🌟 Internet Famous James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.

[DangDingleDonk]

If he was a millionaire, he wouldn't have had to crowdfund his shitty movie about what, 3 or 4 times?

Because he didn't want spend too much on garbage

 

[mlanguishi]

There is more heinous pat slop now than james. What a horror this is.

This is really brutal, as usual he bitches about nickel and dime money when all he had to do was catch it was a scam up front. You're paying for children toys, stop it. 9 min Ian says I heard this a few times and it doesn't make any sense. Just KYS Pat, you're whining over a few bucks over nothing is awful. Little sheltered baby.

If you're 20 something great, whine about a buck fiddy here or there. You both are NEAR 50 and this is pitiful!

 

[A random street in Duluth]

I find it funny how each Generations have their own nostalgic time to cope about

To be honest, some decades really do lend themselves to nostalgia, especially what came after them. I can totally see why someone would like the '00s where the internet was mainstream but not yet corralled by algorithms into a few gigasites, or the optimistic pop culture of the 90s. Or much of the same for the 50s, where optimism about the power of the ATOM and space travel was abuzz, along with being the high water mark of American society. Or even the now-forgotten eras of nostalgia for old geezers, it doesn't take a genius to see why people loved the Roaring Twenties before the great depression and WW2 or the Gilded Age of the 1890s when the frontier finally closed and US cities were undergoing massive growth in prosperity while still retaining some charm. If a real geopolitical fuckup happens, we might even see the shitty decade of the 2010s and 2020 be regarded with nostalgia among the survivors. I mean, we already see zoomies nostalgic for their early 2010s childhoods as cultural decades and the rate of change is speeding up.

You're paying for children toys, stop it. 9 min Ian says I heard this a few times and it doesn't make any sense.

Like 10-15 years ago this was all plastic trash that you could buy on a dime. I remember SNES games going for a dollar each or ten for 5 dollars. Its all such a massive bubble, driven by the hunger of manchildren for toys to flex with. I mean, its a step above collecting funkopops but why aren't they realizing how oversaturated the whole thing for nerd cred is?

 

[Grub]

Like 10-15 years ago this was all plastic trash that you could buy on a dime. I remember SNES games going for a dollar each or ten for 5 dollars. Its all such a massive bubble, driven by the hunger of manchildren for toys to flex with. I mean, its a step above collecting funkopops but why aren't they realizing how oversaturated the whole thing for nerd cred is?

Retro game collecting is such a retarded hobby I actually think funkopops might be less retarded. Honestly, as soon as emulators became good enough to emulate the consoles I own, that shit went into a box and I haven't looked at them since. Even in late 90's - early 2000's I didn't give a fuck and played snes games, even ones I owned, on zsnes using a keyboard because hooking up the snes was annoying. Especially these days. Fuck man you can play all those retro games upscaled with texture packs and shit. I honestly just can't understand the fascination people have fucking around with CRTs and plugging all that shit in. I'd rather emulate games on my phone than play shit on original hardware. That's not even getting into the retards who just collect that shit to store wrapped on their shelf and jerk off to it.

 

[Stupid Sexy Flanders]

There is more heinous pat slop now than james. What a horror this is.

Woah bitch tits. Is he on HRT?

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Woah bitch tits. Is he on HRT?

No, he's on HPT, can't replace what was never there in the first place.

 

[nycifer]

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There is more heinous pat slop now than james. What a horror this is.

I'm re-watching the entire Flea Market Madness series and god, Pat comes off very entitled in it, looking back. I really do wonder how much he's packing per visit when going into these things to be throwing money around the way he does. Like he threw down some $150 or something on maybe 5 SNES games casually.

I understand that not everything is going to be a good deal, but there's a line where there's not a good deal and then you being a petty bitch about it. Pat keeps crossing that line. Does he truly expect people to be throwing games at him for $1 a cart? Resellers suck who lean on ebay prices, I won't argue for them, but some of the time, people do have to make money out there on these markets, so they aren't always unreasonable.

Retro game collecting is such a retarded hobby I actually think funkopops might be less retarded. Honestly, as soon as emulators became good enough to emulate the consoles I own, that shit went into a box and I haven't looked at them since. Even in late 90's - early 2000's I didn't give a fuck and played snes games, even ones I owned, on zsnes using a keyboard because hooking up the snes was annoying. Especially these days. Fuck man you can play all those retro games upscaled with texture packs and shit. I honestly just can't understand the fascination people have fucking around with CRTs and plugging all that shit in. I'd rather emulate games on my phone than play shit on original hardware. That's not even getting into the retards who just collect that shit to store wrapped on their shelf and jerk off to it.

