Nice to get your perspective. Thanks.

you know the cartoon will still exist right? like Ariel isn't being "replaced" & is also a Disney property. mush worse that Americans want to own every cultures stories because the truth of their nation is that it was founded on slavery and genocide.

@@spellman007 I do realize it will still exist but that doesn't excuse the extremely LAZY job their doing. It's lame, they barely make anything new, they're upcycling work that's not even that old and race and gender swapping for brownie points for the ESG. They don't give a crap about black people. And it's not just Disney. Everyone is black washing the crap out of everything they can to kowtow to woke identity politics. I just named these two because they are the ones that upset me the most as they were my favorites. And I don't know what Kool aid you're sipping on but The United States was founded on freedom from tyranny. They didn't leave to murder anyone. They came to be free, nothing else. Please take your unenlightened and very off topic slandering of my country to someone who partakes in that garbage cause it is not me.

@@spellman007 historically, the vast majority of “nations” (in quotes because I think you meant “countries.”) were founded on slavery and/or genocide.

@@stvbrsn no, they were not vastly founded on Genocide and slavery. that is far more unique to the American continent becasue of European colonialism.

Thanks for the comment. No one should make you feel bad. I won't.

@@CallMeChato I know. We're together in this. This is a matter of cultural preservation and dignity. They shall not pass!

I recently had the pleasure of revisiting the Terminator franchise (only the first 2 😅) with my wife who'd never seen one. It really put into perspective how far the "strong female lead" archetype has been lost in the modern gender wars.

One of my favorite characters is Evie from the 1999 Mummy! She's not really a fighter, but knew how to use her brain.

Which movies are making people feel bad for being white straight Europeans?

Me Too! I went to Seneca, you?

I am a nerd. Although I am a Classicist (Ancient History, Latin and Ancient Greek and yes I can read and write both) I am interested in sciences; I just find them difficult. To underline what you say, however, there are magazines aimed obviously at science inclined nerds which contain science fiction stories and science fact articles (Analog; Asimov Science Fiction; Fantasy & Science Fiction). There are no magazines containing fiction stories based on Women’s or Gender Studies.

I've been a History Nerd ever since I was 6 and my mother took me to an antique store. Fascinated ever since and even worked in archeology when I was in college and taught it. Unfortunately woke infected academia is just as bad and well not in there anymore.

more brutality...

But OMG it helps, Major in Biology and Clinical Laboratory Science and dabbled in all the other Hard Sciences especially Quantum Physics which is probably the most simultaneously serious and silly of all science.

It's a classic moral hazard: they get rewarded with social status and psychological gratification for making sacrifices on other people's behalf by making things less fun. The moment people have a skin in the game and truly personally care about something, they usually start making damn sure that the price paid is the lowest it can be, the benefits are tangible and as certain as possible, and the side-effects negligible or non-existent. There are no such concerns if other people shoulder all the burden.

SJW's will never win coz the originals exist still, unless it's made illegal and we gotta burn every copy of a film XD might not get any good ones in the future but Star Wars 4, 5 and 6 exist, Terminator 1 and 2 still exist. I hate the sjw's and it's true they ain't fans, hopefully monkey pox and covid wipes most of em out

I’m not sure if you Just described SJWs of authoritarianism. Either way, the description fits.

@@simonbirch8689 Either. Both. Yes.

Which franchises were ruined by the boogeyman? Go ahead, I'll wait

Yes, ironic isn't it?

@@CallMeChato Sad, pathetic, enraging, there are a lot of words one can use.

Heck, they hate us because we built their entire world - they know they cannot compete.

@@jondavidtheauthor6318 nerd culture became mainstream, so the mainstream does what it does with all niche things, over exposes it and ruins it. It wouldn't bother me so much if it was just niche like some music, but people got bullied and messed up for liking these things and the same bullies took it over and now say "like it or you are (insert phob or ism)" Because most people are adults now that won't let you bully them anymore so they smear you. That is literally the only method they have left.

We didn't just help build the fandom, we *are* the fandoms. The vocal minority that hates on every property is not representative of the whole group.

It's correct,but I've heard the same saying for a long time.

Was not me. Sorry.

