Harman Smith / Cody Lee / Cody Inman / blackcatbooks64 - Zealous champion of Nintendo, “Indie Novelist,” Right-Wing Moviebob, Kiwi Farms Lurker and an A-Log of the Balldo Lawyer

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We can see his persecution complex on full display here. He truly believes that people online make fun of him "for liking Nintendo". In his mind, it has nothing to do with him being confidently incorrect about everything, never sourcing himself, or bitching about every game that isn't made by Nintendo while simultaneously never playing it.
It's not only that Cody is smugly wrong and bereft of citations, it's that he wants to bully people to make up for whatever happened to him in the past. He wants to live vicariously through NIntendo as though his opportunities for personal success have fully dried up. Somehow the guy hates sports now despite having participated in them well enough to be recognized by the local community for his abilities. He hates his job and everyone he works with, and disrespects tradesmen unconditionally. Cody doesn't even operate on natural gut feeling, though his rapid weight gain isn't helping. His speculation isn't so much an estimate or guess of the future, but thinly-veiled desires for general or specific outcomes. You know that if the gaming industry were to become an absolute Nintendo monopoly, it wouldn't be enough for Cody. His victory state isn't the same as Nintendo's, but to be in a position where he can punish people for any slight they've given him, or for simply not being on his side in the console wars. If simply enjoying Nintendo was enough to make him happy, he'd be the same as any other Nintendo-focused youtuber, but his own videos are evidence that he's far more invested in the mistakes and failures and potential mistakes and failures of anyone who isn't Nintendo instead. Rather, Cody is not a Nintendo youtuber but an anti-non-Nintendo youtuber, remaining a slack-jawed ball of lethargy even while playing through Zelda or Mario or anything else that's first party. That is why he is so insufferable.

The contrast is hilarious.
Total Xbox Death.
This dude is so butthurt after making nonstop response videos to fucking xitter posts offsite simping for StarFailed. Maybe next time don’t pretend you like the taste of literal shit you seething faggot.
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While Starfield sucks, I don't see how this relates to Cody or his "I WAS RIGHT" video besides the fact that Joe is one of Harman's detractors. Joe's video hardly has anything to do wtih Bethesda or Starfield, if at all. Hell, the "I WAS RIGHT" video itself is nothing more than vague self-bragging. It just goes to show that the few people who actually enjoy Cody's videos aren't there to hear about any particular insights or theorizing or thought-provoking or persusaive logic or commentary, but fanboy affirmation and sharedhostility towards other consumer products.
 
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While Starfield sucks, I don't see how this relates to Cody or his "I WAS RIGHT" video besides the fact that Joe is one of Harman's detractors. Joe's video hardly has anything to do wtih Bethesda or Starfield, if at all.
They are both referring to the recent Microsoft layoffs and implosion of Xbox as a brand and the demise of those Bethesda owned studios that were just closed due to StarFailed flopping. It’s their two most recent videos on the same subject so I thought the juxtaposition was apt due to how insufferable the Joe faggot was regarding StarFailed. They are 2 sides of the same coin but Nintendo has way more exclusives to justifiably gloat about. Sony has a lot of the same third person movie games, Nintendo has a lot of high quality games of a wider variety and Microsoft has nothing. I play on PS5 and Steam Deck for most things, but still use my SX Core chipped Switch for Nintendo exclusives instead of emulating on the Steam Deck. The 3DS also had a lot of really good games that are best experienced on the console. I really don’t like Xbox and that Joe faggot was using Steam’s success to justify its existence, it’s like watching someone brag about their Dads’s car. There is no justification for using PC games to win a console war between Xbox and Switch. Even though PS5 is the superior console Switch somehow won this generation strictly with exclusives. I don’t really have a dog in this consumer fight to see that Xbox is the clear failure. The OG Xbox is the only good console they have ever released. I just really hate the Xbox Series S for holding this entire Gen back by being the Welfare System for third world GamePass faggots. It even held back PC development by having to provide performance equity for the slowest kid in the class, like what happened with Baldur’s Gate 3. The game had to be crippled because Microsoft refused to release a game that had less features on the Series S than the Series X. Eventually they caved on that but the game had already been out for awhile on PC and PS5 at that point. Any game expected to release across every platform was essentially retarded with only visual upgrades for the better systems like PC & PS5. An entire Gen and the only upgrades for new hardware is the difference between 4k at 60 to 120 for PC and 4k at 30 or 60 for PS5. We are all stuck playing PS4 games with texture mods for 7 years because the Series S is weaker than the Xbox One X.
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Joe sounds too much like those GamePass faggots on /v/ I despise to not laugh at his bitter seethe and I don’t mind Harman that much. He’s happy with what he has even though it’s technically the weakest, cheapest console on the market. All that power and Sony and Microsoft never have anything that rivals their exclusives and there is really no excuse besides lack of creativity. When a new Nintendo game drops it’s consistently worth my time. I’ve enjoyed all of their exclusives and when I finish them it takes awhile before I feel like playing something on the PS5. When I finish something on PS5 everything is so similar it’s hard not to compare them to each other and I tend to get bored more quickly. This was way longer than it needed to be.
 
