Careercow Anthony "Ally" Burch - Cuck. Bummed out ev'ryday his parents are alive.

*Asterisk* said:
I always thought that title went to Kurt Cobain. Even his initials match.
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Ouch, man. Right in the kokoro.

John Titor said:
I liked the HAWP series but looking back, I think those videos contradict everything he stands for.
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What drew me to them in the first place was that it starred a girl and it had a very dark sense of humor, which was in contrast to a lot of video game comedy videos which either had girls in there playing the straight man role, being cutesy or just not even being there in the first place. Ash came off as impish and devious and I loved it. Papa Burch slam-dunking a baby is still fucking hilarious to me.

Even weirder still was when Anthony first got hired by Gearbox; the first game he worked on was the disasterous Duke Nukem Forever. I suspect that the fallout after its reception, particularly in regards to the forcible alien impregnation that happened, had something to do with how we got the Anthony Burch we have today. For something that he had gushed about with such pride during his podcasts, hearing this about his very first gaming gig probably caused quite a blow to his ego. Call this incident the Cuck Knight Rising, if you wish.

BOLDYSPICY! said:
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. THIS is the guy from HAWP? Holy fuck, I didn't know that was still around!

I guess this is an unpopular opinion, but I thought HAWP was fucking hysterical back in the day. Plus their dad is great.
(Although this one will always be my personal favorite---just watch it until the end. Trust me on this one.)

In his defense, I think I'd be a little creeped out if someone sniffed me. Unless it was Ash, of course. :tomgirl:

As much as I hate shitting on a person I was a legit fan of, the guy really has turned into a pushover. I honestly don't think he's okay with incest in any capacity, & only offered a lukewarm response because he was afraid of stepping on any toes. If he is, though. . .well, it kinda paints his relationship with Ash in a disturbing light.
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These videos bring back memories.

But yeah. Between 2009-2013 or so you saw a lot of people like Burch, people around my age, who were teenagers and young adults in the internet's era of offensive humor now suddenly having everyone around them turning around and telling them that they can't do that shit anymore, and if they don't shape up and fly right, they're a bad person. Anthony is an effeminate, sensitive, bookish, brown dude who probably got ragged on in school, so naturally he'd adopt the new SJ doctrine because good heavens, he doesn't want to pick on the little guy! He was the little guy!

Every time the inner shitlord in him peeks through the facade he's built over the years, others are quick to pull him back in line, and he has to re-adjust in order to be ideologically pure. That's why he's such a pushover. Honestly, I find the whole thing incredibly sad. He's bought into the whole SJW mindset and it's pretty much quashed the potential he had, as well as a lot of his relationships. He's become the bully he was told he was being when others shamed him into it. And he never had the spine to stand up for himself and set his boundaries.

I used to be a fan and he reminded me of the kind of guy I could have been friends with. Now he's just a milquetoast weenie.
 
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I'd wager it's just low self-esteem. He hates himself and genuinely cringes at a lot of his earlier work, and by extension hates every external thing that reminds him of his previous self. By the way, what was the year of his big breakup? Seems like a pretty good point to realize you're a shithead. He could be overcompensating now and eventually mellow out into a state of personal acceptance.

Or he'll just stay the same because every letter he tweets reeks of insecurity. Changing your "identity" is the lie your brain tells you in order to avoid changing behavior.
 
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To @BOLDYSPICY! and @Meowthkip and anyone else who's a current or former fan of HAWP, I have no clue how popular or unpopular it is to like the show at the moment. Personally, I saw a few episodes back in the day, I didn't like it all that much, and I haven't seen it since. I haven't a clue if that is or isn't a popular position, and hold no expertise on the show itself. Same goes for Burch's "Rev Rants." I saw a few episodes back in the day, thought they sucked dick, and haven't seen any since.

The only thing I hold expertise on is the perpetual downward spiral that is Anthony Burch's personal life. Unlike HAWP and the "Rev Rants," I actually find all such material related to it entertaining. I've combed through and read many of his Tweets, ask.fm responses, blogposts, the DRYNAB Facebook page, and the horrendous offence unto God that was his wedding video. But if any of you have any reccomendations as to what content he's been involved with that you actually like for intentional reasons on Burch's part, I'll give it another go seeing as how I've been grieving him without mercy for the past two months and will continue doing such for the forseeable future.
 
