History WebVideo / Civvie11

'''Civvie:''' Oh, that? Well, Cancer Mouse, that's a ''[rapid fire SoundEffectBleep]''. Katie, bleep some of that out, people will get super butthurt if I start making fun of ''[bleep]''. [[invoked]] \\

* SitcomArchNemesis:

---> '''Civvie:''' I dunno how many didgeri-doobies [=GMan=] is smoking, if you wanna buy this, understand that it fucking pains me to say this, wait until they patch it.

---> '''Civvie:''' I gotta give this game credit, those Terminators are beautifully modelled, spot on. Really, everything seems to be crafted with love, and care, and reverence for the Terminator franchise [...], right down to the plasma blasts and the sound effects. I'm kind of enjoying this, and ''not freaking out because the lasers are red instead of purple''. (Cue clip of Angry Joe screaming about the lasers).

'''Civvie:''' I didn't steal a ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial hydrogen]]'' bomb.

** For 2021, he reviews an [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] bootleg cartridge by Color Dreams based on the ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' franchise. It's a fake game, but jankily put together to seem like an example of TheProblemWithLicensedGames. [[invoked]]

** The lamest pun reaction yet comes in the ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune'' video. While reviewing the game's history, Civvie notes that the main voice actor is named "Todd Susman. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Todd]]. [[Memes/AmongUs Sus]]man." Less than 10 seconds later, he comments that being unable to find the game on Usefulnotes/{{Steam}} and only seeing it on Website/GogDotCom "is a bit Todd Susman if you ask me". [=AX3=] considers this a level 10 actionable pun, the most severe so far at the video's release, and for this Civvie is immediately sent to the Clown room. This implicitly means that [=AX3=] considers attempting to nuke a DOSC facility to be just as bad as [[DisproportionateRetribution an Among Us sus joke]].

* ArbitrarySkepticism: He is notably incensed in ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'' when Hiro claims that Superfly's suspicion of a graveyard is superstitious, yelling at Hiro "YOU'VE MET GHOSTS!"

* ButtMonkey: Civvie has an [[RunningGag ongoing series]] entitled "humiliating the cyberdemon" where the classic ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' baddie gets killed in cheap and anticlimactic ways. This even continues when the Cyberdemon is replaced by the [[DegradedBoss Tyrant]] in ''VideoGame/DoomEternal''

* OverusedRunningGag: In-universe Civvie is forbidden from using Gordon Ramsey's "It's fucking raw" clip after [[invoked]][[ObviousBeta peppering it]] all over his review of ''[[VideoGame/{{Blood}} Blood II]]''. Daring to do so anyway results in immediate punishment, usually electrocution. Similar bans are in place for Creator/MontyPython references and [[IncrediblyLamePun bad puns]].

* OverusedRunningGag: In-universe Civvie is forbidden from using Gordon Ramsey's "It's fucking raw" clip after [[ObviousBeta peppering it]] all over his review of ''[[VideoGame/{{Blood}} Blood II]]''. Daring to do so anyway results in immediate punishment, usually electrocution. Similar bans are in place for Creator/MontyPython references and [[IncrediblyLamePun bad puns]].

** He's quick to point out when a game suffered from ExecutiveMeddling, such as ''VideoGame/BloodIITheChosen'' being shoved out the door in an ObviousBeta state or Marvel forcing ''VideoGame/XMenTheRavagesOfApocalypse'' to be ChristmasRushed. In these cases, his jabs against the developers are half-hearted while his real anger is directed toward the publishers. [[invoked]]

** Acknowledged in his video on ''VideoGame/Blood'', where he claims he doesn't like ''Film/TheLastJedi'', but shuts down Cancer Mouse's attempts to steer the discussion towards politics or agendas by claiming it was just an incompetently-made corporate product, and Disney has no greater agenda than accumulating money.

** Civvie has tossed out jabs at Creator/ValveSoftware and ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', comparing their effects to Nazi Germany in how ''Half-Life'' effectively wiped out the ''Doom'' and ''Duke Nukem'' style of shooters in favour of narrative-driven, linear experiences. [[spoiler: A FreezeFrameBonus in the first ''Pro Blood'' video shows he actually considers ''Half-Life'' his third favorite shooter, right under ''Blood'' itself.]] His full video on ''Half-Life'', though, is much more positive, and he goes so far as to compare it to ''Film/CitizenKane'' in terms of [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny how impossible it is for people today to recognize how innovative it was in its time]]. He clarifies more precisely that while ''Half-Life'' did deal a serious blow to "boomer shooters", this was largely due to lesser developers taking the wrong lessons (for example, [[NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom the harsh linearity]] of ''Half-Life'' was an actual major theme of the story, not just laziness).[[invoked]]

** For 2023, Civvie finally decides to review ''TNT: Evilution''... InTheStyleOf Website/TikTok videos (and uploaded to Website/YouTube Shorts), dragging it out by [[OverlyLongGag reviewing one level a day]]. A comment he drops early in the first map is that [[InterfaceScrew he actually is playing with a portrait mode aspect ratio]], and GoshDangItToHeck is applied very excessively, such as Pain Elemental being {{Sound Effect Bleep}}ed and later replaced with "Plane Elemental".

