Monday, October 16, 2017

More Facebook Buffoonary on Hollywood and Machinima

More stupidity from Facebook, and by popular demand I have been asked to cover it. So I shall.

First we’ll look at a few sentences posted on October 12th. Here’s the image.



For those unaware, film producer and co-founder of Miramax Pictures, Harvey Weinstein, has been hit with several allegations of sexual harassment ranging from “inviting actresses to his bedroom” or “forcing a kiss on them” or “outright masturbating in front of them”. Essentially, a serial sexual predator. It has since opened the floodgates as several actors & actresses have come out with their own stories of harassment, and in the case of Ben Affleck, his attempt to condemn Weinstein has lead to a callout from Rose Mcgowan and a groping accusation from Hilarie Burton. It’s insane, and I hope it leads to some major changes in Hollywood.

While I will applaud him for calling out a monster, it’s highly disingenuous of him to say someone is “out of touch with reality” when he’s a ghost-hunting, Alex Jones listening, consumer of sensationalist tabloids found on Facebook. Chris once again shows his complete lack of self-awareness, and I think it’s too late for him to realize it.

Speaking of tabloids, here’s the second post, where he once again cries about the Irate Gamer channel failing.



Hoo boy where to begin?
I won’t post the article, I checked it myself and it’s clearly something made for clicks. The biggest red flag is that it cited Project Veritas as a source. For those unaware, they’re a “non-profit” organization that claims to be about “exposing corruption and truth” when really they’re scumbags that record without permission and much like Infowars, they perpetuate unfounded conspiracies.
Basically, Chris saw this on Facebook because it’s clear he’s one of those morons that place themselves in the social media bubble and only gets news tailored to them because “everything else is scary”

Now, he claims here that Machinima was created as YouTube’s Gaming Division. Wrong. While the concept of machinima (taking in-game character models and making a movie with them) has existed since the 80’s, the company, Machinima Inc., has been around since 2000, before YouTube was even a thing. Once again Chris fails at research.

Apparently they wanted Chris to join. I’m not surprised, outside of the Super Best Friends Play, most of Machinima’s partnered channels were pretty bad (hell they championed DarkSydePhil for years before finally wising up and dropping his giant ass). The next part of the story sounds like bullshit. They tried to bury his channel? Here we go again, Chris accuses someone of sabotage without any proof. “James tried to undercut me”, “YouTube isn’t the same” “Machinima tried to bury me”. At no point has Chris realized he needs evidence to back up his claims. Explain how it happened, show us how it happened, help us help you. Instead you just want us to take your word for it and believe it without question. Not how the world works.
Also, funny how he calls it a "gaming channel" when for years he claimed he was an "entertainment channel". Hell in the early years of his YouTube career, he tagged himself as a "comedian" (clearly not a very good one).

You want to know the real reason your channel failed, the real culprit behind it all? Look in the mirror Chris. You are the reason the Irate Gamer failed the way it did. You didn’t upload on a regular basis, you didn’t evolve, you kept the videos stagnant, you didn’t grow up with your fans, you weren’t getting new ones, you refused to network and branch out to other notable YouTube personalities, instead relying on cheap sponsorship deals, and you ended up killing your channel with a deluge of paid promotional videos that everybody hated. Your channel somehow didn’t grow past 145k subscribers, and I know you tried throwing everything at the wall to see what stuck, and that failed so hard. But instead of blaming others, you should have looked into yourself. Instead, you gave up and now you do vapid kids entertainment with zero educational value. You’re basically dangling keys. But it’s somehow more successful, Puppet Steve surpassed 200k subscribers, a number Chris only dreamed of as he edited the 400th scene of him falling from his chair.

If you’re wondering about Puppet Steve, same old shit. Fidget Spinners, FNAF, Minecraft, and Bendy (who even cares about him now that Cuphead is out).
He did however post a video of DBZ figures, and it actually caught my eye as one of the words in the word salad title was “Figuarts”. I thought “Nooo way, Chris didn’t spend that much money did he?” Figuarts are crazy expensive.
He didn’t, all the figures in the video were donated to him by some site. Great marketing strategy, work with a channel where the majority of the audience has no disposable income.
The video itself was the usual shit, overuse of “cool”, getting things wrong, the worst being when he looked at a Goku Black figure and called him “Goku in the black shirt” and claiming he came from “the Xenoverse video game from last year”. No Chris, he came from Dragon Ball Super, and he’s meant to be evil (he never really stated that in the video).
Also he uses music from the Faulconer soundtrack. Absolutely pathetic.

That’s it for now. His latest post is more ghost garbage, going to another stupid convention. Oh hey, there’s another reason IG failed, you never went to nerd culture conventions. I don’t just mean E3, you never went to Comic Con or MAGFest or PAX or even anime conventions. Then again, I imagine they wouldn’t go well. Lots of people asking questions you refuse to answer, or can’t answer.

