The Spoony Experiment: The Thread

And now Persona 5: Tutorial Edition
I forgot how slow the intro was. I was pretty into it, so I never really noticed.

EDIT: There is a second one, but the link won't work for some reason.

edited 3rd Feb '18 8:49:12 AM by Zeromaeus

Looks like this topic missed something pretty big. I only saw it today, since i check Twitter much less often since I started my job this year.

That's an imposter account, Spoony's Twitter got suspended.

It's also a poor imposter. should be 60% tweets raging on the current US Presidency, 30% Wrestling Tweets, and 10% other.

edited 3rd Mar '18 1:43:36 PM by Ghilz

I was going to say, I thought he had been banned from Twitter.

Really? I didn't know that, oops. Well I feel like a dolt now.

To be fair, it's hard to figure out what's going on in Spoony's world. I heard he was banned from Twitter briefly during the last stream I watched, and that was a guy who was trying to troll him who was kicked out by his moderators.

Mini-Documentary about Spoony's popularity as a web reviewer and eventual decline after souring relationships with peers, fans, and Patrons.

edited 31st Mar '18 2:42:51 PM by BorneAgain

The Rise and Fall...

You aren't supposed to link videos without text.

Well, more like "you're not allowed to link videos without context," but yeah. Don't just drop a video link; give context to people so that anyone who can't or won't click the link can still know what's going on.

...I'll endeavor to keep that in mind.

Edited by BorneAgain on Aug 7th 2019 at 6:27:04 AM

I remember his Ultima retrospective series. To me, that was both the high point of his career and the first real sign that there was something wrong with him.

Ultima 9 does that to people.

How so?

The breakdown when he covered Ultima 9 seemed just a little too real for comfort.

I believe the Ultima IX review was made around his first Twitter meltdown and his departure from Channel Awesome. There was a lot of Reality Subtext going on in those reviews...

Yeah, both were in the summer of 2012.

The breakdown? Some Spoony-watcher I am, have watched many videos from him and still remember no breakdown.... unless it's that "I'm not the false prophet" -part? I took that as a joke.

It's the part where he reminisces about how much he loved the series and grew up with it...before furiously throwing all of his Ultima books and games across the room and ranting about how it was all pointless because of IX. He then goes on to say that everything he's ever loved turns to shit and advises his audience to never love anything lest they see it go to shit too.

I remember being kind of unnerved by that as well. I was aware of some of the drama going on between him and Channel Awesome, so I wasn't sure if that particular scene was just really good acting, him genuinely having a breakdown, or something in the middle.

The sad thing is that if he was just acting it’s just further proof of how much of a wasted talent he was. And Lord Kat was mad about the guy not moving to LA or working in the trenches of the stand up circuit...

Lord Kat's rant in that video only served to make himself look pathetic, not only by calling someone else unprofessional while blasting swears and insults about genetalia but also blaming someone for harming their career with a stunt when the clear counterfactural of Angry Joe also being there and who's popularity nowadays speaks for itself.

I recall his Ultima 9 review being incredibly unpleasant to watch. And given that he tended to act in a similar manner in his unscripted vlogs, I'm pretty sure it was not all acting.

I actually got a chuckle looking at the video and going "Really, you're gonna include a long ass clip of LordKat complaining about Spoony's behavior, but you're gonna leave a ton of other shit out????"