The Critical Drinker's Book is a Boring Dumpster Fire

[@ArgaJacint]

It is so fucking funny to me that out of all people, The Critical Drinker wrote a female character who is ridicilously overpowered in combat situations.

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

Its almost like he doesn't believe his own b u l l s h i t.

[@RazorRex]

He hates “Mary Sues” YET he creates possibly the biggest one.

[@RyanKaufman]

Probably because he knew it would be analyzed. He preaches, PREACHES that he doesn't want women to be bad characters, he just hates Mary Sues. So then come writing time, he pivoted super hard into giving her too much. It's like object fixation in driving. This also applies to writing. It's why comedians will clench up if told to "be funny" on the spot. Because now they're aware they have to go, and the brain will just picture not being funny or the overall pressure of the situation, and hey suddenly no one can create funny in that sort of headspace. Moving to Drinker, he knows deep down that he has to really nail this character. It has to be perfect. And as we can see from the rest of his writing... he's not a good writer. And he doesn't know how a good female character actually takes shape. Sooo... oops, Mary Sue

[@blacksmoke6292]

I don't really watch his vids anymore but I do remember one vid he said he doesn't mind women beating up men, he just doesn't like when women fight men in a sluggish masculine way, preferring them to be more acrobatic.

[@CantRead1]

​@@blacksmoke6292then when they actually do that, he throws a massive hissy fit on Twitter. You can't win with this hypocritical moron.

[@kingofthegundam7974]

I think the book is a hell of a lot funnier if you imagine the character Drake being the rapper.

[@piranhaplantfan1311]

Drake the typa guy to bring his cell phone on the mission

[@elnacho657]

It would make it even more funnier to imagine Drake being Drake Mallard aka Darkwing Duck. Would explain all this cartoon logic.

[@grimreads]

that Drake is into older women tho

[@marveler8994]

Unfortuantely Drake's half black so that'd be too woke for him

[@Adealerofblackberry]

@@grimreads nah, he be strikin cords now

[@winterflan]

the "name a recent japanese movie" bit made me cringe out of my seat. naming 'crouching tiger hidden dragon' (a taiwanese film) and oldboy (a south korean film) what a loser lmao

[@ethanstyant9704]

Couldn't even say Godzilla lmao

[@thejuiceking2219]

also, if he thought they're so great, why not make it a manga or one of those fancy animated things like they do over there?

[@matrixiekitty2127]

Bro’s gonna act like he watches and enjoy’s Japanese films and couldn’t even name Kurosawa, like it was so easy!!

[@danieltobin4498]

He called them both Chinese too

[@howdoyoudo5949]

@@thejuiceking2219They make novels over there as well? No Longer Human, The Blind Giant, 1Q84, Qucksand.

[@manhattanbaby-of6lq]

Googled "can a british national work for the CIA" and got the answer that the CIA requires all employees to be US citizens, although you can work for them if you have dual citizenship.

[@sandequation2653]

Yeah ok, just like Bush Sr. ""retired"" from the CIA. Let's take their word for it

[@shadowwarriorshockwave3281]

Spooks in the cia have many foreign people working for or with them I don’t think you understand the reach of a globe spanning intelligence agency. Doesn’t take away from the books issues but you don’t sound correct. Yes I am being a nitpick but details matter especially when making a claim.

[@DomTze]

You can be a "collaborator" which is basically the same thing but if you get caught you aren't their problem... We know this because we caught a few in Brazil

[@JerodimusPrime]

That's to work IN the CIA, to work FOR the CIA you could be anyone as long as you're seen as a valuable asset. The CIA hires agents (assets) from all walks of life, from Russian gangsters to people in the Mafia. The CIA has and does use agents from the British armed forces regularly.

[@Air_Serpent]

@@sandequation2653why would they lie about that??

[@Alias_Anybody]

"Nothing against English people obviously - it's not their fault" So James, if you ever need EU citizenship, this is a great strategy, keep going.

[@MirrorShades-k3o]

The English aren't part of the EU.

[@kyrylosovailo1690]

The Brits have betrayed us. Now we can make as much fun of them as we want.

[@nicholaswalsh4462]

@@kyrylosovailo1690 you didn't have to wait for that, you know. They're British. You can make fun of them all you want.

[@LittleGoblinBoi]

​@@nicholaswalsh4462 Yeah, we were making fun of them long before Brexit lol

[@ysgruppe]

I'd like to hijack this to say that a Scottish person saying they're British is not them saying they want to be English. I'm Welsh and I describe myself as British fairly often because British people do share a lot of traits that transcend our individual nationalities. Often these read as 'English' to an outsider, but they're not limited to the English.

[@iainwall2780]

Think you're fundamentally misunderstanding that Drake isn't referenced as drinking to establish that he has some kind of issue that could compromise his health or decision making. He's drinking because drinking whiskey is what cool tough men do, and Drake is nothing if not the coolest toughest man by way of every Tom Clancy protagonist

[@thejuiceking2219]

actually i'm pretty sure it's a clever reference to the fact that the writer is also heavily associated with drinking

[@fulcrum6760]

Tom Clancy protagonists are professional and level headed.

[@thejuiceking2219]

@@fulcrum6760 and so is this one you can tell because they book says he is

[@theworldbreaker]

DRAAKE?? DRAAAKE???:- Soulja Boy

[@thac0twenty377]

it is what we do. yes

[@Reverse_Cowgirl-cat]

"You agree with the message, therefore it's good" is how I believe Christian films are green lit.

[@blep226]

What in the tarnation is your pfp

[@danielbroome5690]

Nah it's worse than that. That is just cynical billionaires funding theocratic propaganda either due to their own personal belief in mythology, or as a way to destabilize society so that they can exploit the situation for profit.

[@-._lunamidnight_.-]

​@@blep226 reverse catgirl

[@blep226]

@@-._lunamidnight_.- oh 😀

[@chloesantos8637]

that's actually so accurate

[@wavecentral]

What would be even funnier would be to critique this book from a an even further right wing perspective. Complain about women being stronger than men in the Anya scenes, and cast her as a woke character overshadowing Drake.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

"WOKE GIRLBOSS SELF INSERT MARY SUE!!!!!"

[@neerajcherukuri4052]

If Synthetic man gets his hands on this book, he would definitely do something like that.

[@aussiemozzie8123]

@@neerajcherukuri4052 oh that clown, that would be hilarious

[@grimreads]

There is a feminist Taliban in the sequel...

[@TehPathfinderTV]

​@@grimreads a WHAT

[@joaojahnke9684]

I love when people say japanese and korean productions do well because not woke when some of the biggest recent successes are very political, you're just willfully unaware

[@eko9554]

Like squid game and parasite a left wing movie a critique on capitalism. Or okja made by the same director as parasite, where it’s a vegan movie that criticizes the meat industry. U know how much anti SJWs don’t like vegans.

[@gottimw]

Its not about the message, its how the stories are being told. The anticapitalism/classism in parasite is a silver lining. Nobody hits you on the head with capitalism is bad. The characters do not monologue how bad life is under capitalism every other scene. You are responsible for drawing the meaning from the narrative. Also Korean movies are way more creative, they probably have way more creative freedom to make a movie, rather than to appeal to everyone, include all permutation of human kind and not offend anyone - especially china.

[@eko9554]

@@gottimw More like it’s politics you don’t like in movies. The Punk genre and the subculture is very left leaning and are against conservatism.

[@det.bullock4461]

@@gottimw Most of the movies accused of being not subtle are blockbusters made to appeal to the dumbest chucklefuck in the audience, so NO SHIT they hit you in the head with it. There's people who still think the Empire in Star Wars were the good guys even though they are depicted as cartoonishly evil since the first movie. CD also criticized a whodunit movie for using whodunit tropes because either he's a moron who never watched any or counts on the audience he caters to being dumbasses who only watch blockbuster movies.

[@gottimw]

@@eko9554 sounds like you have not read my comment

[@BrandonPilcher]

The way Drinker describes his heroine is just ripe for that "Men Writing Women" subreddit.

[@l0rf]

Oh for sure. It's not breasting boobily down to the CIAs boobsment- I mean basement, but it's close enough.

[@danielbroome5690]

It's also ironically very similar to the type of characters he criticizes.

