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I think everyone even remotely familiar with Arin knew this thread was an inevitability ages ago. Arin's always been a flake and he's always been embroiled in some idiocy or another, but there's an interesting quirk involving Arin that I think many people, Kiwis and otherwise, noticed about him a while ago.
I first noticed it during his Sequelitis episode on Castlevania. Most people argue that his original vid on Megaman X is, at the very least, okay, if a bit elementary. There's something that surfaces during his Castlevania vid however that, I've noticed, is something that's rapidly becoming a borderline guarantee of future lolcowdom: declaring subjective opinion to be empirical fact and then ducking behind the "it's my opinion" shield. If you're not familiar with how this shit works, go take a look at Hbomberguy's thread and take stock of how that asshole does this exact shit, using the the "my opinion" defense to duck away from justified criticism.
Arin does this a lot in the Castlevania video, ragging on everything from the game's color palette (which he claims "doesn't have any vibrant color schemes" while having a screenshot of Castlevania II in the corner awash with fucking pinks and purples). To the game's technical limitations at the time (because apparently ignoring the fact that the game came out in 1987, before most established game notions were a thing, is now his MO), but it all comes to a head when Arin basically makes the argument that every single Castlevania game that is adhering to the exploration model (the "Vania" in "Metroidvania," if you will) are doing it wrong because they have RPG mechanics and aren't stage-based, going into a ridiculous argument that the games are lower in quality and people only like them because they're flashy.
Mind, there's a certain irony to someone who made a video trying to claim that deliberate, planned design and setup is inherently superior to a an addictive, quick experience, then proceeding to go out and create Game Grumps, but that's fodder for another post.
The quintessential reason Arin would faceplant right into Lolcowdom, for me, begins right at this exact fucking point: Arin being completely unable to take criticism. Naturally I'm like 99% sure it dates back way further than this, but this is when I noticed it. Small wonder then, that he gravitated towards a subculture that considers many former friends of his to be haram, including Jon, and actively seeks to further isolate him from criticism.
I first noticed it during his Sequelitis episode on Castlevania. Most people argue that his original vid on Megaman X is, at the very least, okay, if a bit elementary. There's something that surfaces during his Castlevania vid however that, I've noticed, is something that's rapidly becoming a borderline guarantee of future lolcowdom: declaring subjective opinion to be empirical fact and then ducking behind the "it's my opinion" shield. If you're not familiar with how this shit works, go take a look at Hbomberguy's thread and take stock of how that asshole does this exact shit, using the the "my opinion" defense to duck away from justified criticism.
Arin does this a lot in the Castlevania video, ragging on everything from the game's color palette (which he claims "doesn't have any vibrant color schemes" while having a screenshot of Castlevania II in the corner awash with fucking pinks and purples). To the game's technical limitations at the time (because apparently ignoring the fact that the game came out in 1987, before most established game notions were a thing, is now his MO), but it all comes to a head when Arin basically makes the argument that every single Castlevania game that is adhering to the exploration model (the "Vania" in "Metroidvania," if you will) are doing it wrong because they have RPG mechanics and aren't stage-based, going into a ridiculous argument that the games are lower in quality and people only like them because they're flashy.
Mind, there's a certain irony to someone who made a video trying to claim that deliberate, planned design and setup is inherently superior to a an addictive, quick experience, then proceeding to go out and create Game Grumps, but that's fodder for another post.
The quintessential reason Arin would faceplant right into Lolcowdom, for me, begins right at this exact fucking point: Arin being completely unable to take criticism. Naturally I'm like 99% sure it dates back way further than this, but this is when I noticed it. Small wonder then, that he gravitated towards a subculture that considers many former friends of his to be haram, including Jon, and actively seeks to further isolate him from criticism.
