the incomparable tim rogers has been a full-time contributor to kotaku since last year. I have loved tim rogers' writing, but it's possible that talking-fast-over-a-video is him at his finest. here's a thread for tim rogers content past present and future!
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:41 (six years ago) link
this week he did a video review of Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition which makes me…kinda want this bugfuck game…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5SWvImTRU
mostly for my own future reference, here's a wayback machine link to action button dot net, which is currently missing with a message that says "relax, it's coming back", featuring his 18,000 word review of Final Fantasy XIII which I think is a high point.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:48 (six years ago) link
I'm guessing you dont mean this guy!
http://artslab.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tim_Rogers_1.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 17 May 2018 10:37 (six years ago) link
I don’t.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:48 (six years ago) link
no, that's him
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
i fondly remember his long, digressive "reviews" of earthbound, chrono trigger and super mario bros 3 being really important to my own writing at a certain time in my life, and i'm sad to find out the website is down now so i can't spend 2 hours reading all three again!
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
i like his videos way more than his written stuff
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
the part of the hyrule warriors video starting around 13:30 where he tries to explain the appeal of musuo games is wonderful
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
I have a mixed opinion of Rogers as writer. He has some annoying tendencies for sure, but his perspective and his style feel so unique and inimitable. I like his absurdist wordplay. I like his overall design philosophy. I could do without about half of his loopy digressions on his travels and lifestyle...at the same time, a large part of his appeal (for me) is the way his writing is always crammed-to-bursting with vivid and unnecessary detail. I'd be lying if I said his stuff didn't influence me, though if you asked me to define said influence, I'm not sure I could. Anyway, his God Hand review is pretty funny.
― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Thursday, 17 May 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
rereading the FFXII review last night, there was a lot of 2010 bro-type/edgelordy language and imagery that he's mercifully moved on from.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 17 May 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
I've met him irl a few times. he's relatively nice but does not stop talking
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 17 May 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
xp yeah, I was reading that and "blade raped" made me cringe. Glad he has matured a bit.
― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Thursday, 17 May 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
yeah i've met him at pax a couple times since my friend did the music for his game - he's basically the same person you see in his videos, it's not a put-on
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 May 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
recently ive been listening to the Violence Island podcast:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151130033625/http://earthblows.com/
it's a battle royal of random characters. interestingly the one they taped in October 2014 "Must See Killing Spree" begins with a fight between Dick Solomon and Dr. Huxtable himself, and Tim Rogers wastes no time saying that there are some deep, dark "grandmother terrifying" things about Cosby. he never comes out and says what he was accused of but it's clear he saw/heard the Hannibal act from the same month and he took that stuff seriously. just kind of interesting, i was listening to that and had to look up that it was 4 years ago. an entirely different world.
as for his personality, he doesn't seem all that different from music hipsters i've talked with. then again hipsters hate nothing more than their own kind.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 18 May 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
this is the best and worst of tim rogers, al in 5 minutes
https://jalopnik.com/should-you-honk-at-people-in-anger-a-cargument-1826083140
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 May 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
imwo honks are the only non-violent way to communicate to other cars. someone needs to invent smart honks that figure out if you are trying to merge lanes or whatever and produces a tone the other car understands and can communicate to the driver.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
Tim Rogers reported from E3. Videos are up from the booths of the major publishers. There's also this video. https://kotaku.com/the-weirdest-things-we-found-at-e3-2018-1826928317
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
Good stuff from Tim recently: Judge Eyes demohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je7hYYjr9MkEyebrow-raisey Shadow of the Tomb Raider previewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8lgFc6vFyUAffectionate DQXI reviewhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTbUGItU0s
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 13 September 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
Oops forgot to remove the m on that last one, here’s the embed for those who preferhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTbUGItU0s
let's see if tim can sell me on forza horizon 4, a candidate for my biannual Fancy Graphics Game Impulse Purchase
― ciderpress, Thursday, 27 September 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
I like his series about translating Final Fantasy VII, funny and informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZefYEaNUJ7w
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Thursday, 27 September 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
Tim made me want Forza Horizon and it’s not a thing I should want.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 28 September 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
Tim plays, screams at Mega Man 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7GR5GQy9XU
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
I can't tell if I prefer exasperated Tim or chill Tim
― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
the two types of tim rogers content i love are his scripted review vids that all take poetic turns in the 2nd half (e.g. hyrule warriors, forza horizon 4) and his on-site vids from E3/conventions
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 October 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
Tim and I have the same Game of the Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3yZzhhnS8
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
Does not disappoint.
― days of being riled (zchyrs), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
This also reminds me that I need to 1) go back and beat Celeste & 2) pick up Obra Dinn ASAP
― days of being riled (zchyrs), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
those two are tied for my goty
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
i downloaded obra dinn the other day and i'm trying to con my partner into trying it out with me tonight!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
and rogers' #1 same as mine too. it was a good year for games!
kinda sold on this guy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 02:20 (six years ago) link
Obra Dinn is awesome btw, and i don't think i will ever come close to figuring out the fates of everyone
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:25 (six years ago) link
I’m going to sit on my hands on that one for a while owing to my Switch Only policy but I’ll stop waiting in a year or so. I loved Papers Please, what a game.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
^same
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 08:15 (six years ago) link
good list. hollow knight s/b #1 tho
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 08:19 (six years ago) link
He even says there's nothing wrong with it and struggles to find a complaint (too dark to play on the NYC subway, lol), so at the least it should be higher!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
Sheesh it’s not like a scientific ranking.
I agree with him though: Hollow Knight is very good and Celeste is the best platforming video game and basically a perfect realization of what video games are good at
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
Hollow Knight is also a 2017 game
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
hollow knight is low b/c he played it last year jeez yall didn't listen to all 44 minutes did you xp
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
year of impact
PCs are powerpoint
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
of course I paid attention to all 44 minutes, and I might do it over again!
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
it's possible that talking-fast-over-a-video is him at his finest.
This is a terrible thing to say about anyone, but having a look at the Shadow of the Tomb Raider video you might have it right.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 December 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
The sheer amount of video editing he must do for these is pretty intense
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48DgYY6GVA
― Karl Malone, Friday, 28 December 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
shooting zombies is the vegetarian version of murder
― Karl Malone, Friday, 28 December 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
his story about jonathan blow (#4, braid) is interesting and kind of sad
― Karl Malone, Friday, 28 December 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqnAx3gx99w
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 January 2019 19:09 (six years ago) link
this is one franchise I just solidly dng
― ||||||||, Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:00 (six years ago) link
yeah, i don't really like disney that much so i got really bored about 3 hours into the first game and never came back
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:19 (six years ago) link
lol, though, that video is great, one of his very best
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 January 2019 04:50 (six years ago) link
he's pretty OTM there
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 25 January 2019 19:47 (six years ago) link
lol after all that kotaku made him do their review of the game anyway
― ciderpress, Saturday, 26 January 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
It’s good
https://kotaku.com/kingdom-hearts-iii-the-kotaku-review-5113989
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Sunday, 27 January 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link
i wish it was a video review, i much prefer him in video format
― ciderpress, Sunday, 27 January 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
Those take him like seventy times as long is the thing. I still like his writing. I want his novel to come out.
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Sunday, 27 January 2019 00:59 (five years ago) link
ciderpress, you're in luckhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvBcSY9vC3o
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 04:43 (five years ago) link
thats not a scripted review its just bonus footage & ad-libbing
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 January 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
Tim Rogers ad libbing is more entertaining than most prepared material tbf
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
Another person who rules is Gita imo
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:53 (five years ago) link
I dig the whole Kotaku crew; Paul Tamayo seems like a very chill dude
― days of being riled (zchyrs), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
However, Tim is the only one who I'll read a novella-length review of a game I have no interest in ever playing (e.g., Kingdom Hearts)
― days of being riled (zchyrs), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1IoIOjMqxQ
I truly don't even know what he's going on about this time but I love him all the same
― moose; squirrel (silby), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
this one gets away from me a bit too much but i like the part about god hand
― ciderpress, Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
lol, he references kael in the first fifteen seconds
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
"yet, if games is turds, these turds happen only after a community collaboration"you gotta like this guy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
i gotta get somethin off my chest: every single time i see the letters “PHD” i *immediately* say “Paul Homas Danderson” and “Philip Heemore Doffman” in my head simultaneously— tim rogers (@108) April 2, 2019
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
silby makes a cameo in his e3 predictions vid
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
Star treatment really, I was flattered
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
lol congrats!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
haha, just watched that and was wondering if that was ilx's silby
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:44 (five years ago) link
Accept no substitutes
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
is his face as punchable IRL?
