• RonJonGuaido [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    He's actually bad. Wow. I didn't know that, I just uh, you're telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say, he was an amazing man, whether you agreed with him or not, he was an amazing man, who led an amazing life. Um, I'm actually saddened to hear that. I'm saddened to hear that. Thank you very much.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Ummm ackchually he was the good guy. The curtains are blue.

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        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I gotta do Easter dinner tomorrow and ugh. Usually I can get out cause of work or not eating meat, but they're going out, my grandma who is my last grandparent could go at any time and my little cousins who I do like will be there.

          Gonna tell the little cousins all about JkRowling when we get to go play away from the group. Their mom is a giant Disney adult potterhead who acted like a bullying victim cause she bought the Wizard SS game and people she never met made her feel bad online by making general statements expressing their views that were only aimed at her in that she chose to be included in the group being criticized. Oldest little cousin gets my punk rock hand me downs and had green hair and recently got in trouble for kicking the shit out of a kid in school who was being an asshole about it. She got in trouble and DM'd, "don't tell your mom i said this, but you did the right thing".

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            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Took that long? Dang. I could never watch that guy. Just all kinds of not my style of humor.

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                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  I liked avgn at the pre movie good times of the guy cause the angery was sort of the baseline bit that the real bits were hung onto like you do with a character. Anyone else reviewing things who calls themselves angry makes the Angry the entirety of the bit.

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                    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                      2 years ago

                      He made a movie. It came out in 2014 but inthink started production in 2010 or 11. James basically showed his whole ass, not in thar hes a bad guy kinda way but in a he has no clue how to make a movie and in the weirdest ways kinda way. It was a disaster and the movie sucked. How much time do you have for YouTube stuff explaining all this? It's genuinely fascinating.

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                            • FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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                              What's the Azumanga trend exactly? Guessing it's beyond like whimsical moe-comedy shows.

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                            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                              Oh for sure. I was buying and selling g retro games as a job/hobby when he got big and got imitators. He brought a lot of interest/customers which was cool but it led to the price gouging we are seeing now eith retro games. At the time though, if AVGN happened to review a crap game you had, the price was gonna go up cause people would wanna experience it themselves. I was trying to break even, collect a few cool games on the side and get things from yardsales and stuff where they'd be thrown out and into the hands of people that care about this stuff and he was the catalyst for a gross market change. At the time he couldn't have known but watching those videos and some of the more popular knockoffs became my stock ticker.

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                                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                                  2 years ago

                                  HungryGoriya is one I just found this week and she rules. She can appreciate a NES game thensame way I do. Master System had some gems too. Pre 3D gaming is my jam, partially cause it used to be how I paid rent and partially cause it's just how I like my games. I'm only 31, so I didn't grow up with them but when I visited friends with older brothers or whatever I'd gravitate towards the older consoles. As a kid I almost traded my n64 for a SNES until my parents stopped me. 3d sukks

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                                    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                                      2 years ago

                                      I noticed that. She doesn't avoid pointing out flaws but doesn't dwell on them and talks about how to get around them. And we have the same taste in games. It used to be a bit frustrating when the Angry Reviewers would go hard on a game because they weren't paying attention or trying to play it as a different game. They approached it with the wrong expectations and idea of how the game is played and got mad about it. There's for sure bullshit in some old school games but a decent amount of rage was field by them not paying attention or taking notes in a game where that's expected of you. I don't go faster in a Kirby game despite holding the A button despite that being how you do it in racing games so Kirby is bad was the mentality for so many.

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                                        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                                          2 years ago

                                          From a musical and visual and film perspective as far as what I've done personally, I think limitation is ESSENTIAL to good art, whether self imposed or otherwise. Not in avoiding the letter E when writing a novel or whatever but in keeping a sense of scope to things. It's easy to get carried away as a creator.

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                                            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                                              Gonna nitpick. Aliens was James Cameron. Alien was Ridley Scott. Behind Kubrick, he's probably my second most hated director behind Kubrick who still has great films (same with Kubrick to be clear, I just despise their approach). I love Alien, it's a top 5 movie of mine but Dan O'Bannon, Hr Giger, the actors etc. made it what it was. Ridley Scott directed but he it wasn't like His Vision. Blade Runner's best version is the theatrical release but you edit out the voiceovers. Deckard being maybe a recent himself distracts from the point of the film and the source material and everyone except involved except Ridley Scott agrees with me on this. Director cut of kingdom of heaven was dope but...it's one of those ones that I would have done more accurately and still had the same effect... the rest of his output is mid at best.

