It's a Conspiracy EP1: Stalin, for kids

The Unknown discovers propaganda from the 1980s to turn our children into communists via Super Mario Bros and The Smurfs. Them sneaky Russians.

Since this is an Audio show, here is an MP3 link so you can listen to it on the go for your Zune or something:

http://www.mediafire.com/?a3md8ismj98nl7h

Film Brain Reviews Suburban Knights

And I must say, he has some negative things to say about it.

I will embed it later when it fucking works. It works now.

The Tim Buckley Path

Many e-celebrities travel down the Tim Buckley path, where once normal human beings allow their internet content creation to turn them into egotistical asswipes who like to send photo's of their penis to teenage girls. The path has many phases however, as one does simply not become a douhcebag in an instant, it is something that grows over time. Let's dig deep into the 6 phases of the Tim Buckley Path.

1. Have a fanbase with decent content

You stated making content on the web, you have built a following who likes your work which is generally considered very good. You decide to monetize it and make it apart of your income, which may end up biting you in the ass later. This is the phase everyone should be on the Tim Buckley Path, but as it is with the internet, VERY few people stay at this phasee for a long period of time.

Notable examples: Brad Jones, Red Letter Media

2. Decline in quality

At this point you have been making content for a while and you are probably doing the same shit you were doing a few years ago. Your content starts to get stale and you clearly are sick of doing it. A normal person would stop and move on to different projects, but there is one problem...

...YOU WERE DUMB ENOUGH TO DO THIS FOR A JOB!!!

Because of this, you keep pumping out content because it is your job and the depressing reality eats at you on the inside. This starts to reflect on the work itself as fans start noticing you're not as passionate as you used to be a few years ago and tell you you're getting stale.

Your fanboys however, will not notice these problems at all and will relentlessly kiss your ass. If you have a level head you will ignore these people but keep doing your job anyway because you need to eat, but if you don't these people will drive you to proceed to phase 3 of the path.

Notable examples: Zero Puncuation, AVGN

3. Create a straw man

Your content has gotten worse, some of your fans are letting you know this but you don't give a fuck and want to tell them to go fuck themselves. Congratulations, you have an ego, but you haven't reached phase 5 yet. You know that if you flat out insult them you will be a complete prick, so instead you decide to be "clever" and "subtle" by creating a character that represents people who don't like you. In other words, you created a strawman like the manchild that you are since you see things in black and white.

This strawman must be presented as an idiot, loser or both. Examples of this character include Douchey Mc Nitpick, Chuckles the Jester (Spoony) and in a self aware but equally douchey example, MovieBob's Strawman. Be sure to give this character a whiny voice, fail to acknowledge any legitimate point they may have and above all, do not present them as an intelligent person. Because at this stage you have become such a smug, egotistical dickhead that you see anyone who doesn't agree with you as a retard. 

In other words you are a token Left Wing asswipe.

Examples: Nostalgia Chick, MovieBob

4. Censor your forums

Your forums have turned into a shitstorm now. People have noticed your ego is getting out of control and they are starting to talk about it. The influx of negative comments is growing and your fanboys are in an all out Civil War with the Cynics, trying to combat them with speleing erorz, THE ALMIGHTY CAPS LOCK,  and their most powerful tool, retarded logical statements (e.g. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T WATCH IT).

Because your ego is out of control, you ONLY want to be surrounded by the fanboys, so you join their side in the war and use the ultimate weapon, the banhammer.  You swing that thing like Mario in Donkey Kong and raze the place to the ground until it is all smiles and fucking sunshine.

You can attempt to justify this in a number of ways. You could say that you want a "happier and positive community" that isn't full of arguing, while only telling the negative people to fuck off rather than putting your fanboys in line as well. You could make bullshit claims that you want comments to be "Constructive" and expect a college professor standard essay that is more sugar coated than Frosted Flakes for anything negative, but you are perfectly fine with positive comments that say "THAT WAS AWESOME BRO" without elaboration.

