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  • BAD NES Games in 30 Seconds! – Erin Plays

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25mGqqLqHLk 

    Another bullshit video where Erin doesn’t play any games due to her “carpal tunnel syndrome.”

    And this same fucking shit where she has to guess a game that Mike is describing.  And it’s always a game that she played briefly, on stream, for money because that’s the only experience that she has with video games.  

    She’s done at least two of these videos before.  They’re notable for being among the few Erin Plays videos that I just couldn’t watch.  They’re wholly unwatchable.  I can’t even watch them for review purposes.

    Let me check the archives.

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/09/nes-games-in-30-seconds-erin-plays.html

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/10/20-horror-games-in-30-seconds-erin-plays.html

    There are the two times she’s done this before.  

    She’s also trying to capitalise on the “BAD NES Games” thing that James Rolfe did 15 years or whatever.  I don’t even really get the reference and I’ve been watching AVGN almost since the beginning.  I think his first video was called “BAD NES Games” or something.  She’s done this before too.

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/08/5-bad-nes-games-erin-plays.html

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/01/5-bad-snes-games-erin-plays.html

    Two more zero effort, unwatchable videos.

    And I don’t normally comment on thumbnails but what the fuck is this?  Why is she grimacing?  Carpal tunnel syndrome?  Extreme constipation?  This is not attractive.  And she’s wearing her 1980s white washed jean jacket.  You know, being born in 1986/1987 and all.  And living in 2022.

    So let’s see how many seconds I can get into this one.

    0:00 – Oh, there’s actually a third one of these terrible videos that she did.  Let me check.  Maybe it was so bad that I didn’t even review it.

    Yeah, that’s right.  I mention that video, briefly, while reviewing a Pam aka CannotBeTamed video.  I say that I’m not going to review it.

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/10/cannotbetamed-and-erin-complaining.html

    That was the first Erin Plays video that I just flat out refused to watch.  That’s how fucking bad these “30 second” guessing of “random” games videos are.  

    So she’s doing another one.  You know…because of her fake carpal tunnel syndrome.

    0:15 – “Mike is sitting off camera, he’s made a list of 20 bad NES games, and I don’t know what games are on that list.”

    Well, let me narrow it down for you, Erin.  They certainly aren’t random.  They’re 100% games that you have played on stream, for money.  That’s it.  

    “Hopefully, most of the games I’m familiar with.”

    See above.  Don’t play stupid.

    Oh, I just realised what this is.  No, this isn’t any kind of guessing game.  It’s even more idiotic than that.  Mike says the titles of a game that Erin played on stream, for money, and then Erin talks about the game, based on that one time that she played it, on stream, for money.  

    0:45 – Cliffhanger.  “I just remember that there were little trees and I thought that they were sailboats at first.”

    I’m done.  She’s talking about that one time that she played the game on stream, for money.  Who would possibly want to watch 16 minutes of this?  It’s fucking idiotic.  In the extreme.  

    – “erin is pretty plus high charisma stats seriously she seems like a fun person to talk to or chat with on messenger about anything ecspecially video games”

    This guy is on another planet.  Retard Planet.

    – “M.u.s.c.l.e. actually comes from an anime called “Kinnikuman”(Muscle-man) it has a lot of violence and blood, but it has a lot of comedy too, that is why you people on the US probably never had the chance to saw it, but here in Latin america we were able to watch it on TV, i know you guys had the little rubber figures that are from the series.A lot of people find this game kinda bad, but to be honest, i enjoyed it a lot as a child.”

    I can assure you that Erin does not give the slightest of fucks about any of this.

    – “Love the video Erin, keep it up cause I love all the obscure stuff you’re into or stuff that might not get much coverage, I love to hear your take on it”

    How is it possible that he believes that she’s interested in any of this?

    – “It’s hard to find channels that aren’t shilling non stop. It would be great to have more content here, even if it’s just vlog or discussion videos.”

    This is some guy Darius Truxton who inexplicably likes Erin.  He has a channel where he constantly shits on some guy called 8 Bit Eric and some other totally unknown “Youtubers” who he has a beef with.

    Erin replies, “Unfortunately carpal tunnel issues are making it hard for me to edit and put content out as often as I’d like 🙁 But yeah hopefully I can get back on track soon.”

    Carpal tunnel for Erin.  Hopefully, she recovers and can get back to shitting out more horrendous videos for the horntards.

    – “Any plans to look at the House of the Dead remake on this channel? I’d love to see your take on it.”

    Erin replies, “Maybe! I’d like to at least stream it. Looks awesome.”

    What about playing it in your spare time like a normal person?

    – “I’m gonna try this with movies.”

    That was from Tony from Hack the Movies.  He’s trying to get a date, I guess.  Good luck with it.

    Speaking of which, I haven’t seen Joe from Gamesack leave one of his witty comments on Erin’s videos in quite a while.  Did he give up?

    Erin replies to some other horntard asking where she’s been, “I’ve been dealing with severe carpal tunnel issues so I can’t put out content as fast as I’d like, sadly. Thanks for liking my videos!”

    Uh huh.

    I defy anyone to watch this video.  Watch the full quadrilogy.  Then re-evaluate what you’re doing with your life.

  • What is The WORST Terminator Movie? – Tony from Hack The Movies

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okXBVx0YEeo

    Well, it’s not horror for once so I’ll check it out.  Although, I’ve only seen the first two movies…possibly parts of the third one.  I’ve seen the first two multiple times, though.  I like them.

    My 9th grade art teacher actually showed us Terminator 2 in class.  He was pointing out the CGI or whatever, like we’re going to fucking replicate this.  We weren’t even using computers.  Can I do this with coloured pencils?  What’s the point of this?  He just wanted a day off, I guess.  Not that art is even a difficult class to “teach”.  “Okay everybody, get your projects out and start working on them.”

    I never had an art teacher tell me a single fucking thing that would help me improve my art.  I mean, there are tips that can be shared.  Facial proportions, or maybe some sort of perspective advice.  Something.  But nobody ever even did this.  It’s just, “Here’s the assignment.  Those of you who are naturally gifted at art will do well, those of you who aren’t, won’t do well.  Have fun.”  What a joke of a class.  Those “teachers” should all be ashamed of themselves.

    Speaking of high school, this guy on the left in this video, Tom, is wearing an unbuttoned flannel shirt over a t-shirt.  The 90s!

    It’s important to update your look every so often.  I guess.  I’m not saying chase all of the latest trends but if you don’t make any effort at all, you end up looking like these clowns.  Flannel shirts and t-shirts with comic book characters on them and whatnot.  You’re grown adults in 2022.

    I just get fucking button down shirts and jeans.  Decent quality.  And every three to five years, I try to get new clothes but of the same type.  Jeans and button down shirts have been in vogue for at least 60 years so it’s a safe bet.  

    I’m not saying that I’m fashionable by any means.  But I’m not grossly unfashionable like these guys.

    12:00 – Tony is telling a story about how Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t want to say “I’ll be back” because he had trouble pronouncing it, so wanted to say “I will be back” instead.

    I just saw a video, not long ago, wherein Arnold Schwarzenegger told a similar story but his reason for not wanting to say, “I’ll be back” is because robots wouldn’t use contractions.  Sort of how like Data from Star Trek doesn’t use contractions.  

    So who are we going to believe?  Tony from Summarise the Movies or Arnold Schwarzenegger?

    Ha!  I found it.  Or at least one example of him telling this story.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gulu4QjRiMI

    It’s at 1:15.  Take that, Tony from Summarise the Movies.

    Back to the video.

    15:00 – They’re talking about Terminator 2 now.  For the first 15 minutes, they were talking about the original Terminator.

    I’ve just realised what he’s doing here.  He’s just going to summarise every movie in chronological order.  Is there not a more engaging way to do this?  Why does he always just summarise the movie?  Where’s the analysis?  I’ll look for any analysis in this next segment.

    It starts with that douchebag from Movie Dumpster literally reading the movie summary from the back of the VHS.  Fuck that guy.  I think that he’s one of the moderators on the Cinemassacre sub-reddit and he banned me.  The reason given: “We know that you have a blog where you shit on Cinemassacre.”

    Well, no shit.  It’s not a secret.  I openly advertise the blog on Reddit.  It’s in my profile.  But why is that a reason to ban me?  Every single thing that I wrote on that sub-reddit was positive.  I didn’t talk about how everything sucks, as everybody else does.  I intentionally wrote positive messages, specifically about Screenwave, to keep things light.  And I got banned for this.

    They just don’t like having somebody smarter than they are on their precious sub-reddit.  So I made my own sub-reddit and there’s a hilarious story behind it but let’s focus on this fucking moron reading from the back of a box cover.  What could be more interesting than that?

    17:00 – Oh, there’s a brief shot of what’s his name, Budnick from Salute Your Shorts.  I was a big Salute Your Shorts fan as a kid, even though I was probably a bit too old to be watching it, and when questioned about this, I would say that I only watch it because this guy used to be on Diff’rent Strokes. Like that would be a good excuse.  But he was that annoying little kid in the later episodes when Mr Drummond got married.  Sam, I think.  

    And yeah, he was in Terminator 2 as well.  I think he also voiced a character on Tiny Toons or something.  And he went on to do other voice acting jobs.  So good for him.

    27:45 – They’re talking about the causality loop wherein the Terminator hand was found by Cyberdyne Systems and this lead to the company having a great technological leap that lead to Skynet, and ultimately the creation of Terminators.  But how could that have ever happened without a Terminators being invented in the first place?

    This has been explained.  I don’t know where I got this from, maybe I was researching Terminators, but in the original timeline, Cyberdyne Systems created Skynet through some other means.  So not from getting the hand of a Terminator.  We don’t know what this other means was.  

    Then when they went back in time to try to change the future, Cyberdyne Systems created Skynet through this new means (getting the hand).  It’s to show that the future can’t be changed, the timeline will always find a way to correct itself.  

