Seriously miserable people. Lighten up!

  • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    I'm reminded of this line from a Folding Ideas critique of the truly awful Nostalgia Critic satire of The Wall:

    Doug wants to be a filmmaker, 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 his ideas boil down to 'what if Batman met Mario?'

      • Rom [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        Also Ben Shapiro's origin story. Tried to be a screenwriter, failed because he is devoid of empathy, went alt-right commentator instead.

    • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      "It's really not that vague Doug. Not vague at all."

      That part broke me, and not in a laugh-out-loud way. His misunderstanding of the work is so bad and wrong that it is genuinely, literally offensive