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gibbearish · 2 months
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its been fun watching the hbomb subreddit try very very hard to stick to the "if anyone harasses james on my behalf they wont see the light of heaven" by imo overcorrecting to "any time anyone mentions somerton ever it's because you're obsessed with him and want to pick on him because he's the villain of the week" bc its like. yknow actually i dont think people keeping an eye on his various attempts to weasel back into the spotlight and keep doing his same old shit over the last /two months/ is the same as harassing him because it's hip and fun. i think maybe those are not the same thing
#and like obv yes its possible to do both but idk#im just kinda like. 'dont harass him' and 'ignore him completely even if hes continuing to do shitty things' are um#different. those are different#origibberish#i will say though that subreddit is very good for gauging if im getting weirdly parasocial at him#like i still have yet to do that at a celebrity i like afaik because i just. Dont Like Celebrities usually#so now that i have one (1) that autism brain has finally decided to look up to im like Uh Oh Is It Finally Time#and then i see posts on there sometimes and im like. ohhh ok no i get it now#and i mean i can see why they feel that way‚ its the hbomb subreddit and Thats The Most Recent Hbomb Video#and it had yknow. immediate and impressive results#so of course people are going to a) talk about it a lot and b) talk about the aftermath as it happens#and if youre in the 'only talking about this one guy' group and that one guy has only talked about one other guy in the last Year#like. yeah . youre mostly gonna be hearing about that guy#oh parasocial abt hbomb not abt somerton i just realized how the phrasing there was weird jwhfksbfk#that being said i literally made a post like two weeks ago abt how i didnt actually know his first name so like i think im probably good#my scope of knowledge about him extends Exclusively to whats In His Videos#or well and i guess to like. patreon posts too but i tend to just dismiss patreon notifs without reading them a lot KENFKSNFMDB#like yeah yeah this show i follow posted their podcast i dont follow early for patreon subs i dont care get out of my way
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roguemonsterfucker · 5 months
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Maybe the clips of Somerton in hbomb’s video wasn’t a good sampling but uh
How did anyone tolerate listening to that man?
He’s so monotone and sounds like he’s reading words he doesn’t understand (which he is but still!).
Like a few of the other people in that hbomb video are actually pretty charismatic. They have good voices and really make it sound like they’re engaged in what they’re saying even though the words are stolen. Those people could really do well if they just like hired real people to write their scripts and stopped stealing shit because they make the content fun to listen to.
But I really don’t understand how Somerton was at all tolerable to so many people.
For the record, I’d never heard of him before now. I’d only ever heard of one person in hbomb’s video
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thottybrucewayne · 4 months
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Guess who lovessss sayin' someone got they shit Ether'd knowing damn well they haven't even heard Ether...
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skitpost · 4 months
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in case anyone is wondering, james somerton just uploaded a 30 minute """apology""" vid. not worth watching in my opinion so let me summarize for you:
he opens by telling everyone that he has been in the hospital after a suicide attempt and that the only reason he is still alive is because his dad knew to call 911
spends the rest of the vid pitifully apologizing for "not crediting" other people, like we don't all know that there's a very clear difference between accidentally missing citations and Intentional Plagiarism
throws nick under the bus for the gross things he's said about women and ace people, then makes sure to clarify that he's not trying to throw nick under the bus. ok
then goes on a little tirade about how he lost his best friend (nick) over this :(( and they'd been besties since like 2011 :(( so sad
states multiple times that he's not just upset that he got caught but upset because he didn't realize how many people he was hurting/that he was hurting people at all, which sure is a funny way to ignore all of the people who had confronted him about his plagiarism before only to be met with a harassment campaign led by him
insists that telos wasn't a grift and that he was always planning to deliver
justifies re-opening his patreon because he doesn't want people to get a surprise charge in january...you can also avoid that by deleting your patreon but ok
claims that any estimations of how much money he was making are inaccurate because he lives in toronto where it's very expensive
claims that the Literal Plagiarism "poor citation practices" were the result of the volume of content they were producing because he was forced to make a ton of videos that he didn't actually want to make because his audience wanted him to
no mention of his intentional manipulation of his audience into believing that he is the only queer creator, no mention of how he encouraged his audience to harass people, did not mention any of the stolen creators by name except for vetto russo
thanked hbomb for donating to the people he stole from which is fucking bonkers but ok
that's about it! i just want to be clear: health is not a joke. if james really did attempt, that's bad, and i do hope he makes a full recovery. however, i think it's real fucked up to start your "apology" video with such a blatant grab for pity. i hope he is safe and healthy and far, far away from the internet.
