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I thought she just looked at some video games through a feminist lens. Which should be a perfectly valid way of analyzing media (and is necessary if you want video games to be treated like a real art form) but instead of having a reasonable conversation butthurt snowflakes got way too triggered a girl was after their stuff they took it way too far.

MrMallard posted...

I said this recently and I'll say it again.

The only reason she's as remotely influential to the degree that she has been is because of the stupid fucking chuds who made a game of harassing her. They're the people who made her the face of online feminism. They're the people who shone a spotlight on every little thing she did and put her face on thousands of video thumbnails and her name in thousands of video titles.

Their campaign against her was built on the back of lie after outrageous lie for the sake of pandering to an anti-SJW crowd who had come to see her as the face of the movement, and that in turn led to her taking on a visible role on social media - both to defend herself against the unprecedented wave of harassment and attention she received, and to use what infamy and influence she had gotten to spread her ideals.

Anita Sarkeesian would still have her own fanbase and some degree of popularity without the backlash, but the fact is that she wouldn't be a household name among the terminally online circles who know about her without the Gamergate morons who elevated her to the face of a movement through their behavior. She was targeted because her Kickstarter blew up, sure - for better or for worse she was going to have fans and get attention for what she was doing. But she would never be as relevant as she is today - to the point where topics like this are still popping up on message boards like this - without the gamergaters whose collected disdain for her gave her more of a platform than she ever would have otherwise.

My thoughts on Anita Sarkeesian herself? I don't really care. I don't watch her content, she's not in any of my online media circles, I have no judgements on the content of her character or the content she produces. I understand she fell from grace, and that makes me even less likely to seek her out. I'm not that interested in her as a person.

My thoughts on Anita Sarkeesian as a public figure? The people who hated her the most are the people who made her the most relevant, and I truly believe that the gamergaters who elevated her to such a prominent position despite hating her so much are some of the stupidest motherfuckers on the internet. I fully believe that the proponents of her backlash are the same kinds of people who dropped their Gillette products in the toilet in the wake of that ad, or who (used to) express their discontent with a brand by buying up a bunch of their stock and destroying it on camera as a form of protest. Like, they still got your money and exposure, numbnuts. You're still helping them.

I don't care enough about Anita Sarkeesian as a person or content creator to know or talk much about her. But regardless of whatever the hell her deal is to anyone, I find her fascinating as a public figure, and I doubt I could dislike her more than the people who made her the face of a movement against her will and against the interests of online leftists at the time.

This. She never should've become as big a deal as she did. Hate-culture is one of the most toxic things in the world.

Don't forget she Literally Cheats in her battle with you

Darmik posted...

I'd say the internet and social media in general did that more than a specific movie channel.

Same thing with people complaining about filler in a TV show.

This. Cinemasins isn't really doing anything more than crap like "Wow Beauty and the Beast is basically about Stockholm Syndrome and the Beast was only like 12 when he was cursed how is that fair plothole DING"

Or when you read a pointless clickbait article about how everyone in Friends was actually a bad person.

Though the "ding" is probably a cinemasins impact though.

SuperShake666 posted...

I hope the writing is more 1 than 2.

At least in terms of pacing, TLOU1 was basically written in about 1 hour long chapters, so it'll probably lean more into the TLOU1 style of storytelling.

A Quiet Place is pretty overrated, but I think its still good. A dumb post apocalyptic alien movie requires some decent suspension of disbelief and plot contrivances. If you don't like that you really need to find a new genre.

weekoldhotdog posted...

Agreed. The idea that a woman has to give birth in a setting without making a peep or risk dying instantly is pretty bottom tier writing for a horror film.

tbf, the movie had an excuse for that, that's why they had all the fireworks.

There's no way that baby stays quiet long enough to not immediately be murdered though. That's prob why the movie ends about 4 hours after the baby is born.

