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Posts made by Pachylad
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RE: RIP Those We Lost in 2022
This story alone justified this year's DC Pride. R.I.Fucking.P. to a real one.
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RE: Western Comics thread
Better writing for Jason Todd and Damian Wayne than in the current main comics
Recognises Bruce Wayne as a supportive father figure and not some '''badass''' '''misunderstood''' loner
Actually using Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain as characterswait, you mean you can do this
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
Fuck it, it deserves its own thread:
I wasn't on big on it as some of the more (hyperoblically) praising quarters, but I still very much appreciated the maximalism, visual effects and the centering of a (middle-aged!) Asian woman's life story.
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RE: Academy Awards
Umm…wow, okay. Will Smith legit just punched Chris Rock?
tbf making a joke about someone's bald wife while they have alopecia is… really fucking bad taste.
Still, what the absolute fuck
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
Kyle left a sour taste in me after the whole controversy with him and Jourdain Searles last year.
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RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day
So in the ~2 months(!!) we were gone, Dan Olson uploaded this 2-hour(!!, but it's worth it!) vid about NFTs given their increasing prominence:
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RE: WWE and other fed: Disccusion
It's truly a wonder that Tommy Dreamer ends off worse than the actual sex pest in this episode (then again I guess everyone's used to Flair's garbage, eh?)
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RE: Cartoon Network
On one hand I sympathise with creatives who get screwed out of their IPs, on the other hand when that creative is someone who is a COVID conspiracy theorist…
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RE: Late Night Talk Shows
Colbert is back to having a live audience!
And for his first guest back Jon Stewart!
…going completely insane about covid.
I've seen the full video and I'm still confused: is he serious? Is he taking the piss out of covid truthers? I've seen so many people arguing that this means that China covered it up and go on to their Sinophobic rant but I'm just… ???
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RE: Disney animation thread
Holy shiiiiiiiiiit, Hollywood Reporter's review of Cruella is now out, and they claim that an important plot point is that [hide]DALMATIANS LITERALLY KILLED CRUELLA'S MUM
Mayhem ensues and Cruella finds herself running from security guards and three angry Dalmatians, ending up on the estate’s veranda, where she sees her mother talking to a mysterious figure. In an unexpected turn, the dogs attack Cruella’s mother, pushing her off the terrace’s edge.
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RE: 92nd Academy Awards, 2020
Damn it was it that bad?
The results themselves weren't that bad (Nomadland, Chloe Zhao and even Hopkins' wins are all at the very least respectable enough, and those first two are Goddamn Historic in terms of representation), but boy oh boy did they fuck up the presentation, the shit sundae cherry on top being that a bunch of ceremony quirks that seemed to be clues pointed to Boseman winning (
him not being in the memoriam reel, Best Actor now being presented last instead of Best Picture) instead of actual winner Hopkins WHO DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING SHOW UP -
RE: 92nd Academy Awards, 2020
we need to find and hunt down the Oscars intern from the 2017 Ceremony who wished on a monkey's paw that people would forget about that year's Moonlight fiasco
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RE: General football "soccer" thread
So about that Super League they're trying to put together that everyone's pissed off about
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
Okay I'd love to continue the debate on whether Dan Olson is being too mean towards Doug for a video none of y'all except Robo, Daz and wolfwood are gonna watch, but unfortunately we have new drama now:
Lindsay addresses post-Twitter life, especially the Raya-ATLA tweet that kicked off the shitstorm, Twitter being a shit site (quelle surprise) and addressing the bad stuff she's been accused of.
…unlike Dan's video I won't get pissy at anyone who won't watch this video since it's 100 minutes long
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
Doug Walker is too dumb for art feels both pretentious and wholey meanspirited.
As Dan said towards the end of the video, the main problems with Doug's The Wall video are:
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He spent a lot of money and effort on the animation and filming yet none on the actual criticism of the movie that it makes you wonder what the point of this whole video was (basically calling him Youtube's equivalent of Tommy Wiseau/Neil Breen) - "Certain things are going to take all week, no matter how half you ass them."
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“It’s trying to be impressive without being vulnerable. And simultaneous to that it’s pissing on a really earnest piece of art specifically for being vulnerable”.
