James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.

[Green Man]

Rewatching that awful behind the scenes video, and what's his fascination with "epic videos"? Why does he consider "epic" to mean good? What happened to this just being some guy in his basement being unnecessarily angry at video games?

Actually, yeah, what the fuck happened to that? Now the nerd's going to fucking las vegas to enact a parody, the jungle to meet some celebrity cameo, getting kidnapped by shrek cultists or whatever the plot of that fucking awful episode was, etc. Sure he went out of the basement sometimes, but not to this extent. When was the last time the show explicitly acknowledged and played off the fact that the AVGN was just some guy in a basement and not Tripod-Man the superhero, who is suffering from a chronic lack of time?

Those "high production" or "epic" videos as he's been calling them really aren't funny either. Like the Wizard of Oz episode and the Bugs Bunny fights were funny in spite of the shitty costumes and production values, or maybe it even added to the humor. But it's like James doesn't understand what's actually funny to his viewers, he thinks what people liked about those episodes were that they were "epic" and as a result he has to go all-out with VFX and practical effects in order to make an "epic episode" but he missed the point.

First time I noticed it was the Rob the Robot episode. The VFX stuff is funny for a little one-off gag like the F-Bombs but at a certain point it just gets tiresome. Honestly some of his best videos were his shorter videos with shit production values, but he got too big for his britches and decided he needed to constantly make use of all of this unnecessary shit. Board James did the same thing toward the end, but it was more creative, like Mr. Bucket or the Dream Phone episodes.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Those "high production" or "epic" videos as he's been calling them really aren't funny either. Like the Wizard of Oz episode and the Bugs Bunny fights were funny in spite of the shitty costumes and production values, or maybe it even added to the humor. But it's like James doesn't understand what's actually funny to his viewers, he thinks what people liked about those episodes were that they were "epic" and as a result he has to go all-out with VFX and practical effects in order to make an "epic episode" but he missed the point.

First time I noticed it was the Rob the Robot episode. The VFX stuff is funny for a little one-off gag like the F-Bombs but at a certain point it just gets tiresome. Honestly some of his best videos were his shorter videos with shit production values, but he got too big for his britches and decided he needed to constantly make use of all of this unnecessary shit. Board James did the same thing toward the end, but it was more creative, like Mr. Bucket or the Dream Phone episodes.

The terrible greenscreen in Drake of 99 whatever is the first video I remember thinking, "What the fuck? Why is this even here?" It wasn't too bad the first time, but he kept doing it in other videos.

 

[Travoltron]

can somebody give me a quick rundown on all the cuckolding rumours?

It seems to be based on these three things:
1) James is a weak-willed wuss that gets bossed around by his wife April
2) April once bemoaned that Cinemassacre was a "Caucasian sausage fest"
3) April meddled in AVGN: The Movie and added a black best friend character that gets the girl instead of James.

 

[Janny Jewsh]

It seems to be based on these three things:
1) James is a weak-willed wuss that gets bossed around by his wife April
2) April once bemoaned that Cinemassacre was a "Caucasian sausage fest"
3) April meddled in AVGN: The Movie and added a black best friend character that gets the girl instead of James.

"3) April meddled in AVGN: The Movie and added a black best friend character that gets the girl instead of James."

Is there proof that she wrote that in or is it just speculation?

 

[Travoltron]

"Is there proof that she wrote that in or is it just speculation?

I don't think it's 100% confirmed, but the black guy was cast after she went on the "caucasian sausage fest" rant. April was also the executive producer, production coordinator, and assistant casting director of the movie.

April Rolfe - IMDb

April Rolfe, Casting Department: Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie. April Rolfe was born on December 2, 1984 as April L. Chmura. She has been married to James Rolfe since November 2007. They have two children.

www.imdb.com

 

[Janny Jewsh]

I don't think it's 100% confirmed, but the black guy was cast after she went on the "caucasian sausage fest" rant. April was also the executive producer, production coordinator, and assistant casting director of the movie.

April Rolfe - IMDb

April Rolfe, Casting Department: Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie. April Rolfe was born on December 2, 1984 as April L. Chmura. She has been married to James Rolfe since November 2007. They have two children.

www.imdb.com

you're probably right. it's usually women(=faggots) that want to hamfist niggers into everything.

 

[Bob Loblaw Law Blog]

if you film these podcasts early in advance they would seem dated.

if it isn't particular topical, advanced podcasts can work

 

[The Cunting Death]

April tried so hard to remain behind the scenes even despite the “Mrs Nerd” blog posts.

James really seemed to maintain her anonymity in the early phase of AVGNs popularity. The marriage was announced to the internet the same week it happened.

James fucked up though. There was one obscure page on Cinemassacre at the time, depicting pictures of James and April visiting Scotland around 2006-2007.

Doxing her appearance wasn’t quite enough though, the page flat out had April’s name in it.

I learned April’s name and what she looked like well before the “Mrs Nerd - Caucasian Sausage Fest” controversy.

