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[mandatorylurk]

I don’t know if it was planned because it’s Rich, but him saying he made a career of falling upward instead of failing upward was enough to nessitate a good laugh from me.

 

[Caesare]

If someone had told Mike his stupid attempt at an old-timey detective accent wasn't funny

It sounds too much like his normal voice.

 

[Mola Ram]

Hopefully the fact they own a woodchipper will dissuade Justin Roiland from coming around.

Or Josh.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

I googled it, see if it was a line from the show or comics, but no just get links to places selling the shirt.

Is from a podcast called Comedy Bang Bang.

Josh is just that lame.

 

[urr13 account]

Fun little video, I echo the sentiment that this is one of the best things they've put out in a long time.

I think Jay deserves a lot of credit, as this feels like something that really came together in the edit.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

I googled it, see if it was a line from the show or comics, but no just get links to places selling the shirt.

It's this weird stillborn meme the left tries to pretend is a thing where they attribute woke quotes to 90's cartoon characters, usually Sailor Moon but I guess TMNT is the boy version.

 

[deeman]

Are you guys talking about Space Cop? While it surely aint a masterpiece, i don't mind it. Wow dee! Such great take! No but seriously i remember a few bits here and there and that my favorite scene was when SC killed that kid. The only LOL-moment, the rest was snickering at most.

So yeah the best Youtubers make cinema - film i've seen. wich doesn't say much.

 

[Tepes Thot]

Hopefully the fact they own a woodchipper will dissuade Justin Roiland from coming around.

Or Josh.

He was suspiciously missing in that scene….

 

[King Dead]

And seeing how the review itself was like 5 minutes out of a 30 minute video also shows how this was probably the best way to slot it in. Never watched Nukie but just those clips made sure I'd have 0 desire.

Very fun episode though and a surprisingly clever way of putting that meme to rest. I do wonder what they will do with the other copies they will keep receiving via mail.

If randos on TVTropes are to be believed (Lord knows I'm not about to try and find a source for some random RLM esoterica), Jay apparently saw Nukie as a kid, so he must have already known that it wouldn't have made for a good BotW episode, especially not a spotlight episode that its infamy would probably require. That, and it was just funnier to keep stringing people along all this time. Just a cursory search provides little info about its production, aside from that it's a South African ripoff of E.T., so there's probably not a lot of context they could provide. Maybe they could have discussed other E.T. ripoffs like Mac and Me, but if they weren't feeling it, then no sense in forcing it. And the movie itself, if those clips are anything to go by, would be more annoying than funny.

This was probably the best way to send it off. Maybe they'll keep the woodchipper around for when more Nukies inevitably arrive. They will never stop getting more Nukie tapes, guaranteed.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Are you guys talking about Space Cop? While it surely aint a masterpiece, i don't mind it. Wow dee! Such great take! No but seriously i remember a few bits here and there and that my favorite scene was when SC killed that kid. The only LOL-moment, the rest was snickering at most.

So yeah the best Youtubers make cinema - film i've seen. wich doesn't say much.

I mean, if I'm putting it up against the likes of Kickassia, AVGN Movie and whatever Logan Paul shit came out 8 years ago sure, Space Cop is "better" I guess.

This was probably the best way to send it off. Maybe they'll keep the woodchipper around for when more Nukies inevitably arrive. They will never stop getting more Nukie tapes, guaranteed.

At the end of every year they just release a video of them destroying Nukie.

 

[Pissmaster]

Aren't VHS going to stop working in a few years due to the magnetic tape failing? Having it sealed will probably buy a few more years, but those VHS are going to die.

Universal entropy demagnetizes everything slowly over time, so it'll be a gradual failing, though I've tested some random tapes recently and they all still work, especially ones that hadn't been played back more than a few times. Aging equipment in questionable condition is more of a danger to a tape than anything now. Keeping them sealed doesn't prevent demagnetization, it's just a thin piece of plastic wrapping.

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Good on them for mocking the VHS speculator's market, though. VHS is a little different from obsolete formats for video games and music because it's objectively worse than newer formats.

• HDTVs tend to have total ass for their analog-to-digital converters, making VCRs look like shit, so they're best enjoyed on an old CRT.
  • But old CRTs are heavy, and once you get up to the 27" range, they get to be too heavy for a lot of people to lift by themselves. They also rarely have handles or anything, making them just unnecessarily hard to move.
  • And CRTs are getting older, too, meaning more random failures are always possible
• Very few TV shows were ever officially released on VHS due to the prevalence and acceptance of just taping whatever you want off of live TV
• Most movies were only released in fullscreen pan-'n'-scan, despite being shot in widescreen, so the sides of the picture are always cut off. Actors tend to be zoomed in, too.
• The grainier aesthetic can work well with vintage horror films, but everything else just looks worse
• Malfunctioning DVD players just spit the disc back out, or can be dismantled to recover the disc. Malfunctioning VCRs eat tapes. They're heavily mechanical machines that pull the tape out of the cartridge and carefully run parts of the tape around its components. If any of that is too dirty, or misaligned, or damaged somehow, it can fold and crinkle the tape, which can catch it in the machine, destroying the video at that part and making it tough to salvage. If the tape itself snaps, you can splice it by hand, but that part will never work right. Here's a timestamped clip demonstrating what happens when you load your tape:

