Diseased #Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

[Ike Aim]

FNT hit Marvel/Disney particularly hard tonight, excoriating them for shamelessly exploiting the death of Black Panther star Chadwick Bozeman in the latest iteration of the franchise, but not before they marked the death of Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy with a touching tribute followed by a modification of their usual stupid logos to in some small way shamelessly associate >muh brand with the deceased talent (or at least subtly remind the viewer that it's all about them), demonstrating yet again that - if you're anyone of note even remotely in his wheelhouse - even in death there is no escaping that retarded self-promotional force of nature, off-scale low level of self-awareness, colossal attention-seeking dickhead Jeremy Griggs from striving to associate his brand with you.

You may have noticed that (a) that bit of bullying is kind of a nitpicky stretch and (b) it occurs barely 1-minute into the stream. That is because Friday Night Tights is increasingly unwatchable. That's all I could tolerate rather than sift back through four hours of these fuckheads chuckling incessantly, quipping and counter-quipping over top of each other ad nauseam and derailing their own current topic with this minute's latest attempt to inject a zinger to which Gary will respond with his trademark deranged "HA HAAAAAA HA AAAAHHH" approximation of natural laughter. At least he figured out the ole' radio trick of starting the show in medias res with everybody bantering and laughing like we the audience are eavesdropping on their fun time rather than the truth: they are asking to direct our attention to their mediocrity via broadcasting/streaming.

After a bit of their uninspired criticism of the latest whatever I did pick FNT back up a few hours later and fortunately managed to catch what may be the only bit of this popular and successful shitshow's latest stream of interest to anyone here: CriticalDrinker aka Will Jordan aka That's Probably Not His Real Name Either discussing his foray into the funnies which then segued into indie comics and a brief mention of the intrigue involving IndieGoGo:

aprox 02:20:00

Excerpt from 10 Needy Retards Talking Over Each Other. November 11, 2022

 

[FluffyJackal]

Fuck Zack, I wanna see how he copes with the fact That he didn’t have EVS there to shill his campaign every five minutes.

Having a bona fide movie legend (forget a faggy comics one, I repeat: a M-O-V-I-E legend!!!) in the creative team should be a license to print money by itself. As @Mister Dongs points out, leaving RAMBO out of the title is so unconceivably retarded that I have to wonder if Stallone told Zack to do so for legal reasons or whatever.

 

[Rodeo Roadrunner]

Notice Zack's IGG for Rambo is only 3 days, not the usual 30. Seems Simple Zack missed a 0 when he set up the campaign.

That is because Friday Night Tights is increasingly unwatchable.

I don't know how anyone can watch FNT, podcasts with 10 people on them never work because it actually hampers real conversation because for someone to feel relevant they have to compartmentalize their thoughts into quips, so basically it because a 4 hour quip fest where no actual insight or deep thoughts can be expressed.
I am also convinced none of them have any deep knowledge or appreciation for any actual sci-fi or fantasy content, some super chat asked if any of them had read Abercrombie's 'First Law' series, and none of them had even heard of it. If it isn't a tv show or movie marketed by disney, netflix, or amazon these people haven't heard of it. No wonder they are so obsessed with goyslop as their important 'myths', they know nothing that isn't pop culture, so they have no frame of reference for how good something can be.

 

[Ike Aim]

Notice Zack's IGG for Rambo is only 3 days, not the usual 30. Seems Simple Zack missed a 0 when he set up the campaign.

It would appear so. They ask Drinker about that at aprox 02:24:00 just before the IndieGoGo talk and he just kinda shrugs while they all come to the same conclusion that it was Simply an error.

 

[FROG]

Notice Zack's IGG for Rambo is only 3 days, not the usual 30. Seems Simple Zack missed a 0 when he set up the campaign.

