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OldTennisCourt posted:Edit: Seriously, it's incredible there are people literally comparing feminists to nazis and trying to justify rape threats.
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Jimbot posted:New Half in the Bag
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Those guys missing the mark yet remaining remarkably self-assured about their analysis would hardly be new for them, although I'm hard-pressed to come up with a specific example to back up that assertion (and gently caress if I'm combing their archives for one).
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I dunno, there were some people saying they missed the point of movies like Amazing Spider-Man, but in that specific case I really despised the film and agreed with them 100%. Even if I don't really agree with them on something, they have a very down to earth perspective on films that I think is always worth listening to.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Oh hey Angry Joe puts out a relatively mature video that includes a take-down of awful misogynistic manchildren and what a surprise, the comment section is horrendous. Aside the video, which was actually genuinely really good; what the gently caress is that song playing over the Phil Fish meltdown?
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Ghostpilot posted:I somehow managed to avoid watching Baywatch as I was growing up ( Another Baywatch fun fact: the theme song was co-written and sung by Jimi Jamison of Survivor, who sang "Burning Heart" from Rocky IV and "The Moment of Truth" from The Karate Kid.
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it started in '89?). Crazy to think that it started on NBC and was canceled after the first season* only to survive in syndication thanks to Hasselhoff. I had no idea he was that successful. Hasselhoff could buy a small country based on what he made from Baywatch alone.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Oh hey Angry Joe puts out a relatively mature video that includes a take-down of awful misogynistic manchildren and what a surprise, the comment section is horrendous. Hey wow an Angry Joe video that I didn't turn off in 30 seconds.
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Cannot Find Server posted:Hey wow an Angry Joe video that I didn't turn off in 30 seconds. Same. His "controversies" video in 2012 was incredibly dumb with a lot of his choices and I've thought he was a bit of a dumb "bro" gamer with an inflated ego, but his comments on Feminist Frequency were really good and everything he brought up this year were very valid concerns.
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Mokinokaro posted:Same. His "controversies" video in 2012 was incredibly dumb with a lot of his choices and I've thought he was a bit of a dumb "bro" gamer with an inflated ego, but his comments on Feminist Frequency were really good and everything he brought up this year were very valid concerns. Yeah, I found myself agreeing with everything he said, especially regarding Feminist Frequency, paid betas and games being released in a terrible state. If his videos are more like this one in the future, maybe I'll become a regular watcher of his.
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Angry Joe's watchability has actually gone up as his popularity has exploded, which is the opposite of the way it usually goes. Good for him.
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Is Todd not doing a year end top-10 this year? Because he usually has that out in late December...
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DStecks posted:Is Todd not doing a year end top-10 this year? Because he usually has that out in late December... His top 10 lists from previous years have almost all been out in mid to late January if the dates on Blip are any indication.
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Cannot Find Server posted:His top 10 lists from previous years have almost all been out in mid to late January if the dates on Blip are any indication. Weird, I could have swore that he put them out in December at least once. I distinctly remember one of the top-10's coming out on my birthday, which is December 23rd. Maybe I'm thinking of some other critic who released a big new video on my birthday. 
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I think the new look for the website itself is a plus.
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Spoony posts videos too slowly to have a storyline work. At least Atop the 4th Wall is weekly, so the serialisation works better.
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So after watching much of disneycember it seems that doug has two speeds: universally praise or not enjoy it at all.
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mind the walrus posted:Those guys missing the mark yet remaining remarkably self-assured about their analysis would hardly be new for them, although I'm hard-pressed to come up with a specific example to back up that assertion (and gently caress if I'm combing their archives for one).
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It would have been funnier if Brad was playing Snow, if only for the fact that there's like a foot-and-a-half height difference between him and how tall Snow is alleged to be by Square.
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Slate Action posted:Angry Joe's watchability has actually gone up as his popularity has exploded, which is the opposite of the way it usually goes. Good for him. I think it's because he's become far less reliant on gimmicks and skits. His old videos are full of corporate commander and other silliness and he uses that kind of stuff a lot more sparingly nowadays (and can actually be pretty funny on occasion.)
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Slate Action posted:Angry Joe's watchability has actually gone up as his popularity has exploded, which is the opposite of the way it usually goes. Good for him. Indeed...I've never been a big fan, but the guy's got 1.2 million subs - as far as Youtube's game reviewers go, that might just be 2nd only to AVGN (I checked - nearly 1.4m, so presumably he's still the king, and rightly so). Not bad for someone who I'm pretty sure the thread was generally mocking as an even worse "angry" reviewer than the Irate Gamer only a couple of years back. Really, despite all the anger and how wearying that can get, especially for such a long video...for 45 minutes, he holds everybody's attention. As much as there are videos in the past people can point at and rightly mock him for, nowadays? Yeah, he's really good at it. His production is top notch, and his hosting skills? While you wouldn't exactly call all the swearing and that professional, he's a great fit for Youtube. He may well be ranting behind a green screen for minutes, but it never sounds stilted or scripted, and there isn't even all that many cuts. He doesn't even need to put this much effort in at this stage of the game, but he does - his passion may make him sound kind of silly and over the top sometimes, but you couldn't ever accuse him of not loving what he does. (I'm aware that a lot of this just sounds like silly fawning over something that's "good for Youtube"...but meh, I like appreciating a good production, even if only because I could learn from it.)
