wake up mario, new hbomberguy video dropped

[@hammerfyll]

Around 2:56:00 and I think Somerton may have just unintentionally had a Freudian slip. He says if he was plagiarising, he would be called out all the time. Why would he be called out ALL the time? BECAUSE HE'S ALWAYS PLAGIARISING!

[@gRinchY-op5vr]

Which is sort of hilarious, because he WAS being accused all the time...he would just either hide the videos until he could edit them enough it was less obvious or set his fans on the people who noticed, whether they were the original creator or not.

[@theotv5522]

What's funny to me is Internet Historian's fans legit went through 5 stages of grief ever since this video dropped. Like they would go from "No he's not stealing anything" to "What he took was so obscure and small it can't be counted as plagiarism" to "But he added animations to it so it's transformative" and now finally reached the point of "Yeah we know. You're annoying. Sing a different song will you" And that's the ones who were capable of understanding plagiarism. Many still defending him saying he brought more attention to it by having it on his channel, so the guy who wrote that story should be proud it was stolen by IH! What the hell is wrong with his fans?

[@blapis-blazuli]

Judging by how okay several of them are with being antisemitic, I'd say there's a lot wrong there.

[@mbm_botw]

32:01 thank you for actually recognizing that, you're literally the only person i've found that mentions it at all fsr

[@kawaiiconcept7479]

glad I'm not the only one who likes to game while I listen to looong video essays. Good stuff glad to have found you fesh

[@higorgabriel2598]

4:02:30 that is, in fact, how you say kawaii, there are two i's for emphasis to show that the last syllable is the tonic one. Sorry just for nitpick, that was the one thing James said that was right and wasn't plagiarism lol

[@TheHeroOfMobius]

I listened to SleepyExtra13 react to this same video, and the way they described the ‘accident’ excuse as “Oops, I tripped and fell into some plagiarism!” made me smile and stuck with me afterwards. Hearing about your own experience with the StarCraft Wikipedia was really interesting too.

[@odorikakeru]

4:20:20 Ranma 1/2 is difficult one to pronounce because people just don’t agree. I used to call it “Ranma Half” and caught the ire of people who call it “Ranma One Half” (which seems to be what the official translation calls it). In Japan it’s called “Ranma 2-bun no 1” (らんま2分の1), which would literally translate to “Ranma 1 second” (as opposed to “1 third” or “1 fourth”), which doesn’t work in English thanks to “second” also being a unit of time. So the =official= official reading of the title in Japanese can never really be translated into English without losing nuance. I’d never heard of “Ranma One Two” before today, but I guess it’s as good as any other reading (if, and only if, you also accept that one quarter can also be read “One Four”).

[@GladiusTR]

Argh, you've just sent me back in time to my freshman High School years. Manga readers were RUTHLESS (I am one)

[@cocoelacanth]

the wikipedia story stuck with me. the fact that people were plagiarizing a wikipedia article and only fesh noticed because it contained an uncited edit he made is so fucking funny

[@toadfairy]

Thank you for reacting to the whole video (for some reason it seem rare for this vid) and as a person with an anxiety disoreder as well, stardew valley really is amazing, I also like darkest dungeon (seems anxiety - inducing, but it's pretty chill on the lowest difficulty, a lot of turn - based games are, but at the same time I genuenly cried when my high level charactr died, soooo...).

[@alphax-shroom6781]

Is it really that surprising that a video about plagiarism, where Hbomb himself considers reaction videos plagiarism , doesn't have many reaction vids on it.

[@toadfairy]

@@alphax-shroom6781, Hbomb doesn't consider reactions to be plagiarism and the aren't plagiarism BY DEFINITION, because nobody thinks that the person reacting made the video. And I you're talking about the joke about reaction streamers, Hbomberguy is actually friends with the guy he joked about, said guy even reacted to the video.

[@muhammadrifqi7308]

Where's the movie, James Somerton!? Where's our goddamn movie!?

[@digitaltoaster4956]

"The script is still being finalised!"

[@TheLeafcuter]

Tbh reaction content as a genre isn't all bad, like you say there are guidelines to follow that make the content of those video be the actual reaction as opposed to the movie or show they are reacting to. Either the thing you mentioned of the reactor not putting the video on and instead making you sync it up yourself, or how other channels do it where they edit out the dead air from their reactions and only show the parts they reacted to. Then there's also channels who do reaction videos as a segway to explain what is happening in the clips, like for example doctors who react to medical scenes and explain the accuracy, or battles and then explain the possible damage the characters were subjected to and what the recovery time would be. In general, "professional reacts to blank" videos are some of my favorites, as well as people who cut up their reactions to shows to give you the highlights of their thoughts. Generally that's where you'll find the effort, at least to me. If a reactor edited their video, I know they do it for the passion and not just for a quick buck.

[@TheLeafcuter]

Oh and of course stream reactions are a bit of an outlier/exception, since you can't really edit a stream as it's happening. I think what you said, that so long as the reaction in its entirety isn't uploaded as its own video and just stays a part of the archive, it's fine. Or if a person chooses to edit the segment, but remove dead air like other reactors do.

[@errrkt]

i grew up in anaheim. for the cost of a little bit more than 2 days entry into disneyland you could get annual passes. so for 2 years we spent a lot of time in disneyland lmao XD

[@GayFesh]

I'm in Seattle so I've only visited Disneyland a handful of times. If I lived down there I'd deffo have an annual pass.

[@errrkt]

​@@GayFesh for sure. it's definitely worth it for at least 1 year if you live in orange county. going for just a 1/2 day or sometimes just a few hour without feeling like you wasted money is one of the best parts of having the pass.

