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And copyright law is harsher in Japan, meaning they could prosecute Japanese pirates easier than American ones.
James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.
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He was. At one point there was stuff on the screen that isn't on the original system. I need to get my mini out. It's actually a pretty good mini system. (Or whatever the new throwback consoles are called)
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He must have been using the actual hardware for at least the parts where he showed the disk loading failures (which were very real, especially when playing games copied onto cheaper disks). For one of those, if you pause the video, you see it's showing a crack attribution screen before the failure.
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The first episode of Monster Madness 2021 can now be seen on the Cinemassacre website: https://cinemassacre.com/28-days-later-uk-2002-episode-1/
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Been randomly skipping around in the podcast episodes to see if there's content worthy of attention. No luck so far.
Looks like Justin (who might capture a small moon any day now) gained the weight that Kieran lost. Maybe Screenwave follows some kind of law of conservation of mass?
Looks like Justin (who might capture a small moon any day now) gained the weight that Kieran lost. Maybe Screenwave follows some kind of law of conservation of mass?
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Sadly, unlike with mass, they are just depleting energy.
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Some autistic Truther claims to have found that much of the first episode of this year's Monster Madness is plagiarized word for word from some film review website.
Reddit Thread (Archive)
Second Reddit Thread (Archive)
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Edit: Fixed archive links, added thread pics of the plagiarized article.
Someone put together a video as well. James is, indeed, quoting from the article word for word. Newt or whoever wrote the MM episode couldn't even be bothered to switch some words around.
(If anyone knows how to archive the video locally and thinks it's worth it, please go ahead.)
Reddit Thread (Archive)
Second Reddit Thread (Archive)
(Article archive)
Edit: Fixed archive links, added thread pics of the plagiarized article.
Someone put together a video as well. James is, indeed, quoting from the article word for word. Newt or whoever wrote the MM episode couldn't even be bothered to switch some words around.
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PeriodicTrouble
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I wonder if Newt Wallen did considering he did that tweet talking about how many Monster Madness reviews he wrote. https://archive.md/ix5M8
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He's probably the one, considering James couldn't *possibly* have the time to search for any article to plagiarize.
I should also probably add I can't confirm the accusation myself, as I've had No Time to watch the vid yet.
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This appears to be a legit “controversy” but there’s no way James did anything other than sit down and read what was written and I’d be shocked if Gengar did anything more than proofreading the script.
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Here it is
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This just proves that James is nothing more of a puppet to his own channel.
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October's here. While Cinemassacre is engulfed in probably its biggest controversy to date, I've once again harnessed the autistic energy to summarize seasons of AVGN. This time Seasons 6-10 (2011-2016)
Summaries of Seasons 11-15 will be posted after the 200th episode
Season 6 (2011; published on YouTube in 2012) was the last season that had its episodes posted on GameTrailers before YouTube. James would step back from reguarly producing new AVGN episodes, largely due to burnout and the impending production of the AVGN movie. The quality of the season overall was fairly mediocre compared to past AVGN seasons, but it did see the release of a behind-the-scenes video that detailed how episodes were made at the time, which doesn't seem like a bad thing. The best episode was Dark Castle (a decent Halloween episode, not the best, but also the last episode where James's "anger" torwards a game didn't seem overdramatic), the worst episode was Nintendo World Championships (an early contender for the worst AVGN episode, and it sort of foreshadowed the content of AVGN episodes now, with the "review" being more skits and any actual reviewing)
Season 7 (2012-2013) was the first season of AVGN since Season 1 to have its episodes posted on YouTube instead of GameTrailers. Speaking of which, it was also the last season to have its episodes posted on GameTrailers (the last episode in particular being Atari Sports for what I know), as well as the last season where the show was affiliated with GameTrailers and ScrewAttack (the last episode those two groups were credited in an AVGN episode was in the AVGN Games episode). The season was less mediocre than the last, but it marked a change of acting style James did as the Nerd (probably a result from his acting expierences in the movie, which had partially wrapped up production at that time). This wasn't a massive sore spot for the show, however, and for me, I ended up getting back to AVGN with this season, which I found to be good overall. The best episode was Tiger Electronic Games (the episode that helped me get back into AVGN, and a pretty decent analysis of Tiger's primitive games and their failed ventures into console gaming), the worst episode was Toxic Crusaders (for me at least, if I were a Troma fan, I'd likely enjoy it more, but for me, it kinda sucked)
Season 8 (2014) marked the show's 10th anniversary, and both the Desert Bus and ET Atari 2600 episodes would commerate that milestone. The season also had a bulk of episodes (5-16) released a part of a sort of miniseries for Christmas, most of above average quality at best. The AVGN Movie was also released around this season, and whether it was good depends on the viewer (of course, the ET Atari 2600 episode was basically a segment from that movie repackaged into a Nerd episode). Excluding the Christmas episodes, the best episode was Desert Bus (a neat way to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary, and a good way to see the Nerd truly suffer after such a long time playing terrible games), the worst episode was ET Atari 2600 (again, it was a segment of the AVGN Movie, which is a film you have to like to enjoy the review, so basically its not a good episode)
Season 9 (2015) marked the return to Season 6-esque averageness in terms of quality, since much of the celebrations of the show's 10th anniversary had wrapped up by this point. As a side note, this season marked the start of Screenwave's involvement with AVGN (though their involvement really goes back to around the AVGN Movie, if not its early stages of production, as they were the movie's distributor and one of its leading men is a friend of James), although their cancer wouldn't be apparent for a few more years. The best episode was Seaman (a nice dedication of Leonard Nimoy, and a very comfy episode overall), the worst episode was Hong Kong 97 (not a episode I hate, but given that he's reviewing a meme game, its understandable as to why many people would have problems with the episode)
