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pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib
"Saying something and then slowly... trailing... off..QUICK JUMP CUT to a new thought!"

There, I just explained every YouTube video for you, you insufferable nerds.

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DrPaper
Aug 29, 2011

My friend streamed the that guy with glasses movies once, to watch and make fun of and I couldn't even enjoy reveling in how bad they were. Doug Walker is such an over-actor, he overanimates more than a cartoon character and can't even remotely talk like a normal human.

Clochette
Aug 12, 2013

I like to listen to long playlists of AVGN and NC and sometimes Spoony as background noise while I do something else on the computer. On their own I would never watch them, but I don't know if that's because they're boring or because I have a short attention span.

The skits are definitely horrible though.

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

butplug accident posted:

their starwars voiceover reviews are one of the few things i enjoyed from them. but half in the bag is simply terrible and all their jokes fall flat and follow the same rhythms. and their opinions are never insightful or funny. even that jack and jill episode they could have made fun of the whole inbred publicity scam that is hollywood but of course they do nothing of the sort

except the whole thing was about how Adam Sandler was just doing it for a ton of money? idk what you want man

ur in my world now
Jun 5, 2006

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was


Smellrose

...of SCIENCE! posted:

Pop Fiction and DidYouKnowGaming make me sad because they show that these dumb internet personalities are totally capable of making interesting and entertaining videos about games but don't

yeah idgi that pop fiction thing is kinda neat. probably because they put actual effort into it instead of just a video of them playing a game while saying memes and making dumb faces

Psygnosis
Jul 30, 2003
There are a few people on that site who are okay;
Paw's music movie isn't horrible to watch though he is guilty of over acting some times.
Todd in the Shadow's is okay with one hit wonders.
Obscurus Lupa manages not to be annoying but some times she can review some pretty mediocre stuff which gives her little to work with.
Brows Held High is actually good.


DrPaper posted:

My friend streamed the that guy with glasses movies once, to watch and make fun of and I couldn't even enjoy reveling in how bad they were. Doug Walker is such an over-actor, he overanimates more than a cartoon character and can't even remotely talk like a normal human.

A lot of the side skits people do on TGWTG are really annoying, Doug Walker included. His seem to get less and less tolerable as time goes on though.

Linkara's comic reviews are worse because he is whiny and manages to be louder than the Nostalgia Critic. He basically puts himself in a Gary-stu fan fiction where he is an invulnerable hero who is smarter than everyone else and has a magical spaceship.

Linkara fits the bill for a pretty stereotypical libraterian; is he also a brony too?

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax

Robo Reagan posted:

except the whole thing was about how Adam Sandler was just doing it for a ton of money? idk what you want man

they act as if what he did was unprecedented or remarkable in hollywood. it's not.

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich
I love the RLM Star Wars prequel reviews but could do without the stupid serial killer bullshit going on throughout them. Like what the gently caress was the point of that

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
the same idea as with FILM CRITIC HULK, the gimmick exists to offer a brief distraction from the nerdiness of it all

Chum Scandal
Oct 30, 2003

facebook jihad posted:

I love the RLM Star Wars prequel reviews but could do without the stupid serial killer bullshit going on throughout them. Like what the gently caress was the point of that

some of it was kind of dumb but the payoff was in the 2nd half of the AOTC review where they're sitting on the couch watching together and nadine is ripping into poo poo

The Brown Menace
Dec 24, 2010

Now comes in all colors.


isn't it also a riff on how most of the internet critics are weirdo creeps to some degree

...of SCIENCE!
Apr 26, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

facebook jihad posted:

I love the RLM Star Wars prequel reviews but could do without the stupid serial killer bullshit going on throughout them. Like what the gently caress was the point of that

their curvy aspiring actress friends need to pad their resume out somehow

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Chum Scandal posted:

some of it was kind of dumb but the payoff was in the 2nd half of the AOTC review where they're sitting on the couch watching together and nadine is ripping into poo poo

that and the probably unintentional irony that RLM's hooker thing had a better arc than Anakin in the prequels

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich
It was still pretty stupid and not good and made me feel awkward when I tried to show my friends the videos.

e: like, I just don't get why internet critics can't resist the temptation to sway from what people are watching their videos for and fluff them with bad acting and bullshit. Pretty much every one of these guys are guilty of this

CaptainButtSmack
Oct 21, 2008
skits just dont do it for me, personally. As a whole, an analysis is better by itself with maybe the humor coming from you just being you and all that

BOAT SHOWBOAT
Oct 11, 2007

who do you carry the torch for, my young man?
You should watch Todd in the Shadows! It's high quality video content!

