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  • Erin Plays Mega Fan #4 – Super Geoff

     https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoMyIE8EZxwVs-UV1Fee9sg

    This guy is regularly in Erin’s streams and Mike’s streams.  That seems to be pretty common.  Like I know that Shishi also goes to Mike’s streams on a regular basis.  

    By the way, I’ve discussed other Erin Plays super fans here:

    Shishi – https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-pathetic-life-and-times-of-shishi.html

    NewWaveJunkie – https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/06/newwavejunkie-erins-second-biggest-fan.html

    Marcus – https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/07/erin-plays-horny-loser-fan-review-3.html

    SuperGeoff seems to be a bit…off.  

    Here’s a video of him playing Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWPSMz81sYY

    At 22:30, he tells a story about how he called Gamestop and asked if they had The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends in stock.  The year that this took place isn’t revealed but this is an SNES game and Gamestop wasn’t around back then, were they?  

    Anyway, the Gamestop personnel told SuperGeoff that they have the game.  So SuperGeoff went over and said, “I called earlier.  I’d like a copy of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, please.”

    At this point, the staff started laughing and confessed that they thought that it was a prank.  SuperGeoff had to inform them that it wasn’t a prank, he was dead serious, and he wants his copy of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends.  And if he doesn’t get it, people are going to get fired.

    Oh, he suggests later in the story that this was years after the game was out of print.

    It’s an amusing story and Super Geoff seems like a nice guy but there’s clearly something…different about him.  Just watch the videos and you’ll see what I mean.  These are Twitch streams that he uploads to his channel.

    He plays a lot of games based off of cartoons.  

    Here’s his Twitter:

    https://twitter.com/Supergeoff22

    He works in a grocery store and lives in Ohio.  He posts a lot of pictures of cartoons.

    He also re-tweets a lot of shit from gamer grrls like Erin, Destiny Fomo, Sunpi, somebody called AshSaidHi, CannotBeTamed, oh here’s one from Tony from Hack the Movies too.  SmashJT.  Dinosaur Dracula.  So some guys but it clearly skews gamer grrl.  It’s a lot of general *nostalgia* shit.  And cartoons.  Lots of cartoons.

    Erin is taking money from this guy.  How can anybody not feel bad about that?  This is clearly a disadvantaged person.  

    This is what she does.  These are the people watching the videos, these are the people giving money.  The mentally retarded.  

    Who else would give money?  You see these people on Patreon or whatever.  Give me money and I’ll pretend to be your friend.  That shit never tempted me in the slightest.  There is nothing that anyone on Patreon can possibly offer that would cause me to give them money.

    And you look at stuff like MyFreeCams.  Twitch stole their entire business model from MyFreeCams.  But with MyFreeCams, you give the woman money and she takes her fucking clothes off.  With Twitch, you give the person money and…nothing.  You might get a “thank you”.  

    Anybody with any sense whatsoever would spend that money on MyFreeCams.  It’s not a hard mental exercise to carry out.  You can take that ten bucks and give it somebody who will show you their tits or you can take that same ten bucks and give it somebody who will say “thank you”.  Which is the better value for money?

    But these people are retarded.  They don’t think these things through.  That’s why everybody who goes to these streams and everybody who gives these people money is mentally challenged.  

    It’s like these charity people out in the street holding clipboards.  I haven’t seen them since this whole coronavirus thing.  That’s one good thing that came from this.  But they used to be out there stopping people and trying to guilt them into giving their bank account details.  “Do you care about kids with cancer?  Then give us £20/month.”

    These scumbags would specifically target the elderly.  Because who else would give these morons their bank account details?  If you target the elderly, some of them are bound to be less sharp than in their prime.  Maybe they have dementia.  Whatever.  These are the people giving these charity workers on the street their money.  Nobody else.  There has to be something seriously wrong with you to give a stranger your bank details so agree to have money deducted from your account every month to be sent to some charity for some nebulous reason.

    Twitch, Patreon, OnlyFans, MyFreeCams, street charity workers: they’re all business models that are preying on the mentally challenged.  

  • Where Do We Go From Here? – Bobdunga

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1iM_i3XVw4

    2:00 – She’s going to bring back the videos where she reviews games or whatever.

    2:45 – She’s going to continue to do “documentaries.”

    I don’t know if I should put it in quotes.  I suppose that her video was a documentary.  A documentary doesn’t have to be good.

    3:15 – Bobdunga appeared on Otaku (or whatever) and some magazine that I’ve never heard of.  This is in relation to her documentary.

    3:45 – Bobdunga will be on some podcast.  

    Eugh.  That guy is unwatchable.  He does a radio voice.  You can watch it here, but I only lasted 120 seconds.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzg_7Imm-sc

    So that’s Bobdunga’s update.  I hesitate to say this but it looks like she’s really lost weight.  Maybe it’s just the lighting or something.  Hopefully she’s okay.

    But yeah, it’s true.  She mentions that she hasn’t uploaded in like six months.

    It’s the same with Madam Fomo.

    Retro Ali hasn’t uploaded in like three months.

    Super Awkward Gal also hasn’t uploaded in three months.

    I’ve given up on Pelvic Gamer because she hasn’t uploaded anything remotely interesting in over a year.

    I’m running out of gamer grrls.  How have I been writing every day?  I’m down to Erin and Pam aka CannotBeEntertaining.

    This is why I’ve been looking for replacements.  

    There’s TheGebs24 but…I don’t know.  She’s hard to listen to.  And she’s just annoying.  There’s not really much to say about her videos.  She does upload like three or four times a week though, so there must be something amongst that trash that I can find.

    Then there’s Zap Cristal or whatever.  She’s been posting a lot of stuff with John Riggs lately so there’s that connection.  But that’s just temporary.  And yeah, there’s the Ebonics thing and how she has Crystal Quin Syndrome but…she only has 2000 subscribers.  That’s kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel.  And talking about her appearance and inability to speak English is just kind of mean-spirited.  

    So I don’t know.  Articles about John Riggs do surprisingly well.  Maybe it’s because I don’t write about him often so people assume it’s going to be something big.  Or maybe people just like John Riggs.

    Stuff about Tony from Hack the Movies and his crew also do well.  But I think that’s just because Tony will message the Screenwave people on Facebook or whatever about the article.  Plus, I think there are some “fans” of his who come here, since he advertised the blog.  

    Stuff about AVGN…it does okay.  Depends what it is.  Some stuff does good, some stuff merely does okay.

    But I don’t want to have too much non-gamer grrl material.  Or maybe it is a good idea to talk about gamer guys as well.  Appears less sexist that way.

    It’s not even about how popular particular articles are, it’s about writing stuff that’s interesting.  Like Pelvic Gamer, for example.  I can’t bring myself to write about that shit any more.  She’s aggressively boring.

    Anyway, I’m going to start uploading “classic” gamer grrl content from my sub-reddit that Madam Fomo got taken down with false copyright claims.  I wanted to do that anyway.  It’s stuff from late 2019 to early 2020.  So I’ll post those when nothing else is going on.

  • Godzilla Destruction and Listener Voicemails – Castzilla VS The Pod Monster – Tony from Hack the Movies

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ5o_oVDRPw

    1:00 – Shout out to Tab aka Mad Cuts for his recent appearance on The Dick Show wherein he shouted out Tony from Hack the Movies.

    What is any of this?  Why are we supposed to know this?  Is he talking about this?

    https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDickShow/videos

    This guy has 34,000 subscribers and his videos get about 3,000 views on average.  Which video is he even talking about?  Because I’m not trawling through this shit just to look for some guy I’ve never heard of talking about Tony from Hack the Movies.

    2:00 – Wait a minute.  Are they really going to review a mobile game?  

    Johanna: I hate it.  There’s no effort put into it at all.

    Tony: It’s fucking terrible.

    Okay.  Guys.  So talk about something else.  

    They’re talking about a fucking mobile game that nobody has ever heard of before and it’s not good.  Come on.  How can they run out of “content”?  

    Here’s what I would have suggested talking about if I were to do an episode: War God (1976).  

    https://wikizilla.org/wiki/War_God

    It’s a Taiwanese movie about a statue that grows to giant size and comes to life.  You can watch the movie on archive dot org.

    I would have talked about how this is based on an actual Taoist god.  I would have given a brief overview of Taoism.  I would have noted the importance of Taoism in Chinese culture.  I would have noted that this film was released shortly after the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the Cultural Revolution so people were more free to discuss religion and whatnot.  Plus, with it being Taiwan, the people weren’t supportive of communist China anyway.  I would have compared War God to the thematically similar The Great Buddha Arrival (1934), which is a lost film, and the 2018 remake.

    It would have been the most educational episode of Castszilla versus the Podmonster ever recorded.  It would have been a masterclass of 1970s Chinese political theory, religion, and Sino-Taiwanese relations disguised as a movie review.  

    So it’s not like there’s not stuff to talk about.  That was just one idea.  There’s loads of stuff that you can discuss.  A shitty mobile game?  That’s the best that you can come up with?

    Let’s just get through this shit.  At least it’s only 17 minutes.  

    3:00 – He teases playing the other two games in this “series” or whatever it is.  And presumably doing a podcast on it.

    Neither one of these people even played the game for very long.  I’m guessing that they played it for maybe 15 minutes.  If that.

    4:30 – So that’s it.  Podcast is over.  They didn’t like the game.  Then Tony went to Google Image search to look for images of the game.  

    Now they’re going to go to voicemails.  This is going to be death.

    5:00 – So the first guy got nervous and lost his train of thought.  This is going great.

    6:15 – This next guy is described by Tony as a “super fan”.  

    He wanted to know…what animals Tony and Johanna would be.  What?  Is this grade school?

    7:00 – Then some other weird nerd says some weird shit.

    7:15 – Then they ran out of calls so Johanna does a call.

    7:45 – Some other nerd is calling in as Leonard Maltin.

    8:30 – Another nerd asking why Johanna likes Mothra.  Answer: she’s cute.  I’m not even joking.

    9:45 – This next guy actually might be a badass.  He’s from Alaska.  Has some bass in his voice.  

    Oh.  No.  He was a giant nerd too.  I couldn’t even understand what he was saying.

    10:00 – Some nerd who calls Tony “T-dawg”.  He just advertises his Youtube channel.

    Then Tony says, “Is he just calling to promote his Youtube channel?”

    Didn’t he screen these?

    This was another call that was for Talking About Tapes…

    He goes on and on about some unfunny shit that I don’t even understand.

    So that was…that.  They’re really phoning it in.  No pun intended.  

    And he actually puts these voicemails as “bonus content” on his Patreon.  Who the fuck would want to listen to these?  I don’t want to listen to this for FREE let alone paying for them.

    Tony was here trying to get me to call into this shit.  If I did that, which I wouldn’t, and he put it on Patreon, I would be really pissed off.  

