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@Linkara19
Jan 13, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
"Aren't you upset over superheroes and the MCU ruining cinema?!"

...No? One, I fucking love the MCU. I love keeping track of this stuff. I'm a comic book fan, FFS - and I don't mean I just like all superheroes, I mean it's easy for me to keep track of all this stuff after...
...years and years of doing this. And the MCU is a lot more coherent than the actual comics they spawned from. Fuck, I think I prefer the MCU to a lot of stuff in the actual comics. At least it has a consistent vision for what it wants to be and more oversight and not...
...killing its characters JUST for the sake of a shock death moment. Movies like the original Avengers and Avengers: Endgame feel satisfying and I still enjoy because they're properly built up to, with characters I have become invested in interacting and cracking wise at each...
...other and advancing their own personal story arcs. It's fulfilling in a way that I don't even get from some TV shows that are supposed to have an ongoing narrative arc.

As for "ruining cinema," no it fucking isn't. Hollywood sees that something is popular and they make...
...more like it to try to make more money. They've ALWAYS done that. They have ALWAYS sacrificed one film for another that they think will make them more cash.

Eventually, MCU and superheroes movies WILL die just like Westerns and pirate movies or every other popular trend...
...dies out. We get new movies and TV shows every week on streaming services. We get new stuff, good and bad, on DVDs and blu-rays. Does it get as much popular attention? Not really, but some of this shit wasn't going to be THAT popular to begin with. People have discovered...
...something they like and want more of, so Hollywood produces more of it.

I don't hate a single movie in the MCU. Not even Thor: The Dark World, which I consider the worst MCU film. It's still not THAT bad, just kinda lame. I love these things and I want more and I will...
...watch more. If I lose interest, then that's it. But they've done a spectacular job of keeping my interest, soooo here we are, with me eagerly enjoying myself.
I made a thread about that idea a while ago that having regular conventions and tropes and an ARCHETYPE isn't a bad thing for a movie subgenre, it's about execution...
...but even if that WERE the case, I'd still say it's pretty inaccurate.

The Eternals and Guardians of the Galaxy are both Marvel cosmic stories and they are not alike.

Thor: Ragnarok and Dr. Strange are both movies dealing with big, world-ending threats with godlike power...
...and they are not the same.

Ant-Man and Iron Man are two very different from movies, just like Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger are two different movies.

Black Panther is not Captain Marvel nor is Age of Ultron like Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
Black Widow and Spider-Man are not the same movie.

If they mean that characters undergo a journey, tell jokes, have goofy things happen, etc., etc. ...I don't know what to say other than "Sooo, like most movies?"
Exorcist III is my favorite horror movie of all time and it of course very, very tonally different from ANY MCU movie.

Goofy shit happens in it and characters tell jokes and it is a slow, somber movie with building dread and tension and disturbing moments.

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Aug 12, 2024
I just woke up and read the news about Patreon's coming changes, so I'm still forming thoughts, but both bits of news are BAD.

Very, very bad. The Apple one is bad enough, but the forced change over to subscription billing is REALLY bad - maybe not for all people, but for me...
...it's ESPECIALLY bad. The way Patreon currently works is you get charged on the first of the month for your patronage, so I get the money within a couple of days of that.

Subscription billing, which they are switching everyone over to, charges people a month after they...
...initially signed up (and paid for their first time).

Thing is, MOST of my bills are due at the beginning of the month. Mortgage, electricity, gas, etc. - all due at the beginning or end of the month. Now I'll get my payment for Youtube ad rev at the end of the month so...
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Feb 16, 2024
If you hadn't heard - apparently the site itself now just redirects to their Youtube page and doesn't exist as its own site anymore (apparently this happened a couple weeks ago and nobody noticed until now). So you know what actually gets to me now that Channel Awesome, as a...
...website, is gone? It's the final erasure of us as a group - of being MORE than just Doug's stuff.

Oh, sure, we stopped BEING together back in 2018. We did our own things, made our own big crossover project without them (check out A Voice From the Dark!), and went our own...
...ways. But something I noticed whenever I saw someone talking about Doug's more modern stuff - showed footage of their studio and the like - it was always decorated with JUST NC stuff, all their big clipless reviews and big stuff that had nothing to do with the rest of us...
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Nov 25, 2022
Alrighty, begun writing the Dino Fury review, thread here full of jokes and reactions! NO SPOILERS, NO HINTINGS. I HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET AND WANT TO BE SURPRISED (even though some stuff has been spoiled already).
This series is already trying to be topical and modern with a Buzzfeed-esque news and video office for the pink ranger to work at, but then she pulls out an actual physical map in the forest.
HA! "Hengemen." Clever wordplay. I love it.
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Oct 21, 2022
Welp. It finally happened.

After 14 years... I have finally gotten a copyright strike - not a contentID, mind you, full-on STRIKE - for a video about comics.

And yes, it's entirely possible for that to happen - images are copyrighted just like anything else...
...and it was always on the table that a video could get claimed. It's just UNLIKELY to happen because, well, nobody gives a crap about comics - especially old ones.

So now you're asking - who's the lucky one responsible that I pissed off? Marvel? DC? Some indy publisher...
...that put out a black and white comic from the 80s and is now pissed that people remember it existed?

The answer is none of them.

In what should not be a surprise given the last couple years for what happened to @TotallyNotMark and @SuedeBlade... it's a manga.
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Oct 19, 2022
PRODUCER OF SILENT HILL: ASCENSION - "Yes. I am totally genuine. I am not reading a teleprompter at all. This is a great new project. There is no ruh-set button. I'm pretty sure that's how you pronounce reset. Anyway, this is really cool. No, I'm not saying what this is."
"But your choices affect the canon. There is no going back. The choices of the streaming audience. I sure do like the communal feeling of watching horror movies in a theater. No, I'm still not telling you what this actually is, but it's totally interactive."
IGN POLL ON STREAM: "Are you excited about the idea for Silent Hill: Ascension."

ME: I sure will be when I figure out what it is!
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May 25, 2022
So it looks like some people are going back through my timeline to right after JewWario committed suicide to like and retweet the tweets I and others made expressing sorrow and sadness over it. If I had to guess why they're doing this, it's an attempt at a "GOTCHA!" they can...
...call upon, because some really shitty people believe that I and others knew about him grooming young women.

We did not.

We didn't know until 2018, when CA accidentally let it slip in their poor attempts to respond to the Not So Awesome document.
As far as we knew in 2014, a friend of ours had committed suicide and we were just heartbroken by it and trying to make sense of it. Obviously things would have been different if we had known then what we know now.
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