Hmmm, where to start? Let's go with Puppet Steve as that's what I imagine most of this post will cover.
On Monday, he posted a video where he reviews socks. ... I am not kidding. Well, he reviews a special edition Ghostbusters 2016 Blu-Ray that comes with socks. Is there a market for this?
In it, Steve said it was a good movie. You know, I shouldn't be surprised. Chris loved Pixels, and a lot of critics have noticed tonal similarities between the two.
He also says "it's the extended edition, which has more scenes than in the original" There's not enough "no shit, sherlocks" in the world.
The thing that sticks out most though is what he says at the start. "All this week on the Puppet Steve channel, we're doing Halloween items". So this was posted Monday, and one can guess from that line he'll be posting a new video every day. ... Seems Chris still can't keep his promises. Tuesday, nothing. Wednesday, nothing. Today, noth- oh wait, there is something.
It's not a product review, it's more of his Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location LP. Or his "JumpScare Reaction Gameplay" Seriously what is this?
Now kids will know the annoyance of Bores promising something, and never fulfilling it.
Last time, Steve fear quit after the very first obstacle in the game. I wonder if this is how Chris treats every game.
I imagine we'll see more after he looked up- I mean watched some other vid- I mean TOTALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET PAST THE BIDYBAB ON HIS OWN
"I'm going to beat this stupid baby once and for all" Woooow that would be some great "out of context" material.
"I guess I showed that stupid baby diaperhead!" Chris, kids don't say this. Quit taking tips from shitty sitcoms.
He succeeds.
"Ugh, more of the stupid girl talking" Your sexism is showing Chris.
Steve puts together that Circus Baby actually knows what's happening. Welcome to narrative Chris! You get a cookie.
He goes through the Ballora Gallery. I think there's jump cuts at points.
And like a moron, he was moving around when Ballora's music was nearby and gets jumped. You're supposed to stay still! Didn't you listen to Circus Baby?
He skips right over finishing the gallery and moves right to restoring the power with Funtime Freddy watching him.
He fixes some, gets jumped, then finishes fixing them. But then he skips over going through the Gallery again, and skips over the second part of The Immortal and the Restless. You don't know what fun is!
When the HandUnit asks for music, he wants Justin Timberlake. Yeah I'm sure you're totally a Justin Timberlake fan.
When he gets Casual Bongos, he makes a remark about Pitbull. I've only heard a few Pitbull songs but I don't recall hearing bongos in them.
Onto moving through Funtime Foxy's hall. I predict a possible quit from this part.
He gets his flash beacon, which Steve thinks is a camera. Did he fucking say it was a camera?! No surprise, he uses it too much and gets jumped. Blames Foxy. Still in the habit of blaming the game I see.
Gets through Foxy, and onto the part where he needs to repair Freddy.
He removes the part from the chest module and gets complimented for it. "Heh heh, well I am pretty cool" No you're not. You're the opposite of cool. Nothing about you can qualify as cool.
I stand corrected, he rage quits on trying to push the button on Bonnie's bow tie, and he gets jumped by him three times. Well, at least there was no Zombie Steve.
Slight improvement as there's more commentary, but that's not saying much.
Over on Irate Gamer, he posted a Box Wars last week. ... Oh, there is something more interesting.
According to reader Rick Lee, Chris stealthily dropped the Irate Gamer Season 5 DVD on his store. Yeah, no announcement or anything.
Guess Chris wants to squeeze a few more dollars out of the few IG fans he has left.
Says it contains 10 episodes, which I imagine are DuckTales, Kid Icarus, Punch Out, Spy Hunter, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, Kung-Fu, Castlevania, Excitebike, and Duck Hunt.
No extras are listed at all. I would not be surprised if Chris lazily slapped it together with just these episodes, with no changes to them. More copyrighted footage!
The cover art, which is only shown as a tiny thumbnail, is absolutely abysmal. The top 3/4ths of it are the start-up screen from the Irate Gamer Game. Chris just loooves to milk that image. On the bottom 1/4th are random screenshots. Looks like the ending to Kung-Fu, Duck Hunt, and a scene from Punch-Out. Shouldn't these go on the back of the box? Amazing how he topped the laziness of the last cover art.
