His diagnosis explains why the man does things in such a strange way. Hole through 80’s desk, all his stuff saved on dvd’s and vhs, lights on the ceiling. He did incredibly all things considered!
The lights on the ceiling thing i still do not get though. Sure, quite how'ya doin' shoddily done it was, but... MOST lights are on the ceilings... you don't give an emphasis for the ceiling, but how it is done in a supposedly pro environment. Whatever.
@@Gary_Hun you will certainly see scaffolding in a Pro studio where you can attach lights. It’s just funny how James attaches the lights from the ceiling much like a adolescent would try to emulate a professional. Literally anyone else would place that tripod on the floor idk why James went through the trouble
Yes James has done amazingly well! He might not be living his *exact* dream but he'll have to settle for being an internet celebrity and pioneer in online reviews
This book makes the current state of Cinemassacre even sadder for me. James got really lucky when it comes to his friends and family. - his parents, April, Mike, Kyle, Bootsy, and even the Screewave people to some extent, saw something in him and wanted to push him forward in one way or another. To see him essentially give up on his passion and dreams for safe, but forgettable TH-cam content is a pretty depressing way to end that whole story (even though it probably makes sense financially).
Wouldn't making the most financially sound decisions be the best way to honor their legacies in the long run? Can you imagine if he just burned out instead? And all of their work was for nothing because of it? Food for thought
Gundam made a joke about that. "I was laughing at how pathetic Jimmy Fallon was, selling out to the man, embarrassing himself for a big paycheck on a nightly basis. Then I realized, that's my future."
@@erysecret Not really. The most financially sound decisions you could make would be investing the profit you make in other ventures. Using the money you make to produce poorly-received content tarnishes your brand, which makes it harder to make money with the brand while also damaging your legacy. There's a reason why Wes Scantlin went broke and became homeless for a while due to ruining his legacy by being a jerk to fans, then reunited the band to release a forgettable comeback before getting in trouble once again. But, hey, it makes financial sense to get back on the road and back to work because people totally want to see a guy in his 50s with a reputation for being a douche and giving bad performances perform songs that were pretty big 20 years ago. There's no other way he could possibly make money. Food for thought.
What I see as his biggest misstep is he sorta already had a golden ticket. He was a pioneer of a new form of content (videos for the internet) and instead of owning that it seems like he thought it was beneath him and tried to make a "real movie". He was in the perfect time and place, he should of been thrilled about it and just kept on trying to improve what he was doing within that format. Screw hollywood! Yet it seems like he wanted to use Cinnemassacre as a spingboard for hollywood status.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 You could stand to be less passive aggressive, I'm not defending James. What you described (using profits to branch out into other more stable ventures while keeping the soul of the original pure) would be a fantastic idea, but it just isn't possible for James. Not because he can't, but because he won't. So, in James' perspective, shilling was the best he could do.
I bought the autobiography straight away because 1) Support James for the entertainment and inspiration for my current job (TH-camr) over the years, 2) He's quite elusive and scant with personal details and I'd like to know more 3) The likelihood of him pulling it from Amazon, to fix mistakes or remove controversial parts is high, and 4) it's going to either be hilarious, or unintentionally hilarious!
Wait till you get to the college dorm destruction. He comes off so God damned entitled. Then the suicide part with "Game Over" or "Continue" was just Uber cringe. It's a well of unintentional humor. Cheers Jay!
You can fix mistakes without having to pull it (one time I forgot to remove an editing annotation from mine ) and it is updated within 24 hours. It's only when you start rewriting entire paragraphs is when you will be forced to pull.
@@LeoPaulHelmar It hasn't arrived yet but i'm giving it to OOC! I'll have a go when he's finished with it 🙂 I've been hounding him to cover the AVGN movie (no review, he refuses) so I get my fix listening to RCA. Sláinte!
I was in a special needs class for a while and then I was in a gifted class. Now I'm just wandering around life just like almost every kid in my situation from that era.
I knew something was up way back when Opie & Anthony interviewed him for their radio show. At least, they tried to interview him. It was quite the struggle when James barely said anything beyond "yup" and "uh huh." I could sense the struggle in O&A's voices. That's when it dawned on me. "James is a bit of a weirdo, isn't he?"
that would make them around thirty years old right? Well as long as they can walk briskly I think they will be fine. A toddler could outrun James. Damnit
Love the idea of starting to write your autobiography before doing anything. Imagine Bruce Wayne writing his autobiography pre-dead parents and then just sometimes adding to it later.
It's also weird how little he focuses on the AVGN, it's only one small chapter. He's still caught in the delusion that he's a misunderstood genius filmmaker.
The one thing that feels really sad about the current state of the channel and fan reception is that, you can tell James has no real ill will or a pragmatic outlook in the slightest. Every shortcoming that occurred definitely can be chalked up to a mental barrier for learning current softwares, solving problems in convoluted and awkward manners and a general lack of social compatibility/awareness. He never means bad, he just needs people who are friends first and coworkers second - NOT Screenwave people.
re: not pragmatic/Strange solutions - Maybe he's averse to buying stuff? So he uses things until they break (hence childhood desk, laborious workarounds with ceiling lights, refusing to upgrade computer/software). His love for nostalgia/not liking new things is a life creed!
I think that the movie was the first time his passion for filmmaking let him down. Film was always there for him during his toughest times and kept him going in life. However to fail at the Hollywood stage must have destroyed whatever illusions film making had for all of his life.
imho one of James's main issues is the myopic fixation on 'being a filmmaker'. If you ask me this is the main reason he made the movie - he knew deep down that his reviews and AVGN episodes aren't legit films, so he wanted to give himself a license to talk about his career as a filmmaker. And it really sucks, because he's such a pioneer as an internet content creator, if only he'd be okay with that claim to fame.
Going over AVGN stuff and Slob News again. It's funny that he cites Rebel Without a Crew, because the central theme of that book is you don't need Hollywood, and Rodriguez says something like "I'll take pretty much any deal where I don't have to live in LA."
Very curious if there's anything about his father in the book. His mom briefly appeared in the Dragon in my Dreams vid, but he hasnt really talked about his father at all.
"I actually started writing my autobiography 20 years ago." Who writes an autobiography when you haven't done shit yet? That was circa 2000, plus, what insane person was using floppys past 1999.
You could still buy new floppys up into the mid/late 2000s in places like Walmart. They were popular for document storage or in situations you had to give documents to someone else.
