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According to Lordkat, Spoony was also a habitual powertripper in the stream chat and would frequently ban regulars for any perceived slight.
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According to Lordkat, Spoony was also a habitual powertripper in the stream chat and would frequently ban regulars for any perceived slight.
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Holy shit, I actually forgot about that. What a petty thing to get so butthurt about. I keep forgetting how massive a pussy this man is.
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Every time Spoony promises change then relapses it reminds me of when my internet goes down, I freak out that it's been permanently disabled for torrenting something flagged, I then vow to stop taking the risk, but the second the connection comes back up, all this positive transformative energy is discarded. While Spoony plays the tormented victim, deep down at one point he must have thought that this is the easy way to exist and that he was clever for directing his life in this way. His cowardice and constant need for comfort and validation cannot allow for substantial change or criticism to occur, he requires a static lifestyle that is incompatible with the demands of content creation, so he felt that he discovered a cunning way around it. The Patreon would not necessarily be purely to fund things that he would love to make but can't afford to - he had long since had the tools and free time to be able to make content at the rate that he used to, but simply hadn't. If people were willing to idolise and pay Him, then surely just by being Him, everything will work out with no effort or planning required. The Patreon was supposed to give him the surrogate structure that he had in TGWTG, but when left to his own devices the laziness that caused him to fuck up his IT career allowed him ample excuse to semi-willingly dive down the mental illness rabbit hole.
He saw people like Zoe Quinn taking the easy route to media stardom through convenient narratives and identity politics, and suddenly his long-dormant dreams of acting fame begin to stir, and the desire to be one of an in-crowd that perhaps TGWTG briefly serviced. Perhaps his original videos, while clearly motivated by some enthusiasm for gaming, were also partly driven by an egotistical need for status, a level of notability that after a while he felt that he could coast on, until the 'cons stopped inviting him and at this point instead of questioning his development, an even greater delusion took over. By this point his deeply misguided ways of interfacing with life and work had consumed so much of his personality that instead of the required development and flexibility that working in new media requires, all he could do is lock the storm doors and disappear into meltdowns of self-deception, with only occasional moments of self-flagellation stopping his mind from completely shutting down. This "on his own terms" self-criticism I find particularly hard to swallow, it feels like a person role-playing human emotions, although increasingly last year he had begun to replace it with projection onto others, especially politicians, which leads me to believe that the Spoony that could once be described as having cripplingly high standards impeding his work has now promoted so many other reasons for not creating content above this that it doesn't apply anymore. If anything his standards are now barrel-scrapingly low, but instead of being manifested in his content, it is manifested in the way he conducts his life.
The combination of his mental illness and laziness coupled with his personality disorders such as narcissism and misanthropy resemble a snake consuming itself, only able to swallow deeper. He really is the most irredeemable case I have ever seen and it is all the more astonishing that he was ever able to get anything done at all.
One thing I've been curious about - I've seen projects to archive his videos, and also one to produce a link-list of them (and to promote the discovery of lost ones), but has anybody made a hyperlinked chart collating everything that is currently available? I'd imagine a Y axis being a chronological list of his content, and the X axis being the various versions (cut, unsubbed but SD, HD but Russian subbed, skits left in or cut out, split series or merged, content ID material censored, etc)? It'd make assessing the current ridiculous state of his output a lot easier. It could be colour-coded by video type and other :autism: things too.
He saw people like Zoe Quinn taking the easy route to media stardom through convenient narratives and identity politics, and suddenly his long-dormant dreams of acting fame begin to stir, and the desire to be one of an in-crowd that perhaps TGWTG briefly serviced. Perhaps his original videos, while clearly motivated by some enthusiasm for gaming, were also partly driven by an egotistical need for status, a level of notability that after a while he felt that he could coast on, until the 'cons stopped inviting him and at this point instead of questioning his development, an even greater delusion took over. By this point his deeply misguided ways of interfacing with life and work had consumed so much of his personality that instead of the required development and flexibility that working in new media requires, all he could do is lock the storm doors and disappear into meltdowns of self-deception, with only occasional moments of self-flagellation stopping his mind from completely shutting down. This "on his own terms" self-criticism I find particularly hard to swallow, it feels like a person role-playing human emotions, although increasingly last year he had begun to replace it with projection onto others, especially politicians, which leads me to believe that the Spoony that could once be described as having cripplingly high standards impeding his work has now promoted so many other reasons for not creating content above this that it doesn't apply anymore. If anything his standards are now barrel-scrapingly low, but instead of being manifested in his content, it is manifested in the way he conducts his life.
The combination of his mental illness and laziness coupled with his personality disorders such as narcissism and misanthropy resemble a snake consuming itself, only able to swallow deeper. He really is the most irredeemable case I have ever seen and it is all the more astonishing that he was ever able to get anything done at all.
