>> ^COriolanus:
Perhaps the greatest AVGN of all time.


definitely not.
it's nice, it's fun, it's interesting, but it's no way the best, not even close.

Really? I think it's the worst AVGN of all time. I like my angry nerd angry.

Perhaps the greatest AVGN of all time.

>> ^nach0s:
I would add #11: "The misunderstanding". Over-used in television more than movies, this happens when one character and the audience knows a certain fact, but another character in the scene doesn't, and has a misunderstanding that is often milked for WAY too long as you're sitting there thinking "WHY DOESN'T CHARACTER 'A' TELL CHARACTER 'B' WHAT THE REAL INFO IS, AND CLEAR THIS SHIT UP, DEAR CHRIST."

Actually, one of my favorite lines from Friends was "Oh, I think this is the episode of Three's Company where there's some kind of misunderstanding." Until they said that, I never realized that EVERY episode of Three's Company had essentially the same plot. One could argue shows like CSI have the same plot, but it isn't the exact same people doing the crimes.

Secret Talk is merely the film version of the dramatic aside, where a character steps to the side of the stage and talks directly to the audience. Usually this is an internal monologue, but there are a few places where two characters should be audible, given the circumstances, but it is assumed that they are not.

Far more egregious, IMO, is unnecessary tension created when a secret talk occurs that the audience isn't in on, especially when there are other secret talks that include the audience.

As for the 360, there's a reason why it's a relatively new innovation--cameras are small enough to allow for rapid movements without a HUUUGE crew in the wings to support each shot. A 360 shot is meant to defy the expectations of the viewer. While it doesn't completely eliminate the Fourth Wall, it suggests a freedom of perception and movement. I'd imagine AVGN would have had a problem with the opening of Citizen Kane, as, in short order, everyone was mounting a camera on a crane and breaking the 2-D plane that had limited films up to that point. Was it overdone? Sure, but like everything else, it got boring and was put away until someone had a really NOVEL use for it, and dusted it off.

And it should also be noted that there's a 'trip' in The Book of Eli that doesn't result in a complete loss of balance.

I fucking love AVGN. Hilarious shit that revels in being juvenile and idiotic, and surprisingly good game journalism to boot. And any time you can establish yourself as "The" anything or stake a claim to an acronym (everyone in the know knows what AVGN is these days), you have arrived.

I tend to agree that inkjet printers are pretty frustrating. I have an old HP inkjet and the cartridges are pretty hard to find unless I go to a big office store like OfficeMax. And even then they are hidden in a dizzying array of about FORTY different HP inkjet cartridges. HP invents some new printer once every 2 or 3 years, and creates an entirely different cartridge for each one. That's pretty lousy company policy.

I haven't had the test page print issue the AVGN ran into here, but I sure do hate HP's DRIVERS. HP drivers are the most ungodly, bulky, massive, unwieldy, invasive drivers I think I've ever seen for ANYTHING - let alone for printers. Even the notoriously bulky 3d video card drivers aren't as nasty. And the download times from HP's website are the pits.

So you have to download 200+ MB drivers (when 2KB would be plenty) on a 1KBPS server. And 99.9999999% of the download is just a crappy, clunky, badly designed user interface. HP printers are nice engineering, but their software is about the worst on the planet.

Even the Angry Video Game nerd thinks Battletoads is way too freaking hard.

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I have to say, I like this better then his angry video game nerd incarnation, less incessant talk about buffalo diarrhea. Think I'm kidding? Watch any AVGN video.

Looks like he may still become the Andy Rooney of my generation.

I should probably bother to learn his name at some point.

avgn kicks ass

part 3: http://www.videosift.com/video/AVGN-CD-I-Part-3

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^ AVGN reviewed that E.T. game. I personally liked this game when I played it, trying to catch that star and transform into Cyber-Michael!

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The game sounds too modern to be an AVGN review. Zero Punctuation maybe?

I remember a lot of lock hacking in Bioshock. Could it possibly be http://www.videosift.com/video/Zero-Punctuation-The-Truth-About-BioShock ?

Star Wars KOTOR also had a ton of terminals to hack or repair.