ROBLOX_OOF.mp3

What is the Roblox Oof? Where did the Roblox Oof come from? Who made the Roblox Oof? Where am I, Roblox Oof? Can you help me?
Guinness World Records: / hbomberguy
Dinosaur Statue Collection: / hbomb
Official Skateboard Sound Compilation: / hbomberguy
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:51 Messiah Is Weird (And Here's Why)
00:07:51 Tommy Tallarico
00:11:31 The Amico Disaster
00:18:06 Tommy Wants Money
00:29:46 The End (Normal People Stop Watching Here)
00:32:30 So, Who Really Made the Oof?
00:48:51 Tommy's Lies
01:00:24 So, About Those Guinness World Records
01:23:26 The Tallarico Event Horizon
01:35:22 Crime Time
01:43:57 Conclusion
01:54:28 Credits
Female Credit: Excavating Recognition for the Capcom Sound Team
by Andrew Lemon and Hillegonda C. Rietveld
openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/downl...
The Street Fighter Lady Invisibility and Gender in Game Composition
also by Andy Lemon and Hillegonda C Rietveld
todigra.org/index.php/todigra/...
References: docs.google.com/document/d/1G...
Music (will update with more when I escape from the pit):
"The Entertainer" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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[End credit music] "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Captions by: Kaylyn Saucedo

[@mikesanders8621]

I'm guessing that Tommy insists on referencing his "7 foot waterfall" in every interview because the waterfall is actually 6 feet and he's hoping people will think he's tall standing next to it.

[@PoisonFlower765]

LMAOO

[@IRFine]

That would be very in-character

[@Lucas-yu4bu]

That makes so much sense

[@Pineappolis]

Oh, that's brilliant.

[@dalgusmaximus4557]

That's a little too good for a guess.

[@MM-rc7zv]

"I was happily married to Shigeru Miyamoto for forty years."

[@nejdalej]

Are you sure it wasn't Joey who was actually married to Shigeru Miyamoto? 🤔

[@armenianrussian]

@@nejdalej IT'S ALWAYS JOEY

[@colebresnehen38]

“My mother *was* very proud”

[@affinitycrafts1068]

"**We** were happily married to Shigeru Miyamoto for forty years."

[@MM-rc7zv]

@@affinitycrafts1068 Ménage à Tallarico

[@roseevans4101]

Update: i saw on twitter a post from like, 2021 where a james bond fan account tweeted about the soundtrack to a james bond videogame. They specifically mentioned Tallerico studios. Tommy retweeted it saying “it was so fun to make this!” I went to IMDB for that specific game, and youll never guess in one billion years whose name was on the credit list for sound design It was JOEY

[@elevate07]

IT KEEPS HAPPENING! Is Joey a real person? Is Joey Tommy's alternate personality? Does Tommy take credit for Joey breathing?

[@squidsbizarreadventure]

WAIT would this have anything to do with that one time Dylan Mulvaney posted on Instagram with the James Bond theme and the audio is credited to Tommy Tallarico?!

[@AzureLlama]

I feel like whenever something gets miss attributed we should just say Joey made it.

[@KristenPeacock]

Poor Joey...

[@ewanb1086]

Was it the music because if that's the case there is a chance it actually was him

[@margottago]

April 2024 update: Tommy has been illegally selling sheet music for a song composed by someone else! Laura Intravia, a composer and vocalist who has worked on Destiny 2 and Mortal Kombat among other games, wrote a song for Video Games Live and performed a solo in it with the VGL orchestra in 2011. She never signed away any of the rights to this song to anyone, but now _someone_ is selling the sheet music for her song to other orchestras. Intravia hasn't ever named him, but has said "it's exactly who you think". It's worth noting that Tommy isn't the only scumbag here; when she pointed out to an orchestra who was playing her piece that it was stolen, they simply said "he gave us the rights to it, not our problem". But ya know, it's nice to know that the guy who founded the Game Audio Network Guild really does care about artists who create music for video games. Source: Laura Intravia's Twitter account, April 7 2024.

[@squidsbizarreadventure]

Oh my God he's STILL AT IT

[@AryaFairywren]

holy shit lmaooooooo

[@csrjjsmp]

It was Joey! It’s always Joey

[@barnab34st]

NAHHHH

[@MisterJackTheAttack]

"He gave us the rights, not our problem" Like, it is now if he never had the rights to give away! Now they are knowingly breaking copyright if Tommy couldn't legally give them the rights to perform it!

[@pleonazmodium]

"youtuber becomes an investigative journalist against their will" is my new favorite format

[@Lucifersfursona]

I wanna set up a little lemonade booth called “watch me burn” that people can view my content through

[@TheGalaxyWings]

I mean hbomberguy has made this type of content before

[@Dioxazine_Stars]

Same

[@sarahtonin6367]

God yes, this is absolute gold

[@FFKonoko]

​@@TheGalaxyWings"x is my new favourite y" does not mean that x is a new thing that hasn't been done before. It means that it has become their new favourite thing. That it being their favourite thing is the new change. The implication is that they have recently experienced a high quality x that made them interested in x as a whole.

[@Yamartim]

Notice how when he says "my mother is very proud" there's a clear omission of WHO the mother is proud of, he could easily add in "of me" at the end but he never does The only feasible conclusion is that his mother is actually proud of Joey Kuras

[@ConsarnitTokkori]

nice of tommy to notice this oopsie he used to do

[@CoqueiroLendario]

ITS AWAYS JOEY!

[@trooper9249]

Tommy's Batman villain origin is that his mother always preferred Joey over him.

[@Sugarman96]

That's the only reasonable conclusion. After watching the video, I'm also proud of Joey Kuras.

[@degiguess]

this feels like another plot point that would enter the video as a joke only to then lead into a sections where HBG lays out mountains of evidence that Tommy's mom is more proud of Joey than Tommy

[@spookymcspookerson]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: TONY IS SELLING HIS HOUSE, YES FOR A MEASELY 2,900,000 DOLLARS YOU TOO CAN OWN A SPIDERMAN ROOM, EGYPTIAN ROOM, AND INDIANA JONES ROOM ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

[@ccricers]

Can I own the Guinness world records too?

[@TrentR42]

​@@ccricersit's really easy to buy frames just like it

[@2old2steak]

If you were mega rich it might be worth it just to get on tv and have British tv hosts be disappointment with you.

[@2old2steak]

Interviewer: this is a crass misuse of wealth, and frankly the Indiana Jones statue isn't accurate to any of his movie appearances. Me: This waterfall makes me want to go pee haha.

[@_hank9508]

Finally someone else can enjoy having a 7 foot waterfall but it kinda sucks because at night sometimes they'll have to go to the bathroom. Their mother'll be very proud.

[@parknplay8328]

You know the coolest thing Joey Kuras did was not publicly coming out and saying "Hey no I made that". Because he doesn't care about clout. He puts what he works on in his official resume for potential employers and corrects people about mislabeling work he was officially credited for on the packaging. He isn't out here trying to look cool, he's just doing his job well and extremely professionally. Actual chad.

[@notsusan]

his mom is actually proud

[@ioele1000]

He should though. Since he knows the truth, he should put it out there or Tommy’s version will stand as the only “truth”.

[@parknplay8328]

​@@ioele1000 I just respect his professionalism to not care about chasing clout and only cared about continuing to do his job well

[@conork6743]

Lol

[@ccricers]

He doesn't even list Metroid Prime in his portfolio site since it's not that significant to him.

[@TheBattlesword]

Update for May 2023: Everyone at Intellivision has left Tommy, many of his fans have confessed or have been revealed to have been bought by Tommy through patreon donations, both his offices have shut down, and last I heard, he's being sued by an interior design company over unmade payments for the elaborate offices he requested. VGLive is still playing though.

[@mcj88]

Also someone redirected his website to this video, lmao

[@blakksheep736]

Pfffffffffffffft

[@raspberrytaegi]

HAHAHA thanks bud

[@culwin]

By "both" you mean all 5 of the offices they claimed. Also, they're being sued by a equipment finance company (not "interior design").

[@kattastic9999]

Of course he's still doing concerts

[@orestes0883]

To be fair, I don't believe that Tommy asked Roblox for $100 million. Not because I have any faith in Tommy being reasonable, but because that would mean the jackals at Roblox actually offered him $1 million, and I just don't believe that for a second.