    Not that it would even happen anyway.  If I was to appear on the show in any capacity, I’d demand to get paid.  I mean, he’s paying these co-hosts isn’t he?  And the guest hosts?  

    If these people aren’t getting paid, they’re being taken advantage of.  Tony is getting $2,500/month from garbage “content” on Patreon.  And then like $1000/month from Youtube.  And then whatever “merch” money he gets.  Plus his job at Screenwave.  

    He’s making money from this.  It’s not a fortune but he’s getting something.  So I’d expect something.  My time is worth money.  I’m not going to do it for the “fame” of being on Castszilla vs The Podmonster.  It has to be worth doing.  

    Let’s see what the Screen Actors Guild rates are.  

    https://www.wrapbook.com/blog/essential-guide-sag-rates#toc-the-sag-aftra-new-media-rates-of-2021

    $125/day.  That’s the rate for internet stuff with a budget between $50,000 and $250,000.  No fucking way would I do it for $125.  You can make that at Burger King.  

    Anyway, you can use my idea about War God.  Maybe it will help to get some remotely interesting “content”.

  • Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (Sega Genesis) – Cinemassacre

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66vEfEiPBM

    0:00 – Shout out to the VPN sponsor.  Is he going to talk about how you can watch Netflix from other countries?  I’ll say yes.

    Woo!  I was right!  It was the very next thing that he said.  There’s a graphic showing that you can watch “content” all the way from Tokyo, Japan.  

    What would you even want to watch?   I mean, you can watch any tv show from any country right now anyway.  The stuff is out there.  But is anyone watching it?  Are people seeking out Danish dramas?  Or Brazilian variety shows?  Or wacky Japanese game shows?  I don’t think so.  

    The first problem is that it’s not in English.  Would there be English subtitles?  Why would there be?  It’s not being sold to an English-speaking market.  

    Even stuff that’s in English…I mean…is anyone seeking out Australian tv shows?  Or even British tv shows if you’re an American?  I don’t think so.  

    But anyway, with this VPN, you can do this thing that you’re not even doing now, although you’ve had the opportunity to do this thing for decades.

    3:15 – You shoot “shit stones” at Pac-Man.  Or, as anyone with a brain would call these objects, stones.  Maybe it’s fruit or something.

    4:00 – Really forced Fred Fuchs reference.  Kieran thinks that the eyes of the ghosts in Pac-Man look like “FF”.  They don’t.  They look like the eyes of a Pac-Man ghost.

    4:45 – “It’s a kick in the sack.”

    Kieran sure does like references to male genitalia.  Just come out of the closet.

    This seems to have gratuitous profanity, including “motherfucker”.  I know that this is his thing but this doesn’t sound natural here.

    7:30 – “This dickhole, shit-encrusted, poopy fuck fuck final boss”.

    Yeah.  I don’t care what anyone says, this is funny.

    Then the video ends with Silent Rob or somebody doing a dumb half-joke.

    Oh, it was a ska version of the AVGN that was heard in the beginning.  Apparently.  I was thinking jazz.

    Well…that was just pretty boring.  And as Kieran said in the video, the game isn’t even that bad.  

    The usual ass-kissing comments in the comment section.  Let’s see what the boys on Reddit have to say.  This video just came out like a 30 minutes ago, at the time of me writing this, but I’ll guess that there are already 40 comments.

    There are 46.  I was close.  

    A lot of people complaining that there’s just the one camera angle of him sitting on the couch.  I don’t really care about this.  I’m not looking at these videos from an artistic perspective.

    Somebody describes that Fred Fuchs reference as “shoe horned” in.  It’s true.

    Yeah, people just say that it wasn’t good but they’re not too riled up about it.  That’s about right.  

    People on the “official” Cinemassacre sub-reddit didn’t much care for it either.  But they’re mostly the same people who post on the homosexual sub-reddit.

    I don’t know.  It wasn’t as bad as people are making out.  It was just boring.  No effort was put into it.  James of course totally phoned it in, as usual, and Kieran did his usual shitty writing job.  But there was nothing objectionable about it.  It was an inoffensive episode.  Maybe that’s as much as we can hope for at this point.

  • Josie and the Pussycats is a Great Satire! – Talking About Tapes – Tony from Hack the Movies

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ipTsHX6j0

    This thing “premiered” at 1:00 am my time.  I was going to stay up but I couldn’t do it.  Plus, I figured it would be like a two hour video as usual.  

    So I fell asleep.  But I was thinking about this video so much that I had a dream about it.  It was something about Erin and then it turned into Lucille Ball and then it became something about Mrs Roper from Three’s Company.  They were helping me make a tv show or Youtube video or something.  Lucille Ball actually had some good ideas and was really helpful but when she morphed into Mrs Roper from Three’s Company, things fell apart.  I don’t remember if I ended up fucking Mrs Roper or what.  

    Anyway, I think it became about Lucille Ball and Mrs Roper because they both have red hair.

    So let’s check it out.  It’s 6:00 am.  

    First of all, Josie and the Pussycats.  Why can’t Erin do a review of a movie outside of her idiotic comfort zone?  She did Spice World before and that was probably considered the worst episode of Rental Reviews ever made.  And that’s really saying something.

    It puts a recent comment that Erin made into perspective, though.  Remember when she suggested that Super Geoff’s band should be Josie and the Pussycats in the 4 May video where she played Pac-Man 99 with Mike, on stream for money?  I talk about it here:

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/05/erin-plays-and-mike-matei-stream-pac.html

    It was a weird comment, right?  Where did this shit come from?  A cartoon from the 1970s?  

    THIS is where it came from.  She must have already agreed to do this video.  All she does is reference things that she’s done recently because she’s never seen or done anything before she started her Youtube channel.  She watched He-Man with Mike and she’s suddenly a He-Man expert.  For that week.  She watched Match Game with Mike and suddenly she’s a Match Game expert.  For that week.  This sort of thing.

    0:00 – Oh my god.  It starts with a “teaser” of the upcoming video.  Crystal is saying something totally unfunny and then Erin awkwardly interrupts her with something totally unfunny.  This is going to be great.

    Erin is wearing her jeans jacket again.  Hey guys!  Remember jean jackets?  The 80s!

    1:15 – They’re talking about the cat ears that they’re wearing and Erin wants to say something but doesn’t get the chance and they’re all talking over each other.  But finally, Erin awkwardly interrupts and in reference to Tony’s stupid little costume, she says, “It’s a little less Pussycats and more like…I shouldn’t say it…Magfest.”

    What?  Is that even what she said?  Tony laughed so we know that it was funny.  It’s not easy to make Tony laugh.  

    1:30 – Erin claims to be “obsessed” with the movie when it came out.  Uh huh.  So like how she’s obsessed with the Vectrex, for example.  She played it once.  On stream, for money.  And then never again.

    So she tells a story about how she had the Josie and the Pussycats ears, she built this up like it was going to be some big story, but then she just said, “And then I don’t have them any more.”

    Great.  Another story about something that Erin DOESN’T have.  

    Crystal looks confused as fuck.  She’s thinking, “Wait a minute…that story didn’t go anywhere.”  Strap in, Crystal.  You have another 75 minutes of awkward stories that don’t go anywhere.

    1:45 – Tony says that he recently saw the Jem and the Holograms movie.  Erin says, “I still haven’t seen that.”  Come on.  How am I possibly going to get through this?  I should just do a full transcript of the video.

    So once again, Erin didn’t watch a movie.  Not even Jem.  And she’s all about Jem.  She had the DVDs as a child.  

    She’s wearing a Jem shirt in a video that I reviewed here:

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/02/getting-back-in-groove-of-wii-sports.html

    She talks about Jem and Rainbow Brite in this He-Man video that I reviewed here:

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/04/top-ten-he-man-games-erin-plays-httpswww.html

    Erin is all about Jem.  Even though the show came out before she was born.  But…she hasn’t yet gotten around to watching the movie.  She “always” “forgets” about the Jem movie, I guess.  Maybe she can watch it for a Youtube video, for money.

    Erin says of the film, “It could have been good”.

    How the fuck does she know that it’s not good?  SHE NEVER SAW IT BEFORE.  She just told us this seconds earlier.

    Then Crystal starts talking and Erin talks over her.  I think that this is going to be a theme.  She doesn’t know how conversations work.

    2:30 – Tony starts talking about the advertising of the movie and Erin says, “I have a lot to say about the advertising.”

    Oh, I can’t wait.  Is she going to say that she never saw the commercials before?  Or that she did see them but then the story just fizzles out and she says that she’s *nostalgic* for them or something?  She probably just watched them recently, for the purposes of this video.

    3:00 – Tony says that he has notes.  Erin says, “Okay, cool.  Because I have so many thoughts that I need some direction.”

    Uh huh.  Erin is just bursting with awkward stuff to talk about.  

    3:45 – Erin says, “I saw the movie in theatres twice.”

    Oh do tell.

    Tony: Really?

    Erin: Because I love it.

    (Tony laughs.  Crystal still looks confused.)

    Erin: Because I was in like middle school.

    Tony: Yeah.

    Erin: But I already, I think, had a better understanding of the movie than a lot of like grown men at the time.  But we’ll get on to the marketing and criticisms later.

    Crystal: I wonder why.  

    Tony: I don’t know how many grown men were seeing the movie for its intended purpose.

    Yeah…this was just another awkward as fuck comment by Erin.  It doesn’t make sense.  

    Erin has negative charisma.  I’m actually owed charisma from watching this shit.

    Crystal reveals that she only watched the movie for the purposes of this review.  As I suspect is the case with Erin too.  Tony also only watched it for the purposes of making this video.

    But Crystal wishes that she “sawl” it back then.  This seems to be a problem with a lot of these Talking About Tapes people.  They can’t say “saw” in the greater Philadelphia area, I guess.

    4:15 – Tony says that the writer and director also wrote and directed Can’t Hardly Wait and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.  Erin says, “I didn’t know that.”  You don’t say.

    Erin says, “Crushed their soul.  This crushed — the way the movie was recepted (sic) crushed their soul.”

    “Recepted”.  Holy shit.  Let’s just move on.

    Tony mentions that the soundtrack was by a band called Letters to Cleo.  He obviously never heard of the band.  Neither have I.  Fortunately, super music fan Erin is here to help.

    5:30 – “Yeah.  Actually, the soundtrack, which actually ended up, I think, doing better than the movie, like it was certified gold.  I have it on vinyl…because I like it so much.”

    She’s really bad at speaking.  The words are just jumbled.  And I had to REALLY strain to hear “like it was certified gold” because she just dropped her voice at that point.  But without this bit of information, the story doesn’t go anywhere.  

    Then she point to the album as proof that she owns it.  She brought it with her and it’s on display.  She probably bought it last week.

