And, you know, I think we've always gotten along. Similar tastes in music, liked the same horror movies, could talk comics with, we each appreciated interpersonal qualities held by the other, etc.

We never saw too much of each other, but in the past few years my friend got a decent youtube following for his movie review channel. And like, yay! Awesome! I love to see a friend succeeding.

I hate his channel. I haaaaate it so muuuuuch. It's exactly what you'd expect a modern mainstream movie review youtube channel to be;

• How Disney murdered Star Wars... AGAIN!
• The MCU is a JOKE, Captain Marvel BOMBS HARD!
• Joker 2 is going to SUCK!"

Those aren't actual titles, but that's the basic style of them. A title that either inflames or is itself the reactionary take on a thing. I think he's smarter than his audience, but I don't think he's really applying that smartness. Just hating on the stuff that chuds were already going to hate on is buttering his bread, so why dig deeper? Why think more? I don't think my friend is an idiot, but the language of idiots has seeped into his vernacular deeply enough that he'll list 'virtue signalling' as a crime that a film commits. Not like... because they put a five second clip of some background characters demonstrating diversity that can be easily edited out for foreign markets with no consequence to the film as a whole. But because a movie has female leads, and is marketed around that. Does he believe that? That that is what virtue signalling is? That that is why virtue signalling is bad? I don't actually know. Because I know he's smart enough to see when a film studio does some shit, disingenuously, for like, freebie goodwill and extra attention. But I think maybe he's just not bothering to apply it where it applies, because his audience is only going to read 'Hollywood obsessed with body positivity' at a surface level anyway. They wouldn't care what that meant beyond daring to cast a woman with fat or muscle in a movie anyway. And also, they just want to be mad about pop culture using their icons but shifting focus away from the White male nerd in the first place.

I don't watch pretty much any of what he posts, because it's just not worth it. I sometimes leave a comment. Usually one that aims at a point a little beyond the horizon for folks who still can't believe Disney is making BAD Star Wars movies, instead of GOOD ones. Like it's a binary choice and the directors and producers just consistently choose the wrong option because they are dummies. It kind hurts to see a guy I like wading into that cesspool, over and over. But I suppose he's the right kind of guy to be able to do that. I just hope it isn't mutating him into something else.

I suppose if we hung out more than once a half decade, I'd have a better read on him. I'd know if he was actually dipping his head under the surface, and breathing in the White manbaby complainosphere air. But I guess that's the other thing I fear - even the best kinda normie White dudes are so inundated with alt-fascist talking points and pseudo-thought, how would I even know if his fundamental principles and beliefs had shifted for the worse?
I'm really glad this guy loved me enough to save my life once, at great personal expense, when he absolutely did not have to. I just also wish that uh... he didn't cater his film critique to an audience so far below his ability, and so deeply opposed to my very existence that they would've done the opposite in his position - paid as little money as necessary to make me die sooner.

Can’t get over the implication that Timesplitters isn’t for “lazy gamers”, whatever the fuck those are

I am starting two new shit-out-20-then-dripfeed-upload-them youtube series, "Messed Up Cat Facts Monday" (weekly on monday at 16:15 EST) and "Far-Left Propaganda Friday" (every other week on friday at 04:20). The first uploads in both series will be in this coming week, and the messed up cat facts videos for about two months are already done and uploaded. Please enjoy the messed up cat facts and far-left propaganda. I'll reply to this post after the release of Messed Up Cat Facts Monday 1 with a link to the video.