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So I haven't paid much attention to The Odyssey at all, but yesterday I watched all the trailers and this really feels like one of those movies that you have to see in theater to really immerse yourself in the cinematography. So imma go see it this weekend, I'm pretty hyped.

On a side-note, this movie really is the fakest outrage coming from the chuds this year. If you've seen those two still images circulating, I realized for the first time last night that together they barely make up 1 second in the last of several movie trailers.

It's unironically the only and most extensive sample we have of Lupita Nyong'o and Elliot Page in the movie, and the chuds have been spreading those images online as if they're any actual indicators of the movie itself or the actors' roles in it, even though again, it's barely a ONE SECOND glimpse in total. What a bunch of sad losers.

We'll see how the movie is but I feel like once you've accepted there's nothing historical about it, it might actually be pretty awesome, at least based on the reviews so far.

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Just launched The Long Dark again yesterday and got this message on the loading screen. If y'all looking to support some based devs, Hinterland rocks.

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I would like to take a moment to remind my comrades in the PC master race that while Sony killing physical discs doesn't really affect you, the day Lord Gaben dies is the day Steam will become the worst gaming platform imaginable.

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If you were to guess, do you think the US as it currently exists can survive another 250 years?

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One can dream

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Some of the response videos I've made over the years had me talking extensively about representation/diversity in the media, especially when it comes to historical movies.

And it's no secret what I think; diversity is good. It should hardly be an issue when it comes to fiction (unless the character's skin color matters in some way), whereas for historical fiction, well this implies that liberties are being taken with the historical part of the story.

So if people are fine with characters speaking modern English in Ancient Egypt, the events being out of order or oversimplified, and the armors and all sorts of things being slightly off, well "inaccurate" skin color shouldn't be any different. Although if you're a chud, obviously I wouldn't expect you to be capable of this kind of nuance.

Regardless, the reason I'm bringing it up is because lately I've been noticing more strongly another sort of poor representation in the media; language representation.

And I don't mean the lack of non-English content in the US since clearly the average American can't be bothered to read subtitles, I mean the very depiction of other languages. As a French Canadian myself, the number of times I've seen characters described as French, even though they are not played by French actors, their accent is overly exaggerated, and then they do speak French for just a few words or short sentences and you can instantly tell it's not actual French, this has happened A LOT.

The more recent prominent example is obviously Frenchie in The Boys, played by an Israeli actor. His accent is borderline cartoonish, and the one time in the first season I heard him argue in French with another guy, it was so off I could barely make out the words.

I recall in one of the conjuring movies I saw in theater years ago (the one with the demon nun I think), they have this one character who describes himself as French Canadian, but when he speaks French, it's not our accent at all; the actor was Belgian.

There's also countless instances of scenes from various movies and shows depicting French minor characters having dialogues in French, but if you listen, none of it sounds natural.

Why is it so hard for production companies to just think "Hey, if this character is French, maybe the actor should be as well for authenticity's sake?" And of course I only speak for the French language, I can only assume anyone else whose first language is not English has a similar experience of watching American movies with poor depiction of other languages.

Surprisingly, one of the best movies for depicting language that I've seen, is Inglorious Basterds by Tarantino. Say what you will about the guy, I have quite a low opinion of the person myself, but the depiction of language in this movie is amazing. Lapadite, Shoshana, Marcel, they're French, they speak French accurately, and of course Landa shifting from French to German to Italian is flawless, Fassbender's british accent when speaking German being caught up by the officer who can tell different regional accents apart, this is actually how it should be done.

Anyone else notice this a lot?

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On the off chance that Metatron makes a whole video about it (since he makes slop out of every little thing), I'll just clear up this confusion.

Apparently Dave's takedown of Metatron got a copyright claim. I looked it up, and there's a section, right in the middle of the video, that's muted for like 30 seconds. By coincidence, this portion happens to be when Dave is showing one of my videos on Metatron, which is just showing one of Metatron's videos right before I respond to what he was saying.

So basically, Metatron's video has some background music (that he licenses), and since Dave doesn't have a license to use it, he got a copy right claim.

When that happens, virtually all monetization from the video onward is sent to the music's owner. This is what YouTube does to protect itself from legal issues, and the only recourse for the content creator is to mute the section that contains the copyright music so they can retain all the monetization.

So to be clear, Metatron did not copy right claim or strike Dave's video, it's just a YouTube thing.

The only thing that's weird about it is that Dave was showing MY video, so it should stand to reason that my video would've gotten a copyright claim as well, but it hasn't. My only guess is that Dave's video got way more views, and it's possible Youtube's moderation bots do further screenings on videos that get more views to continually ensure they comply with all the rules. Since my video got most of its views before I had monetization, it's possible it had no additional copyright screenings, hence why it remains eligible.

Either way this has nothing to do with anything Metatron did. So on that, let's not make accusations.

Also I just released a completely unrelated video essay, check it out! https://youtu.be/3hqRIGmxqfc

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Aaannnnndddd there we have it! I honestly have no clue how well this essay will do, but it was another experimental video I enjoyed working on, and I hope you like it! https://youtu.be/3hqRIGmxqfc

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LOOKING FOR EXPERTS TO PEER REVIEW MY UPCOMING VIDEO ESSAY!

By which I mean, if you've enjoyed my content and are an expert in putting hour long videos on your 2nd monitor while you game, I'd appreciate you giving a watch to the current version to give me any feedback you have, whether that's odd cuts, something I say which didn't seem clear or could be misinterpreted, stuff like that.

Working title for the video "A Complete Breakdown Of The Most Disgusting Book Ever Written"

The video contains very sensitive topics, so bonus points if you can handle disturbing stuff.

You can DM me on discord (link in channel description), or email me (also in channel description) if you'd like to participate. Thanks! :)

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