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[@charlesmartinez5869]

Whew. Almost had a quiet moment to myself there. This'll stave off the silence for a good while.

[@danishcartoonist545]

Good to see we got some vintage EFAP E;R here in Part 2….. in all seriousness, I’m super happy that he seems much more comfortable to speak than he did in his first handful of appearances.

[@DrSzu]

True, too bad the guys keep bringing him on when they're mostly talking about Marvel

[@johndaybreak1317]

He is probably not that good of a speaker off the top of his head like rag is or the others

[@bruhfvdf3145]

@@johndaybreak1317he probably has the tism

[@AsrielCypher]

​@@johndaybreak1317hey it's rag''''s's

[@MegaSpideyman]

​@@bruhfvdf3145Genuinely, or?

[@thearrowhead9846]

I love that Rags turned into Old Man McGucket the minute he started talking about bigfoot

[@SW45auto]

I love maulers maniacal laugh as his nostalgia critic trap is sprung...everyone confused as why are we watching this random end of a video...then boom nostalgia critic in 30 seconds able to make a discussion go full on nuclear

[@dallayg]

kzbin.infoUgkxEiq85pRk5EMRo32Nyfp7UnXeTwpXg2In?si=YNsEiH8iDg8z-sAS

[@marinescu0511]

Just rewatched that part god that was funny. Mauler really knows how to reignite the fire.

[@RorytheRomulan]

Rags: I have a question. Meme: What's your question, doggo? Rag: I teleported bread.

[@lokiswager]

A good question, for another time.

[@TheLPRnetwork]

How?! much?!

[@spectral_force5097]

I've done nothing but glorm fleems for three days.

[@ryangallant1886]

I was the guy who superchatted the NC clip! Even back then when I kinda liked him, I was baffled by this point. I am honored to have contributed to EFAP content

[@JulianDoe]

Timestamps 0:00 ...and We're Back 1:13 A New Topic 2:33 Filmento 2:28:39 The Death Of Sincerity 3:23:50 Nostalgia Critic 3:43:54 Shifting 3:47:27 The Bad Movie Trend 5:38:31 Technical Difficulties 5:44:32 Shameless Plug 5:47:47 How Realistic Violence Ruins Movies 7:37:03 We Killed The Multiverse 9:17:30 The Vinyls & Waiting For BW

[@bashooi]

Thank you

[@noank9175]

You're doing the Don's work, sir.

[@sparkypack]

7:52 E;R's tea cup ✊💥🍵

[@ChefJollyRoger]

Awesome

[@bashooi]

8:35:10 echoes

[@Knoloaify]

The Oda quote is more about writing something for yourself VS your audience. Oda explains that he wrote a pure tear jerker, a great story, but even though it was great it didn't fit his demographic: young boys, battle manga readers. Because the story he wrote didn't have the elements that appealed to them. So he decided to rewrite it into something his readers would actually like (more action scenes, strong characters beating each other up, etc.). It's 100% not about "writing a shit story on purpose".

[@lanasmith4795]

Porque no Los Dos?

[@Zepher0987]

He seemed to be talking about the movies specifically. It honestly kind of explains why most of them aren't very good. Even the good ones (like Strong World) are mostly a retread of other arcs (Arlong Park).

[@MandilorOrdo]

Unless I'm mistaken wasn't Strong World the only one Oda worked on? But yeah I can image going from writing a weekly manga for over a decade and then switching to writing a movie while pressed for time is going to be a very difficult feat to pull off well.@@Zepher0987

[@StratNPC]

I highly expect the Oda quote to be him referring to the genre of Shonen, that it wouldn't fit the style of story he was already telling, rather than that it wouldn't be appreciated by young men in particular.

[@mrmcawesome9746]

@@StratNPC The genre of shounen is literally stories aimed towards boys and young men. It's literally the word shounen.

[@axelvoss9653]

"What would female be like with a Ghostbusters flavour," is a sentence I must devote to memory.

[@84C4]

To be fair, Starlord has lost 3 parents, one of which he killed so that does make him the Apex Orphan.

[@iivin4233]

No. An orphan must be orphagus before they can become Apex Orphan. Right now, Star Lord is just a chief among orphans.