The social media personality bubble burst for publishers around the time James was shopping it. Lindsey Ellis (nostalgia chick) was hailed for getting on the NYT bestseller list, but that week was all she sold, with the very poor sales of the follow up, and the third book in the deal not transpiring, the publishers ultimately took a bath on it. Zoe Quinn signed a deal with DC to write a comic, I think the trade was reported having sold less than 700 copies. So it's probably best he gave up and went the self publishing route.
@@anthonyrowland9072 no, most of their own fanbase didn't want to buy their stuff. Without that boost they were inexperienced writers that didn't appeal to a big enough audience to justify the contracts.
@@anthonyrowland9072 I love Lindsay's videos a ton but there's no chance in hell I'm reading her weird monster fetish book lmao, it just wasn't something most of her fans would care about
Exactly! He seems to be a good father as well. I posted that exact sentiment on how even more amazing that he is successful on the sub about growing up in the 80s and how bullied the average kid was... let alone a special ed kid. A kid without a father around most can relate. Grace for James
19:40 This part honestly really hit home for me. I'm currently in my 20's and yet I still feel like I haven't found a purpose or meaning in life. I've known for a while that my path forward is probably in art, but I've tried making a wide variety of stuff including TH-cam videos, artworks, remixes, writing, etc and it just seems like none of it has really *clicked* with me - None of it inspires passion in me. I've enjoyed it, don't get me wrong, but there's nothing I've done that I can think of and say "I would be happy doing this for the rest of my life" and that's probably part of the reason I'm as "lonely, purposeless, [and] depressed" as I am these days. Sometimes it really does feel like I just make things to fill my free-time because if I didn't I'd probably be dead already. I'm happy you two have at least found that thing that works for you, at least; hopefully I can figure out something that works for myself in the future
Reading excerpts on the Cinemassacre Truth, and I think it's pretty much confirmed that James is on the spectrum, which could explain his resistance to changing his inefficient work routines.
The thing I can't stand about that subreddit is that they only focus on the negative when it comes to James being on the spectrum. They never discuss on why it benefited him on expressing a much different outlook that helped shape what the AVGN was. People on the spectrum are known for being incredibly creative, so why is that never discussed?
@@maverickrob91 bc this is the internet where it's easy to fall into the slop, nothingburger pit of online discourse instead of taking a second to stop and think about whether or not the online discourse is valuable in the first place
I still don’t understand why people shit on him so much. My son is autistic. Level three autism. Sweetest kid ever, but he will never be understood. Now, James is clearly higher functioning. I think it’s absolutely incredible what he’s been able to accomplish in spite of his limitations. If he wants to just enjoy his life with his wife and kids, I’m fine with that too. I mean, he’s a fascinating character, but I don’t understand the vitriol in some circles. Is he “lazy”?Maybe. Or maybe his priorities just don’t align with what we consider “normal”. Also, yes, I was born in 1983 and none us grew up really knowing what autism really was. Back then those kids were just kind of shuttled off to a special ed room most of the day and medicated.
I really, really hope those uncanny b&w photos were insisted by the editor / publisher. Because if not... Wow. If you ever had sad assumptions of his ego or state of mind... damn. Please someone assure me Rolfe had nothing to do with the selection, and primarily the processing of those shots.
Okay, I am wondering: He already started to write his autobiography before doing AVGN even? Who the hell does this? At first I thought he had kind of diary on diskettes, but he clearly mentions that he was starting to write the autobiography already back then. He really seems to be a little bit "full of himself", if I might say so. I still like him, he always seems very chill and positive, which I like really much.
Some musicians do it. They perform their first gig and they already start writing their autobiography. Not joking. So many autobiographies seem to begin with "I started writing this before my first gig hoping that someday I could publish this as my autobiography." I think it's that kind of ego that drives people to become famous enough that people would care enough to read their autobiography.
There's a very specific event that happened to him in 2002 which was the basis of him writing all of it down. It's a good thing, because that portion of the story is very detailed and (to me) quite interesting.
Frankie mentions it's completely ego-driven, but in a positive/hopeful sense - like trying to actualise your dreams, a vision board. "I'm writing an autobiography because I'll be famous; only famous people have autobiographies and a few chapters of mine are already written"!
@@OSW I think it's important to recognise ego, and it isn't always a negative thing. I can relate to James's ego a little bit, and I don't think it's anything like "he thinks he's better than everyone" or "he thinks he's Spielberg." I do think his ego has held him back and kept him under a glass ceiling though.
I always thought something was different with James, which is interesting, as I am neurodivergent myself. Yeah, and the 80s and 90s were very difficult for kids who had struggles.
I feel like something that people don't bring up about James is why the AVGN movie was a failure, which is that it wasn't supposed to be an AVGN Movie, it was supposed to be a movie-length review of E.T. The Video Game. That might seem like a small thing, but I don't think it is. The actual review in the movie was him saying "Yeah, the game was bad, but it was made by people trying their best to make something good. That's what art is about, artists trying their best to satisfy their fans." It felt like he didn't have any intention of actually reviewing the game so he rambled about society, instead, and used the money to do all the things you're 'supposed' to do as a filmmaker. I think he did the same thing here. He didn't really want to write a book, he wanted to do the things you're 'supposed to do' when writing a book. Publish through an actual publisher, make it look nice, he did everything the way he's supposed to, but I think he just cobbled together the book from various writing he did over the years and packaged it up to sell because he felt like he needed to do it because he's a celebrity, and that's what celebrities do when they get older.
The AVGN Movie portion of the book is fascinating, and I really don't think a 90 minute review of a game would be anything different than... a very long episode of the show. What it was supposed to be is what he wanted it to be, a goofy B-movie inspired blockbuster. I get what you mean but he had a very different intent than just ree-viewing E.T.
@@RazorwireReviews Yeah, but, that's not what fans were paying for. It was advertised as being a movie-length AVGN review of the most infamously bad game of all-time, and then when he got the money he decided that he would make it a schlocky b-movie that had little to do with E.T. at all. So, the thing that fans thought they were paying for was a half-assed 10-minute video, while James spent the money they gave him on making his dream project, a schlocky b-movie. The fact that, according to you, he's saying "Oh, it was always meant to be a schlocky b-movie," is... it's just kinda scummy. Plus, he kinda did it again later with the Cheetahmen thing. That was kind of embarrassing because there was already a remastered version of the game that fixed the issues in it available for free, so the crowdfunded campaign was pointless.
@@RazorwireReviews Dude, that was literally the Kickstarter pitch, and he posted a video saying "This game is so bad it deserves something more substantial..." *cuts to AVGN: THE MOVIE. Again, the reason we don't think "Damn, this was supposed to be an ET review," was because it had so little to do with the game, and it didn't feel like a review at all.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 I thought he was pretty transparent always, even during the Kickstarter, about what kind of movie it was gonna be... sounds more like your own fault. I think most people got what they thought they were paying for, sans some quality issues here and there.