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*Asterisk* said:
To @BOLDYSPICY! and @Meowthkip and anyone else who's a current or former fan of HAWP, I have no clue how popular or unpopular it is to like the show at the moment. Personally, I saw a few episodes back in the day, I didn't like it all that much, and I haven't seen it since. I haven't a clue if that is or isn't a popular position, and hold no expertise on the show itself. Same goes for Burch's "Rev Rants." I saw a few episodes back in the day, thought they sucked dick, and haven't seen any since.
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HAWP's peak popularity around 2009-2011, which was when I went back to college and noticed a lot of my classmates were into HAWP, and that's how I was exposed to it.

Basically HAWP pre-Gearbox era is the good stuff (and also when the updates were more frequent), but if that's not your bag, eh, different strokes and all.
 
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Meowthkip said:
HAWP's peak popularity around 2009-2011, which was when I went back to college and noticed a lot of my classmates were into HAWP, and that's how I was exposed to it.

Basically HAWP pre-Gearbox era is the good stuff (and also when the updates were more frequent), but if that's not your bag, eh, different strokes and all.
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It was fine, kinda funny worth half a laugh and a few minutes of a wasted day-- parlaying that into a total personal meltdown and slow slide into insanity has been pretty fun to watch too.
 
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He also keeps making salty tweets about people making fun of his memes to the point where it gets shoehorned into the Pre-Sequel trailers and the game itself:

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tepid said:
Let's be honest, there isn't a single person on earth who watched that for Anthony.

Forever skulking in his sisters shadow.
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Were the RevRants ever actually popular?

I'm not talking meaningfully popular; even linkara popular would be batting above paygrade for a man of his talents.
 
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This is hardly surprising. The Cuxter probably found the Vox Populi and Daisy Fitzroy *fires a loogie at a Millenial college student's eye* "problematic."

The Cuxter's always one for hilariousopinions on videogames.

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This is hardly surprising. The Cuxter probably found the Vox Populi and Daisy Fitzroy *fires a loogie at a Millenial college student's eye* "problematic."

The Cuxter's always one for hilariousopinions on videogames.

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Daisy Fitzroy struck me as a really compelling character that got re-written so many times that they just had to get rid of her quick because they lost focus of the damn plot. That whole game's writing really fell flat, honestly.
 
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"Austistic scientist of color? Yes plz"

He's trolling, right? He doesn't really think that fiction suffers because of a perceived lack of brown autists, right? He isn't really unintentionally implying that The Seventh Seal would have been a better movie if Death would have been a Guatemalan Aspergian. Right?
 
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Ted_Breakfast said:
"Austistic scientist of color? Yes plz"

He's trolling, right? He doesn't really think that fiction suffers because of a perceived lack of brown autists, right? He isn't really unintentionally implying that The Seventh Seal would have been a better movie if Death would have been a Guatemalan Aspergian. Right?
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Now that's just ridiculous.

Guatemalans are red, not brown.
 
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Blizzard pretty much nailed the sweet spot for Overwatch in making people like Burch jizz all over themselves in a frenzy of diversity while not annoying everyone else in the process. If you just play the game, it's your stereotypical regional caricatures shooting each other. But then they have an intern spend a week making a digital comic where a character is a trans autistic woman of color so these people can scream all over Tumblr about how inclusive Blizzard is.

If Burch had any self awareness, he'd realize he's being pandered to with lip service by a giant team of marketers, but if social justice types had any self awareness they wouldn't be in that scene in the first place.
 
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Maria Mint said:
Blizzard pretty much nailed the sweet spot for Overwatch in making people like Burch jizz all over themselves in a frenzy of diversity while not annoying everyone else in the process. If you just play the game, it's your stereotypical regional caricatures shooting each other. But then they have an intern spend a week making a digital comic where a character is a tranny autistic woman of color so these people can scream all over Tumblr about how inclusive Blizzard is.
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Big thing is, Overwatch mainly is able to present the whole diversity variety hour thing because it actually develops the characters beyond the stereotypical cliches that every SJW thinks characters need to be, and on top of that, it takes place in a setting where seeing people of all cultures converging actually makes sense.

Seeing a town full of black people in a game taking place in renaissance era Europe is a bit less... believable.

Though I do think it's funny that Burch is so blatantly trying to be contrarian and like games that nobody else likes. I'm actually surprised he's not going for Battleborn over Overwatch, because he has a taste for shit games.
 
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