You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I don't even know half the people who follow me on twitter.
Pick follows me on two different accounts for some reason. I have no idea who "D e b b i e" is, two of these are automated dummy accounts (invest in silver! follow our sports blog!) and the rest....I don't recognize any of these people except Funnyguts, Central Avenue, and Tre.
Back when I was new to Tumblr/Twitter I realized that some people used their TVT name (the one I recognized) on one site but not the other. So what I ended up doing was cross-referencing the two lists of followers until I found the people I wanted to follow back.
So, yesterday I saw the phrase "Tools/Equipment" written somewhere and for a second I thought, "who is Equipment and why are they being shipped with Tools?"
YNTKT
I giggled. also snorted but that's neither here nor there
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The characters are paper-thin, the entire premise is a mishmash of six other shows (Dexter's Lab chief among them), the "comedy" is horrible, the plots are just stupid, and the animation is eye-searing. It's not hard to make a good Flash cartoon (I don't care for MLP very much, but its animation is very fluid), this looks like something I'd see on Newgrounds.
It's probably the worst original cartoon to come out of CN in years.
But …television, mass media. This is why I always push to distinguish between the media — because audfivisual entertainment commopdities are totalitarian, as Pasoliniu said. For many years broadcasters dreamy of interactive tv…Turner did an experimen,t I think as early as the 70s. Rhode Island? Somewhere like that. Nobody wants interactive tv. TV watching is passive. That”‘s the pleasure. It’s absolutely passive. And the fact that this is a little accusation is behind audience’s readiness to pretend they are being educated, therapeutically treated, and actually doing revolutionary subversion as television viewing. Because there has always had to be some excuse (I only watch PBS has trasnformed into I only watch shows pirated as the guilt of zoning out before the boob tube has been transformed into the guilt of violunteering attentrons)
People rationalise their television viewing with r(esilient intesity. Why? And nothing angers young culture workers and hipsters more than the slightest huint that their favourite entertainments will be taken away, the slightest judgement on theitr watching. And here comes camp too – the need to insist that they’re ironic and so^phiosticated. Not fooled.
That need ebcame the marketing core of Mickelodeon, the ads by Thomas Hill for rerungs of Mary Tymer Moore,; Donna Reed,, Brady Bunch. The ads said “don’t worry, we know you”‘re not fooled. We don’t think you’re our dupe. We know you dont take this seriously like the idiots.” Then this tone, of the Nickelodeon ads for (not so bad looking now) crap tv became the tone of the crap tv itself (Rhoda became Girls).; So the tv is paying a lot of attention to the disavowals and rationalisations of the audience.
But really, I have tried again and again to suggest a boycott of tv just ubntil a withdrawal from iraq. People **immediately** tell you why its pointless. The reaction is *immediate* and “passionate**/ NO! NO! The TV is not to blame! My love of the tv is innocent and pure!!! WHy punishh me! Why punish Joss Whedon and Aaron Sorkin! They’re not the enemy – al Qaeda and the fascist skinheads in Greece are!!!!!!
It’s like a dog at the bowl. Nobody thinks it would be even worth trying. This sacrifice is too high even for such a goal. Not worth trying.
Why? Why this INTENSE attachment? It’s the opposite opf the put on irony and distance and part camp that the wired culture worker and hipster class adopts and presents as its own.
kwaliteeveee…all this blabber about how it’s the leading art form, its where the great narratives are, the brilliant drama, the great writing…the Sopranos, Deadwood, True Blood…shit this stuff is SHIT. It’ is just potato chips. It is empty cultural calories, prods and gratifications, poking and stroking, titilation and the massaging of the fears and rreactions which accord with reactionary ideology.
It’s crap!: Some is better craft crap that other stuff – ibut the quiality scarcely varies, peopple think there’s a variation because niuche targeting has improved so people see the crap targeted at them (say Breaking Bad or Sex and the City) is brilliant and the crap targeted at someone emlse (Sex and the City and Breaking Bad) is the worst stinky doo doo/.
So why?
What is the secret?
We know watching provokes a little trance.
We know screens make the brain work to put the picture together.
But…why the loyalty and devotion? It has become like a religion — like politics and religion one couldnt discuss at the American dinner table, now one must never insult a show by criticizing it as that might be taken as a slight “to the fans”.
The most devoted lover of the Rollign Stones or Kandinsky or Jane Austen (and the “fans” of the latter do resent criticism) exhibit nothing like the identification of the tv watchers, a readiness for censorship of critics, accusations of bringing harm to the audience by threatening their pleasure or perhaps even interfering with the profitability of the show. Sinful.
"But really, I have tried again and again to suggest a boycott of tv just ubntil a withdrawal from iraq. People **immediately** tell you why its pointless. "
"But really, I have tried again and again to suggest a boycott of tv just ubntil a withdrawal from iraq. People **immediately** tell you why its pointless. "
Yes! Let's boycott TV until the US Government is forced to bring the troops home!
