“people want and deserve a better class of personality”.
Id go further George me old mucker.
I dont give a flying monkeys f#ck if the video maker has zero personality – as long as they make interesting, concise (ie not padded out to f#ck for the Youtube algorithm), and informative videos about subjects Im interested in.
Mr Sujano looks like a pedo Scout Master, but makes videos as long as they need ot be – if it only needs to be a 7 minute update, he makes a 7 minute update, not a 15 min borefest.
PatmanQC sounds as if he has special needs, and has a voice not even his mother could love, but, his “history of” videos wipe the floor with the UK shite, and are incredibly well researched.
Both have the charisma and personaliy of a baby’s jobbie, but Id watch their videos all day over what the UK scene is now putting out.
witchfinder1976 can be a bit monotone, but he covers all manner of C64 games. Better when he has a panel, like when he did his budget game publisher videos.
i don’t mean a personality as in someone oozing charisma i just mean someone who is interesting or entertaining or both. it doesn’t have to be some “presenter” type, most of the channels i watch on youtube are very basic and understated and just rely on the intellect of the person behind them.
It’s only a matter of time before they start turning on each other. Fighting over the last 3 subscribers who actually have a bit of money to spare. Spiffing.
that’s the thing mate, when i look at them together my brain tends to show me a scene in which they’re all trying to stamp on each others toes whilst pretending not to be doing so. the amount of cross pollination across their content is absurd, with so many of them seeking to “unearth” the same “10 unknown facts” (that anyone could find out about from any number of existing sources, if they don’t already know them). pathetic. i really wonder who these people ARE, to be honest. are they what we see on camera or is there something else going on and, if so, why are they content with ploughing the same fucking boring furrow 24/7 (or not, as the case may be, as most of them hardly even make videos any more)
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Collieuk
1 year ago
Epic fight scenes there George, this could be the future of combat sports for the mobility impaired! I found Daz’s response completely unnecessary, and seeing as he wasn’t tagged, he could have ignored it and moved on. Been the bigger guy. That probably would have been the end of it. But no, egos are easily bruised and he needed his shining halo of moral goodness to be restored for all and sundry to witness. To be honest, that’s ok, I mean we all get annoyed and startled when we’re shouted out in public, especially by some stranger you don’t know, but his responses were completely unbecoming of such a sweet, innocent, loveable character. His blatant and completely transparent attempts to reframe himself as the victim, and myself as some sort of aggressive oppressor is both laughable and lamentable. I’m sure many victims of gaslighting could spot such similarities in his behaviour.
Anyway, I wanted to calm things down for the evening and move on, but not before making an attempt for Daz to finally see why folks weren’t happy with him (and his fellow Barcadia Cohorts). We get a partial acknowledgement that his outbursts were unacceptable, but the truth is, he and the rest of the campaign team have been tone deaf in their responses. They were either deliberately avoiding questions and anything that may cast some doubt on their Barcadia dream, or simply oblivious to the fact that the public may want more information before parting with their hard earned cash. By hard earned, that’s by doing real stressful jobs, not just sat in front of a computer or camera reading other people’s scripts. And that’s my issue with the Barcadia team and campaign. You support them and give them likes and money, and they’ll give you their hollow thanks; or you ask questions, raise potential concerns and get labelled a troll. How is that a suitable and professional way to conduct your business in public? Answer for Nostalgia Nerd, Daz and chums: It’s not.
I don’t watch enough of their content or interact with them enough to care about them as individuals (they may be lovely, I’m sure even Hitler was to his mother), but I do care if good honest folks get caught up in their schemes and potentially ripped off. Not saying they will with Barcadia, but hats off to you, Codetapper and the other people daring to actually voice their opinions towards these self-important retrogaming charlatans.
well the sad fact of it (for them) is that if they keep their behaviour going then myself and others will keep spotlighting it, really it’s as simple as that !
I never knew how big the UK retrogamming circle jerk was until I saw those photos from OLL Norwich. So much smugness under one roof. Again, I’m sure individually they’re all beautiful people, perhaps even worthy of a decent conversation, but collectively, that’s one party I’d sooner avoid. In fact, stripping naked and smothering myself head to toe in nutella and cream cheese and screaming “EAT ME, I’M SIN FREE!!” at a Slimmers World convention and being devoured painfully by the ravenous, chocolate starved, obese attendees would be preferrable than sitting in a hall listening to one of those retro folks give some sort of “humorous” talk about their hobby.
