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mystery at hog island posted:I turned the review off as soon as I heard Bad Reputation and saw that guy's poo poo eating grin. His vids aren't the best, but he did an interesting piece on scouring flee markets for NES cartridges. At the time I saw it those were his only ones on youtube so I don't know what the rest are like.
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New Board James - Mr. Bucket Yes, really.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:25 |
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m2pt5 posted:New Board James - Mr. Bucket I used to get that drat commercial song stuck in my head so bad oh gently caress him for putting it in the episode
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:25 |
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His reviews are really starting to lack in quality
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:30 |
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hello internet posted:His reviews are really starting to lack in quality Really? Action 52 is one of his best videos.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:33 |
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hello internet posted:His reviews are really starting to lack in quality I'm about 6 minutes in and this is a poor review to declare that, he put a lot of effort into this one
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:34 |
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the Bunt posted:Really? Action 52 is one of his best videos. I should have been more specific. Everything besides his AVGN videos have been lacking quality
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:37 |
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So yeah, just finished, that might have been his best anything
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:40 |
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This video rules, but it's not a review of anything, it's more like one of his Cinemassacre horror things.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:48 |
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oldgoatmon posted:So yeah, just finished, that might have been his best anything This video was great in that "horror B-movie" kind of way. And I think they both summed it up pretty well with the "what the gently caress" at the end.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:48 |
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The over-the-top line at the end of the Mr. Bucket video made me laugh for a while. It's hard to call that a review, just a short film that centers around a children's toy.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 17:55 |
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He quickly reviewed the thing then let it spiral out of control into awesome. The review is that there isn't much to a toy aimed at kids 2-4 years old.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 18:07 |
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Oh, James.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 18:11 |
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Bo-Pepper posted:Oh, James. What are we looking at here?
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| # ? May 11, 2010 18:16 |
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Pope Guilty posted:What are we looking at here? Tissues and lotion. It's what is circled
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| # ? May 11, 2010 18:17 |
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hello internet posted:Tissues and lotion. Oh, is that what that is? Ew.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 18:18 |
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Pope Guilty posted:Oh, is that what that is? Ew. There is a high price for playing horrid video games 24/7. He's got a pretty swank pad though.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 18:33 |
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hello internet posted:I should have been more specific. Everything besides his AVGN videos have been lacking quality Agreed. Yes, there isn't much to say about something like Mr. Bucket, so then maybe you shouldn't do a video about Mr. Bucket. But he does, and then makes a poor short film about Mr. Bucket wanting to suck on his balls. He goes through all this effort over THIS but couldn't be bothered at all to do anything for HeroQuest.  I don't know. Maybe I'm just expecting him to take on the Board James series the same way he handles the AVGN series, and detail the games and their history in an informative and entertaining matter, and get pissed off when necessary. But if he's trying to make this into something completely different, then it just seems the direction he's going with it is one I really am not enjoying. I would LOVE a video series that covered board games like that though.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 18:49 |
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Gotta agree that his board game reviews have been pretty lame. Guy just doesn't seem to have any enthusiasm when it counts. If you want GOOD boardgame reviews, you have only to check out Downtimetown, the new free-time project by BBC funnyman and all-round supernerd Robert Florence. His video-review of the new edition Space Hulk is gold. He literally sings the praises of Overwatch as a gameplay element. It's a pity he doesn't do these more often, but he's off shooting TV shows most of the time, so there's not much time for geekery. Edit: Warning, contains strong Glasgow accent.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 18:53 |
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There's something about his sense of timing in a lot of his skit cuts that bothers me--it's hard to put my finger on it, but it feels like there's just a couple seconds of dead air on a lot of the cuts that shouldn't be there.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 19:44 |
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CarlCX posted:There's something about his sense of timing in a lot of his skit cuts that bothers me--it's hard to put my finger on it, but it feels like there's just a couple seconds of dead air on a lot of the cuts that shouldn't be there. Who? AVGN or Florence? Because if it's the latter, that's intentional. Dude loves his slightly unsettling video editing.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 19:48 |
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Jamesman posted:He goes through all this effort over THIS but couldn't be bothered at all to do anything for HeroQuest. I too was disappointed with the content of the Hero Quest episode. It ended before it had even started.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 19:51 |
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Dominic White posted:Who? AVGN or Florence? Because if it's the latter, that's intentional. Dude loves his slightly unsettling video editing. AVGN, pardon. In the latter case it was very extremely intentional, but in AVGN's case it seems like a bad habit.
