Transcript possibility

I've seen a lot of people post saying they cant watch the Saw video due to the content, and I myself am one of those people.

And just listening to the audio wouldn't help me. My imagination is the problem.

But of course Natalie worked so hard on this and I want to know what she has to say. So what i'm wondering is: could someone write a transcript but every time violence is described it just says "description of violence"

Would that work? Or is knowing the gruesome details really necessary to understand the analysis?

Would anyone with a strong constitution be willing to take on this project? (Is there a way to generate a transcription of the subtitles from a youtube video to make it easier?)

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After 2 days, ‘Saw’ has hit 1M views!
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Why Natalie didn't "go there"

To me it seemed obvious where she wanted to go with this but felt like she couldn't.

Natalie has spent the last 6 months or so being relentlessly harassed by online posters who claim she is a Zionist even though she has explicitly and consistently advocated for Palestine.

Why do they hate her so much? In her Reddit post on the subject last July she says nothing to suggest the Palestinian people are wrong, but (correctly) points out that there are people in the West who claim to be pro-Palestinian but do fuck all for the Palestinian people, all while publicly fantasizing about righteous violence against Zionists. To me, the hatred Natalie provoked has less to do with her actual stance on Palestine or on Israel, but about how she points out that this supposedly righteous trolling can be very self-interested. They claim that standing against genocide justifies whatever they might say or do, but that isn't true. They are observers to genocide, not its victims, and their actions can still be immoral or dangerous.

SAW is about how the fig leaf of moralism is used to justify violence. Saw 1-9 are easily condemned for their violence (and I think it's also fine to condemn them aesthetically), but Saw X provides just enough pseudomoralism to be a critical success. The point is not that Saw X is bad and you're bad for liking it, but rather that the violence it depicts is just as gratuitous and immoral as it ever was.

The line between the pseudomoralism of Saw X and the pseudomoralism of state propaganda, Zionist influencers, and certain Twitch streamers is obvious, in my opinion. And I also understand entirely why Natalie refused to draw it.

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Conspiracy

Conspiracy was her best.
I Loved saw . I love all her content. But conspiracy was a once in a lifetime banger.

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Killing is DISTASTEFUL

to me.

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More Horror Ideas

So I'm at work, it'll probably be very rushed post but would anyone love to see more takes regarding horror coming from Natalie? Part of me would be interested in seeing her thoughts on The Ring. I started reading the series, if you will, in 2022 and remember thinking some queer themes were there, how they were not adapted to film and how the eventually became very transphobic, but how every story set in the Ring universe, if you will, has this thing on how information gets propagated like a virus. How we must force everyone to experience tragedies (aka Sadako/Samara needing her story to be propagated).

Tangent, but sometimes I'd love to see a horror director's take on the Ring regarding how worse this has gotten with doom scrolling and whatnot or about a cursed franchise that now has this virus in it lol.

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If you know, you know
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In Twilight Contra said that Bigots/Terfs need to be defeated. But How

So realistically how do we defeat terfs?

Do we point out their support for Donald Trump and right wing governments hurts women more? Do we prop up the fact that the far right is actually attacking women's rights to vote.

I'm just wondering how do we deal with bigotry?

In the west we have these billionaire tech bros funding race realism in universities and stuff. Everything seems like it's going backwards or even in a darker correction

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Opulence Part 2
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Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
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Poorly disguised yearning (for that which longer nurseth the disease)
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Grad cap from last year expect I got the the last quote wronggg :,)
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Lionsgate: Stop trying to make “Jig-fucking-Saw” happen, it’s not going to happen

Everybody knows (well, every fluent English speaker. And some don’t know they know it) that if you’re interjecting “fucking” into the middle of a word you put it before the stressed syllable, not after. That’s why it’s “abso-fucking-lutely” and not “absolute-fucking-ly.” The stressed syllable in “Jigsaw” is “Jig” so “Jig-fucking-saw” sounds awkward and doesn’t roll off the tongue. It’s not going to catch on.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

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Queen behavior on Twitter
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Any way to listen to Zoë Blade's remix of the SAW theme?

After watching the video, I really liked the remix of the saw theme. Is there any way to listen to it? Couldn't find it on any of Zoë's socials or anytihng or may have overlooked it.

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The Great Lubrication has begun
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Heyhowareyou?
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Video essays that scratch the same itch as the Twilight video?

This may not be the right subreddit but there's no real subreddit for video essays so here we go.

I feel like the Twilight video was really eye-opening for me. Its insights into female sexuality kind of changed how I see myself and my relationship to sex. I'd love to learn more about this and prefer not to do so in book-form (I'm a historian and have to read an absurd amount every day for work and would prefer not to dabble in non-fiction in my own time).

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Who is your favorite character?

Who's your favorite of Natalie's characters that appear on her channel? Who is the most entertaining? Who are you most excited to see when they appear? i listed them below for reference. Feel free to add any that I missed!

Tabby

Lady Floppington

Justine

Jackie Jackson

Tiffany Tumbles

Baltimore

Adria

Abigail

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Reykjavik Variety Hour | ContraPoints Live
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