They all hang out with each other at these shows because nobody in the UK either knows who they are or gives a toss. Not to mention when you see some of them in person you probably couldn’t bear to look at them to have a chat. Makes you glad the 3D TV/monitor craze died out.
i think that’s the thing, it’s all done to perpetuate their misconception that they’re part of some wonderful gang that everyone aspires to be involved with. i can’t imagine much more boring than watching a panel with most of these wankers on it, i just don’t find them remotely interesting and if you take the scripts away they’re even LESS entertaining which i suppose is a feat of some kind, as one could be forgiven for thinking that it couldn’t be possible !
that’s it mate, it’s the same people over and over recycled ad infinitum just, oddly enough, like their content. i can’t imagine much worse, either. as i’ve said before, youtube needs an enema and people deserve a better class of internet reporting/game discussion. i am not suggesting myself for this role, i just talk a load of shit while games run in the background, but i do have a certain niche and a certain audience for that stuff so i’m definitely not remotely close to the denuded mine that all these twats are trying to jam themselves into.
If you try and appeal to everybody, you’ll end up appealing to nobody. This fact doesn’t appear to have caught up with the circle jerk yet but it will eventually. Meanwhile those who remain true to themselves and give zero fucks about what anyone else thinks will keep their small but very loyal audiences who value authenticity.
Great video George and on the button as usual! Just for the record – I for one would pay good money to see any form of pugilistic match up involving a cross eyed demented Kieren with you on his back barking orders to him Master Blaster style! I’d pay even more to see him get his helmet knocked off revealing his orange noggin like Mel Gibson did! 😂👌
i think we might be onto a potential earner here mate ! although kieren would no doubt come out with some bullshit that he’s disabled and needs his walking cane that he only ever mentions when he’s looking for sympathy and (probably) to the DSS to keep his payments flowing in !
Call me old fashioned, But I suspect many like myself want our content providers to be honest, respectful to the community and most importantly not like most TV / Movie stars, use their platform as a way to increase their short term profitability by marketing any and every promotion that comes their way. As anyone will tell you in media, this route will tarnish your identity instantly the moment your voice gets associated with “Raid Shadow Legends”, “Manscaping”, “NordVPN”, and other such products which have no relevance to the topic your talking about or are used ever again in future videos.
Every member of the panel this weekend have done this to some degree so far, and the current shilling of new PCs, Bars, etc. has gotten to the point where most of us have started to turn off. you only have to look at Socialblades daily stats to see most of the panels efforts are trending a 1-3% audience viewship against their current subscriber totals. Especially NN who’s hovering just above 1%.
They haven’t spotted this because no one wants to face the fact that they are all currently monitising the same small pot of active users who only have a finite amount of liquid capital to spend, one that’ll be diminishing shortly due to the upcoming recession and price of food increase (can’t wait to see how Barcadia justifies the prices then!).
I usually rip on THGM and LD but in this case their retention on viewership is considerably higher, to give them credit, and right now being separate from the others may just give them a positive for other markets.
But regardless, the moment each of them stayed on the fence and stopped supporting the community it started killing their channels and losing that free promotion is critical.
very true mate they are attempting to squeeze resources out of an ever dwindling resource pool. they will soon be whining that someone turned on the “share loot” option before the quest began and that they want to go back to ninja’ing everyone elses stuff like classic wow because that was “more fairerer”
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Family Brick
1 year ago
You’re bang on about Kim. The amount of times I’ve been tempted to respond to her cryptic drama-courting tweets with something along the lines of “name names or shut up” because it was irritating reading all the “what / who / WTF?!” replies that she obviously thrives upon. It reminds me of when she made an ill-advised, algo-chasing commentary video about a viral incident involving PewDiePie saying hard racial slurs on stream and got upset when some of us didn’t appreciate her “It’s not racism – it was just being an edgelord” take. Imagine if some cunt argued that anti-trans slurs were just a bit of harmless fun instead of hatred that have ugly consequences. She then moaned on twitter that she had no idea why she even made that video
that she but the first words out of her mouth in said video were something like “well everyone’s talking about it so I might as well”. Like a moth to a flame (or a slightly dim attention seeking child) she can’t help herself and it seems old habits die hard.
yes mate that sums the whole thing up. kim will do something then get called out for it then the passive aggression/self deprecation begins and it’s all “i don’t know why i bothered in the first place” with the logical answer being “you shouldn’t have”. but then if you’re looking to ride the algorithm it’s hard to know which side to be on. it’s just unfortunate that kim has been on the wrong side of it for some time now, either by commission or non commission of action
Kim’s a drama queen, but their long-form documentaries are actually pretty good. Probably one of the least worst British Retrogaming Circle Jerkers imho
oh i completely agree mate and so do a lot of others. HOWEVER i wish the cryptic “oh no more drama” posts would stop. and just the cryptic stuff in general. if kim has something to say about what’s taking place then fucking SAY IT, don’t expect people to put 2+2 together when you’ve given them 5 and 7, especially if you’re going to get irritated at them for making 12.
