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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

SatansBestBuddy posted:

Why imagine when you can watch it.

Man that's a great video, such a genuine blend of sadness at the death and joy when talking about him.

I can get where it's coming from, I'd watch them as a little kid and then later followed Ebert religiously, I'm positive I wouldn't be such a cinephile if not for their passion and love for movies.

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Mogambo posted:

It's videos like this that make me sad that he didn't drop the Nostalgia Critic gimmick for good. Granted, I thought Demo Reel was pretty awful, but his sincere reviews are far and away the best things he puts out nowadays.

Yea, I enjoy a good majority of NC stuff but I'd way rather just hear him be him, I'm sure he can do perfectly good 'Jesus guys this movie sucks' as just Doug.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I enjoy VGA but I can totally get someone not liking it. It's really dependent on other people making fun of his persona so if they're not into it in an episode it's just 'grown man yells at video games' and that's the pits. I thought the Injustice thing they did last was good, though, because they so legit love those kinda games.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Was Tester the one where a dude pitched a crazy misogynist game, and if so was that Egorapter

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Yea FF was literally always sold as her just taking a layman approach to the issues, it's really unfair to be all 'boy this sure is a feminist 101 thing' when that's literally her entire point. If anything that makes the insanity around it hilarious, there are people doing legit deep analysis of gender theory in the world and all that on youtube, including in media and all, but because Sarkessian dared to say ~precious videogames~ are lovely in a lot of respects she's Feminazi Satan.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Yea the day Doug revives his old "AND WHAT WAS THE DEAL WITH THAT BITCH?!" shrieking without actually talking about the movie, then you know he's desperate for money, this is just a gimmick he's doing.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
He's going into the movie and series both fresh, right? It should be pretty awesome to see him react to the movie after all that watching the show.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

cubs2084 posted:

I think it's probably a combination of the two. As Doug tellingly said himself, "time is money". So if he's going to take the time to do this, he may as well both give something to the fans and make some money too. I think that's entirely fair, since he didn't otherwise indicate anything but genuine interest in doing this.

Yea I got no reason to assume this is some sinister plot, dude's job is 'make videos for internet people', he's doing that job, can't really say 'how dare he do his job too well'.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Dinosaur Satan posted:

His position is basically: Let's rephrase the question as "are video games high art?" If they aren't now, they're bound to be.

Also, the last games he's played to completion are New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Metroid Prime 2. And his most referenced games during the video are The Sims, World of Warcraft, and Bioshock Infinite.

He shows that he's thought a lot about the issue but his position still never progresses out of the kiddie pool.

It's impossible to leave the kiddie pool when you're talking about 'are games art'.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Benne posted:

So what Blip ad exec looked at the demographic numbers for TGWTG and decided that those people are also big fans of Real Housewives of New Jersey?


Because that person needs to be fired like yesterday.

I'm so sorry, that ad was tailored to me I guess.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
You'd think a girl who's bread and butter is anime wouldn't mind a hero who spends the first half of the movie 'moping' and then punches things.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I do enjoy the same people whining about Avengers and Iron Man and such being all action and no emotion now whining about Superman being portrayed as a dude with some pretty huge identity and loss issues he has to work out.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I remain 100% if this was anyone but Snyder there'd be at least a decent number of less bad reviews.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Robert Denby posted:

"Sucker Punch" was Zack Snyder's pet project, which he not only directed but co-wrote the screenplay, wrote the original story treatment for, and co-produced with his wife under his own production company (Cruel and Unusual Films). It was severely misguided, deeply offensive, and read like something that was made by a sheltered nerd who has no idea what these strange things called 'women' are. Snyder had an enormous amount of creative control over it, and it was something he'd wanted to make for years. He had an opportunity most directors would kill for, an $80 million budget, and decided to make pandering bullshit. Supposedly his preferred cut was even worse than what ended up in theaters, had something like five song-and-dance numbers, and Warner Bros. forced him to make massive cuts so it would at least be semi-watchable.

Sorry I meant Man of Steel by that comment, Sucker Punch is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. My bad, that wasn't clear.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Also in no way did he say anything close to 'motherfucker' so this a really pointless thing to argue about.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Al-Saqr posted:

So far Danny has managed to make me laugh out loud with IT WAS loving PIZZA PASTA so he's in my good books so far. however that steam train episode was a disaster.

Yea Punchout was funny, but goddamn Steam Train was terrible. How do you gently caress up Hotline Miami's tutorial?

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Yea Steam Train is pretty lame but Grumps has actually been pretty fun for all the reasons already said.

