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H.Bomberguy (Web Video)

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H.Bomberguy (Web Video)	comment	Harry Brewis, known online as "H.Bomberguy", is a YouTuber known for his videos about left-wing politics and its intersections with media (usually videogames).HBomb grew into prominence after a series of videos mocking the strained development of The Sarkeesian Effect, the infamously bad documentary made by YouTube reactionaries. During the early days of his success, Hbomb was one of the few big, truly leftist channels at a time where right-wingers and reactionaries ruled the platform. Since then, he has helped carve out a space for other leftist creators to grow and take prominence, like ContraPoints, Philosophy Tube, Shaun, and Sarah Z.These days, HBomb's videos can be divided into three different categories: His political videos, which usually involve him giving a "Measured Response" to either a single or multiple videos from right-wing reactionaries on a general topic, while making a greater point on the topic itself. His media analysis videos, which are usually his longest videos (sometimes being feature-length), where Hbomb analyses various games, films, and television shows, which is made all the more interesting by Hbomb's somewhat controversial taste in media. His gag videos, including his Serious Lore Analysis videos, where he gives a Dark Souls-like reading to the lore of games like Sonic and Mario; they often veer off into David Lynch-esque surreality, where the lines between serious analysis, bizarre comedy, and mind-fuckery are intentionally blurred.As is the case with ContraPoints, humor plays a vital part of HBomb's videos, but whereas Contra has a dark and highly polished sense of humor, Hbomb's humor is more goofy, with a strong streak of Stylistic Suck. He also often streams with his friends, Shaun and Jen, another big channel in left-wing YouTube.In January 2019, he was recognised by a motion in Scottish parliament, for a 58-hour charity stream which ended up raising a massive sum of money for Mermaids, a British charity supporting transgender and gender-nonconforming children. He is the first streamer to be so honoured.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_117aea3a	comment	Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: invoked His Pathologic video, in which he discusses how incredibly painful and suffering-inducing the gameplay is and how that reinforces the narrative, leading to an experience that is very interesting to learn about, but very hard to actually enjoy firsthand.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: Invoked. One of his main points in "WOKE BRANDS" is that the controversies surrounding progressive-leaning ads work as more effective advertisements for companies than the ads themselves. According to Hbomb, the strategy is for a company to create a progressive/left-leaning/"woke" ad or ad campaign, thus encouraging a backlash to it from people who won't like it. However, this then creates a backlash to the backlash, resulting in things ultimately ending in a better spot for the company. Essentially, Hbomb argues that a brand being "woke" is a company pulling a Batman Gambit, because they know that people just can't resist complaining about such ads.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: In The War on Christmas: A Measured Response, Hbomb focuses on a right-wing pundit named Paul Joseph Watson complaining that the word "Christmas" isn't used anymore in Tesco, which Watson argued is evidence of people trying to erase Christmas. Watson focuses on packaging for Christmas crackers at a Tesco, using a photo that Watson himself had taken. However, in Watson's photo of the aforesaid crackers, some of them had "Merry Christmas" written on the wrapper. A Twitter thread about the offending photo also had a screenshot of Tesco's website that mentions Christmas by name. What's worse, this Twitter thread with these contradictions was shown live on-air while Watson was speaking about it, forcing the camera to awkwardly fade back into Watson to avoid his own Twitter feed contradicting him any further.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You: The Halcyon Dreams video ends with the conclusion that we are much closer to the forgotten Rick Dyer than the beloved Don Bluth.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_151e2f2d	comment	The Tyson Zone: Played With. In "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3", Hbomb reaches the point late in the video where he can no longer tell whether one of Tommy Tallarico's outrageous statementsnote When someone in an AtariAge thread mentioned the Dalai Lama, Tommy claimed to have met him, and as evidence produced a badly-photoshopped image of Tommy standing next to the Madame Tussauds wax sculpture of the Dalai Lama◊ is a lie or a joke. Harry calls this "The Tallarico Event Horizon" because all of the Blatant Lies that Tallarico has told means even when Tallarico is telling the truth, Harry just can't take him at his word.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_16dda55f	type	Simple Solution Won't Work
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_16dda55f	comment	Simple Solution Won't Work: In "Climate Denial: A Measured Response", he plays a clip of Ben Shapiro suggesting that, if climate change does indeed result in rising sea levels flooding coastlines, the people who live there would "just sell their homes and move". Smash Cut to Harry hacking his way through a wall in a "Here's Johnny!" Homage to demand to know who's gonna buy their homes in this scenario. And then for good measure a quick rundown of many other problems climate change will cause, making "just move somewhere else" a highly impractical suggestion.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: His Serious Lore Analysis 3 video frequently cuts between him critiquing Ctrl+Alt+Del and a horror film in which he is chased through a forest by a masked killer with an axe. His Soy Boys: A Measured Response video suddenly turns into an escape story half way through. What makes this particularly hilarious is that none of it is even commented on in the slightest. One minute, we see him in his room and the next, he's cuffed to a pipe in a garage somewhere and he continues his lecture on soy as if nothing is amiss.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_17a45ff5	comment	In his video The Golden One: A Measured Response, Harry mistakes tigers as being from Africa.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: In his video The Golden One: A Measured Response, Harry mistakes tigers as being from Africa. Played for Laughs with his Running Gag about horses not existing.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_197486d3	type	Creator's Pet
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_197486d3	comment	Creator's Pet: One of his criticisms of Sherlock is that the story tends to revolve around Holmes a bit too much. Yes, he is the protagonist, but he gets so much focus that most of the other characters end up being underdeveloped by comparison. invoked
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: How Hbomb presents the Brexit referendum in Electionwatch 2017. David Cameron called the referendum because he wanted to avoid losing votes to far-right parties, and his plan succeeded, because the far right took over his own party instead.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1ae27a74	comment	Fridge Horror: invoked One of the most common ways to obtain more ammo in Deus Ex: Human Revolution is to take other people's weapons. Harry finds/jokes that this has morbid implications when combined with the severe restrictions on how much ammo the player finds in those guns.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Like Contra, Hbomb often uses other left-leaning Youtubers as cameos in his videos. Dan Olson from Folding Ideas has an on screen appearance in Pick Up Artistry: A Measured Response, where he talks about his attempt to infiltrate a Roosh V meet-up (which ended up with him being the only one there). The composer of the music for the third Ctl+Alt+Dlt video, Patricia Taxxon (before she came out as trans) also has a role as the voice of the masked axe-wielder. Brian David Gilbert reads for (and later visually appears as) Andrew Wakefield in "Vaccines and Autism", then again in "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" as Terry Keegan. Hbomb himself pops up in, among other things, a couple of Jimquisition episodes (once doing a minor joke as a Call-Back to "The Sarkeesian Effect: A Measured Response", one in a more serious role reading out a testimony on lootbox gambling addiction) and doing the "X Seasons Earlier/Later" bits on Lindsay Ellis's "Last of the Game of Thrones Hot Takes".