Don’t want to get into her personal life etc, but she did lose her partner which can’t have been easy. Sitting about on the internet instead of going out and doing things can lead to some of these stupid messages. The devil makes work for idle hands as the saying goes.
i got told i’m going to die in 5-10 years from a debilitating and incurable lung condition mate and i know that’s not the same thing but i basically never mention it and if anything it’s spurred me on to do as much as i can now ! i don’t see how many passive aggressive/oblique/toothless tweets is connected to grieving really but each to their own i suppose we can’t know what goes on inside one another’s heads !
Special FX done by another screaming mad George 🙂 But yep, it was really well done and summed up a lot about the corrupt world we live in now way in advance of others, except maybe They Live.
The same Screaming Mad George that made that amazing Playstation psychotic horror first person pinball game called “Paranioascape”? Must be. *takes note*
Yep the same, that’s the only game he was involved in it seems. But he did work on many 80s classic films.
Retro_Replayer
1 year ago
I saw Kim’s comments on Twitter about this. To be honest though, I also saw here twitch stream last night where she is singing the praises of Norwich and all the fantastic people she met…i.e. Trista (recently got a PC for free which she keeps promoting), Gamesmisstress (recently crowd funded for a new pc), Gebs24 (entire channel is grifting from small retro shops), not to mention Slops (not all biased), Nerd, and of course, everyone’s favourite/ worse total loony bin… Octy (or whoever she is pretending to be this week). Sorry, but if you are going to align yourself to such grifters, don’t be surprised when people then look negatively at you as well.
OLL should really change its name to the Norwich Grifter Convention (NCG), as the photos of everyone on stage is essentially a mug shot of the worst grifters in the retro scene.
yes mate if rumours are to be believed it was not well attended, either. i think people are starting to get really sick of the same smug faces singing the same smug songs !
I have read a lot of “OMG it was amazing CANT wait for next year” strangely all from Youtubers / streamers / or wannabes. Next thing you know that will try and get Play Expo moved to Norwich when the Norbreak finally (and mysteriously) burns to the ground
“omg it was amazing to get all us wankers in one place patting each other on the back, ignoring the plebs and generally feeling like wasting our lives in the pursuit of e-fame wasn’t, in reality, a fucking terrible idea” something like that basically mate. it’s a group delusion that’s bolstered by such get togethers where they can all be insufferable and united in their boorish disdain for reality.
i agree 100% mate. it’s always “oh why do people always jump on my posts or question what i say” well if you lie down with dogs and all that ! but it’s always just a passive aggressive, veiled rebuttal from kim – that’s all we’ll ever get. shame really as they don’t seem to understand that this is the method of their own undoing. all of those people are cancerous vultures of the highest order. just grifting as a means to bypass the fact that they don’t have personalities, it’s very sad.
YouTube wrestling they really are getting desperate now. Its clear the well is dry and they need to find new income streams. I still find it strange that NN put more effort into getting that stupid monitor KS across the line rather than his own bar / arcade / save his GF’s business. Ashens has clearly washed his hands of his, so Daz has taken up the mantle of spokes person. NN is (as always) too busy doing whatever he does all week
Kim cant stay away she really is desperate to her her channel in the spot light and therefore keep the cash rolling in.
succinctly put mate, yes, the wheels are definitely off the whole “uk youtuber” thing now. no-one gives a shit about them and they’re completely replaceable, with their content being effectively interchangeable. they established a meta which worked for a while but it just doesn’t cut it on the modern internet. people want and deserve a better class of personality, in that they at least deserve to be able to watch people who have one. with all this uk lot i don’t know where the passive aggressive front ends and the supposed individuality begins. it all seems identical to me and one can only watch so many documentaries about ocean, or some twat musing on how shit rise of the robots was (stop press on that one, it’s such exclusive info and we’re being told it by a bearded, boggle eyed twat so it MUST be legit !) before it all just blurs and reveals itself to be a complete fucking waste of time.
and yes i don’t watch ashens but apparently in his recent appearances/broadcasts he’s said fuck all about barcadia, presumably because he’s not a fucking idiot and realises he shouldn’t be seen drinking from a poisoned chalice because he might not be able to fund whatever it is he’s planning to ask for funding for next !