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If Cody had your attitude, he wouldn't have a thread to begin with. I don't understand why you wouldn't mind him unless you believe that Nintendo's successes or general game quality justifies even his flavor of commentary, despite it being as vague, unresearched, irrationally biased, and typically negative and hostile as it is. He is not someone who simply enjoys Nintendo products. He doesn't come off as someone relieved to have dodged bullets when it comes to commenting on the industry outside of Nintendo, nor does he succeed in presenting himself as someone who has decent insight, hindsight or foresight about anything in particular, only guessing at things until he bruteforces a coincidentally correct conclusion. Harman not only believes that he is correct all the time, but that he is unable to be correct, and that his being correct is on the same level as someone who solved math problems, rather than someone who's been answering a series of True or False questions or gambling between a pair of horses and selecting the potential winner based on their names alone.

It's not unreasonable for a thread about someone like Cody to have room to cover the people who dislike him, but it seems like you're far more interested in Xbox users or fanboys instead. Maybe you dislike Joe's vocal cadence or tone, I can get that, but I can't see how Cody is less insufferable as a person and as a commentator in comparison. I mean, it's obvious Harman's not the one making the games you like. He's not contributing to why Nintendo games are any good. He's far more likely to instead try to put people down for making fan content or inspired projects because he believes anything, even mods and spiritual successors are either theft or offensively redundant to Nintendo's games, such as his celebration of Nintendo-themed mods for GMod being DMCA'd or his hatred of Pizza Tower on the basis of "Wario Land already exists". Palworld, regardless of what you think of it, exists to him as a mutually exclusive, enemy product to Pokemon itself, even though on the blatant contrary, Palworld exists thanks to people liking Pokemon as a concept and simply wants to do more with the franchise than just the mainline formula Gamefreak's been doing and lazily relying on for success.

People don't hate Harman Smith because he likes Nintendo, people hate him because he has behavioral issues and because on every level, he brings nothing to the table compared to everyone else, who are not only consistently more correct than he is on everything, but can provide better insight and trains of thought than he ever could, though he's actually at least somewhat more coherent, sensible and logical about subjects that he can't Nintendo fanboy over. For instance, while his Final Fantasy 6 "review" is mostly just him briefly reminding you of his hair fetish and talking about some plot beats, it's nowhere near as grating as what he has to say about anything else. His video about his enjoyment of Raymond Chandler is a step in the right direction, even though he fails to give you any real idea of what Raymond Chandler is like as a person or author, or even if Cody understand and gets Chandler's prose. Cody himself is still a terrible writer who can't even pronounce a fifth of the English language correctly, but at least his enjoyment of an author is closer to what people would actually want to see in a youtube video.

One more thing, all consoles hold back PC gaming. I won't argue against any scrutiny against Xbox or the Series S in particular, but most of Nintendo's good and best games are available on platforms older than the Switch itself. Maybe the Switch 2 will turn things around, but I can't think of a single Switch exclusive that really appeals to me, and I was rather disappointed at how the newest Mario Strikers turned out.
 