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
he looks and acts the same irl as in his videos if that's what you're asking
― ciderpress, Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
<3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43a2H7LQ1Xs
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 2 August 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
I'm love him
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
Maybe his best work yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7O6aNzLLw
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
sold me on iti prefer not to watch him talk though, triggers some rough highschool flashbacks
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
oh dear
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
you went to hs with him? or just generally?
also, i guess related (ppl who went to school with tim) did anyone ever listen to the insert credit podcast way back when he talked about going to college with j*red f*gle? because holy fuck. i think it was a couple years before dude got caught being a creep and tim just talks for 15 minutes about how much of a creep dude was
― I'm a board man. Board man gets paid (Will M.), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
hmm no i think i misremembered. episode apparently came out around the same time as the bust.
― I'm a board man. Board man gets paid (Will M.), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
no i didn't actually go to school with TR, I just mean to say i and most of my friends were luminous cave newts in glasses who would expostulate nonstop with one another in eltingville-style logorrhea-offs about video games and seeing him free verse about kojima gives me the fear that there's a pop quiz in spanish
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
Happy to listen to him talk though! can just pass on including his face in the story. no offense!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
i totally get that. there's nothing that throws me into a rage faster than someone who acts like me at some previous stage in my life. it's like FUCK OFF MAN
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
yep. i have no greater scorn for anything than what i used to be. Looking forward to hating current me in the future.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVImwSb4EYU
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
That was really enjoyable. "In other words, like all video games, Death Stranding is *exactly* like Dark Souls. It should be called 'Tark Souls.'" Extra amusing to me because I've never played any Metal Gear games and only know them from one or two iterations of Smash Brothers, where the guy always reminds me of Snake Eyes from GI Joe, and what few clips I've seen of this one seem the farthest from a sneaky ninja assassin game, so it's hard for me to make a connection between that concept and whatever the hell this game seems to be. So I guess I'm ... excited? Curious? Certainly entertained by the simmering hype.
More people should review games months before they play them.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 August 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
incredible stuff
https://youtu.be/kCf75gfZhXo
― devvvine, Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
Watched that this morning; did not check the TRT before I started lol
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Saturday, 17 August 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
that kingdom hearts "review" is a masterpiece
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
his video review of Death Stranding is another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHUY-nVXKU
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
tim on pokemon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsXB95GPimU
― ciderpress, Friday, 22 November 2019 23:52 (five years ago) link
excited to watch that tonight…
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
Tim goes deep on his 2010s:https://badend.simplecast.com/episodes/the-decade-in-tim-rogers-ft-tim-rogers
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
(this is a super-depressing interview, btw)
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
less depressing (likely)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0TMNoaB6jg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
actually still quite depressing!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 16 December 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
i stand corrected. i kinda wanna take that guy out for ice cream.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 03:19 (five years ago) link
tim rogers, if you ego surf your way here by google, i live in brooklyn and will happily take you out for ice cream at ice and vice if you want. we can talk about not video games. Or Dark Souls!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 03:20 (five years ago) link
tim has reviewed animal crossing new horizons, FF7 remake, and cyberpunk 2077:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESl8gJahyBAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Bi149yQa8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuTXkMnooR4
― ciderpress, Saturday, 1 February 2020 05:11 (four years ago) link
All good, tho the Animal Crossing one is less tight and more depressed than most of his stuff. Dude is the most too-smart-for-his-own-good person I know of.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 1 February 2020 06:01 (four years ago) link
announcement: as many of you have decoded from my recent videos, i have decided to step away from full-time work at @Kotaku effective today, in order to focus on @ActionButton's #TRUCKHECK, other Exciting Endeavors, and my health. pic.twitter.com/FIDFtOuG5z— tim rogers (@108) February 3, 2020
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
more in the thread if you click thru
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
Kind of a bummer, but he did seem pretty unhappy in that job. I'll look forward to whatever dude does next.
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai8s6SsDqyY
― ciderpress, Monday, 17 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
He seems cheerfully unburdened in that one
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 17 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
i enjoyed learning about the lore of the pink sonic shirt with japanese text that you can buy at target
― ciderpress, Monday, 17 February 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
Guess that's me unsubbing from Kotaku's youtube channel then. No loss really as their non-Rogers content is pretty much worthless.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Monday, 17 February 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
Tim is on the mend from the ‘vid and the patreon is live
HELLO! i have a patreon: one huge, monthly, hour-long, meticulous, unconventional video review of a game i love. i have 37 videos in the planning stages already. https://t.co/JvTEJSALnx— tim rogers (@108) April 8, 2020
― silby, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
sure why not
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
Daddy needs medicine!
― silby, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
i googled tim rogers patreon to grab the link, and saw this tweet, which confused me because i forgot we're in 2020 and jsut saw "current month, current year"
(hang on a second: no, i am NOT making a patreon. i get paid a salary, everybody. and no, i am not going to stream "on the weekend." weekends are for walking around manhattan, watching the @criterionchannl, eating pizza, and reading books)— tim rogers (@108) April 13, 2019
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
omg and the patreon link is in the tweet you posted. i am just crushing it on the internet today. absolutely smashing it
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
once he gets this running, i am down to pay
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
same
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 April 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
He’s got nerve surgery to pay for! Also he’ll be steaming FF7R all day Friday.
― silby, Thursday, 9 April 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
I'm of course on board. Joined at the mysterious $5 tier.
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Thursday, 9 April 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
he's up to $6000 a month, he deserves it all and more!
― silby, Thursday, 9 April 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
whoa, really? i'm not sure i've seen a patreon go that high, wow! he does deserve it. he was the last good thing remaining at kotaku, which he almost singlehandedly kept afloat the last year or so
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 April 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
WHY DID YOU LEAVE KOTAKU?I found myself suddenly surrounded by numerous offers and opportunities to get paid more by doing less work to produce better content, while also reaching a wider audience. Ain't that the dream? Also, I want to be able to focus on our (Action Button Entertainment's) game TRUCK HECK more.Also, the CEO was an idiot.
I found myself suddenly surrounded by numerous offers and opportunities to get paid more by doing less work to produce better content, while also reaching a wider audience. Ain't that the dream? Also, I want to be able to focus on our (Action Button Entertainment's) game TRUCK HECK more.
Also, the CEO was an idiot.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 April 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
premiering at 4PM Pacific / 7PM Eastern / 23:00 UTC, the first Action Button review, of Final Fantasy VII Remake, over 3 hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4H5ykBP0I
― silby, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
dope but i think i will wait until after i've played the game to watch 3 hours of tim rogers about it
― ciderpress, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
gonna do the opposite
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
i don't think i'll ever play the real games. so i'm looking forward to experiencing the remake series through tim rogers
― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 May 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
whew, that first hour is fun but exhausting
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 04:09 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZZJnhzA.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 07:11 (four years ago) link
as someone who has never played ffvii and has no intention of playing ffvii or the remake this was amazing. only trouble is that i couldn't help reading everything in tim's voice for the rest of the day
― devvvine, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
"what a philosophical nightmare"
― devvvine, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:15 (four years ago) link
I've also never played FFVII outside of the demo, and probably never will play it, but I find it very fascinating as a pop-cultural relic, so this was worth watching for me. I'll probably avoid his video on TLoU until I've actually played that, though.
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
two hours into this it has mostly convinced me i shouldn't play it. Good review! Saved me a lot of time!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
this was fine. i mean i watched three hours without being bored. but i wasn’t at any point wowed enough by anywhere he went with it that i felt, afterwards, it had been a sound investment of my time. which i suspect is how i would feel if i got the ffvii remake so i guess it fits
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 29 May 2020 04:58 (four years ago) link
INSERT CREDIT PODCAST is happening again btw and i kind of prefer his snide persona to his earnest persona so I’ve been digging that a lot
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 29 May 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
only trouble is that i couldn't help reading everything in tim's voice for the rest of the day
― devvvine, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:11 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
my girlfriend accused me of doing this. i was totally unconscious of it.