    Let me show you what I mean with her jumbling her words.  The following is an exact quote:

    5:45 – “It’s a fucking great soundtrack.  It’s funny because…I have it written down…but like…the people involved in writing the music…you have like (reading from her notes) a dude from Fountains of Wayne…ummm…who was the other one?  (nervous laughter)  Oh, the guy from Counting Crows.  So it’s like…which…I’m like…okay.  But I mean like…they did a good job.”

    What a disaster.  She can’t string together a single coherent sentence.  

    And she took NOTES for this and yet can’t give you the NAMES of the people who were on the album.  “The guy from Counting Crows” doesn’t narrow it down much.  

    Tony says that Archie, the company who owns Josie and the Pussycats, demanded a scene of the band brushing their teeth in order to portray a wholesome image of the group.  He goes on to say that Archie no longer cares and one of the examples that he gives of this is Archie vs The Punisher.  This is a comic that was released in 1994.  So seven years before the movie.

    6:45 – Erin is going to talk about the marketing now.  Fuck.  More disjointed bullshit that doesn’t go anywhere.

    She says that there’s a song called Backdoor Lover and expresses displeasure at this.  Kind of awkward given what we know about Mike and Erin’s relationship.

    9:45 – They’re talking about some movie called Tammy and the T-Rex or something and Erin says, “I want to watch that.”  Well, what’s stopping you?  You have no job.  You have nothing but time on your hands.  Get to work on this massive to-do list.

    10:45 – 

    Erin: Everyone thinks that I’m literally everyone else that’s not me so it’s totally fine.

    Tony: I’m apparently comedians who overdosed on coke in the 80s.  Apparently I’m them.

    Erin: So they think you’re like…you never died and you’re still alive.

    Erin did not get the reference at all.  So she made this awkward as fuck comment.  Tony has to then explain that he was talking about John Belushi.  Erin doesn’t know who that is.

    Tony says that John Belushi died eight years before he was born so “It’s going to be a little hard.”  Crystal says, “Mandela Effect?”.  It doesn’t make any sense but compared to Erin, these people are the voice of reason.

    Oh my god.  I just realised.  Erin is actually making Crystal look like a competent professional.  That’s how awful Erin is.  She’s making somebody as horrendous as Crystal Quin look good in comparison.

    By the way, I think that this is the first time that Erin has met either Crystal or Tony.  Crystal said in a recent episode that she hasn’t met Erin before.  She then invited Erin on to the show.  This must have been the catalyst for this momentous meeting of the minds.

    11:30 – Erin reveals that her favourite “advertising moment” in the movie is about McDonalds.  She’s all about McDonalds.  Even though she knows nothing about the characters, as I’ve explained before, but we have to move on.

    13:00 – Crystal says that she’s the “biggest fan” of some singer but I can’t understand what the fuck she’s saying.  “Missouri”?  Anyway, she claims to have hung out with Missouri.  Cool.  I used to kick it with Arkansas back in the day but we’re not here to boast.  Let’s talk about the fucking movie.

    Then Crystal talks about how hot Missouri is.  Of course.  This is what she does.  She’s extremely superficial.

    14:00 – Tony finally starts talking about the movie.  He mentions some actor.  Erin smiles nervously.  She has no idea who this is.

    14:30 – Crystal claims to have hung out with Alan Cumming.  Cool.  I used to chill with my homeboy Brian Ejaculating.  Nobody gives a fuck.  Let’s get to the movie.  

    15:30 – Crystal claims that Spice World is “the best movie that ever existed”.  She claims that Alan Cumming was in the movie and then Erin has a surprised look on her face.  She doesn’t know who any of these people are.  She doesn’t even know who Crystal and Tony are.  She doesn’t know where she’s at.  She goes through life in some kind of weird hazy dreamscape.

    16:45 – They’re talking about the meaning to the song American Pie, about how it was about Buddy Holly’s plane crash.  Erin didn’t know this, of course, but then they start giving a vague explanation and Erin says, “Oh, that makes sense.  Of course.  Duh.”

    It doesn’t make sense.  You can listen to that song a million times and not know what it’s about.  But Erin doesn’t even know the song.  She’s just pretending that she does, as usual.

    19:45 – Tony mentions that some actress in Josie and the Pussycats was in The Adventures of Pluto Nash.  Erin says, “I didn’t know that.”  Crystal says that the same actress was in Rent.  Erin says, “I haven’t seen Rent.”

    You don’t say.

    It’s fucking hilarious.  Why is she here?  Why does she put herself in these situations?  Why does she even make videos?  Every video is the same thing.  “I’ve never seen/done (whatever).”  

    Crystal talks about the movie and the play Chicago.  Erin has clearly never seen either.

    She also mentions Lego Batman.  Erin clearly hasn’t see that either.

    Tony mentions She’s All That.  Erin says, “I love that movie”.

    This was actually my fucking idea for a Talking About Tapes with Erin, Crystal, and Mint Salad.  Let me look this up.

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/05/batman-forever-is-fun-talking-about.html

    Yeah.  Crystal is talking about how hot she is and how everybody wants to have sex with her.  This is during a review of a Batman movie, by the way.  Then she says, “Erin, come to the show. We’ll be matching Batgirls.”

    I then say:

    “Oh, don’t tease me. Think of how horrendous that video would be. Crystal, Erin…get Mint Salad in there too. Fuck Newt. Fuck Tony. I want to see a podcast with Crystal, Erin, and Mint Salad. And I want them to review She’s All That.”

    This was 19 May 2021.  I gave that movie as a joke example that an idiot like Erin might enjoy.  And here she is claiming that she “loved” the movie.  She probably never saw it.  

    Tony then says that they discussed the plot of She’s All That in his I Know What You Did Last Summer episode, which was on 18 June, so shortly after my suggestion.  I suspect that he just read my comment and then went to Wikipedia or whatever.  Because why would they suddenly start talking about She’s All That?  

    I further suspect that Tony suggested to Erin that they review She’s All That and this is the only way that Erin knows about the movie.  

    23:30 – Tony mentions the movie Ginger Snaps.  Erin has a clueless look on her face.  She never saw it before.

    Now, I’ve never heard of a lot of these movies either.  But Erin is appearing on a podcast about movies.  And this is her genre.  This is her era.  And she doesn’t know ANY of these movies.  So why do the podcast?  Why embarrass yourself?  She has to know that she’s going to do a terrible job of it.

    24:15 – Tony says, “There’s a special ed joke that probably wouldn’t fly in a movie today.”  He goes to say, “I think that they’re all hilarious.”

    I’m surprised that he says this given that his boss spent seven and a half years in special education.  It’s fucking hilarious.  Just think about that.  Working for somebody who spent seven and a half years in special education.

    25:00 – Erin says that she’s “barely seen the cartoon.”

    That reminds me.  A bunch of people on Twitter asked her if she saw the cartoon and she didn’t reply.  Has she replied since I last checked?  She has not.  And there’s some pretty bad art by Mint Salad.

    https://twitter.com/itsmintsalad/status/1420922713762418688

    So yeah, Erin never saw the cartoon before.  But maybe she’ll watch it now for the purposes of doing a Youtube video about it.

    Crystal says that she watched the cartoon for the purposes of this video and that it “doesn’t have any personality.”  The irony.  Erin is sitting right next to her.  She’s getting uncomfortable.  

    Then Tony starts talking about Married With Children.  Erin doesn’t contribute anything because she’s never fucking seen a single episode.

    26:00 – Tony mentions the film Road Trip.  Erin says, “I said, ‘I should know that guy and I don’t.’  I couldn’t place him.”  

    She obviously has never seen Road Trip so this was her contribution.  Another riveting story about something that didn’t happen.

    Oh wait.

    Tony asks, “Did you ever see Road Trip?”  Erin says, “I did but 20 years ago.  Did that come out 20 years ago?”  It’s all a giant lie.  She had to guess when the movie came out.

    Oh, I didn’t notice this.  Crystal is wearing…how to even describe this?  A half shirt?  Isn’t that for men?  Oh, a crop top.  

    Crystal…we get it.  You’re totally hot and everybody wants to have sex with you.  But put some clothes on.  I’m trying to concentrate on the discussion here.  I can’t keep taking masturbation breaks.

    27:45 – Tony references the film 13 Ghosts.  Erin has no idea what’s going on.

    32:00 – Erin says, “I like how she…like…this is really weird but like I like how Parker Posey like moves her mouth when she talks.”

    Pause the video at 32:11.  Even Crystal Quin is looking at Erin like, “Holy shit.  Look at this retard.”

    “Like I find it mesmerizing.  You know what I mean?”

    No.  Nobody knows what she means.  Crystal actually put her head down for a second like she was trying to escape.  

    “She has a very specific way of like saying words.”

    Tony immediately changes the subject.  Nobody engages with that braindead shit.

    This is what people talk about when they have absolutely no frame of reference for anything.  This is why Erin always talks about shit in the background when she’s talking about video games.  She doesn’t know anything.  She doesn’t know anything about anything.  

    She’s here to talk about a movie.  How is she going to do that?  She doesn’t know any of the actors.  She doesn’t know what other movies they’ve been in.  She’s never seen any other movies.  So what’s left to talk about?  The way an actress’ mouth moves.

    This is rock bottom.  This is the way somebody who just came out of the womb would discuss this movie.  She’s a complete and utter moron and she’s never done or seen a single thing in her entire life.

    32:15 – Tony talks about The Lost in Space reboot.  Erin says, “Oh my god, I forgot that that was a thing.”

    You don’t say.  Add this to the list of things that Erin has never seen before.

    33:00 – Crystal makes a veiled reference to how hot Parker Posey is.

    Erin doesn’t know what’s going on again and makes a weird reference to a Zen garden full of cocaine.  Crystal patronisingly says, “I’ll go with Zen garden full of cocaine.  I like that.”

    Let’s stop and look at what’s going on.  Crystal Quin is being patronising to Erin.  Crystal Quin thinks that she’s significantly more intelligent than Erin.  

    Here’s the crazy thing: she’s right.  Erin is such a giant fucking moron that even CRYSTAL QUIN looks intelligent by comparison.  

    33:30 – Tony references Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.  Erin says, “Oh, okay.  Here we go.”

    She’s obviously never seen the movie so these are the only sorts of comments that she can make.  

    It must be terrifying.  This must be a terrifying experience for her.  Having to go on a show and know that you won’t know what’s going on and you won’t have anything even remotely intelligent to say.  

    But this is how she goes through life.  It’s not just this episode of Talking About Tapes.  This is Erin’s life every fucking day.  She has no idea what anybody is talking about.  

    I’ve mentioned by dog theory before but it bears repeating.  Erin has a dog’s level of understanding about the world.  You look at a dog and it seems to know what’s going on but how can it possibly?  How can a dog comprehend the magnitude that is its reality?  It’s living in this house, it’s being fed every day, it has no control of its life.  How can a dog understand all of this?  

