Yeah I saw this the day it dropped and was super excited since he hadn’t put out a long form video in awhile. The overhead projector slides style with the transition animations of the pages being replaced was so good.
What websites do you read every day? I read or skim the following, but some of them are getting old and there’s got to be something better and less basic.
slate
wired
arstechnica
nyt
boingboing
kottke
xkcd
qc
schlock mercenary
This is maybe the best article/review/essay/piece of criticism I’ve read for a while.
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“Games build excitement out of parts a filmmaker would edit"
Hot damn, some quotes just hit you.
I’m glad someone finally sold me on this game. I was interested in it but wanted something tangible before committing; hiking simulator is exactly the genre I love.
Also, main character is a delivery guy named Sam Porter Bridges 
dear lord, I haven’t heard a name like that since Isaac Clarke in Dead Space.
It’s Hiro Protagonist level of facepalm.
If Snowcrash taught me anything it was that you can just call your main character Hero Protagonist and it’s fine and I want to live believing that’s a good advice.
It’s terrible advice. Snow Crash is a shit book.
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Yeah, but he wrote one of the best Inciting Action sections I’ve read in a novel in a long-ass time.
I know Wisecrack is a rather popular choice for analysis channels already, but you have to check out their new video on Smash Mouth. When you read their lyrics without music or singing, it sounds like some pretty amazing poetry.
Kaptain Kristian is back after yet ANOTHER hiatus!
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I never noticed the human made soundwork in The Wind Rises, that’s incredible
Two things, one is that this is perhaps the most pertinent and smartest video I’ve ever seen on YouTube. Two is that I’d like to add what Mel Brooks said about this very subject when asked “could you make Blazing Saddles today” when I saw him give a talk after a screening of the film in Boston in Dec 2016, which was that he couldn’t then. He, in fact, had to send a cut several iconic scenes – the only one explicitly named being the fart scene – from the roll he sent to the screening audiences. He then sent the unedited, uncensored version to cinemas to show themselves. The biggest point people miss when they say “you can’t make Blazing Saddles today” is that there was never a time when you could make Blazing Saddles.
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A review of every bee videogame. Featuring “The Citizen Kane of beekeeping games”!
https://www.molleindustria.org/blog/every-bee-game-reviewed-by-accuracy/
it’s also worth noting that the argument could only come from a chud completely ignorant of contemporary media. You want aggressive overuse of slurs as satire for the depicted era? Go read Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. You want a farcical grindhouse mockery of the most popular current genre? Watch James Gunn’s Super. You want gore that would make a normal person walk out of the theater? Bone Tomahawk, Silent Hill, Tokyo Gore Police. You want offensive media that exist explicitly to offend? Human Centipede
If anyone tells you “You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today” you ask them what the fuck Tarantino has been doing for the past two decades.
It’s like how Todd Phillips’ claimed that part of his motivation to make Joker is because “woke culture ruined the genre.”
So not only is he neglecting all the really good comedies coming out (Booksmart, Good Boys, Jojo Rabbit, Dolomite is My Name) but he’s even ignoring the all the anti-PC comedians (Gervais, Chapelle, Burr) who are constantly tongue-bathed by people who are 100% paranoid over cancel culture nonsense.
Speaking of that real quickly…Joker is trash. Like I don’t care that people are praising the movie being about “kill the rich” and the tragedy of mental illness without structural support; it’s a reactionary, heavy-handed, nihilist screed. (And we had way better movies as criticisms of capitalism this year). The dialogue is really bad, the score is intrusive, the soundtrack choices are as on the nose as humanly possible. It’s a character actor story where Arthur Fleck has no character other than someone to be shocked at or feel pity for. It’s so what happens when you take someone who wants to make an introspective R-Rated movie but has nothing to go on except for rage and borrowing from Scorsese. All it has is Joaquin’s performance and good cinematography. Other than that, it’s an unironic version of the “We live in a society” meme.
I very much agree with Jenny Nicholson’s takes on the subject.
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Honestly, the only thing I particularly enjoyed about Joker was remembering that the inevitable end point is him getting punched in the face 20 times by Batman.
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