yeah ppl like amber or sam kriss i could never follow - i just read their feeds when im the mood for extremely grad student blog thought. idk maybe i like twitter cuz i barely follow anyone but rather just binge on ppls feed when im bored/in the mood for their style of content. this does work less well for dudes like @bloodhail or @g0m who are really funny in small doses but quickly become wearying but the best of that stuff always gets lots of RTs so w/e
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link
saw some screencap of the thing Sam Kriss wrote this week about Game Theory and it was hilariously bad
― flopson, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
i avoided listening to it for a while because it's fucking called chapo trap house, but eventually the hype got to me. i listened to the gop convention episode back in july and it was...okay i guess? Maybe i'm missing something everyone else is hearing, but it was kind of funny and kind of insightful, but also didn't seem like anything extraordinary. Like their twitter feeds it had a lot of lowbrow mocking of specific journalists, which, idk, is fun sometimes but also kind of dumb.
Glad to hear they got new mics though, i couldn't believe i was listening to a 150MB file that sounded like it was recorded through a tin can
― intheblanks, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
i like their early lo-fi stuff
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
It would be a weird and subtle schtick to be like "I only like the podcast Felix was in BEFORE Chapo" because Scumbag actually kind of sucks.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
I really like their Twitters but it's hard to get me to listen to a podcast
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
Like their twitter feeds it had a lot of lowbrow mocking of specific journalists
i was wondering who wuold step up to replace gawker
― 龜, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
hey, approaching my first potential 50-like tweet now, salud
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
my favorite trapo stuff is when they rag on douthat or like talk about turkey or whatever
owning libs is starting to feel a little bit facile now that trump has won and the hilary backing pundits are sunk in some collective madness
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
funny how they own libs but not 'servatives
http://i.imgur.com/EJZ37aV.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link
um, that is not true
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
wrong its true
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
the adam curtis interview is the best thing they've done but upon listening a second time i realized it's 98% adam curtis talking. but props to them for not feeling the need to make their presence felt as more than prompts for curtis.
― ryan, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
I would listen to chapo trap house if I knew what a chapo or a trap house was
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
chapo is a mexican drug lord, a trap house is a house where drugs are sold
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
xp Menaker was a good interviewer for Curtis because he knows, gets and loves Curtis's work but also seems like not a big ego guy so didn't step on things. I think of him as the sort of responsible adult of Chapo that holds the thing together and moves it along and wants it to be a "real podcast."
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
he was called the dad of the podcast in that new yorker piece iirc which is otm
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
― flopson, Monday, December 19, 2016 10:24 PM (thirty-six minutes ago)
the kriss article actually managed to be even worse than the awful game theory twitter thing he was attacking.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm not a big fan of Kriss from what I've read
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
I liked Kriss' article
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
i liked kriss' piece on the failures of the clinton campaign but havent read his thing abt the game theory guy. i like when he makes philosophy posts that show how bad he is at philosophy, i always imagine the face his adviser makes when shes reading his papers
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:05 (yesterday) Permalink
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:13 (yesterday) Permalink
the part quoted in this tweet is all of the article or (to my knowledge) Sam Kriss
https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/810199810057838593
― flopson, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
ehm,
the part quoted in this tweet is all of the article or (to my knowledge) Sam Kriss THAT I HAVE READ
lots of unutterably dumb nonsense in that paragraph, who is Sam Kriss again? What is all this discourse
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:52 (seven years ago) link
TMD
― flopson, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
(Too Much Discourse)
;-)
― flopson, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link
ppl going wild for the discourse
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
haha jeet heer doing a tweet storm on the newfound controversiality of tweet storms, never change bud
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:42 (seven years ago) link
(he's right tho obv)
hes right if you think a self own and being right are the same thing
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
i think my full explanation of why he's right would not be popular on this board so i'm just gonna keep it to myself, but suffice it to say attacking form rather than substance is pretty lazy and unserious
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:50 (seven years ago) link
Jeet Heer @HeerJeet 43m43 minutes ago1. So, twitter essays.
I thought he was going to stop after this first tweet and it would be quite a funny joke, but maybe him continuing to do an actual twitter storm is in fact a funnier joke
― soref, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:52 (seven years ago) link
read yr blogs
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
attacking the form is good, do not legitimize the form, which is annoying
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, December 19, 2016 8:46 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
listen for some people this is their entire brand
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:58 (seven years ago) link
why wld we want to be serious about tweetstorms, we arent aspiring to be weird buffoons
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
if ur a successful tweetstormer this is a perfect opportunity to not feed the trolls and just carry on with yr life of tweestorming, its basic game theory
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
tweetstorms dont really even bother me like theyre for sure pretty lame but defending tweetstorms is just such obvs bad manners idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
u cn defend them on here its okay but not on twitter dont clutter up the feed
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:07 (seven years ago) link
tweetstorms can be fine even if they are often terrible just don't go announcing you are going to start one like "OK, ready everyone? Tweetstorm on x, starting now! Here goes!!!"
also the word "tweetstorm" is bad
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:09 (seven years ago) link
its funny the numbering doesnt actually serve the typical purpose of numbering things its purely to signal to ppl that a tweetstorm is going down
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
if i were jeet heer id be all
1. a few thoughts on tweetstorms2. i got a nice job off tweetstorms3. gargle deez
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
time for some storm theory
tweet meteorology
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link
I think crazy ranting game theory guy is bad but did the twitter format right. If you're tweeting that many times in a row, it should sound like a one person conversation where you're responding to the voices in your head
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 05:41 (seven years ago) link
lol jeet fighting w ronan now he mad
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
tucker carlson featured a tweet from my buddy regarding lena dunham on fox today lol
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:53 (seven years ago) link
soon the royalties will start pouring in!
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
Ronan <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
jeet's a lot smarter than ronan, to state the obvious
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:11 (seven years ago) link
yeah but is it the right kind of intelligence, he _did_ respond at ronan's weak jibe
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link