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Razörfist / The Rageoholic / xRazorfistx / Daniel Paul Harris - Hipster Metalfag. Game Journo-Doesn't Play Games He Reviews. Thief Fanfic Author. COOMER AND GROOMER.
Who gives a shit that your favorite console is less popular, you "lost". Move the fuck on, retard. He's like an angry jealous ex that just won't go the fuck away when it comes to these topics.
In many ways Danny is just a conservative version of the SJW game journos he bitches about. And to qualify for those who tend to get offended when I say this let me explain why.
Danny has demonstrated he cannot hold an objective opinion on videogames. For example the PS2, which we can all pretty much agree was a solid console for its time with a great library of games. Because of his hatred of Sony, and all things Japanese, he automatically dismisses any notion that there is a reason it is seen as a great console, and why that period of gaming was seen as a great era of gaming. Instead of playing the games, which let's face facts here it's been proven he doesn't really play the games he reviews and his skills are sub-DSP tier, he formulates an opinion based off of his own likes and dislikes. He then obnoxiously berates people who like the things he doesn't like, often accusing people disagreeing with him of wrong-think politics (for instance he uses the word commie exactly the same way SJWs use Nazi), and stubbornly refuses enter into constructive conversation as to why someone may think differently (again a very SJW game journo thing to do). Put simply it is the exact behavior of the hipster gaming journo circle jerk, but with a conservative spin.
Even with his politics he can't just be a conservative. He takes obscure and niche conservative opinions and positions. For example his Lincoln hate. Within the Republican Party Lincoln is usually held in high regard due to being a founding member and for keeping the Union together throughout the succession. He claims to be a Goldwater Republican, which fits the libertarian part. Still, instead of just saying he's a libertarian who supports the Republican party, he claims belonging to a movement and mindset that lived and died in the 1960s. Ignore the fact that Goldwater Republicanism kinda can't exist today due to Libertarianism having had to change to the times and challenges that present as a result of those changes and therefore would be a new thing just with similar concepts, it is the label that matters to him the most. You see just saying you're Libertarian is not cool enough, Danny has to be something else, something more niche and obscure so that he can chortle and talk down derisively at people who are also libertarian (because they're not "the special" type of libertarian Danny is). What he thinks is cool, and how it benefits his image is what is most important to him, and the facts he's so desperately studied aren't for discussion, it is to brow beat others how more "enlightened" he is, he's not just a more obscure (and therefore cooler) brand of conservative than you, he can gish gallop you with obscure facts so you back off and get back on your turnip tractor you fucking hick. Just like the Game Journalists his politics is all about image and hipster elitism.
Ultimately that is all he is. Just another narcissistic hipster who just chose conservatism because he likes being contrarian. Like Adam Sessler, Jim Sterling and so many other hipster manchildren the politics aren't about belief or morality, the politics are entirely about public performance and being "superior", even being an off putting and condescending douche to people who happen to be on the side of politics, and especially to those who aren't.
In many ways Danny is just a conservative version of the SJW game journos he bitches about. And to qualify for those who tend to get offended when I say this let me explain why.
I came to realize that to be true when he got basic things wrong, multiple times. Complaining that ME3's gameplay is shoddy when gameplay was the one thing that game got perfectly right, getting lost in Halo Reach when that game literally tells you where to go and who to kill, hell, even his "favorite" TES game Daggerfall BTFO'd his ass. If your average gamer had a favorite game that he'd stream in front of millions of strangers, he sure as hell wouldn't be fucking it up so badly.
For example the PS2, which we can all pretty much agree was a solid console for its time with a great library of games. Because of his hatred of Sony, and all things Japanese, he automatically dismisses any notion that there is a reason it is seen as a great console, and why that period of gaming was seen as a great era of gaming. Instead of playing the games, which let's face facts here it's been proven he doesn't really play the games he reviews and his skills are sub-DSP tier, he formulates an opinion based off of his own likes and dislikes.
It's mostly along ideological lines. He hates JRPGs, the PS2 was a machine with a ton of JRPGs back during the JRPGs' golden age, so he hates it.