Ross is really loving boring though, he's not even like, offensive or insulting or anything else like that, he's just really boring and not funny. I guess he's kinda supposed to be the straight man, but he's not even that because he genuinely is trying to make those lovely jokes.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
You know you don't HAVE to see the movie, right? Like if 'dark things' turn you off that bad you could just not see it, you should just stop making broad judgement on it with only trailers and word of mouth to go on.

I don't watch torture porn, I don't like the genre, so I just don't make sweeping judgments of them and when it comes up say 'nah not my thing'. No one's ever, ironically, put me in some kinda Saw machine and forced me to watch.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Game Grumps is playing Civ 5 and it's actually pretty hilarious. They do their typical 'we have never even googled this poo poo before WHAT'S HAPPENING' thing but for a game like Civilization it doesn't result in death and repetition like normal, it just results in huge Civilization nerds like me going 'you fools you're not optimizing your research order!'

Also their Caesar voice and constant assumptions that there's a vast Australian empire is great.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Yea I'm positive it was 'ok there's not many more jokes to make I don't know what to do, let's pull the plug' so they went with a (pretty funny) joke end.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Danny is really a breath of fresh air. It's awesome to have a cohost that actually lets jokes happen instead of shrieking over them.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I dunno, isn't the point of Matt's character that he's a sad loser who pervs on girls because that's the closest he gets to sex? I mean every time he says something dumb and gross Pat screams at him to stop being pathetic, I always found that funny.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Mokinokaro posted:

Yeah I get the feeling "bad girl" Miley Cyrus is all a marketing thing.

Bad girl Miley is a really creepy reinvention because so far what I've seen of it means 'Miley hangs out with black people'.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

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.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
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.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Am I the only person who thinks if you as an adult man legitimately give a poo poo about One Direction or Beiber and their 'artistic integrity', you should maybe examine why you care so much about music not for you?

Like, do these people go to The Wiggles (those still a thing?) and heckle?

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I really love Game Grumps now. Like, Johntron is a nice guy and I'm sure he's fine on his own but man Ross and Danny and Arin are the dream team. Watching their Rogue Legacy episode was fun when they just started talking about anime VAs that they've actually met and spoken to and heard stories from instead of just "OH THAT SKELETON JUST FARTED ON ME PFT PFT PFT FAAAAAAAAAAAART" to fill time.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

cubs2084 posted:

She certainly referenced enough of them, so probably at least a couple more. Hope she tackles The Flintstones.

Yea for sure Flintstones (were there 2 of those too?) and the Dennis the Menace movie would be rich ground for her type of critiques.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

cubs2084 posted:

It's funny how you can always tell someone hasn't watched the show by this assessment. From the outside, sure. There's no plot, it's a lot of random. And there's plenty of one off episodes, sure. But there's lots of continuity, genuine character growth, many plot threads and complex relationships. Something that seems random in season one, will have HUGE implications in season 4. It's why so many adults love it. It's lots of manic colorful cartoon crazy, sure. But there's substance, plot, character, and intelligence behind it all.

And I wonder how long it will take Doug to realize this.

The plot really doesn't come in until, what, season two, three?

Also I'm gonna be honest, a lot of the 'seemingly random things have huge implications' are pretty dumb at this point. Like that episode where that weird ghost was Finn in a past life or something, and Finn's obsession with robot arms is obviously going to do something but it's so annoyingly telegraphed it's less 'clever' and more 'boring' at this point. Some podcast I listened to described moments like these perfectly to me, but they were talking about super hero movies where some character name drops another character/location in the IP. They're moments for you to elbow your friend and go 'eeeeh?' and treating them as more is just painfully shoehorning something in.

The 'special relationship developments' and all are also fairly hit or miss, mainly the Simon and Marcy stuff which keeps switching from generic post apocalyptic pseudo-world building to A Very Special Adventure Time About Alzheimer's Or Addiction Or Whatever Else You Attach To That poo poo.

Also given how poo poo Doug usually is at remembering super basic details I don't think he's going to 'catch' any of the arcane callbacks.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

AriadneThread posted:

Make Doug review Homestuck.

It'll be a punishment for everyone involved, participant and witness.

He's done that 'put a fake gun in my mouth and have humorously fake blood spray out the back' joke a couple times, right?

It won't be a joke.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Did you know that you can think that it's both good that her mother is being responsible with the money she makes, and also hosed up that no matter how good a college she goes to she's going to be best known for being drinking go go juice and talking about her mother's neck crust?

You can be exploitative without being cartoon bad people.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
AVGN has some legit funny stuff. There's a lot of his videos that rely too much on him just shouting and screaming poop related words but there's also a decent amount that's just him making fun of terrible games in a funny way. Plus he's tried really hard to move on past 'the nerd' to do actual reviews, hasn't he? I can respect a dude knowing when he's reached the end of a gimmick and letting it die instead of riding it forever.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Asgerd posted:

He's gone on record as saying that he isn't actually a big fan of the ol' toilet humor, but he keeps it in the reviews because it's what people came to expect, and now it's so intrinsic to the character that he pretty much has to have it.

