I would just like to throw these out there. Rap as a genre isn't completely ruined.

Lil Jon is trap music not rap.

What's wrong with king kunta?

It happens all the time now too. My school has had two pipebombs, one knife, and a drugged-out kid going to war with a security guard. We get a letter home and nobody gives a fuck.

It's not 'overly dramatic' entertainment contributing to death threats, it's just anonymity. The goal of an artist to to make the viewer experience the most amount of emotion that they can. Therefore, overly dramatic content is made and is the most popular. Take a Schwarzenegger action movie from the 80's or markiplier playing a video game, the viewer reacts positively then goes about their day. It's art. It doesn't change the viewer in the long run. They feel an emotion and move on. This has been true of every other art form in human existence and every a new one is created people say that it will create violent behavior.

The real problem is that violent behavior has been shown. Or the equivalent for the internet. The internet is a simultaneous giant leap forward and leap back for humans. On one hand any human in the world can form a community with other like-minded individuals, on the other, humans evolved to form communitis of 30 to 50, not 7 billion. Laws are written by the government to make everybody get along but the internet doesn't have laws or a government. So shit like this can happen to Jimmy Kimmel, Justine Sacco, or the guy that shot cecil the lion. This is a major problem that should and probably will get better over time. But for right now we have to try not to be a snowflake in the avalanche.

IMO PewDiePie makes people smarter. I've been treating this book as gospel and I think it ring especially true for let's plays. They seem like the combination of the best parts of what the author thinks about video games and reality tv.

From youtube to hubski nobody has a clue how to make money on the internet.

There is a lot I disagree with here so this is probably going to turn into a stream of consciousness kind of thing.

Humans are evolving all of the time and art evolves at the same rate. It's hard to say that art is superior to art from before, but it definitely changes. Any film student can say that movies were better in the 70's but back then the director had to be 100% positive that the audience knew what was happening. Today movies have to be quick and changing a lot so that the audience is continually intrigued by what's happening. The themes of art from and now is equal but the form is different. If you want to learn more about this I suggest this book.

The speaker in the video seems to push for some kind of objectively good art to be attained. In my mind though, that goes against the definition of art. Art is anything that changes the emotions of the viewer. The speaker doesn't want art, he wants sport. Art isn't a competition between artists to create the "best art".

I'd love to see individual genres of music become more popular. Right now #hiphophubski is probably the biggest tag for that but it's only had two posts in the last week.

Favorites: Darkside/gone, One Shot One Kill, Satisfiction, Animals, Medicine Man, Talking To My Diary

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EDIT: what happened between dre and eazy?

I don't think it really says anything about the US as much as it does about celebrities being able to connect with shitloads of people. If Jesse Wellens hadn't tweeted where he dropped hitchBOT off he'd probably be fine.

I forget the source but I heard mention from a podcast that all stories ever told boil down to the same basic formula. Character climbs up tree, people throw things at character, character climbs down, having changed. The perfect representation of this is Die Hard. John McClane climbs up big building, bullets are shot at him, character climbs down from building, having changed.

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I don't know... she was pretty bad but you could tell she was just saying the things that would let her keep her job. She probably did know how unharmful pot is. This dude doesn't know anything.

I most likely wasn't alive when this was made. :(

This sums up what I think about the article pretty well.

I don't know either really. "Ethics in games journalism" gets thrown around a lot but I haven't bothered to find out more about it. The major effect is that game publishers that do sexist shit come under fire more. Now every game company has to fix their image and therefore their content.

"panties" irks me. I don't know why though; I didn't even hear it used for most of my life.

I haven't played many horror games really but I have seen a few let's plays that make me feel the exact same way you do. Jump scares are lazy and easy to accomplish in any medium. The games that I have played that terrified me were bloodbourne and PT. PT gave me the build up by forcing me to go through the hallway multiple times and putting me into a pattern and then suddenly changing it. BloodBourne did it artificially by making me try over and over again to kill a monster. There was nothing objectively scary about fighting that monster but because I had been doing it for 2 hours everything depended on that one punch.

I had an idea for a startup in February of this year after I listened to some of my favorite content creators gripe about their troubles and taking an entrepreneurship class. It's a video sharing website anyone can upload to. I started learning how to code because of it. I even made some simple layouts for pages and stuff. The major problems I'm having right now are funding and servers.

I feel hesitantly positive about the leto joker (and the entire move). The Burton Joker and the Nolan Joker were both smart and calculating, this one just seems insane. I know that the Nolan Joker just wanted to watch the world burn and everything but he always had a plan to go about doing it, unlike this one.

according to some quick googling California makes 59-109 million from tax revenue. Meanwhile a single golf course uses 312,000 gallons of water.

Mad Max will probably be the best movie of 2015 with the least amount of awards.

Facebook and twitter all share a common aspect: mainstream. Every single person in the world knows what Facebook and Twitter are but hardly any knows what Reddit is. Reddit changed the search function and that factored into what the mods are angry about now. Facebook used to change the layout of the entire site whenever they wanted to and largely got away with it.

The major difference is internet culture vs. mainstream culture. Internet culture knows what it wants from their sites and gets really angry when they try to change it. Mainstream couldn't care less. It's possible people could leave Facebook and twitter but not likely.

For the interested:

Article http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-actors-who-do-exact-same-thing-in-every-movie/

Podcast http://www.cracked.com/podcast/actors-who-do-weirdly-specific-stuff-in-every-movie/

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Wrong number guy: hi would you like to get your car-

Me: wrong number

Wrong number guy: are you sure?

Me: I'm fifteen

Wrong number guy: well would you like to purchase car insurance?

I think pages would be really helpful for browsing more than the first 30 links without scrolling down past more a bunch of times.

Sometime in the next 10 to 20 years there will be another 60's I guarantee it. After that probably a return to normalcy. http://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/insight-overview.html

- for really important ones

- Birth of a Nation (understand what it influenced not its actual quality), - Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Frankenstein, Promises!Promises! (BOOBS), Good, Bad, and the Ugly,

- Bonnie and Clyde (first of new hollywod), - Easy Riders (first mainstream new hollywood), Last Picture Show, The French Connection, Dirty Harry, Clockwork Orange, Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory, The Godfather, The Exorcist, American Graffiti, Chinatown, The Godfather 2, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Young Frankenstein , - Jaws (Spielberg's start, first of the 80's era movie style), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, taxi driver, rocky, close encounters of the third kind, - star wars (end of new hollywood), Alien, superman, grease, Apocalypse Now,

- The Shinning, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., BladeRunner, Poltergiest, Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back., Scarface, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Gremlins, Karate Kid, Terminator, Ghostbusters, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, Beverly Hills Cop, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller's day off, Aliens, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Beetlejuice, - Die Hard, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, - Batman, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Home Alone, Edward Scissorhands, Goodfellas, Silence of the Lambs, - Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Reservoir Dogs, - Jurassic Park, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Schindler's List, Forest Gump, Clerks, - Pulp Fiction, Seven, Toy Story, The Usual Suspects, Heat, Fargo, Titanic, Good Will Hunting, the Big Lebowski, Fight Club, American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, Star Wars: Phantom Menace, - The Matrix,

Memento, Monsters Inc, Kill Bill 1, Kill Bill 2, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shawn of the Dead, primer, Serinity, V for Vandetta, The Prestige, No Country for Old Men, Inglorious Bastards, Avatar,

Lord of the Rings 1-3, Dark Knight Trilogy, Harry Potter 1-7.5, Twilight (understand not like), - MCU: Iron man - Avengers age of Ultron, xmen: xmen-Days of Future Past,

inception, the social network, Kick ass, wolf of Wall street, Argo,