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Grammys 2015 mini-recap: WON'T YOU STAAAAAAY WITH MEEEEE
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Disney XD is going to be airing Doctor Who next month. What?
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Just letting you guys know that I'm working on the new UWS, and I hope to complete it on Sunday.
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R.I.P. Lemmy (Motorhead).
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I've now come to realize that I despise "Shape of You" marginally more than "Don't Wanna Know."
I mean, the latter is basically the bare minimums in M5's part, but the same could be said for Ed's song. Like, the production is kinda lacking, Ed Sheeran's vocals are subdued. Besides that, it also has lines like "Your love was handmade for somebody like me," "although my heart is falling too," and in general, it's the type of song that doesn't quite fit in with the style of Ed's music. The rap-singing is nothing new to me, but he's done better with that tone in "Don't" and on some days, "You Need Me, I Don't Need You." Otherwise, "Shape of You" IMO is "Don't," but without the qualities that made the latter good. As for a few nitpicks, overplay killed it for me, and when I realized that it has a similar melody to "No Scrubs," it makes me wanna go back to that TLC song.
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"Castle on the Hill" is at least a much better song. I didn't like it at first because it sounded too much like U2, but it grew on me within a couple months. To me, it's become more of a homage to U2 than a shameless rip-off, and for the most part, it gets right in what "7 Years" got wrong in the influential, past life reminisce narrative.
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It looks like we might be facing a dog, huh? I wonder how much ransom you get for a dog? I wonder how much dog you get for a ram? I want a dog. Why don't I have a dog?
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spoiler for my best of animation 2017 list: gravity falls is #1.
and if you think gf didn't release any new material that year, we got this, so it counts:
that also technically means that I have a disney property as my #1 for the third year in a row. sorry guys, i guess i can't be diverse or fair when it comes to these lists.
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solid reminder for all to expect a huge rant from me centering on the criticism for Truth or Square later today. Be warned, I'll be really going hard.
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yup @Harold Claude is right
rip me
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(Long) Hot take: Looking back at Mr. Enter's indiegogo campaign for Growing Around, I feel kinda bad for its failure, primarily because of the general response that it got. While I can agree that it felt too ambitious, I've seen some people criticizing it for being mismanaged and because of Mr. Enter's little to no experience in the entertainment industry field.
Enter was completely honest and clear about the project that he was pitching, and he was also mature about answering some questions people had about the campaign. In no way did Enter make his campaign look like a scam nor did he antagonize those who didn't support it nor saw the failure of his campaign as a flat-out failure.
He was passionate about trying to reach out to his viewers to help realize his vision, and yet some people still called him out for how he presented his campaign because...he's Mr. Enter. He over-analyzes cartoons so therefore we just can't take him seriously.
I was turned off by Butch's OAXIS campaign because I thought it felt insincere, and it really showed once the truth came out. He had also expressed that people who haven't done anything of their own aren't worth his time. Most of us called him out for this and yet Mr. Enter still gets shunned despite that he's developing something of his own and wants to at least earn enough for his campaign so he could realize part of his vision by completing a pilot episode.
I'm speaking as someone who has made crappy animated episode reviews ages ago on TV.com, while still getting around and talking about my acquired knowledge of animation and its industry as well as, of course, analyzing cartoons. I'm also speaking as someone who is still on his way of getting his Associate's in art so he can eventually study abroad in animation although while not being very skilled in drawing - or at least that's how he feels.
If you think that I shouldn't feel bad about not having enough experience in the art/animation field, then that's the point I'm making about why I respect Mr. Enter for making a campaign so he could perhaps then be able to share his passion project, despite having little to no experience in art or working in entertainment.
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Agreed. While I don't like Mr. Enter, and thought that his campaign didn't make much sense, I wish (and still kinda hope) that he would be able to make the series. I understand that many didn't like his premise for the series, and I thought it was kinda meh, it was still something he was passionate about, and everyone's gotta start somewhere. Also, I feel bad, because he got borderline harassed for it like all over Youtube, and he didn't deserve that.