I once did build a video game collection and I was proud that I did. I spent 4 years wheeling and dealing until I felt that I was close to completing my personal collection. But, life threw a curveball, I lost my job and almost became homeless that I had to sell shit. My collection had to go and I made about $300-ish at the time. All of that time and effort gone for good.

Since then, I've not been intrigued at all to attempt to rebuild a collection for the reasons you're stating here. I've been emulating games for years and I finally have a computer, that can emulate PS2 games which was my childhood generation of gaming along with previous generations as well. I feel no need to go out and waste my time, thumbing around used video game stores where people expect me to pay $30 to re-capture a part of my childhood.

When I know I'm probably going to sink 5 - 10 minutes into it and not look at it again for a long while. That and I'd have to chase the system down too which is just another expense. Why do that when I have the ISO in my system that I can revisit anytime I want to, when the mood is right and just play it that way?

Getting caught up in being a moralfag about pirating games doesn't outweigh my value for time, patience and finance. Emulation all the way.

 

[Grub]

I once did build a video game collection

I maybe sounded a little harsh. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate wanting to have and own a bunch of physical games. I'll probably never get rid of the ones I do have unless I really have to. I guess I mean, there's a difference between just having and enjoying a video game collection and video game collectors. It's not even so much the collecting part. I feel the same way about retards who go off about FPGA emulation and CRT shaders and shit like that. I think it's all the people that take that retro game shit way too seriously that bug me. They're just games. They're just supposed to be fun. Who cares if it's not exactly the same as when you were a kid sitting on the floor in the hall on the spare TV? People like that just take all the fun out of things.

Keeping things kind of on topic, that's part of why I like James even though his videos usually suck now. He has a big ass game collection and rants about games and seems like the type of person who cares more than he should but he's never actually cared that much about the games even when his videos were still good. At least not in the way retro game enthusiasts, or whatever you want to call that particular brand of retardation, do so he's never really rubbed me the wrong way the way a lot of youtubers with shelves full of games behind them do.

 

[p1138]

Retro game collecting is such a retarded hobby I actually think funkopops might be less retarded. Honestly, as soon as emulators became good enough to emulate the consoles I own, that shit went into a box and I haven't looked at them since. Even in late 90's - early 2000's I didn't give a fuck and played snes games, even ones I owned, on zsnes using a keyboard because hooking up the snes was annoying. Especially these days. Fuck man you can play all those retro games upscaled with texture packs and shit. I honestly just can't understand the fascination people have fucking around with CRTs and plugging all that shit in. I'd rather emulate games on my phone than play shit on original hardware. That's not even getting into the retards who just collect that shit to store wrapped on their shelf and jerk off to it.

The people who can sit there with their 30 year old worn out 15" CRT desperately trying to claim they're having fun is indeed something I don't get. And then the people chasing down the 30" and larger CRTs... apparently forgetting how much room those things took up, and how insanely heavy they were. These are the same type of people generally confused about why those NES/SNES mini consoles sold so well. Most people just want to plug shit into their 65" TV and be done with it. Not find some clapped out CRT, pull it apart, repair and calibrate it, find some working console that they likely need to get re-built controllers for because the rubber and plastic bits inside disintegrated after 40 years, etc.

And then the space of keeping these consoles around, the pile of games, controllers, the fucking cables to connect everything.

The other part of the retro game emulation community isn't much better either "get this kit, this dev board, and these add-ons, then solder everything together, use this image for an SD card then just load up your ROMs!" meanwhile you've got something sitting in front of the TV that looks like a katamari got rolled through a Radioshack assuming you could even be bothered to buy all of the crap and then put it together, and half the time parts of the shit you need are out of stock for months at a time anyway(I've looked into this) or finding some $150 chinabox loaded up with god knows what malware that falls apart in 6 months.

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There is more heinous pat slop now than james. What a horror this is.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RkMJZeHEBFI
This is really brutal, as usual he bitches about nickel and dime money when all he had to do was catch it was a scam up front. You're paying for children toys, stop it. 9 min Ian says I heard this a few times and it doesn't make any sense. Just KYS Pat, you're whining over a few bucks over nothing is awful. Little sheltered baby.

