That just raises the interesting question of whether or not you can actually call something bad if it's intentionally bad.

Not to dissuade ya or anything, but do you figure you could pull off anything on youtube? Considering you have the algorithm RNGesus to deal with, or the fact that the platform's become another bloated economic shithole. You'd have to have some real cutting edge polish to get some traction going for yourself.

the question of whether something intentionally bad can really be bad is a question of whether intent, and the execution of that specific intent, are the two most important factors when evaluating a work of art, which i think tends to undervalue a lot of other important facets to consider, such as whether the choice to make such an intentionally bad work of art was the best choice to begin with--was it a meaningful or intelligent choice? was it a contextually appropriate choice? would it have been better if they had just made something traditionally good instead?

there's also an ethical side to it. how much money was spent on it? how many man hours were wasted? there's many counterpoints to the old "but it's intentionally shitty" argument; the easiest to make, of course, is that bad is bad is bad is bad. if you make something bad, but you meant to anyway, then congratulations--you made something bad. for me, that does not automatically make it good. there has to be something else going on, like an ed wood tribute that successfully manages to capture that director's distinct lack of taste and style, while maybe shedding new light on the value of schlock cinema

as for the youtube thing, i've learned in life that if you tell yourself you're going to fail because of this or that from the outset, then you will, because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, so i choose to roll the dice--i think my perspective on shit is unique enough that i could catch some viewers, because i'm basically a living hot take dispenser who has something to say about everything, and i can always start it out as more of a personal hobby early on

if it fails, it fails, but it's one of the few career paths in life that would allow me to put my one skill to constructive use, so i essentially have to try

More I think about it, he could actually do that. "Hey ya'll waited eight years for this, what did I try to tell you people about not wasting your lives in escapism? Anyway, here's my worst work yet."

as i brought up before, i'll be okay if it's bad, because 3.0 was so hugely disappointing for me that i've found it particularly easy to keep my expectations in check, and even if it really is his worst work yet, that could serve as the perfect launchpad towards some kind of youtube video essay career, because i'm an opportunist like that i guess

the worst thing that the movie could turn out to be is boring, not bad, and the worst bad it could be is a bad that does not lend itself to analysis

i think we know these two possibilities are hardly possibilities at all, though

Fire Emblem is fun.

Anybody care to give an explanation of why Verb's hyped for weebshit? I keep up loosely on animes. What makes this one so outstanding that even the old man's not dissing it?

Quote from: Verbatim on December 21, 2020, 05:49:57 PM

Had an idea. EVA's undertones and foundations were based off the subtle dissing of the growing trend of escapism manifesting in japanese youth. It ironically garned a cult of fans that didn't pick up on the message. That why you like the EVA series Verb? It low key pisstakes on all other animes while succumbing to the very thing it warned against? Apart from all the other psychological topics it tackles.

Yeah, you more or less nailed it. It's impossible to describe shows as "deep" anymore without making people cringe, but I genuinely think it's a pretty deep show with so much interesting shit to chew on, from the surface level character interactions to the underlying philosophical themes. On top of that, it's also just a good and solidly entertaining show with very well-written and empathetic characters who feel more human to me than literally any other anime that I've seen. It just does so much right that the other 299 shows I've tried simply don't (okay, okay, there's a few others, of course).

Not that the show doesn't have its pitfalls, of course—for one thing, it isn't above sexualizing 14-year-olds for the sake of comic relief, which isn't great, and I've always been disappointed that a lot the religious imagery and Christian references were appropriated mainly for aesthetic purposes, and not because it's inherently meaningful—which is all well and good, but it would've made the show all the more interesting if they made an effort to impart some actual meaning into that stuff, imo.

In fact, they could've just shut their mouths about that in general so that the viewers could be free to interpret those elements for themselves, like they can with everything else about the show, but the fact that they've come forward and said, "Yeah nah, we just thought it would be cool and exotic for Japanese audiences" kind of just shuts the door on the conversation entirely, which is a shame.

But yeah, still a great show—but perhaps only accidentally, if the Rebuild films are any indication. In any case, good anime do exist. I still hate the medium at large, but I've discovered that I've a bigger hatred for the fans more than anything else. Most people who like Evangelion don't even know why it's good, which seems to be somewhat of a trend for a lot of my favorite things (Fight Club especially comes to mind).

I find that since everything is going online, a physical disc collection isn't really feasible anymore

i see where you're coming from, but imo that only makes having a full physical collection of video games sound even cooler, just because less and less people are going to be able to say that they even have one

i wouldn't collect figurines personally, just because they don't really have much in the way of functionality besides looking cool on your desk—i've considered collecting amiibos, however, because they actually do have in-game functionality, but then it becomes an issue if figuring out where to store or display them (on top of being mad expensive)

never been a poster person either, but maybe that's because i live in an attic

unfortunately, the very best one on the market right now requires you to get a circumcision

wait, what am saying? there's nothing unfortunate about this

Acquired some custom end labels for my N64 carts, since they're notorious for their blank spines, and in the process, I made a harrowing discovery: I don't actually have a copy of Turok 3. In its place, I found Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, which I never knew I had in my collection until I saw it.


