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TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve said:
The Beatles Lost Cartoon Episode which is insanely bad and incredibly amusing, probably the most condensed good-bad story they've read. Then Jane the Killer is another classic
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I would agree with these except the Beatles one, that one reads like a parody to me. It takes lines verbatim from Squidward's Suicde, which is another good bad story.
 
FILTH Tourist said:
I get the impression that Meat might be the more well read one. Like I don't doubt Wendi has read more books and read or watch a lot of opinions about those books. But he treats it like a checklist. Like beating dark souls just so you can say you beat it to other people online, Wendi just goes though the Reddit top 10 just so he can say he read it. Him rereading The Road is a perfect example of this, he says he is rereading it with the new found perspective of fatherhood. But Tonka is still getting used to breathing air when he started rereading it, Wendi is not engaging with the book with his own experiences bringing up a good kid in a crazy world, answering hard questions about morality and explaining to them why bad people exist and bad things happen. He just wanted the checkmark of reading the book as a dad so he did it as soon as he physically could and doesn't actually take much away from the book. Meanwhile, Meat probably just causally reads shit that catches his interest and either engages with the book on it's level or drops it because he is not impressing anybody.
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You're right. They're different kinds of well-read/well-versed/well-watched. Goon was pre-med, and to be competitive you get used to completing long lists of things that you couldn't give less of a fuck about, but you have to do them regardless. Basically he sees a list of media in an infographic and treats it like xbox achievements, because that's what he was trained to do in school. That in itself isn't a problem, but it becomes a problem when you treat every media like that. He's too busy focusing on soaking in the information than soaking in the subtext. He's good at parroting back factoids as a result of this.

Meat's a typical art guy. He doesn't give a fuck about anything that's not within his interests, but he's intimately familiar with anything in his wheelhouse. Plus I think he's just a little more emotionally intuitive than Goon is.
TerminalTryHard said:
To be fair he played one interesting game, and indie horror game inspired by Junji Ito.
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World of Horror? Or Maniac: An Infinite Gaol? I haven't watched shit on his gaming channel other than the Backrooms set thing.


TheMonkeyMan said:
One of my favorite funny-bad stories is Camp Oakwood but long story short- it doesn't get funny-bad until chapter four out of five.

I only listened to a YouTube clip compilation of Happy Appy, it wasn't hard to get through but I didn't think it was that funny-bad. I don't think I'll ever listen to the full version.
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Don't ever bother with the long-form Happy Appy. It was 4.5 hours of my fucking life I'll never get back. I half-listened to it while grinding out dungeons in Romeo is a Dead Man and hated everything beyond the first 90ish minutes. It hit a high point early on with the 9/11 portion, but it never recovered. It was so bad that they weren't even having fun with it, they were miserable. Meat kept wanting to bail and scrap the episode but Goon kept pressing to finish (kinda harkens back to my previous points about their personalities).
 
TheMonkeyMan said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8p2j2cuTi5o
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The wife in the first half of the first story annoyed me so much that I started getting mad. Her archnophobia is so overdone that it stops being a reasonable fear and feels more like she needs to be sent to a mental hospital. Wendi's attempts to relate to the wife and make it seem more possible also fall flat. You had a dream where someone was throwing spiders at you? Cool, did you wake up screaming and scratching at your face to remove the imaginary spider?

The second story, however, was really well done. I'm glad that the author ended it where they did and didn't feel the need to make a second part where the MC returns to figure out what's going on in that forest. Or tried to add some cult that worships the spiders and sees the spider-girl as their god and instead just left it as a fun short story.
 
Capgras Delusion said:
They're different kinds of well-read/well-versed/well-watched. Goon was pre-med, and to be competitive you get used to completing long lists of things that you couldn't give less of a fuck about, but you have to do them regardless. Basically he sees a list of media in an infographic and treats it like xbox achievements, because that's what he was trained to do in school. That in itself isn't a problem, but it becomes a problem when you treat every media like that. He's too busy focusing on soaking in the information than soaking in the subtext. He's good at parroting back factoids as a result of this.

