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Crystal Quin and Histrionic Personality Disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder
So Crystal Quin is dressing up as Jessica Rabbit in the latest Talking About Tapes aka Hack the Movies. I won’t be watching it.
It’s not even up at the time of me writing this but I did read an interesting comment.
– “Crystal show some dignity and leave now just walk away go home and do something better”
This sums up my view as well. It’s just sad. This is a person deserving of pity.
She recently posted a picture on Instagram where she’s topless and she’s holding a couple of skulls in front of her tits. Loads of horntards replied but I can’t read them because I don’t have an account. I don’t think that I’m missing anything.
On Twitter, she posted a bunch of videos of her and the Screenwave Gang at that fucking wannabe ICP nerd convention. There’s one video where she’s riding in some kind of Munstermobile with Tony from Hack the Movies and a 90 year old Butch Patrick. Who would get in a car with a 90 year old man at the wheel?
But that’s not the point. The point is that Crystal, as usual, is wearing almost nothing. This is what she does. Every outfit I see her in is showing her midriff, it’s low-cut, and/or it’s sleeveless.
Put some clothes on. You don’t look sexy. You look needy, desperate, and mentally ill.
So I got to DuckDuckGo’ing. What is the possible psychological explanation for this behaviour? I’m no SupaPixelGirl but I think that I’ve hit on something with Histrionic Personality Disorder.
Let’s check out Wikipedia dot com.
“People with HPD are usually high-functioning, both socially and professionally.”
Mmmmm…well, I guess that in the psychological sense “high functioning” simply means that somebody is able to live without support. So okay.
“They usually have good social skills despite tending to use them to manipulate others into making them the center of attention”
I question Crystal Quin having good social skills but the rest is clearly accurate.
“HPD may also affect a person’s social and romantic relationships, as well as their ability to cope with losses or failures. They may seek treatment for clinical depression when romantic (or other close personal) relationships end”
I can’t comment on any of that, but Wikipedia says “citation needed” anyway.
“Individuals with HPD often fail to see their own personal situation realistically, instead dramatizing and exaggerating their difficulties.”
I can see that being true but I can’t think of any examples that I’ve observed.
“They may go through frequent job changes, as they become easily bored and may prefer withdrawing from frustration (instead of facing it).”
She does seem to have had several jobs. And even now, what is her job?
“Because they tend to crave novelty and excitement, they may place themselves in risky situations.”
She’s given some examples of this. All of the “road head” that she gets up to, for example. Or the time she was involved in some kind of sex auction.
“All of these factors may lead to greater risk of developing clinical depression”
Yeah, I assume that she’s pretty depressed. How could you not be if this was your life?
Now we get to the rapid fire potential additional characteristics.
– “Exhibitionist behavior”
Absolutely no doubt about this.
– “Constant seeking of reassurance or approval”
Come on. One hundred percent.
– “Excessive sensitivity to criticism or disapproval”
I think that she’s the one who left some crazy comment on here telling me to kill myself just because I mentioned her in passing.
– “Pride of own personality and unwillingness to change, viewing any change as a threat”
I can’t comment on that.
– “Inappropriately seductive appearance or behavior of a sexual nature”
A thousand times yes.
– “Using factitious somatic symptoms (of physical illness) or psychological disorders to garner attention”
I’m not aware of this. This is definitely an Erin Plays thing but Erin doesn’t seem to meet the other characteristics.
– “Craving attention.”
Indeed.
– “Low tolerance for frustration or delayed gratification”
I don’t know.
– “Rapidly shifting emotional states that may appear superficial or exaggerated to others”
Maybe. People do comment about how distracting it is when she makes faces in the videos while other people are talking. And it’s true.
– “Tendency to believe that relationships are more intimate than they actually are”
I don’t know but I wouldn’t be surprised.
– “Making rash decisions”
Probably.
– “Blaming personal failures or disappointments on others”
She has commented more than once about how her mother doesn’t approve of her (whatever that means) and seems to be resentful. There did seem to be an element of blaming her mother for…something. Her unhappy life, I guess.
– “Being easily influenced by others, especially those who treat them approvingly”
Definitely. She’s hanging out with losers like Newt and Tony from Hack the Movies. And it’s just because they enable her with compliments on her appearance.
– “Being overly dramatic and emotional”
Yeah. This goes back to her constantly making faces during these “reviews”. It’s annoying.
– “Influenced by the suggestions of others”
Yeah, again, hanging out with Newt and Tony from Hack the Movies. But moreso Newt. She said something before about how Newt regularly says, “Here, put this on” and then she just does it. Fucking Newt.
And she’s all up in the ass of these ZZZ list horror actors who nobody on earth knows. And fucking Butch Patrick. The guy has to be 90. Let me look this up. He’s 68. But still. Who would get excited over meeting Butch Patrick?
“Some people with histrionic traits or personality disorder change their seduction technique into a more maternal or paternal style as they age”
Interesting. I was wondering how Crystal was possibly going to cope as she gets older and is no longer so smoking hot. I mean…as far as I’m concerned, she’s already there, but clearly, in her mind, she disagrees.
Then they give an interesting mnemonic:
A mnemonic that can be used to remember the characteristics of histrionic personality disorder is shortened as “PRAISE ME”:
- Provocative (or seductive) behavior
- Relationships are considered more intimate than they actually are
- Attention-seeking
- Influenced easily by others or circumstances
- Speech (style) wants to impress; lacks detail
- Emotional lability; shallowness
- Make-up; physical appearance is used to draw attention to self
- Exaggerated emotions; theatrical
This is dead on.
So let’s see what the causes are.
Chemical, genetic, childhood trauma, possible connection with Antisocial Personality Disorder. That doesn’t really get us anywhere. But it’s the treatment that we’re most concerned with.
There are also six sub-types listed here. I would put Crystal in the “theatrical” sub-type.
“Affected, mannered, put-on; postures are striking, eyecatching, graphic; markets self-appearance; is synthesized, stagy; simulates desirable/dramatic poses.”
Finally. Treatment. By the way, earlier in the article, it said that the average age for getting treated is 40. Presumably, because this is around the time when their looks have faded. Crystal can’t be far off from 40.
Interviews. I don’t know. Some kinds of therapy. There doesn’t seem to be any medication.
What’s something that would actually work? I don’t think that trying to convince the patient that they’re not actually attractive would help. That’s what I did in a previous article about Crystal and from the few comments that I’ve seen from her, it seemed that she just viewed me as a “hater”.
No, I think instead of tearing a person like this down, you should build them up. I strive to do that anyway. But particularly with Crystal, it might help to show her the vast world that exists out there beyond her appearance. There are millions of other things that she could take an interest in. And people would still like her.
I mean, frankly, is there anyone who’s only hanging out with Crystal because of her appearance or because she dresses like a prostitute? Fucking Newt and Tony from Hack the Movies? The horntards? Who gives a shit about these people?
Even if it’s true that that’s the only reason that they’re hanging out with her, which I don’t think it is, it’s not worth it. These people are just happy to hang out with any woman. You don’t have to try.
You think if Crystal started putting some clothes on, Tony would say, “I’m sorry. This isn’t working for me. I’m going to start hanging out more with Justin instead.” Tony is just happy to be around a woman.
Newt? Maybe Newt would have an issue with it. Because Newt strikes me as an asshole. But fuck him. The guy worked in a movie theatre as a grown man in his late 30s. This is hardly rural Pennsylvania’s most eligible bachelor.
That’s another thing that I don’t get about this whole situation. Crystal has been doing this for many, many years. She’s been doing these shit little projects of Newt’s that NOBODY watches. These jobs can’t possibly pay anything. Why does she do it?
Same with the “modelling”.
All of these people. Newt, Tony, Kieran, Justin…they’ve been doing these shit projects that nobody watches for many years. Why? How are they possibly supporting themselves with this stuff? Why do they do it? When do they think this stuff is going to become popular?
I’m not talking about Talking About Tapes, although that too, I’m talking about the years of earlier stuff that they’ve done. Mummy Cop. Weird fake commercials where Crystal is wearing a bikini. Bizarre Public Access type shows that Kieran has done.
I don’t know. It’s a hobby, I guess.
Speaking of which, I think it would help if Crystal got a hobby. Give her something to think about other than her appearance. It could be anything. What about photographing the covered bridges of rural Pennsylvania? That would combine some of her interests but in a more healthy direction. She likes photography. She likes rural Pennsylvania. And who doesn’t like covered bridges?
So maybe this diagnosis will help. I’m not a certified mental health practitioner but sometimes it’s helpful to know what’s wrong with you. Know that you’re not alone. And know that your behaviour isn’t healthy. Which it isn’t.
And Tony and Newt should be ashamed of themselves for perpetuating Crystal’s delusions about her appearance and taking advantage of her pathological need to be accepted.
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Top BLOCKBUSTER SNES RENTALS of 1995! – Erin Plays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTeiCKjs51o
This shit again. The reason she does these Blockbuster rental “reviews” is because the first such video she did performed well by her standards. It’s currently at 58,000 views, which is about twice what she normally gets.
But the second time she did one of these Blockbuster “reviews”, the video performed merely average. It’s at 32,000 views at the moment.
I reviewed both videos here:
https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/03/top-blockbuster-nes-rentals-in-1991.html
https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/04/top-blockbuster-nes-rentals-in-1994.html
Here’s what’s happening. When people initially saw this Blockbuster video, just from the title, they thought, “Oh, Erin is trying something new. Let’s check it out.”
Then they watched the video and realise that it was the same old bullshit where she “reviews” games that she played for a few seconds, for the purposes of the video. So they didn’t bother watching the second video.
You don’t get viewer retention by churning out crap. People can only be burned so many times before they move on. Erin needs to learn to put out GOOD CONTENT in order to get people to watch her videos. She can’t seem to figure this out.
The problem is that she’s completely incapable of producing good content. Presumably, she wants to put out good videos. She just can’t. She knows nothing about video games and has no interest in this shit. So this is what you get. It’s a project that’s completely doomed to failure. When is she going to figure this out? Do something else with your life.
0:00 – “The year is 1995 and you already ate your stuffed crust pizza.”
Don’t tell me what I did, Erin. Tell me what YOU were doing in 1995. Was it anything? Were you eating stuffed crust pizza? No, you were eight years old and staring at a wall.
