Looks like it's time to get involved. (RE: IrateGamer)

For a time, all was well. The reviewing community had managed to distance itself from the majority of AVGN-nazis and we had embraced the content that we all came up with.

And then that community turned it's guns on the Irate Gamer.

Irony, right?

Near as I can tell, it all started with a rant that Silent Rob put out after Chris announced that the next review would be on TMNT. It was full of butthurt. Every third word was "cock" and it was full of "BAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW HE HAS LEET EDITING SKILLZ". Every teenager with nothing better to do (i.e. school and/or job) latched onto the idea that hating IrateGamer was way more fun than liking him, and proceeded to troll the fuck out of him.

I'm not going to sit here and say that the resulting TMNT review didn't bear a suspicious resemblance to the then-ANN review (Or say I wasn't a little aghast when he went after TMNT2).

Let's review some facts and assumptions.

FACT: A reviewer is going to review a game regardless if someone else already did it.

FACT: The pizza next to the collapsing razor walls is massively outrageous, and it'd be a crime NOT to mention it.

ASSUMPTION: Chris probably saw the original TMNT review sometime after he put out the TMNT teaser.

ASSUMPTION: Nobody ever used the phrase "shit load of fuck" on the internet before Chris did, right??

ASSUMPTION: AVGN is the ONLY internet celebrity allowed to market his own t-shirt.

First, let's address the "shit load of fuck" issue. The expletive "shit load of crap" has had the word "crap" removed and "fuck" added in it's place. Witty and unique, right? Sure, if you discount the fact that AVGN comes up with these things probably by sticking swear words and other complete randomness into mad libs just to come up with these terms. If I want to say shit load of fuck, I'm saying it. I don't give a shit who else said it before I did.

Another issue of contention among his detractors is his use of fancy effects and cutting-edge video-editing software. So what? If you've got a talent, fucking use it. And if I had the talent to put in the kind of special effects he does, I'd do it too. HE USES SONY VEGAS HE SUXXXX. If you guys get a rare power-up in a video game, are you gonna use it? No, of course not. To use it would make you a jackass who exploits rare knowledge or talent to make a task easier or more appealing. I'm going to assume that everyone who uses Sony Vegas as a talking point never used the tank on the Runway or Streets levels of Goldeneye 007 because that would make them hypocrites.

Another talking point people use is that he has reviewed Back to the Future and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which were also reviewed by AVGN. I count at least five TMNT reviews on a search for "tmnt review nes" that weren't done by AVGN or IrateGamer. You guys had better be flaming every one of those guys too for reviewing a game AVGN did.

"But wait Bogart, you reviewed Top Gun: The Second Mission, which AVGN kinda reviewed and/or mentioned in his Top Gun review. Nobody hated you for it."

Oh they hated it before I pulled out the review. Everybody assumed I was just going to trash the game. Then the review came out and it was quite the opposite. The YouTube reviewing community assumes by default that you're going to rip someone off if you go after a game someone else did.

UrinatingTree did a Snake's Revenge review (ish). He even used sound clips from my review. Does that make me hate him? No, of course not. He took my review and made it better. It's not plagiarism to take an existing concept and improve it. ZOMG PLAGIARISM IRATEGAMER TOOK A TALKING POINT/REALLY STUPID EXPLETIVE AVGN DID. If we handled all instances of taking ideas and trying to improve them, we wouldn't have new video game consoles. This is why we can't have nice things.

Granted, I did pull a really mean bait and switch on wizwar100 for doing an intro like mine with the Time Lord theme, but that was in really bad taste and I apologized for it.

Some of the butthurt IG haters have created an article at EncyclopediaDramatica. This is a huge mistake. From someone who has frequented ED for the last couple of months, this article is extremely shitty. I don't know if the people brave enough to contribute to it know this, but ED doesn't think much of reviewers, seeing as how they have articles for AVGN and UrinatingTree. Haters, pay close attention to the UT article. It's about as appealing as the IG article. And ED thinks it's made of massive fail. ED also hates AVGN. So for reviewers to go there and try and make ED their own personal army is only going to come back and bite them in the ass. ED is an outlet for sites such as 4chan and entities such as Anonymous. There are three constants in the universe: Death, Taxes, and Don't Fuck With Anonymous/4chan/ED/etc. But you guys would know that, you actually looked at content the site hosts before you went there to flame IrateGamer, right? If not, Pay close attention to this article. He tried to make 7chan his personal army. It didn't end well.

Finally, I'll address his need for having to sometimes approve comments. Gee, could you blame him? Sure, there are some of you who want to point out legitimate concerns, questions and/or criticisms of his video, but do you know what the majority of his detractors are posting? Random stupid ass comments probably involving cocks or homosexuality. If he manually approves comments, it's because idiots are spamming his videos. I don't appreciate when my videos are spammed with trash, you don't appreciate it, and Chris certainly isn't going to appreciate it either. I wouldn't be surprised at all if part of the motive of his comment approving had to do with fucking pornbots comment-spamming porn links.

I'm going to tell you guys what I told DanielCraigIsNotBond. If you have a legitimate reason to dislike IG, go right ahead. If not, stop acting butthurt and surpass him if you think he's so shitty.

It's a shitload of fuck.