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1b67dbfc	type	Love to Hate
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1b67dbfc	comment	Love to Hate: Holds this opinion of Pathologic's prickly prick himself, Daniil Dankovsky. Dankovsky's a jackass who refuses to see the town as anything but a backwater place that deserves a torching, his head inflated to dangerous sizes, and Hbomb loves him for that. In the actual story, Dankovsky is a much more sympathetic character than Hbomb makes him out to be, from his overly idealistic but noble goal to cure death to the fact that he evacuates the town before he orders it to be shelled, because he doesn't want to kill the civilians, he wants to cleanse the earth to get rid of the plague. invoked
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1b7b5b91	type	Santa Clausmas
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1b7b5b91	comment	Santa Clausmas: Discussed in the video The War on Christmas: A Measured Response. It's noted that Christmas is still widely celebrated in the UK, despite more people there identifying as irreligious or atheist than Christian, simply because it's such a huge part of British culture. And as a result, the diversity in Christmas ads is not some nefarious plot to defame Christianity, it's just an accurate reflection of what British Christmases look like.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: Discussed with the Guinness Book of World Records' business practices. Hbomb mentions that it's already believed in pop culture that the bulk of their records consist of very narrow things, seemingly mentioning this fact just as a joke.note Hbomberguy provides as an example "Most Baseball Bats Broken in a Minute", a record so silly that he's initially able to pass it off as one he just made up. However, as Hbomberguy points out, this is actually how they make their money: selling increasingly specific records to anyone who is willing to pay for their services, and generating the publicity needed to promote the achievement. This practice is thrown into sharp relief when Tommy Tallarico's record for "Most Videogames Worked On in a Lifetime" is called into question; Guinness' response is not to give the record to the actual record holder, but to recategorize Tommy's record to something even more narrow to ensure that Tallarico still has the record he paid for. What's notable is that even with Guinness cooking the books in Tommy's favor, his "records" are still dubious at best. Hbomberguy's producer Kat Lo asking some very basic questions about one of these records gets it purged from the Guinness World Records database, presumably out of embarrassment that they didn't bother to check if Tallarico even held the records that he claimed he did. Played for Laughs at the end of his Deus Ex: Human Revolution video. He briefly considers it as "the second worst game ever made"... out of a list of four games total: Deus Ex and Fallout: New Vegas precede it, and Fallout 3 follows it.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_200fbcd8	type	Snicket Warning Label
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_200fbcd8	comment	Snicket Warning Label: About 30 minutes into "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3", the question of where the eponymous sound effect actually came from has been answered, and Harry tells the viewers that the video is over and they can click away now. "invokedDon't look at the run time. D— don't worry about it." This chapter of the video is called "The End (Normal People Stop Watching Here)" even though the video as a whole is nearly two hours long. After about a minute of "just chilling out", Harry decides that the "normal people" have now left and starts talking about the fact that Tommy Tallarico has explicitly taken credit for the "oof" sound and claimed it was "for" Roblox (both of which had at this point been established as false) and the rabbit hole this took Harry down about Tommy taking credit for other people's work, which takes up the rest of the video. "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" pulls the exact same gag, this time at roughly an hour and 50 minutes in. After spending that time discussing plagiarism on YouTube, going into what forms it takes, why a YouTuber would do such a thing, the effects it has, how the plagiarists in question try to defend themselves, and so on, Harry declares that he's "ready to reach some kind of conclusion; just invokeddon't touch the screen or move the mouse or-" before resigning himself to the fact that, especially after the "Roblox OOF" video, there's no way the viewer hasn't already seen the video's runtime and caught onto the fact that there's more going on.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: In his climate change denial video:
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_235cc5a3	type	Delusion Conclusion
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_235cc5a3	comment	invoked Delusion Conclusion: Discussed during Sherlock is Garbage, in which (among other things) he tackles the infamous Apple Tree Yard theory. Here, fans disappointed in the third and final episode of the concluding season came to believe that there was actually a hidden fourth episode in which it would be revealed that everything that had happened in "The Final Problem" was a dream or a fiction - and went to absolutely bewildering lengths to prove that it would be arriving soon, even insisting that The BBC thriller Apple Tree Yard had to be a cover for the Grand Finale of Sherlock. In the wake of the revelation that Apple Tree Yard was nothing of the sort, Hbomb concludes that Season 4 of Sherlock was just really, really terrible, and he felt sorry for the fans who committed to the theory out of desperation to avoid admitting that the season had been bad. Nonetheless, he makes the point that even if The Johnlock Conspiracy was correct, that still wouldn't make the series good, because wasting hours of screentime and hundreds of thousands of dollars on a deliberately bad episode just to throw people off the scent is a phenomenally stupid way to run a show.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded in his video "WOKE BRANDS", where he segues from talking about tactics used by advertisers into how supposedly progressive companies still use exploitative labour practices.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2b6f65f0	type	ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2b6f65f0	comment	When discussing Armored Skeptic's response to Bill Nye Saves The World in the Bill Nye Vs. Pseudoscience video, Hbomb states that he personally wouldn't have slut-shamed the ice cream and chuckles upon realizing how that sounds.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: Inverted. His first few "Measured Response" videos used the title sarcastically, as he spent most of them just laughing his ass off at the silliness of the people making The Sarkeesian Effect. Nowadays, the title is much more applicable, as it distinguishes his well-researched political response videos from his other content.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: His opinion of the production of Sherlock. The effects and editing are well-done and expensive but don't actually enhance the story. For example, they use Matrix-style "bullet-time" effects, originally meant for incredibly intense fight scenes, for people standing around getting their photos taken at a wedding. Such intense and difficult camerawork should be awesome, but it just ends up wasting runtime that could have been spent telling the story.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: He sometimes fell into this. He explains the video subject with mostly academic and profession tone then inserting slangs whenever the chance he has. For example in "Plagiarism and You(Tube)":
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2e0c6c38	type	Eskimos Aren't Real
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_2e0c6c38	comment	Eskimos Aren't Real: Used for satire in Climate Denial: A Measured Response. Hbomb "does the research" and decides that there is no such thing as a horse because he doesn't like them.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_31eeddc8	type	Level Scaling
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_31eeddc8	comment	Points out how Fallout 3's use of Level Scaling is debatable in how well it fits a game set in a harsh, post-nuclear wasteland, as opposed to a more empowering genre such as a traditional fantasy setting. That said, he does admit that there are some merits to the system, acknowledging that many players enjoyed being allowed to explore the wastelands on their own terms.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Kevin!note The boy child from a stock photo of a family that he uses occasionally. He never elaborates on what his rivalry with Kevin actually is, aside from mentioning how white his smile is. The rivalry exists solely to justify using the expensive stock photo.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_33f067ea	type	So Okay, It's Average
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_33f067ea	comment	So Okay, It's Average: invoked His video on Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a funny case of this, in that he explicitly acknowledges that he neither loves nor hates the game (unlike the topic of most of his "[X] is [Y], and Here's Why" videos). However, rather than the usual case of this trope where the topic is average and therefore uninteresting, he actually considers Human Revolution to be a very intriguing work in large part because it's neither a masterpiece nor a disaster, having a lot of very strong moments and ideas but ending up too constrained by its restrictive development and Troubled Production to fully realize them in the same fashion that the original Deus Ex was able to.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_34960220	comment	His "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3" video spends a significant amount of its runtime detailing the lies that Tommy Tallarico told about his role in the games industry, from his most-definitely-finished-it-just-needs-a-few-million-dollars Intellivision Amico, to the extent of which he partnered with Sega and Nintendo regarding some of their most popular properties. For instance, Tallarico claims that he did a lot of the sound design for Metroid Prime, when in actuality he was contracted to work on it and left the project early on when his contract wasn't renewed. Tallarico also claims that Shigeru Miyamoto asked Tallarico to personally make sounds for the game, when Hbomb can find no evidence of this happening.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: Fanart depicting Harry as a ferret has been doing the rounds since 2017 (with this appearing to be the earliest occurrence). In his 2021 video Vaccines: A Measured Response, he stops the video in the middle of an animated segment to ask the animator to change his cartoon persona to a ferret.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Used repeatedly. Notably, from the Vaccines and Autism video:
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Discussed in his "WOKE BRANDS" video. According to Hbomb, the reason companies make ads that are intentionally "woke" or advocate for progressive politics is that they know such ads will cause a backlash from people who won't like it. However, this then creates a backlash to the backlash, resulting in things ultimately ending in a better spot for the company because of the publicity they get. Essentially, Hbomb argues that a brand being "woke" is done because they know that people just can't resist complaining about such ads, and said complaining will ultimately draw more money in the long run as free advertising for them.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_3950c1f0	type	Poe's Law
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_3950c1f0	comment	Poe's Law: Discussed in The War on Christmas: A Measured Response. Hbomb points out that people who keep pushing the "War on Christmas" narrative have to keep telling more and more outrageous lies about it in order to have plausible deniablility about the things they say so they can't be sued. As Hbomb argues, extreme political pundits have to do this "delicate dance" so as to not actually defame people or expose themselves to legal backlash by hiding behind how extreme the things they say are, to the point that they can claim their words aren't meant to be taken seriously in the event that someone sues them anyways. However, as Hbomb points out, this still allows such pundits to build up a sizeable audience in the same way that Nigerian email scams still work. In each case, while the vast majority of people aren't fooled, those who are fooled indirectly self-identify as the most gullible people, and allow someone to take advantage of them. invoked