The fact that its apparently more expensive that Game of Thrones was, I have trouble thinking it will do well enough to be worth the extent (especially if you consider a significant amount of the TLOU fanbase is really mad-toxic)

Everything seems to be well-proven and likely to be good though, so I don't think the question is "will it be good" as much as "will it be good enough to cover its extortionate costs?"

sabrestorm posted...

It will never happen, gas the scotus decided to revisit it?

Not yet, but the general idea is that at least important protections are going to be overridden basically immediately so certain states can constitutionally ban it altogether.

Overriding Roe v Wade is kind of the entire reason conservatives put so much effort into stacking the Supreme Court.

I want to call shenanigans here.

Because this rant would mean the president needs to know what a router is.

s0nicfan posted...

I don't know. I feel like his strongest works are movies like 300 or Sin City where he is directing tightly written scripts that accurately adapt the source material. The further you get into his career, the more he starts writing his own works and the worst the movies start getting.

That's fair, I was thinking more like Watchmen where he completely misunderstands the point of the the story he's adapting, so that he effectively pushes the exact opposite ideas the story was conveying.

Or how he doesn't at all understand any of the DC characters he was put in charge of.

s0nicfan posted...

Zack Snyder writing a movie but not directing it is like the exact opposite of what anybody should ever be willing to put money towards.

The man has a long, storied career filled with well directed movies, but every time he touches the writing it falls to shit. How he convinced anybody to put him in a position where they're adapting a story of his but somebody else is directing it is beyond my understanding. Unless, of course, his role as producer means that he's bankrolling the vast majority of it.

I think it would be the opposite, since whenever he's put in charge of adapting someone else's writing (see: like 90% of his filmography) he tends to completely misunderstand the point and push something almost antithetical to the point of the original project. Him just getting to write his own story would probably be better than him bastardizing another popular thing.

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The Popo posted...

Did he actually answer any questions? I skimmed the start of it, but it seems like its just people ripping on him with no replies.

They do answer a couple, but they're obvious shilling questions about how great they are for thinking of Carpool Karaoke or whatever (they're also pretty downvoted)

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Most of these AMAs are done as some kind of promotion for an upcoming film or show or whatever. The celebrities themselves probably don't really know what's going on or what is expected of them besides just answering questions about what's being promoted.

True, but they have been done well before. There was that time Seth McFarlane did an AMA, apparently having not been told what an AMA actually was, and when he learned the mistake, he made another AMA and actually answered everything.

Or when Adam Savage (from Mythbusters) did an AMA, and he was answering questions for like 4 days.

Though to be fair, 99% of the questions to the above weren't "why are you such a POS?"

to be fair to Corden, most of those questions seem to be "why are you such an asshole?"

Also if you go to r/thelastofus2, there are 2 stacked mod posts that basically say "yeah **** this guy, but we're totally in the wrong because this YouTube video doxxed us by posting usernames in their video so they are obviously so much worse than we are"

Such a toxic community over there.

Also the 2nd half of the GFR video where they just explain how they called BS on this dude was some of the most fun I've ever had watching a video on such a **** topic.

47 year old grandma isn't that bad on the crazy scale, that's two pregnancies in the early-mid 20s, which is really early, but it isn't like both girls getting pregnant in high school.

I mean, at least the family learned the lesson. Its a shame grandma had to die to learn it, but maybe they'll remember it with the next big issue they need to listen to the science for.

Yes. Probably one of the best games on PS4. Basically the reason I got a PS4 tbh.

Neither. He's some guy who's done good things and bad things, and those bad things simply caught up to him.

Its almost like a zombie apocalypse doesn't produce a well-rounded environment for development.

Turn-based RPGs can definitely feel dated today without some charm to it like pokemon or persona.

But at the same time, more engaging action games can also be really boring if not done well, so I don't think its an issue with the turn-based mechanics.

Did I help her buy something good? or was it like, something really ugly that made her go "why did I ask this dude to shop with me?"

Obviously if I just show her an impeccable style and how perfect my taste is without telling her I'm attracted to her, she'll drop everything else in her life so she can date me.

I got rid of Shudder like 6 months ago so I don't know if these are all still there.

