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I just feel like it mostly functions as a shock piece that will ultimately result in nothing of real consequence. I would love nothing more to be wrong and see JiDion and EDP have real world consequences but I'm not holding my breath. Most of the information I had on the EDP445 situation comes from videos/sources outside of this documentary, such as Tom's video on JiDion (I think he also had one on Alex Rosen that was taken down.) Other than direct quotes from JiDion that IMO are self incriminating, and a blatant showcase of how remorseless EDP is, this doc provided me no new information. And unfortunately, because of certain decisions that were made, it kneecaps the potential impact it could have had.

At surface level I think a lot of normies hate this thing because they knew absolutely nothing about EDP. I myself did not know who EDP was until Alex Rosen's original failed sting operation happened. Without proper context, so much of the documentary can be interpreted the wrong way. The jokey/meme sections with EDP in suspenders and the crowd of Internet personalities inserted at the end are two that stick out to me. I initially took issue with these because I felt they dragged down the point of making this, but later realized they exist because they are a reflection of their subject. EDP lived his life in a way where he was completely isolated to the internet and when that was stripped away from him he had nothing left. Internet fame is all he has, and he's attempting to clutch to the last strand of it. This is why he kept attempting to return to YouTube post ban (Thank you for the coverage Diesel Patches) which again is more information I have that comes from outside of the documentary (unless I am mistaken, it wasn't covered.) Thankfully the documentary does not make him look good or any kind of redeemable, but I still think having these memey sections was unnecessary.

The other section I took issue with, and easily the most offensive thing in the Doc, is when a child was filmed in close proximity to EDP. I don't care if this is something their parent allows and happens regularly outside of the documentary. I don't care if it was done under parental supervision. I don't care about the context. This should not have been filmed. If the doc had a stronger point to its existence, I would even be willing to say this one scene pushes it into Cannibal Holocaust territory. However I think the film truly only exists to start a conversation, and it's definitely done that. It is not social commentary like Cannibal Holocaust is.

I'm not here to shit on people that enjoyed this. Frankly I'm happy you're getting something this high quality. I don't think Mike Clum is a bad person, but I hope his next doc doesn't try to outdo this one. Bringing this level of production to Lolcow coverage is interesting to say the least. But I'm not gonna pretend I enjoyed this thing.

I think that's it but I wanna say one last thing.

Years ago when I first dipped my toes into the lolcow documentary sphere, I did so through Cecil McFly videos. I learned about people like Pixyteri and Fedsmoker, the later of which is probably my favorite.

At some point, I made the mistake of watching her Nick Bates video. I'm not going to detail who Nick Bates is specifically, but he is the same type of person EDP is but worse as he has actually offended and went to prison for it. If you decide to look into him, PLEASE tread lightly. Cecil's video is extremely informative, but I actually started to dry heave while watching and had to turn it off and return to it days later (I refused to let it get the better of me) It is probably the worst piece of content I have ever consumed on YouTube solely for it's subject matter and nothing else.

I have now sat through the EDP Doc 2 times and never had anything like that happen. However, I feel like if we ever get conformation that EDP has successfully offended anytime before the documentary was made, this doc will become the worst thing I have ever watched on YouTube. I'm curious if that would recontextualize it for anyone else as well.

My sincerest hope, is that EDP continues to be a fucking loser in all aspects of his life, and dies having accomplished absolutely nothing. That is the most realistic and best outcome possible. Also fuck JiDion, I hope that fucker loses his court case.

There was a part during that drama where Bowbie ​says something along the lines of "I have a better relationship with random who gives-a-shits like Xylie and Stardust than I do with you!" (in refrence to Nick) and Clearly throws Xylie and Stardust under the bus as if their friendship means nothing to him.

My question is, did Xylie ever respond publicly? I imagine if they were actually friends she very likely let him have it after a slap in the face like that lol.

There is literally a part 3 hours into this where Nick randomly starts roleplaying as DarkViper talking about his girlfriend licking his shitty asshole clean.

You think I am making that up but I am not, wish I had a timestamp.

Also learned who Kinetic Kell was and why she dropped off the face of the earth almost immediately.

This really needs to be a yearly tradition. So much chaos from just 1 stream.

I have an original GC memory card from Nintendo as well as a Madcatz one. Both are from when i was little and are surprisingly still kicking. The Nintendo one has occasional read issues but ends up working. I would like to retire both for a more modern option. My Wii is hacked and I play digital backups of all my games stored on an sd card in the wii's sd card slot, but GC games still need a memory card to save properly.

I come from the PSP scene and typically people use what's called a Memory Stick Pro Duo to Micro SD Converter. They work on stock systems and just allow you to use micro SD's for storage. I've been looking around for a bit to see if a similar solution exists for Gamecube and it seems like it exists but I'm confused. Most of them seem to be for launching games/homebrew and not actually saving.

Are there gamecube memory cards I can buy that use Micro SD cards as storage?

I've made jokes in the past that it's the containment sub, but I genuinely don't understand it's purpose. There seems to be a completely different crowd of people over there (there's a different vibe when you go through the posts) so the containment sub moniker seems more accurate than I thought. However, I did happen to notice that Nick is not a moderator over there, so I'm assuming it also exists as a facet of his community that he doesn't have direct control over

On the other hand, I genuinely think people just don't understand Clipped Live is Nick's sub lol. I kind of think somebody created that sub not understanding Clipped Live exists

From my understanding, Game Key Cards work like this: The GKC has NO playable game data on it, it merely has a license that tells your console you have permission to download the data for the corresponding game. That data is then downloaded to storage you provide, wether it be the Switch 2's Internal Storage or a Micro SD Express.

If this is correct... aren't you technically paying twice? You pay once to buy the game, then again to provide the storage for it. Generally if you buy a normal cartridge release you only pay once because the storage is provided for you, outside of additional downloads like DLC or updates.

I know I'm preaching to the choir in this specific community, but are people seriously okay with this? I understand the main concern with these is ownership and not actually having a physical representation of the thing you paid for in your possession, but you really are paying twice. Companies like Square Enix are also charging $70 for a lot of their releases, and those are big games that take up a lot of space, so the consumer really gets screwed in those types of cases. I couldn't even see GKCs being a viable option when heavily discounted, the format is ultimately more inconvenient than a normal digital purchase.

I rarely see this exact point brought up so I have a feeling I may be misunderstanding something, c​ause to me this is the actual deal breaker. I've owned digital games for years but these are like digital games coming to you in the most inconvenient and expensive form possible.