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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Nah, it's a parody/joke. There's a few hand tips in the video, but the credits confirm it, even though Poe's Law is quite real when it comes to stuff like this. Although it's more a parody of terrible videos like the Game Theory ones or the plethora of "What if children's show was really dark and edgy!" than something like Quinton or what gets posted here. i assumed as much. its just i have seen so many dumb theory videos that you never loving know. the first one is a good tip but the klaus one could be "well the author is an idiot too". it says more about me than him though.
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Nov 20, 2020 19:43
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Arist posted:New Folding Ideas on that wacko documentary pushing geocentrism that tricked Kate Mulgrew and some physicists into appearing in it: It's ridiculous how these people can pull this off. Dinesh D'Souza does the same thing - whenever you see some serious scholar in his flicks they didn't sit down knowing it was for a Dinesh "documentary". Also happened with the one and only correct Prager U video (the one about why the Civil War was fought).
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Nov 20, 2020 20:00
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OptimusShr posted:I remember reading somewhere that he regrets doing that now for what it's worth.
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Nov 20, 2020 20:09
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lobster22221 posted:then his son turns into a worm and get gets weird about sex. The fate of every poster, if only in essence.
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Nov 20, 2020 20:28
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Samovar posted:Tasting History also seems to be pretty good for this, although I always think the guy presenting it is the son of Peter Rosenthal from the the Onion's movie review. Who dares say something negative about Max! For real though he seems sweet and his videos are approachable and funny and informative. And he occasionally makes really dumb silly jokes. I appreciate him so much.
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Nov 20, 2020 20:36
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lobster22221 posted:Calling a paul a hero is a bit debatable. The whole point of the book is how he failed to stop a galaxy wide genocide and cult put into his name, while(in the sequels) effectively killing an entire culture. yeah hes not raping children, but its a good example of hero vs protagonist. His dad was absolutely painted as a good guy and for like 99% of people. Dune ends after the first book. The franchise goes kind of batshit after that anyway.
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Nov 20, 2020 21:01
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I can’t remember exactly where it happens in Dune (or maybe in messiah) but there’s this great bit that’s set up early when some of the Atreides are reflecting on Leto’s father, the Old Duke, and nobody outright says it but is pretty heavily implied that he was a real motherfucker, a real blood and thunder piece of poo poo, and then towards the end of the book when Paul is ascendant and really taking power and exacting his revenge, the surviving atreides (I think thufir, specifically) see him and don’t think of leto at all, they’re reminded of the old duke.
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Nov 20, 2020 22:09
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Dune goes out of its way to make the villains unsympathetic monsters, but even the first book spells out that nice-guy-that-we-like-and-want-to-root-for Paul is going to cause more death than any of them.
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Nov 20, 2020 22:29
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Arist posted:New Folding Ideas on that wacko documentary pushing geocentrism that tricked Kate Mulgrew and some physicists into appearing in it: Also, the production is really nice. I like it
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Nov 20, 2020 23:00
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Katt posted:https://twitter.com/AshBCoffin/status/1329754140310974466?s=20 Also, I feel like it's not just a Super Bad joke, but everyone was drawing dicks on the whiteboard and on the bathroom stalls all the time in Middle and High School when I was going so I can absolutely see that being wrapping paper the second someone brought up vagina wrapping paper.
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Nov 20, 2020 23:10
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Impermanent posted:no there's still neil cicierga's meme music pseudo mashup stuff. that's the lowest point what the gently caress
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Nov 20, 2020 23:54
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Mr Phillby posted:Well thats good to hear. I'm inclined to see it as badly misjudged 2000s edgy comedy rather than outright sexism but its so hard to trust nerd/gamer content producers not to have really specific batshit opinions about the womz sometimes. Checking one of his older videos: "When I wrote this, it was more controversial to say "it's okay to be gay" than it is now. In my mind, I was sneaking a message about equality into a song that was sort of disguised as a big gay joke. Nowadays, it has aged pretty poorly and to some people, it just looks like gay-bashing. I promise, it really wasn't intended that way, I literally marched for gay equality in Washington the weekend after I posted it. So anyway, I hope you can see it in the context I meant it, and I hope it doesn't make you feel bad." That being included, along with a CW for homophobia, in a song about Toad being gay that seemed more like pointing out harmless stereotypes than anything actually harmful (by the standards of the time ofc. Nowadays its definitely more eyebrow raising) points towards him being a classy but misguided guy.
