No Critical Drinker. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM (Amazon Fallout reviews)
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The Fallout show sounds like the recent Dungeons and Dragons movie. Everyone was expecting blatant woke propaganda made purely to generate ESG Funbux. So when it came out and revealed itself to "only" be subtle woke propaganda (that still generates ESG Funbux and shits on the source material), they were pleasantly surprised. We're so used to being fed shit now that we celebrate mediocrity that would have been spat on at least a decade ago.
Reminds me of the Mario movie as it got the same treatment. Everyone was relieved it wasn't super woke. They ONLY made the Princess an obnoxious Mary Sue in just about every situation they could get away with, which is woke 1.0 compared to the crap being put out these days.
Excuse me I believe you mean Justin Whalin.
Well, yeah, but that's because Irons & Payne made it a scenery eating contest.
I think you're the first other person I've run into in the wild who knows Child's Play 3 actor's name, the legendary Justin Whalin.
What? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190374/
And you call yourself a troll.
Youngsters.
Synthetic Man's video is getting brigaded by Discord troons, as per usual when he rattles the monkey cage like he did with GoW: Ragnarok or Spider-Man 2.
I noticed, :)) Except he does not care. If the Discord troons hate you then you are doing something good.
I've noticed something on twitter: people, probably larping as fans complaining how he is always negative for example. He's said before that no one wanted his positive takes(like talk about his favorite games etc) but apparently that means he is always just negative. Obviously, he isn't perfect and his style of video would do better with even more structure but some of teh critique I don't get.
Did they not watch the Dragon's Dogma II review, right before the Fallout show vid? Synth liked that game, but that doesn't mean he's going to suck it off. About the only game he'll call an undisputed masterpiece is the OG Resident Evil 4.
And rightfully so. You gotta mention the negatives. Can't expect journalists to do their job and accurately talk about something so we are a bit reliant on people like him for that.
His Spider-Man 2 review is unapologetically based af. It’s sad to see in the comments a bunch of fags and troons try to hit him with the good ‘ol “incel” tag.
The response to his videos convinces me everyone who likes this show is a paid shill or bot. Critical Drinker can be swayed by amazonbucks just like anyone else.
The simple fact it's a girlboss yas queen slay hero who's braver than all the men in the vault tells me everything I need to know about it.
And the coalburning.
Not really. She’s also appropriately the worst in the wasteland.
Bro there's literally a pregnant woman with a fork in her eye shooting raiders with a machine gun
She's got adrenaline rage and is sweeping a gun across a crowd. It's not like they show her having pinpoint accuracy.
Critical Drinker positive reviews are 9 out of 10 bad. Is like he tries to say, see I'm centrist, I like woke crap as long as I find something I like about it. It is so predictable.
The "Fandom Menace" pure vitriol type grift has mostly run out. None of those guys are going to keep growing into the multimillion sub base they want without being a milquetoast "good boy" semi-Leftist.
None of these guys are ever going to have a take that isn't carefully cultivated around whether it gets them cancelled or not and whether the "outrage clickbait" will get them more clicks than the generic FOMO video.
That's something I've noticed, too. I recently watched some penguinz0/Moist Critikal again after a long time and holy shit has he turned into a normie Redditor.
It was all downhill as soon as he put his face everywhere.
I think it’s mostly to do with fanbases who enjoy stuff like that are just simply giving up and leaving the franchises altogether. I used to be a huge Marvel and Star Wars fan but I don’t even bother watching angry reviews online because I’m just…done with it all. These reviewers need to make money so you’re absolutely correct that they’ll eventually bend the knee to make it happen
And guys slightly more on the fence than you who are "done" are a crucial part of their audience.
Its why they always have "STAR WARS IS GOOD AGAIN?!?!" reviews for the most boring and only moderately less bad products, to pull people back into to repeat the "get angry, watch reviews to validate" cycle.
The engine does very fun things if you mess with the fps, the physic are tied to it very hard. Which is better then some old games in which the entire game is tied to the speed of the cpu...
That isn't better. It's pretty much the same thing.
I think people are watching his reviews with the wrong expectations. He's a writer and a movie buff. His complaints are almost about writing: plot holes, characterization, pacing, bad dialog etc.
