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Given the Canadian soil once swallowed a train and tracks whole I can kind of imagine why building infrastructure would be a challenge.
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Nov 21, 2019 09:20
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Clerical Terrors posted:Given the Canadian soil once swallowed a train and tracks whole I can kind of imagine why building infrastructure would be a challenge. Wait what, when did this happen?
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Nov 21, 2019 10:39
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Kamrat posted:Wait what, when did this happen? http://www.okthepk.ca/dataCprSiding/cprNews/cpNews30/83100501.htm Muskeg is wild.
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Nov 21, 2019 11:59
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Mr.Radar posted:Gamers Nexus also has scathing coverage of the Stadia launch: the Just Dance segment is Very Good, been a while since I've seen veteran Videogames.com's own Jeff Gerstmann be just gobsmacked by something but then the second phone bit happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBFpHPFLbCM&t=1772s
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Nov 21, 2019 12:00
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https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/1197450820998115328?s=20 We finally have a countdown for "The Prequels are Good Actually"
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Nov 21, 2019 15:16
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Didn't he already do that video or was that somebody else?
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Nov 21, 2019 15:41
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0 rows returned posted:Didn't he already do that video or was that somebody else? He's started to as a bit a few times
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Nov 21, 2019 15:46
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Wow I can't believe Hbomb is now a capitalist demanding 7.5k to put the stuff he posts freely in this thread to video form
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Nov 21, 2019 16:00
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Leal posted:Wow I can't believe Hbomb is now a capitalist demanding 7.5k to put the stuff he posts freely in this thread to video form I was about to say, yes, the man has truly come full circle. remember when he used to wax on to the point of probation because we all thought he was trolling? Good times
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Nov 21, 2019 16:35
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Blood Nightmaster posted:I was about to say, yes, the man has truly come full circle. remember when he used to wax on to the point of probation because we all thought he was trolling? Good times I will defend the prequels in his place.
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Nov 21, 2019 18:30
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MonsieurChoc posted:I will defend the prequels in his place. Eh, no need, a markov chain with SMG quotes will do it equally well.
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Nov 21, 2019 18:33
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The prequels are interesting because they maybe look like they're trying to do something interesting but failing, or maybe they've become this cinematic Rorschach where you can find profundity in the static. For example, all but two Jedi are killed, and there's always two Sith. Anakin actually fulfilled the prophecy and brought balance to the force. It's a nice little point, but who knows if Lucas meant to do that.
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Nov 21, 2019 18:54
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Bug Squash posted:For example, all but two Jedi are killed, and there's always two Sith. Anakin actually fulfilled the prophecy and brought balance to the force. It's a nice little point, but who knows if Lucas meant to do that. He didn't (according to Lucas, the Dark Side imbalances the force by its very presence), but it continues into the original trilogy, where when a third Jedi shows up, Anakin kills one bringing it back to two, and then when one of the two remaining Jedi die, he brings it down to one. I honestly like the idea of Lucas's interpretation being the Jedi's interpretation but what actually happened being what it actually meant.
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Nov 21, 2019 18:57
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I don't give a toss about Pathologic, so here's Chris Davis on the 8/10 game of year: The Outer Worlds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Tnz17r_KI By now I hold him in high regard over Joseph Anderson because he's more prolific and less of the type who hits the skill-ceiling in Hollow Knight and still says it's too easy.
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Nov 21, 2019 18:58
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I do wonder how kids growing up with the latest trilogy will eventually receive the prequels vs the originals since TFA et al are essentially "their" Star Wars. Like as somebody who was in grade school when The Phantom Menace came out I didn't really see them as outright bad or anything since I didn't have any other point of comparison, they were just.. fine I guess? Like imagine being born a decade from now and just being able to watch all three of the trilogies one day with zero bias going into any of them. Can't wait for the long form video essay in 20+ years about how Star Wars as a whole is just, like, whatever man
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Nov 21, 2019 19:14
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Didn't George Lucas originally want Star Wars to be about magic mitochondria anyway?
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Nov 21, 2019 19:25
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Would have been way better than 3rd Birthday.
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Nov 21, 2019 19:28
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Hbomb you're still an EU citizen by the grace of the purgatory known as Brexit, why are you releasing videos at EU midnight. 
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Nov 21, 2019 19:45
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MonsieurChoc posted:Would have been way better than 3rd Birthday.
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Nov 21, 2019 21:06
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So folk remember Legends of Localization, an enterprise by the guy who translated Mother 3 and made all of those neat books that are all about translation, right? Today he shared a video he used to have on his patreon (still delisted, hence why I'm sharing the tweet that goes there and not the video itself, but you can click thru anyway) on how That American Police Magazine Cover With the Policeman Eating a Lot of Carl Jr's came to be: https://twitter.com/ClydeMandelin/status/1197602571268919297
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Nov 21, 2019 21:08
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^^ That picture is a great example of the reverse poe's law. Also, for the Gordon Ramsey fans. A Marxist reading of Kitchen Nightmares. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6y8R70B0xw
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Nov 21, 2019 21:31
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Hbomb is just armond white for leftists
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Nov 21, 2019 21:31
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Grapplejack posted:Hbomb is just armond white for leftists considering how loved armond white is in hbomb's old stomping grounds, duh
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Nov 21, 2019 22:05
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Liking the prequels isn’t controversial these days since all the people who grew up with them are teenagers-people in their 20’s. The memes helped a lot too
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Nov 21, 2019 23:11
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I think the prequels suck rear end but I’d rather have people be nostalgic for them over people who are obsessed with the plinket reviews
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Nov 21, 2019 23:55
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there's enough distance from their original release now that it's easier to separate out bits and pieces of the prequels and bring them back together to reconstruct them into being a cohesive whole rather than the muddled messes overflowing with tonal whiplash that they actually are. like, if your only exposure to the prequels was the competently choreographed fight scene with darth maul you might come away believing they're better than they are, and there are a handful of other moments like that scattered about.
