#The Critical Drinker

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Dear Hollywood Celebrities, Nobody Cares - The Critical Drinker

"The cold, hard truth is that nobody gives a fuck about your political opinions anymore. You are some of the least qualified people in the world to be lecturing normal people on how to think and vote. Because you're not normal people. You don't work normal jobs. You don't live normal lives. You exist in a nice, comfortable bubble that protects and insulates you from reality, where you're surrounded by other people just like yourselves.

And the thing is, we don't actually hate you for that. There's nothing wrong with being rich and successful if you've earned it. And part of being rich and successful is that you get a bit detached from the mundane reality of daily life. Again, we understand.

And let's be honest. It's kind of fucking cool to be an actor. You guys get to do stuff and go places that most of us could never dream of. And we're happy to cheer and boo the characters that you play. We're happy to be captivated by the performances you deliver. We're happy to listen to you talk about your craft and share stories and insights into what it's like making movies.

But what we're not prepared to do anymore is be lectured by you, or told what causes we're supposed to support by you, or how to think and vote by you. This next bit is going to take a bit of humility and self-reflection, which I realize are two qualities you're not exactly hot on, but it's time to shut the fuck up about this stuff.

It's none of your business, it's not your area of expertise and it never was. Learn that lesson and you might just get back the respect and attention that you won. Learn it not, and, well, you might just find out how fickle a mistress fame really is."

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Dare I say, Amen.

Social media destroyed the "movie star." We used to put them on pedestals because they were inaccessible, and their world was beyond our comprehension. We liked not knowing very much about them because it added to the mystery and allure of people who became someone completely different on the screen each time we saw them. They were blank slates who became the embodiment of the characters we saw on the screen.

But the mystery is gone. Because social media took us behind the veil and showed us what sanctimonious, shitty, entitled fuckers these people are. They hold luxury beliefs as a form of status symbol, such as calling to "defund the police" from behind the locked doors of their mansions, on properties surrounded by high walls and gates, in communities that are themselves walled and gated.

For example, nobody can look at the remake of "Snow White" and actually see Snow White. We can only see a narcissistic little snot who was whining about being paid millions of dollars to wear a dress for 12 hours a day for a few months; an ignorant little brat who, rather than be humble and grateful for the opportunity countless no less qualified professional pretenders would give their left arm for, took joy in shitting on the original that millions have loved since before her own parents were born, and who attached her support for violent Islamic terrorists to the unnecessary, unwanted future box-office bomb she didn't deserve to be in.

We know too much about you fucking retards now. You're glorified hairless performing monkeys, and you don't live in the real world of the regular person. Sit the hell down and shut the fuck up.

[generallemarc]

So, I recently saw a new CriticalDrinker video about how major gaming studios are actively making female characters uglier out of some collective dea delusion that anything else is "non-inclusive", and honestly? I wrote it off. I assumed that it was him combining a couple big instances of this(Lara Croft was the big one, and I know Tifa in FF7 Remake got something like it as well) with the masses of dumb shit on twitter and assuming that meant this was a wider trend when in fact that's not enough to suppose a connection. Literally the day afterwards I see this, which if you don't know was a stealth-drop update to Pokemon Go that basically ruined the characters. Assuming the account shown in this video isn't some sort of deepfake troll, there apparently really are dea groups out there pushing for this exact thing just like Drinker said. It does suck that this had to happen to a Nintendo series when Nintendo has been one of the relatively few big developers who haven't gone in for the culture war cash grab attempts, but I'd say this still isn't the biggest issue with Pokemon and third-party devs, given that their MOBA is made by a Chinese firm that's legally required under their home country's law to give the Party your data at any time for any reason.

[supekitchen]

"The critics (predictably) loved it. The audience, unfortunately, hated it. Season 4 of The Boys is what happens when activism takes priority over art."

[weatherman667]

The War Of The Rohirrim - A Story We Didn't Need

In all honesty, if this had nothing to do with Tolkien, it would probably be a decent anime.

But instead it exhumes his body, and reaches into his stomach, to find something to write a story about.

And that something is the daughter of Helm Hammerhand, who basically retells the story of Brave, just without the main character having any introspection.  Does she learn her hubris has doomed the fragile alliance, along with her family?

Of course not.  She learns to girlboss.  Because her mentor, Mrs. Girlboss taught her to.

Runtime:  8:45

[ethiack]

Drinker's Chasers - It's Over, Guys: Velma Officially Cancelled

It was one of the most hated shows in the world when it launched back in 2023, but after inflicting two seasons of Velma on the world, Max has finally had enough and pulled the plug.

[mogwai-movie-house]

The Absolute State Of Disney Star Wars

[troythecatfish]

[shadowwingtronix]

BW's Daily Video> Critical Drinker Analyzes Falling Down

BW's Daily Video> Critical Drinker Analyzes Falling Down

NOTE: contains some swearing Catch more from The Critical Drinker on YouTube Maybe I should put this on the Finally Watched list.

[yourapple56-blog]

Why they age-restricted this video is beyond me!

[conceptmobius]

Why Canon Matters

Yes, Sonic fans. Canon matters, and the franchise needs one as much as any other.

~Ryan

(Rated M for Scottish swearing.)

[richardsondavis]

So checking on The Critical Drinker's old vids he did a lot of retrospectives huh? He also referred to FF8 being a childhood ruiner cause yeah. I'm still looking forward to experiencing it myself. Once I've gotten the hang of the turn based combat system that was introduced in 7.

He also did a lot of Resident Evil retrospectives and an early Social Justice is great for video games (as part of a story and themes, no but as part of the character and the world building? Yes.)

I do disagree with some of his takes but overall he seems to be an uptight kinda guy. When he isn't his obnoxious anti-woke self he's decent.

I can't wait for his decency arc though because my favorite video about the definition of wokeness was by him. I love that fucking vid to high heaven.

[msclaritea]

IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN; EITHER CRAP JESUS, SUCCEEDING AT THE BOX OFFICE OR PEDRO PASCAL GETTING FETCH, JUST BY MENTIONING HIM IN THE SAME SENTENCE. WHERE IS THIS ABJECT THIRST, COMING FROM?

[masterstaff]

"Woke" is a word that is thrown around a LOT nowadays. Here's why.

[irreplaceable-spark]

The Critical Drinker -  Peter Pan & Wendy Looks Amazing!

[pickypickypeak]

I hate the critical drinker so fucking much