    This is a major premise of the first film, and to some extent the second: that the future can’t be changed.  They completely discard this idea with the rest of the films in the series, which is what makes them uninteresting and not worth my time.  But the first two movies are pretty solid, logical, and self-contained.

    28:45 – Tony mentions that he can’t pronounce “saw”.  Has anybody else ever pointed this out?  I pointed it out semi-regularly when I reviewed these things.  Crystal is the same, I think that Newt and Johanna are also the same.  I stopped mentioning it because I just figured that it was a regional thing.  Now I feel bad for giving him a complex about this.

    35:00 – They move on to Terminator 3.  I can stop here.

    Oh, I was supposed to be checking for analysis.  I don’t know.  I guess in all of these “reviews” there’s a light sprinkling of analysis throughout the summary but…it’s 90% summary.  At least.  

    So comments.  383 comments?  Is that more than usual?  I was thinking maybe 100.  

    It’s slightly more than his previous video but not anything too significant.

    No, I’m not seeing any interesting comments.  

    Oh wait.  Here’s one:

    – “It was mind blowing to me as a kid seeing Danny Cooksey in T2 as John’s friend. Was like ‘it’s Budnick!’”

    I also remember seeing that girl Dina in a Skittles commercial and I was blown away by that.  Oh, I found it.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBuLvQcliqI]

  • Erin Plays is Effectively Done as a Channel

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

    She’s released two videos this year, not including those two abysmal “shorts”.  And she didn’t actually play a game in either of them.  “Carpal tunnel” has ended the channel.

    But what can the real reason be?  Let’s check out SocialBlade.

    Well, she’s making about $750/year from these videos.  That might be a factor.  

    How much has she made in the past?  I remember always saying that she made $50/month.  I’ll check the archives.

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-socialblade-analysis-of-erins-dying.html

    There’s the first one of these Social Blade articles I did.  Wow.  She was actually making MORE money back then.  This was April 2020, so two years ago.  She was making about $1250/year.  

    A $500 reduction.  Is that a 60% pay cut?  I think it is.  

    Let me see what the “future projections” were back in 2020 and if it came to fruition.

    They estimated that in April 2020, Erin would have 72,221 subscribers today.  How many does she actually have?  68,700.  It’s close, I guess.  

    I then re-visited Social Blade a year later.

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/03/re-visiting-erins-dying-channel-on.html

    Her pay went up to about $3100/year.  Wow.  So nearly a threefold increased.  

    So she went from making $1250 to $3100 and then plummeted down to $750.  

    And they predicted 93,638 subscribers by May 2022.  Erin is nowhere near that.

    So she must have been doing much better between April 2020 and April 2021 than in previous years.  But this last April 2021 to April 2022 has been disastrous.  

    Obviously, Erin isn’t uploading videos any more so that’s going to affect her figures.  But what’s the correlation?  Is Erin not uploading videos because she’s not making any money off of this or is she not making money off of this because she’s not uploading videos?  

    I suspect that she just gave up and she’s using this fake carpal tunnel thing as an excuse to bow out as gracefully as a 35 year old fake gamer grrl can do.  “Oh, I’d like to continue swindling you retards but…carpal tunnel.  See?  I have a wrist brace and everything.”

    What could she do next?  Well, we can look at GirlGoneGamer, for example.

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2020/12/what-happened-to-girlgonegamer-where.html

    She used to play video games.  Then she was caught using hacks.  So then she started doing an overtly sexual podcast.  It was horrendous and views tanked.  That’s where things were left in Decemeber 2020 when I wrote that article.

    Now she’s on OnlyFans.

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

    “You guys made me get WILD this stream! My most SEE THROUGH LINGERIE TRY ON HAUL, plus sooo much close-up shaking, flicked my nipples to get them hard & WENT TOPLESS, TOOK OFF MY BOTTOMS, BENT OVER AND TWERKED. Can’t believe I did all that”

    Ummm…no thanks.

    It’s desperate as fuck.  Everything she’s doing is desperate.  That’s a turnoff.  Just get a job like a normal person.  Then you won’t have to do all of this shit.

    Then there’s this lunatic:

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/12/allaunira-aka-alamode.html

    https://www.youtube.com/user/Allaunira/videos

    After she gave up on videos about video games, she started doing mukbangs.  

    That lasted a few months.  She hasn’t been seen for three years.  She’s probably turning tricks for sandwiches now.

    Oh, then there’s BadBunny.

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/11/badbunny-is-now-doing-political-streams.html

    After her “gaming” content tanked, she started doing political streams.  You know…streams where she talks about politics…with men in dresses.  These videos don’t do so well, let’s just say that.

    Oh, the channel doesn’t even exist any more.  I wrote about it in October 2021 and it’s already gone.  She’s that woman who ranted on Twitch about how the horntards can’t even afford to give her “five dollars a month.”  That was the end of her Twitch career, at least as far as “gaming”.  Then the weird political stuff started.

    Yeah, her Twitch is gone too.  

    Ohhhh.  She changed her name recently.  She “rebranded” because “BadBunny” was “toxic”.  No…I’m pretty sure it’s the individual who was toxic, not the name.  So a rebrand won’t help.

    She’s KiraChats now.

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

    These videos get about 700 views on average.   Let the good times roll.

    So those are some options for Erin.  OnlyFans, mukbangs, political streams.  None of these transitions have been remotely successful but…getting a job seems to be out of the question for these “Youtubers”.  

    It’s the same with actors.  You see former child stars constantly trying to get acting work.  Fucking Donkey Lips from Salute Your Shorts is an example of this.  He’ll go on Youtube talking about trying to make a comeback and whatnot.  And he’s completely destitute.  He lives in a tiny studio apartment.  And he’s about 400 pounds.  He’ll talk about dying his hair with the cheapest hair dye that the dollar store sells.  He cooks on a hot plate because his apartment doesn’t have a stove.  

    Why doesn’t he just get a job?  He’s nearly 50 years old.  He has that covered too.  He says that he’s a sensitive artist so he can’t get a regular job.  Oh.  I see.

    I always respected Gary Coleman because after Diff’rent Strokes ended, he got a job like a normal person.  The media would actually give him shit for this.  He worked as a security guard.  Why is that objectionable?  Why are we supposed to laugh at that?  

    More recently, there were pictures of Elvin from The Cosby Show working at Whole Foods or something.  This story was presented much differently.  The guy who took these pictures was vilified and Elvin was praised for working a normal job like a normal person.  Then he was given some acting jobs and everybody threw a parade for him.  

    What changed?  Gary Coleman was doing this 25 years ago and he was America’s joke as a result.  Look at this loser who can’t get an acting job.  He has to work a normal job like a normal person.

    That’s the clear solution.  All of these desperate Youtubers and their failings channels…fuck Youtube.  Just go out and get a job.  Record stores need employees.  You’ll make more money and you won’t have to completely debase yourself.  What is the problem?  Why is this so unattractive to these people?  

  • Down and Out in Rural Pennsylvania – An Original Short Story

    I was feeling inspired by my muse PVC Bondage Girl.  So please enjoy my latest work.  It’s totally original.  If people like it, I might turn it into a comic book or a movie or maybe even a video game.  I have a lot of ideas for this.  So yeah, Happy Easter.  Christ is risen.

    —–

    Mads put her dog collar on.  “Do I want the leather bustier or the PVC bustier today?”, she mused.  “Better go with the PVC.  It’s more forgiving.”  Mads knows that she shouldn’t obsess over her weight but she can’t help it.  She blames societal pressure.

    “You’re going to be late for work, Madison!  Get your ass in gear!”  It was Mads’ mother, yelling, from the sofa.  She’s the only person who still calls her “Madison”.  

    “Nobody cares, mother”, Mads yelled back.

    “I got a text from Mr Walden last week about this shit.  He said that you better shape up or he’s going to fire you.”

    “Nate was just joking, mother.  He’s not going to fire anyone.  Who is he going to replace us with anyway?  Nobody wants to work there.”

    Nate Walden is Mads’ manager down at the cinema.  

    There was a chill in the air on this March afternoon in rural Pennsylvania.  Spring had not yet arrived.  It was already dark out when Mads left for work.  She likes working nights.  Ever since she became a goth in the 10th grade, she liked pretending that she’s a vampire who can only come out at night.  She knows that it’s silly for a 25 year old woman to still have these thoughts but she figures that there’s no age limit on imagination.  

    She likes to visualize how she would dispose of her victims.  Could be anyone.  Somebody who cuts her off in traffic, her overbearing mother, that creep who kept “accidentally” brushing against her butt while she was in line at McDonalds.  She’d be feasting on all of their blood if she was a vampire.

    But alas, we have to get back to reality.  Back to the crushing hell that is working at the only cinema in town.

    It’s a single screen cinema.  There was talk about buying the Rite Aid next door to make space for another screen but then covid hit and the business just wasn’t there any more.  People didn’t want to sit in a cinema any more.  People didn’t want to do much of anything any more.  Everyone is infected.  Everyone is afraid of everyone else.

    Mads enjoyed the social isolation for the first few months.  She’d been practicing since she was a child.  But as the years went on, with new variants every other month, she began to see how it affected her.  It affected her career progression, it affected her social life.  These are the years that she should have been trying different jobs out and different men out to see what she likes.  But this was all taken from her.  And for what?  Some guy in China gets a cold so we have to shut the world down.

    “You’re late, Mads”.

    “Fuck off, Nate.  And stop texting my mother.”

    “That’s Mr Walden to you.  And I’m giving you two demerits for the potty mouth.”  Nate pantomimed writing Mads up in his invisible ledger.

    They’re showing a children’s film tonight, which always brings in Mads’ least favorite clientele: happy families.  Mads resents seeing these spoiled children and their doting parents.  “Cheesecakes”, she calls them, because they’re rich and white.  Mads shares their ethnicity but not their wealth.

    “That’s an interesting outfit”, says one woman as her two rambunctious progeny run around.  Mads knew where this was going.

    “Thank you, ma’am.  How many tickets would you like?”

