hbomberguy / Harry "Harris" Brewis / Slazenger Rapemachine Whiteshaf - "Rational" SJW, former SA goon/LPer, sexual harassment apologist, raised $350K+ for child abuse cult

That dark souls video is... shit. I'm not watching the whole thing now cause i need to sleep but god it feels like he only did this for the sake of being a contrarian and picking a fight with Matthewmatosis. He uses too much strawman, ignores the flaws with snarky passive agressiveness, keeps saying false things with confident smugness and arguments mostly boil down to "Dark Souls 1 was worse tho!".

You can tell how awful it is when even his entire comment section is against him.
 
That dark souls video is... shit. I'm not watching the whole thing now cause i need to sleep but god it feels like he only did this for the sake of being a contrarian and picking a fight with Matthewmatosis. He uses too much strawman, ignores the flaws with snarky passive agressiveness, keeps saying false things with confident smugness and arguments mostly boil down to "Dark Souls 1 was worse tho!".

You can tell how awful it is when even his entire comment section is against him.

>picking a fight with Mattewmatosis

You've GOT to be shitting me.

Now I'm not gonna put MM on a pedestal as the end-all-be-all of game critics, but one thing he does almost uncontested is talk about the technical aspects of game design and deconstructing it to better understand the context of developer decisions. (See his Shadow of the Colossus video for a quick peak at how he does this.) He's incredibly specific and is able to pin-point a ton of gameplay decisions that he thinks are excellent or flawed without any wish-washy filler to pass the time. Generally speaking, even when I don't agree with him, he usually makes decent cases for his criticisms and I would say he's hardly entirely wrong when he elaborates on criticisms. With that being said, I genuinely don't understand why someone like this warrants prodding and shit-talking.

HBomb only seems to be able to "argue" and antagonize other people. All of his videos are almost always in direct response to something or someone. Even his Fallout 3 video, which was basically his big "Fuck you" to anyone who liked the game and he spent an unnecessary amount of time flinging shit at IGN of all people for their reviews of the game and presenting their opinions as the opinions of the majority, despite IGN's reputation among gamers. Like, he doesn't demonstrate any sort of initiative when he makes an argument; it's always to fallaciously respond to someone typically in a condescending manner. This is probably why he has a big hate boner for Sargon, since Sargon keeps proding him.

It's almost like he doesn't care about the topic at hand, but "Rekt"-ing people in response videos and not actually make any meaningful point or argument- Oh dear I feel like we've heard this statement before. *snickers*
 
Haha fuck me I'm the guy who took the Kill La Kill screencaps in the OP and all I can say is lol at anyone who thinks he's "actually smart" or a "good analyst when leaving out politics". Even beyond the garbage about the pedo defending and whatnot (which really should be enough) I think people really downplay just what a complete clown he is and how utterly garbage he is at dissecting media. In fact I'd go as far as to say he's the perfect embodiment of everything bad, approval-seeking and pseudo-intellectual about smarty pants nerd intellectual types. It's so bad that I can't tell if he's malicious and emotionally manipulative and he KNOWS emotionally manipulative "charisma" is all he has, or if he's extremely stupid.

His Fallout 3 video does not show off his own intelligence because it came after nearly a decade of classic Fallout fans tearing the game apart and he had a massive pool of criticism to draw from.

In his stupid "tit ninja" video his retort to "video games don't need a good story" is "HEART OF DARKNESS [the book] DIDN'T NEED A GOOD STORY EITHER BUT IT HAD ONE AND THAT'S WHY IT'S GREAT" which completely ignores the actual idea behind the statement, that games are a medium of their own and NEED a story about as much as chess or mahjong NEEDS a story. It's not bad if it has one and "hadrcore gamers" are not against non-shit story-games like Planescape: Torment so his whole argument is a ridiculous strawman.

In the same video he makes it clear he wants games to be "truly an artistic medium" not for the things that make them unique but for the things that he thinks will appeal to people who don't actually like games and give his hobby validity. Nothing he says about why "God of War is TRULY ART NOW" has anything to do with interactive mechanics and everything to do with what sounds like an extremely cliche way of making something "artistic" (walky-talky game about feelings where you're a dad!) and god fucking knows maybe the game is amazing, I've not looked deeply into it so correct me if I'm wrong, but he made it sound like the lamest most pandering thing imaginable.

His video on action scenes is the worst analysis video I've ever seen and the only things he seems to have gotten from film school is political bullshit, no actual technical artistic appreciation. He seriously has no idea what an "action scene" is. Quentin Tarantino is "great at action scenes", but let's not actually mention Kill Bill which has no-bullshit action choreography - instead, he's good because of a scene where a guy gets executed while putting on zero fight, and another scene where a guy gets his ear chopped off. ACTION!