Zack probably calculated that the first 48 hours and the last 24 hours are really all that matters in a crowdfunding campaign, and the rest is all lag time. If you run a 3 day campaign with a $50K goal and you're a popular creator like Zack is, you'll hit that $50K and get paid out within a week of launch. Then you can just let it stay In Demand for latecomers.

If you don't hit your goal, you can just extend it for as much as an additional 57 days. There's really no downside.

I don't disagree with him.

The only thing that I don't understand is that he stealth-launched it with no build up. But maybe bottling up the enthusiasm while the campaign is live and running is a good idea too.

 

[Mister Dongs]

If you're not bothering with stretch goals and have already paid for all the work in advance, why not get access to the raised money right away?

I don't know how anyone can watch FNT, podcasts with 10 people on them never work because it actually hampers real conversation because for someone to feel relevant they have to compartmentalize their thoughts into quips, so basically it because a 4 hour quip fest where no actual insight or deep thoughts can be expressed.

I think you answered your own question there - the show isn't intended for people interested in thoughts or ideas, or any real critical engagement with movies or any form of media. While made up of would be film critics aspiring to ape the success of Red Letter Media's prequel reviews, the FNT crew has since become professional hatewatchers. Actual criticism requires, as you say, the expression of fully realized ideas. At least if it's going to be anything approaching legitimate criticism. If a movie is bad, it must be established how it is bad, where it fell short of what it should be, and what "what it should be" actually is.

Hatewatching, in contrast to criticism, doesn't deal in ideas but emotions - the feeling of shared community and being part of an ingroup in disliking a media text together (constantly conditioned in the form of nonstop empty retard laughter), and the sense of superiority in elevating oneselves above said media text's fandom in a social taste hierarchy. Fully formed thoughts would simply get in the way of what they deal in and what their audience comes there for. The usual defense is something along the lines of "the real entertainment is found in tearing down these shitty movies", but enough watching of an FNT chucklefuck stream and it starts to become clear what exactly that "entertainment" really is.

How this came to be should be fairly obvious: hatewatching something is far easier and a far lower barrier to entry to do than legitimate actual criticism of a professionally created product. Nobody's interested in Az's opinion on the finer points of cinematography of Scorsese's latest outing.

At the end of the day though, unlike criticism (which if valid can improve a product) or presenting an alternative, hatewatching is classified by media analytics as merely an alternative form of consumer consumption. They'd prefer it if customers liked what they dished out, sure, but if they gather among themselves in a special hugbox to seethe about it instead and also pay some meth guy money for some reason while continuing to eat up every scrap of information about what Disney is up to, that's fine too.

Edit:

After a bit of their uninspired criticism of the latest whatever I did pick FNT back up a few hours later and fortunately managed to catch what may be the only bit of this popular and successful shitshow's latest stream of interest to anyone here: CriticalDrinker aka Will Jordan aka That's Probably Not His Real Name Either discussing his foray into the funnies which then segued into indie comics and a brief mention of the intrigue involving IndieGoGo:

The total disinterest the FNT chucklers received Drinker's news of "hey guys I'm making my first comic, it's about Rambo", followed by the excitement that "...and Sylvester Stallone signed off on it so it's official" says everything really. Everything comes second to >muh brand and the slimmest chance of some recognition from the mainstream with them.

 

[jspit2.0]

It would appear so. They ask Drinker about that at aprox 02:24:00 just before the IndieGoGo talk and he just kinda shrugs while they all come to the same conclusion that it was Simply an error.

Zack probably calculated that the first 48 hours and the last 24 hours are really all that matters in a crowdfunding campaign, and the rest is all lag time. If you run a 3 day campaign with a $50K goal and you're a popular creator like Zack is, you'll hit that $50K and get paid out within a week of launch. Then you can just let it stay In Demand for latecomers.

If you don't hit your goal, you can just extend it for as much as an additional 57 days. There's really no downside.

I don't disagree with him.

The only thing that I don't understand is that he stealth-launched it with no build up. But maybe bottling up the enthusiasm while the campaign is live and running is a good idea too.