[@ahobbyist9520]

@@danielbroome5690it’s a Mary sue unless I’m writing it, obviously

[@BoisegangGaming]

​@ahobbyist9520 that's the most hilarious part to me. Take their words and use them against them, and all of a sudden is just "bad faith" lmao. They'll say something is "bad writing" and then include it in their works without reflection.

[@nont18411]

Anya ended up being more of Mary Sue than any female characters he had ever shat on.

[@sophiaaldous3199]

The funny thing about his criticism of modern westerns being too woke in favor of Japanese and Korean films is that a lot of older Asian films (Onibaba, Lust, Caution, The Handmaiden) had more nuanced, complicated portrayals of women while Hollywood was still churning out popular narratives with women as little more than different flavors of arm candy.

[@birdcar7808]

He’s probably call Onibaba woke because two impoverished women take down a bunch of armed soldiers lol

[@MHF013]

Someone asked him in a podcast to name a Japanese movie he liked when he generally talked about how Japan and other asian countries had better stories than the west, and he couldn't. Best he could bring up was Oldboy. Not even Kurosawa.

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

@@MHF013 him calling crouching tiger Japanese is mad funny. It’s also funny seeing him complete miss the point of midsommar and fight club

[@eko9554]

Imagine his reaction to Okja or Beastars

[@jammerthebaws4287]

@@MHF013 All he had to do was just say "berserk", don't even need to know good anime to know berserk because everyone was talking about it with elden ring for example

[@wellysocks]

Why did he even write this? It's clear he didn't do an ounce of research, his main female character is the kind he hates and his writing is terrible. There's no passion behind this, and from what I hear his own fans don't even like his books, so there's no money in it either. All I can think is that "having wrote books" gives him an ego boost.

[@isaac_marcus]

I think you got all the points. Writing the book took him no great effort since he didn't research or put much thought into it, so whatever money he did make would basically be all profit. It gives him an ego boost, and even if his fans don't like it, they'll use the fact he wrote a book to boost his Ethos when they talk about him. "You think TCD is a moron? He wrote a book! How many books have you written loser?" (little do they know I also wrote and published a terrible book. They hold no power over me. Now I just need to start filing a bunch of patents for the Terrence Howard stans)

[@jod791]

He actually started writing and publishing his books long before he started his KZbin channel. I believe his The Critical Drinker channel was actually made TO promote one of his books, maybe the first one. Which just helps prove the grifting allegations because his books are fucking trash schlock that his TCD persona would rip to shreds.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

He didn't just write this on a whim recently. He's been a writer long before he was a You Tuber.

[@pyro380]

You sound gay.

[@SpottedHares]

Writing and publishing a book In this current time is not hard. Even getting paper back printed isn’t to big of an issue.

[@joshuasmith147]

Hey now, I'm a lazy, bitter person and I still think the critical drinker has all the appeal of a mouldy cucumber.

[@lewid019]

😂

[@manboy4720]

i'll drink critically to that.

[@Lr.Laecro.Lirus3445]

I seriously don't understand how anybody actually enjoys his content. He seems arrogant, is very much unlikable, unbearable to listen to and every video is just super generic and boring. The only reason I personally see why people like him, is because he says the things they agree with. But just because someone agrees with you doesn't mean, that they create something of actual entertainment value.

[@Galvatronover]

@@Lr.Laecro.Lirus3445 what's arrogant about him ? is it because he negative ? you've never actually listened to him outside of his videos he seems nice to hang with

[@jugo1944]

I really enjoyed how brutal this guy was in this review

[@TheCow-j1l]

I love people that all they do is complain about hollywood slop, but when they have the chance to create their own art, they create stuff that simulates slop.

[@JP-n6d]

😂😂😂😂 BEN SHAPIRO

[@ZestyGooner]

​@@JP-n6d Don't forget Shadiversity as well

[@eko9554]

Daily Wire’s lady ballers, run hide fight, what is a woman, bluey clone, and Mr birchum

[@Alpha1918]

@@ZestyGooner what's your problem with Shad?

[@guyvizard549]

Ripper...

[@skybite]

One of Critical Drinkers favorite female characters is Stormfront from The Boys and when he saw her get a beat down by the other female Supes, he called it forced.

[@Dachusblot]

Stormfront, the actual Nazi? That's his favorite female character? And he was mad about her getting her ass kicked several episodes after it's revealed that she is a literal old school Hitler-loving Nazi? I shouldn't be surprised by that, but wow.

[@skybite]

@@Dachusblot and kind of scary since he has a lot of followers.

[@ethanstyant9704]

​@@Dachusblotnot even like modern neo nazi. Straight up she met Hitler kind of Nazi

[@futurestoryteller]

@@skybite They always out themselves and pretend offense at being called out for it.

[@martinjrgensen8234]

His favorite character is an actual Nazi. Not even a Neo Nazi, but an OG Nazi. Now that is surprising

[@hanamachi_press]

Hey James, I’m no spy or anything but I work in US government. One of the guys I worked with was a former SPEC OP guy for the Netherlands, appropriately referred to as “Dutch.” For him to work with sensitive US material he had to renounce his Netherlands citizenship amongst another battery of requirements and vetting. So all his accolade and accomplishments as a Netherlands soldier couldn’t be recognized. With the CIA idk what the parameters are but that’s the one situation I bore witness to.

[@antonypastrikos7036]

Unrelated, but it fills me with joy to see that someone who works for the US government uses a sailor moon profile pick. I guess it just humanises a bit what can sometimes be seen as a big, scary and complex machine.

[@manboy4720]

that's exactly what a spy would say.

[@manboy4720]

@@antonypastrikos7036 well they're not gonna have a profile pic of a shady g-man in a big black trenchcoat. or maybe a profile pic of a g-man from that psychonauts level. you know, the one with the milkman? "i am the milkman. my milk is delicious."

[@alexv3372]

Damm how did Dutch feel about this ? Also what can you tell us about the books

[@antonypastrikos7036]

@@manboy4720 had a terrible day but loved your reply, thank you very much!

[@V0idFace]

Wait, hold on. 54:33 woman with an extraordinary military service record, including black ops, who trained a male protege and also ended up taking out one of his eyes? That’s Snake Eater. Literally just story and character elements from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

[@squidfromtheloft7894]

Lies! That is his completely "original" character! No form media can capture his perfect conservative waifu!

[@neoqwerty]

@@squidfromtheloft7894 His OCs are on par with the deviantart sonic recolors done in default-colors MS paint and there's something awe-inspiring about this.

[@V0idFace]

@ I’m not sure you know what the word “inspired” means.

[@TheBackwardsLegsMan]

The irony of this guy writing a book in which the main character is what he would describe as a Mary Sue is hilarious. And yes, Anya is the main character.

[@Shades14]

Yeah, doesn't Ryan die in one of the early books? But they still go on to be called Ryan Drake for brand recognition?

[@Moonking_Is_Back]

@@Shades14 you say that like anyone knows who Ryan Drake is

[@austinreed7343]

“But she’s supposed to be a parody character! Not a serious Mary Sue!”

[@404maxnotfound]

Ah gotta love "all the women are perfect eyecandy for the men just for exisitng" and "I have been SA'd for many years but I am ok when its a stranger I met two seconds ago" tropes /s. Lazy writing at it's finest.

[@nootnewt3]

I haven’t even seen Barbie but Greta Gerwig talked about her choice in making Barbie the central focus. It’s because little girls are more interested in Barbie, they don’t really care about Ken. So Greta Gerwig makes fun of this and makes a society where Barbies are the ones doing all of the work and the Kens are just around. Secondly it’s just weird to get mad about this. In promotion Ryan Gosling has been getting more attention and Ken’s bet on it moment is what people talk about most. Barbie is low key not even the focus of the marketing post release.

[@awandererfromys1680]

Sometimes I wonder if these grifters were expecting to see the origins of G.I. Joe or something. Like the Barbie movie is focused on Barbie? There's a bit of vanilla feminism in a movie about plastic toys for girls? Well, colour me surprised. The Drinker accused the marketing team of tricking parents into taking their six year old daughters to see "the message." Because like any good critic he completely missed the movie rating. Or the tone of the trailers.

[@nicholaswalsh4462]

A movie about a girl's doll has feminist themes and messaging about gender equality? Whooda thunk it?

[@matthewdeancole]

Ken wins Oscar and Barbie and the director get snubbed.