[@ragnarockerbunny]

That Roblox wanted to underpay him is probably the only believable thing about that story, but at this point Tommy could tell me the sky is blue and I would need to check

[@midn8588]

Tbh 50k for a single sound effect seems quite generous to me, especially for something they probably remade in 30 seconds.

[@IDWpresents]

Note that what Tommy actually said was "at least 100 times", which means it easily could have been more

[@orestes0883]

@IDWpresents Good point, maybe he did ask for $100 mil then 🤣

[@edgarallenhoe3518]

@@IDWpresents true, but i wouldn't be surprised if that was an exaggeration as well

[@pikachucetthesecond4296]

I got into Gorillaz, a FICTIONAL BAND, recently and found out that THEY were on MTV Cribs, which somehow makes Tommy lying about being on MTV Cribs even funnier

[@donnerthereindeer366]

Ok I guess, Fellow Gorillazian

[@squibble08]

that is hilarious.

[@ichijofestival2576]

Oh, wow, that's a real thing. And for those too lazy to look (or unable, in the event it's taken down): it's not even a tour of an actual house of one of the members or anything; it's an entirely animated tour of a fictional... "lair" of sorts inhabited by said fictional band.

[@TheMinecraftMan757]

@@ichijofestival2576 NGL that's a cool episode idea

[@IanWatson]

1:47:55 Why the hell is Tommy crediting himself as Tommy V. Tallarico when we can see on court documents at 1:37:06 that his middle name is Andrew? Is Tommy claiming that his middle name is "Videogames"?

[@XanthinZarda]

Guess who's father was an uncreative hack when it came to naming his son?

[@TemmiePlays]

bc his middle name is two parts. Tommy Walter andrew Tallerico so can see why he has just change dit to V

[@mikafizz1022]

​@@TemmiePlays What?

[@culwin]

@@mikafizz1022 Attempt at a joke that his initials are T.W.A.T.

[@culwin]

His father is Thomas V. and the whole family was involved in Tommy's companies at times. So someone probably got the two names mixed up.

[@KorvasKell]

He repeated the "My mother's very proud" line so much that I legit thought there was gonna be a reveal that his mother actually hates him or something lmao

[@KalCounty]

I'd be shocked if she didn't

[@CaptainEffort]

Holy shit I think you’re onto something

[@vincentsinclair7749]

Probably why he lies so much about what he's accomplished lmao

[@nsf001-3]

Yeah. Very Freudian

[@anomaliecosmos]

I joke that he's cursed to say it every time he lies in exchange for nobody doing the basic research to disprove him. He's a warlock giving thanks to his patron- er, matron. (No shade on his mother irl, I don't know enough about her to judge, just- the repetition of that exact wording after primarily that particular lie does make me wonder if there's some nonmagical but still mental connection)

[@nicholasbostelman7761]

He's selling the house. I think we should crowdfund the $3 million price tag and turn it into a museum.

[@ZetsubenSama]

That would be amazing

[@gekigami1791]

Specifically a museum documenting every single falsehood he's ever spread about himself and his work

[@goldenmosquito4093]

2 dollars for each subscriber

[@pinklight]

"The Tommy Tallarico Museum" but when you go inside IT'S ACTUALLY THE JOEY KURAS MUSEUM

[@HyLion]

That would be an awful idea, because you see, whenever people would walk into the museum, they would hear the fountain and that would make them want to pee

[@neonal18]

Tommy’s use of “we” to mean “Joey” is like the darker counterpart to the royal “we.” The illegitimate “we.” The usurper “we.” The bastard “we.”

[@casperhansen7467]

Dont forget the french “oui”

[@einstein951]

​@@casperhansen7467non

[@blakksheep736]

​@@casperhansen7467 ye.

[@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj]

​@@casperhansen7467and the spanish si

[@lyndislegion287]

You heard about Singular They, Now get ready for Singular We

[@yaboyrobin]

better be careful, tommy will put this video on a list of things he's worked on.

[@KeroKero_Cola]

Underrated comment

[@MikeRaist]

I literally coughed up coffee laughing at this comment, lol.

[@Sera_AI]

Oof

[@pastaluvr5596]

"I got an award for longest KZbin videos ever made. My mother's very proud."

[@lukascook8477]

You guys crack me up 🤣

[@nejdalej]

Not gonna lie, finding out that Guinness World Records don't really report actual records is like finding out that Santa isn't real.

[@XanthinZarda]

You should see the props they pay to third world dictatorships. Turkmenistan, for example.

[@Lurdiak]

@@XanthinZarda Yeah that takes them from misleading publicitly outlet to sinister propaganda peddlers. Very nasty business.

[@henrynelson9301]

Exactly bro!!!!!

[@muizzsiddique]

They gave Minecrafters awards for building a bloody staircase.

[@StardustLegend]

@@Lurdiak if you watch the john oliver segment on them, you'd also know that they give Guinness world records to many autocrats and dictators allowing them to facilitate their cult of personality :D

[@BrowncoatFairy]

Here's a short list of some additional revelations that have surfaced since this video came out: - Although they share the same (real) last name, Tommy Tallarico and Steven Tyler are NOT cousins, and probably not related at all. He likely used the last name connection to convince Tyler and others they were, though. - Tommy does not play his guitar live in concert. He mimes to a pre-recorded track. - The "Oof" was not recorded by a child of one of Tommy's employees. It was actually sampled from an older source. - Tommy never worked on Sonic Black Knight. He merely stole credit for a song someone else wrote and performed.

[@danielarputharaj9918]

I knew about the first and the last thing, but damn, he doesn't even play the guitar live? I thought playing in VGL was like the one legitimate thing in his career - even then he was recently found illegally selling an arrangement from one of his composers that he didn't have the rights to - but you're telling me he didn't even play? Damn he's a liar through and through, I'm genuinely impressed, he's like Leonardo in Catch Me If You Can with the way he's gotten through life by lying about literally everything

[@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj]

So, is Steven Tyler really Steven Tallarico, or is Tommy actually Tommy Tyler? or is there a secret third last name

[@godofmediocrity7582]

Final point isn’t exactly accurate. He just didn’t create the arrangements for the songs he worked on, but he did still do the instrumentation and produced it. Not defending him in anyway because he did indeed steal credit and not deserve the credit he got, but he DID contribute to the game, even if it was in a malicious way, so it would be unfair to say he never worked on it. A worker who gets fired after a week for stealing money from the register still did work at the place, y’know?

[@from_no_where]

But he did at least _know_ Steven Tyler to some degree, right? He didn't just work on a game with him and then say "oh cool we have the last name, I can tell people we're related" surely??

[@BrowncoatFairy]

@@from_no_where the only pictures we have of them together are from one of those super expensive back stage pass meet and greet events. i can imagine Tommy buying a ticket to meet Steven Tyler, then convincing him they're cousins based on their shared last name.

[@hoodio]

the money guy saying "tommy wants money" in front of his boss has massive balls

[@katiemorison7969]

Pretty sure its Tommy saying it?

[@hoodio]

​@@katiemorison7969no, he even makes very clear gestures and tommy just stands trying to comprehend 13:05

[@eggsbox]

​@@katiemorison7969so proud of tommy tallarico for creating accountants

[@donkylefernandez4680]

It was said so nonchalantly and jokingly that it likely passed over his head if he wasn't having an internal panic attack from that comment

[@hoodio]

@@donkylefernandez4680 yeah he probably noticed it but didn't dare to react lol

[@jacklfitz]

Tommy is just a kid who never stopped saying his uncle worked for Nintendo

[@woodfur00]

But that would require consistency

[@yashanaku12]

The consistency is that he evolved it from "My uncle works at Nintendo" to "I work for Nintendo" to even "I single-handedly build and created Nintendo."

[@woodfur00]

@@yashanaku12 And every one of its games was my idea from the ground up. I conceived of the Mario franchise and designed every Pokémon except the ones you don't like

[@noizepusher7594]

He is the uncle that worked at Nintendo

[@dusklunistheumbreon]

@@yashanaku12 Give it a year and he'll say his last name *is* Nintendo

[@pantalonesdemuerto7960]

He wants us to think that he's the Elon Musk of video game sound effects. Unfortunately for him, he's merely the Elon Musk of video game sound effects.