Except he's not really popular anymore, is he?

Who does he appeal to anymore. Comicsgate? Maybe. But not many since CG is so small already. CG's power is in a small number of pay piggies. How many of those have stuck to him?

Other alt comics fans? They'd have to know he exists and there is precious little reason for them to. That's what's so wretched about all this. Sly Stallone could push this, but will he focus on it like Keanu Reeves? Then there is Dixon. Dixon is literally there because he's the one who got this and he's roping in Richard because Meyer is the guy he's worked with allot and lets him do whatever.

Drinker's the only one of the...Three? Four? That I think will actually move this thing, if it moves.

If you're not bothering with stretch goals and have already paid for all the work in advance, why not get access to the raised money right away?



I think you answered your own question there - the show isn't intended for people interested in thoughts or ideas, or any real critical engagement with movies or any form of media. While made up of would be film critics aspiring to ape the success of Red Letter Media's prequel reviews, the FNT crew has since become professional hatewatchers. Actual criticism requires, as you say, the expression of fully realized ideas. At least if it's going to be anything approaching legitimate criticism. If a movie is bad, it must be established how it is bad, where it fell short of what it should be, and what "what it should be" actually is.

Hatewatching, in contrast to criticism, doesn't deal in ideas but emotions - the feeling of shared community and being part of an ingroup in disliking a media text together (constantly conditioned in the form of nonstop empty retard laughter), and the sense of superiority in elevating oneselves above said media text's fandom in a social taste hierarchy. Fully formed thoughts would simply get in the way of what they deal in and what their audience comes there for. The usual defense is something along the lines of "the real entertainment is found in tearing down these shitty movies", but enough watching of an FNT chucklefuck stream and it starts to become clear what exactly that "entertainment" really is.

How this came to be should be fairly obvious: hatewatching something is far easier and a far lower barrier to entry to do than legitimate actual criticism of a professionally created product. Nobody's interested in Az's opinion on the finer points of cinematography of Scorsese's latest outing.

At the end of the day though, unlike criticism (which if valid can improve a product) or presenting an alternative, hatewatching is classified by media analytics as merely an alternative form of consumer consumption. They'd prefer it if customers liked what they dished out, sure, but if they gather among themselves in a special hugbox to seethe about it instead and also pay some meth guy money for some reason while continuing to eat up every scrap of information about what Disney is up to, that's fine too.

Edit:

The total disinterest the FNT chucklers received Drinker's news of "hey guys I'm making my first comic, it's about Rambo", followed by the excitement that "...and Sylvester Stallone signed off on it so it's official" says everything really. Everything comes second to >muh brand and the slimmest chance of some recognition from the mainstream with them.

They were, most of them, originally fan channels and fell backward toward culture war. Griggs, Midnight's Edge, Gary, all of them.

I can still remember cringing as Gary and Doomcock bragged about the Orville guys talking to them.

 

[Rupin]

We

Except he's not really popular anymore, is he?

Who does he appeal to anymore. Comicsgate? Maybe. But not many since CG is so small already. CG's power is in a small number of pay piggies. How many of those have stuck to him?

Other alt comics fans? They'd have to know he exists and there is precious little reason for them to. That's what's so wretched about all this. Sly Stallone could push this, but will he focus on it like Keanu Reeves? Then there is Dixon. Dixon is literally there because he's the one who got this and he's roping in Richard because Meyer is the guy he's worked with allot and lets him do whatever.

Drinker's the only one of the...Three? Four? That I think will actually move this thing, if it moves.



They were, most of them, originally fan channels and fell backward toward culture war. Griggs, Midnight's Edge, Gary, all of them.

I can still remember cringing as Gary and Doomcock bragged about the Orville guys talking to them.

well he made 60k in 3 days with no promo, that’s an impressive feat anyone. I’d say he is still popular.
edit:nvm EVS did help promote his book.

