I find it really weird how Vinny has to thank all American military personnel for their 'service' twice
Well if there's any group to be doubly thankful for, it's the people in uniform. They protect the freedoms we enjoy even if they are of differing opinions.
All y'all getting triggered over them saying Pewdiepie is a fuckwit missed the whole conversation about Dan checking multiple stock apps everyday. I'm closer than Dan to Vinnie in my portfolio and that makes me truly scared. P.S. A Disney employee making vaguely antisemitic jokes shouldn't be a martyr about getting dropped from his very conservative employer ffs, and should maybe realise you make business with the most blue-chip company and they might drop you for being a fuckwit.
It's not about him losing his contract with Disney. It's about taking things out of context and creating a lie for clickbait purposes. Guess you missed the point, huh?
@owack6: What did the WSJ say he is? More importantly, what did the GBE guys say he is?
Alex didn't decide anything, he gave his opinion. Youtube and Disney already made their decisions.
Just because there is some more context to Pewdiepie's jokes that the WSJ didn't include, does not change this whole story. In fact it doesn't change much of anything. I still have my views that what he did was shitty, and you still have yours.
That is incredibly ignorant. Context does matter. Part of their "proof" was a clip where he watches 'Jesus Christ' say "Hitler did nothing wrong," (which btw is offensive to Christians more than any other group because it's portraying a literal God-figure of a religion as a Hitler supporter) . PewDiePie didn't make the clip! He found it on the website and someone else paid the Jesus character to say it. I repeat; HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. The thing that PDP paid Jesus to say was totally irrelevant to this entire matter, but that's not how it was reported. Just because you drive by and see a car wreck doesn't mean you're responsible for the car wreck! That shouldn't have to be explained... The clip where he was wearing a Make America Great Again hat taking a light-footed jab at Trump and Conservatives, or at least the perception of them, is not even anti-semitism. That's anti-conservatism. Another clip they used as "proof of his anti-semitism" was from the video specifically about how context matters, and at the end of the video he dresses in a (British uniform wrongly reported, SURPRISE SURPRISE... as a) SS uniform and watches a Hitler video because at the end of 11 minutes it's clear he's mocking them for clickbait journalism and making hitpieces. The entire videos is about the slander taking things out of context. Watch the video:
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Now tell me that this is proof that he's a Nazi. If you're telling me that context doesn't make a difference then you're.. well, you're clearly why these stupid character assassinations work and why honest journalism is mostly dead. And before anybody tries to make any connotations to that statement and Gamer Gate, STOP. I am in no way referencing that.
Now if the Wall Street Journal was to report on my post, they would say "Gamer Gate Truther Defends Anti-Semitic Youtuber."
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@changingshade "It's a shame people are complaining about the Pewdiepie segment of the podcast without actually quoting any of it (or at least not in context)..." Wow, you totally sound like that racist anti-semite PewDiePie. See what I'm getting at? Misrepresenting and attacking with disregard for the facts is terrible. Now if you're looking at the Beastcast segment, imagine being PewDiePie, where essentially MSM has turned the entire world against you so that they had some clickbait.
With that said, I am incredibly disappointed with the Beastcast and their mention of it. That wasn't a half-sincere apology in that video. It becomes clear they drank the koolaid before watching the response video seen here:
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I get it, Vinny's a bleeding heart and immediately turns in horror at anything taboo, but his persecution of PewDiePie for his response video was completely unwarranted and was garbage. Vinny believes that Wall Street Journal is the voice of God and is completely virtuous. They're not. It's disheartening to hear Vinny sit there and approve WSJ for using a picture of PDP raising his arm as proof that he's a Nazi/anti-semitic, etc. when the picture they used had nothing to do with anything or any offensive jokes. PDP is never allowed to raise his above chest level and point at something because WSJ might swoop in and take it out of context as proof he's a Nazi? And that's his fault? Are you serious, Vinny?
No victim has ever been without sin so for Vinny to get "really fucking annoyed" by PDP for pointing out just how slanderous and intentionally wrong those articles are is asinine. PewDiePie is the victim of slander. If they were honest they would just link to or show the entire videos and not use pieces out of context to prove their point. If their story was true the whole clips would stand on their own.
And then to even mention his clickbait thing of shutting down his alt channel at 50M subscribers. That's more evidence that he's a racist? Which btw, at this point Vinny is spitballing because now he's using that as proof that PDP cries wolf at the media. That's pure fiction from Vinny.
