👓 TGWTG The Spoony One / Spoony / Noah Antwiler and Rachel Baker / @RaeAngel07 - The touching romance between a washed-up videogame reviewer throwing a decade-long pity party and his delusional Canuck stalker. #weaknotsick #donttellmehowtosulk

[Pokemonquistador]

Is he on antipsychotics, or adderall or something like that? Doesn't he have heart problems? Vasodepressor syncope?

I believe Spoony was on Seroquel at one point, which is a strong antipsychotic used to treat manic depression. It also has long term side effects like dyskenesia (Parkinsons-like movements.) This would seem to indicate that Spoony is on some pretty strong drugs (or at least was at one time.)

 

[ISP]

He's descending into paranoia, his mental state is deteriorating...

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

He's descending into paranoia, his mental state is deteriorating...

You mean it hasn't already?

 

[Clop]

He's descending into paranoia, his mental state is deteriorating...

This kind of person is really cumbersome to deal with in real life.

Step 1: COMPLAIN
Step 2: Disregard advice as impossible
Step 3: Get hostile over argument that proves you have a chance
Step 4: Concoct conspiracy why everything bad that happens to you isn't because you're not trying, but because you're trying harder than anyone
Step 5: Refuse to contact anyone over issue, keep complaining to people who stop trying to give advice on anything
Step 6: Cry that no one's talking to you anymore when you're having problems
repeat until all friends and family have been exhausted and then commit a mathematical puzzle

I can understand why April needs the pills too.

 

[NSA]

Pharmacies in Canada give you prescriptions in a stapled paper bag. Could be the same in the US.

They come in a clear plastic bottle with a giant label on them. There is no way he wouldn't notice if the bottle was suddenly half the size.

As far as I can tell, it does seem to be a fuck-up by Spoony's pharmacy/insurer.

Insurance is more likely, they like to cheap out on people sometimes, force dosage reduction. Spoony is probably on welfare tier shit insurance from Obama, so his quality of service probably is terrible.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I have to wonder, how does Miles explain Spoony to people?

I mean if Spoony was my brother, I'd be royally embarrassed.

I don't think he does, hell his older brother and his sister don't talk about him. It's like once they're away from him they forget he exists.

Pharmacies in Canada give you prescriptions in a stapled paper bag. Could be the same in the US.

As far as I can tell, it does seem to be a fuck-up by Spoony's pharmacy/insurer.



That's reductive. Internet fame is more than YT metrics. Spoony was influential enough to receive invites to conventions across North America and Europe and got nearly $6,000~/mo for the mere promise of content. Very few if any other YT channels with 100k~ subs get that level of support and opportunity. Discussion of his downfall is amazingly widespread. Fredrik Knudsen's video on him has over half a million views and thousands of comments from people who knew about him. BETRAYAL, the Ultima Retrospective and some of his Final Fantasy reviews were also well known disproportionate to his sub count.

Spoony also hosted his content on Blip for many years and started in the early days when the market was much smaller, which distorts his apparent popularity.

Noah is a minor internet celebrity, but he has what I'd call residual fame.

I've never heard of a pharmacy giving people their drugs in the same bottle. If two people take the same drugs they put them in different jars. Is April allowed to even take them is what I'm now wondering, like he could have been getting two months worth and sharing it or something and the insurance company got fed up and made it for only 30 days.

 

[RodgerDodger]

I don't think he does, hell his older brother and his sister don't talk about him. It's like once they're away from him they forget he exists.


I've never heard of a pharmacy giving people their drugs in the same bottle. If two people take the same drugs they put them in different jars. Is April allowed to even take them is what I'm now wondering, like he could have been getting two months worth and sharing it or something and the insurance company got fed up and made it for only 30 days.

There is likely a limit on how much of the medication the insurance will pay for monthly. For example most insurers will only pay for 15 Ambien a month, no matter what the MD writes the script for. They generally only do this for some of the more controlled substances. Ambien or Ritalin are what jump immediately to mind. The other thing that can cause this is the script ran out and only had a partial refill left. And Noah was too stupid to listen to the pharmacist or pay attention to what he got.

And no, no pharmacy will ever give meds for 2 people in one bottle. It is literally impossible for them to do it. The systems just don’t allow it.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

Of all the stupid and annoying things Spoony does, his listlessness surrounding medical stuff is one of the most baffling to me.

"Wahhh my sadbrains scan costs $2,000, the health care system in Amerikkka is broken (even though at one time I was making 3x that in a month)!!!"
"Wahhh I only got half my pills but I won't just call the pharamacy to figure out why or to see if they'll give me more because I'm as helpless as a toddler!!!"

For despising the white working middle class, Spoony sure does like appropriating their issues. Only instead of being a blue-collar worker or small business owner who got screwed over by Obamacare raising their premiums $200 a month, he's a loser who was too good to join the rat race like everyone else and then flushed the career that was more than adequate to cover costs of his health issues and then some down the drain.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

And no, no pharmacy will ever give meds for 2 people in one bottle. It is literally impossible for them to do it. The systems just don’t allow it.

That's what I was thinking, I've never heard of that in any Western country before. You can't even pick up another persons subscription most of the time. (I've had to always have a few pieces of ID to do it)

 

[Witchsmeller Pursuivant]

That's what I was thinking, I've never heard of that in any Western country before. You can't even pick up another persons subscription most of the time. (I've had to always have a few pieces of ID to do it)

I'm in Michigan and I've had family members pick up controlled substances for me before and the pharmacy never said a peep.

 

[Man vs persistent rat]

For despising the white working middle class, Spoony sure does like appropriating their issues. Only instead of being a blue-collar worker or small business owner who got screwed over by Obamacare raising their premiums $200 a month, he's a loser who was too good to join the rat race like everyone else and then flushed the career that was more than adequate to cover costs of his health issues and then some down the drain.