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Universal entropy demagnetizes everything slowly over time, so it'll be a gradual failing, though I've tested some random tapes recently and they all still work, especially ones that hadn't been played back more than a few times. Aging equipment in questionable condition is more of a danger to a tape than anything now. Keeping them sealed doesn't prevent demagnetization, it's just a thin piece of plastic wrapping.

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Good on them for mocking the VHS speculator's market, though. VHS is a little different from obsolete formats for video games and music because it's objectively worse than newer formats.

• HDTVs tend to have total ass for their analog-to-digital converters, making VCRs look like shit, so they're best enjoyed on an old CRT.
  • But old CRTs are heavy, and once you get up to the 27" range, they get to be too heavy for a lot of people to lift by themselves. They also rarely have handles or anything, making them just unnecessarily hard to move.
  • And CRTs are getting older, too, meaning more random failures are always possible
• Very few TV shows were ever officially released on VHS due to the prevalence and acceptance of just taping whatever you want off of live TV
• Most movies were only released in fullscreen pan-'n'-scan, despite being shot in widescreen, so the sides of the picture are always cut off. Actors tend to be zoomed in, too.
• The grainier aesthetic can work well with vintage horror films, but everything else just looks worse
• Malfunctioning DVD players just spit the disc back out, or can be dismantled to recover the disc. Malfunctioning VCRs eat tapes. They're heavily mechanical machines that pull the tape out of the cartridge and carefully run parts of the tape around its components. If any of that is too dirty, or misaligned, or damaged somehow, it can fold and crinkle the tape, which can catch it in the machine, destroying the video at that part and making it tough to salvage. If the tape itself snaps, you can splice it by hand, but that part will never work right. Here's a timestamped clip demonstrating what happens when you load your tape: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KfuARMCyTvg:380

The big saving grace of VHS is how easy it was to record videos, especially for children. You basically got a capture of the cable tv in those tapes, which is far more culturally significant than whatever content they needed to record in the first place.

This doesn't happen in those VHS films, and I bet the millennials and zoomers behind the speculation market have grown in the DVD era so they think that the shit quality was the sole reason why people look friendly on the format.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

The big saving grace of VHS is how easy it was to record videos, especially for children. You basically got a capture of the cable tv in those tapes, which is far more culturally significant than whatever content they needed to record in the first place.

This doesn't happen in those VHS films, and I bet the millennials and zoomers behind the speculation market have grown in the DVD era so they think that the shit quality was the sole reason why people look friendly on the format.

One of my most valued possessions growing up was a taped Bugs Bunny marathon my dad made for me when I was a toddler

 

[Thomas Talus]

intentionally bad movies are almost always unbearable.

The exception being UHF?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

One of my most valued possessions growing up was a taped Bugs Bunny marathon my dad made for me when I was a toddler

Mine was Beetleborgs and VR troopers recordings.

I want to add that we'll never have something like VHS ever again. Wide spread personal ownership of non-modifiable content without explicit permission from the owners is antithetical to modern "you will own nothing" and media revisionism.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

Any whining about them destroying the Nukie tapes instead of donating them yet, like what usually happens when they destroy stuff? Though I guess the charity stuff would probably make any whining seem extra retarded.

 

[Kit Marz]

I'm also glad the charities from the auction are actually real ones and not some BLM shit as always seems to be the case

I was glad they chose St. Jude's and the Humane Society. They're some of the few charities that I've felt comfortable donating to and the Humane Society is where I've adopted most of my pets. I'm glad that the bidding has gotten so high to benefit them.

 

[ShitLurker]

Aren't VHS going to stop working in a few years due to the magnetic tape failing? Having it sealed will probably buy a few more years, but those VHS are going to die.

Silly goose! They don't care, the important part is showing others how dedicated they are to consuming product and I can think of few things more autistic than a sealed and rated VHS tape.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Aren't VHS going to stop working in a few years due to the magnetic tape failing? Having it sealed will probably buy a few more years, but those VHS are going to die.

They talked about that in the video, pointing out how if you open the sealed tape to see if it works, it loses value, so you could have something that's been wiped by a magnet, like in "Be Kind, Please Rewind" but think it's worth thousands because the box is in good condition.

I did like that they sent in the fake movie to see what would happen.

 

[ditto]

I was glad they chose St. Jude's and the Humane Society. They're some of the few charities that I've felt comfortable donating to

I bet Josh was pushing for The Trevor Project.