i know im just purely griping but 99% of youtube video essayists/media "critics" are so dogshit with nothing to say. probably 90% are either reactionary cranks or reciting plot/wikipedia summaries (while pretending theyre speaking with a unique voice), and even the best of the rest mostly spew out uneducated, reductive, or pointless opinions

its ok to watch whatever, i watch shit video essays all the time, but its annoying that these people have completely displaced actual critics within the semi-popular media ecosystem

that said heres 2 good channels on film and 2 decent ones on comics

https://www.youtube.com/@everyframeapainting/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@FilmQualia/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@ComicTropes/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@StripPanelNaked/videos

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from what i understand that story's been sensationalized a bit but that did happen to people at lans a lot

socially liberal, fiscally conservative

the well made personality/politics tests work bottom-up using simple and abstracted scenarios or questions to help expose your real values without broadly self-labeling or backpatting. this one is basically: "Are you a Socialist?" [Yes] "We have determined that your political beliefs are Socialist"

its also very counterproductive to give prompts like "Family values are essential" "Children should be taught traditional values" which are completely meaningless statements if dissociated from their buzzword status within a political movement

if youre building your own playlist, why not listen to albums and see what songs stick out to you and add those (most albums are about 45 minutes long)? otherwise why not just take someone else's full playlist, or use spotify radio or something?

the only 2 recent people u can point to as a successful shotgun user are the actual 2 best players to ever play the game

if this line had a source at all it would either be from when he was on trial for being a nazi, or one of the times he's criticized the nazi party for being too soft on non-aryan people

varg continues to publicly express white nationalist/antisemitic views as well as explicit support for the views of the german nazi party

all that said if u want to call mong a nazi or whatever theres much better things to point to

how long is your commute?

OLDHEAD TAKE STOCKS:

bearish: shotgun soldier nostalgia, slow medics nostalgia, gpit nostalgia

neutral: loch n load hating, market gardener hating, badlands nostalgia

bullish: pre-xbow heals nostalgia, granary nostalgia, calling it "viaduct",

mongs here everyone

no one has any problems with someone helping tf2, but when no one knows what the fuck ur ever talking about and none of the people you claim to be working with corroborate your claims, it becomes worrying when u start talking about large sums of money. every time u post u appear to be paranoically ranting at thin air and refuse to elaborate on anything when everyone is immediately confused

where is the money coming from? most tf2 sponsors are independently somewhat wealthy or turn a profit off their sponsorships. are you financially stable? also, no one wants to siphon money out of someone suffering delusions. are you mentally stable?

where is the money going? are there any organized plans of how to grow the scene with financial injections or are you just throwing money at people who dont even play in a league? do you have an organization, any people working with you to plan, organize, communicate, bookkeep? any public disclosure of your structure and goals?

could you even just once get habib, kobe, weeb whacker, wonder, anyone youve been name dropping, to confirm that any of this is true?

wild how if u think about this for more than about 9 seconds it becomes absolute meaningless gibberish. the only possible lens that would make any of this make any fucking sense at all is that of both overblown antisemitic conspiracism and anti-arabic racism/islamophobia

yes, demonstrably, but not in the antisemitic way that u mean

no, demonstrably, especially not in the islamophobic way that u mean

people are concerned when someone who appears mentally unstable announces suddenly and vaguely that they are giving $2400 away for unclear reasons

Enough is enough. It's 2024 now. We've had our fun but it's time to grow up. Let's put an end to memes and this childish copy/paste culture.