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Thew's Awesome Transformers Reviews is a really fun channel with good vibes and heavy metal talking about weird toys.
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Oct 20, 2020 17:13
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the liloposter in question was also just one of those alt-lite reactionary toadies and had been for a long time, it wasn't an isolated incident
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Oct 22, 2020 05:54
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Augus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_A1Fzq5BFQ holy gently caress why did i watch this and why was it funny
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Oct 30, 2020 22:01
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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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hey you yes, you. the poster reading this WATCH KAMEN RIDER OOO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SHMxCemoRI
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Nov 29, 2020 00:40
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:OOO and Kuuga, like I said, are fantastic works of art. yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-NDGkoPhyE&t=1s god I should make a youtube essay about OOO. all the rider youtubers are terrible
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Nov 29, 2020 00:42
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"Kamen Rider OOO: Power, Desire and Manufactured Discontent". Yeah, I could do that.
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Nov 29, 2020 00:47
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I'd compare post-2000 Kamen Rider continuity to the old Superman and Spider-Man crossovers. Kamen Riders exist in their own little worlds except when a crossover is actively happening. No series, except for Decade and Zi-O (being anniversary shows) are dependent on any other. Kamen Rider is a kid's show that has to sell toys. Some shows, like Kuuga, Agito, and Ryuki, predate the merchandising explosion and can grate less in this regard, but I recommend just yes-and-ing the whole operation. The belts say funny things and new powers and equipment roll in over the course of each season to sell new product. The best Rider shows in the merchandising era (roughly 2009-on) perform some pretty impressive narrative judo to turn those toy-selling moments into vectors to explore character growth, raise stakes, and do cool new stuff with stunts. If you don't enjoy wrestling or anime or both, Kamen Rider might just not be for you. That being said, I don't like wrestling very much and I watch maybe two anime a year, and Kamen Rider is roughly my favorite thing. Here's some recommendations: If you want to see how it all started, in a Batman '66 With Pathos kind of way, check out the first few episodes of the original Kamen Rider from 1971. It's very ambitious and has no resources at the same time. They made 98 episodes of this and it's not exactly brilliant serialized storytelling so don't stress yourself out about it. This is the one with Segata Sanshiro. The first attempt at doing serious, long-form storytelling with Rider is Kamen Rider Black, in 1987. Hugely popular at the time and today, Black is 51 episodes of high melodrama and sibling rivalry starring the coolest motherfucker to ever wear a transformation belt, Kotaro Minami. After Black (and its comedic followup, Black RX) was a long hiatus of TV movies and spinoff material. You could compare this to Doctor Who's wilderness years, and fittingly, it returned in much the same way. 2000's Kamen Rider Kuuga (which, along with '71, is one of only two Rider series currently licensed for streaming in the US) is... it's not cynical but it is very invested in the consequences of violence. Yusuke Godai takes on the burden of Kuuga in order to beat back an ancient tribe of serial-killing shapeshifters known as the Grongi, whose sick games have death tolls in the hundreds. As Godai grows in power, Kuuga's mighty abilities threaten to transform him into a merciless warrior without fear or pain - or anything else. Meanwhile, Japan's institutions struggle to cope with the invincible monsters' murder sprees and the fact that only Kuuga's violence seems capable of stopping the Grongi. Kuuga is beloved for a reason - a serious-minded soap opera with great, visceral action that doesn't talk down to its all-ages audience and balances an atmosphere of dread with a central optimistic hero doing his sincere best. If you liked the Christopher Eccleston year of Doctor Who, you will like Kuuga. I haven't seen many shows between Kuuga and our next one, but DEN-O is a fun comedic series about an extremely unlucky young man and the four idiot time genies who live in his brain and give him superpowers. People really like this one but I haven't finished it. Then in 2009, you get Kamen Rider W. The start of the loose "Foundation X Trilogy", solidly the strongest set of three shows in a row. W (Pronounced "Double") is a noir pastiche where our paired protagonists, wannabe private eye Shotaro and amnesiac genius Philip, combine their minds and abilities in one body as Kamen Rider Double to solve mysteries in the small city of Fuuto, plagued by drug dealers selling flash drives that turn people into rubber suit monsters. W has style and manages to balance comedy, toyetics, fun action, and real gravitas. It's got great villains, both Monsters of the Week and larger-scope, the Shotaro and Philip dynamic is great and creates great tension when their personalities clash and impair their functioning