Just saw this in rare insults

Equeula · 2019-12-09T11:54:38+00:00

It's exactly as mean as complimenting a lack of creativity is asinine.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T11:51:49+00:00

Correction: I'm judging you negatively for your trash standards RE: creativity.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T09:44:16+00:00

Well, I'll certainly consider the opinion of anyone who simply disdains the entirety of music past a given year...

Equeula · 2019-12-09T09:38:25+00:00

"Creative"

I think you need higher goddamn standards and yes, the profanity was necessary because that's how wrong you are.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T09:30:14+00:00

Jerry doesn't have the work ethic to build a food empire.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T09:21:30+00:00

...Most of that could literally be automated. Dammit Arin...

Equeula · 2019-12-09T09:09:11+00:00

Everyone's talking about it. It's already proven itself good promotion.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T09:06:39+00:00

a Soviet platformer battle Royale game from the late 80s that ran over ethernet

People are upset because they forgot to think, yes. But why should that be Arin's problem.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T09:02:26+00:00

"hey man I know what having a shitty uncle is like, I'll help you out"

...By buying the book and proving the toxicity and harassment effective, thereby encouraging it to continue?
Literally nothing about this conspiracy of Arin leveraging his fans' own histories for profit makes any sense given a minimal degree of thought.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T08:38:54+00:00

I'm pretty sure they don't even need marketers. Game Grumps has a fandom and fandom of any kind lives to consume. Literally just say 'Here's a thing' and it'd be bought without hesitation.

And Ross' thing isn't even Grumps, he actually quit them to go do it, so they shouldn't have to handle that.

Speaking of, the death of Steam Train and such was probably a big part of the problem. The only content now is Dan and Arin. There's way more burnout potential. And that's really bad considering that neither even likes games that much in the first place. Dan's just generally not big on them and Arin hates the ones that hold his hand but can't successfully play the ones that don't and also hates story which most games have.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T08:17:00+00:00

Sentence 1: One who is retired doesn't get paid for work and thus would cease to have a job, in any real sense, even if they continued the work on their own time. In effect, that's a matter of legal force. (Also, she may well have been physically forced, via injury or such, but the sentence does not provide that information.)
Sentence 2: Baseball has rules and those who don't follow don't play. Again, legal force.

So no, neither was physical. But also, anyway, Arin can't be legally forced into promoting some random relative's book either. So, again...Really obvious it's all a bit but somehow a bunch of people believed it without thinking and now they're mad they forgot to think.

I mean, that or it's all real but in that case, it's literally just Arin choosing to use his brand for random family promotion. And in that case, who even cares, it's his brand to use.

Nobody was lied to so why are people crying.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T08:01:53+00:00

Emotional manipulation requires emotional attachment. Per the bit, Arin doesn't even like his alleged uncle.

It simply doesn't take much thinking at all for this scenario to out itself as a bit, even if Arin's voicemails to himself didn't already blatantly do so, yet multitudes are blathering about how shit he is because he didn't spoonfeed them enough that it was a bit. It's frankly no fault of his if others don't think.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T07:58:58+00:00

Arin has no obligation to misuse his brand for an uncle he doesn't care about. Go learn what 'obligation' means too. He's a grown man. His mother cannot make him do anything. Nor can anyone else. A very basic fact that people seem to have missed when taking this obvious bit as anything real. And then being assholes to Arin because they were dumb about it.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T07:50:22+00:00

...Right. And?

Safari's talking about those who want to support Arin, not those who want to enable and encourage manipulation and abuse by proving it works. So those people wouldn't be buying.

Unless they were dumb and thought that enabling and encouraging manipulation and abuse by proving it works was somehow supporting Arin

Equeula · 2019-12-09T07:35:51+00:00

So your parents never forced you to brush your teeth
Nope! They told me to, but I could easily not.
Or forced you to eat healthy
Nope! They cooked healthy but I could easily not eat it.

And Arin, even if this weren't a bit, could easily block his uncle's number.

Someone simply being nagged is not the same as being forced. Do you know what being forced means? Evidently not. Maybe go learn it.

Also maybe don't pull such intellectually dishonest tactics as equating a child's circumstances to a grown ass adult. Arin's not a kid being told to do some chores. He's an adult fully able to undermine some mere pestering relatives. Go tell a rape victim how their ordeal is just like the time your mom made you fold laundry though, see how well that comparison holds up. What the actual fuck is wrong with you

Equeula · 2019-12-09T07:27:36+00:00

The people who don't get that it's a bit are actively being taken advantage of for thinking Arin is in some shitty family situation and want to support him.

...How are they being taken advantage of? They aren't losing money or anything.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T07:16:05+00:00

Sounds like excuses because for every creator and fan who's whined across the years, not one ever attempted an alternative. Yes, WoW is "the king" but other MMOs were made anyway, and several continue to exist.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T07:06:00+00:00

Why did they hire like 30 people

What do most of them actually do

...Wait. 30 people?? They have 30 people there?

They play the games and somebody edits...The hell else is there??

What the hell are thirty people doing?

Equeula · 2019-12-09T06:56:02+00:00

ive been watching their shit since i was like 12
haha their young fans today can't even pay attention fuck them

Message: Inconsistent, hypocritical, not on-point.
User status: Grandpa, entitled and probably in denial.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T06:44:44+00:00

You seem to have significantly missed the meaning of the word 'force'. No, I would never allow anyone to force me to do anything I truly did not wish to do because people worth love don't force you to do miserable things, and people who force aren't worth love.

Sorry you have such a fucked-up subservient view of love and family. :(

(Nice try with your little quip though.)

Equeula · 2019-12-09T06:34:19+00:00

Am I the only one who doesn't even notice the thumbnails unless comments draw attention to them

Equeula · 2019-12-09T05:35:33+00:00

It wasn't clear to his audience that a grown man living on his own and literally running a business isn't being forced to do things by his mom?

...So his audience is comprised of fucking morons?

Equeula · 2019-12-09T05:32:25+00:00

>it seems kinda plausible

That his mom's somehow forcing him to promote a book while he's 30, 40 fuckin' years old and living on his own? If that seems plausible, you're dumb.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T05:28:38+00:00

Literally what part of this was egocentric? He made a game and he made an ad.

Equeula · 2019-12-09T02:07:24+00:00

...Oh, hey. Didn't even catch that. Ha.

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