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oliveroctavius · 5 months
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In Plagiarism and You(Tube), Hbomb says "If you consider something so obscure you can get away with stealing it, you do not respect it." Save that line for the next time someone tries to tell you that Roy Lichtenstein brought respect to comics as art.
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It's since been pointed out that while Lichtenstein did copy one of Russ Heath's drawings of an airplane getting hit, the painting depicted above was actually copied off Irv Norvick, because Lichtenstein did this so many times to so many comic artists.
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In Lichtenstein's defense, he was doing this in a time when comic artists frequently weren't even credited in the issues themselves. In his condemnation, he never even tried to check, nor has he made any move to pay or credit any of the comic artists who recognized their own work later on. Rather than elevating the "low art" of comics, he was widening the gap of financial success and respect even further.
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The Hbomberguy of this story is art historian David Barsalou, who has now spent decades tracking down the original art and the names of the original artists used in Lichtenstein's most famous output. Here's the flickr gallery for the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein project. Frequently copied were Tony Abruzzo, Ted Galindo, Mike Sekowsky, Joe Kubert, Jerry Grandenetti, and dozens more Golden Age artists who aren't very well known in comics circles, let alone art history books. Many of them died in poverty. That's something that the Hero Initiative, mentioned in Russ Heath's comic above, aims to prevent.
Also, Lichtenstein didn't even paint Ben-Day dots. That's a specific thing.
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thatiswhy · 1 year
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*hitting a very famous youtuber on the head with their* own tripod*
STOP MAKING VIDEO ESSAYS ASMR'S
For the love of god, use your performance voice. It's incredibly hard to audio process your fucking mumblecore skit when half the character work seems to be what you are doing while your other character is talking and it makes noise. But let's liven up this conversation by inserting LOUD and AGRESSIVE sound effects, yay! What is the goal here. What.
This is honestly the auditory equivalent of a weirdly squish-fluffy microfibre pullover with an extremely scratchy, hard edged label, and you're too hot anywayws, but you can't take it off because there is someone else in the room and they randomly keep opening the window.
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logictxt · 1 year
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speaking of Tommy tallarico, the history of the tvtropes page is amusing lol
someone edited in like "and he's a compulsive liar" and the next edit removes it like "yes but this is a wiki you can't insult him we're supposed to just describe his work!!"
also the most recent one when is changing "over 250" games he worked on to "68". they also didn't know...........
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redwinterroses · 3 months
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Skizz for Hermit red yarn pins:
1. Mumbo's comment on his last HCs9 video, stating "no word on new members! ☺️" <- weak, but implies that new members are a possibility. Also smilie face is sus
2. Skizz being part of the Guess the Build challenges, along with relatively big names in MCYT
3. Skizz being invited to the server to play Decked Out -- yes, along with other people ("hermit hbomb" red yarn trails off to a separate board here) but he was the first confirmed and the first discussed.
4. The entire OlympZITS event with Zed, Impulse, Tango, Skizz, False, Doc, Joe, Beef, and Cleo
a) Zed: "Have we got all the hermits on? I think we're still gathering people together at the moment. We've got Impulse, Skizz, and Tango there..." b) Tango stream VOD titled "OlypZITS Mini Games with EIGHT Hermits!" and summary: "8 Hermits meet up on Zedaph's patreon server" c) VintageBeef: ""I had a team mate, his name was Impulse, and we were taking on... six- no, SEVEN, other hermits..." d) Doc's offer to give Skizz redstone lessons "soon"
5. Scar's comment about not wanting to give spoilers, implying there's something to spoil
6. Skizz continually talking about how "it's gonna be a big year for the Skizz" and how he and his wife agree that he can't keep doing full time dayjob and MCYT at the same time
tbh point 4b is the nail in the coffin for me, but all this adds up to SKIZZ HERMIT REAL for season 10 and if I'm wrong and my wall of red yarn and pins is a lie I'll find a hat and eat it.
