The last four minutes or so of that video are him listing the caveats for all the companies he mentioned. Randy's bullshit, 2K's bullshit, Focus' problems as a publisher, etc.
Now if he could just pronounce "AAA games" like someone wasn't twisting a dildo in his ass...
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I'm sure it's a very dumb city and everything but as a cities skylines player I sure like that preview image
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I'll readily admit to giving dave drayman a boatload of shit over the years but his vocals are easily the best thing about that cover, the rest of it really seems like it's just checking a bunch of boxes
To be fair, i have only heard it in the Gears of War trailer. And it came if as very silly and self serious.
Maybe Imagine Dragons's Radioactive is good. I'll never know. That well is thoroughly poisoned.
That's definitely a fault of the trailer and not the music (usually). It's kind of incredible how quickly "overly serious/dramatic cover of a classic song in a game/movie trailer" became a laughingstock meme.
You may only vaguely remember Athene as that annoying WoW streamer with an item named after him in League of Legends, but now he's running an abusive cult https://youtu.be/EgNXJQ88lfk
So that sucks
I'd not heard of this guy before, but fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...
The lead actor of Kamen Rider Kabuto, Hiro Mitzushima, has started a youtube cooking channel, with english subtitles because he's trilingual in italian and english
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The lead actor of Kamen Rider Kabuto, Hiro Mitzushima, has started a youtube cooking channel, with english subtitles because he's trilingual in italian and english
the part where he wants to impress his daughter with his fried chicken is adorable
also what on earth is that song at the end? It sound like it's just a bunch of random japanese words that westerners are familiar with?
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I finally watched this, and at the end, all I had to say was yikes. This is easily one of Ellis' worst videos, in large part because she got so focused on her thesis that she doesn't take a moment to pause and look at what she's actually saying.
(Detailed analysis/complaint under the fold.)
The best place to start is at the end, where she points out that media criticism is about looking at media as it is, and not ignoring the distasteful aspects of it. Which, okay, that's true - but on the same token, Disney is not engaging in media criticism - they're remaking films for a modern audience, with media criticism being a small sidebar to that goal. When the two conflict, the latter is necessarily going to give way because Disney is in the business of mass media production, not media criticism. There's also her choice of words at the end - "aged poorly" - which to me reflects a certain point of view that misses the entirety of the issue.
That's not to say that she's completely wrong - in fact she gets a lot right, which is what makes the bad parts stick out more. Disney is (for the most part) going to present sanitized stories that don't challenge structural issues but instead give us explicit villains corrupting the order. (And as she points out, Maleficent bucked the trend by actually engaging in those structural criticisms in its story, which is why it works in ways the other live action films don't.) Disney is also only going to ever perform mild criticism of itself or society, because it's not going to hold a true critical eye because that would be bad for business - and therein lies the petard by which Ellis hoists herself, most notably in her criticism of the live action Dumbo.
There are two complaints that she makes about it that stood out to me for their tonedeafness. The first is her complaint about the removal of the pink elephants scene where Dumbo accidentally gets drunk. The problem here is that she avoids talking about the actual meaning of the scene (and thus why a modern version of the scene would not fly.) Pink elephants in our culture have historically been associated with alcoholism and alcohol abuse, with the implication/gag being that Dumbo's accidental drinking leading potentially to ruin. Fundamentally, the scene is a well animated version of 80's era "scared straight" anti-drug ads. Today, though, we have a more nuanced view of alcoholism, where it is no longer acceptable to treat alcoholism as the punchline to a gag (see also: the failure of the Russell Brand Arthur remake a few years prior.) As such, an entire scene built on the gag of "look how zany alcohol induced delirium is!" is not going to read well - which is why the scene is reduced to a single reference done in a way to avoid the reference to alcoholism. Ellis further compounded the issue with her lead in, dismissing modern issues with alcoholism as joke/gag fodder with the term "abrasive to modern viewers", which feels like a dismissal of how modern audiences would read something like this.