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_3e682843	type	Lampshaded the Obscure Reference
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_3e682843	comment	Lampshaded the Obscure Reference: In "The War on Christmas: A Measured Response", while talking about the overcommercialization of Christmas, Hbomb makes an aside joke that the Catholic Church hasn't been the same since the Byzantine Papacy, and then immediately adds that the viewer doesn't have to get it because he just put that line in for himself.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_3fca462c	comment	Harry similarly criticises the show for the handling of Team CFVY. Despite a lot of pre-release material for Volume 2 hyping up Velvet's role in the plot and the fan contest to design her, CFVY are barely in Volume 2 and just show up as a Deus ex Machina to resolve the threat of the finale. Harry assumes that conflicts in the writer's room between Monty Oum, Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross (or the dance arc) led to CFVY's role being drastically reduced.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_40652d02	type	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_40652d02	comment	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: While he's certainly no fan of the way Sherlock adapted Irene Adler, he does think her defeating the title character's Sherlock Scan simply by going naked was clever, especially since the show leaves it ambiguous as to whether it worked because she removed anything that could be used against her or because Sherlock was too Distracted by the Sexy to focus.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The "Measured Response" videos actually show Harry at his most energetic and hammy. His "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3" video spends a significant amount of its runtime detailing the lies that Tommy Tallarico told about his role in the games industry, from his most-definitely-finished-it-just-needs-a-few-million-dollars Intellivision Amico, to the extent of which he partnered with Sega and Nintendo regarding some of their most popular properties. For instance, Tallarico claims that he did a lot of the sound design for Metroid Prime, when in actuality he was contracted to work on it and left the project early on when his contract wasn't renewed. Tallarico also claims that Shigeru Miyamoto asked Tallarico to personally make sounds for the game, when Hbomb can find no evidence of this happening. All over his ''Plagiarism and You(Tube)", there are examples of people who, either in their attempt to hide their plagiarism, change the facts to seem more original or because, well, they lie. He first mentions this with Internet Historian's "Man in Cave" where he confuses the cave that Floyd Collins tried to turn into a tourist attraction, "Crystal Cave", and the cave he got trapped inside of, "Sand Cave". He then treats them both as the same cave. But most prominently with James Somerton, who has pretty much lied about everything.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: He tends to leave in flubs, mistakes and errors throughout his videos, often (deliberately) misspells and mispronounces words, and makes very little effort to hide how cheaply his videos are being produced. This helps to differentiate him from the sort of alt-right guys he often criticizes (especially in the earlier videos), who tend to take themselves way too seriously and try very hard to look cool.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: From Electionwatch 2017: Crack open a boy with your cold ones.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_42064d3c	type	Left It In
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_42064d3c	comment	Left It In: A recurring joke in the series is Hbomb using a really bad line and then mumbling to himself that he will need to change it later or that the take is bad.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_443b78cd	comment	The "Measured Response" videos actually show Harry at his most energetic and hammy.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: Hbomb believes that Steven Moffat has proven himself more than capable of writing great one-shot, stand-alone stories where he has to provide a conclusion, but has serious problems when it comes to writing story arcs and other more long-form work. As a result, while he's a very good screenwriter and Harry even outright says his contributions to Doctor Who under Russell T. Davies were among the best of the series, his work as a showrunner is less than stellar as he is seemingly incapable of providing actual conclusions, capitalizing on the stuff he's set up and keeps fans on the hook with endless teasers and fake outs such as repeatedly hinting that Moriarty will return, only to establish that he's definitely dead before setting him up yet again. He half-jokingly suggests that Moffat should just spend the rest of his career writing pilot episodes.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: As of the intro & outro of "War On Christmas: A Measured Response" video (the rest was filmed in the past with his previous look), Harry now has a new look; a shaven-bald head complete with a full beard. This is due to his receding hairline and being quarantined for Covid-19. It's a tad jarring due to those used to his usual elfin, mop-haired, baby-faced dork look.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4943f19	type	Everything Except Most Things
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4943f19	comment	Everything Except Most Things: In "The War on Christmas: A Measured Response", Hbomb snarks that Tesco isn't allowed to say Christmas... except in their stores, on their products, and on their website.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Done in his climate change denial video.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4cf9fe88	type	Clueless Mystery
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4cf9fe88	comment	Clueless Mystery: A major peeve of his "Sherlock is Garbage" video is how Sherlock always solves the mystery using information or sources that were never shown to the audience.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4dc88e20	type	Stop Being Stereotypical
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4dc88e20	comment	Stop Being Stereotypical: The third Serious Lore Analysis video argues that readers hated Ctrl+Alt+Del in part because it was an accurate representation of gaming culture presented in a way that was obnoxious and unflattering. Hareton Splimby notes that other, more popular gaming webcomics had similar elements to the ones that were commonly criticized in CAD, just presented in a more tactful way.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In "Plagiarism and You(Tube)", Harry puts on screen a transcript of one of James Somerton's video, with each segment plagiarized colored with a different color for each author. There's 18 colors covering the vast majority of the script, with the list of the 18 authors on the side. The shot's been cited by many people commenting the video for how shocking it is and how it illustrates the expanse of Somerton's plagiarism.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_504e271f	type	But Thou Must!
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_504e271f	comment	But Thou Must!: One of his main critiques of Deus Ex: Human Revolution is that very few of Adam Jensen's dialogue choices are actually meaningful, with few if any having a meaningful story or gameplay effect. He points to the mission to break into the police station's morgue as an example, where even if Adam point-blank tells Sarif that messing directly with the official authorities in such a manner is both blatantly illegal and highly dangerous, Sarif simply overrules his protest and orders him to do it anyway; there's no difference than if Adam shrugs and goes along with it immediately. He believes that this is the result of the designers being overly committed to a single plot and vision, and therefore not willing to account to potential alternate ideas (for instance, having Sarif take Adam's advice into account and suggest a different route, something which Harry points out that the original Deus Ex was quite good at offering up), resulting in the game asking you a lot of questions to create the illusion of free choice but never really accounting for your answers. He argues that while being on the rails isn't necessarily bad, being on the rails but trying to pretend otherwise is — if players don't have a choice, it's far less annoying to simply make that clear then to give a cosmetic set of "options" that set up a false expectation.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: He gets ahead of Internet Counterattacks by telling people not to harass anyone on his behalf, but does so in an exaggerated way for the sake of making it funny. In the "Roblox_OOF.mp3" video, he pops up a caption reading, "I did not bother Joey Kuras for this horrible video. If you bother him on my behalf, I will kill you." In the "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" video, Hbomb says that he doesn't want anyone to harass James Somerton or anyone on Somerton's staff because of Hbomb's accusations. Hbomb adds that anyone who does so is not only worse than James Somerton, but "will not see the light of Heaven" if they do.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: His Bill Nye vs Pseudo-Science two part series begins with a takedown of Armored Skeptic's video, and then finishes with Armored Skeptic taking down a Steven Crowder video. In his "War on Christmas" video, he begins by touching upon how the phrase "Happy Holidays" has been used in culture for centuries, and is even the name of a famous song that opened and closed Bing Crosby's annual Christmas special. At the end of the video, when debunking the claims made by Prager University, one of the arguements they make is that Jewish American composer Irving Berlin wrote most of the well-known Christmas songs despite not being Christian. Hbomberguy points out he also wrote "Happy Holidays".
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5717e34	type	Sincerity Mode
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5717e34	comment	Sincerity Mode: He pauses in the middle of his video on vaccines to sincerely say that everyone should have a colonoscopy at some point just to be safe, as bowel cancer is fairly common and treatable if caught soon enough.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: While researching Tommy Tallarico's Guinness World Records, Hbomb (through Kat) reached out to Guinness themselves in regards to Tommy's "Most Prolific Video Game Music Composer" award to figure out how it was verified, as the number on the record did not match the number of games Tommy actually worked on. When Hbomb checked the website later to get another screenshot, the record had been deleted, which he'd never intended.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: RWBY portrays this with the Faunus plot, and Hbomb breaks down why he thinks it fails. Not just narratively, but also in its attempt to comment on racism, since the show tries to imply mistreatment of Faunus while bending over backwards to make the White Fang into clear antagonists.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_58333182	type	Spoiled by the Format
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_58333182	comment	"Plagiarism and You(Tube)" pulls the exact same gag, this time at roughly an hour and 50 minutes in. After spending that time discussing plagiarism on YouTube, going into what forms it takes, why a YouTuber would do such a thing, the effects it has, how the plagiarists in question try to defend themselves, and so on, Harry declares that he's "ready to reach some kind of conclusion; just invokeddon't touch the screen or move the mouse or-" before resigning himself to the fact that, especially after the "Roblox OOF" video, there's no way the viewer hasn't already seen the video's runtime and caught onto the fact that there's more going on.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: "Kevin", a child (represented by a stock photo of a laughing boy) who Hbomb loathes with a passion for reasons unexplained. Apparently he became a Running Gag mostly so that Hbomb could feel like he'd got his money's worth for the stock photo.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5be7bcfa	type	Older Than They Think
