stuff later Coming into a thread of like ten blank posts take that L
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nine-gear crow posted:I mean, the alt-right in general was born because one ratfaced dude couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that his girlfriend was more talented than he was and assumed she was loving her way to success, so it’s kind of par for the course. Yeah. And ComicsGate came about because some girls went for milkshakes.
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nine-gear crow posted:I mean, the alt-right in general was born because one ratfaced dude couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that his girlfriend was more talented than he was and assumed she was loving her way to success, so it’s kind of par for the course. laffo that guy is now making like 40 dollars a month on patreon, which is why any time someone some alt-right dipshit makes the news and people are like "oh look another one about to get on the grifter gravy train" it's like, you guys really have no idea what it takes to get in on this stuff do you
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Thompsons posted:laffo that guy is now making like 40 dollars a month on patreon, which is why any time someone some alt-right dipshit makes the news and people are like "oh look another one about to get on the grifter gravy train" it's like, you guys really have no idea what it takes to get in on this stuff do you That's probably his ex-girlfriend's evil machinations, too.
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