I can’t say I’ve seen a genuinely amusing Ashens video for a while now. Same with AVGN. As soon as they’re doing it purely for a living it seems to become a production line.
AVGN has run out of notoriously bad games and games he knows from personal experience from his youth. Uses the same intro now all the time, he used to change it about a bit. But as soon as you’re in the mood for the content he jumps in with an advert which takes you out of the moment. Seems even an annoying tit like Mike Matei knew when to jump ship.
Couldn’t give a toss about Rex Viper. I like a lot of bands that take influence from the 80s, but the best ones go beyond it (e.g. Carpenter Brut).
i think james is or was focusing all his energy on attempting to get rex viper taken seriously. good luck with that, especially with that fat arsehole justin up on the stage. what a mess ! avgn doesn’t write his content any more, hasn’t for ages, and spends more time back pedaling on claims of plagiarism than he does doing actual reviews. when he’s pulled up for anything these days it’s always “well i didn’t write that so it’s not my opinion” well why say it then ? stupid and just content farming by committee at this point. pointless.
It’s the usual case of “I got an audience by doing something they liked, I’ll foist something else on said audience that isn’t anywhere near as good and they’ll like it because it’s me”.
also, ultimately, ashens isn’t funny. he’s like the rest of them, there’s a sort of wry, sardonic streak to what he says but it’s “humour” at its most base level. there’s nothing fractal or weird in there it’s all very on the surface and all very punctuated/earmarked as “humour” which diffuses any potential for the viewer to take natural joy from what’s being said/shown. it’s far too trite, far too self aware and really nowhere near funny enough. he’s a naturally unfunny person languishing in the shade of a persona that’d not be out of place as an (unfunny) extra on red dwarf or something like that. it’s all well and good but does it qualify as something to base your lifestyle on ? i’m not sure at all.
Ashens is clearly done with it, he cant even be arsed making his own videos any more. He is closing in on 50 and all he has to show for it is a bunch of videos about cheap tat on an old brown sofa
The AVGN, you can just tell he hates doing it but it still (somehow) pays the bills. All he does now is turn up and read a script he then hands it all of to others. He has tied to do other stuff and no one cares they just want the nerd (for some reason). He has been doing it for almost 20 years now which is crazy
yes avgn has made his money and he did in many ways pioneer the “angry nerd” thing, from which we got utter spastics like the hateful “angry joe” who is a cast iron cunt of the highest order. then we have the slew of american nobodies giving it “what were they THINKING ??” in videos and you just know who they aspire to be. Always called names like “the irate gamer” and crap like that. real bottom of the barrel stuff ! james succeeded more or less because he existed in a vacuum. he really doesn’t any more.
I don’t want to give Mike credit or anything, but he encouraged James to upload the first videos and he probably told James that the nerd thing was either getting worn out or not getting enough attention. So it’s no wonder he checked out.
apparently mike pissed off when james insisted he wanted to palm off the videos onto retards like justin and spend more time with rex viper and working on their music (also with justin. BIG mistake)
yes mate that’s the thing considering james was a film student it was extraordinarily inept and bad. i was quite surprised at how bad it was. we’ve got the short film from THE CRITICAL DRINKER to look forward to though, although that might look weird because he has to look at everything through his perma-shocked bug eyes which he routinely hides behind his shades ! he calls himself a lover of film but his knowledge is of puddle depth and far from oceanic. he hadn’t even heard of bad boy bubby and when a mate suggested to him to watch it he replied “i’ve never even heard of bad boy BUBBLY” so not only is he ignorant and perma-shocked looking, he also can’t read !
The Critical Drinker is a bit hit and miss. He’s about 10 years my junior so I look at it from that perspective, that he’s still a youngster 😀 I listened to an audiobook of his first novel (do a lot of dog walking, so it’s the ideal way to get through a book) and it wasn’t too bad. Started the second but couldn’t get into it. He’s a fellow greyhound owner which makes him okay in my book.
i used to think he was okay but i’ve gotten increasingly tired of his self righteous shtick of late, it’s all the same, also ditto for midnight’s edge, andre seems like a good guy but everyone else who sails in that ship is a pig ignorant, edge lording fucker for the most part. but, again, andre seems like a reasonable and smart person.
“people want and deserve a better class of personality”.
Id go further George me old mucker.
I dont give a flying monkeys f#ck if the video maker has zero personality – as long as they make interesting, concise (ie not padded out to f#ck for the Youtube algorithm), and informative videos about subjects Im interested in.
