Razörfist / The Rageoholic / xRazorfistx / Daniel Paul Harris - Hipster Metalfag. Game Journo-Doesn't Play Games He Reviews. Thief Fanfic Author. COOMER AND GROOMER.

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

You’re joking right?

No, I am not. Dankula makes videos people want to watch, MundaneMatt torpedoed his moderate success by 1) false flagging videos making fun of him, 2) entertaining a debate on a livestream regarding the matter, 3) allowing himself to be peered pressured into showing the flagged content and 4) cowering in shame & 5) fully complying when getting shit on for it.

Mundane Matt is still employable, no grocery store or gas station could probably give two fucks over the fact that he's a failed Youtuber. Dankula can't get a job because he was wrongly defamed on the news and in court.

Also, not liking someone doesn’t mean I have spite or pettiness towards them. I only argued against him because I disagreed with How he was framed earlier in this thread

The false equivalence argument of Jarbo and Dank sure seems like petty spite to me.

 

[thesunhassetonthismortal]

Attacking Daniel's taste in music is petty, but his hair trigger temper and the fact that he tries to add 5 $ words into his insults to make himself look smart is worth a chuckle

 

[Elric of Melnibone]

I agree that Razor is not much of a cow compared to most listed on this site, how ever as my namesake implies, he does tend to moo a lot on some pretty stupid shit like witcher is bad because its like Elric, but Dritzt is fine because I like that. In a way Razor is like Yahtzee, even when they say something stupid or that you disagree with you still have to admit they both produce quality entertainment that is mostly informative and have done so without any real major scandals for a literal decade.

As for his latest video its a literal "well duh" video that at least in my mind was 10-12 min too long for what it was. Everyone should have the right to their ideas and intellectual property and it should not last for ever or be able to be hoarded by greedy companies with no connection to the original person. Only literal commies and stupid bread tubers would disagree with that. One of the best quotes I can think of about the importance of copyright is Andrew Ryans opening monologue for Rapture:

"Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor'.
'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God'.
'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.'
I rejected those answers."

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

As for his latest video its a literal "well duh" video that at least in my mind was 10-12 min too long for what it was.

I hate to break it to you but there's lots of people who think otherwise. I once brought up here on the Farms and I got responses in the form of "there's legitimate, philosophical liberal reasons why intellectual property shouldn't be protected." and that was it. Most empty counterargument ever.

One of the best quotes I can think of about the importance of copyright is Andrew Ryans opening monologue for Rapture:

"Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor'.
'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God'.
'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.'
I rejected those answers."

Two rebuttals I know of for this angle are "That's Randroid Objectivism so that's wrong." or "It's not literal physical labor so it doesn't count as the sweat of your brow."

 

[thesunhassetonthismortal]

Except a lot of the information he presents is often partially true and people just accept it as fact without checking it, after all he is speaking fast and loud (not neccesarily in lol cow catagory at least relative to Jarbo and his boulders). Also has it been 10 years since that scandal with Enclyopedia Dramatica?

 

[Elric of Melnibone]

I hate to break it to you but there's lots of people who think otherwise. I once brought up here on the Farms and I got responses in the form of "there's legitimate, philosophical liberal reasons why intellectual property shouldn't be protected." and that was it. Most empty counterargument ever.

Two rebuttals I know of for this angle are "That's Randroid Objectivism so that's wrong." or "It's not literal physical labor so it doesn't count as the sweat of your brow."

It not being physical labor is a commie argument that is rebutted with the rest of the quote specifically mentioning censoring the artist:
"I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different.
I chose the impossible.
I chose... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! "

 

[THEF00L]

What a fair and balanced comparison, completely glossing over the underlying and obvious differences that make them incomparable.

Protip, if Dank's fame were unearned he wouldn't have it.

@THEF00L wasn't kidding when he said this thread exists for petty spite.

I meant that the kiwi who made this thread "Asterisk" seemed to have made it for a petty reason. He doesn't put in any interesting stuff other than he supports MJ, is a trumptard, and like the first paragraph of the Razorfist ED article. Dude didn't even put the damning photo that shows Razor doesn't play the games he reviews

 

[Markorian]

I agree that Razor is not much of a cow compared to most listed on this site, how ever as my namesake implies, he does tend to moo a lot on some pretty stupid shit like witcher is bad because its like Elric, but Dritzt is fine because I like that. In a way Razor is like Yahtzee, even when they say something stupid or that you disagree with you still have to admit they both produce quality entertainment that is mostly informative and have done so without any real major scandals for a literal decade.

