Arin Hanson / Egoraptor / Grump - "Hey I'm Grump!" of Game Grumps fame, hypocritical SJW doxer, shat himself recording a let's play

[AlmightyMagichan]

This reminds me of when Arin said offhandedly that he hated TMNT: Turtles in Time.

Jon said, not very jokingly, that the video would get a ton of dislikes.

 

[Rick The Stick]

I tried rewatching some of Egos old animations and idk what I found funny in them, or why they got me into his shit in the first place.
Metal Gear Awesome was particularly bad. Like holy fuck it's not good. It makes no sense if you don't have any familiarity with the game and it isn't a good parody if you do because it's such surface level bullshit.

Which I guess explains most of Ego's humor and vidya takes in general.

 

[Dr J]

This reminds me of when Arin said offhandedly that he hated TMNT: Turtles in Time.

Jon said, not very jokingly, that the video would get a ton of dislikes.

Even Roger Ebert liked Turtles in Time...

Metal Gear Awesome was particularly bad. Like holy fuck it's not good. It makes no sense if you don't have any familiarity with the game and it isn't a good parody if you do because it's such surface level bullshit.

I rewatched Metal Gear Awesome recently too. I did it because he went and censored the raven saying nigger in Metal Gear Awesome 2 for his channel upload

The thing that struck me about most of his work is that literally all his black characters (and characters that aren't 'black' but he feels 'present' as black, like Knuckles) are the black stereotype, and the humour derives from that. I wouldn't mind if this were almost anyone else, but this is the guy who's since gone full SJW and tried to administer and lecture other people about not being racist, how they should behave and opinions they should hold.

 

[LecherousGranolaBar]

This reminds me of when Arin said offhandedly that he hated TMNT: Turtles in Time.

Jon said, not very jokingly, that the video would get a ton of dislikes.

If Arin hates Turtles in Time, one of the greatest beat em ups of all time, he's unsaveable.

I tried rewatching some of Egos old animations and idk what I found funny in them, or why they got me into his shit in the first place.
Metal Gear Awesome was particularly bad. Like holy fuck it's not good. It makes no sense if you don't have any familiarity with the game and it isn't a good parody if you do because it's such surface level bullshit.

Which I guess explains most of Ego's humor and vidya takes in general.

As a guy that also used to think the Awesome series was hysterical, I think why it was funny back in the day is two things. Its VOLUME for one. Most of the time its just him screaming nonsense which can be funny of course.

Secondly, I think its also a nice little microcosm of that "le epic randum" humor that was very popular back in the day. There are a lot of shows and games like this (Invader Zim, Borderlands 2 eg.) that use this type of humor and it used to work very well. Some of it still does (A lot of Borderlands 2 bits still get me and Invader Zims enter the florpus movie actually was genuinely very funny) but a lot of it has not aged great.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

The thing that struck me about most of his work is that literally all his black characters (and characters that aren't 'black' but he feels 'present' as black, like Knuckles) are the black stereotype, and the humour derives from that. I wouldn't mind if this were almost anyone else, but this is the guy who's since gone full SJW and tried to administer and lecture other people about not being racist, how they should behave and opinions they should hold.

Woke Maxim #52: Any man who claims to be on the SocJus bandwagon is either just doing it to get laid, or has skeletons that he needs to hide

 

[TVB]

I tried rewatching some of Egos old animations and idk what I found funny in them, or why they got me into his shit in the first place.
Metal Gear Awesome was particularly bad. Like holy fuck it's not good. It makes no sense if you don't have any familiarity with the game and it isn't a good parody if you do because it's such surface level bullshit.

Which I guess explains most of Ego's humor and vidya takes in general.

It's probably mid-2000s nostalgia kicking in, but the majority of his old stuff is just bad. The whole jokes he made have no punchline or anything, not even visually

 

[Dr J]

Woke Maxim #52: Any man who claims to be on the SocJus bandwagon is either just doing it to get laid, or has skeletons that he needs to hide

Or he's doing it to find a way to be an asshole to people and not get flack in return.

 

[AlmightyMagichan]

There are plenty of respectful and funny ways to say you don't like something. Arin is just an asshole who thinks trying to be a dick will cover up his lack of knowledge. It's not just video games, he's like that all over the place. I mean look at the dynamic he has with Dan. The aging, wanna-be hippy rocker has to be the grounded one.

 

[Nod Flenders]

Or he's doing it to find a way to be an asshole to people and not get flack in return.

Or all of the above can be true. I believe all of this is true about Arin.

 

[Dr J]

Or all of the above can be true. I believe all of this is true about Arin.

Unlike, say, MovieBob, he has a wife, so I don't think he's doing it to get laid. Notice when it came out about Dan fucking the fans we heard nothing about Arin, which would have been a real controversy had anything like that actually happened.

 

[Wonathan Joss]

I tried rewatching some of Egos old animations and idk what I found funny in them, or why they got me into his shit in the first place.
Metal Gear Awesome was particularly bad. Like holy fuck it's not good. It makes no sense if you don't have any familiarity with the game and it isn't a good parody if you do because it's such surface level bullshit.