as Double, and the mysteries of the fortnight are well-constructed who- and why-donits. Following W is Kamen Rider OOO, pronounced "Owes". OOO also focuses on a double act of Eiji, a man traumatized so badly that he no longer is capable of self-motivating or desire, and Ankh, a hot mean bird monster possessing a comatose man who happens to be an embodiment of greed and yearning. The series explores desire, greed, and want pretty drat comprehensively for a children's program, features an INCREDIBLE soundtrack with ska and punk influences, probably the best-handled toyetic crap in modern times, and great supporting characters and villains. One of the most thematically tight series since Kuuga, its only letdown is unambitious stunt action. Lastly comes Kamen Rider Fourze. Created following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the premise of Fourze was "a show to make Japan smile again". Fourze is all about the limits, demands, and necessities of friendship when confronted with circumstances and institutions seemingly designed to tear people apart from each other, set them against one another, and make them into worse versions of themselves. Like high school. All-time excellent suit action with great wirework intercut with really solid human drama about the anxieties, pressures, and dangers of high school life. Following the cast of the show over the course of a full school year really hits different and the joy of everyone involved in the production, including Gurren Lagann writer Kazuki Nakashima and Power Rangers stunt directer Koichi Sakamoto, is infectious. W, OOO, and Fourze have loose continuity with one another culminating in the mid-Fourze crossover film Movie War Megamax. All are excellent. Other notable series are Gaim and Build. Gaim is written by the Madoka Magica guy and it shows. It takes goofy fruit-themed samurai outfits and goes some loving places with it. If you like Madoka, you will like Gaim. If you hate Madoka, you will hate Gaim. Build is Kamen Rider doing straightforward shonen anime with cool stunts. The plot is mile-a-minute, there's heated drama between the cast members, the suits are amazing and the villains are really entertaining. It has all the ups and downs of shonen anime and it really loving hates the military-industrial complex. Sorry, kind of ran out of steam near the end there. I really recommend Kuuga and OOO as just really excellent television.
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Nov 29, 2020 01:28
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:a little * With OOO about that tho, it's got a 2 parter that's mostly just goofing around that's celebrating the franchises 1000th (Get it? 1 OOO ) episode that's mostly in jokes about old old rider poo poo. You can mostly just skip that if the jokes do nothing for you don't skip OOO 1000, it has the funniest line in Rider history (if you use Over-Time's subtitles). Also send me your thesis
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Nov 29, 2020 01:35
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Annointed posted:I vouch for Kamen Rider Ex-Aid it's honest good fun. Also in some translations they call it "Gamer Disease." Diagnosed with Gamer. Ex-Aid is a fun one but IMO it lacks substance. Also I'll never forgive it for what it did to Burgmon.
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Nov 29, 2020 04:18
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of course, Pokimane got outed as a TERF today
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Nov 29, 2020 06:12
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Dawgstar posted:How is Kamen Rider Zero-One? Thematic mess but incredible production value and while COVID hosed up the production they tried really hard to stick the landing anyway. There's an epilogue movie in Japan this month that could be a further mess or address a lot of issues but we won't really know until it hits home video and gets fansubbed.
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Nov 29, 2020 19:11
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muscles like this! posted:Uh, to get off of genocide chat, I've started watching Technology Connection videos since they showed up in my feed and I've been really enjoying them. The host (I think his name is Alec?) has a real good lowkey charm to him when he talks about stuff like how a toaster made 80 years ago is better than the one you have in your house now. Technology Connections is all-time great and Regular Car Reviews just did a really funny homage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekTpcaGXRuE&t=290s
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Dec 4, 2020 04:12
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Endorph posted:happy anniversary to the worst tweet of all time thought slime is cool and good actually and insulting his appearance is bad praxis
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Dec 9, 2020 19:44
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The REAL Goobusters posted:read the tweet again and tell me that poo poo rules right now "right-wing radical politics seem to make you miserable and sexually frustrated, have you tried not being a weird creep and just jerkin' it" is a reasonable tweet
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Dec 9, 2020 20:50
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Baka-nin posted:And that was when Lamp's was showing enough restraint not to call users paedophiles for supervising club activities at a school they work at. Anyone else remember that? I'm pretty sure it was in one of these threads. Ooh, that was me he got mad at. Super fun time.