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 29 May 2020 05:00 (four years ago) link
well, here's three hours on the last of ushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGSTEKapIAg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 June 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
One of his best videos imo
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
his certainty is infectious
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9V8GPtvQEI
i found this entertaining and it offered a lot more info about the games he's worked on than i'd picked up from his videos
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 9 July 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
i ran out of my crohn's disease medication a couple weeks back. coincidentally, i now know what the symptoms of crohn's disease feel like. also, i am experiencing an outbreak of shingles. i spent all day on the phone today, and learned i can't get health insurance until 2021.— tim rogers (@108) July 22, 2020
dude's really been going through it
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
THREE AND A HALF HOURS ABOUT DOOM!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38zduHkwGcc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
this is very much my content of choice from him.
also this is how i feel about the nfl in 2020https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43a2H7LQ1Xs
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
Thank god
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 September 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
pretty stoked to dig into that doom video
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 14 September 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
alright, i just got through the first chapter of Doom and fuck, it's PROUSTIAN
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 14 September 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
i spent ten minutes explaining to my gf who this guy was before i hit play (there was a considerable digression about patreon) and got her to agree to try this video to see if she could see what I liked about him. she couldn't even make it past the list of releases.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 14 September 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
Your GF is a champ for sticking it out that far, dude is definitely an acquired taste. I daresay this is the best thing he's done yet. I'm amazed at how many times he cuts away to that Romero/Carmack photo and it is equally hilarious every time. Also amazed at how he seems to be aging in reverse.
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Monday, 14 September 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
I seriously hope I am that hot when I'm 41 (I won't be)
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Monday, 14 September 2020 11:44 (four years ago) link
I loved his "Last of Us" epic, looking forward to this.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 September 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
the doom video is fucking great; it really is like six separate long form video essays and they're all interesting and pretty funny.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
in the video he says he got COVID twice??
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
I also was not aware that he had some form of the Marilu Henner memory thing, but that sure explains how he was able to remember all of his play through in such detail.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
also his use of repetition is weirdly appealing to me
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
yeah, i empathizehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
If anyone wants to read the FFVI essay he mentions in the ULTRA-VIOLENCE section, it's here: http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=3272
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
yes i do, thank you! i didn't realize he was publishing new action button (written) reviews, last year
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
i really enjoyed that essay. there's a reveal about halfway through that made me actually say holy shit
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
i'd read tim's auto-fictional epic
oh yeah i think that FF6 essay was partially incorporated into his 1994 review video
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
Ok I've watched three hours of the Doom thing, even though it blows up Firefox's memory usage and makes everything crash. I can't always make it through his super long videos but this is good.
(might have to switch back to Chrome even though I was trying to lesson my Google surveillance)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 October 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
The FFVI essay is good too, as a poignant midwest portrait of pre-internet childhood being obsessed with Final Fantasy games (relatable, except for me it was the original FF). Did he really go to high school with Subway Jared?!
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 October 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
If he did, he went to college near him as well
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 2 October 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
I am very curious to see how he will spin insight, LOLs, and poignancy from Pac-Man, a game that to my mind, "speaks for itself" even more than Doom. Like what on Earth is there to say about Pac-Man?
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Friday, 2 October 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
I struggled with the doom vid. doom's greatness is somewhat lost in watching gameplay video.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 2 October 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
i was ignorant of tim rogers before clicking on this thread a couple of weeks ago, i played doom back in the day and plenty of other fpses but am not a fanboy; anyway decided to start watching this for whatever reason and loved it.
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 2 October 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
> it blows up Firefox's memory usage and makes everything crash> might have to switch back to Chrome
how about neither: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/
― chihuahuau, Friday, 2 October 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
I thought I was gonna get some projects started this afternoon--NOPE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPzVlTgZoCg
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
o god how many hours is this gonna be
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 November 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
chat says a shade under three. i am kinda excited.
I can't believe he's still listing instances of the "come a long way" trope
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
By which I mean I 100% believe it, but man, this bit may destroy me
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
i appreciate his commitment to the 3 hour format though my favorite video reviews of his were the 20 minute ones (hyrule warriors, forza horizon 4)
― ciderpress, Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
When he gets around to Super Mario Bros 3 I can’t imagine him doing anything short of a 10 hour series
― is right unfortunately (silby), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
TRUCK HECK
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
omigod this opening
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
I couldn't make it through the Doom one, but Pac-Man could be good.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
saving this for Thanksgiving when I may give it my full attention.
― foopin posts and pissin shits (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 23 November 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
The Tokimeki Memorial video is up and its six hours longhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-DtICmPTY
― is right unfortunately (silby), Friday, 1 January 2021 18:16 (four years ago) link
lol, i have never heard of this game.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 January 2021 18:27 (four years ago) link
finally--i say this very early in the video, though i figure it deserves at least one social media post: WOW. Tokimeki Memorial is an *EXTREMELY* Important Video Game that You Should Know About. it's bigger than chrono trigger, persona, MGS, and GTA. it's monumental. i love it— tim rogers (@108) January 1, 2021
― is right unfortunately (silby), Friday, 1 January 2021 18:30 (four years ago) link
bookmarked! i don't know anything about it, and i would like to know. perfect tim rogers content
however, he also raved about god of war and i'm still a little mad about that
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 January 2021 18:34 (four years ago) link
Lol at the Patreon supporter that cancelled their sub because they didn't want to hear Tim talk about games they'd never heard of. Why would you even bother subbing to a Tim Rogers channel if you weren't interested in hearing him ramble on at great length about anything at all, as that basically is all his videos (and the whole appeal of watching them IMO)?
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Friday, 1 January 2021 18:50 (four years ago) link
otmDesperate for him to actually publish a novel but I don’t think he ever will
― is right unfortunately (silby), Friday, 1 January 2021 18:56 (four years ago) link
yeah tokimeki memorial is kinda the next most elemental game after tetris, mario, and zelda
― ciderpress, Friday, 1 January 2021 21:19 (four years ago) link
it's still zelda though by way of the majora's mask sidequests and general ignorance of the chronology of those two games
― ciderpress, Friday, 1 January 2021 21:23 (four years ago) link
watched up to the first intermission and this one's goood
― ciderpress, Friday, 1 January 2021 22:33 (four years ago) link
YESSSSS!!! i've been wanting to play this game for a while but no english translation :(
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 1 January 2021 22:43 (four years ago) link
He’s really in his bag
― is right unfortunately (silby), Friday, 1 January 2021 22:44 (four years ago) link
best tim rogers content is that bit within pac man episode where he talks about that game where you tie string around pins to trap dudes.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 1 January 2021 22:58 (four years ago) link
Tangential but for fans of:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAJrVXaPe9s
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 January 2021 21:22 (four years ago) link
ok that was enjoyable on the whole but i think the first hour where he places the game in historical context was the strongest part
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 January 2021 00:49 (four years ago) link
well that plus the creeping horror of the 'successful' playthrough. his ruminations afterwards don't really add that much that isn't already expressed there
― ciderpress, Sunday, 3 January 2021 00:51 (four years ago) link
HELLO. starting at noon saturday i'll stream a complete game of TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL: FOREVER WITH YOU for sega saturn over at https://t.co/ZM876RMmAc. my goal will be to get megumi mikihara, which as i explain in my review i consider the most interesting route. so follow me please~ pic.twitter.com/AVtnr6fTrJ— tim rogers (@108) January 7, 2021
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 7 January 2021 23:10 (four years ago) link
Is L.A. Noire really as good as his aside implied in this one?
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 8 January 2021 00:48 (four years ago) link
I'm prepared to believe it when he gets done talking about it
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 8 January 2021 00:51 (four years ago) link
yeah i was surprised to learn he thinks its good, ive only ever heard lukewarm impressions of that game
― ciderpress, Friday, 8 January 2021 01:38 (four years ago) link
i kinda hated it!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 02:39 (four years ago) link
i always think "l.a. noire is supposed to good, right?" before remembering that i'm primarily thinking about tim rogers raves throughout the years
― Karl Malone, Friday, 8 January 2021 02:41 (four years ago) link
The one risk with Tim Rogers is he likes a lot of stuff, including NASCAR t-shirts, Conan novels, direct to video martial arts movies…
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 8 January 2021 02:45 (four years ago) link
80s Japanese idol pop…
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 8 January 2021 02:46 (four years ago) link
It’s inspiring to me to learn from someone with the openheartedness to enjoy so much.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 8 January 2021 02:47 (four years ago) link
i like to let him convince me that something is amazing and then give it a shot, it's fun
― Karl Malone, Friday, 8 January 2021 02:49 (four years ago) link
i am an avowed I LOVE EVERYTHING guy but LA Noire is not a fun game. It's Heavy Rain.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 03:27 (four years ago) link
Tim is the american bradass of videogames
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 8 January 2021 03:39 (four years ago) link
LA Noire's game mechanic was annoying, you had 3 options when questioning a suspect, forget the terminology but essentially you could believe them, challenge them with proof of their dishonesty, or doubt them without proof. The distinction between the latter two options was close to utterly arbitrary and annoying as hell. The acting,storyline, and writing were all pretty good as far as games go
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 January 2021 07:37 (four years ago) link
the one time I bought into tim rogers' contrarian hyping the game was pish
― marg bar āmrikā (||||||||), Friday, 8 January 2021 09:11 (four years ago) link
there were definitely things about la noire i liked, in spite of the bad parts, im curious to see him talk abt it for a long time bc he might cover some of those things
like if they removed all of the "game" from it and made it a drive around 1920s simulator i'd maybe love it even more?!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:25 (four years ago) link
In the context of this TM video at least, he seemed to be championing the interrogation gameplay.
