That Time I Ranted About "The Goldbergs" on Twitter

I just really want to revisit and cherish this moment where I got so fed up with the mere existence of ABC sitcom The Goldbergs that I wrote a blog post's worth of tweets about it AND made a Twitter moment out of it later!

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1010906460761608197

For those who don't use Twitter, I am going to post this below:
(I am going to write it all out below that too because the Twitter screenshots don't translate well on all monitors)

"I'm making this so I don't rant about it that often. Probably still will.

"There are much more pressing and repulsive things going on now but I have nothing to add to the discussion so:

"The Goldbergs is still running and it is written like a fucking toothpaste commercial now. It was awful before but now it won't even stick to its gimmick. Scratch that. I think at one point when I was a kid there was a toothpaste commercial line with a sentient set of human teeth. That's a funny idea on paper. The Goldbergs is not even a funny concept on paper. I'm probably just overwhelmed with my week and am taking it out on a beloved ABC sitcom. I can tell because I have always hated that show and it's such a hollow show that it's an easy target.

"You're allowed to like The Goldbergs and enjoy it if you want. I can't take that away from you. Don't want to. At the same time, you're blind if you complain about TV becoming shit. If you tune into that show, you're part of the problem and should be aware enough to see that. I kind of want to do a video on that show but that means I would have to sit through more episodes than I already have to make fair points and I don't know if that's worth it."

"If you pirate The Goldbergs... then... fuck, you're just a masochist, and I completed Sonic 3D Blast just to do a shitty video on YouTube about it, so that's really saying something. To each their own. If I was going to make a video on The Goldbergs, I would probably make easy comparisons to other shows that run around the same time on the same channel. The Middle and Modern Family. They are not perfect shows but they do what they do way fucking better than The Goldbergs.

"I'm not a big fan of The Middle but the writers, directors, producers, and probably casting agents knew that their kids would not be kids forever. Their characters grow from the past and it isn't ham-fisted. The audience can see it and feel like they were a part of that. Modern Family does the same things except every character grows, even the adults. The fucking grandpa has to learn shit about his gay son and it doesn't just work because it's topical, it's because the main cast of Modern Family is awesome. The cast makes that show. The Goldbergs is on Season 5 and things are slowly progressing but nothing important is changing because there was never anything important to begin with. By trying to make the show relatable to everyone, they created 5 alien characters that no one cares about. You can't.

"The guy that the story is allegedly based on, based on the home movie stuff at the end of each episode, probably has a creative mind. He's probably got some real mindfuck ideas in there but the show is such a corporate ABC dollhouse asylum that it doesn't matter. Even then, when something momentous or "important" happens in an episode, they usually ruin it by trying their damnedest to throw in an homage to 80's pop culture and it's so fucking distracting. Even if they almost hit it, they shoot themselves in the foot everytime. There was an episode where the plot was almost a complete abridged rip-off of A Christmas Story. I'm not exaggerating. I'm hyped on caffeine and kind of angry and tired and overwhelmed with a lot of stuff to do. So fuck The Goldbergs. If you don't know what it is, good."

Just wanted to point that out because whenever I remember that this is something I spent energy to do, it always gives me a laugh. I think this is mostly because I pretty much don't make any jokes or anything in this thread/moment. I'm not trying to be funny here and I think that unintentionally makes it way funnier. I hope you enjoyed that, I did.

Being an Entitled Baby on deh webbernet (Update Blog)

I haven't been posting a terrible amount of anything recently. It has been 6 months since my last main video and 5 months since my last video on my channel in general. My music channel (Lexi Karma) might as well not exist. I posted a blog saying how exhausted and miserable I was a few months ago. I think that it is probably fair to update that. As it stands now, I have squirrels constantly invading the attic of my apartment and the management and pest control people are not doing a whole lot to fix that. Naturally, if I do something to fix that, it breaks lease. So I'm up at 8 in the morning ready to procrastinate and write about my life anyway (the fucker is skittering around up there storing food as we speak).

I'm going to put brief synopses at the end of this post for those who don't want to read a book about where my head is at with all this.

So:

General Life/ Mental Health

I am surprisingly much better. I am in a mental homeostasis sort of thing that I don't know how to define... other than "mental homeostasis". I recognize that my life is a fucking joke but considering the efforts I am putting in daily to make it a little less idiotic, things are not so bad. I don't feel like I'm tricking myself into seeing the positives in my life. I'm not rich. I'm not constantly surrounded by trusting friends. I'm being woken up by rodents at least one week out of every month. But I am making progress. Typing this out now, I realize this sounds way more depressing than what it is. I guess I just realize that no matter where I am in life, there are going to be things that I want to change. Where I am at now is, in many ways, flawed but compared to where I was even three years ago, I'm doing pretty damn great. I am growing new mental health issues but they are sustainable. The most dangerous ones that have plagued me since I was really young are certainly at bay. They have their spikes but are otherwise barely there.

