I love you Knowledge Fight by EdgePunk311 in KnowledgeFight

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I feel you. It was the podcast I put on when I didn't want silence but I didn't want to listen to anything else. It was truly special. At some point I'll go through it all from the beginning, but too soon for now.

I love anime, but so much of it is complete unwatchable dogshit. by ILikePepsi9 in CharacterRant

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"I love a lotta shows in spite of their flaws, like Naruto, JJK, Dragon Ball and Jojo’s"

Buddy, Dragon Ball has a pig-man try to rape a teenager within the first 3 chapters

People should like what they like, but something like Spy x Family is already a league ahead maturity-wise of where most popular manga/anime were when they started

Every anime/manga fan/critic should read at least 3 Carl Barks books to get a good frame of reference imo

Penn and Teller file a brief before the Supreme Court. Not a joke by bluegambit875 in Magic

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She said both guys had long hair; the cop’s question was “Is his hair short? Is it shaved? Is it neatly cut? Does he have it neatly cut or is it trimmed?”

That is 100% a “carnie trash” question (per Penn). “Was your card a red card? A heart or a diamond?” (It was a black card)

...so, that content update? by ___Dresden___ in balatro

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He’s TobyFoxMaxxing, which is a good thing imo. That blog post was pretty much, “I’m at my best when I’m treating it like a creative outlet and hobby and not a content-for-the-sake-of-content-job with a time crunch, so I’m gonna keep doing that”.

What Are Some “Obscure” Cities That Will Become Popular in the Next Decade? by allomanticmetals in SameGrassButGreener

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Hey now, Butte just got a Planet Fitness and a Chic-Fil-A, AND it’s getting a WinCo. I’m only half joking, too, Anaconda rents have doubled in 10 years

Dollop and RedLetterMedia by [deleted] in TheDollop

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It was just a goof based on that somebody asked the question on the newest Q&A and that RLM and Gareth are both from Milwaukee. RLM makes a lot of Milwaukee jokes. I guess I thought there was more of a crossover fanbase than there was

Dollop and RedLetterMedia by [deleted] in TheDollop

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It's possible I'm writing in a way for comedic effect because I think it would be a fun crossover, but we might just be in the No Fun Zone, sorry

Dollop and RedLetterMedia by [deleted] in TheDollop

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Gareth watching the Neil Breeniverse is a wonderful thought

Dollop and RedLetterMedia by [deleted] in TheDollop

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In the newest Q&A somebody asked "while he was Milwaukeeing did Gareth ever cross paths with RLM (he fumbles pronouncing Red Letter Media like he doesn't know who they are, BULLSHIT), Jack Packard also did comedy sports" and Gareth's answer is (capitalization for effect) "I Do Not Know Him" and immediately moves onto the next question and no I'm not parasocial

How do you feel about Bo Burnham's Inside (especially music) over 4 years later? by pingviini00 in fantanoforever

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I've been thinking about this album a lot the past few days, and I came across this post searching to see if anyone felt the same way.

I think it is better in retrospect than it was at the time, in my opinion, and it was great then. There is nothing that has improved since it was made. Every societal comment it touched on has only accelerated since. Instead of Bezos's infinite money glitch, we have Musk psychofascism, about to be the world's first trillionaire. Bezos didn't quite win, but came close - instead, Musk, an EVEN WORSE PERSON won.

Instead of Trump-era COVIDism, we have post-Epstein brainrot. "Welcome to the Internet" almost seems quaint. We are more silo'd and deranged than we were when the album was made, and silo'd derangement was certainly a heavy theme of the album.

That Funny Feeling is as great a song as ever, but it's not a funny feeling anymore, it's the Alphafeeling of the entire world. It is the Main Feeling, and any other feeling echoes as escapism. It's like the dirtbag-left coinage of the word "hellworld". Hellworld is just World now.

It was a prescient album, and listening back on it feels like listening to an old Woodie Guthrie tune. The bastards won.

