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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 256 23.9%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 459 42.8%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 229 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 385 35.9%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.6%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.5%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,072
Mola Ram said:
Critiquing is easy. Creation is fucking hard.
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It's why I laugh at colleges that offer classes for professionals in "innovation". Like, I get how to foster good ideas, but someone needs to have one, and nobody can teach you how to do that. That's why they say hindsight is 20/20.
 
Not A Bunny said:
And then he came up with his own stories, and well...yeah. There's a reason why he's not a famous studio writer, and it ain't because of some connection with Ben Shapiro.
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It's not that Drinker is so great, It's that there's so many nowadays who are writing that are clearly worse than him.

(Seriously whomever wrote Rise of Skywalker should be banned from writing utensils for life.)

Drinker has at least admitted where he had missteps in reviewing his old stuff. It's why the best writing advice I ever heard was from this by Brandon Sanderson.
 
Flexo said:
It's not that Drinker is so great, It's that there's so many nowadays who are writing that are clearly worse than him.

(Seriously whomever wrote Rise of Skywalker should be banned from writing utensils for life.)
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I've almost completely soured on the whole ragebait YouTuber set precisely because they create nothing; they cleave to zombie IPs because it makes them money. The Nerdrotics, the Quarterings at the high end; the Disparus somewhere in the middle; the Doomcocks at the nadir. I can still tolerate Drinker because at least he's trying to create something unique.

(Shadiversity is a special case. His AI-brainrot is terminal. Further, Shadow of the Conquerer was absolute dogshit.)

And this is one reason I maintain affection for RLM: despite their origin story in the Plinkett reviews, they've never become part of the ragebait parasite set and just talk about whatever happens to engage them, be it bad movies or old favorites or whatever trash is in the cinema this week.

Flexo said:
Drinker has at least admitted where he had missteps in reviewing his old stuff. It's why the best writing advice I ever heard was from this by Brandon Sanderson.
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I have never heard Sanderson speak before and I am now worried for his health.
 
Mola Ram said:
I've almost completely soured on the whole ragebait YouTuber set precisely because they create nothing; they cleave to zombie IPs because it makes them money. The Nerdrotics, the Quarterings at the high end; the Disparus somewhere in the middle; the Doomcocks at the nadir. I can still tolerate Drinker because at least he's trying to create something unique.
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I listened to Nerdrotic's entire interview with Eli, and he is at least humble enough to admit he is just kind of a court jester. Disparu at least acts like he is having fun.

Otherwise I prefer the more thoughtful ones like Jedi Brooks who will do side by side scene comparisons. Retroblasting is at least an informative bundle of autism (who else will go into detail on the alterations to Indiana Jones outfit over the movies?).

And cirtical drinker at least praises stuff that he enjoys and does well as much as he rages at anything.

Mola Ram said:
(Shadiversity is a special case. His AI-brainrot is terminal. Further, Shadow of the Conquerer was absolute dogshit.)

And this is one reason I maintain affection for RLM: despite their origin story in the Plinkett reviews, they've never become part of the ragebait parasite set and just talk about whatever happens to engage them, be it bad movies or old favorites or whatever trash is in the cinema this week.
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That's why I'd put Drinker the same as RLM for the reasons you point out. The biggest difference is that we don't get shows of Drinker hanging out with friends, losing their minds with laughter at some on screen insanity.
 
Mola Ram said:
RLM's weakness has always been writing. They're the sort of filmmakers who focus on camerawork, editing, and other various bits of craft that make a film student's heart go pit-a-pat, but when it comes to the actual story being told, "serviceable" is all they're ever looking for and even that might not be a requirement. You can see this in their disdain for continuity (or "lore," a word I've come to despise), in how they brush off concerns about occasional plot holes, and how they talk about "the language of cinema" but never actual, ya know, language.

They very much strike me as the sort of filmmakers who would happily start shooting when their movie consists of just an outline and a few scenes, and I tend to doubt there's one among them who could turn out a decent screenplay.
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They are exactly what I would imagine the minds behind a local outfit that makes commercials for local businesses would be. Technically competent, even accomplished, but totally lacking in any other aspect of artistry beyond the visual.
 
After all is said and done, do we have a post-mortem profile on Jack?

He has been sober for years and I congratulate him on that achievement. He has some annoying behavior in some early RLM and Pre-Rec streams, but I attribute that to his drinking.

A Youtube comment on a Pre-Rec stream reads as: "Jack is so obnoxious and grating." and I agree. He could sometimes be unpleasant.

Apparently nowadays he has hitched his wagon to Ben Croshaw. Okay...

Rich Evans had to drag Jack kicking and screaming into the concept of playing PC games with a keyboard. Apparently Jack had never touched a keyboard before the age of 30. And as of 2018, when Pre-Rec ended, Jack insisted on playing PBUG with a Wii nunchuck controller. He is an idiot.

At the end of the day, I think we got a guy who was literally born on a farm and didn't contact civilization until 2005ish. No experience with computers, no experience with computer games, His wife Lisa has a thick-as-pigshit Fargo Minnesota accent; the epitome of a retarded Canadian farmgirl.

Bonnie MacFarlane (for all her faults) was born in the Canadian arctic circle and she sounds like a normal American.
 
Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo said:
Jack was insufferable to watch. He's one of those DSP tier retards who skips all the tutorial prompts and then immediately goes "I don't know what to do."
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He had his moments on Best of the Worst, I have to give him credit. "WAKE UP DICKHEADS, IT'S TIME FOR FAUST!" still tickles me, and he was always funnier than Josh in any event. So is a kid with leukemia, but still.

Pre-Rec was a misbegotten failure in nearly every aspect, so it's hard to know how much to blame on him, but it sure wasn't nothing.

RIP Harlack, 19XX-2025.
 
Mola Ram said:
He had his moments on Best of the Worst, I have to give him credit. "WAKE UP DICKHEADS, IT'S TIME FOR FAUST!" still tickles me, and he was always funnier than Josh in any event. So is a kid with leukemia, but still.

Pre-Rec was a misbegotten failure in nearly every aspect, so it's hard to know how much to blame on him, but it sure wasn't nothing.

RIP Harlack, 19XX-2025.
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Faust is probably the best Jack episode, his reaction to the tit puddle and everything including rape saving the day was perfect.
 
Mola Ram said:
He was generally at his funniest when he was sloshed, which, uh, says something about his problems.
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Twice in my life have I met people who had no personality while sober; the disappointment was like that in the Michigan J. Frog cartoon.
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Madison Grant said:
My favorite Jack moment was when he said everyone should be required to provide ID to post on the internet because he was tired of being called AIDS Moby, and only retracted that opinion because it would also hinder gay people.

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jesus he really is a dumb motherfucker
 
My single biggest complaint about AIDS Moby is that he draws well-earned hate away from beardfat. Anywhere on the Internet you find a contrarian defending beardfat, they act greatly offended once you ask if they're him.
 
Madison Grant said:
My favorite Jack moment was when he said everyone should be required to provide ID to post on the internet because he was tired of being called AIDS Moby, and only retracted that opinion because it would also hinder gay people.
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he can't refute any of rich's immediate comebacks, i think the aids ate away at his frontal lobe.
 
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