 

[jspit2.0]

We

well he made 60k in 3 days with no promo, that’s an impressive feat anyone. I’d say he is still popular.

Drinker. George.

 

[Ike Aim]

If you're not bothering with stretch goals and have already paid for all the work in advance, why not get access to the raised money right away?

Maybe if it's an issue of effective conversion? You basically have two different customer bases here, one small, piggish, and powered by FOMO and the other being much larger, made up of the Pop Vinyl nerd consoomer types who may need to be up-sold. I mean, it's a comic either way but to the FNT audience it's also basically YouTuber merch. These are the same people buying the FNT / Drinker plushies (yes, those are a thing).

Who does he appeal to anymore. Comicsgate?

CG's power is in a small number of pay piggies.

Probably. Subsidy sheep / commerce cattle / remuneration ruminants would be the secret sauce behind any intentional 72-hour campaign. It's the only way it makes sense. However, you then have to square that with the Drinker / FNT audience and it seems like that would take more time.

I can still remember cringing as Gary and Doomcock bragged about the Orville guys talking to them.

Gary is a starfucker. He's constantly bringing up Hollywood types that he knows personally, he's met once, he almost met, or was loitering nearby outside of an event. Gary claims to know Tom Costantino, an associate producer on The Orville and there was much hype going into this latest season fueled by Gary's "insider knowledge". It was amusing watching Gary ignore the season for as long as possible and then slowly back out of the room when he realized Season 3 was a terminal embarrassment of literal Gayniggers from Outer Space, troons, and some dusty old black lady's love life. The show looks and sounds fantastic, but it's otherwise pretty much everything they love to hatewatch, the sort of thing @Mister Dongs points out is their stock in trade.

 

[Mister Dongs]

Drinker's the only one of the...Three? Four? That I think will actually move this thing, if it moves.

Unlike Shad Brooks or Eric July, Critical Drinker doesn't actually have any ownership of Rambo or stake in the project and therefore has no incentive to use his platform to campaign for it beyond intangibles like bragging rights or culture war cred.

Which to me is more than a little ironic because the preview alone for Jordan's A NEW KIND OF WAR looks heads and shoulders above the other 'Iron Age' outings like Isom or SotQ. Look at that panel layout. You can tell by that alone that Drinker probably spent more than a day writing the script for this too, unlike Knifehand: Blindspot.

 

[Stoneheart]

Other alt comics fans? They'd have to know he exists and there is precious little reason for them to. That's what's so wretched about all this. Sly Stallone could push this, but will he focus on it like Keanu Reeves? Then there is Dixon. Dixon is literally there because he's the one who got this and he's roping in Richard because Meyer is the guy he's worked with allot and lets him do whatever.

well they have a very good team, a good IP and good artists.
so general comic audience is the main target...

I was thinking about buying it since launch, but 50$ for 2 small comics is alot to ask. so i spend my milk money on preordering Conan and an artbook full of spacetits...

 

[Pilule Noire]

the only bit of this popular and successful shitshow's latest stream of interest to anyone here: CriticalDrinker aka Will Jordan aka That's Probably Not His Real Name Either discussing his foray into the funnies

I mean, it's a comic either way but to the FNT audience it's also basically YouTuber merch. These are the same people buying the FNT / Drinker plushies (yes, those are a thing).

Unlike Shad Brooks or Eric July, Critical Drinker doesn't actually have any ownership of Rambo or stake in the project and therefore has no incentive to use his platform to campaign for it beyond intangibles like bragging rights or culture war cred.

... the preview alone for Jordan's A NEW KIND OF WAR looks heads and shoulders above the other 'Iron Age' outings like Isom or SotQ.

William 'Critical Drinker' Jordan is like, a proper person though, isn't he? From his Amazon page:

Will Jordan was born in Fife, Scotland in 1983. He is best known as the author of the RYAN DRAKE series of action thrillers, and for his YouTube alter-ego, THE CRITICAL DRINKER, amassing well over a million followers and quickly becoming one of the most popular movie critics on the internet. Having always enjoyed a passion for storytelling, he began writing short stories from a young age, eventually moving up to full-length novels and the publication of his first Ryan Drake novel in 2012.