[@mordirit8727]

I have to agree with iivin. As we learned in Tywin's video, to be the apex of an attribute, one must not embody said attribute at all. The same way Tywin had a wife, children and slept with prostitutes and that proves him the apex homossexual, we need to find someone who has _more_ than 2 parents alive. That person shall be the apex orphan

[@KouignAmann-qp7ss]

"Against the legions of Doom... we shall send... only Lewis" ~ Lewisian 10:16

[@scottski02]

"Rip and tear, until you finish that game."

[@Lunartic_]

Okay, I'm confused. Is it Louis or Lewis? Which is the official EFAP canon.

[@KouignAmann-qp7ss]

@@Lunartic_ depends if you're playing NTSC or PAL version

[@RandomCarrot2806]

@@Lunartic_ He is so powerful that he has 2 first names.

[@vaultguy8011]

​@@KouignAmann-qp7ssI'm Not a real Gamer because I have no clue at all what that means

[@itsmecid2106]

Rags' down south-gator hunter-chupacabra impression is my favorite thing from eFap this year!

[@O_Rice_0]

Hearing Filmento say "an alien world" triggered PTTD in me (post traumatic tism disorder)

[@ithewho6603]

Same. I said out loud: "Like the Vietnamese??"

[@nathanjora7627]

@@ithewho6603I mean to be fair, a communist has about as many things in common with a human as an alien would

[@electricelephant7471]

"Nothing is ever as powerful as our dreams" -GDELB

[@nodot17]

Everytime Hitop says "We" I flashback to the fresh prince of belair scene. "We?!" lol

[@sparkypack]

You got hitopped.

[@tylercoon1791]

I think of the clip from the RussianBadger video ‘Who’s we!? You speaking French!? YOU wanted to be here, I wanted in VR Chat...’

[@lanasmith4795]

​@@tylercoon1791that was some good video

[@MegaSpideyman]

I wish I could remember that.

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

Peak Nostalgia Critic confessing why he makes anything, so everything else seems better by comparison.

[@InOzWeTrust]

The best part of a prison break conecept for Scott saving Cassie is it lets you throwback to her being arrested earlier & scott getting to drop real prison experience lines as fatherly advice.

[@Victor-vx2hl]

“Not only did he move the goal post, it’s like there wasn’t a goal post, and there wasn’t even a field.” -Milbo Maggins

[@lokiswager]

I stayed up for 18 out of the 24 hours for this stream, and caught Sitch and Adam's show on sunday too lol. It was a great time, I hope every EFAP fan is lucky enough to watch an entire anniversary stream at least once in their lives. 💙 Also hi Fringy!

[@jackwhite2654]

I'd like to point out that the excitement and action in One Piece is often rooted in the characters and their emotions. There are a ton of tear-jerking moments that happen during fight scenes. It's rare for Oda to write an action scene that has no substance behind it. I think that what he is saying in his quote is that it's better to have both, than to have emotion without action. He's not saying that he'd rather write a bad story, he's saying he thinks a smaller, more character driven story isn't enough to satisfy his target demographic. So he takes the emotion and character and incorporates it into the action

[@mellowgeekstudio]

05:29:00 I just learned the word "entréee" and, as a Brazilian, I was confused since it's very similar to the Portuguese word used for "starters", "entrada", so I had to dig into it. Here are my findings: "The word “entrée” was imported from France to the United States at the end of the 19th century, by French chefs in chic New York restaurants. At the time, meals were often comprised of up to 15 courses. The entrée came between the fish course and the roast, the roast being the most substantial part of the meal. It would consist of something lighter than the roast but heavier than the fish, like chicken, lobster, ragu, or pâté. In addition, there would be things like hors d’œuvres, cheese courses, then dessert as a final course. But, in the first half of the 20th century, the American culinary scene changed. Prohibition and the Great Depression upended eating habits. Beauty ideals moved away from the curvaceous Gibson Girls, to the svelte, more exposed flappers; women wanted to be thinner. The idea that wealth was reflected in physical robustness declined. As a consequence, these lavish 15-course meals disappeared. “Meals became simpler. The number of courses shortened down to five,” explains Cathy Kaufman, independent researcher and Chair of the Board of Directors at the Culinary Historians of New York association. Why do Americans call the main course an entrée? Despite the entrée being cut from menus (along with many other courses), the term remained on American menus. Why did the French term survive? “Restaurants’ desire to remain associated with French cuisine,” said Kaufman. “The term elevates the quality of the restaurant in the eyes of the client.” So entrée lived on, but not in its original form. In the US, the entrée became the main course, and appetizers or starters became the first course. In France, the entrée stuck with its translation (“start,” “beginning,” “entry”) and position of being the course before the roast, thus becoming the first course."