[@LT.SeaGull]

Elon Musk (Derogatory)

[@T2002W]

In terms of shitty attitude, I suppose he is indeed the Elon Musk of video game sound effects.

[@Mariseaninikkou]

Oof

[@Sandux930]

He's the Yoko Ono of video games 😂

[@kozhedub]

This comment was so brilliant, I saw it earlier and just now repeated it to my roommate and felt compelled to come back and tell you how excellent it is. I hope Harris sees it lol

[@johnjohnbingbong]

Tommy was the sound director of my birth. All the baby crying noises, doctor chatter, and sounds from my parents were actually him. His mother (and mine) were extremely proud

[@Charlie-uf4ko]

Did he make the recording of her saying she was proud? So nice of him to help

[@supernintendo182]

Fun fact: When Tommy asked God for direction in designing the sound effects for OP's birth, He just told Tommy to "make stuff that sounds cool." In a first for God, he designed OP after the sound effects Tommy Tallarico provided when usually it would be the other way around. This makes Tommy Tallarico the God of the universe. Praise Tommy, for we are made in His image 🙏

[@ruthie8785]

I can’t believe every word I’ve ever said was actually dubbed over by Tommy!

[@talesfromthenuzlocke1619]

TURNS OUT HE STOLE THAT WATERFALL LINE FROM JOEY ON FRIENDS. ITS ALWAYS JOEY

[@TheStoenk]

"He even was on a British TV show where the presenter clearly hates his house" Me: "oh so he makes subtle backhanded compliments" Presenter: "This is absolutely hideous"

[@ClaudiaNW]

Less Guy Fieri, more Gordon Ramsey

[@dreammachine5435]

"children are starving and you've turned your house into a rainforest cafe. why tommy? why would you do this?"

[@botondhetyey159]

There is something about British people being angry, annoyed, or disappointed.

[@goutamboppana961]

@@botondhetyey159 lol

[@dstyKchp]

The there are people starving line hit me hard

[@TheDarthbinky]

Fun fact - Tommy doesn't even have a mother. Joey created him... it's always Joey...

[@Elpeligrito]

Joey's mother is very proud.

[@Nintentheheartless]

Tommy is actually Joey's Tyler Durden

[@Eboyleful]

I was honestly surprised that didn't come up. That and "Tommy V. Tallarico" -- I was half expecting a "by the way, we checked and his middle name is Kevin."

[@peterprime2140]

@@Eboyleful His middle name is apparently Andrew, so he is kind of lying about it.

[@KittyKatty999]

You mean Joey Drew from Bendy and The Ink Machine!? :O

[@SunflowerAspenPlays]

So it appears tommy may once again be making money off the backs of others. Time Extension has posted an article outlining the fact that composer Laura Intravia, who composed the 25th anniversary legend of zelda medley for tommy's video game live project, has hinted that tommy sold her sheet music to other unrelated orchestra shows, despite her never giving him the rights to do so. She even had a flute part in the medley that she played by herself, which has been transcribed by ear by the other orchestras. The end of the article even names hbomb as an individual who has investigated tommy before. Fucking incredible stuff here, really.

[@lorcan0c]

Ontop of being a composer, Laura's a phenominal vocalist. Any Destiny 2 players will recognise her as the main vocalist on tracks from Shadowkeep, The Witchqueen and especially Lightfall. She deserves a lot better than to be ripped off by Tommy like that.

[@wholenote1231]

she composed and orchestrated a lot of stuff for VGL actually! out of the 12 choral songs on the halifax setlist, i think she worked on a good 50% of them still, insanely disappointing that this happened. i'm not surprised in the slightest though

[@Alr-ci4tp]

As a (recovering) compulsive liar, I always just feel sad hearing about stories like this. I know he's narcissistic and doesn't need sympathy since he isn't that affected by any of this, but I can't help it. It's so easy to embellish something just a bit, or even to lie to someone when it won't be important, and then to have it spiral, until you've dug yourself into a hole that you can't get out of without ruining relationships. It seems like Tommy may have just started with boldfaced lies and doesn't feel guilty about it at all, but it's a large motivator for me to try and do better about my own habits. If anything, I'm glad we got the hilarious Tommy Tallarico meme out of it, and simply that.

[@devvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv]

lying is based, don't recover

[@sweetlittlenothing7696]

Im glad ur recovering ♡ sometimes that's what it's all about

[@ledzeppelinfan1001]

I love the duality LMAO

[@kososka]

Yeah, like I can just imagine the dread of having so many lies be found out at once, when I feel like crying if someone catches me in a small lie. Especailly when all od the lies are connected to each other and it all just crumbles. And like I don't really feel bad for Tommy 'cause he sucks but y'know.

[@dekumidoriya2928]

Yeah been there too, thankfully not to the same point as pur friend Tommy Tallarico, but it still got me trapped by my own lies, and was actually confronted for theme a few times I can now proudly say that i only lie in situations where i evaluate that the other person wouldn't as easily accept the truth over a lie, AND that said person isn't someone important to me, it's not much, but i came a long way, and hope you did/will too

[@heseipikmin6415]

I like to imagine this video plays in its entirety in Tallarico's nightmares, only for him to wake up in cold sweat, having to go to the bathroom from the sound of his 7ft. piss fountain.

[@looselytelling]

I can imagine Tommy getting totally wasted and pissing into his fountain

[@Lady8D]

I don't wanna imagine what other fluids are flowing thru that fountain 😂 Grab a sock or paper towel? Nah, fountain!

[@CheckmateFixit]

At least his mother is proud

[@cannedcoochiebread]

Which is actually an 6ft tall piss fountain.

[@First-to-last]

​@@cannedcoochiebreadwhich is actually a 5ft. 9in. Piss fountain

[@joeydecunha]

Disappointed that you weren't able to verify the claim that Tommy's mother is proud of him.

[@Catraaa]

So is Tommy

[@arturoaguilar6002]

Maybe he didn't want to risk stepping in another rabbit hole on how Tommy doesn't actually have a mother or something...

[@alexandercandicedad1355]

Based on his track record, that is probably something he WISHES was true

[@FrankMcFuzz1]

Safe guess no

[@cybersushi4930]

wouldn't be surprised if he lied about that too

[@morganl3980]

I know the "Mission Objective from God" thing in the thumbnail is from Messiah but I keep filling it in is as a second pert of the title "ROBLOX_OOF.MP3: Mission Objective from God" as if Hbomberguy received the mission to discover who made the oof sound from God Himself, or is at least equating it to something of the importance lol

[@FatherIimaginedyoutaller]

Hbomb: The Lord is teasing me like it teased Moses in the desert. Kat: *Tested*, Harris. God tested Moses in the desert

[@hockeygrrlmuse]

I.... didn't even realize that was a Messiah reference. I thought he was just being dramatic

[@pommybomber]

Hearing all this stuff about Metroid as an avid Nintendo fan just feels like pure bull because Miyamoto just handing over all the control to this guy when he's infamously known for making the most insane and cryptic requests in the industry to get what he wants. A popular story from Retro Studios is that Miyamoto said something along the line of "What if Samus had a bug head" to convey his desire for what would become the visor system. If you're working under Miyamoto he's not going to say "do whatever" and buzz off, he's going to come in and loudly talk seemingly random stuff over and over until you pick up his hints like he's an annoyed spouse trying to get you to take out the trash.

[@nettalie4435]

Say you wouldnt happen to know where one can read up on this, would you? Because that sounds fucking hilarious if its true

[@THEJPIndustry]

​@@nettalie4435describin samus vicor as big vision is the funniest thing I've heard today

[@Moji55a]

​@@nettalie4435"Wha happun Metroid Prime" by Matt Mcmuscles

[@ewanb1086]

This have giving me the thought of Miyamoto doing the fuckin "what if I put my Minecraft bed next to yours, jk unless?" And its making me lose oxygen at a rapid rate

[@danielarputharaj9918]

​@@nettalie4435I know a lot of about this from watching Arlo - Miyamoto is notorious for not wanting/liking story in video games (at least in his own design philosophy), since in his opinion gameplay is the most important and story can get in the way, which tbf has merit (thinking about cutscenes and stuff). However what this means is that he is known for making/influencing decisions which are sometimes not the most well received by fans, such as affecting the decision to move the Paper Mario away from the traditionally RPG and story elements that fans loved to focus more on the paper gimmick, which has led to some polarising games when the first 2 or 3 (depending on who you're talking to) are considered amazing games. Overall, he has a very strong idealogy when designing video games, which has its strengths but also can lead to some stubborn decisions.

