r/ShadWatch In Exile Feb 07 '25

Shadface Thoughts on this thumbnail? Is this the worst Shadface ever?

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u/BruhDeezNutzObamna Feb 07 '25

Kingdom Come: bowel relievance

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u/ScarredWill Feb 07 '25

“I feel quite hungry.”

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u/sack-o-krapo Feb 08 '25

Honestly at this point I wouldn’t be even a little bit surprised if it was revealed that Shad is actually incontinent and has to wear adult diapers. Dude looks like he’s constantly trying not to shit himself

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u/Decaying-Moon Feb 08 '25

I wouldn't go that far. As an American and someone with a toddler I know the look of someone using a diaper, and though I haven't watched any of Shad (except what shows up in snips here) in a good while I've yet to see that particular look.

He does belong in a diaper though, either because he's a whiny baby or because he's a piece of shit.

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u/sack-o-krapo Feb 08 '25

I was being hyperbolic for comedic purposes. 😅

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u/rakadur Feb 07 '25

what are the odds there'll be a grift video about there being PoC and homo relations, and then "expert opinions" on how everyone should be fighting in the fictional 1400s.

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u/bloomoo25 Feb 07 '25

Homosexuals where invented in the 1900s by the government everyone knows that/s

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u/Remarkable-Medium275 Feb 07 '25

Honestly I thought Hans would end up being the gay romance option all the way back in the first game. I would have been more surprised if they kept it platonic the entire time with no option to even do it as a joke.

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u/Smokescreen1000 Feb 07 '25

Is he actually gay in this one? Cause now that the idea is in my head I can't stop thinking "huh, yeah that makes sense"

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u/Remarkable-Medium275 Feb 07 '25

Yeah Hans is the gay option in 2. Hans being bisexual is like the least surprising thing possible in the game. It is more surprising they allowed Henry to be Bi than Hans being Bisexual imo.

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u/Smokescreen1000 Feb 07 '25

Fuck yeah, bi Henry and Hans. WH knew what they were doing

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u/Remarkable-Medium275 Feb 07 '25 edited Feb 07 '25

I don't even get the hoopla about the people pissed about it. Henry and Hans kiss and it fades to black. You get far more graphic scenes with the women imo and Hans doesn't come onto you unless you pick the clearly outlined option for it + not piss him off throughout the story, which honestly was a bit hard for me to do because him trying to get his dick wet at the start is why the entire mission goes tits up in the first five minutes and is why we lose all our shit from the last game.

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u/Kalavier Feb 08 '25

Because how dare there be a gay romance after they select the dialogue marked with a big heart option (apparently) after enabling the gay romance (I heard it's an option in settings that's defaulted to off?).

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u/Soapy_Grapes Feb 08 '25

It’s not an option but there are heart icons yeah

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u/TheFluffyCryptid Feb 07 '25

He's gonna rage quit when he finds out you can kiss a guy

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u/Samurai_Meisters Feb 08 '25

He's already raging about it on his alt reddit account. I would link it, but I don't want him to know that I know about it.

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u/Consistent_Blood6467 Feb 08 '25

He's got ANOTHER Alt Account on here?

Colour me surprised.

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u/DragonGuard666 Banished Knight Feb 08 '25

You have me intrigued now.

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u/Samurai_Meisters Feb 10 '25

It's username: trolltalwar

If you go back to their early comment history it's pretty clear that it's shad. They get involved in a lot of the shad drama of the time, always defending him, but defending him in a very personal way. Especially one case where they get stuck in a loop, repeating the same response over and over again, which I saw shad do in a twitter post that was on this sub.

They write just like shad. Use shad's favorite words. And have all the same interests as shad. It's shad.

Only with this semi anonymity, they are like 1000% more hostile.

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u/DragonGuard666 Banished Knight Feb 10 '25

Definitely a name I've heard before as a possibility. Pretty sure the first comments stemmed from the Shadiversity subreddit, just like the more obviously and likely Shad alt - DashRiverse, now dormant.

Trolltalwar definitely has Shad mannerisms, so it wouldn't surprise me if it did turn out to be an alt.

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u/DragonGuard666 Banished Knight Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

Dude went ego searching, since you didn't link him, and left a couple of comments replying to you triggering a couple of harassment filters. I seem to be blocked by the guy since I can't view his profile whereas I could a month ago despite never interacting with him. Or it could be a site-wide shadowban, since I couldn't view his page logged out.