Meat's a typical art guy. He doesn't give a fuck about anything that's not within his interests, but he's intimately familiar with anything in his wheelhouse. Plus I think he's just a little more emotionally intuitive than Goon is.
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Your view of goon seems spot on. I don't agree with your Meat canyon interpretation, it seems a bit charitable, to me he's a basic dumbass. Not nearly as smart or interesting or as artistic as he thinks he is. Smarter than some dumbasses but still a dumbass.
 
"I explored an abandoned white supremacist camp" god help us.

First story was kinda predictable. Did this guy also write the roleplay story? Felt like it hit many of the same notes, but with less subtlety.

Second story was carried by Wendi absolutely losing his mind over the thought of spiders. Think this story could have used a second draft that suggested the dad, in all his years of research, strongly suspected that his daughter didn't truly die, but never found the courage to go into the forest until the protag came around. As it stands it's mighty convenient they found something in there cause it felt like they were running the gauntlet for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Not like you couldn't see the twist coming from a mile away, anyway.
 
Carbonic said:
The wife in the first half of the first story annoyed me so much that I started getting mad. Her archnophobia is so overdone that it stops being a reasonable fear and feels more like she needs to be sent to a mental hospital. Wendi's attempts to relate to the wife and make it seem more possible also fall flat. You had a dream where someone was throwing spiders at you? Cool, did you wake up screaming and scratching at your face to remove the imaginary spider?

The second story, however, was really well done. I'm glad that the author ended it where they did and didn't feel the need to make a second part where the MC returns to figure out what's going on in that forest. Or tried to add some cult that worships the spiders and sees the spider-girl as their god and instead just left it as a fun short story.
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I liked both stories, but Goon's constant overreaction to the spider parts were getting annoying, especially in the second story. I felt like even Meat was getting tired of it too and seemed ready for it to be over, he was mostly just responding with short half-sentence quips to Goon's attempts at jokes. Hell, he even didn't bother voice-acting in several spots, just reading the line out without any emotion, made me laugh.
Edgeymcedgename said:
Your view of goon seems spot on. I don't agree with your Meat canyon interpretation, it seems a bit charitable, to me he's a basic dumbass. Not nearly as smart or interesting or as artistic as he thinks he is. Smarter than some dumbasses but still a dumbass.
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Maybe I am being charitable, but I just like the guy's content and I've followed him for a long time. I vibe with his humor and while I don't usually watch "this thing is the WORST" type of slop, I watch his because it's usually funny and self-aware of what it is. He's doing the slop to fund bigger things, like the shorts. His short films, especially the Discord mod one, are some of the best content being put out on youtube right now in my opinion. If nothing else, I respect his passion for horror as a horror nerd myself.
 
Carbonic said:
archnophobia is so overdone that it stops being a reasonable fear and feels more like she needs to be sent to a mental hospital.
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I guess I'm the retard, cause I thought a phobia was the irrational fear of something.
Edgeymcedgename said:
I don't agree with your Meat canyon interpretation, it seems a bit charitable
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That's because you've got an outsized hatred for the guy over his gay virtue signaling opinions. If you didn't watch his solo content and get so worked up, you'd at least be able to admit he and Goon are similarly dumb.
 
Rick The Stick said:
you'd at least be able to admit he and Goon are similarly dumb.
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If anything, I think Meat has some IQ points on Goon. He had a point there with the spider centaur prophecy thing, but Wendi was too stupid to get that there’s a big difference between playing with big spiders and turning into a Monster Musume waifu and you could feel Meat decide it wasn’t worth explaining. Also, Wendi was apparently too retarded to realize the girl grew up into a spider-woman in the years that passed and somehow thought she just stayed 7 forever.
 
Rick The Stick said:
opinions. If you didn't watch his solo content and get so worked up, you'd at least be able to admit he and Goon are similarly dumb.
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Wendi isn't a Genius by any stretch of the imagination. Also yeah I stopped watching CC because I don't want to hear the fat faggot who dosen't even believe in God tell me who is and isn't going to hell.
I just think the dumb nigger that was homeless for a time dosen't understand anything. Where as Isiah probably understands some things.
 
