Yes, you read that correctly. He presented an award on an online award show for the worst game of the year. Clutch your pearls preemptively: the nominees were 4 universally agreed on bad games. 
Did James make the decision about what games to have on here. It does not seem like it. BUT HE PRESENTED IT!
Oh yeah, this is somehow g*mergate, because we can't ever let the thing that happened over a decade ago die
This hurts bigly for all the 10 remaining fans of the 40+ year old who calls old games shitty poop farts
Should we even be complaining about this? Think of the dozens of extra views it might get from ResetERA referrals!
Thinking that it's dumb to complain about a shit game gettting a bad game award from a literally who tier youtuber? THAT'S A PADDLIN' 
Nobody would have known what a NES or Atari 2600 was without AVGN
I know none of them played it because nobody played it, this poster included.
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They view making fun of Dustborn as making fun of their r-slurred BIPOC friend.
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This angle is one I never considered lmao. They have the same vitriolic reaction since they are so attached to the idea, that insulting or attacking it is just as bad as doing it to the real thing
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Not liking and buying a game they like is literal genocide
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Tumblr was also gloating about bloodborne kart winning an award when the creator is trans as if that somehow owns this dumb award show
Chud award show: "We think mainstream award shows only give awards based on who the creators are. We want to award games we think are good and we don't care who made them so long as we liked the game itself"
Libs: "Ha! They gave an award to a trans creator! This somehow proves they're stupid and were lying about their intentions!"
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That was the Bloodborne Kart creator? I saw the chimpout on Twitter yesterday and was wondering who was that r-slur.
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New development
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they got called out for being a tard and have now gone private lol
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I'm surprised those guys haven't denounced him when he refused to watched the all female Ghost Busters.
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Theyre probably too young to know about that.
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They're definitely not. I think they just forgot he'd been canceled already so are admitting to having enjoyed him even when they shouldn't have. There will be trouble if anyone notices.
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This is a big zoomer thing. They discover an ancient controversy they were too young to know about and treat it like a shocking new reveal.
I remember a while back zoomers discovering old Howard Stern material and asking, without a shred of irony, "how has Howard Stern not been canceled yet?" Like they literally just had no idea that he was the devil of angry schoolmarms in the 90s, or that they had become the schoolmarms
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That was so long ago ResetEra didn't even exist. I'm sure NeoGAF did in spades tho. Lindsay Ellis sure tried to take a swing at him over it.
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How's Lindsay these days?
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Fat, divorced, childless and a published author of a male alien/female human romance novel putting up a veneer of being science fiction.
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I didn't know she was ever married. Who was her hubby?
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An aerospace engineer was what people thought. I feel like there was debate over if he was even real but I couldn't be sure. It's been ages since I kept tabs on her.
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Very interesting. I'll have to peruse the kiwi thread sometime.
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thats the only clip ive ever seen of this guy in this video...
2016 was so long ago it feels...
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Definitely, I thought he was widely known to be chud-adjacent.
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He's not "chud-adjacent", he's just too neurodivergent to know the "correct" opinions he should have.
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He has a wife and kids that he is devoted to. This is enough to be full on chud according to the particularly wacky ones
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Neurodivergentally devoted, mind you.
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That just explains why he's chud-adjacent.
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He's also not glued to social media at all times. The man just wants to spend time with his family and watch weird old horror movies
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Yeah, because he's neurodivergent.
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g*mergate mention
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In this day and age, in 2025!
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I wont be satisfied until it escalates into putting these people in camps.
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whydidyoumakemedothis.jpg
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I hadn't heard of Dustborn so I just looked up a gameplay video. I was hoping to say "it's a little preachy but not terrible."
It's worse. They essentially wrote down feelings and built a video game around it. It's absolute unenjoyable dog shit.
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It was made by a Norwegian dev team who wanted to make a game geared towards an American lib audienece. But due to cultural and language barriers, the nuancea of American liberal politics got lost and it led to a lot of saying the quiet part out loud.
My favorite example is that "Cancel" is a move meant to isolate enemies from their support network. Basically admitting that: yes, canceling is real; yes, it's targeted; and yes, they view it as a practical strategy. Which we all knew, but foreigners didn't realize that part of the strategy is pretending it's not real.
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Also the studio had a meltdown after Trump got elected the first time. He said he would spend hours consuming American news for some reason.
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they've probably been on suicide watch this past week
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!g*mers !ranchers !chuds !accelerationists does anyone knows how this Torbjorn Norwegian soyjak is doing now that Drumpf has won again?
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I googled. Hoping to find a funny soyjak. All I found was Overwatch + this very strange Stonetoss
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"triggering" yourself and "using groomercord"
it makes me wonder if this wasn't meant as a parody
#theleftcantgame
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Link to the video with time stamp
On a sidenote, has there ever been a thread on R-slurera where someone isn't banned?
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Probably a handful where the jannies preemptively close it because they're too lazy to janny that day.
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They're not lazy they're just so tired yall okay?
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Sometimes one of the
s makes a big post about how important 
s are or something equally vague and self-serving, and they get frick-all replies because no one cares.
I think they might be ban-free. A dozen-comment circle-jerk of
s doesn't give them enough to ban on.
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https://vidyagaemawards.com/ have been around since 2011
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Should've bashed that cringey Alex Jones game
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TIL, that came out. Completely forgot about it.
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Snapshots:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/angry-video-game-nerd-james-rolfe-finally-going-all-butt-out-on-g*mergate-game-awards.1090881/:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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