Anyone who's been through the mill of higher education in the last fifteen years (and didn't come out of it radicalized) has come to the same conclusion.

i dunno. we was pretty much told what to think as well.

@@zoltanz288 I guess, to an extent. It's our critical thinking that makes us more independent than others, imo.

Guilty as charged.

lol, you said analnes.

the word you are you looking for is "analytic" lol

You will never find an IP with consistent continuity. Your "point" is null, which is not surprising since you apparently don't even pay enough attention to things to know the expression "anal retentive".

@@rumfordc well to be anal about it - and consequently validate Darren's point - the proper conjugation that should be used is, "analytical."

Some do. Disney and HBO certainly do.

Ohhh yeah, definitely no 4k streaming beats a blu-ray! I got shocked at age 4 fixing my parents VHS player, so we could watch Star war (original trilogy) even them I loved tearing things apart to know how they worked.and still do 😃

One of my favorite parts of watching some of my movies is the director or actor commentaries when the actors or directors took it seriously. I would love to see that being offered as part of streaming services.

Rent a commentary or film is just that. Rent. Calling it streaming is just how they advertise a cheaper rent product that you will never control. Temporary without any return.

vudu does as well

The underlying issue is that the "creative types" are not creative types at all. They're just pretenders. Con-men. Wankers who wax poetically, hoping that no one realizes they're full of shit. When real creative types make something, it generates a LOT of conversation. Whether you like it or hate it, you will respect it. And sometimes you'll have different opinions based on the work. (Universally loving Stanley Kubrick was not universal. Nor probably should it be.) When these tossers make a work, the only "conversation" is a whole lot of public flagellation about how racist or sexist the public is for not watching the movie. You would think they'd have learned from the music industry that attacking your customers simply isn't a good idea. But these uncreatives don't care. They're just trying to get a paycheck for another day and then move along to the next gig before anyone realizes they don't have a creative bone in their body.

Yea I would use the term “creative types” loosely

@@thewiirocks Actually I think most of the 'creative types' sincerely believe in the nonsense they espouse. The problem is they were hired on the basis ideological soundness rather than on talent, therefore writers are hired who don't even know the basics of drama.

Damn, how true.

If they were creative they would have made their own stuff, instead of ruining old stuff.

They are trophies to be mocked and belittled. Like the roman soldiers painting a giant dick on Heracles.

I think conservatism and classical liberalism are actually very similar. I know he said he was a progressive, but I'm not sure that's the right word for it any more. But even if he is an actual progressive, there is a lot of ground that we can stand on together, while having a civil disagreement on specific things like gun rights, abortion, socialized Healthcare, etc.

Power mostly, a sick desire for tons of power.

The corporations are dividing us through ESG scores which create the SJWs and all the woke propaganda. "activists' are just people brainwashed by ESG scores. Corporations love feminism and abortion and division so we don't target them. They love hate speech laws v=because they want more censorship. the woke are just useful idiots that will be eventually abandoned.

My main problems with the woke are their Left fascism and proud racism. Being irrational selfish jerks doesn't help their cause either.

@@DrCruel Thing is, I don't think they understand they're racists. Remember the old saying: "Hell is paved with good intentions"? Well, they're full of good intentions. But if Hell was a real thing, since the SJWs are around it would have the best roads in all the Universe/Multiverse/Whatever.

that is also when I came to learn about SJW's. I immediately hated them because I LOVED the AVGN at the time (and still do) he made a fair case as to why he didnt want to see it, and he was smeared by feminists and the like. Almost instantly, any point they were fighting for (or rather what they claimed to be fighting for) was moot to me as they targeted someone who did nothing wrong.

What I have realized about the SJWs is they never settle down even for moment ... they are in constant state of agitation and unhappiness. NOTHING is ever good enough. My earliest experience was an18 yr old feminist at a restaurant. Finally after knowing her a year she was upset at me and told me she could tell me 'what was wrong with my marriage' (18, can't drink yet , never been married even a day but she knows how a 44 yr marriage functions?) I just told her good bye. Life is too darn short.

People with no coherent argument resort to abusive epithets. It's the twitter twits' bread and butter.

But how dare you assume that a woman can't have fragile masculinity? Why are you trying to limit women? 🙂

Yes "nerds" famously love indulging in contrary opinions about the shows/movies/comics they love. They never fly into a rage and accuse others of "not getting it" or "being fake fans." It's just never happened, ever.

