Friday, October 14, 2016

Chris Exposes His PSN in a Crappy Lego Let's Play

You’re probably expecting some more Puppet Steve right? There is, but I have to level with you. These videos are kind of a chore to get through. They’re so redundant, almost formulaic. Steve shows a toy, bad jokes, “isn’t that right Zombie Steve?”, more bad jokes, barely talks about the toy, lame effects. There’s very little substance and it's nowhere near as fun as dissecting the Irate Gamer.

I’ll bring up a few things about it though.
He seems to have found success with Five Nights at Freddy’s. He made a bunch of videos about the toys and got a shitload of views. I do kind of question it, but I know FNAF is crazy popular so he might not be cheating. Maybe. I doubt he’d play the games though, he’s not that smart. You’d think with Sister Location he’d hop on that bandwagon, it’s clear he knows nothing.

There’s a video where he “interviews” Deathstroke, rather a Lego figure of him.  This is in response to the footage that Ben Affleck posted of Deathstroke in the DCEU. The entire joke is that he says “kill kill kill” a lot, and that he loves to kill. Making it VERY OBVIOUS that Chris has no idea what Deathstorke is actually like. It’s one of the worst videos Chris has ever made. Completely and utterly insulting.

He’s also begun looking at toys for Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol. What the hell is that? They’re shows on Nick Jr. Meaning Chris is reviewing literal baby stuff for babies. I can understand Minecraft, Lego, FNAF, that stuff appeals to all ages. Why talk about this crap?
Well, I took a look at his Twitter (yes there’s a Puppet Steve Twitter, it’s pretty sad) and I found a hint. He doesn’t follow many people, mostly Toledo-based accounts, Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon *cough*shittaste*cough* and one called “Jazwares”. They’re a toy company that specializes in Minecraft, Terraria, something called Animal Jam, apparently RWBY (they keep retweeting Rooster Teeth) and Peppa Pig. Huuuuh. In fact, not only does “Steve” follow them, they follow him. Yeah, this sounds like a brand deal. Does “Steve” mention this is a brand deal? NOPE! Shady and scummy just like Irate Gamer.

The Puppet Alex videos are still alright. Chris’ stepdaughter at least sounds like she knows and cares about what she’s talking about.

Anyway, onto what I do want to talk about. A pair of videos about Lego Dimensions, and the new Ghostbusters movie. Now retitled Ghostbusters: Answer the Call.

Video title is still word salad nonsense. Ghostbusters New Movie LEGO Dimensions Story Pack 71242 Abby Yates Chinese Unboxing Review
Why just “Chinese”? Was there not enough space for restaurant? Get rid of “new movie” for 2016, get rid of the numbers, now you have space. Still hard to read though.

More copyrighted material. Does he not get content ID’d for this?
“Once we open this up, we find that there’s all kinds of pieces to put together” … This was a line that was said.
Apparently Steve has “puppet magic” and with the words “Alaka-Ghosts n Goblins” he puts it together in an instant. So just like the retarded Muffin magic from the start. Also, Ghosts n Goblins reference? Did you forget what channel you’re on?
He lists what’s part of it like it actually matters. This is just meant to go on the portal, it’s not a legit Lego playset.
He shows off the sliding doors, with Star Trek noises. Stop.
Then there’s a dumb bit with a greeter and a trio of Minecraft Lego. The greeter is actually Sensei Wu from Lego Ninjago, who has a figure for Dimensions. Yes, he has a bad accent. And then more bad accent. Blah…
The set comes with an Abby Yates figure (Melissa’s McCarthy’s character because she was sooooo memorable). “She comes in her brand new uniform seen in the movie” No shit. Of course it’s accurate to the movie why wouldn’t it be? Not to mention the new uniform is dumb with those stripes across the chest.
He makes her talk, and he didn’t even try to sound like McCarthy.
He shows off the Peter Venkmen figure. Yes, just remind us of the good Ghostbusters movie, that won’t hurt at all.
“This is a fun playset” It’s not meant to be a playset! It’s for the game! Uggh
He shows the real purpose and acts like this is an “extra feature”. You are so bad at this.
Then a dumb bit where the doors slide open and Zombie Steve pops up.
He shows off the new Ecto-1. That’s it.

Now, onto the bigger video. Puppet Steve’s longest video to date.
Ghostbusters Movie LEGO Dimensions Aldridge Mansion Level 1 Story Pack Letsplay commentary

Yep, he’s doing a Let’s Play. A 10:04 one meant to cover the first level of six (I am doubtful he will get that far).
I want to thank iDuck for helping me out with info about the video that I might have missed.

