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Danaru posted:Recently the game grumps did a couple episodes playing the Dendy, a Soviet-era knock off NES, with a bunch of bootleg cartridges online. One of them had a white label with something in Russian written on the label, but when they tried to use it, it just gave them an error screen also in Russian. They found out a while later apparently the error screen was asking for an internet adapter, and that led Arin down a bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out why the hell a knockoff-NES game wanted to connect online. I'll put it below for those who don't want to watch, but I highly recommend watching the full journey, it's fascinating. I love how the Internet sometimes creates weird serendipitous moments like this. 
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Danaru posted:Recently the game grumps did a couple episodes playing the Dendy, a Soviet-era knock off NES, with a bunch of bootleg cartridges online. One of them had a white label with something in Russian written on the label, but when they tried to use it, it just gave them an error screen also in Russian. They found out a while later apparently the error screen was asking for an internet adapter, and that led Arin down a bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out why the hell a knockoff-NES game wanted to connect online. I'll put it below for those who don't want to watch, but I highly recommend watching the full journey, it's fascinating. https://twitter.com/thomglunt/status/1201977603063611392 this might be the quickest takeback of a hoax ever 
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Dec 3, 2019 23:05
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Goddamnit Internet, you have tricked me again!  Should've known something was up with a 1980s Soviet game console having an Ethernet adapter!
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Dec 3, 2019 23:17
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In the video Arin brings up that they started calling it Soviet Jump Game once they decided to reprogram it to use their own servers since the real name is weirdly translated, so while it could just be a weird ARG for a new project by them, it's not out of character for Arin to hire an artist for a project like refurbishing an old cancelled game I want to believe though, plus Arin would usually have spilled the beans by now
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Dec 3, 2019 23:27
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It's all fake. Even if the game existed, a 1990-era online game would connect via a modem, not random rs232-to-ethernet plugs you find on ebay.
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Danaru posted:In the video Arin brings up that they started calling it Soviet Jump Game once they decided to reprogram it to use their own servers since the real name is weirdly translated, so while it could just be a weird ARG for a new project by them, it's not out of character for Arin to hire an artist for a project like refurbishing an old cancelled game the art on the cartridge in the commercial is the same as the commissioned one. it's fake
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Suspicious Dish posted:the art on the cartridge in the commercial is the same as the commissioned one. it's fake God dammit, I missed that. I was excited about this too 
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Dec 4, 2019 04:07
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yeah blatantly lying is a weird marketing campaign but sure
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Dec 4, 2019 04:34
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I don't think their fans are really going to care whether it's a lie. If the game turns out good, it's a win because, hey, another good game to play!
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Suspicious Dish posted:yeah blatantly lying is a weird marketing campaign but sure Pretty sure its the standard these days. Glad to see my continued distrust / dislike of game grumps continues to insulate me from bullshit like this.
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Dec 4, 2019 22:25
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It was at least whimsical.
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ZeusCannon posted:Pretty sure its the standard these days. Glad to see my continued distrust / dislike of game grumps continues to insulate me from bullshit like this. arin probably should've ended the last video with a "surprise, it was all a ruse, ha ha! well in reality here's the game we've been working on" sure, but it's not some PR disaster or anything, and the game looks cute.
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Dec 5, 2019 13:22
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Lost piece of gaming history UNCOVERED
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Like, ultimately I'm more annoyed with myself for so easily falling for this even as I was telling myself it was too coincidental and also why would anybody even try to do networked gaming in 1987 with an action-platformer of all things. So I don't entirely blame Arin et. al for this "trick" per-se At the same time there is a nonzero number of tweet responses of people who are very intro retro games or finding lost games/prototypes who felt a bit burned by this being presented as so legit. Yet it achieved the goal of getting people talking about it, and I am still interested in the end product.
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Dec 5, 2019 20:01
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Yeah it seems like a fun game, I just wish he had been more clear it was an ARG kind of thing before I excitedly told everyone I knew about it  Now I look like a dumbass for falling for it so hard
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Suspicious Dish posted:Lost piece of gaming history UNCOVERED
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Danaru posted:Yeah it seems like a fun game, I just wish he had been more clear it was an ARG kind of thing before I excitedly told everyone I knew about it I'm personally putting 'Got tricked by the Game Grumps lol' on your tombstone, dork
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Danaru posted:Yeah it seems like a fun game, I just wish he had been more clear it was an ARG kind of thing before I excitedly told everyone I knew about it I dunno I told my wife about it prehoax. I don't feel silly. Just never mention it again out of fear of individual followup.
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Captain Invictus posted:what is your "continued distrust/dislike" of them based on, if it's jontron or some poo poo, then, lol Its mostly based on distrusting and disliking them
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Dan is an incredibly good guy.
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ZeusCannon posted:Its mostly based on distrusting and disliking them Yardbomb posted:Dan is an incredibly good guy.
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Captain Invictus posted:oh its just a weird thing not really based on anything they've done before then, you do you I want to tell you you are wrong but you really probably aren't. I think its just a oil / water situation. Something about them seems very off to me and so i react as i react. 
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Captain Invictus posted:what is your "continued distrust/dislike" of them based on, if it's jontron or some poo poo, then, lol JonTron is a piece of poo poo though.
