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    Hawk vs. the Hip-Hop World - Can you change my mind?

    in K-BLUB

    Posted

    On 11/7/2022 at 9:18 AM, Young Nug said:

    listen to Good Kid Maad City, Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and Kanye’s first 7 albums (quickly, before he says a slur or kills someone on camera or something and it becomes 100% unacceptable to listen) for a good basis of the genre

    you have officially missed the window to do this 

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    Hawk vs. the Hip-Hop World - Can you change my mind?

    in K-BLUB

    Posted

    if i had seen this thread in january i woulda been handing out Ls left and right to you mfs talking about rap being vocal focused like it was spoken word poetry lmao

    listen to Good Kid Maad City, Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and Kanye’s first 7 albums (quickly, before he says a slur or kills someone on camera or something and it becomes 100% unacceptable to listen) for a good basis of the genre

    if you like rock shit, check out experimental rappers/groups like Jpegmafia, Jean Dawson, Paris Texas. tons of artists out there for you but you’re prolly not gonna consistently find what you want listening to drake lmfao.  scope in this thread limited 

    edit: limited AND white

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    123-124. Truth or Square?

    in Season 6

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    On 6/10/2012 at 6:20 PM, Young Nug said:

    One of the best things to come from Post Movie, the best thing from Season Six, one of the best Post-Movie specials, and really, one of the best specials, period. Coming in at a dark time in the show, it feels like it was a wake-up call to everyone on the crew. Every joke here worked, the animation (HD, OMG) was spectacular, and the episode felt just like a Pre-Movie one.

     

    I don't really like how it, at it's core was a Plankton episode, and the lack of Sandy wasn't cool, but otherwise, it was hilarious. Favorite part (paraphrasing):

     

    Patrick: Yeah! I took Sandy's walkie-talkie from her treedome! I know how we can get her to help us.

    *pause*

    HEY SANDY! I TOOK YOUR WALKIE-TALKIE! YOU BETTER COME GET IT!....*Patrick smiles* She'll be here.

     

    It was great in every way. The wedding was cool too. And so was the Krabby Patty jingle, and the segment where Spongebob turned into a Disney-like cartoon was hilarious. Patchy's segments were good, almost reminiscient of Pre-Movie segments. Certainly better than the ones in Friend Or Foe and Atlantis Squarepantis.

     

    The best part of Patchy's parts was when he was showing all the alternate openings. And, to top it off, the "Oh Krusty Krab" song was sweet. The sentimental nature of this episode was great. Truth Or Square is definitely a contender or favorie post movie- Y'know what, no. Let's stop talking in terms of pre and post movie.

     

    This episode is a contender for best episode period. Also, you shouldn't factor in the hype generated by the network in your score; that's not smart and has nothing to do with the episode itself. So, the massive hype generated for this didn't bother me in the least. My expectations were shattered. Great, great episode.

     

    A+, 9.9/10, whatever. An episode just shy of perfect. Very, very rare for Post-Movie.

    as time passes I don't think there's a post that's aged worse than this one 

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    nuggets makes music

    in K-BLUB

    Posted

    On 3/19/2020 at 7:24 AM, President Squidward said:

    yoooo what software you use since I wanna start crafting music that isn't from loop based apps like in 2018

    ableton 

    it cost money tho

    Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

    in Culture Shock

    Posted

    let’s pretend there’s a university. there’s three history courses. all of them are about the American Revolution. 

    the first one, HIST 2015, is basically a brighter version of Hamilton, one that plays up the strengths of the American experiment. Taught by the bright-eyed, eccentric, and talented (if mildly derivative) Professor Abrams, it hits all the positive hallmarks, calls back to names all the students know, and even introduces a few new ones. It’s not challenging, it’s familiar, and it’s basically just AP US History again, but hey, Abrams is fun and it works, even if sometimes it gets a bit too celebratory for its own good. Everyone leaves the course pretty satisfied. 

    but HIST 2017 is different. The head of this class, Professor Johnson, has a wildly radical approach to his subject matter. Instead of going on and on about the wonders of the American experiment, he asks questions about the ethics and morals of it. Like, hey, didn’t these founding fathers own slaves? Isn’t this country built on the backs of those slaves? Built on a legacy of systematic slaughter and bloodshed? Is this a legacy even worth upholding? 

    It’s a depressing re-evaluation of the American history, but it’s not inaccurate by any means. However, even though Professor Johnson looks at America without the rose-tinted glasses (wink!), he takes great pride and joy in what America represents and what it can be. Most of his class focuses on the American Revolutionary leaders and their friends, a group of scrappy rebels who came from nothing and banded together in the face of adversity, not tied to any legacy before them, only dedicated towards the one ahead. It’s a rejection of nearly everything the kids have been taught about America before, but in a lot of ways, an embracing of what it can be. Johnson’s belief that anyone can be important in this story pumps through the class and makes it feel alive and unique. It’s flawed structurally in a couple ways, and gets away with asking a lot of questions it doesn’t have to answer, but in that, it’s almost beautiful.

    Students loved HIST 2017. They got a lot out of it, too - new world views, more empathetic outlooks on cultures, the works. But when they come back home for the holidays to their families, the parents don’t like it. Not one bit. And they react viciously. Cries of “That’s not the America I remember! Not MY America!” pepper dinner time arguments all over the country. HIST 2017 is so divisive that it sends the University into a frenzy as it gets bogged down with complaints from angry, conservative parents afraid of change.

    So the university decides to make a new course. HIST 2019.

