History Quotes / HBomberguy

->"''What's most fascinating about this comment is that this is the closest I think I've ever seen someone come to admitting that they've lost. If I'd made even a minor error that was easy to debunk or respond to in my 30 minute long video, Paul would have done that, wouldn't he? He'd have gone in so hard on me! Just rough and uncensored! He'd have just gone to town on me with his SOY-ENCRUSTED TONGUE! But appears I owned him so hard with such bulletproof reasoning, that he daren't even mention me or my video directly, despite the fact that [[BlatantLies we have mutual friends]], so I know he's seen the video, and I know it really pissed him off.''

->''"Like, if you wanna see how to make a'' Franchise/{{Fallout}} ''game, there's a lesson here. Don't rehash the iconic stuff everyone already knows. Come up with something completely new, like a faction of robot security guards who answer to a [[Characters/FalloutNewVegasRobertEdwinHouse Pre-War ultra-capitalist businessman]]. Don't ask what the'' Fallout ''setting can bring to your creativity. Ask what creativity'' you ''can bring to the'' Fallout ''setting."''

-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gFsOoKAHZg Flat Earth: A Measured Response]]''

-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOp28hQb_Xw Nice Try, Paul]]'', the follow-up video to ''Soy Boys: A Measured Response''

-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPOQr1pxY8 Halcyon Dreams: The Legacy of Dragon's Lair]]''

-->--The coda to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebCHHCw9rY Ctrl+Alt+Del | Serious Lore Analysis: 3]]

-->--During the VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 stream.

-->--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzF7aHxk4Y4 Fallout: New Vegas Is Genius, And Here's Why]]

-> ({{Beat}})
-> "''Uh, [[{{Greed}} money]]. Thank you for watching.''"
-->--The {{AntiClimax}} of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc "Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response"]]

-->--[[https://youtu.be/0twDETh6QaI?si=nWt9VWPGb7UtFVy6 ROBLOX_OOF.mp3]]

-->--[[https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=u3_U7uQ4kXH1l1dX Plagiarism and You(Tube)]]

-->--[[https://www.vulture.com/2023/12/hbomberguy-interview-james-somerton-plagiarism.html Hbomberguy Didn't Want to Make That 4-Hour Plagiarism Video]]

->"''Those who let hucksters write the history they're trying to learn from are doomed in some other horrible way.''"

-> "''I think people tend to fool themselves. People think they’re good at what they do, and they don’t question their practices. Because James [Somerton] and [co-writer] Nick both thought they were experts on the topics they talked about, they bumbled into so many blind alleys. I mentioned making this video to my friend [[WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows Todd]] and he independently started watching James, and fell down all these rabbit holes, and made a video about him as well. It’s the Dunning-Kruger effect, when you’ve managed to stay at the top of the curve so you think, "I'' must ''be an expert", and you never do any work that can disconfirm your hypothesis. It’s scary how easy it is to do that.''"

-->--[[https://www.vulture.com/2023/12/hbomberguy-interview-james-somerton-plagiarism.html

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-->--[[https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=u3_U7uQ4kXH1l1dX Plagiarism and You(Tube)]]

-->--[[https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=u3_U7uQ4kXH1l1dX Plagiarism and You(Tube)]]

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-> "''If you find any happiness or success making something creatively, and you think I helped... Thank you. Feeling like I can do that for someone makes me feel happy in a way I can't describe. And, uh, if you find a lot of success doing it... [[MoodWhiplash give me all of your money!]]''"

-->-- ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gFsOoKAHZg Flat Earth: A Measured Response]]''

-> "''At the end of all of this, I ask the eternal question asked of every major fraudster in history: 'how could someone do all this?'. Cause all this fear and doubt that has led to real, tangible harm against your fellow human being? Why would someone do that?''"

->"''What's most fascinating about this comment is that this is the closest I think I've ever seen someone come to admitting that they've lost. If I'd made even a minor error that was easy to debunk or respond to in my 30 minute long video, Paul would have done that, wouldn't he? He'd have gone in so hard on me! Just rough and uncensored! He'd have just gone to town on me with his SOY-ENCRUSTED TONGUE! But appears I owned him so hard with such bulletproof reasoning, that he daren't even mention me or my video directly, despite the fact that we have mutual friends, so I know he's seen the video, and I know it really pissed him off.''

-->--The {{AntiClimax}} of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc "Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response"]]

-->--The {{AntiClimax}} of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc "Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response"]]

-->--During the VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 stream.

-->--During the [VideoGame/DonkeyKong64] stream.

-->--The coda to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebCHHCw9rY Ctrl+Alt+Del | Serious Lore Analysis: 3]]

->"''Mark Sargent's video doesn't even acknowledge existence of nonstop flights. In fact, he says they don't exist! So now it becomes clear why so much of Flat Earth is pointless fluff or speculation about who must be in on it. They have to avoid making quantifiable claims because otherwise, when you put it in terms that can be proven or disproven, there's a chance that your ACTUAL reasons for believing what you believe can be OPENLY demonstrated to be wrong. 'The Earth can't be a globe because there's no nonstop flights across countries in the Southern Hemisphere! [[CriticalResearchFailure Oh, wait someone Googled it and it turns out there are?"]] '''''FUCKING OOPS!''''''''"