0:15 – “This list was a fun one for me because a lot of these games were a part of my childhood.”
Uh huh. Which ones? I’ll assume that Super Mario World and/or Yoshi’s Island are on the list. If it’s anything else, she’s lying. But let’s find out.
0:30 – Killer Instinct. Before I proceed with the video, Erin has indeed claimed to have owned this game for the SNES. But she never played it. This is one that she admits to never playing. She owned it but never played it.
“The first violent video game I’ve ever played because it came with my Super Nintendo console.”
Yeah. She talked about this in a video she did with John Hancock.
https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/09/video-games-we-played-as-kids-what-did.html
That’s a bizarre video. I encourage everyone to check it out. Any video that Erin does with another person is always fascinating. She always gets exposed as a liar and a fraud.
1:00 – “I’m getting flashbacks to playing Street Fighter 2 on the Game Boy as a kid.”
Uh huh. Why is this the first that we’re hearing about this?
And Erin played Mortal Kombat 11, I think, with Mike and it was absolutely shocking. I can’t find the video now, I wouldn’t be surprised if Mike deleted it, but it was really something.
1:15 – “So I never bothered to wonder about the storyline until now but here it is.”
Then she just reads from Wikipedia. Oh my god. Can this be any lazier?
1:30 – “The game is even enjoyable if you’re someone like me who can not do combos or pull off super cool fatalities.”
Erin has said many times that she didn’t play this game. She didn’t like the game. Why would she? It’s a game for 14 year old boys. But now she’s claiming that she’s all about Killer Instinct.
1:45 – “It’s often referred to as one of the greatest fighting games of all time.”
This sentence probably ended with “citation needed” on Wikipedia. Who considers Killer Instinct to be one of the best fighting games? But of course Erin doesn’t know any better.
2:00 – Power Rangers. “Being a kid during this time was awesome and Kimberly was my hero.”
Why have we never heard about Erin’s love for Power Rangers before? She’s so *nostalgic* for all of these children’s shows from before she was born but we’ve never heard about Power Rangers. But now she’s all about Power Rangers.
“Remember Susie Q on the Disney Channel?”
No. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Why don’t you enlighten us, Erin. Don’t just say, “Hey guys! Remember X?” Actually tell us about it. What was Susie Q? What did you like about it?
3:15 – Judge Dredd. Then it’s over to trusty Wikipedia dot com.
“It’s an action platformer that I have not played until I made this video.”
You don’t say. By the way, I think that the Power Rangers footage was from when Erin played the game for a Youtube video like three years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm1DMUANmbg
4:00 – “Do any of you guys like this game? Let me know in the comments.”
Why? Are you going to play the game on the strength of some horntard saying that he likes it? She doesn’t play games in her spare time. Why the constant lies?
Then it’s NBA Jam: Tournament Edition. Wikipedia dot com.
She refers to “wonderfully dated catch phrases” and “razzle dazzle” appears on screen along with the synthesised voice of Dick Vitale or somebody. But no, people weren’t saying “razzle dazzle” in “the 90s”.
Then she shows about two seconds of the commercial (maybe not even that long) to illustrate how “1995” it is. I have no idea what’s so “1995” about that two second portion of the commercial.
4:30 – Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2. Is she going to check out Wikipedia? She is indeed.
5:30 – She claims to have owned Donkey Kong Country 2 as a child. Uh huh.
Is she going to talk about how she liked Dixie Kong? Oh. I didn’t have to wait long. Yes, she did indeed enjoy playing as Dixie Kong and whipping her hair around. Cute.
6:30 – “1995. That was a really good year, wasn’t it?”
You tell us, Erin. What did you like about the year 1995? Are you able to say anything remotely interesting AT ALL?
“Or maybe that’s just my *nostalgia* glasses talking.”
I’m ten years older than Erin so the arithmetic is always easy to do. You know what I remember about the year 1985? Not a single thing. I was seven years old. What grade are you in then? Second?
Let me think….second grade. I mean, I remember stuff about school. Going to school. I remember what teacher I had. I have maybe three memories of that year in school.
I was taught by a nun. I stole a little plastic three-legged donkey from her class and I felt really bad about it. The fourth leg had broken off. It was just a little toy. It was like clear, red plastic.
Is this the woman who said that you should be happy when people die? Yeah, it must have been because I remember my grandfather died, it was around this time, and I couldn’t understand why everybody was crying when the news broke.
What this woman said is true from a theological basis. If you genuinely believe that when you die, your soul goes to heaven and there are dancing girls and whatever then you should be happy when people die. These people are living it up now. Life on earth is full of suffering but life in heaven is pretty sweet.
The reason that people aren’t happy when somebody dies is because they don’t actually believe any of that. It’s just something that they say to try to feel better. “He’s in a better place” and whatnot but they don’t actually believe it.
She also gave away her classroom possessions at the end of the year. I think that she was retiring and she didn’t have anyone to give the stuff away to because she was a nun. No family. So I got a duck-shaped…what do you call it…a pot to put plants in. It was like an Easter duck. And yeah, my parents used it to put some plants in. It might still be somewhere with a plant in it.
Oh, this woman also told a story about how she was once working in an office and then she heard God call her name so she got up and moved somewhere and a few seconds later, a giant light fell from the ceiling and had she still been sitting there, she would have been hit and possibly killed, I guess. Maybe just badly hurt. Perhaps this is what made her become a nun.
Other than these things, I don’t remember anything about 1985. I don’t remember what was happening in the broader culture. I don’t remember anything about video games. I don’t know if I was even playing video games. Maybe Atari 2600 but it wasn’t a big interest of mine.
I don’t remember anything about Ronald Reagan at all. I don’t remember watching any tv shows. I don’t remember seeing any movies. I wasn’t listening to any music. I don’t remember doing anything with friends that I can pinpoint happened in 1985. I don’t remember any of the toys.
So yeah. 1985 was a great year. I guess. The only thing I remember are stories that my second grade teacher told me.
Presumably 1995 is similar for Erin. Why the lies? Why the fake *nostalgia*? Why the shitty videos? This was another absolute zero effort video from Erin.
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ONLY FANS – This Makes Me Angry… – Lady Decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L26UyHP17sc
She’s complaining about people who ask her to start an OnlyFans. Really? THIS woman? She’s like 40 years old.
I suppose that there’s a market for this. This is a British Indian woman, I think. In India, they call MILFs “aunties”.
She can’t understand why people ask her to do an OnlyFans and compares it to asking a person off the street if they’d consider being a prostitute. What doesn’t she get? These people are mentally retarded and have really poor social skills. They don’t know any better.
2:30 – “What makes you think that it’s okay to approach a creator and go, ‘Oh, I like the way she looks. I wonder what her pussy looks like’”?
It’s fucking hilarious. The whole video is gold so far. I haven’t time stamped anything but the whole thing is worth a watch.
2:45 – She says that she won’t make much money on OnlyFans because she’s 32 years old. Wow. I was off in my estimate.
4:30 – She complains about people leaving comments saying that she’s showing cleavage. Or something. I’m surprised that the horntards would take that position. Maybe these are the horntards who have found Jesus.
6:15 – Oh, apparently it was just one comment. Some guy said that his 15 year old son was traumatised by her outfit or something.
7:45 – She complains about people who say that she’s only doing well on Youtube because she’s female.
I’ve gone over this before. There are loads of women in retro “gaming” on Youtube who aren’t doing well. Retro Ali is doing terribly. In fact, none of the women who I cover are doing well. Lady Decade isn’t doing well.
Then there are the unknown thousands of female retro “gaming” “Youtubers” who are doing even worse than these people.
I suppose that it’s all relative. For some people, getting a 1000 subscribers is good. And I have no doubt that being a woman helps with subscriber numbers. But you can’t coast on this. You can’t expect millions of subscribers just because you’re a woman. This is the mistake that Erin made.
9:00 – She shouts out TopHatGaming. I think that this is her husband. He’s a giant douche. I watched about two seconds of one of his videos. He’s some gay man in a top hat doing a stereotypical upper class Englishman gimmick.
I remember telling my girlfriend how disappointed I was when I first arrived in London because I expected to see people to be in three piece suits and monocles and whatnot. And effectively, I expected to see a lot more white people. Instead the reality is that you’ll see people from every nation on earth EXCEPT for England.
She said, “You were just born too late.”
Anyway, Lady Decade here confirms what I said and gives a breakdown of why her recent videos are doing better than her older videos.
Then she promotes her discord and talks about positivity.
She says that she was scanning her comments looking for “negative” comments and realise that there aren’t many such comments. Most of her comments are “positive”.
Yeah. So it’s a bit weird that she raged over this.
Erin leaves a comment:
– “I’m not completely done with your video yet, but I gotta say that LOVE what you’re saying about Only Fans so far. I finally added “only fans” to my blocked words a while back because I was simply tired of hearing about it. You make such great points about why it’s inappropriate to ask women to make one. The internet is a shit show. Also, congrats on all of your success! You’re killing it!”
Erin couldn’t even finish the fucking video. It’s true. The video kind of lost its steam when she started talking about that one guy complaining about her clothes. But why advertise that? “I didn’t even watch your entire video!”
And yeah, it’s weird as fuck that people ask Erin to do this as well. But these people are legitimately mentally retarded. You can’t expect too much.
– “As a gamer mom of 4 children, I agree with every single point you made Lady Decade. This mean-spiritedness needs to stop. Also, from my experience, People have asked Me to make an OnlyFans & I’ve told them to piss off each & every time they’ve asked! I do watch Xev Bellringer but I have no interest whatsoever in starting an OnlyFans. I have 4 little ones & they don’t need to see their Mother touch herself in the privates!”
What an insane comment. THIS woman procreated.
And I assumed that Xev Bellringer was a woman who makes videos about video games and also is on OnlyFans. No. I looked it up. She’s just a straight up hardcore porn star. So what does she have to do with anything? And why is this woman watching these videos?
Anyway, I’ll put Lady Decade in the “maybe” pile in terms of gamer grrls who I should cover. I remember her videos being boring and her accent being really, really annoying. But she seems a sensible woman, which is actually a strike against her for these purposes.
