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.

Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votes: 1,812 63.5%

  • You Know Whats Bullshit

    Votes: 143 5.0%

  • James and Mike Mondays

    Votes: 96 3.4%

  • Board James

    Votes: 443 15.5%

  • Monster Madness

    Votes: 270 9.5%

  • James' movie reviews

    Votes: 90 3.2%
  • Total voters
    2,854
Doctor of Autism said:
Saw the Jekyll & Hyde episode where he actually beats the game, and its amazing that this would've been more appropriate as a 200 episode special than the actual one which was mostly a clip show.
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Weird he did a clip show instead of just checking out the remaining LJN games he didn’t previously cover.
 
Michael Bluth said:
the way you cape for james is hilarious

slopes game room, while nowhere big as james, puts out longform retro gaming content/docs that are at least 30 mins and up...he only recently quit (i think 2 or so years ago) his real job to do YT fulltime. He has a family too...but never put out lazy crap that james does...and as far as I'm aware he does all his stuff by himself.

if slope even had 10% the help james has, he'd probably pump out thrice the conent lazy james does.

James is lazy and has no idea what time management is. this moron spent houes trying to transfer files and drilling holes into desks. let that sink in. this was durin the SW era.
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Too fucking lazy of a faggot to even capitalize nor spell correctly and argue about "not spending enogh tume!!!!!!" Then sperg about how some other faggot doesn't have enough cocksuckers to facilitate his useless retardation of useless faggotry.
Olden times were better. Mongoloid trash like you would be lynched and everyone would picnic and laugh.

Etched said:
Burnout from what? If this was post movie James who'd just spent two years working on it along with having a baby or two, I could see the argument. But current day James does almost nothing. Ever since Screenwave stepped in James wasn't writing, editing, or even capturing the game footage for AVGN for years. He doesn't even bother memorizing the lines; he uses a teleprompter instead. So he'd just show up, read the lines and do some shitty acting for two hours. He didn't even write last years (or was it the year before that? can't remember) Monster Madness, considering the plagiarism shit with Newt.

Yes, now apparently James is at least writing AVGN and all of these movie "reviews" and whatnot he's doing, and you can see how well that's turned out. James summarizing a movie for fifteen minutes in front of a greenscreen every 3 weeks. Or playing a game with his neighbor for an hour. I'd be surprised if James works more than about 4 hours in a week considering the content output for Cinemassacre the past year along with how little we know he's actually doing. He's not burntout; he just doesn't care anymore and he can get a satisfactory income letting Screenwave handle most of the work, so that's what he's doing.
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Tel me you're a childless bitch nigger without telling me. Child obligations don't end after infancy. It gets much more intense as kids age towards adulthood, and doesn't even end there. James isn't a basement dwelling fuck, like he pretends to be for amusement. He has actual IRL businesses to attend to. "... Reviews..." I can type 1 sentence and it's a review, you fucking cerebral drip faggot. "James summarizing a movie for fifteen minutes in front of a greenscreen every 3 weeks ... I'd be surprised if James works more than about 4 hours in a week..." shows you know nothing about anything and should be embarrassed, at least, consider suicide, at best. I can't believe you useless inbred mongoloids are forcing my hand to make me stan for this dude. But, seriously, walk into the woods and put a gun in your mouth.
 
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reptile101 said:
thats explained in one of the behind the scenes things. screenwave basically has all his cameras and mics taped to the ceiling
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It's been like two years, but that one shot where the light is taped to the ceiling is probably my favorite AVGN moment in recent years.
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It's so bizarre, like something out of Timewarp Tickers
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Michael Bluth said:
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The idea of focusing on TV shows isn't bad, but films are more interesting, and having it by decade made a very anemic list which could have easily been 4 times larger. Also, like with The Simpsons last week, South Park post 2010 was on the decline. It wasn't bad, just meh.

Also the new AVGN episode was good. It really embodied the "fuck this game, I'm going to finish it even if it's shit" feeling.
 
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So i rewatched the Exorcist episode and while it's still a good episode, it reeks of laziness and churning out the product in time. And that's without the apparent sound issues. He seems to forget to change to the right glasses (to using ones without glass in them to hide the reflections, and in the scene where it is supposed to be POV you clearly see the shadow of him holding his camera, maybe if the lights werent stuck to his sealing he could've moved them just a bit to the side. But that's the thing, fewer episodes should mean better production value, this isn't like the episode of Shatterhands were it is obvious he is just churning them out, this is supposed to be a love testament to the Excorcist as well as to one of the AVGN most iconic episodes.
It won't be any better than this, which is sad.
 
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deeman said:
Sorry for being a n00b but how is it not emulation? Is every hardware known to man inside that box?
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A MiSTer is a hardware based emulator versus software...kinda. The MiSTer is built around something called an FPGA board that can be programmed to run exactly like the OG hardware so that the ROMs can be run natively and at the original timings. Basically it ends up being virtually 1:1 with original hardware and purists love the things.
 
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NomineNemo said:
A MiSTer is a hardware based emulator versus software...kinda. The MiSTer is built around something called an FPGA board that can be programmed to run exactly like the OG hardware so that the ROMs can be run natively and at the original timings. Basically it ends up being virtually 1:1 with original hardware and purists love the things.
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So there would technically be no difference if I were to install a super accurate emulator on my PC? I don't see how this isn't emulation.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
So, it's still emulation. Got it.
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Yes, it's "still emulation." But an FPGA is an integrated circuit that you can configure yourself. When you program an FPGA, you're not writing software to translate an old program's instructions into something modern hardware can understand; you're configuring physical circuits.

Circuitry in old game consoles often does something noticeably different than the circuitry in modern processors, and so without the ability to reconfigure the circuit, you can't exactly replicate what the old hardware does just by translating function calls and machine code to equivalent calls. There are lots of examples. Here's a hypothetical one to keep it easy to understand.

Let's say I'm averaging two 8-bit values, 39 and 12. Modern x86 CPU:
(39 + 12) / 2 = 25

But let's say the old hardware I'm emulating does lots of averages in its DSP to blend sounds, so some lunatic in Japan figured out it was a lot faster to truncate the 8-bit values into 6-bit registers, add them in 6-bit space, then shift the result up to 8-bit space, and it still sounded okay. And so this weird-ass DSP has some bespoke circuits to do exactly that. So functionally, when you tell it "average these two values", it does
((A >> 2 ) + (B >> 2)) << 1

(39 + 12) / 2 = 24

And, you know, fuck that guy, but that' s how it works. And the result is this unique sound processor from 1983 or whatever has weird little tonal artifacts that make it sound different than anything else, and the consequence is that I can't just translate the old hardware's DSP calls into modern DSP calls, or it sounds wrong. I need to fully, all the way down to the core logic units, produce a replica of the original DSP. Now it turns out that hardware from the 1980s is so hilariously slow that it's actually not too bad to get it 100% right, but even hardware from the 1990s starts to get very hard, if not impossible, to replicate on modern systems - especially things that become GPU calls.
 
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The Ugly One said:
And, you know, fuck that guy, but that' s how it works. And the result is this unique sound processor from 1983 or whatever has weird little tonal artifacts that make it sound different than anything else, and the consequence is that I can't just translate the old hardware's DSP calls into modern DSP calls, or it sounds wrong. I need to fully, all the way down to the core logic units, produce a replica of the original DSP. Now it turns out that hardware from the 1980s is so hilariously slow that it's actually not too bad to get it 100% right, but even hardware from the 1990s starts to get very hard, if not impossible, to replicate on modern systems - especially things that become GPU calls.
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So, it's still fucking emulation. And why are you bringing up Phil?
 
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