Seems like he's an author-turned-Youtuber, more than a Youtuber-turned-author. I remember him saying he has like an agent and an editor for his properly-published, though entirely pictureless novels.

Presumably he would break all crowdfunding records if he did something on his own! Look at the YT sub counts:

1.49M subs - Critical Drinker
0.506M subs - Young Rippa
0.420M subs - Brandon Sanderson

Rippa pulls down a few mill on his first go... Branderson made, I believe, around eleventy majillion on Kickstarter....
So by my calculations, this little Scottish Billy Jordan could crowdfund... threeple-eleventy monjjllion, of Scottish pounds!!?

And probably the only reason he doesn't, is because he's making EVEN MORE privately!
Holy moly, he must be minted. The cunt must be absolutely minted!

No wonder Gary wants to get right into his pants!

 

[Yosha]

Drinker is at least producing something. He's still writing his novels, even with all the Youtube money. Now he wrote a comic and is also making a short movie based on his character from the novels. Can't say the same for the other FNT guys, who are basically Collider, but instead of prasing everything, they hate it, but still pay for it and give Disney their money. Methrodic is really fighting the culture war this way.

 

[Ike Aim]

William 'Critical Drinker' Jordan is like, a proper person though, isn't he? From his Amazon page

Maybe? I dunno. I'm just fucking with him because Will Jordan is a cool name. It's a great name for an author and a streamer or basically anything and this dick wants to be "Critical Drinker" and spam 4chan with a photo of him pulling on a bottle of Jack with the cap still on? Come-out as "Will." He's already come out as gay...

Spoiler: Eachann Archibald Bruce 'Will "Critical Drinker" Jordan' Donoghue Mac Duibhshithe IV

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

Can't say the same for the other FNT guys

Gary is the one who annoys me about this the most. He has said a few times that he has ideas for comic books, but they'll never see the light of day because of reasons I cant recall, but I do remember rolling my eyes about them since even then he had the money and clout to get a decent artist (before the CG bridge was burned anyway), he could have done like Shad and hired a team for it, but no.

All the big name guys in this sphere who are creating something were already creators before they began their youtube ranter carrier: The CG big boys are industry professionals, Rippa was doing his music, Critical Drinker already had books out, hell even Razorfist was drawing (and trying to pitch to DC that went nowhere) and was in a band before. So if people wanna art they're gonna art. I would find it a minor miracle if any of the FNT regulars would produce something.

 

[Pilule Noire]

Guys I've just been guffawing my way through this article and I simply had to share:

My Cartoonish Cancellation
https://www.chronicle.com/article/my-cartoonish-cancellation

Some highlights:

But in 2020, we were all “sheltering in place” because of the pandemic, and I was teaching on Zoom. The students Googled Robert Crumb before I could say much to contextualize his work. They immediately raised their voices in protest. Quoting from what they read, they insisted that Crumb was a “racist” and a “misogynist.” One student cried out that he had been accused of rape. Several insisted that showing any of his work was “hurtful.” They said I was “harming” the class.

I was taken aback. Comics are fundamentally a provocative medium, and Crumb is a provocative artist, but I didn’t think I had shown an especially offensive image. Crumb and his work have been the target of both high praise and bitter criticism for years, but before that moment, most of the students knew nothing about him — and seemed unwilling to question what they had read about him on the internet. Moreover, Crumb is a central figure in the history of comics. He can’t be written out of the books.

...

As I searched for particular comics covers, I forgot that I was sharing my screen. The students watched as multiple images flashed by, images I planned to share later in the semester. One of them was the cover of Young Lust #5 (1977), featuring a Red Guard couple in a suggestive embrace.