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The Rocketeer (NES & SNES) – Angry Video Game Nerd – Cinemassacre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghAbmH7To-w
0:00 – “If you like hearing me talk, talk, talk all of the time, check out the Cinemassacre Podcast every Tuesday.”
Umm…I don’t like that and you don’t do that. Also, I just realised how poorly named this podcast is. How many seconds did it take to come up with “Cinemassacre Podcast”?
“People normally know me as the AVGN but today I’m the AVPN”
So…he’s The Angry Virtual Private Network? Well, okay. Doesn’t make much sense but it’s not for me to name the man. So let’s go with it.
1:30 – Adult doll face for The Angry Virtual Private Network. How embarrassing to have to do this. “Make a face like you’re about to suck on a big juicy penis. That’s it. Hot stuff. You’re doing great.”
“You ever have to take a shit so bad, you twisted your ankle?”
No. This is the first thing that was said. I came in here with an open mind. I never assume that the videos are going to be bad. Any video. But my mind is now closed. This is going to be another complete piece of shit.
Kieran…simply saying “poop” is not funny. Build up to it. Make it the setup to an actual joke. Don’t just say “poop” and then random words. That’s not funny. You must know this.
“I suppose I should explain that. It’s when you’re holding it in for so long, the shit’s pressing against your sacrum and to counteract it, you push your hips out, turn your leg in this awkward position, and it feels like you’re getting fisted in the ass, instead you’re getting fisted out the ass, and it’s a fist full of shit but there’s no fist.”
Oh. I see. No, that’s never happened to me, Angry Virtual Private Network. Is this a setup for the problem with his foot? If it’s not, you can be sure that the boys on Reddit will jump on this. Get ready for a dozen homoerotic “memes” about this.
1:45 – Then he just hammers a game…and I don’t know why. He’s already played the game? That’s not how this normally works, is it? Something is wrong about this.
2:00 – “Oh, damn. The REview already began and I already broke the game.”
Yeah. Well, let’s just end the video here. The Rocketeer for the NES. It’s not very good. That’s fine. I’m happy with that. We don’t need another 16 minutes of poop non-jokes.
2:15 – Then he talks about his shirt with all the buttons on it. And he’s defensive about it. There are a lot of buttons. It looks stupid. Like he’s in the navy.
Then he says, “Some say I should go back to the old shirt. Okay” and in the next scene, it’s him wearing a dirty shirt.
No…Angry Virtual Private Network…you misunderstood. People with autism often have these issues with language. You don’t have to wear literally the same shirt. Just wear a similar shirt. A shirt that doesn’t have 20 buttons on it. They’re out there. There are loads of plain, short-sleeved, white shirts. You can go to Walmart or whatever and get them 2 for $10 or whatever. They’re not expensive.
Then he says that he’s wearing the same underwear and he gets his old glasses too. He’s really annoyed by these Reddit comments.
3:15 – Then a poorly-animated leprechaun appears. No reason. No setup. There’s just suddenly a leprechaun.
“It’s that magic leprechaun who always puts my games back together.”
Oh. I get it.
I don’t want to comment on every “joke” but this is just really bad. I can do the same thing with just about any sitcom. “This joke is bad, this joke is bad, this joke is bad.” So maybe my standards are just too high. Nevertheless, this is not funny.
4:00 – Howard Hughes reference. The irony. Both Howard Hughes and The Angry Virtual Private Network were hermits who were petrified of disease and collected jars of their own urine.
6:15 – There are “doors” in the background that Kieran claims are open and then The Angry Virtual Private Network says, “What’s supposed to be on the other side? A bathroom? A closet? People banging in an alley?”
Why would it be that last one? Just an insight into Kieran’s fetishes, I guess.
7:30 – The Angry Virtual Private Network is doing some more of that delightful fake anger that we all love. He’s a real thespian.
10:30 – The Angry Virtual Private Network goes on a weird rant about how the NES library is full of bad games and that the NES “sucked”. You expect he’s going to go somewhere with this but…no. Then he moves on the SNES version of this game.
He plays the first level, it seems okay to me, and then he does some more bad emoting and screams “What were they thinking?”
Also, I think that once you get past this first level, the game is quite different. Yeah. I looked it up. The game is divided into different minigames, sort of. It doesn’t look good but these kind of games are never good.
12:00 – “You’re forced to go in an endless circle like a dog chasing a turd stuck to its anus.”
Oh. More poop “jokes”. That’s funny. Good stuff, Kieran.
13:45 – A picture of a demon from Doom on the toilet.
Yeah. This is really amusing.
16:45 – The Angry Virtual Private Network straps these two games to a couple of bottles of beer and this…somehow turns it into a rocket? Okay, Kieran.
Then it’s just green screen trash.
Then he ends with a reference to his shirt. He made numerous references to his shirt throughout this episode. This is the only thing that he was genuinely angry about.
So…this was poor. Kieran did another lousy job.
But I don’t know. I’m not an easy guy to amuse.
I had a teacher in middle school who would tell jokes on a regular basis. And one day he said, “I often come in and tell a joke and everyone laughs but (GamerGrrls) never does.”
He was right. Everyone did laugh, but I didn’t. He wasn’t funny. And I lacked the socialisation to know that you’re supposed to pretend to laugh even if something isn’t funny.
I went to a comedy show a couple of years ago. There were like 150 people. It was stadium seating. Just one comedian. He was semi-famous, I guess.
So he’s telling his jokes, it’s the usual stuff about intercourse and relationships and whatnot, and people are laughing. There were some fat single women behind me who were really guffawing. I think that they were intentionally being over the top because they wanted to get this guy’s attention.
But I was just sitting there stone-faced and not understanding why people are laughing. This shit isn’t funny. I’ve seen this crowd interaction a million times. “Oh, this is your girlfriend? You’re really punching above your weight there, fella!”. That’s hacky as fuck.
Then the guy made extended eye contact with me. He’s telling these shit jokes, I’m not laughing, and he’s looking right at me. So I started pretending to laugh at his jokes and then he stopped staring at me. I didn’t want him to call me out like that teacher did.
So maybe I’m not a good critic on what is and what isn’t good comedy. Maybe I’m too harsh. Maybe my standards are too high. Maybe there are people out there laughing at that dog chasing his anus joke.
But what’s the solution? I can’t say, “Well, if you’re really simple minded, you might find this episode to be pretty good.” I can only say what I like. And I didn’t like this episode of The Angry Virtual Private Network. Not one bit.
Let’s see what the boys on Reddit have to say. “No time”, I bet. Hehe. “No time.” That’s funny, right? I better pretend to laugh at that if I want to fit in.
Somebody mentions that they thought that the bit where The Angry Virtual Private Network tossed The Rocketeer across the pit was funny. That’s true. That was the one kind of funny thing in the video.
A lot of people are saying that the episode was good. One guy says it’s the best this year. Others say that it’s mediocre. Others say that it’s kind of boring.
I don’t know. For a Screenwave episode…4/10, I guess. I mean, there was nothing good about it and it was pretty boring but…it wasn’t too objectionable. Should that be the test, though? As long as something isn’t too objectionable, it’s a 4/10?
Most of the people on Reddit seemed to have liked it. So…whatever. It takes all kinds.
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Family Matters, Season 6, Episode 15, "The Gun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrnGMA-C-Q
I was going to do a review about the Family Matters gun episode. I found out that there’s an episode of Family Matters wherein Laura gets a gun pulled on her by a female bully so then considers buying a gun to protect herself. Then a friend of hers gets shot during an attempted shoe robbery.
At the end of the episode, Urkel does a rap at school during some gun amnesty and encourages his fellow students to drop off their guns. Carl is there in his role as a police officer.
I haven’t actually seen the episode. This is just what I’ve pieced together through clips. I tried downloading the episode but it was mis-labelled and I’m not going to download the entire torrent of every episode of Family Matters just for this shit.
But yeah, this is what Kieran was talking about in episode 2 of the Cinemassacre podcast when he referred to episodes of sitcoms where they encourage you to “turn your guns in.”
Yeah, it’s hokey and it’s ridiculous and poorly written but this is a show for children. And how can Kieran possibly disagree with the basic message? Does he think it’s appropriate for teenagers to bring guns to school?
This episode aired three or four years before the Columbine shootings. It was 1995. Violence in schools was becoming an increasing problem in America.
Gang violence was perhaps at its peak. I remember going to some kind of an “assembly”…is that what they were called…it was a talk in the school auditorium. It was about gang violence. This was probably in 1994 or 1995. And they had police officers encouraging us not to get involved in street gangs. They gave some grisly examples of stuff that they’ve seen. Murder scenes and whatnot. Scared straight shit.
And then he said, “If you want to join a real gang, join our gang.” That stuck with me. Here’s a fucking police officer comparing his profession to a violent youth street gang. This is how he sees himself. It was a Mexican guy, by the way. Our school had a fairly large Mexican population and most of the gang activity was Mexican gangs.
I grew up in a fairly impoverished, urban area but I don’t remember anything particularly bad happening in school. There were fights and whatnot but no weapons.
People were tougher back then. It seems like Columbine was the catalyst for the pussification of American society. Some kids get picked on so they shoot up the school. That didn’t happen in my day. If somebody was fucking with you, you punched them in the face. There were no guns involved.
And there wasn’t this whole “bully” mentality. That’s become a big thing in the past 20 years or so. Even grown adults will talk about being “bullied”. “Bullied” at work, for example.
Nobody fucking bullies me. I’m an adult. Nobody is knocking me down on the playground. What is this shit?
But after Columbine, people became hyper sensitive to “bullying” because they were afraid that somebody else would shoot the school up. And this all lead to safe spaces and transgendered students and whatnot.
For example, I think that gym class is largely optional now. If you don’t want to do it, you don’t have to.
When I was a kid, not only was gym mandatory but there were also mandatory communal showers. How crazy is this? No stalls, nothing like this. Just like five shower heads in one open room. And there would be a teacher watching to make sure that everyone takes a shower.
I heard that shortly after I graduated, they stopped that shit. Not only were showers not required, you couldn’t take a shower.
I once read that up until the late 70s or so, it was mandatory for men to swim naked at the YMCA. It was considered unhygienic to swim with trunks on. This is probably why the YMCA was a big homosexual hangout.
