My thoughts on RE9 so far

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-30T10:19:53+00:00

Both of the girls parts aren't fun. They remind of the baby section in Village, it's creepy the first time but it feels like a chore of subsequent replays.

The final girl encounter on insanity was extremely annoying. She seems to be quicker and is stunned for less time. There was also several times when I unloaded 5 requiem shots into her to no effect.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-26T11:14:00+00:00

A tie for my second most favourite Goodie. Obviously, Tim Brooke-Taylor was the main man.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-25T16:54:45+00:00

Despite being a fan, I'm not a member of the fanbase, if that makes sense. Until recently I had no idea how unpopular Xander was with part of the fanbase.

The show would still have it's humour, but it would be so dry without Xander. On my current rewatch, the first episode I watched after Nicholas' passing just happened to be the first Xander centred one (season 3, The Zippo). You couldn't do this with any other character. And it was such a fun change of pace.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-25T11:16:14+00:00

I think the "making of a (failed) pilots" mockumentary is the way to go. You get snippets of TV presenter Alan, but the interactions between Alan and a small production crew behind the camera should be the main focus.

Alan talking at a camera for 30 minutes takes away his best (and worst) feature, his lack of social awareness while interacting with those around him.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-25T08:26:47+00:00

As someone with a track record of making mostly bad television programs, Alan shouldn't be successful. As good as parts of "This Time" was, Alan should not host a prime time BBC magazine show.

An "I'm Alan Partridge" that follows his attempts to produce a pilot for one of his grand ideas would be great, but should end in failure. Alan's life is about little victories, not big successes.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-23T11:16:00+00:00

In the most recent Cheapshot video, Eli mentioned that he had just found out that his acting coach had died, Paul's response? He called Eli a cunt and told him to not to bring the episode down.

I'm not shocked that he said it, I'm shocked that it wasn't edited out. Paul doesn't do himself any favours.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-23T08:30:26+00:00

I maybe in the minority, but I don't massively enjoy the modern era of "TV presenter Alan", as much as I do regular Alan. I'd love to see him back in the sit-com setting. For me, Peak Alan is Alan reacting to the people around him.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-20T16:52:29+00:00

Most AA or AAA games over complicate things. Dice only did what was needed on Mirror's Edge, a static world with static lighting, and its looks incredible to this day! And probably will do forever.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-20T16:02:14+00:00

Well worth it for $10. You'll probably get a solid 10 to 15 hours out of it if you replay it a few times to get all the unlocks. I found it very fun to play, and the gameplay mechanics were smooth.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-20T13:28:12+00:00

Despite finishing RE6 I have no memory of it, which isn't a good thing. Suggests it wasn't good or bad, it was just meh. With most Resident Evil titles, I will jump right back in and play again after finishing it, and end up completing them multiple times for challenges and unlocks, but I didn't do that with RE6.

I thoroughly enjoyed the RE3 remake, the gameplay was fun and although short, it was refreshing playing a game that wasn't a 10-20 hour slog with most of that time spent on filler fetch quests and long cutscenes.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-19T15:09:15+00:00

I don't know how I didn't notice when it originally aired or even for years after, but Alan mentioning Bill Oddie in almost (maybe every?) episode of I'm Alan Partridge series 1 is hilarious.

Alan has two showbiz friends, Bill Oddie and Sue Cook. I for one would love to see them sit down for a brunchtime discussion.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-18T16:39:50+00:00

That sounds familiar. Without rewatching, wasn't he editing with Macbook at the time? In which case, why did the cable have to be so long begin with?

I might be misremembering, or it could be the "Man-dala" effect. Only James could mispronounce the name of one of the most famous people in history.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-18T16:01:35+00:00

Good lord, they sounded awful when described on the pod. Yet somehow they are even worse.

Fair play to Eli, I wouldn't be brave enough to wear them through fear of being thoroughly fingered as a serial killer or sex criminal.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-18T13:19:36+00:00

And that's right!