Johnny Test was a really irritating show. Garish colors, thick lines, awful dialog, repetition of the same few plots over and over and over again, and the voices were really grating on the ears. Every character is shallow and obnoxious, except for Dukey, who's shallow and only has one good trait (his loyalty to Johnny, who doesn't really deserve it). It's like someone took all the flaws of Phineas and Ferb, took the eye-searing ugliness of Rugrats, and combined it with the premise of a genderflipped Dexter's Lab.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
You know it's funny how people think that they'll let simple enlisted idiots do anything but spit-shine those drones that recruiting commercials like to show off
Yeah here's a multi-million dollar piece of equipment. Let Private Schmuckatelli here have the controls because he's really good at Ace Combat
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
class: keter
must be triple-locked away in a cell with lead walls that are 30 feet thick on all sides with a constant guard of Navy SEALS and Marine Force Recon at all times and furthermore
given the folks who've taken it over and made themselves the authorities over this concept, it's not worth it. Even if you do make one that they find "suitable" (usually being a keter requirement, ability to destroy half the known universe, unassuming form like an old kitchen toaster) they'll find a way to ruin it later.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Unless you're a big hound dog in real life and you have my scent. Or if you're a big hound man in real life. Then maybe you might scare me.
Otherwise, nah, not really. Still, I guess I'll try not to piss you off too much Tre. You could be a nice guy! I'm sorry if I offended you.
Whoah! More than one font!
Why do we even have the font of almond?
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
All I remember about Him was that he was The Devil and he wore heels.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
How I loathe it Looks vaguely familiar. Can't pin it down to a specific episode, but it looks like a form that Him would choose to take
But …television, mass media. This is why I always push to distinguish between the media — because audfivisual entertainment commopdities are totalitarian, as Pasoliniu said. For many years broadcasters dreamy of interactive tv…Turner did an experimen,t I think as early as the 70s. Rhode Island? Somewhere like that. Nobody wants interactive tv. TV watching is passive. That”‘s the pleasure. It’s absolutely passive. And the fact that this is a little accusation is behind audience’s readiness to pretend they are being educated, therapeutically treated, and actually doing revolutionary subversion as television viewing. Because there has always had to be some excuse (I only watch PBS has trasnformed into I only watch shows pirated as the guilt of zoning out before the boob tube has been transformed into the guilt of violunteering attentrons)
People rationalise their television viewing with r(esilient intesity. Why? And nothing angers young culture workers and hipsters more than the slightest huint that their favourite entertainments will be taken away, the slightest judgement on theitr watching. And here comes camp too – the need to insist that they’re ironic and so^phiosticated. Not fooled.
That need ebcame the marketing core of Mickelodeon, the ads by Thomas Hill for rerungs of Mary Tymer Moore,; Donna Reed,, Brady Bunch. The ads said “don’t worry, we know you”‘re not fooled. We don’t think you’re our dupe. We know you dont take this seriously like the idiots.” Then this tone, of the Nickelodeon ads for (not so bad looking now) crap tv became the tone of the crap tv itself (Rhoda became Girls).; So the tv is paying a lot of attention to the disavowals and rationalisations of the audience.
But really, I have tried again and again to suggest a boycott of tv just ubntil a withdrawal from iraq. People **immediately** tell you why its pointless. The reaction is *immediate* and “passionate**/ NO! NO! The TV is not to blame! My love of the tv is innocent and pure!!! WHy punishh me! Why punish Joss Whedon and Aaron Sorkin! They’re not the enemy – al Qaeda and the fascist skinheads in Greece are!!!!!!
It’s like a dog at the bowl. Nobody thinks it would be even worth trying. This sacrifice is too high even for such a goal. Not worth trying.
Why? Why this INTENSE attachment? It’s the opposite opf the put on irony and distance and part camp that the wired culture worker and hipster class adopts and presents as its own.
kwaliteeveee…all this blabber about how it’s the leading art form, its where the great narratives are, the brilliant drama, the great writing…the Sopranos, Deadwood, True Blood…shit this stuff is SHIT. It’ is just potato chips. It is empty cultural calories, prods and gratifications, poking and stroking, titilation and the massaging of the fears and rreactions which accord with reactionary ideology.
It’s crap!: Some is better craft crap that other stuff – ibut the quiality scarcely varies, peopple think there’s a variation because niuche targeting has improved so people see the crap targeted at them (say Breaking Bad or Sex and the City) is brilliant and the crap targeted at someone emlse (Sex and the City and Breaking Bad) is the worst stinky doo doo/.
So why?
What is the secret?
We know watching provokes a little trance.
We know screens make the brain work to put the picture together.
But…why the loyalty and devotion? It has become like a religion — like politics and religion one couldnt discuss at the American dinner table, now one must never insult a show by criticizing it as that might be taken as a slight “to the fans”.
The most devoted lover of the Rollign Stones or Kandinsky or Jane Austen (and the “fans” of the latter do resent criticism) exhibit nothing like the identification of the tv watchers, a readiness for censorship of critics, accusations of bringing harm to the audience by threatening their pleasure or perhaps even interfering with the profitability of the show. Sinful.
Oooh, Cowboy Bebop! I heard about that show-- there was a guy in it at his computer, right? :P
I CAN'T FIND MY CAT LASER OR I WOULD TOTALLY POST IT
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Whyyyyy would you do that?! My generation has to see how Jersey Shore ends!
Yes! Let's boycott TV until the US Government is forced to bring the troops home!
Can't you see the logic?
hehehehehheee
I liked Rugrats and Dexter's Lab, though. Haven't seen Phineas and Ferb much.
I remember though when it was on The WB the animation wasn't as stiff.
Also, I will never write a ShaggyDogStory, though I will write many a Feghoot.
Gosh dang it, why in the world did Gavroche have to die!
Curse you Victor Hugo!!!
And now I must go.
*flies away*
I did not appreciate that pun.