Anyway, nobody cried about anything or got lawyers involved or any of this shit. You just got on with it.
The most fun I had in gym was thinking of ways to get out of playing the games. Like in baseball, you have the batting lineup. I would just constantly let people go in front of me. We must have played baseball 50 times and I only batted once. Some asshole on the other team finally complained about me letting people go ahead of me so I had to bat. I got a base hit.
Dodgeball was another good one. I was able to dodge the ball well enough but I never attempted to catch the ball and I hated being the last one left because then the game just goes on forever with people throwing balls at you from both sides. So I would find an opportune moment to go the “captured” section. Somebody on my team would be hit, or maybe even two people, there would be some commotion, and I would sneakily make my way to the “captured” section. Why would the other team complain? Very occasionally somebody on the other team would complain but why? I’m giving up. They were just assholes. But I didn’t make an issue of it. I didn’t complain about “bullying”.
Also great is just “forgetting” to bring your gym clothes. Then you can just mess about on the bleachers with the stoner kids who also didn’t like gym class.
Anyway, nobody had to have their parents write a note to the teacher excusing us from class or complaining about feelings being hurt or any of this shit. You’d be a fucking laughing stock if you did that. We took the initiative ourselves.
I was reading something about how it’s normal now for parents to bring their children to college/university for their first day. Are you fucking kidding? To college? As an 18 year old? NOBODY did that when I was in college.
This is what people are like now. Giant pussies. It’s a generation that’s been completely coddled and told that everything that they do and think is right. And as a result, they can’t do anything like a normal adult. Youtube participation trophies for all of the gamer grrls. Yeah, your videos are all shit but at least you tried. Maybe you didn’t even try. But you did something. Don’t worry about getting a job like a normal adult.
Anyway, Kieran and his love for firearms…pretty weird. But there was actually a Family Matters episode about this. He wasn’t just making this up.
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Worst Gaming Nightmares, Art School, and Urkel’s Weed – Cinemassacre Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjXNGjLWE3o
I’m late on this so let’s see what the boys on Reddit have to say first.
“No watch. I refuse.”
Oh. I get it. Like that thing that James said that one time. This is the top comment. And numerous people reply along the lines of, “I didn’t watch it either” and they also get many upvotes.
Hey, friends of Dorothy, if you don’t want to watch it, don’t watch it. But don’t clutter up the thread with these shit replies. And this dog shit gets voted to the top. These people are morons.
I’m not doing “reviews” of shit that I don’t watch. I’m not writing an article saying, “Here’s Pelvic Gamer’s latest piece of shit. I didn’t watch it. Enjoy the rest of your day.” That’s a waste of people’s time. Hehe. “No time”. Get it? Like that thing that James says.
It’s the same fucking three “memes” over and over and over again by these camp gentlemen. And homoerotic pictures of Justin’s face on some gay porn star’s body and the like. Or pictures of somebody’s penis. Then when you say, “Umm…this is a little gay, isn’t it?” you get downvoted, attacked, and/or banned. WHAT CAN BE MORE GAY THAN PHOTOSHOPPING A MAN’S FACE ON A GAY PORN STAR’S BODY? OR POSTING PICTURES OF AN ERECT PENIS?
Anyway, let’s just assume that those boys didn’t much care for the video. I don’t want to read any more “meme” replies.
0:45 – They changed the intro. Previously, they said that this was a mix of Rental Reviews, James & Mike Monday (sic), and an AVGN panel. Now it’s just a mix of Rental Reviews and an AVGN panel. They removed James & Mike Monday (sic).
Do you suppose they got rid of that because the guy said “Monday” as opposed to “Mondays”? Why didn’t they catch when the guy recorded these? Or if it’s his mistake, why didn’t they have him record a corrected version? Or forget about apportioning blame, why didn’t they just pay him to do it again, properly this time?
Or maybe they removed the reference to James & Mike Mondays because Mike complained. I can see why he would complain. They’re using his name to promote the show and they’re presumably not paying him and he’s not even with the company any more.
1:00 – James does an awkward introduction, “This is the in-person podcast with Cinemassacre.” Then he nods. Looks uncomfortable. Justin or Kieran laughs nervously. Then Jusin and Kieran give awkward introductions. “I’m Justin” and “I’m Kieran”.
This is so bad. James really has to go. I mean…let’s just move on. Maybe it gets better. Maybe James miraculously learns how to have a conversation like a normal person.
1:30 – So we’re starting with Whatcha Doing.
See, here’s why this doesn’t make any sense. They did “Whatcha Doing” and all of these “segments” the last episode. But they recorded this episode immediately after the first episode. This was all done on the same day. So…in the first episode, we got to hear about what everybody was doing over the past year and a half. Now they’re going to talk about what they’ve been doing since 15 minutes ago when they recorded the previous episode? So James is going to talk about how he urinated?
Wait…what? Then it immediately becomes “Whatcha Watching”. And what James has been watching is Monster Madness movies…fuck.
He only talks about that for a few seconds and then he moves on to stuff that he watches “for leisure.” Nothing interesting. It’s horror shit. I’m an adult.
Kieran is watching some sketch comedy shit.
7:00 – Then Justin just talks about alcohol. So we’re on to “Whatcha Drinking”, I guess. What happened to Whatcha Watching? Justin wasn’t watching anything, I guess.
And…I mean…is alcohol talk interesting to anyone? I know that people make videos on Youtube where they review different beers and the like but it’s always the same. “It tastes malty”. “It tastes hoppy”. “It tastes grainy”. I don’t know what any of this means and I don’t care. Even good beer tastes like shit. I don’t understand these alcoholics who can appreciate the taste.
So Justin went to some “barcade” and they had River Horse on tap. What am I supposed to do with this information? This is a beer only available in select taverns in the New Jersey area. I’m supposed to go to New Jersey for this?
And how is this beer any different from the thousands of beers brewed across the world? I notice no difference. I’ve drank a fair number of beers, different beers, American beers, British beers, German beers, whatever. They’re all the same. I’ve never found one and said, “Wow. This is really delicious. I’m going to have to remember this one.” They all taste about the same. Terrible.
Kieran prefers IPAs. You know what they taste like? Shit.
James prefers Hofbrauhaus. It tastes like shit.
Jimmy went to Oktoberfest with his wife years ago and tried to correct the German pronunciation of the big-titted waitress. You know what every beer at Oktoberfest tastes like? Shit.
Nobody would drink this stuff if there wasn’t alcohol in it. That should be the test. If you just want to get drunk, drink whatever. Drink the stuff with the highest alcohol content. This isn’t challenging stuff.
Why pretend that any of this tastes good?
9:00 – Justin explains that IPAs were made to last long journeys to India and Jimmy doesn’t understand what Justin is talking about. Jimmy doesn’t understand that Justin is talking about shipping stuff by boat from the UK to India way back in the day. So Jimmy says, “To ship stuff now, it’s nothing.”
Yeah. We know, Jimmy. We know about aviation. We also know about faster ships. But we’re talking about those olde tyme clipper ships that had all of the sails and whatnot. Maybe they had steamships at some point during this era. But it took a long time. Months.
Kieran says that IPAs have a “pine” essence and Justin calls him out for using these alcohol sampling terms but Justin himself used these terms. Justin talked about how they’re “hoppy”. What does any of this mean? Nobody knows. It’s all just different terms for “shit”.
Kieran talks about Stone Cold Steve Austin for like the 10th time in this episode. What’s the point? We get it. You like wrestling from when you were…8 years old? Something? But do you have to bring The Rattlesnake up into every discussion? James has no idea who this is.
11:00 – We’re on to the “Main Topic” which is Worst Gaming Nightmares. Ugh. Well, let’s hear them out.
Jimmy was playing Final Fantasy III as a kid and the game glitched and his save file was lost. Well, okay. Have you played any games in the past 30 years?
What? And he was so pissed off at this that he ran out of his house, went into the woods, and was hitting trees with a tree branch and screaming. Yeah. And then people will say, “He was only in special education because he had ADHD.” Ummm…no. People don’t go to special education for that now or in “the 90s”. James has real problems.
16:00 – James is bamboozled by memory cards. I can’t even get into this. He says something like, “Insert memory card? Games need memory cards now? When did that all happen?”
Playstation, Jimmy. The first Playstation. 1994. It’s not challenging stuff. You keep the memory card in there.
It’s just unbelievable. I was not into consoles at all. At any stage. But I had a Playstation, Playstation 2, Dreamcast, and a Gamecube. I know how the memory cards work. How is it possible that all of this has passed Jimmy by? Because he stopped playing games in 1993. Final Fantasy III for the SNES was the last game that he played.
I’m a bit older than Jimmy and I have very little experience with console video games. How is it possible that James Rolfe is more out of touch with video games than I am? We’re talking about the ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD. He doesn’t know shit about video games.
19:00 – Now there’s going to be a 15 minute discussion about Jimmy’s confusion about Adobe…something…some editing software and their auto save feature. Yeah. We’re all about editing software. That’s what everybody cares about. This niche bullshit.
I’m reminded of that recent video that Jimmy did with Mike where they played Contra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpMt0YFSEgc
At some point, early in the video, Jimmy says that he doesn’t think that some game works. They’re using an EverDrive and scrolling through the games. Jimmy says that he tried one particular game on his EverDrive and it doesn’t work.
So Mike says that it’s probably just a corrupted rom (he doesn’t use this term, he keeps it simple for Jimmy) and that he’ll help Jimmy out. He’ll re-do the roms for Jimmy.
This is such a ridiculously easy thing to resolve and fix. But Jimmy is way out of his element. Video games. Of course there’s not a game that doesn’t work. This is the fucking SNES. There’s 100% compatibility with emulators or whatever you consider an EverDrive to be and this has been the case for at least 20 years.
But yeah, sometimes you get a bad rom. I don’t know why. It happens rarely. So you download another one. This isn’t hard. But Jimmy needs somebody to do this for him. Because he has absolutely no experience with video game emulation.
It’s like I’m talking about Erin.
Wow. This is one boring as fuck conversation. They’re talking about old editing software for Macs. What’s the audience for this? Ten people? Five?
I can’t believe that this is still going on. Speaking of editing, this whole “segment” should have been edited out. This is fucking awful.