UNFORTUNATELY THOUGH, since they are not completely gone and I have had some recent insurance issues, I now have to do more grinding for money that has nothing to do with anything creative so I can continue to do creative things so I can afford drugs so I don't kill myself. It's a ride. I already had to balance school, shit job, music, writing, video editing, and some weird semblance of a social life. Now I have to do more school and more shit job, leaving less time to do or even enjoy the other things. Drawing things, for example, has become a rare occurrence for me over the past few months. But I'm also moving into another place soon so I can't just take a vacation or something. Welcome to being an artistic person in your 20's in America, I guess.

School

School can kiss my ass but I'm almost done. The sad thing is that this far into the major, I am actually starting to take classes I am interested in that can directly help my future and they are being stifled by other classes. Juggling the class I care about (a screenwriting workshop) with the class I know I don't care about at all (an elective) instantly makes me care less about the class I should be caring about. It's making my grades in the cool classes slide slightly below perfect. Ohhhhh godddd!!!!

In any case, I graduate sometime in Spring 2020. Some days that is my only motivation to keep going with this workload.

Randomrings Channel

I want to keep doing Randomrings Channel but focus less on being analytical and more about being silly/ writing stuff that I hope people will find interesting. It just isn't in the cards right now. I want to do more stuff like that Pokemon Battle Revolution review even though I have said repeatedly that I never want to do another video like that again. A more cartoonish video makes the video inherently more Newgrounds-friendly. I want to make things I pour a lot of effort into go on a site that isn't festering with dead body-filming vloggers, pedophiles, Fortnite, more Fortnite, and 30-minute video essays about how that game you like is actually bad. So from now on, if I ever upload videos ever again, I would expect the video to be one of three things:

Gumflap:

Gumflap is mostly game reviews and I guess from now on I would like to keep it in the style of the Pokemon Battle Revolution video. These would be short, goofy videos where I talk about my general thoughts on a video game and why that might matter on some grander scale. Honestly, as long as I keep the scripts under 10 minutes, it probably won't take any longer than a video like the "Hat in Time" one. In some cases, it might not take as long at all.

Late to the Party:

I don't know why, but writing tiny movie reviews has been something I have been growing attached to recently. I started doing this here on this blog but I might do more of it in video form. They won't all be 40 minutes long like the MCU video I made. At this point, I have written a large handful of these, including more MCU movies (Ant-Man and the Wasp and Avengers: Infinity War with plans to cover Avengers: Endgame after I finally see it... you can spoil it, I already know a lot of the stuff that happens).

Whatever else I want:

I need more practice writing. After I graduate college, I just might do more original stuff that isn't tied to #epicg@m3r content.

I don't have any plans on abandoning or shutting down Randomrings Channel. This is more of a "not enough hours in the day" situation.

Lexi Karma

When I have time off and no one is available to watch me scream at Sonic in my own apartment, I have actually been pecking away at some music. Unfortunately, I have been running into a lot of technical issues over the past year or so. I planned to release the 2nd Lexi Karma project around Summer or Fall of last year and now it is the Summer of 2019 and it isn't even done. At least it's written out and synths and stuff are assigned. I want to redo a lot of the singing and there is a lot more mixing to be done. I have worked on stuff I want to release after all that too. I shouldn't be, it's sinful that I'm even considering it, but I'm doing it.

Webcomic

Believe it or not, I'm still trying to work on this too. I have drawn pretty much nothing but concept sketches. My main focus on this is the writing though. I am much more talented and passionate when it comes to writing than drawing. I come up with ideas for it almost every day. Sometimes I just genuinely exhaust myself to the point where I can't give it the focus the story deserves. More details on this in the distant future.

Okay well, that's it.

Summary:

General Life/ Mental Health - I have a bigger workload now than ever and my current living situation is stressful but measures are being taken to fix or cope with all of this and I'm doing just fine.

School - It is driving me bonkers and leaving me with no true days off but I graduate in Spring 2020.

Randomrings Channel - Clearly, I don't have much time to do these things but stay tuned anyway. I haven't given up on this. I write new ideas for "Gumflap" and "Late to the Party" pretty often.

Lexi Karma - I have run into many technical difficulties but I'm still inching towards new music coming out as soon as I can get it to a point where it doesn't sound awful.