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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

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    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

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    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

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    Votes: 27 2.5%

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    Votes: 541 50.4%

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    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
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Armageddon said:
From the descriptions:
>Hi, today we are talking about Salt Vampire. In these dark times of The Acolyte thirst posts and 4th of July fireworks hurting my ears, we bring to you a kind a simple video. A pointless video really. A video that won't get the views of someone yelling into a microphone about a Star War, but to us it's important.
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Look, I found the actual salt vampire.
 
PyrrhicRustle said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vkqXLLg0VZwShort vid about the Salt vampire from TOS. Will update when I watch more. They got the mold used to make the mask.

Mike and Jay both look Gray. They also got a reel with original film from the show, and are trying to figure out what it is exactly for a future video. As indicated by the thumbnail and title, they’re using the mold base they bought to try to make a replica for themselves. Some neat shots of Jay working on it.
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Nice palate cleanser of a video, we get to see Rich do more handiwork & fuck around with priceless props which is always nice. Also, apparently the stuntlady and actress who suffocated inside the Salt Vampire costume, Sandra Gimpel, is still alive and even more impressively, still working.
 
PyrrhicRustle said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vkqXLLg0VZwShort vid about the Salt vampire from TOS. Will update when I watch more. They got the mold used to make the mask.

Mike and Jay both look Gray. They also got a reel with original film from the show, and are trying to figure out what it is exactly for a future video. As indicated by the thumbnail and title, they’re using the mold base they bought to try to make a replica for themselves. Some neat shots of Jay working on it.
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These boomers are so checked out.
Mike: This episode was from season 1
*20 seconds later*
Jay: What season was it from?

Funny that after lecturing people about starving children that their follow-up video is about how they've spent a bunch of money on useless props.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Hackfraudmedia was a channel that clearly got sick of RLM not making reviews of the sequel trilogy, so he went at Disney Wars in that format. Problem is, he has a day job or something since he quit making content.
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Isn't he the guy that did reviews in the Plinkett voice as Plinkett's son or some such?
 
Flexo said:
I actually think this is happening because of copyright and DMCA lockdowns.

Was discussing this with a friend about how when we finally sat down and watched the untouchables, it felt like we had seen 3/4th of the movie already because it had been referenced and parodied in pop culture so much we just knew the film even if we hadn't seen it.

Nowadays.... what was the last thing you saw referenced outside itself? Superhero/Marvel is about it. I know the companies hate it but IMO by locking down and blocking people from making memes and references to stiff they are preventing things from spreading to new generations. Especially those vultures who will grab IPs and then just squat on them for a few bucks.
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Popeye's situation is quite different: the show/character was all over the place until the late 80s, when his shorts got pulled from the last place airing them (TBS) and Popeye And Son flopped. He soon pretty much vanished off the face of the earth save for late night airings on Cartoon Network and later, Boomerang, where the Popeye airing blocks became less for normie kids and more for adult animation lovers and the colorized shorts were phased out for the black and white ones.

Adding to it is the issues with which version actually sells: the Popeye everyone cares about is the cartoon version, not the comic strip version from Thimble Theater. That's the chief reason the Popeye movie flopped HARD and has such a negative reputation. Even Fantographic, who released the original 30s strips in book format, had to give them smaller than normal production runs and has dragged their feet over reissuing them (meaning most of the books go for $200-500 a pop).

Finally, Popeye is a bit old fashion and hammy in it's morals. The whole "eat your spinach to make you strong" always came off as parental propaganda to make kids eat spinach even though spinach is horrible, but healthy. Brutus/Bluto is your typical thug written by people who got bullied by people like Brutus and Bluto in high school. Wimpy is a parasite and a mooch. And Olive Oyle is so one-dimensional helpless that I'm surprised that more people don't fanwank the idea that she's a sociopath who explicitly puts Popeye and Bluto/Brutus in positions to fight over her for her own sick twisted pleasure.
 
PyrrhicRustle said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vkqXLLg0VZwShort vid about the Salt vampire from TOS. Will update when I watch more. They got the mold used to make the mask.