Agent Escalus
Oct 5, 2002

"I couldn't stop saying aloud how miscast Jim Carrey was!"

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Remember that guy who wanted to join Team That Guy With The Glasses and become an internet superstar reviewer and so he sent them a video of him reviewing "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" alongside drawings of his Sonic The Hedgehog Original Character DO NOT STEAL that was voiced by him?

Cubone posted:

no post links

I remember, and if my guess is correct, I think he's talking about http://www.youtube.com/user/JaguarCats/videos

The trainwreck originals that I'm thinking of are gone though. Even the troll channels don't feature them anymore. But at the same time he clearly hasn't learned his lesson and is still at it, except by not appearing on-camera with his pencil-crayon drawn furry avatar.

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich
On the advice of this thread I got into Pop Fiction and those videos are really good.

Chuck Tanner
Nov 10, 2012

by Lowtax

facebook jihad posted:

I love the RLM Star Wars prequel reviews but could do without the stupid serial killer bullshit going on throughout them. Like what the gently caress was the point of that

that started because mike stoklasa tried to originally do the star trek reviews in his normal voice but it turned out boring as poo poo. so he invented the plinkett voice and then had to come up with a character to match the voice

i think RLM skits are the only skits that are ever funny in a review ever

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
What drives me crazy is that angry video game nerd is a nice guy actually but his process of making videos is loving INSANE. He has a youtube where he goes over how he does it, and it literally involves recording the game footage to a loving VHS or DVD and then he manually goes through it on his computer to edit the footage and add his commentary.

I'm not asking for live commentary streamed to twitch, but Jesus Christ dude get a video capture card.

timp
Sep 19, 2007

Everything is in my control
Lipstick Apathy

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

What drives me crazy is that angry video game nerd is a nice guy actually but his process of making videos is loving INSANE. He has a youtube where he goes over how he does it, and it literally involves recording the game footage to a loving VHS or DVD and then he manually goes through it on his computer to edit the footage and add his commentary.

I'm not asking for live commentary streamed to twitch, but Jesus Christ dude get a video capture card.

I think that's an older video...it may even be explaining how he used to do it before he got a capture card and now he has one.

Either way I doubt he's still doing that, he's way too smart and efficient to waste a bunch of time. He's not ulillillia!

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
I swear it was relatively recent and he even mentioned that he could get a capture card but liked doing it the hard way.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
Yeah 2011, still no excuse

http://cinemassacre.com/2011/07/06/the-making-of-the-angry-video-game-nerd/

He writes the time codes from the DVD player into TextEdit on his Mac!!

Dude is recording 8 bit games to DVDs, he could use a USB video capture and just do it all at once

He better have a capture card now cause he's like a god drat old man using his MacBook as a platform for his typewriter

...of SCIENCE!
Apr 26, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

facebook jihad posted:

On the advice of this thread I got into Pop Fiction and those videos are really good.

The one about the muslim chanting in the Fire Temple of OoT was great because apparently every other Zelda song is just cobbled together from sound library samples

CaptainButtSmack
Oct 21, 2008
has anyone ever actually told Linkara to lose the fedora or is everyone afraid of his nerd rage

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Has faux anger ever been funny? Cinemasins is p good

sex excellence
Feb 19, 2011

Satisfaction Guranteed

EmmyOk posted:

Has faux anger ever been funny? Cinemasins is p good

no but your small looking dick noise is funny

...of SCIENCE!
Apr 26, 2008

by Fluffdaddy
I don't know what's funnier, that Linkara freely uploaded dickgirl hypnosis porn that he wrote about Wonder Woman or that he has an official guide to cosplaying him

Clochette
Aug 12, 2013

PatTwo posted:

has anyone ever actually told Linkara to lose the fedora or is everyone afraid of his nerd rage

It's part of his character. :reject:

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Skeleton King posted:

no but your small looking dick noise is funny

That is almost a coherent sentence, kind of like when a recent stroke victim tries to talk. I wish you a speedy recovery good buddy!