We got Steve with a PS3 controller in front of him. “Put the main figure on the portal” You don’t have to move it to the center, the spot it was on works just fine.
He starts the game, and he has to download the pack in order to access it. Is this a PS3 only thing? Pay attention to that download screen, I’m going to talk about something important after I finish the video.

He points out the crossover stuff (see, that’s a big part of the game Chris)
“This animatic comes straight to us from the movie” Wrong in so many ways. That’s a cutscene, not an animatic. An animatic is an animated storyboard made early in production. You made this exact same mistake in your Lego Marvel review. Also, how is it straight from the movie when it’s all Lego? I don’t recall the movie being Lego.
He decides to be quiet for the cutscene. Chris not vomiting out his stupid Steve voice? Perish the thought!
“Ooh Ghostbusters, this is going to be aweso-” and it cuts off. Nice editing Chris…
“Things are on fire? This is looking to be a great game” … You have an odd idea of what makes a good game. Plus, haven’t you already played this? It’s the same as all the other Lego Dimensions levels.
Another cutscene. Turn on subtitles!
This is boring…
He points out the Back to the Future Deloreon again, but somehow misses Velma from Scooby-Doo and Chell from Portal walking by. You have weird priorities.
But he does notice the Mystery Machine. … This is really damn boring.

So 3 minutes in and he gets to the gameplay. Normally I wouldn’t mind this, but it’s just so…. Blaaah.
He calls the studs “Lego Money”. Oh my god Chris, how many of these have you played? You couldn’t get that right?
“Get to play as any 3 of the Ghostbusters” Except Patty, don’t forget about her even if you really want to.
Okay so he builds one of the Keystone generators, and it’s clear he didn’t have it, so it cuts and he comes back after having completed more of the game. Well, I think that happened because… we’ll get to that.
“The blonde haired Ghostbuster” Her name is Jillian, it says so in the upper-left corner. Why are you so bad with names?
More awful jokes…
He’s saying “Alright” so much. More than he usually does. It’s really damn annoying.
I just noticed, the portal isn’t even plugged in. It’s supposed to light up. Just like how he never turns the controllers on…
There’s so many jump cuts, the other three Ghostbusters Dimensions characters appear out of nowhere. Use the other characters Chris, that’s the point of the game. It’s a massive crossover! Put the Doctor in there, put the Joker in there, do something interesting!

Oh he does put Superman in there. Still boring…
“Ooh another animatic” GAH!
A joke about floating books in his grandma’s house. I don’t get it…
More awful jokes… you’re not funny!
You know, I’m surprised Bores isn’t doing face cam. Especially since that’s what all the kids go for.
Not funny not funny not funny not funny… by which I mean Bores’ commentary.
“Ugh now we have to fight this painting” Seriously Chris? You don’t understand a boss fight? Lego Dimensions actually has them in every level!
“Who knew a painting could be so evil? Heh, well I did once you watch Ghostbusters II!” Don’t sound so smug about it Chris. Also this only goes to show how unoriginal this movie is.
Vigo reference, crossing the streams reference. Whatever…
Level 1 ends.
“Boy that was creepy, hope I can go to bed tonight” Even as a joke, you sound like a major wuss to get scared by a Lego game.

So yeah that really sucked. This was boring even by his standards. He clearly had no material. No energy either. You’re so bad at all kinds of videos. Just stick with editing other people’s material.

But, that’s not what I really want to talk about. Remember when I mentioned to pay attention to the download? Seems Chris in all his wisdom forgot to block out his PSN name!

Yep, we now know that Chris goes by “irate_g” on Playstation. Thanks to iDuck for pointing it out.
With this, we can see what games Chris has played on PS3 and PS4. Here’s a list: http://psnprofiles.com/irate_g

*whistles* Look at those low numbers. Most of these he clearly only played for the show.
You can tell the ones he actually liked from the higher numbers. Ghostbusters 2009, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Dante’s Inferno, God of War III, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, LittleBigPlanet 2, Batman: Arkham City, Lego Batman 2, Diablo III, and that’s where it ends. Oh, except for all the Skylanders games. His most “complete” is the first one, Spyro’s Adventure. It’s like once he discovered Skylanders, he gave up.

