Sometimes the algorithm gives you something really good
So April 15th, 2011 is a pretty significant date for the majority of the people on this site. That Friday was like a kick in the nuts to almost all of us. My son had just turned 3. I was 28. I was now unemployed. Depressed. Not sure what was going to happen next. I spent the weekend kind of swimming through a haze that I have not felt in a similar manner since.
That Monday, unsure what to do, or what came next, I was still just kind of existing. Clicking around youtube with no real destination in sight, I stumbled upon this video.
Hey, I remember Chrono Trigger. One of my all time favorite games. And I watched it. To say it was the first time I smiled in 3 days would be cliche, and likely untrue. But I enjoyed it. It was stupid, funny, ridiculous, and scratched a nostalgic itch that had been just out of reach.
Game Theory became appointment viewing for me for a long time afterward, and in time, became the same for my son. I remember buying him a Game Theory backpack and socks for his 7th birthday. He was so excited. Eventually my viewership fell off from appointment viewing to watching the occasional Game, Food, or Film theory (sorry style theory, not really my bag) that covered a topic I found interesting. My son never did though, watching it through to the end.
I already posted upthread the announcement that Mat was leaving the main channels for good. Yesterday, the final episode hit youtube.
I’ve seen the end of a few media touchstones in my life that really stuck with me. I was 10 when Bill Watterson ended Calvin and Hobbes, and I bawled. For days, even the thought of the comic would cause me to well up or burst into tears. Breaking Bad’s end brought with it a certain numbness. A realization that I may have seen the best piece of media in my life come to an end (this has been surpassed, but that ending somehow struck me harded than BCS’s.) This isn’t the same, but it is something. Nearly 13 years of pretty much weekly content. A feat that should be recognized and applauded. Thought those around my age might like to see if they hadn’t yet.
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We’re getting old, man.
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You got that fucking right
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This video is really good
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“If Don Henley took less chances” is an A+ burn, lmao.
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omg - at the 20 minute mark when said the problem is when you slow down the chord progression, I heard exactly what he said a second later. jfc
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Man, this isn’t the place for this, but the whole rural/small town fetishism is so fucking unbelievably weird. I grew up in a village of like 400 people, and trust me nobody was “looking out for each other”. Half the neighborhood hated the other half, and there were plenty of people getting liquored up and beating their wives and nobody gave a fuck.
All believers want religious people in charge until they start burning one another at the stake for different interpretations of divine grace in communion or whether the the holy ghost is coextensive with the father and son.
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A game show moves from YouTube to Nebula.
Holy shit, Conan’s reaction to Da Bomb is crazy.
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In all seriousness Conan is the best entertainer there is. I mean who else can give a Charlie Chaplin in The Dictator -esk speech about comedy after downing pure hot pepper?
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Folding Ideas’ latest video is on James Rolfe (the Angry Video Game Nerd)
I thought it was accurate but maybe a little harsh
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Cliffs? I listened to the first couple minutes, then skipped around, and still have zero idea what the thrust of this is.
Basically that Rolfe hasn’t really evolved as a filmmaker during the 20 years he’s been doing AVGN
I think that’s probably fair, although he definitely did some more ambitious and creative stuff at times
But on the other hand, I don’t think James is really in need of a take down
While he was very influential, he’s not nearly as relevant now as he used to be
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Ok but for someone who has no idea who Rolfe or AVGN is?
His schtick is that he plays old bad video games and uses colorful language to complain about how much they suck. Old games used to mean something like NES or Atari, but the series has gone on so long that now he plays early-gen X-box or PS games.
He made his first videos right when YouTube was starting up. They became very popular, and he was one of the biggest channels on the site for a while. He essentially originated the angry review genre and was really influential on gaming videos in general. He even parlayed his internet fame into making a feature movie. Over the years, he’s made other types of video series, but he’s still making the AVGN series that made him famous.
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