Normally when I’m not gaming or at work I’m watching stuff… A LOT of stuff. Mind you it’s not TV that I watch I gave up on that medium for the most part aside things from the National Geographic Channel. Before you would find me tuned in to YTV on Friday nights watching round half of their anime block and the like but YTV started to screw around with their shows and got rid of most of their anime shows aside from that bastard anime Naruto that even then it sucks quite bad and the manga is worse.
What they replaced most of the anime with you may ask? I will tell you a shit load of crappy Made in Canada programming geared to tweens & early teens. And trust me most of the stuff for the TV were I live sucks hard and there have been very few exceptions to the rule. Most of it is put on the air just for a station to fill a rule set out by the broadcasting arm of the government called the CRTC for protecting Canada Identity or some BS line they always say. Even though most people in Canada these days (mostly the young) want to see the CRTC scrapped and done over or very nuttered to the point they behave more like the US’s FCC. Because they control not just TV but also cell phones and anything that has a communication link as well they are from the 60’s mind you and back then the stupid era of Canadians were scared of losing their identity to the juggernaut that was known as US culture. And thanks to the Internet they CRTC has lost this battle these days. In fact to me Canada is England but with US cars and mostly World culture.
I discovered a lot content on the Internet and today I’m going to show some of the best in my mind that goes beyond just downloading TV shows, anime & movies. This will be more like a top 5 list because there’s a lot and these are the best of the best to me. So lets start:
5. Clip Critics
This web show makes fun of a lot of different types of entertainment from movies to video games and even YouTube celebs like the very annoying and pointless Fred to even (a few times at his expense) Kevin Nauts and Hollywood performers. And they also use a very neat style to portray the characters that is unique in it’s own right in my view that is clearly Photoshop and After Effects but done very slick. If I would need to pick a favorite video they did it’s a tie between the interview they did with Christian Bale and the music video called F*cking Gary Busey.
4. Red State Update
Another from YouTube. Now normally I stay the hell away from politics for the most part because all of them no matter what part of the world your in are all a bunch of self serving scumbags. Case in point I love it when people make fun of government types. Enter Jackie & Dunlap of Red State Update. Done from the view of very right-wing rednecks they poke fun at just about everybody both on the Left and the Right and even other things like Sexting for example.
3. The Leet World
I tried to get in to Machinima before with Red vs. Blue but had no luck with it in part because those assholes put around 95% of the episodes they made behind a pay wall so it was like screw that. Then I found about a month and a half ago a new Machinima called The Leet World. I will let the show’s tag line explain.
The show is not just funny but very well written and even has a few moments that are just flat out mind screws or want to make the viewer find out more from it’s cliffhangers like what the 2nd season is in the middle of right now before the cast and crew went on brake.
2. ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com
Now I know I’m cheating here because this is not just a single show I have in the 2 spot it’s a whole damn website. Started by Doug Walker back when he was on YouTube with his character the Nostalgia Critic he would review old movies and TV shows from starting around the 90’s going back. He takes a part these movies that most of them are quite bad in fact and makes fun of them and also gives some insightful notes on the things about the topic he’s talking about.
But soon enough YouTube became Google’s bitch and in turn had to pull off the “offending” videos and even a few times ban his accounts. After figuring out that YouTube sucks when it comes to making fun of stuff when your using copyrighted stuff in a fair use way. He made his own website and went on from there with his Nostalgia Critic reviews and even made a few different shows as well like Bum Reviews. Soon enough he got a lot more comedians that there are too much to list here to join the site as well. So there’s something for everybody.
1. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
I know I’m cheating again but this was the show that introduced me to two things. Web shows and Abridged Series. Started by LittleKuriboh on YouTube for the longest time before he got his stuff banned quite a lot of times before making his own site to host his videos. All of his videos have Post Modernism and a lot of references to different things like pop culture, Internet culture and at times makes references to very obscure things that most people would not know unless they had Wikipedia & Urban Dictionary by their side.
