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Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

dmboogie posted:

admittedly i haven't watched it since it released but i remember the Sword Art Online abridged series being real good

SAO abridged is probably the best abridged series ever after DBZA, for the sheer achievement of making Sword Art Online compelling without actually changing all that much.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2020 09:20

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 21:57

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Holy poo poo Destiny has fallen hard:

https://youtu.be/QoDfthL2w-Y

# ¿ Feb 20, 2020 08:24

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Solar Tornado posted:

First of all: Thank you

Second: how come cooking-youtube gets so many views?? Like, it has to be who cooks the food rather than the food itself, right?

Food is entertainment to a lot of people. Whether it's showcasing some obscure delicacy from another country, seeing a chef making a perfect their, general how-tos, or just watching some eat a disgusting amount food (there's a weirdly large number of these). There's tons of different ways to entertain with food, and it will always be popular because...well it's a fundamental human experience. And this has been true long before Youtube.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2020 19:16

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Ibram Gaunt posted:

Two of my friends I went to pax with went to his panel thinking it'd be funny but it was the worst poo poo they ever saw apparently.

e: lol you werent kidding.

of course Film Robert is a Warren stan.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2020 19:33

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

ArfJason posted:

clicked latest page out of a masochistic desire to see what this thread is up to now and im pleasantly surprised because adam ragusea loving owns and thanks to him i now do the best potato "fries" in the universe, and yeah he prioritizes making food at home instead of at home + 50 different specific appliances

joshua weissman is good too but ragusea is better imo

goodbye

Ragusea does own, and his videos about tomatoes are turning around my dislike of them and thinking of taking up gardening of all things. Though some of his video titles have attracted weirdo 4channers in the comments.

Weissman is also pretty good, and I've been using his simple cold brew recipe to great effect. Though a lot of his stuff is a little advanced, and he comes off as a massive hipster tool (even though he's not).

Of course there's also Chef John of Food Wishes, the Alpha and the Omega of Foodtubing (PBUH).

# ¿ Apr 3, 2020 05:29

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Casey Finnigan posted:

I posted in some of the same threads as hbomberguy before he made videos, and I don't remember him doing or saying anything particularly different from any other poster at the time, so I don't really understand what kind of accusation is being made.

It's a "they're successful, therefore they're a sellout" accusation.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2020 05:23

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

A lot of comedy anime gets way better dubbed. Cromartie High, Konosuba, etc.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 02:20

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

I stopped watching Renegade Cut after watching his Interstellar review where he made the galaxy brain argument that space exploration is exactly the same thing as Imperialism because we are denying microbes on any planet we touch down on the chance to evolve, and thus committing pre-emptive genocide.

# ¿ May 5, 2020 01:27

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

BigRed0427 posted:

I would like to finish that some day

I think they did a re-release on Steam coupled with a new 4th episode?

# ¿ May 6, 2020 02:13

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Max Wilco posted:

Speaking of transphobes:
https://twitter.com/oysterFAKE/status/1258432788207775744

I very much am looking forward to a Women vs TERFs video series.

# ¿ May 8, 2020 01:21

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Vagabundo posted:

Came across a few in my time. Quick to go on ad nauseum about British colonialism, and will accept any propaganda out of North Korea, Syria and Russia without question, and will claim to be championing human rights, but clam up pretty quickly or will downplay poo poo like it basically being illegal to exist in public while being LGBTQ, etc., in Moscow.

Those are just tankies, nothing crypto about that.

# ¿ May 12, 2020 22:56

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

I remember people pointing out that CWC was pretty racist and really misogynist (which was true), and thus it was some sort of public service to harass them.

Half those people ended up in Kiwifarms so lol.

# ¿ May 13, 2020 00:41

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Jamie Faith posted:

I have heard stories that say Mindgeek's CEO (or some upper management dude) really wants to bang his sister. Thus, the incest porn boom being pushed by Mindgeek's pornsites. That could be (and probably is) bullshit but I mean, why else would loving incest porn be such a huge thing being pushed in otherwise mainstream sites?

It's because of people who actually still pay for porn are people who want incest poo poo. Everyone else just watches free videos.

# ¿ May 24, 2020 07:38

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Dapper_Swindler posted:

lol.

i mean i looked through his twitter and most of its boring tech bable and some smarmy dumb jokes. nothing out and out alt right of late.

https://twitter.com/notch/status/1257077349264154624

bad opinions though.

dude I barely scrolled down on his feed and found him openly declaring he was a transphobe

e: f,b

# ¿ May 26, 2020 21:44

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

How much is Notch worth? I once calculated how much it would take to buy all my dream cars and bikes and a house with enough garage space to store them all, and I came up with something like 5 million.

