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

Clearly you can skim games too (maybe this is what we should call speed running).

for sure. not even speed running, but just trying to "beat" the game as quickly as possible. maybe doing 2/4 of the bosses in breath of the wild before headed toward ganon

I can believe that he's capable of reading very fast, less believable is his tendency to respond to everyone on Twitter asking "have you read/watched/played this" with "why I just so happened to be reading/watching/playing that yesterday/this morning" which he does surprisingly a lot

Among other things...I've known 2 people who have legitimate trouble telling the truth in any context and he just reminds me of them sometimes, and that unfortunately leads me to treat the actual biographical stuff he shares as kayfabe

i can see that for sure

i had a friend who had a thing about lying. like, a very weird, extreme dedication to extravagant lies. which ended our friendship.

I have a feeling it’s just the character Tim Rogers idk

It's the fact that he claimed to play all these old console games that got me, at least some of them the first time. Unless he's generally freakishly good at platformers, a lot of those can take an eternity. Maybe he used an emulator and savestates, at least.

I was doing Austin's "What?" bit with Will but he punked out.

i am exhausted with the tim rogers character, tbh. i started watching the cyberpunk 2077 review, and about 10 minutes in i just wanted to die

the most exhausting thing was the Twitch stream after he played the review intro video and started obsessing about how the outro (of the intro) portion was done in 59 point whatever frames per second resulting in a jump every x seconds that he had just now noticed...... this went on for some time.

if you're watching the twitch stream before it's even on youtube, you kind of bought your tickets already

I'm a fan. But for how he likes to say the scripted version is not a real person, well, is it possible the real guy is even more tedious?

It is funny how I can feel mega bad for him due to his various challenges and then I watch a video where he describes the 45 $500 jackets he owns and I'm like wait a second...

having met him the real guy is more or less the same person you see in the intermission bits of these vids

He was extremely the guy in the videos in 2010 when I met him, but it does sound like he's mellowed

Didn't someone here say they met him and he drunkenly tried to start a fight with them

i am exhausted with the tim rogers character, tbh.

seems like he is too, fwiw

I was doing Austin's "What?" bit with Will but he punked out.

― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

And then I tried a bit where I was confidently incorrect (cold stone creamery)

Is he exhausted with the character? Seems he is proud of his 10 hour video game review

his ability to remember things and numbers down to ridiculous levels of detail remind me a lot of descriptions of the “pure o” version of ocd. it might not be completely true to reality, but your brain loops on events enough you end up with intense recollections of detail

also, absolutely burrowing into video games and books fits

this isn’t a diagnosis per se, just a possibly mentality where doing things in this way makes sense

he also mentions in one of the videos that he’s limited himself to a 40 hour work week, but his main hobby is still playing video games outside of those hours

lol missed you back there Evan. Also i had to cook dinner. I hope everyone smelt it

No worries man, you rock!

i for one do not think this guy who creates obsessive videos that dissect every detail of his own emotional and intellectual relationship to video games for a living is lying when he says he plays a lot of video games

i think he heavily embellishes a lot of his experiences, it's not really lying so much as storytelling. i don't have any doubt he played through a ton of old platformers or whatever, those games are all like an hour or two long

gonna report back when tearing my hair out in the middle of Rocky Rodent

Tim should be a guess star helper on Game Center CX

As someone who has been following the dude's output since the mid 00s--he's been doing degrees of kayfabe for pretty much his whole career. He's even gone on at length publicly about how the first stuff that he wrote online was a troll to make fun of some self-serious person he knew on a game forum. For a while I was maybe unhealthily para-socially fascinated with the question of "how much of this is a bit?" I get the impression that there's less of the persona and more of the "authentic" guy in his current output, but it's also clear that he believes real, true authenticity on the internet isn't possible, and he has fun with that.

and that's THE STRAIGHT DOPE--stay tuned for my multi-hour video review of Tim's review

tim is very good at benjamin buttoning himself via jackets and hair. with these time powers, i believe he has played and read everything.

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"

― ✖, Thursday, October 28, 2021 5:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i think this is 100% what i did to the point where i heard dwayne's voice in my head saying "that's the bottom line"

It's the fact that he claimed to play all these old console games that got me, at least some of them the first time. Unless he's generally freakishly good at platformers, a lot of those can take an eternity. Maybe he used an emulator and savestates, at least.

I was doing Austin's "What?" bit with Will but he punked out.

― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I JUST FORGOT TO CHECK BACK OK I GOT THE BIT

I SAAAAAID,,,,

huh

now that you're doing wrestling goofs u know i have to assume you're the maffew of botchamania

Oh you didn't know?!