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*bitch literally not only used clips but edited them so that it looked like he got them from somewhere else like oh my god
** toddintheshadows literally came in swinging with "so you wanna tell us how you came under the impression that the nazis were gay"
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gibbearish · 3 months
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just saw on the hbomb subreddit that james somerton briefly reactivated his twitter and changed the name to agayraconteur, then 8 hrs later deleted it again because people were noticing, so. everyone who went all in on "he'll keep popping up again and again in new forms" cash your bets in now LMAO
edit: hey yall this post is very out of date but has been getting spikes of notes since the second apology video so i'm gonna be marking it unrebloggable
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gentleralts · 3 months
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not to be a downer but while i agree with the sentiment of what the "death note AU where hbomberguy solves the kira case while investigating light yagami for something unrelated to the murders" post is trying to go for, it gets a bunch of stuff fundamentally wrong about light as a character and of how the death note itself works, and as a noted Light Yagami Hater™ i feel like i should set things straight here:
light was top of his class in high school and got into one of the most prestigious universities in his region. he does his research pretty thoroughly and would not even consider plagiarizing anything, especially with how unreliable it would make you look if you got caught. this "light would probably be a plagiarist if he was a youtuber" bit seems like it's there just because the james sommerton video is so fresh in our minds; if that post was drafted like a year ago there'd probably be a bit in there instead about light straight up lying about his accomplishments and how his mother is very proud
"light would have unhinged right-wing political takes if he was on youtube" there's a pretty significant possibility that he would, although not intentionally. light would brand himself as more of a center-left intellectual debater type and gets popular going up against people who are so right-wing that his points seem progressive by comparison (on top of him being conventionally attractive), and that would make stuff like his misogyny and pro-cop stances and "there are some types of people the world would be better off without" sentiments stand out when comparing him to more leftist youtubers. hbomb's initial investigation into light likely started out with the thesis of "light yagami can get away with saying shit like this because he's an extremely fuckable twink"
the thing about that post that stood out to me as its most egregious mistake though was the insistence of legal names being the ones you need to kill someone with the note. you've probably seen joke posts going around before like "if you write a trans person's deadname into the death note it kills you instead," and that's built upon one of the rules of the death note:
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[id: The names you see with the eye power of a god of death are the names needed to kill that person. You will be able to see the names even if that person isn't registered in the family registration.]
a name doesn't have to be legally registered for it to work, and a legal name might not even work in some cases. granted a change of a legal name could still be a viable defensive strategy to throw off someone trying to research what your name is, but outright saying "i've legally changed my name to something you won't be able to find out so you can't kill me" will not protect you from the death note at all.
in my opinion, i believe the point in which hbomb spots the thread leading to his conclusion of light yagami being behind the kira murders is around the end of the yotsuba arc. he'd be able to intuit the first, second, and third kiras being separate entities by the types of people they kill, and the situation of "this guy i've been looking into has dropped off the face of the internet for like two months and the kira murders are suddenly different" would probably be too interesting of coincidence for him to ignore
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elkian · 5 months
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I've seen a lot of takes about the Hbomb video - here's a link; he's also done some similar works criticizing Allen Wakefield (accidentally instigated the prime anti-vax movement while trying to scam people) and Tommy Tallerico (similar vein to The Video, of plagiarism/credit theft).
I've also enjoyed some of his teardown videos, but my real favorites are his Why FNV Is Genius (and Here's Why) and Pathologic Is Genius (And Here's Why), which lead me to buying and playing (some of) Pathologic 2.
One thing worthy of note is that he specifically requests that nobody start a witch hunt over the subjects of his videos. He is an opinionated person and his righteous indignation is very entertaining, but I've never seen him seriously suggest people harass any real human beings. Suggestions to do so after watching the video have been made by the viewers and are explicitly condemned by Hbomb himself in the video. Just saying.
