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.

Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votes: 1,812 63.5%
  • You Know Whats Bullshit

    Votes: 143 5.0%
  • James and Mike Mondays

    Votes: 96 3.4%
  • Board James

    Votes: 441 15.5%
  • Monster Madness

    Votes: 270 9.5%
  • James' movie reviews

    Votes: 90 3.2%

  • Total voters
    2,852
Dustborn is objectively one of the worst games of the year. Almost no one played it, and none of the people who played it seemed to like it. The gameplay is clearly ass so even if you were to like the setting or characters somehow it's heavily hobbled by being a total slog. Though if we're taking it from that angle, it's hard for a game to be more of an objective failure than Concord, which I think is the current high water mark for a game that failed beyond all imagination. Concord deserved the "Worst Game" award more, for sure.
 
I have nothing to say about the revived Goobergate culture war drama that hasn't already been said a million times so I'll say this to everyone visiting from the front page if you haven't rewatched AVGN in years and want a good place to start I recommend starting with season 2 right here:
It's not only the funniest the nerd ever was but it's extremely comfy watching. Like you can snuggle up with a blanket and coco and watch this. It's like comfort food. Highly, highly recommend to anyone who is like "Whoa AVGN? I haven't heard that name in years!"
"Atari porn" is another episode from this era that's often overlooked that's a gem. Also highly recommend it to you.
 
If you've made it this far into this post, I regret to inform you that you are now a Nazi, as you have now given this post more readers than there are people who've tried Dustborn. Not only that, but you've read this post more than the average player has played the game, an action which has immediately promoted you to S.S. Officer.
I am now imagining my Ultimate Ramotith character in an SS Officer uniform, but with an armband that bears the Star of David, instead.

Either way, Stuttering Craig responded.
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Admittedly, I only knew abou this controversy from SmashJT.
In fact, I never heard of those awards until I had watched that video.
The opening animation from the official stream looks grea, though.

I do not understand this joke.
 
This drama is insipid.
So some channel decided to host a game awards for last year and "worst" was a category where some game called dustbin was featured.
This game is liked by freaks on sites such as Resetera.
They're attempting to point out the hypocrisy that the best racing game was won by a transgender indie developer's game called Nightmare Kart, and she took the news well by dropping a few slurs?
They're calling this an anti-woke thing? Right, so they just fucked up their own argument then because it seems like this channel didn't give a shit about politics.
To make a point, they're invoking someone's gender identity. Don't troons hate this? Isn't it called trannyjacking or whatever? What does her tranny status have to do with anything?

Somehow, Gaygate is shoved into the mix...??? Trump too, it's the orange!
These people are truly unwell. Ridiculous and imbecilic. Just play the games you, manbabies.

Edit: my phone autocorrected dustborn to dustbin. I'm not going to fix it because dustbin sounds funny.
Edit: Nightmare Kart looks like a really cool game. I might just buy it because I find it amusing that some transdev being used as a dumb cudgel to beat people with used the word "faggot".
 
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So let me get this straight here. I just had to catch up on ten pages in a thread about a dude who barely does anything, that barely gets a new page a month all because a dude who's only notable specifically for calling video games shitty happened to call a video game made by a tranny shitty? Even as far as tranny histrionics goes this seems pretty fucking stupid.
I came here to make Sargon jokes, then I realized this is such a nothingburger I couldn’t muster one up.

What a disappointment.
 
Aw man I used to love Stuttering Craig and James' videos. They were a time capsule from before talking about video games online sucked.

It feels like the more things change, the more they stay the same. Even 10 years after the fact people are excited to get swept up into big giant waste of time arguments, that inevitably create cliques, inevitably ruin developer's credibility, and inevitably invite grifting.

I hope James and Craig ignore this like they ignored Ghostbusters, just fuck everything to do with another gamergate.
 
If this was true he would have retired the character, started living off investments (being AVGN must be profitable, otherwise why do it for so long) and leave this washed-up toy industry to predditors who will do us all a favor and kill it.

Pretty sure James saw what happened when Doug tried to "retire" the Nostalgia Critic. There's no benefit to burning bridges like that.
 
Jon St. John doing the voiceover (Voice of Duke Nukem) tells me all I need to know about this "video game award" show, lmao.
I was hoping to rummage through his old xeets to see if he was still figuratively sucking tranny cock, but to my surprise...
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It's gone. :lossmanjack:
Apparently JSJ was giving shit to the nefarious Gianni "I got balls of nil" Montenegro (can't be fucked to remember how his last name is spelled) for tainting Duke's legacy with his heccin' wholesomerino meme videos, which is ironic, considering JSJ himself was doing free "Duke says trans rights, the King is always looking for a new Queen"-type shit. Oh well.
 
All this controversy is exactly why these sorts of games are malignant to the industry, just like how trannies are malignant to society.

These "people" believe that Dustborn (et. al.) is somehow above criticism because if you attack it, it's an attack on troons/black people/deathfats with skin diseases and that makes you basically Hitler. Immediately adjacent to that is "people who can't like a game because they have the wrong opinions" mostly recently seen with that Selaco dev, though I'm not sure how endemic that is.
 
Reminder the borderland AVGN drama/Adult Bluey channel Red Cow Arcade said people going after James Rolfe wasn’t real. Why people here give them a free pass is beyond me.

Watched the whole 11 min Red Cow clip.

I don't get the Bluey reference? Is it a stab at the hosts being sophomoric and into capeshit goyslop?

I am an enjoyer of the channel (or was until the new YT algo stopped recommending me their stuff for a few months).

The clip was pretty milquetoast itself. They barely touch on any of the Rolfe nazi chud drama, besides thinking it would be droll if he actually WERE a nazi culture war chud.

They talked more with a hint of disdain & haughtiness that Stuttering Craig & Tim Pool were bad guys for shifting to the right. They implied Skitismas was remembered fondly for his pre-gamergate retrogaming contributions, but had turned to the dark culture war side now that he "needed money" and that his YT footprint up to that point was flat and stagnant.

They also called J6 an "insurrection" a few times, but seem to do so in a more mocking than sanctimonious tone.

I've always admired the Red Cow boys for keeping their politics pretty close to their chest.

Frankie at least cut his teeth in The Cinemassacre Truth subreddit chud culture BITD when his channel first went viral for shitting on AVGN.

But it's pretty obvious that Frankie and EJ are closet shitlibs. They live in Massachusetts/Rhode Island. They were amateur college filmmakers. They both still work in the industry. Frankie married a sickly looking vegan with resting bitchface who seems jovial on camera but I suspect harping lurks offscreen. Their best friend in HS was an older morbidly obese faggot man who supplied them with money and resources.

I always secretly hoped that Frankie was secretly based but trapped deep behind enemy lines.

I also liked the line from the clip where EJ says "James Rolfe's politics are probably whatever his wife tells him they are" :story:
 
Calling Dustborn Dustbin is a literal attack on trans bodies and a cultural genocide. It will cause heteronormative cisgender neurotypical ableists to kill black trans kids.

Repeatedly calling at least half of America Nazis and talking about how you will indiscriminately kill anyone you believe is a Nazi is based and cool and totally sane.
If Trump retweets this it’ll be 10x worse than January 6th and 9/11.
 
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