LMAO! This article is TOO MUCH FUN and LOTS MORE

After that class, the students began a private group chat called the R. Crumb Hate Corner, with a customized banner featuring Crumb’s face with “Punk bitch” written across it in red letters.

One of these students sent me screenshots from the Hate Corner throughout the semester. It soon became clear that the chat was not about Robert Crumb. It was about me. The “haters” were watching me carefully, waiting for me to slip up so they could add ammo to a document they were preparing, “Complaints Against Phoebe.”

This past May, a year and a half later, I received an email from an investigative reporter for The Michigan Daily, a student-run paper. She invited me to respond to a list of allegations against me, including: failure to use trigger warnings, exposing students to racist material, misgendering students, and demonstrating that I was a racist by confounding two names. Also included was an inflammatory accusation from someone outside the university who claimed I had kissed them on the forehead and whispered in their ear, “You are a dog.”

Where did such charges come from? Some were rooted in truth, however ungenerously construed. Early in the semester, after showing the Crumb image and before learning everyone’s name, I had apparently mixed up two students with Hispanic surnames. A screenshot from the R. Crumb Hate Corner claimed that this faux pas was inexcusable and proved that I was a racist. I’ve been working on a project in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, for 15 years. This allegation was so far from the truth that I could barely make sense of it.

Another day, I inadvertently misgendered a trans student, whom I had known the previous semester when they used a different pronoun. I immediately apologized. Screenshots followed.

I also invited several comics artists to class. One of them, Casanova (Nobody) Frankenstein, an acclaimed artist and author of In the Wilderness, ignited the students’ ire. He gave trigger warnings before his presentation because he uses racial caricature in some of his work. He is Black. He was “owning” white-racist caricature, subverting it. Students challenged him about this and also about his depictions of women. He explained his thinking and his process in great detail. The students remained incensed — and let him know it. Frankenstein was stunned. I apologized to him.

His visit generated another complaint to the administration. The students were offended by Frankenstein’s work. They were also offended that he had been vaping nicotine (while Zooming from his own home, 2,000 miles away!). One woman wrote, “Never in my 4 years at studying in the University of Michigan have I been more displeased.”

The article, “Daily Investigation Finds Allegations of Microaggressions Against Comics Professor,” was published on June 25, 2022. It is a hit piece, and I won’t dwell on it here, except to address one of its more sensational charges: that I had kissed someone and whispered “You are a dog,” which was especially unfortunate, and entirely untrue. “Asa,” as they’re called in the article, was not a student at the University of Michigan, but an established cartoonist with no ties to my university. I had chosen them as a participant in a summer-2021 residency in Florida. But they were expelled by the director after allegedly making disturbing statements to several people, including that someone there was “going to die.”

The reporter refused to contact two professors, both cartoonists, able to refute the “You are a dog” allegation, asserting that I might have groomed them to speak for me. I hadn’t. These two professors had attended the residency, witnessed Asa’s behavior, and suffered Asa’s abuse. They were willing to speak and had plenty to say.

I’ve drawn the images in my previous books with pen and ink. For my current project, I constructed miniature scenes and photographed them. Frustrated by my physical distance from the place and the people I’m writing about, I began building parts of Ciudad Juárez in my studio. I built replicas of houses I had visited, trying faithfully to reproduce interior and exterior details. The floor of my studio was covered in sand. I constructed dolls to populate the streets and buildings. The process of making all these things made me feel closer to the story. It was something of a spiritual ritual; I was recreating a particular place as it appeared at a particular time, and I no longer felt so distant. I could walk the streets of Anapra day or night, because they lived with me.

The professors had been sent a brief description of the work along with two or three images. Based on this material, they voiced concern that “the miniaturization or infantilization of the Mexican body through the use of dolls could be trivializing and upsetting to some people”; they “worry that the scenes depicted might reinscribe negative racial stereotypes.”