He is not someone who simply enjoys Nintendo products. He doesn't come off as someone relieved to have dodged bullets when it comes to commenting on the industry outside of Nintendo, nor does he succeed in presenting himself as someone who has decent insight, hindsight or foresight about anything in particular, only guessing at things until he bruteforces a coincidentally correct conclusion.
He also dislikes Rekieta which helps. He definitely likes things in a spiteful way, it’s a bit odd to enjoy something AT others. It’s more that he looks less retarded than someone doing it for Xbox.
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Joe from Reddit is just a hypocrite, he uses the superiority of the Steam Deck to dismiss the Switch and how many systems/copies of exclusives it has sold, then coped for a month by making the exact same excuses for a more powerful system having shit games like StarFailed by hiding behind how many players downloaded it on release.
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They gave StarFailed away for free on GamePass PC/Xbox so it’s practically worthless since people can sign up for a $1.00 then you never have to release the actual sales figures. Imagine if they gave away a free copy of Skyrim with every usb cable purchased, moving 60 million copies wouldn’t exactly be something to brag about.
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In reality Bethesda sold 17 versions of the same exact game across 10 platforms at full price every single chance they could. Microsoft actually bought Bethesda for $7.5 billion to be the exclusive platform of their latest offering and this wet fart is all they got.
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Conveniently he ignored that it got outsold by Hogwarts during the release and everyone that played it immediately dropped it for being a bland mind-numbingly boring series of loading screens once the $1 month ended.
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Games sell systems not the other way around. Xbox is the games as a service “you will own nothing and you’ll be happy” dystopian nightmare hoping to sell you a disposable cloud based GamePass streaming subscription HDMI stick that is incapable of playing games independently. It’s the same direction Ubisoft wants to go which is why Xbox is buying every studio they can.
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Game Studios want to become subscription game streaming services by training people to accept becoming the next boomers trying to figure out how to play blu-rays using Netflix. It would cost them nothing to produce, eliminate the resale market and you would only have access to the game library and your saves as long as you keep paying them indefinitely. Xbox One wanted to do this last gen with always online game licenses.
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Zoomers are already becoming unable to understand file directories, they just think everything is in the cloud. Thats the exact same direction they want to go with Windows, they want to store your data on their servers and charge you a subscription to access it, while monitoring everything you do.
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Palworld, regardless of what you think of it, exists to him as a mutually exclusive, enemy product to Pokemon itself, even though on the blatant contrary, Palworld exists thanks to people liking Pokemon as a concept and simply wants to do more with the franchise than just the mainline formula Gamefreak's been doing and lazily relying on for success.
Pokémon has been complete dogshit on Switch so he is way off the mark with that franchise. I played Shield then skipped the DLC and every one since then. They needed to make a Pokémon version of Genshin Impact with random EV/IVs, limited time events, constantly adding new Pokémon with new areas/islands to explore just to keep you hunting to build that perfect team and include online like the 2D games with in game Gyms people could battle at like Go. Just call the game “Pokémon” and be done with it, keep it alive as long as the system exists instead of making the same damn reskinned game over and over.
 
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@RotPockets

I mean, that's cool and all, but this thread is about Cody, not Microsoft and Xbox. There're certainly threads on the farms where you can discuss these things in depth.

Are you one of Cody's weird fanboys, by chance?
 
@RotPockets

I mean, that's cool and all, but this thread is about Cody, not Microsoft and Xbox. There're certainly threads on the farms where you can discuss these things in depth.

Are you one of Cody's weird fanboys, by chance?
Rot's just a bit of a turboautist. Going off on one is part of his DNA, contained within his extra chromosome.
 
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He also dislikes Rekieta which helps. He definitely likes things in a spiteful way, it’s a bit odd to enjoy something AT others. It’s more that he looks less retarded than someone doing it for Xbox. Joe from Reddit is just a hypocrite, he uses the superiority of the Steam Deck to dismiss the Switch and how many systems/copies of exclusives it has sold, then cope for a month by making the exact same excuses for a more powerful system having shit games like StarFailed while hiding behind how many copies it sold on release. They gave StarFailed away for free on GamePass so it’s practically worthless when people can sign up for a $1.00 and you never release the sales figures. Games sell systems not the other way around. Xbox is the games as a service “you will own nothing and you’ll be happy” dystopian nightmare just to sell you a subscription. Thats the exact same direction they want to go with Windows, they want to charge you a subscription just to access your own data.
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Pokémon has been complete dogshit on Switch so he is way off the mark with that franchise. I played Shield then skipped the DLC and every one since then. They needed to make a Pokémon version of Genshin Impact with random EV/IVs, limited time events, constantly adding new Pokémon with new areas/islands to explore just to keep you hunting to build that perfect team and include online like the 2D games with in game Gyms people could battle at like Go. Just call the game “Pokémon” and be done with it, keep it alive as long as the system exists instead of making the same damn reskinned game over and over.
Disliking Rekieta is something I feel is common enough that the fact of it isn't really enough to change my opinion of anyone. How, how much, and why is something I'd put more interest towards, I don't feel encouraged to confide in Cody or seek him out for any commentary about him though, because my impressions are just so soured by his black box-styled commentary about nearly everything else. If you like Cody because he dislikes Rekieta, then what do you like about his 50+ videos dedicated to Nick? What does he say that you won't hear from anyone else? His spiteful enjoyment of things is generally when he's happiest too, and if I were to play armchair psychologist, it's probably a result of Cody being raised to emphasize the presence of losers whenever a winner emerges in anything, even if the competition in question is as friendly as can be. Nothing is ever merely meritable on its own to him, everything good must be superior to something else no matter what. Failure defines success more than success itself to him. It doesn't help that he measures up things by power levels or who would win in fights, framing everything as though it's all fiting within a tournament-focused battle shounen plot. His video about Freiren being a worse manga than Spy X Family is based on the notion that character flaws and character development innately make a work lower quality. In Cody's perspective, the least-flawed and most immiedately-developed or already-developed characters have the best writing. Even /v/ can like something without feeling the need to put something else down as a prerequisite.