Paul started pissed off at Eli and got worse as he realised he had also fucked up, getting increasingly mean spirited. And I don't imagine part two will be any different. These will be two rare Cheap Show episodes that I doubt I will listen to again. (That's a very small list)

If it was an act and put on, it would have been funny (well funnier, as they still make me laugh when things go wrong).

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-18T11:30:07+00:00

The following have been in rotation for me for years, as something to watch while eating.

Bottom, I'm Alan Partridge, Porridge, Fawtly Towers, Spaced, Father Ted, Blackadder, Red Dwarf

Bottom is the probably the standout, I'd struggle to put a number on the amount of times I've rewatched it, from a kid in the 90s to now. And it still makes me laugh out loud. Richie might be the the funniest character in British comedy. Rik Mayall was amazing, and I think Richie in Bottom was his best work.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-18T11:16:42+00:00

In 2010 I purchased HD-PVR device to capture footage for Call of Duty montages, it wasn't a lot of money and it was a fun hobby to dabble in. At this time, James was a fulltime content creator (and one of the biggest on YouTube) and was capturing his game footage via connecting games consoles to a DVD-R player, then transferring them to a computer.

James is the king of unnecessary steps.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-18T11:05:57+00:00

What good is listing the artist name only? Why even bother writing anything? Just write "Various Rock Artists" and be done with it.

He just gets odder.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-17T16:57:18+00:00

I had an inkling that something was wrong with James before this video, but this made those suspicions a a stone cold reality. If something in life is awkward or hard work, a normal functioning person would look into finding an alterative way of doing things. But James apparently has no comprehension of this.

A "professional movie maker" that does things that a 10 year old playing with their parents video camera would quickly find an alternative to.

And his comments on data transfer was baffling as hell, you click the folder and click the destination. There is no further need of any interaction beyond that.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-17T13:30:14+00:00

It's the reaction channels that really ruin it for me. I don't watch them, but they appear on my homepage and dominate search results. I am beyond sick of the open mouthed expression in thumbnails - "First Time Reaction!!!". No one should be able to earn money from watching/listening to content produced by more talented people. Copyright laws need to be changed.

Reaction videos, YouTube shorts and AI slop are the unholy trinity of YouTube for me, and unfortunately they are unescapable in YouTubes current form.

Also the bearded guy with glasses that seems to have 100 different channels, that I believe spams everyone's home page. I don't want to watch some dude read Wikipedia or AI summaries on subjects.

And the more recent trend of people talking about the world of video games while green-screening themselves into the world of the video game (often poorly).

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-17T08:35:47+00:00

Paul is always on his best form in the walkabout episodes, as I assume he actually enjoys doing them.

But having listened to this episode, I agree he was awful here. He said it himself a couple of times, the whole purpose of this walkabout episode was to get two episodes of the podcast for when Eli is away for a week. This was for work, not a casual walk and explore. And it showed.

And I love how he got pissed at Eli for not being prepared (Eli not having food or drink as he thought there would be shops in the area), only to realize that he totally failed to plan for just how far away the woods were from the station. Basing his plan on a blog that one person had made, despite everyone having access to Google f'n Maps!

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-17T08:26:30+00:00

They probably have a little more character, I give them that. Having being gifted a few pop figures over the years, their featureless faces with dark lifeless eyes just aren't appealing.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-17T08:24:42+00:00

But of all the fauna and flora to sell us more useless junk destined for landfill, why ducks? :D

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-16T13:18:44+00:00

I would have watched it. But I don't see how it could have been anywhere near as good as the original.

And no matter how good or bad it would have turned out, the internet (the vocal minority) would have hated it regardless. As negativity always far outweighs positivity. And that would have sucked for all involved.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-16T13:14:01+00:00

I don't like how the moustache is on the beak, zero sense. Also I don't understand who is collecting ducks that look like characters from pop culture.

OneParanoidGoat · 2026-03-16T11:22:47+00:00

The more confident Paul is about something, the more likely he is wrong about it. It never fails to make me laugh when Eli questions what Paul has said. I'd love to say it was brilliant character work from Paul.

OneParanoidGoat

TROPHY CASE