Rick The Stick said:
you'd at least be able to admit he and Goon are similarly dumb.
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No, they are dumb very distinct ways.

Meat is dumb as in he is a degenerate safe edgy libshit with retarded political opinions. He is definitely an acquired taste but he can be funny at times.

Wendi is dumb in a pseudo intellectual autistic rube way who likely hears "Bless your heart" directed at him at least five times a week. He also might be too trusting and gullible to a fault as seen with the crypto drama. He can be funny and charming, but his head has gotten too big over the last few years.
 
When they were going over exposure therapy for arachnophobia I really started squirming in my seat. Looking at pictures, videos, spiders in a cage, and holding one, that all makes sense to me, I remember the specific video I watched that helped me get over mine, but what the fuck does listening to spider noises mean?!

"Oh yeah, I think I forgot to mention, I have some kind of dementia by the way" and "Y'gay or something""Uh yeah" both made me laugh really hard. I liked both stories pretty well overall. Probably the most effective ones they've read as far as actually being scary goes, at least for me, since it was a nice mix of relatable arachnophobia coupled with some solid body horror. The only other one that came close was The Hidden Webpage with all the scrambled/incorrect memories since that's a pretty specific fear I have

Also, if you've never done it and want to get a little spooked irl, definitely do the thing Wendi mentioned about shining a flashlight into the grass at night before the dew sets in. It's legitimately unsettling. I first noticed that to be the case when we first started getting frost on the grass at night last year. I'd always assumed dew like he described, but once the frost started setting in I knew it couldn't be dew and it just clicked for me that it had to be spiders. There had to be thousands if not tens of thousands of spiders everywhere and this was when their population would have been low because it was getting cold
 
Jose Beaner Luna said:
Everything went downhill after icebergboy put on that 80's pornographer goonstache.
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You mean his William Bonin stache?
 
Korpon said:
Makes me wonder whether he's going to do more videos on Cormac McCarthy books and, if so, which one. Suttree would make sense considering it's set in his home state (even if he's not from Knoxville).
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Can't see the original video, but hope no one in current year does a Blood Meridian film, it would absolutely cuck out and make the Indians and Mexicans as entirely victims who dindu nuffing.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Can't see the original video, but hope no one in current year does a Blood Meridian film, it would absolutely cuck out and make the Indians and Mexicans as entirely victims who dindu nuffing.
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Absolutely. McCarthy was executive producing a film adaption for it before his death (which as far as I'm aware is still in the works), which was really disappointing to see considering he should know they could never do it justice (and he specifically wanted it to be a film and not a miniseries etc. for the "epic" feel of the book). It's something that needs a few decades before we get better filmmakers who aren't pussies/agenda driven to make it. Or give it to the Japs and have them do an Akira style animation for it, that would be the best way to do all the graphic violence and gore IMO.

Seeing modern discourse around the book is really funny, I remember seeing someone say "erm why do the Delawares join in on killing the Comanche and other tribes? Aren't they all Natives???" They really don't understand shit in their bubble.
 
Korpon said:
Absolutely. McCarthy was executive producing a film adaption for it before his death (which as far as I'm aware is still in the works), which was really disappointing to see considering he should know they could never do it justice (and he specifically wanted it to be a film and not a miniseries etc. for the "epic" feel of the book). It's something that needs a few decades before we get better filmmakers who aren't pussies/agenda driven to make it. Or give it to the Japs and have them do an Akira style animation for it, that would be the best way to do all the graphic violence and gore IMO.

Seeing modern discourse around the book is really funny, I remember seeing someone say "erm why do the Delawares join in on killing the Comanche and other tribes? Aren't they all Natives???" They really don't understand shit in their bubble.
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The only way you can make the film in current year is AI. No modern actor will agree to either dress as an Indian for the savage parts, or if he is Indian to larp as some rival tribe that existed 200 years ago.
 
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