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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Patreon Update:

Our epoxy mold came out great! Although this is a trial and error kind of thing so we're going to redo it. We need more silicone rubber to make a thicker and deeper mold. There were some gravity related issues where the mold and the epoxy mixture settled in weird spots giving this thing a sort of warped shape with some weird edges. We also were trying to some how fit the debris from all 109 tapes (or whatever it was) into the one mold. Our first attempt was to burn the VHS tape... which worked really well, but the ash polluted the epoxy mixture and gave it a cloudy brown look. Our next attempt will be just the magnetic tape, pieces of nukie boxes, and shredded up plastic bits and springs and screws and all that junk. The epoxy mold will be clear with nukie chunks floating in it. Suspended forever! We will update soon. This whole process is being documented...stay tuned!

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I've recently started watching their stuff and it's fantastic, but I feel as though I've become schizophrenic since now I see RLM reaction images everywhere.
Also, Patton Oswalt is an unfunny faggot who murdered his wife.
 
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IT remake review one of the most underrated Redlettermedia episodes. Also ignoring the fact, I never met anyone on the political compas who sees Travis Bickle as a bad guy for killing a pimp and saving Iris in real life outside of Twitter users. He was an anti-hero who meant to be sympathetic towards the audiences, the same way the punisher and Dirty Harry are. Is it just me or Jay coming across as someone who might be a weirdo in real life? People make fun of Jack. But aids Moby at least has a social life and friends outside of the Internet. Jay finds random user reviews and makes fun of them on Twitter while making himself look smarter by using screenshots of strangers online as a strawman. This behavior reminds me of awesome people.
 
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IT remake review one of the most underrated Redlettermedia episodes. Also ignoring the fact, I never met anyone on the political compas who sees Travis Bickle as a bad guy for killing a pimp and saving Iris in real life outside of Twitter users. He was an anti-hero who meant to be sympathetic towards the audiences, the same way the punisher and Dirty Harry are. Is it just me or Jay coming across as someone who might be a weirdo in real life? People make fun of Jack. But aids Moby at least has a social life and friends outside of the Internet. Jay finds random user reviews and makes fun of them on Twitter while making himself look smarter by using screenshots of strangers online as a strawman. This behavior reminds me of awesome people.
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Eh... I'm not picking on ya' but Travis Bickle is not a hero. Nor is he truly an anti-hero. I would say he's neither of those things. He's just a dude pushed to the brink. Lest I remind you that he tried to kill a politician then for no other reason then because he could and to get back at the girl he loved?
 
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IT remake review one of the most underrated Redlettermedia episodes. Also ignoring the fact, I never met anyone on the political compas who sees Travis Bickle as a bad guy for killing a pimp and saving Iris in real life outside of Twitter users. He was an anti-hero who meant to be sympathetic towards the audiences, the same way the punisher and Dirty Harry are. Is it just me or Jay coming across as someone who might be a weirdo in real life? People make fun of Jack. But aids Moby at least has a social life and friends outside of the Internet. Jay finds random user reviews and makes fun of them on Twitter while making himself look smarter by using screenshots of strangers online as a strawman. This behavior reminds me of awesome people.
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Harry Callahan has a coherent worldview and philosophy, Travis Bickle does not. A sympathetic character, yes, of course. Empathetic more so, but nothing much of a anti-hero. Travis killing the pimp is because he is an easier target than the politician, not really seeking justice like Harry would be doing in that situation (he wouldn't shoot a guy in the stomach without at least some sense of a threat. Maybe drag the pimp by the hair and through glass, but straightup killing). Harry is an anti-hero because he has a genuine cause he believes in, a moral compass he follows, and a sense of his own justice and logic to what he does, nevermind what society thinks of it. Travis has none of that. It is a guy looking for a cause to fight for to exercise a violent urge many of us have.

Paul Schrader's films (and Taxi Driver is more his film than Marty's) all involve flawed but very human protagonists. The final scene almost always involves a dour murder. It is usually justifiable- except for Auto-Focus- but it is never some act of rationality. Affliction, his best film, has two murders, and they both come out of that same desperation that Travis' killings do. Do the people deserve it? I suppose one does. But is it warranted in that scene? Not really. Nick Nolte's character in Affliction is a lot like Travis. They both want to be the centre of problems so they can fix them, but neither fit that role. Nolte makes up a conspiracy in his town, he believes it somewhat, but he misses the forest for the trees, in his town and in his own life. Affliction is a great companion piece to Taxi Driver, well worth a watch.

I don't see either protagonist as a good guy or a bad guy. They are human.
 
I admire their homemade recording booth, they build simple but effective things. There's got to be some kind of Star Trek design or color scheme they can put on the booth to make it more autistic.

if no one beats me to it I'll make the gif of Rich throwing the plastic wrap ball at Mike.
 
I didn't expect a RLM video to show me that Mewgenics is going to be a real game, I figured Edmond McMillen was just milking Binding of Isaac for the next few decades
 
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