Season 10 (2016) marked the show's 10th year on YouTube, and both the Mega Man Games and Berenstain Bears episodes would commerate that milestone. Also marking the occasion was the Nerd Room's change in setup (after years of mild changes to the room between Season 3 and 9), which first appeared in Season 9's Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero episode, but didn't fully debut until the Mega Man Games episode (which began theories that the show was being filmed on an actual set instead of a basement, given how the setup made the room look smaller without the iconic classic setup). On the whole, Season 10 was a very good season without one single dark spot... well, except for that one. The best episodes I'd give to the twofer of Mega Man Games and Berenstain Bears (both very good ways to celebrate AVGN's 10th year on YouTube; the former an amazing time travel episode, and the latter a neat Halloween episode, as it was also the 10th year since Halloween episodes became a staple of AVGN), the worst episode... Sega Activator and Aura Interactor... (easily the first episode everyone agreed sucked, repeating Nintendo World Championship's problem with being more skits than reviewing)
Season 7 (2012-2013) was the first season of AVGN since Season 1 to have its episodes posted on YouTube instead of GameTrailers. Speaking of which, it was also the last season to have its episodes posted on GameTrailers (the last episode in particular being Atari Sports for what I know), as well as the last season where the show was affiliated with GameTrailers and ScrewAttack (the last episode those two groups were credited in an AVGN episode was in the AVGN Games episode). The season was less mediocre than the last, but it marked a change of acting style James did as the Nerd (probably a result from his acting expierences in the movie, which had partially wrapped up production at that time). This wasn't a massive sore spot for the show, however, and for me, I ended up getting back to AVGN with this season, which I found to be good overall. The best episode was Tiger Electronic Games (the episode that helped me get back into AVGN, and a pretty decent analysis of Tiger's primitive games and their failed ventures into console gaming), the worst episode was Toxic Crusaders (for me at least, if I were a Troma fan, I'd likely enjoy it more, but for me, it kinda sucked)
Season 8 (2014) marked the show's 10th anniversary, and both the Desert Bus and ET Atari 2600 episodes would commerate that milestone. The season also had a bulk of episodes (5-16) released a part of a sort of miniseries for Christmas, most of above average quality at best. The AVGN Movie was also released around this season, and whether it was good depends on the viewer (of course, the ET Atari 2600 episode was basically a segment from that movie repackaged into a Nerd episode). Excluding the Christmas episodes, the best episode was Desert Bus (a neat way to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary, and a good way to see the Nerd truly suffer after such a long time playing terrible games), the worst episode was ET Atari 2600 (again, it was a segment of the AVGN Movie, which is a film you have to like to enjoy the review, so basically its not a good episode)
Season 9 (2015) marked the return to Season 6-esque averageness in terms of quality, since much of the celebrations of the show's 10th anniversary had wrapped up by this point. As a side note, this season marked the start of Screenwave's involvement with AVGN (though their involvement really goes back to around the AVGN Movie, if not its early stages of production, as they were the movie's distributor and one of its leading men is a friend of James), although their cancer wouldn't be apparent for a few more years. The best episode was Seaman (a nice dedication of Leonard Nimoy, and a very comfy episode overall), the worst episode was Hong Kong 97 (not a episode I hate, but given that he's reviewing a meme game, its understandable as to why many people would have problems with the episode)
Season 10 (2016) marked the show's 10th year on YouTube, and both the Mega Man Games and Berenstain Bears episodes would commerate that milestone. Also marking the occasion was the Nerd Room's change in setup (after years of mild changes to the room between Season 3 and 9), which first appeared in Season 9's Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero episode, but didn't fully debut until the Mega Man Games episode (which began theories that the show was being filmed on an actual set instead of a basement, given how the setup made the room look smaller without the iconic classic setup). On the whole, Season 10 was a very good season without one single dark spot... well, except for that one. The best episodes I'd give to the twofer of Mega Man Games and Berenstain Bears (both very good ways to celebrate AVGN's 10th year on YouTube; the former an amazing time travel episode, and the latter a neat Halloween episode, as it was also the 10th year since Halloween episodes became a staple of AVGN), the worst episode... Sega Activator and Aura Interactor... (easily the first episode everyone agreed sucked, repeating Nintendo World Championship's problem with being more skits than reviewing)
Summaries of Seasons 11-15 will be posted after the 200th episode
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I just hope this is a one time thing, and only one movie is a plagiarized script. Knowing the slobs though the whole months videos are just reviews mixed up slightly and said by james. I hope this is not a repeat thing, as it is really shitty to plagiarize in general, and makes me think James probably did not watch the movies and instead just looked up reviews with the slobs.
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Nah James didn’t even look at the reviews he had no time for that because “muh kids”
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This is going to be interesting. Will the Slobs admit that James basically just reads a script he had zero input on to shield the cash cow from the backlash?
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Justin Silverman just confirmed that the script in question was produced by James. If this wasn't confirmation than I don't know what else is.
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Honestly it's believable since James is enough of a boomer to mix that shit up.
It's weird how out of touch James is with technology
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I would take anything Justin says with a grain of salt. Dude has been known to either straight up lie, or make things sound better then they actually are.
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This is also true. My hypothesis is either:
1. James is shit with technology and mixed shit up.
2. One of the slobs wrote the script and plagiarized a review.
Both are too believable to me based on the track record of James being terrible with modern tech and the slobs using James as a springboard for their own careers.