Category: Gaming Personalities

Change of plan apparently… YouTube has policy changes and Tolstoy is pissed and planning a boycott today by avoiding YouTube and Google. Interestingly enough, it has to do with swearing.

That’s sort of like the self-imposed exile I’ve put myself in from Fanfiction.net (um… the first exile, long before I posted anything on the site) for their policy change on adult content and fanfics featuring real people. I suppose there will never be a site that is suitable for a couple of neat fics I had written; both of them featuring Jason Frank beating the crap out of Tommy for being such a poorly developed character who went from martial artist to dinosaur doctor… or vice versa.

P.S. That fic doesn’t actually exist. Such a concept is stupid, anyway.

For those who don’t know, NicotineAlien is the second alias of game reviewer Armake21. No reasons have been given for this latest closure, although I suspect it has something to do with his hilarious commentary of Uwe Boll’s House of the Dead movie.

Oh well and he was just about ready to get his old shit back up.

Anyone who browses YouTube on a regular basis knows the name. The supposed account belonging to a kid was home to two “infamous” reviews in which the kid bashed Contra and the Genesis version of Mortal Kombat. In trying to be another AVGN knockoff, he ended up opening a can of worms and gotten many other posters to post parodies and really vile comments.

Goes to show you can’t have opinions on the Internet, because just anybody who disagrees with you can and will bash you because your tastes don’t match up with theirs. It’s a damn shame…

Turns out the kid featured on those videos are NOT that of Sizzler07, but a guy by the name of VIB(x)00. The story so far is that the Sizzler07 took videos the guy made years ago and posted them without permission. VIB had recently made a video addressing this, saying that he regrets making the vids and that he’s putting out a warning to anyone who uses the Sizzler stuff for their own warped purposes.

Now let me be clear on a couple things. In terms of the actual reviews, I seem to be the only one to get some semblance of enjoyment out of them. Don’t get me wrong, I disagree with him on the two games and to be fair, they’re not entirely great reviews. Somehow, I seem to enjoy seeing kids not know what they’re talking about and act like complete idiots. However, let’s be fair. The kid was doing one of two things; either giving his true thoughts (dispeled as VIB did an actual review of Contra and had some good things to say about it) or attempting to be like an anti-AVGN who bashes good games as a joke.

To be honest, this was something that I had actually thought about doing, but then I saw all the responses these reviews were getting and none of them were exciting kind to the guy. Responses have ranged from typical disagreements to cursing to unwarranted insults to full-fledge parodies. Now I’ll admit that some of these parodies are amusing (NicotineAlien has a particularly good one), but these are all parodying and insulting a kid who just posted a couple videos.

So there have been some ruckus on the Gametrailer forums regarding the newest Screwattackee, Daily Destin. Destin is the current host of SA’s weekdaily Hard News show, which he actually does a good job at. The source of the hatred towards him, however, stems from his video game vaults. People there are brutal by his performances and have said everything negative that can be said about a person.

So what do I think of the new guy?

I think that Destin should stick with Hard News. While I don’t think he did badly on the few Vaults that he did do, I don’t believe he should be thrust into a high position this soon. He did write a couple Vaults and maybe he should stick with that.

Having said that, I’m willing to give Destin a chance. I am not ready to outright accept him as a second voice to the VGVs – considering the guy he’s replacing did such a smooth job of them – but perhaps as he grows into the role and becomes a counter to Craig’s goofiness, I’ll be a little more lenient.

This is a bit of a shocker.

So in any case you haven’t heard, Handsom Tom – the smooth-talking half of the original Screwattack crew that started that whole site up a couple years back, has apparently left the site he helped founded. Leaving with him is Perfect Liz, the Screw-A-Dog, and even New School Mickey… he of the curly hair. This sucks. This sucks so much that it needs a kick in the face…

IN THE FACE.

But seriously, I care not speculate. It’s been a great time for Tom. Hopethey moves on to bigger and better things… whatever that may be.