Now that should give you an idea of what I watch and with stuff like this who really needs TV? Now I’m off to play some Effing Hail. Until next time.
What they replaced most of the anime with you may ask? I will tell you a shit load of crappy Made in Canada programming geared to tweens & early teens. And trust me most of the stuff for the TV were I live sucks hard and there have been very few exceptions to the rule. Most of it is put on the air just for a station to fill a rule set out by the broadcasting arm of the government called the CRTC for protecting Canada Identity or some BS line they always say. Even though most people in Canada these days (mostly the young) want to see the CRTC scrapped and done over or very nuttered to the point they behave more like the US’s FCC. Because they control not just TV but also cell phones and anything that has a communication link as well they are from the 60’s mind you and back then the stupid era of Canadians were scared of losing their identity to the juggernaut that was known as US culture. And thanks to the Internet they CRTC has lost this battle these days. In fact to me Canada is England but with US cars and mostly World culture.
I discovered a lot content on the Internet and today I’m going to show some of the best in my mind that goes beyond just downloading TV shows, anime & movies. This will be more like a top 5 list because there’s a lot and these are the best of the best to me. So lets start:
5. Clip Critics
This web show makes fun of a lot of different types of entertainment from movies to video games and even YouTube celebs like the very annoying and pointless Fred to even (a few times at his expense) Kevin Nauts and Hollywood performers. And they also use a very neat style to portray the characters that is unique in it’s own right in my view that is clearly Photoshop and After Effects but done very slick. If I would need to pick a favorite video they did it’s a tie between the interview they did with Christian Bale and the music video called F*cking Gary Busey.
4. Red State Update
Another from YouTube. Now normally I stay the hell away from politics for the most part because all of them no matter what part of the world your in are all a bunch of self serving scumbags. Case in point I love it when people make fun of government types. Enter Jackie & Dunlap of Red State Update. Done from the view of very right-wing rednecks they poke fun at just about everybody both on the Left and the Right and even other things like Sexting for example.
3. The Leet World
I tried to get in to Machinima before with Red vs. Blue but had no luck with it in part because those assholes put around 95% of the episodes they made behind a pay wall so it was like screw that. Then I found about a month and a half ago a new Machinima called The Leet World. I will let the show’s tag line explain.
In The Leet World, a Machinima based in Counter-Strike: Source, 4 CT’s and 4 T’s are placed in a house together and we see what happens when they stop being noobs… and start acting leet!
The show is not just funny but very well written and even has a few moments that are just flat out mind screws or want to make the viewer find out more from it’s cliffhangers like what the 2nd season is in the middle of right now before the cast and crew went on brake.
2. ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com
Now I know I’m cheating here because this is not just a single show I have in the 2 spot it’s a whole damn website. Started by Doug Walker back when he was on YouTube with his character the Nostalgia Critic he would review old movies and TV shows from starting around the 90’s going back. He takes a part these movies that most of them are quite bad in fact and makes fun of them and also gives some insightful notes on the things about the topic he’s talking about.
But soon enough YouTube became Google’s bitch and in turn had to pull off the “offending” videos and even a few times ban his accounts. After figuring out that YouTube sucks when it comes to making fun of stuff when your using copyrighted stuff in a fair use way. He made his own website and went on from there with his Nostalgia Critic reviews and even made a few different shows as well like Bum Reviews. Soon enough he got a lot more comedians that there are too much to list here to join the site as well. So there’s something for everybody.
1. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
I know I’m cheating again but this was the show that introduced me to two things. Web shows and Abridged Series. Started by LittleKuriboh on YouTube for the longest time before he got his stuff banned quite a lot of times before making his own site to host his videos. All of his videos have Post Modernism and a lot of references to different things like pop culture, Internet culture and at times makes references to very obscure things that most people would not know unless they had Wikipedia & Urban Dictionary by their side.
Now that should give you an idea of what I watch and with stuff like this who really needs TV? Now I’m off to play some Effing Hail. Until next time.
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