I suffer, so that you don't have to

Okay, so for a couple hours now, while Cynra split her time between marking & watching bad TV (I can't take the dang Dresden show, I'm sorry) YHB has ben torturing himself with Youtube videos of video game criticism.

Okay, not really criticism, more like gamers cursing repetitively while they play video games.

It started here:

Talk about it at Videocracy

They do a bit where they treat Contra like a movie and do a commentary, only it's not very funny.

Now, someone in the comments for that suggested The Angry Nintendo Nerd. It's a little funny, but God it's long. The first one I watched was the Top Gun one, and it seemed amusing. So I watched some more. Oh, man. Sure, there's some semi amusing/creative use of vulgarity, but it just kinda goes on.

It's actually good compared to The Fat Mann, here reviewing Superman for the Genesis. It's actually one of his better ones, as he usually just screams and swears and screams.

There's just not a lot there. I'm sure there are other, better youtube game reviewers out there. It's just after wasting time on these two, I don't really care enough to try to find them.

Fat Mann is the worse of the two, but that's praising with faint damns.

Taking it one step further

I assume everyone's seen the Star Article by Nikki Stafford & Marlene Arpe about Buffy Season 8 (although they spend surprisingly little time actually discussing the new series).

Marlene is a fairly good entertainment writer for the Star, someone who seems to actually enjoy genre entertainment. Nikki is the author of a variety of books also about genre stuff, from Alias to Buffy & Angel to Lost.

At the end, there's a link to Nikki's blog, and I've setup a feed for her Blog on LJ.