[@pyradragon]

@@matthewdeancole i memeber seeing that and thinking, this is exactly what Barbie movie would criticise. a Movie for girls and Ken gets an Oscar (no hate to Gosling, he was fun to watch)

[@GhostwalkerSparrow]

Literally the I’m just Ken song was the best part of the movie lol

[@Remington934]

dude couldnt name Godzilla, probably one of the most famous Japanese films ever lol

[@dalekrenegade2596]

The guy couldn't even name Pokemon to save face.

[@coreyander286]

Famously anti-woke modern Godzilla, like the one where the two female characters are an autistic genius and the future President of the United States

[@eko9554]

He would call it woke when he finds out that it’s a parody of the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

[@thejuiceking2219]

i mean you could attribute it to a spur of the moment thing, but still

[@caffetiel]

​@@coreyander286 What a very fun understanding of the United States that a mixed-race girl aspires to be president by the time she's 40. US don't work like that

[@Ineedgames]

Saw his movie trailer. For someone who constantly tells Hollywood is out of ideas, his movie certainly doesn't have any ideas.

[@Gonzalo_105]

the trailer is so generic, it even starts beating the drum right away, like a generic Hollywood trailer...

[@pressplayulysses]

He has a movie?

[@Ineedgames]

@@pressplayulysses What Hollywood considers a movie at least.

[@arjuna6224]

Name?

[@MasterIceyy]

He writes all of his books as if they're screen plays, he's been hunting for a movie for so long

[@tespenkr9924]

Critical Drinker: "Nah, it'll be fine." James Tullos: Suffering with every page.

[@inurokuwarz]

Bro couldn't even think of a Ghibli movie

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

He doesn’t have enough childish whimsy in his soul to appreciate a good Ghibli film

[@TheCapitalWanderer]

or any makoto shinkai movie

[@DinoRicky]

Or the most famous movie monster referenced everywhere and has a British parody

[@xibalbalon8668]

That would be great because Miyazaki is a leftist who said he's been influenced by Marx in the past. The Japanese right wing has called him a traitor. Don't tell drinker that, japan is supposed to be some traditionalist holy land where everyone thinks the same to weirdos like him

[@TokyoXtreme]

The one where the girl is strong and determined, and lets out a "hmph" before rolling up her sleeves and getting to work.

[@PosiWritesStories]

I’m a simple man. I see TCD bashing and I click.

[@jacqueshardin4601]

Same. It's the least a man with such an overinflated ego such as himself deserves.

[@studyguy.7660]

Yeah you're simple alright

[@leftIncel]

@@zarbon9119 the drunk credit is a white nationalist, also calling your enemies emotional does not mean you win the argument, being emotional, doesn’t mean you’re wrong. Ronald Reagan was wrong when he said “if you’re explaining you’re losing” why do you even find it funny when people cry? Do you have zero empathy? do you not understand the specifics of why they are crying? these are all questions that don’t matter, because we’re all gonna die, so why worry about it?

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

@@zarbon9119 He has got me emotional Ill admit. Because the man said straight up, without blinking. Without an iota of understanding how stupid it is. "And then you'll have to go back and spend months rewriting it." TCD. Honey. Thats called _editing_ And the swear words I want to use here will make youtube delete the comment

[@leftIncel]

@@zarbon9119 wait, how can you make all of those assumptions by someone hating someone else? If I hate blueberry muffins, but you love them, And then I made a comment, expressing my hatred, You wouldn’t go and assume that I am a spineless coward, who is a soy boy, and there is a Jewish reptile from planet nine, and will replace the white race with marvel characters. Also, you’re not defending TCD’s honor, when I accused him of being a white nationalist, I have every single reason to believe that he hates people of color, every time there’s a non-white person on screen he goes “this is the woke agenda gone mad” even though it doesn’t matter what the skin color of the character is, unless it pertains to the plot. Which means I can accuse him of any racist thing, and you will not try to tell me I’m wrong. the drunk critic is a super Hitler from a parallel universe, who is coming to remove the wokeness from marvel, because that will somehow further his political agenda.

[@helicopterharry5101]

I'm sure Japanese love hearing they're interchangeable with the Chinese and vice-versa.

[@westerling8436]

Never forget Nanjing

[@LEMON_STARFOX]

I am surprised that he slags off female character but then ends up writing a Super Mary Sue main female character. How can he not see the hypocrisy? And why make her whole background being a lifetime of assaults? That’s one of the worse backstories especially if you’re not going to add the time and nuance and context to that conversation and instead are simply using it for shock factor.

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

Because with guys like these, they don’t usually have an issue of a woman being a good fighter, but they have an issue with any female-driven narrative that focuses on a woman’s problems or character development. Anything that forces them to care about a woman’s emotional turmoil feels like an insult, so it’s easier to write her as an idealized Uber badass with no emotional depth. A lot of sexist writers also tend to confuse “a stone cold badass woman with no character beyond being badass and hot” as writing an empowered woman. The truth is that it’s basically an idealized version of a woman without having to give much thought to her actual personality. These types of guys mistake wanting a woman to step on them as the same thing as respecting women as complex human beings. And having her be a victim of assault by a single guard despite being able to mow down tons of them is part of that idealization. She’s an idealized woman in that she’s badass enough to be self driven, but not so badass that it’s impossible for men to overpower her completely.

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

Not just that but his character is a total Black Widow ripoff. Russian spy with a tragic backstory defecting to America?

[@manboy4720]

@@suburbantimewaster9620 it's quite funny to think that critical drinker would probably say that 'black widow is a bunch of woke feminazi propaganda'. he really is a one trick pony, huh?

[@thejuiceking2219]

for me it signifies something else what he's saying is bs, and to an extent he's aware of it. he's not interested in telling you what he thinks but about what he thinks you think, it's about reaffirming people's beliefs and framing it as critique, critique so vapid and meaningless that even he can't abide by or follow it himself

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

@@thejuiceking2219 So basically his whole gimmick is justifying screwed up behavior.

[@BoisegangGaming]

The issue with critics like TCD creating their own stories isn’t that they're bad - writing and storytelling, like any skill, is one that requires practice and iteration. That requires failure. There's plenty of people known for their works who likely didn't start out making amazing stuff. The issue is that these people don't even follow their own advice on how to "not write badly". In general, when people like TCD or their followers say something is "bad writing", its often so nebulous and a nothingburger of a statement because they all have their own ideas of what "bad writing" is, and rather than just nailing down a definition, they spew out the good ol' pair of words like it's a silver bullet.

[@shadenox8164]

They also tend to confuse "I didn't like this" for bad. Some people struggle with the idea they can like bad things and hate good things. Your personal taste is not an objective measure of quality.

[@bettyunicorn6132]

@@shadenox8164 Its something I know imminently

[@Air_Serpent]

The Nostalgia Critic is pretty similar to this, but with less politics.

[@Galvatronover]

@@shadenox8164 since when has he ever done this

[@yungmuney5903]

But just looking at their behavior for a while, its pretty clear what they consider "bad writing". (Literally anything that doesn't jerk off straight white men)

[@jacqueshardin4601]

"The action scenes are described with the intensity and passion of Uncle Colm from Derry Girls." Oh, this is the kind of savagery I live for. 🤣

[@sethmiller2532]

It seems like the only thing TCD can think of for development of female characters is them being SA'd. This does not bode well for the women in his life.

[@ethanstyant9704]

Also the classic of women are defined by the men they interact with

[@sethmiller2532]

@@ethanstyant9704 That as well.

[@lexx1745]

That or them being unable to have children.

[@BulgarianReaper]

Goes to show he has no idea how to write female characters, which is ironic because this is what he chastises Hollywood for

[@divyeshkotthakota7035]

When you said TCD why did I think of the college dropout by kanye west bruh?

[@urusaiinu]

“I literally fell asleep watching it.” So a spy sleeper rather than a spy thriller…

[@Hawkatana]

So anti-woke it puts you to sleep.

[@bennettcarlson3974]

@@Hawkatana thats a really good one

[@theagingmillennialvarietyh7751]

Nice 😎

[@d.b.2215]

Brings a whole new meaning to "sleeper cell"

[@Raiders1917]

​@Hawkatana This book isn't even anti woke, lol. His one female character is literally a marry sue.

[@felixthefish]

DC native here. Yeah I don’t think TCD even understands the concept of the district.