Mr Sujano looks like a pedo Scout Master, but makes videos as long as they need ot be – if it only needs to be a 7 minute update, he makes a 7 minute update, not a 15 min borefest.
PatmanQC sounds as if he has special needs, and has a voice not even his mother could love, but, his “history of” videos wipe the floor with the UK shite, and are incredibly well researched.
Both have the charisma and personaliy of a baby’s jobbie, but Id watch their videos all day over what the UK scene is now putting out.
witchfinder1976 can be a bit monotone, but he covers all manner of C64 games. Better when he has a panel, like when he did his budget game publisher videos.
i don’t mean a personality as in someone oozing charisma i just mean someone who is interesting or entertaining or both. it doesn’t have to be some “presenter” type, most of the channels i watch on youtube are very basic and understated and just rely on the intellect of the person behind them.
It’s only a matter of time before they start turning on each other. Fighting over the last 3 subscribers who actually have a bit of money to spare. Spiffing.
that’s the thing mate, when i look at them together my brain tends to show me a scene in which they’re all trying to stamp on each others toes whilst pretending not to be doing so. the amount of cross pollination across their content is absurd, with so many of them seeking to “unearth” the same “10 unknown facts” (that anyone could find out about from any number of existing sources, if they don’t already know them). pathetic. i really wonder who these people ARE, to be honest. are they what we see on camera or is there something else going on and, if so, why are they content with ploughing the same fucking boring furrow 24/7 (or not, as the case may be, as most of them hardly even make videos any more)
Epic fight scenes there George, this could be the future of combat sports for the mobility impaired! I found Daz’s response completely unnecessary, and seeing as he wasn’t tagged, he could have ignored it and moved on. Been the bigger guy. That probably would have been the end of it. But no, egos are easily bruised and he needed his shining halo of moral goodness to be restored for all and sundry to witness. To be honest, that’s ok, I mean we all get annoyed and startled when we’re shouted out in public, especially by some stranger you don’t know, but his responses were completely unbecoming of such a sweet, innocent, loveable character. His blatant and completely transparent attempts to reframe himself as the victim, and myself as some sort of aggressive oppressor is both laughable and lamentable. I’m sure many victims of gaslighting could spot such similarities in his behaviour.
Anyway, I wanted to calm things down for the evening and move on, but not before making an attempt for Daz to finally see why folks weren’t happy with him (and his fellow Barcadia Cohorts). We get a partial acknowledgement that his outbursts were unacceptable, but the truth is, he and the rest of the campaign team have been tone deaf in their responses. They were either deliberately avoiding questions and anything that may cast some doubt on their Barcadia dream, or simply oblivious to the fact that the public may want more information before parting with their hard earned cash. By hard earned, that’s by doing real stressful jobs, not just sat in front of a computer or camera reading other people’s scripts. And that’s my issue with the Barcadia team and campaign. You support them and give them likes and money, and they’ll give you their hollow thanks; or you ask questions, raise potential concerns and get labelled a troll. How is that a suitable and professional way to conduct your business in public? Answer for Nostalgia Nerd, Daz and chums: It’s not.
I don’t watch enough of their content or interact with them enough to care about them as individuals (they may be lovely, I’m sure even Hitler was to his mother), but I do care if good honest folks get caught up in their schemes and potentially ripped off. Not saying they will with Barcadia, but hats off to you, Codetapper and the other people daring to actually voice their opinions towards these self-important retrogaming charlatans.
well the sad fact of it (for them) is that if they keep their behaviour going then myself and others will keep spotlighting it, really it’s as simple as that !
I never knew how big the UK retrogamming circle jerk was until I saw those photos from OLL Norwich. So much smugness under one roof. Again, I’m sure individually they’re all beautiful people, perhaps even worthy of a decent conversation, but collectively, that’s one party I’d sooner avoid. In fact, stripping naked and smothering myself head to toe in nutella and cream cheese and screaming “EAT ME, I’M SIN FREE!!” at a Slimmers World convention and being devoured painfully by the ravenous, chocolate starved, obese attendees would be preferrable than sitting in a hall listening to one of those retro folks give some sort of “humorous” talk about their hobby.