Also, they say "we see just how little Disney and Youtube are actually willing to put up with." No, that's pure nonsense from the crew. Disney and YT were willing and happy to put up with his "anti-semitic" jokes for months even after it hit small news outlets and they saw it. It was only when pressured with this big hitpiece by WSJ where the mainstream media was going to pick it up and run with it did they actually care. They didn't care about the jokes; they only cared about their image. They are large corporations without a moral center to care about racism, anti-semitism, etc. Which btw, back when Disney corporation actually did have a moral center, Walt Disney, that moral center was the biggest anti-semite. Disney hated Jewish people. That's the hilarious poetry to (I believe) Alex's wrongful statement about these businesses and further proof they truthfully don't care what actually happens only their image.
Disney and YT are justified cutting PDP. Not because of what he did when it gets taken out of context, but they can do whatever they want because they are businesses and they can do whatever they want. It's their prerogative.
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Were some of PewDiePie's jokes a bit much? Yeah, probably. The "Kill All The Jews" sign as if it were Keemstar saying it was in poor taste by most standards. Does that make him a bigot? No. Is WSJ right in their article? Absolutely not and I hope he sues and wins against them for defamation. Slander and misreporting of facts is terribly destructive. You want to know why everybody is angsty and it seems like we're on the edge of WW3 or the apocalypse and everybody is acting like everything is always on fire? Because of BS like WSJ and clickbait, hitpiece journalism.
I can not say this enough: it's important to get both sides to any argument and then decide for yourself where the truth lies because all sources have a bias.
If anybody wants to respond with rational thought please feel free, but if it's going to be a blatant dismissal of the points I bring up then don't bother. There's enough blind hatred out there already.
@tpoppapuff: I think there is a reason for why no one ever quotes Jackie Brown. I wouldn't say the dialog isn't memorable but it's not as punchy and quippable as his other movies.
Fair enough but damn it's an amazing movie. There's a level of heart to it that simply doesn't exist in other Tarantino films.
As an Illinois resident I say with complete confidence that the entire midwest absolutely does not call them stocking caps. They are stocking caps if they have the ball on top otherwise they're a beanie.
I've never heard the term toque before, but it sounds like a Northern/Canadian/Alaskan thing. Considering its Wikipedia page, it does appear to be more of a french-Canadian origin.
I don't think anyone under 40 aside from Dan calls a hat with a propeller a beanie.
The only Tarantino movie I don't really like is Jackie Brown.
That's my favourite Tarantino movie!
(I like every movie he's made)
It very well may be his best. Certainly his most underrated. Everybody talks about Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction but when was the last time you heard a Jackie Brown reference?
The last segment is usually my favourite but this year it fell flat and I think it's because of the format change. Instead of having a big list of 50 games and whittling it down to 10, starting with no games and building it to 21 before cutting it down just means a tonne of games don't get discussed. And as @brad said towards the end it felt like much more time was spent discussing what place the games get on the list as opposed to why those games get on the list and what makes them so good, why they deserve to get there etc.
While the old method does lead to people cutting into other games flaws and weaknesses I think it promotes a better and more passionate discussion.
Why is Doom coming up for story of the year? If I have someone who only plays 3 games a year and they only care about interesting stories, the last game I'm going to point them to is Doom. Also, Uncharted 1-3's story sucks now? Asinine. They hated Uncharted 3 for some damn reason and willfully play dumb to the story of it which is the reason UC4 while great was wholly unnecessary. They attained the same level of storytelling in UC4 that they had already achieved prior. And it was already openly inferred that Drake wasn't his real last name in, you guessed it, Uncharted 3, the game none of them paid attention to. I don't know how much more of this I can take. Every day listening to has caused dry heaving; it's that bad. We get it; everybody likes Doom. Doesn't mean it should win every category including ones it's not even eligible for like story. Just make a Campaign of the year category so we can stop the desecration of Story of the year.
EDIT: Finished Day Five, Jeff pretty much says exactly this. GB needs a campaign of the year. Something like Doom is not the story of the year.
Where the hell is Modern Warfare Remastered? Did they actually completely forget the most popular online game right now? Between this and the last two days awards, I'm losing my mind. And at this point in my listening Brad has yet to inevitably hijack an award that he always does once a year. I love GB, but these entire awards have been a giant shit show so far.
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