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

[Captain Syrup]

Speaking of movie reviews, Miles had a Wordpress blog for years. He's not as quippy as his brother, but some of these are gold:

"I was staring at a shot of an open field for a full minute before I realized the movie locked up. I thought it was another long shot." - Gods & Generals

"Cranston is just some rich guy who just decides for undefined reasons to go to “East Asia” and learn the power to cloud men’s minds (its called Opium)." - The Shadow

"I also think we all need to give up on the idea of Lance Henriksen “starring” in any movies anymore. The man is the John Carradine of the new millennium. He will just show up for five minutes to any movie offering craft services. Chuck a few free tacos his way and BAM he will show up to your nephew’s bar mitzvah. I just assume he is in every crappy Scifi movie from now on. Yeah, as you can guess, he shows up for five minutes, grunts out a few lines and collects his paycheck (despite being top billed)." - Screamers: The Haunting

"Then they finally offered the movie to Matthew Modine. Congratulations Matthew, you were only the tenth person they considered for the role. You only slightly beat out David Hasselhoff. I was surprised they didn’t offer Stallone the role frankly. Frank Stallone that is." - Cutthroat Island

"I'm frankly surprised we haven't had Warlock in Space or in da Hood but I don't want to give Hollywood ideas. - Warlock III: The End of Innocence

"Why the fuck is David Caruso in a dress... okay that got a chuckle but it still makes no sense. Although Frank, Caruso in a dress *puts glasses on* is more erotic than his work in Jade." - Hudson Hawk

"It is strange that all during this movie I was thinking about how much this reminded me of Flash Gordon. Hell, even the climax where Carter busts up the marriage between the princess and the evil king reminded me of Flash flying a ship into the wedding of Ming the Merciless. The audience must have thought I was weird singing Queen during the middle of the final battle." - John Carter

 

[p1138]

Speaking of movie reviews, Miles had a Wordpress blog for years. He's not as loquacious as his brother, but some of these are gold:

Well, he's not wrong. But there's of course nothing particularly noteworthy either.

 

[Wormy]

The only job Noah could get, even in this employee's market of employment drought, is jizz mopper at some run down porn theater.

*Shrug* More respectable than what I do. So there's a sliver of hope.

 

[plattschwanz]

[...]

Didn't spend time on the forums, but I doubt he used them to make himself more popular.

You aren't wrong with your assumption.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

You aren't wrong with your assumption.

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I see posts like that and I wonder how the hell he lasted so long on that forum. They knew he was a problem, why not get rid of him? Unless he was under contract as a writer.

 

[kozas]

*Shrug* More respectable than what I do. So there's a sliver of hope.

Oh, wow, I wasn't aware that there is a politian on kiwifarms.
But to be serious, I quess even jizz mopper has to be punctual at work and not spend all his day on twitter. That's number 1 thing Miles/his parents have to do - at least attempt to cure him from his twitter addiction. Problem is, it steems from deeper issues, but still - his family will probably try to help him, and that's why he is silent on twitter, and may be silent for some time again. Until he completely breaks again.

 

[White Devil]

I see posts like that and I wonder how the hell he lasted so long on that forum. They knew he was a problem, why not get rid of him? Unless he was under contract as a writer.

Jolly_Blackburn said in a forum post on one of the I Hate Spoony threads that it was pretty much just the same handful of people complaining about Spoony. Really not enough to actually do anything about it.

 

[100% VIRGIN M00TY]

I think miles is far better at reviewing movies than Spoony and those quotes were pretty good. Anytime Miles was on camera with Spoony he sounded a lot more knowledgeable.

Here's you go. It's not really any different than his video reviews, other than just being 2 page walls of whiny text that people apparently didn't like paying for. https://www.reddit.com/r/thespoonyexperiment/wiki/articles/knights-of-the-dinner-table
You can see the joke I mentioned on the edge of the page starting in the battlestar galactica article, and at the end of the one for the crystal skull the editor finally admits they realize how much people don't like him. It's not even that I disagree with his overall opinions about the movies and some of the TV shows, but actually sitting there reading those is kind of a slog and I certainly wouldn't want to know I just paid money for that.


Now that I didn't know. Of course it shouldn't be surprising considering it's spoony we're talking about.
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Even then he still managed to be a mopey ass


Oh, at least parts of them are still around.
https://www.kenzerco.com/forums/showthread.php?15202-Highlander-Pariah-(Mature-Readers-Only)
https://www.kenzerco.com/forums/showthread.php?19187-Highlander-Pariah

Even in 2005 they were posting threads wanting him gone even after he was banned... sheesh. https://www.kenzerco.com/forums/showthread.php?12737-Remove-Spoony-from-KoDT
People practically cheering his article was gone, although he did have some fans at least.
https://www.kenzerco.com/forums/showthread.php?38137-Changes-in-KODT-line-up-Gamer-s-Rant-dropped

I knew that Jedi story played out differently that his countermonkey video. I suspect it wasn't exactly like posted either. Probably another instance of the DM just saying "fuck it" and retconning him and those events out of the game.
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In 20+ years of gaming myself, I've only ever seen this twice and one of those was a time I killed another player's character after the entire table basically wanted the player(not just the character) gone from the game and I only did it in direct retaliation to his character attacking mine like an idiot. Bragging about constantly getting into PvP in what is effectively a co-operative game and sometimes even having to find a new group isn't really normal.
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Just like I thought, a bunch of his stories were actually from long before TSE, and he was as much of an ass then as he was later. He just couldn't ban people and delete posts at the time.

