Civvie 11 - Retro FPS Boomer

[Wormy]

I don't have mixed feelings, it sounds like shit. If someone didn't tell me what it was I'd assume it was made by a band of not especially talented amateurs who you can tell are never going to go anywhere in music, like maybe they'll have one of the songs people tend to skip over in the soundtrack to a Tony Hawk Pro Skateboarder game on gamecube.

What, do old men just obsessively look up nothing but bands from their youth because the idea of listening to anything by newer or less socially approved bands is too stimulating to their already elevated cholesterol laden blood pressure that once they can't stand one more playthrough of Purple Haze or Kashmir they have to go find slightly reorganized versions of them? And it isn't even the sort of cool stuff from the beginning half of the 20th century, like delta blues and whatnot. It's the stuff from the couple garbage decades where every young adult was a decadent moron because daddy got shot at by Germans to ensure their kids could be mentally stunted layabouts and now they're all poisoned by nostalgia from a time when their happy trail wasn't littered with grays and they didn't look straight out of a hair club for men brochure.

I am done. I've about had it up to here with this site and these fucking dementia riddled boomers pretending music from the late 60s to the late 80s wasn't 99% tripe. Every music thread, the metal thread, the guitar thread, all neurodegenerative old men trying to relive high school. I am done with it.

I will absolutely start slipping cyanide into you people's metamucil if you geriatics don't stop with this shit Get your hearing aids checked.

Even as someone who listens to almost no current day music, that was a thing of beauty and had to be said. I could kiss you. No homo.

 

[Beautiful Border]

He made fun of TGWTG/CA in the past for having shitty skits, yet he keeps making his autistic robot skits, i don't get him.

There's two major differences with Civvie's skits:
1. They don't overstay their welcome. Skits in Channel Awesome videos now feel like they take up half the video.
2. They're actually funny

 

[The tired cat]

There's two major differences with Civvie's skits:
1. They don't overstay their welcome. Skits in Channel Awesome videos now feel like they take up half the video.
2. They're actually funny

1. The deal with CA usin' more skits is because of youtubes bullshit copyright policies. Meaning they have to cutdown on using footage from movies/animations/etc
2. Civvies skits also kinda fluctuate between and somewhat eye rolling.

 

[BrunoMattei]

1. The deal with CA usin' more skits is because of youtubes bullshit copyright policies. Meaning they have to cutdown on using footage from movies/animations/etc
2. Civvies skits also kinda fluctuate between and somewhat eye rolling.

Civvie has said in an interview that the skits were a parody of Channel Awesome content. Secondly, Doug Walker uses skits because he's still salty about Demo Reel bombing and wanted to use the most of his little autistic acting troupe plus show off his acting/directorial chops. The skits are there because he thinks people genuinely enjoy them. The only times he does an all skits review is to get around copyright even though his fanbase hates the all skits episodes.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

I don't have mixed feelings, it sounds like shit. If someone didn't tell me what it was I'd assume it was made by a band of not especially talented amateurs who you can tell are never going to go anywhere in music, like maybe they'll have one of the songs people tend to skip over in the soundtrack to a Tony Hawk Pro Skateboarder game on gamecube.

What, do old men just obsessively look up nothing but bands from their youth because the idea of listening to anything by newer or less socially approved bands is too stimulating to their already elevated cholesterol laden blood pressure that once they can't stand one more playthrough of Purple Haze or Kashmir they have to go find slightly reorganized versions of them? And it isn't even the sort of cool stuff from the beginning half of the 20th century, like delta blues and whatnot. It's the stuff from the couple garbage decades where every young adult was a decadent moron because daddy got shot at by Germans to ensure their kids could be mentally stunted layabouts and now they're all poisoned by nostalgia from a time when their happy trail wasn't littered with grays and they didn't look straight out of a hair club for men brochure.