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Nov 21, 2020 00:05
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Impermanent posted:no there's still neil cicierga's meme music pseudo mashup stuff. that's the lowest point what's wrong with you that poo poo is art
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Nov 21, 2020 00:47
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bustin makes me feel good
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Nov 21, 2020 00:57
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwHqY_4nsJ4 GMTK hit 1M subscribers and put out a long-promised follow-up to the Boss Keys series on Zelda dungeon design.
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Nov 21, 2020 01:01
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The Bee posted:Checking one of his older videos:
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Nov 21, 2020 01:07
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dmboogie posted:what the gently caress DoctorWhat posted:what's wrong with you that poo poo is art Some people still think that liking things exists on a scale. To enjoy something, you have to put another thing down too.
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Nov 21, 2020 01:10
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RareAcumen posted:Some people still think that liking things exists on a scale. To enjoy something, you have to put another thing down too. not liking a goofy mashup is one thing but lmao at the implication that its more embarrassing than the mega man 2 rap song with the line "it's a man's world baby don't go flashing your vag"
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Nov 21, 2020 01:16
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Mr Phillby posted:Oh nice he seems like a good egg afterall. Yeah, I follow him on Twitter and find him to be good. In fact I found the tweet about Tetris song and the tweet and replies show he grew as a person since then: https://twitter.com/brentalfloss/status/979424662055768064
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Nov 21, 2020 01:24
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This is a bit different then the threads usual, but I recently discovered an incredibly strange short film about the Japanese Zengakuren (radical leftist students who wore those helmets and snake danced). Baffled and exhausted my own powers of investigation I reached out Cinema Nippon and they helped me out. Unfortunately we ended up with a lot more questions than answers, but confirmed that the video is the work of a Russian esoteric nihilist with a fixation on Hindu spirituality, Japanese street violence, 70s J-pop and Hatsune Miku (no that's not a JK Rowling joke). I wrote up what we found http://reddebreksbowl.blogspot.com/2020/11/falling-down-rabbit-hole-with-cinema.html P.S. if anyone is or knows someone who is okay with conversational Japanese I'd really love to know what was said in that first scene.
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Nov 21, 2020 01:57
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Ross Mctyre just did a retrospective on the James Bond series. It's really good. even tho he's wrong about Quantum of Solace  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV4X80KxtyQ
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Nov 21, 2020 03:20
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Jamie Faith posted:Ross Mctyre just did a retrospective on the James Bond series. It's really good. even tho he's wrong about Quantum of Solace Yeah he's wrong about it....he's too nice to it!
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Nov 21, 2020 03:39
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I’ve spent the last few days watching basically every video made by Liam Robertson and I wanted to post in here about it because I think they’re really stellar if you have even a mild interest in game dev stories or games that never got released https://youtu.be/GF3cqKxfxaw Basically Liam is part of the Unseen 64 team, who have been around for a long-rear end time on the internet (to put it in perspective, their name was fairly contemporary when then came up with it) and for their entire existence they’ve been writing about unreleased games. They’re notable because they do lots of interviews with devs both past and present, and since no one is really telling stories like these they tend to get some wild scoops and crazy access to prototypes and old design docs, generally just by asking around. They’ve had particularly great access to Rare and Factor 5 over the years, with the former being their original claim to fame as they posted about all sorts of rare Rare stories in the early 2000s, and with the latter, the videos Liam made essentially tell the entire story of Factor 5’s demise through the games they didn’t get to make, complete with comments from heads of the studio. Their website is filled with 20 years worth of stories, and they’re still going, they have a Patreon that will grant access to a very well done book full of stories and pictures of prototypes and concept art, plus they still post fairly often about new finds, but man their back catalog is cool. Stories about Earthbound 64, early betas of RE2 and RE4, Eternal Darkness, Too Human, all sorts of stuff. It’s some of my favorite games journalism because so much of what exists now looks at what’s next or what was successful, but no one is really delving into all of the work that devs do that never gets seen, and there are so many stories out there that are only not being told because there’s not an outlet.