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                                                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                                                  As someone who has done some amateur directing and stuff, it's shitty technique as well. As far as like how shots are framed and stuff sometimes I'm generally a simple John Carpenter Boi who maybe like French new wave a bit too much and is maybe too in love with how a straight shot looks when you change it to a DIAGNONAL shot. But there's thst side and working with actors. For thst David Lynch is my guy. I'd love to come close in other aspects, but as far as respecting, collaborating and being on the same team as the actors he is surprisingly top tier despite the content of his films. He depicts some next level sexual violence and every woman who has worked those scenes has praised how he handled it and the environment of it and they came out feing proud as actors that they had a chance to do such vulnerable stuff in a fulfilling way. Even in a scene of one thing that I wouldn't wanna spoil to those who hadn't seen it he didn't want an actor who was a mother to do a second tske of pretending her kid died cause she went so hard to first time he didn't wanna make her do it again. Good dude who does way more fucked up shit than most directors but proves you can do these things well. Treat a production like a really huge band where you're keeping things in line but not really in charge and acknowledge everyone else involved is also an artist and might know better sometimes (not always, you still gotta direct, but being collaborative really helps stuff)

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                                                      He is playing with fire, but like, actors are artists as well and according to every female actor that did anything duoer vulnerable or exploit (including literally mistreating on set for mullhulland drive) was pushed that far not because Lynch insisted but because he worked with the actors very closely on even scenes they weren't in and they at least knew what the scene was getting across and several actually have said it was very positive. There is a way to make weird and disturbing shit without harming people and Lynch is the guy to look to. Also you're the director, if you're abusing the actors you're not doing the job right

                                                      Edit: was the playing with fire a tein Peaks pun? If so good job. If not, eh. Still worked for me.

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                                                          I thought you made it on purpose. And yeah, a big part of why he's my favorite director as someone who has directed stuff and also as an audience guy is that he did stuff like Twin Peaks , blue velvet and mullhulland drive and the wo.rn who acted out some really harsh stuff ended out taking away a positive experience from it and feeling empowered. He let them sort or lead those scenes and as I've said, they actors and having the chance to explore those areas of emotion or performance which can be triggering. From everything I've heard with all the really explicit stuff Lynch has done with women, he made sure they were not only okay with it but part of the creative end of it, saw the merit of it and were enthusiastic participants who either saw it as no biggie or a very comfortable environment to artistically express those dark things as an actor.

                        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                          2 years ago

                          Redlettermedia had a movie called Space Cop. It was eh. But at least they barely wanted to make it.

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            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              So, I read the Donnie Brasco book as a really little precocious kid going through a reading about the mafia phase. I was like...11 or so. Anyway, the book had surveillance photos of the real investigation and the real Donny Brasco looked exactly like my dad at the time.

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                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                  My parents are fine. They're libs but like...union libs. Far left of Bernie regarding foreign policy and economically maybe even a bit left of the guy. Socially They're ignorant and not willing to learn but are live and let live kinda folks. The rest of my family aren't like...the worst, they're just people in their 50s that still watch family guy or silent generation and dying. It's also on not polite to disagree with someone's backward statements and not to make them in first place so I'm expected to just sit there and not call out bullshit. Which is a really silly thing to expect, I see them twice a year and really don't give a shit what they think of me.

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          • Farman [any]
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            2 years ago

            Tell them sorcery is the devils work

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Don't give me material. I've been really ontonreadong into the Enish Vivil war and early American Colonies and am ready to jump into Early Modern English and become the VVitchfinder of the Coloney of Massachusetts Bay to remind each and all that they have been swayed along the path of Satan and only through prayer and agricultural labors may their souls be possibly sav'd but to always recall that even even should they repent of these most blasphemous and grievous sins and the Lord in His Majesty should find it to forgive their wretchedness that their nature is and will be eternally as a tree in winter. Unprofitable save to be hewn and burn'd.

          • Vncredleader
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            2 years ago

            Make it about the martyrdom of Catholics, like I always do. They literally cannot refute it when you frame the Easter Rising as such

                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  They've got a weird grudge against a religion that was historically advantages cause they like George Carlin. Honestly I'm complaining cause for twice a year in my life I have to hear reactionary shit a day keep my mouth shut. A lot of people do that every day.

              • Farman [any]
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                2 years ago

                Then why do they care if you eat meat?

                  • Farman [any]
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                    2 years ago

                    Is it a paella place? Because that is still pretty good.

                    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                      2 years ago

                      It's a bullshit fake Irish pub in a country small college town cause that's roughly equidistant and these dorks are white AF