# ¿ May 26, 2020 22:08

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Unlucky7 posted:

He doesn't get any royalities anymore from Minecraft, does he? I don't think he is working on anything else. Still, 1.7 billion is safely in "You are a dragon hording gold" territory.

That's probably just from stocks and poo poo. At a certain point you can just hire a guy to invest for you and you just start making money for nothing.

# ¿ May 26, 2020 22:19

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Jamie Faith posted:

Why in gently caress did VICE publish weird horny (and transphobic) fetish fan fiction likes its a news article??? Did they get hacked???

VICE has always done stupid poo poo like this from time to time. Remember they were co-founded by Gavin McInnes.

# ¿ May 27, 2020 02:49

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Farm Frenzy posted:

i remember at the start of his downward spiral he said that he thinks minecraft was a complete fluke and someone else wouldve made a similar game if he hadn't so i dont think he even really takes pride in it as something he's made. its pretty sad

i mean terraria IS better than minecraft so

# ¿ May 27, 2020 06:25

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

YouTube Jack Saint is really good, but Twitter Jack Saint less so.

Though I'm not sure if that's just a problem with the platform.

# ¿ May 27, 2020 23:53

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Ariong posted:

I agree but that’s kind of an apples and oranges comparison in my opinion.

Not really, Terraria was the explicitly billed as a 2D Minecraft competitor with more RPG elements. You could argue it's become more than that, but I think it's fair to group the 2 games into a similar category.

# ¿ May 28, 2020 03:20

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Insurrectionist posted:

DBZ was never A Thing where I'm from when I was young, I mean I'm sure anime nerds watched it but I was born in 89 and had not grown up enough to be an anime nerd at the time. Pokemon was it as far as kids TV went. By the time I entered my anime nerd teenhood, it was all Naruto and Bleach.

Are you from the US? Because I was born in 92, and everyone I knew grew up watching DBZ on Toonami, anime nerd or not.

# ¿ May 28, 2020 23:34

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Archer666 posted:

And it was also filled balls to the wall with crazy people, if DashCon was any indication.

The parallels with SA continue. :v:

# ¿ May 30, 2020 08:16

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Yardbomb posted:

The primary thing that spurred tumblr to doing the really dumb thing they did was that they got taken off the apple store because a bunch of hidden child porn blogs kept popping up, so rather than make any kind of visible effort to bump up their work on finding and axing those, they went "Duuuh, all sex baned" which drove off an immense amount of their users, the people drawing regular fine porn, the people drawing not even porn who also kept getting hit, blogs about actual naked people and whatnot, blogs about body acceptance and other nude-y but not porn examples, sand dunes, the people who were there for all of those and so on, except the people who were making like multiple layered deep blogs about illegal poo poo aren't gonna stop because there's an extra rule now about their already extremely illegal content.

Yeah, the purge didn't actually get rid of any CP blogs. Nor did it affect any non-sexual objectionable material. This led to a situation where an open Nazi blog was de-facto more accepted by the site than a blog that posted a rainbow flag or boob at one point.

# ¿ May 31, 2020 02:03

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

I'm surprised people are stanning Tanya here because I remember from the Isekai Quartet show she had a throwaway line of "Yeah, this is an example of capitalism triumphing over religion!" and went all :stare:

# ¿ Jun 1, 2020 00:15

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Why does Zach Snyder have such aggressive fans online anyway? His movies aren't good, but they're not outrageously bad either. They're just kind of drab and messy. Is this some culture war thing?

I thought it was salty DC fans and contrarians mad that MCU movie were popular.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2020 00:51

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

The Vosgian Beast posted:

As expressed in The Who�s pop masterpiece �My Generation,� most people don�t like their generation being outright dismissed or insulted. But if millennial gamers sing high praises for Night in the Woods, any defense of themselves will be hard to swallow. Writers Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry have created a puzzling contradiction with protagonist Mae and the small-town setting of Possum Springs: while the latter by itself has palpable authenticity, right down to the humorously varied �Get off my porch� dialogue from a grumbling male, Mae becomes more and more irresponsible as employed, stressed-out people allow her privileged behavior to grow to unbelievable degrees.

