Sad state of affairs when the dude who'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear is genuinely leagues more wholesome than half the popular streamers I hear about. He gets creative with his cusses but I don't recall him ever using slurs or espousing Nazi ideology
Yeah. A few years back I took a gander at the Facebook of my trumper-nutter former freshman year roommate . He had a link to AVGN's thoughts on the Ghostbusters reboot (which to be clear, was trash), and my spidey senses started tingling. But then it turned out that his hot take amounted to, "This is fine, I guess, but do we really need to reboot so many movies?"
Truly a simpler time.
It sucks that media criticism is has turned into dog whistles for political ideologies.
I just want to discuss why Star Trek Discovery season 3 was not very good without people assuming I hate diversity.
I would argue it's always been such, but maybe the difference is that our ideology used to be projected through megaphones and now it's just through dogwhistles, and the latter leads to disingenuousness, suspicion, needlessly parsing language for hidden meanings and so on.
I know a bunch of people that all liked the eye-rolling Netflix revisionist diversity fantasy Hollywood, but for me to critique it I have to first counter any assumptions that I am opposed to diversity itself, when what I am actually responding to is the way that revisionist diversity fantasies re-entrench a whitewashed past by leading us to believe that the only way to locate diversity in the past is by inventing it in the most condescending ways possible.
Man, I used to really like the Nostalgia Critic, and now I have zero desire to see anything he puts out or go back and look at the stuff I used to like. It's weird.
That Linkara guy actually fed my interest in the art side of comics. But when I went back a few years later, I mostly felt deeply sad for him. Which is weird. He makes a living pursuing his interest, but I still just felt sad when I saw him.
I mean, like you said, he's managed to make a living off his interest which is incredibly rare these days and seems happy enough doing it, so why be sad?
Oh man, what happened to Spoony?
Fuck Doug Walker too, guys a total tyrant.
Long story short: He's basically retired unfortunately, has been for years (His last review of anything was in 2016) and he now very rarely streams.
And while Doug's reputation has suffered in the intervening years, I still enjoy some of his original pre-reboot Nostalgia Critic stuff, even if alot of the humor hasn't aged well/is dated.
I still go back to some of the old Spoony stuff now and again. He had the best delivery out of these three by a mile. Genuinely sad he is no longer able to do this.
Counter Monkey is still some of the most entertaining longform RPG storytime I've ever watched, I still remember the hilarious Shadowrun drug watergun arms race story
Yea, I could very personally relate to that because my RP group had the exact same arms race happen. DMSO is scary stuff.
The golden age was when I was a late teenager. Everything before was bad because it’s cringe and everything after has no soul.
The Fall of Spoony still hurts. Once he was among the finest internet funnymen, now he's basically the Dark Souls boss version of himself sitting atop a cobwebbed throne.
F:sadness:
Sidenote, I can't believe Yahtzee Croshaw is both still doing well and hasn't had any sort of major public scandal. I guess that's the benefit of working solo
Remember when that other youtuber took the Angry Nintendo Nerd's content and just reedited the beginning and end so that it was him instead?
