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* {{Nerdgasm}}[=/=]{{Squee}}: Almost any media that portrays Japan as a whole and ninja accurately with proper historical context. His livestream of ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'' has him bouncing off the walls on the various details that Creator/SuckerPunch [[ShownTheirWork got right]], from architecture, items, cultural lore, to the more realistic historical details. Especially the more ninja-like aspects of the gameplay.



* TakeThatCritics: The video "Goomba Got Back" makes fun of the people who hate Aki's design.

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* TakeThatCritics: The video "Goomba Got Back" makes fun of the people who hate his girlfriend Aki's design.
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-->"One of the big reasons I tend to stay away from triple-A games is their dark, gritty, and hopeless nature. These games are constantly showing you just how worthless, evil, and monstrous humanity can be, and in many circumstances, there's no hope for them, or even you. There's simply the somber and sobering story of 'life is cruel, then you die'."
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Gaijin Goombah is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own Website/YouTube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.

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Gaijin Goombah (real name Michael Sundman, born September 5, 1984) is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own Website/YouTube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.
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Originally, he appeared as a cartoon [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Goomba]] (though keeping his glasses and beard) with his voice altered. He then split himself between his real-life self and his mascot version, especially as he started collaborating more with ''Creator/TeamFourStar'', culminating in their creation of a channel focused primarily on anime coverage, ''Four Star Bento''

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Originally, he appeared as a cartoon [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Goomba]] (though keeping his glasses and beard) with his voice altered. He then split himself between his real-life self and his mascot version, especially as he started collaborating more with ''Creator/TeamFourStar'', culminating in their creation of a channel focused primarily on anime coverage, ''Four Star Bento''
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* TakeThatCritics: The video "Goomba Got Back" makes fun of the people who hated Aki's design.

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* TakeThatCritics: The video "Goomba Got Back" makes fun of the people who hated hate Aki's design.
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* TakeThatCritics: The video "Goomba Got Back" makes fun of the people who hated Aki's design.

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* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructs Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of alot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]]. In simple terms, Japan is very sensitive and private with its culture. Gaijin Goombah worked very hard for 17 years to earn the smallest amount of respect and how to equally respect their culture in Japan. He had to endure racism and isolation for being a white man and Logan's video has damaged the social relations between America and Japan by promoting the boorish stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are self centered jerks who have no respect for other cultures.]]

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* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructs deconstructed Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of alot a lot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]]. In simple terms, Japan is very sensitive and private with its culture. Gaijin Goombah worked very hard for 17 years to earn the smallest amount of respect and how to equally respect their culture in Japan. He had to endure racism and isolation for being a white man and Logan's video has damaged the social relations between America and Japan Japan]] by promoting the boorish stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are self centered all self-centred jerks who have no respect for other cultures.]] Gaijin makes a point of how it took ''17'' years to earn the smallest amount of respect in Japan and how he had to endure severe isolation during this time.
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* DecompositeCharacter: As stated above, he originally presented himself as just his Goombah ninja avatar, but has since started appearing as his human self (re: IRL) while the avatar serves as a co-host to play off of. In essence, though, the two are still the same guy.

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* DecompositeCharacter: As stated above, he originally presented himself as just his Goombah ninja avatar, but has since started appearing as his human self (re: IRL) while the avatar serves as a co-host to play off of. In essence, though, the two are still the same guy. Best seen in his ''Which Ninja'' videos, the two serve as DevilsAdvocate to each other with regards to how accurate the character they're analyzing is as a ninja, where one will point out the positives and giving the higher score to accuracy and the other with the negatives, and therefore giving a lower score.
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Gaijin Goombah is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own YouTube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.

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Gaijin Goombah is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own YouTube Website/YouTube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.



-->'''Gaijin Goombah: ''' Like I said Logan. If you want to make your distracks, fine. You want to manipulate the {{YouTube}} system, fine. But you have some goddamn respect for yourself, for Japan and for the dead. What you did was inexcusable.

