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Thank you OldTennisCourt  To be more specific about the things I mostly do now ('cause to be honest I haven't really done Mega Drive games in a long time) I mostly review games and other assorted trash from the late 90's/early 00's, with a fair bit of the social stuff around it thrown in, and maybe even the odd bit of queer/trans-related stuff too. I also kind of like to do very left-field stuff now and again (like, say, the Video Game scene in Africa) and I generally do stuff that I either like or find quite interesting as opposed to things that I just flat-out don't like. I guess that my videos are cool if you like lengthy vids presented by someone with a mysterious voice and gender. (Also if I do so happen to be added to the OP, please add me under "Kim Justice" as that's what I go by now. Thanks! And yeah, this is me: https://www.youtube.com/user/elmyrdehory)
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MisterBibs posted:This has likely been discussed, but is the ongoing influx of Patreon users indicative of Blip/etc simply not paying the bills, simple greed, or a mix of both? Well, say you want to actually make money off doing this stuff - do you really want to rely solely on ads? The payout's shaky at best and if your main site or MCN suddenly starts going down the shitter...it's not going to last. Too many horror stories of people not getting paid anything for a month, even a couple of months in some cases - a bad month like that could ruin everything. The whole "greed" thing is kind of a handwave - there's not been much so far into how Patreon has pretty much changed the game for a lot of people, particularly those who are established but not exactly on the top level. No more need to rely on ads...you're never going to see a vid like the one Linkara released asking people to let the ads play again, because ads are now secondary income compared to a more stable (ok not TOTALLY stable but still...) and larger Patreon income. Like, Todd's probably on the middle level of popularity as far as Internet reviewers go, his Patreon's been up a day and he's already nearly at $600 a video. It's interesting times...I think it's kind of revitalised "reviewing" a little recently when compared to other Internet video genres.
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Hey, I've been putting a lot of time in the woodshed lately (loving making vids right now) but here's something that might be of interest - a new series looking at classic British gaming TV! Here's the first episode, and it's all about Gamesmaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNJ55GLAjI
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Baka-nin posted:That was really good, I used to watch a lot of these shows when I was a kid and I'm looking forward to seeing some of the other Game Master like shows. A question though what do you mean by classic? I remember seeing videogame shows being made into the 2000's and some of them were dreadful, are you going to be covering them all or cherry picking the best? Well, um...more like just "classic" in the sense of being old and very nostalgic and what have you. TBH a fair amount of what I'm going to be covering is pretty pants...the plan is as follows: 2) Games World + Bad Influence 3) Bits + Thumb Bandits 4) Gamezville (ugh) + a whole bunch of other also-rans 5) Consolevania + VideoGaiden
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Lol, this loving thread sometimes. Speaking for myself as a tranny, Rich from whatever thing that you talk about that I don't watch = sounds like a mistake, no real issue. Dudetwat from The Escapist that I don't read = hateful poo poo who should have several seats. Honestly I don't give much of a poo poo because Dominik Diamond himself loves and has shared around the video I made on Gamesmaster, so I'm quite happy. Brushes with fame, people!
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Did actually have cause to interact with Razorfist a while back over said thing. He's dumber than a breezeblock.
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Anyhoo it's a new page and this IS the Internet Critic thread so I should put up that I posted the 2nd part of my big ol' GTA retrospective a few days back and people say it's really loving good and all that so you should watch it and such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI4cU3gCD0I
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Leal posted:Does TGWTG have a food critic? They got taken out of the game by the competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqdWjNjnKg
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"There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)" by The Eurythmics. Not bad at all, really. Stevie Wonder on harmonica! My favourite anything to do with Annie Lennox, pretty much.
