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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Oh sweet Jesus no!

I only read a section of it, and it is awful. Plus I dread to think what it will sound like. Who do you think will be voicing it? Him or some flat sounding A.I? The possibilities are endless!

He's certainly used AI, which is the smarter decision. It has one of the worst and most generic introductions still. You'd think a man who prides himself as a storyteller wouldn't use such a bland opening, but like Twilight, the artform is merely a vehicle to indulge in teenage vampire fantasies.
 

He's certainly used AI, which is the smarter decision. It has one of the worst and most generic introductions still. You'd think a man who prides himself as a storyteller wouldn't use such a bland opening, but like Twilight, the artform is merely a vehicle to indulge in teenage vampire fantasies.

Yep I had a feeling, he would use A.I, I can't imagine having to listen to him for 9 HOURS! Hell I can barely get in an 8 minute video in under an hour, because I have to stop to make sure my brain didn't fry of stupidity. He isn't a storyteller, he is a person trapped in his own delusion, that he thinks he is remotely talented. Probably because he wasn't told by his parents how special he was.
 
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He's certainly used AI, which is the smarter decision. It has one of the worst and most generic introductions still. You'd think a man who prides himself as a storyteller wouldn't use such a bland opening, but like Twilight, the artform is merely a vehicle to indulge in teenage vampire fantasies.
It's also the fact that he is incredibly lazy and a slob with no real motivation or standards. He pretends that he puts effort into his "work" or that he is proud of it, but the reality is that he does the bare minimum (with the AI cover art and all). The rest is just him putting his weird fetishes and fantasies onto paper, it stems from the ego caused by autism. As I've already explained before, Cody is the ultimate combination of depressed slobbishness and zero creative spark.

The only thing that he has left is to seethe about the actual creators and talented people, whether it be YouTubers who put actual effort and preparation into their videos or voice actors who have mastered their craft. This is obvious in the types of excuses he gives for using AI art by saying "the artists nowadays use AI art anyway" and so on. He has a seething resentment for people like them because he himself will never be able to excell in any creative domain.

His entire life is, therefore, built around and stuck in this feeling of resentment. This is what constitutes his arrested development. Resentment towards his parents for whatever he perceives their failures are. Resentment towards classmates for some normal, inconsequential, childish banter. Resentment towards unknowns on message boards. Resentment towards YouTubers who don't praise or aren't interested in Nintendo enough. Resentment towards creatives such as Toby Fox, Arlo etc. Resentment towards completely random people as he spergs out and calls them spergs. In the end, it all comes down to his deep unhappiness with his own life (and extreme life-altering autism). I know it sounds like a cliche and kinda simple, but it's so obvious.
 
Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree FLOPS right out of the gate!

Yep he is defiently jealous of actual talented creators, once again he has to complain about Miyzaki and Elden Ring. Let's do a quick review, first's things first's he has to show the audience that he washed his cup. Guess people like Klutzyking, Garra and us got him upset, after we all pointed out the flithy squaller he lives in and how the cup was mouldy and caked in yellow crust, that he thinks now showing it washed is some kind of gotcha moment. Yeah that doesn't work when your glasses still looked like they are soaked in animal fat, you dumbass. Guess cleaning the glass took out all of his energy.

Next he claims he was "Right" and how much the DLC has bombed, despite the fact it has been one of the best DLC's in a long time, and points out the mixed reviews. Well mentions it has, but claims this makes Elden Ring a "Medicore game all along" with the typical attitude of it being "shilled" and "inflated by youtubers and game jounors" and blah blah insert genric fanboy cope here. First of all he fails to notice that these mixed reviews are for the DLC, and two most of these negative reviews are from idiots who thought they would just be able to walk through it, with their level 300+ builds from the base game and blitz through it in under an hour.
Despite the fact every FromSoft DLC is harder then the base game, and most of the people moaning about the difficulty of the DLC, fail to go out and explore the vast open world to help them with it.

Another point of interest he calls the DLC "Lazy" because it reuses assest from the OG game. It's a DLC an EXPANSION of the base game, so of course it will use similar gameplay like the OG game. Yet of course he fails to point out that TOTK used the exact same map as BOTW, guess that gets a pass because muh Nintendo!