Nah tho this is the only forum I've ever posted any amount on

comment from some dude on the Tokimeki Memorial review

While Tokimeki Memorial is one of the first and is definitely the most influential "genuine cyberpunk artifact" of a game, I'd say the LovePlus (ラブプラス) series go even farther - forcing the player to talk and sing into the microphone and evaluating their emotional investment through voice recognition technology and demanding the completion of daily and special limited events in *real-time*.
What, you aren't hardcore enough to have a "real" short conversation with your cyber girlfriend whispering into your Nintendo 3DS every morning at 08:00-09:00 in a convincingly caring tone? Well, tough shit - cos' she is going to dump you, game over. You are in class or at your workplace in real life? Nobody cares! Your girlfriend is calling on the Nintendo 3DS and you better pick up that call, or you are in serious trouble.
The rabbit hole of the madness of LovePlus+ is on its own level, honestly.

I've watched part 3 (what he liked) and bits of part 4 (what he didn't), and ... I feel kind of bad for this game. I'll never play it and don't want to play it, but it seems so rich and ambitious that (like Rogers) I can see its achievements and failures, existing sort of symbiotically, which if I were one of the programmers that slaved over it for so long would make me feel terrible. Like, all that hard work, all those ideas, all that effort, and it became an instant punchline, justified and not justified, for so many. And for many others probably remains so, despite (I assume) many patches.

I played through a couple endings. I enjoyed it.

I was shook by the Judy side quest/romance as much as tim and it’s ridiculously good (Judy is my ride-or-die forever partner in cyberpunk)

tried restarting the game this week and it’s wild how fleshed out (and yet vacant!!) the opening quests are. So much choreography but so little substance. Like there’s a little cutscene with an architectural flyby and synopsis of how you’ll infiltrate. Nothing like this happens at any point in the rest of the game! Or at least not as I remember.

LovePlus sounds wild. Anyone else catch the part of the new review where he says Tokimeki 2 is twice as good as the first? Hmmm

I'm finished all the parts now. Really fun. And he totally claimed to play all of those games in the out-of-TIMROGERS-character mode. And in the list of games he played through, he threw in "and 20 hours of Red Dead Redemption 2". I guess I believe him. The walk we see him take may be his first in quite some time.

So there is one open world game that he found surprisingly good and will talk about in detail later on. Wonder which.

I'm not sure I've beaten any of the GTA 3's... might have to pick up the "definitive edition" coming soon and maybe it'll be less forgiving wrt RC controlled helicopters.

*more forgiving. god help me

i'm also interested to know what his favorite open world game was

All the references to medical problems, I assume that is not him doing a bit.

I think the "I played through every single iteration of [game] AND THEN I replayed... AND THEN I played every possible influence... AND THEN I played all 500 hours of... AND THEN I read every single fan fiction... AND THEN" is definitely a complete bit. I believe he researched these things thoroughly which may have involved a lot of play time, but I don't necessarily believe any of these lists of content consumption claims are literally done as described. The relentlessness to making the "pile" sound as big as possible is a bit that is meant to be proportionate to the cartoonish depth of his dive into a subject, hence the intense delivery and review lengths as well (and everything else).

i want to believe

did he mention listening to the billy idol cyberpunk album?

I don't think so. And he would had if he was a dirty liar!

https://johnrieber.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/todd-rundgren-live-1994.jpg

watched this all the way through a week ago. if you haven't yet, i would recommend just doing that instead of picking and choosing. it works really well as a complete thing i think. even the 30-45 minute journey into jackets. i also think this is maybe the most essential essay/treatise about modern AAA video games and possibly about the game industry c.2021 as a whole, at least in a basic sense. puts into words a lot of things i've felt for a while.

Listened to a recent Insert Credit podcast episode and i think the open world game he loves is The Godfather. Unless the video contradicts this? I'm not rewatching.

pretty sure it's actually Days Gone and that is it plainly stated on a freeze frame somewhere in the 10 hours. He's also been mentioning it a bit on twitter, even just a couple minutes ago:

i'd say

* red dead redemption 2 (real good writing; quite slow though)
* assassin's creed valhalla (got a lot of vikings; however, it's a little too big)
* days gone (does a LOT of surprising / amazing mechanical things with its open world! however: yeah, it's a Zombie Game)

— tim rogers (@108) December 4, 2021

just lmao'd at this clip of the video in which i novelized the entirety of red dead redemption 1's plot. *the* best vid i made at kotaku. on the other hand, it didn't get a million hits. (it still hasn't cracked 100k!) they shoulda made me CEO for this tbh https://t.co/va3ngqoDnb pic.twitter.com/P23xpexCdS

— tim rogers (@108) December 15, 2021

So what's up with this guy?

I occasionally listen to the podcast he's on ("Insert Credit") and that's been business as usual. I just looked at his Twitter... I didn't realize he seems to have stopped posting as a new year's resolution.

I can see an April 25 Patreon update says "Season Two COMING QUITE SOON"... hmmmm

I haven’t joined for a long time but Tim has been doing Friday night twitch sessions

HELLO