As for Pokemon and everything else, Harman has never been on the mark about anything. Again, how and why anything is goor or bad within his perspective is a black box. He refuses to explain a single thing and even seems to deliberately avoid doing so. He claims that the newest games are bug-free, which is false, and that Game Freak itself "innovates too much" to be considered a bad devloper, even though all they've done is add theme park features that don't even alter the base gameplay loop to any degree. Most of the spinoff titles earn more appreciation and deservedly so as they do more with Pokemon as a concept than the mainline games have. It says a lot that the one time Cody's ever been willing to criticize Pokemon is when Niantic altered the character models for Pokemon Go, and that's mostly because it's a spinoff game by non-Japense developers who everyone has been criticizing. while his weebiness is shallow as hell, Cody will check if a game happens to be made by Japanese people (In addition to checking whether Nintendo developed it) before deciding whether he hates it or not. Remember that he acknowledges Palworld's developers as being Chinese rather than Japanese. His dislike of George R. R. Martin (Whose question about Gondorian tax policies is something Cody referenced in his Raymond Chandler video) is probably a reason why he hates Elden Ring, as Martin contributed to its lore. I say probably because it may be possible that he hadn't done enough research about the game to even know that Martin worked on it. The few times he's ever attempted to describe the content for a game, he's made obvious falsehoods, like "The lesbian at the end of New Vegas' DLC".

One thing I'd like to wonder about which hasn't been discussed enough here is despite being someone open to reading books, Cody has yet to come up with any decent prose, and why he never feels bothered about the fact that none of his fans actually go out of their way to discuss them, positively or negatively. He's been shilling American Evil and even made videos and community posts specifically about it, but I feel like I'm one of the very few who's interested enough, even if morbidly so. Those who have read his novels have compared them to Empress Theresa in quality, though Cody's prose is formatted more like a script for an anime episode than a novel. I don't think Cruel and Beautiful has named the state the characters live in.
 
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I mean, that's cool and all, but this thread is about Cody, not Microsoft and Xbox. There're certainly threads on the farms where you can discuss these things in depth.

Are you one of Cody's weird fanboys, by chance?
I just hate Microsoft/Windows/Xbox like Cody hates everything that exists in defiance of Nintendo.
Harman has never been on the mark about anything.
If the gaming industry goes in the direction he wants with no consoles besides Nintendo that will just accelerate what I am describing. Game Studios will become subscription streaming apps on Smart TVs and browsers like GeForce Now. I can’t justify dropping up to $10k for a bleeding edge PC just to play the same games as a $500 console for 7 years because the PC parts will lose more value than a console I could toss out the window. Xbox is inferior to PCs and redundant but there needs to be something between a streaming GamePass app subscription and computer components with the shelf life of organic fruit. Consoles are the sweet spot for how much value they offer vs how long they need to last to get your money’s worth. Budget consoles fuck everything up unless they stay in their lane like Nintendo does. I don’t want to see a time when Sony, Nintendo and GamePass become Netflix, Hulu and Prime because that would leave no room for resale, piracy or modding. They would become proprietary Steam competitors and eventually pull their games from Steam to their own walled gardens like Epic Games Store or the inevitable Denuvo Game Launcher. You would either not own the games and only have access to a revolving library or have to pay full price for a game you can only play online. All three consoles should agree on minimum specs and lifecycles so they don’t hold each other back, can have cross play and system exclusives. Last Gen was held back by the Xbox as well, multiplatform games had to play on OG Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, PS4, PS4 Pro and it sucked, it takes too long to make games to ever get anything good. Thats why you were playing Skyrim, GTA5 and TLOU across PS3/PS4/PS4 Pro/PS5. If they move to a subscription service model games will devolve in to mobile games on TV with nonstop shovelware throwing gacha shit at the wall. Think EA or miHoYo, free games supported exclusively by microtransactions. Competition fuels innovation. Modern phones can run PS3 versions of GTA5, Skyrim and TLOU has anyone ever seen a game released at that level of quality? More people have phones than consoles so why hasn’t anyone ever bothered to put that level of effort in? The best you can hope for is Fortnite, PUBG and Genshin Impact, all microtransaction slop.
Disliking Rekieta is something I feel is common enough that the fact of it isn't really enough to change my opinion of anyone. How, how much, and why is something I'd put more interest towards, I don't feel encouraged to confide in Cody or seek him out for any commentary about him though, because my impressions are just so soured by his black box-styled commentary about nearly everything else.
If I see he is sperging about something that interests me I’ll check it out, notably Rekieta, KiwiFarms, Null, KinoCasino, and sometimes I check out his Gamer Heel promos if it’s something I already dislike, but only the clips. They are less cringe inducing than watching EVS seethe about Eric July existing. I checked out that Joe from Reddit too for a few clips before he annoyed the shit out of me when I realized he is just a coward responding to his fellow console warrior’s tweets with things he doesn’t have the courage to say on twitter. I realized how gay that is, like having some catty faggot in earshot smugly reading tweets and his response aloud without actually posting it. Like responding wouldn’t get him the attention he thinks he deserves if he just said the thing on Twitter where they could actually respond instead he has to make this gay little production out of it. These are tweets with no reactions from fucking nobodies, it is all just performative reposting of a screenshot to Reddit but extra flamboyant like a faggot talking shit behind someone’s back after they leave about what he should’ve said especially since he ends each clip with “toodles”.
 