    But the dog doesn’t seem to be concerned about any of this.  It just goes with it.  “These creatures who look nothing like me are watching this screen, I have no idea why, but who cares?  Look at how funny their mouths move.  That’s cute.”

    33:45 – Tony asks Erin, “What do you think about that movie, out of all of the Batman movies?”

    How is she possibly going to get out of this?  She’s never seen ANY Batman movie.  And look at Crystal.  I have to take a screenshot of this.

    Crystal knows full well that Erin is incapable of answering this or ANY question and she can’t believe that Tony would actually ask Erin a question.  He’s intentionally setting Erin up and Crystal knows this.  

    And then there’s Erin with her, “duh, duh, idiot” expression as she frantically thinks of a way out of this.  

    By the way, Erin has really gained some weight.  I didn’t want to say this but come on.  Think of your “fans”.  Don’t let Shishi and the gang down.  It might be time to hit the gym and start watching what you eat.  You’ve got nothing but time.  Use it to get into shape.

    “I think out of all of the Batman movies, it’s probably my least favourite.”

    Tony furls his brow at this and Crystal very obviously rolls her eyes.  She’s never fucking seen a single Batman movie.  

    Let me look this up.  I’ve never even heard of this Batman movie but I wouldn’t lie about it if somebody asked me about it.  Because this is what happens.  You just come up with a completely ridiculous lie that nobody would possibly believe.

    Holy shit.  “The Dark Knight Rises received highly positive reviews from critics.  Many have named it one of the best films of 2012.”

    Right there on Wikipedia.  And we all know that there were many bad Batman movies.  The one with Mr Freeze, for example.  And there were subsequent bad ones.  I don’t watch this shit so I don’t know.

    But it seems that The Dark Knight Rises was one of the better ones.  Empire Magazine declared it the 72nd greatest movie OF ALL TIME.  Richard Roeper said that it was one of the best movies of the decade.

    She’s talking out of her ass.  She has no fucking idea what’s going on.  She never saw the this movie.  Or ANY Batman movie.  She’s blatantly lying because this is the only way that she can talk about anything.  She can’t say, “I don’t know what you’re talking about” to everything.  So she just makes shit up.  She pretends to know what people are talking about.

    “But there is one scene that I think is very powerful, it’s when the stadium collapses.  I like how Bane talks.  It’s funny.”

    Unbelievable.  Let’s just move on.  I’m only at the halfway point.

    Oh.  She won’t let us.

    “I remember seeing that in theatres with my dad and he just looked at me at one point and he goes, ‘I can’t even understand what the fuck he’s saying.’”

    Really?  He used profanity around his daughter?  Or is she just embellishing the story?  

    I can’t get into this.  We have a lot of ground to cover.  I can talk about how it’s weird and low class for families to use profanity around each other another day.

    Oh right.  The scene that Erin was discussing was the scene that Tony was apparently in.  And there was actually an edit right before Erin started talking about this scene.  I suspect that Erin was clued in that Tony was in the scene and that this is something that she can talk about.

    34:45 – Tony asks Erin, “Did you see that new Mortal Kombat?”

    No prizes for guessing what Erin’s answer was.

    35:30 – Erin is so happy to be able to say that Eugene Levy, who was in this shit film that they’re “reviewing” was, “Also in American Pie with Tara Reid.”

    Way to go, Erin.  You made a reference that’s factually accurate and sort of related to the topic of conversation.

    Tony says that he’s also on Schitt’s Creek.  Erin says that she’s never seen it.  You don’t say.

    36:00 – Erin starts stammering about “zoomer kids” and “nostalgia” and then she actually says, “Where was I going with this?”

    That’s what I was thinking as well.  I couldn’t even bother typing out what she was saying.  It was all over the place and didn’t make any sense.

    Then she starts talking about Mtv in the early 2000s.  “TRL” and the news and whatnot.

    Even stuff that she purports to know about…she doesn’t know anything about.

    37:30 – They’re talking about inserting subliminal messages into the video for some bizarre reason and Erin just blurts out her suggestion: “TONY IS THE BEST MAN EVER!”

    God, is that lame.  This is comedy in her mind?  I mean, I know that this is all off the cuff but she can’t do it.  She’s incapable of even having a conversation because she has absolutely no frame of reference for anything.  So she certainly can’t do improv comedy.  She has no fucking personality.  

    I’ve made this same complaint about Crystal many times.  I’ve said that she’s like a pod person.  But sit Crystal next to Erin and Crystal is a bubbly and vivacious woman.  

    “Tony didn’t ruin Cinemassacre.  You should probably cut that.  Or whatever.”

    And they laugh hysterically, but…it seems charitable.  

    Then they encourage her like you would a child.  “No, it was good Erin.  Good job.”  That’s not a direct quote.  

    Erin says, “Sometimes I don’t know when to rail it in.”

    Rail indeed.  Do you suppose it’s a pronunciation thing or she genuinely thinks that “rail” is the word?  Because she made a little reeling motion.

    Crystal says, “You’re doing phenomenal”.

    Fuck.  Come on.  There’s encouragement and then there’s outright lies.  Now we can’t believe anything that Crystal says.  And Erin knows this.  Erin knows that she’s not doing phenomenally.  So Erin just lost all trust in Crystal.

    38:45 – Crystal says, “I loved the line that Alan says.  ‘What’s the point of being famous if the people you hated in high school isn’t (sic) kissing your ass?’  And I was like, being made fun of throughout all of school I was just like…I’m going to be famous just for that.”

    Uh huh.  Crystal wants sympathy.  It’s all about her.  Everything she does is about her.  

    “Oh, look at me horntards.  I’m a nerd too.  Love me.”

    Meanwhile, she wouldn’t have sex with a single one of those horntards.  She just wants validation and attention.  

    Tony then claims that he was called “gay” in school for not liking football.  I can’t identify.  

    I’ll go off on a tangent here because who cares at this point?  This is going to be a short-story length article anyway.

    But I didn’t like sports and nobody ever called me gay.  Nobody I hung out with liked sports and they weren’t called gay.  

    The people who were into sports were the nerds.  These were the good students.  These were the people who were concerned about having something good to put on their college resumes.  These were the people who cared about “school spirit”.  

    They were also, I guess, the more popular kids.  But it’s not like how you see on tv or in movies where the “jocks” are knocking people’s books out of their hands and giving them wedgies and whatnot.  They were the people getting good grades.  And really interested in school.  That’s for fucking nerds and we all knew it.  So they were in no position to lord it over anybody.

    Erin says, “Middle school was the worst.”

    40:00 – “Erin continues, “But then we wouldn’t have turned out the awesome individuals, the well-adjusted individuals that we are today.”

    I’m just going to move on.  They seem to want to keep talking about this shit but I’m done with this weird pity party/please give me attention shit.

    They’re talking about cat ear headphones.  

    Erin: Razer should pay them like royalties.

    Tony: Is that who makes those?

    Erin: I think so.  Whatever.  They do all of the gaming shit.

    And Crystal consoles Erin for making another stupid comment.

    Let’s look this up.

    Oh.  By sheer luck, she’s right.

    41:00 – Tony compares this movie to Zoolander.  Erin says, “Yeah, I noticed that too.”

    How so, Erin?  Compare and contrast the two movies, briefly.

    Erin doesn’t do that.  Instead, she goes on a weird tangent about how in the early 2000s…fuck.  I don’t even know.  She’s just rambling again.  But the gist is that things were WAY different in the early 2000s to today.  This is a theme that they talk about a lot during this episode.  Can you expand on this?  What the fuck are you talking about?  

    42:30 – Tony makes some nerd Star Trek joke/reference.  Erin has no fucking idea what he’s talking about so just makes another generic comment.

    42:45 – Erin claims to have watched the first Wonder Woman movie in a theatre.  Her story is boring as shit and goes nowhere.

    44:00 – Erin calls Wonder Woman’s weapon a whip.  Tony mocks her by saying, “Yeah, the Whip of Truth, they call it.”  Erin doesn’t even realise that he’s mocking her.

    She’s a big Wonder Woman fan, guys.

    47:00 – Tony is talking about She’s All That again.  God, I must have really had an influence on him.  I wish that I would have mentioned a more interesting movie.

    47:45 – Oh here we go.  Crystal is talking about how hot the woman who played Josie was.  We get it, Crystal.  You like sexy ladies.

    Imagine if it was a guy doing this.  There’s a guy reviewing a movie and all he talks about is how hot the actresses are and which one of them he wants to have sex with and explicit detail about what he’d do them sexually.  People would say, “Go jerk off, you fucking loser, and stop making these idiotic videos.”  

    But because it’s the super hot Crystal Quin, it’s allowed.  Even rewarded.  

    Now they’re talking about one of the characters breasts.  “Everyone likes boobs”.  Anyone want to guess who said that?

    Then she goes on and on and on about everybody who likes boobs and Tony tries to get back on track but Crystal continues listing the various people who like boobs.

    Men like boobs.
    Women like boobs.
    Midgets like boobs.
    Swedes like boobs.
    Professional bowlers like boobs.
    Blind people like boobs.
    People in iron lungs like boobs.

    We get it.  Shut the fuck up.  This isn’t funny and it’s not making my penis even a tiny bit hard.  Talk about the movie or expose Erin for the complete moron that she is.

    49:15 – Erin makes another weird comment about how she likes the way somebody moves.

    50:15 – Tony makes a comment about how women “lift each other up” and he’s obviously being sarcastic and Erin says, “Not in the real world.”  

    Did she not realise that he was joking or did she just not know what to say?  Yet again.  So came up with this awkward shit?

    Then Tony laughed.  It’s kind of his thing.  He should consider a career as a professional audience member.  Go to sitcom tapings and laugh at every fucking joke no matter how bad.

    50:45 – Erin claims to have seen Bring it On six times in the theatre.

    Uh huh.

    51:00 – Super awkward talk from Erin.  I won’t even type it out.  It goes on from about 51:00 to…well…I’ll point out this comment:

    53:15 – Erin is doing an impression of a typical video of hers and she says, “Hey guys!  Today we’re playing…(long pause) (Tony suggests Bubble Bobble to try to help out) like Conker’s Bad Fur Day on the N64.”

    She struggled to think of a game.  Let’s just move on.  This is all awkward as fuck.  Too awkward for me to even describe.

    54:45 – Erin talks about “TRL” and how this “TRL” scene is “The most early 2000s thing in the world.”

    She claims to have watched “TRL” every day after school.

    55:00 – Crystal is talking about the black guy in the scene.  I don’t know his name.  He was on MadTv according to Erin.  I think that that’s right.  

    So Crystal says that she loves comedy and “I’ve worked in comedy for a really long time.”