There is definitely something very weird about the whole “nerdy yet woke” people - a specific picture comes to mind for me: someone with glasses with dyed hair and a Harry Potter scarf - anyways, the weird thing is that they are *more* focused on espousing on whether characters fit boxes than they are on the *story* itself. I always found this very odd. They could care less if the story sucks. It has to have the right phrases - like “let’s burn the old way down” etc.

Futurama and to a degree Disenchantment are also cast in the same vein, and it's what makes them so rewatchable. There's always some little gem in each episode that requires quite a bit of knowledge to get. Of course it helps to have the common creator in Matt Groening.

_Seinfeld_ matches this description too. It had lots of slapstick and zaniness, but the plots were intricate and required a certain level of cultural literacy. You would never see a scene based on the Judgment of Solomon on _Friends_ 😂

Humility to the point of self-deprecation in some cases. >///~///

Hey, I guess that means I'm a nerd!

If I may, I finally understand why the Archie Sonic comics failed. I learned in hindsight they were written by an SJW with a kink for political theatrics that make the prequels look like child's play and a...disturbing abundance of incest and love of child grooming. Makes sense that he's screaming slurs at conservative judges and threatening lawsuits against Paramount and SEGA for making anything about echidnas without his permission like he owns the goddamn species. I hope he gets NUKED FROM ORBIT. If you don't know...clean your stomach before looking up the cancer to humanity that is Kenneth W. Penders III.

It's kind of like a comparison between scientists and religious fanatics. The scientists want improvements and know they must question everything to get there, even the fundamentals. If you could disprove fundamentals in science, you'd be lauded for it, even if it threw all the research in the world into question. ESPECIALLY then. You handed everyone the missing piece they've been looking for. The religious fanatic wants society to stay static for thousands of years. They think the perfect answers are already found, so any attempt to "improve" it would bring us away from perfection. Doubt is seen as a personal flaw, not a potential issue with the dogma. If you had irrefutable proof that it's horseshit, they'd deny their own senses and reasoning, and they'll admit it. They'll also destroy you and your proof so nobody can hear it. Nerds have a huge overlap with scientists. The woke are exactly like a medieval cult of religious fanatics and witch hunters, just without a God. They'd claim that paper bags are racist before they'd argue their way out of one.

Exactly!

You don't need to add patch notes to your comments

Sorry, what is SKW? I'm not familiar with it.

@@Tubesmaney social justice warriors

They shall not pass.

That's a true truth. "Oh no, I'm going to be unpopular! Where's the Mountain Dew?"

"we know the lore." As a fellow female D&D player, I agree. We can be obsessive over our favorite hobbies. Dare to ruin those hobbies and face our wrath--or withheld credit cards!

They don't realize just how individualist we are and that we always marched to the beat of our own drums, as cliched as that sounds.

and like every bully who gets a taste of their own medicine in being dominated by facts and reality they start to bitch and act like the victim.

The companies somehow decided (due to polls?) that it's safer to twist everything than to produce good content.

I've never thought of myself as a nerd because I'm east European, having glasses and good grades made you a "stove (4 eyes)", not a "nerd" or "book worm", also I'm tall so they couldn't really bully me and were too stupid to coordinate to fight me. And as part middle easter female from the Balkans I mostly ignored swj and wokeism as an american whatever. We have issues but race and gender are not real issues, we've had horrible wars recently, but we're in EU now united in diversity and all that. But fuck if I'm not upset at what Amazon did to Tolkien's work and I'm not even a fantasy fan, I'm into sci-fi. The violation and desecration is so offensive, so vile, that it has moved even me. And I'm fighting it however I can.

Bro this isn’t championing nerd culture. This is petty pathetic whining. The equivalent to sjws for angry nerds.

His last rant was absolutely brilliant. 👍

@@TrueGamer22887 obviously, you have already taken your 30 pieces of silver. Go away, now.