They all hang out with each other at these shows because nobody in the UK either knows who they are or gives a toss. Not to mention when you see some of them in person you probably couldn’t bear to look at them to have a chat. Makes you glad the 3D TV/monitor craze died out.
i think that’s the thing, it’s all done to perpetuate their misconception that they’re part of some wonderful gang that everyone aspires to be involved with. i can’t imagine much more boring than watching a panel with most of these wankers on it, i just don’t find them remotely interesting and if you take the scripts away they’re even LESS entertaining which i suppose is a feat of some kind, as one could be forgiven for thinking that it couldn’t be possible !
that’s it mate, it’s the same people over and over recycled ad infinitum just, oddly enough, like their content. i can’t imagine much worse, either. as i’ve said before, youtube needs an enema and people deserve a better class of internet reporting/game discussion. i am not suggesting myself for this role, i just talk a load of shit while games run in the background, but i do have a certain niche and a certain audience for that stuff so i’m definitely not remotely close to the denuded mine that all these twats are trying to jam themselves into.
If you try and appeal to everybody, you’ll end up appealing to nobody. This fact doesn’t appear to have caught up with the circle jerk yet but it will eventually. Meanwhile those who remain true to themselves and give zero fucks about what anyone else thinks will keep their small but very loyal audiences who value authenticity.
Great video George and on the button as usual! Just for the record – I for one would pay good money to see any form of pugilistic match up involving a cross eyed demented Kieren with you on his back barking orders to him Master Blaster style! I’d pay even more to see him get his helmet knocked off revealing his orange noggin like Mel Gibson did! 😂👌
i think we might be onto a potential earner here mate ! although kieren would no doubt come out with some bullshit that he’s disabled and needs his walking cane that he only ever mentions when he’s looking for sympathy and (probably) to the DSS to keep his payments flowing in !
Call me old fashioned, But I suspect many like myself want our content providers to be honest, respectful to the community and most importantly not like most TV / Movie stars, use their platform as a way to increase their short term profitability by marketing any and every promotion that comes their way. As anyone will tell you in media, this route will tarnish your identity instantly the moment your voice gets associated with “Raid Shadow Legends”, “Manscaping”, “NordVPN”, and other such products which have no relevance to the topic your talking about or are used ever again in future videos.
Every member of the panel this weekend have done this to some degree so far, and the current shilling of new PCs, Bars, etc. has gotten to the point where most of us have started to turn off. you only have to look at Socialblades daily stats to see most of the panels efforts are trending a 1-3% audience viewship against their current subscriber totals. Especially NN who’s hovering just above 1%.
They haven’t spotted this because no one wants to face the fact that they are all currently monitising the same small pot of active users who only have a finite amount of liquid capital to spend, one that’ll be diminishing shortly due to the upcoming recession and price of food increase (can’t wait to see how Barcadia justifies the prices then!).
I usually rip on THGM and LD but in this case their retention on viewership is considerably higher, to give them credit, and right now being separate from the others may just give them a positive for other markets.
But regardless, the moment each of them stayed on the fence and stopped supporting the community it started killing their channels and losing that free promotion is critical.
very true mate they are attempting to squeeze resources out of an ever dwindling resource pool. they will soon be whining that someone turned on the “share loot” option before the quest began and that they want to go back to ninja’ing everyone elses stuff like classic wow because that was “more fairerer”
You’re bang on about Kim. The amount of times I’ve been tempted to respond to her cryptic drama-courting tweets with something along the lines of “name names or shut up” because it was irritating reading all the “what / who / WTF?!” replies that she obviously thrives upon. It reminds me of when she made an ill-advised, algo-chasing commentary video about a viral incident involving PewDiePie saying hard racial slurs on stream and got upset when some of us didn’t appreciate her “It’s not racism – it was just being an edgelord” take. Imagine if some cunt argued that anti-trans slurs were just a bit of harmless fun instead of hatred that have ugly consequences. She then moaned on twitter that she had no idea why she even made that video
that she but the first words out of her mouth in said video were something like “well everyone’s talking about it so I might as well”. Like a moth to a flame (or a slightly dim attention seeking child) she can’t help herself and it seems old habits die hard.
yes mate that sums the whole thing up. kim will do something then get called out for it then the passive aggression/self deprecation begins and it’s all “i don’t know why i bothered in the first place” with the logical answer being “you shouldn’t have”. but then if you’re looking to ride the algorithm it’s hard to know which side to be on. it’s just unfortunate that kim has been on the wrong side of it for some time now, either by commission or non commission of action
Kim’s a drama queen, but their long-form documentaries are actually pretty good. Probably one of the least worst British Retrogaming Circle Jerkers imho
oh i completely agree mate and so do a lot of others. HOWEVER i wish the cryptic “oh no more drama” posts would stop. and just the cryptic stuff in general. if kim has something to say about what’s taking place then fucking SAY IT, don’t expect people to put 2+2 together when you’ve given them 5 and 7, especially if you’re going to get irritated at them for making 12.
