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Raison d'être

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  1. I keep thinking about this thread but then realizing I played only a handful of games last year, and really only one that released last year. I'll probably get around to it... soon.


  2. 2 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    I went back to that wiki and he's made over 100k more articles in the last two years.

     

    I want to say it's just him listing all his gameplay from stuff like Crusader Kings 2, but then there's stuff like this where he is classifying things from movies.

     

    You can kinda track what media he's consuming by what he's uploading. This, for example, I'm willing to bet was made while he was playing through Battlefield 1. The question I have is which follows which? Does he get interested in an era and consume media about it or does he consume media and then create the articles?

     

    2 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    Well, I say "he" but there does seem to be three people editing it.

     

    I imagine it's mostly just him with a revolving door of (and I say this respectfully) autists jumping in every now and then before fading away. But "he" will always be there.

     

    Chris Chan may be the most documented man in history, but this guy is probably one of the most prolific documenters in history... even if that history is mostly fictional. Honestly, it's impressive how he weaves fiction and fact together - a lot of the random soldiers he listed were fictional but died in real battles, and then some aren't because they died in fictional battles that nonetheless are treated exactly the same as real battles. You'd never know unless you were familiar with the time frame or took the time to double check.

     

    I'm fairly surprised no big content-starved Youtuber's done a clickbait video with the title "WTF! CRAZIEST WIKI EVER???" about it, given how big it is. I feel like it's inevitable - enjoy it while you can, in its (relatively) undisturbed state.


  3. Watched a couple made-for-TV movies with the gimmick being they're made to look like breaking news broadcasts (so for the original TV viewers it would look indistinguishable from actual newscasts). They're neat for that reason alone, especially if you're old enough to remember watching actual broadcast television.

     

     

    I really like the climax on this one, at about 1:25:00,

    Spoiler

    with the NEST team desperately trying to disarm the bomb after triggering its anti-tamper device while the Nuclear Expert Guest basically describes how they've fucked up, all while the reporter on the ground talks over all of this without realizing what's happening.

     

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