Also lol at being 'wholly meanspirited' towards a man who built up a persona around nitpicking/overreacting at mainstream movies aimed towards kids.
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
Dan Olson is Youtuber #49 to take on dissecting Doug Walker's infamous review of The Wall.
It's really insightful, giving us lines like "He wants to make art, but he can’t because he’s a fundamentally incurious person who isn’t much interested in what other people think or feel and all of his ideas boil down to 'What if Batman met Mario?' ", which is just brutal.
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
@Lindsay Ellis:
I'm posting this here because I feel like if I owe anyone an explanation it's you guys, so with regard to the Twitter thing - needless to say there is a lot of projection and assumption of why I did decide to delete it, but at the end of the day I took this whole debacle as a sign that I really need to rethink my "career," such as it were, because clearly this is not working.
Twitter and social media in general have become such an incredible source of toxicity, for culture in general and for me in particular. It was making me so unhappy, which is part of why I had been getting increasingly snippy and defensive in ways that were unnecessary and unprofessional. The people who are saying that this is the result of carelessness are right–I was careless.
As for the question of "why now", it wasn't that this controversy was the worst ever, it honestly was just the last straw, and not just for Twitter. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, how I should engage with content or if I should continue making it at all. So I'm taking some time away from Internet, try to detox from it, and then we'll see what the state of things will be going forward.
As for an actual statement, I'm not making one now. I'm going to take some time to consider how to respond, because I think it will take some time to figure out what I want to say and how to say it.
For the people who've sent messages of support I appreciate it, and I do apologize for any hurt or stress this may have caused. I don't feel awesome about it.
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
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Lindsay ALSO has had a history of dismissing PoC critics and/or making problematic tweets beyond the ones I listed in Point 1.
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Twitter is a shitty platform where it can be hard to filter out from outside your mutuals between legitimate criticism and bad-faith actors/pile-ons (given what I've learnt in Point 3 though, I'm not so big on this point as I was before)
Focusing in on just one issue (like those who are nitpicking how malicious she really was with the Raya/ATLA comparison) is missing the forest for the trees
I. Swear . To. Fucking. God.
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
Focusing in on just one issue (like those who are nitpicking how malicious she really was with the Raya/ATLA comparison) is missing the forest for the trees
The twitter mob is relentless.
I'm a little confused…what's so horrible about her comparing Raya to Avatar? I haven't the watched the film yet and can't speak to the criticisms accuracy, but Honest Trailers made the same comparison.
I swear to God .
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
From all the discussion I've seen (Twitter and at least 3 other forums), , there are at least 4 discussions going on about this:
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Lindsay made some ill-worded at best tweets about Raya and Soul, doubled down and refused to apologise. This was the incident that kicked off the shitshow we now have.
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Lindsay has had a history of receiving abuse, possibly to the point of conflating all criticism as bad-faith. Lots of people like me are (or were) in this boat (a few tweets calling her out acknowledge this).
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Lindsay ALSO has had a history of dismissing PoC critics and/or making problematic tweets beyond the ones I listed in Point 1.
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Twitter is a shitty platform where it can be hard to filter out from outside your mutuals between legitimate criticism and bad-faith actors/pile-ons (given what I've learnt in Point 3 though, I'm not so big on this point as I was before)
Focusing in on just one issue (like those who are nitpicking how malicious she really was with the Raya/ATLA comparison) is missing the forest for the trees
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
whelp Lindsay Ellis has deleted her Twitter
From what I've gathered, she caught a lot of flak for some bad takes about Raya and Soul, and then this resulted in people bringing out their dirty laundry about her (making insensitive tweets and/or dismissing PoC critics)
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RE: European Politics Thread
In other British news, clashes with the Met over the vigil for Sarah Everard (where the current lead suspect in custody for her death is… one of the Met Police):
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
Lindsay Ellis with another big 'un:
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RE: Non-Disney animation thread
@Daz:
This is a bit late to bring up, but pop-culture site The Avocado has an animation-themed monthly challenge going, where theres a discussion prompt each day. Its been neat so far, and I know I got a few new filsm added to my Watchlist from the discussion on eurasian animation
The Avocado is pretty chill and fun place for discussions in general, come on over
woah wait you've got an account there too??