    Uh huh.  Doing what?

    She claims that this guy’s comedy is “preachy and super homophobic.”

    Oh dear.  We can’t have that.

    Then Erin just totally changes the subject.  Because she can’t have a conversation.  She doesn’t know what’s going on.  So she just goes back to “TRL”.

    I think that Crystal just made a veiled racist remark, though.  Black people are often “homophobic”.  It’s part of the culture.  Who is she to impose her beliefs on others?  Cultural imperialism is what this is.  Check your privilege.  

    1:05:30 – Tony makes a Simpsons reference.  That episode where Bart and his friends become a boy band and there’s subliminal messages about joining the navy.  

    Erin doesn’t get the reference.  She’s never seen The Simpsons.

    1:06:45 – Tony makes a reference to the movie Horrible Bosses and Erin pretends to know what he’s talking about.  She gives a generic response.  “I forgot about that.”

    Uh huh.  “Forgot”.

    Crystal mentions Meet the Millers.  Erin says, “I haven’t seen that one.”

    I think that they’re talking about We’re the Millers.

    Tony says that he plans on watching this movie again.  He goes on to say that the young folk won’t get the jokes.  

    Tony talks about the Joker movie.  Erin claims to have watched it before.  But she’s lying again.  She just gives another generic reply.

    Crystal starts talking about Scooby Doo.  Erin’s eyes glaze over.  She’s never seen Scooby Doo before.

    So that’s the video at a merciful end.  

    Oh, you can see the chat from when Tony “premiered” the video.  Tony is there commenting.  Crystal is there commenting.  No Erin.

    This was boring.  This was awkward.  And Erin, as usual, had no fucking idea where she even was.

    – “this is the “like” episode”

    It’s true.  Erin says “like” a lot.  I usually remove them when I’m quoting from her but I left them in this time to illustrate just how bad it is.

    – “The fact that Crystal knows about the Mandela Effect makes her even hotter!!”

    Yeah.  From that AVGN episode.  And she used the term incorrectly.  Hot.

    – “Crystal you beast, carried the show n made it look easy. 🤣 The ears lol.Not a fan of Mike n Erin tho so made this ep hard to watch”

    Somebody replies, “Karen sucks”

    It’s true.  Well, I have a whole blog dedicated to how much Erin sucks.  But I mean it’s true that the consensus in these comments is that Erin sucks.  People are mostly polite about it, I assume that Tony deleted the insulting comments, but yeah.  Erin is not good.

    – “Drink every time she says “like” or “actually”. She has the vocabulary of a 10 year old”

    That’s charitable.

    – “Why don’t you review any interesting movies. Your Channel sucks!”

    I agree.  Everything has to be from “the 90s” or the early 2000s.  And it’s all comedy or horror or comic book shit.

    And then here, they obviously chose a horrible movie to appease Erin.  Why didn’t they just pick a normal movie and make Erin watch it?  Who was clamouring for a review of Josie and the Pussycats?

    – “I was going to skip this episode because the subject material didn’t interest me but then I caught a glimpse of crystal in that outfit and changed my mind.”

    See?  That guy wasn’t clamouring for Josie and the Pussycats.  But he still likes to jerk off to Crystal Quin.  Inexplicably.

    – “CAN ERIN AND KRYSTAL HAVE THEIR OWN SHOW ?”

    Somebody replies, “Please dear god.  So I don’t have to see them on here again.”

    These guys must be misogynists..  What?  You don’t like sexy ladies reviewing movies?  Are you gay?  This is some great “content” right here.  There were so many amazing insights into the film and everyone did a phenomenal job.  Just phenomenal.  

    In all seriousness, it’s just bad.  Crystal is absolutely horrendous and Erin is possibly the only person on earth who can do a worse job of this than Crystal.  

    Does Tony not know any women who can speak in an intelligent and articulate fashion about movies?  Tony himself isn’t doing that.  Newt isn’t doing it.  

    Watch this video and then ask yourself, “What did I learn about the movie?”  The answer is nothing.  I have no idea what the movie is about.  And this is the only thing that they do.  They go through the fucking plot points.  But I still don’t have the foggiest idea what this movie is about.  They’re in a band and somebody gets mad at somebody…I think there’s a reference to brainwashing…there’s something about subliminal messages…and then they dance at the end.

    I don’t think that that’s right.  I think that I’m missing some of the finer details of the film.  

    What about that chubby Asian woman who has been in at least a couple of Screenwave videos?  Is she any good?  If she is, you have a built in horntard audience for chubby Asian women.  

    I really don’t know what can fix the show.  I mean, getting rid of Crystal Quin is step 1 but past that, I don’t know.  It just got really bad when Tony started going for the horntard market.  It was watchable before.  Maybe look at what worked in the earlier episodes and try to do that.  

    Don’t worry about kicking Crystal Quin out.  She has a lot of options.  She can go back to the comedy world and complain that the comedy isn’t PC enough for her.  There’s always the modelling because she’s just super hot.  She could go back to that job where her boss wanted to have sex with her.  

    And she’s a natural entertainer.  Let her try her own thing.  What about a Crystal Quin Youtube channel?  That would be sweet.  She could make a video where she talks about gas prices and guesses what state everybody is from.  She’s just so charming and likeable.  If you free her, she’ll be able to flourish on her own.  She’s being held back with this Talking About Tapes shit.

  • My Eating Disorder: Recovery, Relapse, and Learning to Love Pizza Again – PushingUpRoses

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6h7z480eg

    More self-indulgent tripe about “mental health” from PushingUpRoses.  This is what she does.

    She blames some guy who she met I think just one time for 12 years of eating disorders.  Really.  Tell us more.

    5:30 – Bulimia causes extra body hair growth.  But she goes on to say that she doesn’t want to shame body hair.  She divulges that she hasn’t shaved her legs in six months.  

    Oh, I should have mentioned that this video is just her doing some kind of virtual colouring book.  She doesn’t appear in the video.  It’s just this virtual colouring book.  It screams insanity.

    Her teeth also became rotted.

    She fainted a lot.

    She became deluded and had psychotic breakdowns.

    I’m not making any of this up.

    7:15 – Then she shows several *triggering* scenes of Hollywood depictions of bulimia.  There’s one where there’s a woman forcing herself to vomit.  Why on earth would she think that this is a good idea?  Because she’s mentally ill.

    8:45 – “I was purging my anti-depressants.”

    I’m sorry but I found this hilarious.

    She keeps saying that she didn’t know about the dangers because she wasn’t an adult.  I believe that she started with this when she was 15.  And it went on for 12 years.  She never figured it out?  

    She also keeps saying “BDD”.  That’s a reference to her previous video where she talked obsessively about her struggles with body dysmorphic disorder.  People with mental health problems LOVE using abbreviations for their mental health problems.

    10:15 – She briefly mentions her suicide attempt and was then sent to some kind of mental institution.

    11:15 – She talks about how she’s self-obsessed and loves talking about herself.  At least she’s self-aware.

    13:45 – She describes bulimia like a pot of boiling water.  “I hope that’s not too much of a ridiculous metaphor.  I’m a writer so I talk in metaphor.”

    Uh huh.  What has she actually written?  

    https://www.polygamer.net/2014/11/26/pg10-pushinguproses/

    This site from 2014 describes her as a “writer”, a holder of a degree in creative writing, and also apprenticing as a body piercer.  But no mention of anything that she’s written.

    At least it gives her name.  I can search on Amazon.  By the way, that site was something about about gay/lesbian/”poly”…something…”Youtubers”.

    I’m not seeing anything.  

    Does she even have a blog?  No.

    So what is she talking about?  

    Here’s her IMDB:

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4496632/

    She was an “actress” in a few things that nobody has ever heard of, always playing herself, but there are no writing credits.

    Her nickname is  Sexy McSexbot.  Uh huh.

    She was born in 1985 so when she was 15, it was 2000.  In this video, she talks about how the only information she had about bulimia was from mid 90s sitcoms like Full House.  No.  It was 2000.  She must have had the internet by now.  In the mid 90s, she was about 10 years old and didn’t have an eating disorder.

    I just want to know what she’s written.  She described herself as a writer.  Let’s see it.  Maybe I’ll do a book review on her work.

    I found a thread on some weird forum that has 417 pages about her.  I don’t think that I should link to it, but these people really seem to be on top of things.  They’re talking about how her art is terrible and she’s completely self-obsessed.  

    https://twitter.com/pushinuproses/status/1166110735396691969

    She describes herself as a “writer” again but…OF WHAT?  Maybe she’s talking about her shitty Youtube videos.  I give up.

    14:00 – She gave up on her art aspirations because she wanted to focus on her eating disorder.  I’m not making this up.

    18:15 – She says that her bulimia started when she was 16.  So not 15.  So advance everything a year.  It was 2001.  She didn’t have the internet in 2001?  She didn’t know that bulimia had negative health effects as a 16 year old?  And never figured it out at any point in the next 12 years?  

    That’s the video.  Youtube refused to monetise this piece of shit.  So instead, she did some kind of fundraiser where you can donate money to her and allegedly this will go to charity.  She’s collected $3,317.  

    How?  Only 21,000 people have viewed this video.  The percentage of people who actually donate money must be…fuck…1 in a 1000?  Maybe not even that much.  Who’s doing this?  

    Ha.  I’m reading the comments.  Apparently Youtube actually took the video down and then she re-uploaded it.  Somehow this fundraiser makes this possible.

    Anyway, let me check out this 417 page thread.  I have a lot of reading to do now.  This time could have been filled with a book by PushingUpRoses but it seems that she’s never written one.

    – “10k views and $2k raised. Jesus Christ she has some deep simps.”

    Yeah, this guy gets it.  There’s something not right about this.  Is it just a handful of people who gave large amounts of money?  

    Somebody calls her a narcissist.  It’s true.  It’s good to see people who know what’s up.  I don’t agree with all of the racism, though.  Even if it is “ironic” or to be “edgy”.  

    Anyway, all this food talk has made me hungry.  I’m going to eat some Doritos or something.

  • More WarioWare Inc.! on GBA! – Erin Plays

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NhdCGd2MIw

    (I wrote this over two months ago so there might be some dated stuff here.  But also, Tony from Hack the Movies is “premiering” the video with Erin and Crystal.  And even in the two minute “teaser”, Erin is awkward as fuck and totally devoid of charisma.  Holy shit.  This is going to be great.  So I’ll probably do a review of that and publish it…probably 31 July.)

    For those of you who weren’t already bored of her first attempt at this game.  As detailed here:

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/05/warioware-mega-microgames-erin-plays.html

    She’s playing it again.  On stream, for money, of course.  She must be “addicted” to this game.  She’s playing it TWICE!

    She edits out a bunch of failed attempts at the game.  What’s the point?  Does she even have good attempts at the game?