@Coco Crisp What do you want him to have told us then? "Take up your arms and attack the sjws"? 🤨

@@TrueGamer22887 I'm not seeing the outrage or whining that you seem to be suggesting Chato is embodying.. Not that it doesn't exist - it absolutely does, and to be fair I think that a few of the people he mentioned are guilty of just that - but not him... at least not yet! If anything quite the opposite - he purposefully avoids blanket generalisations and simply uses sjw in the same way that you have, as a pejorative for extremists. What he does do is constantly refer back to the positives as a touchstone for how to do it right.. he even spells out why, for example by contrasting the spirit of risk taking and originality that characterises creativity and IP generation with the safety of unoriginal, pandering sequels and IP exploitation. By exalting the spirit that made 'nerd culture' (though I prefer "modern mythologies") the modern phenomena that it is he is absolutely championing it: That is virtually the definition of the word! I'd suggest that maybe YOU have become hypersensitised to modern outrage culture and the tribalism that it is rooted in and so are rejecting anything that appears like a rallying cry to one side or the other without critically appraising what is being said... Which ironically is a symptom of that exact problem - not hearing out people you think you may disagree with. Edit.. due to the need for a conclusion

_Now everything has to be depressing (movies, TV, Books and Comics)._ It was the same in the early 1970s, in the era of stagflation, the Vietnam War winding down, the Energy Crisis. Films were gritty. But by the mid-1970s the tide began to turn, with films such as _Jaws_ and _Star Wars_ bringing in simple, entertaining stories told well, and earning big box office receipts as a result.

I love _Singin' in the Rain_ ! Just a group of immensely talented triple threats singing, dancing, and having a great time entertaining people.

I want to believe that we'll return to that. All this garbage nowadays doesn't appeal to any human being. We can already see business-minded individuals creep back into these corporations and kick out the parasites. They either do that or they'll all go broke and get swept away, so real creatives can enter the market. It can't be long now until they ran out of old franchises to bastardize. Then they HAVE to make new stuff, and they can't. They're bleeding out.

We used to say the even numbered Star Trek movies were the good ones.

Lately the tabletop game Warhammer has been seeing an influx of SJW's trying to destroy the IP. It's beautiful to see how zealous the Warhammer fandom is in shutting them down. FOR THE EMPEROR !!

Forgot one: prep virulent attacks on the fanbase to be released a minimum of one week before launch day.

This is probably very accurate.

Amazon has literally a List that goes kinda like this

Can’t fault this.

A few other suggestions come to my mind for the reverse engineered guide to woke story telling: - A female character shall never be in need of being saved ( and even less by a man) -No love story between a man and a woman should be allowed; - in every group or army of fighters, half the characters, minimum, shall be women. These groups shall always be lead by women; - No white male character shall be allowed to poke fun at any character from an oppressed minority, instead he shall be taught a lesson...

Tbh modern “nerd culture” has been hijacked by zoomer normies and woke celebrities, and has just become incredibly toxic. There’s a reason I no longer identify with the label.

@@ThePoliticrat what is a "Zoomer Normie"?

@@christophbeck1305 basic, 19 year old kids (usually woke) who jumped on the D&D bandwagon because it was cool and who now call themselves nerds for it. Shit like that. And that’s just one of many answers I could have given.

@@ThePoliticrat ahh thanks for explaning. Im a zoomer (23 years old) but i probably woud Not count as one of those zoomer normies, even if i sometimes wonder if i am just a asshole poser (havent started playing videogames or reading comics because popular but because my brothers wife gave my her old Gameboy and my brother gave me his old ps2... ) well again thanks for explaining

Your description was well said. Yup. Nerds aren't nerds because we just like stuff. A nerd will fall head over heels into something.

Small correction - that was Simon Pegg, not Sean Penn 🙂

i love the boys! great how they are making trump supporters into weird nazi patriots.

so you are a 60 year old man that thinks film companies "hate" you becasue non white people are being cast in superhero/ star wars stuff? that's honestly so pathetic...

gotta avoid those spoilers!

It's a pity that it all leads into the garbage sequels like the Last Jedi ECT. Sad to know that he just becomes a bitter man drinking green space cow milk. I would show my niece the original three films,really the only ones that matter,and stop there. Much like Trek,Wars has been killed pretty badly. Well maybe not quite as badly as Trek sigh.

If it has not happenned yet, bet it'll be heartbreak & tears for her once she finds out how Luke was desecrated in the last jedi & then somewhat redeemed in the mandalorian.