Mike and Jay both look Gray. They also got a reel with original film from the show, and are trying to figure out what it is exactly for a future video. As indicated by the thumbnail and title, they’re using the mold base they bought to try to make a replica for themselves. Some neat shots of Jay working on it.
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The film reel sounds like regular footage from the show. Mike said there's no audio track, which is a shame, but Star Trek fans could probably get something out of it.

Also I personally like when they do regular film things, like making props or explaining the set creation. Reminds me they're actual film makers, not just morons on the internet... well, they're more experienced morons on the internet.
 
Not to go all Trekkie on everybody but the The Man Trap has some favorite moments of mine in the series, like when Bones starts mooning over his old love interest, who was married to the scientist stationed on the planet that turned out to be the salt vampire's home. Bones starts slipping into a reverie over the girl who got away from him and Kirk snaps at him for doing so while they have a dead crewman to deal with, and he wants answers, and it's not Angry Ham Shatner, but a more coldly angry Kirk . Of course, they both apologize to each other some time later.
 
Is Mike now fatter than Rich? Regardless, Rich still wins in the ugly department thanks to that hairline, though if Mike ever grows a moustache he'll look like a 70's child rapist.

Be like Jay, don't be fat and don't watch Star Wars.
 
McMitch said:
Rich confirmed for bone conduction headphone gigachad.
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Aren't they great? The sound quality will never be as good as some high-end in-ear or over-ear headphones, but they're so versatile. And they usually come with earplugs for when you really need to get more out of the sound.

Flexo said:
By far the best way to watch Star Wars now is auralnauts redubs. I really hope they get to the acolyte.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zwLccJOMTX0
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My favorite Auraulnauts bit
 
Privilege Power Hour said:
Forget Baby Hitler, if you had a time machine would you go back in time and kill Baby George Lucas so you never had to deal with Star Wars discourse ever again?
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Killing Star Wars would have dire effect on the timeline pop culture-wise.

No Star Wars means no Star Wars toys. Star Wars's toy line revolutionized the action figure industry with the advent and popularization of the 3.75 scale and affordable vehicle playsets that were made affordable due to them being made for 3.75 figures, killing Mego and the doll sized toy scale. Which in turn means no GI Joe 80s revival, which in turn means no Transformers since Transformers was inspired by GI Joe and how Hasbro worked with Marvel to create the lore/character details for GI Joe.

No Star Wars means Star Trek doesn't transition to the movie format; at best Star Wars Phase 2 happens instead and that gets canceled after a couple of years and since Spock wasn't part of Phase 2, his character becomes permanently written out of ST lore and we don't get the Khan/Search For Spock/Voyage Home trilogy and the pop culture milestone that was Spock's death in Khan.

No Star Wars means Carrie Fischer never becomes a go-two script doctor, who famously rewrote on the downlow, a lot of Hollywood scripts for big budget movies. Also, no Mark Hamill means we get stuck with Tim Curry in full "I hate being typecasted" mode as Batman the Animated Series's voice actor for Joker, where he does the character with an absolutely dire sounding Brocklyn accent.

No Star Wars means, that there is a good chance Marvel Comics might have gone out of business or got bought out sooner by an evil corporation as the Star Wars comic book series was an immediate hit for the company that was in dire financial straits in the late 70s.

StarkRavingMad said:
I missed their Kenobi video (I was literally too busy at the time--I was taking care of a literal newborn around the time Kenobi came out haha).

They ... Liked it? Man, maybe they do need to start going to AA meetings ...

For me, the first time RLM had what I thought was a horrible take was when they were saying good things about the 4th Matrix movie (which is one of the biggest, most obnoxious pieces of dogshit I've ever watched). The 4th Matrix is such pseudo-intellectual garbage. If the soyface were a movie, it would be the 4th Matrix.
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I can't hate the Matrix 4 because A. it undid the shitty ending for Neo and Trinity that the third film had for them and B. The creators of the Matrix managed to make a meta film about how Warner Brothers made them make the film lest someone else do it and rape the franchise and did a good job incorporating it into narrative as far as "This film shouldn't exist" and finding a reason for it happening, which is to say to give Trintiy and Neo a legitimate happy ending, which is something most revivals refuse to do as far as ending the film on a high note and not having completely destroyed the heroes in the name of current year politics.

indigoisviolet said:
GenX lived through Political Correctness and aggressive censorship by the Moral Majority, which is something some of you darn lawn kids have yet to experience (oh, don't fret, it's coming...) Certainly none of the social critics on YT have the first clue what's attached to the pendulum when it swings back. The classic 90s example was a Bill Hicks routine being censored on Letterman because the commercial break contained a big spending pro-life account.