I've always got the impression that he's not against The Message because of the message is unethical, but because its inclusion is almost always done in an incompetent way that fucks up something about the writing itself. If you took a non-historical IP and made everyone a black woman w/o swapping an existing character or fucking with some established lore, I don't think he'd care all that much. Same with making them all women; as long as they were written as humans and not infallible Mary Sues.
He was fawning over Blue Eye Samurai, which is "diverse whamen vs. the evil white men," but they have her fall down sometimes and picked a setting that isn't completely at odds with that story setup. That was enough to get it a pass from him.
Like has been said in other posts: the flaws he finds, he explains very well. But he's effectively blind to any woke stuff that doesn't outright destroy the script. He's not Gary or Az.
Bingo. he was totally cool with black people/elves/Hobbits in the new LOTR Amazon show. "Its horrible because of the story". I mean yeah, but even if it had a good story it would still be horrible because it had non whites in it. in reality, representation for the sake of it is just gay and try hard and box checking. And it's okay if people don't want diversity in everything. In fact it's okay if people DISlike diversity in movies, media, or real life. People really do push the narrative that diversity is OBJECTIVELY good and we should all worship at its altar.
He is quite a shit writer and movie buff then, the pilot itself got plot holes, weird pacing, shit dialog and so on. And this is without getting into original lore.
Nay, I say he is wanting to join the dying empire for success and fame, his offer is that he can bring the strays back onto the farm.
Yeah, I became concerned when he started scoring interviews with Russell Crow and appearing on Piers Morgan that he’d sell out. Damn shame too, his negative reviews were always so spot on.
I like his movie recommendations, but his show recommendations are ass.
His negative recommendations are good though. Stuff he dislikes is never good.
Amazon's Fallout is a Glorified Humiliation Ritual (by Synthetic Man )
If you want to watch the honest review.
Where is my Woke Bingo card?
lmao now that's the kind of strength of feeling we need more of. I tuned into Synthetic once when he was playing FF7 Rebirth and was put off with how mild he was and how much he seemed to be pulling his punches, but maybe that's necessary in the moment, when you've made the commitment to sink tens of hours into one of these terrible games. In light of this, I'd take his opinion over Critical Drinker any day.
Because overall as a game the FF remake is fun, but it's the story that is dreadful and he's been very critical there. He was A lot more angry at others like spiderman 2.
Critical Drinker is living proof that everyone has a price.
He was always very very careful not to offend his paymasters too much. Or why do you think he was getting mainstream bucks for all these years? People who are really critical of all the subversion and the meaning behind it have to rely on donations or obscure snake-oil advertisement to survive.
"Critics" like Drinker have one job and that is to catch all the people moving right before they start to notice too much.
The show was already discussed here, days ago. Honestly what u/SoctaticMethod1 wrote wasn't much different from what Drinker said.
This is also what I was warning about. The show is good enough that'll fly by most audiences (because let's be honest, it's not bad compared to Halo or Resident Evil shows), even Critikal did the same.
If you want to gain traction, you need to focus on the lore erasure part that a LOT of the Fallout youtubers focus on of the New Vegas and parts of Fallout 1 + 2. Basically just show how the NCR was more badass, the Brotherhood where better but in a weaker position West Coast due to the NCR and how Vault-Tec didn't drop the bombs because..capitalism.
Show them there's a better story which is New Vegas and that's why you're mad, talking about casting decisions will get you nowhere on this one.
"Adaptation" arguments are the most easily dismissed and will get you just a little. You might get them to say "yeah that sucks" at the best, but no actual outrage.
The MCU has already poisoned that entire well with people ready to completely mock you for caring about source material, in fact. If Drinker is anything like the other EFAP people, of which he is am alumni that owes much growth to, then they actively reject the very notion of an adaptation owing anything to what its adapting from.
This still isn't the WORST adaptation I've ever seen, I owe that to Disney and Artemis Foul.
I refuse to watch that film and want to erase every copy of it..
This nigga never watched Eragon. Try making an adaptation that successfully ruins nearly every single possible plotline the book has setup for the sequels entirely for brevity. And still ending with the expectation of those sequels.