** After a failed attempt to blow up the DOSC's nutraloaf factory in the ''VideoGame/{{UnrealI}}'' episode, Civvie gets sent to "the Clown Room" as punishment. Here, he's isolated while he tries to work on his next videos, at least until the AI called Clown starts intruding on the script and subjecting him to Website/TikTok-esque shenanigans.

** The first of Civvie's shorts is titled "Website/{{TIKTOK}} N' [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment TORMENT]]", or "TNT", which just so happens to be [[VideoGame/FinalDoom the subject matter of his shorts]].

* {{Newspeak}}: Used heavily in his ''TNT: Evilution'' series, as a means of mocking Tiktok's suppression of certain words in its algorithm and its users coming up with odd workarounds. For instance, along with the typical use of "unalive" to mean "dead" or "kill", he at one point claims to "un-like" a level.

* ContinuityNod: In his review of ''TNT: Evilution'', Civvie rhetorically describes something he refers to as "[[Literature/Goldilocks goldilocks]]ing", ie. visiting someone else's family reunion and having sex with every woman there to see who would be "just right" in bed. Goldilocksing gets referenced again in the ''VideoGame/{{Strife}}'' episode, in which he says that "the goldilocksing thing was only half-true"; but what elements of what Civvie described are true and what's fake is left up to interpretation.

** The oft-mentioned but never-seen Cold Room, a punishment often used on or to threaten Civvie and other inmates. As his review of ''Kreed'' reveals, it is indeed simply a room that is incredibly cold.

** Acknowledged in his video on ''VideoGame/DarkForces'', where he claims he doesn't like ''Film/TheLastJedi'', but shuts down Cancer Mouse's attempts to steer the discussion towards politics or agendas by claiming it was just an incompetently-made corporate product, and Disney has no greater agenda than accumulating money.

-->'''Civvie:''' Valve's first game was ''Half Life''. I think I once said in one of those old videos that may or may not share the current timeline, I don't know, that Doom was the ''Film/CitizenKane'' of video games, a claim I would like to walk back if I ever made it in the first place. Doom is more like the technical cinematic breakthroughs of the 1910s, like [[Film/{{TheBirthOfANation|1915}} Birth of a Nation]]. Except instead of all [[ValuesDissonance the… Oh no…]] Instead of all [[TheKlan that]], it's wholesome demon-fighting. Half-Life is closer to the Citizen Kane of gaming. It is a critical mass, a point of no return. Where narrative in video games was changed forever.

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-->'''Civvie''' (playing ''VideoGame/{{Duke Nukem 3D}}''): "You were [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Schwarzenegger]]. You were [[Creator/SylvesterStallone Stallone]]. You were the baddest motherfucker alive".\\
'''Civvie''' (regarding the final boss of ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein''): "I'm not saying that I'm going to beat Heinrichs' ass so hard that he wakes in another thousand years to find that the world is littered with monuments to the legend of a Yankee spy pushing some pre-medieval Germanic douces' shit in until it was leaking from his ears. [Beat] Because he's not getting up again."

---> '''Civvie''' (reviewing ''[=TekWar=]''): "Capstone... they fascinate me at how utterly ''incompetent'' they were at making games".

--> ''[[MotorMouth And then you just jump off the ship and take no damage no impact compensation bullshit n-Oh my god that's the biggest demon I've ever seen! Is that the Icon of Sin? Man, the world is in some serious trouble let's get some sticky bombs]].''

--> '''Civvie''' (playing ''VideoGame/{{Duke Nukem 3D}}''): "You were [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Schwarzenegger]]. You were [[Creator/SylvesterStallone Stallone]]. You were the baddest motherfucker alive".
--> '''Civvie''' (regarding the final boss of ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein''): "I'm not saying that I'm going to beat Heinrichs' ass so hard that he wakes in another thousand years to find that the world is littered with monuments to the legend of a Yankee spy pushing some pre-medieval Germanic douces' shit in until it was leaking from his ears. [Beat] Because he's not getting up again."

--> Name: FUCK. Durability: FUCK. Threat level: FUCK. Rarity: FUCK. Summary: "Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it".

-->"I can understand, ''Bombshell'' wasn't exactly critically loved, but it is objectively more than nothing, which is probably the best review that game ever got."

--->'''Civvie:''' "We all said Doom 2016 was unbalanced and too easy, and now we're paying for it".

--> '''Civvie:''' This is the Painmaster. It's a master of pain.

---> '''Civvie''' (In said ''Hunt Down The Freeman'' video): "[[BlatantLies I'm not gonna freak out about this. I'm not...]]"

--> '''Civvie:''' "Medication Time! Medication Time... (25MG THORAZINE ADMINISTERED)"

-->'''Civvie:''' "Valve's first game was ''Half Life''. I think I once said in one of those old videos that may or may not share the current timeline, I don't know, that Doom was the ''Film/CitizenKane'' of video games, a claim I would like to walk back if I ever made it in the first place. Doom is more like the technical cinematic breakthroughs of the 1910s, like [[Film/{{TheBirthOfANation|1915}} Birth of a Nation]]. Except instead of all [[ValuesDissonance the… Oh no…]] Instead of all [[TheKlan that]], it's wholesome demon-fighting. Half-Life is closer to the Citizen Kane of gaming. It is a critical mass, a point of no return. Where narrative in video games was changed forever."

