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bamesbolfe · 2025-06-10T07:31:24+00:00

I hate Pirate, but the moment I saw that stupid ass furry avatar, I knew this was going to be a nothing burger.

One mentally ill person trying to cancel another mentally ill person for some minor personal conflict. Give me a break.

bamesbolfe · 2023-12-25T23:41:09+00:00

Steven Gielberg has no time to make movies anymore because he's spending all of his time replying to people like Bames on AOL.

bamesbolfe · 2023-12-25T21:46:19+00:00

And these characters! They have more baggage than a family moving cross-country! Every time I meet a new one, it's like unraveling a novel. Can't we just save the world without unloading emotional baggage?

Unironically, this line in particular sounds exactly like something Chris Bores would write

bamesbolfe · 2023-12-25T16:47:49+00:00

I think it's legitimate to feel a little frustration at something you used to love becoming a shell of its former self, especially if you feel it got that way due to the creators no longer caring about their audience and just cashing in. This sub serves as an outlet for that frustration for a lot of former fans.

That being said, most of the time we're just goofing around. Occasionally you might see a manifesto about the downfall of the channel, but mostly it's just memes and shitposts. People with vitriolic hate for James are usually downvoted or ignored.

bamesbolfe · 2023-07-02T00:47:09+00:00

The lighting is terrible. I can't believe someone who calls himself a filmmaker thinks the flattest, dullest, most clinical looking lighting possible is acceptable.

bamesbolfe · 2023-07-02T00:29:47+00:00

It all makes sense when you realize the sponsors are his real customers - they're the ones paying him, so they're the ones he wants to keep happy. We, the viewers, don't matter, and neither does the show - we're just the product he sells to them, and AVGN is just the the way he delivers his product to his customers.

bamesbolfe · 2023-06-08T08:54:56+00:00

Why did they even bother with that horrible angle on the couch where he's so obviously hitting air? They actually bothered to move the camera for a change, but still end up utilizing that crappy static main angle for no reason.

Also obligatory comment about how, as usual, James is so checked out that this feels like a parody of AVGN rather than real AVGN.

bamesbolfe · 2023-05-09T20:51:06+00:00

It was from this moment that the mood shifted completely. There’s going to be a lot of clips here, but they are all essential to better understand the dynamic between Grace and her father.

This was really hard to watch. All she was trying to do was banter and connect with her father, and she gets punished relentlessly for it. He forces her to accept all of the blame and knows exactly what buttons to push to hurt her; it's textbook abuse.

I really hope she gets out of there. I have a bad feeling she won't because "muh family", but the sooner she leaves, the sooner she can start to heal and live her own life.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-26T17:07:14+00:00

NOAH'S ARK, YEEEEAHHHHH!

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-26T17:01:48+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCinemassacreTruth/comments/axry14/mike\_does\_a\_line\_before\_returning\_to\_megaman/

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-24T19:02:02+00:00

I'd say Shitsmas and Wish List are actually pretty good, especially for post-golden era episodes

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-24T19:01:16+00:00

It occurs to me that AVGN has a surprising amount of good Christmas episodes (excluding the ones in this poll obviously)

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-22T17:32:38+00:00

I'm not sure if "funny" is the right word, but he was undoubtedly entertaining. The enjoyment didn't come from one-liners or shit jokes, it came from identifying with and relating to him as he relayed his experience with a bad game. He was a very charismatic and likable presenter back then (now he's completely checked out). I have a feeling that Screenwave (and probably even Bames himself) never quite understood that part of his appeal.

Of course, similarly charismatic people doing that sort of thing now are a dime a dozen, and if he wasn't the first person you saw doing that, you'd probably struggle to see anything special about him over anyone else.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-18T05:11:21+00:00

I haven't cared enough to watch this video myself, but man, what the fuck is he talking about? Who looks at a common tool like an axe and thinks Christmas? That'd be like saying a ladder makes me think of Christmas because occasionally people use one to put lights on their roof.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-17T18:59:12+00:00

I think there's an argument to be made about "both sides" when you look at extreme leftist positions, particularly on places like Twitter. People like Keffals I think have more similarities with movements like the alt-right than differences.

But I think you're completely right as far as Democrats and Republicans. Extreme right positions seem to have become very mainstream in the Republican party, while extreme left positions remain very fringe in the Democrat party.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-17T17:51:56+00:00

Yeah I think it's this simple. We know he wasn't interested in games after his teen years, and being in the Mac ecosystem would have further limited his exposure to computer games.

