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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Silent in GOTY 2023   
    Hey! STOP playing videogames. I’ve had enough of your STUPID videogames. Aren’t you a little O-O-OLD to be playing videogames-
     
    This is mostly to piss Huff off because he hasn’t finished everything yet, but I also heard there were rumblings that there were “no good games this year”. Also another friend of mine said I needed to get this posted to keep old school internet forums alive. Little half-baked in some parts but I might add a lil to it.
    https://www.backloggd.com/u/Silentology/
     
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    The Rest:
     
    Backlog/Frontlog for 2024
     
     
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Gyokuyoutama in Dreams   
    I had a dream that I've already forgotten most of the details about.  Something about a relative going crazy and being barricaded in a room.
     
    But I do clearly remember someone telling me at the end: "If you learn nothing else from this, it's that you should always keep a really big knife next to your bed."  Then I woke up and since it was around 3 AM I went back to sleep.
     
    But I guess this dream convinced me since apparently I set an alarm titled "BUY KNIFE" before going back to sleep.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Gyokuyoutama in TIAM: General Gaming edition   
    The only non-streamer game/non hyped AAA game that won any category was Dave the Diver (unless I missed something.)
     
    I'm not angry, it's about what I expected.  It's like expecting to get quality out of the Oscars or the Hugo Awards or something; that's not what they are about.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Razputin in TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler   
    Happy New Year subspuffers! I wish y'all a nice 2024
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Moby in Dreams   
    Had a dream where I was walking around town (a weird, distorted and bigger version of my city) when one of the straps of my flip-flops snapped.
    Luckily, I found one of my aunts and she gave me a ride to a nearby store. On the way, I saw this big store that was some sort of school for 3D Modeling/Printing.
     
    I arrive at the store and look for a new flops, but I can't make my order on this ultra-technological machine because this tall guy keeps cutting the line and shoving me back. I get fed up and shove my elbow deep into his stomach.
    I decide to look around the store, but the store gets robbed like 3 times, with the security always running off to catch the thief. There is a big fight between security and this long haired, shirtless guy wearing just a white shorts and white sneakers.
     
    I leave the store and end up finding my grandma and Meatwad from ATHF. They start to speak about Jesus and I end up waking up because I was almost sure I was having a stroke at that point.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Gyokuyoutama in TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler   
    The big part of why I love tired dog so much is that he worked perfectly for listening training.
     
    -Reasonable conversation Japanese.
    -Japanese subtitles to clear up ambiguities/allow using dictionaries.
    -No English translations when I found them, meaning I couldn't cheat.
     
    Now he's gotten big enough that he hard encodes English subs above the Japanese subs.  All the more power to him since I like it when any independent animator grows, but it kind of sucks for my intentions.
     
    With all that being said, how did I find him?  I literally do not remember.  I vaguely remember seeing one of his videos come up in a Japanese twitter feed, but I do not remember whose it was or why I was reading it.  Probably I started at some vtuber and then got off course? Who knows.
     
    So I guess tip 1 is if you just randomly go through as much content as you can, sometimes you stumble onto stuff.
     
    As for non-vtuber videos, you can pretty reliably find yukkuri videos anywhere, and sometimes they work for listening practice.  If the computer voice isn't so fast you can avoid problems with people slurring words (obviously you want to know how to listen to that eventually, but in the early stages I think it's okay to not worry about it and just focus on the words.)  But in my experience yukkuri videos tend to intentionally go fast and use poor synthetization to the point that even Japanese people can't understand them without subtitles.

    There's a lot of skit style channels like totally not-Kaguya Luna's:
     
     
    But I don't know any reliable way to find these either, I just stumble upon them or have them recommended sometimes.
     
    Sometimes I thought it would be fun to find a video of some Japanese people reacting to American movies, since then at least you'd know the context.  But I've been able to find maybe 10 of these, ever.  I don't know if Japanese people just don't make them, don't post them in places I know about, or if they are buried by the algorithm (most searches EVEN USING JAPANESE tend to turn up American or Koreans instead), but they practically don't exist.
     