But more to the point is how he ends the video: he decides to cap it off with a reel of suggested viewing for people who create the kinds of things Somerton allegedly made himself, focusing on queer creators.
Here's the playlist linked in the video description:
I don't doubt other people have shared this already, but it hasn't crossed my dash, so I thought I'd give it a mention. It's a really nice way to end a video that, while focusing on informing the viewers and warning people of potential scammers essentially, does have a negative tone at times because he is, well, tearing into someone's monumental career of plagiarism.
The playlist links to videos by Alexander Avila (who was himself plagiarized by Somerton), Matt Baume, Lady Emily, verilybitchie, RickiHirsh, Shanspeare, Khadija Mbowe, hazel, Herby Revolus, Maggie Mae Fish, Kaz Rowe, Kat Blaque, Lily Alexandre, max teeth, drapetomania, Kameno -o, Lola Sebastian, Princess Weekers, CJ The X, Jennie Geist, Mia Mulder, Nick DiRamio, Sarah Z, Rowan Ellis, and finally Maven of the Eventide.
(I have chosen to spare my wrists and sanity by not hyperlinking those names because the playlist is literally right there.)
Fun facts: this list, which apparently also has nonbinary and trans artists on it, contains 0 names I am already familiar with. I don't spend a lot of time on Youtube outside of very specific needs, but this still makes for a good opportunity for me to familiarize myself with work from others in the community.
Anyways, I just think that's an extremely cool way to end a four-hour-video that, while extremely entertaining, is a bit of a down to watch and realize how easily extremely unmotivated people are stealing others' work and making bank off of it. That's all I had to say, goodnight.
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bogunicorn · 1 month
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all of their bad writing and spreading of misinfo aside, i do genuinely feel for nick in this situation. the way that james has discussed nick - alternately fawning over them and using them as a shield, passively blaming them for "all the bad stuff in the videos" while trying about how they don't speak to him anymore - pinged to me as exceptionally manipulative and shitty from the very first "apology" video.
somerton's manipulation of his audience and mistreatment of other creators is pretty gross and obviously morally shit, but the way he's spoken about nick post-hbomb-and-todd-videos has struck me as exceptionally vile. naming nick in his suicide note as someone who's alternately to blame for his suicide (because he lost "his only friend") and also someone he's ~looking after even in death~ (scheduling videos/keeping videos up "for nick's resume", even when all things indicate that nick wants nothing to do with the videos or james anymore, let alone as points on a resume) is, in all honesty, abusive. it casts james as both victim and martyr in his (ex-)friendship with nick and implies that if nick had just stood by their friendship in this trying time, maybe he wouldn't feel the need to die, and don't you wish you'd managed to work it out, nick? aren't you sad that you weren't more forgiving and supportive before he died, or so he wouldn't have to?
i hope that nick has a strong support system and sets strong boundaries with james going forward. i hope they have access to a therapist, or at the very least close friends or family that they can lean on here. as someone who's had a partner who frequently threatened to commit suicide and attempted while i was present, i know how deeply traumatizing this kind of thing can be and how long it takes to get out of your system.
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apollos-boyfriend · 1 year
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okay fuck it. i am very sleep deprived somewhat sick and extremely out of it so all impulse control is out the window. if this post gets 333 INDIVIDUAL reblogs by the time i get on my flight in like 10 hours i’ll post the sparklez family tree to twitter in its full horrifying glory. no spam reblogging i mean 333 SEPARATE people/accounts. i will allow one (1) side blog
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i will be updating this version slightly to v11.5, to update eret and elaina’s status as well as add joel and oli’s new kids, because in the TWO SECONDS i allowed myself to let my guard down joel went off and fucked. again. as a side note to anyone who knows those kids names (if they were given any) and how many there ended up being could you please shoot that my way. i would appreciate it <3
if there’s any additional things missing you can send those my way as well! please do check the faq beforehand though, i am Tired of getting the same fundywastaken and treebark comments. i would appreciate evidence/backing up of claims, especially for ccs i don’t know. clips and stuff aren’t needed, just something like “quig should be listed as hbomb’s kid bc there’s a command in h’s chat that calls quig his son” will do ^_^
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alittlebirb · 2 years
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Some funny business from the MCC 22 Aqua Axolotls!