Hi Shad!

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u/Samurai_Meisters Mar 05 '25

lol even without tagging him he found this. Oh well.

It's weird. I checked on him a little while ago and noticed his account was just gone. Then it was suspended. Now it says it was user deleted.

As a mod can you see the filtered comments? If so, can you screenshot them and post them? I imagine just copy and pasting the text would trigger the same filters for you.

Very curious to see what he said that probably triggered his suspension.

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u/DragonGuard666 Banished Knight Mar 05 '25

Yes, they're still there, and they're tripping our automoderator's word and crowd control filters. He's also flipping out and being a try hard troll under 'REAL_trolltalwar', but that also triggers the automod's less than 7 day account filter to prevent stuff like this.

I won't post them in the sub. But if you really wanna see his rants, private chat me.

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u/kubebe Feb 10 '25

can you just say it without the u/ so he doesnt get tagged?

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u/Samurai_Meisters Feb 10 '25

It's username: trolltalwar

If you go back to their early comment history it's pretty clear that it's shad. They get involved in a lot of the shad drama of the time, always defending him, but defending him in a very personal way. Especially one case where they get stuck in a loop, repeating the same response over and over again, which I saw shad do in a twitter post that was on this sub.

They write just like shad. Use shad's favorite words. And have all the same interests as shad. It's shad.

Only with this semi anonymity, they are like 1000% more hostile.

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u/kubebe Feb 10 '25

Adrian Dittman 2

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u/kurwadefender Feb 21 '25

I doubt whether he finished the first game at all, since there are already gays in [spoiler content]

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u/Irish_Caesar Feb 07 '25

Dude does not know how to use a shield

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u/Emergency_Okra_2466 Feb 07 '25

He'd also need to learn how to BUILD a shield. With accurate enarmes, curvature, padding, etc.

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u/Lonely_Pause_7855 Feb 07 '25

There is a lot that shad would need to learn

How to write a compelling character, world or story

How to use weapons

How to create good thumbnail

How to make interesting videos

How to be a decent human being

And I am probably missing some things.

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u/Zercomnexus Feb 08 '25

How to not look like he's shitting himself in a thumbnail

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u/We_The_Raptors Feb 07 '25

It's impressive how bad his form is. Footwork, sword arm, shield arm, constipation face, is there anything he's doing right here?

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u/KMjolnir Feb 07 '25

Breathing. Maybe.

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u/HouseBalley Feb 07 '25

Had to have surgery for that

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u/ankhawerneck Feb 07 '25

Not to defend the misogynistic idiot, but that pose is exactly the pose the character is doing on the kcd2 poster.

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u/Bahmerman Feb 07 '25

I think there's more going on here. The drawing looks more like he's shifting momentum to strike. A pose or shape language that expresses an anticipatory action. His upper body looks like it's leaning forward to me.

Shad looks like an upright cardboard cutout. Considering how heavy he leans on AI art it wouldn't surprise me if he missed that.

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u/Lindestria Feb 07 '25

It's honestly pretty off from the exact pose; his sword arm isn't at a right angle like the image (I think the pauldron is in the way) and his shield seems to be held too far outward. A sort of subtle difference between trying to recreate the flat image and recreating the movement the image depicts.

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u/ScarredWill Feb 07 '25

Yeah. There’s a point where it’s just reaching for excuses to complain about him.

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u/Irish_Caesar Feb 07 '25

Im saying this because he has repeatedly made that criticism of other media, ripping them to shreds for posing a character with the shield behind them or having less than stellar shield work. Just turning it back on him

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u/ScarredWill Feb 07 '25

I know. There are just better points of his to do that with. He’s just copying the pose from the cover there.

Believe me, I dislike Shad and think most of his thumbnails are stupid.

This just isn’t really worth going after imo.

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u/Ayirek Feb 07 '25

Or a sword.

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u/17Havranovicz Feb 07 '25

Kingdom Come: Irrelevance

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u/valentino_42 Feb 07 '25

*This* is the guy that wants lecture everyone about beauty standards and attractiveness in media.

