Awesome / Stuart Ashen

• An Exciting Supernatural Opportunity! in which Ashens basically analyzes and tears apart a spiritual con artists' junk mail. It helps that the man is a Doctor of Psychology, so he knows the tricks being used and how susceptible certain people would be. This Precision F-Strike sums it up:
  You astonishingly vile fuck.
• Occasionally he'll find something that impresses him, and these moments are awesome not for Ashens but for the product he's using. Examples include Chef Tony's Smart Lids which worked so well that Stuart actually began to use them on a regular basis^note (though he later admitted in a livestream that it stopped working after going in the microwave a few times), and the CybikoExtreme's racing game with easy-to-handle controls and smooth 3D graphics on an LCD screen on a texting device made in the year 2000.
• In PopStation watch 9, Stuart complains about how the music for one game (Submarine Invasion) has been remixed rather poorly. He then starts the game, and the "level start" fanfare plays. After that...
  Stuart: My goodness, that music was quite exciting and actually fit what was going on!
• The destruction of a cheap dinosaur skeleton toy.
• His completely random blowtorching of a wrestling action figure at the end of the Kinder Surprise Poundland Special.
• Game King Showcase. How was he able to read all those "Blind Idiot" Translation plots, in that epic voice, without bursting into laughter? (More than likely a large number of takes.)
• Stuart destroys a Star Wars Storm Trooper figurine in a press while rattling off everything bad to come out of Star Wars and its prequels.
  Your punishment must be more severe.
• The Shelf of Battle
• While reviewing a Tomy Racing Turbo toy, it gets broken at one point. In the following video, he dismantles it and actually manages to fix it in the process.
• Horrible Histories Mystery Bag.
  Ashens: Execute that, you fucker.
• Disgusting though it is, Ashens eating the food he reviews. This isn't really towards foreign food, but rather the stuff that came from shady places or have a really bad reputation. This includes the stuff from Poundland ^note people avoid buying bootlegged food from that place (as well as Dollar Cashier and Dollarama) since they came from places like China, which may contain very harmful chemicals (the Instant Cupcake and the Delicious Mallows), the Bean Boozled Jellybeans (with Dan) or the Whole Chicken in a Can, which the latter is considered to be the most vile thing he reviewed thus far. Considering he has to risk himself getting sick just for the sake of a review, it shows how brave that man is.
  • Double-awesome when it ends up being something he genuinely likes despite the dubious nature. Like the Chicken Tika Hot Pot, the Korean Brocoli Juice or the aforementioned Delicious Mallows.
  • Special mention goes to the foodstuffs that are years, if not decades out of date, though for understandable reasons he usually only takes a tiny nibble out them if he tastes them at all. The gold winner is probably the bottle of olives that were 180 years old when the episode was filmed; though he refused to put them anywhere near his mouth for obvious reasons, just the fact that he managed to feature food that was literally Older Than Radio is pretty awesome in its own right.
• Watching Ashens violently mangle a dancing Jar Jar Binks is extremely gratifying for anyone who was less than pleased with the way the prequels went down. Not much of a surprise, since Ashens himself is a long-time fan of the original trilogy, judging by another video where he used a flat hand press to destroy a rubber Stormtrooper.
• The first Ashenscast for Stand Up To Cancer achieved 106% of its donation goal... Before he started talking. He finished with well over 1200%, totalling upward of 6000 pounds.
• His epic trashing of the Hareraiser games for the ZX Spectrum in his lecture Hareraiser (The Worst Game Ever). Especially awesome is his closing remark, considering the many controversies in modern gaming such as DLC, pre-order bonuses and the like.
  For £17.90 (for purchasing two games, Hareraiser: Prelude and Hareraiser: Finale) you got a few lines of BASIC code, where a few years previously you could pay far less for a book full of beautiful art... So, in these days of dubious "pre-order bonuses" and parts of games being held back for DLC, do take some solace in the fact that you are at least getting a game, and not receiving... well, for want of a better description, some random bunch of tree pictures as part of an iffy get-rich-quick scam from a bunch of cheaters. And that is why I think that Hareraiser is the worst game ever.
• Towards the end of the Poundland Father's Day Special, Ashens showcases a moment of awesome for Poundland with their response to a tweet made by ThamesLink.

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