One thing I've been curious about - I've seen projects to archive his videos, and also one to produce a link-list of them (and to promote the discovery of lost ones), but has anybody made a hyperlinked chart collating everything that is currently available? I'd imagine a Y axis being a chronological list of his content, and the X axis being the various versions (cut, unsubbed but SD, HD but Russian subbed, skits left in or cut out, split series or merged, content ID material censored, etc)? It'd make assessing the current ridiculous state of his output a lot easier. It could be colour-coded by video type and other :autism: things too.
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RumblyTumbly
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I know people that do the type of things that Spoony did here.
Some people play D&D for kicks and just screw around. Some take it totally serious yo!
The best is when you get a mix of the two. I heard about one scenario that went down like this:
DM: "You encounter a dragon"
My Friend: "I want to seduce the dragon"
DM: "You can't seduce the dragon"
My Friend: "Roll for seduction!"
DM: "You can't seduce the dragon!"
And it devolved from there. Some of them were laughing their asses off and the rest were losing their minds and accusing him of ruining the game.
Personally, I'd rather be with the "chuckleheads" having a good time, but that's just me.
Clop
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Kinda makes Spoons sound like a complete hypocrite when he got such a barrel of laughs out of the grass and the floor being enemies in the Ultima-series. "How dare you laugh at the bee random encounter!"
Seeing how some here thought April made Spoony a lefty loon, I beg to differ; He was already getting offended on other people's behalf way before that.
ChevroletBlackboard
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It's also a bit hypocritical given how two of his more famous Counter Monkey episodes (Thieves World and the Shadowrun one about DMSO) both stem from him as a DM humoring a comedic situation that spiraled into a manic adventure.
Witchsmeller Pursuivant
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I honestly believe that some of the Counter Monkeys were heavily embellished if not fabricated entirely.
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Embellished? Maybe. He's incorrectly remembered details (understandable) and obviously a story is most interesting when it's depicted in the most dramatic fashion. Fabricated? Not a chance. Noah's many things, but rarely if ever been an outright liar. There isn't anything in any Counter Monkey I find unbelievable.
What always stuck out to me was the Vampire LARP story. It's amusing, but in context Spoony was far more guilty than the shitty roleplayers who didn't give him a good time. Declaring that you've killed everyone with a bomb is never acceptable in a LARP and will doubtlessly get you in trouble with the game masters. He was even told that he set himself up to get fucked by not giving his character some kind of insurance that would stop the evil PCs from instantly jumping him as they did, and personally I agree.
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My own LARP experience went pretty similar (I keep hearing how LARP's are inaccessible for new players so it keeps me from attempting to find a new one), same goes with a D&D convention thing I went to decades ago so it's not hard for me to believe his stories.
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Who is liking all of his Tweets? No matter what shit he posts he seems to get over 20 favs, often many times more. If only he treated his patrons existence with as much enthusiasm as he evidently holds for the randoms whose favs for some reason make him feel that his Twitter spurges have been validated. You have real people actually throwing money at you and you are focused on people with such low standards that they even like your Tweets that may as well have been generated by a malfunctioning algorithm.
RumblyTumbly
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I just checked Spoon'y Patreon and he's still making $532 from that.
How?! Why are a 166 people still giving him money?!?!?
How?! Why are a 166 people still giving him money?!?!?
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On another note, for some reason he started chimping out over the fact that Trump got his wife a birthday card as a present.
ChevroletBlackboard
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Five bucks he's projecting because he's forgotten April's birthday in the past.
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My thoughts exactly. I remember when Noah got her an Iron Bull plush for her birthday and someone quickly deduced that it had a Christmas gift card with it. Contrast that to the doll things PushingUpRoses gave her, which she actively uses and shows off on twitter.
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PushingUpRoses?
Holy shit, I have not heard that name in fucking years. I used to watch her sometimes on TGWTG. I remember her having one of the most beautiful voices I ever heard.
I am genuinely terrified of asking this, given what's going on with Channel Awesome, but does anyone here know whatever happened to her? Someone please tell me she didn't go full exceptional individual like so many of the other idiots that have been touched by CA.
Egadmirno
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I know she has been hanging out with LGR who ignores politics so I think she doesn't care.
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She got a serious eating disorder and dropped of the radar for a long time, but she's back now and running her own channel in a much more "professional youtuber" type manner.
She's basically got the same set of opinions as Lindsey Ellis, but she has the good sense not to completely sperg out in public every five minutes. She did talk to Brianna Wu once though, which made me sad. She's now probably about the sanest person to escape the Channel Awesome madhouse. Her videos are pretty good if you like that sort of thing.
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I only really know her from years back, when she was a bit thirsty for Spoony. Which makes it quite delightful that she gets better gifts for his girlfriend than him.
ChevroletBlackboard
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