I always thought that his better stuff is when he stops the cursing and looks at old, forgotten consoles and weird experimental pieces of hardware. See his videos on the Atari Jaguar or the many, many Pong machines. They're almost like lessons in gaming history. How else would I know what an Atari Jaguar CD Add-On was?

Yea his console/stupid accessory episodes are some of the best since it's just him sitting down and saying 'here's some dumb poo poo we spent money on as kids' and making jokes about that.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

achillesforever6 posted:

I think Sharknado was only the phenomena it was mainly because the mainstream doesn't really understand when films are intentionally made bad.

Yea Sharknado became a 'thing' when like, people who review movies and poo poo went "I DON'T GET IT THIS MOVIE IS BAD BUT PEOPLE LIKE IT WHAAAAAAAAAAA?"

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
The Jontron/Grumps 'split' has been really great for both sides. Jontron is funny in his own thing not being the guy who shrieks "ARIN ARIN ARIN LOOK AT MY BUTT" and the current Grump lineup with Steamtrain and poo poo like their Monster Hunter episode on that other channel are great.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Mokinokaro posted:

I'd be careful taking everything she says as fact, mind (gaining attention is important to her series.) Not that I doubt it could have happened.

Yea keep in mind she could be lying, it's not like the internet misogyny crew has declared a fatwa on her or anything and her videos always get flooded with vile comments and poo poo and people try to force youtube to take them down.

I'm not saying she's lying but keep in mind she could be lying to get attention.

Not saying she's lying though.

She's lying

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I'm sure she loves that the people who should watch her poo poo the most just want to call her a stupid oval office that should die and be banned from speaking ever again, yea.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
People made fun of the boys in Heavy Rain because it was a David Cage game, and David Cage games are written like poo poo, people made fun of every character in Heavy Rain. poo poo the biggest meme I remember from it was "PRESS X TO JASON" which had nothing to do with making fun of the boys.

People laughed about Duck's fate because since the beginning Duck was every lovely child character ever, the hyper 'oh he's so precocious' archetype that is just lazy writing. Also his literal first scene of note involved him getting a dude trapped under a tractor and totally loving the group. I treated him like poo poo in the game because he was a poo poo character, not because he was a boy. Hell even then most people felt pretty lovely about how Duck wound up, if only because the writing for his parents was really good in that scene.

Meanwhile Clem had some cringe worthy moments, but for the most part was done in a subdued, blank slate way, which made it incredibly easy for anyone with young children in their lives to project them onto her, to bring out our instincts like that. The few moments of unique stuff she had like the final scene were very well written and acted, making them powerful.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Gyges posted:

I though Pa Kent was actually the most realistic Pa Kent so far. He's still instilling Clark with all them Truth, Justice, and the American Way values, but he's not quite sure what the right path is. Above everything else he doesn't want his son to be hurt, and he thinks that coming public with the powers will hurt Clark, if not physically then emotionally as he's treated as the world's other. It's too bad they couldn't either find a better way to kill him, or let him live. Rapture by tornado was just too hokey with too many other ways to go.

Seriously I loved Man of Steel's Pa Kent. The tornado rapture was retarded but as a character he was the best representation of how a good man would react to a son that's a literal alien with god like powers. He taught him to be a good person, but he also taught him that the world was kinda a lovely place and we love to hurt and isolate the 'other' as much as possible, and it doesn't get much more 'other' than Clark.

I mean, if we wanna go a bit off the deeper end, considering he's an elderly rural Kansas farmer the dude would realistically remember a time when having the wrong skin color got dudes strung up, I'd think him being a bit reluctant for his son to show off his alien powers would fit that.


Ghostpilot posted:

I don't readily recall if he killed anybody in the first film, aside from the Joker (which could be called indirect or accidental), but his anti-gun rule went way out of the window.

Batman Returns, on the other hand...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXo3JRDQdws

Yea it was Returns where he went murder happy. In the first one he basically accidentally kills the Joker, or at worst he pulls a proto-Bale "I won't kill you but I don't have to rescue you" move. It was rough but that was kinda the point, it showed that Batman had been pushed to about his limit and while he wasn't going to just blast Joker in the face to end it, he didn't really have any problem with the dude accidentally dying or feel any obligation to prevent it. In Return, well yea, he just kinda smirks and blows dudes up.

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Game Grumps' fifty minute look at Endless Ocean is pure art.

"This game is like one part gorgeous dreamland and two parts nightmare I can't wake from!"

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