The Spoony Experiment: The Thread

And the "he's too good for them / that bitch Lupa conspired to get him fired" type of fanboyism as well.

But yeah, all of that post is pretty much old news aside from JO's personal feelings, and she was only ever tangentially involved (regrettably) to begin with.

edited 11th Oct '12 6:58:24 AM by Filby

Just to be clear, that part was just a section of a large post where JO was answering various questions the people on SA had for her. She didn't walk into the thread just to trash Spoony.

*sigh* Yeah, everything she said is pretty much what I figured.

That whole incident was kind of weird for me, because I am both fucked in the head (ask an elder troper, younglings, they'll tell you about the many times I've had mini breakdowns on here) and a woman who's sensitive to inappropriate jokes, so I had to really think about how I felt about the situation.

And that turns out to be, 'like Spoony's aunt'. Which is a fuckin' weird feeling, since he's about a decade older than me and we've never met. But that's the closest approximation; I still like him, I'm just disappointed in him. I can excuse quite a few of his little Targaryen fits, but there's a point at which mentally-ill crosses paths with didn't-your-parents-teach-you-any-goddamned-manners, and he's visited that intersection more than once.

My attitude about Spoony is, that damn it, he's still funny. But there's a nasty undercurrent to a lot of his videos.

But you know, you can be a fan of problematic things, just as long as you're aware of that, and don't make excuses for them. And at least Spoony keeps the really tasteless stuff out of his videos. I don't follow him on twitter any more.

On a tangential note, I want to do a riff/drinking game of To Boldly Flee where we riff the film and take a sip every time there's a scene that's awkward because of behind the scenes drama or other subtext.

It's a shame, because the scene in the field where they're all hugging him is one of the sweetest.

We'd get smashed by the second episode!

Anyway, yeah, best thing to do is to separate the character from the man behind it. Contrary to the beliefs of the Vocal Minority, you can be a fan of Spoony's videos and still think he was acting like a total bastard to TGWTG.

So it's like being a James Brown fan!

Chris Brown. James Brown was a bit of a twit to Jimi Hendrix, IIRC, but as far as I know he didn't beat women.

Have a look at the drug addiction bit.

I'm now picturing Spoony as the preacher in The Blues Brothers.

^^ Ahh. My mistake.

@ the Hallmark video: Two things:

• Seriously, Hallmark deals with chemicals? And is there really a Hallmark so big somewhere that they need a warehouse, or was this just meant for their distribution center and that wasn't made clear?
• Why do job training videos always feel the need to attempt to be entertaining? It's supposed to help the employees learn how to do their jobs, not to keep the audience laughing. Hell, at my job the training videos I had to watch weren't exactly Clerks, but they at least taught me what I was supposed to know (for the most part). Even if I did have to stare at the creepiest CGI creation this side of imvu for like 4 hours *shudder*

Sadly, what I expected from the whole Spoony/CA nonsense: Spoony is having a tough time and being King Jerkass about it.

And I will show you why safety training can be entertaining, gentlemen, Forklift Driver Klaus.

Isn't that a spoof of safety videos and not actually a real safety video?

That I recall, it's real just not official, nobody actually shows it as part of forklift training.

As in, they made it seriously, but it wasn't accepted to be used?

Dunno if serious is a term you'd ever apply to Forklift Driver Klaus .

But I had heard it's a real training video that didn't gain approval. Not a short film as a parody or something, but a gore-filled Black Comedy take on teaching safety. Back to the matter at hand, somebody decided that a Dukes Of Hazzard take on chemical safety was a good idea. Klaus has better production and shock value going for it.

Klaus is the Tromeo And Juliet to Hallmark's Hamlet (the version shown on MST 3 K).

Spoony reviews the new X-COM.

BEEEEETRRAAAAAYAAAA— oh, he says it's not too bad.

edited 17th Oct '12 7:26:58 AM by johnnyfog

Wrong new X-COM.

There's several?

There's two. The one that's out now is an actual strategy game. The one that caused the infamous "BETRAAAAAAYAAAAAL" was an FPS.

Well yeah, but then when there was all this fan backlash they gave the FPS to someone else and started working on this game.

So? It's still not the same X-COM as the one that he was yelling about.