The Gaming Historian interviews the developer of the Mega Man DOS games.
lyrics Following upto his video on Breath of the Wild and Zelda, Mikey Neumann made a video on the history of Mario:
Another fine music thinkpiece.
Part 2 to this video I shared a couple months ago.
PS. Watch Ascendance of a Bookworm.
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Lily Orchard wrote a laughably awful (now deleted) Twitter thread on so-called “writing tips.” Out of the 100 “tips,” only a small portion of them were pretty legit. The rest consisted of redundant reiterations of previous tweets (some of which are contradictory and even hypocritical), screeds on tropes and shows she didn’t like, and tweets that had nothing to do with writing at all.
Diregentleman, a channel hosted by two podcast writers, break down this behemoth of a thread.
Oh yeah, her entire brand seems to be angry bad takes, and then getting extremely angry and pissy with anyone who doesn’t like them.
Listening to this right now. I am not familiar with this Lily Orchard person as apparently she discusses primarily media that isn’t in my personal spectrum of fandom, mostly western animation (Steven Universe, She-Ra, The Last Airbender, etc.). But boy oh boy this list is hilariously awful and I am thankful that the two guys responding have a much better perspective on things and both wider and deeper analysis on popular media than she does.
I think the one that made me most angry there was the one that goes like “Low personal stakes are always better than big, world-ending stakes. Friends is more popular than your favorite anime.” which is so wrong on so many angles that it’s unbelievable anyone has even made that thought in the first place.
- Quality and popularity are not the same thing.
- That statement very much depends on the market. One Piece is definitely far more popular than Friends in East Asia.
- You know what is more popular than Friends even in the western market? The MCU!
- Fuck your nonsensical superlatives.
The one about goblins always being a jewish stereotype, followed directly by a chastisement of anyone who could conceive or want to produce a counter example also made me quite pissed, considering an easy example is Magic the Gathering where goblins are semi-suicidal idiots who toy with machinery that mostly blows up in their face. Nothing of the sort that is in any way typical for a stereotype of a jewish person. Perhaps that is a limited perspective on my point and if I am, feel free to correct me, but aside from the name and the dimunitive stature, the primary portrayal of Goblins in MtG has absolutely nothing to do with how Goblins are portrayed in for example Harry Potter.
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it’s also just wrong. Dwarves are historically based on Jewish stereotypes. Goblins derive from trickster fae/spirits that inhabited houses originating in German/English folklore. The idea that they are related to antisemitism appears extremely modern based on the popular depiction of goblins with large noses and then carrying that to the finish line.
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YouTube’s musical treasure Brentalfloss brought back his Lyrics 101 series after returning from his long hiatus, and he a 2-part video elaborating on his issues with the songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas. He also comes up with alternative lyrics to potentially fix the problems in each song while sticking to the original rhyme scheme.
The Frank Herbert sequels are good.
I haven’t read the Brian ones, which I am just going to stay away from.
damn that was good. I would love to see this kind of analysis for KLK
Yedoye does good work. He is my favorite host of Beyond the Bot (or their old home, Get in the Robot). His videos on Dragonball Z and Hip Hop in Anime are also good and gave me some perspective I didn’t have before, simply because I have a different background.
Agreed, I love their analysis, as well as the rest of the 'bot group.
The same guys who lambasted Lily Orchard’s Twitter thread made a followup video with 50 actual writing tips.
How much Christmas is in your Christmas movie? Movies w/ Mikey lays down criteria and awards points for each Christmas movie/special that follows the checkbox.
There is also Dan’s video on the matter where he explains that in his view the point about arguing whether a christmas movie is a christmas movie is not about establishing an actual taxonomy, but about the argument itself
Of course it’s about the argument itself. Nobody argues that Die Hard is a Christmas movie because they think it’s important, or even that other people need convincing, but that they want to be seen having an opinion about a cool movie.
If you don’t care about being seen to have an opinion about Die Hard, you don’t care about the classification.
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