It's both amazing and incredibly sad how in retrospect AVGN's brilliance was just some guy's damage accidentally lining up with the zeitgeist. He's like a guy who has been brute forcing his career for 20 years as an online content creator without ever once realizing that Googling things is an option.
I just realized you only have 5k subscribers. I've come across some of your videos every now and then, and I somehow thought your channel was much more bigger. Atleast you deserve to be. Good stuff every time. Keep it up.
I was diagnosed with a couple of different things growing up. (aspergers/ADHD) Personally I disagree with them. I think I was just a product of my unusual upbringing. My parents were both a little psychotic and all I did was emulate their behavior like a normal child would. If anything maybe I had PTSD from some heinous things I witnessed by the time I reached age 6.
This is the exact person who should self publish. James already has the built in audience so why share any of the profits with a publisher? I don’t know why he needs everything to be “legit.”
La Salette reference! That brings me back to growing up in RI, LOL. People unfamiliar with New England aren't going to get how great a reference that is.
He stored the first version of his book on floppy disks. Depending on which statement if his you believe, he says he started his book circa 2002-2003. He used floppies as his main storage medium in 2003 (and judging by the number of floppies he's showing there...possibly until the mid to late 2010s).
Per the book, he was in college around that time and took his home computer with him. I still used my home PC that use floppy disks around 2003 *shrug*
@@keeleye7225 as did I when I went to college in 2004, haha. But I had a tower PC at home that took floppy discs, not that I really used them at that point, but it's not like it was unheard of.
@@RazorwireReviews Sure there were still desktop PCs available that came with floppy drives in 2003-2004. But who really used them as their main storage medium by that point? And when it comes to the tech we have available in education we are unfortunately a bit behind the curve generally speaking. I remember my own university (the one where I was a student at the time and now work) phasing out a language training program for which students had to do exercises on floppy disks and hand them in on a weekly basis in 2004, when it turned out the vast majority of our cohort no longer had access to PCs with floppy drives. Meanwhile the number of desktop PCs at the university itself that had floppy drives had been rapidly shrinking too, meaning students had to stand in line to do their course work. It's just such a James Rolfe thing to do.
I stumbled upon an interview with James that took place 8 months ago, The Gary and Kenny show, And it brought to mind the question of how many interviews has James done. I’ve never heard of the Gary and Kenny show, From the looks of it, they’re part of an older era, So they’ve asked James a series of questions just trying to figure out how he started everything. It’s actually pretty interesting, But they do come across a point where they talk about the usage of social media and basically his answer was more of a yes/no as to being active on it lol. But if you have the “time” check it out
I have become disappointed at James's dishonesty and lack of effort and I didn't need additional reasons to feel that way. However, after watching Monster Madness of the A-Hole Variety, more and more things kept piling on. Blatantly reading somebody else's material off the teleprompter, being lazy and framing it as innovative, being honestly incredibly cringey when trying to be "impactful" or "serious", and saying that "not enough time exists IN A YEAR to make a 31 day marathon. Wtf James! He must be incredibly out of touch, think we're all stupid, or both. My point is, releasing a book celebrating his accomplishments following almost a decade of lazy and lackluster material, comes off as pretentious and sad. Anwyay, thanks for the great content Red Cow Arcade!
I just had a small revelation. For anyone wondering, what exciting stuff the future might hold for Cinemassacre and Rolfe... he just freakin released his autobiography people. That's it folks.
Ahh, the gift that just keeps on giving. 🎁. Edit: just finished the audiobook, thanks to you it was thoroughly delightful, can you shoot me in the foot please, Vectorman is my hopeful
The fact that this supposedly took like 18 years to write is baffling. From the bits I've seen, it reads like he just dictated it with speech to text over a weekend.
I find it interesting he had his wife do the forward. Why not have MIKE OR JUSTIN OR BOOTSY do the foreword? Just seems like a weird, very off putting decision.
Does anyone know if James actually graduated college or was he kicked out? I was just watching his original nerd room tour and he mentioned graduating. But according to book reviews, he was kicked out of college. I haven't read the book, so I don't know.
dont you remember there was a art piece at his playground of a dragon and he found out it was being taken down after the nerd stuff so he made a video about visiting it
For the dragon thing, I haven't read the book, but my view on it is probably that: a dream (in particular a nightmare) can feel so visceral, so real, that it leaves a feeling with you that persists even after you awake (especially so with nightmares where the feeling is terror. If you're religious, you would say the feeling of joy if you felt God). Thus, he is probably trying to say that, by virtue of the dream, his mind (probably in retrospect and not at the time), realized the potency that mere imagery, the unreal, can have on a person, leading to wishing to create things that also impact people to that degree. I would applaud the thought, but state that, no art form can really accomplish that as, the beauty of a dream is that, in the moment, you your mind has trapped you in it as reality. No art form can really do that, you will always see it separate to yourself, as an observation. Even phrases such as immersion are meaningless as those terms are moot. The real sentiments with games, e.g. Zelda: OoT are actually investment, not immersion. You are invested in the quest, as you enjoy the lore, it feels cool, and the gameplay is fun, or, in the case of legacy games like arcade games, it's not immersion but concentration or focus. You still know it's a game, but you are focusing your senses on it.
His whole identity just seem to be based around stuff he saw or did as a kid/teenager and his tastes/sentiments doesn’t seem to have developed much since then either, which is just sad. Before he was like an excited kid with a thing for old monster movies and Rocky who thought he could be a great filmmaker, which was kinda cute in a way. But when that dream was crushed with the release of his movie it was like the life force got sucked out of him. He hasn’t been himself since. It’s like even he realized then that he didn’t have the talent nor knowledge for any of that.
You can learn from your mistakes and make a better movie next time. That is how it usually works unless you are Tarantino. Or you can give up and mope like he chose instead.
@@struttux5156 Not to defend any moping... and he does lay on the "oh woe is me" stuff a bit thick occasionally... But sometimes your dreams are just that... dreams. You romanticize the entire thing. The notion he had in his head of what it must be like to be a "movie maker" just didn't jive with the reality. There are some things you try once and realize it's just not for you... and I think that's how James felt about making feature length movies after he tried it once. No shame in knowing your limitations. As far as Cinemassacre, no doubt he has largely mined all the easy subject matter that interests him. He doesn't seem to have the same spark.. but to be fair... he has been grinding away for over 15 years. I find his overall output impressive considering both the quantity and the timeframes involved. Even if the glory days are well behind him, he still seems to enjoy cranking out a handful of his AVGN brand of amateurish comedy shorts a year... and there is nothing wrong with that. He isn't forcing us to keep watching... and it's pretty easy to skip past that Raycon advertisement.