For a big social justice man who's all about appreciating them POCs he sure did a hell of a job completely ignoring the asian film industry which has consistently churned out some of the most amazing action scenes. He brings up the oh-so-amazing 2013 Godzilla film but makes no mention of people like Eiji Tsuburaya and Ishiro Honda who did great stuff with the "giant stompy monster" genre. No mention of the fantastically framed and physically mind-blowing action in films starring kung-fu stars like Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee or action film directors like John Woo. I think identity politics is mostly stupid shit but even I can't help but notice how his film taste is as ignorantly SWPL as it gets.

The Kill la Kill/anime shit is the same tripe. He can't appreciate the merits in technical stuff like storyboarding and animation so all he has is "EVERY ANIME I LIKE IS A MARXIST-FEMINIST SCREED OKAY GUYS?"

And as far as the political shit goes he's once again either deeply disingenuous or stupid. He made some alright points in the Sargon video but misread the very statistics he had onscreen. I suspect he got his "censored male sexualization that the big bad gamers did NOT complain about!" example from a Censored Gaming video made pretty much a few days before his video, which was met with nothing but "this is bullshit" responses from the evil gator audience he deems toxic and disgusting. So yeah mere fucking days before he uploaded that video the people he was accusing of not caring showed that they did in fact care. Malice or ignorance? God knows.

This guy represents SO MUCH of what I dislike about "nerd culture" I wanna make a video addressing this stuff because it seems to be the only thing that reaches some people. I have an extremely gay sounding voice but maybe that along with being kind of a literal faggot will earn me social justice points and get some people to realize he's dumb.
 
Harry seems like he needs an extended break from the internet, to get his head on straight and start acting like a human again. He deserves a smack in the mouth for that "apology" essay; It reads like he expected an A++ and a scholarship, or at least a quick handy from his favorite TA after debate class. I don't see a trace of genuine remorse in that bullshit, or the start of any personal change, just tactical movements to placate his followers, and a chancer's attempt to make his fuckups disappear with one blog post. He would have defused the situation better by posting a picture of poop with the subtitle, "Fuck off pencilcock, my friend rules, and srhbutts has a great photobucket."

I liked HBomb a few years back, and his old stuff still makes for a good rewatch. In those videos, where he'd just point and laugh at stupid nonsense, like Aurini's unintentional prop comedy, or Jordan Owen's floor belts, you could tell he genuinely had a good time bringing absurd subjects to his viewers as a lighthearted joke. He came off like a guy who liked himself and did not give a single shit. He even had some alright LP efforts to his name, getting through most of Two Worlds with the help of a second player and unwarranted inventory shenanigans. To my knowledge, it remains the most watchable footage of that awful game because they hardly play it.

Sure Harry's channel sucks now, full of pedantic unwatchable debate jerkoff material, but man, I wish the guy would stop raising red flags. Unless he has some hilarious fetish like playing ookie cookie with Parliament members, I don't see this going anywhere funny.
 
Harry seems like he needs an extended break from the internet, to get his head on straight and start acting like a human again. He deserves a smack in the mouth for that "apology" essay; It reads like he expected an A++ and a scholarship, or at least a quick handy from his favorite TA after debate class. I don't see a trace of genuine remorse in that bullshit, or the start of any personal change, just tactical movements to placate his followers, and a chancer's attempt to make his fuckups disappear with one blog post. He would have defused the situation better by posting a picture of poop with the subtitle, "Fuck off pencilcock, my friend rules, and srhbutts has a great photobucket."

I liked HBomb a few years back, and his old stuff still makes for a good rewatch. In those videos, where he'd just point and laugh at stupid nonsense, like Aurini's unintentional prop comedy, or Jordan Owen's floor belts, you could tell he genuinely had a good time bringing absurd subjects to his viewers as a lighthearted joke. He came off like a guy who liked himself and did not give a single shit. He even had some alright LP efforts to his name, getting through most of Two Worlds with the help of a second player and unwarranted inventory shenanigans. To my knowledge, it remains the most watchable footage of that awful game because they hardly play it.

Sure Harry's channel sucks now, full of pedantic unwatchable debate jerkoff material, but man, I wish the guy would stop raising red flags. Unless he has some hilarious fetish like playing ookie cookie with Parliament members, I don't see this going anywhere funny.

All I can get out of this is "he was good when very smugly shooting fish in a barrel".

