thread of tim rogers content (do not read if you hate tim rogers)

ciderpress I hear u and you're right but also the tokimemo review was worth every stinking minute

also i'm sure shorter videos still means like an hour long at this point

yeah

Can't wait. Action Button was the best discovery from the 2020 "TV" poll!

New episode 10/10 at 10. So this is gonna be 10 hours, huh

next sunday is october tenth. i don't care if you're from the united states OR kingdom: that is the best possible day for me, a Video Game Critiquer, to release a hideously massive video review of @CyberpunkGame. i will take no further questions. sunday 10/10, 10am eastern. pic.twitter.com/UqxmtIEKGv

— tim rogers (@108) October 1, 2021

Delayed once more

Thematically appropriate (and for tech issues to boot)

per patreon - tomorrow, 6pm eastern, opening segment on twitch.tv/actionbutton and once that's done airing (including a twist?!), the entirety of it goes up on the YT. sounds like it's split into two vids due to processing issues. but i think it's really real this time!

i hope the twist is that he decided to review a different game

lol the stream didn’t even show up until almost 20 minutes in, and then there was a big STAND BY screen until almost 6:30, and now he’s… drinking a Coke

this is getting dark

be well, tim

are you fucking kidding me tim

i got worked

Trashcan Jerry!

This is already hilarious

Games are becoming every game

SEVEN REVIEWS

......

ok he actually just put it on YouTube. i was pretty sure the computer was going to blow up or something

chapter 1’s killing me

spoiler: he does talk about how keanu reeves is great, and should not be blamed for anything, for 28 minutes :)

any time the development team size is mentioned (“cyberpunk’s development team was 1/4th the size of rockstar games’ for red redemption 2’s development team”) it absolutely boggles my mind that they were planning on hitting all platforms on launch

jesus christ wtf

absolutely in awe of tim’s gaming rig. it’s the only system capable of capturing the cyberpunk footage we crave tbh

i'm gonna follow the instructions and watch parts 5 and 6

this has been worth the wait

lol got the bad ending

So the first hour is truly just the intro, huh

the bad ending turned into the true ending, now i have permission to watch the whole thing

Apparently in part 5 he says the 'pick 2 parts' thing was just to quell people complaining about length lol

shhh dont spoil it lol

anyway i watched 1-6-7-5 bc i was feeling naughty i was like "the short one, as a treat"

Half ass watched intro-1-6-end and really enjoyed it. I think doing other stuff was kinda the way to go here, it's not super deep and pausing every couple of minutes to read too much text on the screen often kinda kills the flow of these videos for me (am I meant to do that on a supposed second play or something?). and giving my undivided attention to the hour on jackets and watches would've kinda pissed me off. This way, it was just funny.

Of course I will watch the other segments sometime. The only-watch-two thing was just dumb enough for me to indulge. What rationale did he even try to give? Uh, there's a lot of repetition and stuff? lol. I guess he's interested to see which bits rack up the most hits.

I don't think I could like anything more than his Tokimeki Memorial episode.

jackets and *glasses

Part 3 is great

lol what's the opposite of a speed run? Because that's what this is so far.

Anyway, there's a meta perfection to his approach, because as far as I'm concerned youtube is where I go to watch and/or enjoy alternate endings to or plot branching in games I'm too lazy or exhausted to play more than once to get every ending (that is to say, all of them so far), let alone 100% or "platinum." So of course I will eventually make my way through all/much/most of this.

Weird he seemingly couldn't stop from playing so cheaply. I intentionally didn't bother learning much about how to best level up, do "quickhacks", and all that, and combat stayed reasonably challenging. But of course I can't say that's "playing it right", either.

Also he played a lot when the game was still super broken. The rogue taxis stuff was one of my favourite bits of the game and was mostly busted for Tim.

The game itself is barely the point at all of course. If you are thinking about playing it before watching the video, I'd say don't bother!

Part 3 literally spoils every ending in the game so if that matters don't watch it.

I like the "good time hat" idea, that's pretty much how I try to play. I just play so slowly that luckily I wasn't very far before a lot was fixed.

Somehow of all his claims I find the idea of how many videogames he plays to completion to be the hardest to believe. 4 or 5 versions of Shadowrun? A dozen rodent based 16 bit games? To the end? Really?

belief isn't important to me when watching a tim rogers review, i believe it like i believe bret hart is really working someone's knee. whether it's an exaggeration, a lie or cold hard facts, i'm gonna accept it, because sometimes it's fun to be tricked

the Excellence of Execution for a new generation

feel like i should've reached for a rock reference what with the number of times he says "the bottom line" but decided to go with a technical guy for arbitrary reasons

fuck i meant stone cold. i am so fucked if any wrestling fans sees that last one

what?

he's saying that wrestling fans hate ice cream chains

Will M was understandably mixing up stone cold steve Austin's catchphrase "that's the bottom line cause stone cold said so" and the rock's finishing move "rock bottom"

As someone who reads Tim's Twitter feed I feel pretty confident saying hes just a massive liar even when he isnt playing "tim rogers" or maybe he's just always playing "tim rogers" even in interactions with people he knows. I get that he has a funky brain but the breadth of things he claims to have recently consumed is ridiculous

The part where he says he read 266 books last year and 12 this year (because he was playing too many video games)...idk, it seems crazy to me, but people on ILB read an amount of books that I can't conceive of, and he does have a pretty weird brain. And he has time for consuming media as part of his job.

i always get into that zone where i think "oh they must just be skimming it", and then think about how all reading is a factor of skimming, and we all have our own ideas of what "skimming" is

because even if you read in one day -- really read -- a book that takes a normal person 7 days, what does that mean in terms of absorbing the material? the person who takes 7 days may very well sit and think about the passages during the "downtime" during those 7 days, during those dreams, in conversations. "oh what are you reading?", "well, "

meanwhile the person who reads 300 books a year is apparently doing all of this in a day, nearly every day