@@control_the_pet_population He probably still likes film making. I don't think that is the problem at all. It is just that he can't handle failures very well. He had been hailed by everyone for many years and his ego was probably inflated as hell before the movie came which gave him his first taste of true humbleness. Then he also did his "The Head Returns" which was also an absolute bomb. Realizing he isn't the genius he thought himself to be just killed his drive because he can't stand teh thought of being average.
Nobody is going to churn out 400+ combined episodes of a half dozen different web shows and indefinitely keep things just as fresh and creative as they were at their peak. You can blame it on some overinflated ego and delusions of believing himself a genius and being secretly terrified of his own limitations... or ya know... you could just accept the universal truth that nobody keeps their creative fastball forever. He's been at this for over 15 years.
I love James’s video the Dragon of my Dreams. I thought it was interesting that it started with this dragon from a playground that crept into his subconscious and then the day he was going to face it they were tearing it down.
James is genuinely a great guy, but unfortunately his content has been suffering because of Screenwave, we all know that by now, he’s not like Doug Walker with the constant drama and controversy surrounding him, so an autobiography by James not being forced to do it is something worth considering to look at
Red Cow videos about James Rolfe and related content are hard to criticize, because it always feel like saying you guys are sometimes harsh nad nitpicky, means that I'm defending and protecting James from any criticism. But you know, you guys have some 'cinemassacretruth' vibes at some times, and in the end it feels hard to get the conclusion of your toughts. I mean, yeah, AVGN content is being in a downfall for more than 5 years, some people leave the channel, their partners make bad business decisions all the time, but that's about it. It's just pointless gossip at this point.
His diagnosis explains why the man does things in such a strange way. Hole through 80’s desk, all his stuff saved on dvd’s and vhs, lights on the ceiling. He did incredibly all things considered!
tough wood
The lights on the ceiling thing i still do not get though. Sure, quite how'ya doin' shoddily done it was, but... MOST lights are on the ceilings... you don't give an emphasis for the ceiling, but how it is done in a supposedly pro environment. Whatever.
@@Gary_Hun you will certainly see scaffolding in a Pro studio where you can attach lights. It’s just funny how James attaches the lights from the ceiling much like a adolescent would try to emulate a professional. Literally anyone else would place that tripod on the floor idk why James went through the trouble
Yes James has done amazingly well! He might not be living his *exact* dream but he'll have to settle for being an internet celebrity and pioneer in online reviews
It explains why he kept his tough 80's desk all these years, I would've sold that thing 20 years ago.
This book makes the current state of Cinemassacre even sadder for me. James got really lucky when it comes to his friends and family. - his parents, April, Mike, Kyle, Bootsy, and even the Screewave people to some extent, saw something in him and wanted to push him forward in one way or another. To see him essentially give up on his passion and dreams for safe, but forgettable TH-cam content is a pretty depressing way to end that whole story (even though it probably makes sense financially).
Wouldn't making the most financially sound decisions be the best way to honor their legacies in the long run? Can you imagine if he just burned out instead? And all of their work was for nothing because of it? Food for thought
Gundam made a joke about that.
"I was laughing at how pathetic Jimmy Fallon was, selling out to the man, embarrassing himself for a big paycheck on a nightly basis. Then I realized, that's my future."
@@erysecret Not really. The most financially sound decisions you could make would be investing the profit you make in other ventures. Using the money you make to produce poorly-received content tarnishes your brand, which makes it harder to make money with the brand while also damaging your legacy.
There's a reason why Wes Scantlin went broke and became homeless for a while due to ruining his legacy by being a jerk to fans, then reunited the band to release a forgettable comeback before getting in trouble once again. But, hey, it makes financial sense to get back on the road and back to work because people totally want to see a guy in his 50s with a reputation for being a douche and giving bad performances perform songs that were pretty big 20 years ago. There's no other way he could possibly make money.
Food for thought.
What I see as his biggest misstep is he sorta already had a golden ticket. He was a pioneer of a new form of content (videos for the internet) and instead of owning that it seems like he thought it was beneath him and tried to make a "real movie". He was in the perfect time and place, he should of been thrilled about it and just kept on trying to improve what he was doing within that format. Screw hollywood! Yet it seems like he wanted to use Cinnemassacre as a spingboard for hollywood status.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 You could stand to be less passive aggressive, I'm not defending James. What you described (using profits to branch out into other more stable ventures while keeping the soul of the original pure) would be a fantastic idea, but it just isn't possible for James. Not because he can't, but because he won't. So, in James' perspective, shilling was the best he could do.
I bought the autobiography straight away because 1) Support James for the entertainment and inspiration for my current job (TH-camr) over the years,
2) He's quite elusive and scant with personal details and I'd like to know more
3) The likelihood of him pulling it from Amazon, to fix mistakes or remove controversial parts is high, and
4) it's going to either be hilarious, or unintentionally hilarious!
Wait till you get to the college dorm destruction. He comes off so God damned entitled. Then the suicide part with "Game Over" or "Continue" was just Uber cringe. It's a well of unintentional humor.
Cheers Jay!
Helllllloooooo and cheers. Love you guys. Any thoughts on the book? So awesome to find you here. Would love to see a red cow crossover vid.
You can fix mistakes without having to pull it (one time I forgot to remove an editing annotation from mine ) and it is updated within 24 hours. It's only when you start rewriting entire paragraphs is when you will be forced to pull.
@@LeoPaulHelmar It hasn't arrived yet but i'm giving it to OOC! I'll have a go when he's finished with it 🙂 I've been hounding him to cover the AVGN movie (no review, he refuses) so I get my fix listening to RCA. Sláinte!
Oh, come on! You knew damn well there was a 0% chance the book would be intentionally hilarious even if he tried.
Bimmy in his Hereditary review: "It gave me my first nightmare in my life."
Also Bimmy: "I had weird nightmares as a child."
One of them was a euphemism for a real-life Experience.
Maybe he ment to say "adult life".
He might disassociate his childhood experience from his adult life, that seems fairly common.
Looking foreword to this
WELL PLAYED
🤣🤣
Pun was 💯 lol
If every chapter doesn't end with "Well it's 5:40, gotta go..." I will be promptly returning my copy.