Do you think anyone will buy this? It used to be that at least one purchase would be from Shawn of TotalActionAdventure, but I just checked the site and it's gone. The domain lapsed. That's a shame, I enjoyed reading it.
EDIT: Turns out Shawn simply moved site. You can see his new blog at this link. Thank you red for informing me about this.
Chris really needs to communicate better. Maybe then he wouldn't be included on a video about fallen YouTube stars made by someone that legit tried to help him.
He's also promoting ghost hunting but only on his FB page now.
ReplyDeleteIG's worst, but Bores is doing pretty good with Steve, regardless of one's opinion on its quality. The DVD is season 5 but only has 10 episodes even though the "season" had 13? pretty wack
DeleteEither way, he remains very inconsistent.
DeleteThoughts on Skylanders Academy (the Netflix cartoon)? Do any of you think Bores will watch it?
ReplyDeleteRegarding Shawn of totalactionadveture he just moved it to different site https://shawn-mcmahon-rna3.squarespace.com/dvdblurays
ReplyDeleteOh cool. Thanks man.
DeleteSo, what do you guys think should be on the switch?
ReplyDeleteTokyo Mirrage Session #FE. It really needs a second chance to sucseed.
DeleteI wonder if, just like with Haunted Investigators, he's trying to get puppet Steve on television, like on PBS or Nick Jr.
ReplyDeleteWould not surprise me. Of course he would have to do new puppets since he legally doesn't own Steve, and I doubt any network would be willing to pay the astronomical licensing fees Microsoft would charge.
DeleteWhy did he kill off Marty again?
DeleteI presume because it's easier to get attention by borrowing from an established IP than to create your own world from scratch that expresses who you are.
DeleteHey this is Shawn, formally from Total Action Adventure! Even though it looks like it was all already cleared up, the backstory is that site was owned by a friend of mine who didn't really feel like maintaining it anymore so I moved everything over to a squarespace site that I oversee - entertainmentfordays.com. Still want to make it look sharper but at least it gives me a place to write.
ReplyDeleteI would love to get my hands on Season 5 to keep the reviews going, just as I've always wanted to get the second History of Video Games DVD. The problem? The exchange rate from the US to Canada. To get them both shipped here is 45 US, which is like 60 Canadian bucks if not more. I...I can't bring myself to do it.
Thanks for the clarification. I've linked your new site above.
DeleteYikes! That is steep for shipping. I'd get them for you, but that would require me to actually give money to Bores, as well as my information.
Hell, you should set up a Paypal link and/or Patreon account just to pay for more Internet video-themed DVDs to buy/review. I'd gladly chip in.
DeleteI'm hoping to grab a few more soon. Apparently Cinemassacre has more blu-rays coming out and I do hope to grab the remaining Irate Gamer stuff in the coming weeks. Also Atop the Fourth Wall has a couple releases I'm hoping to get and take a look. So much out there!
DeleteJust a reminder to you all, last year We Create Stuff updated and rereleased the game I voice-acted in, Nightmare House 2. If you're looking for something scary to play this halloween, download it here.
ReplyDeleteThe newest Puppet Steve video (a LEGO Scooby Doo set) introduces a Skeleton puppet. His main trait is his high pitched voice. The video ends with an unfunny LEGO skit featuring the Scooby Doo characters and LEGO Steve.
ReplyDeleteA skeleton character? So he brought back Ronnie? Oh sorry, "Skeleton Mikey". That doesn't really make it anymore original Chris.
DeleteHe really is ripping himself off...
ahhh I know its horrible but I love Ronnie!
DeleteSo on FB he's now bitching that someone 'spammed' his book Ghost Hunting 2.0 with negative comments and he's now begging his fans to help him rack up positive comments. WTF?
ReplyDeleteAnd in the replies, people are labeling those critical of his book as 'AVGN fanboys'
DeleteThis is really ticking me off. I'm working on a book right now and I'm trying to make it as good as possible. It's something that requires a lot of time and patience, something Chris obviously didn't put into this awfully written mess. He obviously did not get it proofread or write more than one draft, something that is VERY important in the writing process. Yet here he is whining that his book is not getting positive reviews. I'm going to flat out say it. Chris, you are not cut out to be a writer. Give it up right. Scrap whatever you have written for that sequel and just focus on your dumb Puppet Steve videos. Quit trying to get fame for something you clearly have no clue about.