Simply put, Mae epitomizes the stereotypical millennial�s disconnection from traditional everyday toil, and the script of Night in the Woods pretends that working-class citizens would not call her out for mooching and breaking the law. In the story, Mae has returned to her hometown to live with her parents again after dropping out of college. From there, you guide Mae through a variety of self-absorbed, immoral activities that include tampering with crime evidence, shoplifting, and unearthing the coffin of a boy, all with little or no consequence. Although the anthropomorphic cast of Night in the Woods gives the writers leeway to indulge in some cartoonish, unrealistic depictions, the story suggests the supporting characters have real-life concerns, especially pulling one�s own weight, that help the player suspend disbelief. Why, then, do these people � family members, friends, and hard workers � excuse, overlook, or laugh off Mae�s flagrantly selfish and stupid actions?

At one point, it seems Benson and Hockenberry will address this glaring question through Bea, Mae�s childhood friend who has been running a business ever since the death of her mother. Bea confronts Mae�s blase attitude toward dropping out of college: �I stayed here and got older, while you left and stayed the same.� Yet Bea inexplicably goes on to support Mae�s thievery and grave defilement (and for some unknown idiotic reason, the populace of Possum Springs doesn�t care about a decades-old corpse being disrespected). Bea�s dedication doesn�t get rewarded, though: in a late scene, Mae embarrasses Bea with callous disregard, which causes Bea to bring up how she wishes she could have had an opportunity to go to college like Mae, who can�t even offer her good friend a reason as to why she quit school. Bea eventually says Mae is �genuinely a good person,� even though the story has only shown evidence of Mae taking advantage of everyone around her, with no effort toward explaining herself or making a contribution to society.

Developer Infinite Fall also excuses Mae�s deplorable acts by gamifying them. Stealing, destroying property, and stabbing are presented as fun, throwaway minigames. This design choice, coupled with the townspeople�s bizarre lack of criticism for Mae�s egomania, implies that sociopathy should be celebrated, not examined. Even if Night in the Woods had a cogent point, Mae would remain an unflattering caricature of a millennial. Benson and Hockenberry�s writing is unacceptable in light of Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition, which demonstrates how the hardships of a capitalist society give millennials and baby boomers more spiritual connectedness than many realize.

Night in the Woods is at its most tedious when Mae drags all of her friends on a ghost-chasing mission, as it�s fairly obvious from the start that there are no ghosts. Benson and Hockenberry use this setup to reveal that Mae and a clandestine Republican-leaning cult are similarly insane. For connecting mental illness to murder (straight out of Shirley Jackson�s �The Lottery�) and all sorts of other unsavory activity, Night in the Woods registers as pandering and cliched Democrat hate on one hand and a demented apology for millennial immaturity on the other.

ok boomer

# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 04:01

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

grittyreboot posted:

You guys wanna see a bad creator's bad response to the protests? https://twitter.com/JonTronShow/status/1268401196840206337?s=19

That's somehow worse than actively condemning the protests.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2020 10:41

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

https://twitter.com/maximilian_/status/1268751069921767424

Maximilian is a good dood.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 05:28

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Jamie Faith posted:

Agreed. I know lots of nerds are garbage, but like, jocks aren't exactly super tolerant of gay and trans folks either.

People suck in general.

Agreed, these kinds of jokes imply that "normal" people are the more socially progressive group. Which if anything the opposite is true, in my experience.

Neo_Crimson fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Jun 6, 2020

# ¿ Jun 6, 2020 06:22

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Endorph posted:

I like how often ~~this thread~~ all of SA for most of its history turns into people who watched 3 anime on toonami in 2001 talking about anime in broad strokes

FTFY

# ¿ Jun 6, 2020 23:56

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Youth Decay posted:

some very good new videos you should watch
Atun-Shei on Confederate monuments and the Union veterans who rallied against those monuments being built https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otTsbqK4U7o
For Harriet has an important in-depth discussion of what the post-police/post-prison system will look like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ofj__h7ss
Amandabb is really loving sick of celebrities pretending to care about black lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxn41AXWP-c

Atun-Shei is really good, and his video ripping apart the "historical" film Gods & Generals as Neo-Confederate propaganda is a pro-watch.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2020 01:34

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

illuminaghtii takes on the mlm that every mlm aspires to match

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNnAynS9ZFE

you know i have to wonder with how cult-like many mlms tend to be, how much hate she gets for these videos.

lmao @ 15 fuckin dollar dish shoap

Is Illuminaughtii any good, or at least improved? I ran across one of her old videos a while ago about population control and basically took a pro-eugenics stance on the argument of "don't you hate TRAFFIC JAMS and STUPID PEOPLE?" completely unironically.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 06:54