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5be7bcfa	comment	Older Than They Think: invoked Sherlock Is Garbage And Here's Why has him wonder out loud if the killer's method of murder in Sherlock's first episode - forcing the victim to pick between two identical pills, one of which is poisoned - is a Matrix reference. It isn't; while the motivation of the killer was changed by the show, the original story had the killer use the exact same method.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5c04772f	type	Conviction by Counterfactual Clue
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5c04772f	comment	Conviction by Counterfactual Clue: In his Sherlock video, he points out that a number of Sherlock's deductions, whenever the series isn't in full-on Clueless Mystery territory, make very little sense: for instance, claiming that a man couldn't have shot himself with a gun in his right hand because he was left-handed, never minding that Watson is explicitly shown to be dexterous enough to write with his left and shoot with his right. Or that learning to shoot with your off hand is perfectly normal.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Also occurs in Sherlock is Garbage where — after it turns out that "a FUCKING boomerang did it" — Hbomb starts screaming in frustrated rage before breaking down into sobbing over footage from the opening sequence of Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	comment	Off the Rails: "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3" starts with him detailing the history of the Roblox "oof" death noise and its origins, which ends fairly conclusively around the 30 minute mark. And then he accidentally does a little more research about Tommy Tallarico, the guy in charge of the company that hired the person who originally did the oof noise, and it quickly spirals out of control into detailing the Blatant Lies Tallarico runs on to make himself seem more important than he actually is, which Hbomb remarks about multiple times.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_614127a5	type	That Liar Lies
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_614127a5	comment	That Liar Lies: In Soy Boys: A Measured Response, on the subject of Kayla Daniel skewing studies to make it seem like phytoestrogens acts like animal estrogen in the body. We can be reasonably sure, given the scientific evidence, that they don't.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Hbomb himself. He's an extremely goofy, loud, playful man who nevertheless is incredibly intelligent with a strong work ethic.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_624c868	type	Transplant
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_624c868	comment	Transplant: The Angry Games Smasher, which he uses in The No Man's Sky Rant, originally appeared in Folding Ideas.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_62525a70	type	He Knows About Timed Hits
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_62525a70	comment	He Knows About Timed Hits: When discussing Pathologic's tutorial NPC who gives instructions as to how to play the game, he points out how the tutorial is good for someone who is unfamilliar with Pathologic's survival genre, but considering the point of view of an In-Universe character causes this to become hilarious:
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Outsiders: How To Adapt H. P. Lovecraft In The 21st Century promises at the end to take a look at a similar work to Cthulhu, by which the story is about queer people who struggle to find their place in society: Night in the Woods.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6320eced	type	Gameplay and Story Segregation
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6320eced	comment	Gameplay and Story Segregation: Points out how Fallout 3's use of Level Scaling is debatable in how well it fits a game set in a harsh, post-nuclear wasteland, as opposed to a more empowering genre such as a traditional fantasy setting. That said, he does admit that there are some merits to the system, acknowledging that many players enjoyed being allowed to explore the wastelands on their own terms. One of his critiques of Deus Ex: Human Revolution is that while the original Deus Ex placed a lot of importance on feeling like a semi-realistic world, Human Revolution's streamlining of systems results in a world that doesn't hold together very well. He points to hacking as a specific example: nearly every lock in the game uses the hacking minigame, regardless of whether it makes sense for them to, and because all the locks along the critical path need to be unlockable by even an untrained Adam Jensen, plot-relevant doors have pathetic security even if they should logically have the toughest defenses available.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_650a309b	type	Forgot About His Powers
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_650a309b	comment	Forgot About His Powers: In his video on RWBY he points out that Ruby displays amazing hand-to-hand abilities in her first appearance, but when it becomes necessary for her to be captured, she's suddenly useless without her weapon.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: He bluntly considers Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross to have done this with Jaune and Neptune in RWBY, frequently mocking them for how their characters drag the pacing to a halt in Volume 2 with the dance arc where both of their characters are competing for Weiss Schnee's affections.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Done at the end of Antifeminism vs FACTS, where he says that not even Sargon of Akkad is dumb enough to have everyone he disagrees with banned from academia, followed by a shot of Sargon's petition to get Social Justice courses banned from universities.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6b12722e	type	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6b12722e	comment	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: invoked Hbomberguy remarks that Sherlock is "very good at making you think it's about to get good", having a wide variety of story threads that all seem to be going somewhere interesting. And then the fourth season ends and all of it comes to nothing, leading to a lot of fans to attempt to cobble together a theory about a secret conclusion that would make their viewing experience worthwhile. Part of what frustrates him the most about RWBY is that the setting has lots of good ideas and potential story beats, but the main writers consistently fail to execute them properly (for example, the conflict between Ruby and Weiss over Ruby being the leader of Team RWBY when Weiss wanted the position is quickly resolved by a professor lecturing Weiss on her attitude). At one point he notes that "RWBY is a really fun show to write a wiki about." One of his criticisms of Deus Ex: Human Revolution is that there are a lot of places where a player's choices about how Adam handles things could have interesting effects, but don't. For instance, he points out that during one mission where you have to break into a police station, you can choose to lie or sneak your way in, or abandon subtlety and brutally slaughter your way through the entire building without even trying not to get caught on camera—but there are no consequences either way, despite the fact an augmented human committing a huge massacre logically should cause quite a lot of personal and political fallout. You won't even lose out on a sidequest given by a cop later.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6b7e3069	comment	The "SERIOUS LORE ANALYSIS" for Ctrl+Alt+Del ends with Hbomb emerging reborn from a canvas copy of the comic's infamous "Loss" strip—about a woman miscarrying her child.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6d0b942	type	Unexplained Accent
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6d0b942	comment	Unexplained Accent: The "Pick Up Artistry" video features Lindsay Ellis reading excerpts from a book by Roosh V (an American of Armenian and Iranian descent) in an odd, vaguely German-accented voice for no discernible reason.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: After concluding his three-and-a-half-hour analysis of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Hbomb is relieved that he can finally move on to other things. The next game he wants to review? The Director's Cut of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: From "Bethesda vs. Critics":
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_723be11b	comment	He has this view of Purity First, noting that their hardline anti-augmentation stance actually has a lot of good points brought up in the game. For instance, augmentations provide natural advantages, pressuring people to get them to remain competitive in work environments, but also require people to take drugs to avoid their body rejecting them. This has the result that people who aren't willing to fundamentally alter their bodies get fired, and people who do get the augs are now trapped in their jobs because they need to maintain access to the anti-rejection meds or they'll die. Additionally, augs are very costly to develop, meaning lots of resources go into it when they could go elsewhere, and costly to purchase, which means that only very wealthy people tend to reap the benefits of it. He notes that this works pretty well as a metaphor for many societal issues (wage slavery, worker exploitation and dehumanization, classism, frivolous big-tech endeavors, for-profit healthcare) and raises rather valid questions over whether augmentation in its current form is a good thing. But Purity First, the loudest voices against augmentation, seem to care mainly about hating it on principle out of the belief that it "isn't natural"—a ridiculous argument that would cast modern pacemakers and hearing aids as evil and is framed as a form of Fantastic Racism, meaning that the actual serious critiques of the system are largely drowned out by the cavalcade of Fantastic Slurs.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_743437c4	type	Chroma Key
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_743437c4	comment	Chroma Key: In Plagiarism and You(Tube), whenever Harry stands in front of his flower wallpaper set, he has a very faint green aura around him. So clearly he's in front of a greenscreen and edited the flower pattern in after recording... until he reveals it's not: the flower wallpaper is real, the green aura is from light reflecting off the green-painted walls surrounding the set out of view.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "By any means necessary" recurs throughout his Plagiarism and You(Tube) video, which drives home his point about how the subjects of his video are perfectly fine with plagiarizing if it helps them get what they want, be it money and prestige.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_756dbd0b	type	Hard on Soft Science
