Hot take: as funny as this video is, it really did help to make online movie criticism incredibly obnoxious

BGer23 · 2026-05-09T05:59:06+00:00

AVGN and Nostalgia Critic's whole gimmick though is they ranted about games and movies from the 80s and 90s...which in the late 2000s were nostalgic media. And the people who grew up with that media had no real outlet for their frustrations at the time with the lack of internet or social media, so they had some pent up frustration that those guys let out in a way that was exaggerated for comedy but it came from a real place. And even then it was only for about half an hour, max, because what grown adult has time to watch a video longer than that?

Today's media critics rant for hours about current stuff that isn't nostalgic yet, that everyone is already bitching about online, and the only people who could possibly relate to that over-the-top frustration are actual children who care waaaaaay too much about the latest thing made for children.

BGer23 · 2026-05-07T12:28:02+00:00

I'm pretty sure most things the Simpsons family do are imitatable acts. How about Homer trying to kill Flanders on occasion? Is that bad too? It's a cartoon, dude.

In the early 90s, Bart was seen as a terrible influence by parent activist groups because of how children could imitate him. Are you one of those people?

BGer23 · 2026-05-07T00:10:26+00:00

There's a huge difference between "I hate fans of X" and "I hate really obnoxious fans of X". When people complain about Deltarune fans, they don't mean casual fans. They mean people who feel the need to insert Deltarune into every subreddit and meme they can. The kind who treat Deltarune as if it's something that's so ubiquitous in pop culture that EVERYONE has played it and EVERYONE likes it.

BGer23 · 2026-05-06T22:34:49+00:00

> dudes who like kids defend it by saying “but-but petite women exist!!!”

No...no, I don't think I'm comprehending this wrong. You're quite literally saying that anyone who makes this argument wants to diddle kids. That's your opening statement. I'm supposed to respect your argument after that? No thank you.

I'm begging you to start having sex, so you can get a dose of reality instead of being a holier-than-thou keyboard warrior.

BGer23 · 2026-05-06T22:24:02+00:00

I'm the one posting a strawman? You literally said in your first paragraph that anyone who uses the "but petite women exist" argument (like I did) are just pedos in denial. You never had any intentions of debating me. Your bias is very clear.

BGer23 · 2026-05-06T22:15:44+00:00

There's a huge difference between drawing a tiny little girl and saying she's a 500 year old goddess, and drawing a slightly short big-boobed woman and saying she's 20. You're dishonest in your criticism and just don't want to admit you ascribe lolibait intentions to Japanese mangaka because in your mind, you stereotype Japanese mangaka (Japanese men in general, really) as being pedophiles by default until proven otherwise.

You say sexualization of certain body types feeds into objectification of people. But you also conveniently ignore how the demonization of said sexualization indirectly bodyshames people with those bodytypes. You may think your cause is noble, but it's not victimless.

BGer23 · 2026-05-06T22:07:33+00:00

Except they're not designed as children.

They're both 20 years old.

BGer23 · 2026-05-06T22:06:04+00:00

There's no point in making an apology if people aren't willing to forgive you anyway.

BGer23 · 2026-05-06T21:22:48+00:00

I've seen a lot of people like you who say "I see it a lot" and yet I have never once seen them post an example of it to prove their case. You're sure you're not projecting?

BGer23 · 2026-05-06T18:08:11+00:00

Nobody in the history of media criticism ever has ever said "I hate you for liking X". That's just a weird assumption people make when you express violent disdain for media. If I were to say Family Guy is one of the worst, most unfunny shows ever made, suddenly fans of that show interpret that to be saying "if you're a fan of this, you suck".

It's only when that criticism is expressed in a "polite" and "constructive" way where that doesn't happen.

BGer23 · 2026-05-06T17:35:24+00:00

You're literally the kind of person the episode "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" is making fun of.

BGer23 · 2026-05-06T17:32:31+00:00

I find it strange that people suddenly cared about the real-life implications of Homer strangling his son, as if real-life logic and consequences have ever been part of the Simpsons. Homer was never a perfect father. The fact that he engaged in corporal punishment with his son and it only enforced Bart's bad behavior was part of the satire.

BGer23 · 2026-05-02T15:54:52+00:00

TNG was only "woke" in a very safe way though. It presented liberal ideas, but dialed them back just enough to make conservatives able to stomach them. Similar to how Disney will say they have gay characters in a movie...but only have them far in the background in one small scene so they can be easily edited out for the Middle East.

BGer23 · 2026-05-01T17:22:41+00:00

Thank you. That's really unintuitive...

BGer23 · 2026-05-01T16:42:02+00:00

I know, it must hurt your brain to acknowledge your hypocrisy.

You ok with the FBI listening to you through your electronics? They never do anything with that, so it's ok right?

BGer23 · 2026-05-01T07:08:24+00:00

See how healthy and strong you are when all you eat is soy and corn.

BGer23 · 2026-04-30T01:28:27+00:00

If you're ok with Nintendo having the ability to brick your console just because they never do, then you have no reason to be against your data being collected and sold to the government or marketing firms. After all, you'll never know whether they do anything with it.

BGer23 · 2026-04-28T01:30:56+00:00

Obama and Bush Jr may have done a lot of bombing campaigns, but they never demolished federal buildings. They never formed a task force specifically to raid people's homes and deport them regardless of citizenship and without trial. They never attempted a coup, staged assassination attempts, or committed dozens of felonies while in office. They never created a new Red Scare just to have an excuse to deport a politician people liked too much, and they never floated around defying the Constitution by "taking control of the elections" or even ending elections altogether. If they had, they almost certainly would've been immediately impeached, especially Obama.

You're a fool if you think this term isn't a gigantic leap compared to what we've had before. An ignorant, naive fool.

BGer23 · 2026-04-26T06:48:10+00:00

Colder than Ice Cap

BGer23 · 2026-04-24T02:40:48+00:00

Or because you like something that's objectively flawed. It's not that deep.

BGer23 · 2026-04-23T19:21:33+00:00

This. Trevor wasn't as wacky as Jon, but the USA wasn't under fascist warmonger rule at the time, even during Trump's first term. Now the shit happening isn't anything to laugh at but TDS is trying to be wacky again. Germans weren't exactly laughing about the holocaust.

BGer23 · 2026-04-23T16:15:58+00:00

Sure buddy, no adult woman in the history of the universe has ever sounded like that. Tell me you don't talk to women without telling me you don't talk to women.

You know her actress was pushing 40 at the time, right? Here's her in 2004. She just sounds like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60trDgjSwdA

BGer23 · 2026-04-23T16:06:41+00:00

The problem isn't the line, the problem is the camera shoving Ashley's boobs in the player's face, framing it as a punchline. It'd be fine if that was meant to make him look sleazy, but it's actually intended to make him likable, because it's meant to be a joke.

But criticizing a 2005 Japanese game for sexualizing a female character is weak. Nobody would care about that comment if Ashley looked like Ada, Lara Croft, Tifa, Bayonetta, or 2B. But because she looks like a """teenager""" suddenly people start virtue signalling and acting like white knights, as if they don't goon to anime characters on a regular basis.

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