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DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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Freaking Crumbum posted:

that's part of the fun of serialized characters that can't ever meaningfully age or change! now batman was "born" in like the early 80s and his parents were shot outside a movie theater in 1994 (in order to keep the relative age of all the characters coherent).

gently caress apparently marge and homer went to high school in the 90s now, poo poo's all hosed up

MARIO IS ONLY 24 YEARS OLD, CREATOR SHIGERU MIYAMOTO SAYS IN UNEARTHED INTERVIEW

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DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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Bert Roberge posted:

During the Elon Musk episode Rick goes on a rant about how it's okay for adults to love playing Minecraft.

wait, were there people who were upset about adults playing minecraft

this is just the christian persecution complex all over again. between this and roko's basilisk I think I just had a crack ping moment

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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VideoTapir posted:

Name one media franchise that's gone to total poo poo that's ever come back from it.

Devil May Cry did it twice

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

imagine still being obsessed with Goosebumps

imagine defending being "obsessed" with anything

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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Star Trek is never going to be good again at least until capitalism collapses, or I guess if the rights for it somehow end up in the hands of a company that is willing to take even the smallest possible risk instead of making the entertainment equivalent of hamburger helper

See also: Almost everything in Hollywood, almost all AAA video games

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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What if the producers of TNG had done all seven seasons at once with no feedback at all

Imagine seven seasons' worth of The Naked Now and the episode where Lieutenant Yar is kidnapped by guys from the primitive africa planet

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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I remember reading the bit where the loving owl dies when I was a teenager and thinking "jk rowling thinks it makes her a better writer if she kills more characters off" which was confirmed when one of the twins died

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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Wait, didn't the US end persecution of witches 300 years ago in, like, reality

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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https://twitter.com/INDIEWASHERE/status/1239180438477910016

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/1254925295993397250

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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why does looney tunes need a reboot

just show the old stuff

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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https://twitter.com/mrgracemugabe/status/1287275183967887362

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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I mean netflix probably shouldn't have explicitly advertised it as pedo bait

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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sometimes I wonder if sorkin is one of the leading causes of Liberal Brain, or merely a victim and symptom

either way, I hate it

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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Professorjuggalo posted:

true but both baby movies have been the biggest things in pop culture for almost a decade, if you wanna talk about any other pop culture go for it man but that arrogant dismissal isn’t cool either in the *checks thread*

Christopher reeve’s superman and blade are the only good superhero flicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUpSuD-_2A

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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I re-read Transmetropolitan recently for some reason and realized it seems very idealistic compared to current times, which is probably bad

Well, that's what I have to say about comic books

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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I was like 14 when I first read it so it just kind of washed over me. I still enjoy reading it but, like, there's a bit near the end where tv journalists, faced with orders from the president (backed by occupying soldiers) to stop broadcasting footage of a government massacre, bravely defy those orders to Do What's Right

Meanwhile, we don't even have to coerce journalists into supporting the police state, even when they're the actual victims of it

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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yeah that's fair

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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wait, I get it for the Orville, but why is Discovery family guy

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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jesus why

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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we're just gonna go right back to hard men making hard decisions

I'm sure Sorkin will get another god awful show

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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Scrooge voted libertarian

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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was that the guy who had to apologize to dan crenshaw on SNL or whatever

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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a friend of mine is watching DS9 for the first time and just got to this episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugTTy_u61gM

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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vyelkin posted:

I read a funny article a little while back called something like "why is sound mixing in movies so bad?" and it was a Hollywood sound engineer basically saying "we try our absolute hardest to make the dialogue comprehensible but then inevitably the director comes in and says "gently caress it crank the music and sound effects to 11" and then we say "now no one can hear the dialogue" and the director who has memorized the entire script (and who sometimes wrote the script in the first place!) and knows exactly what word comes next in every line says "nah it sounds fine to me I can tell what they're saying" and then the movie comes out and no one who hasn't already memorized the script has any idea what the gently caress is happening

really glad to be justified by this

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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I saw a tweet once that was like "avatar has ultimately been less culturally impactful than homestar runner" and, yeah

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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excited for white critics to fall over themselves to find excuses to hate this movie (but they're not racist they swear)

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1344768625585115139

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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legitimately thought you meant Adam Sandler's Mr. Deeds for a second

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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I don't even recognize her name

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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indigi posted:

this is why they weren’t unwatchable dreck


not that they were great or anything, but still miles better than the source material

source your quotes

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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exile everyone with a strong opinion about zach snyder to another thread

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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there was no joke, my friend

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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it's fine to hate Rorschach, he's a real piece of poo poo

it's just that so is literally every other character in Watchmen

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

If Biden brings back the 90's what will we be nonspecifically afraid of again?? Aliens?? God I hope the 2020's brings a new Renaissance of alien invasion movies

multi-ethnic gangs of bernie bros socialists antifa young people who haven't seen The West Wing

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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is the Illuminati still a thing in Marvel comics right now

I mostly only ever read Ultimate Spider-Man and relatively self-contained stuff like Hawkguy but I remember the Illuminati existing and it being all rich white dudes and also Black Panther, and for some reason we were supposed to believe that Tony Stark and a bunch of literal monarchs were good guys, honest

(if there's anything that's been really good since Hawkguy ended let me know. I got tired of trying to keep up with that poo poo; I'd try to follow writers I knew I liked and then they'd, like, write six issues on one series and then move to something else)

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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all I remember about Mark Millar is that he licks goats

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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what about Wednesday Addams makes anyone think "this character should solve mysteries"

the Addamses cause mysteries, if anything

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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indigi posted:

who the gently caress cares lol just give me sexy goth detective

if this was about morticia I'd be with you

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DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


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yeah, sounds like you needed more

I mean the US needed way more I'm just sayin'

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