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_756dbd0b	comment	Hard on Soft Science: Deconstructed in Anti-Feminism vs Facts and Sargon's Petition: A Measured Response. In both cases, despite the pretense of championing hard facts, Sargon of Akkad's hostility to the social sciences is shown to be simply because he doesn't understand any of the theory or methodology, and doesn't like things he takes for granted being criticized. Of note is the fact he is dismissive of the AAU campus sexual assault survey because he thinks that surveys "are not facts," but believes that a similar study by the US Department of Justice — which is also a survey — is definitive because its conclusions are more favorable to his position.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs at the end of his Deus Ex: Human Revolution video. He briefly considers it as "the second worst game ever made"... out of a list of four games total: Deus Ex and Fallout: New Vegas precede it, and Fallout 3 follows it.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The entire video on vaccines. Firstly, Harry shows that Andrew Wakefield's paper - the thing which took the anti-vaccine movement from a very fringe crackpot theory to actually mainstream - is based not on hard science, but on the uninformed cognitive bias and opinions of a small group of parents. Then, he goes through how British journalists completely failed in their duty and spread Wakefield's bullshit (and a lot of ableist opinions on autism) to the entire country, resulting in lower vaccination rates, measles outbreaks, and dead children. THEN he uncovers that the whole thing was a scam for Wakefield to set up potentially millions-per-year businesses on top of already getting paid nearly 1.1 MILLION DOLLARS by a lawyer to do the fraudulent paper. And just when it looks like we've turned over every last stone... A much lighter example: ROBLOX_OOF.mp3 starts with Hbomb making the case that Tommy Tallarico either stole credit for or is exaggerating his part in making the "oof" sound in Roblox. It spirals into finding that Tommy is either lying about or exaggerating almost every achievement he boasts about.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Hbomb discusses in his RWBY video why the White Fang conflict really shouldn't have been made into this, as the White Fang are shown to have a legitimate point in how they are treated and persecuted due to their race, but the show can't really admit that they're right (as Hbomb jokingly notes, it would be hard to sell happy-go-lucky merch of Nora saying "Boop" if it existed as part of a setting where people are discriminated against due to circumstances of birth), so instead it conveniently has the White Fang be corrupted by a more violent element which provides the cast moral justification in beating them up.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Harry delivers a massive one to Graham Linehan in his charity stream announcement video.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7daa1dfc	type	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7daa1dfc	comment	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: invoked One of his biggest gripes with Sherlock is how Moffat makes Sherlock Holmes the center of the universe, to the point of flattening all of the other characters around him. He particularly laments James Moriarty — described by Hbomb as "one of the most memorable characters in all of literature" — being turned into a walking, talking gay stereotype who exists entirely to have sexual tension with the main protagonist, and Irene Adler — the star player of one of the most popular and enduring Sherlock Holmes stories — becoming a "kung fu dominatrix"...who exists entirely to have sexual tension with the main protagonist. In his video on RWBY: He feels this way about main protagonist Ruby Rose, noting that the start of the series sets up Ruby as a mechanical prodigy who becomes close friends with a guy (Jaune) who uses an antiquated weapon. Harry notes that the show could easily have Ruby and Jaune bond over upgrading his ancestor's gear to suit him and both could grow from the experience... only for the show to forget Ruby's engineering skills outside of one token line per Volume. To make matters worse, when Volume 4 finally sees Jaune get an upgrade, it's done by a one-off blacksmith. Harry similarly criticises the show for the handling of Team CFVY. Despite a lot of pre-release material for Volume 2 hyping up Velvet's role in the plot and the fan contest to design her, CFVY are barely in Volume 2 and just show up as a Deus ex Machina to resolve the threat of the finale. Harry assumes that conflicts in the writer's room between Monty Oum, Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross (or the dance arc) led to CFVY's role being drastically reduced. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution: He has this view of Purity First, noting that their hardline anti-augmentation stance actually has a lot of good points brought up in the game. For instance, augmentations provide natural advantages, pressuring people to get them to remain competitive in work environments, but also require people to take drugs to avoid their body rejecting them. This has the result that people who aren't willing to fundamentally alter their bodies get fired, and people who do get the augs are now trapped in their jobs because they need to maintain access to the anti-rejection meds or they'll die. Additionally, augs are very costly to develop, meaning lots of resources go into it when they could go elsewhere, and costly to purchase, which means that only very wealthy people tend to reap the benefits of it. He notes that this works pretty well as a metaphor for many societal issues (wage slavery, worker exploitation and dehumanization, classism, frivolous big-tech endeavors, for-profit healthcare) and raises rather valid questions over whether augmentation in its current form is a good thing. But Purity First, the loudest voices against augmentation, seem to care mainly about hating it on principle out of the belief that it "isn't natural"—a ridiculous argument that would cast modern pacemakers and hearing aids as evil and is framed as a form of Fantastic Racism, meaning that the actual serious critiques of the system are largely drowned out by the cavalcade of Fantastic Slurs. He also laments how Isaias Sandoval has been handled not to his full extent. While Sandoval does have some plot moments in his favor, such as the surprisingly emotional direction that his encounter with Adam can possibly go, but Harry does criticize some missing bits that could have been done. It's harder to get attached to the resonant dialogue scene when he has very little screentime prior, said little screentime has no effect on the confrontation, neither does Adam's treatment of his brother Ezekiel Sanders, and the outcome has no story consequences.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Played for Laughs in the opening of Fallout 3 Is Garbage, And Here's Why when he has a breakdown over how the game journalists of the time only focused on the game's cinematic V.A.T.S system being "badass", provided repetitive footage of said system being used for gratuitous murder with one reviewer even opening fire on an allied character, claims that the player's actions have serious consequences over footage of the Lone Wanderer picking up a fork and getting gunned down, thinking that a game where one of the Signature Scenes revolves around the question "do you want to kill a whole town of people, or not?" has a "deep morality system", and one of the reviewers thinking the near universally reviled ending was good. invoked Also occurs in Sherlock is Garbage where — after it turns out that "a FUCKING boomerang did it" — Hbomb starts screaming in frustrated rage before breaking down into sobbing over footage from the opening sequence of Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Subverted in "WOKE BRANDS", after Hbomberguy has revealed the dubious actions of several "woke" companies: His acknowledgement of some of the issues with the game that make it hard for many people to get into in the Pathologic video:
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8124e7a6	type	Sudden Downer Ending
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8124e7a6	comment	Sudden Downer Ending: Parodied in his Nice Try, Paul video, which suddenly ends with the ominous image of Jeremy Corbyn after Hbomb threatens to take away choice and freedom from The UK.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_816a4e80	comment	Hbomb's obsession with defending the Star Wars prequels. In the second "Scanline" episode, Shannon Strucci even forces him to sign a contract that he'll keep his prequel discussion to a minimum.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: "SLA3" ends with Hareton Splimby repeating Ethan's death speech from CAD while turning off a light switch. Then Loss gives birth to him and Sonic appears before him, telling him "It's time." As Hareton screams "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss!", we're told this is invoked"Happy End".
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_83445b04	type	Pun
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_83445b04	comment	Often Hbomb will make a Pun or some other deliberately terrible joke and immediately apologise for it.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: According to his Serious Lore Analysis video, Sonic the Hedgehog is one. According to Hbomb, Sonic is The Hedgehog because he's embraced the identity of the Sole Survivor of Robotnik's tyranny. Yet, Sonic's devil-may-care attitude is a result of "dealing with the utmost depression he feels, fighting a near-impossible battle as he copes with the loss of his race" and knowing that he'll never have a wife and kids.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: His video on Flat-Earthers ends on this note. He believes that the movement is essentially people taking the wrong path to the right conclusion: there are far-reaching conspiracies with nobody's best interest in mind but their own. And the masterminds behind these conspiracies seek to control the media, government, and populace through false information. And the flat-earth movement is right to suspect that the "official" explanation for something can often be badly compromised by the sinister motives of those aforementioned conspiracies. It's just that these conspiracies have more to do with things like war profiteers, polluting companies, and neo-fascist regimes, not airplane companies making up fake flights to throw theorists off their trail, or NASA making "poor-quality" Photoshops of the moon.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_876a0cf0	type	Joke and Receive
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_876a0cf0	comment	Joke and Receive: When doing the background research into Tommy Tallarico's "achievements", Hbomb's producer Kat Lo discovered that his supposed Guinness World Records are limited to the "Gamer's Edition", a novelty spin-off of the main series. She jokes that this would be like passing off a TEDx presentation as a TED Talk,note TEDx are smaller, independent presentations that can be given by anyone who obtains a (free) license from the TED organization, unlike the proper TED Talks, which are invitation-only and imply some level of expertise or notoriety on the part of the invitee, only for Hbomb to discover that Tallarico had done exactly this, listing a TEDx speech he did in small town in Michigan as a "TED Talk" on his website.