that makes me realize that I'm going to miss Cynthia's recaps because no one else is masochistic enough to watch and report back.
honestly was she really that bad? this was a Nick tier burning bridge, she seemed to have learned her lesson on the chris account. when we dogpiled on her for playing devils' advocate the first dozen times she took it in stride.
90% shot its this, idiots forget to switch to a higher bitrate. its why netflix can look worse at 4k than 1080p, the bitrate can bes higher when looking at a 1080p video
sex toys he uses on his wife.
IIRC he said about the Knoxville trip that he didn't go on vacations with his wife without the kids since the last kid was born (5 years) meaning presumably they didn't have a sex field kit until early 2019, also how fucked are they that they can't handle less than a week without an entire field kit? I'm pretty sure not being at home and away from the kids would/should be enough to get them hot beyond needing "toys"
Yeah the problem is that he represented himself as a devout Christian that has an active part in his church, to include teaching Sunday school. So while in hindsight it's very easy to say "lmao he was always a degenerate lmao," that doesn't jive when we had literally no evidence of that degeneracy and significant evidence to the contrary for years.
If we can be honest with ourselves nick and dick both told us lies we wanted to believe, basically they were not degenerate sinners like the people they covered and they could walk through the kingdom of lolcows without being ones themselves, being e-celebs that were more similar to kiwifarmers than lolcows. Covering the freaks and giving their commentary was their version of being a farmer. They were better versions of Null, not only could they mock and gossip about lolcows but they had fulfilling lives, with family, hobbies, high incomes, important careers, etc. You could spend hours a week obsessing over this crap and also be amazing people, instead they were just liars. i do not doubt Nick was a fuck load more vanilla but as far back as the youtube killstream days Nick was both dickguarding hard and had blackout drunk streams. if this Eric July shit happened in 2019 he'd be doing the exact same shit.
Honestly even without the swinger stuff just from Nick defending Vito and Riley we'd still be calling him a degenerate even if he was keeping up appearances with the church. we'd assume the worst of him chatting with the leathery local women and people would be joking about hedo 2 even if he didn't actually go there. Honestly loving Dick is the biggest tell that he was a degenerate beyond everything else and is proof he always was. the main reason no one believed it was us lying to ourselves. Simple as.
Rewatching that stream might be worth while now that I know Nick is full of shit too.
you should PPP was literally right about everything. i remember @suicide2020 badgered
@Captain Manning into admitting "Nick has changed/nick lied" after the 2nd time PPP was a guest.
had this asinine and obnoxious objection to people making money on the Internet.
The way him and godwinson described why made sense. In theory once you start making money online your fate is sealed to become a lolcow, because now that its your job you have to do crazier shit and you'll eventually get worn down into being a lolcow. PPP and Godwinson have certainly shown their asses once they had to rely on the internet for money. And Nick's alcohol intake was probably exacerbated by those superchats demanding he drink, the fact that Nick's highest earning day was also the worst day of his life seems like a story straight from the bible as well. Zidan was able to get away from it all because he didn't have to rely on streaming for an income, meanwhile Ethan's fate is to spend the rest of his waking life streaming because he can't work a regular job. Jarbo was flagging people because he of the stress of producing shows for an income (supposedly) and led him to say things he didn't mean or keep thoughts to himself about various subjects because it would hurt him financially when he truely was more entertaining and charismatic in the leaked discord calls. Warski was literally lighting himself on fire for $2 superchats because he needed that money so badly. the need to keep up an e-celeb career is probably the biggest reason lolcows are still lolcows covered by this site. if Wings or DSP or Boogie was doing videos as a hobby instead of needing the income to survive they would have stopped a long time ago.
And i'm just focusing on lolcows in this sector. podcast hosts admit to burn out rather quickly and enter into a "going through the motions" mode where they make shows because the need to vs having anything to say that particular week. You can't tell me your estimation of a lot of celebs didn't go down once you heard they were doing some bullshit "remembering a tv show episode by episode" style podcast. Even patreon podcasts, the episodes pre-quit your dayjob levels of cash always are better than the episodes where they're super rich and don't have to worry about anything ever. Shane Gillis old testament episodes of his podcast was a fuck load more raw honest and hilarious than every episode of his podcast post-snl cancelation where he just talks about how wonderful being around celebrities is.
Hell you could even make the argument for Chris Chan too, once the internet threatened to take away the tugboat after the rollin and trollin video he ended up right back to making videos and ended up in some of people's favorite trolling arc, but if he just got a job he probably would have socialized a bit more and stayed away from the internet and moved on with his life. a lot of his most obnoxious antics of the 2010s is from him having to shill his creations online and being desperate for money but not enough to get a job.
Kitchen. Nick gets more obnoxious when he has a prop to wave around (usually food or drink). He takes sips/bites to punctuate his thoughts because it provides visual emphasis and makes him appear more cavalier and "in control" in spite of his shaky hands.
Nick also gesticulates and is prone to swaying dramatically in and out of frame while in the kitchen as if he were giving a stage performance. Nick then becomes visibly in love with his own words, as he often did while doing toasts, and his speech becomes increasingly segmented and patronizing.
Maybe it's also because Nick is looking down at the camera, but his confidence makes him say really dumb stuff (with less alcohol than the hot tub streams). It's also where he shares his success stories about coming out ahead over the bottom-barrel KFers and PerceptionChek.
Also, the kitchen is also where Nick eats pasta right in front of the camera, where he looks the most alone, and where he pretends to be the most "real".
We should be thankful he didn't think to himself about how much he loves the way he acts in the kitchen streams and decided to have a standing desk streaming show nightly. that would have led to him drinking a lot less and the fans would have loved having every episode be a performance.
honestly surprised its that close, most comic book shops closed down in the 90s, meanwhile you can buy manga anywhere books are sold, that plus continuity lockout meant everyone was picking up Naruto #1 vs batman #9000 i also wonder what percentage of those comic books are the graphic novels or collected issues of classic stories vs sales from current titles.
ore like 12x the size of all superhero comics put together in the United States
that makes more sense, gun to my head i wouldn't have been able to tell you where to buy a comic book in the 90s in my hometown, i bet most kids outside of college towns or major metro areas have a similar story. pretty sure there wasn't even a place. Even if there was i doubt kids would be paying $3 for 24 pages of a quarter of a story. I'm sure most superhero book sales are stuff like watchmen or batman year one or other known stories from the titles maybe an omnibus. no one is rolling the dice on titles. I know maybe one guy that reads comic books and he picked up the hobby in college and is currently 35 but is an old school 35. the rest of us could just go to any book store or the library or even our public school if we wanted some manga, even 20 years ago there was an entire long aisle in every book store. every story in comic books going multiissue and the fear of continuity lockout also kept me from buying in.
Its straight up a "you reap what you sow" for me, manga being so much more accessible while comic books felt like trying to jump into a soap opera and its no wonder most people under 40 prefer anime&manga to comic books. you want to read all of Eren Yeager's story you just start at book #1 and proceed to the last one you want to read all of Star Lord's story then you have a whole reading list of nonsense you need to special order and it will cost you a fuckload more. the fact that characters can change so much because writers shift depending on the issue doesn't help nor does having the plots not being connected to each other and an expectation of stories and plots being loose enough that "anyone can jump in whenever" and the whole "status quo never changes" feel to comic books make everything meaningless. Mind you these aren't even modern complaints, Marvel in the 1960s was set in real time to do away with stuff like a non-changing status quo. but once they got brought up it became as bland as DC. Frank Richards has been a child for 55 years.