    “One adult and two children.  But do you think that’s really appropriate?  The bustier and…you know..”

    “Would you like to speak to the manager?”

    “No, no.  That won’t be necessary.”

    Just then, Nate arrived.  Complaints about Mads’ work attire had become so frequent that Mads and Nate had worked out something of a routine.

    “Is there a problem here, ma’am?” asked Nate, in his most managerial voice.

    “No.  I was just talking to this young lady and…well…there are children here.”

    “Yes, I can see that”, said Nate.

    “And…” and the woman just stared at Mads, incredulous that she needed to explain anything further.  

    “I stand behind my employees and what they choose to wear.  Now would you like to see a movie today or not?”

    Nate was certainly very permissive when it came to what his employees wore, particularly when the employees were female and dressed provocatively.  Mads knew all of this and took advantage.  She knew that Nate was just a horny old man and if dressing like a dominatrix meant that she could sell tickets all day instead of sweeping the floors and scrubbing the toilets, that’s what she was going to do.

    At midnight, the final movie of the day was over.  Everyone started filing out of the cinema.  It had been a long day for Mads.  She had no breaks, not even for lunch.  Nate doesn’t give anyone breaks but there are downtimes during the day and Nate considers that to be a suitable replacement for a break.  Mads, never having worked anywhere else, didn’t see a problem with this.

    As an obese man performed the final cleaning for the night, Nate asked Mads if she wanted to help him with his Youtube video.  Nate makes videos on Youtube, ostensibly about reviewing movies but mostly about his terrible movie ideas, his struggles with mental health, and how much he misses his ex-girlfriend.  Mads humors him, lest she be the one operating the wet-dry vac.

    As Mads listened to Nate drone on about his latest hair-brained movie idea, she had an epiphany.  Fifteen years ago, Nate was where she was.  He was a 25 year old loser working in a cinema in his hometown.  He probably had a 40 year old manager of his own who would talk about his unfulfilled dreams.  

    How could she break the cycle?  Is it inevitable?  Has it been pre-ordained that she must work in a shitty job in her shitty hometown for the rest of her shitty life?  

    With the video over, she got in her car and began her drive home.  She couldn’t stop thinking about the cycle of life as it pertains to movie theater employment.  What was Nate’s manager like?  What is he doing now?  What about the manager of Nate’s manager?  How far back does this go?

    She retreated to her vampire fantasy.  “If I was a vampire, I’d have all the time in the world to figure out what I want to do with my life.”  But then she imagined that she would just work in a movie theater for all eternity.  She’d see generation after generation of Nate Waldens.  Ambition, delusion, failure.  The cycle repeat a thousand times.  

    Mads decided to stop at the town cemetery.  A late night walk through the cemetery always cheered her up.

    “These new gravestones just don’t do it for me . No character.”  So Mads ventured to the old part of the cemetery.

    “Aw, here we go.  Lydia Detweiller.  1915 to 1963.  Elamina Konsalik. 1897 to 1939.  Anna Clemmer.  1874 to 1923.”

    Some of the gravestones were of children who died shortly after birth.  Others were so weathered that the names or the dates were no longer legible.  

    Mads noticed a figure in the distance.  As she approached, she realizes that it was actually two people.  One was kneeling in front of the other.  Without thinking, she continued forward.

    When the standing figure noticed her, it ran away.  The kneeling figure began to laugh.  

    Thinking that something was amiss, Mads walked over to this kneeling figure.  It was a top-heavy woman wearing a red corset and a skirt that went down to her ankles.  

    “Are you alright?” Mads asked?

    “Of course.”

    The woman picked up her parasol and stood up.

    Mads couldn’t make sense of any of this.  “Was she…was she giving that guy a blowjob?  And what is this outfit?”

    “I’m Sallie” 

    “Oh.  Umm…I’m Mads.  Hi.”

    “Do you often come here?”

    “Yeah, sometimes.  I like to walk around and look at the headstones.  It helps me clear my mind.”  

    “I’m much the same.”

    Mads couldn’t place Sallie’s accent.  “Are you from around here?”

    “Yes.  I’ve always been here”, Sallie replied.  “Would you like to join me for a walk?”

    Mads agreed.

    As they walked through the cemetery, it was clear that Sallie was a real cemetery enthusiast.  She knew the different types of stone used for the various headstones, she knew where all of the cool-looking mausoleums were, and she could even give stories about some of the people who were buried here.  

    “How do you know all of this stuff?” an impressed Mads asked.

    “I told you.  I’m always here.”

    “I really like your outfit.  Is it some sort of cosplay?”

    “Cosplay?  No.”

    “Goth?”

    Sallie just ignored Mads.

    “My manager is up ahead”, said Sallie.  “Right past this hedge.”

    “Manager?”

    “Yeah, I work in the nickelodeon.”

    “You mean the movie theater?  I work there too.  I’ve never seen you there.”

    “Don’t be daft.  I was just there.  They’re showing The Seashell and the Clergyman.  It was a sold out show.”

    Mads was becoming angry.  “No they’re not.  They’re showing Sonic the Hedgehog 2.  And there were five people in there.  Who are you?”

    “I told you already.  Here we are.”

    They were at a small section of the cemetery fenced off by a hedge.  A solitary figure approached.

    “You’re late, Sallie.”

    “Bejabbers, Sylvanus.  I brought a friend.”

    The figure, presumably Sylvanus, started writing in his invisible ledger.

    Mads’ eyes widened.  “What is this place?”

    She saw about eight women in bondage gear servicing at least twice as many men.  

    “This is the Abode of Impossible Dreams.  How is the picture coming along, Sylvanus?”

    “Just fine.  I’m reshooting some scenes because of this auburn-haired dame who doesn’t talk to me any more and then it will be ready.”

    “Tell our friend what it’s about”, said Sallie.

    “Well, it’s basically He Who Gets Slapped but with bubs and hatchet men.”

    Sallie grabbed Mads’ hand and pushed past Sylvanus.  Suddenly Mads was right in the middle of the action.  All around her were stacked strumpets in vintage bondage gear servicing one, two, and sometimes three men at a time.  Some pale, bulbous tits were restrained by their owner’s corsets while others were free to bounce as the spirit moved them, held in place only by a body harness.  

    “What the fuck is all of this?”, Mads enquired.  “You said that you worked at a movie theater.  What does any of this have to do with a movie theater?”

    “The cinema is where I work in the evenings.  But it doesn’t pay very much, does it  So this is our overnight job.  Sylvanus takes good care of us.  All we have to do is listen to his awful film ideas and have sex with every lowlife in town.  It’s not so bad.  Beatrice has been with us for 40 years.  How do you like it here, Beatrice?”

    Beatrice momentarily takes a penis out of her mouth.  “I’ve got no complaints” and she resumes her fellatio.

     “Ethel has been here since 1945.  Or is it 1944?  Ethel?”

    But Ethel is too engrossed by the man fucking her massive tits while she gives him a rimjob.

    “Well, it doesn’t much matter” says Sallie.  “And Barbara has been here the longest.  Coming up on a full century.  We’re going to throw her a little party.  Isn’t that right, Barbara?”

    Barbara smiles and gives a thumbs up just as her suitor pulls out of her ass and shoots a huge load in her face.  

    “See?  So let’s get you started.  You’re already dressed for this kind of work.”

    Mads’ survival instincts suddenly kick in.  She bites Sallie on the neck and uppercuts her left tit, knocking her in the face.  Sallie screams, “You jingle-brained harlot!” as Mads pushes through the crowd of nude and semi nude bodies and runs out of the cemetery bordello.  

    She turns around to see enraged, jumbo-breasted zombies, baying for her blood.  Following closely behind are the johns, with their still erect penises knocking to and fro.  

    Mads reaches her car, jumps in, and speeds off.  In her rear view mirror she sees the furious mob at the cemetery gate.  Sylvanus is chanting some kind of incantation.

    She arrives at her home and falls asleep as soon as she hits her bed.

    It’s 3:00 pm and Mads hears her mother calling.  “You’re going to be late for work, Madison.  Get your ass in gear.”

    Mads gets up, walks over to her mother laying on the couch, turns off The People’s Court, and says, “I won’t be going to work today.  I’m not going to waste my life listening to some blowhard talk about his idiotic movie ideas.  And then becoming that blowhard.  And then turning tricks in the cemetery for all eternity.”

    Mads’ mother says, “Wait…what?” but Mads continues.

    “I’ve come to realize that it’s not a lack of time that’s the problem.  It’s a lack of effort.  I can’t just sit here in this Podunk town, doing a shitty job, and expect things to magically happen.  I have to shake things up.  I have to take control of my life.”

    “What are you talking about, Madison?”

    “I’m going to travel this great land of ours looking for cool, interesting, fulfilling jobs.  New York, Houston, San Francisco, wherever I want to go.  Maybe I’ll even go abroad.  The opportunities are out there.  I just need to look.”

    “But what if you don’t find a job?  What if you end up living on the street?”

    “Then at least I can say that I tried.  And even if I end up moving back here, that’s okay.  Maybe I’ll find a husband.  Maybe I’ll have children.  And that’s a good life too.  But Nate Walden can take his shitty job and his shitty movie ideas and shove them right up his ass.”

    THE END

    Copyright 2022 by GamerGrrls

    Please don’t steal my ideas, Newt.

  • Russian Metal Gear Solid + Gran Turismo 5 for Sega Genesis?! – John Riggs

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IGzxn_R2LM

    John Riggs is showing video games that Victor The Russian Video Game Comrade sent him.  John Riggs has done videos mentioning this guy before.  

    I watched a video from this Victor guy before.  It’s some homosexual Russian guy who does a Yakov Smirnoff act.  Play a buffoonish Russian stereotype to entertain dumbass Americans.

    In light of recent events, I wonder if Victor lost any subscribers.  Not that he had many to lose.  Let me check SocialBlade.

    Well, the graphs seem to show a downward trend for the past two months but I don’t know what any of this really means.  