Speaking of movie reviews, Miles had a Wordpress blog for years. He's not as loquacious as his brother, but some of these are gold:

You two should make a Spoony iceberg, there is already one for DSP and one for the AVGN, you have a lot of obscure trivia up your sleeves.

If I am correct he was hired by the magazine because of his movie reviews on the Rotten Tomatoes forum, I wonder if there is a goldmine of toxicity hidden away there as well.

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

Speaking of movie reviews, Miles had a Wordpress blog for years.

link
His niche is reviewing box office bombs and Woody Allen movies. It's suprising how chill his writing is; he has similar "angry reviewer" and "I want to kill myself" shtick as Spoony, but gives the impression he's actually having fun doing this and that he's just joking. I read that blog a lot few years ago when I had a lot of downtime at work. I recommend it - dude has interesting things to write about.

Re: Jedi Spoony
IMO the gamemaster felt bad and tried to make Spoony feel better by claiming it wasn't his fault but of course this cockgoblin has to take a fucking Star Wars tRPG session seriously like he's the Marlon Brando of role-playing games or something. Also the I hate group infighting but my best moments were when I PKd somebody and danced around his corpse.

Spoony still quiet on Twitter. Either dad lumberjacked his Internet or he's in a loony bin/in-patient therapy where they monitor his Internet usage and will throw his ass out if he touches Twitter?

 

[Steinercard]

Hey, dumbass...

If you ignore the DM when he tells you what kind of game it is, what the fuck do you think will happen?

To be honest, as a DM I have often ended up with players who've ignored me when I say what type of game I'm running. Spoony is not an anomoly in this regard. But since Critical Role came out there are way more players who just watch Critical Role or You Tube stories about DnD. They just want an epic adventure story staring them and not an actual game with dice rolls and chance. Like Spoony, you can bet they'd bitch and whine if they got mogged by a Kobold at first level. That's not the epic, cool adventure. Doesn't matter the DM said it was a hardcore low fantasy game with no fudged roles. Spoony just wants his amazing stories and punishes his players and DMs when they don't conform to what he wants.

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

TBF the two munchkinized Jedi guys were hack&slash shitheads who solved every problem with violence. Spoony probably acted like a LARPing theatrics shithead who solves every problem with stupid nerd references and antagonized everyone in that group, then got offended when DM tried to bury the axe.

 

[Divine right to rule]

You aren't wrong with your assumption.

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Nerds are normally EXTREMELY patient and welcoming, often much to their detriment.
If you are widely despised in a nerd community, you must be an insufferable asshole par excellence.

 

[kozas]

Nerds are normally EXTREMELY patient and welcoming, often much to their detriment.
If you are widely despised in a nerd community, you must be an insufferable asshole par excellence.

I think it depends. Nerds are often shown in movies as patient and welcoming(as a complete opposite to hackers who are always insufferable) but in real life I experienced more assholes, people fast to get mad and just purely unpleasant than with dudebros crowd in gym. Especially when you are new, dudebros will show you how to exercise correctly but with nerds is possible you encounter someone that gonna be mad you don't know some obscure rule or treat games WAY, WAY too serious. Like I said it's what I experienced in my life, so I have no doubt there are communities with nothing but friendly Nerds, but on the other hand look on forums like RPGnet. It's almost unreal how many assholes and people with fragile ego are there. So you don't really have to do/say something extraordinary to be despised in community like that

 

[Georges St. Pierre]

Forgive me as I'm not as Spoon-fed on this particular cow and have only dabbled recently as my other lolcow content has gotten stale, but apparently Spoony didn't even have a real job, a girlfriend, a proper education, or anything like that until he was 27? And that he lived with his parents until he was nearly 30? Tbh that makes this kind of recent behavior over the last couple years make more sense. I hate to say it, but many people like that (not all) are pretty much born to lose in life. He just got really lucky and hit something big at the right time. But his flaws as a person and as a contributing member of society would always come back. Spoony was never meant to have success, and the last 7 years have pretty much proven that. In fact if he didn't find the initial fame and "fortune" then he probably would've learned how to live a minimal, inoffensive existence in this world... eventually.

