That Guy With The Glasses/ Nostalgia Critic site

[Atmos Duality]

On Topic: I occasionally watch something random on TGWTG, they still have some decent content.

+Oancitizen
Great delivery, informative, usually witty and the films he reviews are "artsy" so they're quite bizarre even compared to most of what goes up on TGWTG.

+Bennet
Anime Abandon is great. And this is from someone who watches little to no anime. His regular reviews are boring and sometimes inaccurate but never to the point where it warrants outrage.

+Nash
Good delivery, much less "blunt-force humor" as I tend to see on the site. Though I've started to tire of regular show. There's only so much crazy I can ingest each week before it starts to be less funny and more depressing.

+Todd (when he actually gets around to producing content anyway)
He has a good temperament, delivery and writing. Not the best, but quite enjoyable in a way that doesn't annoy me. (most reviewers on this list I eventually tire of listening to. Not Todd for some odd reason.)

+Angry Joe. Not for his delivery (which is still pretty meh and often annoying) but because he is one of the most honest game reviewers out there. What he claims has regularly stood up to my personal experience and scrutiny even if I differ from him in preference for some things.

+Linkara occasionally kills some time for me; I queue up his stuff and play it back later when I'm waiting on something to finish for/at work. His mannerisms eventually annoy (he's a good singer too)

+Paw
I loved his King's Quest Lets Plays and Music Game series (short-lived as it was).
I'd tune into his stuff more often if he just made it..

+Diamanda Hagan
The Mistress has some really really fun and cathartic reviews. I don't really fit into her newer demographic (because I'm a straight white guy, not hatin' I just can't relate) but I respect her backbone, her style and her love of the obscure. Plus, she and Oancitizen play off of each other brilliantly when they collaborate.
(and her Twatty Who series is pure catharsis)

I don't like:
-Phelous (post 2010).
His series on "Pulse Films" was pretty good, and between him and Snob, I think they watch most of the truly awful films on the site. But then he just started whining, constantly and apart from Birdemic, he didn't really produce anything I liked.

-Lupa. In her reviews, her delivery sucks and her jokes are generally awful. She hasn't been all that good since joining the site, but I did like her performance in season 2 of Ninja the Mission Force.

I like a good chunk of the site, but due to the shitty ad experience with Blip, I've stopped watching pretty much everything but NC, Linkara, some Todd, and Nash. I'm having trouble thinking of others.

Ever since they rolled out the new ad-code, it's been tripping balls.
Like, ads will just loop audio and hang half the time; (or do both, which results in the audio sounding like it's singing rounds of the same audio. It's so weird.)

 

[Something Amyss]

Ever since they rolled out the new ad-code, it's been tripping balls.
Like, ads will just loop audio and hang half the time; (or do both, which results in the audio sounding like it's singing rounds of the same audio. It's so weird.)

I've been locked in an infinite ad-loop a couple times, too. The same ad will play and play and I'll never get to the video. A few times the ads have failed to load and not for the reason they're concerned about. Just, I assume, because their code is shit.

They're so concerned with people not watching the ads they've made the ads and the content behind them unwatchable.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I've been locked in an infinite ad-loop a couple times, too. The same ad will play and play and I'll never get to the video. A few times the ads have failed to load and not for the reason they're concerned about. Just, I assume, because their code is shit.

They're so concerned with people not watching the ads they've made the ads and the content behind them unwatchable.

The only saving grace in all of this is when an ad loops or derps-up, after the set amount of time a little button appears in the upper left corner of the player that says "Skip Ad" which should load the video, but I've had occasions where it doesn't load at all.

 

[Something Amyss]

I've been locked in an infinite ad-loop a couple times, too. The same ad will play and play and I'll never get to the video. A few times the ads have failed to load and not for the reason they're concerned about. Just, I assume, because their code is shit.

They're so concerned with people not watching the ads they've made the ads and the content behind them unwatchable.

The only saving grace in all of this is when an ad loops or derps-up, after the set amount of time a little button appears in the upper left corner of the player that says "Skip Ad" which should load the video, but I've had occasions where it doesn't load at all.

I just assumed it was broken, because it never works for me.

I'll have to remember to try again, though, if it works sometimes.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I just assumed it was broken, because it never works for me.

