TGWTG The Spoony One / Spoony / Noah Antwiler and Rachel Baker / @RaeAngel07 - The touching romance between a washed-up videogame reviewer throwing a decade-long pity party and his delusional Canuck stalker. #weaknotsick #donttellmehowtosulk

[mlanguishi]

That was quicker than I expected. Guess she's all cured now.

 

[Snakebottom]

That was quicker than I expected. Guess she's all cured now.

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Her choice of words, whilst accurately used, fill me with horrible mental images. Probe, discharge etc - blech. Poor doctors

 

[Kevin Roberts]

Nah, that's bullshit. As people have mentioned, spoony was a toxic asshole to fans long before his twitter addiction. And if you actually think about most of his counter monkey stories as a functional adult? He was just being a dickhead as a player and a DM at times, which showed when he attempted to participate in another game after starting his spoony experiment. Why did that game fail? Because at that point no one wanted to put up with his bullshit when it actually came down to people spending their own time.

Almost screeching rants about splitting up the party? "punishing" players for doing things he didn't want them to do? Playing a game system without bothering to do any reading on it and then complaining about (l5r dueling)? Being proud of not following the rules and crapping on players who didn't expect a hardcore game(leaping wizards)? All Jedi or no Jedi? Being intentionally disruptive to everyone else playing a game(spoony's jyhad)? The toilet pizza? Abusing a game mechanic to the point of basically forcing a campaign to end(squirt gun wars)?

These are all counter monkey episodes, and if you look through them with the lens of someone other than an edgy teen in the 90s... he was just being a shithead. He also barely talked about Pathfinder, hardly mentioned D&D 4e, "reviewed" D&D 5e without having actually played it(admittedly it has a lot of problems). He hadn't done jack in years. All of the movie stuff? For the most part it was cinemax/showtime/hbo and blockbuster rental nostalgia. His video game reviews? Even his FF13 review(and I'm not even sure he played it because I think that was the "review" where he "borrowed" a bunch of footage from other people), the game was already 6-7 years old at that point? Anything more recent in his livewire streams he's just god awful at, and even the older games he was supposedly way into, he's still terrible.

Look. The only reason spoony "succeeded" is because it was fairly easy to get some laughs on the internet for a while. The reality is, he ran out of content because he likely started the spoony experiment after he got ostracized from the social groups he was participating in that were his source of content that involved anything more than him doing something by himself. Twitter wasn't his downfall, it was running out of anything he actually had any experience with to talk about with any sort of confidence to think he was a "subject matter expert" or whatever. Sucks at video games so that's basically out of the picture. Sucks at TTRPGs to the point of not being able to find a group when people were practically throwing themselves at him as players. And it isn't like he ever really had a wealth of knowledge regarding movies. And the saddest? I seriously doubt he actually played half of the board games from his little "Black hole"(or most of the shit on his shelves really) with other people either "back in the day" or even later on unless he roped April into playing with him(again, so much crap on his shelves, yet somehow had nothing to discuss that came out after he started his little experiment.) Why? Because tons of games have come out over the past 20-30 years, yet he's got jack shit to mention about them? Come on.

Always was a self absorbed asshole, he just had an audience and outlet for a fairly short span of time until he ran out of material. Creativity? No. Passion? No. Spark of decency? Not a chance.

I think Spoonys success came because many people didn't like FF8. I didn't like it when I played it. People thought he has an edge and guts. People thought he was Alfa Nerd Male that dare to talk different about everything nerdy. People were wrong.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I think Spoonys success came because many people didn't like FF8. I didn't like it when I played it. People thought he has an edge and guts.

He sort of articulated what most of us thought about the game, but couldn't put into words.

All he did was spark a counter-revolution in which everyone heaps love on 8.

 

[GloriousRapeRabbit]

I think Spoonys success came because many people didn't like FF8. I didn't like it when I played it. People thought he has an edge and guts. People thought he was Alfa Nerd Male that dare to talk different about everything nerdy. People were wrong.

We ALL fucking hated the junctioning system, extremely retarded and slightly gay. We just did not really fully realize it until Spoony said it.

 

[Well Intentioned]

I liked the angry reviewer era far more than our current cucked times. It just seemed like the independent internet critics were less likely to put up with bullshit. Nowadays they fall over themselves to suck corporate dick and tell everyone what they want to hear.