[@TakeshiM]

maybe the reason he feels disconnected from his colleagues is because he has to cross the potomac every morning to get to work

[@habadasheryjones]

Drinker has taught me that the more confident someone speaks about something online the stronger the odds are that they actually know little to nothing about their subject of choice.

[@amoamomaomao7181]

im unsurprised that the guy who thinks the reason modern marvel sucks is because of "the woke agenda" sucks at writing lol

[@TheEldritchGod]

Well, it does. It doesn't change the fact his writing sucks. He's a funny guy, but being funny doesn't make you a good writer.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

​@@TheEldritchGod Well, it does what? What does?

[@TheEldritchGod]

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 - THEY call it the M-She-U. They state they want to get rid of cannon characters and replace them because they are problimatic. The owners of the IP are the ones with a political agenda, and it sucks because of it. What's wrong with Captain America being... oh... a man, and pro-America? Why does he have be replaced with a woman, or a black man, or be a secret Nazi plant? It's BORING. I miss heroes that are just... you know... heroes.

[@Jaanikins]

@@elvingearmasterirma7241that marvel sucks because it panders to Woke

[@MsMvsc]

@@Jaanikins cringe

[@mothra6652]

Something feels very telling about the fact that in both Shadiversity and Critical Drinker's books, the main female character is an SA victim.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Its less that and more how its written and handled It feels fetishy

[@calemr]

​@@elvingearmasterirma7241As someone who's written fetishy stuff for a living before: Yeah, I totally see it.

[@stitchedfreedom]

Hold up I didnt know shadiversity to be... of critical drinkers mind so to speak

[@rokmvahtar]

​@@stitchedfreedomdont look at the Knights Watch if you want to keep this perception alive.

[@11nephilim]

@@stitchedfreedom dude has an entire second channel which is just whinging about the lord of the rings having black people in it now or whatever.

[@MechSoldier191]

The Call of Duty reference of him saying "Remember, no English" not only feels forced, but becomes even more tedious when you realize the game is referenced several times: 1. Her prisoner number is '62', which is most certainly a reference to Captain Price being 'Prisoner 626' 2. I can almost guarantee that 'Mason' and 'Frost' are references to Call of Duty characters, both are key names from Black Ops and MW3 respectively 3. The mission is to break a character out of a gulag, one of the most prolific moments of MW2 All these added up don't make it cute, it just comes off as tiring and plagiaristic.

[@Eli_Guy]

That, and the sniper's suppressor being written as if it's completely silent, it really shows his only experience with military combat is COD, lmao

[@TBRP99]

frost and dietrich are almost certainly references to two of the marines in Aliens (1986). Dietrich flamethrowers frost in the movie

[@jamesmaxwell1940]

@@TBRP99 Also, the main character is named Drake, after another character in that movie. Real creative stuff lifting a chunk of names from Aliens for practically your whole team

[@kaitunelovemonday]

Of all the conservative grifter’s bad takes, the whole ‘Asian medias are just unpolitical funsies unlike the Woke West’ annoy me the most as an Asian. Also, as someone who has some Scottish friends, maybe I am over generalizing a bit, but a Scottish who tries hard to claim their britishness just screams hella sus as a person to me.

[@dRoy8364]

Hell, especially in Korea, some of the most successful movies are literally about political/historical events, such as "A Taxi Driver" and "12.12:The Day."

[@kaitunelovemonday]

@@dRoy8364 The recent major Korean hits like Parasite and Squid Game, while not referencing a political event directly, are EXTREMELY political to the point that failing to the politic of those stories can only come from willful ignorant. I guess that willful ignorant, if not intentional for the purpose of grifting, might stem from the inherited racism of not viewing Asians quite on equal footing as people with our own perspectives and motivations to express our own political beliefs. Actually, I had been told directly to my face a few times that "You are sooo American" when I discussed my political belief with Westerners. I guess it could also be for my frankness or something? But also, like, seriously? Frickin choice of words.

[@somik-i3x]

To reassure you, they don't watch any movies either from America or Asia. They are just pointing at the idea of media in Asia, not the real work.

[@warsincs]

Britain is made up of England, Scotland and Wales. So Scots are British dumbass.

[@thejuiceking2219]

also, it makes me realise something when they say 'the west' they don't mean 'the west', they just mean 'everything that isn't asia' is australia not the west? is indonesia the west or not? i don't know, and i don't know if they know either there isn't even a west, BECAUSE THE EARTH IS A SPHERE!

[@deadmanthehekatonkheire994]

You're telling me a "critic" with no substantive criticisms of media; unironically uses the word "woke" as a nebulous, all-encompassing term for "anything I don't like"; and thinks bitching about how seeing a woman beating up a man in a *MOVIE* qualifies as legitimate criticism is actually a terrible artist? You don't say.

[@danielbroome5690]

He does have SOME substantive criticisms of media. There are other rightwing commentators like Shapiro who have literally no idea what critical analysis is and can't even identify a theme if it slapped him in the face. Don't get me wrong, critical drinker has a LOT of those idiotic non-substantive criticisms, but he does understand it to an extent when it doesn't touch on his politics. His perception of something as pro-or-anti his politics completely blinds any criticisms he has, but when it's (to him) divorced from both, he actually can do at very least a competent job at it.

[@pphaver871]

You don’t have to gatekeep being a “critic”, anybody can be one. Woke stuff is noticeable to center and right leaning people. When political dialogue, or plot decisions that would seem to have been made from someone with a different ideology than your own. Hollywood is just much more lefty than half of America. Is what it is, and Hollywood makes a lot of Western art. I’ve seen plenty of movies these days where men who have a hundred pounds over their female opponent get destroyed. Anyone who knows anything about fighting will roll their eyes at that, but if you happen to be a righty it will probably feel connected to “woke” writing incentives. Girlboss Mary sue characters are common in big things these days. Drinker uses the woke as a criticism too often, but I don’t think he is a terrible critic. Definetly more of a casual viewer with a different ideology than mine. His first book is allowed to suck balls without him losing all credibility.

[@marocat4749]

I too taste ihis taste in alcohol :P he probably is not a critical drinker .

[@naomisoltesz9890]

@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female According to this very book she would win.

[@naomisoltesz9890]

​@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female Do you know what video you're commenting on? Are you all right? Do you need us to call someone?

[@XenoLabs1]

When drinker is describing the photo of the woman, I can only envision Drake is staring at the photo like how Patrick Bateman stared at Paul Allen's business card giving his inner monologue.

[@osamudiamenamienghomwan8831]

I wish more people would be wise to the drinker's schemes. that man is NOT a movie critic. every time someone addresses him as one, without irony, Roger Ebert turns over in his grave.

[@zawrator4457]

Eh, his non culture war reviews are alright I’d say. Not really worth watching imo, but when the man isn’t pandering hard to culture warriors, he can actually make some decently argued points.

[@warsincs]

Anyone who watches movies is a movie critic.

[@rkkk21019]

He doesn't claim to be a "movie critic".

[@tasha7726]

@@rkkk21019 Then what does he claim to be?

[@rkkk21019]

@@tasha7726 Just a guy on the internet broadcasting his opinions about film media. He's said it himself. The vast majority of the people in this comments section who are only here to say CD = bad derp obviously don't watch his content.

[@treekangaroo.7691]

*this is engagement for the algorithm, i do not have any comments* edit: nvm, i would like to thank james for mentioning the s-tier show derry girls

[@JamesTullos]

Thank you for thanking me for mentioning the s-tier show Derry Girls.

[@StraightHeffin]

Derry girls is great

[@supertaoman12]

Why is it always military fanfiction when it comes to these culture critics

[@Shades14]

Because they worship it. Which is funny because one of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not have any other gods before Me."

[@utopiandystopia1383]

they love army sht cuz it looks COOL and EPIC. theyd never join though. that would require effort. same thing with gunt@rds, they spam cringey memes about firearm types and talk about how cool they are despite never having touched or interacted with a real firearm

[@Peter-vf3dl]

this. herogasm, I assume. Classy Tom Clancy: Rejected, but still their wet, manly dream.

[@patrioticcat5768]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@Shades14wtf do the ten commandments have to do with war? military Shit has always been famous with boys. We even have toys and games and airsoft guns where people can go shoot each other. Wtf r u talking about with this God bullshit?😂

[@chalkandcheese1868]

Because they're heterosexual

[@Walterdecarvalh0100]

Its easy to critisize and hard to create. We find this out every time a critic creates.