How much of a bitch-made loser do you have to be to hate something that's made for innocuous entertainment on ideological grounds? I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of things like the MCU or Skibidi Toilet, but if it makes people happy, then I'm all for it.
He then obnoxiously berates people who like the things he doesn't like, often accusing people disagreeing with him of wrong-think politics (for instance he uses the word commie exactly the same way SJWs use Nazi), and stubbornly refuses enter into constructive conversation as to why someone may think differently (again a very SJW game journo thing to do). Put simply it is the exact behavior of the hipster gaming journo circle jerk, but with a conservative spin.
He basically is the right-wing version of an SJW. Down to the point where he uses the same tactics as them. Except he's been doing this longer than the SJW fad's existence, so you can say that he was a proto-SJW, just for the other side.
Even with his politics he can't just be a conservative. He takes obscure and niche conservative opinions and positions. For example his Lincoln hate. Within the Republican Party Lincoln is usually held in high regard due to being a founding member and for keeping the Union together throughout the succession.
Lincoln is a literal Republican saint. For a so-called "Goldwater Republican" to attack him is the height of blasphemy among the party, and it reveals Danny-boy as a fringe conservative at best. It's to the point where modern Republicans tend to remind people that the KKK and the Secessionists were former Democrats, even though most KKK people tend to vote Republican nowadays.
He claims to be a Goldwater Republican, which fits the libertarian part. Still, instead of just saying he's a libertarian who supports the Republican party, he claims belonging to a movement and mindset that lived and died in the 1960s. Ignore the fact that Goldwater Republicanism kinda can't exist today due to Libertarianism having had to change to the times and challenges that present as a result of those changes and therefore would be a new thing just with similar concepts, it is the label that matters to him the most. You see just saying you're Libertarian is not cool enough, Danny has to be something else, something more niche and obscure so that he can chortle and talk down derisively at people who are also libertarian (because they're not "the special" type of libertarian Danny is).
Libertarians at times were more liberal than the actual liberals. I still remember the early 2000s when most Democrats still agreed with the Republican agenda and it was the Libertarians who didn't like the fact that the Republican government curtailed illegal drugs or gay weddings. The fact that Danny-boy and the Libertarians suddenly made a pivot to the God-fearing right-wing goes to show that they have no real values in the political sphere. The very same Danny-boy who hawks Christianity now used to make pedo jokes about Christian priests and used to hang well with Christ-hating people like the Amazing Atheist.
What he thinks is cool, and how it benefits his image is what is most important to him, and the facts he's so desperately studied aren't for discussion, it is to brow beat others how more "enlightened" he is, he's not just a more obscure (and therefore cooler) brand of conservative than you, he can gish gallop you with obscure facts so you back off and get back on your turnip tractor you fucking hick. Just like the Game Journalists his politics is all about image and hipster elitism.
Basically, it's all an act designed to show off how cool he is. But unlike other contrarian actors, there is a difference with him in that he seems genuinely hurt by the things he doesn't like or agree with.
Ultimately that is all he is. Just another narcissistic hipster who just chose conservatism because he likes being contrarian. Like Adam Sessler, Jim Sterling and so many other hipster manchildren the politics aren't about belief or morality, the politics are entirely about public performance and being "superior", even being an off putting and condescending douche to people who happen to be on the side of politics, and especially to those who aren't.
Razorfist is basically the guy who tries to look cool by saying that the popular thing sucks. But unlike the typical contrarian who's just doing it for shits and giggles and doesn't really care in the end, he actually does care, which explains why he hasn't let go and still hates things like JRPGs, the PS2, Kojima's Metal Gear, the Witcher, Jedi Outcast, among others. Danny-boy is a rare breed of contrarian where he genuinely hates the popular thing and wants the niche things he likes to be more popular, and it hurts him to see people say that the PS2 is good, it hurts him to see people love JRPGs like Final Fantasy 7 and casual RPGs such as Mass Effect 2 and Skyrim.