As far as I'm concerned he was always a lame pseudo-intellectual; all he has is shallow "charisma", a "witty british man" delivery to convince you that what he's saying is smart and worth listening to. Explaining why the PUA skull man is stupid takes about as much smarts as debunking the Spirit Science guys (which ironically one of the E-SKEPTIC CELEBS did in a really lame video)

Taking on Sargon would actually be a worthier cause if going from "Sargon fan" to "Hbomb fan" was actually an improvement.
 
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I removed the memes cuz they were lame.

I don't even think charisma is a bad thing at all but I do think it should come after substance and really, Hbomb just isn't a very smart man when it comes to things beyond making viewers feel good emotionally.

Oh yeah the No Man's Sky thing was hilarious because he likely saw white-knighting NMS as some kind of anti-capitalist, pro-underdog action. There are indie games that are actually held back by an unfair system where you gotta know the right people or else you're screwed... but the majorly hyped, Sony-backed, obviously corporate product that was No Man's Sky doesn't fall into that just because it has a small team.
 
>picking a fight with Mattewmatosis

You've GOT to be shitting me.

Now I'm not gonna put MM on a pedestal as the end-all-be-all of game critics, but one thing he does almost uncontested is talk about the technical aspects of game design and deconstructing it to better understand the context of developer decisions. (See his Shadow of the Colossus video for a quick peak at how he does this.) He's incredibly specific and is able to pin-point a ton of gameplay decisions that he thinks are excellent or flawed without any wish-washy filler to pass the time. Generally speaking, even when I don't agree with him, he usually makes decent cases for his criticisms and I would say he's hardly entirely wrong when he elaborates on criticisms. With that being said, I genuinely don't understand why someone like this warrants prodding and shit-talking.

HBomb only seems to be able to "argue" and antagonize other people. All of his videos are almost always in direct response to something or someone. Even his Fallout 3 video, which was basically his big "Fuck you" to anyone who liked the game and he spent an unnecessary amount of time flinging shit at IGN of all people for their reviews of the game and presenting their opinions as the opinions of the majority, despite IGN's reputation among gamers. Like, he doesn't demonstrate any sort of initiative when he makes an argument; it's always to fallaciously respond to someone typically in a condescending manner. This is probably why he has a big hate boner for Sargon, since Sargon keeps proding him.

It's almost like he doesn't care about the topic at hand, but "Rekt"-ing people in response videos and not actually make any meaningful point or argument- Oh dear I feel like we've heard this statement before. *snickers*

I consider MM's dark souls 2 video to be one of his weakest overall, all hbomberguy had to say was "it's not fake difficulty if it's real challenge, turn off your lock on and find openings against multiple enemies, learn to fight 1v1 without needing to circlestrafe for a backstab all the time. Previous games had the same flaws to some extent."

But nope, he goes full strawman on Matthew for no reason whatsoever, probably because MM is a much more popular game critic than he is, so he did it for attenttion but it his "defense" was so shit it only made the MM look better and the DS2 look worse. hbomberguy ironically acts exactly like the "irrational anti-sjws that hate everything" he always makes fun of.
 
I think another thing worth bringing up is that the Kill la Kill thing isn't some old crap that he looks back on with shame; he still promotes those views and acts like people are idiots if they disagree. This year he referenced that argument as him "teaching some FYAD guys a thing or two about narrative" or something to that effect.

This kind of "woke anime" stuff is getting ridiculously popular, and it was already bad enough half a decade ago that it made Kunihiko Ikuhara, dyed-hair, vocally anti-Trump director of Revolutionary Girl Utena who openly speaks out against gender roles, distance himself from the "feminist" label on Twitter:

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To this day people still insist that he's a third wave feminist and has extremely Anita-like views about the "male gaze" and "objectification". He can talk all he wants about being a pervert and loving anime tits and panty shots, that's "irony" I guess. Any leftist who makes cartoons has to be "ONE OF US".
 
can you imagine what the Republic would look like if written by hbomber

plato harry said:
You have conceived my meaning perfectly; and if I mistake not, [UNFUNNY JOKE WHICH OVERSTAYS IT'S WELCOME BY ABOUT 2 PARAGRAPHS] what you failed to apprehend before is now made clear to you, that poetry and mythology are, in some cases, wholly imitative [PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE SNARK FOR ABOUT A PAGE OR SO]-- instances of this are supplied by tragedy and comedy; there is likewise the opposite style, in which the my poet is the only speaker-- of this the dithyramb affords the best example; and the combination of both is found in epic, and in several other styles of poetry.[SOMETHING RESEMBLING A POINT, YOU HAVE TO PILE THROUGH A LOT OF SHIT TO GET TO IT ]Do I take you with me?
 