[@mellowgeekstudio]

@awhellnah__ yes, that's the confusion. The quote I mentioned explains the reason for that.

[@mellowgeekstudio]

@awhellnah__ Also, I didn't take shit! Did you read my comment at all? Do you understand English? Can you read words properly? ;)

[@Nidhoggrr]

Don't really see how Vito surviving was a contrivance like that bitter man thinks. -He's super rich and can afford the best medical care -Then he's forced into retirement because of the wounds he received -He then DIES because just the stress of chasing his grandson around the garden was too munch for his old wounded body. His death chasing his grandson hit much harder than if he had just been gunned down in the streets.

[@justanotherday5833]

The youtuber in question never complained that vito dying of old age is wrong. The youtuber complained that those multiple bullets to the chest didn't kill him instantly. Being rich and having access to great medical care doesn't mean shit if he dies instantly. There's no valid reason why vito survived, it is a flaw in the story.

[@LaBigShip]

Rags' point was actually right, we just too doggie tired to explain why. The video guy asked why doesn't the director put the character in bulletproof/protective clothing. Rags pointed out timeline wise that was barely an option. Gotchu homie. Also hi Rags.

[@bashooi]

7:52 Louis got E;R for a second.

[@sparkypack]

✊💥☕

[@RorytheRomulan]

Even if Fellowship is somehow a bad movie, Frodo and Sam's journey culminating their tearful resolve to stay together gets me every time.

[@AimlessSavant]

And then frodo left. And then Sam left sometime later.

[@HectorLopez0217]

2:45:26 ironically more people in my theater laughed at just Mordo saying Illuminati because it’s a meme from a few years about how they rule everything

[@cymes82]

🔺👁 - the fact that there's no emoji for the *Eye of Horus* , despite it being this engrained into our culture , makes me believe that it's more than just a dumb meme.

[@tylercoon1791]

It’s *_MY_* sleepover, and *_I_* get to pick the movie!

[@TheKpa11]

Counter argument: Mom walks in: GO TO SLEEP!

[@slaapt]

In walking dead we started with the zombies running after people based on the merest whiff, to the point we have thousands of zombies swarming the tank in something like episode 1 or 2. Then a few seasons later having 2 zombies on a leash makes people undetectable. That's just silly.

[@666lupine666]

Mauler, Rags, Fringy, Weekend_warrior, our old friend Wolf, Chat, Metal and so many others have made this (EFAP) house an (EFAP) home, but for this 5th anniversary, I would like to recognize the special contributions of Lewis. Lewis, we couldn't have done it without you, babe.

[@masonmaliwauki3673]

“Saints and Soldiers” does a great job at creating tension and excellent character work with unexpected deaths.

[@herrikudo]

@Mooler Your timing uploading this was perfect, i was finishing the last few minutes of part one as i got the notification, i was getting worried i was gonna have to dig up the livestream vid in my notifications lol

[@faressaif4410]

This is my favorite part : /

[@bumblebee1300]

It’s good rat

[@marcthomas5949]

I understood that reference

[@TheKpa11]

Ding

[@lobalee1873]

One of the best EFAP memes! It's good rat.