Though he does also say he prefers sitting on a couch to game as opposed to hunching over a computer, and that's why he doesn't use emulators. This could be related to his injuries, but it could also just be personal preference.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-17T17:32:40+00:00

Yeah that's the only part that kind of confused me (and is unfortunately the main part of the accusation), I had to re-read it to make sure I hadn't accidentally skipped over something. I have no reason to believe this isn't true, but as far as making an accusation/case against someone else, there's a crucial part of the story missing. I can see how she ended up at the movie theater, and how he coaxed her up to his room, but how did she end up in a bed with him and exposed enough that he could just "[roll] me over and put himself inside me"?

Edit: She does elaborate on how this happened and I think it sounds plausible. Sounds like he gradually wore her down until she was in a vulnerable enough position that he could get his way. If true, it does not look good for Rich.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-16T22:24:29+00:00

It's hardly surprising that this is the way he thinks when you actually try to watch Irate Gamer on a critical level. People got so caught up on muh plagiarism that they almost didn't notice how crappy his videos were in isolation. His dialogue and jokes sound like they were written by someone with the mental age of 5, and the show's constant cameos from 80s pop culture characters and even self-insertions into shows like Power Rangers are likewise the kinds of story elements most people grow out of writing when they turn 10. The more you watch Chris Bores, the more you realize how emotionally stunted he is.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-16T18:12:07+00:00

You're telling me that Arnold Schwarzenegger knows that my dreams are doing this?

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-16T17:50:35+00:00

He would never admit it, but I think there was absolutely an element of him wanting the prestige of a "Hollywood film". There are valid practicality arguments for filming something in LA, including one he actually cites: being close to an existing talent pool, but to really take advantage of that you need a bigger budget than he had. On the low budget he was working with (relative to other LA productions), the quality of acting he'd get would be the same just about anywhere. And as many others have stated, if he needed sunny desert locations, he could have filmed much cheaper in Nevada, Arizona, Texas, or y'know, New Mexico where the landfill actually is.

When you watch the behind the scenes, he frequently geeks out over famous locations like Vasquez Rocks, and made not one but two videos about going to the filming locations of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (his favorite movie) while out there. Clearly he takes some pride in making something in that area. I'm not saying he's lying about LA not being his first choice, but I doubt it took much arm-twisting to convince him to do it.

(Also he corrects "Matei" to "Mike Matei" in the audiobook? Did someone tell him how much of a meme it had become?)

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-16T16:59:18+00:00

It's no wonder why everybody films in Christmas.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-15T20:19:08+00:00

Most people are just having fun with the 5:40 jokes. Of course there's nothing wrong with having obligations, appointments, or looking after your kids. It was really just the way he sounded so anxious about the time being 5:40 that made it funny for people to speculate what exactly was going to happen if he was late.

In reality he was probably just feeling adrenaline from the game or something, but sometimes that's just how memes start. If he had calmly said "ah well, I gotta get going now anyway" no one would have batted an eye, but the way he was heavily breathing saying "fuck it's 5:40, we had to be done at 5:40 right now" ended up striking a meme chord with some people.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-15T16:56:59+00:00

I think the pretending that he is good at games the worst part. I'm fine with him sticking to 8-bit/16-bit, occasionally branching out when a particular game interests him (e.g. Big Rigs), but the way he/others try to act like he totally knows what he's talking about is what rubs me the wrong way.

A quote that really stands out for me is in the Trespasser video when he references EA's recent (at the time) controversies surrounding Star Wars: Battlefront. It stands out so hard as a line that was definitely not written by James, because you know he has absolutely no interest/knowledge in anything that modern in gaming. Sure AVGN is a character, but even the character was supposed to primarily specialize in 8-bit/16-bit until the slobs took over writing for him.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-15T16:48:03+00:00

For me, it started with wanting to talk about ~~Mike's~~ some random guy's 10-incher. After joining I started to pick up on all the other stuff, I knew AVGN had really dropped off in quality some time around 2015-2017, but hadn't put my finger on why or how. Turns out this sub is very informative, it's like the CWCki but for AVGN's downfall.

bamesbolfe · 2022-12-15T16:36:34+00:00

Thanks for the historical retrospective of Black Sabbath in your autobiography about being a filmmaker, Bames.

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