Line #73 YMMV/GamingGarbage


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2	* AntiClimaxBoss: The "Boss" (read: only enemy) of ''Boss Fight'', who managed to kill himself before Lowtax could do anything.
3	* AudienceAlienatingEra:
4	** The Spring 2014 period had a particular [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks overabundance of recycled Unity-engine horror games]], made worse by Shmorky's voice hitting a rather sappy rock bottom.
5	** For most of the viewerbase, Shmorky's departure in fall 2014 essentially killed the channel, even if the reasons for his removal became understandable later on. While Lowtax would try to go on with the channel without Shmorky, he proved to be a much less entertaining personality without Shmorky to bounce off of, resulting in the channel's subscriber total completely stagnating and the videos getting a fraction of the views they attracted in the Shmorky era, while they would just continue to decline up until Lowtax's death.
6	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: For a few seconds during Lowtax's conversation with Shmorky as he spends half an hour walking around the forest in ''Pulse Phobia'', an image of one of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'''s secondary characters appears in the foreground. It happens at an utterly random moment and disappears without explanation.
7	* CrossingTheLineTwice: Very likely one of the biggest factors in "Let's Play: ''Evicted''" ''not'' getting Lowtax's Website/YouTube account shut down.
8	* CatharsisFactor: One of the primary reasons Lowtax and Shmorky actually liked ''1.exe'' is just because how fun it turned out to be to shoot everything on screen.
9	* DemonicSpiders:
10	** The rapid-fire cannons in ''Mega Lord'', whose projectile streams are impossible to avoid.
11	** The {{bears\|arebadnews}} in ''Sherlock Holmes vs. Dr. Frankenstein, which drain your entire health bar almost instantly and take many shots to take down.
12	* GoodBadBugs: The SoBadItsGood ''Prevention 1'' and ''Crimelife'' games have more than their fair share.
13	* HarsherInHindsight:
14	** Lowtax telling Shmorky that he's going to kill himself in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8xky-3Gkk beginning]] of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8xky-3Gkk Flapper Racers]]'' counts as this come November 2021, when he did commit suicide.
15	** The entire "golden era" of the channel when Lowtax and Shmorky were collaborating is this, with the later revelations of everything messed up with Shmorky going on behind the scenes, and how Lowtax was making these videos with Shmorky to get away from his home as his marriage fell apart, marking the beginning of the downward spiral that would eventually lead to farther unsavory revelations about Lowtax coming out and the eventual culmination in his suicide. As a result, even fans of that era may have a hard time revisiting the videos that made the channel popular at one point.
16	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Lowtax's performance as a [[WesternAnimation cartoon-style]] old man in "Elderly Games 2" is pulled off surprisingly efficiently for someone who was most famous for his [[StylisticSuck "acting"]] in ''WebVideo/DoomHouse''.
17	* HilariousInHindsight: "Let's Play: ''Crimelife: Somertun''" is especially funny now that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5svAoQ7D38k several people have been caught]] trying to sell unmodified UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} and Unreal Engine asset packs as original games on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, [[http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Kotach at least one of whom]] actually succeeded in doing so.
18	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: The channel fell into a habit of playing several indistinguishable SurvivalHorror games back-to-back rather than mixing up genres. In later years, seeing the same (usually free) Unity and Unreal Engine 4 assets featured in almost every [=GameJolt=] creation led to the same reaction.
19	* MemeticMutation:
20	** Working the title of ''VideoGame/CryOfFear'' into a phrase, especially ones that involve fear and/or crying.
21	*** Telling Lowtax to finish ''Cry of Fear'', often in the most hilariousy deceptive, persuasive and/or obsessive of ways.
22	** Discussing whether or not something is "the real ''Minecraft''".
23	** Calling something a "disgusting wad" after Lowtax's unofficial christening of VideoGame/PacMan as such.
24	** [[GoodBadTranslation "George got dead."]]
25	** Debob
26	** TRELYATE!
27	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m1OBIIZWlM&list=UUPoSHO-OOTb0rqZr6bJlMkQ Manganoochatrelacanootratreladeb]]
28	* MemeticPsychopath: Dontrel the Dolphin, a [[MascotWithAttitude mascot with both attitude]] and an [[SlasherSmile unsettling appearance]], made even creepier by his game's [[SurrealHorror bizarre backgrounds]] and discordant music.
29	* NauseaFuel:
30	** In keeping with all of their other cluelessly [[NoBudget "lo-fi"]] elements, quite a few of the first-person games have a [[NoPeripheralVision staggeringly low FOV]], moreso than most console games. ''7 Days'', ''Nine Eleven'' and ''Jennifer's Secret'', in particular, can make the viewer physically ill within the span of just a few minutes.
31	** Some of Shmorky's artwork in the video bumpers can qualify as this.
32	** Lampshaded when warning of the extreme motion blur in ''Slender Lost''.
33	--->'''Lowtax:''' The following footage [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer has not been edited in any way]] and will probably make you vomit.
34	* NeverLiveItDown:
35	** The commenters often brought up Shmorky's [[OldShame history]] of rather [[MindScrew bizarre]] and fetishistic UsefulNotes/{{furry\|fandom}} artwork; his drawing of cub porn is especially infamous. Lowtax claimed that it was (at least in part) why Shmorky was booted off the channel.