No. I can’t do this. Come on. Talking about holding down the shift key and editing stuff from green screen? What? I have NO IDEA what they’re talking about. I don’t use editing software. Don’t they realise that very few people use editing software? This is brutal. I’m skipping to the next time stamp. Fortunately, they time stamp shit.
32:15 – Next segment is “Something Else”. What happened to “Whatcha Whatever”? And holy shit. They titled this “Something Else”. There’s actually a graphic that says “Something Else”. How many seconds did it take to come up with this segment title?
It’s about Snoop Dogg and Jaleel “Urkel” White starting a marijuana business. What do I care about out of touch old Jimmy’s opinions on this? Well, I suppose that Snoop Dogg and Jaleel White are two people who were most popular in “the 90s”.
Also, Jimmy does cite Family Matters as one of his favourite shows. This is another indication that he belonged in special education. This was a children’s show. A horrendous children’s show. I didn’t laugh fucking once. I can’t imagine ANYONE laughing at this shit.
Let me find a “best of” Family Matters compilation to refresh my memory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zmoGcVndP8
Urkel as Stefan. Urkel as a nun. Time traveling Urkel.
You know, Stefan wasn’t even a cool guy. He’s still fucking awkward-looking Jaleel White. How did people fall for this?
2:15 – Ummm…Urkel is going to rape a chained up Laura Windslow. I’m not even joking. That’s what’s clearly being implied.
Oh yeah. Myra. The girl who liked Urkel. I forgot about her. She was hot. She died years ago.
3:15 – Urkel is dancing with a passed out Myra. Umm…I didn’t remember the show being so dark. But it’s definitely not funny. I mean, he’s dancing with an incapacitated woman. This is some Cosby shit.
Urkel doing a Honey, I Shrunk the Kids rip off.
Urkel in the shower…he catches Laura naked.
Urkel as Stefan again. And he still has a nasally voice. Come on. Why would Laura suddenly be into him? Just because he doesn’t have glasses?
Urkel breaking stuff. Yeah, this is enough. It wasn’t funny.
So back to the video.
32:30 – Jimmy says that Family Matters was his favourite show as a kid. Yeah. Holy shit. And then he says that to this day, it’s his favourite sitcom. He compares Urkel to “the Nerd”. I don’t even want to think about this. Let’s just move on.
34:30 – Justin says, “Wait…so he (Urkel) has a stream of weed?”
What a square. I mean a cube, man.
Then Jimmy calls it a “strand of weed”.
Dude. Come on. I’m not fucking Cheech Marin but I know that the word that these nerds are looking for is “strain”.
35:00 –
Jimmy: Those shows back then were always telling you not to do drugs and stuff like that.
Kieran: Yeah, and turn your guns in too.
There was a moment of awkward silence after this. What fucking episode of any show had a “turn your guns in” message? What the fuck is he talking about?
And it’s really telling that Kieran finds that message so offensive. Urkel isn’t going to take your guns away, Kieran. Your guns are safe. Please continue to collect guns, you crazy gun nut.
Let me look this up. Was there really some kind of “turn your guns in” episode of a sitcom?
Maybe All in the Family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDb0Dn8OXE
I’m not seeing anything else. Show me the episode of Perfect Strangers where Balki turns his arsenal of weapons into the police. I don’t remember that one.
35:30 – Jimmy teases a talk about bad weed trips that he’s had. It’s also in his book, he says. I can’t wait for that book.
37:00 – Justin tells a story about a time when somebody gave him a brownie, not realising that it had weed in it. Who the fuck was trying to Cosby Justin? That’s fucked up. And joking aside, only a complete scumbag laces shit with drugs and then gives it to people as a “joke”.
37:45 – This is the Conan O’Brien “segment”. It doesn’t go anywhere.
41:15 – This next segment is about video games that Jimmy can’t remember the title of. Come on. Time is ticking away here. Can we wrap it up?
If they were saying anything remotely interesting, that would be one thing. But this is awful.
45:15 – Fan Q&A segment. Should I keep putting “segment” in quotes? I mean, these are segments. I guess. No need to be patronising about it.
First “question” is about what Jimmy thinks about the writer’s idea of a TMNT III/Bill & Ted crossover movie. Who gives a fuck?
47:15 – Shout out to Robbie Rist. Cousin Oliver himself.
Fuck. This is boring. Why am I doing this? I’ve got stuff to do.
49:30 – “Do you think that movie theatres will be phased out like arcades have become?” Or something. Who cares? Well, who cares what these people’s opinion is anyway.
51:30 – Jimmy says that he prefers watching videos from home because…that’s what he does. He’s a hermit. People carry diseases.
Also, he likes to pause. Being able to pause is a “luxury”. “I drink coffee so I have to piss.” Yeah. It always goes back to the toilet with Jimmy. His one true passion.
55:45 – Top Gun…remake or sequel or something. I don’t care. I have to skip this.
59:15 – Rocky IV remake…I’ll try to get through this. It’s the last segment.
I can’t. There are only two minutes left but Jimmy is talking about the music in Rocky IV now. I’m done.
So that’s episode two. Umm…constructive criticism…I don’t know. I was thinking that I don’t want to hear about shit from 30 years ago but…that’s kind of his thing. And they did talk about modern stuff too and I wasn’t interested in that either.
So I don’t have any answers. It’s just bad.
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Playing DOOM Eternal (Xbox One) – Erin Plays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geILc-mUhmY
So this is two and a half hours of Erin playing Doom Eternal, on stream, for money.
She originally discussed wanting to do this way back in April 2020. These were the first blog posts that I made, I think.
https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/04/original-doom-practice-stream-okay-let.html
https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/04/doom-1-gzdoom-practice-stream-erin.html
https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/04/playing-some-original-doom-erin-plays.html
She played the original Doom (a modded version) in an effort to “get good” and “graduate” to Doom Eternal. But she never managed that. She was really, really, unbelievably bad at Doom. She also made the remarkable confession that this was the first time that she ever played a game “with mouse and keyboard” before.
Two and a half hours…well, let’s see how it goes. If it’s good, I’ll do a multi-part series. If it’s bad, I’ll quit after ten minutes. If it’s somewhere in the middle, I’ll skip around the video looking for anything worth talking about.
0:15 – “I played this when it first came out and it’s like one of the only modern games that I’ve really….enjoyed.”
I thought that she was going to say “played”. And she probably was. But no. She caught herself. It’s one of the only modern games that she’s enjoyed. Because she’s all about retro games. That’s “where her hearts is.” She only plays games on stream, for money, in case anyone is new here.
“It’s been about a year since I’ve played it.”
Yeah. Over a year. I mentioned the Doom streams that she was doing. This was all just to prepare her for Doom Eternal. She might have played it briefly, on stream, for money with Mike. I don’t remember.
Then she says that she probably won’t be very good at the game and she implies that it’s because she hasn’t played the game in over a year.
First of all, if she has played this game, it was very, very briefly. And on stream, for money. So of course she’s not going to be good at the game.
Secondly, she has very little experience with video games AT ALL. That’s why she’s bad at every game that she plays. It’s not unique to Doom Eternal.
Thirdly, if you want to get better at games ACTUALLY START PLAYING VIDEO GAMES IN YOUR SPARE TIME.
0:30 – She has a poll for the horntards to decide which “blind bag” she should open. This is…stupid. So she’s only going to open one of them? What is she going to do with the other one? Wipe her ass with it?
The options are a cute banana bag or a Sailor Moon bag. I just don’t get what she’s doing here. Open both of them. What the fuck? What kind of idiotic chat interaction is this?
And who cares anyway? What do I care what’s in this bag?
Then there’s an edit. Let’s see what she’s hiding.
She’s talking to the chat. Somebody says something that they’ve done. Erin says, “That’s cool”. That’s her usual response.
Some horntard says that he liked part 2 of her Castlevania 64 video. Erin says, “It’s probably the most detailed review that I’ve done.” Really. I’ve noticed no difference between that video and her other boring as fuck videos. In fact, that video was more boring than is typical for Erin. I barely got through it.
That’s it. Why bother editing this out? Why go to the effort?
1:45 – She lacks the strength to open the bag so gets scissors. Another edit.
She gets the scissors, greets the horntards, and then says that she never streamed Doom Eternal but has played it in her spare time. I’ll bet. For how many minutes?
2:00 – She bungles the unbagging badly. She’s holding the bag to the camera, she’s cut it open, she’s about to pull the thing out of the bag, then for whatever reason, she gets tripped up and drops her hands. So we can’t see what was in the fucking bag. We missed the great reveal.
Anyway, it’s Sailor Mars. Erin says, “She’s cute”. Great stuff, Erin.
But now I’m curious about that banana bag. What’s inside? Some kind of cute anthropomorphic banana, I’d imagine, but what is he or she doing? Or wearing?
2:30 – “Maybe later we’ll open this one: banana cat.”
Oh. Now THIS is going to make me watch the full two and a half hours. It’s a banana cat. I didn’t catch that the first time.
Okay, so I’ve DuckDuckGo’d this now. They’re keychains depicting semi-peeled bananas with a Japanese anime type cat face on them. If you follow. The tagline is “the cat who lives in a banana.” There seem to be four possibilities but they all look the same to me. Maybe that’s racist. I’m being racist to Japanese anime cat bananas.
Then there’s another edit.
Some horntard gave her money and said that she’s his third favourite streamer. She makes a face at this and says, “At least I’m in the top ten.”
What an ego. Erin, who makes complete dog shit streams, thinks that she’s deserving to be people’s favourite streamer.
He also says that she’s the most beautiful streamer and she says, “I don’t know about that but thank you for being honest…about the favourite streamer part.” She’s still annoyed that the guy said that she’s his third favourite streamer.
Then other horntards say that she’s their favourite streamer.
She says that this isn’t on the “new X-Box”. “What’s it called? I always forget what it’s called.”
Yet another example of Erin “always” “forgetting” something related to video games.
Now we’re back to the Youtube version.
3:15 – Wow. This is bad. She’s at the beginning of the game and she’ll look at an enemy, line him up, take another second to make sure that he’s in her sights, and then shoot.
Also, why is she playing this on a console? Everyone knows that first person shooters are better played “with mouse and keyboard.” I don’t even know how these games work on consoles. I’ve never played a first person shooter on a console. But my understanding is there’s some kind of aimbot that assists you. That’s probably why she’s playing a console version.