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We talked about this on Discord yesterday and it's quite easy to see why this project of his didn't take off. The fact that he requested $350,000 is incredibly asinine. I'm not against people living their dreams. Everyone should follow them, including Mr. Enter. But there is no way in hell he should be requesting THAT much money from his fans. Not only because he doesn't have the following he once did, his peak popularity has long since passed. But even if he was still in his prime popularity phase, no chance in hell would he even have the following to raise that amount of money.
Yeah we can rag on Butch Hartman all we want for being a piece of shit and his true colors coming out the way it did during his OAXIS fundraising, but name recognition played a huge part in him reaching his goal amount. He, at least used to, have millions and millions of fans. Enter, even at his peak, would be lucky to have even a tenth of that. Also, after watching the trailer for said campaign, he had sketches of what things would look like. Actual animation at one point in that trailer would have gone a long way in showing what he had planned for the long scheme of things.
Like I said, he should follow his dream. But he should have aimed for more realistic goals.
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I'll admit that i took my thoughts on the campaign first-hand before realizing if I missed something. The fact that Mr. Enter did ask for too much for his campaign's goal was its pitfall, but it still doesn't change my view on how I felt Mr. Enter presented it in contrast to how OAXIS was presented. Butch was met with some controversy AFTER his project managed to reach its goal and it took until an apology letter to address concerns people had with it and to tell his audience what the platform is really going to be about.
I had to make this rambling where I compare the two projects because I found it discerning how wide the dislike-like ratio was for Mr. Enter's pitch video in comparison to the dislike-like ratio to Butch's announcement video for OAXIS before controversy hit. I mean, it was just so easy to rag on Mr. Enter, but when he's sincere and vocal about his project, I couldn't see myself being against his campaign.
Point taken though that he should shoot for more realistic goals for Growing Around. It's like what I said when I pointed out that Mr. Enter does have little experience in entertainment from an industry-like standpoint. I can see why Mr. Enter presented it in a fashion where he doesn't want it to be in corporate hands because he, like just about anyone else, finds the entertainment industry too dodgy to believe that whatever network he works for will allow him to have complete creative control.
In short, while I do agree that Mr. Enter did manage his campaign a little more idealistically, it at least wasn't handled in a worse way.
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can someone please tell me why chris brown is still relevant even after he says disgusting things like this (after CHVRCHES expressed their disgust in Marshmello collaborating with him)? this only piles up on brown's long laundry list of wrongdoings but still.
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@Katniss i've never liked/cared about him anyway
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i'm 'bout to book a show at the dimmsdale dimmadome
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Solemn reminder to all that the 1994 animated film The Swan Princess has spawned eight direct-to-video sequels. That's one more film than the also apparent Alpha & Omega film series while the SP film series is still going as we speak.
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ah yes, just what the pop charts needed...
a ub40 throwback
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2019: A year where most of the blink-182 alumni would release several projects inside and outside of the band's name, and yet the best thing to come from anyone associated with blink this year to me is from former member Tom DeLonge:
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I visited Home Depot today, had a case of hiccups and also drank Dr. Pepper
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It's almost midnight. I'm not sure if this would be Disney Junior's exact launch, but my chest is beating with anticipation right now.
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I will be out of town for a short while, so don't be spamming up posts in Steel-Land once I'm gone.
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So yeah, I'm leaving...
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HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA. I said hey, what's going on...with the new website look?
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I have about almost 6 days left of summer vacation. I ought to seize the week while I could.
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I'm not bluffing when I say that this is my first avatar from SBC.
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Omega Ruby team right now: Mudkip lv
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62 members. Man, we were on a roll.
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I'm leaving for vacation at L.A., first thing in the morning. I'll be back by around Friday-Saturday.
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Enough said! 
