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I'm looking forward to the Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee remaster that's apparently coming out on November 3rd so that's neat. I never played the original game because I never had the console for it, so instead I watched other people play it on YouTube. So it's great that I get a chance to play it now after all these years.

Last Thursday I decided to check out the film Little Shop of Horrors on a whim. I expected it to be a kinda silly monster movie, and I got that, but it was WAY more silly than I expected it to be. Turns out it was a full blown musical, and the songs were amazing! The guy that plays dark helmet in Spaceballs is the main character in this film named Seymour and he does a good job.

The practical effects in this film is amazing, especially concerning Audrey II and her singing. I'm tempted to go see behind the scenes stuff involving how Audrey II was made because there are several points in this film where she does things that are quite frankly impossible looking to do for a simple puppet, for example the way the plants mouth move when she speaks, her using the phone to call the first Audrey, and her breaking through her makeshift pot. I also appreciate how Audrey II's tongue looks like a leaf, I thought that was neat. I know Frank Oz directed the film, but a different person was credited for operating and creating Audrey II so I wonder if he had any impact on how that plant came to be. Also, and this is just a me thing, but the two main girls from Martin appear here as background singers and I didn't expect to see that so yeah.

On the topic of music, all of the musical sequences are enjoyable and hilarious. The more stand out songs and sequences include the introduction to Audrey's abusive boyfriend who you'd think is some sort of gangster by how they talk to him. He then shows up to work in a 50s biker uniform, only to reveal himself to be a dentist that enjoys inflicting pain on his patients. Talk about a funny subversion. Audrey's first song has her be transported into a pristine 50s esque fantasy where she has Seymour as her husband with her two kids in their beautiful house, and a little bird shows up! Like, animated Disney princess bird. Mean Green Mother from Outer Space is amazing both for the musical performance and the puppetry at work and Suddenly Seymour is an Earworm. I don't know if the cast sung the music themselves, but if they did thumbs up to all of them.

If You're in the mood for a funny monster musical, check it out cause it is free on YouTube, with ads. I think you'll have a great time with it.

We didn't reach Anthony's weird inspirational speech at the end of the stream so here it is with some proper inspirational music to go with it.

I like to give second chances to people and I initially gave Anthony a second chance during the whole “YouTube Critics are Lying to You” debacle when he came onto the Team JYCT stream involving talking about what led up to this video being made and why it wasn't good and how he could improve in the future. After that I sporadically saw some of Anthony's stuff, some probably meaning two now that I remember it, and even spotted him in the Mauler subreddit during the Backseater coverage, which is a whole other conversation, which I saw as progress since he wasn't a big EFAP fan.

And then the OtterlyNoah drama happened, and I saw how Anthony Gramouglia defended him and obfuscated Noah's plagiarism as poor citations. I caught the tail end of the stream where he talked about how bamboozled he was and him doing a whole motivational speech about improvement and all that. I thought, alright I didn't see the entire stream but I'll watch the rest of it later and Ant seemed to learn his lesson.

Then I watched the second EFAP stream, and saw him fighting on Twitter about how EFAP is afraid to cover him because they only did so once, him implying that they only cover what they cover because they want views and money, talking about Jay even though he doesn't know them and tries to paint the podcast, or at least imply that they were bigoted in some way because they criticized certain media and then acts like a 10 year old in a playground when people confront him on this fact, and him trying to make himself out to be a highly trained educator who helped Noah, and the DMs where he tried to coach OtterlyNoah through his apology and refused to see ANY glaring red flags on his behavior, all for the sake of team sports. Then I saw the first stream Anthony made during the first Plagiarism drama where he seemed to acknowledge that what OtterlyNoah did was wrong but didn't process any of it and try to downplay it. All of that makes his latest OtterlyNoah stream sound like he was dropping Noah not because of many moral reasons, but because his reputation would be destroyed if he didn't do anything.

Now I'm not entirely sure anymore if Anthony was being actively malicious when he was doing all of this, I used to think that he was but after last night's episode I am open to the idea that he was just highly negligent. The problem is I thought OtterlyNoah was just being neglectful and stupid until he revealed that he was A-OK with flagging channels for criticizing him and having his artists do it on his behalf to keep his hands clean. There also comes a point where someone is so negligent and stupid that it is almost indistinguishable from malice and Ant is in that category for me.

I really want to give this dude the benefit of the doubt because he showed signs of potential, but he has to REALLY show that he is serious about changing and actually think about the nonsense that led to him being in this mess in the first place. Hopefully he can fix himself and the way he interacts with his content and his peers online before he becomes a Lolcow like Noah.