Trump won the popular vote because trannies and abortion are not big among Hispanics. But I suspect Trump will turn the Republicans into borderline open boarders for Mexican and other handful of Hispanic groups. But he will deport the illegal Venezuelans, Chinese and Middle easterners.
You know. The term RiNO being given to the party's elite insiders rather than the antiestablishment candidate is funny. Especially by a guy who hates the founders of the Republican party. How about this? Trump is the RiNO and that's why people on both sides from hard-core conservatives to Bernie bros to moderates who just wanted cheaper gas voted for him. He spoke like the voters and not like the establishment. Trump is the RiNO. And that's good.
Back in September, Razor had a bit of an episode on twitter. I was kind of surprised that nobody mentioned at the time, but maybe it wasn't that obvious to people outside of the book world.
It comes across quite a show of narcissism—beyond what could be excused away as just his usual "I'm so prickly and acerbic" act.
Apologies for the length. It's mostly just to explain book stuff (which Razor doesn't understand).
It starts with this tweet on September 6th, which had seemingly been prompted by absolutely fucking nothing.
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I guess, sometimes, you just gotta fire off a random hot take to try to drum up engagement.
And one certainly could get a lot of mileage out of criticizing this book...
The glaring problem with the point that he's trying to make is that Legends & Lattes is not "Corporate Fantasy." Not only was it independently published, but it's one of the ur-examples held up for other aspiring independent authors, showing them that they can take the risk of independent publishing and still be successful.
Anyone who's even faintly familiar with the book, even just by reputation, knows this about it. It's hard to get something this wrong.
To clarify: after it had been independently published, Legends & Lattes was picked up to be republished by Tor Books, which is an imprint of Macmillan, which is one of the "big five" companies in publishing. (Tor published the Wheel of Time series, and now publishes Brandon Sanderson's books.)
The purpose of a publisher picking up a book after it was already written and independently published is to offer the author wider distribution and other perks, hopefully increasing sales for the author, in exchange for the publisher also getting a small cut of these (hopefully) larger profits from a book that they can already see is viable in the market.
But Legends & Lattes was written, published, and became successful independently—before Tor came along—and without any corporate publisher influencing the story that Travis Baldree was writing. No publishing company ever told him, "our marketing department wants more of X right now, can you make your story include that?" or "our editor thinks that you should change Y to be more like Z."
And whether or not a corporation influenced the product that was written is what Razor's whole point hinges on.
A number of replies tried to point out Razor's mistake. He took it in his characteristically humble and modest way.
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Yes, Tor now publishes the reprinted second edition. But they did not influence the writing. The product itself is not "corporate fantasy."
Just like if I knitted scarves and then sold them through ebay or etsy, the scarves wouldn't suddenly become "corporate" just because of the distribution method.
Razor dug his heels in and pushed back against almost every response, even tepid disagreements—which always comes across as level-headed. He also started blocking people who disagreed with him.
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This is pretty standard fare for him so far. And I'm all for people having the freedom to criticize things that they don't like, against the tyranny of the hugbox types telling them not to, or the disingenuous "just ignore it, then" types who are trying to run cover for the thing.
But the longer that this went on from him, the more people were left to wonder where the hell this anger at some random book's mere existence even came from in the first place.
And as people continued to push back against Razor, the narcissism came out.
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This is a fucking wild thing to say about a competing author—and a wild thing to say about how great you think your own talents are. And saying "one more thing" makes it clear that Razor's talking about both his writing and the audiobook performances.
Maybe it's a defense mechanism to reassure himself that, yes, even in the face of this unabating criticism, he's still the best, so he doesn't have to listen to anyone else—which would be great for him when most of these people are telling him that he's wrong.
Or maybe Razor really believes that he's the greatest writer and the greatest audio performer, too. Certainly better at it than this best-selling fraud. Anyone else who's had more success than him? They don't deserve it. Razor's books should have had that success instead.
Very humble, very sane.
To the normal people (a.k.a. potential customers) in the replies, randomly attacking a fellow author like this was downright repellant.