You do have to have a pretty casual and privileged attitude to feel that you can throw away the opportunities Spoony has had and still assume that everything should work itself out somehow if you whine hard enough. He's such a fucking boomer. A poor person would not squander the chances he has had, sads or not, because they fought for their job and it's their escape from an alternative they know only too well.

 

[RodgerDodger]

That's what I was thinking, I've never heard of that in any Western country before. You can't even pick up another persons subscription most of the time. (I've had to always have a few pieces of ID to do it)

You can pick up someone else’s stuff provided you are on the list and are in the pharmacy’s system. So immediate family is a non issue. The accounts are linked in the pharmacies computers. My wife and I can get each other’s meds, even though we use different legal last names. There is also some discretion on the part of the pharmacist for non controlled substances. It is possible to give the pharmacist permission to release the meds to a friend or neighbor in certain circumstances, such as a hospital discharge. They will let the neighbor pick up enough to get the patient through a day or two, until they are able to get things under control and get their full meds.

 

[RJ MacReady]

You do have to have a pretty casual and privileged attitude to feel that you can throw away the opportunities Spoony has had and still assume that everything should work itself out somehow if you whine hard enough. He's such a fucking boomer. A poor person would not squander the chances he has had, sads or not, because they fought for their job and it's their escape from an alternative they know only too well.

It's worth restating that Noah has had only three jobs in his life: One from nepotism that lasted a week (Boeing), one under-the-table minimum wage gig from being friends with the store owner (Michael's Magic) and his $50 USD a month writing job for Knights of the Dinner Table. He also acted for "Dial M For Mystery Theatre" in 07-08 but I doubt that was paid.

He fell into TSE not long after failing grad school. I don't think Noah ever knew what it was like to be an adult until he moved to Illinois and that has formed a huge portion of his stress and poor decision making. He'd been dependent on his parents and Miles his entire life before then.

 

[Pokemonquistador]

Of all the stupid and annoying things Spoony does, his listlessness surrounding medical stuff is one of the most baffling to me.

"Wahhh my sadbrains scan costs $2,000, the health care system in Amerikkka is broken (even though at one time I was making 3x that in a month)!!!"
"Wahhh I only got half my pills but I won't just call the pharamacy to figure out why or to see if they'll give me more because I'm as helpless as a toddler!!!"

For despising the white working middle class, Spoony sure does like appropriating their issues. Only instead of being a blue-collar worker or small business owner who got screwed over by Obamacare raising their premiums $200 a month, he's a loser who was too good to join the rat race like everyone else and then flushed the career that was more than adequate to cover costs of his health issues and then some down the drain.

I notice Spoony has severe avoidance issues. He'll get more pleasure and value out of complaining about the problem than he will from fixing it. He's pretty much programmed his brain to reject all advice, suggestions or anything else that might go towards solving his problems. I've often wondered why people sabotage themselves like this. Perhaps it's because they don't want to engage with humanity or carry the level of responsibility that a mentally healthy person would be expected to do. If you're always a simpering patient perpetually lying on Death's doorstep, then no one will ask you to do things that you don't want to do.

 

[NQ 952]

Hey, Noah, if you ever read this thread, I'm here if you ever want to talk.

 

[Clop]

Out of sheer curiosity, @LordKaT do you still see that "betrayal" thing as something that screwed up a potential career opportunity? I'd imagine at the time it must've been rage-inducing, but do you still feel that strongly about it?

 

[NQ 952]

Out of sheer curiosity, @LordKaT do you still see that "betrayal" thing as something that screwed up a potential career opportunity? I'd imagine at the time it must've been rage-inducing, but do you still feel that strongly about it?

I never saw it as a career opportunity. I was pissed because we were a bunch of spergs nobody took seriously and genuinely got laughed at when we tried to do anything remotely serious. That was just another example of kids being exceptional and not advancing ourselves.

An I still mad about it? No. Its been years. Do I regret getting nuclear mad about it? Sure. If I had the chance would I approach it differently? Of course.

Did I ever see it as a "ruined career"? Fuck no. After seeing gamergate I didn't want anything to do with that clique.

 

[Cowpies]

Phantasmagoria 2 was my intro to him as well. Curtis/Trevor 4EVA!

I rewatched his whole Let's Play a while back, and he had some real talent back then. I think he was one of the only guys to truly emulate MST3K unlike all the other spergs who watched it but didn't realize what made it funny.

Funny you mentioned MST3K, I remember him sperging about how he refused to watch Rifftrax anymore. He said it was because of their Highlander riff (but NOT because he's a butthurt fanboy, he emphasized that) because the whole point should have been to riff less popular films that are actually bad. He also claimed that the Rifftrax people contacted him to try to win him back (cause he's so important, obvs).

 

[deeman]

Think about it, we've only dealt with Noah for a few years. Miles had to be the guy's brother during his high school years- arguably the time at which Noah's mondo autismo was crystalizing.

given Miles is 10 years older you could say he dodged that bullet... unlike Juan.

 

[Judge Holden]

Phantasmagoria 2 was my intro to him as well. Curtis/Trevor 4EVA!



Funny you mentioned MST3K, I remember him sperging about how he refused to watch Rifftrax anymore. He said it was because of their Highlander riff (but NOT because he's a butthurt fanboy, he emphasized that) because the whole point should have been to riff less popular films that are actually bad. He also claimed that the Rifftrax people contacted him to try to win him back (cause he's so important, obvs).

iirc bill corbett (who frankly at this point is growing ever more like spoony in terms of screeching about trump and "alt-right boogieman of the day" schtick) mocked him on tweeter a few years back and sneered at his online screeching reviewer schtick, so that probably explains it