I am done. I've about had it up to here with this site and these fucking dementia riddled boomers pretending music from the late 60s to the late 80s wasn't 99% tripe. Every music thread, the metal thread, the guitar thread, all neurodegenerative old men trying to relive high school. I am done with it.

I will absolutely start slipping cyanide into you people's metamucil if you geriatics don't stop with this shit Get your hearing aids checked.

lol calm down

 

[The tired cat]

Civvie has said in an interview that the skits were a parody of Channel Awesome content. Secondly, Doug Walker uses skits because he's still salty about Demo Reel bombing and wanted to use the most of his little autistic acting troupe plus show off his acting/directorial chops. The skits are there because he thinks people genuinely enjoy them. The only times he does an all skits review is to get around copyright even though his fanbase hates the all skits episodes.

You may wanna pull out Civvies cock out of your mouth. Parody or not, doesnt change the fact some of skits arent really all that funny, an if they ARE meant to be parodies than they suck as parodies.

 

[BrunoMattei]

You may wanna pull out Civvies cock out of your mouth. Parody or not, doesnt change the fact some of skits arent really all that funny, an if they ARE meant to be parodies than they suck as parodies.

Really, bud? Someone disagrees and you do a revenge sticker rating? Maybe you're the one who needs to take Doug's cock out of your mouth?

 

[The tired cat]

Really, bud? Someone disagrees and you do a revenge sticker rating? Maybe you're the one who needs to take Doug's cock out of your mouth?

Mhm, sure. Said the guy who rushed in to defend Civvies comedy writing, when someone pointed out not all his skits are funny.

 

[Beautiful Border]

1. The deal with CA usin' more skits is because of youtubes bullshit copyright policies. Meaning they have to cutdown on using footage from movies/animations/etc

It's odd, because it seemed like Channel Awesome had the solution to this problem before it even existed (hosting their videos on a separate site they own themselves). Unless there was some other factor I'm not aware of it seemed like a particularly canny idea on Doug's behalf, so it's kind of odd they seemed to give up on TGWTG and went back to posting everything on Youtube right around the same time Google started implementing its draconian copyright claims system.

2. Civvies skits also kinda fluctuate between and somewhat eye rolling.

Eh, this is just going to be down to personal taste but I've always enjoyed them. I've never felt the need to skip them, if nothing else.

 

[The tired cat]

It's odd, because it seemed like Channel Awesome had the solution to this problem before it even existed (hosting their videos on a separate site they own themselves). Unless there was some other factor I'm not aware of it seemed like a particularly canny idea on Doug's behalf, so it's kind of odd they seemed to give up on TGWTG and went back to posting everything on Youtube right around the same time Google started implementing its draconian copyright claims system.

I believe before having to go back to youtube they had places like Blip.TV (which went down in flames) and there was another video hosting site that also went down. Now, Doug is pretty much stuck with youtube as his only means of uploading videos, even his site pretty much now is linked to youtube.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Eh, this is just going to be down to personal taste but I've always enjoyed them. I've never felt the need to skip them, if nothing else.

I think they can be a nice way to jump from one segment to another when the two segments have different tones. He's using chapters now and that also works.
The end of the Skynet video was very funny and I have no clue what the supposed resolution of the timeline plot was. I didn't know there was a plot.

 

[Least Concern]

It's odd, because it seemed like Channel Awesome had the solution to this problem before it even existed (hosting their videos on a separate site they own themselves). Unless there was some other factor I'm not aware of it seemed like a particularly canny idea on Doug's behalf, so it's kind of odd they seemed to give up on TGWTG and went back to posting everything on Youtube right around the same time Google started implementing its draconian copyright claims system.

It's discoverability. A benefit of centralized, profile-building-for-advertisers platforms like YouTube is that they can see you've recently watched videos about Space Jam, so they can show you TGWTG's review of Space Jam, and if you watch that, they can start to show you other TGWTG videos too. You can't really do that on a separate web site; site visitors have to know that they want to watch a TGWTG video first before they can go to the site, or else you're playing the SEO lottery.