[@ThorgisArcade]

One last little sprinkle to throw on top of all this. The joke Talarico keeps telling about his fountain and how it makes him have to use the bathroom? Yeah that's a joke from Friends. Joey got an apartment with a little waterfall fountain in there and he says the problem is it makes him have to use the bathroom. Even that joke is stolen... and ironically stolen from another Joey.

[@culwin]

I wonder if Joey's mother is very proud.

[@Brunosky_Inc]

IT'S ALWAYS JOEY!

[@wadespencer3623]

To be fair it's a simple enough joke he could have come up with it individually.

[@culwin]

@@wadespencer3623 True, it's the Carlos Mencia problem. Did he steal the joke? Or did he come up with the bad joke on his own?

[@Siyth]

this is actually insane LOL

[@vincent9413]

This man puts the “poser” in composer

[@AndyMush]

Incredibly under rated comment

[@Cam_Can_Play]

Bro. That is legendary. Your mother must be proud.

[@culwin]

@@AndyMush Thanks, we worked very hard on this comment that I made.

[@princejm448]

Com-Poser - Compromised poser (very stupid idea)

[@AndyMush]

@@culwin you mother must be very proud

[@oswaldfriedman7116]

If anyone is coming back to this video, hi, and I found an interview where Tommy says he’s good friends with Stan Lee. I guess they hung out together with Shigeru Miyamoto and Jamie Lee Curtis to talk about Micheal Jackson’s work on Sonic 3.

[@DaleEarnshark3]

I saw someone else comment it, so I'm plagiarizing it because it's true, but fuck he really is the Hulk Hogan of the video games industry, brother.

[@alice88wa]

​@@DaleEarnshark3 Wait I'm out of the loop, what's up with Hulk Hogan?

[@DaleEarnshark3]

@@alice88wa Well let me tell you something brother, Hogan these days has become infamous for his tales of fiction that he presents as fact in a similar manner to Tallirico. For every time Tommy has said he's the first American to work on Sonic, Hulk Hogan has said that he auditioned to play bass in Metallica. And that's just one of more infamous examples. I encourage you to go look up the Huckster's lies, but be warned that because of Hogan's Pathological lying people have actually made up Hogan lies (lieception) and they're plausible that he said them because the tall tales Hollywood has actually said are either mundane to the point where there's no reason to lie, easily disprovable (He claimed that Andre The Giant died 3 days after their match at Wrestlemania III, which was in 1987. Andre died in 1993), or are absolutely ridiculous (the aforementioned auditioning for Metallica story, auditioning for the Rolling Stones, claiming to have wrestled 400 days a year, and many more) That's what's been going on with Hogan for a while now.

[@nebufabu]

For me, the funniest part is still one where he thinks he invented a clever life hack, when in fact he confesses to a well-known kind of money laundering right in front of the feds. *Falsely confesses.*

[@trippwraze1509]

20 minutes into the video: “Oh, so Tommy lied about where the Oof sound came from.” An hour later: “Oh, so Tommy lied about…everything.”

[@ctographerm3285]

His mother is very proud

[@exotic1405]

Makes him want to piss at night

[@christopher6600]

@@ctographerm3285 At this point I don't even think Tommy *has* a mom.

[@Croatilillious]

@@christopher6600 i don't even think tommy pisses

[@ChimeraMK]

@@Croatilillious A man named Tommy Tallarico doesn't even exist in the gaming industry. The entity known as Tommy just one day appeared and demanded everyone to make stuff in games. The people could see through the creatures lies but were too scared to deny the strange figure its demands.

[@bobostudios3730]

By making this comment, I have contributed to this video. It was a joy working on this video with you. My mom is very proud.

[@renaokawa6199]

His mom is very proud that your mom is very proud. It gives her very proud feelings knowing that your mom ( who he is going to start claiming as his other mom as a result ) is proud that you ( him ) added a comment to this video and contributed ( and ended up making the video possible with this contribution )

[@Astrothunder_]

you have contributed nothing of value to this video... heres $100,000,000 for all that effort though (also you now have the right to sell some t shirts with this videos title on it)

[@pTheCrackerq]

By commenting on this comment, I helped create you who created this comment and in turn, this video. I am so proud of you my child and I will happily subscribe to this channel that you definitely made on your own with no help at all.

[@jurgnobs1308]

we are very proud that we contributed by writing that comment. our mums are very proud

[@ACUMA57]

Uh I can explain.

[@MallyMcAlli]

For passersby: Tommy Tallerico's house went up on the market today lmaooo

[@ND-nr6mx]

His mother is very proud.

[@sub_rapier]

Will be a hard sell with the 7 foot tall waterfall that makes you go to the bathroom at night

[@SkyFlame27]

That’s crazy 😂

[@None-Trick_Pony]

As of February, 2024, Tommy Tallarico's house (as seen on MTV's Cribs) is for sale. The property, as seen on MTV's Cribs, can be yours for the low, low price of $2,999,000. Which, for a mansion which you may have seen on MTV's hit show Cribs, is quite the bargain. Even if you end up not liking it, a mansion featured on MTV's Cribs would have quite the resale value. I'm sure you could very easily flip a mansion seen on MTV's Cribs for a profit your mother would be proud of with little to no effort.

[@EddyMexico_]

We'd buy it. The rocketship has been built, we just need a little more fuel.

[@XanthinZarda]

@@EddyMexico_ I'd not only buy it, I'd foreclose on the property and have the entire house fumigated!

[@HorseEater]

The only problem with it is that the 7 foot waterfall makes you need to pee

[@animeotaku307]

@@HorseEaterYou can remove the fountain.

[@ccricers]

@@HorseEater It may not even be 7 feet tall. He probably exaggerates it to hide his short height.

[@bigbutt5647]

tommy talarico is the type of name you scream into the sky while violently shaking your fists

[@goldenmosquito4093]

*doofenshmirtz voice* curse you tommy talerico!!!!

[@girlmeat-beth]

Dan VS. Tommy Tallerico

[@Ultima2343]

Old man yells at Tallarico

[@MYLAR.]

falling to your knees and letting out the most guttural scream imaginable

[@alexjewett7455]

*TALLARIICOOO!!!* oh, that is fun.

[@korhonenmikko]

"The Dalai Lama liked my video game music" is an insanely funny claim to make.

[@pikachucetthesecond4296]

It's made even funnier by the fact it was a wax statue of the Dalai Lama

[@ididntknowtheyhadwifiinhell]

to be fair, the Dalai Lama got suckered into working with NXIVM. i know the Tommy version was bullshit, but we may be giving the Dalai Lama too much credit regardless

[@nsf001-3]

"Weird flex, but okay"

[@Hysteria98]

"So here's that time I gave the Pope Undertale"...

[@BarioIDL]

"the pope liked my game(and its) music" is a claim a person can make

[@DrMintster]

I still can't believe Tommy was the first American. What an inspiration.

[@cheshirecat888]

His mother is so proud

[@SickegalAlien]

​@@cheshirecat888 Logically speaking, his mother wasn't American.

[@tumescent]

The "Primordial American" they call him

[@qstionblomens6138]

@@SickegalAlien That’s why she’s so proud ☺️

[@gulfcoastgaming6034]

I can’t believe Tommy Tallarico was the world’s first hedgehog

[@bear0702]

after everything that was discussed in this video, I think the funniest bit is the fact that Tommy keeps his prized GWR plaques ON THE FLOOR. he clearly cares about them enough to pay for fudged records, but he doesn't even hang them up on the wall. this has to be because people/cameras don't get too close of a look if they are not at eye level. what a fascinating man

[@alice88wa]

Someone also pointed out there is a broken light behind him in the video where he discusses the oof compensation ratio. And I'm not trying to get all armchair Freud here but have to wonder it that points to the fact once the public eye is no longer on something he doesn't actually care about. He didn't pay for the world records to have the record, he did it for attention so of course he ultimately doesn't actually give a shit about the award. If a thing is not bringing his attention it's not worth his energy. But yeah I found that so weird and hilarious. Like you're being filmed bro do you really think this is appropriate and looks good with your world records all stacked on the floor? Nah, it looks trashy and sloppy. Strange strange man.