James used to have an audio podcast called Cinemassacre Audio Slaughter, where April co-hosted it. It went on for like 4 episodes back around 2013. He did fuck all to advertise it and I only knew about it because it was on his website almost hidden away. It's just he and his wife talking about music, and to their credit, they both share the same musical taste.

Audio Slaughter | Cinemassacre Productions

I also remember her being mentioned as early as 2007 in James very first video movie review for Grindhouse, where she was mentioned as his girlfriend who thought the movie was such a 'guy movie'

 

[The Cunting Death]

James refused to cameo in Godzilla vs Kong because he thought he'd have to bring his lights all the way with him.

he refused to be in another production from the same filmmaker, he was going to be in V/H/S 2 as the lead where he loses his eye in a car accident and has his eye replaced with a camera, and starts to notice ghosts. He said he couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts, and around the time the movie began production, the AVGN Movie was in production.

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In short, he was going to be the guy controlling the camera here.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

James used to have an audio podcast called Cinemassacre Audio Slaughter, where April co-hosted it. It went on for like 4 episodes back around 2013. He did fuck all to advertise it and I only knew about it because it was on his website almost hidden away. It's just he and his wife talking about music, and to their credit, they both share the same musical taste.

Audio Slaughter | Cinemassacre Productions

I also remember her being mentioned as early as 2007 in James very first video movie review for Grindhouse, where she was mentioned as his girlfriend who thought the movie was such a 'guy movie'

This is news to me, that her voice is also on the internet.

She might as well have appeared more in videos. The only one I know of is where James and Mike do all these pizza combinations for their guests.

 

[The Cunting Death]

This is news to me, that her voice is also on the internet.

She might as well have appeared more in videos. The only one I know of is where James and Mike do all these pizza combinations for their guests.

even then she's in that video for all of 5 seconds combined and you wouldn't know unless someone mentioned it otherwise

THUNK

 

[Jason Wynn]

She sounds like a typical SIW cunt from everything I’ve heard. No wonder James has acted so defeated ever since the harpy dug her claws in.

 

[Shieldman]

She sounds like a typical SIW cunt from everything I’ve heard. No wonder James has acted so defeated ever since the harpy dug her claws in.

Now I have to question if she was at least partially involved into Matei leaving.

Not that Mike wasn't a huge chain around James' neck just by himself, but still, you gotta wonder...

 

[northstar747]

so I was watching this

Maniac Mansion (NES) James & Mike Mondays

Like James & Mike Mondays? See more game playthroughs with Mike on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/mikemateiliveCheck out the playlist for all James & Mike Mon...

www.youtube.com

looking back at james remarks about not being able to open the front door in maniac mansion is rather telling.....hint he s lazy

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Let's not gravedance just yet, there's a miniscule chance the AVGN episodes that haven't been doing good now could potentially explode in views in a distant future... whenever that may be a fan can dream :-(

Look at the 3DO episode which has over twice as many views as Carmageddon and is the most viewed in the past five months. That (and Darkman) are the sort of content AVGN should be making going by the metrics, that is, simple reviews of obscure consoles and shitty licensed games, you know, the shit that built his channel. You would honestly think Screenwave would catch on to that, hell, it saves them money (and saves James much precious time) too since they don't have to waste time with weird shit like the Shrek skit or Fear and Loathing costumes and Vegas trip.

Depending on what he reviews and if it's any good, he could be getting a few hundred thousand more viewers per AVGN episode.

Now I have to question if she was at least partially involved into Matei leaving.

Not that Mike wasn't a huge chain around James' neck just by himself, but still, you gotta wonder...

My money is on a dispute with Screenwave. I think it's obvious that whatever Mike Matei was doing for the channel (IIRC he was a co-writer, drew the title cards, did guest appearances as various characters, and recorded some of the gameplay footage), he helped make a lot of stuff work for the channel, or at the very least not suck.

Which is really fucking weird given how Mike Matei is one strange motherfucker.

 

[PeriodicTrouble]

James did a video with Mike.

 

[skykiii]

Am I the only one who, whenever he sees the name "April," gets confused and wonders how he got into the Spoony topic by mistake?

 

[José Mourinho]

As for April, apart from the movie having a pointless female protagonist and a pointless black male sidekick likely due to April's infamous blogpost which has the term "caucasian sausage fest" as well as being the executive producer for the AVGN movie, other than that I'm pretty unconvinced of the claim that James is where he is now in this terrible state mainly because of his wife. If his wife really plays a huge part in it then Screenwave wouldn't be involved to begin with since it would still be a "caucasian sausage fest" regardless, and James wouldn't even be able to have a chance to play games with Mike to begin with even pretty recently.

There could be some skeletons in the closet, but I think the main reason for the downfall is just James himself and the Behind the Scenes video proved that. Apparently his wife worked as an art teacher or something and if that's true, I think April wouldn't even have the time (no pun intended) or nothing else better to do than to meddle in his work.

 

[TopCat]

 

[GloriousRapeRabbit]

It was a nice video. A nice background description of his early years of gaming. Guy has a wonderful laugh.