TGWTG "Nostalgia Critic" / Doug Walker, Rob Walker, Mike Michaud, Mike Ellis, Holly Christine Brown, et al - The Incompetent Predator-Protecting Upper Management of Channel Awesome, Doug Still Not That Funny

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Battlefield2142EU said:
Doug Walker is better at reviewing newer movies than Red Letter Media. The last few RLM feels like Mike having a midlife crisis.
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Is RLM Mike's job? Doug can retire tomorrow and coast off his wife's money, I think that would stave off depression.
 
Foltest said:
Hollow man is a movie I know about, but never saw.
Saw it in the film store all the time when I was a kid. Glad to see that I did not miss anything of worth.
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I remember seeing the trailers for it as a kid. I watched it for the first time last year when it aired on television. Not a bad movie, but not something overly great. It just an okay movie to pass the time on a weekend afternoon.
demicolon said:
Is RLM Mike's job? Doug can retire tomorrow and coast off his wife's money, I think that would stave off depression.
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Mike is an alcoholic who has zero responsibilities in his life.

Of course RLM is his job.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
Alternative ending to that time Linkara tried to “school” Doug over the Bat credit card.
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The only other response I’ve heard to Linkara’s debunking is that to make the Bat Credit Card as practical as Linkara claims, it would require so many hoops to jump through to ensure that Bruce Wayne isn’t discovered to be Batman (or at least an associate), that suspension of disbelief even by comic book logic is stretched to the limit.

Or one way I’ve heard it: “the only other place you’d see a bat credit card is in the 60s show. And even then it’d be treated like a joke”.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
The only other response I’ve heard to Linkara’s debunking is that to make the Bat Credit Card as practical as Linkara claims, it would require so many hoops to jump through to ensure that Bruce Wayne isn’t discovered to be Batman (or at least an associate), that suspension of disbelief even by comic book logic is stretched to the limit.

Or one way I’ve heard it: “the only other place you’d see a bat credit card is in the 60s show. And even then it’d be treated like a joke”.
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The problem is that while what he said is true, it doesn't apply to this case. The real reason why he went that route is because he couldn't say what he really wanted to say. It isn't out of the realm of the fictional Batman universe that Bruce Wayne would setup some infrastructure to hide his identity while utilizing the assets he has. Look at all the weird ways people have been successfully doxxed online over the years to see what I mean. Just acquiring equipment for himself would leave behind a trace to who he is.

The bat credit card though doesn't make sense in concept because it would leave a digital trace back to him that anyone could investigate. As was demonstrated in that rant, Batman could literally just carry cash on him when needing to buy something. That makes more sense than the credit card, the credit card doesn't make sense logically the way Linkara described it serving a purpose.

The point that Linkara really wanted to make I feel is that while the whole subject of bat credit card is campy and ridiculous as a joke for the movie, Doug's whole joke about it isn't that funny because it is just him screeching the words "Bat Credit Card!" over and over again. Lewis however couldn't say that he found Doug's joke to be an overreaction because he hadn't at that point in time decided to burn the bridge he had with Doug yet. So naturally he had to downplay that the concept of the credit card itself wasn't ridiculous to begin with.
 
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