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Dec 15, 2020 09:14
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Overwatch is a first-person MOBA, not a competitive shioter.
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Dec 31, 2020 17:59
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https://twitter.com/menacenamednat/status/1345150119730155522 This has been an eventful month or so for Minecraft youtuber Dream. After soaring in popularity from under 1M subscribers at the start of 2020 to 15 million today, mainly off the back of bored pandemic tweens, Dream found himself accused VERY credibly of cheating in Minecraft speedruns. This video explains his cheating. Dream went on to deny all wrongdoing and rile up his massive, intense fanbase of impressionable dumb teens to defend him. When not defending his apparent one-in-a-trillion (not exaggerating) luck, some of those fans drew gore porn of Dream and his friends. And then they doxxed him. Dream has never even shown his face. But he talks - as seen above- about how much he LOVES all his fans, cultivated a parasocial obsession, and now is reaping what he's sown.
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Jan 2, 2021 02:03
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Jamie Faith posted:Wait, Linkara has a speech Impediment? What is it? I cant tell... It's called being from minnesota. he pronounces "room" as "rum", it's tragic
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Jan 9, 2021 02:46
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If it's "Ng" I've always been curious because the only time I've heard it pronounced is in the TMBG song and trying to work out normal pronunciation from John Linnel lyrics is a fool's errand.
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Jan 11, 2021 06:57
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RareAcumen posted:Anyone remember a video on cosmetics and lootboxes and all that poo poo? I faintly remember that one of the main points was something like 'Cosmetics aren't non-essential, if they didn't matter, they wouldn't be asking you to pay for them.' Dan Olsen's Fortnite video
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Jan 12, 2021 15:58
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Rocket Pan posted:Indeed, Karl Jobst covered it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TlTaTHgzo Karl Jobst is a crypto-fascist, just as an FYI.
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Jan 26, 2021 04:38
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notaspy posted:FFFFFFUUUUCCCCKKK. If you like speedrun content from good people, check out Bismuth and Lowest Percent.
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Jan 27, 2021 04:03
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:I feel conflicted about Karl Jobst because I love his commentary and presentation but god drat does he go in hard with the "why do they get to say it but I can't???" rhetoric. At least JonTron had the decency to apologize and admit he had no idea what he was talking about. He literally hangs out in private servers with open neonazis and white supremacists.
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Jan 27, 2021 19:25
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New Jacob Geller too! https://youtu.be/JgQ_buy8xJ0
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Feb 5, 2021 23:05
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Vagabundo posted:The American ratings system is loving stupid anyway, and everyone should adopt the ones used in New Zealand and Australia. How many times do kids movies there get to say "oval office"?
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Feb 7, 2021 21:41
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Yardbomb posted:When a title makes me 100% not care to click, after enough of this chicken little poo poo for years it's started feeling like people just want misery to happen and I'm sick to death of it forever more. The title is sarcastic and describes the mindset of the kinds of reactionaries who care about the Potato Head rebranding.
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Mar 12, 2021 20:38
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I have absolutely no idea what sectarian arguments are motivating all this but TS passes the sniff test for me in that his policies and beliefs seem rooted in a desire for the wellbeing of others and disdain for power.