You can also see some notorious “reviews”. Brutal Legend only has one (beat the first level), Tekken 6 somehow has zero! He couldn’t past the first stage of Scenario Mode!
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters only has two, didn’t get far. Lego Star Wars III only has two, also didn’t get far. He did manage six trophies in Mortal Kombat 9, but didn’t beat the game. Which means he somehow knew about Cyber Sub-Zero even though you need to beat the game to unlock him. He stole footage there didn’t he?

One big surprise is Sonic Generations with four trophies. He managed to beat both Green Hill and Chemical Plant stages, and then just gave up. Why did you feel the need to steal footage then? You’ve shown you don’t care about barely having any, so why this? It also shows you didn’t even reach the boss, meaning your complaint about being unable to skip cut scenes is an even bigger, fatter lie!
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron only has one trophy, beating the first chapter. My informant noticed in the review that he was in levels beyond that, but the trophy stats say otherwise. More stolen footage?
Resident Evil 6 only has three, but that’s not a surprise since that was a “same-day review with no script”. He did mention Dead Island in that review, and it’s on the list. With zero. Didn’t even get far enough for one measly trophy.
Disney Infinity only has one, so he clearly didn’t give that one a chance.
Tales of Zesteria has nothing. HOW? I’ve barely played the game (short attention span and all that) and I managed to get two in that short time. How did you get zero? Did you just put the game in the console and say “good enough”? More stolen footage? It would explain how he mistook Alisha for Ashley… actually no that still doesn’t!
Star Wars Battlefront at two. It’s so clear he does not care about video games, at least not ones made for older audiences, and by older I mean older than eight.

There are some surprises on here. He played both the first and the third LittleBigPlanet. The third has zero trophies.
He played inFamous and got three.
Duke Nukem Forever, yeah didn’t expect that. Only two though, didn’t even bother picking up the poo.
He actually did play DuckTales Remastered. Surprised at no review. Same with Lego Batman 3.
The newest game on the list is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan. I would say he doesn’t come close to understanding the intricacies of PlatinumGames, but this was one of the lesser titles so I’ll let that one slide. However, there’s no trophies. You get one of the tutorial, some how he didn’t do that. What the hell?

The majority of these games are PS3. The only PS4 ones are Battlefront and TMNT. Goes to show how little he cares about games, he really just wants to do toys but even that he fails. Well, not in the eyes of the stupid brats that think he’s “soo kewwwwl” *barf*.
I wonder if we can find his XBL Gamertag, or his Steam account, or his Nintendo ID (though I don’t know if we can find what games he’s played through that, and no trophy/achievement system means we can’t tell how far he got).

Please do not harass Chris on his PSN account. You can point and laugh, but do not directly message him with crap.

You think he’ll ever post anything on the Irate Gamer again? Or is this going to be a Puppet Steve future? If that’s the case, it would be wise to inform the IG fans. I know you don’t want them, but if you want to grow, this is one major step. That and improving your writing and not resorting to pandering garbage. … Except I think the pandering garbage is working, at least with FNAF. At least try to make something that isn’t insulting. Something parents would enjoy watching along with their kids. That’s the best kind of entertainment. Not “well they like it so I’ll force myself to like it”. That’s the garbage that gets forgotten.

57 comments:

  1. I'm leaning towards the latter. I'm hoping he surprises me and does the former though.

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  2. Wow, most of the rankings of the games he owned on the list are abysmal. Only one game ever got an 'A' ranking, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.

    Despite claiming to be a Diablo fan, he never completed Diablo 3 as he never got any trophies for defeating Diablo.

    Also despite being a fan of everything 80's (Including Ninja Turtles), he never finished playing Transformers: Fall of Cybteron, TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan and TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-shelled. At least he completed the Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

    And some games on the list like TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan, LittleBigPlanet 3 and Tales of Zestiria have ZERO trophies. Which makes me wonder why does he even waste money on buying them when he's not going to play them at all?

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    1. The sole reason he seems to be buying all these games is to "review" them. That being said, it doesn't excuse him from not finishing them. Many of the best YouTube reviewers have the courtesy to actually beat the games they review, even if they end up hating them. On the bright side, Bores managed to spare himself from Duke Nukem Forever, a form of torture even he doesn't deserve.

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    2. I think he was only reviewing those games because GottGame was paying him. Now that he's all but no longer affiliated with them, that's why we no longer see reviews.

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  3. The last actual Irate Gamer review was Duck Hunt back in April and the last of his regular posted content was the I Rate The 80s Bazooka Joe episode back in June. Since then Chris hasn't really posted anything Irate Gamer related, probably making it the longest hiatus yet. I don't count any of the box or app reviews as true content because he's just using his IG channel as a medium to bring in cash. I really do think Puppet Steve is going to be his full time gig going forward. I think he should just come out and admit this instead of deleting every slight mention/reference to Puppet Steve on his FB page or his IG YouTube channel. I guess he wants a clean slate now and wants to forget about the whole controversy he caused getting into the angry game reviewing business.