RLM is trying to avoid taking a side in a corporate-generated illusionary culture war because they have already lived through two of them. They know it's marketing bullshit for shoddy products tempered by the hand wringing of advertisers. The closest Mike ever got was downing a bottle of vodka and flipping off the accusation that you hate women if you don't give money to Ghostbusters 2016, and that's not nearly crossing a picket line.

Bill Hicks 1993: "Comedy in the States has been totally gutted, it’s commercialized. They don’t have people on TV who have points of view, because that defies the status quo, and we can’t have that in the totalitarian mind-control government that runs the fuckin’ airwaves. I can’t get a shot there. I get David Letterman a lot. I love Letterman, but every time I go on, we have tiffs over material. They love me, but his people have this fictitious mainstream audience they think they play to..."
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The religious right getting power was a faustian bargian the right made when they were in dire straits and currently, they are in the backseat bitch position to the populist wing of the right in part because the moral majority is why the left got so much power to begin with due to them ceding the culture war rather than fighting it to keep the left from gaining a monopology on it that allows them to do much of the evil they currently are able to do.

Also, RLM reek of the kind of lefties who desperately WANT to go back to the 90s if not mid-00s ala Malcolm McDowell being willing to burn entire solar systems to the ground in order to get back to the Nexus and the fictionalized version of the 90s that only exists in their heads. The same could be said for Bill Hicks too had he survived to the current year, though part of me thinks Hicks would have flipped right wing purely as a survival tactic once Hollywood and the media started crucifying and blacklisting anyone who didn't suck Obama off as being the second coming once he got elected and Hicks failing to cheer loud enough to please him and his handmaidens.
 
MirrorNoir said:
Killing Star Wars would have dire effect on the timeline pop culture-wise.

No Star Wars means no Star Wars toys. Star Wars's toy line revolutionized the action figure industry with the advent and popularization of the 3.75 scale and affordable vehicle playsets that were made affordable due to them being made for 3.75 figures, killing Mego and the doll sized toy scale. Which in turn means no GI Joe 80s revival, which in turn means no Transformers since Transformers was inspired by GI Joe and how Hasbro worked with Marvel to create the lore/character details for GI Joe.

No Star Wars means Star Trek doesn't transition to the movie format; at best Star Wars Phase 2 happens instead and that gets canceled after a couple of years and since Spock wasn't part of Phase 2, his character becomes permanently written out of ST lore and we don't get the Khan/Search For Spock/Voyage Home trilogy and the pop culture milestone that was Spock's death in Khan.

No Star Wars means Carrie Fischer never becomes a go-two script doctor, who famously rewrote on the downlow, a lot of Hollywood scripts for big budget movies. Also, no Mark Hamill means we get stuck with Tim Curry in full "I hate being typecasted" mode as Batman the Animated Series's voice actor for Joker, where he does the character with an absolutely dire sounding Brocklyn accent.

No Star Wars means, that there is a good chance Marvel Comics might have gone out of business or got bought out sooner by an evil corporation as the Star Wars comic book series was an immediate hit for the company that was in dire financial straits in the late 70s.
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So no downsides?
 
Armageddon said:
From the descriptions:
>Hi, today we are talking about Salt Vampire. In these dark times of The Acolyte thirst posts and 4th of July fireworks hurting my ears, we bring to you a kind a simple video. A pointless video really. A video that won't get the views of someone yelling into a microphone about a Star War, but to us it's important.

Mike is absolutely furious over the reaction they got from their Acolyte episode. I predict they'll do another video when the season ends and that he will pull a Jurassic World unironically.
I hate to say I told you so but it must be so obvious for all you know how compromised they've become and how they're willing to be good little goys for a their kike Hollywood overlords.
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Good thread I saw on Twitter.


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