I was thinking about going on a mini Tron marathon (minus Ares cause I have not heard good things about it from anyone and the only what who has a positive review of that is a rat) and I was wondering if Tron Legacy is a movie worth watching. Tiron Legacy has a decent reputation thanks to the music and I hear that the visuals are neat but I hear that the story isn't as good as the first one and is similar to the Force Awakens which is a film i can no longer stand.

Also this is the first time I'm watching either film and TV series so I'm not entirely sure what to expect. What do you guys think of Tron: Legacy?

This is the video that OtterlyNoah attempted to take it down for criticizing him and the way he critiques media and other media reviewers. Give it a watch, tell me what you think about it. Me personally while I don't 100 percent agree with the conclusion, this is a well made video with good research behind it.

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I wasn't sure if this was going to be covered on Team JYCT since we are covering Ant this week but in case it isn't I wanted to share this stream covering OtterlyNoah's leaked voice call talking about him sueing Ant and possibly Kelesto.

Skip to the time stamp 45:25 If you want to get right to the voice call.

Edit: I corrected the timestamp

So another person on the Internet that got into Internet trouble over Plagiarism was James Somerton. He was also a media channel but was analyzing various films, usually from Disney from a progressive lens. Then thanks to HBomberguy he was proven to be a massive Plagiarist and his entire YouTube career collapsed. Also James Somerton tried to gain sympathy through suicide baiting, so there is that. Does anybody else know about the James Somerton Plagiarism drama because I only know the bare basics of that event.

Considering the person that we covered last Team JYCT episode, and the subject that we are going to discuss afterwards, I was curious to know how people on this subreddit knew what Plagiarism and at what time.

I learned about Plagiarism and why it was bad in middle school when we were learning to write research and argumentative essays. Additionally we also were taught how to use quotes in a sentence and to summarize the information we learned in our own words. So I highly doubt that a media reviewer of all people wouldn't know what Plagiarism is or why it's bad unless they just don't care.

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When I think of a YouTube media reviewer, I think of a person who likes movies or at least certain types of movies and wishes to talk about them to their hearts content.

They may not necessarily be good at it, like the way they analyze media can be shallow or flawed in some way, or they may not have the best grasp on how the industry works, or their presentation could be rough, but otherwise want to talk about the thing they are interested in and will try to find ways to do it.

Then there is OtterlyNoah. OtterlyNoah seems to be obsessed with Autism representation in media, and according to his now privated apology video made the Griftly Bear series because he wanted movie reviews to go back to normal before the entire Woke/Anti Anti-woke discussion happened. Ok, understandable, but then you see the videos he makes, or rather the videos he steals and claims as his own. And when he is confronted about his plagiarism he seems to either be incredibly dishonest about his work or is to stupid to understand the concept of stealing. Got so bad that he stole an opinion of a film that he doesn't actually have with Tron Ares. Like, I know the guy likes Tron Ares because he made a positive review of it and praised the main protagonist character, but when he copied Vincent Paruvel’s video on JesterBell he copied his opinion on the main character which was significantly more negative. Why did he even copy that, just use your own opinion!

Like, I know he doesn't like JesterBell so why not just critique Jester Bell on his own terms? He could have looked up the films from 2025 and pointed out the films that she could've watched, he could've pointed out his personal films that he liked and recommended to both her and the audience, he could've switched up the order or changed the films that arrived in that year to make it his own!

I know plagiarism is done partially out of laziness, but to the extent that OtterlyNoah does so and how blatant it is, it makes you wonder if he actually cares about the things he talks about or is just doing this because it's easy money, almost as he is a Griftly Bear. Then again, he said he liked the Palpatine joke from Nerrel’s video, so he just took it and altered it slightly to be “different”. That's a weirdly childish mentality to have where you like something, therefore you can just copy it and make subtle changes to it to make it yours. That's not that much of a problem when you're a preteen drawing a Sonic OC for the first time or are trying to mimic your favorite celebrities fashion sense, but OtterlyNoah isn't a preteen, he is in his 20s, apparently is working in the industry, and wants to talk about films on line while judging others credibility.

I do not understand how you would get to this point without going “hey maybe I should actually try to improve my work instead of stealing from other people”. But hey, apparently James Somerton got far enough so maybe OtterlyNoah thought he would to.

Thanks to Nicholas DeOrio I have learned that OtterlyNoah put his accountability video back up.

Plus on April 16th OtterlyNoah considered sueing Kelesto for "accusing him of plagarism". This was before the first EFAP stream so it was most likely done before he Copywrite struck the thumbnail.