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 8 January 2021 21:23 (four years ago) link
don't think he hypes up games he loves to convince other people to actually play them, usually
― ✖, Friday, 8 January 2021 23:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzPvx8VUSDw
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 23:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cib-Mlqz3ZU
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 23:38 (four years ago) link
omg lol
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 9 January 2021 01:29 (four years ago) link
I absolutely must play this game now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVWbogLa77Q
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 January 2021 03:29 (four years ago) link
this game seems like it is good
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 9 January 2021 03:33 (four years ago) link
When you're doing the part of the game that isn't interrogating people it's pretty stale
But it's a great game world for the era. Really cool version of classic LA
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 9 January 2021 07:11 (four years ago) link
He's streaming tokimemo rn on Twitch if anyone's interested:
https://www.twitch.tv/actionbutton
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Saturday, 9 January 2021 17:55 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that Action Button is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:43 (four years ago) link
Looking forward to the review of baseball
baseball rules in part because every turn contains a massively dreadful opportunity for infinity. baked right into the design are questions whose answers involve "idk man somebody's arms'll fall off first". anyway please anticipate my review of BASEBALL, coming 2025-ish https://t.co/GE8LZxUKiY— tim rogers (@108) March 14, 2021
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 15 March 2021 04:11 (three years ago) link
honestly, this would be the ultimate tim rogers review for me
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 March 2021 04:13 (three years ago) link
I have zero interest in baseball, but I'm sure he'd make it compelling. And then I might come away with *a little* interest in baseball.
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link
i would like to make a 3 hour tim rogers-style parody video, raving about baseball. then convince some of you to join me to watch a game, only to watch that you absolutely hate it, still (my experience with yakuza)
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
Finally going through Pac Man a segment at a time, it's excellent.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
Love to hear his disturbingly specific memories of his early '80s childhood renting NES games from the video store, very resonant for me
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
He has beyond photographic memory, he said something like "I remember everything that's ever happened to me and I hate it"
― lukas, Thursday, 8 April 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
theres a vid where he describes the first hour or so of link's awakening screen by screen from memory
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 April 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
I assume everyone who's ever written a memoir has that strong of a memory, if I wrote a memoir it'd be all "I suppose I went to school…I had some birthday parties…"
― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 8 April 2021 22:34 (three years ago) link
latest updates have been wild
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 July 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
go through this thread if you like tim rogers
i made a massive patreon post about this, so here's the tiny twitter version: the cyberpunk video is REAL GOOD (and huge). it's gonna take another month. it's the best thing i've ever made, so please wait a little longer so i can finesse it! expect it week one of august. pic.twitter.com/RYUJc8VIqX— tim rogers (@108) July 6, 2021
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 July 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
"i played 110 video games total for this review" lol
glad to hear the 'season 2' reviews are going to be shorter, i still much prefer his old 20-40 min kotaku videos to the new 3 hour format. 20 mins is still a lot of content!
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 July 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
Yeah, all of that seems like good news!
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 July 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
I'm stoked
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 9 July 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
about season 2 and that he has finally forced himself to only work 40 hour weeks but also for whatever the hell this cyberpunk review will be
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 9 July 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link
ciderpress I hear u and you're right but also the tokimemo review was worth every stinking minute
also i'm sure shorter videos still means like an hour long at this point
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 July 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link
yeah
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 9 July 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
Can't wait. Action Button was the best discovery from the 2020 "TV" poll!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 9 July 2021 00:32 (three years ago) link
New episode 10/10 at 10. So this is gonna be 10 hours, huh
next sunday is october tenth. i don't care if you're from the united states OR kingdom: that is the best possible day for me, a Video Game Critiquer, to release a hideously massive video review of @CyberpunkGame. i will take no further questions. sunday 10/10, 10am eastern. pic.twitter.com/UqxmtIEKGv— tim rogers (@108) October 1, 2021
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 2 October 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
Delayed once more
― ✖, Sunday, 10 October 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
Thematically appropriate (and for tech issues to boot)
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 10 October 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
per patreon - tomorrow, 6pm eastern, opening segment on twitch.tv/actionbutton and once that's done airing (including a twist?!), the entirety of it goes up on the YT. sounds like it's split into two vids due to processing issues. but i think it's really real this time!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 25 October 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
i hope the twist is that he decided to review a different game
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
lol the stream didn’t even show up until almost 20 minutes in, and then there was a big STAND BY screen until almost 6:30, and now he’s… drinking a Coke
― mh, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:31 (three years ago) link
this is getting dark
be well, tim
― mh, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
are you fucking kidding me tim
― ✖, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
i got worked
― ✖, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link
Trashcan Jerry!
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
This is already hilarious
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
Games are becoming every game
― ✖, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:48 (three years ago) link
SEVEN REVIEWS
― mh, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
......
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
ok he actually just put it on YouTube. i was pretty sure the computer was going to blow up or something
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
chapter 1’s killing me
― mh, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 01:12 (three years ago) link
spoiler: he does talk about how keanu reeves is great, and should not be blamed for anything, for 28 minutes :)
― mh, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 01:16 (three years ago) link
any time the development team size is mentioned (“cyberpunk’s development team was 1/4th the size of rockstar games’ for red redemption 2’s development team”) it absolutely boggles my mind that they were planning on hitting all platforms on launch
jesus christ wtf
― mh, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link
absolutely in awe of tim’s gaming rig. it’s the only system capable of capturing the cyberpunk footage we crave tbh
― mh, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
i'm gonna follow the instructions and watch parts 5 and 6
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
this has been worth the wait
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
lol got the bad ending
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
So the first hour is truly just the intro, huh
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
the bad ending turned into the true ending, now i have permission to watch the whole thing
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
Apparently in part 5 he says the 'pick 2 parts' thing was just to quell people complaining about length lol
― ✖, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
shhh dont spoil it lol
anyway i watched 1-6-7-5 bc i was feeling naughty i was like "the short one, as a treat"
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
Half ass watched intro-1-6-end and really enjoyed it. I think doing other stuff was kinda the way to go here, it's not super deep and pausing every couple of minutes to read too much text on the screen often kinda kills the flow of these videos for me (am I meant to do that on a supposed second play or something?). and giving my undivided attention to the hour on jackets and watches would've kinda pissed me off. This way, it was just funny.
Of course I will watch the other segments sometime. The only-watch-two thing was just dumb enough for me to indulge. What rationale did he even try to give? Uh, there's a lot of repetition and stuff? lol. I guess he's interested to see which bits rack up the most hits.
I don't think I could like anything more than his Tokimeki Memorial episode.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
jackets and *glasses
Part 3 is great
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
lol what's the opposite of a speed run? Because that's what this is so far.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
Anyway, there's a meta perfection to his approach, because as far as I'm concerned youtube is where I go to watch and/or enjoy alternate endings to or plot branching in games I'm too lazy or exhausted to play more than once to get every ending (that is to say, all of them so far), let alone 100% or "platinum." So of course I will eventually make my way through all/much/most of this.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
Weird he seemingly couldn't stop from playing so cheaply. I intentionally didn't bother learning much about how to best level up, do "quickhacks", and all that, and combat stayed reasonably challenging. But of course I can't say that's "playing it right", either. Also he played a lot when the game was still super broken. The rogue taxis stuff was one of my favourite bits of the game and was mostly busted for Tim.The game itself is barely the point at all of course. If you are thinking about playing it before watching the video, I'd say don't bother!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:51 (three years ago) link
Part 3 literally spoils every ending in the game so if that matters don't watch it.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
I like the "good time hat" idea, that's pretty much how I try to play. I just play so slowly that luckily I wasn't very far before a lot was fixed.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
Somehow of all his claims I find the idea of how many videogames he plays to completion to be the hardest to believe. 4 or 5 versions of Shadowrun? A dozen rodent based 16 bit games? To the end? Really?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
belief isn't important to me when watching a tim rogers review, i believe it like i believe bret hart is really working someone's knee. whether it's an exaggeration, a lie or cold hard facts, i'm gonna accept it, because sometimes it's fun to be tricked
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
the Excellence of Execution for a new generation
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
feel like i should've reached for a rock reference what with the number of times he says "the bottom line" but decided to go with a technical guy for arbitrary reasons
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
fuck i meant stone cold. i am so fucked if any wrestling fans sees that last one
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
what?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
he's saying that wrestling fans hate ice cream chains
― Evan, Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
Will M was understandably mixing up stone cold steve Austin's catchphrase "that's the bottom line cause stone cold said so" and the rock's finishing move "rock bottom"
― ✖, Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
As someone who reads Tim's Twitter feed I feel pretty confident saying hes just a massive liar even when he isnt playing "tim rogers" or maybe he's just always playing "tim rogers" even in interactions with people he knows. I get that he has a funky brain but the breadth of things he claims to have recently consumed is ridiculous
― ✖, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
The part where he says he read 266 books last year and 12 this year (because he was playing too many video games)...idk, it seems crazy to me, but people on ILB read an amount of books that I can't conceive of, and he does have a pretty weird brain. And he has time for consuming media as part of his job.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link
i always get into that zone where i think "oh they must just be skimming it", and then think about how all reading is a factor of skimming, and we all have our own ideas of what "skimming" is
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
because even if you read in one day -- really read -- a book that takes a normal person 7 days, what does that mean in terms of absorbing the material? the person who takes 7 days may very well sit and think about the passages during the "downtime" during those 7 days, during those dreams, in conversations. "oh what are you reading?", "well, "
meanwhile the person who reads 300 books a year is apparently doing all of this in a day, nearly every day
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
seems fucked up to me but i am a "slow listener" advocate, slow the fuck down everyone
Yeah, I thought I was a super fast reader in college, but I was definitely skimming for keywords and gists, and I'm slower now because I'm actually trying to absorb all of the words, for pleasure.