-Scar saying he might dislike PKT more than snakes, and Hbomb correcting him that he's terrified of both
-Hbomb and Scar making fun of Grian for having to make a thumbnail
"What a Youtuber." -Hbomb
-Hbomb wearing a Hawaiian shirt in real life
-Grian asking if Scar was asking Jellie to open the door, and just concernedly replying "Oh dear."
-Grian being very self aware that starting his stream one (1) second early is very very good for him
-An update about Nana from Ghana, with her giving "rich blessings" and asking everyone to come to Ghana, and Grian showing several pictures of the school they helped raise money for!
-The entire team shading Grian for not unmuting until they're like, 10 seconds into the decision dome
-Grian grumbling he does not like BB, and Scar reassuring him "it's okay, Hawkeye's here."
-Everyone interrogating Scar about the state of his technology
-MeltDown is here and I'm terrified.
-Scar yelling at Grian to "Get out of the melty room!!"
-Grian running off from the rest of the team like a child without a leash
"I feel like I've got nothing to lose, so this MCC I'm going crazy." -Grian
-False vanishing through the floor in front of Scar
-Grian and Hbomb being the last survivors in their team and just chilling on a block together
-False telling Scar to use the heater, heater Scar, you're right there-!, in MD
-False figuring out to use the heaters as an extra block to climb up like a freaking genius
-"Okay, I'm starting to understand this game now that we're on the last round!" -Grian
-Scar being the resident bow connoisseur
-Grian being an absolute feral little freak and going after Green immediately
-Grian screaming "Scar noooo!" as he fell down into the lava and Scar calling him a "sweet angel"
-Grian calling surviving and getting coins "the barn strategy" and Scar correcting him that it's "the right strategy"
-Scar saying MD is more fun is SOT and everyone telling him to slow down now, you might upset someone who's listening
-Scar saying he can't "intimidate the other team with his abs"
-Scar concluding that watching Top Gun improves your performance and Grian replying that "yeaaaah, he totally watched it last night"
-Hbomb telling Grian that a pro tip for Minecraft is turning off bobbing completely, and Grian saying he likes the bobbing though!
"My immersion!" -Grian
-Grian somehow ending up saying "there's gotta be someone out there who likes that" in response to vomit. "Someone who's like, 'nice'."
And everyone just letting that. sit. in the air.
"I didn't know how to respond to that." -Hbomb
-Scar asking if they can talk about Star Wars to boost his confidence in PKT
-Grian saying the H in Hbomb stands for Hermit
"I revealed today that the name Hbomb94 for the last 16 years was a long con to join Hermitcraft, and you guys can't turn me away because now I own Hermitcraft." -Hbomb
-Grian mentioning that the other day he said "y'all" and getting the immediate response of that being incredibly cursed and to never do that again
-Grian calling out to repeatedly rotate and False crying out "what does rotate even mean??"
-Scar telling Hbomb he'll be his bodyguard against Cub
-Hbomb saying it's "the moment of my life!" when he caught Dream in 10 seconds
-Scar saying Tommy's "a bit of wizard, leaping and swooping like that"
-Scar saying he's "lasted two seconds longer this time" and Hbomb telling him "baby steps"
-Scar falling and dying directly after he jubilantly yelled "PARKOUR CHAMPIONS!"
-"Normally I'm holding Pete's legs together, and keeping him back, but now he's been set free." -Grian about Pete's team being in first place
-Hbomb dunking Pink because "screw Pink!"
-Grian voting for RSR and Scar telling him that's good "Top Gun energy"
-Scar admiring Quig's birthday hat and Hbomb saying "the NoxCrew is too nice to him, we need to take him down a peg. We need to beat him up."
-False and Hbomb talking about becoming dolphins 🐬
-False calling Scar out for just standing there when the RSR round started, and Scar replying he was "working out my issues!"
-Grian and Scar getting into top 10 in RSR and Scar saying "this is what we do in Hermitcraft."