Spoony was novel because he said Final Fantasy was shit in the mid 2000's. A time when EVERYONE was pretending those games were good. The height of cringy weebs thinking they were deep because they liked the story of an imaginary man who's dad was a whale. And also liked the story about the closseted homo with clownshoes chasing his best friend and saving Disney princess. Noah was one of the first high profile, infamous people to call those people out for their cringyness. Nowadays no one would do that for fear of getting cancelled by FFXIV playing ERP trannies and their catgirl grooming targets.

Dislike of FF8 and FFX was prevalent back then. Everyone worshipped at the altar of FF7 back then (and yes, even today.) Like @JamesFargo said, he kinda just articulated what a lot of people felt.

Also, while I hate a lot of the current crop of reviewer media or whatever, I find that it's allowed for actual discussions to crop up that isn't just simply shitting on something and calling it a shitload of fuck or whatever. I'd much rather watch someone like Civvie, who can hate on something where it's deserved than Noah's autistic screeching and yelling.

That was quicker than I expected. Guess she's all cured now.

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Going to take a wild guess that she was deemed low risk (her 'suicidal' thoughts were very passive) and was held for the minimum observation period and sent on her way.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Yesterday marked the 7th anniversary of Spoony's final video game review: Big Trouble in Little China on August 9th, 2014.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Yesterday marked the 7th anniversary of Spoony's final video game review: Big Trouble in Little China on August 9th, 2014.

That Insano skit at the beginning is grotesque. As vital to the review as my appendix.

Imagine linking someone to this video, they'd shut it off in two seconds.

 

[Escalating Violence]

So since he hot evicted and moved back to AZ did he take his collection of rare books and other D&D shot with him? It would be a fucking shame if all that shit he had ended up in some dumpster.

 

[RJ MacReady]

That Insano skit at the beginning is grotesque. As vital to the review as my appendix.

Imagine linking someone to this video, they'd shut it off in two seconds.

I think that video's actually my personal favourite of all the post-Arizona Spoony reviews. The opening skit's a parody of the movie opening and I think he did a good job. It's obviously going to be confusing to anyone who's never watched BtiLC though.

So since he hot evicted and moved back to AZ did he take his collection of rare books and other D&D shot with him? It would be a fucking shame if all that shit he had ended up in some dumpster.

To be clear Spoony did not get evicted. He (almost certainly with his family's help) agreed to let the bank sell the house to settle the foreclosure. We don't know the fate of his tabletop collection but it's presumed he took it with him.

 

[Free the Pedos]

That was quicker than I expected. Guess she's all cured now.

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I see this as proof that the doctors agree she's very dramatic, but not actually a risk to herself or others. Interesting that she was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid, though. She may drop some weight and improve her mood if she sticks to her medication.

 

[Spunt]

These are all counter monkey episodes, and if you look through them with the lens of someone other than an edgy teen in the 90s... he was just being a shithead. He also barely talked about Pathfinder, hardly mentioned D&D 4e, "reviewed" D&D 5e without having actually played it(admittedly it has a lot of problems). He hadn't done jack in years. All of the movie stuff? For the most part it was cinemax/showtime/hbo and blockbuster rental nostalgia. His video game reviews? Even his FF13 review(and I'm not even sure he played it because I think that was the "review" where he "borrowed" a bunch of footage from other people), the game was already 6-7 years old at that point? Anything more recent in his livewire streams he's just god awful at, and even the older games he was supposedly way into, he's still terrible.

Spoony's reviewing style was based on having a lot of experience and knowledge in regard to what he was talking about. The sort of things he reviewed - JRPGs, MMOs, TTRPGs and WCRPGs are HUGE time sinks, and the experiences of someone who has put those hours in is going to be very different to someone who is doing a first impressions type of review. Hence not a lot of people were able to review those things the way Noah did, which gave him a niche. Problem is, it's very hard to do an in-depth review in the same style of anything else. Hence when Noah ran out of his childhood games to talk about, everything he did was suddenly shit, because he was trying to do in-depth reviews of things he didn't have hundreds of hours sunk into.

Changing details to avoid PL, but in the early days of the internet I had a gig for a bit writing musical instrument reviews for a music website. Paid bugger all, but it was good experience and good for the ol' Resume. But I boxed myself into a corner a bit the same way Noah did, because I started off reviewing instruments I owned and I was able to describe what it was like to have these instruments long-term, to take them on the road, to record with them, to play different styles, and see what problems they developed after a period of time and how easy they were to fix. Plus the more touchy-feely aspect of what it was like to live with them for a year or more and how they made me feel. Problem with that was that once I'd reviewed everything I owned, I couldn't do the same kind of reviews for things that I had only just bought, or borrowed or whatever. I stopped doing it because I felt my standards were dropping and I didn't have the same passion and as many ideas for things that were a stranger to me.

