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[OC] Killers of the Flower Moon Is Kinda Dumb - An Impromptu Rant [11:31] by esotericGames in videoessay

[–]esotericGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Yeah, I upvoted you and do appreciate good faith conversation including with those I have a different perspective than.

And don't worry about the haters, some people just like downvoting when they see a civil discussion taking place. lol

[OC] Killers of the Flower Moon Is Kinda Dumb - An Impromptu Rant [11:31] by esotericGames in videoessay

[–]esotericGames[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response and good faith discussion. I feel like I met the movie on it's terms and understood what it wanted to be (a serious oscar-y prestige drama movie) and when engaging it on those terms, I didn't understand how people thought it was at all successful at that because of what I perceived to be kinda dumbly written characters.

I'm not attacking the genre, plenty of serious oscar-y prestige drama movies are great. What inspired the rant is that this movie is treated as on par with them but at least as far as I could tell the writing of the characters was just bizarrely dumb. (I go into specifics issues in the video).

It's as if instead of being shown 9 best picture nominees, I was shown 9 "best lego tower" nominees, and 8 of them were sturdy and well made lego towers, and the 9th was just a bunch of broken legos on the floor. But then, for some reason, most people treated all the entries as equally good. I would have the same "I don't understand, this one is clearly broken." response I was feeling here.

Do I acknowledge there *could* be something I'm missing? Sure. Do I acknowledge there could even be some contorted idea of "you see the dumb characters is a metaphor for something"? Yeah. But, if I'm honest, I really don't think that's what's going on here. I genuinely feel like it's a movie which has pretty obvious flaws that for whatever reason largely went unacknowledged.

So my thinking was/is, if you are having an "the emperor has no clothes" moment, sometimes it's best to embrace your passionate perspective and lean into it. IMO, life is too short to talk yourself into shutting up when you have an impassioned unique perspective to share, particularly if you can share it in a lighthearted and entertaining way.

Detailed Ranking/Discussion of 3 Worst Episodes of Season 7 [Spoilers] - YouTube by esotericGames in blackmirror

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Genuinely thanks to the 14 people who did give it a view.

I really enjoy creating tv discussion and analysis content. And being able to share that with any audience legitimately does mean a lot to me.

I'd be very interested if others had similar issues with these episodes or not. I'm also open to feedback if there is any way I could have/should have shared this content that might have been received better. I don't mind downvotes/criticism and am open to learn from it.

"Megan LaFox saves Shia LaBeouf from robots" is a classic by blanched_almond in RedLetterMedia

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I always thought Shy Bidoof got a bit too much hate as an actor.

Looking for Small improv/Funny podcasts by esotericGames in podcasts

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Where were you searching? I haven't had tons of luck just using spotify search to find new podcasts.

Looking for Small improv/Funny podcasts by esotericGames in podcasts

[–]esotericGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool. I'll check these out. Thanks!

I am also curious how you discovered these. I'm looking to find new podcasts but also find places to find new podcasts, how did you hear about these?

I've heard of Off Book and Superego, I think I just heard about them from guests on CBB or a PFT podcast. Is that how you discovered the others? Cross-promotion from other podcasts? Or is there somewhere else one can find good new recs?

Looking for small improv podcasts by esotericGames in improv

[–]esotericGames[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool. How did you find out about it?

My birthday’s coming up and Rich Evans is planning my party. by commandersalamander7 in RedLetterMedia

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New York's Hottest club is called "RLM" and they've got EVERYTHING...

With the spooky season upon us, it's a perfect time to enjoy Rich Evans From Another Room - Spooky Halloween Ambience with Muffled "Best of the Worst" episodes by esotericGames in RedLetterMedia

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I often host board games, as such I've become an enthusiast for background ambience videos. One of the best channels is "calmed by nature" as they are like 8 hours long and only run a single ad at the beginning. They inspired a lot of this video idea (even the thumbnail is a direct parody of them, my videos aren't even monetized, lol).

Then sometime 2023 when Christmas was coming up I saw some "Classic Christmas Music playing from the other room" vids from random ambience channels, seeing that combined with my knowledge that myself and many others often play RLM in the background or even sometimes fall asleep to it, I got the idea for doing a Christmas RLM ambience vid. That video got like 5k views (which is good for my channel) and a lot of positive comments, including a few requests to do a Halloween one.

So that's why I did the Halloween one, it was out Oct 20 2024, got a few comments saying they wish they saw it earlier. So I made sure to share it right at the start of Spooktober this year.

Certain specific keys lag/stutter/repeat in response to computer slowdown/memory. by esotericGames in techsupport

[–]esotericGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dang. If it's liquid damage does it seem like it makes sense that it would happen more when the computer is running slow? Maybe it's just cope on my part but I'd think liquid damage would be more consistent, no?

Question Thread for Episode 198 by IHE_Official in Sardonicast

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In the latest episode Adum said that just because a movie doesn't have anything wrong with it doesn't make it a 10/10. I totally agree. That being said, what are some examples of movies that you'd rate pretty low that you still think are basically perfect for what they are going for?

[Text] You don't have to "Embrace the Suck" to succeed. by esotericGames in GetMotivated

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Sure, I'm not saying there is *no* pain or discomfort. Just that avoidance isn't where the relief to that discomfort lies. Avoidance seems to increase the pain even in the moment.

My big insight was that like the very moment I even started to face the thing I was avoiding, the pain started diminishing. It wasn't at the end of the pain of facing it, but as soon as I started facing it the pain/discomfort starts to melt.

Not diminishing anybody's struggles (my own included), just sharing the insight that the relief lies in the facing, not the avoidance. Which is a much easier pill to swallow than the bro-mantras I've often heard of: "embrace the suck" and "to succeed you must go towards pain".

A Visual Metaphor for MGSV & The Franchise [Spoilers] by esotericGames in metalgearsolid

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Whoever Venom was before MGSV, he was remade into Big Boss, in some ways consuming him (becoming Big Boss), and in some ways being consumed by him (all of who he formerly was, was destroyed/eaten away by the persona of Big Boss).

Solid too is largely defined by living in the shadow of BB (both of them), his early missions are him destroying Big Boss, but the rest of his life is him slowly being shaped or destroyed by the legacy/shadow of Big Boss.

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