    Actually, has Yakov Smirnoff given an opinion on the war in Ukraine?  

    He hasn’t tweeted since October 2021 but some news outlets are reporting that he and his wife are somehow raising money for Ukraine.

    There was that orchestra conductor who was fired from his job because he refused to denounce Putin.  And all of those so-called oligarchs are having their yachts and homes and whatnot seized.  

    It’s outrageous.  It’s tough to be sympathetic to billionaires but if these people were so dangerous, why were they allowed in the UK (or wherever) in the first place?  And what did they do to deserve to have their shit taken from them?  They didn’t declare war on Ukraine.  Simply being Russian is enough to have all of your assets seized.  How is that right?  

    And nobody gives a shit.  

    When the US was engaged in one of their numerous wars of aggression, of which there’s probably still a US war of aggression going on somewhere, nothing happened.  Americans abroad didn’t have their yachts and private jets taken from them.  American orchestral conductors weren’t fired.  Why would they be?  They had absolutely nothing to do with these wars.

    But for Russians, it’s okay.  

    It makes no fucking sense.  But everybody just goes along with it.  Oh, they’re Russians.  They’re evil.  So that’s okay.  Oligarchs, you say?  Well, nobody likes an oligarch.  

    It’s like that girl who moved to Syria to join ISIS and then she had her British citizenship revoked.  Even though that was the only citizenship that she had and it’s clearly against international laws to make somebody stateless.

    You’ll be hard-pressed to find somebody less “tolerant” of Islam than I am but that is complete and total bullshit.  The “elites” just make up the rules as they go along.  A society based on rules is just an illusion.  They do whatever suits them at the moment.  

    So you see a lot of propaganda now about Russian mobile crematoriums driving around Ukraine and disposing of bodies of people who were allegedly tortured and whatnot.  

    Did any of this happen?  I don’t know.  But the news coverage is completely one-sided.  No nuance whatsoever.  Putin is evil and Ukraine is virtuous.  

    It’s just the “elites” jockeying amongst themselves to gain a greater share of the wealth.  And they try to make it a moral issue to get the unwashed masses on board with their attempted cash grab.  

    It was the same with any number of Iraq wars.  Saddam Hussein putting people in woodchippers.  Fuck you.  You’d have to be an idiot to believe that.  But there are a lot of idiots out there.  

    So anyway, John Riggs showed a couple of Russian bootleg games from 30 years ago.

    – “Russians can’t be trusted”

    – “Really? Right now we shouldn’t be giving Russia credit. We see where you stand on that now.”

    – “In Russia you don’t play the game, the game plays you. And then go fight the war against Ukraine wink wink”

    There are some comments from the aforementioned unwashed masses.  

    Let me check John Riggs’ Twitter.  Has he declared his intention to join the Russian army yet?  

    No.  He just mentions his height about 15 times.  He does this because he thinks that people are impressed.  Specifically, people who happen to be women.  We get it, John.  You’re 6’5″.  You’re also a big fat guy.  And bald.  And married.  And have three children.  Stop hitting on every woman you can find.  

    Oh, he tweeted about Gilbert Gottfried.  I never would have guessed.  That’s what people do.  Every time a celebrity dies, here comes the fake internet grieving.  Even though you have never once so much as mentioned this person in your entire life.  But as soon as they die, a thousand “RIP”s.  As if that does anything.  It just cheapens death and makes you look like a total fucking fool.

    https://twitter.com/johnblueriggs/status/1513960973584908291

    He re-tweeted some stupid Twitter shit that some gamer grrl who he’s trying to have sex with did.  Eight jobs that you did and one is fake.  Here’s his list:

    1. wedding dj
    2. watch battery replacer
    3. literal ditch digger
    4. pro wrestling referee
    5. ice cream clerk
    6. video store clerk
    7. house restorator via insurance company
    8. live musician

    Which one is fake?  Who gives a shit?  And why isn’t “FSB spy” on there?  John Riggs is collecting intel about gamer grrls: their bra size, turn ons and turn offs, and so on.  What use this will be to Putin hasn’t yet been determined.  Hopefully John Riggs gets his game collection seized.

  • WTF Wednesday: NJ Horror Con wrap up – Newt Wallen

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2E1F25RpbU

    How many times is he going to reference Horseface?  It’s a 27 minute video so…I’ll guess…10.  About once every three minutes.

    0:00 – He says that he hasn’t slept in three days.  Again…why?  What is the problem?  He was fired from a low-paying job that he didn’t like SEVEN MONTHS AGO.  And he immediately found another job.  

    0:30 – A reference to “the other company” aka SCREENWAVE MEDIA, INC.  Actually, I don’t know if they’re incorporated or not.

    0:45 – “I was talking to my therapist about it, and she was like, ‘This is great.  This is a chance to do a do-over with good people and you have people who are just there for you to make sure that you’re good’”.

    He’s talking about how he told his therapist about going to this nerd convention.  

    I’d like to have a word with that therapist.  She doesn’t seem to be helping.  Does she know about Shark Vampire?  Does she know about Florida Man?  Does she know about puppet Plan 9 From Outer Space?  

    How could any responsible professional possibly advise a patient to go ahead with these ideas?  This is presumably an educated woman.  Does she honestly think that these are good ideas?  They’re all ideas that I would expect from a third grader and they’re straight up stolen.  He stole all of these ideas.  Shark Vampire is just Batman with a shark’s head.  

    She should be encouraging him to stop all of this stupid shit.  It’s ridiculous.  You have a job.  Focus on the job.  If you don’t like the job, get a different job.  But these movies/comics/whatever…forget it.  We’ve seen your ideas.  They’re unbelievably bad.  It’s not going to be a success, ever, in a million years.  

    1:15 – “I didn’t want to be triggered from being in a convention or seeing people and taking the wind out of my sails and stuff.  And yeah, that did happen but, you know.”

    Horseface reference #1

    2:00 – He sold 60 comics and 20 of them were to people who he knew.  

    I’m reminded of those magazine subscriptions that you used to have sell in school.  This scam had been going on for decades by the time I was doing this.  But by the time I was doing it, the 1980s, parents weren’t letting their children go door to door selling magazine subscriptions.  Rightly.  If these companies want door to door salesmen, hire door to door salesmen.  Don’t use child labour and then pay them with shitty prizes.  “Here’s a pencil topper for selling five subscriptions.”

    So what these swindlers would tell you to do, when they came to the school to do their sales pitch, is just to sell them to your family and friends of your family.  Maybe give it to your father so that he can guilt his co-workers into this shit.  

    The whole thing is detestable.  I cite these magazine subscriptions or calendar sales or wrapping paper or chocolate or whatever as the single most deplorable thing that schools did in my day.  Forcing kids to sell this shit.  And these were at private schools.  We were paying tuition.  But there were just constant “fund raisers”.  And I wasn’t going to sell this shit so it was another bill for my parents and they got this cheap shit in return.

    2:45 – “We had the biggest suite at the Showboat.”

    Wait…what?  He was sharing a hotel room with PVC Bondage Girl and/or Mel, and/or that fat guy in that one picture who may or may not be the boyfriend of one of these women?  

    I remind you that these are employees of his.

    2:45 – “Melissa, who’s usually behind the camera, and Metz, who’s usually helping us, they came down and they were kind of dressed kind of sexy and it was getting guys to come over to the table and stuff like that.”

    This is pathetic on so many levels.  Let’s just move on.

    3:15 – “My boy Race, who oddly enough I met him through that Reddit that hates me.”

    I haven’t heard the term “my boy” since the 9th grade.  Mexican boys used to use this term.  Newt’s growth has been stunted both physically and emotionally.

    Anyway, he’s hanging out with weirdos from Reddit.  Great.

    4:45 – He mentions for at least the third time that his mother told him that she was proud of him.  He’s referencing the video where he asked his mother, “Are you proud of me?” and she answered in the affirmative.  

    So it was prompted.  She didn’t say this spontaneously.  

    And who gives a shit anyway?  Newt is 40 years old.  Why does he care about making his momma proud?  “I was a good boy today, wasn’t I?”

    “Neither one my parents had ever said that before.”

    Yeah.  I mean…I feel bad for saying this but it happened exactly as I described.  Who gives a shit?  Anybody would have answered in the affirmative when prompted by that question.  Was she going to say, “No, I’m very disappointed in you, Newt.  This comic is just tits and gore.  Is this really the best that you can do?”

    I’m not saying that she’s not proud of Newt but maybe she’s just somebody who doesn’t say these things.  Who cares?  You’re 40 years old.  

    Now he’s talking about how his parents never said, “I love you” to him and whatnot and how that “fucked with” him.  

    Some people are better parents than others.  Some people are more affectionate than others.  Get over it.  

    5:15 – “I saw a friend of mine who I haven’t seen in a long time and hasn’t talked to me in a while and I kind of got them alone out in the hotel, in the balcony, looking out at the ferris wheel and stuff.  And I was just like, ‘I understand that things can’t be the way that they were but I love you and you’re like my brother and I want to make sure that no matter what, you’ll always be in my life.’  So I got to clear the air with one friend.”

    Wait…what?  I thought that he was talking about Horseface at first.  So he was on this balcony, overlooking the ferris wheel, in the biggest suite in the hotel, having this romantic evening with JUSTIN SILVERMAN?  He told Justin Silverman that he loves him?  

    Oh my fucking god.  I don’t know how much more of this I want to hear.  Maybe Justin is the one who he was sharing this room with.  

    5:45 – “Not another one but time, hopefully, will heal shit.”

    Horseface reference #2

    6:00 – My goal, ultimately, is that a lot of people are going to see the cool stuff that we’re doing and they’re going to want to play too.”

    What?  So he’s doing all of these idiotic projects, again, just to get Horseface to talk to him.  This is seriously fucked up.  Just stop this fucking bullshit and get your life together.

    7:45 – “I’ve said it before, I’m not the most creative person in the world.”

    Newt is the master of the understatement.