This leads to the yikes part of the video - her section on Dumbo's minstrelry scene. Ellis pretty much points it out clearly - the segments with the crows are animated blackface, with mostly white actors playing stereotypical minstrel characters who sing a jazz styled song written by a white composer. The problem is that she then argues that Disney choosing to omit the whole part is somehow an affront, that it's whitewashing the history of Dumbo. (Do note that she makes this argument after punting herself on how to respectfully depict it, which further illustrates the bind Disney was in here.) I was reminded of a controversy over Huck Finn a few years back, where several schools, in response to feedback from black students, began using versions that omitted the use of racist language, in particular a certain word banned here. You had (predominantly white) people arguing that the modified versions were an affront to freedom of speech, and that students need to understand that language existing - while black students and their advocates pointed out that they knew what those words meant (mainly from hearing them directed at them), that their white peers would use the book as a justification/shield for racist attacks, and that the exposure to such literary racism was part of what caused them to disconnect from school. Ellis' position here strikes me as being similar to the argument made by the former - that the live action Dumbo needs to have a reference to incredibly racist behavior because it's "part of the movie's DNA". Her comment on "If I Saw An Elephant Fly" being tame further compounds things, as the song is still a minstrel song - with all the baggage that entails - no matter how "tame".
Even when she has a solid point, this sort of myopia still causes issues. In a later segment, she talks about the problem of ostensibly diverse films being helmed by white male producers and directors - which is a real problem! Bringing up Guy Ritchie directing Aladdin, Ellis comments "Was all of Bollywood busy?" - which pretty much undermines the impact of the point. Bollywood is actually bigger than Hollywood in certain aspects and is very much its own thing separate from Hollywood and not reliant on it - and basically treating it as the Hollywood minor leagues is yet more of the same sort of myopia that fueled the above "yikes" elements.
In short, while Ellis does have a good point about the problem with Disney not really challenging the structural aspects of their stories, she also exhibits a myopia regarding how certain elements read today that leads her to make tonedeaf proposals that undermine her overall point.
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The last time I saw an old ass dude at the bus stop vaping his fuckin rig looked like a 1970's walkie talkie I think it could have vaped a whole human head
The lead actor of Kamen Rider Kabuto, Hiro Mitzushima, has started a youtube cooking channel, with english subtitles because he's trilingual in italian and english
the part where he wants to impress his daughter with his fried chicken is adorable
also what on earth is that song at the end? It sound like it's just a bunch of random japanese words that westerners are familiar with?
Listen sometimes you write a song yourself so you don't have to pay licensing fees
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Now if he could just pronounce "AAA games" like someone wasn't twisting a dildo in his ass...
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
It is...depressingly accurate
All of this is pretty good
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I'm sure it's a very dumb city and everything but as a cities skylines player I sure like that preview image
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Maybe Imagine Dragons's Radioactive is good. I'll never know. That well is thoroughly poisoned.
That's definitely a fault of the trailer and not the music (usually). It's kind of incredible how quickly "overly serious/dramatic cover of a classic song in a game/movie trailer" became a laughingstock meme.
also the lead singer is such a massive shitstain that even if it was decent I wouldn't be able to enjoy it
The lead actor of Kamen Rider Kabuto, Hiro Mitzushima, has started a youtube cooking channel, with english subtitles because he's trilingual in italian and english
the part where he wants to impress his daughter with his fried chicken is adorable
also what on earth is that song at the end? It sound like it's just a bunch of random japanese words that westerners are familiar with?
I was hoping this would get posted.
Heavy warning: Spoilers for both games in the preview image up in here.
I finally watched this, and at the end, all I had to say was yikes. This is easily one of Ellis' worst videos, in large part because she got so focused on her thesis that she doesn't take a moment to pause and look at what she's actually saying.
(Detailed analysis/complaint under the fold.)