Clearly you can skim games too (maybe this is what we should call speed running).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
that was always the thing about the matrix to me - sure, you can hook up a cable and download the info to your mind, but does that also count the time that your mind spends digesting the content? you may hear the golden rule as a 5 year old, but it takes time to understand what it really means. does the matrix cable account for that? maybe it does. i admit that i read superintelligence a few years ago, all the way through, and think of this stuff in terms of "cycles". maybe there are plenty of cycles to go around in the matrix
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
for sure. not even speed running, but just trying to "beat" the game as quickly as possible. maybe doing 2/4 of the bosses in breath of the wild before headed toward ganon
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
I can believe that he's capable of reading very fast, less believable is his tendency to respond to everyone on Twitter asking "have you read/watched/played this" with "why I just so happened to be reading/watching/playing that yesterday/this morning" which he does surprisingly a lot
Among other things...I've known 2 people who have legitimate trouble telling the truth in any context and he just reminds me of them sometimes, and that unfortunately leads me to treat the actual biographical stuff he shares as kayfabe
― ✖, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:30 (three years ago) link
i can see that for sure
i had a friend who had a thing about lying. like, a very weird, extreme dedication to extravagant lies. which ended our friendship.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
I have a feeling it’s just the character Tim Rogers idk
― Evan, Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
It's the fact that he claimed to play all these old console games that got me, at least some of them the first time. Unless he's generally freakishly good at platformers, a lot of those can take an eternity. Maybe he used an emulator and savestates, at least. I was doing Austin's "What?" bit with Will but he punked out.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
i am exhausted with the tim rogers character, tbh. i started watching the cyberpunk 2077 review, and about 10 minutes in i just wanted to die
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
the most exhausting thing was the Twitch stream after he played the review intro video and started obsessing about how the outro (of the intro) portion was done in 59 point whatever frames per second resulting in a jump every x seconds that he had just now noticed...... this went on for some time.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
if you're watching the twitch stream before it's even on youtube, you kind of bought your tickets already
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
I'm a fan. But for how he likes to say the scripted version is not a real person, well, is it possible the real guy is even more tedious?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
It is funny how I can feel mega bad for him due to his various challenges and then I watch a video where he describes the 45 $500 jackets he owns and I'm like wait a second...
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
having met him the real guy is more or less the same person you see in the intermission bits of these vids
― ciderpress, Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
He was extremely the guy in the videos in 2010 when I met him, but it does sound like he's mellowed
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 29 October 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
Didn't someone here say they met him and he drunkenly tried to start a fight with them
― ✖, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link
i am exhausted with the tim rogers character, tbh.
seems like he is too, fwiw
― lukas, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
I was doing Austin's "What?" bit with Will but he punked out.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
And then I tried a bit where I was confidently incorrect (cold stone creamery)
― Evan, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link
Is he exhausted with the character? Seems he is proud of his 10 hour video game review
― Evan, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:56 (three years ago) link
his ability to remember things and numbers down to ridiculous levels of detail remind me a lot of descriptions of the “pure o” version of ocd. it might not be completely true to reality, but your brain loops on events enough you end up with intense recollections of detail also, absolutely burrowing into video games and books fits
― mh, Friday, 29 October 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
this isn’t a diagnosis per se, just a possibly mentality where doing things in this way makes sensehe also mentions in one of the videos that he’s limited himself to a 40 hour work week, but his main hobby is still playing video games outside of those hours
― mh, Friday, 29 October 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link
lol missed you back there Evan. Also i had to cook dinner. I hope everyone smelt it
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 29 October 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link
No worries man, you rock!
― Evan, Friday, 29 October 2021 03:20 (three years ago) link
i for one do not think this guy who creates obsessive videos that dissect every detail of his own emotional and intellectual relationship to video games for a living is lying when he says he plays a lot of video games
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 29 October 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
i think he heavily embellishes a lot of his experiences, it's not really lying so much as storytelling. i don't have any doubt he played through a ton of old platformers or whatever, those games are all like an hour or two long
― ciderpress, Friday, 29 October 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
gonna report back when tearing my hair out in the middle of Rocky RodentTim should be a guess star helper on Game Center CX
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 29 October 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
As someone who has been following the dude's output since the mid 00s--he's been doing degrees of kayfabe for pretty much his whole career. He's even gone on at length publicly about how the first stuff that he wrote online was a troll to make fun of some self-serious person he knew on a game forum. For a while I was maybe unhealthily para-socially fascinated with the question of "how much of this is a bit?" I get the impression that there's less of the persona and more of the "authentic" guy in his current output, but it's also clear that he believes real, true authenticity on the internet isn't possible, and he has fun with that.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
and that's THE STRAIGHT DOPE--stay tuned for my multi-hour video review of Tim's review
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
tim is very good at benjamin buttoning himself via jackets and hair. with these time powers, i believe he has played and read everything.
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
Will M was understandably mixing up stone cold steve Austin's catchphrase "that's the bottom line cause stone cold said so" and the rock's finishing move "rock bottom"― ✖, Thursday, October 28, 2021 5:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― ✖, Thursday, October 28, 2021 5:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i think this is 100% what i did to the point where i heard dwayne's voice in my head saying "that's the bottom line"
It's the fact that he claimed to play all these old console games that got me, at least some of them the first time. Unless he's generally freakishly good at platformers, a lot of those can take an eternity. Maybe he used an emulator and savestates, at least.I was doing Austin's "What?" bit with Will but he punked out.― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I JUST FORGOT TO CHECK BACK OK I GOT THE BIT
I SAAAAAID,,,,
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
huh
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
now that you're doing wrestling goofs u know i have to assume you're the maffew of botchamania
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 29 October 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
Oh you didn't know?!Nah tho this is the only forum I've ever posted any amount on
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 30 October 2021 06:12 (three years ago) link
comment from some dude on the Tokimeki Memorial review
While Tokimeki Memorial is one of the first and is definitely the most influential "genuine cyberpunk artifact" of a game, I'd say the LovePlus (ラブプラス) series go even farther - forcing the player to talk and sing into the microphone and evaluating their emotional investment through voice recognition technology and demanding the completion of daily and special limited events in *real-time*. What, you aren't hardcore enough to have a "real" short conversation with your cyber girlfriend whispering into your Nintendo 3DS every morning at 08:00-09:00 in a convincingly caring tone? Well, tough shit - cos' she is going to dump you, game over. You are in class or at your workplace in real life? Nobody cares! Your girlfriend is calling on the Nintendo 3DS and you better pick up that call, or you are in serious trouble. The rabbit hole of the madness of LovePlus+ is on its own level, honestly.