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Razor can't be claiming to be an expert on Legends & Lattes here, since (with the comparison) it wouldn't be much of a burn to say that someone whom you don't like is highly or even moderately skilled.
So Razor's point here really does seem to be that, while admitting that he knows next to nothing about the book or the writing within, its author is even more clueless and inept at writing. You see, no author can compare to Razor. He's great, and they're all shit.
Which is rich, if you've read Razor's books.
But even setting aside whether his books are good or not, you'd think that a new author would be more humble. Just happy to put his work out there, proud that he'd finished it, and grateful to make a sale.
Despite his efforts, Razor didn't seem to win anyone over. His posts got likes from his usual audience, but the replies largely concluded that he was just bitter, mad, seething, jealous, etc.
So, if he got his main attack against the book wrong, and if he's indirectly admitting that he doesn't really know about the book that he's going after, and if it seems like he's just angrily sperging at random competitors... what was he really trying to accomplish here?
Perhaps he could make it really obvious for us with a reply to his own original tweet.
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Ah.
Remember, everything that's shaped by modernity is bad—and his books are the opposite of modern "corporate" writing, which must mean that they're good! Buy now!
All this did was give ammunition to the people who, throughout this, had been responding that Razor was bitter and jealous.
Half of the replies to the post were fans who already liked his book. The other half were just mocking the shit out of him for his seething, his arrogance, his lack of success compared to Baldree, and so on.
And then, someone replied to his advertisement with this absolute fucking gem.
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Razor shat on Legends & Lattes for its cover.
He never addressed anything else about the book's contents, never said anything to show that he even knew what those contents were. He just posted a picture of the cover and an inaccurate conclusion about what kind of a book it was.
This guy outright tells Razor, "I'm gonna do that exact same thing to your book and judge it by its cover."
And Razor replies with a bunch of "um ackshually" shit about plot elements from within the book.
It goes right over his head. It's priceless.
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To wrap up, there actually is plenty to criticize Legends & Lattes for. The book is certainly close to being just as cringey as Razor assumes (though it's not nearly as talentless as he thinks). The broader "cozy fantasy" subgenre is, in fact, lame and cringe. And this book has inspired plenty of other cringey imitators to crowd the market and potentially influence its overall direction.
But in order to talk about those things, Razor would have to know anything about the book, or its subgenre, or the modern fantasy market. And he apparently doesn't know shit about any of this.
Similarly, there is plenty to talk about with "corporate fantasy"—the decisions that corporate publishers make, the content that they promote or suppress, the authors whom they pick or pass over, and the way that authors self-censor and tailor their works to the tastes of their prospective publishers.
But none of that happened with Legends & Lattes. It was never made for a corporate publisher.
It's like the "you don't even play the games that you review" thing all over again—with some insane, baffling narcissism on top of it all.
And the normies—the potential customers that Razor should be courting—aren't going to want to buy his book when he comes across as a bitter, petty, narcissistic nutjob who rages at his (obviously-more-successful) competitors out of nowhere and declares himself to be the best at everything ever.
Why'd he do it?
Did he really just see that cover on the shelf of a bookstore one day and get set off by it, seeing it sitting where he thinks his own books should be? Is he mad that his books never got the mark of acceptance from a big publisher that Legends & Lattes did, despite their similar origins? Is it just jealousy? Arrogance? Delusion?
But then Razor also has responses like this one, which comes across as genuinely self-deprecating, forcing one to wonder just how self-aware he actually is, and how many layers of irony he's really on.
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Or maybe he thinks that being a self-admitted "prick" and owning it makes him come across as a badass or something. Who the fuck knows.
Thoughts? From my perspective, they're both cringy. Matt Walsh is the kind of conservative who gives ammo to the liberals with his idiotic takes, and Razorfist isn't lagging far behind in terms of media stupidity.
For instance, they both think anime is evil, but for different reasons. Razorfist hates weeb culture as a personal preference, while Matt Walsh accuses anime of being Satanic, as if it was like the 1980s panic with DnD all over again.