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    1. He's still doing the ghost stuff judging by fb posts but no new videos

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  4. Actually they aren't deleted, just unlisted. another user of this blog pointed it out. Check a few posts back in the comments section. THey mention a specific website that checks YT stats and lists videos of the channel and it becomes apparent Bores just hid videos for whatever reason.

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    1. Bores has a tendency to delete comments on the Irate Gamer channel that mention Puppet Steve, and vice-versa. It would be really hard to reveal that they are the same thing to his fans, despite all the evidence we have.

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    2. Try if you want, Chris will just delete the comment anyway.

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    4. Actually, he doesn't delete them. I think he just blocks people now, which makes your messages not appear when you're on the channel.

      The people still get the messages though, through gmail, and through their youtube notifications. Unfortunately, the minute you try to point any of these things out, they immediately go to the "you're a hater", or something else like that.

      I don't think it'll matter much, but if you want, you can try. Good luck with that.

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  6. I wanna say that Jazwares has/had the license to make toys based on Sonic, Mario, and Street Fighter.

    Though, I kinda confuse them with Jakes Pacific.

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    1. *toys.

      http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Jazwares

      They also made toys of Adventure Time and I think other Cartoon Network shows and Nicktoons.

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  7. So, anyone here watch Caddicarus?

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    1. I do. Am still salty he riffed so much on Hercules. Also probably one of the few who didn't slam his Dungeon Hunter 5 "review" because I also play it, I just wished it wasn't a current quickie so he doesn't have to try be Zero Punctuation (I don't get the appeal).

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    2. I occasionally watch him. I don't get why he's trying to be like Zero Punctuation, though. He was fine following in Jontron's footsteps (though I do like that Caddy at least critiques the games).
      ^-^

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  8. I'm just glad he exposed his PSN and not his PNS

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    1. lol penis joke funny

      At least I managed to get a chuckle out of that joke unlike any random joke MPS makes.

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  9. OT - Jennifer Lawrence sucks

    Yeah, just felt like saying that to see if some crazy feminist flips out.

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    1. I liked her as Mystique. And I think she's very pretty without being borderline anorexic.

      Don't really know what she's like as a person, and dunno much about her politics, and don't care.

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    2. MacDragard, what young American actresses of the present do you actually like? I like pretty much every girl who was in Scott Pilgrim, plus Emma Stone.

      Does anyone else think the girl from Brad Bird's Tomorrowland looks a lot like Jennifer Lawrence? They were even born in the same year (1990).

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    3. She's an extremist far-left wing nut job like much of the rest of the ilk in Hollywood. I always raise the question - Would you want to be a Hollywood Celebrity in this day and age when you're forced to take on certain beliefs in order to be a part of the cult?

      As for young actresses, I liked Anna Kendrick in The Accountant, but that's more from an acting role perspective. I don't know of any actresses who are women that if I met them in person I would really jive with, if that's what you're asking. That's probably because I've never met any of them.

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    4. She was apparently was raised in a conservative household. (http://www.dailywire.com/news/1100/jennifer-lawrence-trashes-christians-republicans-james-barrett)

      Though, she did openly bash PETA, so there's that. (http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jennifer-lawrence-screw-peta-2012104) I swear, hardly any famous people other Trey Parker and Matt Stone have done that. Even Troma's Lloyd Kaufman, whose politics I mostly agree with, loves PETA for reasons beyond my understanding.

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    5. Regarding politics in Hollywood, Kevin Smith is probably the guy I look up to most, and he's basically a political atheist. And if anything, I tend to align with Parker & Stone and I guess Bill Maher, so I don't think politics would hurt my chances of stardom.

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    6. Trent Reznor, the guy who let a music video director pretend to crucify a monkey, loves PETA too, and was in one of their commercials.

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  10. I expect Chris to keep his Irate Gamer channel up for residuals, but I wouldn't expect any new content unless it's to turn a quick buck (box wars, paid reviews). Puppet Steve is his future. Low effort content. High count views (better than his IG vids even). At the end of the day, it's about easy money. The puppet gig fits the bill nicely.

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    1. I think it's clear that Chris doesn't care what his IG fans want or think. He's milking whatever is left of the channel for his own benefit. As far as dealing with Puppet Steve comments Chris has setup an auto filter. Sure it doesn't catch everything, but it takes care of a good chunk of the moderating.