...Yeah, THAT Hercules. "Wait a minute... This isn't Turok 3..."

Very unfortunate. Turok 3 is rather pricey, and I'd rather just own it like I thought I did rather than shell out $35 that I don't currently have. It's possible that I mistook the spin-off game Rage Wars for the third installment, but I'm usually pretty meticulous about subtitles... so it must've been some other error.

My collector's edition of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light came in today. Pretty nice package, but I literally never buy these things, so I don't really know if it's a "good" CE or not. The replica NES cartridge will look really nice with the rest of them, though, and I'm happy with the 200+ page art book as well. Even the packaging stuff you're expected to thrown away had some neat designs on it.

The physical manual is written and designed like an old-school NES manual would be, which is fantastic, and in true NES game style, it's required reading if you want to understand the game and haven't played FE before (like me). I only did the first battle, but I like it so far. I'm sure a lot of these 30-year-old old mechanics would make modern FE fans wince, though.

What kind of monster puts up fifteen videos on youtube and shuts them out to the public. Reading through the dark souls journey, since I've the time and I'm not motivated for much else right now. Watched the last video with Gwyn. Opening made my stomach crawl for reasons. Great parry chains on Gwyn. Props to playing risky with PW too. I don't think I'd ever heard your voice before now. Weird to hear it. Halfwise what I'd've imagined but not what I'd expect. I guess to make things slightly more on topic with collecting, did you every try out any of the other souls games?

I do own every Souls game, but besides DaS, I've only ever tried DaS2 for about ten minutes before my body viscerally rejected it. I found it revolting. It was like waking up to find all my possessions swapped for replicas with slight imperfections, and it was just the most off-putting experience. I'd like to give it another shot eventually, but yeah. Bad first impression.

I believe it was you who told me to stick it out with the first game, though, when I was still expressing my grievances with the multiplayer and such (which I still loathe). I appreciate that, because now it's one of my favorite games of all time, even if it's starting to fall a little out of favor with the younger generation these days.

Sorry for not responding to your (multiple) other posts btw. I'm not ignoring them; I'll respond as soon as I can.

Same reason why academy members get to vote on what wins an Oscar despite not watching any of the movies.

And I can understand wanting to put cringe redditors in their place, but Napalm is right; TLoU2 didn’t do anything truly outstanding.

the award for innovation in accessibility, at the very least, was well-deserved

a friend of mine has been reading The Rise of Kyoshi, which is supposed to be good i guess?

idk if i could get into tertiary material like this myself, though

oh, good—so you got to see me finish dark souls after all

In all seriousness, like Ender said, despite everything, you being alive is obviously preferable to you being dead, and knowing the truth really is the most important thing to me in the end. In any case, very few people get to know what people will say about them after they die, so congratulations on that. That must've been surreal.

I went ahead and re-examined all of the interactions we've had on this new account of yours, given that they've been thoroughly recontextualized. It was an interesting experience. I've never really had a negative interaction with you as Sandtrap, which I can't really say about almost anyone else here, so I'm happy to say that we've more or less always been on good terms, even under this new identity of yours. A few philosophical disagreements here and there, but if my memory serves correctly, we've never really fought over much.

There were a number of users who called your bluff, and I won't lie and say that I wasn't the least bit skeptical myself, but I chose to give you the benefit of the doubt, because it seemed like the right attitude to have at the time—and I stand by that.

However, simultaneously, I think it's very important for you to understand what you've really done here. People lie, that's whatever. But lying about your own death, I think, is somewhat of a jumping off point for your trustworthiness. It tends to call everything you've ever said to us into question, because if you're willing to lie about something like that, it begs the question as to what you wouldn't lie about. You know what I mean? It's the only logical question I have left to ask.

I don't know how we proceed at this point, but that's how I'm feeling about this little plot twist here at the moment. To reiterate, I'm glad you're okay, because I'm glad when anyone's okay, but I guess I'm still trying to process a lot of this.

Is Elden Ring really that hyped? I thought Cyberpunk would've been on the list, although I guess it launched recently so that might explain it.

i mean, it's a collab between the dark souls guy and the game of thrones guy, so not too surprising imo

that said, i did expect it to go to botw2, but i'm biased

Quote from: CMD.exe on December 10, 2020, 01:14:41 PM

>The Last of Us 2

deserved

will probably win too

lol

>The Last of Us 2

deserved

will probably win too

I thought not, it's not a story the Jedi would tell you.

what did you just say?

about mein kampf?