    8:30 – Newt reveals that he was talking to Doofy from Scary Movie at this nerd convention and they’re texting now.  Is Newt coming out of the closet in this video?  

    9:45 – Eugh.  Newt was talking to some other Z-list celebrity about Horseface and this Z-list celebrity said, “‘Sometimes you have to burn down a chunk of the forest so that things will regrow’.  That’s kind of what’s been happening.  There’s been a lot of parts that I thought I couldn’t live without that unfortunately I’ve had to shed in order to keep moving forward, just like other people have to do with me.”

    Horseface reference #3

    I’m on target for reaching ten Horseface references.  It’s been every three minutes so far.  

    I’m not even joking here.  Horseface needs to speak to a lawyer about Newt’s behaviour.  This is dangerous.  Something needs to be done.  I don’t know if Newt needs psychological help or what.  This therapist doesn’t seem to be working.  Maybe he needs a competent therapist.  Maybe he needs to be involuntarily placed in a mental health institution.  

    10:00 – “So he and I talked and he was around when my mom said that she was proud of me.”

    This is so very, very sad.  I don’t even want to write about Newt any more.  He’s deeply disturbed.  

    10:15 – “Joe Bob and Darcy came over and we were talking about the Drive In that my ex-producing partner and I, during covid, we flew out to LA…”

    Horseface reference #4

    11:00 – “Last summer, I wrote, directed, produced, and starred…well, co-starred in a short, along with that producing partner.”

    Horseface reference #5

    12:45 – He’s talking about how he’s launching a “merch” site for the comic and…I guess Florida Man t-shirts and whatnot.  

    Why doesn’t he just put this shit on Etsy?  Do you need a dedicated “merch” site?  Etsy would also be more secure than anything you’re going to crank out on the cheap.  

    13:00 – He gave a copy of this pornographic comic to his boss.  

    14:00 – He’s telling a story about PVC Bondage Girl but he doesn’t give her name.  It’s only later in the story when it becomes clear that he’s talking about PVC Bondage Girl.

    These stories are impossible to follow because he doesn’t use anyone’s names.  Everyone has an alias.  “My former producer partner”, “The red-haired girl”, “My former employer” whatever.  Just don’t tell the fucking stories if you don’t want to use anyone’s names.  We don’t want to fucking hear about this shit anyway.  Leave Horseface alone.  She’s not fucking interested.  And this is creepy as shit.

    So anyway, this PVC Bondage Girl story…it’s something about alcohol.  He’s vague on all of the details.  

    Oh.  He couldn’t find PVC Bondage Girl so he ran around the hotel, making an ass of himself, asking people if they saw her.  But it turned out that she was just curled up in a corner somewhere suffering from alcohol poisoning.

    15:00 – “Saturday, obviously, I had a run in with some people.”

    Horseface reference #6

    “You can’t please everybody.  You can’t mend fences with people who don’t want them mended.  I’m a person who let my own anger and sense of revenge drive me for so long that I can’t get mad at other people who need to hang on to their anger and their displeasure with me.”

    I’ll include this as part of the same Horseface reference.  But Jesus fucking Christ.  Who the fuck would want to talk to this obsessive weirdo?  And the person he’s obsessed with is among the worst women on earth.  

    I don’t know who’s more objectionable: Newt or Crystal Quin.  They’re both total scumbags.  

    He keeps talking about how he’s moving on…but what the fuck?  We’re up to 6 Horseface references and we’re only 16 minutes into the video.  He must have said that he’s moving on from Horseface a million times in the past six months.  It doesn’t suggest moving on.  It suggests scary levels of obsession.  It suggests deep psychological problems.  

    And it’s fucking Horseface.  Jesus Christ.  What is the appeal?  He keeps making out like she’s some hot chick.  She’s called Horseface for a reason.  

    But even if she was some hot chick, who gives a shit?  Who can possibly be this shallow?  Just find somebody else.  

    And Horseface has an extremely off-putting personality.  How could anybody possibly want to be around that?  

    He’s going to go to prison over this shit.  Over Horseface.  He’s going to do something scary and he’s going to go to prison over this.  These videos are going to be shown on the news some day.  People are going to cite my blog as giving full warning of this.  “Why did nobody listen to that guy who runs that weird pink blog”, they’ll say.

    16:00 – Newt went to the Hard Rock Cafe and drank Old Fashioneds.

    So now he’s plagiarising James Rolfe’s DRINKS?  James Rolfe, in one of those delightful podcast episodes, cited his favourite drink as an “Old Fashioned”.  Newt knows this.  It’s a very unusual choice.  Newt is stealing James Rolfe’s alcoholic beverages now.

    What’s next?  I think that Newt should just straight up start making angry reviews about video games.  Why not?  It would actually be a good idea.  There would be an irony to it.  It would be funny.  

    Just completely rip off the Angry Video Game Nerd.  Wear the same kind of shirt, put glasses on, have title cards, and make videos in the same exact format.  Be the Peeved Video Game Dork.  

    16:15 – Now Newt is talking about all of the famous people he knows.  Brian, for example.  Everyone in New York and New Jersey and Las Vegas knows Brian, according to Newt.  I’ll have to take your word for it.  And some guy from Papa Roach is also Newt’s BFF and wants Newt to succeed in all of his creative endeavours..  Allegedly.

    17:00 – “I was meeting with my old production partner to fly to Tuscon.”

    Horseface reference #7

    19:45 – He’s talking about his shitty movie project Midnight Show.  “We shot everything a year ago but then, to avoid headaches with some people, I had to take content out of it.”

    Horseface reference #8

    20:30 – “We’re going to launch the new review show and I can’t wait to tell you guys what that’s called.”

    Let me guess.  Rental Assessments.  Chatting About VHS.  Dissect the Films.

    There’s also apparently a plot to these reviews.  I can’t wait for that.  We all love bad acting and bad writing in our review shows.

    21:00 – Newt says that there’s going to be a video game next year.  Of what?  Shark Vampire?  

     22:15 – Newt admits to spamming his videos on Facebook to try to increase views.

    22:45 – “I have a huge tax bill to pay in two days.”

    Based on what?  Where is he getting any income?  There’s the movie theatre and I suppose that he was working at Screenwave during this tax year.  But everything else is a massive net loss.  You don’t have to pay tax on unreleased movies or comics that didn’t sell.  If anything, those are tax breaks.  Newt really needs to speak to an accountant.  Maybe the accountant can talk some sense into him.  “These projects are all terrible.  Knock it off.  Spend your money more wisely than this.”

    23:45 – “I’m going to go to therapy Wednesday, before this, and I’m going to have a lot of cool shit to tell my therapist.”

    Whoever this woman is, some professional body needs to do an investigation on her.  Is she even qualified?  Is this an actual psychiatrist or psychologist or is this just one of those “therapists” who advertise on Craigslist or whatever?  

    24:00 – “My cat clearly missed me so I was hanging out with her and giving her kisses and hugs and all of that shit because I’m like that.  I love my cat.  She doesn’t always love me but she loves me when I’m gone for a while.  If only I could make that work with other women in my life.”

    Horseface reference #9

    25:15 – “I’m so used to things being taken away that are good and seem positive and give myself hope and when I give myself hope, I get let down.”

    Possibly a Horseface reference but I’ll classify this one as getting fired from Screenwave.  He just can’t accept any responsibility for getting fired.  Somebody did something bad to him.  Why did they do this bad thing?  Newt doesn’t seem to know.  Just one day, he walked into work and he was fired.  “What the hell is this?  What did I do?”

    He doesn’t understand.  He can’t seem to understand why plagiarism is frowned upon.  Everything that he’s done subsequently has been stolen ideas.  He’s probably been doing this his entire life.  That’s why he doesn’t get it.  Nobody ever explained to him what plagiarism is and why it’s not good.  He just can’t seem to figure it out.  That’s why he thinks that he’s the victim in all of this.

    26:00 – “I’ve got to try to not let the little shit break me down and stress over the only thing that did go wrong at the convention because everything else went right.  I’m hoping that people notice that and want to come play and get involved and get excited because I’m excited.”

    Horseface reference #10

    That’s the video.

    I DID IT!  I was dead on.  TEN Horseface references.  One every three minutes.  Slightly more than that, actually.  

    The comments are all ass-licking trash from men in dresses.

    But yeah, this is really fucked up.  I get Elliot Rodger vibes from this shit.  Newt needs to get his shit together right now before something happens.  Maybe there needs to be an intervention of some sort.  Get professionals involved, I don’t know.  This is not remotely normal or healthy.  This is verging on criminal.  Horseface is not fucking interested.  Leave her alone.

    This isn’t even how relationships, work, of course.  You can’t badger somebody into spending time with you.  This is not going to fucking work, like so many other of Newt’s idiotic ideas.

  • Truxton – A review of the classic shoot'em up on Sega Genesis – Cannot be Tamed

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1LLyjcDOCk

    Whoa!  Get your tissues ready for this one.  Pam is showing about six inches of cleavage.  Views must be going down again.

    HOT!

    Her dog is one lucky bitch.

    0:30 – “I’m going to read the story summary for you right from the manual.”

    This is engaging content right here.  Robo-woman reads a game manual.

    0:45 – WHOA!  Hello, ladies.  Brrbrrbrrbrrbrr.  Motorboating those melons.  You know what I mean?  There’s nothing hotter than a 40 year old lesbian dog lover wearing old-fashioned costume jewellery, a weird top, and too much makeup.  

    4:15 – More of Pam’s breasts.

    5:00 – “Maybe my eyes are just getting old.  Yeah, they are.”

    That’s right.  I have a vague memory of Pam wearing glasses.  Why doesn’t she wear them in the videos?  This would all add to the sexual appeal.  

    6:15 – She’s talking about a video game or something but who’s listening?  We’re all fixated on these massive jugs.  

    So that’s the video.  Let’s check out the comments.

    – “Nice baloons! Retro videogames rules!”

    – “Pam got dem tig o bittiez!”

    – “What a lovely blouse”

    – “When you got your ovulation??”