[@SnowyFoxFox]

I'm a composer, and I used to admire and look up to Tommy Tallarico as this immensely prolific, successful, respected name within the mainstream game audio sphere. In all likelihood, all he actually did was probably to compose the soundtracks of a few games that struck big success - primarily Earthworm Jim - and then to spend the rest of his career spinning publicity and taking credit for the work of others. And it boggles my mind, because when he _did_ just knuckle down and make music, he made damn good music. He could have stuck to that and had a wildly successful career without telling a single lie. But no. Making good music is hard. And lying is easy. Absolute slimeball.

[@thegoodgeneral]

I’ve known it for years, somehow. When you compare Tallarico with Mitsuda, Uematsu, and Shimomura, something doesn’t add up.

[@SnowyFoxFox]

​@@thegoodgeneral The lack of humility - the constant bragging and bigging oneself up. People who've worked hard for what they have generally don't do that. For people like Tallarico, the bragging IS the work. If I'd known him for more than just his work at Shiny and for that one Video Games Live show I'd been to, and kept more of an eye on his more recent "work," I expect I probably would've smelt something off too.

[@thegoodgeneral]

@@SnowyFoxFox “the bragging is the work.” Very well said!

[@Nin5egAta]

He did compose EJ1 but not EJ2.

[@giwake]

@@Nin5egAta Not even EWJ1! Mark Miller did the music for 1.

[@nicholasgerry8247]

I half expected him to debunk his mother being proud of him before the end of it

[@megancress1384]

"For this next section I had Kat call Tommy's mother who agreed on an interview"

[@thatdude337]

​@@megancress1384"He is my greatest disappointment." -Mother Tallarico, probably

[@Cebollas]

assuming he didn't lie about having a mother

[@BeyondBlue22]

@@Cebollas Motherless behavior

[@ashikjaman1940]

​@@Cebollas is his name even Tommy?

[@nicolashadler]

"Talarico" in Brazilian Portuguese is a man who aims for women who are already in a relationship, just like our Tallarico aims for other people's achievements. It's almost poetic.

[@liberpolo5540]

The icing on the cake...!

[@certainperson]

Nominative determinism is fucking real.

[@ThiagoMoura18]

also known as "fura olho"

[@MrNuclearz]

Dude I was thinking this the entire video lol

[@fjr4205]

This is incredible

[@JackSiesko-li5ow]

Do you want to know something hilarious? The guy in the Doom mask who pops up in this video a view times has since seen this, and even he could only react with "wtf Tommy why would you just blatantly make stuff up like this?"

[@aud7593]

yeah honestly I saw a small part of his react video (or i guess when he shows his friends, I think in the video o saw he has already seen it), and he's taking this in incredibly good humour. very much like "you gotta see this, isn't it FUCKED 😃"

[@antonymilne1346]

Y'know what, good on him, its not easy to reconcile with the fact someone you look up to blatantly lies to your face, especially if someone poked fun at you in a video exposing that. Being able to turn around and go "wtf is with this guy" is honestly commendable

[@josephgroeblinghoff4122]

"I linked their essays, which I heavly plagiarized, in the description" Harris, you clever boy! You were already foreshadowing your next video a year in advance.

[@squibble08]

those arent videos btw fwiw i think telling people verbatim "hey by the way this section is basically just these 2 essays go read those" directly and openly is very clear

[@josephgroeblinghoff4122]

@@squibble08 damn you right. I'm not proud of that. Thanks for the clarification

[@rebelprincess1164]

I promise you the “My mother’s very proud” line got a laugh once decades ago and he’s been chasing that high ever since.

[@Whiteythereaper]

I imagine it would have been funny once, like 20-25 years ago when Video Games were still seen as this whole "For Kids, waste of time" thing and not a real job that makes serious amounts of money. You could tell someone you're an audio engineer and music producer for VIDEO GAMES at a time when the only actual publicly well known audio producers were likely Dr. Dre and Nile Rodgers, with the face of the music being the artist instead of the producer being the big name like back in the 50s and 60s, and it would have been an embarrassing admission to some and brought questions of how much money there is in making sounds for kids' games. If you follow up the "yes I make sound for games" with "and yes my mother is very proud that I work on this waste of time aimed at kids" seems like it would illicit a laugh as a self burn from those who share that view that games were stupid.

[@phillystevesteak6982]

Oh boy, so he forgot about the context that made his joke work in the first place and just get repeating it after said context became irrelevant... @@Whiteythereaper

[@RubyBlueUwU]

@@Whiteythereaperyeah it’s wild to be making a “games are stupid” to people who care so much about video game production that they care what this absolute nobody has done and has to say solely because he’s seen as a video game production icon. Who do you think you’re talking to, Tommy?

[@ziyair2998]

My theory about this (and the "the waterfall makes me have to pee" line) is that Tommy believes that if he tells a story, or says a lie, the exact same way every time, it makes it more believable

[@bram7723]

I promise you that SOMEONE ELSE heard him talk about his "record" and then said 'your mother must be very proud lol' and Tommy uses it every time he can in an attempt to make it seem like his own joke

[@_hyva_]

A few days ago, it was discovered that Tommy Tallarico's work on Sonic and the Black Knight is 100% stolen. He’s namely credited for the songs, "The Cauldron," which is a rearrangement of the 10th track in the ost for the PC game, Adrenix, "Molten Mine," which is a rearrangement of the song "Action Theme" from the ost for the PS1/SEGA Saturn game, Black Dawn, and "Great Megalith," which is a rearrangement of the 6th track in the ost for the same game. All three of these songs were composed by Todd Dennis, who worked at Tommy Tallarico studios when composing for those games. Tommy was credited as the composer for all three of these songs, with the arrangements coming from Sonic Team veteran, Jun Senoue. Tommy Tallarico had no part in creating any of the music for Sonic and the Black Knight. His studio owns the music that was arranged into these three songs, so thankfully it’s not an instance of plagiarism, but it's another example of Tommy Tallarico claiming credit for something he didn't do. He didn't just claim to be the first American to work on Sonic despite only working on Black Knight, he claimed this despite never working on Black Knight, or any Sonic game, at all.

[@samuelbarber6177]

At this point I’m starting to doubt whether he ever worked on any video-games whatsoever. Or even that his name is Tommy.

[@_hyva_]

@@samuelbarber6177 Or if he has a mother. Or if he uses a bathroom. Or if Tommy wants money. Or if he's the first ever American. You can't trust anything he says anymore.

[@toe_sucker_4165]

God, it's so Tallaricover

[@tigaliyt]

I love that OST and like these songs, I was wondering who I should give credit to. Talk about a whacky story, eh.

[@littlefieryone2825]

Thanks Sonic, we can always trust you.

[@briangronberg6507]

15:31 Hearing someone unironically say “Social Justice Warrior” makes me feel nostalgic. As for pwning noobs, that’s about as “how do you do, fellow kids?” as it gets.

[@ethanstute8414]

Now Tommy is selling his house. You can own the famous house as featured on MTV's Cribs, complete with a waterfall to piss in during the middle of the night!

[@MynameisG.]

His mother is very proud

[@KippyDemo]

If Hbomb ever makes his own website for whatever reason, he should make a section titled "helicopters I've piloted" full of pictures of helicopters with his face poorly photoshopped in the cockpits

[@SkyKidShyKid]

PLEASE.

[@kouusa]

Or himself AS the helicopter!

[@hyperstormx3194]

Bonus points if at least some of them are on fire

[@thewinter_]

he does have a website and god damn those pictures should be there

[@jimstantinople]

It's 7 pictures of the same 2 helicopters but from different angles

[@tinyetoile5503]

At this point I'm honestly convinced that Joey is the actual owner of that house and he just lets Tommy live in it out of pity

[@asuka_the_void_witch]

rofl

[@leoleandro2605]

Oof

[@culwin]

Tommy doesn't even exist, and Joey just created his persona as an elaborate social experiment.

[@emememememememememe]

@@culwin tommythick

[@chrispythemostfriedchicken6010]

@@asuka_the_void_witch Rolf(ox)

[@KacyK16]

On Tommy's Wikipedia page it literally says "Years active: 1991-2022" This video literally ended his career 💀 Also apparently the Amico was named after Tommy's mom "D'Amico" I hope she is very proud.

