Careercow Matthew "MatPat" Patrick of Game Theory - He gave the Pope Undertale for love and peace...?

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Matthew Patrick, AKA MatPat is the host of the popular Youtube Series, Game Theory, where he makes all sorts of crackpot "Theories" on video games in general. Most of them aren't any good. See Below:


His theories are so bizarre and controversial that many people have flat out debunked them in Youtube Videos below such as these:


TV Tropes even has a list of his slip ups. Despite this, he has a group of fans who seem to take his word as gospel and assert that his theories are true. His "Sans as Ness" Theory was so crazy and out there that Toby Fox (Undertale's creator) had to step in and shoot it down. It's one of his more controversial and polarizing videos to date.

At least until July 5th of this year.

On that date, MatPat uploaded a video where he did something so crazy the whole internet (The ones not blindly following him anyway) did a collective "WHAT THE FUCK?" that people thought it was fake until they saw the actual video.

He gave a Steam copy of Undertale to Pope Francis. No, I'm serious.

To clarify, he was one of several Youtubers that Pope Francis picked to an event on how the Internet can bring people together, and as is customary, had to give him a gift to present to him. Below is the video. Just a warning those who haven't seen it - It's 16 minutes of pure pretentious cringe from start to finish.


For those who don't want to watch it (And I can't blame you), here's a screencapped Tumblr post on why it was a dumb thing for him to do.

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In this video, basically also rants about him giving the Pope a copy of Undertale for a few minutes. Rant ends at 8:10.


Links:

Youtube
Twitter
FaceBook
Game Theory's ED Page (Though the focus is clearly on him as he's the main host)
LinkedIn
Google+
 
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Cable 7 said:
Wasn't this thread locked beforehand?

Honestly, Matt really hasn't produced any real milk. I don't even know if you can milk him since he's never really had any sperg-out or something like that.
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I think giving the Pope undertale by default makes you a lolcow.

In the history of stupid ideas, that's gotta go down somewhere as one of the stupidest.
 
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Kazami Yuuka said:
MatPat is pretty arrogant, especially with the whole FNAF debacle. Did he really think that the creator of game entrenched in lore would get a major plot point incorrect?
Every time a creator tells him "No." I can't help but enjoy it.
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What debacle? Did one of his viedos on FNAF get openly shit on by the maker?
 
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What debacle? Did one of his viedos on FNAF get openly shit on by the maker?
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I think it was around the third game that MatPat posted a video saying he knew who the killer was. The creator posted a comment saying that, while the video was entertaining, he get some facts wrong. MatPat supposedly deleted the comment. Then when the 4th game came out and disproved his theory, he posted a video about how the game got the canon lore all wrong. I believe the video was called "FNAF 4 got it ALL WRONG!"
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
I think it was around the third game that MatPat posted a video saying he knew who the killer was. The creator posted a comment saying that, while the video was entertaining, he get some facts wrong. MatPat supposedly deleted the comment. Then when the 4th game came out and disproved his theory, he posted a video about how the game got the canon lore all wrong. I believe the video was called "FNAF 4 got it ALL WRONG!"
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Wow . That's some minor level BLARMS autism.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
Found it!

EDIT: Whoops. That was a response vid to the actual one. Linked the correct one this time.

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Does he actually talk like this or is it just a voice he puts on for the videos? I really hope it's just the latter because holy fuck, his voice is annoying.

Also, a pet peeve of mine is when people, rather than just positing their own interpretation of something, have to outright discredit the creator and talk about how "wrong" they are and how their own interpretation is obviously the right one. It's just so arrogant to assume that the person who actually created the thing you're talking about is wrong.
 
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Personally I don't think MatPat's a cow. I don't think he's a bad person either tbh, I think he just lets his fame get the better of him more often than not. That being said the "Sending the Pope Undertale" thing is super cringy and retarded.

I've never actually watched any of his videos, because on principle I think they're kinda lame and I'd rather watch DYKGaming to get some actual info rather than the latest CRAAAZY THEORIES of Reddit/tumblr.

There was one video I've found especially funny tho, tho I've never watched it. It's called "Is Earthbound Actually Really Dark?" and it's hilarious because any fan could tell you that's the basic premise of the series: a cutesy, cartoony exterior w/ simple/happy beginnings, slowing devolving to reveal darker and more serious themes. Knowing MatPat tho he probably completely misses the mark.
 
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I think matpat is an arrogant asshole but i don't think he is a lolcow perse. I've been an avid follower of his even through i think his post fnaf content is mostly garbage. My opinion on him:

Egocentric: After his rise in popularity, everything became more "about him" than about theories. 80% of the videos have his face photoshoped in for no reason, he reminds everyone all the time how it's HIS show, how that was HIS JOKE, how that joke he just did WAS AWESOME, etc.

He is "special": Mat for some unknown reason thinks he is some kind of "embassador of gaming culture". The way he talks in the pope video, makes him look like some messianic figure that is showing the world that videogames are changing the world for better and gamers are heroes. In reality he is just some dude on youtube who makes clickbait videos.

Hipocrisy: Matpat went to the pope to ask how to deal with haters but mat is a grauitous asshole in ALL of his videos. For absolutely no reason he will take jabs at series, be misogynist, etc. Any Zelda video will talk shit on skyward sword. The DOA video says that "woman are worst than men because decades of cience says so" (shows no source at all) and "Do women even play dead or alive?". Says Ace Attorney is "that series that everybody knows the meme but nobody plays", etc. He acts like a poor victim but loves to talk crap about the game he is theorizing.

Bullshit theories: He pratically "jumped the shark" after the fnaf spam, most theories he does nowarays are awful, not even in the "it's kinda silly" but in the "obviously nonsensical bullshit". "Link is dead!", "Wario is 10 feet tall!" , "Sans is Ness!", "Scott is wrong about his game!". Many of them became memes/ironic shitposts. His last theory is probably one of his worst yet:


In this video Mat says "Phoenix is a criminal because he hid the evidence!", but he fails hard because:
1- Phoenix didn't hid the evidence. The detective found it and got maya arrested. It shows right there in the video.
2- Everybody in the game hides evidence all the time. The game doesn't play by real life laws.
3- The game explains how evidence works on case 5, but none of this is mentioned so it's safe to assume MAT DIDN'T EVEN FINISH THE GAME.

But it doesn't matter because he ends the videos with " But it's just a theory! A game theory!" therefore he shields himself against any criticism and let his fans will defend him.

Sellout: Matpat makes a lot of sponsored theories but doesn't mention it. He did a theory about MMORPGs dying while promoting another mmorpg. He did a theory about master chief armor that was sponsored my microsoft etc. But the worst of all is that mat sold out to youtube red to make his new show "Game Lab". That wouldn't be so bad by itself by Matpat was salty that Jimmy Fallon had move views than him and said "youtube is about the community, you can't make youtube tv!"


And yet, he joins youtube red (supposed to be like tv) and makes a money exclusive videos, and later defends it because "you gotta support the youtube community blabla". He changed his mind for the money. He puts much more effort in his new show than his old show, he doesn't give a fuck about the community that made him popular in the first place.

summary: Matpat is an arrogant jew that makes crappy clickbait videos and somehow thinks he is a "gaming culture hero" for talking with the pope and brainwashing kids. I don't know if he pretends to be like that for views or not but i've never seen him chimpout, which is why i don't think he is a worthy cow to watch.
 
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