Host is a fun movie with pandemic-era vibes that is worth a watch. Its only like an hour long so it doesn't really overstay its welcome.

Train to Busan and its little franchise (Seoul Station and i think Peninsula might be on Shudder too?) and really fun zombie movies

One Cut of the Dead is a really fun zombie movie with a great twist that I really loved when I saw it.

What a snowflake.

I don't get all the hate for it. I thought it was fine.

I mean, it wasn't good, but it was like a 5/10 instead of the -10/10 I regularly hear it being called.

Not a rebellion the other kids will think you're cool for, but you are rebelling against your parents nonetheless, so I guess so.

But its not the kind of rebelling anyone is really gonna give you credit for. Its like if you rebelled by hiding the stapler.

I think it was the right decision. Rivet looks way better without a pointlessly added chest area. You can tell she's like, a girl because of stuff like the lighter fur colour. She shouldn't look that different from Ratchet.

In a more pedantic way, if a space rat is anything like earth-rodents, she isn't going to have visible boobs unless she's either super pregnant or have just given birth. I don't want my animal characters to be that anthropomorphic.

I bought the first one on sale like a year ago, and I still haven't actually started it yet. It seems like fun though, and a sequel could improve on the shortcomings.
Payzmaykr posted...

The first game looks interesting, but it seems too short for that particular type of game. I usually want 60-80 hours minimum from them.

Edit:
Onky for Xbox and PC? Whats up with that? No PS and no Switch?

It was originally just for Xbox, PS4, and PC, but its on Switch now too. Though given other big games to make it to Switch, Switch is almost definitely the worst place to play it so I'd suggest something else.

Shezarr posted...

Also, the amount of majors that are useless is vastly overstated

Yeah. Lots of people seem to think that if you go to school for like, sociology and don't end up a literal sociologist, you've wasted your college experience.

Apparently not being a fan of a confederate commander is anti-America, despite him being y'know, a traitor to America.

There's a bunch of YouTube channels that should help if you're starting from literally square one. Justin Guitar has a whole series on "so you've just picked up a guitar?" tutorials and covers the really basic stuff like how to hold it properly and making shapes and stuff.

Also, its good to learn how to actually tune a guitar, but there's a smartphone app called Guitar Tuna that's a great guitar tuner.

After you've got a grip on the basics like holding your guitar, strumming, picking, etc... follow Xeth's advice in post #2.

People say The Book of Eli was bad?

I mean, it wasn't bad. It was a fun movie with some solid action and good actors.

Its because of Apple. They got to remove all of these things, call you stupid for having a problem with it, and are a big enough part of the market that all the other smartphone companies followed suit because Apple can take all the heat and everyone moves away from being consumer-friendly.

I guess if it wasn't Apple, someone else could have gotten rid of the headphone jack, or the charger, or whatever.

Also The Last Airbender seems to still have an audience that actively hates it.

And he made After Earth.

I've never played a Fire Emblem.

I've played a little of Kirby and Metroid and never really gotten much out of them though, so they'd basically count.

Imagine how Biden is gonna feel when the republicans re-take everything and immediately get rid of the filibuster so the Dems can literally do nothing to stop the horrible **** they pull?

MajesticFerret posted...

If you get a degree in STEM or Law, no, literally everything else is a rip off and you have a high probability you won't get a return on your investment.

STEM and Law don't have nearly the return that people think they do.

Most lawyers aren't actually the big time lawyers that make the big bucks, and aren't getting much more considering they'll be an extra 100K in debt. Add in a bunch of law grads don't even go into law, its often not a worthwhile investment.

I know where I live, there's a huge glut in engineers, which means that isn't gonna pay the biggest bucks, and having a bachelors in most sciences will only make you qualified enough to be a lab monkey for basically minimum wage. If you want to do science and get paid, you need at least a masters.

newhorrorguy posted...

Yeah, it's gotten a lot of attention for good reason.

I'll also throw out Mexican Gothic and The Only Good Indians

I've read The Only Good Indians, it was pretty good.