If you're 20 something great, whine about a buck fiddy here or there. You both are NEAR 50 and this is pitiful!

So he's bitching about sending an email to some woman in Europe about buying something, doesn't get back to it for over a year, looks back into it and finds out she replied a couple of weeks later, and HE is the one who is angry about anything involved in this?

And then he's crying about someone having issues with paypal? Lots of people have issues with paypal putting holds on funds, closing accounts, etc. The seller asks him to do the refund which he doesn't like because he feels like he's being scammed? That's because as I said paypal likely held the funds like assholes. So then he's crying about the 2% that paypal takes because of the currency exchange fees? Well wtf does that have to do with the seller?

And then his ranting about some gypsy in Italy realizing he's desperate for these cartridges and buying them outside of the auction website instead of just having a friend in Italy handle the transaction since he's a big e-celeb?

 

[mlanguishi]

CRTs sucked. Bad pictures, broke easily, didn't last long unless top of the line, burned in easy, huge heavy and expensive, and very limited life and take tons of wires to hook up. Degaussing home TV's non-computer CRTs was truly a pain if even possible if a magnet got too close even once.

The main thing James himself mostly bitches about those old systems is how shitty RF plugs were. S-video/Component were better, but those were only in the higher end and later on ones.

It's like wishing for an original 1984 Apple Mac to use all the time. Sure it's a novelty but the thing is useless now when you have modern tech. 2 techs I'm glad are gone are CRTs and fluorescent lighting. Most of those have ultra limited lifespans compared to LCD/LED

And Pat is a spoiled retard. He's lucky as fuck he got to anywhere online. He was in the right place at the right time to somehow get that AVGN promo. Even back then I was like 'who the hell is this freak?' cause he rarely did crossovers like that. But again, he was an obvious nepo baby anyway, I doubt it really made much of a financial difference to him overall.

 

[Grub]

Degaussing home TV's non-computer CRTs was truly a pain if even possible if a magnet got too close even once.

My cousin was a little shit when we were kids and one time when they were visiting my cousin took one of those big blue donut shaped pacemaker magnets and fucked up my dad's TV with it. We watched TV with a fucked up rainbow patch in the middle of the screen for at least a year or two until he eventually got a new one.

 

[mlanguishi]

My cousin was a little shit when we were kids and one time when they were visiting my cousin took one of those big blue donut shaped pacemaker magnets and fucked up my dad's TV with it. We watched TV with a fucked up rainbow patch in the middle of the screen for at least a year or two until he eventually got a new one.

Yep, when I was a kid I got an industrial magnet (don't ask how I got it) close to my color CRT. I had no idea it could do perm damage, I thought it was amazing how the image warped and so on. The upper right forever had a purple corner, oops.

LCDs can still get burn in, not to mention OLED still. But they're so much better. And good riddance to plasma TV's. They also were insanely expensive, ran hot and power hungry, and burned in the fasted of all and wore out, but they did have OLED-esque dark levels.

 

[demicolon]

Pat the NES Punk more like Pat the Penis Pumper.

 

[innocent jogger]

I once did build a video game collection and I was proud that I did. I spent 4 years wheeling and dealing until I felt that I was close to completing my personal collection. But, life threw a curveball, I lost my job and almost became homeless

Boo hoo.

I think it's all the people that take that retro game shit way too seriously that bug me. They're just games. They're just supposed to be fun. Who cares if it's not exactly the same as when you were a kid sitting on the floor in the hall on the spare TV? People like that just take all the fun out of things.

I agree 100%.

The people who can sit there with their 30 year old worn out 15" CRT desperately trying to claim they're having fun is indeed something I don't get. And then the people chasing down the 30" and larger CRTs... apparently forgetting how much room those things took up, and how insanely heavy they were. These are the same type of people generally confused about why those NES/SNES mini consoles sold so well. Most people just want to plug shit into their 65" TV and be done with it. Not find some clapped out CRT, pull it apart, repair and calibrate it, find some working console that they likely need to get re-built controllers for because the rubber and plastic bits inside disintegrated after 40 years, etc.

That is a lot of words.

 

[nycifer]

Boo hoo.

Kill yourself, retard.

