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Who is your source for trustworthy and independent game reviews?
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the one and only
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Mandaloregaming
Civvie11
Grimbeard
Warlockracy
Ross scott
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The free demo/trial.
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>>737134006
>trustworthy and independent game reviews
no such thing
i cross reference youtubers and reviewers for qualities i want and downsides i dont in games im interested in
the only reason woke and anti woke grifters are useful these days
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not sure if this is a meme thread, but I exclusively source games and recommendations from friends, niche /v/ threads, or some 1 or 2 viewer streams that I watch. For a while I thought that it was utterly useless to even ask other people at all, but the truth is you need to cast a wide net to catch the really small indie gems that you would otherwise miss.
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>>737134006
VIDEO GAMES, FAGGOT, VIDEO GAMES!
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AYUP
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>>737136034
He's straight
And yeah i have to admit that part was gay lol. But he's got a point. You gotta be fucked in the head to be a kiwifarmer
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he's a bit bland but you know what to expect with him
going absolutely autismo tier in depth is also helpful if you're not into crpgs and he can sort of give you a deep dive of what to expect
overall, good content
people complain about his achievement gimmick being bs but it honestly has nothing to do with the quality of his material so i don't care
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>>737134006
Running Shine is pretty much the only actual "reviewer" I watch. I like Matthewmatosis but he's basically retired at this point. I've seen a few of Jimmy McGee's reviews, and they're not bad, just not as entertaining. I really cannot be bothered to watch any of these 4+ hour reviews that keep popping up everywhere.
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I went through a bunch of his vids some years ago since i stopped watching him back in 2015 and i was surprised how critical he was about modern gaming. Figured he'd just give trash random 8-9/10's left and right. But no, most were like 6's or 7's
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The only true gamer in North America
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>>737134006
I couldn't take this guy seriously after he acted all offended by racist HL1 mods and doom wads that like 3 people on the entire planet had played in the 20 years they've existed. Mods he himself chose to deliberately look up, download to his computer, play and make videos about.
Such a weird thing to virtue signal about
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>>737136057
I heard him say on a live stream “don’t ask me. Use your own judgement and stop relying on others to do your thinking for you” or something to that effect. And that is probably the best take I’ve heard from any of these “creators”
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Big this
Not sure why people need to watch reviewers to know if they will like a game. Some snippets are enough to get an idea what the game will be like. Not like gaming is innovating anymore
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For me it's ninomae ina'nis
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>far more reliable than journalism
same
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>>737149764
Dysphoria doesn't mean you're sexually deviant. He's extremely mentally ill in general. The channel is the only reason he hasn't killed himself lol
He's mentioned having had several girlfriends throughout his channels run
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>>737134006
>YouTube/Twitch
>Search game
>Watch rando play game for like 20 minutes
>Decide if it looks interesting enough to play myself or not
That's it. I haven't paid attention to traditional gaming media for over a decade now. I'll still watch this guy or Mandalore or whoever for entertainment though.
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>>737149764
Please read a book nigga
You can be classified dysphoric because your mind thinks your hands should be 2inches bigger, it's just a mismatch between your perception of what your body should be and the reality of what it is
Every dumbass lying about their dick size is dysphoric
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>>737149912
If you take dysphoria at face value, then Grimbeard is actually a gay woman who likes women. That being said, I went back and watched some of his older videos and he was a lot funnier and more relaxed pre-Covid. He plays up being edgy and sad but it feels less serious, and he doesn't feel the need to bring up social and political issues apropos of nothing. I have no doubt he will troon out in the coming years a la Shammy.
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>>737150002
That's dysmorphia, Anon. Grimbeard specifically mentions (gender) dysphoria and cries about transphobes and such for no reason. The case is probably that he's fat, old, Mexican and disgusting and knows he will never be able to be a hot goth girl.