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I don't really do much on camera stuff these days but the "nerdy poo poo" background kind of tends to be a bugbear of mine, especially when its someone behind a whole load of clearly very carefully organised games and stuff (e.g. someone like AlphaOmegaSin). That really annoys me for some reason, in a "Holy poo poo I get it already, you like games, now stop bloody ranting" sort of way...I just find it kind of annoying and messy, I guess. Get something more tasteful together (e.g. not a green screen with your massive logo on it). Maybe because it's like something you'd have to have if you were using a webcam, and now you're using a proper camera it's still the same shot? I dunno. Still, I used to do a lot of filming in front of a bookcase and the only 2 comments it ever used to get were 1: people highlighting my copy of "Porno" by Irvine Welsh and 2: people commenting that I should probably do something with the bookcase because it clearly wasn't stable and would no doubt fall down and kill me one day.
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That show will be in the next part, which is kind of a round-up featuring a whole load of digital also-rans.
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As far as Yahtzee's toothlessness goes...well gee, look at who pays his wages, lol. Really, it's a bit sad how irrelevant he's become tbh. My main thought whenever a Zero Punctuation vid comes down the pike is "Why in the poo poo are you STILL churning out poo poo exclusively for the Escapist, dude?".
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Superb Owls posted:Wait, Guru Larry? Holy poo poo that's a name I haven't heard of in a long time now. I remember watching him and Wez on XLeague (Which to non-Brits, is like G4 if its entire history was compressed into almost two years) when I was 12 - 13 and enjoying the stuff those two made (Retro Corner, Top Tens, Reviewmageddon. Think the first two are on Blistered Thumbs). He still does lots of videos and such and has a pretty big sub base (Wez is still involved somewhat I think, but he's also done quite a bit of stuff with Ashens too). He was heavily involved with ScrewAttack Europe/ScrewAttack in general until he got dropped (because IIRC ScrewAttack's boss is awful people and this sort of falling out happens with everyone). The good thing about Larry is that he watches and supports a lot of stuff, particularly up and coming Youtubers (particularly British Gaming ones) and he's v. knowledgeable about certain things. When I did a recent series on British Games TV, his knowledge was invaluable at points (you'd probably be amazed at just how much British games TV features Guru Larry in it at some point). But this GamerGate involvement is pretty lovely and I think he's been there, at least in comments and the like, since the start - I don't get that poo poo at all and don't know why he just flat out has it in for Kyle. There's plenty of rather messy shade on his Twitter.
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My advice would be to do what Kyle's generally been doing. Like, whenever I've modified a clip like that (e.g. sticking it in a lil' box), it's been alright - even if I've used a trailer that's run unedited for a minute or so. Content ID doesn't seem to be able to catch anything like that (to the point where I wonder if SFDebris, say, would actually be OK if he did that - I don't watch his videos, but as long as his editing is OK...). That and the other advice given here - keep the editing fast, don't let clips hang around for too long and so forth.
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As far as legit safety videos go, this will always be my favourite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ZSDiEJruI - "Will You Be Here Tomorrow?". Probably directed by some Sierra folks on a day off from making Phantasmagoria, and an even more dangerous workplace than Forklift Driver Klaus. (Forklift Driver Klaus is brilliant also, although sadly not a legit safety video. The guy who narrated it apparently did a lot of the legit videos though.) Not all British PSA's are uber-violent. A special mention for Frances the Firefly, a matches-based PSA that was shown on TV for years and years and doesn't feature any dismemberment or anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ZSDiEJruI - narrated by Richard Briers and all! Probably due a revival. (This one probably isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iynaLC5sY)
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Max Wilco posted:What's funny is that Kim Justice did a video on Postal about a year ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgye8U5xIAc) and after I watched that video, I was tempted to give Postal 2 a try. Now, not so much... Heh. Thing with that video is I'd have probably never made it if I'd ended up stumbling across their ethics poo poo. I think the game's kinda worth playing if you've never done it just because it's so ridiculous in a way that few games are, and there's lots of ridiculous things you can do in it (whether that makes a good game or not...well, yeah). The actual attempts at humour are nearly all ridiculously unfunny.
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This probably fits best here rather than anywhere else - OG internet critics/TEAM Rab Florence and Ry MacLeod are back together and have just announced a new 6-episode run of VideoGaiden on the BBC website for 2016 + one episode on BBC Scotland. Never thought I'd see the day - pretty exciting! Games TV is officially not dead!
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Not much to say except to add to all the love. Go get 'em Jacob!