 

[nycifer]

I maybe sounded a little harsh. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate wanting to have and own a bunch of physical games. I'll probably never get rid of the ones I do have unless I really have to. I guess I mean, there's a difference between just having and enjoying a video game collection and video game collectors. It's not even so much the collecting part. I feel the same way about retards who go off about FPGA emulation and CRT shaders and shit like that. I think it's all the people that take that retro game shit way too seriously that bug me. They're just games. They're just supposed to be fun. Who cares if it's not exactly the same as when you were a kid sitting on the floor in the hall on the spare TV? People like that just take all the fun out of things.

That's fine. I only collected because it was a personal collection, a collection meant to be played, not shelved and moved around from place to place. I don't like collectors who collect things and let them sit there to collect dust. I know why they do that, obviously because they think they're sitting on an investment. Newsflash to those people, want to invest? Get into the stock market, noob. Your little video game collection is functioning off of a fluctuating but finite value, you are going to only find buyers who're like you and nobody else.

It's the same damn people who say they love saturday morning cartoons. Like, okay, that's not an issue. No, no, they have to go further than that. They'll say they love saturday morning cartoons, they'll watch those cartoons but they will actually try to recreate the period of time when they were in their jammies with a bowl of cereal and pretending they're a kid while watching them. That shit is just too far and too much. We don't need to know this shit.

Just accept the passing of time a lot sooner than never, it'll get a little easier on you. It always made me cringe whenever James himself even flirted with the idea of pretending to be like times past.

 

[Grub]

. And good riddance to plasma TV's

Plasma TVs were weird. I feel like they barely existed, though i imagine you can still buy them somewhere. It was one of those things that feels like it was one of those buzzword fads for a year or two and then they just kind of vanished for LEDs. I know they were around for longer than that but it feels like they were barely around.

It's the same damn people who say they love saturday morning cartoons. Like, okay, that's not an issue. No, no, they have to go further than that. They'll say they love saturday morning cartoons, they'll watch those cartoons but they will actually try to recreate the period of time when they were in their jammies with a bowl of cereal and pretending they're a kid while watching them. That shit is just too far and too much. We don't need to know this shit.

I had a roommate who went through a weird phase of watching old kid's cartoons like that. At first it was just like whatever but it just went on and on and I'd come home and buddy would be binge watching shit like the old Mario brothers and sonic cartoons. Eventually he did have some kind of mental breakdown and somewhere buried on a random thread or two on kiwifarms is the story of the horrifying shit I found in his room after I kicked him out but I've always felt like his cartoon obsession was vaguely connected to his horrifying garbage, piss bottle and used sex toy hoarding.

 

[Questions are a Burden]

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There is more heinous pat slop now than james. What a horror this is.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RkMJZeHEBFI
This is really brutal, as usual he bitches about nickel and dime money when all he had to do was catch it was a scam up front. You're paying for children toys, stop it. 9 min Ian says I heard this a few times and it doesn't make any sense. Just KYS Pat, you're whining over a few bucks over nothing is awful. Little sheltered baby.

If you're 20 something great, whine about a buck fiddy here or there. You both are NEAR 50 and this is pitiful!

He looks like AIDS. What a galactic sized faggot.

 

[p1138]

Plasma TVs were weird. I feel like they barely existed, though i imagine you can still buy them somewhere. It was one of those things that feels like it was one of those buzzword fads for a year or two and then they just kind of vanished for LEDs. I know they were around for longer than that but it feels like they were barely around.

LCD TVs drastically came down in weight, thickness, bezel size, and of course cost. I had a 50" plasma for a while, the thing weighed 50+ pounds, had a 2" bezel, added a noticeable amount of heat to the room on some days, and they were never going to get cheaper or lighter because the technology required the panel to be glass instead of plastic like LCD or OLED. Plus modern OLED can be as thin or thinner than an LCD, just as light, and have far better burn in protection. With LCD panels racing to the bottom for price since 90% of the customers don't actually care about image quality(better response time, less blur, actual black, etc.) plasma was doomed from the start. Then once OLED became more common, it didn't need to exist anymore and they quit making them over a decade ago.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Plasma TVs were weird. I feel like they barely existed, though i imagine you can still buy them somewhere. It was one of those things that feels like it was one of those buzzword fads for a year or two and then they just kind of vanished for LEDs. I know they were around for longer than that but it feels like they were barely around.

Panasonic was the last manufacturer making plasma panels, and they quit a few years ago. OLED made plasma obsolete in every aspect, but people had already quit buying plasma due to the weight, high power consumption and short lifespan plasmas suffered from, as well as the burn-in problem.