Monday, October 28, 2019

I Think Chris Wants Ghost Attention

It's almost Halloween, hope you guys are having a spoopy time.
Chris uploaded Episode 5 of GeekTime the other day. Only took three weeks. ... Yay?
On it, they talked about Joker, or rather Tim talked about Joker because Chris didn't see it. That's not how you're supposed to do that! At least both of you should go see the movie. This podcast is a mess. Anyway, only Tim saw Joker, and he didn't like it. Complaining it was "wasn't enough like the comic book" and it "deviates from the canon too much" Uhh... no shit. It's an adaptation. If anything, it's more like an Elseworlds story (for those unaware, Elseworlds was a label DC used to tell stories that weren't canon). You're supposed to see it as its own thing. WB has said there's no plans for a sequel or to incorporate Arthur into a "universe". There's also points in the review where it sounds like Tim wasn't paying attention. Where have I heard that before?

They also talked about something rather different. The Nostalgia Critic's review of Pink Floyd's The Wall. For those that haven't been around, Doug Walker has somehow survived the online backlash of covering up a predator and staying silent while people he once called friends were hurt by a greedy asshole, and still makes videos with plenty of views. He has even gotten more subscribers now than before the Change the Channel incident.
Anyway, last month he posted a "review" of the movie adaptation of Pink Floyd's album The Wall, and I say review in quotes because it is not that. Instead, Doug channeled Demo Reel and did a "parody" musical of The Wall. He even got Slipknot's Corey Taylor to show up. The video was... abysmal. An absolute trainwreck. The parody songs weren't funny ("Heey, what if we took Comfortably Numb and made it... Comfortably Dumb! Oh man I should write for Weird Al"), Doug missed the point of Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, mocking it with "You say you hate high school but it wasn't that bad", even though it was based on Roger Waters' real experiences in a British boarding school which were awful institutions that used corporal punishment (basically Doug was acting like they were talking about US schools), referred to one song as "Oscar Bait" (even though the album came out three years before the movie), tried to apply modern concerns to his musical (worst one is turning the marching hammers into marching phones... dear god) and probably the worst part, ending the video with Taylor calling him out for not even reviewing it, and saying in one sentence "It was okay". The whole thing is 40 minutes long!
It was a pretentious garbage pile of a video, and clear evidence that Doug never grew past wanting to do Demo Reel, if anything this was way worse then that shit. He completely wasted Corey Taylor, who sat there just watching TV while Doug sang, only singing at the very end... singing the Spongebob Squarepants theme. I don't get it! They even released an album of the parody songs. It's currently the worst rated album on RateYourMusic.com. It even got attention from people that normally don't care for the Nostalgia Critic. Including Chris & Tim

Yes, they brought up the video on the latest GeekTime.  But like Joker, Chris didn't watch it, instead it's Tim complaining about things everyone else already has, like comparing UK schools to US schools and the Oscar Bait comment. Also Chris does some dumb song. Something real surreal about one failed reviewer calling out another failed reviewer. Chris was so proud of this part, he uploaded it to YouTube before uploading the full episode (he's doing that now). The title is clickbait as fuuuuuck "Irate Gamer's Response to Nostalgia Critic's Pink Floyd Wall Review". Except he's not Irate Gamer, he's himself, and he doesn't say anything about it because he didn't watch it. Even some of the comments called this out. The thumbnail is terrible too, he just took NC's thumbnail, slapped his face over Corey Taylor's picture (which he copied & pasted from his video talking about Terminator: Dark Fate) and drew cartoony eyes and a tongue on Rob Scallon. Your lack of talent and effort continues to astound me.
But really, the lamest part is that this was posted a month after everyone else was done talking about it. This is a big problem for GeekTime, they're never up to date.

And it's only going to get worse. Chris posted on Twitter that his goal is to hopefully get one episode of GeekTime out a month. Seriously? Nobody is going to want to listen to that. You two already lack charisma, nobody is going to listen to a pair of assholes talk about stuff they already heard about three weeks ago. From YouTube ratings and comments, nobody likes this. You have a few fans sure, but most of the response is "this sucks". I have to wonder if it was Chris that even wanted to do the podcast, the last episode was mostly Tim talking.