[@Shades14]

Nostalgia Critic's movies, anyone?

[@PosiWritesStories]

I think calling what TCD does criticism is being far too generous. Good criticism takes effort. What he does is more like… uh, lying.

[@Walterdecarvalh0100]

@@Shades14 yep, but to be fair, Doug seems like a more genuine person. i dont dislike tcd, but he dosent really seem like the kinda guy i would like or have a beer with.

[@LittleDogTobi]

⁠@@PosiWritesStoriesExactly. Good analysis takes time, effort, and intellectual honesty; that’s one of the big takeaways from hbomb’s famous plagiarism video.

[@dRoy8364]

@@Walterdecarvalh0100 I used to think that, but after recent controversies and an absolute pile of mess that was The Wall review video, I can't find Doug as a genuine, good-faith creator either....

[@fulcrum6760]

The funniest part is that all of his fans hate his books. They tell him to stick to reviewing and not writing.

[@LEMON_STARFOX]

Oh, is this actually true? lol

[@fulcrum6760]

@@LEMON_STARFOX Yep, someone said it themselves: They’re not complete ass kissers.

[@minion3806]

Where did you get that? I've read some of his books and they're alright. Not perfect but not awful either. Who is saying he should stop writing?

[@fulcrum6760]

@@minion3806 I remember his Ryan Drake movie thing is being flamed on by his fans and his books too.

[@minion3806]

@fulcrum6760 never heard that myself but alright. Maybe I'm out of the loop

[@Hepheat75]

A non-American British man working for the CIA is the funniest thing I've ever heard.

[@nathanielclaw2841]

he is JUST. THAT. GOOD.

[@edwardreed67]

The thing with Drinker is he doesn’t want art forms to evolve, he wants art forms to go back to the way they were. His Rogue Elements trailer feels like a generic 90s action movie because that’s what he wants, something comfortable he already likes. And his book reads similarly. Instead of taking risks, or potentially challenging his pre-conceived notions, everything has to fit around those Terminator 2s, those Aliens, those Old Boys, those Top Guns.

[@BoisegangGaming]

Consider art is iterative (even if it can be derivative) and innovative, if that's truly what he thinks of art as a medium, it's hilarious. What he's asking for isn't art. He's just asking for products. Y'know, the same slop that modern cinema puts out? The stuff he apparently hates? Guess it's not wrong when it's something that panders to him. Funny to see how that group of people just want to be exclusively pandered to, and have all media exist for the sole purpose of their entertainment. It's like the people who watch a children's show and then complain it's not mature enough for their tastes. These people can't imagine anything not being for them, which is so utterly fascinating.

[@edwardreed67]

@@BoisegangGaming If it doesn't apply directly to them, or breaks their fragile "escapism" in anyway, they complain about it. Its not the fact they don't want companies to pander to anyone, or inter-grate their politics better, they just want companies to pander directly to them instead. They've cultivated a community of "we're just honest, we tell it as it is, we're common-sense" because they're slightly louder than everyone else and their content is stripped back and generalised

[@eko9554]

@@edwardreed67What the anti woke doesn’t realize is that the studios have huge fanbases and games, movies, and stories created by minorities with characters who happen to be minorities have a huge market.

[@EvilDickism]

entertainment was better back then

[@EvilDickism]

@@eko9554 you dont really get what the actual criticism of the anti woke are if you typed that. race is irrelevant find me one anti woke that didnt like blade because he was black.

[@yungmuney5903]

Anya is my favorite character in fiction purely for the sole reason that drinker would 100% go absolute apeshit over her if it was written by someone else in the mainstream. 😂 And will make sure to never let it be forgotten, like he does with Captain Marvel, She hulk, Abby etc.

[@Shockkings0714]

Difference is, Captain Marvel (Comics and MCU0, She Hulk (MCU), and Abby sucks! Awfully written characters

[@yungmuney5903]

​@@Shockkings0714 What difference? Anya is even worse then what he fearmongers about "modern female characters".

[@Shockkings0714]

@@yungmuney5903 Have you actually read her? Or have you just read a synopsis?

[@Shockkings0714]

Have you actually read her? Or have you just read a synopsis?

[@dalekrenegade2596]

​@@Shockkings0714 Cope harder.

[@Inerrant1]

This whole book sounds like a string of loosely connected plot points from decades-old movies and video games but without a basic understanding of why those plot points were effectively used in those stories.

[@LostinMango]

😂 Real comment

[@alpguy4865]

Him saying Japanese movies are superior than the western one but cannot name even 1 recent Japanese movie is the funniest thing yet 😭

[@MirrorShades-k3o]

Haven't finished the whole video, however a big miss with your talk about talking about that weird child trafficking movie the Right Wing was obsessed with, Sound of Freedom. It was actually denounced by actual experts in the Human Trafficking Field as it portrays a false narrative of what the vast majority of human trafficking is which ends up harming actual victims of it as their stories are less likely to believed and obfuscates victims' perceptions from understanding they are actually be trafficked.

[@annajensen7360]

Boosting this

[@annafdd]

Oh it’s even worse than that. The real life guy has this thing that to infiltrate trafficking groups he should show up with his wife. Yes. Indeed. So his real wife wouldn’t do it, to hear him saying it, and he had to recruit hot young things to pretend to be his wife. And to make the ruse believable they would have to pretend to be married from the moment they started the mission. Guess what. There are now a large number of these women who say that they haven’t seen any trace of the “mission” they participated in being successful, but they had been groped, bullying into showering naked, and so on, by Tim Ballard. It would be funny if it wasn’t so awful.

[@page8301]

Dead Domain did a terrific video on it.

[@unnamedenemy9]

also Operation Underground Railroad claims to have bought people out of trafficking, which literally just fuels more trafficking. Also their founder was a big fan of the "stay in mexico" policy that has *absolutely* caused more child trafficking.

[@yurikendal4868]

They were not right wing. Experts and right wing dont fit

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

It's ironic how critical drinker of all people wrote a story where the female character, despite not being well written either, still outshines the male lead. The irony of him criticizing films and tv shows for shitty visuals and drab colours is also funny since that's exactly what his project will look to be.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

TCD couldnt do even basic research on how the CIA works and hires people. the cornerstone of his book! And meanwhile I nearly bit through a pencil trying to research when corrective glasses were first invented in Europe and who had access to them. For one main character.

[@Hawkatana]

I totally get that. I now know more about the French Revolutionary Army than any reasonable person should just from researching for my book.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

@@Hawkatana writing! 5 percent writing and editing 15 percent planning and trying to work out how to get the vibes into a scene 80 percent research on things that you never thought youd have to research until that one page or even sentence! Like. I had to research when tin cans were first invented. And learnt that they were tin or wrought iron at first and opened via stabbing or chiseling because the first can opener wouldnt be invented until 30 ish years later. And it was rather interesting how its a French invention, starting with glass bottles. But was expanded on with tins and patented by an Englishman And its for like. One scene where the characters are on the road.

[@JinxedPixie88]

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 This is my pain. I'm writing a psuedo-alternate history novel and even though none of the countries are one-to-one with actual history, I still have like 25 pages of notes concerning WWI

[@TheRonnieaj]

And this is why I write contemporary. And still ended spending just an inordinate amount of time looking up apple varieties and what they’re best used for. 😂

[@BoisegangGaming]

As someone who writes mainly sci-fi/space opera style stories, I feel this so much. Even with the excuse of "it's a futuristic setting", there's only so much leeway that I can get from it - plus, trying to actually see how real science would affect things is very hard as someone who isn't a scientist by trade. Good news is that I can just use Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur as a general reference lmao

[@marijkestoll816]

"No one should wish they were English". As a mixed race woman w/ some Scottish heritage, these are the hot takes I come here for. Love you James.

[@nicoler5713]

As an English person: he's absolutely correct. It's hell.

[@nokedili]

a bit unrelated question but are you american?

[@marijkestoll816]

@@nokedili by accident of birth not by choice.