He claims that people were calling this DLC GOTY worthy. I've heard no one say this, or that it was ever going to be, prior to it releasing. Why? Because a DLC has never even been nominated let alone won GOTY, at best it may like Cyberpunk get best ongoing or maybe it's DLC may get nominated for best action game. We will see in around 6 months time, but the DLC will most certainly not be nominated for GOTY. He also claims everyone was saying Armor Core 6 was going to be GOTY 2023....no I'm pretty sure that was BG3 which also won, but let's moan about fromsoft fans. Oddly enough a comment on his video, shows a fan of both Zelda and Souls games. That will fry whatever little brain Harman has, after all you can't possibly like two different games especially one that isn't on the "Superior Nintendo console".

Speaking of he claims that the reason Elden Ring "skipped" the Switch, was because everyone would then know that "Zelda was always superior to it." Even claiming this is the same for Dragon Age and The Witcher. Last time I checked Witcher 3 was on the switch, in fact didn't he make a video claiming that the Witcher 3 plays just as well on the switch as it does on PC? Pfft that is a good joke. But let's review this too, one no Elden Ring didn't skip the switch because everyone would think Zelda is superior, they are both very different games. Zelda is an action adventure, Elden Ring as well as DA and the Witcher are action RPGs very different genres, and games that are not similar in the slightest. Two will this man and his idiotic fanboys get a clue already, say it with me everyone. THE SWITCH IS TOO UNDERPOWERED TO PLAY ELDEN RING! Hell even the Steam Deck which is vastly more powerful then the switch struggles to play it properly. Three why would Fromsoftware or any developer on purposely "skip" the switch if they could. The Switch is the best selling console currently, developers want money, and the best way to get money is to put your games on the best selling platforms. Hence games that aren't as demanding like the classic Marvel vs Capcom, Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, Clock Tower rewind etc, are all coming to switch. Because it will make a lot of money alongside the PC ports. Funny I mention those first two are Harman always moans when Capcom skip a game on the switch like the RE remakes or that Monster Hunter game. But I digress the real reason as we all know is the switch can't handle a game like Elden Ring, hell it can barely keep Zelda at a steady framerate and let's not forget the Pokemon S&V fiasco. Yet he will sit there on his ass, claiming he knows better, and it just a hate campaign against Nintendo as the "Switch can obviously handle these games." Funnily enough I don't recall you being a programmer or tech expert Cody boy. I have done Computer Science, and worked with some real tech wizs, and we all agreed that the Switch is running on 10 plus year old hardware, and even most mobile phones are more powerful then it. But alas the fanboy doth protest too much, and someone like me, would be wrong because some fat fanboy online thinks he is superior to everyone else, because he was builled as a kid. How sad!

I also love the fact he says that the game and DLC have been forgotten, it has been less then a week, and it has been the hot gaming topic in that time period. Also the irony again, stems from the fact he can't stop moaning about a game he hasn't played in the two years it has been out. Oh yeah he also claims Elden Ring is "Ancient" who knew two years is ancient history now, guess every two year old I meet, I better start going up to them and yelling at them to be put in the ground they are crusty and old! But anywho, the fact he keeps talking about it, ironicly means it will still be brought up over and over again. Way more then any of his precious Nintendo games.

And of course we have the usual suspects in his comments, like Molybed's more then 1 comment, which claims TOTK is bigger then Elden Fad. Ohhh got em. It isn't, they also made another comment about Stellar Blade "Flopping" the game sold over 1 million on PS5 and the developer who is a lot smaller then most, are planning on releasing a PC port. It didn't "Flop" and of course we have Retro claiming the comments that aren't written by braindead monkies are just people full of "Cope" and "The defence force are out in full force" This is the same person, who claims that acting like this is the same as having a go at someone's sports team may I point out. And of course we have Microplasticdiffusion agreeing with all the idiots, claiming "The fanboys can't stop seething." Yeah I'm pretty sure Miyzaki is crying on his millions at the "Failure" of Elden Ring and it's DLC. It is videos and comments like this, that truly make me despair for the human race.
 
New sales info has just come out showing that Shadow of the Erdtree sold 5 million copies in the first 3 days. How long until we get the usual "sales numbers are obviously astroturfed in order to set up a narrative against Nintendo" video?
 
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New sales info has just come out showing that Shadow of the Erdtree sold 5 million copies in the first 3 days. How long until we get the usual "sales numbers are obviously astroturfed in order to set up a narrative against Nintendo" video?
I'm enjoying the hell out of the DLC. Playing it right now, in fact. I haven't even looked into the sales numbers while I bet he's going to keep tabs on them despite it being an "irrelevant" game he doesn't care about. The expansion for an M-rated game most likely won't outsell TotK, because of simple logistics, and he's going to get off on that for years to come.
 