[@princestarfy4098]

I’m having a hard time believing that Eiichiro Oda quote is translated properly. The primary draw to One Piece is it’s story telling. It has stupid over the top battles where badass fights badass sure, but they build up to it, they spend hours on the villains of each arch making sure the main character’s challenge is believable, and there are some of the best story telling moments in the story with dialogue about real issues. He spends multiple arches building the world and characters so you are invested in them and not just: ooo flashy fight. Idk what this quote is from but I refuse to believe it’s Oda

[@25meip]

I had thought the quote was Oda explaining that the tone of the story affects the subsequent construction of everything in it, and vise versa, not that boys like shit stories. I can't fathom how idiotic the KZbinr video guy was to explain it the way he did

[@princestarfy4098]

@@25meip Yeah but him implying he was more focused writing a story in a movie vs the tv show where it’s easy to draw young boys in with big fight scenes is crazy. The main draw of the show imo is the amazing story telling.

[@25meip]

@@princestarfy4098 "Main draw" implies there are multiple draws. It's very possible he focused on action or whatever, while also still holding himself very accountable to telling a good story. He could have told a good story without appealing to young boys, but it's impact on culture would absolutely be different

[@princestarfy4098]

@@25meip Yeah of course the action is one of the draws, but the action is part of the story telling in one piece. There are very few times where he does just big fight for the sake of big fight and when he does it isn’t good. Luffy attacking Zoro wasn’t fun to watch because we got to Luffy and Zoro, it was completely out of character for Luffy to assume Zoro randomly killed those people and attack him without question. And it was bad. But that’s the expectation to the rule. Almost every fight in the show is set up and has meaning to the characters.

[@25meip]

@@princestarfy4098 Yes, I agree with you. I'm not sure why you think I don't. One Piece has good writing.

[@KosmicVader]

6:49:37 After such gratuitous (and unfounded accusation) I rewatched that scene from The Godfather (and the rest of the film) and from what was shown on the movie, here are the facts of the matter: 1. Vito was shot at close range (roughly 6’) by two assailants wielding a pistol and a revolver. Since the shots didn’t leave exit wounds, it’s likely that they were low caliber guns. 2. You can hear nine shots in total. At least three of them missed (you can see two bullet holes in the car hood as Vito collapses and hear the last shot ricochet away as Fredo struggles with his gun), five struck him on his back: Three bullets on his left side, and two on the right. 3. Vito’s wounds are not grouped towards the center of the torso, but rather on the outward parts of the back. Only the two shots on the right side are somewhat closer to the spine and it’s very likely that at least one of them hit a lung, since Vito has a bit of blood coming from his mouth. This, plus the neck bandage he later wears and the subsequent scar tissue (possible hints of an emergency tracheotomy) would be consistent with an internal organ injury. 4. Even though he survived, the assassination attempt left Vito seriously injured. After that, he retires as a Don and spends the rest of the film on his house until he collapses coughing (which also points out to a lung injury).

[@dumdumer892]

I love that the panel took the time in the Hitop video to absolutely just shit on Raid 😂😂😂 my favorite part was laughing at the character born in a swamp possibly.

[@casternova4347]

Finally the part I completely missed. This gonna be great 👍.

[@stuartmaskell4300]

The mega gator voiceover made my day... proper pissin myself 👏

[@CapoRip]

If Tony had thought there was a real risk of anyone being killed at the airport he'd never have brought Peter.

[@clavicusvonhammar7479]

Rags: I have never seen a character take a shit in a movie. Dumb and Dumber: Bonjour

[@nathanjora7627]

Also GOT, granted it’s not a movie but surely it should count to the point at hand.

[@davidwilson6577]

The main focus of One Piece is the story. The characters and the mystery/adventure, or the comedy. The action is always in service to that, it's never the point. The classic refutation to the idea that movie soundtracks are just filler is Ennio Morricone's work in the Sergio Leone films. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly's climax is 90% in service to two pieces of music (Ecstasy of Gold, and whatever the duel one is called). The opening of Once Upon a Time in the West is an extended scene of some people waiting for a train with a piece of music playing for I think nearly ten minutes. Nothing much else is happening during that time. The music is king.

[@cymes82]

Critics being terribly off the mark isn't a new phenomenon. *Enio Morricone* was nominated for Razzie for his *The Thing* music score.

[@davidwilson6577]

@@cymes82 Off the bat, I'm guessing they'd say it was tropey and old sounding. In '82, people were probably very tired of the synth pads and the warped, acousmatic compositional, sound sculpting stuff being used in horror. Of course, you'd only hold to that for a few seconds if you had any taste to go along with the cynicism. Maybe it was a great year?