    0:30 – “So I tried regular Monster for the first time ever today.”

    Hey guys!  Remember Monster?

    Is that how people describe it?  Because it took me a second to figure out what she’s talking about.  I’m thinking that people say “Monster energy drink” but that’s too long of a name.  So maybe she’s right.  Maybe people just know what “Monster” is.  

    I had it two or three times.  The first time was from, whatever, a little drug store/pharmacy/chemist.  I don’t know if it was Monster or some other brand.  I think it was like honey flavour.  Something weird like that.  I seem to remember a picture of a bee or a honeycomb on the can.  I got either one or two cans.  It tasted like shit.

    The second time was at a train station in some small town.  I had a lot of time to kill.  It was the normal Monster energy drink, the green one.  I don’t know how I know it was green.  I’m talking about the liquid.  Maybe the can was green too.  Anyway, it tasted like shit.

    But yeah, Erin is all about “Monster”.  She drinks it all the time.  It’s the only way she can stay awake through these boring as fuck streams.  She doesn’t want to sit there playing games and talking to retards.  Who would, frankly.  But Erin is doubly disinterested because she’s not interested in video games.

    I don’t want to fucking watch Erin playing this game so I’m just going to talk more about beverages.  If you were hoping for a detailed breakdown of Erin playing this shit game AGAIN, I’m sorry to disappoint.  Let’s just assume that she’s really bad at the game and talked about the colours and how cute things are.

    But yeah, energy drinks and coffee, I don’t drink that shit.  I had one coffee in my life.  It tasted like shit.

    You see what it does to people.  They’re addicted to it.  They need it to function.  Why would anybody want that?  

    Even if it was healthy, which of course it isn’t, I don’t want to have to drink an expensive beverage several times a day.  

    Then there’s the fact that it stains your teeth, gives you coffee breath, increases your risk for heart attacks.  What about this is appealing?  And it tastes like shit.  

    People can’t go one day without it.  They need it to wake up, they need it in the afternoon, they need it in the evening.  The appeal is totally foreign to me.  

    Alcohol, similar thing.  It tastes like shit and people can get addicted to it.  Although, nowhere near the levels of coffee addiction.  There are no social coffee drinkers.  If you’re drinking coffee, you’re drinking it every day.  At lest with alcohol you get drunk.  I sort of see the appeal of that, especially socially.  

    Carbonated beverages, also similar.  I think that addiction rate here is fairly low but people drink it every day just out of habit, I think.  That’s what’s in the refrigerator so that’s what they drink.

    Personally, I drink water.  If I’m feeling adventurous, I’ll drink some milk or juice.  Am I missing out on life by not enjoying the rich tapestry of beverages?  I don’t think so.  And I have no trouble waking up, I have no trouble functioning throughout the day, and I’m not spending £10/day on this bullshit.  

    Anyway, Erin didn’t like the regular Monster.  She did online grocery shopping and they substituted her normal flavour for the regular flavour.  She “forgot” that the original flavour existed.  Whatever that means.

    But yeah.  Online shopping.  God forbid you get out of your home and get even the tiniest bit of exercise.  Are they worried about covid over at the Matei household ala Jimmy Rolfe or are they just lazy bastards?  I don’t know.

    1:15 – They’re talking about some rhythm game in the chat.  “Do you remember the commercial with Beyonce in it?”

    No.  Do you have anything to actually say about the commercial?  Of course she doesn’t.

    3:15 – Then she puts a “hilarious”, “Much, much, much later” graphic on screen to show that she edited the footage.

    Hey guys!  Remember Spongebob Squarepants?

    I guess so.  I was too old for the show but I happened to catch a few episodes.

    4:15 – “I want to play the Virtual Boy.  I’ve never played it.”

    Don’t bother.  It makes for poor streaming.  

    4:30 – Erin talks about how she’s “nostalgic” for Disney.

    Hey guys!  Remember Disney?

    Yes, Erin.  I remember Disney.  But I never went to the theme parks and I have no interest in that.

    5:15 – “I’ve never been to Six Flags.  I don’t like rollercoasters.”

    Hey guys!  Remember Six Flags?  It’s like Disneyland but ghetto and Bugs Bunny and other Warner Bros characters instead of Mickey Mouse and whatnot.

    I wonder if Games & Movies ever went there.  All of his videos are about hugging characters in Disneyland.  Would he not accept hugging Warner Bros characters?  Does Six Flags even have characters walking around in costume?  Let me look this up.

    According to Reddit, they do, at least as of 2015.  Maybe it varies by park.  

    Oh, I found a job listing for the Six Flags in Arlington, Texas for costumed characters.  It pays $12.50.  Let the good times roll.  Who the fuck would go in that boiling hot costume, in Texas, for $12.50/hour?  And you have fucking retards and/or perverts constantly grabbing on you.

    8:30 – Erin is talking about the monorail at Disney and somebody in the chat makes the “Mono means one, rail means rail” Simpsons joke.  Erin doesn’t get the reference.  So she says, “Yeah, it’s just a one little track thing and it’s cool.”

    9:00 – “Ha!  “And rail means rail.”

    Big Simpsons fan.  Never saw this episode.

    Also, stars Leonard Nimoy, of course.  And we know what a big Star Trek fan Erin is.  How did she miss this episode?  

    9:15 – “This is like NES Remix?  Yeah, kind of.  I forgot about NES Remix.”

    She “always” forgets about NES Remix.  It’s so fucking stupid.  It doesn’t even make sense.  How can you “forget” about a game, after having been reminded of it?  You’re either familiar with the game or you’re not.  In this case, Erin is not.

    11:30 – She’s playing a game based on…Bank Panic?  Something.  And she shoots the guy, his pants fall down, and she says, “Haha.  Your pants are down.”

    Same with Games & Movies.  “Come on, Lennie.  Finish up and then we have to work on your alphabet puzzle.”

    12:00 – “This game is kicking my ass.  I don’t know.  I don’t know what to do.  I’m just going to keep trying.”

    Not me, Erin.  You can continue to entertain the horny retards but I’m going to go do something more worthwhile with my time.

  • Kenny James Actually Spoke To Me At SEGE 2021 And More!! – ZapTV

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hFne96df9U

    0:00 – “Hello, beautiful peeps.”

    People who do this are really patronising, hold very high opinions of themselves, and have a bizarre obsession with physical appearance.  This applies perfectly to Zap.

    They got a plane from Texas to South Carolina and there was a stop in Atlanta.  Really?  There aren’t any direct flights?  Let me look this up.

    No, there are definitely direct flights.  I’m searching for Houston to Greenville, South Carolina.  I don’t know where in Texas they departed.  I’m thinking that they just wanted to save some money by getting the cheaper flight that has a stop.  I’d pay the bit extra not to have to spend any time in Atlanta but whatever.  She’s obviously not making much money from Youtube.

    It’s like a $60 difference between the cost of a direct flight and a flight with a layover.  $310 versus $245.  That’s a pretty big difference, I guess.  I think that I would just pay the extra not to have to bother with the layover and having to go through security again and racing through the airport and issues with bags and being in Atlanta for any period of time but whatever.

    1:00 – “Hopefully, I’ll see ya’ll lovely, beautiful peeps.”

    It’s so off-putting.  On so many levels.  The Southern “ya’ll”.  The Ebonics.  The vanity.  It’s great.  This woman has it all.  

    1:15 – Upon arrival at historic Greenville, they stopped at an establishment called Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack.  Or “Chack” as she pronounced it.

    Then there’s a picture of her with John Riggs.  What a sick fuck he is.  THE WOMAN IS MARRIED, JOHN.  SO ARE YOU.  GO TAKE CARE OF YOUR FAMILY.

    By the way, did you know that John Riggs has a weird tribal tattoo on his leg?  I didn’t know this and I don’t want to know this but here was have a picture of fat ass John Riggs wearing shorts and showing off his shaved legs.

    2:00 – She’s talking about how her and her husband have a panel at “SEGE” (which she pronounced as a word”.  “It’s going to be pretty (Ebonics)”.  

    What the fuck is she even saying?  Here’s my advice on how to get more popular on Youtube: SPEAK SO THAT PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE SAYING.  I’m not putting this “Ebonics” stuff in as a joke.  I genuinely don’t know what she’s saying.  

    “This is a great place to visit whenever you decide to visit South Carolina.”

    Ha.  Yeah.  I’ll put it on my to do list if I ever find myself in South Carolina.  

    Maybe I shouldn’t write off the whole of the South.  But I’ve never been.  And I’ve never had any desire to go.  

    I’m trying to think…have I ever even known anybody from the South?  I mean the deep South.  I…don’t think so.  

    Hollywood depictions are never favourable.  Smokey and the Bandit.  Every Which Way But Loose.  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.  It’s always depicted as a place full of inbred, racist, Jesus nuts.  Is this accurate or are the Jewish Hollywood producers conspiring to portray a negative image of the South?

    I used to watch a “Youtuber” who did metal detecting videos.  He’d go down the “crick” with his metal detector.  It was interesting.  He would find some garbage.  But it was nice scenery and whatnot.  Relaxing videos.

    Then he suddenly found Jesus and started inserting bible verses into his videos.  That’s around the time when I stopped watching.  If this guy is high on Jesus, that’s cool, but what does it have to do with metal detecting?

    There’s Adam the Woo, of course.  That Jesus nut from the South.

    Plus, there’s the weather.  I don’t like hot weather.  

    I mean…it might be interesting.  Could be an adventure to live there for a year or two.  See how you like it.  

    More people should do this.  Just up and move.  You get some stories out of it.  Opportunities arise.  Who knows what can happen?  Maybe you’ll meet some hot chick like Zap over here.  

    2:30 – Brutal “interview” of the guy who “owns” the convention.  She very patronisingly calls him “buddy”.  

    Could her shorts be any shorter?  I don’t want to see this.  This is the fattest “sex symbol” I’ve ever seen.

    3:30 – A couple of fat lesbians doing cosplay.  And then more footage of John Riggs…

    Shout-out to Kenny James.  “Ya’ll” know Kenny James, right?  The voice of Bowser?  I don’t really play the games.  Does Bowser ever have any lines?  I can only think of him laughing and maybe roaring in the Nintendo 64 Mario Party games.

    Well, whatever.  He’ll be signing autographs.

    4:15 – Zap starts saying “cringey” shit and this guy LITERALLY cringes.  It’s fucking hilarious.

    4:30 – “I started game hunting over here really early thanks to my man over here.  What’s your name?”

    More patronising bullshit.  Zap.  Nobody gives two fucks about you.  You’re not some hot chick.  You’re not some superstar.  You’re a fat, ugly, Puerto Rican woman.  That’s fine.  Nobody cares about that.  It only becomes an issue when you try to put other people down.  You’re a total nobody.  