[@EvilDickism]

@@marijkestoll816 surrender citizenship

[@thejuiceking2219]

as an english person, i get it

[@imyouralibi6208]

Wow, the way Critical Drinker handles his female lead sounds terrible. Seems like 90% of her character just revolves around sexual assault. Which is just...yikes. Kinda sickening, honestly. Glad I'm never going to read this horrid book.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

lol read the book before whining

[@usernameig975]

sounds seems

[@akhimahathir2004]

​@@johnnyskinwalker4095L

[@t_ed2521]

It should be said that, if we're to take to TCD at his word and a film is good simply because of its intentions and subject matter, then TCD should also love Cuties.

[@Blackgriffonphoenixg]

considering his politics, I will bet money he does

[@Shades14]

Can't believe I'm liking a comment referring to that- that- thing.

[@dRoy8364]

@@Blackgriffonphoenixg Considering how right wing nutjobs have absolutely no problem with child beauty pageants and child marriages (hol up, I'm gonna throw up a bit just typing that)...probably yeah....

[@kanojo1969]

He definitely loves cuties, he just can't be honest because his grift realm is committed to hating it. Nubile young girls being sexualised? I bet it's one of the most popular streams right across the right-wing community.

[@pufffincrazy5275]

@@Shades14it’s not a thing…it’s a crime before god.

[@michaelwong9411]

It says a lot about conservatives that they've made a star out of this "Critical Drinker" guy, whose default criticism of every movie is "too woke". He's the most boring hack critic ever, but he's a star anyway, thanks to conservatives. It's just like the way has-beens like Kid Rock and Kevin Sorbo are still in the news thanks to conservatives, despite being so painfully mediocre that they would have been completely forgotten years ago without the life-support system for no-talent hacks that is the conservative media ecosystem.

[@eko9554]

If drinker said I enjoy Luca, Encanto, or inside out 2 then he wouldn’t make a video on it. He doesn’t like it when writers make representation of minorities even if anti wokes told writers to make original minority characters.

[@spongeboymebob771]

No. I'm a conservative and most of my friends are also conservatives. We all hate this guy. Like, HATE.

[@neoqwerty]

@@spongeboymebob771 CriticalDrinker managing to make everyone agree that he's trash amuses me so much

[@rabbitpirate]

36:00 Wait, she is so tough she regularly fights off multiple guards, leaving them injured and broken on the floor. But this one guard is able to assault her on what sounds like a regular basis???

[@timothytumusiime2903]

He's The Mountain Claim to fame raping and killing a sickly woman at age 17. ....oh wait, Anya leaves guards with gashes and broken bones and senseless on the floor. But this guy. He's built different

[@AntediluvianRomance]

Well, she may be several levels stronger than the mooks, but a man of her level must be stronger. I think that's how life works, doesn't it?

[@frantisekcenek1199]

​@@AntediluvianRomanceyou watched the part when she stopped the gun from firing yet? I think she's as balanced as a war thunder premium vehicle

[@AntediluvianRomance]

@@frantisekcenek1199 It's become a trend in modern media for characters to have just the abilities they need for the plot to work at any given monent. It's really tiring.

[@frantisekcenek1199]

@@AntediluvianRomance Well I'm writing a book currently. But I think too powerful characters are the one problem I don't have

[@jivesnarker8105]

You're actually the 2nd small youtuber I'm subbed to who's done a video critiquing TCD within (almost) the same year. Shoutouts to Zelcher Productions!

[@Aspirider0220]

Oh yeah zelcher's vid was so good

[@AdditiveOutlier]

My guy, he got 150k subs.

[@Dojafish]

For a second I thought you had that 🚫🏳️‍🌈 profile

[@alejandrochalco6893]

I love media criticism and analysis so I been living in utter suffering since in recent times it has been co-opted by TCD and douches of his sort. That just seat before a microphone and babble for 20 to 40 minutes about how Disney us evil and woke, occasionally making a decent point and then immediately ruining by dragging that point right back into culture war stuff. “Woke woke woke woke woke woke woke (valid criticism) and that’s because of woke wokeists with their woke religion that is so woke”

[@eldara3]

Yeah, but there's definitely strategy behind this! You hear a handful of reasonable points, maybe some things you've already thought before yourself, and some that you maybe hadn't noticed yet, and are sitting there nodding your head, when suddenly *woke* comes up. And if you're not wise to their tricks, or maybe already inclined that way, you might think, "huh, is that why? I'd never thought of it that way, but he had a few good points before, so he might be right..."

[@eko9554]

I still remember when people got mad at Disney for having lgbt characters in Baymax and strange world 2 years back. Ironically before that, people got mad at Disney for not having lgbt rep. Imagine being an animator and you do listen to feedback for what the public wants only to be criticized for it. It proves you can’t satisfy the public no matter how hard you try.

[@yurikendal4868]

I get tired oe hearing about kathleen kennedy ad nauseum. I just unsubscribed to the lot of them because they cant seem to move on from her. The misrepresent her as the sole reason that star wars feel apart. There is more to it then that. "SHe ruined lucas's vision." Well, he got 2 billion, he can make his own universe.

[@thejuiceking2219]

@@yurikendal4868 i thought he got 4 billion?

[@hylianfelldragon1308]

This probably isn't related to the book but as someone who consumes a lot of japanese media, (Yeah I'm a weeb. What of it?) I've lost count as to how many of them either have an all female cast or have some of the strongest characters in the show/film/game be female. That doesn't really strike me as something that critical drinker would really agree to so his statement on how japanese media got popular because they're not woke is very questionable to me considering his takes on certain films.

[@memelordmarcus]

Lots of anime are hella woke

[@thejuiceking2219]

because you have to pick your targets, you can't just lash out at anything with a gay person in, you have to establish that the thing is shit beforehand

[@OtakuD50]

You have to understand that "makes me horny" = not woke.

[@-Mothy-]

Yeah but their tits are huge so it's fine

[@Thenumberstationangel]

What were you expecting from the guy who’s whole idea of critique is awkwardly trying to put culture war nonsense into videos about blockbuster movies

[@FMJIRISH]

Ironic considering Hollywood made the culture war the centerpiece of their writing rooms.

[@brianmurphy250]

Yes, how dare anybody make fun of “blockbusters” like The Marvels or She Hulk ! Because modern Hollywood never awkwardly jams their politics into the shows….🙄🙄🙄🤮

[@Thenumberstationangel]

@@brianmurphy250 no it’s because he exclusively does shallow criticism on lowest common Denominator movies

[@redjirachi1]

The only way to win the culture war is not to play

[@dustywaynemusic6297]

​@@brianmurphy250touch grass

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

Can I just point out that, for all of Critical Drinker’s criticizing of Captain Marvel, she actually did have to seek out others for help while Anya is a flawless killing machine? Can anyone say hypocrite?

[@ignatius929]

Well, if you refuse to be woke. Then obviously you’re blind to everything. And these idiots think it’s a good thing.

[@utopiandystopia1383]

anya is his self insert waifu so its ok

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

@@utopiandystopia1383 So, in his mind, as long as the tough woman has no identity outside the man, it's okay. Why am I not surprised?

[@BLP04]

Also how he complains about Captain Marvel being able to beat up people, even tho she’s a literal superhero, meanwhile Anya is just a regular ass woman with military training who can beat up dozens of guards who also have military training

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

@@BLP04 From the very man who not only claims that having a woman beat a man is not believable but has an entire audience who are deluded enough to think they can beat a woman with a black belt with no training whatsoever just because they have a Y chromosome.

[@pavelZhd]

Regarding the name of the prison in Russia. I am russian. And I am pretty sure this is not a real name. Sounds like something a person that did zero research on the topic but just made up a word that "sounds Russian" would have. And even then failing at it. Because while all the syllables used in this name are used in Russian, having them in this corner and specifically ones used at the ending make is sound Kazakh rather than Russian. And sure this is a minor detail in the grand scheme, but googling up a name of an actual infamous Russian prison is not too hard. Or better yet - not give it a name at all. Have CIA refer it as a blacksite in region of Siberia, and the guards (and inmates since it would rub on them) call it something like "Kazemat". (this word originally refers to underground storage areas of a fortress, that were sometimes used to hold prisoners in leu of dedicated prison. And since those were not intended to be fit for long term habitation, the word gradually drifted towards meaning "terrible prison you don't want to end up in". Like so little effort would have been required to avoid this stupid naming faceplant, the fact it is there is insulting.

[@rayquazaboladao]

Hold on! Kazemat, underground? It's similar to the portuguese word casamata!

