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FurryPhilosifer posted...

Doing tropes isn't clever or funny just because the characters say "hey this is a trope!".

It was kind of novel in 1996. The popularization of the term "tropes" to refer to storytelling elements, as opposed to the more negative term "cliches", and people trying to portray them as neutral building blocks of media, began with a rash of highly referential movies like Scream, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs and wouldn't really take off until the 2000's.

I initially began making a huge semantic argument about the existence and popularization of the term "trope", specifically how TV Tropes began as a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fansite and a nerdy interest in documenting cliches, idioms and common storytelling techniques as "tropes" - but instead, I will say that there was an ongoing trend that arguably came to prominence with Quentin Tarantino's early films, and that Scream is arguably a more polished, studio-driven take on the Tarantino-inspired self-referential sort of movies that were trying to make it big at the time. So I guess a little of what you're saying is true.

I still maintain that Scream was still a significant work from that initial craze, and it was one of those first few super popular self-referential movies that balanced the line between being a homage to the thing it was cribbing from, and being a solid example of that sort of movie that can stand on its own just as well.

Saying "movies doing tropes isn't clever because they call out that they're doing a trope" kind of diminishes Scream imo? Like it was referential, but the movie's premise is that of a copycat killer who's obsessed with horror movie cliches. They're obstensibly trying to frame a known horror movie geek to get away with their killing spree, and Billy Loomis goes so far as to sleep with Sidney to enforce one of those "horror movie rules" that women who have sex in horror movies always end up dying. It's a part of the villain's entire conceit. It's less "wow they referenced a trope they did, what a hack, they must feel so clever" and more "there's an in-universe reason as to why the killer is trying to replicate horror movie cliches, and it's pivotal to the plot of the movie and the motivation of the killer". The fact that the movie goes above and beyond what it's commenting on is what makes it great.

I would say that Scary Movie, and later Seltzer and Friedberg movies, fit what you're saying to a T. And yeah, even though I like broad comedies like Scary Movie 2, pointing out a trope and how the movie's just doing it wholesale isn't particularly clever or inherently funny. It can be, but it's a crutch that hacks rely on like Seltzer and Friedberg, Seth McFarlane or the Brickleberry guys.

Scream was aping a trend, sure, but it aped it well and created something that stands on its own. I probably just fell for the most obvious bait in the book, but boiling it down to just "doing tropes isn't funny or clever just because the characters say "hey this is a trope!" diminishes what is one of the better self-referential genre pictures of its day. It was genuinely innovative for its day, and I think it stands above later works that do the sort of shit you're saying for cheap humor or to seem more intelligent than it really is.

I don't even want to know. The shit about him melting down at the cops and smashing his head into the sidewalk was super uncomfortable, and him admitting to getting two fourteen year old girls drunk and having a threesome with them is just fucking disgusting. I hope he's in jail, or worse.

Payzmaykr posted...

I hope hes doing alright.

That makes one of us.

KazGT6 posted...

they changed their name to noodles?

You've never heard of a stage name? Or nicknames for that matter?

Tried playing as Jax and Jacki and I'm not a fan. Tried a bit of Skarlet and she's okay, but I feel like if I tried to get as good at her as I have with Baraka I might forget how to use Baraka at full capacity.

That being said my skills are extremely mid, I don't use block and I don't charge my super attacks. But I do pretty good with Baraka. He also has a Brutality that requires you to not block, and it's just holding the back punch button when you do an uppercut.

First movie was great, but I aggressively do not care about any of the others. Watched the second movie and wasn't a fan.

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If I truly spoke my mind about Donald Trump, I would get moderated. And if I really did have the power of prescience and the psychokinetic potential to murder others, he wouldn't have survived COVID.

Monferno_AQW posted...

@MrMallard should be the one making this topic.

Bob Barker came to my mind because he was a beloved personality who I'd forgotten about. Henry Kissinger should have died years ago but somehow hasn't, and when he drops dead it'll probably catch us all off guard.

Same with Putin and Trump, like those other "still alive" topics go on about. Short of suicide in prison and/or a bullet to the back of the head, those guys are probably going to be both alive and relevant for years to come. Bob Barker was a beloved old man who was allowed to grow old and pass away peacefully. The other two are fascist gloryhounds who claw and grab for any modicum of power they can get. There's a lot more living in them yet.

We can only hope that advanced age catches up with Kissinger, but with top-rate medical care keeping skinsuits like him alive, the chances of him keeling over - while elevated - are fairly low. But maybe he'll surprise us all.

Not really, but I do keep up with gaming trainwrecks. Like I watch a lot of YongYea, so I kept up with Fallout 76 despite never playing it.