You can also create a list of arbitrary rules like "Don't be a dick" that are intentionally vague and easily corruptible so you can swing your banhammer like the 6 year old with ADD that you are, yet still claim that you are "following the rules" and that you are not a dickhole (spoilers, you actually are).

Make sure to place your most loyal and rabid fanboys as moderators on your forum. They love you more than you love yourself (yes, it's possible) so they will be extremely dedicated to your cause of cleansing the non believers. And they call Al Queda extremists, pffft.

Notable Examples: TGWTG, The Escapist, The Archfeind

5. Treat your fans like shit

Now you're surrounded by nothing but your most dedicated fans. They probably have Deviant Art pages of you in Rule 34 where they openly admit they want you to shit inside their mouths while they jack off. They flood TV Tropes to add every single quote you have ever spouted out and will defend you on every forum they visit. You notice this and you have a epiphany...

YOUR FANS SUCK AND YOU HATE EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM!!!!

Your community is full of brown nosing shit heads who are more needy than a coke addict near a drug dealer. They tell you your awesome at everything even when you know it isn't true and you have the same look on your face that Sonic has when he is around Amy Rose. Speaking of which, your fans probably fap like crazy over her.

There are 2 ways to treat your fans like shit. Firstly, it is at conventions. Seeing these people when they aren't hiding behind a My Little Pony avatar sickens you, as your fans look like the kind of people that belong in basements and are even more socially awkward looking than you, especially with the horrible costumes they are wearing. Being disappointed that your life's work has only attracted the beasts from underneath the earth's crust, you lash out at them by talking down to them like they are shit in public.  This will cause you to not get invited to any conventions other than ones that you have created for yourself.

Secondly, it is on your own forums and comment pages, i.e. the Spoony Method. Even though you want everyone there to be happy and agree, you have no problem acting like the same "Trolls" that have been banned on your forums. You are abusive and arrogant towards your fans in debates, and will threaten to ban them for trivial shit like not liking the original Star Wars Trilogy or something.  If a negative comment does somehow manage to sneak past your personal KGB, you will respond to it with extreme hostility and act like a spoiled fat child who didn't get his cake.

This is why you don't have any friends in the real world.

Notable Example: Spoony

6. Become a Pedophile

Oh great, you fucked up big time now. You just couldn't resist the fangirl pussy couldn't you?

Since the only fans you have that are dumb enough to want to fuck you are horny, lonely and miserable teenagers (lol, Monty),  at this stage you realise "FUCK IT, I'm not getting any in the real world, and she loves me so much that she will never tell".

Unfortunately you forget that these teenagers will grow up in a few years and realise how stupid they were for wanting to see your penis. This regret will eat at them inside until they find out that they can get back at you by posting this publicly.

Congratulations, you have become a despicable creature that only a mother could love. Actually scratch that, your parents just disowned you. Maybe you should have sorted out your real life rather than trying to live off some shit on the internet you made.

At least TGWTG hasn't gone this far yet...

FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!

Notable Examples: Tim Buckley, rumoured to be Archfiend

Where does your favourite celebrity lie on the Tim Buckley path?

The Amazing E-Begger

After watching the past few "Amazing" Atheist videos in his "Hate Week", which is nothing more than shock jock bullshit (because we all know he doesn't believe what he says) , I noticed something at the end of his recent one about Individidualism:

Go to 4:48 for the e-begging. For those that don't even want to give the asswipe a view, I will quote what he says to save you bandwidth:


"Hey there youtube, do you want an Amazing Atheist iPhone and Android app? Do you want an Amazing Atheist website? then please, donate below. All those who donate will be featured on a page in the app or website proclaiming "This made possible by" followed by a list that could include your name if you click the link below and give some of your hard earned money to my fat ass"


Yeah, because FUCK saving money you make from Youtube and Blip, why do that when you can have your dipshit fanbase give you money when you don't fucking deserve it?