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Haha fuck me I'm the guy who took the Kill La Kill screencaps in the OP and all I can say is lol at anyone who thinks he's "actually smart" or a "good analyst when leaving out politics". Even beyond the garbage about the pedo defending and whatnot (which really should be enough) I think people really downplay just what a complete clown he is and how utterly garbage he is at dissecting media. In fact I'd go as far as to say he's the perfect embodiment of everything bad, approval-seeking and pseudo-intellectual about smarty pants nerd intellectual types. It's so bad that I can't tell if he's malicious and emotionally manipulative and he KNOWS emotionally manipulative "charisma" is all he has, or if he's extremely stupid.

His Fallout 3 video does not show off his own intelligence because it came after nearly a decade of classic Fallout fans tearing the game apart and he had a massive pool of criticism to draw from.

In his stupid "tit ninja" video his retort to "video games don't need a good story" is "HEART OF DARKNESS [the book] DIDN'T NEED A GOOD STORY EITHER BUT IT HAD ONE AND THAT'S WHY IT'S GREAT" which completely ignores the actual idea behind the statement, that games are a medium of their own and NEED a story about as much as chess or mahjong NEEDS a story. It's not bad if it has one and "hadrcore gamers" are not against non-shit story-games like Planescape: Torment so his whole argument is a ridiculous strawman.

In the same video he makes it clear he wants games to be "truly an artistic medium" not for the things that make them unique but for the things that he thinks will appeal to people who don't actually like games and give his hobby validity. Nothing he says about why "God of War is TRULY ART NOW" has anything to do with interactive mechanics and everything to do with what sounds like an extremely cliche way of making something "artistic" (walky-talky game about feelings where you're a dad!) and god fucking knows maybe the game is amazing, I've not looked deeply into it so correct me if I'm wrong, but he made it sound like the lamest most pandering thing imaginable.

His video on action scenes is the worst analysis video I've ever seen and the only things he seems to have gotten from film school is political bullshit, no actual technical artistic appreciation. He seriously has no idea what an "action scene" is. Quentin Tarantino is "great at action scenes", but let's not actually mention Kill Bill which has no-bullshit action choreography - instead, he's good because of a scene where a guy gets executed while putting on zero fight, and another scene where a guy gets his ear chopped off. ACTION!

For a big social justice man who's all about appreciating them POCs he sure did a hell of a job completely ignoring the asian film industry which has consistently churned out some of the most amazing action scenes. He brings up the oh-so-amazing 2013 Godzilla film but makes no mention of people like Eiji Tsuburaya and Ishiro Honda who did great stuff with the "giant stompy monster" genre. No mention of the fantastically framed and physically mind-blowing action in films starring kung-fu stars like Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee or action film directors like John Woo. I think identity politics is mostly stupid shit but even I can't help but notice how his film taste is as ignorantly SWPL as it gets.

The Kill la Kill/anime shit is the same tripe. He can't appreciate the merits in technical stuff like storyboarding and animation so all he has is "EVERY ANIME I LIKE IS A MARXIST-FEMINIST SCREED OKAY GUYS?"

And as far as the political shit goes he's once again either deeply disingenuous or stupid. He made some alright points in the Sargon video but misread the very statistics he had onscreen. I suspect he got his "censored male sexualization that the big bad gamers did NOT complain about!" example from a Censored Gaming video made pretty much a few days before his video, which was met with nothing but "this is bullshit" responses from the evil gator audience he deems toxic and disgusting. So yeah mere fucking days before he uploaded that video the people he was accusing of not caring showed that they did in fact care. Malice or ignorance? God knows.

This guy represents SO MUCH of what I dislike about "nerd culture" I wanna make a video addressing this stuff because it seems to be the only thing that reaches some people. I have an extremely gay sounding voice but maybe that along with being kind of a literal faggot will earn me social justice points and get some people to realize he's dumb.

If you're going to talk about Asian cinema, you really shouldn't be focussing on interchangeable monster and martial arts films. Kill Bill wasn't nearly as good as Tarantino's first 2 films BECAUSE it took too much from the stylised kung fu films you're suggesting here. Reservoir Dogs was a loose adaptation of the Hong Kong film City On Fire, and it worked better because it didn't rely on daft scenes of 1 person taking down 30 with a sword while spinning like the drum of a washing machine.
 
I'd just like to point out that this guy's shitty DS2 video is just reiterating points that a far better critic, Joseph Anderson, already made in a far more polite and intelligent way.




And, if anyone wants to watch a critique video by someone who's funny, intelligent, good at editing and not a complete twat (even if you're not interested in Ratchet and Clank this is a hilarious video):

 
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