 

[Ike Aim]

Guys I've just been guffawing my way through this article and I simply had to share:

My Cartoonish Cancellation
https://www.chronicle.com/article/my-cartoonish-cancellation

Entire article is a must-read. Great find.


Simpcast

Last night's Simpcast was pleasantly above average, with CG's very own Cecil making the scene (aprox. 1:14:47) as well as appearances from nearly all of the ensemble show's deep bench of whores (including Anna TSWG (aprox. 1:19:47) and Mandy Summers). Both panel and guest played to each other's strengths, effortlessly conjuring a daring synthesis of the masculine and feminine energies not seen since Prince Rogers Nelson and Sheena Easton - Boy versus Girl in a World Series of Love. Fan-favorite autismobimbo Aston Birdie descends further down the spiral (aprox. 1:29:16) or ascends further up the pole, depending on your point of view, having now become an OnlyFans hot tub streamer since this Kiwi last checked-in. In this stream she did her part, but alas spent an inordinate amount of time barely articulating a cogent thought and awkwardly fidgeting with her bikini top in support of her personal brand: mentally disabled Babe in the Woods. Perhaps it was merely an extension of the provider instinct that this "show" elicits and exploits, but by the time she departed the stream there was a palpable and unironic sense of concern emanating from the chat over her absolute state. As if there were a clear and present danger that she might drown in that hot tub at some point. Not from foul play or drugs or whatever. Just, you know, forget to not try to breathe under water. Or maybe she'll randomly electrocute herself. Or get murked by one of the no doubt growing list of strange men on the internet who take her vulnerable, troubled naïveté for attainability.

aprox. 1:30:00

Ashton relates in detail having her "Britney moment" aka her new calling to use her life to act-out tragic Tori Amos song lyrics and someday, maybe end up on the back of a milk carton.


Anna briefly nopes the fuck out. Even Mandy and Cecil (who goes quiet!) seem to realize there is something rather uncomfortable if not concerning happening here to young Ashton.

On the subject of babes, from the mouth of one came later some great insight into a topic near and dear to the CG community as of late: Adolf Hitler. Carmaxia - some dumb slut whose screen name is derived either from the planet she believes she's spiritually aligned with or the used car dealership chain where her dad bought the flood-damaged Ford Crew Cab pickup she was conceived in - gave a marble-mouthed, barely-comprehensible (but not wholly inaccurate) assessment of the Nazi leader's failures in prosecuting Germany's war in Europe whilst also contrasting it with America's own ambitions to empire-build. The inspired commentary on German's "big mansion living room" that wasn't "gone about strategically" was nearly derailed by Cecil's (which is also Jon's) perennial bad habit of not shutting the fuck up and thus interrupting a stupid person (usually a female) who is about to say something stupid / embarrassing / scandalous. Contrast this with Chrissie, being a professional comedian, instinctively grasping the insanity that's about to go down and seeks to draw it out instead of stealing the spotlight for a retarded zinger:

aprox. 3:29:19

Jeux sans frontières, CarMaxia. Jeux sans frontières.

 

[Fleetwood]

RE: this article on Phoebe Gloeckner here's an archive link that is easier to read https://archive.ph/2R0yT
and archive of the hitpiece mentioned in it https://archive.ph/GCUMR
Although it has to do with cancel culture, comicsgate this ain't. Comicsgate hates degenerate subversive lewd indie comics too. Plus if they ever acknowledged the underground such as Crumb and his compatriots then comicsgate would have to acknowledge everyone has been able to make their own comics themselves since at least the late 1960's and without crowdfunding and multi year waits. The article shows it's really a shit situation when you have the microaggression side canceling from one end and the puritan no degeneracy people canceling from the other side. The students in the article aren't learning anything except how to rat on people and backstab their way to the top.. too bad they are woke, or they would be perfect CG'ers!

 

[Rodeo Roadrunner]

The simpcast is exhibit #3067 on why women can't be comedians and aren't funny.