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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I've been steered away from buying games I would otherwise have wasted money on (like Shadow of War) by negative Internet reaction, and I'm very happy it happened.

idk, sounds awfully presumptive.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

And because a lot of his persona is pretty clearly a deliberate performance. In the same way the Redlettermedia Star Wars prequel reviews are presented by a "character" and not as a serious critical film review (that everyone would have found dry and boring - and certainly wouldn't have constantly forwarded to friends until it pretty much became memetic). In the oversaturated world of Youtube videos, you pretty much have to be an over-the-top character to get enough attention to grow out of being a niche.

The extent to which it's a deliberate performance doesn't necessarily diminish the criticism of said performance. Sasha Baron-Cohen's Borat is just a character, after all, and generally irritating. More broadly, people put on over-the-top characters and other gimmicks *because* they lack substance... and, for that matter, most of the personas and gimmicks used today ran their course ages ago.
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