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RE: Disney animation thread
HEY GUYS YOU KNOW WHICH DISNEY VILLAIN WE SHOULD HAVE AS HAVING A PREQUEL NEXT
THAT'S RIGHT
THE WOMAN WHO LITERALLY FUCKING SKINS DOGS:
boy I wonder which Disney villain prequel is gonna rip off Parasite
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RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day
The Internet's a strange and wonderful place:
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RE: The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Thread
Oh, New York Post, you vile heinous piece of shit cumstain dirtrag of a publication
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RE: European Politics Thread
Are any German APForumers here able to shed light on how COVID cases drastically increased since November or so? I was under the impression that you guys were one of the countries to have had your shit together during the pandemic, and indeed Googling 'Germany covid' still gives me fawning articles on you guys' performance pre-November (flashback to when Singapore was a model country until our second outbreak stemming from our foreign workers' dormitories…)
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RE: Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
Moviebob's having a normal one
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RE: Beastars
@Daz:
Huh, that was surprisingly bried, usually final chapters get a few more pages to wrap things up, don't they?
In general, now that Beastars is done, I will say that Itagaki was extremely talented in plotting and structuring…on an individual chapter basis. You really feel like she made the most of the space allotted in one chapter in order to tell a small story, craft a memorable scene, or explore some intriguing quirk of this world. Like the chapter about a carnivore girl being worried that she's just the "token" friend on social media? Good stuff. The manga was really good at digging down into its characters and themes with spotlights like that.
The issues arose in terms of the plotting and structure of its long term narrative. In the beginning, I think the series did pretty well- maybe the confines of a school setting helped? - but as it moved along, it started feeling more like a string of vignettes, hence the long list of dropped subplots. Now, I don't think a writer is "obligated" to adress every single thing ever in their work - I've railed against the "checklist" approach to One Pieces final stretch plenty - but I do think at some point a writer would maybe be better served if they'd stop planting more seeds, and instead worked with the ones they've got.Paru shared her processes and you've actually hit it on the head or how she handles her ideas:
It pains me to compare the manga that I've been most excited about this past decade to one of the forum's punching bags but… this is eerily similar to Tite "I don't plan" Kubo
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RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day
Are you really the desperate the try and defend the idiots within Antifa by acting like it's going to completely distract from the issues within the Police system?
I apologize for you being unable to acknowledge the faults in both systems without being all in on one at one time.
Here, let John Oliver break it down for you:
@John Oliver:
"If you're asking why a spontaneous, de-centralized protest can't control every one of its participants more than you are asking the same about a tax payer funded, heavily regimented, and paid work force, you can also in the words of this generation's Robert Frost 'Suck my dick and choke on it, fuck you.'"
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RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day
@Dorobō:
Shame about Talib winning.
Is there anything particularly bad about Tlaib besides booing Clinton and having a chunk of her fanbase being dirtbag left?
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RE: RWBY Dicscussion (RoosterTeeth)
ANyone that makes a 2.5 hour video about a series they don't like has some kind of axe to grind. Usually, and I'm not saying its the case here because I'm not watching the video, but usually, its "I really got into this at one point, but then later it went in directions I didn't want it to because it didn't match up to my fanfic ideas."
fwiw, it's more of this:
The central point of the video is, after all, much less about RWBY per see than it is about fandom and fan culture. Hbomber dedicates about 1/3 of the video to telling the story of fanmade animations in the early era o Youtube that snowballed into RWBY with a side of Monty Oum's story. You could really name "RWBY and the story of Monty Oum": Hbomb is entirely dedicated to covering his life and work (it's even dedicated in memoriam to him at the very start) and ends with a bittersweet homage to him, making it very clear he admires him a great deal and is primarily concerned with Monty Oum's work and the culture that produced it. Thus the video only covers the season Om had a hand or a impact on, and that's 1-3. Afterwards it is a wholly different beast.
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RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day
@Kaba:
That's precisely my point though. We expected Obama to give the Republicans the humble pie they rightfully deserved after putting up with eight years of the follies of the George W. Bush administration through Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, No Child Left Behind, the sub-prime mortgage housing crisis which led to the great recession, etc. and Obama ended up getting taken to the woodshed.