Jesus (yes I say that ironically),  your asking for money for a damn website and an app? Even The Archfiend has a fucking website, Reviewtopia has been founded by a bunch of people who combined probably have the same subscribers and views (maybe less) than you do but they founded a website.  Phelous and Brad Jones have their own personal websites and didn't ask for a fucking cent,  yet you are more popular and expect donations? You piece of shit, no wonder you are on the Busy Street  Blacklist.


We all know how succesfful Sean Fausz has been with this, but let's see how good TJ has done by clicking on the link, as of this writing:





$392 IN ONE FUCKING DAY!!! Hell, it's less than a day, man some people are too stupid to be carrying money. Good god, look at one of the comments:





Because it's not like he has a Youtube Partnership where he earns money off every view on his videos and gets paid by Google or anything.  Nah, because if you yell in front of a camera like an obnoxious cunt you deserve money, because it is such a unique talent.


I guess we can add this to his blacklist page, not only is he willing to use the death of his father for dramatic effect and say gays who commit suicide are pussies for shock value, but this evidence shows this cunt of a human being is willing to exploit his fans for money he doesn't fucking need. Apparently he has done this shit before, but you guys can leave that in the comments since I have spent enough of my time writing this.


Does anyone here think he will give back the money from donations once he profits from the bombardment of ads that will be on his website and app? Of course not, he will just say "SEE, YOUR NAME IS ON MY WEBSITE, THAT IS GOOD ENOUGH". Eat shit TJ.

ElektrikRockR 2 - Pacman

Everyone's favourite pretentious douchebag decides to take a look at pacman and notices it's numerous drug references and social commentary. Enjoy.


Also, since some people thought this was a Moviebob parody at first, I decided to embrace that

ElektrikRockR 1 - Sonic

Since I have one follower (hi david) I thought I would post a youtube video I made making fun of pretentious conceptual artist types if they were to over analyse video games like they do with paintings. The end result, as expected, is finding shit that isn't there.

Enjoy david, or anyone else who happens to stumble upon this blog.

Game Prices and the Used Market, why Prices need to drop!!!

Well I got lazy after the first few days huh? Well now that I have a bit more time, I want to talk about video game prices and why they need to drop to help the industry and consumers alike. I started thinking about this when Cliffy B said this about games being released today:

“I’m going to go on the record and say that I believe the middle class game is dead,” he said. “It needs to either be either an event movie – day one, company field trip, [Battle: Los Angles], we’re there. Avatar – we’re there. The Other Guys starring Will Ferrell and Marky Mark? Nah, I’ll f****** rent that, I don’t really care, right?

“Or it has to be an indie firm. Black Swan – I’ll go and see that. I’ll go to The Rialto or I’ll go to the triple-A Imax movie. The middle one is just gone, and I think the same thing has happened to games.”

Now this is a huge problem with the industry, while something like Gears can sell a lot of copies and be profitable, others like Mirror's Edge have been considered failures. But this problem has been talked about before, in fact it was addressed back in 2002 with the FairPlay campaign:

http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/fairplay/front2.htm

Basically what they suggested even back then was that games prices needed to drop, as at the time 95% of all games were losing money and only blockbuster titles were making any money. Sounds exactly like the Cliffy B quote doesn't it? Amazing that in over 8 years nothing has really changed.

Now think about it for a minute. How many games have you looked at and said "I'll buy this game later when the price has dropped" and overlooked it entirely? Those titles are usually the Mirror's Edge titles, the ones that are risky for you to spend so much money on because you need to keep your money for other games usually being released at about the same time. If all games were cheaper do you think that would increase the likelihood of you getting those games? Of course it would, with more money to spend you would buy more games which would make video games less risky to buy and sell, which is exactly what the folks at FairPlay are arguing.