    That’s one of the weirder comments that I’ve ever seen.

    Anyway, I suspect that there were A LOT of comments about her tits but she just deleted and banned all of these people.  Because the only two overtly boob-related comments were written in the past 3 hours (as of me writing this) and Pam is probably asleep at this time.  When she wakes up, she’s going to delete these comments too and ban the users.

    But what kind of comments can she possibly expect?  These are horny, mentally challenged guys.  She knows this.  And she wore this intentionally to get more views.  If you don’t want comments about your tits from horny retards, put some clothes on. 

    Oh, on Twitter, Pam advertises a “podcast” that she went on.  You can watch it here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIHd94KwCdc

    It’s with a lesbian named Petee and Pam is drinking wine throughout.  It’s 45 minutes.  After 24 hours, it has 79 views.  One of the comments is “Two legends”.  I think that we all know what he’s talking about.

    Anyway, 45 minutes of two boring as fuck drunk lesbians droning on about nothing.  Who wouldn’t want to watch this?  

  • WTF Wednesday Review : Mail Order Murder. the story of W.A.V.E Productions – Newt Wallen

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qrVDLSPzTM

    Ahhh a little Newt Wallen action.  After Newt Week, I was looking forward to talking about the classic Gamer Grrl topics like Erin Plays but then…I actually had to try to watch an Erin Plays video.  I can’t do it.  

    I’m thinking about making the blog all Newt Wallen.  He’s a treasure trove of material.  What terrible project is he working on next?  And maybe we’ll get to see PVC Bondage Girl again.

    I have to say that WTF Wednesdays are my least favourite Newt Wallen videos.  It’s always some fucking tits and gore movie that nobody gives a shit about, especially me.  But maybe he’s going to say some interesting, off-topic stuff.

    0:15 – “I sleep like shit any more, even though I take medication to help me sleep.”

    Yeah.  We know.  You mention this constantly.  He’s seeing a psychiatrist because…why?  

    I mean, let’s analyse this for a second.  He got fired from Screenwave for plagiarism.  Well, okay.  It’s embarrassing that this happened publicly and some nerds on Reddit gave you shit about it but…I mean…all that happened is that he got fired for plagiarism.  Who cares?  Why is this so crushing for him?  

    The job paid $25,000/year or whatever.  And he didn’t seem to like it.  And he was rightly fired.  

    It’s not like he was embezzling money or sexually harassing Kieran.  He plagiarised some stupid three minute videos for an autistic man.

    He obviously had no difficulty finding another job, even with them knowing that he did this.  The theatre obviously knows that he did this because he can’t shut up about it.  But even if a prospective employer Googled him and found out about this plagiarism…they’re not going to care.  

    But this was extremely traumatic for him.  Horseface doesn’t talk to him anymore.  It’s too much for him.

    I know that he also has health issues and such but getting fired and Horseface not talking to him are trivial events.  I would recommend that he stops making videos.  Is any of this helping him?  Your self-worth shouldn’t be determined by how many people are watching your kitchen movie review videos.  

    2:00 – God, this is painful.  Newt was watching some “documentary” about three “white guys” who made porn (or, as he calls it, “fetish stuff”, about women getting suffocated) and he really admires these men.  They were making this trash in the 1980s.  

    2:30 – “They’re these dudes who go, ‘Well, I get to spend the rest of my life with young, sexy, titty flesh.”  Mel, who’s holding the camera, can barely contain her revulsion.  She represents the viewer.

    Newt, get a fucking girlfriend.  This is pathetic in the extreme.  

    3:00 – Newt is talking about how Ed Wood, a hero of his, was a transvestite and…Newt really admires this.  Is Newt coming out of the closet here?  It would explain his extreme attraction to the rather masculine-looking Crystal Quin.

    Then there’s a suggestion that Mel is transgender.  Let’s just move on.  I don’t give a fuck.

    5:00 – Newt is talking about his suicide attempt in 2013 but he didn’t do it because some local theatre was showing Ed Wood and he wanted to go to see it.  So he saw it and…I don’t know…one thing lead to another and he started talking to his “muse”.  Fucking Horseface.  

    God…change the fucking record, Newt.  This is boring as shit now.

    “I had this creative explosion” from talking to Horseface.

    This is so fucking stupid.  

    “We just created all of this shit.”

    I couldn’t have put it better myself.  Newt has made some real shit.  

    6:30 – Oh what.  Is this Metz who is operating the camera.  I hope that it wasn’t Metz aka PVC Bondage Girl who said that she’s transgender.

    Oh, I think that they’re both there.  PVC Bondage Girl and Mel.  

    7:45 – “A naked girl is being eaten by another girl but she’s shrunk down by a mini Super Soaker that’s clearly painted silver.  But there’s tonnes of boobs in it and pubic hair and all that stuff.”

    I can’t imagine why Newt can’t get a girlfriend.

    What I find baffling is why PVC Bondage Girl and Mel entertain this AT ALL.  He’s constantly talking about his fondness for tits and gore.  It’s disgusting.  I’m a man and I don’t want to hear this.  

    And this is their boss.  He talks like this to “his” employees.  It’s wholly inappropriate.  

    I’d like to have a discussion with PVC Bondage Girl to see how she really feels about this.  PVC Bondage Girl, leave a message, maybe link it to your Instagram where you have pictures of your pierced nipples, and we can discuss this.  No creepy shit like this fucking scumbag Newt.  I’d just like to discuss this bizarre work situation and perhaps discuss any possibilities of getting Newt removed from his job.  Because he should not be doing this.  Any of this.  He shouldn’t be talking about his suicide attempts or Horseface or how much he jerks off to women being suffocated.  It’s totally inappropriate and he’s their fucking boss.  They have to pretend to like this shit.

    8:00 – “I’ve never cammed so I can’t tell you.  You both have more experience than me.”

    So now Newt is telling the world that PVC Bondage Girl and Mel, two employees of his, that they are or were pornographic cam girls.  None of this is even remotely appropriate.  All either of these women would have to do is take this video to any employment lawyer and they would be in for a big pay day.  

    Then Mel says, “I’ve never done boar content.”  Your guess is as good as mine as to what that means.  Bestiality?  Is this a Pam aka CannotBeTamed thing now?

    9:30 – “If I could be that guy for the rest of my life, just work with my friends and make the kind of stuff that I think is cool, I would be the happiest fucking person in the world.  You’re not making someone else’s art, you’re not writing scripts for somebody who gets paid way more money than you and is too lazy to do their own work, or doing the research for somebody for another show that’s more popular and you’re not getting any of that ad money.”

    He makes the same comments over and over again.  Yes, James Rolfe is lazy and should be writing his own stuff.  And yes, you should have got paid for Talking About Tapes aka Hack the Movies.

    But the time to complain has passed.  Somebody tells me to write scripts for James Rolfe, I’m saying, “No, I’m not doing that.”  Somebody tells me to appear on a podcast with Tony from Hack the Movies for no money, I say, “No, I’m not doing that.”

    I’ve done it.  The proof is in the pudding.  Tony asked me to appear on his Godzilla podcast for no money and I told him to go fuck himself.  

    Here’s what I didn’t do: go on the podcast and then complain afterward that he didn’t pay me.  

    I wrote some articles for a blog many years ago.  I got £25 for each article.  It’s not a whole lot of money but I didn’t do a half-assed job.  I didn’t just plagiarise the articles.  Even though I was underpaid, I still did my best.

    If you don’t want to do something, you say that you’re not doing it.  And if they make it a condition of continuing your employment there, you tell them to go shove this piece of shit job up their rectum.  

    Newt doesn’t know this.  Newt blames everyone else for his decisions.  After the fact.  

    “Oh, I was just too much of a hard worker to say ‘no’ to anything.”  Then you’re an idiot.  

    I had a job and there was a particular task that we were supposed to do semi-regularly and we would get paid for this work.  Sorry for being so vague.  So I did this task and they said, “No, this was no good.  We’re not going to pay you for this.”  So I said, “Okay.”  

    That was the last time that I did that task.  And they would get annoyed.  “Why aren’t you doing this work?”  “Well, you didn’t pay me that one time.  Remember?  So I’m not doing it again.  Somebody else can do it.”

    It’s important to stick up yourself at your job.  Just like PVC Bondage Girl and Mel and everybody else who works for creepy old Newt should do.  They should march mob-handed to the owner of that cinema and say, “We’re not working with Newt anymore.  He’s a total creep.  Get rid of him or we’re all leaving.”

    13:00 – “I don’t think I’m a good writer.”

    Nor do I.  Nor does anyone.  So…why do any of this?

     13:30 – Now he’s talking about his therapist.  I’m even pitying Newt’s therapist at this point.  She has to listen to this shit.  

    14:00 – “You’re 40 years old.  Give up.  You didn’t make it.  You’re never going to make it.”

    I think that he’s attributing this quote to Horseface.

    So Newt continues, “Stan Lee didn’t create Spider-Man until he was 40 years old.”

    Yeah but…didn’t he have 20 years of comic book experience by then?  Let me look this up.

    Yeah, he got into the comic book industry when he was 19.  He was doing stuff for those 20 years leading up to Spider-Man.  He was writing.  He was creating new characters.  He didn’t just wake up at 40 and say, “I’m going to make a popular comic book character today.”

    Newt has done nothing.  Fucking shitty Youtube videos.  This qualifies him to make films?  

    And he openly admits that his movie ideas are all bad.  So why do it?  It’s stupid.  Get a girlfriend and then you won’t have to pay to see some breasts.

    14:30 – PVC Bondage Girl says, “I love seeing you get excited like this.  I love seeing you light up like this.”

    Ummmm….ew.  Let’s just move past that unpleasantness.  I don’t want my opinion of PVC Bondage Girl to plummet.  I’ll just pretend that she didn’t say that.

    15:45 – “I have 56 fucking screenplays that I’ve written over the years.”

    How many of those are good?  My guess: zero.  They’re all tits and gore trash.