But that's not all I wanted to bring up. Chris has been losing his mind over the ghost hunting shows. Before he was shitting himself over Grant Wilson "stealing" from him in the Ghost Hunters revival, and now he's really REALLY shitting himself over Jason Hawes "stealing" from him in his new show "Ghost Nation". Don't believe me? Here's his long Facebook post about it.

First off, you can curse on Facebook. Nobody is going to be mad at you because you said "fucker".
So you're accusing Hawes of stealing from you because he used the term "Confused Spirits". You didn't invent that term Chris, it's likely been around for a long time. Lots of fictional stories even used the plot device of a ghost that didn't realize they were dead. It's nothing new.
Another one of Chris' patented lies in that ramble too. "He was oddly silent for the first 10 minutes", this is an obvious tell of his to make it seem like they were more interested in him than they really were.
Here's a thought Chris, maybe your "ideas" aren't actually that new. I don't know or care what the ghost community does, but I'm sure they've all discussed the shit you've "discovered" for a while now. You haven't done anything new or revolutionary. You're just some cultish asshole that thinks they know more than they really do.
I hope Chris tries to sue, it would go about as well as that hilariously disastrous Vic Mignogna trial.

One person commented with this.

Yep, someone bringing up his own plagiarism. I bring this up because according to my informant, Chris actually replied to it, crying "It's not the same! I talked to James about it! This is different!" Really? You talked to James about it. Where's your evidence? Why would he want to talk to you after you tried to throw him under the bus with he "Opening Up" video?
But I guess Chris said too much because he deleted the reply. Hmmmmm.

That's all for now. Will Chris finally realize he'll never make big with his ghost crap? Probably not...


Saturday, October 5, 2019

GeekTime is Not Popular with the Fans

Chris released episode 4 of GeekTime TNG yesterday. Let's check it out!
*1:29:10 long* ... You know what, fuck that.

Chris did however post an 11 minute excerpt on his YouTube channel. *looks at dislikes* Ooooooh daaaaaaamn.

I haven't seen dislikes like that in YEARS (on Chris' videos). What the hell happened here? People were so enthusiastic in that first preview he posted. Oh, there's quite a few reasons.

That title? "The JOKER Movie SUCKS!! Get This Away From Me! (GEEKTIME TNG)"
That's clickbait. See, Chris confessed on Facebook that episode 4 was recorded two weeks ago. The new Joker movie officially came out yesterday. Meaning this "critique" is based entirely off the trailers. Real bad move there.
I'll just note that I haven't seen Joker yet, kind of want to wait until the hype dies down. Just for the sake of disclosure.

Basically his issues are "It's not like the comics, there's no Batman, Marvel does it right". It's not meant to be any of that. It's meant to be a psychological thriller showing how one man can completely break and become a mass-murdering crime lord. It's a story you can even tell without involving the Joker, they're using the character because they can. Think of it like an Elseworlds story. An alternate take.
Tim also refers to the movie as "artsy fartsy" because it got a standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival. Yeah I'm sure that's exactly what we'll get from the man that gave us the giraffe decapitation in The Hangover 3.

Though some comments agreed with him, some state he missed the mark big time. Of course, a lot of those were deleted, and that's from people that actually bothered to watch the whole thing. A lot of them gave up because of the TWO MINUTE INTRO. It involves playing that terrible theme song in its entirety, along with some extra introduction stuff. Keep in mind the video is only 10:52 long, so for two of those minutes to be taken up by an annoying intro, you're going to lose viewers. Also, any comment that called this out as clickbait got deleted. Smooth.

On top of that, Chris put in SIX AD BREAKS! For an 11 minute video! Why do you think people use Adblock Chris?! Because of shit like that!

Let's face it, GeekTime has not launched well. Most of his fans don't seem to like it. They want Irate Gamer. It also doesn't help that Chris won't put the podcast on YouTube. They don't want to leave YouTube.
Who knows if people will even listen? Especially when they spout such incredible ideas like "The BurgerTime chef should be in Smash Bros instead of Terry Bogard". Along with "Marvel Marvel Marvel Marvel. Also Star Wars".

So Chris. Going to give up on the terrible podcast idea now?