-Hbomb saying he punched Tubbo in the face and he deserved it
-Grian saying he has a "mind like a goldfish".
-Hbomb taking the floor out from False and causing her to die, and then falling afterwards and False yelling "Karma!"
-Scar calling Big Beans an S Tier
-Scar saying he hopes Pete wins, and everyone immediately going no! he's had enough wins already!
-Grian asking Scar how many wins he's had, and Scar saying "multiple in my dreams".
"My mom tells me I'm a winner every day!" -Scar
"It must be true!" -False
-Scar calling out to the Mega Chicken that the HITW section is KFC
"They'll cut you up and turn you into chicken nuggets! Save yourself!"
-Hbomb lamenting that he hasn't been opening Pokemon cards, and Grian immediately asking what set? what set?
"I've had to stop opening cards. I don't know what to do with all my spare ones." -Grian
"Keep them for your happiness." -Hbomb
-"Nooo, goodbye gentlemen!" -Scar while falling in HITW
-"Oh, 32nd, that makes me upset to my chest hair." -Grian
-Scar thanking Shubble for dying because now he won't be last
-Hbomb seeing the exclamation mark wall and saying "it's yelling at me!"
-If I had a nickel for each time Hbomb got a coin balance involving 69, and Grian replied "nice", I'd have two nickels, which is just a little bit cursed
-"It upsets me that Timmy is doing well. He lost our team SOT last time and I am haven't forgiven him." -Grian
-"I'm completely fine. I haven't been failing at all." -False
-False predicting Scar's Curse will ensure that one player will always be in 40th, and this time it's her turn
"I know how to fix this. I'm putting my Genshin outfit on." -False, who does not play Genshin, and only has this outfit because her team lost a tournament
-Hbomb asking if False is drinking water or wine today, and False replying she's drinking squash (juice)
"Yes, I'm a little kid." -False
-Scar seeing the error of his ways and finally pronouncing gong correctly
-Scar getting on the Ace Race leaderboard on the practice server, which then sparked his leaderboard obsession
-"I could never hate you." -Grian to Hbomb
"I could change that." -Hbomb
-Grian seeing the Space Race map name being written backwards and delightedly saying "I like! That's my kind of humor."
-"I had some really good moments mixed in with catastrophic mistakes." -Grian
-Everyone celebrating NOT LAST SCAR in Ace Race
-False realizing that "wait, didn't Scar get a really good time on the practice server?" and everyone immediately saying don't shame him, don't rub it in...
-"Grian, I need a gong." -Scar
"I put it away already!" -Grian
"I need. a gong." -Scar
-The mega chicken swap being gloriously chaotic
-"Hold down W! Just go! Always forward! Kick ass! Take names!" -Hbomb's advice for BB and life
-Hbomb asking Scar to activate Hawkeye mode and Scar replying "YES".
"He's been waiting for you to say that his entire life." -Grian
-Scar calling Hbomb "HBeam" and Griab immediately decreeing that nickname is going to stay (man loves his nicknames)
-Grian killing a couple players in BB and screaming "FINALLY I HAVE SOMETHING FOR MY SECOND CHANNEL!"
-Aqua and Purple fighting it out and False just sneaking in, filling the wool, and getting the win
-The team using Grian's run straight in approach for good and succeeding in the strat to send him in and then have Scar sneakily wool rush
-Grian and Scar celebrating the wins while False desires more kills
-"I think we might have made the other teams angry, which is a good thing. Psychological warfare." -Scar
-Everyone recognizing that Jojo is crACkEd
-"My whole goal here is to make you proud, H." -Scar about SOT
-"Can I ask something real quick? Why's the chat calling me Sand Daddy?" -Sand Daddy Scar
-Scar giving regular reports that "This is your local Sand Daddy reporting, we have 60 seconds left!"
-"There's a pillager in the water!" -False
"Oh, that's my buddy, we're just chilling." -Scar
-"Scar are you ready to take this sand delivery?" -Grian
"Oh, I'm ready, take it to Daddy...sorry I made that weird." -Scar
-Grian getting the redstone puzzle first try!