The only time I'll bitch about something I'm playing is if I'm being forced to play or watch it. I try to be civil about movies and tv shows, but if a friend is pushing me to play a game I don't like, I'll just be an asshole about it. Otherwise I mind my own business and play what I want.

Link_of_time posted...

August in general.
Tom Jones
Mark Margolis
Yevgeny Prigozhin

H.M. - Paul Reubens

Wait what the fuck, Tom Jones died?!

Didn't fenriswolf admit to taking money to shill for China at one point?

There's actually a sequel to the Happy Gilmore fight they did for an award ceremony:

https://youtu.be/Jnurf8ZtV-E?si=k7ONuOyizjxubYOB

FFXIII-2 was the direct inverse of XIII. It had a bad ending, but everything else about it was really good. The first game was flawed on a fundamental level with a sweet ending that I appreciated, and the worst thing that the sequel did was retroactively ruin it.

People who get buttmad about the metal Chocobo song are being ridiculous. Like yeah, it's stupid. That's the point. There's plenty of decent music that takes itself seriously in the game, and acting like it ruins the sanctity of the XIII trilogy or taints the legacy of the franchise is stupid. It's a shitpost.

Dude who got darkprince45 to melt down by making a topic about an old John Wayne Was A Nazi t-shirt

Also the reason I haven't logged on since I made the topic is because I went camping, lmao. It's a real trip seeing what happened.

This exact same fucking thing happened with Chuck Berry. I brought up to my friends that he was still alive, and he died during the night.

For some reason, old celebrities die when I think of how they're still alive.

First game is jank city with a good story. Second game breaks the mold.

I got my first 500 topic on CE playing Mass Effect. Enjoy that shit, it only happens once.

creativeme posted...

yes

and like how did the cook not realize it was still raw? like they just look at it and just be like screw it put it on anyways? like they have to know that's gotta come back to them. sure accidents happen but that's pretty bad. that's not even browned.

I really couldn't tell you. She's a nice lady though.

I watch the movie just as much for the music as the movie itself. I started rewatching it last night and the scene where the Angel does the halo thing with the concrete I was like "YOOOO HOLY SHIT IT'S THIS SONG"

I couldn't get past ten minutes of the movie because it's been years since I've seen any Eva media, and ever since watching a three and a half hour video about Hideaki Anno's career I feel like I should go back and watch the show. I've only ever seen it dubbed, might watch it subbed for the first time ever.

Actually, aren't sausages usually pork?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/1/AAbh80AAEyAZ.jpg

Carljank posted...

Damn. Where do you go where the sausage patty isn't precooked?

I go to a local place, it's in the lobby of a supermarket that I live next door to. Everything's fresh.

Dreepapult posted...

They like didn't cook it at all. Normally undercooked still means somewhat cooked

It was a little bit cooked on the other side. But yeah idk how it was this bad, the raw side was stuck to the inside of the wrap.

Haejin posted...

disturbing, you could have gotten seriously sick

ehh it's a little bit of raw mince y'know. I think it was an honest mistake.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/5/AAbh80AAEx-l.jpg

The thing on top is some of the wrap that stuck to the party.

They're nice there and the lady offered me a discount next time. They also do a mean burger with the lot which is always fine - this is a new product and I don't think they've had a lot of training.

I had a small bite, then picked it out and kept eating. It was pretty good otherwise. Hope I don't get salmonella and shit myself, I'm going camping this weekend.

idk if you have Cougar Bourbon in America, but if you do, try it. It's a very sweet bourbon.

And he's still kicking Sandler's ass

I played through the first three seasons of the Walking Dead game with a friend. We were scrolling YouTube one day and spoilers for the final season came up - Clementine dies - and my friend became a massive asshole about it. You'd bring up the possibility of playing it and he'd wig out and go "what's the point, Clementine dies!!". Fucking baby.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Wait what

This paragraph seems totally random lol

That entire post is a rant that's held together with string and tape, and that part of the post did come out of nowhere. It's honestly a whole other angle to Gamergate that I brushed over because I wanted to end the post.

Am issue that a lot of gamergaters had was with "walking simulators". Some artsy-fartsy Steam games that mainly comprised of walking from point to point got brought up, as did Gone Home - a game that's basically about walking around a house, finding notes and interacting with the environment. To this end, gamergaters tried to define what a game was, and exclude things that "weren't games" like Gone Home or the other "walking simulators" they criticized. Games are apparently founded on combat and the existence of an "end screen", anything that doesn't have any of that isn't a game.