--> '''Civvie:''' So what now? So I'm supposed to not finish the game? That's not an option! Well, okay, it IS an option, but not for me.\\

---> '''Postal Dude:''' Dear Billie,\\

---> "I remember the first time playing as a wee lad and thinking, what the fuck is this? I was a vulgar child, but I grew out of that shit."

---> "That's a bold artistic choice, to not have an ending!"\\

--> "I fear nothing when I've got a shotgun." ''bloodsucker appears'' "Jesus Christ what is that!"

--> "I completed that list so hard the fuckin' world ended, and I still found time to fight the war on terror!"

-->"Well that's not nice. This isn't Website/FourChan. We prefer to say "on the spectrum."

--> '''Civvie:''' [Raven Software was] maybe not the most financially successful, but responsible for some damn fine games. And VideoGame/{{Hexen}}.

---> '''[=H4MMER=]:''' Where's the stolen hydrogen bomb?
---> '''Civvie:''' I didn't steal a ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial hydrogen]]'' bomb.

--->'''Civvie:''' Go home, ''Star Wars'', you're ''drunk.''

---> '''[=H4MM3R=]:''' No [[Creator/MontyPython Python]]!

-->'''Cancer Mouse:''' "What's that?"\\

'''Civvie:''' "Oh, that? Well, Cancer Mouse, that's a ''[rapid fire SoundEffectBleep]''. Katie, bleep some of that out, people will get super butthurt if I start making fun of ''[bleep]''. [[invoked]] \\
'''Cancer Mouse:''' "That sounds delightful!"\\
'''Civvie:''' "I know, right? It's there. It's all yours."\\
'''Cancer Mouse:''' "Oh! I think I'll... [[DelayedReaction that's a mousetrap]]."\\

--->'''Civvie:''' "...That's another Early Access game down. And pretty soon, Ion Mai- I mean, ''Ion Fury'' is coming out, despite the best efforts of greedy old lawyers who should advise their clients to start making albums again ''that don't contain at least one absolutely embarrassing song''"

--->'''Civvie:''' "Finally I found a main character in a video game I can identify with- oh no wait she's a girl never mind."

---> '''Civvie:''' "I dunno how many didgeri-doobies [=GMan=] is smoking, if you wanna buy this, understand that it fucking pains me to say this, wait until they patch it."

---> '''Civvie:''' "I gotta give this game credit, those Terminators are beautifully modelled, spot on. Really, everything seems to be crafted with love, and care, and reverence for the Terminator franchise [...], right down to the plasma blasts and the sound effects. I'm kind of enjoying this, and ''not freaking out because the lasers are red instead of purple'' (Cue clip of Angry Joe screaming about the lasers).

--->'''Civvie:''' "...This means this chick outside is totally consequence-free and I've been handing her hundreds this whole time, which is more than enough to pay for... you know what, I'm just gonna ''terminate'' this joke... ({{Beat}}) [[EveryoneHasStandards OH GOD!]]" - "Some viewers may not be totally in agreement on the abortion issue, which is fine, 'cos I'm gonna blow this place up... ({{Beat}}) (''panicking'') OH GOD, THIS DOESN'T WORK EITHER! PLEASE DON'T BLOW UP ABORTION CLINICS!"

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Being buried alive under a mass of rejected blank collectible vinyls (which are [[ProductDisplacement most definitely not]] Toys/{{Funko Pop}}s) in the ''VideoGame/{{Hexen}}'' episode.

* GenreTurningPoint: His opinion of VideoGame/HalfLife and VideoGame/{{Doom}}
--->'''Civvie:''' "Valve's first game was VideoGame/HalfLife. I think I once said in one of those old videos that may or may not share the current timeline, I don't know, that VideoGame/{{Doom}} was the Film/CitizenKane of video games, a claim I would like to walk back if I ever made it in the first place. Doom is more like the technical cinematic breakthroughs of the 1910s, like [[Film/{{TheBirthOfANation|1915}} Birth of a Nation]]. except instead of all [[ValuesDissonance the… Oh no… Instead of all that]], it's wholesome demon-fighting. Half-Life is closer to the Citizen Kane of gaming. It is a critical mass, a point of no return. where narrative in video games was changed forever."

* SignatureScene: [[invoked]]It's the RunningGag of ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'', that one scene everyone remembers, you know if you played it, referring to [[spoiler:the part where the player character gets turned into a strogg]].

** The video on the ''VideoGame/Postal2'' GameMod ''Eternal Damnation'' has Civvie suffering one bad enough to require medication, after a sequence of events that involve a CrappyCarnival, a [[{{Fanservice}} fully naked]] [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubus]], a train crash, [[DownTheDrain a sewer level]], various game glitches, and [[Film/{{Saw}} Jigsaw]] Gary Coleman attacking him with a [[ChainsawGood Chainsaw]].