I saw "MSHEU" in the titles of the current tide of nerd rage videos, guessed it was something monumentally stupid and looked it up

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These reactionary dorks are ruining hating on shitty entertainment slop

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    There are dozens of valid reasons to pick on the sequel trilogy

    That's part of why they focus on it so much. When you pick something like Rise of Skywalker or the Ghostbusters remake to nerdrage about, very few people will actually defend the movie. There's the same kind of nerdrage about Mad Max: Fury Road because the fragile masculinity of these dweebs is threatened by literally anything, but the mass hate campaign against that one has never gotten the same amount of propagandistic attention because it's just an excellent movie and getting hot and bothered about it makes these gamergate leftovers look too much like the disingenuous mysogynist turds that they are.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        You can't really expect these people to show character growth.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          Their political ideology, at its core, is "everything must be exactly the way that it was when I felt invincible and safe as a child" so stagnation is to be expected. pronouns

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        It's unbelievable to me that TheQuartering is still around with the same old schtick, I'm assuming most of these guys either gave up the "anti-SJW" thing* or followed it to its logical conclusion and became nazis.

        *Not necessarily because they outgrew it, but because it wasn't getting the metrics it used to

        • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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          11 months ago

          Yeah I came to comment about this. It's so weird that in ten years there's just been no change at all in these guys. Their beliefs, their humor, their presentation style, everything is exactly as it was at the peak of their relevency. I feel like the online left has evolved, fragmented and evolved again several times over along with every other facet of internet culture over the same time period.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Mad Max Fury Road was just about perfect. It did pretty much everything right. Unless someone outright dislikes the basic setting of the movie or its premise which I would find understandable, I'd find someone sus if they said they hated Fury Road.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        My only criticism of Fury Road is that in spite of having a score produced by Junkie XL and featuring a flamethrowing guitar player tied to the front of a truck with bungee cords, the score is basically just a ripoff from Michael Bay movies. It's a classic example of how temp music makes all movies sound the same. You see, nowadays editing is usually done to already existing movie scores wich are used as a "temporary" score and then the directors frequently become unwilling to change it and demand that the actual score matches the temp editing as closely as possible.

        That's the only bad thing i can say about it. It's still a masterpiece, but that's its single flaw.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          You're right. I forgot how forgettable the soundtrack was. sadness