    If she had a nice personality, nobody would care about her appearance.  But she’s awful.  She’s an awful, horrible person.  

    “Look what I got.  Look what I got here, guys.”

    You mean three chins?  Cool.  Maybe start eating less and exercising more.

    And she says “ya’ll” constantly.  Is that what people in the South do?  That would be reason number ten billion why I’m not interested in going.

    5:00 – Finally, the big interview with…Kenny James?  And she calls herself “Dab Crystal.”  She can’t even pronounce her own fucking made up name.  Why didn’t she just call herself Dab Crystal if she knew that she was unable to pronounce “Zap”? 

    This guy does not want to be here.  The indignity of all of this.  He’s cringing too.  She’s a highly cringeworthy person.

    6:15 – “Hello, beautiful peeps.  How ya’ll doing.”

    She just said this randomly as she was walking.  She said this to random people.  Like anybody knows who the fuck she is or wants to interact with her in any way.  

    And that “interview” was…I didn’t even realise that it was an interview until she described it as such just now.  She didn’t ask him ANYTHING as far as I recall.  She just made some “cringey” comments and the guy looked uncomfortable as hell.

    6:30 – “Look who I have right here.  Johnny (Ebonics)”.

    Why does she do this?  Can she really not speak?  Maybe she can’t.  She can’t even pronounce her own name.  

    So we were introduced to Johnny Ebonics, he said, “Hello” or “Wazzup” or “Hey diddle diddle” or whatever and then that was it.  Who the fuck is Johnny Ebonics?  Why didn’t you stop to talk to him?  

    It was the same with that vendor who she spoke to.  She was all up in his ass, in a patronising way, and then she just walked off without saying goodbye and he awkwardly sat down when he realised that she was done.  

    7:45 – Another awkward as fuck interview.  That guy is looking around for the nearest exit.  His fight or flight instincts are kicking in.  He wants no part of this whatsoever.  This is the same look that EVERYONE who Zap “interviews” has.

    She doesn’t even introduce who this guy is or what his role is.  I have no idea what this guy is talking about or who he is.

    8:15 – She can’t pronounce “tomorrow”.  

    She keeps hyping this convention but…why?  She’s a guest speaker.  Isn’t she?  Not a promoter.  And she’s releasing this video LONG after the show is over.

    9:45 – She’s showing other people at this convention.  I don’t know if they’re vendors or speakers or the general public or what.  But they’re overwhelmingly obese.

    It puts things into perspective.  Compared to these guys, Zap is almost slim.  

    This is something you see a lot with the gamer grrl scene.  It seems to attract average (at best) looking women and it’s not hard to figure out why this is.  They get constant praise for how hot they are from these fucking 300 pound guys and/or the mentally retarded.  

    So you take some woman who doesn’t get much attention from guys in the “normal” world, she starts playing video games (on stream, for money), and suddenly all of these guys are talking about how hot she is and how they want to have sex with her.  It’s an ego boost.  And these women either don’t know or don’t care that the people saying this stuff are all a bunch of losers.

    10:45 – Footage of Zap with JLuv81.  I notice that the other two women who were on that panel want absolutely nothing to do with Zap.  

    11:00 – 

    Zap: There’s something that everyone wants you to do with me.

    JLuv: Okay?

    Zap: Do you know what that is?

    And…it was…slapping…slapping her face.  THIS is what “everyone” wanted to see?  Do you mean your 2000 subscribers, the 200 people who have watched this video, or the 20 people who left comments?

    Why was this hyped?  This is dogshit.  

    No, I’m done.  This is brutal.

    So JOHN RIGGS leaves a message.  He’s still dreaming about going back to Rocky’s.  Uh huh.  And spending time with other men’s fat wives?  Your own fat wife isn’t good enough for you, John?

  • Ranking the Best and Worst Sierra and LucasArts Adventure Games – Cannot be Tamed

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCsHcqs9j1k

    I’ve actually watched this one already.  I watched a 40 minute Pam aka CannotBeEntertaining video.  It wasn’t easy.  I watched the last 20 minutes with my eyes closed, trying to fall asleep.  But I maintained consciousness throughout the entire video.

    And now I’m going to watch it again because she made some curious observations.  I played Sierra adventure games extensively in my youth so I’m invested in the topic.

    1:45 – She says that she doesn’t like “text parser” adventure games.  You know, the ones where you have to type everything out.  She prefers the ones where you click.

    When they started that clicking bullshit, I was done with the genre.  I even wrote an angry letter to Sierra about it.  But this is the way with things.  Everything has to constantly be dumbed down.  

    When you were able to type shit, it was like you could have done anything.  Of course you couldn’t, a lot of shit would give you a “I don’t understand that” message, but there was an illusion of freedom.  

    With clicking, you realised that the only options are “look”, “give”, “pick up”, this sort of shit.  Because those are the only options that you’re given.  There was even at least one Leisure Suit Larry game that eschewed even that basic setup and just had a regular arrow for everything.  So you just clicked everything using an arrow cursor.  

    I played Monkey Island years after it was released, shortly after I got the internet, a bootleg version, and I didn’t like it.  The LucasArts games are all clicking shit so it’s not for me.

    2:30 – She starts with King’s Quest I.  She didn’t like it because you have to type.

    This was a bit before my time but I played it decades later after I got the internet.  I didn’t spend much time on it but I was playing it like 20 years after it was released.  It’s tough to play these games today even if you have an appreciation for the genre and the era it was released.

    She complains about the loud sounds.  It’s true but that’s the case with all IBM or whatever it was sound games.  But the Tandy line of computers had a better soundcard (maybe the IBM and clone computers didn’t have a soundcard at all) so it was much more pleasing to the ear.  I don’t know if King’s Quest I has a Tandy sound option.

    2:45 – She shouts out Roberta Williams.  She does this a few times throughout the video.  She always shouts out female game developers.  

    But wasn’t the game co-developed by her husband Ken Williams?  Not according to Wikipedia.  But he helped on the second game.  He has a surprisingly sparse list of games that he worked on, actually.  That’s surprising.

    Interestingly, Pam aka CannotBeEntertaining never played King’s Quest IV.  She might have enjoyed it.  Female protagonist.  Significantly better graphics.  You still have to type, though.  

    4:00 – Leisure Suit Larry.  She’s mentioned this before.  Surprisingly, she likes the series.

    4:45 – She shouts out the sexism and “casual homophobia.”

    I played this game at a friend’s house as a kid and his mother came over and said, “Is that the woman with the big boobs?” and my friend said, “No, this is a different woman.”  

    It’s weird.  I found it weird at the time.  Why is his mother okay with us playing this game?  We were probably about 12 years old.  

    God, that was a weird house.  The father was always sleeping.  And the place was always a huge mess.  Clothes all over.  Mouse traps everywhere.  My friend was a smart guy, though.  Did well in school.  

    I saw him years later.  I was in college and he stopped by my house for some reason.  We hadn’t spoken since the 9th grade.  He was talking about his 40 year old girlfriend and how his parents got divorced and shit like this.  That was the last time that I saw him.  I think that he’s a crooked cop now.  

    10:00 – Another Leisure Suit Larry game.  Pam tells this weird story, which she’s told before, about being at her aunt’s house and playing this game as a seven year old.  And she talks about how excited she was to play it because you could see boobs.  She goes on to say that she probably shouldn’t have been allowed to play it.

    Well, yeah.  It obviously warped Pam.  She’s a hardcore lesbian now.  

    What was this aunt of hers thinking?  Why did the aunt even have the game for herself?  Pam says that it was the ONLY game that this woman had.  So she obviously wasn’t interested in video games.  She just had this one game, presumably to masturbate over.  I guess.  She must have been a lesbian too.  

    And then Pam shows footage of nudity in this game and calls it “nostalgic”.  Completely bizarre. 

    11:45 – Quest for Glory 1.  The VGA remake.  Pam never played the original where you had to type.

    She mentions that she never played Police Quest or Space Quest.  Yeah, I never played any Space Quest games either but I played the Police Quest games.

    I had Police Quest 2 and I got pretty far with that.  I didn’t like it, though.

    Then I got a compilation CD that had all of the Police Quest games.  Sierra was doing this for a while.  They put out compilation CDs of their games.  It was a good deal at the time.

    But this was years after these games were released and I couldn’t get into them.  

    Also in this compilation was Police Quest SWAT or something.  It was some FMV game.  What a piece of shit that was.  I hated that game.  And it was in this weird jewel case that made it really hard to get the game out.  Maybe I was just an idiot.  But I ended up snapping the CD.  That never happened before or since.  

    So I sent it back to Sierra for a replacement (because I bought it directly from Sierra) but they sent back the wrong CD or something.  So I was really disappointed with Sierra by this point.  They’re making shit games like Police Quest SWAT now, nobody wants fucking FMV games, they put them in this ridiculous jewel case that breaks the game, and then when I inevitably break the game, they send me the wrong fucking replacement CD.  

    I didn’t even bother trying to rectify this.  I didn’t want Police Quest SWAT anyway.  So I just decided that I was done with Sierra.  They went out of business shortly thereafter anyway.

    14:45 – Quest for Glory 2.  She doesn’t like it.  Because you have to type.

    She mentions a VGA remake but she doesn’t seem to know that this was a fan-made remake.

    15:15 – She complains about the maze-like streets.  This was a copyright protection thing.  You needed to have the map that came with the game to navigate the streets.  But you only had to do this ONCE per game.  Once you buy the IN-GAME map, you can just fast travel to places you’ve been before by clicking the location on the map.  

    Then she mentions a “puzzle” near the end of the game where you have to mention the name of somebody that somebody just mentioned in passing.  I don’t remember the name being said in the game but I do remember this name being in the manual.  So this was another copy protection thing.

    I remember discovering this YEARS after I first got the game.  I was just stuck there.  But that’s okay.  This is how things were back in the day.  You played a game for years.  That was the mark of a good game.  If you beat a game on your first playthrough, that’s a piece of shit game.  I want to get my money’s worth.  I want to play the same game for many years.  

    So Pam aka CannotBeEntertaining says that Quest for Glory 2 is the worst game in the franchise.

    Totally backwards.  It’s the best game.  I’ve beaten the first four games many times.  I’ve played them for many hours.  Over the course of years.  From best to worst: 2, 1, 4, 3.  

    But Pam ranks the games, 3, 4, 1, 2.  It’s madness.  The complete opposite of reality.  Her list is garbage.

    Quest for Glory 2 took everything that was great about Quest for Glory 1 (the version where you have to type) and magnified it.  Quest for Glory 1 was a four disc game whereas Quest for Glory 2 had nine discs.  More than twice as much content.  

    20:30 – Quest for Glory 3.  She doesn’t know the subtitle but I’ll let it go.  She obviously has played the game before.