    16:30 – “I’ve had terrible writer’s block since October because I’ve lost my muse.”

    Ew.  This is all gross.  

    First of all, in case I’ve been ambiguous at all, NEWT WALLEN CAN NOT WRITE.  He has NEVER written ANYTHING that’s worth reading.  Not a single word.  

    But here he is.  “Oh, my muse.  Horseface.  Everything I write, it’s for Horseface.”  Is this how writing works?  Maybe I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time?  I don’t have a muse.  

    Maybe Erin is my muse.  But I was writing before Erin and I’ll write after Erin.  She’s totally irrelevant to my literary output.  I don’t think, “Boy, I’d really like to see Erin in a bikini so I’m going to write this script about a sexy zombie ninja.”

    He’s just so fucking pathetic.  He needs to stop this right now.  And all of these weird “supporters” need to stop with this.  They are not helping.  They’re just feeding his delusions.  They must know that Shark Vampire and Florida Man and whatever else is pure, 100%, unrefined dog shit.  How can you not?  Who could possibly think that these are good ideas?  Every fucking idea that he has is exactly the same.  “Tits and gore”.  Is this what you want to watch?  And it’s done on no budget and the guy can not fucking write AT ALL.  His ideas are stupid, they’re stolen, and it’s the sort of brainless bullshit that a third grader would come up with.  

    We can all see that, right?  So why is PVC Bondage Girl encouraging this?  I don’t care how drug-addled somebody is, surely they can recognise that Newt Wallen can not fucking write.  SHARK VAMPIRE.  

    17:00 – Somebody, Mel, I think, says, “I’m only here for the gangbang.”  I’m just going to assume that it was Mel.  I don’t want to think that it was PVC Bondage Girl.

    17:30 – “I have this feeling in my stomach for the first time since the cheque was written for Sharkula for the first time.”

    Oh, a vague shout out to Shark Vampire.  Everybody loves Shark Vampire.  It’s Newt’s greatest creative achievement.

    Then he starts talking about all of the people around him who support him and how he has low self-esteem and how much he misses Horseface and boo hoo.  Let’s all feel sorry for Newt Wallen.

    18:00 – “They actually want me to succeed.”

    Quite the contrary.  These people are setting you up for failure.  Anyone with a brain knows that Shark Vampire and Florida Man and all of your other idiotic tits and gore ideas will never be a success.  

    18:15 – “Maybe all of that bad shit that happened in the fall, had to happen so that I could come back.”

    You mean when you plagiarised scripts for Monster Madness?  Is that the bad thing that you’re talking about?  Can you take any responsibility whatsoever for this?

    18:45 – “If you get a chance to check out Mail Order Murder, check it out.  It’s got plenty of boobs in it.”

    You know where else I can find plenty of boobs?  Pornhub.  What is this shit?  Does he not know about Pornhub?  Why is he so obsessed with this softcore bullshit?  

    This is the stuff that people Newt’s age jerked off to when they were 12 years old, the internet didn’t exist, and they had no access to pornography.   Why is he still using this?  

    You can also find breasts on most women.  Maybe ask a woman to go get a coffee with you.  If you play your cards right, and shut the fuck up about your disgusting obsession with tits and gore, you might get to see her breasts.  Don’t even have to pay.  It’s free.  Women who like you will show you their boobs for free.  Crazy, right?  It’s called being in a relationship.  Try it out.

    That’s the video.  Let’s see what the sycophants had to say.  “WE LOVE YOU, NEWT!  CAN’T WAIT FOR SHARK VAMPIRE!”

    – “You haven’t “shot your shot” until you’ve drawn your last breath.Keep writing!Keep imagining!Keep thinking of ideas,and if anything gets in the way,remember that it’s only a bump in the road,a problem to be solved and if people didn’t stand up to their problems and find a way to solve them,literally nothing would get done,and what kind of world would we live in then?I’m looking forward to Planet Frankenstein,and I hope I somehow manage to fulfill my wish that I mentioned a while ago about collaborating with you in some capacity.So long for now,and keep that head held high and if anyone says you can’t do something,you have an obligation to show them that you can!”

    Yeah.  Exactly.

    – “Love your stories. As a therapist I love hearing someone progressing and getting better.”

    Newt replies, “I wish like hell I started years ago. 40 years of abuse and trauma anger insecurity. Working through it. Just wish I didnt loose my best friend and love or my life in process”

    “Loose” indeed, Mr Ingmar Bergman.

    If I was Horseface, I would be creeped the fuck out.  I would be saving all of these messages and videos to build a case for a restraining order.

    – “This is the inspiration I needed to get off my ass and do something with my life. Thanks Newt”

    Really.  

    – “Speaking of breasts and pubic hair… Why isn’t there a health spa called “BEWBS n’ PUBES” ?”

    Because nobody would go, you fucking faggot.  What do you think?  You think that women like to be marketed to like this?  This is why you don’t have a girlfriend.

    – “Newt, you’re the reason why I started writing again (The stuff I really want to write about) … your story (stories) and this youtube channel are inspiring. Thanks!”

    That was from Jamie Evans.  He wrote something called Daemonika: a novel of horror.  Incorrect capitalisation.  Must have been a creative decision.

    Well, this was released last month so this guy must have been inspired by Newt for some time now.  

    Here’s the link, by the way.

    https://www.amazon.com/Daemonika-novel-horror-Jamie-Evans-ebook/dp/B09RQ9T1MT

    Don’t all buy it at once.  

    It’s about zombies from hell coming to earth and causing a ruckus.  

    Here’s his website if you want more of the same:

    https://www.jamieevansbooks.com/novels

    It’s the same old bullshit over and over again.  Zombies, ghosts, whatever.  All poorly written.  All unimaginative.  

  • Newt-O-Rama at the New Jersey Nerd-O-Con

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-odXd-xMdM

    Newt is livestreaming from this nerd convention.  I managed to catch it live.  I’m a proud subscriber.  I’m not subscribed to anyone else who I write about but I am to Newt.

    1:30 – Newt reveals that he didn’t sleep last night.  Again.

    1:45 – Newt shows the comic.  It’s in black and white.  It’s about 24 pages.  And it’s TEN DOLLARS, plus “shipping and handling.”

    What exactly is the handling fee?  Newt is actually going to charge for him physically putting the comic in an envelope, going to the post office, and mailing these?  Is there any room for negotiation?  I’d like the handling fee waived.  This is ridiculous.  Especially since the comic itself is TEN DOLLARS.

    From a quick perusal, the retail price of a comic book is about $3 to $5 now.  That’s for a comic made by professional writers and artists.

    Let me check out how much Mike Baron’s Florida Man comic is.

    $10 for a digital version, $25 for a print version.  That’s steep alright.  But that’s for a 64 page comic.  In glorious full colour.  On hardy paper stock.  And only 56 people were interested at that price.  The other 44 just went for the digital comic.

    Handling charge.  What a joke.  I haven’t heard that in 20 years.  Do people still use this term in the US?  You’d hear it in like commercials for Chia Pet or whatever.  “Only $9.99 plus shipping and handling.  Call today.”

    On Ebay or Amazon or whatever, they just talk about shipping charges.  There’s no handling charge.  What the fuck.  The handling is part of the cost of doing business.  But Newt wants to pass this on to the customer.

    2:30 – “We are going to be remaking Plan 9 From Outer Space with an all-puppet cast.”

    You can’t make this up.  Well, Newt certainly can’t.  

    Let me check the copyright status of this.  

    I don’t know.  Somebody seems to be making a claim on it but the consensus seems to be that it’s in the public domain.  At least since about 2005.

    But why doesn’t he come up with a fucking original idea?  Just once?  Try it out.  You might like it.  

    No, I’m just going to entirely plagiarise Plan 9 From Outer Space.  Verbatim  

    This would be difficult to do WITHOUT puppets.  I don’t think that the puppets make things any easier.  I think that they make things significantly more difficult.  

    It reminds me of the ridiculous idea I had for a grade school music class where, for a class assignment, I wanted to do a music video using GI Joes because I was too embarrassed to appear on camera.  It never got off the ground because it was too fucking complicated. 

    4:15 – “I didn’t want to get out of bed back in October.”

    Why not, Newt?  You plagiarised some shit.  Do you want to accept responsibility for that?  Nobody told you to do it.  That was your idea.

    5:00 – “My mom came and bought two copies of the comic book.”

    How weird is this?  “Here you go, mom.  Enjoy my pornographic comic book.”

    6:00 – Then he starts trying to sell shit to some nerd on there.  The nerd isn’t buying.

    7:45 – “The last convention I was at was Too Many Games.  It was the worst weekend of my entire life.”

    Oh.  Again because of the plagiarism that YOU did.  Why does he always try to come off as a victim?  He did the fucking plagiarism.  Nobody else.

    That’s the video.  He teased another livestream but all he did was upload a short video with his mother.  As here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WV0aTX4afI

    It’s a bit awkward to see a man selling a pornographic comic to his mother.  And his mother says that she’s proud of him (when prompted by the very needy Newt) and that he’s a creative guy.

    It’s a difficult situation.  I don’t think that she’s able to proffer any advice.  Because what has she accomplished with her life?  So what advice can she give?  Just stay the course.  Whatever.  Figure it out yourself.  

    It’s not necessarily a lack of caring.  She just doesn’t know.  If she knew how to get a good job, she would have done it herself.  And she has no clue how the job market works now or for the past 20 years.  

    I had completely useless parents myself.  I never got a single piece of advice from them, ever, about anything.  Part of it was not caring.  There’s no question about that.  But part of it was that they just didn’t know anything.  

    How could my mother help me with homework when she’s so woefully uneducated?  How could she help me with finding employment when she hadn’t worked since she was in her mid 20s?  You don’t pick up this knowledge from watching daytime talk shows for 10 hours a day.  The Club Kids on Geraldo aren’t going to tell you about the importance of SAT prep courses.

    I get this vibe from Newt’s mother.  Even if she cares, what can she possibly say?  What advice can she give to Newt for him to get his life together?  If she knew that, she’d get her own life together.  