What I did, though, was call an end to that and do something else instead. But then again I wasn't making $5000 a month doing it, nor did I promise anyone I'd write a whole fucking book without any idea what I'd put in it. Nor did I sulk on Twitter for a decade until my house got foreclosed, but everyone has their own style I guess.

That was quicker than I expected. Guess she's all cured now.

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These all sound like bad diet. No Potassium, no Iodine (#1 cause of hypothyroidism) and dehydration are all signs of a diet with waaay too much (Sodium) salt in it - takeout and instant meals. The #1 advice from any chronic illness doctor to patients is to make sure you save enough energy to keep your diet good as a priority, because if you don't you'll hit a downward spiral as your shit diet makes your illnesses worse, which makes it even harder to prepare good food, and so on. High Sodium can cause mental issues as well, especially if your thyroid starts to play up. That's actually how you become #sicknotweak you sped.

 

[Kevin Roberts]

This aged so well:

Only thing that aged better (in my humble opinion):

 

[I got absolutely nothing]

Oh Spoony.
I still find alot of his videos nice and comfy barring the cringeworthy sketches.
If only he didn't jump off the deep end. If only he wasn't such a crusty, old, narcistic douche.
But if only many things weren't true in this world.

He doesn't owe anyone anything (well, cept maybe his patreon donors) but even though the chances are slim to none, i wish he could just start being a productive member of society.
But the guidelines are there for a reason. True lolcows reject advice.
C'est la vie.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Yesterday marked the 7th anniversary of Spoony's final video game review: Big Trouble in Little China on August 9th, 2014.

And 7th year of the review of FF13-2 in the render queue. Guess, it's gonna be that good.

 

[PetrifiedTom]

That was quicker than I expected. Guess she's all cured now.

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She's severely dehydrated! What can she do! Damn, if only there was some kind of fluid that could hydrate our cells...! I will pray for her.

 

[Well Intentioned]

She's severely dehydrated! What can she do! Damn, if only there was some kind of fluid that could hydrate our cells...! I will pray for her.

She tried to walk to the sink, but fell over and busted up her knee because she was changing the volume to @TheSpoonyOne's video.

She tried to turn on the tap, but her arthritis made it too painful, which was almost like the kind of pain that @TheSpoonyOne goes through.

She would have gone out to McDonald's to get a bottle of water, but her crutches were too small for her, plus twisting off the cap would have put too terrible a strain on her wrists. Not as bad as the ordeal @TheSpoonyOne had moving back to his parents place, but painful nonetheless.

Back to sipping a $1 Drink Menu Diet Coke through a straw. #SickNotWeak #mentalhealth

 

[Stasi]

And 7th year of the review of FF13-2 in the render queue. Guess, it's gonna be that good.

I just randomly skipped ahead in the video and landed right on the render queue bit lmao

Also didn't he chimp out in one of his live streams when people brought that up and he tried to deny it and tell people he never said that.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

I just randomly skipped ahead in the video and landed right on the render queue bit lmao

Also didn't he chimp out in one of his live streams when people brought that up and he tried to deny it and tell people he never said that.

Yes, sir.

 

[PetrifiedTom]

I just randomly skipped ahead in the video and landed right on the render queue bit lmao

Also didn't he chimp out in one of his live streams when people brought that up and he tried to deny it and tell people he never said that.

Yes, he did. It goes something like: "IT WAS A PRANK BRO! YOU DIDN'T KNEW?! IT WAS A PRANK! HAH FUNNY YOU THOUGHT OTHERWISE!"

She tried to walk to the sink, but fell over and busted up her knee because she was changing the volume to @TheSpoonyOne's video.

She tried to turn on the tap, but her arthritis made it too painful, which was almost like the kind of pain that @TheSpoonyOne goes through.

She would have gone out to McDonald's to get a bottle of water, but her crutches were too small for her, plus twisting off the cap would have put too terrible a strain on her wrists. Not as bad as the ordeal @TheSpoonyOne had moving back to his parents place, but painful nonetheless.

Back to sipping a $1 Drink Menu Diet Coke through a straw. #SickNotWeak #mentalhealth

Probably you are right. This is the most probable scenario out there.