Gorefluff
Aug 19, 2004
cuddly minotaur

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

Yeah 2011, still no excuse

http://cinemassacre.com/2011/07/06/the-making-of-the-angry-video-game-nerd/

He writes the time codes from the DVD player into TextEdit on his Mac!!

Dude is recording 8 bit games to DVDs, he could use a USB video capture and just do it all at once

He better have a capture card now cause he's like a god drat old man using his MacBook as a platform for his typewriter

Well to be fair he'd be only saving one step by using a capture card (the step of physically moving the dvd from his recorder to his computer and copying the files to the hard drive), and if he's not inclined to move his computer into his gaming room and rewire his setup it's not that bad. He'd still be writing down the time stamp of moments he wants to talk about, because it would be far more time inefficient to play a game for 10 hours then watch the whole thing back in real time to find footage.

Justin Godscock
Oct 12, 2004

Listen here, funnyman!
I just remember The Spoony One since this thread has turned into mocking Internet Critics. Is that dude still having massive meltdowns on Twitter as a result of his badly untreated bipolar disorder? Not knocking anyone that has bipolar (two good friends of mine have it and I've listened to them), but the guy clearly needs some help and losing it on Twitter in front of everyone over video games cannot be healthy.

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

What drives me crazy is that angry video game nerd is a nice guy actually but his process of making videos is loving INSANE. He has a youtube where he goes over how he does it, and it literally involves recording the game footage to a loving VHS or DVD and then he manually goes through it on his computer to edit the footage and add his commentary.

I'm not asking for live commentary streamed to twitch, but Jesus Christ dude get a video capture card.

Rolfe admitted in that video he does that because he's literally been editing since like the early 90s when that was the ONLY way to record game footage. He's just so used to the process, and it works for him, that he never bothered to upgrade because he has it down to a science.

He also doesn't use save states, emulators or cheats either, which means he literally sits his rear end on a couch and gets to the latter levels in majorly hard games by himself. I applaud his dedication which also means I don't have to hear "wait a minute...*sounds of keyboard clicking*...*emulator menu pops up, options hit in silence*...OK, it's fixed".

It's like me paying bills via mailing cheques. Yes, I could do direct deposit but I've been using the mail so often, kind of like the charm, that I don't mind paying for stamps and walking to the mailbox.

Clochette
Aug 12, 2013

Justin Godscock posted:

I just remember The Spoony One since this thread has turned into mocking Internet Critics. Is that dude still having massive meltdowns on Twitter as a result of his badly untreated bipolar disorder? Not knocking anyone that has bipolar (two good friends of mine have it and I've listened to them), but the guy clearly needs some help and losing it on Twitter in front of everyone over video games cannot be healthy.

He got a new girlfriend and moved to Illinois to live with her. It seems like he's doing better. It seems like he mostly just does vlogs and collabs with Channel Awesome now, though.

Chuck Tanner
Nov 10, 2012

by Lowtax

...of SCIENCE! posted:

I don't know what's funnier, that Linkara freely uploaded dickgirl hypnosis porn that he wrote about Wonder Woman or that he has an official guide to cosplaying him


wtf

CaptainButtSmack
Oct 21, 2008

...of SCIENCE! posted:

I don't know what's funnier, that Linkara freely uploaded dickgirl hypnosis porn that he wrote about Wonder Woman or that he has an official guide to cosplaying him

lol what

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
i wish i'd written dickgirl hypnosis porn so i could post it in gbs

ThNextGreenLantern
Feb 13, 2012
Thankfully, I know better than to run "Linkara Dickgirl porn" through a search engine. Of course, it would probably still be more entertaining than.... well, any of the "reviewers" mentioned in this thread.

Ronnie
May 13, 2009

Just in case.
My favourite internet critic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiHSlv-tlcI&list=UUAL3keKPK8UMFA59li-6FsA

CaptainButtSmack
Oct 21, 2008
did Irate Gamer ever get better? I haven't felt compelled to actually check

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Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

PatTwo posted:

did Irate Gamer ever get better? I haven't felt compelled to actually check
im not going to check either but no. probably no, right? almost definitely no

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