[@jaxdestroyer]

I am somewhat surprised rags didn't say at least Star Lord got rid of his ego problem in the 2nd movie at 36:23 😋

[@masterphillips]

Any mafia hitmen out there are free to correct me, but I'm guessing the only time hits are aimed at the head is when that's part of the message and not just a hit. Even the boss man of the rival gang should have an open casket funeral, or something like that.

[@zak7an2]

i swear to god if "we killed the multiverse" is another two part video where the actual points are only made in the second one and the second one is on fucking nebula im gonna lose my mind

[@zak7an2]

well its about the same level of substance as those ones so my point still stands

[@RangerRobin0404]

Scott writing a book in the hopes of inspiring others and sharing his story? What a narcissist. Captain Falcon telling the government to do better with no further context? Inspiring and brave. I hate the MCU.

[@lordoz2578]

Hearing rags lose his ludicity as time goes on is hilarious

[@theycallmemr.bigchest3203]

That Filmento video is the textbook example of a cash grab. It couldn’t have happened if he intended to do it.

[@adruvail]

I forgot how freaking melodramatic HiTop Films is.

[@adruvail]

Also, he says most people saw Multiverse of Madness because Multiverse was in the title. Everyone I talked to leading up to it was more interested in the word Madness. They assumed it was a Lovecraft reference and we were gonna get some crazy cosmic horror shit.

[@TheKpa11]

He’s a great spokesperson. I could see him along with the AI presidents on KZbin

[@danishcartoonist545]

Rubbish!!! One Piece is full of some of the most amazing tear-jerking moments I’ve experienced in any media!

[@Zepher0987]

Nothing happened.

[@danishcartoonist545]

@@Zepher0987 absolutely nothing

[@floki_vt]

I love the long dialogue that ends up calling out EFAP fans about level of engagement and attention to media. As I know I have them on in the background more often than not.

[@bobbyhill3323]

The book series they couldn't remember the name of around 5:58:00 is Malazan: Book of the Fallen, and it's pretty dope.

[@iSoulend]

There's no way the Oda quote is correct, it's simply not possible for Oda to actually mean that when the most memorable moments of One Piece are character-driven emotional ones... At worst he's straight up lying in the interview, but more likely it's badly translated, out of context, and maybe badly explained as well.

[@cymes82]

It as well can be. A lot of artists produce pieces they consider "below the acceptable threshold of quality" and just put it in the drawer or shred it , treating those as an exercise in improving their works. There's nothing wrong with reworking your past manga to become more appealing to a wider audience.

[@SFTaYZa]

@@cymes82 Yes there is Lucas.

[@LeeONardo]

When they mention novelizing a D&D campaign, the creator of Record of Lodoss war used D&D sessions to script his stories.

[@pwh1981]

Goblin Slayer is a story about a side character/npc that one would find in a D&D campaign. Not to mention the numerous other novel series based on D&D, it's a very viable medium for storytelling.

[@Wyzai]

3:07:11 I still consider "Why does everyone keep telling me that?" to be a top tier joke.

[@spectral_force5097]

In regards to what kind of stories boys like, as a kid I _really_ enjoyed Tron Legacy - and still do - and that movie has lots of emotional moments.

[@rescuehamster1734]

By Filmento's logic, Empire Strikes Back is a cash grab.

[@Wyzai]

8:58:11 Wrong take. The problem with a multiverse is not that it "restricts creativity" because it specifically does the opposite. The real problem with it is that it's a bandaid fix to a much bigger problem: your universe is broken. There is no more space for other stories because the power balance has gone off the deep end. If you create a story about Gotham. You can create a new completely unrelated story in that universe by changing the city and you can keep doing this essentially infinitely... until you have a power capable of covering countries or continents, such as Flash and Superman. Then you need to move outside their effective range to create your own story, which means you either go really small or you go really far. When you have powers that cover entire universes and multiverses like MCU, you run out of space to run to. You need to deal with the setting or quit the setting. You've fucked up.