36	** Lowtax was never able to live down his disastrous boxing match with Uwe Boll. Even more than a decade later it remained an infamous moment fans and critics alike loved to bring up.
37	* NightmareFuel:
38	** Dontrel The Dolphin is pretty much the scariest thing they've ever played. Made even creepier by Shmorky's SanitySlippage.
39	** ''Potato Pushur'' isn't exactly clear what it's about, but the impression it does leave—that of a fat woman [[spoiler:stabbing herself]] to allow monster potatoes [[spoiler:inside her body to drink her blood as she transforms into a giant green vegetable monster out to make love to a giant red vegetable monster]]—is certainly an unsettling one.
40	** Tails'... "cameo" in "Let's Play: ''Sonic Cracker''", drawn ugly as possible with a twistedly distorted voice.
41	** ''Survival Horror'', both the game ''and'' the bumper video. The latter takes [[{{Gorn}} a more traditional route]] whereas the former... [[MindScrew not so much]].
42	** In the beginning of "Let's Play: ''Heroes Company Modern Terror''", Lowtax is voiced by a realistic-looking animated skeleton for [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment seemingly no reason]].
43	** It's safe to say that a GrimReaper with worms and maggots crawling all over its face is not a pretty sight, and if you're not careful you'll see one in the beginning of "Let's Play: ''Sonic Writers''" and "Let's Play: ''Police Force 2''"
44	** ''Beestmeel'' is surreal enough in and of itself to qualify, but special mention goes to the player character's falling animation where its eyes are suddenly replaced with empty, black circles and a large, disembodied head of a blonde vibrating and convulsing like a bad StopMotionAnimation.
45	** Despite its hilariously primitive UsefulNotes/MSPaint graphics, ''Torture'' is probably the closest a game on the channel ever got to attaining this on legitimate grounds, thanks to its copious varieties of EyeScream.
46	** "Erned Laser" may also be the creepiest game they ever played, given that the incomplete, poorly designed, flickering textures of levels resemble a cross between abstract art and an EldritchLocation. The warped, ominous, cacophonous music is definitely nightmare fuel.
47	** The [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere "Opera Ball"]] in ''Prevention 1'', a cartoon face that manages to out-terrify any of the monsters in ''Cry of Fear''.
48	* NightmareRetardant: Every single horror game featured on the channel was turned into this.
49	* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: The maker of the [[MindScrew completely insane]] game ''Beestmeel'' was ecstatic about the extra publicity he got from being featured by Lowtax. He has taken the opportunity to enter several threads in the [=YouTube=] comments in order to "explain" the game and to spread knowledge of his WordSaladPhilosophy.
50	** The same happened earlier with ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Blood Craze'' creator Bladevampirek, who even registered a forum account.
51	* OlderThanTheyThink: Some of the GameMaker style games go back as far as 2002.
52	* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Technically, none of the franchise-based games are actually "licensed" in that they don't have permission from the copyright holders or anything. And chances are they never will, as they're generally at levels of incompetence not even Creator/{{LJN\|Toys}} would touch.
53	* ReviewsAreTheGospel: Despite otherwise having near universal acclaim among IndieGame enthusiasts, Lowtax and Shmorky's complete and utter evisceration of ''VideoGame/CryOfFear'' has been followed by ''absolute'', ''universal'' disdain on its part from the Website/SomethingAwful forums and Website/YouTube comment section.
54	* SoBadItsGood: Lowtax said that he wanted to look carefully for games that are entertainingly bad to watch/play instead of just '''bad'''. Some considerable examples include:
55	** ''1.exe''
56	** ''3D Goku Allstars''
57	** ''VideoGame/AirControl''
58	** ''Clumsy Wrex''
59	** ''Crimelife 2''
60	** ''Earth Defiance''
61	** ''Garbage Day''
62	** ''Good Elderly''
63	** ''I-Land''
64	** ''Lockup''
65	** ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Blood Craze 1 & 2''
66	** ''Potato Pushur''
67	** ''Prevention 1''
68	** ''The Road Ahead''
69	** ''Rotten Prison''
70	** ''Shopping Center Manager''
71	** ''Shop 'Till You Drop 2''
72	** ''Torture''
73	* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: {{Lampshade}}d in ''Pulse Phobia'' where Lowtax and Shmorky brought up the fact that some of their listeners have fallen asleep to the conversations, in a video that is almost entirely a full hour of them having nerdy chats as the player paces about a small woodland area.
74	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
75	** The increasing abundance of UsefulNotes/{{Unity}}-engine games, often formulaic SurvivalHorror, over the even more primitive GameMaker-produced trash that the channel originally built itself on.
76	** Shmorky's ever {{Flanderiz\|ation}}ing voice, especially around the time that the channel was renamed from ''Video Game Abomination Broadcasting''.
77	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeOpTPeAtk&list=UUPoSHO-OOTb0rqZr6bJlMkQ "Let's Play: 3D Goku Allstars"]]. It must be seen to be believed.

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