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

imagine seeing a video in which someone points out how silly it is that a vanishing marker has a warning to not write on checks or legal documents with it and thinking that person is actually being serious about overpopulation rather than using it as a dumb over-the-top framework to talk about absurd warning labels

she even ends the fuckin video by saying 'this was satire don't kill me', it astounds me when people plainly obviously don't actually watch a video and then try and paint the creator as a total shithead when there are so many actual real total shitheads out there

Yeah no, I watched that video again and it was still reactionary as gently caress. Saying "it's satire" at the end as a bandaid for talking about various pro-eugenics talking points the whole video, at best makes it bad satire. And forgive me for not trusting the politics of someone who's content is primarily about pulling posts from various subreddits and like 10 different videos on furries, even if she makes videos on MLMs and Flatearthers. Because there are plenty of "skeptic" channels that do the same thing and end up being shitheads.

GrandpaPants posted:

On the topic of Bon Appetit's videos, I'm soliciting recommendations for more fun food channels that are maybe beyond just "This is how you prepare a dish" type things. Food science or history would be great. I tried J Kenji Lopez Alt's and America's Test Kitchen's channels, but their presentation is pretty lacking compared to BA's.

Adam Ragusea does just that, with a focus on food science, he talks with a lot of experts when discussing how a particular food is made or its nutritional value. He has great production values too.

Neo_Crimson fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Jun 9, 2020

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 09:02

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Oh and she still was super willing to invoke racist concern trolling over those "poor filthy Indians in slums" in her totally-satire-not-serious video about not about overpopulation but totally about warning labels.

Neo_Crimson fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Jun 9, 2020

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 09:18

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Ariong posted:

This isn�t reddit. Those weirdos who are hyperfixated on shaming fat people and shouting down anyone who doesn�t agree with them don�t really have a foothold here.

are you sure?

did all of those guys get banned?

# ¿ Jun 9, 2020 20:55

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

When I was young my main beef with Harry Potter was that it never explained how magic worked or fleshed out the world enough to my liking.

Now I realize that was for the best.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2020 03:48

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Casey Finnigan posted:

MHA does an extremely bad job at showing how people with quirks function if they aren't involved in hero work at all. Like, you'd think there'd be a massive part of society where the ability to breathe a little bit of fire, or the ability to eat metal, or something, would not be particularly significant. People still need to do accounting, right? Or do they just leave all of that up to four guys who have super-math quirks? How does the government work when there are people with brainwashing or charm quirks? What the hell does the military look like? How many people out there can turn off peoples' superpowers like Eraserhead?

It's why I would consider Deku being quirkless to be a very mild disability. His in-depth knowledge of heroes and their quirks and his strategic mind would have made him an incredible support team member. Other people on the support team only have abilities like "can zoom in their vision," which is an advantage for tinkering, but nothing wild or insurmountable. He could probably even be a successful hero on his own.

But the world of MHA has very little regard for any of that. Obviously that's part of the plot (society is enraptured by glory-hogging pro heroes with flashy quirks) but I also get the feeling that the world wasn't fully thought out before Horikoshi started writing his plot and so I don't expect a particularly coherent message at the end of the series.

They address this on that using Quirks in public is illegal, outside of Hero work and specific highly-restricted roles. There's even a villain faction that can be described as Quirk Libertarians, that want to overthrow this law.

Hell, it's even the backstory of Ochako. Where she wanted to use her Quirk to help her parents with their construction business, but can't, so she goes into Hero work to make money for them instead.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2020 22:37

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Casey Finnigan posted:

Huh, I gave up on the show about one season back cause I hate the blond prick, so I didn't know that. When did they explain that part?

I knew Ochako wanted to make money but I figured she just chose Pro Hero because it was the most lucrative job.

Quirks being illegal was explained pretty early on, and so was Ochako's backstory.

And yeah the Metahuman Liberation Army is still manga only apparently, wasn't sure if the anime had gotten that far.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2020 22:46

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Dapper_Swindler posted:

i like forums but i feel like discord is easier to moderate and its also easier to not talk past folks. like you can "read" tone better i guess. there are less massive post pileups and weird group fights like in D&D

Yeah, there's less performative bullshit on Discords, which was always the worst part of these forums.

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 21:57

Neo_Crimson: Aug 15, 2011; "Is that your final dandy?"

Dr. Disrespect was at the Grassy Knoll.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2020 14:28

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