I'll have to remember to try again, though, if it works sometimes.

The only thing that's consistent about it is its inconsistency.
I wished I knew what they were doing to the player that fucks it up so badly in coding; it's the main reason I stopped bothering with most of their site (and a good thing Spoony, Brad Jones, and Hagan all have their own sites off of Blip).

 

[JimB]

I've listed my favorite That Guy performers in the past and don't feel like doing so again now, so please forgive me if all I offer is responses to things others have said:

The lynching of the Spoony One really put me off the site as a whole.

I don't know if you're referring to the fan reaction or to Channel Awesome's actions, but just in case it's the former--and feel free to ignore me if you already knew this--you do know Mr. Antwiler has said he wasn't fired, right? That he was quitting because he didn't want his show hitched to Demo Reel?

On that topic...

Actually Doug was forced to fire him from the site because he made a rape joke on Twitter and the red-headed chick (I forget her name, she was the Disney Princess in Suburban Knights) took offense to it.

and

It wasn't the rape joke that set it off (the rape joke was supposedly said around JesuOtaku); Spoony has struggled with depression for many years and dealt with it on Twitter in very unflattering and embarrassing ways.

No. These are both factually incorrect. Watch Mr. Antwiler's commentary on the first episode of to Boldly Flee; the video can be found on his website. In the commentary, Mr. Antwiler explicitly says he chose to quit because he disagreed with the business choices the channel was making.

Nostalgia Chick used to be good but she's dedicated this year to not reviewing films and doing those pointless "Fifty Shades of Green" episodes.

According to her Facebook page, she's on hiatus because she's having health problems (I forget if she said it's a mental health problem, but I kind of think she did), so presumably she'll go back to reviews once she's healthy.

I know these points have been addressed already, but I went to all the trouble of copying and pasting all my responses into a single post before I noticed that, so I don't want to waste the effort by not clicking the Post button.

 

[Evonisia]

Nostalgia Chick used to be good but she's dedicated this year to not reviewing films and doing those pointless "Fifty Shades of Green" episodes.

According to her Facebook page, she's on hiatus because she's having health problems (I forget if she said it's a mental health problem, but I kind of think she did), so presumably she'll go back to reviews once she's healthy.

Oh really? If that's true I hope she gets better soon, she's usually good enough for me to rewatch and enjoy.

 

[JimB]

Oh really?

As far as I know, yeah, that's the case. I don't have Facebook myself, but that's what was copied and pasted onto the thatguywiththeglasses.com forums when the question came up, and I have no reason to call it a lie. If it is true, it would actually explain a few things, like how she seemed to be drinking herself to half-drunk in her last eight videos or so.

 

[Johanthemonster666]

It wasn't the rape joke that set it off (the rape joke was supposedly said around JesuOtaku); Spoony has struggled with depression for many years and dealt with it on Twitter in very unflattering and embarrassing ways.

No. These are both factually incorrect. Watch Mr. Antwiler's commentary on the first episode of to Boldly Flee; the video can be found on his website. In the commentary, Mr. Antwiler explicitly says he chose to quit because he disagreed with the business choices the channel was making.[/quote]

That's what he claims, but many people followed his twitter feed when everything went down and even if he deleted it many fans relayed it. This just sounds like self-justification in hindsight.

To be honestly I know I said I thought he was great, but the worship of him goes a bit far. His new stuff on his own site is terrible, just him screaming at his co-reviewers (Bennet or whoever is with him) to shut up and that their opinios are invalid. I've started to realize his web persona and real-life personality aren't really that different in the rage department.

 

[JimB]

That's what he claims, but many people followed his Twitter feed when everything went down and even if he deleted it many fans relayed it. This just sounds like self-justification in hindsight.

I suddenly wonder if we're talking about the same thing. I don't deny that he has mental problems or that he expressed them on Twitter--I saw the posts he made telling all his friends to fuck off--but I am saying the Twitter war was not related to his departure from Channel Awesome. It is related to his suspension, obviously, but I have no reason to call him a liar when he says his choice to quit was based on self-interest related to the site's business practices.

 

[FinalHeart95]

I like Todd in the Shadows. And I watch the occasional Nostalgia Critic. That's about it.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I think everything NC does is a big bag of shite, I can't stand his videos. My ex used to watch his videos before bed and I'd have to sit downstairs for a bit because I couldn't stand the screeching. He seems like a really nice guy though.
I couldn't stand Spoony either, and he acts like a completely arrogant prick.