What time you think he starts?
it ends on page 539
The spectrum/special school thing makes so much sense when you think back to watching those video clips from when he was a kid.
I was in a special needs class for a while and then I was in a gifted class. Now I'm just wandering around life just like almost every kid in my situation from that era.
Man, I was waiting for this video! THE FIRST WORD IN THE BOOK IS MISSPELLED LMFAO
Why is the first wood misspelled? Take a wild guess.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 no time to proof read
It's not missspelled. It's curated.
@@testshietchannel 10/10
I knew something was up way back when Opie & Anthony interviewed him for their radio show. At least, they tried to interview him. It was quite the struggle when James barely said anything beyond "yup" and "uh huh." I could sense the struggle in O&A's voices. That's when it dawned on me. "James is a bit of a weirdo, isn't he?"
A sleep over at his house would only be cool if he left
He really does need a script.
that would make them around thirty years old right? Well as long as they can walk briskly I think they will be fine. A toddler could outrun James. Damnit
He's not weird. He's just autistic.
i thought he was just nervous for years but nope.
Love the idea of starting to write your autobiography before doing anything. Imagine Bruce Wayne writing his autobiography pre-dead parents and then just sometimes adding to it later.
It's also weird how little he focuses on the AVGN, it's only one small chapter. He's still caught in the delusion that he's a misunderstood genius filmmaker.
This is a guy who legitimately put his childhood home movies on his IMDB page. His delusions of grandeur are immense.
@@Shiresgammai 😆 body bag
If it gets you to reflect on your life maybe not such a bad idea. The earlier writing is actually the strongest, most honest part of the book.
yep ... not gonna lie , i'm not all for just jumping on the "james-hate" bandwagon .... but that was pretty F-d up
Someone should scan the text and run it through that James Rolfe AI voice Reddit used for those parody Monster Madness videos.
@FilmTreck is our big beautiful boy on that front. Danksy saved my life on multiple occasions with his videos.
Of the A H variety. 😂
@@BrendanSlob The Danksy in my dreams
The one thing that feels really sad about the current state of the channel and fan reception is that, you can tell James has no real ill will or a pragmatic outlook in the slightest. Every shortcoming that occurred definitely can be chalked up to a mental barrier for learning current softwares, solving problems in convoluted and awkward manners and a general lack of social compatibility/awareness. He never means bad, he just needs people who are friends first and coworkers second - NOT Screenwave people.
re: not pragmatic/Strange solutions - Maybe he's averse to buying stuff? So he uses things until they break (hence childhood desk, laborious workarounds with ceiling lights, refusing to upgrade computer/software). His love for nostalgia/not liking new things is a life creed!
He fucked that up too by alienating Mike, Bootsy and Kyle, the friends who carried him for so long.
Oh baby! I've been waiting for this, going to have a little morning coffee and breakfast while I watch.
I think that the movie was the first time his passion for filmmaking let him down. Film was always there for him during his toughest times and kept him going in life. However to fail at the Hollywood stage must have destroyed whatever illusions film making had for all of his life.
He got an OPPORTUNITY to do it, though. 99.99999% of us never will. It's downright ungrateful.
We know it’s been more or less done for 3 years. In his wife’s “forward”, she mentions meeting him 15 years ago in 2004
Wonder what the Afterward said
@@reinforcedpenisstem "I'm sorry, April."
Frankie: "I'm a bit of an author myself."
lol hahah
imho one of James's main issues is the myopic fixation on 'being a filmmaker'. If you ask me this is the main reason he made the movie - he knew deep down that his reviews and AVGN episodes aren't legit films, so he wanted to give himself a license to talk about his career as a filmmaker. And it really sucks, because he's such a pioneer as an internet content creator, if only he'd be okay with that claim to fame.
All the quirks of a Quentin Tarantino but not talent 😢
idk many youtubers around that time we’re doing movies. it was the in thing to do
Going over AVGN stuff and Slob News again.
It's funny that he cites Rebel Without a Crew, because the central theme of that book is you don't need Hollywood, and Rodriguez says something like "I'll take pretty much any deal where I don't have to live in LA."
I've been waiting for this.
I've very much got time for this.
James at 4:40 seems significantly happier and healthier than the other Jameses in the little montage of publishing excuses
You know how bad it's gotten with James when I thought he was storing the book on floppy disks *now* not 20 years ago
Even putting them on floppies 20 years ago is really bad.
@@sikkableeat5614 Yeah even I was burning CDs with illegal music at the tender age of 8 20 years ago
That feelings class is great. Many adults in my life that could use it.
james was the little kid from the wizard.
Cali..Fornia
Who would have thought that Rasta Bimmy would be the new meme coming from this book hahaha
Rasta James is the best part of the book 😂
It's so bizarre, lol.
‘Wah did dem thinking?’
@@Jack_The_Ladd Da bigges ting Rasta Bimmy has eva informed us on, dat is Frankestein bein da name of da doctah, not the monstah mon
he looks like Benny from The Mummy 😆
Very curious if there's anything about his father in the book. His mom briefly appeared in the Dragon in my Dreams vid, but he hasnt really talked about his father at all.
No time
You can just watch Kieran in the podcast videos.
"I actually started writing my autobiography 20 years ago."
Who writes an autobiography when you haven't done shit yet? That was circa 2000, plus, what insane person was using floppys past 1999.
Autism…
Coz it fits in your pocket! It fits in YOUR POCKET
You could still buy new floppys up into the mid/late 2000s in places like Walmart. They were popular for document storage or in situations you had to give documents to someone else.
That photo of the kindle version was the one I posted to the subreddit! Didn't expect that, love it! Haha
you're in for one hell of a read with this one, love you guys and have fun with the book!
The social media personality bubble burst for publishers around the time James was shopping it. Lindsey Ellis (nostalgia chick) was hailed for getting on the NYT bestseller list, but that week was all she sold, with the very poor sales of the follow up, and the third book in the deal not transpiring, the publishers ultimately took a bath on it. Zoe Quinn signed a deal with DC to write a comic, I think the trade was reported having sold less than 700 copies. So it's probably best he gave up and went the self publishing route.
the reactionary chud dude thing was kinda at it's peak then too. the well was pre poisoned for any female creator then.
@@anthonyrowland9072 no, most of their own fanbase didn't want to buy their stuff. Without that boost they were inexperienced writers that didn't appeal to a big enough audience to justify the contracts.
@@anthonyrowland9072 ACK
@@anthonyrowland9072 I love Lindsay's videos a ton but there's no chance in hell I'm reading her weird monster fetish book lmao, it just wasn't something most of her fans would care about
@@PurpleColonel that's a normal fine reaction but the over the top gloating reaction from so many dudes...