― lukas, Monday, 1 November 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
I've watched part 3 (what he liked) and bits of part 4 (what he didn't), and ... I feel kind of bad for this game. I'll never play it and don't want to play it, but it seems so rich and ambitious that (like Rogers) I can see its achievements and failures, existing sort of symbiotically, which if I were one of the programmers that slaved over it for so long would make me feel terrible. Like, all that hard work, all those ideas, all that effort, and it became an instant punchline, justified and not justified, for so many. And for many others probably remains so, despite (I assume) many patches.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 November 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link
I played through a couple endings. I enjoyed it. I was shook by the Judy side quest/romance as much as tim and it’s ridiculously good (Judy is my ride-or-die forever partner in cyberpunk)tried restarting the game this week and it’s wild how fleshed out (and yet vacant!!) the opening quests are. So much choreography but so little substance. Like there’s a little cutscene with an architectural flyby and synopsis of how you’ll infiltrate. Nothing like this happens at any point in the rest of the game! Or at least not as I remember.
― mh, Monday, 1 November 2021 01:46 (three years ago) link
LovePlus sounds wild. Anyone else catch the part of the new review where he says Tokimeki 2 is twice as good as the first? Hmmm
I'm finished all the parts now. Really fun. And he totally claimed to play all of those games in the out-of-TIMROGERS-character mode. And in the list of games he played through, he threw in "and 20 hours of Red Dead Redemption 2". I guess I believe him. The walk we see him take may be his first in quite some time.
So there is one open world game that he found surprisingly good and will talk about in detail later on. Wonder which.
I'm not sure I've beaten any of the GTA 3's... might have to pick up the "definitive edition" coming soon and maybe it'll be less forgiving wrt RC controlled helicopters.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 1 November 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
*more forgiving. god help me
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 1 November 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
i'm also interested to know what his favorite open world game was
― ciderpress, Monday, 1 November 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
All the references to medical problems, I assume that is not him doing a bit.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 November 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
I think the "I played through every single iteration of [game] AND THEN I replayed... AND THEN I played every possible influence... AND THEN I played all 500 hours of... AND THEN I read every single fan fiction... AND THEN" is definitely a complete bit. I believe he researched these things thoroughly which may have involved a lot of play time, but I don't necessarily believe any of these lists of content consumption claims are literally done as described. The relentlessness to making the "pile" sound as big as possible is a bit that is meant to be proportionate to the cartoonish depth of his dive into a subject, hence the intense delivery and review lengths as well (and everything else).
― Evan, Monday, 1 November 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
i want to believe
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 1 November 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
did he mention listening to the billy idol cyberpunk album?
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 1 November 2021 23:44 (three years ago) link
I don't think so. And he would had if he was a dirty liar!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 12:09 (three years ago) link
https://johnrieber.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/todd-rundgren-live-1994.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
watched this all the way through a week ago. if you haven't yet, i would recommend just doing that instead of picking and choosing. it works really well as a complete thing i think. even the 30-45 minute journey into jackets. i also think this is maybe the most essential essay/treatise about modern AAA video games and possibly about the game industry c.2021 as a whole, at least in a basic sense. puts into words a lot of things i've felt for a while.
― ✖, Sunday, 14 November 2021 05:34 (three years ago) link
Listened to a recent Insert Credit podcast episode and i think the open world game he loves is The Godfather. Unless the video contradicts this? I'm not rewatching.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 4 December 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
pretty sure it's actually Days Gone and that is it plainly stated on a freeze frame somewhere in the 10 hours. He's also been mentioning it a bit on twitter, even just a couple minutes ago:
i'd say* red dead redemption 2 (real good writing; quite slow though)* assassin's creed valhalla (got a lot of vikings; however, it's a little too big)* days gone (does a LOT of surprising / amazing mechanical things with its open world! however: yeah, it's a Zombie Game)— tim rogers (@108) December 4, 2021
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Saturday, 4 December 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
just lmao'd at this clip of the video in which i novelized the entirety of red dead redemption 1's plot. *the* best vid i made at kotaku. on the other hand, it didn't get a million hits. (it still hasn't cracked 100k!) they shoulda made me CEO for this tbh https://t.co/va3ngqoDnb pic.twitter.com/P23xpexCdS— tim rogers (@108) December 15, 2021
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:20 (three years ago) link
So what's up with this guy?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 July 2022 00:00 (two years ago) link
I occasionally listen to the podcast he's on ("Insert Credit") and that's been business as usual. I just looked at his Twitter... I didn't realize he seems to have stopped posting as a new year's resolution.
I can see an April 25 Patreon update says "Season Two COMING QUITE SOON"... hmmmm
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 22 July 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
I haven’t joined for a long time but Tim has been doing Friday night twitch sessions
― mh, Friday, 22 July 2022 04:39 (two years ago) link
HELLO
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 22 July 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link
I hope tim's collaborators have freed up and TRUCK HECK is becoming a reality
― mh, Friday, 22 July 2022 14:11 (two years ago) link
oh yeah the twitch. He's on there right now talking about shoes. Pretty indistinguishable from a new YouTube season.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 23 July 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
https://t.co/mXk6jkS0IY pic.twitter.com/kdlaZhgE5Y— tim rogers (@108) September 25, 2022
the prodigal Tim has returned
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Sunday, 25 September 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
based on his absence from the insert credit podcast, i figured he was either wrapping up work on an action button review or having another of his health issues. from the sound of his voice in this review it seems like it was both
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Monday, 26 September 2022 03:38 (two years ago) link
*sigh*
I don't hate Tim, I just wish he gave his work to someone else to deliver it. And to cut out some of the romantic melodramatic garbage always involved in his schtick. Is there anyone like this bloke but not annoying?
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 26 September 2022 08:00 (two years ago) link
I hope he's been busy working on TRUCK HECK
― mh, Monday, 26 September 2022 14:13 (two years ago) link
the romantic melodramatic garbage
is a big part of the appeal, imo
There's nobody else quite like Tim out there, but I'd recommend Noah Caldwell-Gervais for a semi-similarly deep-divey and personal (though more focused) approach to games crit.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 26 September 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link
I say all this and then watch his FFVII YouTube video.....
He would be so good if he could somehow learn to contain his enormous ego. or at the very least, not romanticise it. Thanks for the rec, sadly Noah doesn't seem to cover the type of games I am interested in (which Tim does damnit).Watching Tim feels like watching keeping up with the Kardashians. I know the vanity is bad for my own soul, yet the hate-watch drive (and genuinely interesting things to say about video games) says give me more.
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 26 September 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link
He just needs someone over his shoulder asking "uhhh, hey Tim, does this part of your content do anything for the viewer except try to manipulate them into thinking you God's gift to this barren earth? No? Is it perhaps entirely self-indulgent? Yes?".
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 26 September 2022 23:11 (two years ago) link
the gonzo style is part of the appeal imo, though it was maybe better in small doses when he was doing 20 min videos for kotaku instead of these 3-6 hour monstrosities
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 September 2022 23:56 (two years ago) link
enormous egotry to manipulate them into thinking you God's gift to this barren earth?
i don't get any of this from his work and i would like to politely remind you to re-read the subtitle of this thread. to quote the man himself, "buddy, you think i LIKE the sound of my own voice?" he's clearly on the spectrum and what i see is his flawed-but-functional social coping strategy.
there is no one else on earth making scripted, maximalist brain puke video game criticism videos and for that reason i'm glad he went independent so he can go as far as his health will allow. though i do fear that his eventual dark souls review will end up like SMiLE or hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hip3pz0Xs
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
and if the tim rogers i'm defending there is just a carefully constructed fictional persona, then he's a very talented artist and should keep on doing what he's doing
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 02:44 (two years ago) link
i see a lot of criticism like HP's on reddit whenever he's posted there and i really just don't see it. in nearly every review, the egotistical autobiographical stuff is clearly done in service of his main points or in contextualizing the game itself. granted i'm only maybe 25% through the new review, but every piece of biographical information so far has been included for sake of the game itself. i don't think any of it is there to give me an appreciation of tim rogers' life. i've said before that i'm pretty sure a lot of it is straight up kayfabe anyway.
the only review i can think of where he was actually writing about himself for the sake of writing about himself was very long written review of FFVI.
regardless, i don't think the way that he uses his personal life in his reviews is in any way unique except that he's doing it to talk about video games rather than novels, travels, food, whatever, and that he's doing it on youtube rather than in writing.
― ✖, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 03:40 (two years ago) link
i do think that his personality and sense of humor is what drives a lot of interest in his videos but when's that ever been a problem with criticism?