Also the Artemis Fowl movie never got a physical release and was deleted from streaming years ago. So there exists no actual legal copies of it. Just for your knowledge.
I suddenly feel better with that knowledge
And THANK YOU so much, I nearly successfully deleted the Eragon film from my memory! Oh no, it's coming back! The shitty acting, the ignoring of entire story arcs, the entire end being shit compared to the books..
Ah the avatar approach
Blocked & reported for bigotry
For a second I didn't get the joke till I opened in context lol
Nah you're cool if you're the original brother, it's these fags making some lame copy of your style making you look like a waster
Hehe I've never read any of the books or watched the movie, but I needed a unique uaername and I was just watching someone ripping into the movie while registrring an account here so I used that.
There's one scene that stuck with me from that, and it's haunted me ever since.
What is the goal here? I don't care if people willingly consoom waste product. If they know they know, if they don't, fuck em.
That's how we lost cultural control, by just going 'fuck em', and not saying why we don't like it and then gatekeeping the community even against the company claiming to hold cannon.
Basically talking about woke in the Fallout show is this, rather than focusing on lore. You have a lot of Fallout fans more pissed off about the lore that it should be the main priority for gatekeeping. Any woke stuff is too low down that it'll get dismissed by the general audience, so they don't even consider the lore aspect and then Bethesda panders to that more.
Idk what 5 losers here downvoted you, but you’re 100% correct. Not bullying losers who consoom garbage media is how we got here in the first place
That's what I'm doing here, while others seem to want to protect their garbage pile. Next you guys will tell me we need to gatekeep Star Trek. Keep fighting the good fight, man.
Yeah, but you also liked the show, so I'm not sure you have room to talk here about calling shit out as the woke trash it is.
My exact words were:
And you're focusing on the woke aspects that are like one bug compared to the hive that is the lore issue.
Yeah, because the lore is for lore nerds. The woke trash part is actually the larger cultural issue.
Changing of lore is ALWAYS the first step
If you are free to change the settings and rules of a place, you're free to insert your ideology
Works in real life too..
Yeah, except nobody gives a fuck. The amount of lore nerds are going to be overridden by the general public, and be outvoted. The amount of people who are noticing patterns about casting choices (and making everything about women and blacks) are much greater.
You like a woke trash show. That's it.
When your standards are so low that it need to be literal garbage. Hmm, Does the rat care about the quality of the cheese? Or is it good as long as it gives any kicks and then can be used in the normie social conversations in order to have something safe and neutral to talk about?
its another westerners have no standards and why boycotts rarely work scenario.
It's sad that beer had more traction for a boycott than actual cultural entertainment.
Drinker is a 2010 liberal who notices feminism and thinks anti-White, anti-Christian stuff is "normal."
You don’t have the dislikes turned on for Youtube?
Interestingly, Critical Drinker got very few dislikes and Synthetic Man got an almost half dislike-to-like ratio.
Synthetic Man is in a constant state of "controversy." You can't really trust his dislikes because its almost always the legions of people who hate him for one reason or another doing it.
I've noticed that whenever a major TV show or movie releases, there are legions of bots and shills who crawl out of the woodwork to shill the new product. They'll gaslight you, claiming the show is great, that it's not woke, and that it's not lore destroying. They'll manipulate vote counts. And they'll do all this under channels which actively oppose all of this. These bots and shills usually disappear after a week or two.
This phenomenon is quite common on Youtube. I specifically remember seeing it with the new Fallout show, the recent Godzilla movie and show, and Dune part 2.
isn't he the guy who said he wants to suck on large penises or something?
That's probably Act Man.
Nope, Synth did say he likes Futa (a hentai chicks with dicks thing) on stream and want on a rant about it, still 100x less autistic then most of these other grifter tards lol
I don't understand how enjoying possibly one of the most degenerate things to exist is somehow less worse than riding the fence.
It's not good, but the rest of what he says is right so can look past it, that's what I meant.
Only if it's futa cock.
When ever Synth has any controversial takes on something popular he gets brigaded. The half dislikes to likes is common.
TLOU series and GoW were notorious, comments crying about muh franchise.
Mauler uploaded a five-hour rant on Synth when he posted his GoW: Ragnarok review and accused it of being Woke.
