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- Aug 21, 2022
Sit down buddy, have a drink.What is the deep lore on MauLer vs Anderson bad blood? Is it really all because Mauler called him a big faggot and Anderson is a salty lib or is there more to it?
MauLer has always seen Anderson as an acceptable target, someone who is worthy of criticism at all times. To the point where in the HBomberguy response, he stopped the response to criticize Anderson when Hbomberguy brought him up and MauLer had to agree with Anderson. Yes, he was unwilling to praise him without backhanding him right afterward; don't want you making the mistake of thinking he thought Anderson was objectively good now, do we? It was very much a case of MauLer thinking someone was wrong, the wrong person never "admitting" he was wrong, and MauLer taking jabs at him when possible.
Keep in mind a lot of this started when Anderson said Soma doesn't work as a horror game because it's not scary. MauLer, especially at the peak of his objective crusade, would go after people like this. If you spoke with confidence and didn't include the phrase "in my opinion", he would treat you as stating a fact and would then prove how your statement was wrong. I'm not a fan of Anderson myself, but he was far and away MauLer's favorite punching bag before the Star Wars videos gave him the co-hosts and audience to punch above his weight class. [At least until the Jenny Nicolson fiasco showed how they aren't taken very seriously outside of their corner of the internet.]
Keep in mind a lot of this started when Anderson said Soma doesn't work as a horror game because it's not scary. MauLer, especially at the peak of his objective crusade, would go after people like this. If you spoke with confidence and didn't include the phrase "in my opinion", he would treat you as stating a fact and would then prove how your statement was wrong. I'm not a fan of Anderson myself, but he was far and away MauLer's favorite punching bag before the Star Wars videos gave him the co-hosts and audience to punch above his weight class. [At least until the Jenny Nicolson fiasco showed how they aren't taken very seriously outside of their corner of the internet.]