[@CMCAdvanced]

Mauler and the gang making fun of NPC streams at the end was the highlight of part 2 for me

[@ClobberingSocks]

2:24:35 i was waiting for someone to make the joke, thought for sure it’d be Rag’s but Moriarty got there first lmao

[@elizabethlevesque6978]

4:47:38 this entire video they're watching would probably give Sideways an aneurysm. I need him to come back to the internet to give this video a piece of his mind because what even is the argument this guy is making 😭

[@MasterPhilbo]

Hitop Raimi-ing all over the place is the only thing that brings me joy in life

[@majomajo1835]

1:50:13 What kind of threat should he be? Kang was already defeated two times...

[@TheKpa11]

Lui Kang: 😞

[@cymes82]

They have basically an unlimited supply of Kangs. It doesn't need to be the "Kangest of Kangs".

[@Soubifloof]

5:34:16 rest well, E;R

[@cymes82]

SnorE;R

[@ethanbird2117]

The reason why Hightop is saying we all the time is because he got infect by venom

[@canaldecasta]

5 years of tisms. Cheers.

[@paulware4701]

2:17:00 or thereabouts: Introduce this man to the novelisation of From Russia With Love, in which James Bond doesn't appear until half way through. Or some episodes of Doctor Who in which the Doctor is only in it for a few minutes (or, in the days of Hartnell, not at all), or the episode of The Prisoner where Patrick McGoohan was only in the first and last few minutes. Or the entire third and fourth seasons of Blake's 7.

[@donsambo5488]

OH NO! NOSTALGIA CRITIC THE OFF THE EMPEROR'S GROOVE!!!

[@MegaSpideyman]

What do you mean?

[@jericho7173]

I think the problem behind the Oda quote is he writes for a genre called Shonen, which is stereotypically viewed as a teen boy genre. So him not wanting to write something for adults would go against his genre. That being said it comes across as "space wizards intended for children" whenever I hear shonen is meant to be exclusively for teen boys.

[@xolotltolox]

Shounen literally means "young boy", it is not a genre, it is a target audience

[@Abysalss]

The thing is manga magazine genres aren’t actually genres in the sense they all share common elements, they’re actually target audiences, if you write the best slice of life romcom ever but it’s from an adult woman’s perspective you’re never gonna be successful in shounen because shounen literally means target audience preteenish age boys

[@jericho7173]

@xolotltolox7626 plenty of websites and people have described it as a form of genre and or at least a category.

[@xolotltolox]

@@jericho7173 Category is correct, genre just isn't

[@urbanberndtsson]

1:00:48 Cap: "Also, are you ok?" M: "NO!"

[@Zepher0987]

The character death coin flip talk makes me think of Akame ga Kill. You couldn't get attached to anyone because there was guaranteed at least one death every arc.

[@SparkZ009]

And then speedrun kill everyone on the last arc. What a shitshow

[@Zepher0987]

@@SparkZ009 I didn't make it that far. Checked out when threadbro bit it.

[@SparkZ009]

@@Zepher0987 I envy you.

[@ithewho6603]

I need the hunting of mega-gator documentary.

[@JohnnyDoorknob]

Well, that happened.

[@RorytheRomulan]

The Only One They Fear - is Lewis.

[@nathanperquin9910]

another soundtrack that goes wild would be sountracks from later kirby games, as often they put musical flourishes in that hint at the creatures origins if thye are linked to bosses from earlier entries in the franchise. or its the music that represents the boss as well as music repersenting kirby clashing. kirby OST goes hard

[@Wyzai]

2:57:00 is that why I moved to manga? I read Reincarnated as a Slime since a couple years back but I wasn't really into the story. It was the usual happy-go-lucky isekai shlock. MC shows up, defeats the bad guy, saves everyone. Then the manga takes a turn where the MC actually causes serious consequences to everyone he cares about specifically because of his attitude and is forced to change the way he views the world. This change is actually taken seriously, without undercutting it. I've been invested in the story ever since.

[@WhiteBread221]

I’m glad meme was around to defend script man bc he does have some genuinely really good videos

[@MegaSpideyman]

What man?