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Joe has improved a lot, one of my complaints against him were his hosed up audio levels where he or someone else would be extremely quiet then someone else talks and they are extremely loud (his Far Cry 2 video is a big offender here) and that doesn't seem to come up anymore. I just wish he would decide if he should censor his swears or not. Hearing a bleep then 5 seconds later hearing him say "gently caress" without censoring it fills me with rage for some reason. See his Dragon's Dogma review where a scene goes pretty much like this: "You sit your pawns down and tell them to shut the *beep* up. Jacob I brought you here to tell you to shut the gently caress up" Downvoted and unsubscribed  (I don't really do this)
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I could never hate on Joe. He's so completely guileless and straightforward, it seems like he genuinely goes into every game wanting to like it. You always know with him that you're getting exactly his opinion and nothing less. He's got no agenda, and he isn't a corporate stooge. He plays games and tells you if he liked them.
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He gave Guild Wars 2 a 10/10 and named it his GOTY last year, so he's alright to me. ...I have a very specific checklist for following internet persons, you see.
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Honestly, my biggest worry with Joe was that he was going to be another internet gaming personality ruined by being an awful human being and his video with the Feminist Frequency thing was a massive breath of fresh air. Like others have said, he seems like a dude who just WANTS to love video games and loves playing them with other people.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Honestly, my biggest worry with Joe was that he was going to be another internet gaming personality ruined by being an awful human being and his video with the Feminist Frequency thing was a massive breath of fresh air. Like others have said, he seems like a dude who just WANTS to love video games and loves playing them with other people.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Oh hey Angry Joe puts out a relatively mature video that includes a take-down of awful misogynistic manchildren and what a surprise, the comment section is horrendous. Whelp, he earned a subscription from me. Again. If he could learn to edit himself down to about half his typical running time, I may actually start watching his videos, too.
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For another guy angrily yelling about videogames, corporate greed, and sexism, Jim Sterling's Jimquisition series is pretty good too. The downside is that it's on The Escapist, so uh, yeah.
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Mutation posted:For another guy angrily yelling about videogames, corporate greed, and sexism, Jim Sterling's Jimquisition series is pretty good too. The one thing I hate about the Escapist more than anything is making HTML5 video a premium. Try to avoid watching video on my laptop if I can help it. 
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Mutation posted:For another guy angrily yelling about videogames, corporate greed, and sexism, Jim Sterling's Jimquisition series is pretty good too. The other downside is that Jim's a smug asshat too. The guy knows knows the video game industry like Paul Krugman knows economics or Ezra Klein knows politics, but that doesn't make him any less insufferable.
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nine-gear crow posted:Paul Krugman knows economics | Ezra Klein knows politics I'm am a dumb, I saw Ezra Levant.
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The Escapist, also known as a website that allowed and encouraged a "What's wrong with rape?" thread for like ever.
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nine-gear crow posted:The other downside is that Jim's a smug asshat too. The guy knows knows the video game industry like Paul Krugman knows economics or Ezra Klein knows politics, but that doesn't make him any less insufferable. I think he gets that it's really, really hard to talk about video games with any sort of critical or academic tone without sounding like a complete tosser, so he decided to just go overboard with the whole V for Vendetta motif. I mean, poo poo, look at this thread. Extra Credits, Errant Signal, Jimquisition, Feminist Frequency, Egoraptor, Movie Bob, and basically every other show that approaches video games from a more critical angle, be it industry or narrative deconstruction, gets slagged as "smug." I honestly think it's just the side effect of doing critical deconstruction on a medium as young and familiar as video games. By and large it seems the only way to avoid being dismissed as an asshat is to do the AVGN/Zero Punctuation thing and act like a bigger asshat than is humanly possible, and just slip in bits of critical deconstruction in between comedically absurd insults.
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LFK posted:I think he gets that it's really, really hard to talk about video games with any sort of critical or academic tone without sounding like a complete tosser, so he decided to just go overboard with the whole V for Vendetta motif. No, that's not my point at all. I mean as a person irrespective of his work, Jim Sterling comes across as a huge smug asshat, and it takes me out of said work whenever I go to watch or read anything he does. He's kind of the diametric opposite of Doug Walker when it comes to quality of critical/analytical content vs. general personality presentation. At least in my opinion. StealthArcher posted:
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DStecks posted:I could never hate on Joe. He's so completely guileless and straightforward, it seems like he genuinely goes into every game wanting to like it. You always know with him that you're getting exactly his opinion and nothing less. He's got no agenda, and he isn't a corporate stooge. He plays games and tells you if he liked them.
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nine-gear crow posted:The guy knows knows the video game industry like Paul Krugman knows economics Jesus Christ, what an awful example. Anyway, agreed with the general consensus that Joe has improved significantly over the last couple of years. I don't watch his stuff regularly, but the jump in quality is clear. It's interesting to watch some reviewers continually put more effort into their work (Joe, kinda-sorta Doug) and others just flat-out plateau, or even decline.
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LFK posted:I think he gets that it's really, really hard to talk about video games with any sort of critical or academic tone without sounding like a complete tosser, so he decided to just go overboard with the whole V for Vendetta motif. Pretty much, he accepted long ago that if he was going to make a 'living' doing anything about video games other than saying "I LIKED WHEN YOU PRESSED B TO MAKE HIM DO THAT THING I THOUGHT THAT THE TIMES WHEN YOU PRESSED Y TO MAKE HIM DO THAT OTHER THING WERE NOT AS GOOD THOUGH SEVEN OUT OF THIRTY NINE RENT DON'T BUY" he's going to not only have to deal with legions of douchebags, but also sound like one as well. So now between bouts of laughing at dragon dildos he says 'hey maybe stop literally bullying women out of the industry you stupid cocksuckers' and hopes it gets through.
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Looking back, it's also not without precedent as I recall Joe was also pretty adamant about how giving Lightening jiggle physics in XIII-3 was incredibly loving stupid and he even called out some of his own followers on twitter when they went" B-B-B-BUT FEMENISM  "
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