Exactly! He seems to be a good father as well. I posted that exact sentiment on how even more amazing that he is successful on the sub about growing up in the 80s and how bullied the average kid was... let alone a special ed kid. A kid without a father around most can relate. Grace for James
I saw Frankie’s post on Cinemassacre Truth last night and wasn’t expecting a video so soon. Great work! 🍿
It’s just some preliminary thoughts, I still have lots to read!
@@RedCowArcade Let us know if the book saved your life!
@@RedCowArcade We gotta start an AVGN Book Club.
@@RedCowArcade i love you Frankie🙂
Love you back!
Man, I remember buying that Lloyd Kaufman book around 2002 or so. I still have my copy too! Great stuff.
19:40 This part honestly really hit home for me. I'm currently in my 20's and yet I still feel like I haven't found a purpose or meaning in life. I've known for a while that my path forward is probably in art, but I've tried making a wide variety of stuff including TH-cam videos, artworks, remixes, writing, etc and it just seems like none of it has really *clicked* with me - None of it inspires passion in me. I've enjoyed it, don't get me wrong, but there's nothing I've done that I can think of and say "I would be happy doing this for the rest of my life" and that's probably part of the reason I'm as "lonely, purposeless, [and] depressed" as I am these days. Sometimes it really does feel like I just make things to fill my free-time because if I didn't I'd probably be dead already.
I'm happy you two have at least found that thing that works for you, at least; hopefully I can figure out something that works for myself in the future
Reading excerpts on the Cinemassacre Truth, and I think it's pretty much confirmed that James is on the spectrum, which could explain his resistance to changing his inefficient work routines.
He once said himself in a video that he was in a correction class
Now that people are saying it out loud, it makes a lot of sense. Something always seemed off when he tried to be serious like in The Dragon short.
The thing I can't stand about that subreddit is that they only focus on the negative when it comes to James being on the spectrum. They never discuss on why it benefited him on expressing a much different outlook that helped shape what the AVGN was. People on the spectrum are known for being incredibly creative, so why is that never discussed?
@@DmitryChmelyov SPECIAL ED. Not "correction." WTF.
@@maverickrob91 bc this is the internet where it's easy to fall into the slop, nothingburger pit of online discourse instead of taking a second to stop and think about whether or not the online discourse is valuable in the first place
Yes!!!! The video we've all been waiting for.
His book is still doing great on Amazon! I can’t wait to read it myself. Like you, I’m looking forward to a audio book format. No time.
They just took 30% off. Can't be doing that great.
@@BrendanSlob It did great the first few days because all of the truthers were bying it.
Skip to 5:40 if you have no time 🕟
I still don’t understand why people shit on him so much. My son is autistic. Level three autism. Sweetest kid ever, but he will never be understood. Now, James is clearly higher functioning. I think it’s absolutely incredible what he’s been able to accomplish in spite of his limitations. If he wants to just enjoy his life with his wife and kids, I’m fine with that too. I mean, he’s a fascinating character, but I don’t understand the vitriol in some circles. Is he “lazy”?Maybe. Or maybe his priorities just don’t align with what we consider “normal”. Also, yes, I was born in 1983 and none us grew up really knowing what autism really was. Back then those kids were just kind of shuttled off to a special ed room most of the day and medicated.
does your son pick his nose and eat it?
Much support, guys. Fans of the assholish variety!!!
The title he chose is horrible. He should have called it “I’m Bimmy”
"Snix & kidz"
"How to become an unaware meme or die trying"
2:16 James Rolfe - American Taliban.
Is he wearing a 1920s football helmet in that one photo?
I assumed he was trying to be Rasta Bimmy!
Man you guys never disappoint. Nothing but good times.
I really, really hope those uncanny b&w photos were insisted by the editor / publisher. Because if not... Wow. If you ever had sad assumptions of his ego or state of mind... damn. Please someone assure me Rolfe had nothing to do with the selection, and primarily the processing of those shots.
It is self published so this is 100 % his vision 😂😂
There was no editor or publisher...
@@carcrashjayson "There was no system core. It could not be shut down. The terminator knew. He tried to warn us."
Okay, I am wondering: He already started to write his autobiography before doing AVGN even? Who the hell does this? At first I thought he had kind of diary on diskettes, but he clearly mentions that he was starting to write the autobiography already back then. He really seems to be a little bit "full of himself", if I might say so. I still like him, he always seems very chill and positive, which I like really much.
The same guy who made behind the scenes on his 1 $ budget home "movies"
Some musicians do it. They perform their first gig and they already start writing their autobiography.
Not joking. So many autobiographies seem to begin with "I started writing this before my first gig hoping that someday I could publish this as my autobiography."
I think it's that kind of ego that drives people to become famous enough that people would care enough to read their autobiography.
There's a very specific event that happened to him in 2002 which was the basis of him writing all of it down. It's a good thing, because that portion of the story is very detailed and (to me) quite interesting.
Frankie mentions it's completely ego-driven, but in a positive/hopeful sense - like trying to actualise your dreams, a vision board. "I'm writing an autobiography because I'll be famous; only famous people have autobiographies and a few chapters of mine are already written"!
@@OSW I think it's important to recognise ego, and it isn't always a negative thing. I can relate to James's ego a little bit, and I don't think it's anything like "he thinks he's better than everyone" or "he thinks he's Spielberg." I do think his ego has held him back and kept him under a glass ceiling though.
In the days of rain man “idiot savant” was still a thing
I mean it is still a thing, there are people just like that, but now they classify it as autistic savant or savant syndrome.
I always thought something was different with James, which is interesting, as I am neurodivergent myself. Yeah, and the 80s and 90s were very difficult for kids who had struggles.
Not in a bad way by any means, we just have a radar lol
Don't rush your thoughts on this book because it is an absolute GEM for us and there is so much to unpack. You could do hours on this thing, lol.
Who is "us"?
@@felipesoares5900 You and me = us
@@neoturfmasterMVS who says I'm one of you?
@@felipesoares5900 Who is "you"?
@@neoturfmasterMVS I'm myself, not in any way connected to the subhumans over at cinemassacretruth, or plebbit for that matter.
The way he throws the eye in the thumbnail 😂
I feel like something that people don't bring up about James is why the AVGN movie was a failure, which is that it wasn't supposed to be an AVGN Movie, it was supposed to be a movie-length review of E.T. The Video Game.
That might seem like a small thing, but I don't think it is. The actual review in the movie was him saying "Yeah, the game was bad, but it was made by people trying their best to make something good. That's what art is about, artists trying their best to satisfy their fans."