DeleteHate to be harsh, but writing is very important to me and it just frustrates me see Chris treat it like a joke.
Also, when Kirk Cameron pulled this crap, he was rightfully derided. Why isn't Chris getting the same treatment?
DeleteProbably because Chris isn't as "well-known" as Kirk is.
Deletehere's the first of the dishonest positive reviews. Everyone should mark it as "not helpful", and report abuse.
ReplyDeleteJust did.
Delete"It flows from cover to cover" Yeah, flows like the the contents of a toilet into a sewer pipe.
DeleteOn an unrelated note, I just thought of something after reading some older entries here.
ReplyDeleteDid Chris get to go to E3 this year, or anything of that sort? Or did GotGame dropped him?
Either way, Happy Halloween to you all!
He did not. He didn't even make any impressions videos about it.
DeleteHis status with GotGame is weird. He claims to be with them, but he doesn't do anything for them.
Chris responds to Larry's video as Linda https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157582692525543&set=a.473845590542.386855.717535542&type=3&theater
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to the screenshot of "Linda's" comment
DeleteDave,
DeleteHere's the secret to making hyperlink code easily.
The Emoji Movie is gonna be a thing.
ReplyDeleteJust why though? Their just freaking emojis. Then again, Columbia Pictures did another unnecessary adaption of a mobile game/thing with The Angry Birds Movie. Man are they going down hill this year.
DeleteThat's pretty easy to figure out; they're officially out of ideas!
Delete^-^
I actually really liked the angry birds movie. Once you actually watch it, you can see there was a lot of work and effort put into it. Lots of attention to detail, subtle references to the games and even some really clever puns.
DeleteBased off the teaser pic alone, you can clearly see there's no originality whatsoever in thie emoji movie. One of the characters is literally called "Poop daddy". You can't get any worse than that.
^ Agree with that. Angry Birds the movie was surprisingly better than I thought. They took nearly nothing (given the short storyline of the actual games) and make it into something.
DeleteEmoji movie? Possibly this one, I guess...
😨➡️😍➡️😘➡️👫 The end.
Have any of you guys noticed how inconsistent Chris' Puppet Steve voice is? Check out the Scooby Doo video. Right from the start it's about 2 octaves higher than normal.
ReplyDeleteHappy Halloween, Everybody!
ReplyDeletenew video up on IG, His Ghost Adventures rip off
ReplyDeleteOh my God, that video... "And using things like psychology..." "Ov-you-lus" immediately followed by a shot of the thing, printed with "OVILUS..." and of course, no credits- there were at least two camera operators unless the whole thing was fraudulently staged.
DeleteHis update video where he claims that his screening of The Pursuit of the Paranormal was a "success" has been unlisted. What's wrong Chris? Don't you want people to know how successful the screening was? Or was the applause in the video really just a stock sound effect after all?
DeleteSo Bores is a Trump Supporter. I knew it.
ReplyDeleteI think he only says that to troll the millennial gamer crowd, but if he's really voting for Trump then the more the merrier.
DeleteWhere did Chris say he supports Trump? I don;t see it anywhere.
DeleteIt was a Ladybuggin comment on this blog where he said he supported Trump. Like all Ladybuggin comments though, it should be taken with a grain of salt.
DeleteI hope more people archived all of his videos in case he really deletes Irate Gamer channel for good. This is just sad. People need to know who Irate Gamer is, no matter how many times Chris tries to denies the existence of his old self.
ReplyDeleteThe internet never forgets.
ReplyDelete"Shopkins Kitty Kitchen Bedroom Happy Places Playset pt 3 Unboxing Review w/ Puppet Alex, Steve"
ReplyDelete...aaand the closing joke is "I want to use the Shopkins toilet so I can go to the bathroom."
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ReplyDeleteLadyBuggin: How's the new branch of psychology doing?