They still exist and are rather good. But, you either have to A: Be outside of the Hollywood Sphere or B: Be an actor who is willing to do trash and have enough name recognition to get away with it. Examples: Bruce Cambell and Nick Cage.

Some people say that Ed Wood was the worst director of all time but at least he was free to make his low budget movies I really wish we had more Ed Woods in the Hollywood industry because sometimes an ed wood would turn out to be a Tim Burton or George Lucas or Steven Spielberg

I worked in a video rental store back in the late 80's. Was a great time for B-movies and I got to order all the scifi/fantasy/horror movies I wanted. We had a ton of regular customers that we would chat with for hours. Miss that time.

Same with gaming. I miss the days of the PS2 and further back when you had a lot more experimentation from major studios since the budgets weren't as ridiculous. Doubt we'll see stuff like Shadow Hearts, Phantom Dust, or Onimusha again.

This is very prevalent in Netflix if a show loses its top ten spot right after let’s say a weak they cancel shows even if the reviews were good. They need to either stop making a lot of shows and put money into only a couple or just make movies.

Yes, I’m glad I graduated back when we learned CRITICAL THINKING not “CRITICAL” THEORY.

So true! I graduated in college in 2011, and can say my experience was very similar to yours. Something happened about halfway into the 2010s that changed everything dramatically. Johnathan Haidt's book, "Coddling of the American Mind," covers this quite well.

@@nerdygrl647Thanks, I'll check it out! I'm not sure when the change happened but when I started hearing about "safe spaces" that truly baffled me, why go to college at all if you just want to block out the real world?

please someone make this happen. We need this man doing more videos like this!

I had to come from somewhere.

OMG - a gag from one skit that just sticks with me: Guy 1 - "I make shit that looks like food!" Guy 2 - "Big deal, so does my mother"

I just made the connection as well! Listening to those skits on Dr. Demento with a battery powered radio in the 80s...those were some good times.

I found "Boot to the Head.mp3" on a university file share like going on 25 years ago and never knew what it was from till now.

ME TOO!

You put pack instead of lack.

@@ahdhwjdue8362 thank you, didn’t even realise

@@pikkyeaterz you're welcome.

I heard Jackie Chan was asked to be in it, but he declined, so Waymond was played by the Asian kid from the Goonies.

@@lainiwakura1776 I thought Jackie was supposed to be the lead. EDIT: Yeah, Jackie Chan was originally supposed to be the lead. But honestly, I think Yeoh and how it all turned out was better.

I'm with you, but don't forget everything they did on the sequels before that. They had already ruined everything. Mando basically happened by accident because KK was desperate to sign anyone she could when TLJ was bombing hard, after she had just announced a whole trilogy for Rian (lol). That's when Favreau got to jump in, having been turned down for the sequels. KK also signed the GoT showrunners after TLJ, but then quietly unsigned them when they ruined GoT. She had no idea what she was doing, that's why TLJ is TLJ. Her mismanagement was discussed openly before TLJ came out (production troubles on every movie were mentioned in the Hollywood Reporter) but when TLJ came out they hid behind Hollywoke politics to distract from their disastrous failed product. Gina was our assassin, sent in to expose the Loserfilm feminist hypocrisy, and she succeeded in that mission perfectly. The media establishment will keep lying and saying we harassed Kelly Marie Tran, but everybody with functioning eyes could see that the real bullying was THEM harassing Gina. Bullying her. Cancelling her, trying to destroy her life. Right out in the open, no shame, no remorse - no conscience. That's just what they are, they're monsters. And it's good that Mickey took the side of the bullies. Mickey is a monstrous bully too, and is NOT on our side, never was. We have to accept that Star Wars is not Star Wars any more, it's just a branding mask worn by Mickey. Same as Marvel, which also does not exist any more, and is just a branding skin of the Mickey creature. And Favreau started that too, the MCU! Without Favreau, Disney wouldn't have either Star Wars or Marvel. They would still 'own' the IPs, but it would all be turned completely to dust, without Favreau. Mando S2 was the perfect follow-up to the glorious Humiliation of Abrams with Mando S1, and gave us real fans a beautiful funeral for the true, dead Star Wars.