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Nov 21, 2020 03:48
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dmboogie posted:not liking a goofy mashup is one thing but lmao at the implication that its more embarrassing than the mega man 2 rap song with the line "it's a man's world baby don't go flashing your vag" The best thing about those is highlighting that nerds don't hate rap because its misogynistic or violent, but instead because its by people of color. Make it Mega Man instead and suddenly all those objections go away!
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Nov 21, 2020 03:51
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Yeah he's wrong about it....he's too nice to it! 
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Nov 21, 2020 04:20
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Quantum of Solace loving sucks.
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Nov 21, 2020 04:27
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The director will find no solace here.
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Nov 21, 2020 04:46
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lobster22221 posted:The director will find no solace here. Surely he deserves at least a quantum? :P
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Nov 21, 2020 04:50
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I want to write a big post defending QoS, but I'd rather die another day
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Nov 21, 2020 05:12
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QoS is okay. It’s not as bad as spectre. QoS is a better watch if you watch it right after casino. The fight scenes are horrible though
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Nov 21, 2020 05:18
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CelticPredator posted:QoS is okay. It’s not as bad as spectre. The best part about Quantum of Solace is Spectre's third act where Bond has to trudge through Blofeld's Tunnel Of Antagonists I Was Secretly Responsible For This Whole Time, and it very pointedly leaves out QoS's main antagonist. It's such a brilliant and petty shade throw.
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Nov 21, 2020 05:24
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And yet spectre was the worst thing ever!! Movie thought it was hot poo poo
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Nov 21, 2020 05:27
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CelticPredator posted:And yet spectre was the worst thing ever!! Movie thought it was hot poo poo It's like a mobius strip.
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Nov 21, 2020 05:34
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nine-gear crow posted:The best part about Quantum of Solace is Spectre's third act where Bond has to trudge through Blofeld's Tunnel Of Antagonists I Was Secretly Responsible For This Whole Time, and it very pointedly leaves out QoS's main antagonist. It's such a brilliant and petty shade throw. As a QoS simp, I was so pissed at that. Dominic Greene is such a creepy slimy scumbag (in a good way). He has so many great lines too. One of the most underrated Bond baddies of all time imo I still love Spectre tho. It's been a while since I last saw it but I mainly remember the train fight which was awesome, the car chase which was awesome, and the fact that it was first Bond movie in 10 years that had gadgets and was actually trying to be a fun Bond movie. Spectre owns imo even with the silly unnecessary Austin Powers twist.
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Nov 21, 2020 05:35
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I have seen Quantum of Solace several times and do not remember a single thing about it Specter was awful
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Nov 21, 2020 05:51
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HopperUK posted:Who dares say something negative about Max! Oh no, not in his delivery. Max seems really neat. He just LOOKS like he's the guy's son, even though he's not. Like... How Sigorney Weaver and Michael Back looked like siblings back in the '70s.
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Nov 21, 2020 06:11
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The Bee posted:The best thing about those is highlighting that nerds don't hate rap because its misogynistic or violent, but instead because its by people of color. Make it Mega Man instead and suddenly all those objections go away!
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Nov 21, 2020 06:11
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Thinking bout that time in spectre when Blofield makes a big deal about drilling into certain parts of Bond's brain to cause specific damage, which Bond just walks off.
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Nov 21, 2020 06:21
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JustaDamnFool posted:Thinking bout that time in spectre when Blofield makes a big deal about drilling into certain parts of Bond's brain to cause specific damage, which Bond just walks off. James Bond really out here using the power of love to thwart the villain's plan.
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Nov 21, 2020 06:34
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Just had a look at Brentalfloss's Twitter and he's retweeting the Gravel Institute. https://twitter.com/brentalfloss/status/1329412793209073664?s=19 I'm gonna say he's probably not a bastard.
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