[@Politoed89]

as someone from washington DC, there's literally a specific infrastructure reason for DC to have insane traffic. DC is a planned city that has a limited amount of space, and it can't expand because it's an independent district - any additional land DC took would have to be claimed from the existing states of maryland or virginia. but they didn't plan for DC to gain as much population as it did because it was planned centuries ago, when cities were way smaller. at the same time, building codes in DC don't allow for extremely tall buildings because 1) it would mess up views and sightlines for the monuments, and 2) they want the skies as clear as possible to spot any suspicious aircraft. they can't expand outward OR upward, and everything is jammed into a small space. DC traffic is so incredibly bad that locals almost never drive in the city itself at all. mr. critical drinker clearly didn't even read the wikipedia page for the location he wanted his main character to live in. LMAO

[@BlueSkullFish]

Setting means background to hack writers, its not part of the story to them

[@skylarkie]

my favorite part of james tullos uploads is immediately sending the video to my best friend and we text back and forth every thirty seconds as we watch the video together

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

That’s very sweet

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

what a bunch of geeks!

[@11namesknow6]

In Saudi Arabia an Islamic theocracy, a woman both driving and with no hijab (I'm assuming since it wasn't mentioned and Trullo stated her hair colour) should have been instantly flagged and put them in jail

[@Of_infinite_Faith]

I'm pretty sure they changed those laws a few years ago

[@sh1niii]

​@@Of_infinite_FaithThe book takes place in 2007, back when those laws still were used.

[@hazimhayderhazim9459]

Why are you trying to paint us as extremists because you only have to advice the woman to wear it if she does not want to then that is fine and that only applies to muslim women, I think people from other countries are not forced to wear it.

[@based-ys9um]

​@@hazimhayderhazim9459without lies islam dies. Those women don't have a choice and you know that very well 😂

[@wilthomas]

isn't this guy one of those youtubers who just constantly whines about women and poc being in movies?

[@Hawkatana]

He's basically the modern face of that genre of "content creator".

[@cmk921]

No, he whines about shite content

[@Hawkatana]

@@cmk921 Nice fanfic.

[@wilthomas]

@@cmk921 aren't you kind of embarrassed to like him

[@cmk921]

@@wilthomas I’d be way more embarrassed to like modern Disney

[@Andy.325]

Drinker’s book is like if a 14 year old who played way too much Call of Duty and watched Spike TV on the regular, made a Steven Segal movie Edit: I didn’t catch the Segal reference until afterwards lol 💀

[@didncozosksma4466]

Jesus Christ, Spike TV. Even as a kid I thought it was garbage.

[@cadethumann8605]

​@didncozosksma4466 Out of curiosity, what was wrong with Spike TV? Mind you, I only watched MXC (a Japanese obstacle course show).

[@draketurtle4169]

The battlefield 3/4 book is better than this slop.

[@gunnargunnarsson5963]

@@draketurtle4169 to be fair, those books were written by Andy McNab, who gave us Bravo Two Zero, so of course he has talents, unlike this slop that felt like it was written out of spite.

[@SeanHartnett-t8c]

to be fair that could habe worked.

[@kildogery]

As a Scotsman, I hate his voice. It's like he's made up his own accent. No one speaks like that. Just him.

[@eko9554]

Fascists like him needs to be removed from KZbin and the Film Community. Period.

[@ryanmatheson5137]

Oh my god thank you! As a fellow Scot I listen and all I can think is "who finishes their sentences like thaaaaaat??"

[@chalkandcheese1868]

​@@ryanmatheson5137OMG that just sounds terrible, how do you cope with this travesty?

[@Erasureeraser]

One of few Scotsman I can think off who speaks nicely is Gerard Butler. And he was once an alcoholic btw and yet he speaks way nicely and more clearer than Drinker

[@ryanmatheson5137]

@@Erasureeraser it's not even the accent it's the way he ends sentences, like a sulky child not getting their own way

[@Channel-zs3gg]

Dude has literally never been in jail whatsoever saying dumb shit like a man could survive a russian prison with ease, theres no way a character or anyone is that stupid, then also anyone knows nobody can prevent sexual assualt in prison unless youre being protected by numbers someone like his characters would be smart enough to know this, being a man or woman is irrelevant in that situation

[@CosmicLatte1]

No way, not him naming all of the male characters in his novel after the marines in Aliens, LMAO.

[@kyletitterton]

I don't despise the drinker but had a good chuckle when I found out his own art was the most generic crap imaginable.

[@zhyirshamsid-deen6919]

Who bets Drinker will make a response and just insult our boy like an idiot

[@notsteve5927]

He probably won’t do it in a separate video, but he will definitely address some criticism in his cringe podcast. Y’know, the one where he and a bunch of other like-minded guys sit around and pretend they’re not misogynistic.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Hmmm. Tempting bet...

[@BahasaMan-vt4hi]

Not really a chat was said hes book suck and he just said hes sorry because the chat dont liked it​@@notsteve5927

[@Reed5016]

He’s probably going to insult James’s appearance, and call him a woke neckbeard.

[@SHVRWK]

"ThE mEsSaGe" in an obnoxious voice and objectively garbage British accent.

[@Virgo117]

It's a spy novel, why didn't Anya wear a fake mustache while driving to avoid suspicion 😂

[@ethanstyant9704]

Cause that would be woke trans propaganda

[@RunninWild17]

I find it tremendously funny that he chose "Redemption" as the title of his first book in a series, thats a title for like the 4th or 5th book

[@Squidlark]

And named the MC Ryan Drake. He should leave naming to someone more adept at it.

[@BLP04]

@@SquidlarkRyan Drake sounds like it could be the name of a shitty action game protagonist or an equally shitty stripper/pornstar

[@jrm371]

TCD is a one-note critic. I used to be a fan, then he went off the deep end, over-analyzing every little thing and calling it woke. It’s ALL woke in his eyes. And if something isn’t “woke” in his eyes, he STILL has to bring it up and say it’s NOT “woke.” Normal reviews and analysis are gone.

[@AnaatthiGozo]

Credit to the prologue: I was engaged the whole video waiting to see if it was going to blatantly copy the ending of Metal Gear Solid 5.

[@Hawkatana]

Ground Zero or Phantom Pain?

[@AnaatthiGozo]

@@Hawkatana I was thinking of how Quiet's story ends in Phantom Pain, unfortunately this book was much more boring.

[@JCSaxonVT]

Turns out the main character is actually TCD with plastic surgery and hypnosis to become the main character, so the main character can secretly work in the background to achieve his dream of an soldier nation without borders.

[@redrox3312]

The Drinker is the ultimate example of men writing women…which is ironic because he usually hates how women are written

[@CB-eo6xo]

Apparently, if it's only him doing the writing on women and not anyone else (especially his sworn enemies), it's fair game, I suppose. Hypocrisy at it's finest.

[@lucascoval828]

Big fan of Acolyte, eh?

[@austinreed7343]

@@lucascoval828 What does that mean?

[@l0rf]

So he writes like he's still 14, playing Modern Warfare and nothing has changed in the world or how mature you are. Surprisingly, not the first time a terrible writer just referenced something he must have thought the epitome of coolness in their teenage years - Fallout NV's mod the Frontier was, at least in the NCR plotline, basically Fallout: Modern Warfare. And for someone who thinks that Marvel Movies are stupid, Drinker sure seems to like writing a Black Widow stand-in.

[@BoisegangGaming]

Clearly the woke agenda forced him to write his female characters that way. He clearly would have done something else if he had just been given creative control/insert-excuse-here. /s

[@fulcrum6760]

Missing the nuance of Modern Warfare to be exact.

[@tlegg]

more like biege widow

[@l0rf]

@@fulcrum6760 that too. The cool moments are there, the big set pieces, but those had a reason to be there in the grander narrative and were not just slow motion shots of army guys for no reason.

[@penginlord9396]

That's why the frontier NCR plotline simply didn't feel like Fallout at all. Because it wasn't. (Also there was that one scene ripped straight from Wolfenstein. The entire NCR plotline stinks of stolen ideas and references)

[@milestrombley1466]

The Critical Drinker should be called the Hypocritical Drinker. 🤣

[@pw6002]

Or the critical faker.