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: SERIOUS LORE ANALYSIS PART 3, originally titled "IS SONIC 2 AGAINST CAPITALISM?", initially seems to be a satirical analysis of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, but then turns into a mix of a surprisingly serious analysis of how gamer comics such as Ctrl+Alt+Del and Penny Arcade are just manifestation of negative attitudes within the gaming community, and a terrifying, somewhat gory, story about Harry coming to terms with how unneeded his Serious Lore Analysis videos are, and how he could do much more. Even though he's still going to do them. In his ''Measured Response on Soyboys'' video, he handcuffs himself to a pole in one segment of the video and when he's going to read the concluson of the study which states that you can't make a sweeping conclusion about soy affecting sperm count or testosterone levels, he makes it appear as if he's going to try and break himself free from the handcuffs, by trying to grab a hacksaw, then an axe and finally a chainsaw... before settling on grabbing the copy of the actual study and read from it. Subverted in the end, as he does manages to free himself from the handcuffs later on in the video, but we don't see how. A Running Gag in "Weighing The Value of Director's Cuts" is Hbomb starting to sound like he's going to talk about George Lucas, only to abruptly reveal he's talking about a completely different director. Even when he finally gets around to Lucas, he still carries on the gag by sounding like he's going to talk about the re-releases of the "Star Wars" Original Trilogy, only to instead talk about the edits to THX 1138. Ultimately subverted, though, since the Star Wars films are ultimately such a fundamental example of his overall argument that he has to get around to them eventually. In his video on empowerment and sexualisation, he mentions a costume where Bayonetta is wearing a sexy version of Samus Aran's armour, and then points out that there's already a sexy costume associated with Samus Aran...and then, when you think he's about to mention the famous, tight-fitting and famously tight-fitting Zero Suit, he instead says the Phazon suit◊. In "RWBY is Disappointing, And Here's Why", Harry says, after watching all the RWBY trailers, that if you showed him the trailers for every cartoon ever made, he'd most want to watch not RWBY, but Loonatics Unleashed, because it's such an unhinged concept for a show that he'd want to watch it out of sheer invokedBile Fascination. RWBY comes in as a close second. In the Deus Ex: Human Revolution video, Hbomb gets so into his rant against hacking minigames that he starts claiming BioShock 2 is better than the original because the hacking is simpler, which causes him to realize that he may be losing it and end the Hacking chapter of the video. On to Lockpicking. How did the Human Revolution devs implement it? They replaced it... with the hacking minigame! "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3" is billed as an exploration into the origin of the sound effect that plays in Roblox when a character dies. The origin of this sound effect is settled in the first 25 minutes — it's from a video game called Messiah where the Player Character bounces across the surface of the moon. The remaining ninety minutes of the video is about the outlandish claims of composer Tommy Tallarico, all the Blatant Lies that Tallarico has told, and how credit in video games is extremely ephemeral even in modern times. "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" is about the how, why, and effects of plagiarism on YouTube, using specific channels as examples. About halfway into a nearly 4-hour-long video, Hbomb reveals that this was all merely setup for a deep dive into the actual main subject — video essayist James Somerton and the many accusations of Somerton being a plagiarist. The transition to this part also has a minor bait-and-switch for those familiar with the "Roblox_OOF.mp3" video; instead of secretly being in front of a green screen, Hbomb was in front of a real wall the entire time, and used this to "trick" people who were expecting him to use the same joke again.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: invoked A Discussed Trope in his RWBY video. Jaune Arc's role as this in the early seasons of the show hampers the character of both him and his partner Pyrrha Nikos. Jaune, in spite of descending from a long family line of Huntsmen, has no clue how Aura (a basic ability that all Huntsmen unlock) works. Pyrrha has to spend most of her screentime explaining these basic concepts to Jaune, leaving her little room to develop as a character in the first Volume. He also criticizes how the emphasis on Jaune is at the expense of the show's four nominal lead characters. Harry jokingly calls Qrow Branwen this. After his introduction in Volume 3, Qrow's constant sarcasm aimed at the self-serious elements of the show make him a joy to watch and reflect the opinions of the viewers who are getting tired of the exposition and just want to get back to the fights.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	comment	Capitalism Is Bad: Pops up with varying levels of seriousness throughout his videos. The Deus Ex: Human Revolution video opens with a short history of the Deus Ex property, and how many times it's had to change hands between multiple companies and their subsidiaries. He wraps it up with a joke that the game industry is "so normal and fine", before juxtaposing the aggressively normal history of the game's production against the anti-corporate theme the original game had. Lampshaded in his video "WOKE BRANDS", where he segues from talking about tactics used by advertisers into how supposedly progressive companies still use exploitative labour practices.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8becc5c5	comment	Existential Horror: He jokingly refers to Donkey Kong 64 as this in his video on speedrunning, as he considers its character switching mechanic and heavy use of backtracking an exercise in futility that serves as a reminder of the limited amount of time a human lifespan actually is.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8f0c88f	type	Invincible Villain
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8f0c88f	comment	Invincible Villain: A key criticism of the depiction of Moriarty in Sherlock is that he's essentially made too invincibly clever and all-knowing for Sherlock to pose any kind of actual threat to, yet won't ever kill Sherlock because he enjoys messing with him and doesn't really seem to actually care that much about any threat to his criminal empire, with all of this being handwaved away with "he's an Evil-But-Crazy Genius". This simply saps the tension from the show, since Sherlock can never seem to actually get the upper hand against Moriarty yet is never at any serious risk from him either, and Moriarty can be written to do any absolutely nonsensical or ridiculous thing with it being excused with "he's a crazy genius".
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_93139cf0	comment	Bookshelf of Authority: In ''Plagiarism and You(Tube)", he briefly ruminates on the fact that many video essayists feature books or other literature as part of their camera sets, and spends a portion of the video talking about his own bookshelf (while sitting in front of it, of course).
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_943f7a7e	comment	Wiki Walk: Harry effectively documents himself doing this in "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3", going from a straightforward look at the origin of a famous meme to looking up multiple absurd lies made by Tommy Tallarico, who was tangentially related to his original point. "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" is, as Harry himself admits, the reverse of "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3": after he had the breakdown regarding the video's main subject (James Somerton and his plagiarism of [usually small] queer creators), he worked backwards from there so as to ensure the viewer had a proper baseline understanding of plagiarism on YouTube first.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Points out in his "SERIOUS LORE ANALYSIS PART 3" video that Penny Arcade shares the same lowbrow humor and annoying self-inserts as the much-maligned Ctrl+Alt+Del, with the implication that the latter is merely a more explicit showcase of the toxic aspects of the gaming community. At one point, he even shows that Ctrl+Alt+Del had its own convention similar to PAX.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: Harry is from Yorkshire, although it's not really obvious from his accent apart from some occasional slip-ups. In his Fallout: New Vegas video, he accidentally pronounces the word "clear-cut" as "clear-coot" and immediately jokes about outing himself as a Northerner. When his mother appears for a brief gag in the "Vaccines" video, her Yorkshire accent is much more noticeable.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9bb8ac92	type	Stealing the Credit
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9bb8ac92	comment	Stealing the Credit: Discussed in Plagiarism And You(Tube) as not only being the obvious reason plagiarism is morally wrong, but as less obviously highlighting the fact that creative work has genuine value.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9cad69bf	comment	One of his biggest gripes with Sherlock is how Moffat makes Sherlock Holmes the center of the universe, to the point of flattening all of the other characters around him. He particularly laments James Moriarty — described by Hbomb as "one of the most memorable characters in all of literature" — being turned into a walking, talking gay stereotype who exists entirely to have sexual tension with the main protagonist, and Irene Adler — the star player of one of the most popular and enduring Sherlock Holmes stories — becoming a "kung fu dominatrix"...who exists entirely to have sexual tension with the main protagonist.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: From the ROBLOX_OOF video: On a fan's meme video regarding the overwhelming response of ROBLOX_OOF, Harry commented "This video is better than mine so I'm going to pretend I made it". Sure enough, his next video ended up being all about Plagiarism in the YouTube community. About two-and-a-half minutes into Plagiarism and You(Tube), a brief shot of HBomb putting down a copy of Analog shows The Celluloid Closet and Tinker Belles and Evil Queens (both are books which James Somerton had plagiarised), as well as Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins (which foreshadows the segment where he breaks down the plagiarism in Internet Historian's Floyd Collins video).
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: He argues that many of the issues in Deus Ex: Human Revolution originate from the dev team not really understanding that the "flaws" of the original Deus Ex were intentional: for instance, the rather clunky shooting mechanics were meant to disincentivize combat for uninvested players and push them towards other solutions, and the lack of any kind of Hacking Minigame was born out of a realization that it would slow the game down or get repetitive. He notes that trying to "fix" these issues in Human Revolution results in exactly the problems these ideas were done to avoid.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9f240209	type	Gag Dub
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9f240209	comment	Gag Dub: In the video about Deus Ex, at one point Hbomb shows a video of the walking tour Adam Jensen and Megan Reed take at the start of the game... but with the dialogue replaced with a discussion about Ghost in the Shell.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_9f80e1da	comment	The Deus Ex: Human Revolution video opens with a short history of the Deus Ex property, and how many times it's had to change hands between multiple companies and their subsidiaries. He wraps it up with a joke that the game industry is "so normal and fine", before juxtaposing the aggressively normal history of the game's production against the anti-corporate theme the original game had.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: The legendary response to Ben Shapiro advising victims of climate change to 'sell their homes and move' arguably benefits greatly from a long build up to the punchline. After hearing multiple offhand comments about the bad boss design scattered throughout the video, the Deus Ex: Human Revolution video eventually moves to "Part Twelve: THE BOSS FIGHTS", playing dramatic music as it spells out each letter (then backspaces when it puts a typo in "boss") and generally taking its sweet time building up, viewers might prepare for an epic rant about how badly designed the bosses are. And then...
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a60e3252	comment	Done occasionally in Measured Response videos, such as with "Carl of Sad" and "Pajama Watso". In a retrospective video, Hbomb notes that he started doing this because he noticed that his opponents often do this in an attempt to dehumanize their targets, so he was using their own tactic against them. And also because it's funny.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a70f9aba	type	Accentuate the Negative
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a70f9aba	comment	Accentuate the Negative: He thinks Deus Ex: Human Revolution is an alright game, but his video on the game goes into detail about the differences between it and the original Deus Ex and he finds most of Human Revolution's changes are to its detriment, such as hacking being changed from an optional mechanic where you lock yourself into a 10-second wait period that gives enemies free rein on unwary players to a mandatory mechanic where you play a repetitive 20-second minigame which puts the rest of the game on hold. Many of the changes he finds clever (e.g. much-improved stealth being emphasized by the scarcity of resources) are nullified by other design decisions (which in this case is that your health regenerates, reducing the need to sneak past enemies since any damage you take in a direct firefight will be undone.)