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| # ? May 11, 2010 19:57 |
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That's probably hand sanitizer you uncouth sloths!
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| # ? May 11, 2010 22:24 |
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Carver posted:That's probably hand sanitizer you uncouth sloths! Plus, it's natural to keep those two items in once place. My mother always had lotion and tissue paper next to her chair, and I never once saw her use them to masturbate.
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The Human Crouton posted:Plus, it's natural to keep those two items in once place. My mother always had lotion and tissue paper next to her chair, and I never once saw her use them to masturbate. Admittedly you may have suppressed the memory.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 03:20 |
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He's also wearing a gold band on his left hand ring finger so yeah, I'm guessing it's some sort of joke to play up to the lonely video game nerd persona.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 03:37 |
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Chopstick Walrus posted:He's also wearing a gold band on his left hand ring finger so yeah, I'm guessing it's some sort of joke to play up to the lonely video game nerd persona. Or he occasionally sneezes and has hand sanitizer to get rid of the snot residue. Either way.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 04:13 |
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Just watched the Mr. Bucket video. I haven't really seen much of his actual Cinemassacre videos, but I can tell he really knows (and loves) his B-movie horror films. I actually like the classic/retro/black-and-white style of horror films of yore better than the gore films of today.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 04:13 |
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Are there any other places that host his newer videos? He has some old ones on Youtube, but thats it. I am mostly browsing on an iPad and the site isn't compatible with it. Same for Giant Bomb, if anyone knows.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 04:30 |
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Judging from the comments here, I feel like a minority by liking this. He and Mike pretty much explained the entire game, but the horror stuff was actually pretty entertaining.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 05:48 |
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Obeast posted:Judging from the comments here, I feel like a minority by liking this. He and Mike pretty much explained the entire game, but the horror stuff was actually pretty entertaining. Well it's mixing two contrasting groups. The nerds and the horror geeks don't seem to get as well along as you'd expect I think. I dunno. I liked it and I like bad horror movies.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 05:51 |
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...and I don't really like horror movies, and I liked it also.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 06:01 |
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I really enjoyed the Action 52 and the Ghostbusters -tour videos. I would love to visit NYC someday and follow the Marshmallow Man myself. His Board game -reviews aren't as enjoyable, but they aren't bad either. Just... Average.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 09:38 |
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I also enjoyed the Mr. Bucket horror sequence. I dug the references in the cinematography to old silent-era horror films such as (to name the one in the video) Nosferatu.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 11:50 |
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I don't understand how anyone couldn't love the Mr. Bucket video. "I thought I turned you off?" "No, you turned me OOOOOOOOOOOOOON!"
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| # ? May 12, 2010 13:11 |
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The Mr. Bucket video was by far one of his best videos yet.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 13:44 |
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If he were talking about an in-depth board game (or a board game in general) other than something like Mr Bucket, I would've expected more 'fact' rather than 'horror/fiction'. But what the gently caress else are you going to say about Mr Bucket? Well done. Although it's weird and gross to think about James'/Mike's balls.
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| # ? May 12, 2010 14:21 |
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Are there any other places that host his newer videos? He has some old ones on Youtube, but thats it. I am mostly browsing on an iPad and the site isn't compatible with it. As far as I know, he's technically an employee of GameTrailers, and the videos are exclusively hosted there. He'll sometimes post videos to his YouTube account, but it's usually well over a year after their initial release. I'm sorry that Steve Jobs hates Flash. 
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Timby posted:As far as I know, he's technically an employee of GameTrailers, and the videos are exclusively hosted there. He'll sometimes post videos to his YouTube account, but it's usually well over a year after their initial release. I think he's more to do with ScrewAttack than GT to be honest. All of his merchandise and such is sold via Screwattack I believe AND they host his latest AVGN stuff... at least, that held true until the latest Action 52 vid which is oddly only on GT. *shrug*
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