[@akashnagar8694]

Was waiting for the second part

[@HalbdaemonKite]

05:58:45 I remember Record of Lodoss War doing it fairly well. 🤔

[@Wyzai]

2:35:53 That's an interesting point and I think it might be true. A lot of the writers of these things hate their audience and they all employ the same ironic humour. It might genuinely be because they believe fantasy and superheroes (maybe other things as well) to be childish. They're too insecure to embrace the source material, so instead they do everything ironically... which leads to all the horrible jokes everyone hates and the strained relationship between the two sides. The writers feel they are making content for manbabies and fangirls.

[@nathanjora7627]

… « Feel » like ? What part of people’s reactions to the Mandalorian and Ahsoka made you feel like they aren’t actually writing for that audience 😞

[@Banditt_Red]

Dude I love filmento! I think a lot of y’all’s criticisms of him is just his since of humor. Like he’s memeing

[@iSoulend]

7:57:00 I played some of that game some years ago (someone i follow needed the sponsor to pay his bills so I did the thing to reach the specified lvl) so here are my two cents about it Claiming there's over 700 champions is basically lying, it's the kind of game with a rarity system (Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, or Grey, Green, Blue, Purple, Gold if you prefer). The greys are useless from the very start, greens should be replaced by blues asap, blues will be your mainstay til you can get better, which might not come soon, and past mid-game you'll only want purple or gold, though you can forget getting purple in a timely manner if you don't pay, and you might get 3 golds in a year, aside from the monthly event ones which are "free"... if you grind like it's a job. Btw his "favourite" is a green and sucks at all but one super niche job, where you'll still want to replace it really fast. Add to that that of course there are good ones and dogshit ones, even in the epic or gold (like some gold you wouldn't use at all and some very few rare will stay in your team for a long time til you get something to replace their specific job) that in this game, champions aren't 'complete' just from getting them, you then need to use skill books to actually make their abilities worth something, and those don't come by easy (some champions that would be decent are considered bad just because they need way more books than most) and that this game is a fucking grind, you certainly aren't gonna manually do all the battles, we're talking hundreds every week, it'd actually eat your entire day, so you need champions whose AI doesn't suck... So yeah, the claim is farcical. Just like the "unique" claim : as you already guessed, there's a lot of reskin going on, and basically only the legendaries and some epics can be considered unique. Just like the 400m players one : I can believe there are a lot of player, but you gotta cut that down by easily 10, really a lot more, 'cause between people who made an account for a second then left, those that make additional ones for rewards, and those that sell accounts (since getting a legendary is super rare, getting a meta one even more so, and since at the start of the game you get a lot of free stuff making rolling for your first one easier, people use a lot of bots to try and get a meta one), there's a lot of unused accounts lol Just like the "worth 30$" starter pack : the only thing worth anything in that pack is the skill book, nobody is buying it for even close to that amount, and anyway they decide themselves the price of the shit so they can put that sticker

[@EvGamerBETA]

You guys are my ambient TV. Though you're not really good at this. You're too engaging

[@antraxxslingshots]

What most effective movie death caused by an aneurism is mauler talking about?

[@MegaSpideyman]

Maybe Buffy.

[@SPECKREJK]

Antonio banderas getting into the video essay game now😂

[@alexhayden219]

5:48:02 This video has been playing for two seconds and I'm already depressed. This guy just sounds like the Anti-Life Equation personified. Whether I agree with what he's going to say or not, I now want to die.

[@HerohammerStudios]

Having my comment read out on the anniversary stream was really something. Here's to another five years, guys

[@SethL95]

5:34:30 E;R snore

[@EvGamerBETA]

Yeah. A large share of people I talked about soundtracks to has this "soundtrack is nothing more than a background" mentality

[@Arko777777]

8:35:08 EFAP crew entering probability storm echo

[@slaapt]

The Nostalgia Critic's point is weird. There is a very good argument in there, but he never made it. In an ideal world companies use cash cows for profit so they can take risks on lower budget new IP. This whole "we make bad movies for the money" is insanity. People who got introduced to (a) Disney (classic) by way of a bad remake are less likely to be invested in Disney movies. This is a long term bad investment. Burning out the nostalgia for a quick buck is insane. Not to mention that "we need the remakes to fund Star Wars" is a very bad take as well. People used to be hyped for Star Wars. Making a shit ton of money with it was almost a guarantee. But that would require not constantly pushing out crap. If they just made good movies and good series, they'd be fine.

