"angry" gamers/critics

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TheImportantFart said:
Also, whenever his fans massively dogpile on him he reacts really passive-aggressively -- hence that nitpicker character or the apology for his shitty let's play. Like, the way Doug acted both of those times was so fucking insincere.
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I duuno, when Doug did a commentary on that let's play, it felt sincere IMHO.

Magnum Dong said:
Respectfully disagreed, if only because Linkara's more of a massive hypocrite about it.

Example: many complaints r.e. fetishization in comics are valid, but not coming from someone who gets off to hermaphrodite rape in fanworks. That'd be akin to, say, Todd secretly being a GGer on a smurf account, but we don't have evidence of that sorta thing yet, so at the very least I give him some props for not trying to have his cake and eat it too.
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I meant more in terms of the fact that Linkara hasn't whiteknighted any pedophiles.
 
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This thread doesn't really read like a Lolcow thread at all since it seems that a large part of is side chatter, so I think this topic is better serving it's purpose in Multimedia.
If there are Lolcow-y individuals in the critics community, I'd suggest making a more pointed directed thread that's about one person because right now this is more like discussing their works as consumers instead of observing these people as lolcows.
 
Hellsperger said:
I duuno, when Doug did a commentary on that let's play, it felt sincere IMHO.https://youtube.com/watch?v=dmaiFpEZAGA
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Oops, sorry I worded my initial post wrong. The episode right after the lets play had a whole opening segment of NC “apologizing” for the let's play, and you can tell he was salty as hell that his fans for once didn't absolutely love his video.

Clown Doll said:
This thread doesn't really read like a Lolcow thread at all since it seems that a large part of is side chatter, so I think this topic is better serving it's purpose in Multimedia.
If there are Lolcow-y individuals in the critics community, I'd suggest making a more pointed directed thread that's about one person because right now this is more like discussing their works as consumers instead of observing these people as lolcows.
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Linkara, MovieBob and Spoony have their own threads (and rightfully so), so I can see where you're coming from.

Compiling all the crap Doug says and does would take a while before it could be considered decent OP material, but knowing how overdefensive his fans can be they'd flock to it and make it plagued.

(Also the thought of being a consumer of his products, ugh. But to be fair, it's wrong to bash something without doing prior research.)
 
RJ MacReady said:
Doug Walker is a cynical businessman who will adopt whatever position secures ad revenue. Suggesting otherwise is retarded.

Fair use is as close as he gets to political on camera and only because that threatens his business.
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Doug almost strikes me as the type who's aware he's got fans on both extreme ends of the political spectrum and knows that pandering too heavily to one over the other would be a potential death knell. The other guys can get away with it, since for some, they still have -or have since gone back to having- day jobs, but he can't really afford to go balls-to-the-wall political. But I'm probably giving him too much credit.

(All bets are off if Trump gets elected to the Presidency, of course)

Linkara can get away with it somewhat, since some comics are pretty political in nature/theme (particularly Marvel-based ones) so it's unavoidable when it comes to, say, anything related to Frank Miller; but his political opinions are marred by his own hypocrisies and paper-thin reasoning.
 
Debrotherized Luigi said:
Doug almost strikes me as the type who's aware he's got fans on both extreme ends of the political spectrum and knows that pandering too heavily to one over the other would be a potential death knell. The other guys can get away with it, since for some, they still have -or have since gone back to having- day jobs, but he can't really afford to go balls-to-the-wall political. But I'm probably giving him too much credit.

(All bets are off if Trump gets elected to the Presidency, of course)

Linkara can get away with it somewhat, since some comics are pretty political in nature/theme (particularly Marvel-based ones) so it's unavoidable when it comes to, say, anything related to Frank Miller; but his political opinions are marred by his own hypocrisies and paper-thin reasoning.
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Tbf nothing wrong with that. Plenty of forms of media try their best not to offend one side or the other too much. Considering this shit is his job it's hardly the worst way to handle things.
 
China and Crystal said:
Also, whenever his fans massively dogpile on him he reacts really passive-aggressively -- hence that nitpicker character or the apology for his shitty let's play. Like, the way Doug acted both of those times was so fucking insincere.
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A little off topic, but my favorite thing about Doug's failed "Let's Play" is that he legitimately thought he could get away with making content with such little effort on his part without realizing that Let's Plays are made by people who actually enjoy and know how to play video games....and you need some level of charm and personality to hold up the video. And yeah, he was a total piece of shit about it after he got called out and is really smarmy during his next review. Like I can't even fathom how he could release the gaming video as actual content.
 
Adamska said:
The hilarious thing is it's actually not hard to stem that blood loss by just half-assing content. While his traditional reviews were fun, I reckon he'd have enough fans that'd like a movie review vlog or Counter Monkey as well that just releasing them every couple of weeks would do fine, with a couple of actual reviews every now and then.
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I agree. When he actually puts effort into his traditional reviews, he has some good stuff in them. One of my favorites is his review of Howling 2 starring Reb Brown and Christopher Lee. With things like the Ultima Retrospective, he has really good insight into the games. And good on him for actually doing every game in the series, all for the buildup to Ultima 9.

The problem is though, with the advent of Patreon, Spoony doesn't need to produce content to get $$$. He'll make some money off of his old videos via ad revenue and get a little less than 2000$ on Patreon. He knows some people are fine eating up his shitty livestreams and his scarce wrestling vlogs, so therefore he won't produce anything until it hits the fan. Also, anyone else notice that he stopped making videos around the time he started going out with April?
 
Lackadaisy said:
I know that a few other people on CA are/were bronies too (though I don't know if they're still with the site). I think Walker himself even included references to it in some of his reviews.
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This is another instance where Walker genuinely hates the show and fandom with a passion, but constantly references them in a rather positive albeit "cutesy weird" light so that he can keep on to his fanbase. He's pretty much a whore at this point.
 
Asuka said:
This is another instance where Walker genuinely hates the show and fandom with a passion, but constantly references them in a rather positive albeit "cutesy weird" light so that he can keep on to his fanbase. He's pretty much a whore at this point.
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Actually I think he said in one of his commentaries that he thinks the show is fine it's just not for him.
 
Asuka said:
This is another instance where Walker genuinely hates the show and fandom with a passion, but constantly references them in a rather positive albeit "cutesy weird" light so that he can keep on to his fanbase. He's pretty much a whore at this point.
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When your livelihood is based on getting views something with such a big, internet fanbase as MLP is just smart business.
 
Hellsperger said:
Note that said MLP review is by Dena, who's been with the site since its early days, but has never really stood out.

Did you know that Chris Stuckmman and Gaming Wildlife have their videos hosted on CA? Shows that CA still has popular shows, albeit ones that still have followings regardless of the site.
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Honestly, kind of impressed by this. Becoming some kind of hub for nerd shit youtube videos would be a decent plan. Not sure about the financials obviously but probably way more successful than any of the movies they made.
 
He's fucking back again with no explanation for why it took 3 months to shit this out. It's unlisted too.
 
DrChristianTroy said:
Honestly, kind of impressed by this. Becoming some kind of hub for nerd shit youtube videos would be a decent plan. Not sure about the financials obviously but probably way more successful than any of the movies they made.
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It would be, but Mike Machaud & Co. apparently aren't all that hot at running websites according to ex-producers. The actual design of the site is terrible, even after they did a fundraiser for it and nabbed a sweet pile of cash. Plus, CA is notorious amongst its dwindling userbase for glitches and server issues.

But yeah, I do wonder how profitable their anniversary movies were. I could've sworn that either Phelous or Lupa spilled the beans that no one but Michaud and the Walker Bros. got a cut of the DVD sales.
 
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