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Nov 21, 2019 23:57
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watho posted:I think the prequels suck rear end but I’d rather have people be nostalgic for them over people who are obsessed with the plinket reviews I'd rather have nostalgia for the prequels than people making GBS threads bricks over TLJ
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CelticPredator posted:Liking the prequels isn’t controversial these days since all the people who grew up with them are teenagers-people in their 20’s. I saw this in CD too and I'm not sure why goons are insisting this is true. The Phantom Menace came out in 1999. Teenagers today either have the usual spread of opinions, got invested in Marvel movies or just don't care either way. The only real change I've seen with the younger crowd is that a lot of people like Anakin now because The Clone Wars show did a lot to round him out. The TV series shoring up the prequels has been the only real change. Although, yeah I also haven't seen people reference the Plinkett reviews or really even hate on Phantom Menace outside of very nerdy spaces though. CYBEReris posted:like, if your only exposure to the prequels was the competently choreographed fight scene with darth maul you might come away believing they're better than they are, and there are a handful of other moments like that scattered about. I was always interested in the stories of some supposedly great fan edits. I think it was Aston Kutcher (of all people's) edit that discarded almost all of The Phantom Menace, framing it more as the prologue where we get to see Obi-Wan lose his master and get stuck lost and alone trying to raise this kid. Framing the series around Obi-Wan's struggles seems like such an obvious move that I'm shocked he didn't go with it. Parakeet vs. Phone fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Nov 22, 2019 |
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Nov 22, 2019 00:05
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It’s true because I’ve talked to 21 year olds and they like the prequels.
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Nov 22, 2019 00:29
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watho posted:I think the prequels suck rear end but I’d rather have people be nostalgic for them over people who are obsessed with the plinket reviews same, I kinda like Sith but Menace and Clones can eat my entire rear end out, but I'll take 'actually here's why those movies are good' over 'did ya hear about how they wanted to make Darth Vader a toy, totally unlike the original trilogies? Also a twenty minute ramble about lightsaber fights which can be summed up in 'I read the thing where Star Wars was inspired by an old samurai movie and assume that means all duels have to be samurai duels'.
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Nov 22, 2019 00:30
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He should make like a 5 hour video on TLJ so those EFAP guys will make a 2 week response video to it
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Nov 22, 2019 00:30
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TIL that apparently Jim Sterling is to thank for Big Chungus https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1197668843923095552 https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1197670198289084416
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Nov 22, 2019 01:27
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Yeah Chungus is the name Jim uses a lot for videos where a character name is required.
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Nov 22, 2019 02:56
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Leal posted:He should make like a 5 hour video on TLJ so those EFAP guys will make a 2 week response video to it Maybe if you make a long enough review you can kill EFAP by forcing them to respond until their bodies give out?
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Nov 22, 2019 08:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuScIN4emyo
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Nov 22, 2019 11:11
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Clerical Terrors posted:Maybe if you make a long enough review you can kill EFAP by forcing them to respond until their bodies give out? hi can we call the bad marathon videos people something new because every time ya'll say EFAP I get briefly excited that every frames a painting got the band back together and it's troubling for my heart to be let down that much
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Nov 22, 2019 11:41
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egg tats posted:hi can we call the bad marathon videos people something new because every time ya'll say EFAP I get briefly excited that every frames a painting got the band back together and it's troubling for my heart to be let down that much long looooooooooooooong MAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN
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Nov 22, 2019 12:50
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sexpig by night posted:same, I kinda like Sith but Menace and Clones can eat my entire rear end out, but I'll take 'actually here's why those movies are good' over 'did ya hear about how they wanted to make Darth Vader a toy, totally unlike the original trilogies? Also a twenty minute ramble about lightsaber fights which can be summed up in 'I read the thing where Star Wars was inspired by an old samurai movie and assume that means all duels have to be samurai duels'. Those points about toyetic-ness and the lighsaber fights were both popularized by the Plinkett reviews. That was a big thing for a while in CineD and other Star Wars discussion areas right when the reviews were first coming out, just sort of watching them and parroting the nitpicks or stuff about frame construction/editing because the person discussing it didn't have any formal knowledge of film editing/writing/critical terms beyond their use in the reviews. I think it was big instigating point for people to turn around and argue they were good, just to mix up the shallow repetition for a while but eventually sincerely go for it. Other people never grew past them. Rewatching the Plinkett stuff now though, you can really see how so much of the "film criticism" landscape on the internet took Ever Wrong Lesson from them.
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I only saw Chungus when it was the character name Fiona/Achievement Hunter used for her uh, large, version of Bugs Bunny skin, in one of their Trouble in Terrorist Town games.
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