    It’s just baffling that this is her favourite game in the series.  She cites the combat as being exceptionally good when in reality, it’s exceptionally bad.  Clearly the worst in the series.  Not that the combat was good in any of them.  All you have to do is hold the attack button down for the first two games and that’s basically all that you do in the third one too.  The fourth game has a much more elaborate system that I don’t like but fortunately you can set it to “auto”.

    She talks about how the different classes in the game impact things.  No.  Quest for Glory 3’s classes have the LEAST impact on the game than any game in the franchise.  I never played Quest for Glory 5 so I don’t know about that game.  

    There’s no thieves guild.  So thieves aren’t particularly useful.  They even mention this in the manual.  There’s not much to steal from tribal people.  The game takes place in an African-like world.

    The magic user gets a staff at some point but that’s it.  

    No.  Clearly the least variation between the classes in this game.  The other games, even the fourth one, have much more variety.

    23:30 – Here’s where I started dozing off in my initial watch so now I get the benefit of watching the video and the always hot Pam.  She has purple eyeshadow today.  Whoa.  Did my pants just get tighter?

    24:00 – Quest for Glory IV.  It’s a goth-themed game so she liked it.  You know, vampires and shit.  

    She mentions the bugs in the game.  It’s true.  What a piece of shit.  They rushed this out.  That really soured me on the game.  It would crash if you did certain things.  So part of the challenge was trying to get the game not to crash.  That’s stupid.  That’s not a puzzle that should be in any game.

    25:15 – Shout out to her life partner.

    Then she talks about FMV games and whatnot.  I don’t care.  That’s the video.

    Oh, I just noticed.  She put Quest for Glory IV above Quest for Glory III.  Well, my point still stands.  The correct order is 2, 1, 4, 3.  

    – “I rank you best videogame ranker”

    John Riggs is crying in his bowl of Star Trek cereal.

    Anyway, this video makes me realise that these games were basically for girls.  Even Leisure Suit Larry, apparently.  

    A lot of gamer grrls on Youtube like adventure games.  What’s her name…that crazy fat chick…if that narrows things down…PushingUpRoses.  She talks about adventure games.  I don’t know.  It’s just a genre that I think was popular with girls.  

    Now it’s RPGs, which is a similar genre.  All of the genuine gamer grrls who I cover are interested in RPGs.  Often exclusively.  

    So those are my nerdy observations on early Sierra adventure games.  I can talk about Quest for Glory II all day.  For a long time, I considered it my favourite game.  Right up there with Civilization.  I loved the original Quest for Glory but Quest for Glory II was even better.  I couldn’t believe that I got it.  Nine discs.  This is amazing.  

    Then my friend asked to borrow it.  The same guy I mentioned earlier.  I said no way.  I had just recently got the game.  I paid for it with my meagre allowance.  

    So he fucking tells my mother about this and my mother forces me to give him the game.  This is what my mother would do.  She was more interested in pleasing other people, including total strangers, than her own son.  

    So a couple weeks later, he comes by with the game.  He hands it over but can’t stick around.  He has to leave immediately.

    The game is broken.  I suspect that he was trying to make a bootleg copy of it and something happened.  

    I call him up.  “Hey, my game is broken.  What happened?”  He says, “It was working when I gave it to you.”

    So that’s it.  This game that I just spent fifty bucks on or whatever is broken.  I just got the game, I was really excited to be playing it, and then it’s broken and this scumbag refused to admit that he broke it.  

    Did my mother replace the game since she was the one who made me give it to him?  No.  I was just fucked.  

    Many years later, I bought the Quest for Glory Anthology, which had Quest for Glory II in it, and I was able to enjoy it.  But it wasn’t the same.  Years had gone by.  The game was really dated by this point.  I still enjoyed it and I beat it many times with all of the characters but…I just think about how much more I would have enjoyed this game had my piece of shit mother not made me give it to my scumbag friend.  I could have been playing this game when it was cutting edge.  I could have been playing it when I was younger and could get more immersed in the game.  

  • The Octavius King Blog

     http://www.octaviusking.com/

    I recently re-discovered this woman from something that Erin re-tweeted.  As here:

    https://twitter.com/ErinPlays_Games/status/1415142116821438464

    It’s a meandering list of…”ignore the trolls”, effectively.  Octavius addresses this list to those who are “struggling with anxiety/depression and feel like just giving up because you got some shitty comments.”

    The list isn’t even worth talking about.  It’s just random stream of consciousness from a woman with severe mental health problems (as she herself will admit…repeatedly).

    But Erin agreed with this mess of a list because Erin also gets depressed from “shitty comments”, apparently?  Who’s writing “shitty comments” about Erin?  I’m giving Erin solid advice about her life and career.  This Youtube scam is not working and it’s never going to work so go get a job.  That’s just common sense.  I’m the one person looking out for Erin’s best interests.  These horntards are just enabling Erin’s poor decisions with their ass licking comments.

    Crystal Quin does a “+1”.  Again, who is leaving “shitty comments” about Crystal?  Well, I suppose that I have seen some overly negative comments about her appearance.  And I even, very reluctantly, made similar comments.  But just stop talking about how hot you are and people won’t talk about your appearance.  This is solid advice.  It’s not “shitty”.  This is advice that you can actually use to better yourself and get along with people better.

    Anyway, Octavius King.  I think that I wrote about her before but if I did, it’s lost to the ages.  If I recall, somebody suggested that she has a good channel and then I watched some videos and…it was really, really bad.  It’s clearly a woman with severe problems.  

    You might remember her as Octavius Kitten.  She always wore cat ears.  She’s Octavius King now.  I don’t know if she wears cat ears still.  But her pronouns are “they” and “them” now.  Yeah, I won’t be doing that.  It just makes reading really, really challenging.

    https://twitter.com/Octav1usKing

    There’s her Twitter.  Everything is about her and how she’s depressed.  Depressed people are like this.  They’re very self-obsessed.  

    She’s doing a “writing degree”.  What for?  She’s 32 according to the internet.  That seems low to me.  But is she going to apply for a job as a writer?  And the writing factory is going to be impressed with her degree?  It’s a complete waste of time and money.

    So anyway, she has a blog.  I linked to it at the start of this thing.  She seems to write…I don’t know…a few times a month.  Whenever the spirit moves her.  

    She mostly writes about herself.  

    Let’s check it out.  Maybe I can get some pointers for this blog.

    http://www.octaviusking.com/my-first-troll-was-nearly-a-decade-ago/

    Oh, she has her “merch” store on the side.  That’s a good place for it.  I just have a link at the top in small text.  I don’t bother with the “merch” store, though.

    So she starts off by talking about an “abusive relationship” that she was “trapped” in.  Here we go.  

    It’s just the same fucking shit over and over and over again.  If you’ve read one post from a self-obsessed depressed person, you’ve read them all.  She’s going to talk about how she cuts herself and how everything is everyone else’s fault.  

    This “abusive” guy suggested that she’s a slut for having big breasts.  I refuse to believe that anyone said that.  And if somebody did say that, why would anybody believe it?  

    He went on to say that any guy talking to her was only trying to have sex with her.  This sounds like an exaggeration.  Maybe it was a warning that a lot of guys will say anything because they’re just trying to have sex with you.  It’s true.  We see it with these gamer grrls constantly.  Does anyone honestly believe that Joe from Gamesack genuinely likes Erin’s videos?  He’s trying to have sex with her, that’s why he says these things.

    Finally, this “abusive” guy said that anyone who wants to be in the “creative sphere” was just doing it for attention.  Was he wrong?  These are the most needy and self-obsessed people on earth.  I can see why she was attracted to the industry.

    So she says that she was “trapped” with him and talks about how he was suicidal and whatnot so that’s why she stayed.  Why would she put this out there?  Why does she have zero sympathy for somebody who obviously has mental health problems, same as she has?  Because she’s completely self-obsessed.  She’s the only person who matters.  Everybody is “gaslighting” her.  She should do a “collab” with Bobdunga.

    So after she “got rid” of this guy, who obviously had serious mental problems, she put her profile up on some acting/singing/whatever scam website.  Then a guy left a message saying, “Give it up love. Your singing is cringey and you look average at best. Forget it.”

    Oh, she’s from England, by the way.  I should have mentioned that.  She uses English slang CONSTANTLY.  Really annoying.

    Anyway, the advice was probably solid.  I mean…obviously, the guy didn’t have to be insulting about it but…how can you say it politely?  “This is not going to work.  Invest your time in something more worthwhile.”

    She blames that guy for her current depression and her working as a copywriter as opposed to a Hollywood movie star.  Let’s be serious.  She was not going to get a job as an actor or singer or whatever the fuck she was hoping for.

    She ends with, “There is a huge difference between constructive criticism or simply not finding a creator to be your cup of tea, and telling them that they are worthless.”  Again, what was that guy supposed to say?  It was constructive criticism.  Do something else.  

    He commented on her appearance because it was relevant to the industry.  And he was pretty diplomatic about it.  And he said that her singing was “cringey”.  So he didn’t like her singing either.  

    Let’s check out another.  Wow.  She only started the blog in May 2020.  Can that be right?  Usually, people doing blogs started like ten years ago at least.  Maybe she had a different blog before then.

    Eugh.  She does a bizarre TED talk on depression, “mate”.  And it includes a lot of singing.  Weird singing.  Everything about this screams insanity.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HMCE26O8M

    This is why I didn’t want to write about her back when that guy recommended her.  She obviously has serious problems.  And I’m sympathetic.  

    It was the same with SupaPixelGirl.  I didn’t want to write about her because she obviously is mentally ill.  Bobdunga just barely passes my mental health threshold but her stuff can be REALLY uncomfortable to watch as well because she’s mentally ill.

    Anyway, here’s her most recent article:

    http://www.octaviusking.com/that-time-i-got-wankered-and-sent-job-applications/

    It’s about how she used to drink all of the time and she sent a drunken job application out and then when the employer asked her to come in for an interview, she just didn’t reply because she was embarrassed or drunk or something.

    Wow.  What a story.  Does she mention whose fault this was?  The boyfriend?  Well, she mentions a boyfriend but it’s mostly about some unmentioned trauma that happened to her.  

    She sprinkles quotes throughout these articles.  Quotes that appear in the article already.  I don’t know.  I don’t like that kind of stuff.  Not to be a “troll” or anything.

    It’s like those blogs that put loads of pictures in the article.  It’s to try to appeal to people with no attention span.  “Hey look!  We’ve got pictures!”  And it’s just generic images that they found from a five second Google search.

    Anyway, Octavius King aka Octavius Kitten.  No, this is the last time I’m writing about her.  Her videos are horrendous but there’s no comedy in writing about the mentally ill.  That’s just sad.  She says that she’s seeing a therapist and good for her.  I hope that she gets better.