Before the drama went down my only real interaction with him and his content was watching him through an EFAP stream when they were reacting to three other Predator Badlands videos. Safe to say, my first impression of him wasn't good, especially since both his attempts to review Predator Badlands and critique Critical Drinker’s review of it was not great but I just thought he was your standard Anti Anti-woke reviewer and nothing else.

Then this drama happened and I discovered he was FAR worse than I could have ever expected.

Has anyone here had watched his content before the OtterlyNoah plagiarism drama or was this your first experience of him? Did you hear the OtterlyNoah drama before the Team JYCT Stream and if so from where?

So on May 21st I Watched The Mandalorian and Grogu movie, and it was mid. Like, beyond mid. I wasn't expecting a massive trash fire like some of the more infamous Disney Star Wars projects like Book of Boba Fett or the Acolyte, but man was it just…kinda…there. I enjoyed my theatre experience, though I could chalk that up to being alone in the theater with just my family while happily eating cheese pizza and popcorn while sipping on soda. Aside from a few shots and upgraded music beats to sound cinematic, this is essentially season 4 of the Mandalorian condensed into a film. It could have been a Disney Plus movie special and nothing of importance would be lost. As for the film itself, well, let's talk about it.

The story of the Mandalorian and Grogu film is very video gamey. They travel to different locations to achieve different missions in order to move the plot forward. It feels difficult to recount the story because there isn't a lot of substance to it but I'll recap the film to the best of my abilities. We start off with our Mandalorian hero Din Djarin and Grogu fighting imperial remnants. I don't know why he feels like bringing a toddler on this mission since he does nothing worthwhile except act cute. After he kills the Imperial he goes back to the New Republic to get his reward from Ripley (I don't know Sigourney Weaver's Star Wars character name and I don't care) which is a new Razor crest ship. After that he receives a new mission to find another imperial warlord named Janu Coin (whose face is not identified for reasons) by going to the planet Nal Hutta to get intel from them. Mando goes to Nal Hutta with another New Republic pilot named Garazeb ”Zeb” Orrelios, who you won't recognize unless you watch Star Wars Rebels and is barely a character in this film. When they arrive we meet the Hutt twins from The Book of Boba Fett who gives him information in exchange for Mando agreeing to rescue their nephew Rotta the Hutt, Jabba’s son who got kidnapped in the Clone Wars movie. Mando, Grogu, and Zeb head to the moon of Shakar where Rotta is and Zeb stays behind while Mando and Grogu find the guy. Turns out Rotta has been fighting as a gladiator for years and is pretty famous on that planet and doesn't want to return home. Mando tries to buy out his contract from his boss, who is Janu Coin. Janu Coin reveals, for some reason, that he actually plans on killing Rotta in a fixed fight. Mando tries to warn him but is captured and forced to fight Rotta in the arena. Mando defeats him and forfeits the battle, so Janu sends in the Dejarik monsters to kill them. Mando, Grogu, and Rotta get in an action scene and they capture Janu to bring him back. Mando gets rewarded, Rotta is now a free slug and the episode, sorry that section of the film, ends. Before we know it Embo the hunter and his pet Anooba capture Grogu and one of the Babu Friks before going back to Nal Hutta to punish Mando for not doing the job. Grogu, who was somehow not caught, goes to gear up and rescue Grogu with the rest of the Babu Friks. When Mando arrives he is sent to a pit to fight fish monsters and a Dragon Snake that looks like a snake version of Rudy from Ice Age 3 Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Grogu and the Friks then arrive to rescue Din and they escape through the sewer tunnel, but not before the Rudy snake poisons him. Mando is too big to escape with Grogu and the Friks on their comically small space ship so Mando tells them to leave while he stays behind to fight off the Hutt army of droid minions. After winning he collapses from the poison and it is revealed that Grogu stayed behind and he continues to care for Mando before he randomly finds this lizard dude who gives him the cure for the Rudy snake poison. After that Mando recovers and both of them find a random ship to pillage weapons from before going back to the Hutt base to rescue Rotta and kill the Hutt twins. They break in, fight some droids, Mando fights Embo, Grogu puts the Anooba to sleep, and Rotta fights the Hutt twins. The Hutts' battle causes the ground below them to give way and fall into the Rudy pit, with Grogu using the Force to lift Rotta from the Pit. The Rudy snake eats the Hutt twins, Embo and his Anooba pieces out and escapes, and Mando Grogu and Rotta leave as the New Republic and the Friks arrive to destroy the Hutt twins home. After that the movie just kinda ends.

The positive thing I have to say is that I like the creatures in this film, as well as some of the practical effects. The Dejarik monsters look cool to see realized in a CGI style, the Martin Scorsese alien looks neat, I like the Rudy snake, and the random lizard dude who lives in a shack. Embo aura farming also looks cool. There are also some large stop motion droids that Mando fights in the movie and that looked nice.

