Oh, it already fell. Last time it went rapidly from far over 5k to somewhere mid 3,7k. Seems like he doesn't give much fucks anymore.
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The Spoony Experiment
- Thread starter Shard
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Does Counter Monkey count as a VLog? I wouldn't mind more of those, honestly... Tend to be entertaining.
I thought those videos were just Spoony sitting in front of a camera for an hour talking about D&D. I don't really watch them since I don't care about D&D.
Pretty much, but for anyone with a passing interest in D&D, they're really good watches. Easy to produce, I guess.
Maybe he just wants to start his day job as a programmer again (I guess, since he studied CS) and stop all this silly "review" business. It can be hard to go back to a normal life after such an experience. Kick the bucket, becoming clean, leading a normal responsible life.
We should encourage him, not tempt him to back to his old way of living.
It's what I enjoyed the most along with Ultima and FF XIII. It was very amazing for roleplaying fans. And some stories were, well, complete stories. Do yourself a favour and listen to Thieves World amazing story.
Maybe he just wants to live an easy life & post shit on twitter all day.
I mean, he might as well. Wouldn't make any difference for most of us older fans.
It obviously making him a lot less money though. His patreon is racing down.
Man, it's sad to see it turn out like this. Spoony has been my favorite content creator for a couple of years, but he has really slowed his content output since the second half of 2014 and soon the whole of 2015.
It's a shame because the Patreon could give him more of an incentive to make more frequent and well produced content. It also makes me a little pissed off because other content creators would kill for the same amount of cash that he made for a while on Patreon and they are working their asses off, yet Spoony has clearly betrayed the trust of many people by now.
I've been a patron of Lazy Game Reviews for a little over a year now. He's putting out weekly reviews as well as other stuff. Not saying that Spoony should do weekly reviews, but the patreon had so much potential that was wasted and now it seems even the most hardcore patrons are starting to jump off the train.
Again, it's just kind of depressing to see it coming to this.
It's a shame because the Patreon could give him more of an incentive to make more frequent and well produced content. It also makes me a little pissed off because other content creators would kill for the same amount of cash that he made for a while on Patreon and they are working their asses off, yet Spoony has clearly betrayed the trust of many people by now.
I've been a patron of Lazy Game Reviews for a little over a year now. He's putting out weekly reviews as well as other stuff. Not saying that Spoony should do weekly reviews, but the patreon had so much potential that was wasted and now it seems even the most hardcore patrons are starting to jump off the train.
Again, it's just kind of depressing to see it coming to this.
I actually like hearing his D&D stories, but I'd really like to see some more of his older kind of stuff videos. I was a huge fan years back of Spoony, and I still rewatch his Highlander reviews and stuff like Phantasmagoria and Ripper stuff every now and then.
Kinda sucks that I don't visit his site that often anymore. If I had known that he was coming to FL beforehand, I might have driven out to that coast to get a handshake.
edit: I used to like hearing him talk about wrestling, too. I got tired of that, though.
Kinda sucks that I don't visit his site that often anymore. If I had known that he was coming to FL beforehand, I might have driven out to that coast to get a handshake.
edit: I used to like hearing him talk about wrestling, too. I got tired of that, though.
Yeah, I back Every Frame a Painting he does one all 1-2 months, but the quality is constantly high and he is paid per video, not per month.
Spoony should make separate Patreons for Wrestling, Countermonkey, Lets Play and Game Reviews and set it per video. He could see what is backed up by people's money and everyone would get their money worth.
Yeah, they are also live playthroughs not scripted like Phantasmagoria was. I guess this is what he likes doing at the moment since he is pretty active.
toddhunter
Member
Just wanted to bump this thread to say how disappointing it is that Spoony doesn't make videos any more and his Ultima stuff was great and ...
Boom Counter Monkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a78wGV5ANw
Boom Counter Monkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a78wGV5ANw
Another one from the same convention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR-56AZPuKA
Very entertaining, but I gotta say, I like Counter Monkey more when people aren't talking in the background. Really, annoying.
Very entertaining, but I gotta say, I like Counter Monkey more when people aren't talking in the background. Really, annoying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFdq66ZE2yQ
Spoony has updated, WITH AN ACTUAL VIDEO! Reburary 2016 starts right now!
Spoony has updated, WITH AN ACTUAL VIDEO! Reburary 2016 starts right now!
Probably because he has been gone for a year.
Pantaghana
Member
You want to see YouTube comments?
I feel like people who say this don't actually read YT comments that are upvoted, and sometimes I like to comment myself.
The "all YT comments are terrible" thing has become more annoying than any YT comment I've read recently.
He seems to take them a lot more personally than other YouTubers do, and gets annoyed when people call him out on the lack of content.
Decent enough video, though. I wish he'd review a game again.
Jawmuncher
Member
Amazing that he came back at all. I thought he gave it up. Hoping for a game soon as well.
Jawmuncher
Member
Still wondering how long it takes to render a review. FF13-2 must still be processing.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Because it's mostly wierdoes ranting about his donations.
To be fair, if you're getting $5k a month in fan donations, it's probably a good idea to put out some content.
Down to under $2.4k now, although I'm confused as to why it isn't much, much lower.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Stuff like that tends to be chiefly interesting to people who haven't donated anything who dislike the concept of donations.
BumblebeeCody
Member
YES!
toddhunter
Member
If Spoony worked at a reliable pace, he might also be the kind of guy who made boring videos.
People are who they are.
He wasn't boring when he made videos at a more reliable pace. You know, before the Patreon.
toddhunter
Member
You mean like five years before?
I thinlk this is a new video, Spoony Riffs - Hallmark Safety Training Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-izug6Ras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-izug6Ras
s_mirage
Member
Could be wrong, but I have a feeling that it isn't. It seems dimly familiar.
As opposed to virtually no videos? The Patreon was the worst thing that could have happened to Spoony in terms of productivity, and I say this as someone who can be kind of lazy/disorganized. If I was getting several thousand dollars a month to do little other than livestream myself playing video games, I doubt it would light a fire under my ass to get anything else done. Why put in the hard work when you can just cruise but still make a reasonable amount?
TheChillyAcademic
Member
No its an old upload, from way back when lol
AHA-Lambda
Member
Yeah I remember the good old days when I would actually get excited that Spoony had put out a new video.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Remember when Spoony reviewed stuff
good times
good times
Ben Morales
Member
Yeah those were the days... He tweets like a fiend though! Jeez... Like, I stopped following him a while ago but when this topic gets bumped I like to peek at it and it's madness.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I wonder if he manages to get an April Fools video out at least lol.