That's not to say that she's completely wrong - in fact she gets a lot right, which is what makes the bad parts stick out more. Disney is (for the most part) going to present sanitized stories that don't challenge structural issues but instead give us explicit villains corrupting the order. (And as she points out, Maleficent bucked the trend by actually engaging in those structural criticisms in its story, which is why it works in ways the other live action films don't.) Disney is also only going to ever perform mild criticism of itself or society, because it's not going to hold a true critical eye because that would be bad for business - and therein lies the petard by which Ellis hoists herself, most notably in her criticism of the live action Dumbo.
There are two complaints that she makes about it that stood out to me for their tonedeafness. The first is her complaint about the removal of the pink elephants scene where Dumbo accidentally gets drunk. The problem here is that she avoids talking about the actual meaning of the scene (and thus why a modern version of the scene would not fly.) Pink elephants in our culture have historically been associated with alcoholism and alcohol abuse, with the implication/gag being that Dumbo's accidental drinking leading potentially to ruin. Fundamentally, the scene is a well animated version of 80's era "scared straight" anti-drug ads. Today, though, we have a more nuanced view of alcoholism, where it is no longer acceptable to treat alcoholism as the punchline to a gag (see also: the failure of the Russell Brand Arthur remake a few years prior.) As such, an entire scene built on the gag of "look how zany alcohol induced delirium is!" is not going to read well - which is why the scene is reduced to a single reference done in a way to avoid the reference to alcoholism. Ellis further compounded the issue with her lead in, dismissing modern issues with alcoholism as joke/gag fodder with the term "abrasive to modern viewers", which feels like a dismissal of how modern audiences would read something like this.
This leads to the yikes part of the video - her section on Dumbo's minstrelry scene. Ellis pretty much points it out clearly - the segments with the crows are animated blackface, with mostly white actors playing stereotypical minstrel characters who sing a jazz styled song written by a white composer. The problem is that she then argues that Disney choosing to omit the whole part is somehow an affront, that it's whitewashing the history of Dumbo. (Do note that she makes this argument after punting herself on how to respectfully depict it, which further illustrates the bind Disney was in here.) I was reminded of a controversy over Huck Finn a few years back, where several schools, in response to feedback from black students, began using versions that omitted the use of racist language, in particular a certain word banned here. You had (predominantly white) people arguing that the modified versions were an affront to freedom of speech, and that students need to understand that language existing - while black students and their advocates pointed out that they knew what those words meant (mainly from hearing them directed at them), that their white peers would use the book as a justification/shield for racist attacks, and that the exposure to such literary racism was part of what caused them to disconnect from school. Ellis' position here strikes me as being similar to the argument made by the former - that the live action Dumbo needs to have a reference to incredibly racist behavior because it's "part of the movie's DNA". Her comment on "If I Saw An Elephant Fly" being tame further compounds things, as the song is still a minstrel song - with all the baggage that entails - no matter how "tame".
Even when she has a solid point, this sort of myopia still causes issues. In a later segment, she talks about the problem of ostensibly diverse films being helmed by white male producers and directors - which is a real problem! Bringing up Guy Ritchie directing Aladdin, Ellis comments "Was all of Bollywood busy?" - which pretty much undermines the impact of the point. Bollywood is actually bigger than Hollywood in certain aspects and is very much its own thing separate from Hollywood and not reliant on it - and basically treating it as the Hollywood minor leagues is yet more of the same sort of myopia that fueled the above "yikes" elements.
In short, while Ellis does have a good point about the problem with Disney not really challenging the structural aspects of their stories, she also exhibits a myopia regarding how certain elements read today that leads her to make tonedeaf proposals that undermine her overall point.
It was theoretically a smoking cessation tool, that of course got turned into a product
And turns out they're taking way more nicotine than before and to quit vaping they turn to... cigs.
Inhaling things... Not for me.
The last time I saw an old ass dude at the bus stop vaping his fuckin rig looked like a 1970's walkie talkie I think it could have vaped a whole human head
Listen sometimes you write a song yourself so you don't have to pay licensing fees
there are steampunk vapes arent there
TOS or TNG?