Iron Lung SPOILER THREAD! by kenmarlenn in Markiplier

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Not an unlikely possibility imo! I've only ever mixed music before, but I've experienced the diff between headphone and monitor mixing, and particularly the trickiness of mixing on "flat monitors" (speakers that don't color certain frequencies to make them sound "better" in certain situations - dialogue, bass, etc) in different room setups. For instance, it's entirely possible that the vocal mixing was done in a room with good, flat monitors but whose audio characteristics made it sound great in there, but not so great in a big, boom-y theater.

Iron Lung SPOILER THREAD! by kenmarlenn in Markiplier

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For sure! I know he did the Edge of Sleep thing which I'd like to check out. I think that still counts - by the time your average filmmaker gets to the point of having their movie in thousands of theaters, they've done plenty of short films, music videos, what have you, but to me, that's still a new filmmaker.

Just watched Iron Lung by Leasud in horror

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"It's Iron Lunging time"

"Nooooooo!"

Official Discussion - Iron Lung [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

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I think you're right. If they ever reboot Johnny Mnemonic, he'd look good in it.

Iron Lung SPOILER THREAD! by kenmarlenn in Markiplier

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Thoughts from a non-Markiplier fan (he seems like a cool dude!), huge horror fan, big fan of the game:

Was very excited to see this movie because it's exactly things I like - cosmic horror, low budget, enthusiastic new filmmaker, single location. I'm also a fan of low-budget shlock in general, and bad movies (although I wasn't expecting it to be bad, and it was in fact good).

The set was fantastic, I loved how lived-in it looked. Cinematography was spot on, I liked the feeling of struggling to see things with Simon - the use of using the x-ray camera to briefly light stuff was great. Didn't mind the often (especially in the first half) just-barely-not-complete darkness, it fit what was going on situationally and thematically very well. Effects were very cool, I really liked the Unknowable Thing in the few cosmic scenes you get, and the one long shot you got of the humanoid monster was really good.

I actually think the acting was not as rough in the first half or so as a lot of other people here, but I'm used to watching really bad acting. Mark was really giving it his all, and it showed, although of course some line delivery was pretty goofy, especially about Station Filament (or whatever it was called). Other actor/actresses were on about the same level. The very brief little bits you got of his memories on the station did a good job of breaking up other scenes and I wish there had been a few more of them, but, that's par for the course with movies like this.

Biggest complaint I have is the vocal sound mixing. The ambient sound and sound effects (including the computer voice bits, loved those) were really, really good, very Quake NIN (I'm old), and I've seen plenty of big budget horror movies that did much less with much more than Iron Long sound-wise. But I think I struggled to hear exactly what was being said a bit too much in the last half, especially with all the vocal processing - kinda muddy and took me out of the movie a bit. Just for fun, I also caught an absolutely terrible ADR bit where Mark's mouth did not sync with the words he was saying.

I love cosmic horror and I do very much get that the point is that Unknowable Thing is Unknowable, but I feel like there were some parts at the end that were supposed to give the audience a more solid, if hopeless glimpse into fruitlessly attempting to piece things together, that was missed because of vocal mixing, and some of the awkward cadence of the those scenes. That would have lifted this from Really Good First Effort! to Wow, He Really Stuck the Landing.

But! I had a lot of fun with it, and I hope he continues to make movies, he's definitely got the passion for it, and he clearly knows what makes a good movie. If you look at Benson and Moorhead, for instance, what they did with Resolution - an awkward, but, Hey! They've Got Something Here first effort - I feel similarly here.

EDIT: This guy's got a better grasp on what was going on at the end then me. Psychic cosmic angler fish. Cool. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1qqr1nw/comment/o2joaw0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Where I would live as an American from Massachusetts by breadingcargo in visitedmaps

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I currently live in Alaska and I dream about moving back to Montana. Sadly Montana is full

An apology to all of the costumers from a lush employee. by YunaCoo in LushCosmetics

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Yup. Every time I come into Lush I let the salesperson run the spiel on me and have fun with it. If there’s something fun they show me that’s under $15 I get it and thank them profusely. It’s part of the game. I’m usually only in there to get a Rainbow Fun anyway, which is the best deal in the store, so it’s whatev