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honestly I had a harsh aversion to them for a long time too due to jontron, but when they kicked him out for being a fascist piece of poo poo, and it mostly became the Dan and Arin show, I warmed up to them a lot. If you're at least willing to give them another try, I'd heartily recommend their Phoenix Wright playthrough. The thing I love about it is Arin is terminally videogamesman while Dan is anything but, like, Dan knows VERY LITTLE comparatively about video games, and so gets blindsided extremely easily by things. So he knew NOTHING about phoenix wright beyond maybe it's about a lawyer. The voices they give to everyone, since they're both professional voice actors, are fantastic. Their Doki Doki Literature Club playthrough is legitimately one of my favorite LPs of all time, though. Damned hilarious and also, uh, all the other things DDLC does by the end of it, and Dan had no idea what he was in for and Arin kept him completely blindered the entire time. If you've never experienced DDLC, absolutely dive right in totally blind, if you have already played DDLC and ONLY if you've finished DDLC, Dan has an extremely good and appropriate response to the Sayori scene Maybe does something that may put you off(since it puts me off sometimes even now), they stuck to a rather rigid short episode timer due to how youtube monetization works, and so fairly often reference how the sausage is made or that "it's time for next time on game grumps" every 10-15 minutes. While it's obviously a job for them, making it so apparent it's a job for them(though they are by far not the worst at doing this) can seem really weird maybe? Or maybe it's just a gut thing. Turtlicious posted:JonTron is a piece of poo poo though. really, the worst thing is that jontron hasn't had the poo poo beaten out of him for being a literal just-shy-of-flag-waving nazi, and that apparently he's crawling his way back up to the top and being forgiven by morons since he's being quieter about his horrific beliefs now. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Dec 6, 2019 |
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Looking through the comments on their announcement trailer, there's a lot of people expressing criticism over how they chose to promote this game. Not really mad, just confused about why they chose to do things this way, and disappointed that it wasn't a real thing. Which I think is fair. Edit: At the same time, Arin is promoting a novel on Twitter under the guise of it being his uncle who wrote the book. They seem to be really into the whole lying thing at the moment. Also the book costs $21. Jamesman fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Dec 8, 2019 |
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Game grumps are fine now jontron is gone The dendy hoax game announcement thing is literally the least controversial thing ever lol So is selling a comedy book under a pseudonym.
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I tried getting into the Game Grumps once only to find that they abandon like 80% of their playthroughs. I couldn't get into them as I watch LPs primarily to see a game. It's okay, I'm not their target audience. As for them promoting a game by pretending it's ancient? They are working the jabronie marks without a life that don't know it a work when you work a work and work yourself into a shoot,marks. Just keeping the kayfabe, brother.
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Whether or not they continue a playthrough is completely dependant on the views unless the game is so absolutely awful they can't stand it which has been pretty rare. So big popular games like the Souls games (even if they are imo horrible LP material) get complete playthroughs but more niche titles tend to be dropped.
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I rarely watch any of the Grumps' LPs, but their monthly highlight videos are premium background noise for certain games. I've yet to see any video where JonTron was explicitly racist, but I was sad to see him go like that.
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I saw the interview he did with that one streaming guy where he whines about how people will call you racist just because you express concern about the white genepool being diluted *coughpollutedcough* by people of color, or maybe it was immigrants specifically. I could probably find more if I cared to look, but that was more than enough of him for one lifetime.
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What I know about grumps is that this is something that often happens: Game: To do this very vital thing that is of import to the game, you- Grumps: BLAH BLAH WHO CARES *burps* *5 minutes later* Grumps: WHY CAN'T I DO THIS THING Game: Press X to do thing Grumps: HOW DO I DO THING
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Seeing other big youtube LPers you know what? I'll say it: DSP? Overblown.
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THE BAR posted:I rarely watch any of the Grumps' LPs, but their monthly highlight videos are premium background noise for certain games.
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JonTron is basically alt right. Joins in on Sargon of Akkad streams and says dumb poo poo like this https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=5h8m30s&v=i1p0apfSCIU
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Leal posted:Seeing other big youtube LPers you know what? I'll say it: DSP? Overblown. It's more that dsp and arin are in a category of their own imo, cause holy poo poo, it's why I can't watch either. It's like the perfect case of showcasing the difference between ignorance and stupidity, they were told how to do poo poo, they actively ignore it.
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Mr Phillby posted:The dendy hoax game announcement thing is literally the least controversial thing ever lol Most people aren't really up in arms over it, but just confused over why they're choosing this method to promote stuff to their audience. A lot of people got really excited over the idea of this lost piece of video game history, only to find out it was all fake yet presented as legitimate. The thing with this book is a being made a bit more clear that it's not serious (Arin recorded a "call" with his "uncle" which is just Arin doing a voice), but leading up to that you had him saying he hates his uncle and his mom is forcing him to do this because family and it would just be weird enough on its own, but it comes on the heels of this other thing and people are just like "Uhh... what?" Not really outrage, but just expressing that this stuff could be handled a lot better than it currently is.
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Jamesman posted:Most people are ...just confused over why they're choosing this method to promote stuff to their audience. A lot of people got really excited over the idea They must be struggling in life if they have a hard time making this connection.
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I think it's him trying to do a new type of bit but not being very good at it. They've generally done the goofy awkward method of awkwarsdvertising(the autocorrect changed it to this and I'm keeping it here) like stilted talk when shilling something so maybe he's trying to do a different thing and not being good at it. Arin's never been a bad dude before afaik regardless of what you think of game grump video styling, so I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt at least.
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Eh, it's just guerrila marketing circa late-00s and early-10's, the era of creepypastas and hoax stories. I think it doesn't land as well nowadays because fake news and fact-checking became legitimate political tools since then, and a lot of people stick with content creators because they're someone they "trust" - y'know, New Sincerity and all that jazz.
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