3:30 – Okay. So she killed the three zombies or whatever, then she tries to open a door but it was just her secondary attack. She elbowed the door instead. Then she looks around this SINGLE ROOM and says, “Did I do something wrong?”
She’s stuck in the first fucking room of the game. Please explain to me how she could have possibly played this game before. Or ANY game. Of ANY genre.
How is it possible that somebody could get stuck in the first room of the game? Even if you’ve never played it before. If that door is supposed to open, she obviously pressed the wrong button. It’s just unbelievable. Go back there and press all of the fucking buttons.
“Did I come in the wrong way?”
She’s already lost. She’s lost in the first fucking room of the game. How the fuck did she play this before? It’s impossible. It’s just more insane, ridiculous, obvious lies from her.
Then it turned out that she had to kill another guy. But…that wasn’t actually the problem. She wasn’t trapped in the first place. She just didn’t explore the area. She was running around in circles. In the first fucking room. In this game that she says she played before.
4:00 – “I’m playing this on X-Box because I really like how the controller feels.”
Plus, the aimbot. Plus, she has almost no experience playing games “with mouse and keyboard”.
“I pay a lot more attention to controllers now, like how they feel, since I have such…umm…hand problems.”
Shout out to her fake carpal tunnel syndrome.
4:15 – Okay, we got the chainsaw. It’s always fun.”
She’s never seen this before. She never got this far in the game before.
4:30 – After you get the chainsaw, a little tutorial plays, showing you how to use it. Erin says, “I like this because they like let you have little demos to learn how to use it. So I like that.”
So all this tutorial did was show you how to change weapons. Specifically, how to change to the chainsaw. You press “X”.
Now there are three like dummy zombies for you to practice this on. This is all part of the tutorial. Erin doesn’t know what the fuck she’s supposed to do here. She jumps and then just presses all of the buttons and then by brute force, she figures out what button she was supposed to press.
The game just fucking started. She’s playing the tutorial. And she doesn’t know what she’s doing. Even when the tutorial told her exactly what to do not two seconds earlier.
5:00 – Then she starts looking for a “secret”. “Isn’t there a secret here? Like you get a little action figure?”
You tell us, Erin. You’ve played this before. Allegedly.
Then she immediately gives up and says, “No? Okay, maybe it’s somewhere else. Well, whatever.”
5:45 – Then she’s lost again. “Chill out, Erin. Which way are you going?”
She’s on the first fucking level. The tutorial level. Of this game that she says she’s played before. There’s only way to go. It’s completely linear.
Then she goes back to where she started. How is it fucking possible that she’s played this before? Why is the chat not rioting?
6:00 – “See, I’m too honest. I’m telling you that I’m nervous to stream this because I don’t really stream newer games.”
Oh yeah. Erin is “too honest.”
Maybe Erin can in all honesty explain to us how it’s possible to get lost in the first level of a game that she’s played before. It’s nothing to do with playing the game, on stream, for money. ANYONE would be able to navigate this level without any difficulty, on stream or off stream. Even if they’ve never played it before.
How is it remotely possible that she’s played this before?
You had to punch something. You had to punch a wall. I guess. Erin didn’t know this. Even though a tutorial popped up when you got near this breakaway wall. How did Erin not know that this is what you’re supposed to do? She’s played this before. Or so she says. THIS IS THE FIRST FUCKING LEVEL OF THE GAME.
And when the tutorial for “punchable walls” came up, Erin said, “Punchable Lunchable.” Hey guys! Remember Lunchables?
I do, Erin. I remember them. Now focus on what you’re doing. Show us what a pro you are at this game. At least get through the fucking tutorial level.
6:15 – “Oh, that’s why it didn’t work. I didn’t have the double jump yet.” This was another tutorial. She didn’t know about this double jump thing. From the tutorial level. In spite of the fact that she’s played the game before.
7:00 – “Sorry, I’ll look at the chat. I just got into this. (reads) I do like this game. It’s really fun. It’s like I said earlier, it’s really like one of the only modern games that I’ve really enjoyed.”
Oh sure. You’re a real pro, Erin. You’ve clearly put a lot of time into this.
How can she possibly expect anyone to believe this? All she does is lie. Everything she says is a lie.
7:15 – “I played this when it came out. I didn’t get super far in it.”
She didn’t get past the first fucking room of the first fucking level. How far is she actually claiming she got to? Because so far, absolutely everything has been a surprise to her. Everything has been a struggle.
“But I did play it when it came out.”
For how long? Seconds? It’s probably literally a matter of seconds that she played this game. And she has the audacity to sit there and say that she not only played the game before but that she LIKES it. It’s the only modern game that she likes. And look at this. Look at this fucking gameplay. She doesn’t have the foggiest idea what’s going on. She got lost in the first fucking room.
8:00 – “How would I rate it? Well, I’ve only played like Doom II, Doom 64, stuff like that. Like it’s totally different from Doom II.”
Well, obviously. But how do you rate it? Compare it to other first person shooters. You’ve played other first person shooters, right?
Of course she hasn’t. And she only played those games on stream, for money. And it wasn’t even Doom II that she played. It was Ultimate Doom, which, from my understanding, is an expansion for the original Doom. It added levels. And then she added a mod to it called GDoom or something that lets you look around and aim using the mouse.
“Like I would play like Brutal Doom and stuff and I really liked those.”
I don’t think that she’s played Brutal Doom. Show me the stream. Mike streamed it, though. That’s how she knows about it.
She thinks that what she played before, in the links that I’ve provided, from over a year ago, were Doom II and/or Brutal Doom. She doesn’t even know what any of this is. She doesn’t know what a mod is or all of these expansions and shit. I don’t even know what they are and I’ve played the fucking games. There’s loads of this shit.
I played Final Doom as a kid. Which one is Final Doom? I have no fucking idea. It’s something.
“I like it. I can’t really…ummm…compare it to that.”
Why not? I haven’t played Doom Eternal but I’ll compare it to the older Doom games. It sucks ass. I don’t want to play this shit. I don’t even want to play the original Doom. Or whatever I had. They all look the same.
8:45 – Then she mentions some modern games that she allegedly likes (upon the prompting of the horntards, who had to remind her what games she likes) and then she says, “I don’t know. I just like my retro games. I’m sorry.”
What proof exists for Erin liking retro games? Every fucking game, “I’ve never played this before.” Or on the few occasions where she says that she has played the game before, she knows absolutely nothing about the game and gets completely lost on the first fucking level. Just like she’s done here. Everything is a surprise to her. Everything is new.
“I don’t know a lot about Dragonball. I’m sorry.”
Maybe that can be her next fake interest. The horntards are really into Dragonball, Erin. Watch a few episodes. Then make a video about it. Maybe buy some of the toys. Put them on your shitty shelf next to Skeletor.
After she misses a few zombies, really, really badly, she says, “This game is really satisfying to play.”
Yeah…
Is she even going to get through the first level? I don’t want to watch this any more. I’m at ten minutes. That’s enough.
10:00 – She takes loads of damage from these level one enemies. “One thing I got to get better at is looking around and moving a lot more than I move.”
Umm…I don’t even know what she’s saying. But I’m not sure if that’s the problem. You suck, Erin. Work on that. Try to suck less.
She keeps going back and forth over this bridge and I think that enemies are respawning. And she just keeps missing her shots and taking more and more damage. Why is she just pacing up and down this bridge? Go find the fucking exit.
“Like I said, it’s been a year since I’ve played this so I’m not going to be too hard on myself.”
She’s clearly never played this AT ALL. But if she’s afraid that she’s merely a bit rusty, why didn’t she play the game a bit before she streamed it? You know…in her spare time. Like a normal person. A normal person who enjoys video games.
10:30 – She’s lost again. She just keeps going back and forth to the same place. I have no idea why.
God, this has to be the worst Doom Eternal footage ever recorded.
11:30 – “Low ammo? Well, we better find some.”
So she retraces her steps yet again. It’s ridiculous. She has no idea how to play the game.
“I know there’s ammo here unless I already got it all.”
Unbelievable. She’s been in the same little room for ages now.
12:00 – “Am I going the right way? I’m not going the right way.”
Are there even levels in this game? I just want to watch her get through the first level. But not if it’s going to take an age.
And just look at this fucking game. How many women would want to play something like this? You’re in a gritty, zombie-filled space station or something. There’s nothing “cute” about this. Why the fuck would Erin play this? Erin has absolutely no interest in this. I can’t imagine ANY woman wanting to play this. I can’t think of many adult men who would want to play this. This is a game for 14 year old boys.
“That’s why I’m telling you that I’m nervous because then you’ll be like, ‘Why can’t she get her surroundings?’ and I’m like, ‘I’m nervous. My nerves are getting to me’”
That does not even come close to explaining what I’m seeing here. This is somebody who says that she’s played the game before. Can you not navigate the tutorial level?
12:30 – She finally starts going in the right direction and she says, “This part’s funny.”
So she has seen this before. Apparently. In some capacity. At least once. Maybe somebody else’s playthrough. Maybe she saw Mike playing the game. Mike streamed this, by the way.
12:45 – “That’s right. You do get ammo from chainsawing the monster. Yeah, that’s right.”
She was reading from the chat. So why was she looking for ammo? This was also in the tutorial. The tutorial explained this. So instead of looking for ammo, why didn’t she just look for an enemy and do a “glory kill” or whatever it is? You apparently get ammo from that. Because she didn’t know about this.
13:15 – So I think that’s the first level over. She killed the guy. I don’t know. There wasn’t a boss fight, it was just a cut scene.
That’s as much as I can do. This is some real shit. She has no clue what she’s doing. This is absolutely atrocious gameplay.
There’s also a fucking map. I guess that Erin “forgot” about the map. She “always” “forgets” about the map.
Two and a half fucking hours of this. How can anyone do it? And you have ShiShi and the gang jerking off over this. “Oh yeah. This is a real gamer! A hot gamer grrl! She plays Doom! I want to shoot my space marine jizz in her face!” Complete fucking retards.
– “You did great for not having played this in a while. I need to finish it myself. I got to the final boss but I just never finished it.”