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...Oh dear. Has anyone released something good recently? Like, anything at all? No? Ok then. Here's a guy called Lost in the Warp Pipe who I've been enjoying recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwmbM4cXP6M Nothing groundbreaking, just well-made bitesize retro gamey goodness from the UK that I feel deserves a bit more than, like, not even 100 subs. Any other thoroughly underappreciated reviewers who people would like to highlight? Because anything's better than talking about bitter and twisted wannabe shock jock no-marks. EDIT: Oh poo poo - and ICYMI, your favourite boys from the rough end of Glesga, hardened Internet video vets Rab Florence and Ryan MacLeod, have released the 1st ep of the new series of VideoGaiden through BBC Scotland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVDzKzLrhk It's pretty bloody good, as it goes. Almost felt like they'd never been away, really. Rab still has a great flowery love for never-changing Sengoku games made by Koei, and Ryan's just bloody funny as always. TEAM did a great job. Kim Justice fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Mar 6, 2016 |
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Devol_Tettran posted:It was you all along Kim.... Looking forward to seeing the rest as your work on these is superb.  Thank you all for the kind comments. Things have suddenly gone quite crazy with the release of this video too, as in "I'm probably gonna get over 500 new subs today" crazy...
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Ah, lots of chat about the old timers. Yahtzee, Spoony...soooo here's a new AVGN, celebrating his 10th anniversary on YouTube with a bunch of crappy Megaman games! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3iEn5rzMnw
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I'd like to sidetrack the latest Spoony discussion by saying that Jon Bois is incredible, and this is one of the best articles on any game (hell, most anything) that I have ever read: The Death of Basketball. Seriously. His Breaking Madden series was great, but this piece on NBA 2K14 is probably the pinnacle. This is how you do proper justice to a sports game, that oh-so unfairly maligned of genres. Also, Alli Flanagan released a new vid on Altered Beast. An awesome, funny and very talented Ozzie retro reviewer - the thread would talk about her more, but she doesn't upload all that much. Dig that See-ga pronounciation right away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC_C3hapMMw
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His head kinda looks like a faceswap of The Miz onto circa 1999 Chris Jericho.
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The trouble is that usually, you guys can barely hold a discussion over your favourite crisp flavours without losing your heads. The thread blowing up into another circular argument every other page is certainly the reason that I don't bother to post in this thread anymore and I doubt I'm alone in that because holy poo poo it is lame. This feels like bullshit as I'm typing it, but jeez - do y'all just need to have the feel of the tire fire that is Facebook/Twitter/whatever everywhere? Can't a forum offer at least some respite? Fuuuuck.
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END ME SCOOB posted:If you can link it later that'd be nice, I didn't know that was a thing, both the channel or the topic Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nin9DegGS0M (This isn't my gender chat channel as such, although I'm likely gonna use it for vlogs and so on because screw using the main channel, lol)
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Sounds good to me. Shame to lose the song but the look of the Jimquisition has been the same for like, years now and aside from it coming from the times when Jim Sterling used to be a bit of a shitbag...meh, change is good. Seems that the pulpit's staying anyway, it'll just likely be a wall of Boglins backing it or something.
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Puppy Time posted:So gently caress off until that becomes a reality. There is nothing interesting to be gained from Spoonywatch. I'd rather have more dumb BotL derails, because at least those cover different subjects. You forgot the five paragraph "Dear Mr. I'm-Too-Good-to-Call-or-Write-my-Fans" rant.
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The PS2' GTA games were chock full of star names, especially Vice City and San Andreas - and largely their performances were great too. Definitely worked fine, although Rockstar dropped all-star casts from IV onwards (still lots of big names on the radio as DJ's though)
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Max Wilco posted:I always wondered why they stopped doing that after San Andreas. I can only guess they realized that it was better to balance their budget more towards the game itself. I think budget was one part of it, but also wanting to go in a different direction - I think that because GTA IV was such a more serious and grounded story, they didn't want recognisable names. Not sure they could have gone much further with it after SA either - the game is stacked. There's Samuel L., of course, but as far as recognisable names go there's also James Woods, Peter Fonda, Ice-T, Charlie Murphy, Frank Vincent, MC Eiht, The Game, Clifton Powell, Chris Penn, David Cross, Debi Mazar, Faizon Love...Axl Rose, Chuck D. and George Clinton on the radio too. It's certainly up there as one of the most celeb-packed games ever.