ReplyDelete@LadyBuggin
ReplyDeleteDid the licensing issues for the Irate Gamer Game get sorted out? How about he appearance on "Pawn Stars" or that horror movie from the people who make rape fantasy and lactation porn? When can we expect “Ritual of the Stones” and "Echoes of Evil”?
*Hardcore Pawn. But even so...
ReplyDeleteKeeping that comment for the salt.
ReplyDeleteShaolin Dave: Why should I address anything any of you ask, you refuse to believe my truthful answers than proceed to make up your own delusional theories! That is one of the main reasons no one of good reputation takes this blog as being credible! Have fun in your fantasy worlds, men/children :)~
ReplyDeleteMy guess is he probably just showed up at American Jewelry and Loan while he was traveling and he met Les Gold there while they were probably filming an episode. Even if he was one of the filmed customers buying or selling something, they probably pick out less than 1% of the customers they film, and it usually involves some ghetto fatass black chick flipping out because she can't get $1,000 for some piece of fake plastic jewelry.
ReplyDelete@LadyBuggin
ReplyDeleteYou claimed the game was temporarily removed from the store because of licensing issues.
It was not licensing issues.
It was not temporary.
You claimed the game was of excellent quality and enthusiastically endorsed it.
Later you claimed that you knew it was garbage all along but played the victim being duped by the developers.
So, before you accuse me of refusing to believe the truth, try telling the truth sometime.
LadyBuggin: How's the new branch of psychology doing?
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteDave, I'm guessing that Linda/Chris is going to completely ignore your last post, I sense it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, maybe not. Now that you've called her/him out, s/he might feel like responding.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I looked back at the blog posts from around the time that Chris got married and found no comments from Linda. She also seems to have been much less active with her YouTube insults around that time. I wonder what she was so preoccupied with?
Cue LadyBuggin with some lame excuse.
OT: The Cubs finally won their 3rd World Series title. After a 108-year drought. :D
ReplyDeleteNow, Wrigley needs to have Steve Bartman welcome back. Along with a goat.
Congratulations Cubs! Dreams do come true when you never give up and keep fighting. Truly a watershed moment had been made in MLB history. :)
DeleteI remember people used to suspect that Bores wasn't really the way he seems. That he was like Andy Kaufman, dedicated to his character and obsessed with never breaking character.
ReplyDeleteHe could potentially exploit that if he really wanted to leave "Irate Gamer" behind. If the last episode featured LadyBuggin as Bores in a wig, then he said "yeah it was a joke all along, now I'm moving onto other things", he'd probably actually convince a lot of people.
@Dave: recently I'm beginning to think he's like skankhunt42.
ReplyDeleteWho's that?
ReplyDeleteo_O
Gerald Broflovski from South Park posing as an internet troll with that username in season 20.
ReplyDeleteNot covering Chris's Pursuit of the Paranormal video that went up on Halloween ?
ReplyDelete@Ixey5
ReplyDeleteIf you're asking about skankhunt42, i's a "South Park" reference (Ivan, you probably shouldn't post spoilers for the current season)
If you're asking about Andy Kaufman, he was an actor from the 70s-80s, most known for elaborate pranks and hoaxes . Jim Carrey portrayed him in the movie "Man on the Moon", I'd suggest you check that out.
Andy Kaufman also enjoyed wrestling with 'working girls' from the Moonlite Bunny Ranch.
ReplyDelete"FNAF Five Nights at Freddy's Fun Nightmare Balloon Boy McFarlane Toys lego construction set unboxing." Nd he pronounces himself "Poob Steve."
ReplyDeleteTypical Bores Lisp.
DeleteThe actual set has less than 30 pieces. It's not really worth making a 2 minute video about unless you are reviewing several other small sets with it. But that wouldn't generate as much ad revenue, would it?
DeleteHow long until Chris makes the Puppet Steve movie?
DeleteHe already did, just combine the episodes he made so far and that's his "movie". It's also where James Rolfe got the idea to make a movie.
Deleteyou people are completely brain dead and there will NEVER be any hope for you all, RIP ~
ReplyDelete@LadyBuggin777 Your words are OBSOLETE! "Linda".
ReplyDeleteDan, cleanup on aisle Linda!