It felt like he didn't have any intention of actually reviewing the game so he rambled about society, instead, and used the money to do all the things you're 'supposed' to do as a filmmaker.
I think he did the same thing here. He didn't really want to write a book, he wanted to do the things you're 'supposed to do' when writing a book. Publish through an actual publisher, make it look nice, he did everything the way he's supposed to, but I think he just cobbled together the book from various writing he did over the years and packaged it up to sell because he felt like he needed to do it because he's a celebrity, and that's what celebrities do when they get older.
The AVGN Movie portion of the book is fascinating, and I really don't think a 90 minute review of a game would be anything different than... a very long episode of the show. What it was supposed to be is what he wanted it to be, a goofy B-movie inspired blockbuster. I get what you mean but he had a very different intent than just ree-viewing E.T.
@@RazorwireReviews Yeah, but, that's not what fans were paying for. It was advertised as being a movie-length AVGN review of the most infamously bad game of all-time, and then when he got the money he decided that he would make it a schlocky b-movie that had little to do with E.T. at all.
So, the thing that fans thought they were paying for was a half-assed 10-minute video, while James spent the money they gave him on making his dream project, a schlocky b-movie. The fact that, according to you, he's saying "Oh, it was always meant to be a schlocky b-movie," is... it's just kinda scummy.
Plus, he kinda did it again later with the Cheetahmen thing. That was kind of embarrassing because there was already a remastered version of the game that fixed the issues in it available for free, so the crowdfunded campaign was pointless.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 Show me where he said it was going to be a movie length review. Because I'm certain he didn't.
@@RazorwireReviews Dude, that was literally the Kickstarter pitch, and he posted a video saying "This game is so bad it deserves something more substantial..." *cuts to AVGN: THE MOVIE.
Again, the reason we don't think "Damn, this was supposed to be an ET review," was because it had so little to do with the game, and it didn't feel like a review at all.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 I thought he was pretty transparent always, even during the Kickstarter, about what kind of movie it was gonna be... sounds more like your own fault. I think most people got what they thought they were paying for, sans some quality issues here and there.
Saw your post of you and the book on r/thecinemassacretruth. That photo was amazing
It's both amazing and incredibly sad how in retrospect AVGN's brilliance was just some guy's damage accidentally lining up with the zeitgeist.
He's like a guy who has been brute forcing his career for 20 years as an online content creator without ever once realizing that Googling things is an option.
I just realized you only have 5k subscribers. I've come across some of your videos every now and then, and I somehow thought your channel was much more bigger. Atleast you deserve to be. Good stuff every time. Keep it up.
Much appreciated. We hustlin' out here!
@@RedCowArcade yeah, I reckon if you guys reviewed more people/whatever is in the know than you would get tonnes of followers! Funny dudes
I was diagnosed with a couple of different things growing up. (aspergers/ADHD) Personally I disagree with them. I think I was just a product of my unusual upbringing. My parents were both a little psychotic and all I did was emulate their behavior like a normal child would. If anything maybe I had PTSD from some heinous things I witnessed by the time I reached age 6.
I can’t wait for the James Rolfe Biopic. It’ll be 11 hours long and it will be titled No Time.
This is the exact person who should self publish. James already has the built in audience so why share any of the profits with a publisher?
I don’t know why he needs everything to be “legit.”
La Salette reference! That brings me back to growing up in RI, LOL. People unfamiliar with New England aren't going to get how great a reference that is.
James was using floppies in 2002?
He stored the first version of his book on floppy disks.
Depending on which statement if his you believe, he says he started his book circa 2002-2003.
He used floppies as his main storage medium in 2003 (and judging by the number of floppies he's showing there...possibly until the mid to late 2010s).
Per the book, he was in college around that time and took his home computer with him. I still used my home PC that use floppy disks around 2003 *shrug*
I was in college in 2003. I used a 128MB thumb drive.
@@keeleye7225 as did I when I went to college in 2004, haha. But I had a tower PC at home that took floppy discs, not that I really used them at that point, but it's not like it was unheard of.
@@RazorwireReviews Sure there were still desktop PCs available that came with floppy drives in 2003-2004. But who really used them as their main storage medium by that point? And when it comes to the tech we have available in education we are unfortunately a bit behind the curve generally speaking. I remember my own university (the one where I was a student at the time and now work) phasing out a language training program for which students had to do exercises on floppy disks and hand them in on a weekly basis in 2004, when it turned out the vast majority of our cohort no longer had access to PCs with floppy drives. Meanwhile the number of desktop PCs at the university itself that had floppy drives had been rapidly shrinking too, meaning students had to stand in line to do their course work.
It's just such a James Rolfe thing to do.
I was still using floppy disks in 2003 to transfer schoolwork between campus and home computers.
I stumbled upon an interview with James that took place 8 months ago, The Gary and Kenny show, And it brought to mind the question of how many interviews has James done. I’ve never heard of the Gary and Kenny show, From the looks of it, they’re part of an older era, So they’ve asked James a series of questions just trying to figure out how he started everything. It’s actually pretty interesting, But they do come across a point where they talk about the usage of social media and basically his answer was more of a yes/no as to being active on it lol. But if you have the “time” check it out
I have become disappointed at James's dishonesty and lack of effort and I didn't need additional reasons to feel that way. However, after watching Monster Madness of the A-Hole Variety, more and more things kept piling on. Blatantly reading somebody else's material off the teleprompter, being lazy and framing it as innovative, being honestly incredibly cringey when trying to be "impactful" or "serious", and saying that "not enough time exists IN A YEAR to make a 31 day marathon. Wtf James! He must be incredibly out of touch, think we're all stupid, or both. My point is, releasing a book celebrating his accomplishments following almost a decade of lazy and lackluster material, comes off as pretentious and sad. Anwyay, thanks for the great content Red Cow Arcade!
I just had a small revelation. For anyone wondering, what exciting stuff the future might hold for Cinemassacre and Rolfe... he just freakin released his autobiography people. That's it folks.
He worked on it "accasionally".
that segment of Norm on Conan fucking kills me every time
You guys need to do a video on Niel Breen the guy seems very similar to james.
"Book is wridden"
Ahh, the gift that just keeps on giving. 🎁. Edit: just finished the audiobook, thanks to you it was thoroughly delightful, can you shoot me in the foot please, Vectorman is my hopeful
The fact that this supposedly took like 18 years to write is baffling. From the bits I've seen, it reads like he just dictated it with speech to text over a weekend.
