Feedback: Insults, Compliments, and Cosplay

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Welcome back to Feedback of the Week. The (supposedly) weekly segment here at ShufflingDead where we reflect on some of the best input our beloved friends and admirers have sent our way. Remember, you can use our handy contact page to insult us with the vain hope of getting featured here, or you could comment anywhere at all on the site our our YouTube channel.

First up, from our Sonic the Hedgehog Review – Bonanza 2 video, RacerX1111 responds to my admittance that I made a mistake regarding Mario 3‘s save functionality:

thats true people do make mistakes. im sure your parents talk about that every morning

That’s spectacular, I have no witty reply. Moving on, I will introduce A2Nesk. This YouTuber took the effort to reply to our Jumper: Griffin’s Story Review with:

for some reason you guys are cool

The secret is simple: we’re chill people. While others worry about things like lighting, scripting, and production quality, we at ShufflingDead take a more relaxed approach to content production.

Finally this week, I would like to reflect on the words of alien53XF13Nd. This commenter had something to say about our Animethon 16 (2009) Cosplay video:

Cosplay it what makes me hate every anime convention…these kidz are lame as fuck and have no lives…I love anime with all my heart im pretty cool with everyone i pretty much know and have met throughout my life preps,jocks,popular kids,etc….But i will never understand these kids they give anime a bad name….

“alien53XF13Nd,” creative expression takes many forms. While some enjoy celebrating their pop culture favourites by dressing up as and emulating the characters they love, others prefer to mangle the English language and spew text uncontrollably across the internet with near-illiterate precision. It takes all kinds.

Feedback of the Week: TheRealNightBlader with “Asshats and Sonic”

Following last week’s rousing video from Wingsong5555 we’ve got another YouTube special from an especially dedicated hater.

TheRealNightBlader decided to take our infamous Sonic the Hedgehog review, and caption it with his own “epinions.” Mr. Blader feels that my name, that being Newbs, is quite appropriate, and that my declaration of Sonic’s “suck” was devastating. For no discernible reason he also felt our “epinions” were invalid. Damn!

Feedback of the Week: Wingsong5555 responds to our Sonic review

The above video is the greatest production in the history of YouTube. It’s the raw emotional response of Wingsong5555 to the infamous SDGR review of Sonic the Hedgehog. Her video joins the ten pages worth of NeoGAF hate we received for the production.

Feedback of the Week: Worst reviews EVER

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Any regular visitor to this site knows that once, long ago, we did a couple Sonic reviews, posted them on YouTube, and got a lot of hate for them. In fact, those reviews are probably going to be the major source of feedback for Feedback of the Week for awhile to come.

When, as a person in the broader video game culture, do you know you’ve made it? The answer has become, simply, NeoGAF. GAF is a huge gaming forum on the internet, and probably the most famous and influential. When someone created a thread dedicated to those famous Sonic videos on NeoGAF, I felt a swell of pride.

Viewer Guybrush Threepwood proclaimed:

These guys make me want to break something.

The thread he made for us was titled “Worst reviews EVER.”

Feedback of the Week: What kind of fail are you, Marnax?

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Hating Sonic has earned Shufflingdead’s videos a great deal of attention. Children, seduced by Sega’s furry mascot, have been known to make video responses in a futile attempt to counter our flawless arguments.

Viewer MASTERFOXZ proclaimed:

What kind of fail are you, MASTERFOXZ? Are you sitting in your basement right now, as a slightly older child, still harbouring a deep hatred of Marnax? Do you play Sonic, and find that a throbbing, dull kind of aching anger still creeps up on you while you mull that line of mine, “this game sucks”?