[@some-fan]

hbomberguy roasted tommy in every single way possible 💀

[@dandycandyhearts]

1:34:46 I'd even argue that Tommy wasn't the first American to kiss Sonic on his little mouth. That was Lucy Chabert in 06

[@XanthinZarda]

Not even close! Sonic CD had the entire OST redone.

[@masonasaro2118]

​@@XanthinZardalacy chabert (the original voice of meg griffin) played Elise.

[@stevbe1723]

About halfway through, I was so ready to write anything Tommy said off as a lie, that when the joke of "My mum is very proud" came up repeatedly, I was almost convinced it was setting up the reveal that Tommy doesn't have a mother

[@DigitalAnima]

"It all started on the day of my actual birth. Both my parents failed to show up." Tommy Tallarico, close friend of the Dalai Lama.

[@dm121984]

Or his mum has disowned him.

[@PAJAMALAND]

TOMMY WANTS MUMMY

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche4303]

​@@DigitalAnima "my parents died before I was born"

[@josephsmrc8588]

mommy issues being the root cause of tommy's narcissism would be so perfectly on the nose

[@bonesofanidol]

Update: Tommy's mother saw this video and she's no longer proud of him

[@cybercop0083]

She came around, after Tommy worked on an additional one trillion games

[@Conceissa]

@@cybercop0083 And he worked hand in hand with his mother, because TOMMY WANTS MOMMY!

[@janstefanisin320]

I would be kinda surprised if he ever had a mother.

[@antagonizingprotagonist8721]

Best comment lol

[@paolo2763]

"You're so grounded young man!"

[@diabreadstick]

I'm starting to think he named it Tommy Tallerico Studios so that when he says "he" made it, he can point to the credits that list his company, which is literally just his name

[@masonasaro2118]

That is ABSOLUTELY what he did

[@MarioFan587YT]

At the end of the day, the saddest part of all this is that Tommy could have really had the prestige and reputation he pretends he already has. He has done considerable amounts of work for the video game industry. He organizes concerts. If he had been honest about his accolades and respected the other people who have also done work instead of taking the credit, he could actually be an industry icon. He *could have* been the guy who people look up to, as a musician and creator who respects the work of others he's had ties to. Instead, he chose to lie about connections that don't exist, connections that were much smaller than he claimed. He does have a profile. But instead of being the video game giant he wants you to believe, he'll only be known as a fraudster and a criminal. If he had handled the Amico and the oof sound situations better, maybe none of this stuff would have been needed to be known in the first place. He could have been a reasonable guy, a real "veritable industry icon", but he chose to lie and swindle, and attack for money.

[@XanthinZarda]

He "organizes" concerts. He mimes to a backing track and pretends to be a rockstar rockabilly. He doesn't have any real accolades to speak of because prior work kicks his claims from Socal to Toledo.

[@MarioFan587YT]

Isn't that something. Even less going for him than I thought. I think it'd be fine for him to act that way during a performance, but if he's not really playing?

[@XanthinZarda]

@@MarioFan587YT People have compared the AV from different concerts. Not only is he a bad mime, but it's the same music each time.

[@MarioFan587YT]

I guess I'll have to retract what I said then. Maybe Tommy was just never setup to be a great guy. How shameful.

[@TheSporeCell]

Deducting points from Tommy Tallarico Studios because he didnt name his company Tallari Co.

[@yeethittter1285]

Man can't even NAME shit right. Embarrasing

[@ppom]

Awesome, I'm taking points off for the fact that he's Tommy fucking Tallarico

[@TheSporeCell]

@@ppom Fair

[@SlothTalismanHater]

He's at 2.5/10 rn

[@connorambrosino1741]

Yeah, but then his full name wouldn't be front and center and we know the owner of 7 different Guiness world records whos been on MTV cribs multiple times can't have that. No siree.

[@JacobHillSBD]

I can’t believe that Tommy Tallerico was the first American! His mother must be very proud.

[@AlashiaTuol]

Plot twist: she's actually very proud of Joey

[@Officewaffle]

I can't believe tommy was the first person

[@Patodeagua213]

@@AlashiaTuol plot twist twist: tommy tallarico mother is instaed joey mother

[@jc_art_]

​@@Patodeagua213joey is tommys father, and has been all along

[@DevilTheIdiot]

@@Officewaffle can't believe Tommy invented gravity

[@hamburgerlover9825]

There is something so funny about Tommy referring to compressing and EQ'ing the effect as "doing a bunch of crazy stuff to it" as if compression and EQ aren't the very basic, fundamental level of audio processing

[@aerrowqueing]

And even something like "pitch shifting" is really not that advanced. Like, it's still a creative endeavour and good sound design is good sound design (even if it were simple), but he really tried to make the process of editing a little voice adlib like he was doing some crazy spectral post-processing magic

[@fbrown9861]

it's insane how much detail he went into about the editing + recording of a sound that probably took 5 minutes tops. like, does anyone actually believe that producing a

[@hello_alpine1693]

It basically gives up the ghost right away that he doesn't do jack shit in terms of actual audio engineering, no actual professional in the field would call it "crazy stuff". It's probably the most boring possible part of any recording process

[@hamburgerlover9825]

@@hello_alpine1693 exactly. he describes it as if the oof sound effect reinvented the wheel for video game fx recording

[@2heartgirl524]

Hey so I’m a huge lifetime Spider-Man fan and couldn’t help but notice Tommy’s themed room! I caught a lie he told in the video that granted not many people would catch as I just coincidentally own the hard to make out random item that he talks about. I started out this comment writing a brief explanation of how Tommy got his information wrong… but in-between writing my comment I looked up a tour video of just this one room and this guy is so full of fucking shit it would take another two hour video to explain why Steve Ditko’s family should send a hitman after him. HBomb I personally understand now the feeling that coursed through you to make this video. I just wanted to give out one trivia fact like what the fuck.

[@XanthinZarda]

Good news! His Spider-Man and other various rooms are probably bereft of furniture and holdings.

[@alice88wa]

PLEASE tell us more! I would love to read your ranting about stuff I know norhing about 😁

[@ToozdaysChild]

At this point I don't even believe Tommy's mother has ever been proud of him.

[@lindseyclair921]

++++

[@JFast-si8xu]

You still believe Tommy has mother. I don't

[@danni3387]

The important question is: does he even sometimes have to pee in the middle of the night?

[@tilly3702]

His name probably isnt even Tommy

[@merrittanimation7721]

Is he even human?!

[@GrumpMcDump]

I can't believe Tommy invented video games just so he can make music for them. His mother must be very proud.

[@burntrobot4850]

Such a talented man!

[@jamesphillips3584]

I've heard his mother is very proud tbf

[@NA-AN]

A veritable video game icon I’m sure.

[@PandaXs1]

not just video games, he invented the TV so that there could be a device to play games on.

[@danielchick1]

He didn't invent the internet though, because offline gaming is obviously superior

[@AlehzeySpidwagonovich]

The funniest thing about all that, is that Tommy took action only when internet tracked down where the sound come from, Tommy himself didn't recognise the sound, hell, that was probably the first time he heard that sound

[@robyn051]

It was absolutely his first time hearing it

[@XanthinZarda]

Update in Cosmic Irony: Atari has bought the Intellivision brand and properties. Except the Amico. I imagine that about sums things up nicely.

[@coffee115]

Oh he's done. Cooked.

[@XanthinZarda]

@@coffee115 I'm waiting for him to get bookended by Amur Furniture.

[@fuzzymurdermittens]

Kat is too powerful. This episode she predicted a Ted Talk ego trip and got a guy stripped of his Guinness World Record. Fear her.

[@brendanm132]

*TedX Talk

[@kesorangutan6170]

No they both did it and by "they" I meant only Kat.

[@therealavolpe]

Kat already knew about the TedX Talk; she didn't "predict" it.. ;-)

[@eliasmg9144]

@@therealavolpe no no, they knew, and by "they" I mean only kat did

[@hamfranky]

HBomberguy actually holds the Guiness World Record on 'The person who's worked on the longest KZbin documentary about an inconsequential subject' (his mother is very proud).

[@SimplyJustRed]

Still, she won't let him into the garage. A truly tragic story.