I think I saw a couple of Nostalgia Chick videos and fairly enjoyed them. Not sure who does that 5 second reviews but they weren't bad. People tell me to watch Linkara because I like comics but I can't be bothered ;_;

 

[RJ 17]

Actually Doug was forced to fire him from the site because he made a rape joke on Twitter and the red-headed chick (I forget her name, she was the Disney Princess in Suburban Knights) took offense to it.

No. These are both factually incorrect. Watch Mr. Antwiler's commentary on the first episode of to Boldly Flee; the video can be found on his website. In the commentary, Mr. Antwiler explicitly says he chose to quit because he disagreed with the business choices the channel was making.

Annnnnd this is another example of why I personally prefer to read topics from the most recent page to the older ones: it keeps from making uncalled for (simply for lack of a better phrase) comments like this. Had you done that, you would have known that I've already had the situation explained to me a couple times, and have even already been told to watch that.

Furthermore, had you read some of my later comments (or really even the rest of the one that you quoted) you would have seen that I fully admit that - new as I am to Doug's website - I could very easily be mistaken, and that I was just relaying what I had heard from the friend that introduced me to the site in the first place.

Just saying I wish more people would either start from most recent and go backwards (so as to realize "Well this is a conversation that doesn't need my help to resolve it") or at very least to read the entire conversation to make sure that it hasn't, in fact, been resolved yet and thus would require your input. I just personally prefer the former.

 

[Something Amyss]

The only thing that's consistent about it is its inconsistency.
I wished I knew what they were doing to the player that fucks it up so badly in coding; it's the main reason I stopped bothering with most of their site (and a good thing Spoony, Brad Jones, and Hagan all have their own sites off of Blip).

I only routinely watch Spoony of the three, but I'm appreciative of it. I do watch DH from time to time, but not enough to make a huge difference.

I never thought I'd be so appreciative of YouTube. It screws up, but far more consistency.

 

[JimB]

Annnnnd this is another example of why I personally prefer to read topics from the most recent page to the older ones: it keeps from making uncalled for (simply for lack of a better phrase) comments like this. Had you done that, you would have known that I've already had the situation explained to me a couple times, and have even already been told to watch that.

Heh. That's kind of ironic, since you had read my entire post, you'd have seen the bit where I said I know other people had already corrected your misapprehension.

 

[RJ 17]

Annnnnd this is another example of why I personally prefer to read topics from the most recent page to the older ones: it keeps from making uncalled for (simply for lack of a better phrase) comments like this. Had you done that, you would have known that I've already had the situation explained to me a couple times, and have even already been told to watch that.

Heh. That's kind of ironic, since you had read my entire post, you'd have seen the bit where I said I know other people had already corrected your misapprehension.

You quoted like, 6 people (Edit, just because I find myself having to do this more and more often: "exaggeration is exaggeration" end edit) in your post, I read the bit that was directed at me. Call me a snob but I don't care about the issues you have with what other people said.

Beyond that, if you knew I had already been corrected...why bother correcting me?

 

[JimB]

If you knew I had already been corrected...why bother correcting me?

That is also explained in the post you did not bother to read.

 

[NihilSinLulz]

I was never a big Nostalgia Critic fan. I like Doug, but I hate the character. He's at his best when he's discussing his love for something as himself.

That said, the majority of talent on that site seemed to have moved to Chez Apocalypse so outside of JesuOtaku and Critical Damage, I see no reason to visit TGWTG.

 

[JimB]

His site is a mess. It's basically impossible to navigate.

I know you're not alone in thinking so, but I've never understood this complaint. At the top of each page, there are several drop-down menus; you mouse through them until you find what you want. It's never taken me more than ten seconds to find something I want unless I can't remember what I'm looking for and am having to guess about its location.

 

[Saladfork]

Well, to put everyone connected or that has been connected to tgwtg that I watched in list-based format:

Like:
Spoony
Cinema snob
Nostalgia chick
Doug Walker's Vlog type things, but not NC

Actively dislike:
Lupa
Phelous
Distressed watcher AKA amazing athiest
Lordkat