    So she’s looking at these tits and gore projects that Newt is working on and she thinks, “Well, this is what the young people are doing these days, I guess.  Keep up the good work, son.”  She doesn’t have any better answer.    

    There’s such a huge advantage in having competent, engaged parents.  But what can you do?  

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw2UPcthozU

    Here’s day 3 of the convention.  I thought that it was just a one day thing but no.  How silly of me.

    0:00 – What the hell is this?  Mel is in a studded PVC corset and face mask.  She’s also in some Freddy Kruger outfit.   

    PVC Bondage Girl made this work.  What I see here is just a pitiful cry for attention.  

    0:45 – Fucking shit.  Newt says that he didn’t sleep.  Again.  How many days has he been awake?  

    He says that he sold 50 comics.  That’s more than I would have expected.  Especially at $10 each.

    1:30 – “My mom came and bought a comic.  Told me she was proud of me.”

    This is sad.  Why does he even need the validation?  

    3:30 – Mel keeps twitching like she’s on heroin or something.

    5:30 – Newt says that he’s not as big as the other company (SCREENWAVE) but he wants to keep building Schlock and Awe.

    That’s another thing.  The name is bad.  I don’t want to be needlessly negative but it’s no good.  Why the Yiddish?  Does he know that this is Yiddish?  Is Newt Jewish?

    5:45 – Newt has a “What Would Florida Man Do?” t-shirt.  It’s for sale.  He’s selling Florida Man t-shirts.  

    Who the fuck is going to buy this?  It’s ridiculous.  Why does he insist on throwing his money away like this?

    8:15 – Mel sure is itchy.

    9:00 – “I know all of the hottest chicks and for some reason they hang out with my stupid ass.”

    Because you pay them, Newt.  Or you’re they’re boss.  There’s always a transaction of some sort with Newt and the ladies.  It’s sad.  He should hit up Madam Fomo.  This is what he’s into.

    10:00 – Newt is admitting to some off-screen potential customer that Florida Man is a well-known character and he’s just ripping it off.

    11:15 – Unbelievable.  Now he’s telling this random potential customer about Horseface.  And he describes her as, “Some people who don’t associate with me any more.”

    What a salesman.  Whoever he’s talking to is making a mental note of where the exits are right now.  

    13:00 – Somebody says, “The modern day Russ Meyer, just surrounded by beautiful women” and Newt gets sexually excited by this.  He pays women to hang out with him.  It’s beyond pathetic.

    13:30 – Newt gives his height and says that he’s very short.  It’s one of his obsessions.

    That’s the merciful end of that video.

    https://twitter.com/stillnewtwallen/status/1512548798660333571

    Here’s a tweet about this puppet project.  The nerd in the picture was tasked by Newt to make these puppets within a month.  Hopefully, that guy got paid accordingly.  

    Top comment is, “Looks amazing!! Did the one with james even come out?”.  

    Newt replies, “No idea.”

    That’s right.  Wasn’t James Rolfe involved in some Plan 9 remake?  This is probably where fucking Newt got the idea.  It just gets worse and worse.  NEW IDEAS.  COME UP WITH A NEW IDEA.

    Oh my god.  It gets worse.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_(2015_film)

    That’s the 2015 remake that this guy was talking about.  It stars everyone’s favourite actor and close personal friend of Newt Wallen: Mr Lobo AND James Rolfe.

    THIS HAS BEEN DONE ALREADY, NEWT!  YOU FUCKING KNOW THIS!  YOUR BFF MR LOBO WAS IN IT!

    And he has the nerve to say, “No idea” when asked about it.  Well, there it is, Newt.  Now that you know about it, are you still going to do it?  

    He does not have a single original idea in his head.  It’s like he’s incapable of coming up with anything original.  He’s somehow predisposed to plagiarise.  Like people who have kleptomania or whatever.  

    Why not just remake a different movie?  I mean, if you’re going to rip shit off, there are other things to rip off.  There are plenty of movies in the public domain that might make an interesting puppet remake.  There are plenty of public domain movies that nobody knows about.  You could bring them back.  Do an interesting remake.  

    No, I’m just going to do the same fucking thing that my former boss (of sorts) James Rolfe and my friend Mr Lobo did just a few years ago.  I’m Newt “The Ideas Man” Wallen, after all.

    Here’s a picture of PVC Bondage Girl, Mel, Newt, and some fat guy:

    https://twitter.com/stillnewtwallen/status/1513323044684632071

    PVC Bondage Girl might want to go a little easier on the makeup next time.  Let her natural beauty shine through.

    Do you suppose the fat guy is one of these women’s boyfriends?  Oh man.  Don’t ruin it for me.  Hopefully it’s not PVC Bondage Girl’s boyfriend.

    Newt leaves a bizarre message: “Was awesome. I saw some one that took wind out of me sat. Reminded me of a huge missing piece. But we are moving forward an those pieces are gonna miss out”

    It’s largely indecipherable but I think it’s a reference to Horseface.  And as a reminder, Newt considers himself to be a writer.  Look at that message.  

    It seems that Horseface was also at this nerd convention.

    https://twitter.com/rossoporco_/status/1512921724475830272

    And Justin.  Did they just avoid Newt?  That must have been awkward.  Also awkward for every single person there to have to look at a horseface woman wearing half a top.  PUT SOME CLOTHES ON.  NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THIS.

    Well, I suppose that Newt does.  But nobody else.

  • MIKE MATEI HAS CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME!!!

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA-8Ggv44CY

    Mike and Ryan are talking (seemingly endlessly) about how to tap buttons on your controller as fast as possible.   

    29:45 – 

    Mike: They say that practice makes perfect.  If you’re playing video games every day; hours, upon hours, upon hours; every day, you probably will get those muscle reflexes and they probably will get faster.  

    Ryan: Yeah.

    Mike: You’ll also probably give yourself carpal tunnel syndrome.  

    Ryan: Oh.

    Mike: Which I have carpal tunnel syndrome.

    Ryan gives zero fucks.  He doesn’t believe it.  Nor do I.

    Then Mike, realising that Ryan isn’t going to engage with his ridiculous claim, just starts talking about how you get a callus on your thumb from playing games with a d-pad too long.

    But wow.  What a bombshell.  Maybe Mike caught carpal tunnel syndrome from Erin.  I didn’t even think it worked that way.  It’s contagious?  This must be a new variant of carpal tunnel syndrome.  The Bullshit Variant.  Everybody please, only play video games online.  If you absolutely must play couch-coop, maintain a six foot distance between you and the second player at all times.

    I’m just reminded of the time when Erin was playing some arcade style game, it said, “Player 2 press start” and she had no idea what this meant.  What a gamer!

    Ha!  I found a reference to this in the archives.  It was from over a year ago and I used almost the exact same paragraph as I’ve used just now.  Kind of weird.

    https://gamergrrlsofficial.blogspot.com/2021/02/prehistoric-isle-from-snk-40th.html

    And after checking my personal archive of my old sub-reddit, I’ve discovered that it’s apparently this video where Erin expresses confusion about what “Player 2 press start” means.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3IOcueFNsg

    I reviewed the video but it’s gone.  This was from my Erin Plays sub-reddit.

    Maybe I should review it again.  It’s something of a classic.  Harmful Park.  For a long time, Erin compared every game that she played to Harmful Park because her knowledge about video games is extremely limited and it was all based on this one time that she played the game, on stream, for money.

    So Mike and carpal tunnel syndrome.  When did he find out?  Has he known for a long time and he just kept quiet about it?  How come we’ve never seen Mike doing hand stretches like Erin always does?  Why doesn’t Mike end every stream with, “Well, my hands are hurting so I have to end it here”?  Why is Mike able to play for several hours a day on a regular basis whereas Erin can barely manage to play for one hour, once a week?

    Do you suppose that Mike and Erin share that carpal tunnel wrist brace/ice pack thing?  Do they go to the same carpal tunnel syndrome doctor?  Because it took Erin a long time to find a doctor that would accept the possibility that she has carpal tunnel syndrome.  Every doctor before that, you know, the competent doctors, told her that it was nothing and to stop wasting their time.  But she finally found a quack doctor who was willing to play along with this charade.  I guess.  I mean, we haven’t heard about these doctor visits for several months now.

    Maybe Mike and Erin can get a discount on the surgery if they both have it done on the same day, by the same surgeon.  Buy one carpal tunnel syndrome surgery, get the second one for half price.  

    Perhaps this is where Erin got her idea for carpal tunnel syndrome in the first place.  She’ll often pretend to be interested in something shortly after hearing about it.  For instance, there was that week when she was a long-time fan of The Match Game, having recently watched an episode with Mike.  Then she demonstrated a complete and total ignorance about every facet of the show.  

    So maybe Mike was talking about his alleged carpal tunnel syndrome one day and Erin decided, “Oh, that’s a good idea.  I have carpal tunnel syndrome too” and she just ran with it.  

    I suppose that I shouldn’t make light of the situation.  These people are suffering.  They’re suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome.  Mike says that he got it from playing those button tapping Mario Party games and Erin says that she got it from swiping on her phone.  That’s terrible.  They can’t play video games any more.  They’re in constant agony.  It’s no laughing matter.

    At times like this, I can only reflect on my own good fortune.  I’ve also played Mario Party AND swiped things on my phone and…I don’t know.  I just dodged a bullet, I guess.  But it can happen.  It can happen to anyone.  Let Mike and Erin’s misfortune be a lesson to all of us to avoid risky behaviours like playing Mario Party and swiping things on our phone.

    Maybe a turbo controller could have helped prevent this.  Maybe having a non-smart phone would have helped.  Why not?  Erin is all retro and *nostalgia*.  Get a Nokia 3330.  No swiping on that thing.  And you can still play Snake to keep you entertained on those long monthly trips to California.

    So Mike and Erin, we’re all rooting for you.  Get well soon.  We want many more years and decades of quality video game content from you two crazy lovebirds.