What do you think of Grady Hendrix? He's done the last couple horror books I've read.

newhorrorguy posted...

Anything in particular you like?

If not, The Elementals by Michael McDowell and The Fisherman by John Langan are great

The Fisherman seems like one of the most common horror books people like to recommend, I've been basically waiting for the kindle version to go on sale to buy it >_>

Gonna look up The Elementals tho.

Sure give me a rec. Don't really have specific cares, just something you like.

TrollTrace posted...

because you can get a masters level education through youtube

hmmmm...

There are definitely issues with the College system (especially with how its implemented in the States) where its now almost become mandatory in order to get a job that really doesn't need it.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

This *is* the con: that college and education are investments that should be aimed towards landing as lucrative employment as possible.
It's the intentional erasure of anything aside from the economic.

The thing is, a lot of college programs are aimed at making employment as easy as possible hence why many universities have things like Co-Op programs or Field Camps or volunteering and networking opportunities. Its just a lot of people don't really do all that (myself included)

There's also like, a stigma against the trades or community college and neither are particularly worse by any means, and there are plenty of people who waste time in college/university when they would be better served elsewhere.

College itself is certainly not a scam, and mostly said by old people who don't want to admit they're wrong about things sometimes (like Bill Maher) and would rather blame the concept of education than them being a pompous ass.

Bad_Mojo posted...

I was talking about time. As in, 4 hours. 5 hours? It has to be available somewhere online

Here's seasons 1-4 (I think that's supposed to be the whole thing) in one video. its 11 and a half hours long.

https://youtu.be/1Nxl39QWnaw

But, why though? Like 1/2 the story takes place in the forest.

Its not like a period piece where you need to pay extra to make everything look like medieval times.

Trump said people should get the vaccine back in March and nobody changed their mind. I don't think that would've changed if he was still president, he'd probably be more busy feuding with Oprah or whatever the **** decided to say something bad about him this week.

DarthAragorn posted...

Skyrim wasn't even on this many generations

Not until we get the "Skyrim anniversary edition" or some **** special edition on PS5 and Series X.

November will be 10 years since Skyrim released...

Really sucks to be those 6.

"Hey we're going to the olympics!!"

"yeah, so... about that..."

I mean, "disinformation" is a better word than "lies" when you're trying to make it seem like you actually had any idea what you were doing, so he isn't wrong.

Hambo the Hog posted...

In b4 the monsters that pronounce it Rat-a-tat.

This was me. It took me a very long time (and like, the anime actually saying it in one of the later seasons) before I finally understood that there wasn't that last t.

Xerun posted...

Endgame spoilers
im going to say yes. She constantly fought back against villains who were multiple times stronger than her and was willing to give her own life to protect Hawkeye and try save everyone.

Also in the comics, Widow has lifted the hammer before

viewmaster_pi posted...

morrigan's LAME, i can't explain why, something's just off, like, it's cheesy, she got her outfit at johnny brock's dungeon and she hands out candy corn

I think its the weird bat wings randomly added on as if they designed the character without them and she needed something more to add to it.
VitalGetPrank posted...

Even as someone who'd vote for either of these over Ivy I don't really think that would be fair representation, she only got so few votes because her opponent was freaking Mai but I think she could still hold her own against either of these two.

I'd say just do a 3rd place round, not like it's that much extra effort on your part.

I am also in favour of a proper 3rd place poll, a lot of these were one sided since it was just "A vs B" and that affected how one sided the loss would be.

The Last Jedi went in a brand new direction and didn't try to just appeal to nostalgia like the other sequels did, its my favourite. Even if it was crucified for it.

Otherwise, A New Hope is the best. Empire really only made everything needlessly convoluted and really leaned into the whole "nothing really matters unless you're a Skywalker" that dominates the rest of the series that I really hate.

You can still make a free account, right? I don't want to need to pay for the once every 2 years I decide to try and add some mods to Stardew Valley or some ****.

Good video, though I hate the running joke with the sock puppet. Its really not as funny as they seem to think it is.