[@darkapollo3463]

Or The Chronic Yapper

[@lenadams854]

Glorified Hypocrites

[@tuinhoofd1923]

It's a shame that wearing sunglasses all the time/indoors is perceived to be douchey, I'm autistic and sunglasses really help sensorily with bright lights etc, socially too so I don't have to make eye contact all the time. I'd love to wear them anywhere I go, but then I feel conspicuous because I assume everyone thinks I'm a twat, and this guy isn't helping that assumption

[@EinFelsbrocken]

Stereotype probably came to be from too many drugged up ppl trying to "expertly" hide how high they are rn 😂 Like dudes chewing their own cheeks bloody with sunglasses on: "Ey bro Im looking ok; do I?"

[@BulgarianReaper]

I like to wear sunglasses at night/indoors too sometimes. I don't do it often, but occasionally

[@werelemur1138]

This feels like he wrote James Bond/Black Widow crossover fanfic because he shipped it, and then filed the serial numbers off to make a quick buck. I have to give him a pass on the cover, though. Traditional publishing is pretty notorious for a) choosing an image based on vibes rather than being an actual scene in the plot and b) not giving the author much (or frequently any) input over the cover.

[@mikecrain2076]

I remember being so mad when the only job I was allowed to get after my dishonorable discharge was being James Bond. It was just so unfair

[@MultiSoulless]

As a Scot dismayed by this guy's shite - I WOULD NEVER refer to myself as a 'Brit'. But then, I'm also not a Cynical Grifter.

[@bengheinrich7500]

Despite being on the opposite side of the political spectrum. He and Jenna Moreci have one thing in common they are better youtubers then authors. I red the first one and thought it was meh.

[@VerrouSuo]

19:06 woah ive never seen drinker without the sunglasses either and like disney called they want their original king magnifico render back

[@Erasureeraser]

It's funny how in his second channel, Critical Drinker After Hours, he has a video titled "How To Write A Book - The Drinker's Advice", yet this is the book made from his own advices that he came up with 😂

[@jon85753]

I hate how body language reading is depicted most of the time. It's a complete pseudo science. Especially when it comes to trying to figure out deception. A study actually shows that training people in body language can increase their ability to detect deseption. However, their rate of deception detection is lower than people who try to detect deception entirely vocally.

[@AidanDaGreat]

What’s the source? Not trying to disprove your comment just curious.

[@howdoyoudo5949]

Source?

[@rileighdabbs1950]

It feels like people heard the line “don’t underestimate the importance of body language” and thought it was literal advice, not an innuendo.

[@JaceDeanLove]

@@AidanDaGreatthis is KZbin. Just google it and find a source

[@casscoolerthanu]

something you forgot with your drinker IMPRESSION was the weird INFLECTION he puts on his words, especially the LAST word of a sentence, that make him sound CONSTIPATEDGHHH

[@geeman.8081]

He's hamming his accent up a bit.

[@GenesiisDavid]

"Support a movie because of the message" is something critical drinker himself would endlessly mock. Imagine someone said that about the newer star wars movies 😂, he'd be all over that. There's probably a clip of him doing exactly that

[@BLP04]

It’s pretty hilarious to see him always refer to “woke” people as snowflakes, meanwhile he gets insanely triggered when something doesn’t perfectly align with his political beliefs

[@HenryGray-sy4pu]

@@BLP04 That's pretty universal among all wingnuts, tbh. They're convinced that by screaming and ranting into the camera about women on a screen, they're the ones who look mature.

[@amberruby4896]

You already know that hoody is the most comfortable purchase James had made

[@bravediomedes217]

I thought TCD was pretty entertaining for the first few videos I saw, until I realized that he just has the exact same criticism for every movie, whether it makes sense or not.

[@alfb2453]

Same, his videos got old pretty quickly and then it just became endless whining for me.

[@urosvesic9520]

Same. It is crazy that he does the same critique for every movie he did not like, even if it makes no sense

[@Seventhplanet538]

I never want to see the Drinker talking about movies again. Now that he released his awful movie, it's blatantly obvious that he doesn't know what makes a movie good.

[@Reed5016]

Back when I was a centrist, I used to like some of Will’s videos, but a lot of his comments left a bad taste in my mouth. I went back to watch some of his videos a few weeks ago, and now I can’t believe I ever had respect for TCD. I’m not surprised that this book is mediocre at best, and sh*t at worst.

[@Minhyasai]

I used to eat his videos up as an edgy teenager, now that I'm more mature when I see his videos and comment section it just makes me laugh like they're genuinely malding man children who cry and nitpick

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

I sometimes go back to KZbinrs I used to watch, particularly the ones that became ultra far-right, and I just end up feeling deeply embarrassed of my past self. It's not always bad though, as it shows how much you've grown as a person.

[@Reed5016]

@@SleepyMatt-zzz That’s very true.

[@Gvjrapiro]

No same, I used to watch a lot of those types as a "centrist," before leaving that youtube bubble and realizing just how anti-centrist a lot actually was.

[@Reed5016]

@@Gvjrapiro 100%.There’s nothing centrist about the far right.

[@MashupsByMandy]

Good critics would not base their entire personality on crapping\mocking other people's work, it is the same reason why most youtubers who monetize mockery of other people's work can't deliver anything of quality on their own.

[@R0CKDRIG0]

He makes positive reviews as well. Also just because you can't make good art it doesn't make your critiques less valid, they are two different talents.

[@MashupsByMandy]

@@R0CKDRIG0 Doesn't matter, he sells himself on shitting on other people's work. It is one thing to say this movie has these attributes and mention a list of objective aspects of the movie to inform the public, what the customer should properly expect from a piece of creative endeavor, it is another to basically mock almost everyone else's work and push political warfare onto the public.

[@yewtoob2007]

This guy, Critical Drinker, makes a weird point to tell us how much smaller the female co-star appears to be compared to her male co-actors. It's strange and, well, just strange.

[@des4929]

As someone who used to watch TDC my god looking back I don't see how I ever liked him he essentially just screams "T H E M E S S A G E" while zooming in on the woman closest to being the main character

[@goosegas2087]

I stumbled upon him when I was like 12 and even I got tired of watching him. Like he would just ree about whamen for 20 minutes and be obsessed with Batgirl.

[@noahvance6160]

I once stumbled upon a video of his when I was 14 where he reacted to the Batwoman trailer, and while the trailer definitely looked like garbage, I couldn't help but notice how unpleasant his demeanor was throughout most of his commentary. I at first assumed he was putting on an angry reviewer shtick akin to the Nostalgia Critic, but as I kept watching I was kept in doubt, and it rubbed me the wrong way to the point where I was just turned off entirely to watching anymore of his stuff. Now that I've gotten older and learned he was basically just a bigoted asshole pretending to be a movie critic, I'm glad I never decided to watch any more stuff of his, especially given how, annoyingly, having watched that one video lead to me getting more recommendations of his reviews for like two months afterwards 😒

[@SOBEKCrocodileGod]

Ironic how he said you HAVE TO like Sound of Freedom because of its message

[@thac0twenty377]

he was amusing s few years ago. that whole circle just started taking themselves way too seriously man

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

The hoodie may be too big but it looks comfy to wear! i need to get an oversized hoodie again- Every day I gain confidence in my own writing. Because if the Critical Drinker, someone who couldnt name basic writing steps if he was gently prodded towards them, could write a book? Then I can too. And so can you!

[@MrCompassionate01]

Anybody can write a book but it's getting people to read them that's the issue. Much like Podcasts it's easier to get people to tune in if you're already a minor celebrity of some kind. Drinker could have written basically anything and his fans would have bought it.

[@johnecoapollo7]

There's so much to say about this but what is by far the funniest to me is that for a supposedly tough, man's man who supposedly went through super duper tough guy military training, he gets EVERYTHING about the military side of his story absolutely wrong. Tom Clancy, an accountant by trade, wrote best selling military techno thriller after best selling military techno thriller, books that active members of the military applaud for their accuracy and military academies have in their recommended reading lists at a time when the best and only way to research military subjects was through documents and books like Jane's Fighting Ships, journals, magazines and interviewing members of the military and intelligence communities. Just lazy all around.

[@malikarsyasakani]

Is there a way to reach out to veterans about their experiences? I have some stories I want to write.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Than you for accurately representing the way he talks like he is constantly gnashing his teeth and growling

[@Wyattporter]

On Jose’s video I noticed he stresses the last word of every sentence like he’s straining to shit.