But why would the industry want to have such a risky business structure that is reliant on having 1 or 2 titles a year making them money while the others make losses? Because it benefits the blockbuster titles like Call of Duty and Gears of War. Pretty convenient that Cliffy B thinks this is a huge problem but doesn't offer a solution. But this isn;t a case of politics and all, it's more of a case of incompetence on the hands of the publishers, they are so damn conservative and stuck in their ways about what the prices should be that they are unwilling to take the chance of dropping prices. And they are aware of FairPlay all too well.

If you look on their site (Or World Of Stuart's, check out Driv3rgate as well while your at it), you will see that they organised a campaign in the UK for a "Don't Buy a Game Week" and it worked. Here is what they said about the result:

The big sales blip during the campaign week which saw Game, Europe's biggest videogame retailer, lose a massive 80% of its share value overnight in response to disappointing sales. When the campaign was over, sales shot up again.  

When something like that happens, you know damn well that the industry remembers that week like a woman remembers her wedding day.

While video game publishers have been resistant to change, what have consumers and retailers done to cater get cheaper prices since then. Something that the industry is hell bent on fighting, USED GAMES!!!

You've all seen how Gamestop in the USA makes most of their money of used game sales, and here in Australia EB, GAME and JB HiFi have massive sections dedicated to used video games, so obviously the consumers have declared that they want cheap video games and don;t care if they are new. Used games have increased dramatically in popularity wit many reatilers receiving tonnes of them from trade-ins so people can get new games cheaper than the full RRP as well. I haven't paid $100AUD for a game since 2003 because I refuse to pay that much for a video game, especially with importing being an option.

So how did the industry respond to this obvious demand in lower game prices? At first, with the current generation, SONY AND MICROSOFT RAISED GAME PRICES!!! In the US it went up to $60 and over here it went up fro $100 to $120. Way to ignore the consumer entirely. No wonder this generation is so reliant on sequels and established franchises, with suck high prices no one wants to take a risk.

This didn't stop used game sales, so how does the industry respond to that? By making consumers feel like criminals for doing so. You have EA charging people an extra 10 bucks to play their used copy of games online and we keep hearing talks about "Digital Distribution is the future". It is only the future  because they want to stop used game sales and keep all of the profit for themselves and dictate pricing. Never have I seen an industry get so angry and rebellious towards used version's of their product. Maybe if they didn't charge so much people wouldn't get it used, how often do you see used DVD's and used CD's being a major selling point for the Movie and Music stores?

Just take a look at the Indie scene at the moment. They charge no more than $20USD (usually less) for their games and often sell them on DD services like Steam, PSN and XBLA. Cliffy B talks about only Indie and Megahit being successful today, but looking at the price it is obvious why. The price difference is absolutely staggering and shows that a small, unique title in today's market can only be sold at a dirt cheap price in order to get any attention from consumers. THAT is how bad game pricing has become.

This has also resulted in consumers becoming reliant on reviews. While I will never trust game reviews anymore because they score games based on hype and what bullshit swag they get sent in the mail, when I ask people why they trust reviews, it is because games are expensive and they want to know for sure what to spend their money on. No one listens to film and music critics because the risk of checking something out in those mediums is low in terms of cost, but now consumers have become so paranoid and conservative because of price that they need someone else to tell them if something is good rather than trusting their own instinct. That is just sad.

Unfortunately, I don;t see this changing. Look a what Bobby Koteck of Activision has had to say about game development:

·         The games Activision Blizzard didn't pick up, he said, "don't have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million dollar franchises. ... I think, generally, our strategy has been to focus... on the products that have those attributes and characteristics, the products that we know [that] if we release them today, we'll be working on them 10 years from now."

While it is good that he wants to make money off every game published, being so fucking conservative and saying things like "If it were up to me I would charge MORE" is not helping at all and shows that his goal is to make money by charging as much as possible and releasing the same crap over and over again, relying on the same business model the industry has had for years. Shame that things aren't going to change, because the industry needs it.