I dont think I ever watched Nostalgia Critic. What does he do ? Someone feed me the info im to lazy to look it up and crave human interaction even if its through the internet.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What I know mostly comes from the Folding Ideas video about him.

Most replayed part

Nostalgia Critic: I have become comfortably dumb.

Dan Olson: And, you know what, I’m not going to disagree. You said it, man. I don’t know if it works as self-deprecating humour because I don’t think it’s comedically true, I think it’s just true.

— "The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall", 34:28

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Doug wants to be a filmmaker, he wants to make art, but he can't, because he's a fundamentally incurious person who isn't much interested in what other people think or feel and all his ideas boil down to "What if Batman met Mario?"."

"Like The Room, it's a deeply cynical product made by a fundamentally untalented man, bored by the idea of personal growth, building so many layers of self-protective irony that it becomes unintentionally revealing."

Brutal.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I remember having to pause the video after that second bit. The piled-on criticisms, so matter-of-factly delivered, needed some recovery time. Your assessment is spot on.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I'm still amazed that video is still up, such a violent murder should surely violate youtube's content policy.

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[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He made shit videos that were like the Angry Video Game Nerd, but for movies. There was a whole "Channel Awesome" stable of YouTube video people making similar content that he ran (?) - there was some sort of small business tyrant shit going on, but I don't remember the details. He also made a bunch of terrible movies.

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for responding to me. I now can tell my therapist I have regular contact with "real" people

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only difference is James Rolfe is playing a character. Doug Walker is just being himself.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

miyazaki-laugh

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hilariously, most of the other channel awesome people have gone on to have incredibly successful careers, Doug Walker is still the nostalgia critic, and will probably continue to be until he retires.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Doug Walker is still the nostalgia critic, and will probably continue to be until he retires.

A fate worse than death

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[–] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

A streamer I watch has a redeem to stop whatever they're doing and watch the entirety of Kickassia, so I've seen that once.