ReplyDeleteOn FB he remodeled his page, essentially eliminating any IG reference. It's now the primary theme of Chris Bores the Ghost Hunter. This leads me to believe that going forward, any game review he does is going to be via Puppet Steve and won't be retro.
ReplyDeleteRIP Irate Gamer 2007-2016
Maybe Guru Larry actually got through to him with his video. Once he exposed his Puppet Steve channel, what was the point in trying to continue?
DeleteWhat moron would pay money for DVDs including content you can see for free on YouTube?
DeleteAt least he is not using that crappy Wordpress layout anymore.
DeleteThe end of the Irate Gamer has been foretold many times in the past. As long as there is breath in Chris Bores' lungs, we can't call it actually over. Next time he estimates that he has a shot to earn money off the channel, he'll hit record and we'll be off to the races again.
DeleteMy off-the-cuff ballpark estimate is that whenever Plubbit Steve hits its peak and then starts to decline, a couple of months later there'll suddenly be a new IG "comeback" video.
Yeah, I was asking about skankhunt! But seriously, the douchebag's here again! Someone show her the door! Again!
ReplyDelete-_-
Maybe this has been mentioned before but the old Irate Gamer now redirects to chrisbores.com - or the CB Network as he puts it.
ReplyDeleteThe site is poorly designed and very generic in appearance. He hasn't completely dropped Irate Gamer as he still has the latest DVD for sale but Chris truly has been distancing himself from the character. I wonder if he will ever put Puppet Steve up there?
Add me to the list of people that think Chris should at least say farewell to the Irate Gamer and say goodbye to his fans. It would be the right thing to do.
"CB Network"
Deletenet·work
ˈnetˌwərk/
a group or system of interconnected people or things.
How can you have a "network" of one person?
Kinda reminds me of the stupid mistake he refused to acknowledge on Haunted Investigators, where he said up to six people would be placed in solitary confinement together.
Is he giving Irate Gamer the heave-ho or not? This is on the CB Network site:
DeleteChris Bores Network delivers a wide variety of shows to the public. These range from Pursuit of the Paranormal Ghost Hunting, Irate Gamer Video Game reviews, Irate the 80’s previous era pop culture reviews, and History of Video Games the documentary of Video Game History.
I guess you could make a network of one person, if multiple personalities count
DeleteHoly shit! Chris just featured Puppet Steve on the Irate Gamer/CB Network channel.
ReplyDeletehttp://prnt.sc/d36odr
Recently, Chris wrote about someone giving a bad review to his book, and mentioned in the comments that he's "not one to go off the deep end."
ReplyDeleteReally?
Puppet Steve reviewed another Peppa Pig playset. Half the video is just cutting open all the plastic stuff that attaches everything to the box. The Irate Gamer's YouTube channel has been renamed "CB Network", and now features Puppet Steve in the featured channels section.
ReplyDeleteI think Mikeyfan93 hit the nail right on the head. He was so discrete about Puppet Steve at first and tried really hard to hide it to the public to the point where he was deleting any comments mentioning or referencing Puppet Steve on his FB page and IG YouTube channel. Now that Guru Larry fully exposed him publically, the cat is now fully out of the bag and Chris has no choice now but to finally give IG the axe and focus solely on Puppet Steve and ghost hunting.
ReplyDeleteI hope those videos are just the un-needed ones (e.g. Skylanders & Sponsored Videos) and not any IG Show videos, otherwise that would probably tick off any remaining fan he has (including me partially, although I've been distancing myself from his content ever since I discovered the ICBINAVGN series, and subsequently this blog).
ReplyDelete#6 - DOn't you mean "Mario VS. Sonic"? Haha
ReplyDeleteI don't think he would ever delete his Brawl video. It has the most views that he's ever had.
ReplyDeleteAlso, all those videos are gone, yet his E begging and Opening Up videos are still up. Bet he feels really proud of those videos.
Don't you mean that his entire channel is dead?
ReplyDelete^-^
Protip: Take your luck and Google up any video Chris has now deleted, and it's guaranteed someone put one of his videos up for archive.
ReplyDeleteAt least he is not using that crappy Wordpress layout anymore.
ReplyDeletegoldenslot
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