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>>737150083
Again dude, dysphoria doesn't mean you're automatically trans kek. It just means distorted view of your own body. Transwomen who are dysphoric genuinenly have a warped sense of self. They look at themselves in the mirror as a dude and see a woman looking back at them and shit
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>pc retro stuff
mandalore
Ross (accursed farms)
>point and click retro and horror stuff
Grimbeard
Boulder Punch
>indie horror stuff and trannycore
Ragnarox
>old B games and old weird stuff
minimme
>quick old games reviews:
gaming pastime
>shmups
Shmup Junkie
>japanese computers games and 16bits era
Snesdrunk
Basement Brothers
>modern horror stuff
Avalanche Reviews
>gaming restrospectives
Majuular
I Finished A Video Game
>jrpg autism discussion
Resonant Arc
>modern shit
Shill up
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So you're telling me a guy who talks about spending hours staring into the mirror "reasoning his way out of dysphoria" while constant complaining about how gender fluidity has regressed in culture and how mean people are to transsexuals and gets referred to as "they/them" and "sir or madame" by his commenters whole painting his nails and growing his hair long is just upset about his nose being crooked? I dunno boss that feels disingenuous.
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No idea on that front since he has never said much about what his dysphoria is about. But i can say as someone who used to suffer from dysphoria that it really fucks with you. Again the dude is genuinenly extremely mentally ill. But he has never said anything about gender fluidity from what i can remember
>and how mean people are to transsexuals
That's all woke people and he is woke as fuck. He doesn't even try to hide it. In an old video he went on a small rant in his comment section about some shit if you're a bigot he doesn't want you to watch him or some shit
>and gets referred to as "they/them" and "sir or madame" by his commenters
That i have no recollection of. And i have watched his whole catalogue twice as long as it's not a grimpression vid
>painting his nails
That's just him being ultra goth. He made a quick joke in some vid about how he went on r/goth and like uploaded a song but he was too goth for the subreddit. And another time joked about how him trying to hit up goth clubs leaving him disappointed because everyone weren't goth. Just hipsters or poseurs. Some shit like that
>growing his hair long is just upset about his nose being crooked
My hair is also long. Nothing about me is lgbtq
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>>737151101
I dunno, man. His audience seems to view him as an egg, so to speak, and he clearly struggles with what is likely gender dysphoria and it's a soft spot for him he feels the need to bring up constantly. Just like Shammy, who did the same thing but much more condensed.
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>His audience seems to view him as an egg
Never seen anyone mention anything like that and i tend to sit and go through the comments for a min after i've finished watching a vid
>Just like Shammy, who did the same thing but much more condensed.
Guess we'll have to see what the future brings i guess. Never watched shammy, just know that he was a massive problem when he was co working with mandalore from what i've read. Like freak tier problem
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No kidding? I only watch mandalores vids. Never any streams or any shit like that so i had no idea how shammy is/was as a person. I know they coworked on the mystery of the druids on stream and that shammy was part of the same podcast as mandalore but i don't watch those. I watched his the surge 2 vid and felt like it was low quality and never gave him another sec of my life again. He also ended that vid with "btw i'm trans now". Had his fursona on the whole time so no water off my back
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>>737134006
as a 37 yo neet who has never worked a day in his life, spent every waking hours playing video games. I can only trust my gut and it's gotten so fucking easy to gauge what games are trash fires and which ones are good
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>>737134006
>Who is your source
Nobody but me.
I've figured out no one likes the same things that i do. Youtubers usually in fact insult games that i liked nowadasys by saying they "aged poorly" and now i hide youtube game reviewers in search as a result and tell anyone who promotes them to fuck off.
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The fuck happened to Gmans channel? it used be all retro fps and sometimes retro games or new indie games replicating retro. Then suddenly he's making tier lists of GTA games and all of this useless crap about console games like Infamous or just things that seem out of line with original channel direction
>starfield is a phenomenal achievement
>So Assasin's Creed Shadows just dropped...
This nigger still hasn't covered so many obscure early 2000s games which he originally focused on talking about at least sometimes. He just talks about games everyone knows now because he gets sent review codes.
What in the absolute fuck happened?
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He makes it work.
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