    HIST 2019 is... Also different. The university didn’t have a lot of time to develop the course. A professor who specialized in history about the Jurassic period was supposed to teach it, but the university decided in the end to go with Professor Abrams again. And to be fair, it’s a tough position to be in for sure - with all the audiences he has to appease, and the University’s reputation hanging in the balance, this is easily the most important class he’s ever taught. In his crunch for time, he looks over Professor Johnson’s course and sees that it’s basically undone everything his original course set up. And in a moment of self-reflection, he stops and thinks about what that means. He asks whether the America that Johnson sees and the America he sees can be reconciled, completely oblivious to the fact that they’re the same America. And he decides that they can’t coexist - not in a coherent way, at least. 

    So he decides to walk it all back. 

    This team of rebels that everyone cared about so deeply? He makes sure to reinforce their place as mere cogs in the machine of the legacy that everything in America is in service to. He takes what his and Johnson’s class were building to, a way to undo the sins of the father by first reinforcing what America is and then deconstructing it, and bastardizes it. He ends up walking back some of Johnson’s positions so hard that he actually ends up reinforcing problematic elements of America that even his original class didn’t. The limited time he had to prepare the class gives the entire thing a rushed, slapped together feel, sometimes feeling as if Professor Abrams is talking just to check off boxes on the syllabus. Certain days of class feel like Abrams is literally pulling random facts out of his ass to make his retcons to the previous class fit. And he makes some of the critical information for the final available on Fortnite. Yknow, for the kids.

    In the end, the class spells the beginning of the end of the History program at the university, leaving the students angry and confused about what the point of the courses even were in the first place, and more worried about the future of America than ever before. If HIST 2015 was about how cycles exist and repeat, and HIST 2017 was about how those cycles can be toxic and need to be broken, all 2019 did was prove that regardless of the broken nature of those cycles, they’ll nihilistically continue, no matter what you do, and whether you want them to or not, all at the behest of villains that continue to rise up and never really die.

    The night before class starts, Abrams nervously looks over his lesson plans for the year, afraid of the backlash, trying to do his best with a subject he’s loved ever since he was a little kid. He looks to the university committee for help - they merely shrug, hoping it’ll get the complainers off their backs, so afraid of rocking the boat that they’ll do anything to steady it again. Abrams thinks about these complainers, and he cocks his head, wondering if these people so resistant to change truly ever understood the thing they were criticizing in the first place. Maybe he doesn’t himself. 

    But it’s a fleeting thought. He waves it away, hops into bed, clicking off his lens flare night light as he does so. 

    “Showtime,” he says to himself in the dark. 

    But no one is listening. Not anymore. 

    anyway now that we’re done pretending: “The dead speak!”? get the fuck outta here man

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    Rank the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    in Culture Shock

    Posted

    On 7/6/2019 at 8:25 AM, Clappy said:

    Age of Ultron got better after rewatching it for the first time in three years, but I still stand with everything I said about it being pretty much inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.  But hey at least it did contribute something in showing that someone was worthy all this time. ?

    how is Ultron inconsequential 

    I’m still not like a giant fan but the movie is literally only bad because it’s actual story couldn’t breathe through all the elements for Phase 3 movies it was establishing plots for. Phase 3 has almost retroactively redeemed it, seeing as how it directly affects 6 of the biggest films of the next phase. Opposite of inconsequential. 

    Anyway new ranking:

    1. Captain America: Civil War 

    2. Avengers: Endgame

    3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    4. Thor: Ragnarok

    5. The Avengers 

    6. Iron Man 

    7. Avengers:  Infinity War

    8. Guardians of the Galaxy

    9. Black Panther

    10. Spider-Man: Far From Home 

    11. Iron Man 3 

    12. Guardians Vol. 2 

    13. Captain America: The First Avenger 

    14. Avengers: Age of Ultron

    15. Captain Marvel 

    16. Ant-Man 

    17. Doctor Strange 

    18. Ant-Man and the Wasp 

    19. Spider-Man: Homecoming 

    20. Iron Man 2 

    21. Thor

    22. Thor: The Dark World

    - at 18 is really where it bottoms out - everything from 18 and above I still really enjoy, and even Homecoming and IM 2 aren’t terrible films by any stretch.

    -Still never seen Hulk. Don’t really ever plan on it unless I’m bored one day. 

    - was shocked when ranking at how high Captain Marvel was and how low Homecoming was for me.

    -Ultron, while still a whole 2 plus hours of missed opportunities, still has a lot going for it, and was ultimately retroactively justified since it directly sets up so much Phase 3 content. The payoff really makes it feel worth it. 

    -Endgame made Dark World actually interesting and somewhat good in the context of that film but that shit still trash on its own lmao don’t even remember the name of the villain 

    - Far From Home knocked it out of the park when it comes to following up Homecoming and the Avengers films. Coming from someone who hasn’t been a huge fan of what they’ve done with Peter in the MCU (“hey guys I’m a hero but I’m young and have no idea what I’m doing haha let’s make some jokes about how young and naive I am by referencing an “old” film I’ve never seen haha lol!!” is only funny or novel so many times. We get it), FFH was a giant step in the right direction. That shit slapped. 

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    Us (film)

    in Culture Shock

    Posted

    wild how we didn’t already have a thread for this (if we did and I’m dumb just merge em!)

    anyway this is movie of the year so far and better than Get Out imo and if you haven’t seen it idk if I can talk to you anymore cuz holy shit it’s great 

    A Nuggets Essay©: Serialized Story Elements: Steven Universe v.s Adventure Time! (Hayden v. Nuggets)

    in Culture Shock

    Posted

    4 hours ago, WhoBob said:

    steven universe who redeemed bunch of dictators.

    we are getting a sixth season.

    REBECCA SUGAR THE NAZI SYMPATHIZER

    and ik. But I think now that Rebecca has completed the original story the whole show was building up to and Adventure Time is done done I feel like the question of which one did it’s overall narrative better service has become clear

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