Are you out of your fucking mind? First of all, he’s enabling her lies about having played this before. Secondly, what part of this was at all “great”? Do you mean the part where she got lost in the very first room of the game?
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Cassandra McKenna Adds Hula Hoops to Her Roller Skating Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD4D7dtJY0o
She used to make awful videos about video games. Then she started making awful videos about roller skating. It’s literally just footage of her roller skating. For like a minute.
I don’t get it. She’s clearly mentally ill. But whatever. It’s fine. She’s making terrible videos of her roller skating and a handful of losers are getting some kind of sexual gratification out of this. But I don’t even think that that’s her intention. But that then begs the question, “What is her intention with these videos?” And I don’t know.
She can’t possibly think that these roller skating videos are going to become popular. What kind of enjoyment can she possibly get from making these videos?
I think that Joe from Gamesack mentioned RollerGames in a recent video. Hey guys! Remember RollerGames?
Mmmm…no. It was apparently on for one season from 1989 to 1990. I saw a video on Youtube. It’s like American Gladiators or professional wrestling. But really bad.
It seems that the show has recently returned. So maybe roller skating is making a comeback.
Speaking of bad American Gladiators type shows, what about Knights and Warriors? I remember that one. My friend called me up one day and said, “Turn to channel 58 and check this out. It’s like American Gladiators”. It was on some crazy channel that barely even came in and that I never watched before. I think that it became a Spanish language channel.
Anyway, it was okay, I guess. I only saw it a few times because it was on channel 99 or whatever. I think that the father from Everybody Hates Chris was one of the titular warriors. Or knights. I’m not sure how it worked. I think that the knights were the contestants.
They also did dumb, hokey skits in between the games. The only one I remember is one of the warriors acting as a leader inspecting the troops. And he did the “stomach in, chest out” thing. And he went along the line of dudes correcting their posture and then he got to a woman in a studded bra and commended her for really pushing her chest out and she expressed outrage at this sexist comment.
I read a Youtube comment for one of these videos where a guy claimed to be one of the warriors and that he regretted not taping the episodes. He said something like, “It was a lot of fun. I thought that those days would last forever.” Alas, there’s no DVD box set of Knights and Warriors.
I used to watch American Gladiators, though. A lot of those female gladiators really confused me. Like Lace. Lace was supposed to be the hot chick. What? The only one who did it for me whatsoever was Zap. She just had the biggest tits. I guess that Diamond had some big boobs as well but she came later.
I liked the International Gladiators season where they had gladiators and contestants from the various franchised versions of the show. And it’s true, there was a British version of the show and some other ones.
They had fucking Wesley “Two Scoops” Berry running roughshod on the totally outclassed non-American competitors. If the man can jump over a car, what chance does some emaciated fuck from Shaftesbury have? Two Scoops didn’t even have to give 950% to beat these clowns, he could have got the job done with a mere 225%.
Anyway, Two Scoops has been in prison for many, many years. He was involved in a bank robbery. I read a Youtube comment years ago from somebody purporting to be his niece and she suggested that he was innocent.
And this was years ago. Everything I’m seeing on the internet is from like 2007 and they claim that he got 10 to 20 years. So maybe he’s out now.
How did we get here? So roller skating. Remember Tootie from the Facts of Life? She wore roller skates on the first season of the show because she was so much shorter than the rest of the cast. Then she got massive tits by the end of the show’s run. Those later episodes were so bad. You had fucking George Clooney as a plumber or something and they’re all running Edna’s Edibles. Why? High school is done. Go get your own lives. No, we’ll all live together with our housemother (or whatever Edna was) and work in her bakery.
Then it got even more preposterous when Edna, like a 60 year old woman, got married and moved to South Africa or something. So the “girls” decided to re-open the store (it burned down, by the way) as a place to sell weird 80s shit. There’s a business model that wasn’t planned out too thoroughly.
And they got another housemother or whatever. Why? These women are in their early to mid 20s. And then suddenly there’s some little gay kid living there. And an Australian girl is living there for a while. What the fuck is going on?
But yeah, Kim Fields (Tootie) had some huge tits. I remember she gave an interview, this was years after the show was cancelled, and she expressed disgust that somebody told her that he only watched the show because he wanted to “do Tootie”. And the way she said “do Tootie” was hilarious. She had such contempt in her voice.
Then she was on Living Single, and I watched that too, inexplicably, but I think that she got a breast reduction at some point.
Oh, and I neglected to mention the hula hoops. Hey guys! Remember hula hoops?
Yeah, I guess. I had access to hula hoops but I only played with them briefly. It wasn’t like I was out there hula hooping all day.
And this was long after hula hoops had their moment in the sun. It was popular in the 1950s, of course. Still popular in the 60s and 70s, probably. But by the 80s, forget it.
Why is Cassandra even adding hula hoops to her repertoire? Like she’s Joanie Cunningham from Happy Days.
I used to think that Happy Days was a much older show than it was. Obviously, because it takes place in the 50s. As a kid, I didn’t realise that it was a show from the 1970s that was capitalising on 1950s *nostalgia*. Like the Wonder Years would do for 1970s *nostalgia*. Or Everybody Hates Chris would do for 1980s *nostalgia*. This is the pattern. These *nostalgia* shows always take place 20 years in the past because people who were kids then are in the most profitable demographic now.
But whatever. Good for Cassandra and her roller skating/hula hooping dream. It’s just too bad that she doesn’t have giant tits like Zap from American Gladiators or Tootie from The Facts of Life. Maybe she’d get more views.
Oh, and there’s a porn version of Happy Days wherein the woman playing Mrs Cunningham is rather well endowed and she’s wearing a 1950s style brassiere. I appreciated the attention to detail. And she has a sex scene with the Fonz, who instructs Mrs C to “sit on it”. I found it amusing.
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Run Godzilla – Castzilla VS The Pod Monster – Tony from Hack the Movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wR5ZUbfpWE
They’re not even trying any more. This is at least the third lazy episode in a row. Twelve minutes and it’s about some shit that I’ve never heard of. Let me look this up. It’s probably a game.
Yeah. Another shitty mobile game.
What’s the point? I understand what the problem is. You’ve run out of classic Godzilla films to talk about. They don’t want to talk about the newer films because they aren’t as interesting. There’s limited appeal in what is already a topic that has limited appeal.
But there’s other stuff to talk about. There are other kaiju films from the 60s and 70s. People have mentioned wanting to hear something on Jet Jaguar. There’s Gamera. There are Mothra movies. There are a bunch of one off movies featuring giant monsters. Just go to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju
There are also giant monster movies from the 80s to the present which you can intersperse with the Godzilla stuff.
There are undoubtedly kaiju tv shows. Probably in Japanese but maybe there are English subtitles. Fucking Power Rangers and all of those similar shows fall under the kaiju banner.
There’s the Godzilla cartoon from the 70s, of course. There was a Godzilla web series that used toy models. Maybe you already did an episode on that.
There are a bunch of Godzilla comic books, released both in the US and in Japan.
And then, yes, there are Godzilla games but pick GOOD games. Not this fucking mobile bullshit.
I don’t even know if games are a good topic to explore. Without seeing the game, it’s difficult to follow anything. And how much can you really say about a game anyway? They reviewed the NES Godzilla game, but if I didn’t already know what the game was about, I would have absolutely no idea what Tony and Johanna were talking about.
You can look for obscure Godzilla material. Wasn’t that the original intention of the show? Do one episode on a Godzilla film and one episode on some shit that nobody ever heard of before, like the Charles Barkley vs Godzilla comic or that children’s book on Godzilla? I know that I shit on those episodes but it’s a MUCH better idea than reviewing a fucking mobile game.
Reviewing a Godzilla film one episode and an obscure piece of Godzilla shit the next made sense. It was a good idea. You pad this shit out. You don’t just burn through all the movies. And the obscure stuff doesn’t have to be throw away “content”. It can be interesting. It can be more interesting than the movies.
There’s the Toby vs Godzilla Far Side comic. That’s a neat little bit of Godzilla trivia. He did a bunch of comics about Godzilla, including one about Mothra. You can do something with that. Or compile a bunch of random Godzilla shit like that and do an episode about it. Show the influence that Godzilla has had through the ages in various art and media.
So let’s speed through this half-assed piece of shit. Tony always blames Johanna for being busy but ultimately it’s his responsibility. If there’s no time to do an episode properly, just don’t do one. Don’t churn out crap just to say that you did something.
0:45 – Johanna was at an anime convention. Ugh. Let’s move on.
I don’t know the timestamp but after they “review” this thing (the game is bad, by the way) Johanna says that she refuses to review the third and final mobile game. That’s probably sensible.
Johanna then suggests doing a podcast featuring a Mothra statue that she’s apparently getting. And film it. This is another idea that I had but I didn’t want to suggest doing stuff that requires video. I was trying to keep things simple. But yeah, if you have Godzilla merchandise, you can show it off. Not just some piece of shit that you got recently, but your entire shitty collection.
Tony says that he has no time to do video and Johanna makes a “no time” reference. It’s just so weird that everyone at Screenwave makes fun of their biggest client. Justin does it, Tony does it, Newt does it. I mean, yeah, James Rolfe is deserving of mockery but…he’s paying these people. I would not be happy if I was Jimmy.
9:15 – Tony plugs their upcoming appearance at Astronomicon. Or something.
Wait…what? It’s this thing:
It seems to be mostly about wrestling…and the Insane Clown Posse. Why are they going to this? Why is Johanna excited to be going to this?
Butch Patrick will also be there. You know…Eddie from the Munsters. He must be 100 years old now.
This is insane. Which part of this appeals to Johanna? This is in Michigan, by the way. They’ll be travelling from rural Pennsylvania to Michigan for this shit. To see some wrestlers, wannabe Insane Clown Posse acts, and Z-list horror actors.
Johanna keeps talking about how she’ll be at “registration”. She’s going to be working at this thing. Apparently.
Can they explain any of this? Why is she working there? Why does she want to be there in the first place? Does she actually want to be there or is this just some work requirement?
11:15 – Johanna says that her fiance has two anuses. But she said this with less tact than I’ve just done. I don’t even want to mention this but…I…why is this being shared?
Then they say that this guy’s twin sister also has two anuses. Did that woman agree for this information to be shared? And this guy’s mother.