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Mar 12, 2021 22:13
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is vergil, son of sparda, a tankie: the longest thread in the history of forums
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Mar 12, 2021 22:28
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thought slime seems like a good person. i have anarchist and marxist friends and i've only had to break up one argument in the past year
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Mar 12, 2021 23:07
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zutara this, kataang that. primo atla ship is zuko/sokka and it's not even close that being said, the least you can do as a grown-rear end adult in multigenerational fandom spaces is tag your smut and not get defensive about it. just block the middle-schoolers
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Mar 16, 2021 20:55
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The Travis thing is a combination of him being extremely loud and omnipresent and the Stolen Queer Valor thing. His commitment to crowd-pleasing innoffensive pablum and addiction to praise deffo starts to sting when this financially secure, creatively successful cis straight dude gets accolades and attention for mediocre poo poo whilst cosplaying with queer signifiers while so many queer people face discrimination, violence, homelessness, etc. for daring to be themselves. There's also stuff like his failed campaign to use social media pressure to get a cameo on Supernatural, the low quality of the TTRPG podcast now that he's GMing, and lying to Austin Walker and other TTRPG figureheads about the MaxFun drive. The dude cannot stay out of the spotlight. If Travis discoveres something about his gender and/or sexuality down the line, great. I think it's deeply uncouth to speculate about that, especially publically. But this social media break is long overdue because the dude has a deeply unhealthy relationship with fame.
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Mar 17, 2021 15:47
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I think that when you have McElroy-level fame it becomes inappropriate to try to mobilize your young audience against the production team of a cancelled TV show for clout. It invites harassment. I think that behaviors like those, and being dishonest to people like Austin Walker about the profit motives of the MaxFun Drive stream, indicate really mixed-up priorities that are going to burn bridges and create a negative reputation. And I think that those behaviors are a lot easier to get away with without harming your reputation if you're making something that people like and care about, but instead Travis is the face of the least successful full iteration of The Adventure Zone. As someone who uses performative egomania to combat imposter syndrome and depression in my own personal life, I sympathize with the Middlest McElroy - but as a bi man battling depression, I was very very irritated by yesterday's tweetstorm. As for the queer valor thing, I definitely found it frustrating as a bi dude to hear that kind of horsepiss "no homo" stuff from Travis in particular wrt Harry Styles since Mr. Styles was one of the men that made me, personally, realize and recognize my capacity for attraction to men. When you signal yourself as an ally with things like playing a bi woman for a year in a TTRPG, talking about makeup pallets and stuff on twitter, etc, those kinds of homophobic remarks sting even harder. DoctorWhat fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 15:58
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Uhh the MaxFun Drive thing was this past summer but it's probably chronicled in the Mcelroy thread? I'm posting from bed or I'd check myselt.
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Mar 17, 2021 16:04
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Where in my post did I say he was faking for attention?
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Mar 17, 2021 16:20
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:It's basically this forum, but I can post my sexy kamen rider art there and not be banned. how sexy are we talking, and are we talking suited or untransformed
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Mar 27, 2021 23:19
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:You know when the helmets break open in an intense fight? It's like that but then they kiss. hell yea
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Mar 28, 2021 01:18
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while we're on the subject everyone should watch Kamen Rider serieses Kuuga, W, OOO, Fourze, and Build. It's like pro wrestling AND anime.
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Mar 28, 2021 01:35
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Jamie Faith posted:Which one should I start with and where can I watch it? It depends on what kinds of shows you like. Kuuga is very different from the others. It's a meditation on the utility and futility of violence and heroism with a serious horror tone. It's available legally in the US via Shout Factory TV and Tubi. The rest can be found as torrents with fansubs by Over-Time. Try OZC for blu ray grade quality. W, OOO, and Fourze are the "Foundation X Trilogy". Much more toyetic and with a brighter general tone (although OOO is darker and more Kuuga-esque), W is a noir pastiche about vengeance, grief, and found family; OOO is a deep dive into the nature of desire, yearning, codependance, and anhedonia; Fourze is all about the power of friendship and connections persevering in the face of systems designed to dehumanize you and set you against your peers. Stop by the Toku Thread in ADTRW for deets. Lastly, Build is straight up shonen wrestling. Power levels, an AMAZING villain, plot twists and changing loyalties and melodrama, and significant homoeroticism. Actually all of the shows are homoerotic to some degree. It's bait, but it's good bait.
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Mar 28, 2021 04:45
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Terrible Opinions posted:Is Stronger good? I've seen some funny stills from it but nothing else. Stronger is Showa-era (pre-90s) and is not my area of expertise. It has a female co-lead but production and marketing stuff left her half-baked and not given due dilligence. Oh, also the 90s direct-to-video film Kamen Rider ZO is available on Toei's youtube channel. It's a great primer on the basics of Rider!
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