    Now obviously you can get a ton of Japanese video content by going to Nico Nico, but in my experience that's a quick trip straight into the deep end.  Once you get past vtuber content and anime clips Nico Nico Douga tends to be extremely dense meme content.  I have a feeling that even if I spent a year researching nothing but it, I still wouldn't understand most of cookie ☆.
     
    So my main answer is: I dunno.  Sometimes you find stuff.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Gyokuyoutama in In which we post the randomest shit we find on YouTube.   
    I present to you the greatest anime opening ever made:
     
     
    I guess to appreciate this you have to have both played Snatcher and watched Patlabor, so maybe the audience here is just me.
     
    But the rest of you may be interested to know that this was literally drawn in MS paint.  No seriously, that's what the description of the video says.
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    A 1970 Corvette got a reaction from FreshHalibut in TF2 general   
    I'm gonna have to play more Engineer now!
     
    Maybe I should take that approach for Heavy items now that I think about it.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to FreshHalibut in TF2 general   
    I've still got my gifted items with names from the old SPUF server, weapons from Facade and Silent and some changed names I can't recognize.
    Not a famous name or anything, but as one of the resident Deus Ex fans I'd craft a Widowmaker for you.
     
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Kraszu in The Official Random Image Thread!! SPUF style   
    I want that Sekibanki pendrive so much.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Gyokuyoutama in TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler   
    I have a confession to make:
     
    I was Zecora the whole time.  Big Macintosh too.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to TheOnlyGuyEver in TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler   
    I guess it can't be helped.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Gyokuyoutama in TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler   
    Why I do not regret spending an average of 30 minutes studying Kanji, grammar and general reading for 3 years straight:
     
    Because people like this get paid to localize anime and manga:
     

     
    "Lame translation" = "it's not a hip wacky translation so no one gives me back pats."
     
    "You are already dead" is legitimately a great translation for that line, especially since Kenshiro means that literally.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Moby in TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler   
    After further deliberation 11 years later, maybe I should have traded the Quadwrangler to Guy.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to TheOnlyGuyEver in TIAM: General Gaming edition   
    Furries everywhere devastated
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Raison d'être in TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler   
    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?
     
     
    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.
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Huff in TIAM: General Gaming edition   
    This is the guy who graciously gave me an interview when I visited valve for SPUF. Nice of them to do that since I just strolled in like a dipshit instead of actually trying to set a visit up.
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    A 1970 Corvette got a reaction from FreshHalibut in TIAM: General Gaming edition   
    I'm sure most half life fans out here already know about this but there's a really awesome commentary playthrough of half life from a valve employee being uploaded right now. As a rabid half life fan this kinda stuff is so cool to see, he shows off stuff like early design documents, old names that were voted on for the project, even some old renders / concept art.
     
    I love how he brings up that every single person that playtested Anomalous Materials bobbed their heads to the HEV suit equip music. 
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Gyokuyoutama in The Official Random Image Thread!! SPUF style   
    This is exactly how your first fight against Ran in Touhou 19 will go:
     

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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Gyokuyoutama in Touhou Containment Thread   
    CANON INFORMATION LEARNED FROM TOUHOU 19:
     
    -Rin and Chen are now playmates
    -Chen now likes finding corpses
    -Ran used to be part of a gang that ruled part of hell
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to Huff in TIAM IV: Guydiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cockmongler   
    I'm going to terrorisdt bomb youtube hq
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    A 1970 Corvette reacted to TheOnlyGuyEver in Doodles on my mediocre drawing tablet   
    The (robot) girl next-door. Her name is ABI:

     
    It was fun to design a character with less strictly-human proportions for once. Fun detail: If you look veeeery closely at the long blue parts of her arms, legs, and torso, you can see that they're slightly translucent, because that's cool. I imagine they're also slightly squishy.
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