@Kaba:
Biden needs to have a long-term plan in his platform for the economy, jobs, health, national security, etc. that should be worked towards bi-partisan approval. Just going with Democratic interests at the expense of forcing the Republicans to eat dirt is just asking for Trump lite in '24 or '28. We made that mistake with Obama.
So are you angry at the Democrats getting stomped all over by the GOP or are you angry that the Dems for not playing nice with them or…???
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RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day
Alito and Thomas were the dissenting voices.
That's right - EVEN FUCKING GORSUCH AND KAVANAUGH ARE AGAINST TRUMP ON THIS BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day
Happy 4th of July
Just fyi, it was obvious in 1776 that there was something ridiculous about people who enslaved thousands of other people on the basis of their skin color declaring that "all men are created equal." It didn't take years for people to figure it out. It took like thirty seconds.
An English dude named Thomas Day read the Declaration once and wrote, in 1776: “If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature it is an American patriot signing resolutions of independency with the one hand and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves.’’
Samuel Johnson (yes, that Samuel Johnson) didn't even wait that long. In 1775, the year before the Declaration, he asked: "If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"
The thing is, though, that Jefferson's words–ironic and contradictory as they obviously were--kept resonating with people (including people Jefferson didn't think were fully people) and helping inspire liberation movements from Cuba to Vietnam to South Africa.
This created some awkward situations, like when Americans looked at the Philippines--who explicitly cribbed key parts of their declaration of independence from ours in a show of solidarity--and were like, "Oh, uh, we didn't mean for you," and colonized their country.
But it's a complicated world! And we're a complicated country. And Tom was right: All people are created equal, and have rights no one can take away.
So, happy birthday, crazy document! Hope someone figures out how to make you work someday.
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RE: Non-Disney animation thread
And yes, if you want to push for minority talent you have to actively do so because the system is what it is and that sucks. But if you're trying to get one thing, but then you get someone else that comes in an just blows you away and is perfect for the part?
wasn't this how we got Joss Whedon's Firefly being nearly an entire-non-Asian cast because Jewel Staite's audition impressed him enough lol
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RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day
Reddit banned over 2000 subreddits, an incomplete (because of censoring) list here:
r/ConsumeProduct, r/ClericalFascism, r/Smuggies, r/DebateAltRight, r/bruhfunny, r/ShitNeoconsSay, r/soyboys, r/imgoingtohellforthis2, r/AltRightChristian, r/TheHonkPill, r/topnotchshitposting, r/TheNewRight, r/DarkHumorAndMemes, r/GenderCritical, r/ChapoTrapHouse, r/rightwingLGBT, r/whitebeauty, r/The3rdPosition, r/The_Donald
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RE: Non-Disney animation thread
Specifically saying voice casting is colorblind if the person in charge does their job right at all.
I think this is where you and people like me and Wags diverge on opinion.
You point to Phil Lamarr and other examples of PoC actors who've managed to take on roles outside their own ethnicity, which technically means that it's also right for white actors to do the same.
But it goes back to what he points out: why are so many voice actors white? Is it REALLY because that white people truly fought for their place according to their abilities, or is it because as he suggested above they happened to have gotten in because of the pre-existing racial biases and systemic issues. I'm not saying that there's an active effort to keep out PoC actors, but I think it's high fantasy (and if I were feeling less kind, bordering on horseshit) to even suggest that what's currently happening in animation right now is anywhere near desirable.
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RE: Non-Disney animation thread
Voice acting you can ACTUALLY hire the best person for the job.
Iunno, I'm skeptical about a lot of claims of meritocracy recently given the revelations of systemic racist structures that prevent PoC from advancing.
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RE: Non-Disney animation thread
So what's everyone's thoughts on the recent spate of white voice actors stepping down from their roles of PoC characters to make room for PoC voice actors?
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RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day
@Cyan:
The Minneapolis PD has always been particularly shitty and basically needs a clean slate.
Have there been any other particularly notorious PDs besides them, NYPD, LAPD and the Chicago PD?