― ✖, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 03:43 (two years ago) link
there are a lot of people on the internet who have glommed onto a variation of the tall poppy syndrome where anyone who acts as a distinct individual (read: not anonymous) or has actual subject area knowledge is somehow showing off or violating a social contract. there’s definitely a strong contingent in the video game fan space (and Reddit) that have that tendency
Tim’s video persona feels like more of a bit to me, where he does have extensive knowledge but he couches it in this over the top dramatic reading that sounds like a cross between a retro newscaster and an enthusiastic high school drama kid who plays every character the same way in an “acting voice”
It’s not always my thing, but I appreciate his work and seriously hope he remembers to take breaks from video games occasionally
― mh, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 03:51 (two years ago) link
that is to say, I don’t think it’s ego-driven in a bad way, and presenting things you’re knowledgeable about in videos you worked hard on should give you a little ego boost in a healthy way
― mh, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 03:52 (two years ago) link
in a way i feel similarly about tim rogers and battlestar galactica (2004 tv version): there is a whole bunch of it, waaay too much of it. you don't need all of it. some of it is purely filler. but damn, when it is good it is GOOD
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 03:53 (two years ago) link
tbf some of the tangents are about his understanding that he is a weird, obsessive dude and I get more of a sense of self-deprecation from some of those admissions
― mh, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
Looking forward to the new video and hope he's back on Insert Credit soon. The stand-ins have been good but I do miss having him there claiming he's recently played any and every game ever mentioned.
― bain4z, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 08:52 (two years ago) link
Reduced to a redditor, ouch.
The potential of him being on the spectrum reminds me to be kind. If that is the case (I’m not sure, has it been stated?) then yeah, what he is doing is a good thing.I have all the time in the world for stories of saving up one’s part time income and sneaking to the video game store to buy a game in the 80’s outside the view of your female workmate. I cringe when I have to hear him say “I don’t like myself” halfway through a 3hr video essay. His personal stuff is brilliant when it relates, vry off putting when it’s braggadocious like “I played FFVII 16 times in the past two years” repeated x8 in a single video. If the bragging is a bit, I guess I just don’t get it.
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:31 (two years ago) link
All said, his content outside of my complaints is so good I am watching him regardless
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:33 (two years ago) link
that's the worst example of a brag I've ever heard.I'm an hour in, fun so far. as a former Japan liver </brag> the Why Did You Come to Japan bit was really cute.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link
I’ll leave
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
lol cmon. Is that a brag for serious gamers? I dunno. I've never played a Final Fantasy. I should try and get through his review of the remake sometime.The Doom and Pacman and Tokimeki reviews hooked me. I've always been curious about the omglol Weird Japan! magazine kind of coverage of things we never used to get "over here" and thought that section of this video was well done. Seems the Boku fan translation isn't out yet.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 12:08 (two years ago) link
when you’re a game reviewer/creator, saying you played a game that many times is like “bragging” you worked two weeks of 70 hour shifts and you don’t get paid overtime, imo
― mh, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:04 (two years ago) link
he LOVES talking about how much he overworks himself!
― bain4z, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
tim 'paid tha cost to be da boss' rogers
― mh, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
I find his epic essays a little too much to take (literally; they're really long!) but I've got to admit they accomplish something novel, even necessary, in a way. Video games make a bazillion dollars a year, and young people in particular spend a bazillion hours a year just *watching* people play video games. Yet there's not a lot of long form discussion/dissection of video games anywhere, afaict, not really, which is remarkable, given their prominence in pop culture. So if he wants to spend six hours crafting a take on a game, making the case for why something so niche or cult or overlooked deserves your attention, I say bring it on.
I mean, it's wild, a game like Red Dead Redemption 2 can make almost a billion dollars in a weekend, and yet it's nowhere close to a household name property, imo, not in the same way, say, Star Wars or Marvel is. For sure people will pay attention to the Last of Us show, but many of them will have no idea about the game beyond that there even is a game, let alone a game whose merits someone like Rogers could intelligently, intricately discuss for five hours or whatever it was without so much as dipping into the plot, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
One thing I hope we all can agree on is that he should*absolutely* keep writing hallucinatory ad copy for hbomberguy to read
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
I decided not to play all of those Contrail games.I mean actually, I had actually played __all__ of them, years ago,over the years, it was -- it gave me maybe the very first instanceof going to Wikipedia to look for a list of something, and, realizingI had engaged with literally everyone on the list.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 September 2022 03:05 (two years ago) link
that was a very Tim moment
― mh, Thursday, 29 September 2022 03:07 (two years ago) link
it's just one tim moment after another, i love it
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 September 2022 03:09 (two years ago) link
when tim rogers does that low, gravelly voice, he's starting to sound uncomfortably like Alex Jones
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 September 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
that naniwa express album the cool guy at work recommended to tim is pretty sick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAxyYtpazmw
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 30 September 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
someone took the trouble of listing his favourite albums that he flashed on the screen over like 2 seconds in the Tokimeki video. Some great stuff:https://rateyourmusic.com/list/pedrochambs/tim-rogers-ten-favorite-albums-of-all-time/
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 30 September 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
ha! I literally did the same thing freeze-framing it myself. guess I should have just done a google search instead.
of course, I still haven't actually listened to the records I'm not already familiar with. one day!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 30 September 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
oh I love that Starbow record, a scifi idol concept album by Hosono that was a huuuuge flop
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 30 September 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
amazed there is a clip of Starbow on TV, only seen photos before! the concept was that they were genderless aliens so were dressed and sang somewhat androgynously, early 80s Japan were having none of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FzW4xGQT_s
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 30 September 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link
yep, that's a favorite of mine as well.
the taeko ohnuki is also quite good, a highlight in a large catalog filled with cool records.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 30 September 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
Finished the Boku video (who else made it?)
He mentioned again his habit of listening to a new album *every* day. Mightn't be a stretch to many on ILM but I know I wouldn't get much out of trying that. It's probably a decent relief from his memory issues, of course detailed again as he goes home to Kansas for the first time in 30 years...
I never got the sense he was bragging about anything. I hope for him that he even is just pretty OK with himself. There's a lot of talking about himself of course. The thesis he rolls around to at around the 5 hour mark is all we can learn from well-imparted nostalgia. "I love everyone and you can too". I'd be more inclined to call this "nostalgia" simply "memories" or "experience", but I can see if he's drawing a distinction from how he can remember the exact date he last went to a certain food court.
--The guy working on the game translation is still at it:
I'm currently taking some time off Twitter, but rest assured, I'm working on the thing y'all are excited for! 🦋I do check my DMs still, so you can reach me there if you have questions or comments!— Samuel 💻✨ Messner (@obskyr) September 27, 2022
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link
(who else made it?)
i'm somewhere in the third hour! taking it in chunks. in typical fashion, by the time i was in the second hour i was trying (and failing) to download an emulated version of the first game on psx
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
i didn't know anything at all about boku no natsuyasumi. i want to play!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:18 (two years ago) link
I'm trying to convince a Japanese friend who loves the games to try getting through the video.Karl once the translation is out I will commit to help you get it running on a computer
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:21 (two years ago) link
:) thanks maffew! i have openemu (mac running 12.5) but downloaded a file from a sketchy rom place, and the file failed to open. but honestly i've never had any luck with psx emulation, or really anything that for disc-based systems.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
you can and you will
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link
oh hell yeah!
it's gonna be a boku no natsuyasumi winter
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link
Without even crossing the equator. They said it couldn't be done
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:26 (two years ago) link
have you played one of them before?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:30 (two years ago) link
Nope. Had heard about the series from Ray Barnholt's enthusiasm for it over the years. It's sweet that he appears in the video.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:36 (two years ago) link
*shot of ray barnholt*
"HI TIM!"
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:42 (two years ago) link
add me to the list of folks who wanna try a fanlation. looks great!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link
i got it running on openemu, there's a gamefaqs guide that explains what the buttons do but you're on your own dialogue-wise. very attractive game tho
― adam, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 10:35 (two years ago) link
The tricky thing with a lot of systems from this point is having BIOS files to get anything to run. And then patching a rom will be another little pain.To be clear, my Japanese is crap. I was over there two years. Can still read kana pretty quick, but most Chinese characters..fuhgeddaboutit
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 11:06 (two years ago) link
I was aware of this guy but never took a full dive until I watched his full Doom video earlier tonight. And it was kinda wild how the arc of my opinion of him while watching matched the arc of this thread that I read immediately afterwards.
― circa1916, Saturday, 18 February 2023 06:18 (one year ago) link
Our greatest critic of the medium at work today
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 18 February 2023 06:56 (one year ago) link
Tim is definitely an arc
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 18 February 2023 08:53 (one year ago) link
I drive a lot and have been listening to a ton of Insert Credit recently. For Tim, solely, I’m finding. Guy is sharp and funny. I’m still not sure where he belongs in the bullshitter to savant spectrum, but enjoyable either way.Brandon S. is fucking insufferable though. “So my number one game of the year is Super Fart Tensei 3. I don’t know, it’s kinda like Sonic Mania. It’s the most Dreamcast game of the year. Like the jumping feels pretty good, the running feels OK. But yeah, it’s bad and super janky. Hehehe. But kind of interesting. I played it for 12 minutes. Hehe. Yeah, that’s my number one.”I want to shove him down a toilet.