->"''*** Ah, Ruh-Weebee. I will probably never watch this show but the title itself and the gifs that keep popping up will be jokes in themselves for all time. I thought the action in one of the trailers looked semi-neat, then opened up a random episode to see if it was good and discovered horrible 'anime-esque' dialogue and had to turn it off. I didn't think it was possible to be more anime than anime. It's like an anime replicant.
*** Poser is garbage. It is poop. It is not a real program. I don't know any other way of saying it. It would actually be better to make it in Microsoft Office.
*** Maybe the key slowed him down because it got covered in greasy sweat and/or cheeto dust, or got broken from the sheer pressure of being violently mashed at incredible speeds.
*** It's very odd to desire speed and efficiency but have to use an old program and destroy your keyboards in the process, while using 'like nine' monitors, in order to rip off a fight from the Matrix but with lesbians
*** This is basically it. Monty Oum is the ultimate anime fanboy, and by appreciating 'his work', viewers are vicariously appreciating themselves. This is why relatively straightforward critique ("mutilating your tools and purposefully using a worse version of a software is not good practice") is being imagined as school bullies (with mental disorders, because why not?) picking on a kid in the cafeteria. While the kid is technically Monty Oum, The Oumchild is a stand-in for everyone else who appreciates anime in his very specific way, but didn't ever get the chance to make it themselves. Interesting side-point: Oum is treated as if a frail child, even in the imaginations of those who like him. This is telling.
*** This ties into my theory about this show and others like it removing all the good parts of anime through obsession with the signifiers of good-ness. Because there's nothing actually good in the show, a fan's discussion of the show necessarily has to revolve around how successful it has been, how much of a workaholic coolguy Monty Oum / Rooster Teeth are, their personal fanfiction character and how they would fit into official canon, and continuous re-insistence that the fights are 'cool'. The point is the part where you actually enjoy the show in some meaningful way is endlessly deferred elsewhere. It is weaponized desire. Monty Oum is a genius in the very specific way the creators of porn are geniuses.
*** If Oum had taken his choices more seriously, he would have made better ones.
*** I'm looking for a second lead animator on mine if you're interested. I need someone to tween the boobladies around as if they were sliding across a frictionless floor. And no, it won't be official RWBY unless you post pics of your broken keyboard. My control key is acting up ever since I pissed all over it though so I might have to tear it out.
*** Also, german words pronounced properly are great. That's why animes love them. If you're not even gonna pronounce it properly there's no point. "Like I love anime and am gonna make my own and do all the things animes I like do, but actually not at all. gently caress you" - Monty Oum''
-->--''[[https://old.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/idkcam/the_hbomberguy_video_genuinely_upsets_me/ His Original Commentary on RWBY]]''

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-->--''[[https://old.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/idkcam/the_hbomberguy_video_genuinely_upsets_me/ His Original Commentary on RWBY]]'', the follow-up video to ''Soy Boys: A Measured Response''

->"''Mark Sargent's video doesn't even acknowledge existence of nonstop flights. In fact, he says they don't exist! So now it becomes clear why so much of Flat Earth is pointless fluff or speculation about who must be in on it. They have to avoid making quantifiable claims because otherwise, when you put it in terms that can be proven or disproven, there's a chance that your ACTUAL reasons for believing what you believe can be OPENLY demonstrated to be wrong. "The Earth can't be a globe because there's no nonstop flights across countries in the Southern Hemisphere! [[CriticalResearchFailure Oh, wait someone Googled it and it turns out there are?"]] '''''FUCKING OOPS!'''''''"

-> "''One of my favorite paintings is "The Lacemaker." Johannes Vermeer painted a loving, accurate, and detailed rendition of [[MundaneMadeAwesome a girl making lace.]] Vermeer celebrated real people doing ordinary things; he offered the radical idea that you didn't have to be special or important or magical or legendary to worth being painted or thought about or remembered. So it turns out there are two ways of explaining history. We can be like Geoffrey of Monmouth or the early Roman and invent these magical, wondrous, brilliant people who gave everything to us: a wizard made Stonehenge all by himself, a man called Romulus invented Rome out of whole cloth and took part in every major historical event required to fulfill his amazing design, Don Bluth made "Dragon's Lair." '''Or''' we could be like Vermeer: a bunch of ordinary everyday people built Stonehenge just by working together and putting time and effort into it, a bunch of ordinary people make video games by working together very hard for hours and hours and hours and days and years to make it, a bunch of regular, ordinary people built Rome over the span of a very long time contributing to what would later be remembered as the exploits of one man. This way is nowhere near as magical as the one we like to imagine put our world together. The truth is often very mundane. But maybe that's okay.''"

->''"No,[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel] is merely a particularly silly and vulgar expression of a broader set of bad ideas that continue to go largely unexamined by the people who hold them. Tim Buckley's disjointed personal philosophy and lack of skill didn't come from nowhere. We don't get to pretend he's just some random guy. Blaming one man for the flaws of a broken economic system is making the same mistake as blaming Tim Buckley for accurately presenting the culture in which he exists. We just have to learn to accept that there might be a lesson in things we hate about us, that even if it's bad and we don't like it, we have more in common with it than we want to admit, and can even learn something from it. CAD turned out to be reflective of the cultural reality that produced it, and people are only angry at it this much because they don't like what they saw in the mirror."''
-->--The coda to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebCHHCw9rY Ctrl+Alt+Del Serious Lore Analysis: 3]]