A best-of-both-worlds approach would be to post to both YT and your own separate site that you pimp out in your videos, but then there's costs associated with running that separate site which will get very few views compared to the YT channel, and if and when the banhammer comes, very few people are likely to think, "hmm, wonder why I'm not seeing TGWTG videos in my feed anymore. Guess I'll visit that web site and see what's up." More likely they won't even notice, or if they do they'll just think he's on vacation or gave up making videos or something.

YT's monopoly over "videos on the Internet" is a blessing when you're in their good graces, and a curse otherwise. They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

As for Civvie's skits… I like Cancer Mouse.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Civvie has said in an interview that the skits were a parody of Channel Awesome content. Secondly, Doug Walker uses skits because he's still salty about Demo Reel bombing and wanted to use the most of his little autistic acting troupe plus show off his acting/directorial chops. The skits are there because he thinks people genuinely enjoy them. The only times he does an all skits review is to get around copyright even though his fanbase hates the all skits episodes.

I'm pretty sure the skits are more to pad the runtime and differentiate between reviews. Also considering CA's view count is still pretty good (200K per video) there are people that still enjoy NC with the skits

Anyways, you can laugh at skits a single episode. But if every episode has skits then you are just as guilty in using them.

 

[Jack Awful]

I'm pretty sure the skits are more to pad the runtime and differentiate between reviews. Also considering CA's view count is still pretty good (200K per video) there are people that still enjoy NC with the skits

Anyways, you can laugh at skits a single episode. But if every episode has skits then you are just as guilty in using them.

Civvie's skits are generally brief and don't break the flow of the review.

Can't say the same about Doug's.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

I'm pretty sure the skits are more to pad the runtime and differentiate between reviews. Also considering CA's view count is still pretty good (200K per video) there are people that still enjoy NC with the skits

I agree it's probably padding. Personally, I would just make the review shorter at that point. This isn't 2008 people really aren't into the unfunny skit stuff anymore. It's not worth hurting the overall quality just to pad it out a minute or two.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I agree it's probably padding. Personally, I would just make the review shorter at that point. This isn't 2008 people really aren't into the unfunny skit stuff anymore. It's not worth hurting the overall quality just to pad it out a minute or two.

The YouTube algorithm god has decided that 20+ minute videos are better promoted, so those 5 extra minutes are translated to extra revenue. I can't really fault a guy that has family and staff dependent on YouTube's bullshit for doing what he can to promote himself as long as he isn't hurting anyone, so Civvie trying to insult him just comes out as whiny and hypocritical.

 

[The tired cat]

The YouTube algorithm god has decided that 20+ minute videos are better promoted, so those 5 extra minutes are translated to extra revenue. I can't really fault a guy that has family and staff dependent on YouTube's bullshit for doing what he can to promote himself as long as he isn't hurting anyone, so Civvie trying to insult him just comes out as whiny and hypocritical.

Theres also a factoid that Doug doesnt use Patreon like Civvie. All his cash comes from youtube, Twitch and sponsorship. An with the former, he needs not to just pad out the videos runtime but also work around youtubes bullshit copyright claims.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Can't say the same about Doug's.

And this is why, while Civvie's videos and reviews are better on virtually every metric, he will never make something quite as Kino as The Wall review.

 

[ShoFuKan]

So remember how Civvie shilled for Selaco?

The dev of that game got caught out inserting tranny images and lying about it.

Given how Civvie censored his Project Manhattan vid over a simple joke, I think it's safe to say what company he keeps.

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[Jack Awful]

So remember how Civvie shilled for Selaco?

The dev of that game got caught out inserting tranny images.
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Given how Civvie censored his Project Manhattan vid over a simple joke, I think it's safe to say what company he keeps.

If they just told the truth I wouldn't care that much. I might even play the game when it's on sale. Trans shit is inescapable these days anyways.

It's the blatant lie and treating us like we're retards who can be easily fooled that gets me.

If you think I'm a moron then I won't buy your game.