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If you feel like you need to use a number greater than 1000 to describe purchasing a gaming PC, it's very unlikely you've really done any research. Furhtermore, wouldn't the parts becoming cheaper PC parts don't perform based on what their current price is, after all. The point isn't to be more expensive than consoles. What hardware are you talking about in particular that lasts as long as "organic fruit" anyways? The reason why Skyrim and TLOU keep getting released on newer platforms is because people won't stop buying those games. Regardless, this is stuff Cody never goes into detail about, and this hardly even relates to him in particular, especially when in truth, nobody is defying Nintendo in the ways or degrees he imagines everyone else doing. As much as console wars are the bread and butter of his videos, it's worthy of a different thread if it's not related to Harman Smith.
 
It's not unreasonable for a thread about someone like Cody to have room to cover the people who dislike him, but it seems like you're far more interested in Xbox users or fanboys instead. Maybe you dislike Joe's vocal cadence or tone, I can get that, but I can't see how Cody is less insufferable as a person and as a commentator in comparison.

People don't hate Harman Smith because he likes Nintendo, people hate him because he has behavioral issues and because on every level, he brings nothing to the table compared to everyone else, who are not only consistently more correct than he is on everything,

Are you one of Cody's weird fanboys, by chance?

How, how much, and why is something I'd put more interest towards, I don't feel encouraged to confide in Cody or seek him out for any commentary about him though, because my impressions are just so soured by his black box-styled commentary about nearly everything else. If you like Cody because he dislikes Rekieta, then what do you like about his 50+ videos dedicated to Nick? What does he say that you won't hear from anyone else?

I never said I like him, I said I don’t mind him. Meaning I have enough interest to subscribe so I can occasionally watch him sperg out, or visit this thread to see if he did anything notable. I wouldn’t watch someone if I hated it. I laugh at him for acting liking himself so I get what I expected. I don’t watch JoefromReddit because he is fart huffing faggot that expects you to laugh with him but he isn’t funny or interesting since he isn’t sperging out, he is just boring cringe. The reason I posted those 2 videos earlier is because Harman is doing what he always does, and that other faggot is moping like someone ran over his dog. I haven’t defended Harman at all aside from agreeing with his opinion that Nintendo has better exclusives than Xbox. Don’t have any reason to hate him either, I have no emotional investment in anything he does beyond laughing at his antics occasionally. “Twitter is Cancer” hated Nick Rekieta and it was not very funny which is why he is banned.
 
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Cody's fans are a funny collective case in that all of them combined have received far less attention from Cody than his detractors have. They're circlejerking on a discord server but it's parasocial as hell. Nobody ever directly has a conversation with one another. Retrofuzion in particular really wants to die on the same hill as Cody for some reason and be seen by him as a peer.

Don't forget putting on a smug front as often as possible. For all his idiocy, Cody has at least learned how to argue from SJWs and /v/ users alike.
RetroFuzion Gaming actually tried saying he was making fun of the Harman's haters by acting like them even though he's in the comments section of all of Harman's videos and posts and worships Harman like he's some e-thot and he wants to drink his bathwater or something...of course there's also the hug-box they call a discord server.
 
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Yeah, none of this is even remotely true. Harman's right about everything he talks about, especially Nintendo. I swear, this place is a cesspool of Pretendos.
 
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Breaking news: Harman Smith has DISAVOWED YouTube lawyer Nick Rekieta!

 
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