You have a self-admitted prick and a superstitious quack. The fact that these are the faces of online conservatism goes to show that we've got a long road ahead of us when it comes to fostering good, conservative voices on the internet that's not Prager U or some old boomer outfit.
But Legends & Lattes was written, published, and became successful independently—before Tor came along—and without any corporate publisher influencing the story that Travis Baldree was writing.
Knowing Danny he getting legends & Lattes confused with WOTC plagiarism. Dungeons and dragons outright ripping off Legends & Lattes with the book about the lesbian orc bakery.
I can picture Prager U turning on Trump along with Ben Shapiro. Ben not happy with MAGA Latinos and blacks noticing how openly anti-Christian Jewish Americans are.
Also a classic case of instead of improving his own game he seeks to succeed by dragging down others. Not a good move in the publishing world, this shit just makes you look radioactive.
Razor shat on Legends & Lattes for its cover.
He never addressed anything else about the book's contents, never said anything to show that he even knew what those contents were. He just posted a picture of the cover and an inaccurate conclusion about what kind of a book it was.
This has always been razorfag's playbook. Speak on things he has little to no knowledge of, but he's to able to talk about it in a way where he looks like an authority on the subject and his shit for brains fans just lap up the shit he spews. i don't know shit about his Lincoln video, but just going off what i've seen here, as well as watching VTH's video response, that's probably the case. He uses flowery words and impassioned verbiage to convince people of the shit he believes in, as opposed to letting the evidence or proof speak for itself. Did it with his China ESG video, did it with his Witcher plagiarism video, Batman and The Shadow, and so forth.
Looked at one of Danny's Alien Isolation streams, and there are a lot of gems here. We are going to be hitting a lot of items on Danny's bingo card with this one.
Here's Danny getting ass mad his streams have terrible audio mixing and blames the chat for noticing.
Danny gets mad that the chat calling him out for only reading super-chats and not the chat. But he somehow spins this as the chat being upset rather than him being a throbbing chod.
Of course, Danny, being very uncreative with his insults, uses the three chestnuts he always uses.
"One thing I noticed about Danny is that whenever he gets ass mad, he always uses a variation of three insults: "Blow it out your ass," "Your head is jammed up your ass," or "Suck my dick." The Excellence of Elocution, everybody."
Someone superchats an unfunny pun then Danny makes a ban joke, and Terran's response is glorious.
Danny gets a cringy autistic weeb super chat and has the worst comeback like ever.
The chat's reaction to Danny's "comeback".
Of course, this being an Alien Isolation stream, it wouldn't be complete without Danny sperging out about Aliens.
Of course Danny can't help but make an ass of himself and proves once again that he now's nothing about a movie he claims to be a huge fan of. Here is the clip the chat is referring to.
Someone corrects him on the ending to the moving but then he copes that it didn't penetrate the skin.
It penetrates the skin Danny.
He then checks one of our items off on the bingo card and calls Aliens thinly veiled plagiarism of Starship Troopers proving he doesn't know anything about Starship Troopers as well.
He then is asked which cut of the Alien is his favorite and says the director's cut is because of muh Ridley Scott movie.
And of course Ridly Scott prefers the theatrical cut.
Danny then spergs out about the alien being unkillable, not realizing that they didn't have any actual weaponry on the Nostromo. He then spergs that the alien was shot out of the shuttle with a rocket, even after being correct that it was a hook. He then refers to the booster rocket pushing the alien off the ship.
It's clear that Danny's just has a hate boner for Cameron, and look, I'm not much of a fan of his hippy vegan ass, but Aliens is a good movie, and Danny's vacuous criticisms just come down to him being a cringy contrarian that calls everything that is mildly inspired by something else a rip-off. It seems he just wanted a rehash of the first movie, but Cameron took a chance at doing something different, and it clearly paid off, and as a result, he became a successful movie director, and all Danny is known for is spinning in a chair and flipping off a camera in his parents’ house. It also doesn't help his position that he has gone on record defending Prometheus, a movie that, without a doubt, killed more of the mystique of the franchise than anything in Aliens hands down.