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Y'all talking about Boondock Saints need to see Overnight like, now. One of my favourite ever documentaries.
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Lol mate, why don't you post your essay about Spoony again
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The big thing about beanies was that instead of "dropping" beanies from the line, Ty "discontinued" them, which immediately started jacking up interest in the discontinued babies and started getting them way over - first in Illinois, then all over the shop. Through artificial scarcity and keeping the Beanies in specialised stores (they never went to the big supermarkets until the end) and resolutely never changing the price on active babies (Beanies were a way of getting into "collecting" something that didn't cost much until you got into those discontinued items), they created this huge market. People heard the stories of how early Beanie Baby collectors ended up getting tons of money through buying and selling off some of the early Beanies (e.g. Peanut the Royal Blue Elephant) and as often happens whenever such a "get rich quick" scheme crops up, they think that they can do the same. For several years, discontinued Beanies were snapped up for stupid money as soon as their discontinuation was announced because people were speculating and taking chances on them being another Peanut. The rise of eBay helped massively here - the Beanie craze was essential to eBay in the early years. The 1st Beanie Baby-McDonald's campaign might be the craziest in McD history - stories of people buying, like, 100 Happy Meals and telling the staff to keep the burgers, just the toys 'cause hey, what if one of those is defective or otherwise unique in some way? That's $$$$. And of course, these things are good quality soft plush toys made for kids but before too long, there's no kids buying them whatsoever - it's all adults collecting in this massive secondary market...it all ends when there's just way too many discontinued Beanies out there around 1999 (at one point Ty discontinued the whole line), and they stop increasing in value when they're discontinued. It's funny how Beanies also correlate with (and are heavily connected to) the dot.com bubble. Nintendo do quite a lot of the same stuff - artificial scarcity is a big thing for them, and discontinuing products can be too (I expect that what happened with the NES Mini will happen with the SNES Mini too). They're always a much bigger deal in the secondary market than pretty much any other game company out there, and it helps to increase the "value" of Nintendo products as a whole. They're not exactly the same, but there's similarities...this also explains a lot of the poo poo that happens with Nintendo's pre-orders and launches, and is why it's not likely to change any time soon. (As a postscript, Ty Warner wasn't a big fan of the phenomenal secondary market that developed around Beanie Babies - he was so singularly focused on plush, and didn't much like the collectors making tons of cash from Beanies. Still, he recognised how much money it made him and the company. There's an awesome book on the Beanie craze that's definitely worth reading if you want to know more: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Beanie-Baby-Bubble-Delusion/dp/1591846021)
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I got one thing a little wrong - Ty didn;'t "discontinue" babies, they "retired" them. One day at a toy fair a bunch of Ty folk were telling people in the morning that certain lines were discontinued, and that kinda killed their interest. Over lunch they pondered how to sort it, and one suggested saying they were "retired" instead. In the afternoon, people who were told about retired toys were suddenly way more interested in them...and thus a lot of money was made. Funny how this poo poo works sometimes. EDIT: And yeah, it is sketchy in ways - they're mass-produced after all. Ty Warner is this really odd, interesting guy mind - one of the few things he was highly interested in aside from plush was the conditions of the sweatshops in China/Korea where the Beanies were made - they had to be good or no business. Beanies were this strange result of Ty thinking for decades about plush, designing a product down to the last bean for maximum poseability. Literally thinks about nothing else. Even at it's height the Ty business would perhaps be too small to handle a full supermarket-based production because Ty was such a micromanager (and would rather most money go to him in any case). A complete mess in his personal life. Kim Justice fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Aug 26, 2017 |