Life is Strange was one of the games that people called a "walking simulator" and tried to ride off as "not a game". It was controversial in gamergate spaces because it was about a potentially queer relationship between two women, and in following the Telltale Games formula of dialogue trees, limited movement and puzzle-solving over combat, it was a much different gaming experience than the narrative that gamergate was trying to push.

Not liking Life is Strange is one thing. People have different tastes, whatever. Gamergate had to definitively prove that Life is Strange was "not a game". It was a lot of different factors - sassy blue-hair punk rock lesbian as a focal character, dialogue that self-serious neckbeards decried as the end of gaming, gameplay that wasn't combat-oriented - that went against the gamergate narrative of what a game could be and was politically opposed to a lot of horseshit that the underlying gamergate narrative - your 4channer ideology and stuff - was pushing.

That last comment had next to nothing to do with what I was saying, my bad. The point I was trying to hammer home with next to no relevant context was that there's a divide between simply not liking Life is Strange and saying that Life is Strange is not a game. Any reasonable person can simply not like Life is Strange - I do like it, but not liking it is a valid choice. Saying that it isn't even a game as a means of dismissing its existence entirely is an extreme stance to take, and there was a nuclear fuck-storm of political grandstanding behind that decision. Liking or disliking Life is Strange became a political stance between whether you believed it counted as a video game or not, let alone the political motivations to trash it at the time.

A significant portion of being a gamergater could be summed up as whether you disliked Life is Strange, or if you didn't even consider it to be a video game. As much as any other aspect of gamergate, you can sum it up just as well with someone's adherence to that aborted "thought experiment". And much like the other horseshit I was complaining about in that thread, I really fucking hate it.

codey posted...

It's kind of wild to me that he has only just now entered the podcast game. His off-the-cuff style is what people like about the most popular podcasts, and he's so polished and experienced talking to high profile guests that I have zero doubt that he could put on a great podcast.

He did finally start one this month, but I haven't listened yet. Episodes are pretty short, but the guests so far are Tony Hawk, Gabriel Iglesias, Kathy Lee Gifford and Angela Kinsey.

I'll have to check this out, hell yeah

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Some chick was fucking critics who gave her game good reviews and the internet flipped out for 5 years

Her ex-boyfriend uploaded a manifesto against her on multiple platforms where it was mostly removed. The game he was alleging she was fucking critics to get good reviews for, Depression Quest, was a free game coded in Twine - she stood to gain nothing except a bit of positive PR in her niche-ass corner of the indie gamedev scene.

I remember when the Cracked comment section was boiling over and telling them to make an article about Gamergate, specifically about the pro-gamergate "ethics in games journalism" angle, and when the staff actually learned what it was about they invited Zoe Quinn to write an article explaining her side of the story and to talk about what it's like to be the target of a hate mob. Because again, this all started from her ex-boyfriend writing a manifesto calling her a slut who was fucking reviewers for positive reviews for her free indie game.

"Ethics in game journalism" was a front. There might have been people who joined because they believed in holding reviewers like IGN and GameSpot accountable, there were people who focused on stuff like the Max Payne 3 reviewer getting fired for a middling review score while the site was running ads for the game, but I'll always believe it came back to that jilted ex-boyfriend narrative.

Gamergate started with misogyny, and it ended with users from 4chan being users from 4chan. Women got doxxed, people were radicalised into sexism and racism because the fight for "ethics in games journalism" obscured the bigotry that pro-gamergate dickheads were freely engaging in, and the backlash against those mouth-breathers hiding under the shield of "ethics in games journalism" led to people falling for the bait that they were really throwing out - that women and people from other ethnicities were corrupt and trying to pervert a hobby that a bunch of easily corruptable manchildren spent their entire lives following. It was a rugpull narrative that sold more neckbeards on what would become the alt-right than the already burgeoning "commentary community", rife with MRAs and anti-feminists. The latter would end up adopting the former as "their fight" for profit, too.

Gamergate was a pile of shit. It was a bunch of frauds draping themselves in something that looked good so they could complain about women and minorities in the gaming space, and they managed to radicalise a bunch of drooling morons into falling for it. The Venn diagram between "bigoted 4channer" and "gamergater" wasn't entirely a circle, but given the former's influence on the latter, it was fucking close. It was a fucking shame. To this day, I'm wary of any grown-ass adult who unironically calls themselves a "gamer" because a bunch of people decided that video games were such an essential part of their identity that they had to harass women lest they ruin their hobby, and they turned that into a pillar of their personality.

It was the difference between not liking Life is Strange, and saying that Life is Strange was not a game - again, playing into anti-feminist rhetoric by calling it politically divisive and abusing a misplaced sense of objectivity as to what a game could or could not be. It was a load of shit.