Don’t want to get into her personal life etc, but she did lose her partner which can’t have been easy. Sitting about on the internet instead of going out and doing things can lead to some of these stupid messages. The devil makes work for idle hands as the saying goes.
Oh that’s terribly sad. No one should have to go through that so young. 🙁
i got told i’m going to die in 5-10 years from a debilitating and incurable lung condition mate and i know that’s not the same thing but i basically never mention it and if anything it’s spurred me on to do as much as i can now ! i don’t see how many passive aggressive/oblique/toothless tweets is connected to grieving really but each to their own i suppose we can’t know what goes on inside one another’s heads !
OMG, those pictures. It’s like the last scene of the film Society.
i’ve got a lot of time for that film mate ! a real rip snorter !
Special FX done by another screaming mad George 🙂 But yep, it was really well done and summed up a lot about the corrupt world we live in now way in advance of others, except maybe They Live.
Although I suppose the Invasion of the Body Snatchers also did similar, the original being a 1950s film.
The same Screaming Mad George that made that amazing Playstation psychotic horror first person pinball game called “Paranioascape”? Must be. *takes note*
Yep the same, that’s the only game he was involved in it seems. But he did work on many 80s classic films.
I saw Kim’s comments on Twitter about this. To be honest though, I also saw here twitch stream last night where she is singing the praises of Norwich and all the fantastic people she met…i.e. Trista (recently got a PC for free which she keeps promoting), Gamesmisstress (recently crowd funded for a new pc), Gebs24 (entire channel is grifting from small retro shops), not to mention Slops (not all biased), Nerd, and of course, everyone’s favourite/ worse total loony bin… Octy (or whoever she is pretending to be this week). Sorry, but if you are going to align yourself to such grifters, don’t be surprised when people then look negatively at you as well.
OLL should really change its name to the Norwich Grifter Convention (NCG), as the photos of everyone on stage is essentially a mug shot of the worst grifters in the retro scene.
yes mate if rumours are to be believed it was not well attended, either. i think people are starting to get really sick of the same smug faces singing the same smug songs !
I have read a lot of “OMG it was amazing CANT wait for next year” strangely all from Youtubers / streamers / or wannabes. Next thing you know that will try and get Play Expo moved to Norwich when the Norbreak finally (and mysteriously) burns to the ground
“omg it was amazing to get all us wankers in one place patting each other on the back, ignoring the plebs and generally feeling like wasting our lives in the pursuit of e-fame wasn’t, in reality, a fucking terrible idea” something like that basically mate. it’s a group delusion that’s bolstered by such get togethers where they can all be insufferable and united in their boorish disdain for reality.
i agree 100% mate. it’s always “oh why do people always jump on my posts or question what i say” well if you lie down with dogs and all that ! but it’s always just a passive aggressive, veiled rebuttal from kim – that’s all we’ll ever get. shame really as they don’t seem to understand that this is the method of their own undoing. all of those people are cancerous vultures of the highest order. just grifting as a means to bypass the fact that they don’t have personalities, it’s very sad.
YouTube wrestling they really are getting desperate now. Its clear the well is dry and they need to find new income streams. I still find it strange that NN put more effort into getting that stupid monitor KS across the line rather than his own bar / arcade / save his GF’s business. Ashens has clearly washed his hands of his, so Daz has taken up the mantle of spokes person. NN is (as always) too busy doing whatever he does all week
Kim cant stay away she really is desperate to her her channel in the spot light and therefore keep the cash rolling in.
succinctly put mate, yes, the wheels are definitely off the whole “uk youtuber” thing now. no-one gives a shit about them and they’re completely replaceable, with their content being effectively interchangeable. they established a meta which worked for a while but it just doesn’t cut it on the modern internet. people want and deserve a better class of personality, in that they at least deserve to be able to watch people who have one. with all this uk lot i don’t know where the passive aggressive front ends and the supposed individuality begins. it all seems identical to me and one can only watch so many documentaries about ocean, or some twat musing on how shit rise of the robots was (stop press on that one, it’s such exclusive info and we’re being told it by a bearded, boggle eyed twat so it MUST be legit !) before it all just blurs and reveals itself to be a complete fucking waste of time.
and yes i don’t watch ashens but apparently in his recent appearances/broadcasts he’s said fuck all about barcadia, presumably because he’s not a fucking idiot and realises he shouldn’t be seen drinking from a poisoned chalice because he might not be able to fund whatever it is he’s planning to ask for funding for next !