The negative thing I have to say is that if you think about it the plot simply does not function. It relies on things like Grogu not using the Force when he should, the villains not taking away Mando’s armor and weapons, and simply running into something to move the story forward, like that lizard dude who gave Grogu the Rudy Snake antidote. Characters will simply repeat the same dialogue just reworded differently, sometimes in the same sentence in the case of Rotta. Speaking of Rotta, he is weirdly buff and I DO NOT THINK THAT WORKS. It just looks so weird to see him move and fight, and later on he fights the Hutt twins and they move in a way that doesn't make sense for the Hutts. I have seen complaints about the Hutts speaking English in the film but that's not my issue, my issue is that Rotta just sounds like a human dude rather than an alien slug and it looks wrong coming from his mouth. Also, chunks of this film feel like filler, the entirety of the Grogu helping Mando recover from poison bit is entirely useless.

The characters in the film are certainly there. It seems like they tried to give Mandalorian and Grogu an arc with Din Djarin and him reflecting on how Grogu will continue his legacy after he is gone, I think. The film doesn't really focus on Din as an actual person but more as a guy who does generic cool action stuff and occasionally has a personality before reverting back to cool guy. Any action scene he is in has basically no steaks because he always wears invincible armor and the villains refuse to remove him armor whenever he is captured, or in the case of the Hutt twins they give him back his helmet. Grogu is…not really understandable as a character? Apparently Grogu is smart enough to go along dangerous bounty hunter missions with Din but also has a mentality of a toddler that is easily bribed by food, will throw a slight tantrum if things don't go his way, and is easily scared by the world around him. This issue also applies to Grogu’s Force powers. I distinctly remember in the second or third episode of the first season of The Mandalorian where he lifted up a mudhorn and effectively embolized it, with the consequence being that he fell asleep whenever he did that. There are several moments in this film where Grogu is in dangerous situations that he can easily get himself out of. He gets trapped in a cage that he could've used the Force to break out of. Early on in the film some bombs are planted next to the characters that Grogu can easily throw out of the opening but doesn't. The Anooba (the spacedog that Embo has) that attacks Grogu and the Anzellans could have easily been dealt with if Grogu used the Force and prevented that one dude from being caught, and he would use the Force to put the Anooba to sleep near the end of the movie. Aside from the title characters, the film has very little character. Ripley is just there, so is Zeb, the Hutt twins Janu Coin, and the imperials are simplistic mustache twirling villains, and Embo is just here to aura farm with his space dog. The Babu Friks are there to help Grogu and that's basically it, the lizard hermit is nice but is just there to stop Mando from dying of poison. I feel like they tried the most with Rotta, who wants to escape from his father's shadow, but aside from that he isn't expanded upon as a character.

I didn't rewatch the Mandalorian series before I watched the movie so I'm not necessarily up to date on what their arcs are supposed to be but it feels like we have done this story before. Down to Mando and friends being in trouble and Grogu saves them all near the finale except instead of using the Force he gives him an antidote. This film is just filler, you can put it on TV to serve as background noise and that's all its worth. If you want to see it I recommend just waiting until it comes out on Disney plus for free. If you still plan on watching it in theaters, buy some food and snacks with you because that will be the best part of your Star Wars film experience.

TLDR, The Mandalorian and Grogu is mid, wait till it comes out on Disney plus, or go to the theaters for the culinary experience.

So Mixtape has gotten plenty of flack for not really being a "game" in the sense that your not playing the game most of the time. There are sections where you can sit the controller down and let the game play itself and it seems to be more focused on the narrative rather than the gameplay.

But Mixtape is not the first of these games to exist, there are plenty of more recent video games that act more like an interactive film.

So at what point does a game stop being a game and do you think that is a problem?

I haven't played the "game" bit I have watched Sai Scribbles and Maulers playthrough and I am about to watch Metalcommander's playthrough when I finish writing this message. It's not a game, its barely a game, you move in a straight line most of the time and do small mini games to spice things up. There is barely a story, barely any characters, and a theme that sounds like it was written by someone with Peter Pan Syndrome. Speaking of Peter Pan Syndrome, the guy who made this game is a guy whose surname is Galvatron, no I am not kidding look it up, and wants to tell a story about music in the 1990s only for the music to be from the 80s with 2020 Internet slang thrown in. It's bad, its cringe, it has morally repugnant themes, it looks awful, it sounds awful when it isn't using someone else's music to do the heavy lifting, and is probably one of the most pinnacle examples of "Millennial Cringe Writing" I have ever seen.

IGN gave this mess a 10/10 by the way.