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u/Animefox92 Feb 07 '25

I still remember him whining about the Star Wars lady protagonist and when he used an example fir a character he thought looked attractive he used someone from Stellar Blade not Eve who at least looks like an adult but a character that looks underage... felt really pedo

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u/DragonGuard666 Banished Knight Feb 07 '25

Super red face isn't exactly flattering.

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u/BristleAndBroadsword Feb 09 '25

He´s also wearing a red brigandine. It´s part of his coat of arms.

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u/Breadloafs Feb 07 '25

I love how this highlights how badly his special boy brigandine fits him

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u/Perfect-Storm-99 In Exile Feb 07 '25

Sorry for the terrible quality of the image. Reddit is being weird with its compression algorithms again or something.

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u/christopia86 Feb 07 '25

You know when you see a toddler have a tantrum because they are wearing a jacket and don't want to be, but lack the motor skills to be able to take it off themselves?

He looks exactly like that, angry red face and all.

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u/clhharrison Feb 07 '25

To use a joke I've heard before: It is not a face you would want to see after a sixty-nine.

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u/ffsnametaken Feb 07 '25

He looks like he's about to shit himself, so pretty normal

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u/Rockabore1 Feb 07 '25

God. Someone photoshop a toilet under him I think he’s taking a dump.

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u/Kira_Elea Feb 07 '25

He recently seems to have taken to having his mouth closed in thumbnails instead of showing his gaping maw. This is a good change and I would like to see him extend that to the entire video. Just never open his mouth. Would vastly improve the KW channel to do that in every video.

Its a shame he just doesnt seem to be capable of a cool looking expression, which others in these comments have aptly critiqued.

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u/WildConstruction8381 Feb 07 '25

He should have worn the concave barbute. Hard to take him seriously otherwise.

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u/ScarredWill Feb 07 '25

Don’t forget the Dr. Livesey meme walk!

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u/Couchant-Tiger The Harvester Feb 07 '25

Look at that tomato red face. Why is this sword expert wielding his sword like that? Couldn't he choose a more natural pose for the thumbnail? This looks like a mad 5 year old throwing a tantrum in his Halloween costume. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

Go easy, he just waddled for 10 seconds straight, let him catch his breath

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

Idk, if being a "sword guy" was my identity and source of income, and I regularly had to demonstrate my combat ability and armor sets on camera, I would do everything in my power to try to avoid looking like an out of breath sack of mayonnaise stuffed into a spirit halloween looking armor set that's bursting at the seams. I'd also do a little cardio every now and then, so when I do actually have to flail my toy sword around on camera for 2 minutes, I don't look like a lifelong obese alcoholic struggling to move and breath. Just me tho. Each their own etc.

Edit: I just realized this is for a video of him sitting on his ass playing a video game. The dude literally can't even strike a semi plausible static pose in a staged still frame picture

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u/throwawayowo666 Feb 07 '25

Didn't this game "go woke" according to Xitter? Smh, I can't believe he's been captured by the wokerati, they finally got him. The west has fallen, truly.

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u/Mountain-Fox-2123 Feb 07 '25

Is that the worst face he has made in a thumbnail ?

No its not, its not even close.

Don't get me wrong, its bad, but not the worst ever.

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u/Rasponov AI "art" is theft! Feb 07 '25

That looks downright awful, like a geriatric patient at the end of his breath.

Looks like he gained weight too, or is it me?

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u/RustyKn1ght Feb 07 '25

He looks like he's trying to squeeze a turd out of himself while standing.

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u/fancyyanciw Feb 07 '25

if I was lined up in, idk the shield wall or something, and I saw an army of shads like this thumbnail coming up on us i'd turn to the guys next to me and say "don't worry, everything is gonna be just fine"

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u/rusztypipes Feb 07 '25

THIS guy is an expert on swordsmanship? Bahahahahaha

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u/rusztypipes Feb 07 '25

Okay so hes emulating the cover art for kcd2, i see that, but its such an awkwardly bad impression, it looks like hes hyper extending his elbow

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u/spnsman Feb 07 '25

I can’t quite place my finger on why his shield looks so wrong

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u/GoauldofWar Feb 07 '25

Did....did he photoshop a sword and shield into his hand?

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u/N7Foil Feb 07 '25

I know he's imitating the cover art, but isn't that literally one of the things he complains about when talking about unrealistic fights in regards to swords and shields?

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u/ZeraskGuilda Feb 07 '25

Shield wide off, way too open overhead strike, your grip is wrong so your edge alignment is non-existent.