― circa1916, Saturday, 22 April 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
you shoving him dowm a toilet is his game of the year, though
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 22 April 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
lol. At times you can practically hear the others biting their tongues with some of the dumb shit Tim and Brandon say. Best thing about that show.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 22 April 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
xp lmaoIt is true, the interplay between them all is what keeps me coming back. It would be too much if it was all Tim. But I do skip the episodes he’s not in.Jaffe is a great host who knows how and when to interject. Frank is kind of a bore, but I like the museum/history stuff and his barely concealed contempt for most of what Brandon says is really funny. It’s a good sitcom.
― circa1916, Saturday, 22 April 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
That all sounds so great, will listen
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 23 April 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
Sort of really love how Frank seems to barely have played any games mentioned. I have to be in the mood for Brandon but the recent Tim/Brandon only episode was really, really strong.
― bain4z, Monday, 24 April 2023 08:31 (one year ago) link
I listened to a bit of that end of the year ep, and yeah, Rogers is fast and funny and less affected than his long videos. The other guys, don't know anything about them or why they are in the orbit of this video game savant. The one guy talked about giving "Elden Ring" maybe an hour before giving up, which seems ... short.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 April 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link
Well, Brandon is the co-founder of Insert Credit, which was Tim's first writing gig back in the early 00s. Those guys have been co-conspirators for decades. Not sure where Frank comes in, but I think the work he and Kelsey Lewin are doing with the Videogame History Foundation is super cool. I agree with y'all that Brandon's opinions can be baffling/obnoxious, there was a segment on this week's ep where he was trying to bash the Criterion Channel for being "pretentious;" Tim wasn't having it.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
oh dear god this new episode. oh god.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 28 April 2023 02:01 (one year ago) link
Read that and thought there was a new Action Button review for a second. On Tim's current schedule we're not due another for around...five months or so?
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Friday, 28 April 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
just tim timming all over the latest podcast, in post. use caution if you like tim rogers.i will probably finish it. it's just so ludicrous. Frank's audio is missing, and so he fills in the spaces in the conversation from his famously great memory.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 29 April 2023 02:20 (one year ago) link
Loved that episode and all the credit in the world to editor esper for making it even slightly comprehensible
― Potemkin Mystery Dungeon (Will M.), Sunday, 30 April 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
Yahueh!This sounds amusing, looking forward to it.
― circa1916, Sunday, 30 April 2023 01:24 (one year ago) link
Brandon's upcoming game "Demonschool" has a demo on Steam if the urge strikes you. Looks pretty neat... a retro tactics game with some Persona flavor
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
I played a little of the demo, it's cool. The combat system is neat, the art & music is beautiful. Every character seems to talk like Brandon, though.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
I mean this without any disrespect, it’s great whatever way, but Frank’s podcast Video Game History Hour is fantastic to fall asleep to.
― circa1916, Thursday, 2 November 2023 04:02 (one year ago) link
Wow, so apparently Tim abruptly left Insert Credit in what sounds like a particularly nasty way. Bad enough and cruel enough that it sounds like Frank and Brandon are cutting ties with him entirely. Frank more/less calling him a toxic person.
Real bummer.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:22 (two months ago) link
I like his content and I understand being bummed about this.
But also looooollll I can so easily imagine him being, uh, difficult.
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:32 (two months ago) link
for sure openly a headcase
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:36 (two months ago) link
he should make more action button episodes now that he has some free time
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:37 (two months ago) link
100%. I was expecting him to leave the show at any moment, he hasn’t sounded like he’s wanted to be there for a while now. Shitty he had to do it the way he did though. Guy seems like he’s for sure uhh, got some stuff going on mentally and emotionally.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:41 (two months ago) link
yeah i never listened to much insert credit but it didn't take much to notice his lack of respect for the other guys was very thinly veiled
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:43 (two months ago) link
I check out his Twitch streams a bit but they've been kind of a downer lately..
Also i get the impression he pretty much does nothing put work on his Action Button episodes. I think the next "season" probably won't have long gaps between episodes.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:49 (two months ago) link
one would hope, considering that the first 7 AB eps came out over a 28 month period, and he's now at 25 months since his last one. Maybe he's gonna pull a lasagna cat and flood the streets all at once, but I'm pretty over his deal at this point.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:59 (two months ago) link
hard to argue. should we change thread title? lollooking forward to seeing whatever the heck though
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 29 October 2024 17:00 (two months ago) link
Damn, I'm kinda surprised and bummed to hear about this. I always kinda thought his dickishness to Frank and Brandon was a bit, and that they got along off mic. Shows what I know!
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 29 October 2024 18:19 (two months ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/ActionButton/comments/1gdyxwr/insert_credit_361/lol, thread locked with all comments deleted except a few screenshots of Tim's defense of himself from discord that don't exactly make him come off well.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 29 October 2024 21:10 (two months ago) link
All he wanted was the right to suddenly quit, not respond to texts, and be given two weeks or so to mull over what else to maybe say.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 21:22 (two months ago) link
Strange dude. As much as I've enjoyed a lot of his work, the pompous, contemptuous, negative side of him seemed to be growing. And he's clearly kind of a compulsive liar. Not a new thing, but speaks to the "head case" thing.
The few hour solo hosted "36 Best 360 Games" episode he released right before the announcement was unexpected and I was pretty stoked to see it pop up. I'm not sure what the general consensus is on that, but I found it a little insufferable? Leaned more into the sides of him I don't care for.
Anyway, this isn't a "i never really liked this guy who might be an asshole" thing, just a general recognition of a slide. Won't make excuses for abusive behavior, but he's exuded a "i wish i was dead" aura on the show for the past few months so idk. Feel for his cohosts. Wasn't just a professional relationship.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 30 October 2024 06:26 (two months ago) link
Was caught of guard by how much this bothered me so spent too much time thinking about it over the last few days. I guess it's because it was becoming harder and harder to ignore how his asshole-ish tendencies really were bothering the other hosts - thought his interactions with Ash Parrish in particularly were a bit ehhh though she handled it well imho. So to have it confirmed that Frank and Brandon (at least) were indeed at the point of 'fuck that guy' reminded me of actually relationships in real life where the wool comes off your eyes and you realise you've been putting up with a real POS for no good reason for a while.
HOWEVER
That's parasocial as fuck? Dude has been unprofessional and a dick to his one-time friends. Who cares, I don't know any of them. Unless more info comes out, is it naive to say that this is none of my business as an audience member and I can go on enjoying the output from both sides of this divorce?
― mediumrarexxl, Friday, 1 November 2024 11:51 (two months ago) link
Similar here. Got to the point of searching his take on his Discord. I don't know why I bothered to join it... like maybe there was a list of music or something I wanted to see. Anyway I think his side was basically already covered here via Reddit and it's pretty lame. Jaffe is on the server too and was talking some shit about how there aren't really parasocial relationships, that it is just indicative of a lack of "skill" in making someone your friend. That is weird as it implies one would want that. I have no idea who he is other than a guy hosting a podcast I've listened to like 20 episodes of, and who's also annoyed at Tim Rogers.
I barely game and am probably about done with both sides of this divorce. I did stumble across the fact that Action Button started as a mobile game dev and made my favourite iPhone game ever, though ("Ziggurat") so this is a point for. Had no idea that was Tim.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 1 November 2024 12:05 (two months ago) link
Tim's on Twitch doing his weekly Action Button thing. Got all serious for a minute and said he needed to make a statement about everything that's been going on this week. Turned it into a gag and announced that he's kinda into the Venom movies. Alex Jaffe (!?) is on there now and they're joking around about superhero movies like they're best buds and everything's cool.
I have no idea what's going on here lol.
― circa1916, Saturday, 2 November 2024 00:01 (two months ago) link
podcasters should having a cooling off period before they go public with their drama
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 November 2024 00:04 (two months ago) link
They may be physically incapable of stepping away for a minute
― circa1916, Saturday, 2 November 2024 00:05 (two months ago) link
yeah lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 November 2024 00:06 (two months ago) link
I'm reading this, maybe too cynically, as Tim flattering up Alex (who I never gathered as being a genuine buddy of Tim's) in the wake of this to have him on his Twitch stream to make him look totally cool and chill.
I would like to think Alex isn't that dumb and pathetic and I'm totally missing some information here, but it certainly presents as a wtf thing to do right now.
"Step away for a minute" OTM
― circa1916, Saturday, 2 November 2024 00:42 (two months ago) link