So it might even be people just parroting maulers takes. Wasn't mauler critical of star wars to an obsessive level? Whatever happened there?
Synthetic Man is political. Mauler tries not to be. He was critical of TLJ for being bad, not for its politics.
it fucks up brave for some reason.
well yeah drinkers got the rare reddit fags updooting his video, and the reverse for synthetic.
Are the dislikes still accessible through the API somehow? I thought they removed access.
They removed API access a while ago. The information is crowdsourced now.
https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com/
I like Critical Drinker, but I have noticed that he tends to have very low standards for something that is 'good'. House of the Dragon was 'excellent', and Dune 2 was very good, even though both were extremely cringely woke.
What is 'barely worth watching' for me is 'excellent' in his book.
I have seen the same pattern with Shadiversity.
But then again, it might just be impossible to run a Youtube account on shows and movies and then bash literally everything.
Shad is australian though, so he's extremely cucked anyway socially.
Well, as a European, I'm not one to judge. To me, he seems OK.
I find it interesting that viewers seem to run in the same channels. Offline I don't know a single person who watches Drinker or Shad or half of the weird shit i do. Then here on some random group that I don't even know how I found this place or wtf Kotaku even is, I find people who name-drop shit that I watch left and right. Whatever you are, you are my people.
And also, I think us Americans are less inclined to pull our punches when it comes to criticism about stuff. If something is just barely tolerable I've noticed that non American whites (Euros, Brits, Oceanians, Canadians) will be like "well this wasn't TERRIBLE" and Americans will just call a spade a spade "that shit was gay as fuck". I think the general pro censorship culture of other countries affects their banter even when private and online.
American (right wingers) wonder why our Canadian and NZ/Aussie compatriots are so inclined to go along with whatever the government says, for example.
Fun fact: The Brits' tendency for understatement got 600 men routed in 1951 during the Korean War.
But why are you subscribed to drinker and not synthetic man?
I got unsubbed by jewtube.
Imagine thinking an American platform is run by da jooooz.
Hey dumb troll, you do know this shit is publicly available right. Who owns YouTube - Google, Who owns Google - Alphabet, Who owns Alphabet - The creators and primary shareholders are two jews.
You are a fucking retard
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Are you retarded? You can just look it up.
Honestly man, has happened to me before. It's why I use piped or freetube, those don't delete my sub. Also the jewtube thing has been a meme for a while, lol.
Are all the Jooz in other countries? Life would be so much better
A tale of two reviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZerRToD88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiuuglRCchQ
I stopped watching the Drinker when he engaged in this one-two punch against his audience with The Last of Us Part 2 and the Watchmen movie. Both times, he either liked (or wasn't as negative towards) the subject than he knew his audience was. To mitigate the accusations of being a shill, he engaged in straw-men attacks against us.
For example: TLOU2 was him saying you couldn't judge the game unless you played it yourself. As though you couldn't watch playthroughs or evaluate leaks that turned out to be accurate.
Funny enough, Synthetic Man engaged in that very behavior with his immediately previous video on Dragon's Dogma 2. He went on a tirade regarding people complaining about Capcom's microtransactions.
I hope Synth doesn't end up turning into Drinker 2.0.
Dunno. He said the microtransactions were still shit, but thought it was unusually blown out of proportion compared to RE4 remake's equally shitty MTX.
What he did was accuse anyone upset about Dragon's Dogma 2's of not even mentioning Resident Evil 4's, not thinking for themselves and needing to be told what to be angry at.
Critical Drinker liked Ghostbusters: Afterlife. He's a shill.
TBF even he recanted on that one lol
It's the same shit as it was with then and the Last of Us series. Shiny fucking jangle keys and ignoring the violations of lore.
I'll wait for Az take.
He's a controlled shill.
There is only fallout 1 and 2. Anything else is a fucking disgusting tranny imposter. I hear this is based on 3. So fuck this and fuck anyone who likes it. CRPG fallout is the only fallout.
They already did hammerfell with daggerfall. Elsewhere, blackmarsh and whatever the fuck the high elf island was called are still unvisited. Wherever they set it, I won't be playing it because anything made by butthesda is shit.