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I'd always heard that Doug was more oblivious and it was Rob and Mike who were/are the real douchenozzles, fwiw. Hope y'all like wrestling on Monday.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Kim Justice just put out an HOUR AND A HALF documentary on Heroes of Wrestling, perhaps the worst Pro Wrestling PPV of all time. Thank you. I'ma give you all the hard sell on this with something I wrote from elsewhere. This is, of course, a very long video - it's nearly an hour and 40 minutes. Heroes of Wrestling is a show from October 1999, right at the heart of the Attitude Era boom, that sought to act like a champions' tour, if you will. A card stacked with legends from the past that people would remember, that would stoke fire to their nostalgia. People love this sort of thing in say, golf or baseball because hey -- they aren't the most intensive of sports, and a good golfer can usually play close to their top level well into their 50's or even 60's. This is usually not the case with wrestling...so what we have are a bunch of well beyond out of shape guys who get winded within the first minute of every match, most of whom are desperate for money, at least four of them who have or had a confirmed serious drug addiction. A 3-hour tape of Bumfights features more dignity on display than the Heroes of Wrestling show. And that's before you get to the big problems -- a level of production that makes B-movies look good. A team of producers who knew so little about wrestling that they thought the blood in matches was actually fake. Past it primadonnas who still refuse to do the job because they're certain that Vince McMahon's going to call them tomorrow and they don't want to look weak. And of course, the saga of one Jake "The Snake" Roberts -- the man who goes to the arena, shuts himself in his locker room and, for whatever reason, gets quite royally tanked up on hard liquor and lord knows what else. And then he goes out to wrestle in the main event of the evening. The Agony and the Ecstasy is a series that is usually reserved for something that takes a ridiculously long time -- the production cycle of something like Duke Nukem Forever, or a craze that lasted for years that drove people literally insane...it's rare for something that happened in a single night to be so utterly catastrophic that it would warrant an inclusion in these hallowed halls. But Heroes of Wrestling is assuredly that -- the undisputed worst Pay-Per-View event of them all. It is the Super Monkey Daibouken of supercards...and if such a horror interests you, then feel free to watch this documentary which hopefully tells as full and accurate a story as possible about the events of October 10th, 1999, a day that will forever live in infamy for us wrestling fans. I hope you enjoy it.
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My favourite Jon Bois video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AhABManTw
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OldMemes posted:H3H3's dicussion on the Pewdiepie racism was actually pretty decent. I was worried Ethan was going to blindly support Felix because they're friends, but he was pretty dissapointed and disgusted in him. Ethan's point was like "it might be funny to poke fun at SJW types and outrage culture, but you should also call out things which are offensive and you shouldn't be afraid to criticise actual hate speech or people doing things that hurt people or encourage a hurtful culture", which was a lot more mature than I expected, I was thinking he was going to pull the 'it's just a word' card, but he was clearly against it. Yeah, all cool sure. I mean, unless you listened to his podcast with Idubbbz beforehand... No disrespect or anything, I just don't get the fella sometimes, like at all.
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OldMemes posted:Idubbz is wierd. Like, the guy is funny, and it's pretty clear that HE'S meant to be the butt of all his jokes rather than anyone else, but his delivery and tone is so mean spirited that even if it's not punching down, it still feels....off? I dunno, he's a bit too dark for my tastes, but his squirrel relocating videos are oddly watchable. I think H3 and Dubz are both pretty great Youtubers, especially when they're on their game. I mean, Dubz certainly does have a big mean streak at times for sure, but then his more dark stuff kinda falls in with my kind of humour and Content Cops are one of those stop everything watches for me...I just find it a bit weird for Ethan to criticise Pewdiepie after dropping N-bombs all over the place in another vid. I dunno...sometimes it feels a little like he's reaching for audiences at times instead of just doing his natural poo poo, like when he became all about Buzzfeed and MTV for a bit. BTW, if y'all like podcasts on YouTube and don't mind a big arse sweary lad-bloke from Newcastle, y'all should check out the True Geordie Podcast. He kinda goes a bit for that Joe Rogan type vibe and he's had some really interesting people on as well as UK 'Tubers and the like (yr KSI's, Spencer FC's, Joe Wellers etc.). Highly recommended, awesome channel.
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