[@noah.1185]

i really like your commentary in this video. you add a valuable different perspective

[@TheIshakuro]

This showed up in my recs, and I ended up subscribing. I just wanted to say if you feel self-conscious enough about your imposter syndrome to worry about it, you're definitely self-aware enough to not be an imposter. I appreciate your open candour about this stuff.

[@Megaritz]

3:52:31 I was not expecting the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cameo when I first watched the hbomb video.

[@WerWer-gz5kk]

Would you be willing to react to hbomb's Pathologic video? Its the one vid of his that i really want to see reactions to but no one does it. Its basically a deep dive into a game that's amazing to experience but miserable to play, and he gets that across perfectly.

[@GayFesh]

I haven't played Pathologic myself, everything I've heard from everyone makes it sound like the exact kind of game I never want to play lol.

[@WerWer-gz5kk]

@GayFesh Yeah, that's why the video would be perfect for you. He goes through all the routes from the perspective of someone whos never played before and makes you experience the great parts of the game without having to play it. I always felt that video was perfect for reactions, especially from non-Pathologic players, so its sad that none exist.

[@fangirl258]

@@GayFesh would it help to know hmbomberguy himself says in the video he doesn't reccomend you actually play the game yourself? he made it because he wanted to share the game and discuss it with people who will not be able to play the original. i had never heard of pathologic before his video, and i have no plans on playing it, but i rewatch it regularly, and i think it would make a good reaction

[@kawaii33366]

I think you should have the video you're reacting to IN the title, to make it easier to search for. I think a lot of good content creatures watched this and started looking at their OWn content. Even if they're not stealing it could be a good wake up call of "What am I doing with my content and am I following tendances for just views and clicks? what is the purpose of the stuff im making" It shows an introspection. If other creators just immediately defend themselves its kind of a red flag. So I think its good a lot of people are lookin inward.

[@GayFesh]

honestly i wasn't intending to turn this into a segment or anything, i just wanted to watch it while doing a game stream that day but the vod has been doing really well in the algorithm ever since lol

[@kawaii33366]

@@GayFesh Ooh okay

[@digitaltoaster4956]

Way of the Goomba

[@RoyalFusilier]

Glad to have found your content through this reaction. You really add a lot to the stuff you respond to, even though I was a little worried initially seeing you were playing video games at the same time. Nah, you're cool. First half was especially fun, second half... I can't watch anything about James Somerton without getting unhealthy levels of mad. There's a reason the deepest part of hell is said to be reserved for traitors. People in a community that someone is claiming to represent and advocate for, really don't appreciate... Just any of that. Specific examples seem almost pointless. Although if I had to pick one thing that got me more than anything else, weaponizing the way chuds and freak reactionaries online *will* go after gay people (IH fans continue to prove they're normal on hbomb's original video to this day even though he was like a tiny fraction of it) and claiming that's what's happening when James gets rumbled for his scams and plagiarism, sicking his fans on accusers and victims, that's got to be pretty high up there. He made his entire community complicit the same way he did with his co-writer, kind of the James Special. Sincerely grateful I never heard of the guy before all this, hoping to forget his existence one day soon.

[@whym6438]

2:42:05 I THINK the face is the KZbinr Wendigoon's, not EJ.

[@Megaritz]

3:34:30 nice Documentary Hypothesis reference

[@Persun_McPersonson]

Yeah, James kind of lost his integrity in recent years.

[@oost_javeln]

I assume you're talking about James rolfe

[@Persun_McPersonson]

@@oost_javeln Yes, but the slight ambiguity makes it funny.

[@errrkt]

[@cobra29935]

Why wouldn't it be pronounced Ramna one and a half? Thats what 1/2 means

[@GayFesh]

because anime titles are weird! you know you don't pronounce the X in Hunter X Hunter?

[@cobra29935]

@@GayFesh I have been pronouncing x in hunter x hunter so damn I guess I have egg on my face

[@MattTOB618]

1/2 means "one half", not "one _and a_ half".

[@cobra29935]

@@MattTOB618 damn your right. i dont remember what i was AcTuAlLy'ing to but you're right.

[@OsefKincaid]

On Kevin Logan's stream of this there was the most obviously true thing I've ever seen, but I don't really see it anywhere else so I want to spread it around. A chatter figured out (in my opinion) why the Internet Historian's version of Man in Cave had an incorrect amount of pounds for the weight of the rock: if you put an amount of pounds into a ChatGPT type software (not ChatGPT, it wasn't available yet), it might think that you're talking about money and not weight. And so it might translate it to dollars, which in the months of 2022 when Man in Cave was made would have gone 27 => 33. Then Internet Historian reads the transcript back and sees that it's supposed to be pounds, not dollars, so he changes it back to pounds, but he doesn't check that the amount is wrong. It also explains why IH only did one plagiarism: because his intent wasn't to plagiarize, his intent was to troll, so he just put something in a ChatGPT software and thought it would be funny to pretend it's his video, and then the video got more popular than he anticipated and he got stuck with the situation. The pattern is dumb trolling, not plagiarism.

[@CarlPlichta-uu1rl]

Doing a plagiarism for the lols is still a plagiarism. He put it through chat gpt because he hoped that it’s rephrasing would cover up the plagarism

[@PatrickPerez-o1b]

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[@rudolfambrozenvtuber]

1:54:22 Tell me he hated it. Endgame fucking sucks.

[@GayFesh]

Nah he loved it lol

[@rudolfambrozenvtuber]

@@GayFesh damn

[@oost_javeln]

Endgame is flawed but it's not terrible

[@bananashoplifter3440]

Don't recommend channel :D