As for his latest video its a literal "well duh" video that at least in my mind was 10-12 min too long for what it was. Everyone should have the right to their ideas and intellectual property and it should not last for ever or be able to be hoarded by greedy companies with no connection to the original person. Only literal commies and stupid bread tubers would disagree with that. One of the best quotes I can think of about the importance of copyright is Andrew Ryans opening monologue for Rapture:

"Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor'.
'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God'.
'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.'
I rejected those answers."

Yeah, I was about 6 minutes into his video, checked the bar assuming it was almost over, and then was incredulous at the fact it wasn't even half done.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

What a fair and balanced comparison, completely glossing over the underlying and obvious differences that make them incomparable.

Protip, if Dank's fame were unearned he wouldn't have it.

@THEF00L wasn't kidding when he said this thread exists for petty spite.

There's a reason that Dankula gets views and it's because he's actually funny as shit. His Absolute Madlads series teaches me about crazy people I didn't even know existed, and his jokes are funny more often than they aren't. Sure, the media and UK courts trying to crucify him over the Nazi Pug shit was what brought him to everyone's attention, but the guy is actually entertaining enough to merit his fanbase. Unlike Matt he didn't try to make a career out of reading articles and parroting other people's opinions before burning down his own channel in a spree of thin-skinned false flagging bullshit.

 

[thesunhassetonthismortal]

I meant that the kiwi who made this thread "Asterisk" seemed to have made it for a petty reason. He doesn't put in any interesting stuff other than he supports MJ, is a trumptard, and like the first paragraph of the Razorfist ED article. Dude didn't even put the damning photo that shows Razor doesn't play the games he reviews

I don't think Daniel's political philosophy was as "developed" as they are now so there was less to attack him on politics, also I believe that was before Bill Cosby was convicted of all those rapes and Harris jumped in to defend hm.

 

[Elric of Melnibone]

I meant that the kiwi who made this thread "Asterisk" seemed to have made it for a petty reason. He doesn't put in any interesting stuff other than he supports MJ, is a trumptard, and like the first paragraph of the Razorfist ED article. Dude didn't even put the damning photo that shows Razor doesn't play the games he reviews

I remember seeing something about him not playing games he reviews, but the evidence provided was just that a gamer tag belonging to him had low or no play time on it. There are so many more plausible explanations for that that I never believed that claim. For one people can have multiple game profiles and accounts, second he might not have played it on his profile or console, and third he might have played it on a different platform. Not troll shielding, just never saw substantial proof for that claim. Its not like theres a picture of his dick in his hand or anything. . .

 

[thesunhassetonthismortal]

didn't someone mention how he blocks you if you mentioned about him not playing games?

 

[Ged!]

Why does this man have a lolcow thread again? He preaches the truth.
But no seriously, he said everything I feel about copyright and patents in this one video. He even cites Ayn Rand, of which I've always heard nothing but bad things about. Maybe I shouldn't listen and should look into her work instead.

I think a lot of the hatred toward Razorfist is autistic, but there are valid criticisms of his style or actions to be had. While I actually somewhat agree with some of his takes on Michael Jackson (or at least I haven't had the time to dispute them, because who cares) and I don't really care what JRPGs he does or doesn't like, Razorfist's political videos have been a source of ire for me. My gripe mainly comes not because I disagree with him politically, but rather (save for his strong pro-Trump stance) because I tend to agree with him. I go over this a little earlier in the thread so I'll spoiler it here.

Spoiler: Razorfist take

Misrepresentation is Razorfist's strength. What has to be said about Razorfist is that he's undeniably extremely rhetorically skilled. When you listen to him speak he does so competently and quickly, which leads a layman to not question the information he's relaying. Most people aren't going to take the time to independently verify what he says, and doing so would be difficult since he speaks so quickly anyway. He'll use his rhetoric to bend facts to fit his ideology as needed to further his arguments. The only way to really see Razorfist's true nature is to know this ahead of time by being told, or to catch him out misrepresenting something you already have expertise in. This Gell-Mann amnesia-like effect is probably Razorfist's biggest sin. His relationship woes, cringe "I am very badass" persona, and public cock could probably be forgiven as mostly unimportant spergy eccentricities if he hadn't built his channel on lying for the sake of his world view.