-"I'm always upset. That's my secret." -Hbomb
-Hbomb trying to stay inside the red tunnel and Grian going down the blue tunnel then Scar saying they only have 50 seconds left and Grian just found the blue vault and H and Grian racing back with sand while the timer went down to 10 seconds and the 10 second count down booming throughout the labyrinth but Grian got lost. H gets the sand in just in time but it's still counting down. Grian finally escapes the tunnel and gets the sand in with less than 10 seconds left and I'm left dead on the floor
-"I got 31st! Sorry, I have a thing about the number 31 this MCC, apparently." -False
-"What the audience needs to know is that we're all friends, we're all good, but in Sands of Time it all goes out of the window." -Grian
-"My chat was getting very upset at me because I took off my chestplate in order to show off my abs." -Scar, preceding the rest of the team absolutely losing their minds at him
-The mega chicken swap wrecking chaos in the last round, the players splitting into either BM or TGGTOS, Wilbur being indecisive in choosing and Scar trying to tempt him into BM with his abs
-"You'll always be our Build Mart manager." -Scar to Grian o7
-Tubbo throwing Scar off the map and everyone calling him evil
"Can we box him in and crush him on this map?" -Scar
-Everyone rooting for Tina in the honey map
-"For a brief shining moment I was first. Then a door closed in front of me, and I was like aww." -Scar
-"I need Fruity B." -Grian
-Scar admiring the little crown on the plane in the TGTTOS map
-Everyone understanding that yes, every single player will be cheering on Captain Sparklez. Pink needs to win.
-"I almost called them Pink Flamingos. I thought they had a really long neck for a second." -False
-False and Grian tsking at H for rooting for Red
"You don't need to be different!" -Grian
-"Right in the shnoot!" -Grian after Dream was shot
-Grian and Scar yelling at Pink to say "Hot guy!" when they shoot
-"Oh, it is Captain on Captain violence!" -Hbomb
-Hbomb starts opening up Pokemon cards and Grian starts eating his yogurt
"What should I do?" -False
"What do you have on your desk?" -Hbomb
-Grian sending Hbomb a Very Cool Card over Discord because H is the only one who'd understand
-H commentating on the normalization of streamers eating in stream
-Grian and Hbomb editing the script to include Captain Sparklez getting the final shot in the final round and getting the ultimate win
-Martyn is now the MCC player who's gone the longest without getting a single win
-"Everyone will remember where they were the day that Captain got his first win!" -Hbomb
-"Aww, bless his little cotton socks!" -Grian about Captain Sparklez
-Sparklez getting a lil Jerry next to him on the podium and Scar saying now he has to win, so he can get a little Jellie neighboring with Jerry
-"You know when you were watching Dream's POV and you were telling me not to do any of that? I was nodding, and I was like yeah I'm gonna do that." -Grian to Hbomb
"I'm gonna be honest, when you went into the blue vault, I thought you were dead." -Hbomb
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theropoda · 28 days
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man i love hbomb's pathologic video. i love the other patho essays ive seen too (esp pathologic for those who'll never play it) but god. while pathologic DOES do a fantastic job of instilling fear and dread via resource management and using the frustration and hopelessness it gives you as a way of immersing you in the game's story and world... way too many people exaggerate that difficulty to the extent of scaring people away from the fucking game!! the latter essay i mentioned literally is called "for those who'll never play it" bc of the idea people won't play it cuz it's too hard. when i played patho 1 i was SHOCKED at how easy it was when you know what to do. artemiys route (tho tbh i didn't finish it, stopped right before the bullheaded dudes trials (I forgot his name)) was also, despite def being a rougher start than daniil's, at least survivable.... you CAN get there. i was VERY stressed about if I could make it to the next day yes, but I wasn't sent back to the main menu as much as i thought i would be
pathologic 1 imo is a hard game in terms of endurance more than "you'll die a lot". . you WILL get there. you'll get there eventually. the journey is just difficult. it is absolutely worth your time to play. especially if you get it on sale even if you can't get the best ending or you fuck up and let your bound die you'll get enough out of the game that it was worth playing. you don't have to be perfect. stop scaring people off from playing patho 1 this shit isn't dark souls!!!!!!!!!!
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