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Wednesday, 15 February 2017
quote [ Google’s YouTube has canceled the second season of PewDiePie’s reality show and pulled his channel from its premium advertising program after the Swedish-born vlogger’s prank involving an anti-Semitic slogan gained widespread notice.
The announcement from YouTube came just hours after Disney’s Maker Studios said it was terminating its relationship with PewDiePie, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, over the same videos. ]
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rndmnmbr said @ 9:10pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:1 Underrated]
I have to admit that I'm getting old. My 13-year-old nephew loves this guy, and really wants me to enjoy him too, but all I can think is why on earth would you watch a smarmy asshole play a video game instead of, y'know, playing the fucking game yourself?
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Dienes said @ 10:50pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:2 Underrated]
I understand the appeal of Let's Plays. I don't understand the appeal of a lolrandom, shrieking manchild Let's Play.
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HoZay said @ 9:18pm GMT on 15th Feb
Much like reality tv.
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steele said @ 9:56pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:3 Insightful]
 Even better if I felt like opening photoshop and replacing the sports with porn :D |
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rndmnmbr said @ 10:43pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:1 Underrated]
Honestly, the part I don't like isn't the "play games" bit - I watched a beautiful 100% playthrough of AM2R last night, since my computer won't run it. It's the smarmy asshole bit that I hate about Let's Plays - just shut the fuck up and play the fucking game, I don't want your stupid commentary and bad attempts at being funny.
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steele said @ 10:58pm GMT on 15th Feb
Well, the kids seem to like it....
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Headlessfriar said @ 10:11pm GMT on 15th Feb
I dunno, at least with porn most of the audience plays along at home.
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HoZay said @ 10:25pm GMT on 15th Feb
It's pretty much all interactive.
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Kama-Kiri said @ 11:12pm GMT on 15th Feb
I have to say I quite like watching people play video games. It's less stressful than playing yourself, its often edited to show highlights, and has funny/interesting commentary. You can kind of sit back and armchair quarterback the tactics and strategy as the game is playing out.
So yeah, its not unlike watching sports on TV. |
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mechanical contrivance said @ 3:13pm GMT on 16th Feb
There are only two types of game play videos I like. One is Awesome Games Done Quick, which is watching the best players in the world at a particular game. The other is Renegade For Life, which is watching Vegeta play games.
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XregnaR said @ 4:10pm GMT on 15th Feb
Another article indicated he banked over $15mil last year alone, so I am not shedding any tears. With that kind of money, you shouldn't ever have to work again...
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snagUber said @ 5:01pm GMT on 15th Feb
there really should be an IDGAF mod. not sure a + or a - though.
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arrowhen said @ 5:40pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:2 Insightful]
Not modding is the IDGAF mod.
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Ankylosaur said @ 6:20pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:1 Underrated]
By contrast, skulking out of hiding to post a comment of "who gives a fuck?" is a pretty clear indication that you're mad, bro.
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arrowhen said @ 8:08pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:1 Informative]
I'M NOT FUCKING MAD!!!!!
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spazm said @ 5:26pm GMT on 15th Feb
After watching 30 seconds of this shitwaffle I'm surprised YouTube even gave him a platform to begin with.
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cb361 said[1] @ 6:09pm GMT on 15th Feb
I had never heard of him. Now that's spoiled.
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Ankylosaur said @ 6:25pm GMT on 15th Feb
You filthy popularist! I've never even heard of not hearing about YouTube celebrities. What is this YouTube thing of which you speak? Is it one of those human communication services that my sensory feeds whisper of as I float in this jar, a cerebellum detached from humanity?
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midden said @ 6:35pm GMT on 15th Feb
Lucky bastard.
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arrowhen said @ 5:44pm GMT on 15th Feb
I hope I live to see the day when YouTube
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midden said[1] @ 6:34pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:5 Underrated]
There are a bunch of youtube channels I subscribe to, and several of which I actively patronize via Patreon. They are mostly woodworkers, machinists, welders, etc. The sharing of valuable knowledge done well is totally worth a few bucks a month to me, especially since I block youtube adds. Some of my favorites in the spoiler.
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rndmnmbr said @ 9:37pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:2 Good]
That's a good list. I have most of those subscriptions, but here are a few more that you don't have.
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Dienes said @ 2:13am GMT on 16th Feb
[Score:2 Good]
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midden said @ 12:58am GMT on 16th Feb
Hehe. Actually I subscribe to all but the last three on your list (and will check them out), but I was done lunch and had to get back to work.
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lilmookieesquire said[1] @ 10:21pm GMT on 15th Feb
@Steele Is there a way to save/bookmark comments like this?
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steele said @ 10:23pm GMT on 15th Feb
[Score:1 Informative]
Watchlist the entry? Bookmark the comment page.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 10:26pm GMT on 15th Feb
Thank ye.
Is there a way I can delete the 300+ post my giant truckasaur-like-thumbs have acidently watchlisted? |
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steele said @ 10:31pm GMT on 15th Feb
All of them?
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lilmookieesquire said @ 11:37pm GMT on 15th Feb
306 total. 301 of them are fat thumbs and the ghost of Matt.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 11:38pm GMT on 15th Feb
5 of them are super awesome but I'm pretty sure I can't remember which ones they are. Conversely, I could get thumb surgery. I'm not sure which is easier and for who.
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steele said @ 12:00am GMT on 16th Feb
Aight, you're clear then.
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arrowhen said @ 3:54am GMT on 16th Feb
Click the "&" between "mod" and "reply" to get a link to an individual comment.
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robotroadkill said @ 2:08am GMT on 16th Feb
[Score:1 Interesting]
I think there are multiple news channels like that. They pull text and images from news sites and have a text to speech do the audio.
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Hugh E. said @ 6:40pm GMT on 15th Feb
Max Headroom approves.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 10:24pm GMT on 15th Feb
I'm pretty sure making this wank stain rich was a complete violation of Google's "do no evil" clause that they never followed anyway.
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HoZay said @ 10:30pm GMT on 15th Feb
It's what their customers demanded.
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Gunslinger said @ 1:08am GMT on 17th Feb
Most of us here are over 12 years old so we're not going to be PewDiePie fans, but we should all agree that for-profit defamation like this is kind of fucked up. Here are a couple videos where he speaks on the subject. Open the links in Incognito Mode if you don't want YouTube recommending you more PewDiePie videos afterward.
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