He wrote the college part many years ago and then he wrote nothing until a few years ago so it is more like 5 years.
Maybe because everything didn't happen to him in the first year...???????
I don’t know if my autistic child will be able to take care of their self when they’re older. It’s a scary feeling.
I'm so hyped haha, this will be a goldmine
Oh, it is!
Fantastic discussion as always fellas!
@Drumslav Czechisenko Glad you enjoyed not watching the video and posting disparaging comments. Cheers bro!
You start writing your autobiography at 22?
Bro looking devious af in the thumbnail
I was hoping for this. Almost begged you to a video on this but figured others would. Glad you found the time!
I find it interesting he had his wife do the forward. Why not have MIKE OR JUSTIN OR BOOTSY do the foreword? Just seems like a weird, very off putting decision.
How did he find muh time to write muh book?
Does anyone know if James actually graduated college or was he kicked out? I was just watching his original nerd room tour and he mentioned graduating. But according to book reviews, he was kicked out of college. I haven't read the book, so I don't know.
The thumbnail 😭
dont you remember there was a art piece at his playground of a dragon and he found out it was being taken down after the nerd stuff so he made a video about visiting it
I remember
@@HiGlowie hey man you wanna see some hentai
lmao at the Norm Macdonald drop
I live far away in Buttfuck, Nowheresville so I won't get my copy until December 14th and it's killing me I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT
He Looks like Beni from the Mummy!! I don't know why anybody else hasn't noticed..
oh and thanks for the 20 min vid!
For the dragon thing, I haven't read the book, but my view on it is probably that: a dream (in particular a nightmare) can feel so visceral, so real, that it leaves a feeling with you that persists even after you awake (especially so with nightmares where the feeling is terror. If you're religious, you would say the feeling of joy if you felt God).
Thus, he is probably trying to say that, by virtue of the dream, his mind (probably in retrospect and not at the time), realized the potency that mere imagery, the unreal, can have on a person, leading to wishing to create things that also impact people to that degree.
I would applaud the thought, but state that, no art form can really accomplish that as, the beauty of a dream is that, in the moment, you your mind has trapped you in it as reality. No art form can really do that, you will always see it separate to yourself, as an observation. Even phrases such as immersion are meaningless as those terms are moot. The real sentiments with games, e.g. Zelda: OoT are actually investment, not immersion. You are invested in the quest, as you enjoy the lore, it feels cool, and the gameplay is fun, or, in the case of legacy games like arcade games, it's not immersion but concentration or focus. You still know it's a game, but you are focusing your senses on it.
His whole identity just seem to be based around stuff he saw or did as a kid/teenager and his tastes/sentiments doesn’t seem to have developed much since then either, which is just sad.
Before he was like an excited kid with a thing for old monster movies and Rocky who thought he could be a great filmmaker, which was kinda cute in a way. But when that dream was crushed with the release of his movie it was like the life force got sucked out of him. He hasn’t been himself since. It’s like even he realized then that he didn’t have the talent nor knowledge for any of that.
You can learn from your mistakes and make a better movie next time. That is how it usually works unless you are Tarantino. Or you can give up and mope like he chose instead.
@@struttux5156 Not to defend any moping... and he does lay on the "oh woe is me" stuff a bit thick occasionally... But sometimes your dreams are just that... dreams. You romanticize the entire thing. The notion he had in his head of what it must be like to be a "movie maker" just didn't jive with the reality. There are some things you try once and realize it's just not for you... and I think that's how James felt about making feature length movies after he tried it once. No shame in knowing your limitations.
As far as Cinemassacre, no doubt he has largely mined all the easy subject matter that interests him. He doesn't seem to have the same spark.. but to be fair... he has been grinding away for over 15 years. I find his overall output impressive considering both the quantity and the timeframes involved. Even if the glory days are well behind him, he still seems to enjoy cranking out a handful of his AVGN brand of amateurish comedy shorts a year... and there is nothing wrong with that. He isn't forcing us to keep watching... and it's pretty easy to skip past that Raycon advertisement.
@@control_the_pet_population He probably still likes film making. I don't think that is the problem at all. It is just that he can't handle failures very well. He had been hailed by everyone for many years and his ego was probably inflated as hell before the movie came which gave him his first taste of true humbleness. Then he also did his "The Head Returns" which was also an absolute bomb. Realizing he isn't the genius he thought himself to be just killed his drive because he can't stand teh thought of being average.
Nobody is going to churn out 400+ combined episodes of a half dozen different web shows and indefinitely keep things just as fresh and creative as they were at their peak.
You can blame it on some overinflated ego and delusions of believing himself a genius and being secretly terrified of his own limitations... or ya know... you could just accept the universal truth that nobody keeps their creative fastball forever. He's been at this for over 15 years.
@@control_the_pet_population All i'm saying is he would still like to do films on larger scale but his ego says no.
Fun fact, I got an ad staring patrik Stewart before this video played. I wonder if that has something to do with you guy mentioning him in this video?
Another thing I noticed while reading excerpts: Man, does James love using exclamation points.
Seinfeld episode
Yea he does!!!!
YEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH!
This makes the fact he's not a Sonic the Hedgehog fan confusing
Neurodivergent here, creativity is a huge cruch. I have no idea where I'd be (maybe not anywhere) without drawing.
*looks left.... looks right* ..... "The Dragon in my Dreams" speaks to me in ways that I probably can't fully articulate....
Maybe he stole the idea to write a book from wikepedia to 😂
I love James’s video the Dragon of my Dreams. I thought it was interesting that it started with this dragon from a playground that crept into his subconscious and then the day he was going to face it they were tearing it down.
James is genuinely a great guy, but unfortunately his content has been suffering because of Screenwave, we all know that by now, he’s not like Doug Walker with the constant drama and controversy surrounding him, so an autobiography by James not being forced to do it is something worth considering to look at
Red Cow videos about James Rolfe and related content are hard to criticize, because it always feel like saying you guys are sometimes harsh nad nitpicky, means that I'm defending and protecting James from any criticism. But you know, you guys have some 'cinemassacretruth' vibes at some times, and in the end it feels hard to get the conclusion of your toughts. I mean, yeah, AVGN content is being in a downfall for more than 5 years, some people leave the channel, their partners make bad business decisions all the time, but that's about it. It's just pointless gossip at this point.
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Welp, Frankie has taken his thumbnail game to the next level. I predict one million views by December 1st.
that center picture from the top its hilarious
Shocked you didn't talk about slobby eyes
That was a later discovery
@@RedCowArcade
Excited to hear it! Same slob-time, same slob-channel