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-->'''Gaijin Goombah: ''' Like I said Logan. If you want to make your distracks, fine. You want to manipulate the {{YouTube}} Website/YouTube system, fine. But you have some goddamn respect for yourself, for Japan and for the dead. What you did was inexcusable.
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Originally, he appeared as a cartoon Goombah (though keeping his glasses and beard) with his voice altered. He then split himself between his real-life self and his mascot version, especially as he started collaborating more with ''Creator/TeamFourStar'', culminating in their creation of a channel focused primarily on anime coverage, ''Four Star Bento''

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Originally, he appeared as a cartoon Goombah [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Goomba]] (though keeping his glasses and beard) with his voice altered. He then split himself between his real-life self and his mascot version, especially as he started collaborating more with ''Creator/TeamFourStar'', culminating in their creation of a channel focused primarily on anime coverage, ''Four Star Bento''
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* SharedUniverse: If [[https://animatiom.tumblr.com/post/164949512447/the-reviewaverse-multiverse-chart-v23 this post]] is to be believed, we can link it to hundreds of other internet things like WebVideo/{{The Nostalgia Critic}}, ZTV News, Jaltoid, Robobuddies and the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter of all things.

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Gaijin Goombah is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own youtube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.

Usually, he appears as a cartoon goombah (though keeping his glasses and beard) with his voice altered.

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Gaijin Goombah is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially (but not exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own youtube YouTube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.

Usually, Originally, he appears appeared as a cartoon goombah Goombah (though keeping his glasses and beard) with his voice altered.
altered. He then split himself between his real-life self and his mascot version, especially as he started collaborating more with ''Creator/TeamFourStar'', culminating in their creation of a channel focused primarily on anime coverage, ''Four Star Bento''



* AuthorAppeal: Ninja, to the point where he even created a show called '''''Which Ninja''''', a show that specifically analyzes certain fictional ninja to see how accurate their ninja traits are.
* CoolHat: His IRL self wears a brown skullcap with his logo on it.



* DecompositeCharacter: As stated above, he originally presented himself as just his Goombah ninja avatar, but has since started appearing as his human self (re: IRL) while the avatar serves as a co-host to play off of. In essence, though, the two are still the same guy.



* {{Ninja}}: His avatar's design since its first ArtEvolution and his AuthorAppeal in general.



* ShownTheirWork: His entire schtick, showing what aspects of cultural influences that are present in games. In the process, he himself shows this when it comes to anything Japanese, owing to his many years in Japan as a student and then English teacher.



* WeaponOfChoice: At least in Videogame/PokemonGo, Exeggutor.

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* WeaponOfChoice: At least in Videogame/PokemonGo, Exeggutor. His Goombah avatar, meanwhile is armed with a ninjatou with a tsuba shaped like a D-pad, called the Pixel Cutter.

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* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructs Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of alot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]]. In simple terms, Japan is very sensitive and private with its culture. Gaijin Goombah worked very hard for 17 years to earn the smallest amount of respect and to equally respect their culture in Japan. He was affected by racism for being a foreigner and Logan's video has done nothing but promote the boorish stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are self centered jerks who have no respect for other cultures.]]

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* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructs Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of alot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]]. In simple terms, Japan is very sensitive and private with its culture. Gaijin Goombah worked very hard for 17 years to earn the smallest amount of respect and how to equally respect their culture in Japan. He was affected by had to endure racism and isolation for being a foreigner white man and Logan's video has done nothing but promote damaged the social relations between America and Japan by promoting the boorish stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are self centered jerks who have no respect for other cultures.]]
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* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructs Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of alot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]]. In simple terms, Japan is very sensitive and private with its culture. Gaijin Goombah worked very hard for years to earn the smallest amount of respect and to equally respect their culture in Japan. He was affected by racism for being a foreigner and Logan's video has done nothing but promote the boorish stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are self centered jerks who have no respect for other countries.]]
-->'''Gaijin Goombah: ''' Like I said Logan. If you want to make your distracks, fine. You want to manipulate {{YouTube}} system, fine. But you have some goddamn respect for yourself, for Japan and for the dead. What you did was inexcusable.

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* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructs Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of alot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]]. In simple terms, Japan is very sensitive and private with its culture. Gaijin Goombah worked very hard for 17 years to earn the smallest amount of respect and to equally respect their culture in Japan. He was affected by racism for being a foreigner and Logan's video has done nothing but promote the boorish stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are self centered jerks who have no respect for other countries.]]
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-->'''Gaijin Goombah: ''' Like I said Logan. If you want to make your distracks, fine. You want to manipulate the {{YouTube}} system, fine. But you have some goddamn respect for yourself, for Japan and for the dead. What you did was inexcusable.
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* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructs Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of alot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]]. In simple terms, Japan is very sensitive and private with its culture. Gaijin Goombah worked very hard for years to earn the smallest amount of respect and to equally respect their culture in Japan. He was affected by racism for being a foreigner and Logan's video has done nothing but promote the stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are self centered jerks who have no respect for other countries.]]
-->'''Gaijin Goombah ''': Like I said Logan. If you want to make your distracks, fine. You want to manipulate {{YouTube}}, fine. But you have some goddamn respect for yourself, for Japan and for the dead. What you did was inexcusable.