47 comments:

  1. There's a lot of reasons Chris is a moron, but I don't think him watching Alex Jones is one of them. Don't get me wrong, Alex is out of his goddamn mind, and I'd never trust a thing he rambles on about for even a minute. But I don't think Chris should be judged for watching him, everyone's entitled to their own tastes and opinions. There's lots of legitimate reasons why Chris is an Internet failure, but I say him watching Alex Jones is the least of them.

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  2. Lo and behold, I can comment on blogs again for some reason. I do have to give Chris some credit for his reply in the comments of his post about that article:
    Sean Christo You know, over a decade ago (feel old yet?) when I first saw your videos and was fooled by the masses calling you a rip-off, I would have never imagined you to be such a worldly and aware fellow. Do forgive me; we're all a bit quick to judgment in youth.
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    Allen Moore
    Allen Moore As much as I like watching them both, I believe the irrational behavior was jealousy. There were plenty of people in the whole angry nerd fad but Chris was the only person getting the crap. Honestly though, I don't think James gave a shit, Mike more and likely spoke for himself and the fans followed.
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    Chris Bores Well it was probably my own doing as I never talked publically about it or defended myself until years later.

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  3. In other news, EA is closing Visceral Games and the Star Wars title they were working on is changing from single player and story driven to a Games as a Service title.

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    1. At this point, companies shouldn't sell themselves to EA anymore! They know what will happen! And this changing of the game is... actually, what exactly is a Games as a Service? Is it like a restaurant order?
      -_-

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  4. SHAMELESS PLUG FOR MY BOOK: https://maniacaldude.deviantart.com/art/Kimmy-s-Family-709637745

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    1. Congratulations! Writing a book is hard work and a great accomplishment.

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    2. Question is, how am I going to promote it?

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    3. https://authorunlimited.com/50-ways-to-promote-your-book/

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    4. Are you finished with it or are you still writing it?

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    5. It's finished, we just need a few more illustrations to be drawn and you can buy it on Amazon.

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  5. Off-topic, but Ohio University is reputedly haunted. Since Chris is from there, I wonder if he ever studied there and got his inspiration for ghost hunting:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9c6xaMydQU (jump to 4:25)

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    1. What if Chris starts a paranormal investigation at Aokigahara?

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  6. This is referring to something extremely old, but I'd just thought I'd bring it up since I don't think anyone has. I was looking at BatDan's 2014 post of the last episode of Bores' story arc and I noticed something interesting. I counted the number of guests that BatDan pointed out in the "crowd scene" and there were ten people that appeared. Yet only seven people were credited. Did Bores forget to add the other people to the credits or did he only credit the ones he found "special?" Like, did he only credit the "dire hard loyal" fans and just give the middle finger to the other three other people? I guess you can argue that these three other people asked not to be credited, but I'd imagine giant IG fans would just love to see their names appear in a video by Bores. It's pretty clear by now that Chris doesn't give a crap about his fans, but this shows that he didn't even care about them when he was still making content for them.

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    1. Still can't believe he had the Archfiend yell "FUCK YOU AVGN!"

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    2. It's been a while since I have seen that but are the characters played by Chris included in that total?

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    3. @Edge Nope, that's the number of guests that BatDan counted. I watched the video and yeah, there were ten people that were not Chris. And only seven names were listed in the credits.

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  7. Off topic, but I should say this. The Loud House creator, Chris Savino has been fired from Nickelodeon for allegations of sexual harassment and threats of blacklisting from the industry.

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    1. And where's the evidence behind this? All Weinstein aside, and unless they can be blatantly proven, I think all these allegations of sexual harassment/abuse are getting way out of hand.

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  8. Since no one else has mentioned it, AVGN is two episodes into a cool multi-day Halloweenish storyline. It starts here:

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

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    1. I wonder if it will take James 3 and a half years to finish this multi-episode.

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    2. Doubt it. Unlike Bores' "epic (yeah, right) storyline"...

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    3. Ah, Polybius. One of my favorite urban legends, even if it's likely complete BS. I think I emailed James suggesting he review that on April 1st a while back (maybe seven or eight years ago?). I made a 3D model of the cabinet as scenery in my Ludum Dare game a few months back (though it doesn't look very good, I'm very new to 3D graphics).

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    4. At the end of the day, we all know that the 1981 Polybius game is about as real as... well, a magic trick. Just saying.

      On that same note, the Polybius game that just came out on PlayStation Network - and will be getting a release on Windows soon - is definitely for real.

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  9. Holy crap, that faggot is still relevant? Old habits die hard it seems.

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    1. Dan only updates when Bores has something actually interesting and worth talking about. Puppet Steve, for instance, is not worth talking about, as it's just formulaic.

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    2. There is really no need for name calling.

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  10. So Chris is still blind as to why IG failed eh?Anyway,he better enjoy his puppet games,for he'll probs blame other things when Puppet Bores eventually falls.

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    1. I wonder if he will blame James Rolfe and Machinima when Puppet Steve declines?