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: The subject of mockery in Pick-Up Artists: A Measured Response. Hbomberguy notes that even proponents of so-called "pick-up" techniques admit that they don't work most of the time, and even when they do work, the sex is so unsatisfying for them that the whole exercise is essentially pointless. He ultimately concludes that since pick-up artists aren't interested in relationships or sex and see the latter merely as a way of asserting their dominance over women, they effectively doom themselves to perpetual unhappiness.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Played for laughs in A Second Look at Nintendo Switch, where he gets trapped in the Nintendo Switch.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: Frequently poked fun at; when Hbomb uses a Britishism, he offers a "translation" for American viewers.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_aa987f00	comment	invoked Applicability: Discussed in Outsiders: How to Adapt H. P. Lovecraft for the 21st Century. Hbomb remarks that he initially hated the movie Cthulhu, considering it a bastardization of the Lovecraft stories it was a loose adaptation of. He changed his mind after he began to question his sexuality and experienced the sense of feeling alien as a result, which helped him to appreciate the application of the themes of Lovecraft's horror to the feeling of being an outsider.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ab729e43	type	Disappointed in You
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ab729e43	comment	Disappointed in You: He makes a point that he finds RWBY, more than anything, disappointing, because there was genuine talent working behind the scenes and the mere endeavor of creating a web series like that, the first original web series of that scale, is an ambitious and respectable goal, which is why he named the video RWBY is disappointing rather than "garbage". He points out the second half of season three as giving a genuine glimpse of what the show could have been if the series wasn't bogged down by poor, constant exposition, trying to imitate other, better shows and if the creators weren't so precious about their creation that they refused to give deeper flaws to their world and characters.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Harry loves Twizzlers and Chicken McNuggets. He gave up on the latter after doing the nutritional research for The Soy Boy Diet, causing him to jokingly say that soy ruined his favorite food.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_afd446fc	type	Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_afd446fc	comment	Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch: He makes two videos ridiculing the negative reception Ghostbusters (2016) was getting on the internet based on nothing but its 2 minute trailer, much of which amounted to little more than complaining about its all-female cast. Harry points out that, even if the movie ended up being disappointing, you should at least watch more than a very short promo before coming to a snap judgment on its quality. He also points out that Ghostbusters (1984) had a bad trailer as well, and those same people had nothing but praise for it.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: In "Plagarism and You(Tube)", Hbomb lays out how Youtube Plagarists will put a filter on their videos to dodge automated copyright detection, and will put their sources in a list of links instead of pointing out the sources in the video while using words from them.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Played for Laughs in the New Vegas video:
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In his early videos, Davis Aurini was the biggest source of mockery on his channel and more or less the embodiment of everything he disliked about anti-SJW internet culture. Harry mocks him less after Aurini's fall from relevance, but may still reference it as a Call-Back. Several of Hbomb's videos have been centered on some of the stupider things that Carl "Sargon of Akkad" of Swindon has said and done. #FreeSargon: A Measured Response caricatures him right on the thumbnail, even. As with Aurini, however, Sargon's relevence has also declined, and he rarely merits a mention in Hbomb videos anymore. In response to Graham Linehan's campaign to withdraw National Lottery funding to the charity Mermaids, which supports gender nonconformity in children and young people, Hbomberguy ran an epic 58-hour charity stream marathon in January 2019, where he battled to complete Donkey Kong 64 to invoked101%. The announcement of that stream portrays Linehan with increasingly goofy and cartoonish photoshops of his face, mocking him for trying to remove support for children who need it, pointing out that his efforts will likely fail once the National Lottery realizes that there aren't any actual concerns and it's just one online personality using their fanbase to try and take down the charity (they did end up failing), and then remarking that making such a massive push for it will only lead to more people being aware of Mermaids, and thus get them more support. Plagiarism and You(Tube) has Hbomb remark on Newt Wallen (of Cinemassacre fame) stealing a joke that Jimmy Carr invented, before he admits that Carr might have stolen the joke from somewhere too; "he's already stealing from the British tax payer, so I wouldn't be surprised." In the same video, when Hbomb discusses how new AI tools could make detecting plagiarism harder, he refers to Chat GPT's generation process as "stealing" and later "complicated stealing", as well as referring to its subscription tier as "paying for theft machine 4.0" and how "AI frequently hallucinates imaginary people, books, and historical events".
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: In 'Sargon's Petition: A Measured Response', he repeatedly stated how he wanted to corrupt Kevin's mind.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b761a11e	type	Dyeing for Your Art
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b761a11e	comment	Dyeing for Your Art: invoked He mentions in an aside that he had bleached his hair for a video about Milo Yiannopulous, although he never got around to actually uploading the video.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b7ecc7c8	type	Baldness Angst
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_b7ecc7c8	comment	Baldness Angst: In Plagiarism and You(Tube), Harry briefly shows footage of an interview he had with Devin Stone of LegalEagle fame, when discussing his show. Otherwise averted as he's embraced his bald look.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ba0ff694	type	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ba0ff694	comment	"In "Plagarism and You(Tube)", Hbomb looks at the plagarism accusations of James Somerton, and finds that Somerton has taken information and quotes from multiple different sources without giving proper credit. At one point, Hbomb clicks on a video's timeline at random, and has a You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! reaction when he finds that Somerton stole so much material that even referencing one of Somerton's videos at random still produced a stolen quote. This boils over into Tranquil Fury on Hbomb's part towards the end of the video when he saves his biggest frustration for how Somerton complains that LGBT people are being erased from history, which is using a quote that Somerton also stole. Hbomb concludes his section on Somerton by effectively calling him a Hypocrite since Somerton himself is LGBT, but is also erasing LGBT people from history by refusing to properly credit anyone.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_bbc77bb5	comment	The whole point of Halcyon Dreams: The Legacy of Dragon's Lair is a defiance of this. Rick Dyer's ambitious project to create a fully-immersive adventure on a voice-operated home console is largely forgotten because it failed and ruined Dyer financially. Hbomb insists that Dyer's story is worth telling because accepting that talent and innovation can fail is important for anyone embarking into new creative territory.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: His Sherlock video contains multiple instances of "Fuck off" or "Fuck you, Steve."
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted in "WOKE BRANDS", after Hbomberguy has revealed the dubious actions of several "woke" companies:
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_bfe4e6b9	comment	invoked Scrappy Mechanic: He believes that some of Pathologic's frustrating decisions, such as the slow walking speed and horrible combat, are necessary elements to get across part of the game's point. On the other hand, he can't say the same of quest items being dropped on the floor without notification if the player's inventory is full, pointing out that it doesn't provide the same immersion and that it's just frustrating and time-wasting to deal with the slow walking speed from getting from point to point without carrying the critical quest item to actually make progress.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c1ffa6fd	type	Virtual Celebrity
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c1ffa6fd	comment	Virtual Celebrity: "The War On Christmas: A Measured Response" features a last-minute gag about a living Fortnite Funko Pop, with its voice actor being credited explicitly as AX3-1-v3.0.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Throughout the New Vegas video: "[insert companion name], NO!" Usually whenever Veronica does something reckless, but she earns herself the inverted version of the gag too ("Phew, thank you, Veronica").