 

[ShimmyHolmes]

Just checked in on the warthog’s twitter feeds and the difference in her now since spoony’s silenc and what she was like a couple months ago e is night and day. She’s still running the #sicknotweak shtick into the ground but credit where it’s due, she’s clearly on the up and up. Even managed a whole walk without any exploding joints.

It’s almost as if her entire existence was just a pastiche of Spoony’s and now he’s no longer around to imitate she can actually live her own life. Fair play to her for getting out of it at least, for her sake it would be best if Spoony never tweeted again, but where’s the fun in that eh

What you're basically saying is even Spoony's copycat is doing better?

 

[Captain Syrup]

It's almost unreal how many assholes and people with fragile ego are there.

Something happened after nerd culture went mainstream. Those spaces just became hostile.

I remember when women became interested in fighting game tournaments. The salt bordered on the absurd. You had neckbeards standing up in the audience like they're Salman Rushdie or something, protesting their involvement.

 

[marisa #]

*Shrug* More respectable than what I do. So there's a sliver of hope.

I'm struggling to think of anything more demeaning than being a jizz janitor. Best I can think of is wiping people's asses for a living in a nursing home, but at least you're doing some good in the world there.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I'm struggling to think of anything more demeaning than being a jizz janitor.

Pharma bro?

 

[Water Resistance]

lol, that was a nice jab at the Lord of Tekken @4:11

 

[p1138]

I think miles is far better at reviewing movies than Spoony and those quotes were pretty good. Anytime Miles was on camera with Spoony he sounded a lot more knowledgeable.

You two should make a Spoony iceberg, there is already one for DSP and one for the AVGN, you have a lot of obscure trivia up your sleeves.

If I am correct he was hired by the magazine because of his movie reviews on the Rotten Tomatoes forum, I wonder if there is a goldmine of toxicity hidden away there as well.

Nah. Just a passing bit of curiosity upon seeing some other things mentioned and a couple quick searches here and there. Unfortunately the rotten tomatoes forums are long gone.

TBF the two munchkinized Jedi guys were hack&slash shitheads who solved every problem with violence. Spoony probably acted like a LARPing theatrics shithead who solves every problem with stupid nerd references and antagonized everyone in that group, then got offended when DM tried to bury the axe.

You could make that assumption, however I wouldn't be willing to based off of anything Spoony has said(either version of that story). I mean about the jedi players, not spoony. He very likely was an asshat thinking he was at his local community theater putting on a solo show.

To be honest, as a DM I have often ended up with players who've ignored me when I say what type of game I'm running. Spoony is not an anomoly in this regard. But since Critical Role came out there are way more players who just watch Critical Role or You Tube stories about DnD. They just want an epic adventure story staring them and not an actual game with dice rolls and chance. Like Spoony, you can bet they'd bitch and whine if they got mogged by a Kobold at first level. That's not the epic, cool adventure. Doesn't matter the DM said it was a hardcore low fantasy game with no fudged roles. Spoony just wants his amazing stories and punishes his players and DMs when they don't conform to what he wants.

Oh god, Critical Role. Even Matt Mercer has publicly apologized for what has basically been dubbed "the matt mercer effect". It's probably one of the worst things to happen on any sort of scale over the years in TTRPGs. Suddenly everyone thinks they're some grand voice actor or master of improv, they all believe they're the main protagonist(one of these types will try and hog the spotlight at your table, or multiple of them will just fight over it), constantly want to just throw disruptive banter out as if your group has been playing for a couple of years but you're still on session 2. Will try to correct the DM and players about how the CR people do things. These are also the same sort of people who will show up with a 5 page backstory containing epic tales of adventure, who need to be reminded that we aren't playing their backstory and that they're still level 1.

I think it depends. Nerds are often shown in movies as patient and welcoming(as a complete opposite to hackers who are always insufferable) but in real life I experienced more assholes, people fast to get mad and just purely unpleasant than with dudebros crowd in gym. Especially when you are new, dudebros will show you how to exercise correctly but with nerds is possible you encounter someone that gonna be mad you don't know some obscure rule or treat games WAY, WAY too serious. Like I said it's what I experienced in my life, so I have no doubt there are communities with nothing but friendly Nerds, but on the other hand look on forums like RPGnet. It's almost unreal how many assholes and people with fragile ego are there. So you don't really have to do/say something extraordinary to be despised in community like that

There's always going to be a variety of "that guy" at the local game store or club. You can have a group of players who get along just fine, and try to add a new player and find out they're the equivalent of spoony, or add a new player who is normal and find out someone who has been at your table is a complete social idiot(throwing a fit about having a "girl" at the table, you used to just be able to pull that person aside and tell them to stop being a faggot. Jumping down someone's throat for not having 600 pages of rules memorized, etc.). Generally in my experience all of these people either get corrected by the groups they're a part of, or eventually end up having to find a new group, then a new group, and so on which can of course lead to an entire group at a game store being made up of "that guy". Even beyond that though, nerds can certainly form cliques like any other social groups.