I can’t say I’ve seen a genuinely amusing Ashens video for a while now. Same with AVGN. As soon as they’re doing it purely for a living it seems to become a production line.
avgn content these days is physically repulsive and let’s not even get started on how “wrong on every level” rex viper are !
AVGN has run out of notoriously bad games and games he knows from personal experience from his youth. Uses the same intro now all the time, he used to change it about a bit. But as soon as you’re in the mood for the content he jumps in with an advert which takes you out of the moment. Seems even an annoying tit like Mike Matei knew when to jump ship.
Couldn’t give a toss about Rex Viper. I like a lot of bands that take influence from the 80s, but the best ones go beyond it (e.g. Carpenter Brut).
i think james is or was focusing all his energy on attempting to get rex viper taken seriously. good luck with that, especially with that fat arsehole justin up on the stage. what a mess ! avgn doesn’t write his content any more, hasn’t for ages, and spends more time back pedaling on claims of plagiarism than he does doing actual reviews. when he’s pulled up for anything these days it’s always “well i didn’t write that so it’s not my opinion” well why say it then ? stupid and just content farming by committee at this point. pointless.
It’s the usual case of “I got an audience by doing something they liked, I’ll foist something else on said audience that isn’t anywhere near as good and they’ll like it because it’s me”.
also, ultimately, ashens isn’t funny. he’s like the rest of them, there’s a sort of wry, sardonic streak to what he says but it’s “humour” at its most base level. there’s nothing fractal or weird in there it’s all very on the surface and all very punctuated/earmarked as “humour” which diffuses any potential for the viewer to take natural joy from what’s being said/shown. it’s far too trite, far too self aware and really nowhere near funny enough. he’s a naturally unfunny person languishing in the shade of a persona that’d not be out of place as an (unfunny) extra on red dwarf or something like that. it’s all well and good but does it qualify as something to base your lifestyle on ? i’m not sure at all.
Ashens is clearly done with it, he cant even be arsed making his own videos any more. He is closing in on 50 and all he has to show for it is a bunch of videos about cheap tat on an old brown sofa
The AVGN, you can just tell he hates doing it but it still (somehow) pays the bills. All he does now is turn up and read a script he then hands it all of to others. He has tied to do other stuff and no one cares they just want the nerd (for some reason). He has been doing it for almost 20 years now which is crazy
yes avgn has made his money and he did in many ways pioneer the “angry nerd” thing, from which we got utter spastics like the hateful “angry joe” who is a cast iron cunt of the highest order. then we have the slew of american nobodies giving it “what were they THINKING ??” in videos and you just know who they aspire to be. Always called names like “the irate gamer” and crap like that. real bottom of the barrel stuff ! james succeeded more or less because he existed in a vacuum. he really doesn’t any more.
I don’t want to give Mike credit or anything, but he encouraged James to upload the first videos and he probably told James that the nerd thing was either getting worn out or not getting enough attention. So it’s no wonder he checked out.
apparently mike pissed off when james insisted he wanted to palm off the videos onto retards like justin and spend more time with rex viper and working on their music (also with justin. BIG mistake)
I wonder when we’re getting AVGN the movie 2? 😀 I honestly couldn’t wait for it to end, so boring.
yes mate that’s the thing considering james was a film student it was extraordinarily inept and bad. i was quite surprised at how bad it was. we’ve got the short film from THE CRITICAL DRINKER to look forward to though, although that might look weird because he has to look at everything through his perma-shocked bug eyes which he routinely hides behind his shades ! he calls himself a lover of film but his knowledge is of puddle depth and far from oceanic. he hadn’t even heard of bad boy bubby and when a mate suggested to him to watch it he replied “i’ve never even heard of bad boy BUBBLY” so not only is he ignorant and perma-shocked looking, he also can’t read !
The Critical Drinker is a bit hit and miss. He’s about 10 years my junior so I look at it from that perspective, that he’s still a youngster 😀 I listened to an audiobook of his first novel (do a lot of dog walking, so it’s the ideal way to get through a book) and it wasn’t too bad. Started the second but couldn’t get into it. He’s a fellow greyhound owner which makes him okay in my book.
i used to think he was okay but i’ve gotten increasingly tired of his self righteous shtick of late, it’s all the same, also ditto for midnight’s edge, andre seems like a good guy but everyone else who sails in that ship is a pig ignorant, edge lording fucker for the most part. but, again, andre seems like a reasonable and smart person.
I’d love to see Kim flatten the Laird. Maybe she should start dissing him and his knowledge of Atari and he’ll definitely be up for a bout.