So... while Legends and Lattes WAS indie published, there has been a MAJOR push within publishing to take the fantasy genre into a more quirky, cozy fantasy genre aimed primarily at women, along with a similar push for Sarah J. Maas style erotica with a thin fantasy veneer.
So while the individual book may have once been indie, the push for fantasy where people just drink coffee at bars and flirt like an episode of Friends with elves and orcs is ABSOLUTELY corporate and artificial.
How the fuck can anyone take this faggot's movie or video game reviews seriously anymore when he has the memory of a goldfish? Watched it recently, but can't recall a pivotal moment in the film? This asshat has amnesia or Alzheimer's, or both.
He then spergs that the alien was shot out of the shuttle with a rocket, even after being correct that it was a hook. He then refers to the booster rocket pushing the alien off the ship.
Jesus fuck, he has absolutely dogshit memory. First, he doesn't even remember the alien getting shot at all, then he misremembers, and thinks it was shot with a rocket instead of a hook. It's starting to seem like he doesn't even watch the fucking movies he critiques. Much like his video game reviews, where he doesn't play them at all, or only plays them for a couple of hours. He also has a shitty proclivity of not being able to admit he's just wrong and move on. Everytime one of his viewers points out his errors, he'll just spin it in a way where he's "right", and terran, being his good friend, is too chickenshit to correct him on it. Like when he's told the flamer wasn't used on the alien, he just responds with, "it probably happened off screen" but we have no way of knowing that. Also, the alien wasn't shot in the face, but the chest instead. So, razor is not only an amnesiac, a retard, a thin skinned contrarian and a chickenshit egomaniac, he's also blind. How any of his fans still take anything he says seriously is beyond me. Especially when he's been proven wrong multiple times on stream, in real time, and just won't admit it.
These clips are great, must have been a pain to compile them. Can't think of worse methods of torture than having to sit through a razorfag stream.
there has been a MAJOR push within publishing to take the fantasy genre into a more quirky, cozy fantasy genre aimed primarily at women, along with a similar push for Sarah J. Maas style erotica with a thin fantasy veneer.
This is unfortunately very true. Like a lot of industries, publishing companies have figured out that it's more profitable to have 1 million whales who buy a ton of books each year instead of 10 million normal customers who only buy 1 or 2 books a year.
The whales for the publishing industry right now are 90 IQ women in their 30s, and they all like reading cutesy shit like Legends & Lattes and/or female-focused smut.
The book still is "indie," though.
To my mind, that's determined by whether or not a corporation had any influence on what an author (or some other artist) was making.
And since that wasn't the case here, I don't think it's fair to say that the book is no longer "independent" just because other authors have imitated it enough that it now fits within a trend which publishing companies have started pushing, That pattern may now make Legends & Latteslook like what a contemporary "corporate" book is, but it doesn't change how the original book came about. If some part of this thinking seems off, let me know.
the push for fantasy where people just drink coffee at bars and flirt like an episode of Friends with elves and orcs is ABSOLUTELY corporate and artificial.
This is true. There's certainly criticism to be had for modern publishing. I just think it's a separate issue from Legends & Lattes, or from Razor's seething.
And publishing trends are not what Razor focused on (or even mentioned) after his original tweet. I'm not sure that he even knows enough about the industry to talk about that. Instead, it was all just him attacking Baldree (and anyone who pushed back) over this one book, based on something about it that wasn't even true.
I could imagine how frustration over publishing trends like the "cozy fantasy" push might have prompted him to go off in the first place, if he thinks that he's being unfairly passed over by big publishers in favor of the next Fourth Wing or something—but if that is the case, I haven't seen him say anything like that.
I don't think I've ever seen Razor talk about the current publishing landscape at all. He has his opinions on the state of the movie industry, or TV, or AAA gaming, but never books. Seems odd.
I certainly doubt now that he was avoiding talking about it for the sake of tact.
I don't even like this damn book! How am I defending it again?
"But hey, you got me. If that's true, you got me."
The moments of reasonableness just make the rest of his antics that much more frustrating. There's a non-douchebag buried somewhere within him, trying to claw its way out.
