History YMMV / CounterMonkey

* ToughActToFollow: Some fans recommend watching the ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' episodes last for this reason.

* BrokenBase: His "3d6 In Order" video and mindset has its fans, while others strongly disagree with an old-school thesis that, by Spoony's own admission, doesn't really work for any version of ''D&D'' after Second Edition. Similarly, some agree with his assertion that the use of other systems of stat generation that result in generally higher and stabler stats caters to powergamers and munchkins and encourages a toxic mindset of play, while others complain that using {{Honest Rolls Character}}s frequently screws over players who come to the table with an idea of what class they want to play, since the chance of rolling up stats completely opposed to their concept is high. Notably, an HonestRollsCharacter [[https://muleabides.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/you-must-be-this-lucky-to-play/ has a less than one percent chance to qualify for some classes even in the editions of the game more friendly to it]].

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At the start of "The Jedi Hunter", Spoony says that he hesitated to tell the story for this reason, remarking that his character's anti-Jedi tricks seem a lot less clever nowadays because later ''Franchise/StarWars'' media like ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' popularized a lot of the same ideas.

* BrokenBase: His "3d6 In Order" video and mindset has its fans, while others strongly disagree with an old-school thesis that, by Spoony's own admission, doesn't really work for any version of ''D&D'' after Second Edition. (The game is currently in its fifth iteration.) Similarly, some agree with his assertion that the use of other systems of stat generation that result in generally higher and stabler stats caters to powergamers and munchkins and encourages a toxic mindset of play, while others complain that using {{Honest Rolls Character}}s frequently screws over players who come to the table with an idea of what class they want to play, since the chance of rolling up stats completely opposed to their concept is high. Notably, an HonestRollsCharacter [[https://muleabides.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/you-must-be-this-lucky-to-play/ has a less than one percent chance to qualify for some classes even in the editions of the game more friendly to it]].
** His review of 5th Edition D&D was full of BackInMyDay and TheReasonYouSuck against modern players. His NostalgiaFilter is turned up to eleven when he complains about the lowered lethality of the game compared to 2nd Edition. [[note]]Considering that 1st level characters 2nd Edition, even the warriors, are at risk of being [[OneHitKill one hit killed]], this is suspect to say the least.[[/note]]

** All of "The Toilet Pizza." To whit; a tale of a pizza he mysterious found wedged in the back of a bathroom stall that was so stale that it had become solid. And then he tricked another player into taking a bite.

* ChristmasRushed: Spoony's review of 5e was done after a mere 24 hours of reading the PHB only, and it shows. He rails against a small selection of mechanics, only touches on a handful of classes (half of which aren't even mentioned), and spends most of the time comparing the book unfavorably to previous editions as a whole, when again he had only read the ''Player's Handbook'' and not the Dungeon Master's Guide or the Monster Manual. He also staunchly keeps the opinion he forms from this minimal information, even when the other books add in things he enjoys from previous editions, like the DMG detailing how to use a grid map or listing a potion miscibility table.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Whenever Spoony wants to see how "the Original Dungeons and Dragons did things" he gets out the Rules Cyclopedia. The Rules Cyclopedia is part of the Basic Dungeons and Dragons (aka BECMI) line, which are actually a separate product. The Original Dungeons and Dragons (OD&D) rules are only contained in the booklets of the White Box set, which is actually on Spoony's shelf in some of the older videos.
** He also didn't really research the Castle Greyhawk module, which he attributes to Gygax to demonstrate how poorly the man made modules, was in actuality written by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Greyhawk_(module)#Table_of_Contents numerous people]] with no contribution from Gygax himself.
** In "Circle Strafe" Spoony complains that [=DMs=] don't make dragons don't fight intelligently, because a dragon who fights smart will make for a very difficult opponent and will probably wipe out the party, and as part of that rant he quips "it ain't like fucking ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''." As anyone who's played ''Skyrim'' can attest, dragons ''are'' difficult fights: dragons fly around and strafe enemies with their BreathWeapon, only landing briefly (and even then they specifically go for out-of-reach places like rooftops) unless they're critically injured, the only way to fight them in the air is with magic or a bow, and even in melee they're very powerful (with a bite attack that's pretty much a OneHitKO). In other words, ''Skyrim'' dragons fight exactly the way Spoony says dragons should fight, and unless the player is a mage or keeps a good bow on-hand, they're going to be very challenging for much of the game until you get [[KryptoniteFactor Dragonrend]].