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  11. Chris has been fairly active on Facebook. He did a segment for a TV station and actually wrote this: "I will reveal for the first time in a video how I break down the spirit world to pull off how I approach the spirit world that is proving so effective in the field."

    He was also a vendor at another paranormal convention and says he almost sold out of books and DVDs. Of course he stroked his ego by mentioning how lots of people were disappointed that he didn't lecture while there.

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    1. Well, I always wondered how he breaks down the spirit world to pull off how he approaches the spirit world that is proving so effective in the field, so that'll be illuminating.

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  12. This pretty much sums up this fucking blog.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JizzeERcZjg

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    1. Yeah... Protip: Next time you use a South Park clip to bash us, DON’T pick one with a convicted child rapist.

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    2. So fucking what? You're completely missing the point. Are you really that daft?

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    3. The blog is technically finished though. BatDan only covers things if Chris does anything worth talking about. Sure, Irate Gamer is over, but Chris Bores is still an idiot, as his recent Facebook posts show.

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    4. Keep in mind that BatDan isn't just critiquing the character, but the creator as well. And the creator is just as awful as the character.

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  13. Here is the news segment on Bores - and they called him a ghost behaviorist. Bores is so proud of this segment that he went back on Twitter after nearly a year.

    http://www.wtol.com/story/36646693/ghost-hunter-investigates-spooky-spirits-at-spaghetti-warehouse

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  14. Sorry, but the ill-informed attack on Project Veritas made the rest of the article suffer. The fact that they film without permission is precisely the point - if they had permission, the people they're trying to expose wouldn't let their guard down and show what they're really about. You appear to come from the same school of thought as Democrats and their mindless defenders crying about CLinton's emails being leaked, when the real story was what was in the emails themselves and how much it embarrassed the DNC and proved its direct relationship to the mainstream media. Complaining that someone got caught doing something wrong doesn't make them the victim, so unless you can give some specific examples of Project Veritas's dishonesty - and I doubt you've watched any of their videos, preferring instead to stay in your own 'bubble' equivalent to the one you claim others reside in - this is essentially just a lazy blanket dismissal of inconvenient, ideology-threatening information.

    James O'Keefe and his team have successfully shown senior members of Clinton's campaign staff bragging about carrying out electoral fraud for the last five decades by having people vote several times across different states, and admitting to starting the majority of violence at Trump rallies. They've also caught mainstream media outlet staff, including producers and CNN host Van Jones, admitting that their coverage is purely ratings-driven and an attempt to discredit the Trump government rather than to report on facts. This isn't fake news, this is proven information that some people would rather pretend didn't exist. Comparing it to InfoWars is a false equivalence and almost libellous.

    I've visited this site for years, but lately the political comments have made for painful reading. It's suffering the same fate as many others in recent times, of thinking subjective socio-political opinion is always worth something even if there's nothing to back it up. It's a hubris that seems to be infesting all areas of journalism and media, and was the primary reason for Gamergate and for the NFL and ESPN's stunning nosedive in popularity. I don't think I'll be coming back here again, sadly.

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    1. Dude, if it's not from the Left, it's not right.

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    2. No politics please. This is so last Tuesday. Move on.

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    3. Yeah, keep your facts and logic to yourself!

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  15. So does anybody remember when Chico Edge wrote that open letter to Chris Bores a couple years ago regarding his book? I've been thinking about doing something incredibly similar regarding some of the content that Chris puts on his Puppet Steve channel. Particularly the horror games playthroughs. I don't know, it just REALLY bothers me that Chris is doing playthroughs of these games on a channel that seems to be aimed at 4-7 year old kids. Then again, I still think Chris doesn't even have a target audience for this channel. But nonetheless, VERY young children are still going to see videos like this in places it SHOULDN'T belong and that just bothers me. I don't know, since BatDan is up for our opinions, it's just something I'm thinking about. What do y'all think?

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    1. As the one who wrote that letter, I suggest going ahead and writing it then offering it to BatDan via email. That is how I did it. Or you can ask BatDan if he would be interested in that letter before you write it.

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  16. Not sure if anyone has brought this up or is aware of it, but there is a channel named "Five Nights at Froakies" that has some videos parodying Pubta Steve, complete with homemade Steve puppet.

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    1. Also, if anyone is interested, I used my youtube channel (that I didn't even know i had, maybe it got created when that whole google plus/youtube fusion thing happens, I mainly use a channel that has a different name) to make playlists of Bores related playlists, such as all the reuploaded vids and guest appearances on other channels.
      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyMv-jy96iriRFaY752Nkvg/playlists

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  17. Are we sure DSP and Crisbo aren't clones? I'm really starting to think they are!

    But yeah, the Best Friends Zaibatsu are awesome! I'm still glad to have one of my games signed by them!
    ^-^

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  18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4hktqhBpzY

    Very genuinely scary episode. James outdid himself from last year's Halloween episode.

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