More or less, but the genius of how Razorfist does it is he'll use clips of video or audio taken out of context to support his arguments. This lends him much more credibility since it makes it seem like he isn't pulling things out of his ass. The weakness of this is that if his sources are checked, this dishonesty may be revealed.

Now, nobody on the internet really bothers to check the sources of some C-list YouTuber. This means that you need to be familiar with whatever obscure documentary or interview he uses ahead of time to catch him out.

Razorfist doesn't exclusively misrepresent information, either. He probably doesn't even do it the majority of the time. This gives him the ability to fall back on the information he knows is true, coupled with his rhetoric, in order to pivot if he ever gets caught.

It's all VERY smoke and mirrors, but there is a definite craft to his chicanery.

tbh I haven't watched much Razorfist in the last year or so, so I don't know how much his delivery has slipped. However, I don't always disagree with him either. That's a particularly frustrating aspect of Razorfist, even though I disagree with him on quite a bit there isn't much value in agreeing with him either. You could either disagree with Danny, in which case he's just some spergy YouTuber you disagree with, or you could agree with him, in which case you agree with some dishonest motormouth on YouTube. There's literally no value in his opinions.

Now, as for the IP video, I don't disagree with much of it either. My problem is that video seems to 1. address an argument few people make, and 2. fails to address much more relevant issues with IP. The argument in favor of IP abolition is an argument made by some fringe left-anarchists and CrimethInc. types as well as some libertarians, mostly those in the borderline irrelevant LP. Razorfist does a good job of addressing this idea that a few twitter lolberts and redditors believe in, but he falls flat at addressing the actual issues presently plaguing the IP systems, which is what's actually interesting to 99% of people. Someone actually took issue with this and left a comment. Razorfist addressed it in his usual manor, so to avoid getting too deep into politics I'll focus on this aspect of his character.

Spoiler: Images

This is what so many people have a problem with. When a challenge is raised, Razorfist often fails to address it properly, instead resorting to petty strawmen and ad hominids. When the commenter replies with a legit counter, it's crickets from Razorfist (well, as of yet at least). This is why it's so frustrating that I tend to agree with him. He doesn't seem to have the philosophical base to address the wide range of issues in a given topic, but rather just one or so. It could be argued he isn't shallow in his understanding, but rather just doesn't want to debate with people on the internet all day, but then why does he reply to comments at all? That's what I mean when I say he's very smoke and mirrors. He understands enough and is rhetorically skilled enough to make a decent argument, but he has to rely on his rhetoric and evasiveness if challenged. This could be nothing more than a part of his character, but that then just demonstrates poor character.

 

[Festivus]

There's a reason that Dankula gets views and it's because he's actually funny as shit. His Absolute Madlads series teaches me about crazy people I didn't even know existed, and his jokes are funny more often than they aren't. Sure, the media and UK courts trying to crucify him over the Nazi Pug shit was what brought him to everyone's attention, but the guy is actually entertaining enough to merit his fanbase. Unlike Matt he didn't try to make a career out of reading articles and parroting other people's opinions before burning down his own channel in a spree of thin-skinned false flagging bullshit.

Pretty much this. The only real problem I have with Dank is that he still swears by Sargoy of Applebees and even then I don't really care that much who he associates with. His MadLads videos could have legitimately gained him a decent YouTube audience without all the Pug Drama so I don't understand the criticism.

 

[Donald Trump's Neck Vag]

Dankula is trash as is virtually every YouTuber out there. Their success is solely due to either 1) YouTube's algorithm arbitrarily deciding to recommend their videos or 2)them being able to cash in on some culture war nonsense or fad.

Razorfist is also garbage, he looks like Spoony if he was force-fed estrogen and acts like an 'angry' YouTube reviewer from 2007 who thinks having a thesaurus makes him witty.

Burn YouTube to the ground tbh

 

[Ged!]

Razorfist is also garbage, he looks like Spoony if he was force-fed estrogen and acts like an 'angry' YouTube reviewer from 2007 who thinks having a thesaurus makes him witty.

Razorfist was an angry YouTube reviewer in 2007

 

[thesunhassetonthismortal]

Didn't know Daniel was a cheap AVGN clone

 

[Maya]

Didn't know Daniel was a cheap AVGN clone

The Irate Metalfag

 

[THEF00L]

He got his start in 09 on fuckin Gametrailers of all places

 

[thesunhassetonthismortal]

So that's were he got the AVGN rip off idea, gotta love how its even more low budget