That Guy With the Glasses/Cinemassacre Thread

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revengeofphil said:
pickleniggo said:
revengeofphil said:
Does anyone know why he would do that or is it a mystery? He did leave TGWTG a few months before.
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A bunch of tgwtg staff and contributors were on Nash's live stream for hours yesterday and no one saw it coming at all. Supposedly he was bummed about finances though. I guess that's the problem with internet personalities - you are doing what you love but you aren't seeing an income.
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Now that I think about it I do recall reading that on somebody's livestream he did start talking about one time were he did want to commit suicide, I don't remember if he said why though so it's not as totally out of left feild as we thought.
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I think that might have been on Iron Liz's? I remember she talked about being suicidal.
 
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I'm gonna leave these videos right here.
 
revengeofphil said:
Alan Pardew said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-GXdo2Ks4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxI10Nrv0wo

I'm gonna leave these videos right here.
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WOW
Just fucking wow.
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I heard about it on Project A.F.T.E.R. a little while back.

And I'm going to say that it's sick; it's wrong; it's sexist, and I believe that kid has some form of mental disability. Since I don't think no one in their right mind would make a video like this.
 
The wisdom of a guy with greasy hair, half a plastic bottle strapped to his head, playing with action figures in a crappy lit room.
 
pickleniggo said:
revengeofphil said:
Does anyone know why he would do that or is it a mystery? He did leave TGWTG a few months before.
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A bunch of tgwtg staff and contributors were on Nash's live stream for hours yesterday and no one saw it coming at all. Supposedly he was bummed about finances though. I guess that's the problem with internet personalities - you are doing what you love but you aren't seeing an income.
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The reigning theory people have as to why he offed himself is because of the kickstarter he was doing for a movie.

Supposedly his own finances were coming to a head and it was at the point where he had to choose between his living arrangement and the money he had already received from donators to make a movie.

Besides that it's likely he had psychological problems hidden underneath the happy-go-lucky personality he had. Normal well adjusted people do not commit suicide, it's likely this was just the domino that knocked all the other ones over.
 
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:pickle: Shit..... Pickle.
 
I liked Nostalgia Critic's older stuff, his new stuff just seems kinda meh to me. About the only people I watch there nowadays are the Snob, Hagan, Todd and occasionally Linkara.

I can't really stand Nostalgia Chick. Something about her just kinda grates on my nerves.
 
So Lordkat unloaded on some of his former coworkers on TGWTG in a podcast. Mostly Nostalgia Chick, Todd and Diamanda. Remember this is the guy who also did that 30 minute bit on Spoony.
Someone else compiled an imgur gallery from /tv/'s thread on TGWTG. It goes into detail about the demo reel flop and things like how Doug Walker flew out to Toronto and begged Red Letter Media to cameo with him. And how he was taken to court over demo reel since he bought an entire studio he then couldn't sell and hired actors under contract that he tried to fire.
http://imgur.com/a/xp8qy#0
 
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I'm not going to lie, but I used to be really into TGWTG. Hell, I was even in the forums for a while. I lose interest on most of the things there through I still enjoyed the older NC videos, and Brad's videos. Other then that, I'm started to be interested in reviews in a different style compared to TGWTG. The more I hear about the behind of scenes stuff, the more Doug disappoints me since he inspired me to watch more movies back then.

I haven't seen Brad's stuff in a while, so is his recent videos good?
 
I'm not a big NC fan, but some of his reviews were entertaining enough to watch when I was bored. I rarely have the time to watch them these days.

The TGWTG fanbase scares the living daylights out of me.
 
As someone who isn't strictly a fan of TGWTG, here's something that I think constitutes as a nifty historical parallel: the February House.

Per The New Yorker's review on the eponymous book about it:

In 1940, George Davis, an editor recently fired from Harper's Bazaar, rented a dilapidated house in Brooklyn Heights in which he installed brilliant, volatile artists, who spent the next year working, fighting, and drinking. Carson McCullers sipped sherry while, down the hall, the burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee typed her mystery novel with three-inch fingernails, and, downstairs, Benjamin Britten and Paul Bowles fought over practice space. W. H. Auden was housemother, collecting rent, assigning chores, and declaring no politics at dinner...Like all bohemian utopias, February House (so named because of the residents' February birthdays) was unable to withstand the centrifugal force of its constituent egos. The artists dispersed—to return home, serve in the military, or follow wayward lovers—and the house was demolished to make way for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
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So if the best and brightest of a generation couldn't hold it together for a year, how does that bode for TGWTG?
 
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I used to be a fan of TGWTG, but after reading that Imgur gallery I just fucking dropped them (except for Brad and MikeJ). Besides, I haven't gotten a good laugh out of NC since the pre-return episodes, and I just don't care enough about any of the others (again, except for Brad and MikeJ).
 
So That Guy with the glasses is shutting down officially in a few days.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/site-news/general-updates/45946-channelawesomecom

And they're moving to a new site called Channelawesome.com
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spaps said:
I used to be a fan of TGWTG, but after reading that Imgur gallery I just fucking dropped them (except for Brad and MikeJ). Besides, I haven't gotten a good laugh out of NC since the pre-return episodes, and I just don't care enough about any of the others (again, except for Brad and MikeJ).
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The ones from /tv/, reposted on the Lolcow forum? Me too.

I wonder why they're officially rebranding as Channel Awesome? They've been using that name for a few years (and probably got the domain for years), but why now? From the imgur dumps, TGTWG still makes a lot of money (a little over $1000/day) and has recovered most of its traffic. Switching names almost always causes problems in traffic and search engines, so there must be a bigger purpose for it. I'm wondering if Doug's letting someone else take over, but that site is his breadwinner and his ego is too big anyway.
 
I used to be huge into TGWTG. Got in a few months before the first anniversary brawl. It was all fun and shit. Never really got into the community. I haven't gone to the the main site in a long time. Did see the redesign though. Looks nice, but I wonder why it took five some years to get out?

I only watch Brad, Phelan, and Allison now. Used to watch Matt's output, but it seems like he's abandoned Bad Movie Beatdown. Allison has been doing Supernatural shit but I do enjoy her Baywatch series. Phelan's content is pretty funny while I'm just going through the motions with Brad's output. It's good, but doesn't make me laugh.

Also really into Red Letter Media. Their content is always excellent with a great balance of comedy and actual film criticism. A bit disappointed they're dragging their asses with the new BOTW, but it seems to be their "guest"'s fault and not theirs. Also you know, making a film does take up a lot of their time. But I can't wait for that new Plinkett that's never coming out.
 
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