I think that stuff like this is the result of severe inbreeding, by the way. It’s just…monumentally inappropriate to talk about something like this. But whatever. These aren’t classy folk over at Screenwave.
Then the last 30 seconds is a black screen. The intern who edits these videos fucked up again. Maybe pay somebody instead.
But yeah, that’s…there’s so much unexplained here. Apparently, they’ll be in attendance as Hack the Movies: Tony, Newt, Johanna, and Crystal. But I can’t see that on the website. I only see that on Newt’s Facebook.
Tickets are $30/day. Who would go to this? To see Johanna working reception? To get an autograph from some drugged out imitation ICP flunky? To see some AEW wrestlers who I never even heard of before?
The biggest guest is Corey Taylor. Hey guys! Remember Corey Taylor?
No. Who the fuck is this? Why would I pay $200 for the VIP ticket where I get this guy’s autograph?
I don’t get this shit at all. Tony and the gang are going to be guests at this thing…but also working there. What? It’s insane. Who would agree to that? “Oh, you can be a guest at our nerd convention but only if you make yourself useful and work reception.” Any normal, self-respecting person would say, “Go fuck yourself.” But they agreed to this.
And who would possibly want to meet Tony from Hack the Movies? Or any of these people?
Rake of Ghostemane? Who is this? Not even Google knows. He’s some meth addict Insane Clown Posse rip off. Insane Clown Posse promotes a bunch of imitation bands but who the fuck is listening to this shit?
Lucina Jenney? She’s at least on Wikipedia. She does the English dubs for some anime. Who gives a fuck? What am I going to get from talking to this woman for 30 seconds? Is she going to go out with me? She’s fucking 25 years older than me and married. I’m not interested.
Alla Xul Elu is another one of the MANY Insane Clown Posse reject bands who will be there. They’re not notable enough for a Wikipedia entry either but at least they’re on Google, unlike Rake of Ghostemane. How the fuck can you not make Google? Rake of Ghosemane is actually not noteworthy enough for GOOGLE. Maybe they spelled the name wrong or something.
There’s going to be an “award winning cosplayer” there. Ashlee Kalthoff. I can’t find her Instagram. Or Twitter. Or anything. No, that’s not true. She’s on Linkedin. There’s no picture of her, which is very peculiar for somebody in such a vanity-driven “industry”. And it just says that she’s like an art teacher in Michigan. Good for her. But I’m going to pay thirty bucks to see an art teacher from Michigan?
It’s all complete nobodies. I mean, there’s also Mick Foley and some modern wrestlers, if you’re some loser who follows modern wrestling. You might know those people. But everyone else…what the fuck? These bands are literally just some fucking local junkies from Michigan. Why would anybody pay to see these people? And these fucking ZZZ-list horror actors who nobody on earth knows. And poor old Butch Patrick.
It just doesn’t make any fucking sense. What’s the theme of this thing? It’s just a collection of random people. Unknown wrestlers, unknown actors, and unknown musicians. And, apparently, unknown Youtubers. And they’ll all be signing autographs. For twenty bucks each or whatever.
I just don’t get it. At all. Who are the people going to this thing?
If you go to Youtube and search for “astronomicon” videos, you’ll see a few videos from last year. And these videos all have fewer than 10,000 views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O_ss4YoQAA
Here’s one with 1700 views. Let’s check it out.
Fat chicks and/or goths buying horror and/or goth shit.
Heavily tattooed douchebags who don’t have jobs.
Comic book nerds.
Tweaked out ICP fans who don’t know where they are.
Terrible parents who brought their children to this shit.
People dressed as clowns.
A bunch of guys taking pictures with some clown. I guess that he’s in some ICP wannabe band. But this can be anyone. How do you know it’s the guy even in the band? He’s covered in makeup and prosthetics. And who cares anyway? Nobody knows who this guy is. Nobody knows the band. It’s some local band for local meth addicts.
Oh, it’s this clown’s video. This clown has a Youtube channel and people were paying to take pictures with him. This guy who has 19,000 subscribers.
Some lonely chick dressed as a Jedi.
A guy with a pirate hand puppet.
Heavily tattooed fat goth chick with low self-esteem and her tits out.
Anyway, I think that I got the gist now. It’s a place for the absolute bottom tier rejects of society to go and ogle fat goth chicks. Johanna is excited to go to this thing. She’s really looking forward to being ogled by some middle aged virgin in a vampire costume. What a sad state of affairs.
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House Tour – TheGebs24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAtDa9RtEmc
1:15 – She starts the tour, oddly, with her girlfriend’s office. Her girlfriend is a 300+ pound American woman.
1:30 – There’s an old cellar in this room. She says that it’s been “filled in”. I guess that means that concrete has been poured into this cellar. Why would anyone do that? It sounds like a red flag to me. Let me DuckDuckGo this.
Yeah, people seem to say that cellars get filled in because of extreme damp or rot or something. Maybe corpses.
Why else would anyone do this? Why would somebody say, “You know what? We have too many rooms. We have too much storage space. Let’s pour several tonnes of concrete into one of our rooms”?
There has to be a serious structural problem to resort to that. Like the house is going to cave in on itself if you don’t fill this room with concrete.
Then she shows you this filled in cellar. It’s dilapidated, she says that it stinks, and she says that she’s afraid to go down there. But she says that it’s good storage space. Who would want to put stuff in such a place? It’s probably loaded with spiders and whatnot as well.
This room is also very small but it’s an office…whatever that means…so…I assume that this is like a bedroom. It’s like a boxroom. This is a concept that I don’t think exists in the US but a boxroom is a bedroom that’s so tiny that it only fits a double bed or a single bed and a little dresser. These rooms are so small that you often have to shimmy in along the wall in order to enter or leave.
Then she shows the problems with the paint job in this room and the radiator and the wood trimming. Also a broken lock. Seem to be a lot of problems. How much was this place?
Now that I get a better look at the room, it’s bigger than a box room. But not by much.
3:30 – Now she’s showing the kitchen. She warns you that kitchens in the UK are smaller than their US counterparts. That’s true, of course.
Ummm…no. This is maybe the smallest kitchen I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve lived in London, where the properties are very small, and I’ve never seen a kitchen this small. This is ridiculous.
You can stand in the middle of this kitchen and have access to everything in the room.
The tap/faucet (she actually uses both words…they don’t say “faucet” in the UK) looks to be plastic. I’ve never seen that before.
You can also see dilapidated brickwork in the view from the window of this tiny kitchen.
She says that this brickwork is for an outhouse. What? Oh. That’s where the gas and electric meters and whatnot are going to go. I guess. So there’s no toilet in there. At least any more.
4:30 – This is the bedroom. She says this in a seductive manner and then you just think of this woman and her 300+ pound girlfriend and…come on. Let’s try to keep this classy.
She points out that she likes the doors. They are nice. They’re really old-fashioned. I don’t know if that’s a style choice or they’re genuinely really old. But they’re probably, like everything else in this house…how to put this. Is there another word for “dilapidated”? Decrepit. That’s a good one.
This room seems a reasonable size. Again, by British standards, of course.
5:30 – Bathroom. Again, this is tiny. I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a big bathroom in the UK, though. They’re all the same size. They only fit a bathtub, toilet, and sink. In many cases, they omit the bathtub for one of those shitty shower units.
This particular bathroom has both a bathtub and a shitty shower unit. I’ve never seen this before. The boiler is also in there. Again, I’ve never seen the boiler in the bathroom. She doesn’t show the boiler, presumably because that little closet that houses the boiler is in a bad state.
It seems like a bad idea to have the boiler in the same room as the bathroom. Moisture and whatnot. I don’t know.
The bathtub is broken…I mean…I don’t even know if it can hold water. And she says that she wants to get rid of the shower unit because it’s dirty or old fashioned or…something. She gave a couple of reasons.
6:15 – She says that the property has been empty for quite some time. People weren’t interested.
7:15 – She shows the living room. This is ridiculous. It’s tiny and has a tiny filled in fireplace in it.
By the way, she started with the office because that seems to be the first room that you enter as you enter the property. Actually, the kitchen is technically the first room but it barely counts as a room.
Here’s some interesting trivia. Kitchens in the US used to be the largest room in the house and they would be the first room that you entered as you entered a property. But after World War II, the returning soldiers wanted more male-focused properties so properties started to be built where the living room was the first room that you entered and the living room was the biggest room of the house.
Anyway, let’s look at this tiny living room. It has a filled in fireplace, as I’ve mentioned. This is pretty common in the UK. Older properties have these weird filled in fireplaces. Newer places don’t.
Again, it’s one of the smallest living rooms I’ve ever seen.
It’s not like I was living in some amazing places. I lived in complete dives. But this place is tiny. I don’t even know what this property is. She describes it as a “house” but is it the entire house or is it a flat in a house? Like what they’ll do in this shit country is take a former family home and then divide it into two or four or however many apartments. Is that what this is?
8:30 – She shows some damp damage on the wall. There’s also another door to the outside in this room. I just don’t know what this is. They seem to be on the ground floor. And the property seems to be two stories. So…is it just a small house? A cottage? A semi-detached house?
A semi-detached house is a concept that I’m not sure exists in the US but it’s huge in the UK. It’s a row of houses all right next to each other. So you have a shared wall with your neighbour. It’s just as shit as it sounds. It’s like living in an apartment. You can hear everything that’s going on next door.
10:00 – She shows the “lounge” or something, which is actually the second bedroom. It’s pretty small.
There’s also an attic that she didn’t show. It’s an attic that you need a ladder to get into. She didn’t show it but she plans to put video games in there. Or something.
Now, I’m not here to shit on anyone’s home but THIS is the place that she was boasting about all over town. It’s a fucking dump. Even by British standards.
Maybe she was a cash buyer and this is all she could afford. I mean, can you get a mortgage as a “Youtuber”? Maybe her girlfriend has a job but can you get a joint mortgage on a lesbian girlfriend basis? Maybe this is a ridiculous question. Maybe any two people can get a joint mortgage. I don’t know.
People in the comments make euphemistic remarks like the house is “charming” and “quite a lot of work to do there.” So it’s not just me.
Anyway, it was mildly interesting. I enjoy the home tours.

