The Critical Drinker in person (long interview)

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Explains his life story and how he started a youtube channel.

Says he got drunk one day and ranted about Captain Marvel and that's what took off.



This seems like the video that got his channel to blow up. So he was actually drunk irl.

 
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He is astoundingly coherently for being drunk. I usually just want to watch YouTube videos, when I am drunk, not make them.
 
There's some good conversations to be had around YouTube, and the talent that proliferates it.

I know it's a common habit to dismiss YouTubers as, well, just YouTubers... but the reality is, they're illustrating how useless the mainstream "establishment" is, by simply outperforming it - despite the obstacles put in their paths.
Mauler, The Critical Drinker, Filmento are all infinitely better than more traditional movie reviewers - not only do they put effort into creating and maintaining their gimmicks, but they often offer a higher grade perspective of storytelling, film techniques, etc. (though CD is probably the weakest of the three)
Whatever you might think of them, many of YouTube's political commentators often offer far better analysis than a hack factory like CNN - guys on both the right and the left (though, admittedly, the online left often lacks in comparison to the online right). Look at Destiny recently making Richard Wolff, a leading communist economist, look like the deranged idiot he is. And here in South Africa, a political podcaster like Big Daddy Liberty does a much better job of covering stories than do the established media and news outlets.
The Paul brothers have turned out to be pretty damned good promoters. And one of them may well be the favourite going into his fight with Tyron Woodley, after the other one made Floyd Mayweather look a little silly.

Decentralisation is showing just how much talent has traditionally fallen through the gaps, as relative nobodies now have the platforms available for direct comparisons to be made between them and their respective establishments.
Considering the battering that the reputations of "experts" have taken over the past few years, it's all very interesting to see unfold.
 
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There's some good conversations to be had around YouTube, and the talent that proliferates it.

I know it's a common habit to dismiss YouTubers as, well, just YouTubers... but the reality is, they're illustrating how useless the mainstream "establishment" is, by simply outperforming it - despite the obstacles put in their paths.
Mauler, The Critical Drinker, Filmento are all infinitely better than more traditional movie reviewers - not only do they put effort into creating and maintaining their gimmicks, but they often offer a higher grade perspective of storytelling, film techniques, etc.
Whatever you might think of them, many of YouTube's political commentators often offer far better analysis than a hack factory like CNN - guys on both the right and the left (though, admittedly, the online left often lacks in comparison to the online right). Look at Destiny recently making Richard Wolff, a leading communist economist, look like the deranged idiot he is. And here in South Africa, a political podcaster like Big Daddy Liberty does a much better job of covering stories than do the established media and news outlets.
The Paul brothers have turned out to be pretty damned good promoters. And one of them may well be the favourite going into his fight with Tyron Woodley, after the other one made Floyd Mayweather look a little silly.

Decentralisation is showing just how much talent has traditionally fallen through the gaps, as relative nobodies now have the platforms available for direct comparisons to be made between them and their respective establishments.
Considering the battering that the reputations of "experts" have taken over the past few years, it's all very interesting to see unfold.
Just shows how much nepotism is out there. Hardly watch mainstream tv anymore.
 
Don't like him so much any more. He was kind of funny the first video or two, but his angle got old quickly. He's one note, and his attempts to critique films he enjoys are pretty mediocre.

He definitely sounds like he posts on Sherdog, lost in the world of eighties movies and nothing beyond that sensibility measures up.

I agree with some of the things he says, though, and his presentation is good. There's obviously a healthy market for people who enjoy hating things, but that isn't me. There are much better channels doing much better reviews.
 
I hate to rag on an ally in teh Culture War, but that guy is just a milktoast johnny-come-lately, and severely overrated. Even if you disregard the fact that he ripped his entire schtick off of Mr Plinkett and put a slightly conservative spin on it, he still just makes shallow 10 minute reviews using the binary "this is woke crap" or "this is an unwoke gem".

I can listen to him, but it's just popcorn entertainment to me. I don't know if it's the fact that he doesn't obfuscate who he is irl that has made him blow up the way he has, because it can't be his content alone.

But hey, at least he's not as cringy as of most of the retards on E-fap / Friday Night Tights et cetera.
 
He has his moments and his opinions on new garbage woke films are quite relatable (let’s be honest, you’d have to be a total retard to think that the majority of today’s cinema is acceptable)
But kind of meh pretty fast, even if his expressions and vocabulary are entertaining.
 
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