[@martinn.6082]

This 7 foot video makes me wanna pee at night (oddly enough)

[@abysmalist4761]

pyro did an 8 hour review of a British series no one watched

[@RalseiGaming]

@@abysmalist4761 my grandpa watched it and that’s probably the only other person to

[@MsCunningLinguistic]

This makes him a stark contrast to Brian David Gilbert, whose mother describes HIS video game videos as putting "a lot of research into things that really have very little meaning".

[@plcthelegacy4131]

"The Dalai Lama is a fan of my music." Ah yes, famous and well known Gamer, the Dalai Lama.

[@finneasmoore]

I’m a young composer in LA and omg that last part of the video describes uncannily accurately the film music industry. Composers are kings of the peasants who make the music, not the makers of the music

[@Melissa-tw2gp]

That’s why Danny Elfman is my sworn enemy.

[@TheOfficialPSI]

That meme from a few years ago of "______ been real quiet since this dropped" Was made for this video. Tommy has been practically hiding underground in Antarctica since this video came out. Which is good, because there aren't any waterfalls in Antarctica, so at least he doesn't spend as much time in the bathroom anymore.

[@burtonfzz]

I can understand how much damage he might have done, but this story is so unreal so I kept thinking to myself that maybe he has some kind of untreated medical condition or something? The scale of lying is on such absurd level so it overwhelming. On the other hand he is not the first man on earth who behaves like that, isn’t he? Maybe there is an anthropological or social or biological reason for behaving like that? Like some Cuckoo bird laying their eggs in other species nests or something like that? I can’t understand that and try to find SOME KIND of rational explanation because I can’t wrap my head around this story and my mind can’t figure out how is that even possible.

[@gsqussy]

@@burtonfzz its just textbook narcissism.

[@hibye-ht1fr]

​@@burtonfzzRich people with no meaningful life or achievements need to feel something you know

[@burtonfzz]

@@hibye-ht1fr I don't know, seems like even without his lies he achieved a lot for my taste. He is a musician, a composer, performed with orchestra his music, his music was used in games, he worked with great people a (I hope) helped them in some way to achieve their goals and (I hope) helped to create great games people like. Without lies, he looks like a professional in a field and many companies should want to work with him like they want with other musicians, composers, etc etc. One of the first concerning things - is an extremely expensive house and a Ferrari (maybe rented for a video, maybe he had bought it). He created a level of life that is hard to maintain even if you are a high-paid professional. I don't know, some things just didn't sum up in my mind and don't fit in a "simple" explanation. And I know that some medical conditions exist, which can be psychological or physiological in nature. Maybe I am wrong, but I try to understand this for myself first, and I have no clear explanation and that is part of my own research of why people do injustice and "bad" things in the first place. For some reason I don't do this thing, I don't steal, but I know that there are people who do that, I don't harm other people, but I know that there are people who feel fine doing that and I try to understand what move people to do harmful things because I don't do it for some reason, so there must be a reason who some people do? Or we all should fall into nihilism and stop caring? I don't know =(

[@christophergraffam3552]

Fun fact, Antarctica has a five-story tall waterfall called Blood Falls due to the water being filled with iron oxide. I realize that this is somewhat beside the point, but I just think it’s a neat bit of trivia.

[@DeLisi.]

So just an update since its been over a year since this video has been live: Tommy has been M.I.A ever since this dropped. Literally. Not a tweet. Not an interview. Nothing. Complete silence. Gone with the wind. Absolute insane levels of dissappearance. Anyways, congratulations on this massive W, HBG!

[@Dequ011]

You can see that he tried to hide tweets that mention this video. I'm 100% sure he knows he's fucked

[@DeLisi.]

@Dequ011 that's kind of amazing honestly.

[@pichi__]

wow

[@ThaisWeiller]

I came back here today looking for some info like that. Thank you for that!

[@abystrous]

Intellivision also just announced they’re not ever selling the Amico lol, lmao

[@hissern6114]

I regret googling 40% cops. Pretending I don't live in a dystopia now.

[@PosterityIslesNews]

apparently that statistic is false, more like 25%

[@mycophobia]

@@PosterityIslesNews well. that's a relief

[@TheRetron8]

You know, I was actually the first American to watch this video. True story. No need to look into it further.

[@halfhalf622]

That's true. This is easily fact-checkable stuff, so there's no need to research it further. Nobody would tell such an obvious lie like that.

[@directorscarlett1932]

Your mother must be proud

[@simpaticoviolento]

This has to be a Guiness's world record for most watched video on youtube ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᵀᵒᵐᵐʸ ᵀᵃˡᵃʳᶦᶜᵒ

[@coingamerthysecond]

Now THAT'S a record!

[@simpaticoviolento]

His mother is very eager for him to move out :) @@coingamerthysecond

[@PlasticChaser]

2 million views!!! That's right you heard me!! 18 million views!!!!

[@frightenedsoul]

@@PlasticChaserI can’t believe it has 200 million views!

[@jordanyoussefzadehclementi9417]

@@PlasticChaser700000 people outside the host server I'm sure Harris's mother is very proud.

[@Anrif_OnlyHueman]

I love how we all know Tommy DEFINITELY watched this.

[@DavidvanDeijk]

I hope tommy will help alexander find his bookmark back

[@mjcrom]

I keep checking the comments waiting for him to show up.

[@durzio9630]

Come on and comment Tommy, you know you want to

[@crowboi4124]

@@DavidvanDeijk Tommy T. redemption arc???

[@umartdagnir]

I am waiting for him to leave an angry comment.

[@burningbluejay2868]

'Tommy is claiming he got better attendance than the Olympics, and can fold space" LMAO

[@zaksaturday1693]

By the end of this video you half expect Joey's mother to be pulled on screen and say "I am not, in fact, very proud"

[@lyndislegion287]

"Does Tommy even have a mother???" *"Part 7:"*

[@GoldenTerrabyte]

Why is Tommy Tallarico the same genre of guy as Butch Hartman

[@ryanbarham8464]

It's the fundamental Christianity. EDIT: Also, the Amico bears an uncanny resemblance to Oaxis...

[@stuffandstuff6682]

Oh my god I had this exact thought too

[@tsg_frank5829]

It's fraud genetics, it's like they're born with it

[@formbi]

and Todd Togers (he even had a Guinness World Record too)

[@WhatWouldJohnSay93]

Thankss the while time i thought that he reminded me If some other a hole and now i know wich one!!

[@Patch-lz9yi]

"I'll just watch a small bit of this again" I thought, fully aware that I'd rewatch the whole thing again.

[@bitnev]

Same. Again.

[@ND-nr6mx]

When the whole spaghetti turns out to be one long noodle.

[@alexjewett7455]

Always.

[@buttlet2226]

Me with the Plagarism Video, 19 times.

[@lyndislegion287]

It's currently 1am and I still have an hour runtime left help

[@AstraVex]

Moral of the story: _Real artists don't need to brag about what they didn't make. Instead they just get on with making great stuff and make their mothers _*_genuinely_*_ proud._ I'm giving Tommy a 2.5/10.

[@lucasgaudio3720]

Update: as of 2024 the Amico has released to thunderous success, surpassing ps5, xbox and nintendo by 7billion%. It has recently announced their new exclusive line up wich is as follows: God of War Ragnarok 2 attack of the clones, Halo 7 vs leonard part 6, Smash bros 1 remaster and Call of duty Fart warfare.

[@therealsmalk]

I'd play Halo 7 vs Leonard Part 6 honestly.

[@emilystewart6175]

I bet Tommy's mother is very proud of that

[@fauxrowsdower7610]

dude im playing Baldur’s Gate FOUR on Tommy Tallaricos amico right now! its amazing, theres a battlepass now

[@minkshaming]

bro i can't wait to hop on Call of duty Fart warfare

[@donkylefernandez4680]

Smash 64 Remastered would go hard

[@MegTR197]

So I realized something very funny about the whole "worked with Miyamoto for 5 years" lie just to compound on the lies. I thought 5 years sounded a bit much for Metroid Prime because I remember hearing that Retro Studios went into crunch time to get the game out so I happened to check the development time frame and the WHOLE game took four years. So he's exaggerating not only how long he worked on the game, HE EXAGGERATED SO MUCH IT WENT PAST THE TOTAL DEVELOPMENT PERIOD. That also led to a really funny Wikipedia deep dive where I found in an IGN article that Miyamoto said, "As a matter of fact, we were about to present Metroid Prime to the Space World 2001 show, but it doesn't yet have good enough sound effects..." If I'm looking at the timeline right, that's around the time Tommy Tallerico Studios left. So not only did Tommy supposedly worked hand in hand with a guy who reportedly did not like Metroid, not only did he work with him LONGER than the total development period for the whole game, MIYAMOTO DIDN'T EVEN THINK HIS SOUND EFFECTS WERE GOOD ENOUGH. I'm dying, I can't with this.