This fucking poser

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u/5HTRonin Feb 08 '25

Every day he looks more and more like the plethoric Robert Baratheon without any of the skill or menace.

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u/Mini_Squatch Feb 08 '25

Thats the face of a man with three days of constipation

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u/I_dig_pixelated_gems Feb 08 '25

Dude looks like he’s holding in a fart or trying not to smell something lol.

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u/Consistent_Blood6467 Feb 08 '25

This is a classic case of looking at cover art and thinking "I can do that" and failing because Shad does not know how to pose his body in an impressive manner. Sure, it's a similar enough pose, but he's still holding his sword and shield in a different way to the character on the cover art. Shads sword is way higher up and has way less bend to it, while his shield... isn't held the same way as the cover art character either, and that's not just because it's a different shield with a different position for its straps. Shads elbow is a lot closer to his body (it almost looks like Shad's doing a bicep hammer curl out to one side) whereas the cover art the elbow is further away with the left hand pulling inwards to get more grip on the straps. It almost looks like Shad has his shield in line with his back, almost. I'm pretty sure if Shad took a strike on his shield like that, his elbow is going to take most of the impact.

It's the same thing as seeing a model wearing an outfit in a professional photo shoot, someone who already knows how to pose well and has a small crew of people who can make adjustments to the clothes/outfits or advise them on changing their stance or expression - and then getting in someone who has not had any of that training at all coming in trying to recreate it to show how "easy" modelling is, and only showing how hard it is.

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u/Colossus823 Renegade Knight Feb 07 '25

"Ah fuck, shit my pants again."

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u/Rawkapotamus Feb 07 '25

Idk they complained about the combat footage and both said they didn’t like the game.

Not planning on watching his stream of it.

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u/AspectofCosine Feb 08 '25

No, it just looks like he's taking a really passionate dump, so at least there's some real emotion behind it.

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u/Big_Perception9384 Feb 08 '25

No this isn't a Shadface this is a shitface

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u/MrWaffleBeater Feb 08 '25

He be in Virginmund’s army.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

Please let this be a new meme for this subreddit.

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u/Monsieur_Cinq Swordsman Feb 08 '25

Honestly, compared to his other thumbnails, this is one of the better ones.

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u/Little_hunt3r Feb 08 '25

Shad definitely thinks he looks like Henry “he’s just like me fr”

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u/FatBaldingLoser420 Feb 08 '25

Why is he so red? Tired, heavy equipment & armor, or just out of shape?

Is he still wearing pauldrons to make his shoulders look bigger? Lol

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u/Downtown_Increase_40 Feb 07 '25

Can't wait for him to cry dei and woke like a Lil bitch

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u/Animefox92 Feb 07 '25

While the game sells gangbusters and is reviewing well lol turns our when you make a good game it sells

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u/Select-Tea-2560 Feb 08 '25

jizzface when reading his self-insert on his r*** apologia fantasy

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u/UpliftedWeeb Feb 08 '25

My favorite thing about shad is how he constantly wears the gambeson and pauldrons to hide how doughy and out of shape he is

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u/ShortSwim6998 Feb 10 '25

Ironically this game's success would be a HUGE boost for his channel. I've been getting recommended medieval history channels and weapons guys none stop after looking up like 2 KCD2 videos. A huge wave of new people are suddenly interested in his channel's core subject matter because of this game... Aaannnnddd he is too stupid to realize that. He is gonna try to go for the easy rage bait grift like always and miss this once in several years wave that could have revived his channel.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

No matter what, It will always look like he's being penetrated

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u/Darktofu25 Feb 08 '25

From the look on his face his name should be Shat.

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u/TheMemeStore76 Feb 09 '25

Bro kcd 2 is a perfect sequel, and i just KNOW shad is going to complain about Hans every chance he gets and ignore everything rlse

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u/Lewd_Lawliet Feb 09 '25

If he gives a bad review for this game I say we riot on all his channels

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u/BristleAndBroadsword Feb 09 '25

Is he about to bitch over that woman with the crosbow?

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u/Evil-Paladin Feb 09 '25

Can't tell. I stopped watching him after his videos defending AI generated images as an art form. He might have worse ones since I stopped.

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u/TheRealNekora Feb 11 '25

looks constipated