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* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructs Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of alot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]]. In simple terms, Japan is very sensitive and private with its culture. Gaijin Goombah worked very hard for years to earn the smallest amount of respect and to equally respect their culture in Japan. He was affected by racism for being a foreigner and Logan's video has done nothing but promote the boorish stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are self centered jerks who have no respect for other countries.]]
-->'''Gaijin Goombah ''': Goombah: ''' Like I said Logan. If you want to make your distracks, fine. You want to manipulate {{YouTube}}, {{YouTube}} system, fine. But you have some goddamn respect for yourself, for Japan and for the dead. What you did was inexcusable.
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* TranquilFury: He made a vlog where he calmly and furiously deconstructs Logan Paul's controversial video where he recorded a [[LastDisrespects corpse of a suicide victim]] and showed his overall inappropriate behavior in Japan. He states that Logan might have just ruined the lives of alot of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero foreigners visiting Japan or living in Japan]]. In simple terms, Japan is very sensitive and private with its culture. Gaijin Goombah worked very hard for years to earn the smallest amount of respect and to equally respect their culture in Japan. He was affected by racism for being a foreigner and Logan's video has done nothing but promote the stereotype that all Americans [[{{Eagleland}} are self centered jerks who have no respect for other countries.]]
-->'''Gaijin Goombah ''': Like I said Logan. If you want to make your distracks, fine. You want to manipulate {{YouTube}}, fine. But you have some goddamn respect for yourself, for Japan and for the dead. What you did was inexcusable.
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** Played-Straight with WebVideo/TheLonelyGoomba.
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* SharedUniverse: If [[https://animatiom.tumblr.com/post/164949512447/the-reviewaverse-multiverse-chart-v23 this post]] is to be believed, we can link it to hundreds of other internet things like WebVideo/{{The Nostalgia Critic}}, ZTV News, Jaltoid, Robobuddies and the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter of all things.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: [[invoked]] He explains during his review of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' that this is why he tends to avoid AAA games.
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* ValuesDissonance: He covers this, and is quite familiar with it. Particularly with Japan-American Values Dissonance.

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* ValuesDissonance: InUniverse He covers this, and is quite familiar with it. Particularly with Japan-American Values Dissonance.

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* WeaponOfChoice: At least in PokemonGo, Exeggutor.

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* MascotMook: A Goombah, obviously.
* ValuesDissonance: He covers this, and is quite familiar with it. Particularly with Japan-American Values Dissonance.
* WeaponOfChoice: At least in PokemonGo, Videogame/PokemonGo, Exeggutor.
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!!Gaijin's videos provide examples of:

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* WeaponOfChoice: At least in PokemonGo, Exeggutor.
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!!Gaijin's videos provide examples of:
* GeniusBonus: Most of his videos deal with pointing out these in games thanks to various cultural tidbits, ranging from the obvious (shinto in {{VideoGame/Okami}}) to the more obscure (Irish connections in {{VideoGame/Undertale}} or Rain Man from a MegaMan game being Navajo.)

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!!Gaijin's videos provide examples of:
* GeniusBonus: Most of his videos deal with pointing out these in games thanks to various cultural tidbits, ranging from the obvious (shinto in {{VideoGame/Okami}}) to the more obscure (Irish connections in {{VideoGame/Undertale}} or Rain Man from a MegaMan game being Navajo.)
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Gaijin Goombah is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially but not exclusively Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own youtube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.

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Gaijin Goombah is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially but (but not exclusively exclusively) Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage, and his videos appear both on his own youtube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.

Usually, he appears as a cartoon goombah (though keeping his glasses and beard) with his voice altered.

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!!Gaijin's videos provide examples of:
*GeniusBonus: Most of his videos deal with pointing out these in games thanks to various cultural tidbits, ranging from the obvious (shinto in {{VideoGame/Okami}}) to the more obscure (Irish connections in {{VideoGame/Undertale}} or Rain Man from a MegaMan game being Navajo.)
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Gaijin Goombah is a video game analyst who focuses on culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage.

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Gaijin Goombah is a video game analyst who focuses on culture, especially but not exclusively Japanese culture. His main show is Game Exchange, though he also does Gaijin Gamers Play, GG IRL, and Goombah Rage.Rage, and his videos appear both on his own youtube channel and on the Game Theorists channel.
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