* ToughActToFollow: Some fans recommend watching the ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' episodes last for this reason.
* UnfortunateImplications: Discussed in "Beware the Woman, For They Come From Hell", where he talks about the trend of female [=NPCs=] in D&D being AlwaysChaoticEvil (''especially'' if they act attracted to any of the players) and suggests that [[FreudianExcuse the DMs who do this have some issues with women]].

* PetPeeveTrope:
** Spoony is obviously no fan of {{Villain Protagonist}}s, feeling that they're usually created an excuse for player(s) to act like [[ChaoticStupid violent, psychopathic assholes]] and disrupt the game ForTheLulz. He devoted one whole video ("So You Want to Be Evil") to shooting down the concept[[note]]Though he says he's be okay with Evil characters who still have a conscience[[/note]], spends portions of several ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' videos complaining about how the current ''[[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness World of Darkness]]'' setting practically forces you to play a completely unsympathetic character, and of course "Shadowrun: The Code" is all about him taking his revenge on a party who went kill- and torture-happy for no good reason.
*** To a more general extent, he has difficultly putting up with the ChaoticNeutral alignment altogether because people tend to abuse it as the "do anything they want" alignment without dipping into the "evil" categories. He even admits to turning down one player's character of said alignment, even though it was very well made and appropriate for said alignment... even though he follows up with stating that, like most Chaotic Neutrals, said character really had no motivation to join an adventuring party.
** He also hates the attempts to add balance and prevent death later editions of ''Dungeons and Dragons" put forth, feeling that making things too easy takes away from the accomplishment of actually getting a high-level character.
** {{Munchkin}}s and MinMaxing. Spoony feels like an interesting, flawed backstory makes a great character, not high stats. He even has a book for using 3d6 dice rolls to determine a character's backstory and flaws virtually at random. He even notes, the few times a player got undesirable rolls from that book, Spoony told the player they didn't have to keep it. The players inevitably chose to keep the bad rolls anyway, since it got their wheels turning.

** His review of 5th Edition D&D was full of BackInMyDay and TheReasonYouSuck against modern players. His NostalgiaFilter is turned UpToEleven when he complains about the lowered lethality of the game compared to 2nd Edition. [[note]]Considering that 1st level characters 2nd Edition, even the warriors, are at risk of being [[OneHitKill one hit killed]], this is suspect to say the least.[[/note]]

* CompleteMonster: [[SociopathicSoldier Tempus Thales]], from the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKgmhmEtgx4 Thieves]]'' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZarCRE2g0 World]]'' story, is the most powerful soldier in the Ranken Empire, and only finds joy in war, murder, and rape. Charged with keeping the peace in the city of Sanctuary, he is initially an ally to the players, torturing twenty guards to death for robbing them. He then starts sending the players on jobs for him, planning on overthrowing the Ranken Prince in charge of the city with their help. Both Tempus and [[GameMaster Noah's]] plans for the players are ruined when one of the players accidentally hits Tempus in the face with acid. His patron goddess then refuses to heal his face until he gets revenge on the players. When Tempus gets fed up with his failed attempts to catch the players, he starts taking more extreme steps, bringing in the Ranken military to brutally punish anyone who breaks the law. He then publicly declares that he will kill a random person every day, before brutally raping one of the players' LoveInterest to death, and enacting a massacre on the citizens in the ensuing riot. When the players finally confront him, Tempus kills one of them, [[NeverMyFault declaring that everything is their fault for not turning themselves in]], and rips out and eats the heart of another to reclaim his healing.