[@MasterofInterspace]

2:25:00 His chat is claiming that him doing that is just him reflecting the movie. Which, i mean, even if that was true it is still garbage. Like, even if that was true, that's a shit way to act. And even if it was true, he still used a terrible example. He made people believe he had information that they should know, only to withhold it. You know, instead of using a more obviously fictitious example and explaining why it's wrong.

[@25meip]

Hi-top [after years of screaming down Marvel naysayers]: Guys we've been had!!!😱

[@Talon3000]

"A Soundtrack ist supposed to just hang around in the background and be filler" ... Mick Gordon wants a word or two.

[@maximilianmock6777]

god good this guys making oda and one piece look bad makes my blood boil lol

[@Wyzai]

3:59:13 Guess this is what would apply. Watched TV with someone who kept falling asleep during the shows. They found detective shows very boring, but greatly enjoyed a slasher film. I'm thinking it was this logic here: the plot of a slasher movie is very easy to understand. You can jump in at any point in the movie and follow it along with less than a minute of background knowledge. You need to watch a detective/police show from start to finish to understand the plot points.

[@TonyTama]

The people who say Ant-Man is Paul Rudd with a gimmick clearly never saw Role Models.

[@usxxgrant]

About 7:11:50 ; Deaths from both aneurysms and a stray bullet occurred in the same series.

[@BertzTriscut]

I want to point out that Peacemaker did not in fact have "the better move." He has super strength and almost lost to a normal dude with advanced military training. He just reached out in desperation and got lucky enough to find a weapon.

[@CMCAdvanced]

Peacemaker doesn't have super strength, he's just jacked.

[@BertzTriscut]

@@CMCAdvanced You sure? He seemed particularly durable, and he had the strength to toss a large man like Rick around.

[@MegaSpideyman]

@@BertzTriscut I don't remember him having any.

[@BertzTriscut]

@@MegaSpideyman Based on how easily he was tossing people and how unnatural his build is, I don't think it's unfair to assume.

[@MegaSpideyman]

​@@BertzTriscutHmm, maybe.

[@kasaibouF29]

"Kids watching TLK 2019 isn't as bad as taking fentanyl, but it's still wrong!"

[@TheOneAverageJoe]

it's getting actually annoying how rags takes every opportunity to shit on anime when efap is the group that would defend cartoons as a medium and not a genre. now rags is doing the exact same thing efap fought but to anime

[@tristandpc]

He's bafflingly dissmisive sometimes, like with ATLA. I don't understand how he can be this hypocritical. 250 Pt 1 there was a conversation about how finishing a piece of media allows you to have a more informed take on it, yet as far as I'm aware he's watched 2 episodes of ATLA and thinks it's shit. It could be shit, I haven't seen it in a long time, but I don't respect the opinion of someone who's only seen 2 episodes.

[@TheOneAverageJoe]

@@tristandpc yeah in the efap avatar debate they were asking simple shit that gets answered in the series, like why doesn't aang just master the avatar state to beat everyone

[@lokiswager]

@@tristandpc If you want a fair opinion, I grew up watching the show and loved it. My parents got the boxed DVD set and every year we'd all come together to watch Atla after dinner for a few months, until we had gotten from beginning to end. Buuuut I rewatched it by myself about 18 months ago, and it didn't hold up as well as I remembered. The thing that stood out the most to me was inconsistent characterization across multiple episodes for the Gaang, bad dialogue (there's a lot of bangers, but there's also a loooot of cringe), and a few ass-pulls. I haven't rewatched it again recently enough to be able to give you specific episodes or anything, but it definitely is not a 10/10. Individual episodes can be great, but the series as a whole is like an EFAP 5/10 probably, maybeeee a 6/10.

[@tristandpc]

@@lokiswager That seems about right. I still have to rewatch it myself, but I remember it having it's issues.

[@darken2417]

Hey MauLer I highly recommend you grab Synethic Man's Starfield stream before he deletes it. If you grab it you'll have a whole load of content to talk about.