Hope the music is better than this ginger who looks like he's eating a mild curry with 2 bayleafs instead of one

Yim yum

Doe posted...

You lay there waiting for something to happen but don't quite realize when it happens.

the other night I had a microsleep because I'd only slept an hour the night before. I was halfway through a YouTube video, and I pretty much had to shake myself awake as the video ended so I could put my phone on charge.

It's super weird because the point between me falling asleep and like forcing myself awake to put my phone on charge is just like... nothing. It's super comfortable and blissful, but it's like a hiccup.

I don't think they exist. I think this is a right-wing troll.

R1masher posted...

Is that a Billy Connelly knock off?

Is Billy Connelly a Sean Connery knockoff?

https://youtu.be/K46P7loICXY

Can you believe they replaced this guy with fucking James Corden?

I was concerned about the first trailer because it felt like a blue reskin of P5's aesthetic, like the attack bars and the big character portraits showing up through a rip in the screen.

I think they've done a good job bringing it back down to more of a Persona 3 vibe.

DC fucked up Green Lantern. You might as well say that Ryan Reynolds fucked up Deadpool because of X-Men Origins Wolverine, when we know now that the guy who did that movie hated the character and that Ryan Reynolds lobbied so hard for the eventual Deadpool that we did get that he leaked test footage.

The one "this actor ruined that character" thing I will agree with is that Jared Leto ruined The Joker. Ryan Reynolds was a leading man working with what he was given, he didn't control the CGI mask or whatever the fuck went wrong with that movie.

National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is a yearly event where attendees are encouraged to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days - the entire month of November. It's an official event put on by a non-profit organisation called The Office of Letters and Light, and they also did an event called Script Frenzy until poor turnout and a lack of donations led to them discontinuing the program.

I've been aware of it for over a decade; I used to use TV Tropes daily and NaNoWriMo would be all over the forums and all that sort of thing. Always saw it as a little cringy, probably because I was on fucking TV Tropes, but I was thinking about it earlier in the year and I'm wondering if I could pull something like that off.

The longest thing I've ever written in about that timespan was a Doctor Who fanfiction back in 2018. I wrote 17,000 words in about three weeks. If I decide to do this, I'm thinking of plotting out a rough outline and maybe some goals.

Right now, I've got two ideas. I've been trying to write this fanfic called Let's Bash Queerphobes, though I've lost the voices after finishing the game it's a fanfic of, and just today I thought the phrase "Karen wants queens" due to my job and thought it sounded like an okay book title.

It doesn't have to be fully formatted and ready to publish by the end of the exercise, you just need a raw 50,000 wordcount. From there, you can trim it down and turn it into something readable. Would you ever try something like this?

I'd like if Dar Williams or Brandi Carlile had a big hit. This latest chud wave is really discouraging and lame.

MarthGoomba posted...

I can't see any of her posts yet. Trying to figure out a way to not have it go on my bank

Prepaid debit card

Robot2600 posted...

no shower = gonna have a bad time

He can take baths in the baptism pool

Sin, baby, sin!

Tekken 8 is releasing on Australia Day?

That message can sure delete

Ehh. Streaming is always gonna be a dogshit solution to actually running the game.

Phoro posted...

I will say this... For some reason CE really really gravitates toward

CE gravitates towards whatever makes it look like the biggest cesspit of morons, because CE (myself included) is a cesspit of fucking morons.

I've never heard of this jagoff. How do I know his prior credentials, credibility or why I should care?

Because a ton of them are also brain surgeons, leaders in STEM and government contractors.

DnDer posted...

Why regret Tequilawhatitdo ? Being a VA isn't being a marathon sprinter. You can still make a stab at it. It's not really a job you can be "too old" for. Look at how old Rene Auberjonois was when he was still voice acting the year he passed (79).

Unrelated to the matter at hand, but I'm rewatching Boston Legal where Rene Auberjonois is a big part of the cast for the first half of the show. If you like him, you should watch the last quarter of the second season, he has a plotline where he reconciles with his former drug addict daughter who he cut contact with seven years prior.

His character, Paul, is a really loathable character who's basically the only sane person in a law firm full of kooks. This plotline is intense, frustrating and sad - basically he seeks to reconcile with his daughter, and he learns that she had a daughter three years ago. They're fighting in his office later on, and he has this incredible monologue that's like:

"In the final stages of your mother's illness, I let my mind wander to you. I thought of being there for the birth of my first granddaughter and learning to love a baby again. How dare you take that from me?"

Keep in mind, he cut contact with her and didn't speak to her for seven years. That's the frustrating part of this plotline. But it's fucking Emmy gold.