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.
Called it.
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They're a shitty company too.
Too?
What does your anti-Xbox crusade have to do with Harman Smith?
About as much as this does.
I'm enjoying the hell out of the DLC. Playing it right now, in fact. I haven't even looked into the sales numbers while I bet he's going to keep tabs on them despite it being an "irrelevant" game he doesn't care about. The expansion for an M-rated game most likely won't outsell TotK, because of simple logistics, and he's going to get off on that for years to come.
You’re becoming him.
 
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About as much as this does.
My anecdote is entirely related because Harman has a thorn in his ass over Elden Ring. Again, what does your Xbox sperging have to do with any of this? You were initially triggered by a YouTuber being mentioned who I'm pretty sure is just a PC gamer, on the basis of him seeming like he supports Xbox Gamepass. Go make a general thread on PC/Xbox YouTubers if that's what you're passionate about. Clearly, Harman is not one of those people.
 
I'm enjoying the hell out of the DLC. Playing it right now, in fact. I haven't even looked into the sales numbers while I bet he's going to keep tabs on them despite it being an "irrelevant" game he doesn't care about. The expansion for an M-rated game most likely won't outsell TotK, because of simple logistics, and he's going to get off on that for years to come.
Definitely not going to stop him from making that "argument". The same way he will say shit like "reused assets" or "reused animations" in relation to the DLC but ignore (or defend) the fact that Tears of the Kingdom reused the entire map.
Not to get off topic here, but I have personally already completed the DLC and I did enjoy it but there were also things that I had issues with. On the other hand, I am also a big Nintendo fan and liked Tears of the Kingdom as well. I guess someone like me is Cody's worst nightmare or just someone who doesn't exist at all lol. I only played Elden Ring to spite Nintendo, we know it is impossible to like both things simultaneously.
 
To summarize what I know so far about Cruel and Beautiful as I last looked at it:
  1. In an unspecified state, in an unspecified area, in an unnamed school, Mike becomes spontaneously infatuated with Amaris Yew, who is detailed as a non-Goff version of Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, who knows multiple languages despite not being prompted to speak or even translate for anyone, and by word and whim of of Cody Lee,has a "great ass".
  2. Mike follows Amaris around at school and stalks her after hours. She is not amused. Mike's friends are also not amused because for all they know, she;'s just some aloof weirdo who for everyone's benefit keeps to herself (Naturally we stupid layman would instead rationalize her as being like any other high school student who's just trying to be left alone.)
  3. During one of his orbiting sessions, Mike catches Amaris talking to a witch doctor so stereotypical that you'd think this novel was titled Cody Lee's Monster Mash. Witch Doctor says some nondistinct "You will lose" stuff and fucks off.
  4. A girl, suggested to be a lesbian, takes a generally platonic interest in Amaris. Amaris remains unamused.
  5. Amaris, having not drank blood in a long time, enters said girl's house and attempts to seduce her, only to be interrupted by a shark monster named Bruce, summoned by the Witch Doctor. Bruce eats the girl and then fucks off after declaring his plans to deny Amaris any feeding victims.
  6. Mike tries to console Amaris the next day at school, assuming Dead Girl to be her friend. Amaris, once more, is unamused.
CHAPTER 2 (of 2):
  1. Mike finds his way to Ameris' house. For some reason, Amaris is wearing nothing but a bikini and heels. She claims she's sunbathing indoors.
  2. Mike gets an erection and is led to think he's going to get laid, when Bruce appears again, smelling the scent of virgin blood flowing into his boner.
  3. Amaris pokes the shark with one of her heels and he fucks off, announcing that her days are numbered.
  4. Mike visits Amaris the next day after being suddenly whisked away elsewhere. Ameris pours hot sauce on him and Bruce returns
  5. After a fight that leads to Bruce dying from falling out the window, Amris feeds from Mike.
  6. MEANWHILE, AT THE LEGION OF DOOM, the Witch Doctor is told by the Council of Bad Guys that he sucks.
  7. Back to Amaris and Mike, the former expouses to Mike about her origins. She's a vampire from Europe, Dracula died, so now there's a big vampire civil war. Also now they're presenting themselves a couple now.
More to come.
 
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