Which I guess explains most of Ego's humor and vidya takes in general.

The Awesome series I can watch and enjoy but it's not as great as when I first watched it. I won't say a bad word about Girlchan in Paradise, though, that shit was a masterpiece

 

[garbanzobean]

I'm glad somebody's swerved this derailed train back to the topic of Arin.

Felt kinda funny to derail it into sonic for a quick giggle not gonna lie

 

[BubbleButt]

If Arin hates Turtles in Time, one of the greatest beat em ups of all time, he's unsaveable.

"All you do is beat up guys." Arin said, while playing Contra 3.

 

[LecherousGranolaBar]

"All you do is beat up guys." Arin said, while playing Contra 3.

All you do is shoot robots in megaman.

 

[Kheapathic]

I tried rewatching some of Egos old animations and idk what I found funny in them, or why they got me into his shit in the first place.
Metal Gear Awesome was particularly bad. Like holy fuck it's not good. It makes no sense if you don't have any familiarity with the game and it isn't a good parody if you do because it's such surface level bullshit.

Which I guess explains most of Ego's humor and vidya takes in general.

Part of it was the videos were usually short enough so nothing lingered too often; I'll also say it's a lot of early Internet humor, so different place different time is in effect. Though I'll admit I think his Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball Awesome (forget the actual title) is timeless. There's also a hint of love with his Ninja Gaiden Awesome, where the strategy guide guy gets killed by Ryu, because the difficulty is that insane; and I like this, because the Ninja Gaiden Σ 2 strategy guide by Brady Games, a lot of the co-op mission data is just straight fucking wrong and their tips are "get good." And not a "get good you fucking scrub," but obviously a cry for help of not knowing what to fucking write down because the game is kicking their ass... and to be fair, the co-op missions are absolute bullshit.

The things I could never get into were Sequel-itis; where he tries to make Mega Man out to be some fucking grand wizardry in teaching the player how to play. I want to say he has a point where you're not constantly bombarded by text boxes assuming you're a fucking idiot. But he also misses the part that up until the PS1 era or so, games were fucking unforgiving; you got a manual with maybe a quick primer on how shit works, a page or two of story, now go and fucking figure out the rest.

 

[Rick The Stick]

People have made good points for why the old awesome series was, well, awesome back in the day. And I can certainly agree that things like Girl Chan have held up surprisingly well. Though I'd chalk that up to being a more general animaru parody instead of a dedicated series spoof.

Sequel-itis was definitely the thing that hooked me on Ego, which might put me in the slight minority, because he was probably the first person I saw doing even halfway "serious" vidya talk that wasn't just a review. I was never too invested in MegaMan or Castlevania so I was willing to take him at his word. But like most people, his Zelda one really exposed him for being a retard who doesn't actually understand game design who is going off pure emotion. Seriously, his little sperg about Z-Targeting is widely mocked and that's before you realise the entire video was just an excuse to poorly transition into shitting on Skyward Sword. Probably because it was the newest punching bag of the franchise and because he really didn't have enough experience with OoT to actually critique it compared to ALTTP.

And then of course we get into the infamous Wind Waker playthrough where Arin is unironically struggling with what is quite possibly the easiest Zelda game out of the 3d era. That shit was so bad it's the exact moment I tapped out of GameGrumps entirely. Things might have been hit or miss till then, but there was still enough good to ignore tha bad. Wind Waker seems to have been the final straw for a good chunk of people, however. And it feels like that's when the real decline started.

 

[starborn427614]

And then of course we get into the infamous Wind Waker playthrough where Arin is unironically struggling with what is quite possibly the easiest Zelda game out of the 3d era. That shit was so bad it's the exact moment I tapped out of GameGrumps entirely. Things might have been hit or miss till then, but there was still enough good to ignore tha bad. Wind Waker seems to have been the final straw for a good chunk of people, however. And it feels like that's when the real decline started.

What got me was when he said he "needed to practice" in his downtime. It's a 3D action-adventure game, why do you need to hop in the lab for that?

 

[Rick The Stick]

What got me was when he said he "needed to practice" in his downtime. It's a 3D action-adventure game, why do you need to hop in the lab for that?

Imagine needing to practice for any game at all that isn't a fighter. I seriously cannot think of a single game where practice matters other than fighters.

 

[Chilson]

Imagine needing to practice for any game at all that isn't a fighter. I seriously cannot think of a single game where practice matters other than fighters.

I can see it with anything that requires first person skill or in depth knowledge like FPS's or grand strategy games on the top of my head. Certainly not many 3D action adventure games except maybe the souls series or if you were speed-running, which Arin is certainly not doing.

 

[Tornado]

These former Newgrounds chieftains have always embarrassed themselves when it comes to trying to prove their expertise as a game designer or animator or whatever. Watching the Megaman and Castlevania video next to the Zelda one is proof enough that the dropout retard with no credentials does not in fact have an opinion worth wiping your ass with. His takes on virtually everything straddle an absurd line between bland and inflammatory that would almost indicate brainwaves if they weren't coming out of a dead-eyed idiot with a highlight in his unkempt hair.