[@armenianrussian]

HIS MOTHER MAY BE PROUD, BUT MIYAMOTO DEFINITELY WASNT

[@ccricers]

He did this time-twisting shit a lot when promoting the Intellivision Amico. Every time he talked of Intellivision of the early 80's, he always says "we" like he was with the company originally. Intellivision wasn't even a company back then- it was the product made by Mattel. Tommy was pretending he was involved when he was 10-11 years old.

[@snaifhassnan6348]

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[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 it would be funny if it wasnt terrible

[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

This comment cites its sources better than the half of the stuff in HBG's next video! Edit: I already commented on this comment and then forgot about it. I was wrong. It's both funny and terrible

[@Omegan01]

1:00:16 "But it turns out, if something is easy to check NO ONE ACTUALLY DOES" Boy coming back to this line after the last few days felt like a sock in the jaw.

[@GlitchToph]

Why? Edit: Oh, yeah, gotta watch his new video. Good time to do it

[@maxonmendel5757]

what happened?

[@GlitchToph]

@@maxonmendel5757 HBomberguy released this past week a 4-hour vídeo on plagiarism which touches on many similar themes to the ones exposed here

[@Jacob6443]

@@maxonmendel5757 His latest video about Plagerism shows how it easy it is to check of someone is stealing someone else's content.

[@maxonmendel5757]

@@Jacob6443 whats content?

[@snoupster]

The insane thing of this video is upon rewatching that the cribs thing was very clearly telegraphed from the beginning and the video was so long that i genuinely forgot and was shocked when it wasn't MTV cribs

[@phoenixsplash135]

Fun fact - The Amico still isn't out and the company has anounced they dont have enough money to make it

[@elevate07]

JUST 2 MILLION MORE DOLLARS! IT'S ON THE LAUNCH PAD READY TO LAUNCH, IT JUST NEEDS MORE MONEY!

[@blakksheep736]

Didn't it "come out" as a weird-ass tangle of phone apps, instead of the console they have been teasing about for several years?

[@robyn051]

It never existed. There are a couple people claiming it does exist and is coming out soon because you can play the games for it now on other consoles but what they (and this video) fail to mention is that just about every single game announced for this “console” is just a rerelease of a game from the 70s and 80s

[@robyn051]

@@blakksheep736 no. Many of the games “did” but as I pointed out in my comment directly above the comment I’m typing now all the games for it are games from the 70s and 80s rereleased

[@blakksheep736]

@@robyn051 thought there was a slopes video on it. And not the first one.

[@DanteGaidenOfficial]

If you think about it, the entire universe can technically be split into “inside the bird nest stadium” and “outside the bird nest stadium”

[@Pineappolis]

...unless you've no-clipped into the exterior wall - then it's something of a grey area. Seriously, though, I got a genuine laugh out of this comment, which is impressive when, fundamentally, it's just an elegantly written statement of fact.

[@blakksheep736]

​@@Pineappolis given that your eyes would be pressed directly into concrete, it might be both a metaphorical and literal grey area.

[@Pineappolis]

@@blakksheep736 I’d love to say that I’m witty enough for that to have been my intent all along but, nah, that’s all you. Between us, I’d say we managed a pretty darn solid piece of admittedly very off-kilter comedy, though.

[@blakksheep736]

@@Pineappolis and I'd agree.

[@Splinter-ge9pf]

You can also say that considering Earth is round, there's a very high chance all humans on Earth looked at a point that'd lead them straight to the Nest stadium while they were performing. In conclusion: everyone was watching the Nest, and by proxy, their show

[@repuffinate]

another great moral from this video is PROTECT THE WAYBACK MACHINE AT ALL COSTS

[@speed0spank]

Seriously!

[@FortuitousOwl]

So true, any internet archive is so valuable!

[@mingledingle1556]

:(

[@kakyoindonut3213]

@@FortuitousOwl it's sad that we'll probably won't have that in the future because of greeeeed

[@Kas_Styles]

THIS!

[@roseevans4101]

Tommy stole one major idea from his beloved spouse miyamoto. He learned how to say Wii, when he actually meant U

[@MartianMeli]

SCREAMING

[@ayathedoggo]

💀🤌

[@caskettsolo7925]

Phrases that live rent free in my mind from this video: " Tommy wants MONEEEEYYY!" "It's Joey, it's always Joey!" "My mother is very proud" " First American to work on Sonic"

[@TheGamingCathedral]

Legit, I was at the grocery store about a week ago and the cashier's name tag said Tommy. I've never struggled so hard to not say something.

[@caskettsolo7925]

@@TheGamingCathedral Imagine if you'd said " Tommy wants MONEEEYYY" while paying him

[@Whatlander]

This was genuinely _wild_ to watch. So proud that I made this video all by myself.

[@NoJusticeMTG]

I hope your mother's very proud

[@-Nihilus-]

*We* worked on this video

[@namewarvergeben]

So, I met the Dalai Lama in London. He likes my videos

[@anemicunicorn1923]

One of the first Americans to work on this video too

[@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008]

Dude you did a really good job too. Very well researched!

[@SeannyOg]

We're very sorry that hbomberguy's video resulted in us removing one of Tommy's records. As compensation we would like to present him with the "Person Whose Mom Is Most Proud Of Him" Guinness World Record. Which we totally verified. Honest.

[@sexybabemagnetminato]

she was probably proud of Joey

[@cephaleaorion4888]

"scouts honor"

[@BenGras]

“Person who has had most records invalidated”

[@arcticcircle9178]

@@BenGras Nah, I think that honor belongs to Todgers. Tommy "My mom is very proud" Tallarico is probably in the running though.

[@thabigleftcheek2469]

Tod Todgers??

[@zawarshahnigmachangeling7274]

UPDATE: intellivision has been acquired by Atari! Tommy mustve been severely hurting for money....his mother must be very peoud..

[@real.slimsadie]

if i remember correctly he was bragging about having a monstrous amount of credit he was willing to use for the amico, i think he must’ve used it all and now he’s in debt lol

[@sodapunk9816]

This video has insane rewatchability because tommy lied about so many things I don’t remember most of them and they’re a surprise on second and third time watches lmao

[@andythedishwasher1117]

If we paid Guinness enough, do you think they would give Tommy a record for Most Prolific Liar About Video Game Sound Effects And Music?

[@KateCat420]

I want this to happen so badly

[@AwesomeFreakMadd]

crowdfund this. i've got ten dollars 😆

[@andythedishwasher1117]

@@AwesomeFreakMadd If there is interest, I may just do that!

[@whatdontyoufuckingunderstand]

as long as he and todd howard fight over who gets it

[@AwesomeFreakMadd]

@@andythedishwasher1117 😆

[@andrewkuder4159]

Tommy Tallarico is literally the Butch Hartman of video games. Huge ego, lying about or exaggerating his role in the industry, a failed crowdfunding campaign, the list goes on.

[@TaxEvasionUS]

Kinda looks like him too

[@HappehMasterChannel]

Reminds me of Derek Savage in appearance and attitude

[@Chudpope]

@@TaxEvasionUS Have we ever actually confirmed they're two different people? I've never seen them together in the same room...

[@marcelkirch6805]

They sound kinda similar

[@setheus]

He also reminds me of the director of Escape From Tomorrow, Randy Moore, especially the whole repeating his One Funny Phrase every interview

[@refactorear]

Tommy is selling his house. You got 3m? You can now own a house that was featured in "Cribs" twice!

[@00r0ry]

Randome thought during the umptenth time I watch this video: I don't think the Amico console was actually meant to not have online play for the reason Tommy says. I'm pretty cnvinced that they couldn't figure out how to do it and how to manage servers and online support for it and actually allocate money for that, so they tried to pass this huge problem as an intended feature. It's something Tommy would totally do.

[@robyn051]

It likely never existed. Every single game for it is a rerelease of a game form the 70s and 80s and as his presumed CFO said, “Tommy wants money”