      Now the right thing would be to close the channel and do a proper farewell, but that would cut off a source of revenue and take extra work that Chris doesn't feel like doing.

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  11. If the exact same trend continues (Chris only focusing on Puppet Steve; Irate Gamer only getting a box wars/paid video every once in a while) for the rest of the year, will there even be a Worst Moments list? Would there even be enough material to work with? Honestly, I don't think it would be that interesting if the list was just full of dumb Puppet Steve moments.

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    1. If IG is no more, then maybe a Worst IG Moments of all time list would be a good idea.

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  12. Comments on the Minecraft Puppet Steve channel:
    OMG STEVE UR AWSUM WE LUV U SUBSCRIBE <3 <3 <3

    Comments on the Irate Gamer channel:
    UGH WHERE TF R THE RETRO REVIEWS U SUCK UNSUBSCRIBE >:-( >:-( >:-(

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  13. Has anyone else noticed you can respond to old comments now on youtube?

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  14. Someone named 0wlbundy just updated the Irate Gamer site after four months of nothing. http://theirategamer.com/cereal-killers-breakfast-cereal-horror-movie-character-mascot-mashup/

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    1. It's sad that not only someone else updates the site for you but also upload an article that is just photoshopped images and nothing to do with gaming.

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    2. You mean all the posts on that website?

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    3. What is it with his obsession with cereal?

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    4. Well, cereal is very easy to make, so I wouldn't be surprised that it's the only thing he knows what to make for breakfast!

      Speaking of cereal, you thought he hated Cinnamon Toast Crunch because it now only has one baker? Well, he would loath it here in Canada, as there aren't any bakers there! Instead, we have anthropomorphic cereal pieces!
      ^-^

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    5. @Ixey - The same ad campaign has played in America for a few years now. Why is Cinnamon Toast Crunch advocating cannibalism in its cereal ads? It's fucking weird.

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    6. owlbundy has such a crazy bio that I think it is just a sock puppet of Chris.

      "Half man, half pizza. 0wlbundy is a Wii fanatic with a taste for bubble gum left in trading card packages from the 1980's. When not playing FPS games on the Game Boy Advance, 0wl has staring contests with R.O.B The Robot that end in fist fights."

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  15. AVGN's Halloween episode is up on YouTube!

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    1. It's not Jill Stein, it's Jill Stain.

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    2. I used to be really into this series. I even watched the cartoon back in the day!

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  16. Totally random, but I've recently been getting back into playing Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for the GameCube (after not having the time to for quite a while). Am I the only one who really, really, REALLY loves this game? People on the Internet really seem to love to pick on this game ("It's 3D Sonic, so it sucks!"). No, I'm not really a Sonic fan, I just happen to really enjoy playing this game

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    1. I like it, same with the first Sonic Adventure.

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    2. I freakin' love SA 2 Battle. It's one of my favorite Sonic games. And yes, it's tiresome to hear people hating on this game just because of the old believe that "if its 3D it HAS to suck!". People needs to stop doing that, be it non fans or fans of classic Sonic games. It's seriously getting old now!

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  17. Puppet Steve just uploaded a let's play of FNAF Sister Location. Might post my thoughts on it later.

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    1. Wow, that was dumb. All he did was constantly point out the obvious. "Look a shadow! There's no Baby! Yay, I beat the night!" He didn't even bother to make terrible jokes. Also, he refers to Baby as 'he." Yeahh...

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    2. Baby is clearly a girl. Her voice actress is female, she has pigtails, and she looks like she's wearing a dress.

      Also, the first day is really easy because it is basically just the tutorial.

      Why does Steve have the lights turned off five minutes in? They were on for the rest of the video.

      Steve rage quits after inevitable dying during the earliest moment possible because of course he does.

      P.S. No intermission scenes in this let's play? The intermissions in this game are actually pretty funny, better than the "jokes" in this video that won't even amuse actual babies.

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    3. Also, he calls Sister Location a "sequel to the original." Uhh...don't you mean sequel to FNAF 4? The way he words it makes it sound like he thinks Sister Location is the second game in the series. Honestly, it wouldn't be all that surprising if Chris didn't even know that FNAF 2,3, and 4 existed.

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  18. "Please do not harass Chris on his PSN account. You can point and laugh, but do not directly message him with crap."

    I like that line.

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  19. Still bullying i see, you guys are truly pathetic lowlife retards.

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