Right, right, the company's behavior. Certainly not the shitty human being's behavior! You're cool with Disney sweat shops, but not that!

Dude still watch the content. Just do so over the high seas. Seek international waters. Enjoy their content but don't let them enjoy your money.

I'm reminded of the time when Disney _didn't_ fire Vanessa Hudgens.

Squirrel.

small hats are behind it

@@manoz6194 Shriners?

wait, what… you're writing Star Wars too???

@@duringthemeanwhilst yes, no one else in the world has had that idea! lol

@@ColinForBooks Power to you. We need good Star Wars stuff again.

@@ianbrowning7437 thanks, bro!

Lovey, my background is in the Arts. I'm a recognised nerd and geek, so don't undersell yourself.

Wow, yes, the Spanish version of 4 on the Floor. Hilarious reference.

I should have clarified that while not all of us have science backgrounds, many of us enjoy science. Good point.

@@CallMeChato it's all to do with having an enquiring mind.

To me, it's not the lack of world-building so much as the lack of effort and lack of passion. It's just corporate fan fiction slop that they expect you to lap up like a dog, and how dare you dislike it.

@@Rezzanine true enough, though I think good world-building is naturally downstream of the passion and effort you mention. In the end, I just got tired of being gaslighted every time I pointed out something that didn’t make sense in the universe by people saying what doesn’t make sense in the universe doesn’t matter for “the story.” It’s Star Wars for crying out loud; the story is nothing without the creativity of the universe and the way it’s presented.

@@onlyonestarwarsfan5337 Yeah, you're right, the world building would be a byproduct of the passion and effort. Gaslighting is the right word. It's a damn shame Lucas sold. I actually appreciated the prequels at the time (and even more so now) and thought the criticisms, though justified, were far too harshly and insultingly delivered. Still, no matter the criticisms, Lucas (and Lucasfilm under his management) never, ever stooped so low as to insult paying customers, unlike the... current management.

Yeah a Frantics fan. Thanks.

sh you've practiced tae kwon leap....

And to Pedowood's lawyers, leave not a boot to the head, but a rabid Tasmanian devil to be placed in their trousers.

You can cheer whatever you want, but please consider how low you set your bar. Comments like this feed into the stereotype that geeks are so braindead that we just occasionally need to be fan-serviced with images from the good days (even at the cost of narrative coherence) and we will lick the boots of our media-dispensing masters. I was not happy at Luke's appearance, because I didn't think it happened in the context of a good story with good worldbuilding. I think that's a better place to set the bar. Shows like Arcane totally deliver on that. Mandelorian, not so much. But it had a cute CGI puppet ... and a scene with CGI Luke. That's Disney telling us, "I think you're gross, but I guess I'll give you this half-hearted handjob because I know it doesn't take more to keep you lusting over me and also I want you to keep paying for my stuff."

@@davidhoracek6758 out of all the hours of content they've churned out, I only credit them for 4 minutes and I'm setting the bar low? I don't think you understand what's being said here at all.

"i clapped like a good seal at this obvious and pointless fanservice that didnt go anywhere and was there just to get me to clap."

Did you inherit from your parents? Thanks as always.

Alas, common sense has always been most noted by its rarity.

i think D&D was a boys club not by design or something. it was just how things happened. girls were just not that interested in D&D. hell, most of the boys were not interested in D&D.

I am not a comic book fan, but there is a comic series (don't know the name) that a comic writer started because he got tired of all the garbage. He has gotten millions of Kickstarter donations, making the usual suspects angry. Oh, and the irony is he is black. The book I am holding, to self promote, is a scifi novel "Icarus Falling" I wrote because I am a nerd. No SJW to be found; just adventure. My point is, we true nerds need to start doing our own thing and support others like us. Time to walk away from the big bully companies.

@@n.d.m.515 I think the comic series you're talking about is called "ICOM" and it's specifically from the new "Rippaverse" comics established by YoungRippa35. That's exactly what i'm talking about. He's more successful because he's fulfilling a niche market and giving them exactly what they want, stories, not politics within stories. I rest my case. XP And glad to see you supporting REAL content creators and writing your own content. Thanks for keeping the inspiration goin' bro. ;3

FYI I did not make that up