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Invoked in Plagiarism and You(Tube). Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova successfully sued Terry Keegan over plagiarising their idea for the show Future Cop, but not before Keegan tried to claim they were stealing from Isaac Asimov. This fell short because Ellison, Bova and Asimov knew each other for 25 years, and - as Asimov put it under deposition - "you don't steal from friends". Harry brings this back up when discussing Iilluminaughti's hostile attitude to requests for editing tips, James Somerton never mentioning other queer YouTubers, and both Filip Miucin and Somerton stealing from smaller channels or writers they think they can get away from; all three only see it as a business and a numbers game, and are cut off from the larger community.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Pointed out in his video about Deus Ex: the original game was dedicated to criticizing corporations, in which organization was so big nobody knew their leaders, intellectual property, branding, and money mattered more than people, and one company could own over half of one's childhood. The prequel, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, ironically had to combat these issues itself during its own development: DXHR devs Eidos Montreal were in a rocky spot during development, when their parent company was being repeatedly bought out and merged; they had to fight their new company leaders up to the top on if they could reference Final Fantasy; said leaders being Square Enix, a massive media conglomerate with a huge score of properties under their umbrella. The "SERIOUS LORE ANALYSIS" for Ctrl+Alt+Del ends with Hbomb emerging reborn from a canvas copy of the comic's infamous "Loss" strip—about a woman miscarrying her child.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c3fcb43e	type	Protection from Editors
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c3fcb43e	comment	Protection from Editors: invoked Discussed in his Sherlock video. One of his central arguments is that the work of Steven Moffat on shows like Sherlock, Doctor Who and others ends up becoming over-written, convoluted and nonsensical simply because Moffat is the one in charge and has no one around him to tell him when an idea is bad, as the only people around him who come close to being in an editorial position are either friends or family members of his. And, by extension, the British media industry is so incestuous that the same people keep working together on different projects, meaning that the problem just keeps repeating itself. As evidence, he notes that some of Moffat's best work has been for Doctor Who when Russell T Davies was in charge and he was only given standalone episodes to work on, meaning he had to focus on telling a good self-contained story that, despite some level of creative freedom, nevertheless fitted into someone else's vision of the show instead of being free to let his own ideas spiral out of control.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c5e42cbd	type	Cutscene Incompetence
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c5e42cbd	comment	Cutscene Incompetence: One of his problems with Deus Ex: Human Revolution's cutscenes is that Adam Jensen sometimes does dumb things that force the plot to go a specific way or just make him seem incompetent, but his real issue is actually the opposite of this trope.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The recurring gag of him being hit in the face by sausages is a Shout Out to his friend, Lindsay Ellis. The thumbnail for his Vaccines and Autism video is a parody of the Re-Animator VHS box art. His RWBY video has a few: The end of the anime intro has Harry in the same pose as Vash the Stampede in the end of the Trigun credits. His 3D animation scene is a reference to the church scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service (he even calls it out). And during said scene, there are several notable video game characters in the background, including Tracer, an NCR Ranger, Donkey Kong, and The Bachelor, The Haruspex and an Executor from Pathologic. During the intro of "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3", after discussing the increasing prevalence of the Wilhelm Scream throughout cinema, Harry says "Getting in on someone else's in-joke kind of risks ruining it, but I wouldn't know anything about that," followed by a clip from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York of Marv getting shocked, with Marv's scream replaced with the Wilhelm. This is a nod to MandaloreGaming, who has a running gag of playing Marv's scream in his game reviews during clips where someone gets electrocuted. Plagiarism and You(Tube): Harry references Jacksfilms' list of the best YouTube videos of 2022, of which he appreciates that he's number 3 on the list. He also agrees that Jack's #1 best video of 2022 — lotusbandicoot's "Steamed Hams But Every Scene is a Different Animation Style" (link here) — is better than his. The time code for the chapter on Internet Historian's "Man in Cave" is labeled "Cave Story".
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: While most of the criticisms in the "Sherlock is Garbage" video are delivered fairly calmly, albeit with a heavy dose of sarcasm, the scene in which it is revealed that "a fucking boomerang" was used as a murder weapon actually causes Harry to scream in frustration.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_c9597a03	comment	Many of his video essays open with him referring to it as anything but a video essay, usually with a self-deprecating comment. He refers to his Sherlock essay as a "primal hallucinatory nightmare", his RWBY essay refers to the "...And Here's Why" series in general as "the increasingly infrequent cries for help my family refuses to believe is my job", and in his Pathologic video he refers to his entire channel as "the assorted mess of concepts that can scarcely be called a YouTube channel."
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cbabd0ca	type	Wrongfully Attributed
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cbabd0ca	comment	Wrongfully Attributed: A big part of his Halcyon Dreams video is based on disposing the myth that Don Bluth was the main creative force behind Dragon's Lair and instead spends most of the time exploring the story of Rick Dyer, the man that actually came up with the ideas behind the game. He also mentions, in the second Scanline episode, that he feels bad about everyone treating the first one like it was entirely him and acting like Shannon Strucci was barely involved. Much of the first half of ROBLOX_OOF.mp3 is spent deconstructing Tommy Tallarico's claims of taking credit for creating the titular "oof" sound, when all available evidence strongly points to the sound having been created by sound designer Joey Kuras, who simply happened to work for Tallarico's company at the time. Much of the rest of the video is shown highlighting the vast amount of Kuras' work that Tallarico has falsely taken credit for.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: Hbomb starts both his Fallout 3 analysis and his Sherlock analysis by talking about the positives, but in both instances, he can't find much to write home about. In his video about Deus Ex: Human Revolution, he explains that you can go through a side objective to have Adam's hardware swapped out due to bugs that are affecting augmented people, and if you do so, then a significantly later boss fight has to be done with an Interface Screw due to the chip being corrupted by the villains. He declares that he's "very sorry to tell you that you are correct" about it being the smartest thing in the game—going on to say that while the game remembering a minor side-quest and have it come back into the plot hours later is a pretty cool moment, it feels like the sort of thing that should be everywhere in the game, as it was in the original, as opposed to being reserved to a handful of relatively minor scenes.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cc28f3bf	type	Not That Kind of Doctor
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: Hbomb obliquely mentions that Andrew Wakefield, the main subject of Vaccines: A Measured Response is a "gut surgeon", not a psychiatric or immunology expert. He doesn't dwell on the point, however, as the primary issue with Wakefield wasn't his qualifications, but that he was lying his ass off the whole time.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Discussed in the SCANLINE video on VHS technology, in which Hbomb uses the example of Jaws and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) to point out that movies that don't show you everything are actually scarier due to the atmosphere they produce. This is then extended to the medium of VHS itself (and the later Found Footage horror movies that would imitate it), which lent itself well to horror because it was low-resolution, easily distorted and often watched on blurry, inexpertly tuned and low-resolution devices, meaning that the viewer often ended up imagining half of what frightened them without the filmmakers even necessarily trying to freak them out. The lower quality could also disguise the flaws in the special effects whenever the horror elements were on screen.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: He doesn't dwell on it but Hbomb points out offhand how RWBY's cast starts out almost entirely white despite trying to code the characters as minorities through having them be Faunus. He then jokes that the series does include a lot of black people... while showing the shadow people the show used when it didn't have enough budget to render crowd shots in Volume 1.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cf16cfa9	type	Golden Mean Fallacy
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_cf16cfa9	comment	Golden Mean Fallacy: Discussed in Bill Nye vs. Pseudoscience, when Hbomb shows Armored Skeptic praising the climate change panel in Bill Nye Saves the World for "being balanced" and "avoiding politics." Hbomb points out that "balance" isn't the point or the purpose of the segment, but rather to accurately present the science. One of the experts supported his argument that energy production in the United States could be fully sustainable if not for political barriers, and the other failed to adequately rebut him, meaning that for all practical purposes, the panel wasn't balanced.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: The whole point of Halcyon Dreams: The Legacy of Dragon's Lair is a defiance of this. Rick Dyer's ambitious project to create a fully-immersive adventure on a voice-operated home console is largely forgotten because it failed and ruined Dyer financially. Hbomb insists that Dyer's story is worth telling because accepting that talent and innovation can fail is important for anyone embarking into new creative territory. Part of his conclusion of "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3" plays with this. Hbomb notes that Tommy Tallarico takes credit for a lot of things done by his main sound designer Joey Kuras, yet it's Tommy who gets all the credit and continuously takes it for himself. Harry notes that credit in the early generations of video games was small or nonexistent, because games were considered property of their parent company first. Even now, getting proper credit is hard because of superstars in the game industy. Yoko Shimomura, for example, was only recognized for her work on Street Fighter years after the first game came out, and most of the Capcom sound team of the time the first Street Fighter game was released were women, yet they barely get any credit for their contributions. Harry concludes that while the game industry superstars get a lot of credit, he argues that it's way more than they deserve since their contributions and visions were only made possible by the numerous people under them that did most of the real hard work yet will never receive the credit they deserve.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Hbomb is flabbergasted by how many Tommy Tallarico lies slipped past him by being so basic that he never thought to question them.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_d8c10bd9	type	Ensemble Dark Horse
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_d8c10bd9	comment	Ensemble Dark Horse: invoked Harry bluntly calls Qrow Branwen one of the best characters in RWBY, because his sardonic wit makes for some of the funniest scenes in Volume 3 alone.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_d9779053	type	Plato Is a Moron
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_d9779053	comment	Plato Is a Moron: Hbomb criticizes Steven Moffat's approach to adapting Sherlock Holmes as mostly just trying to prove how much smarter and more interesting he is than Arthur Conan Doyle, which comes across as contempt for the source material. In Hbomb's view, this ironically often just proves to trip Moffat up, as his ideas of "smarter and more interesting" tend to just end up as overwritten Complexity Addiction and style-over-substance gimmickry, whereas Doyle usually just focuses on telling a simple, straightforward story with a mystery hook that is often a lot cleverer in its simplicity than anything Moffat manages.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_db54633f	comment	Can't Take Criticism: Hbomb discusses this in RWBY Is Disappointing And Here's Why regarding how showrunner Miles Luna has garnered a reputation as being unable to properly take criticism without perceiving it as a personal attack. While Hbomb agrees with points Miles has made in the past regarding taking criticism (most notably Luna's comments regarding how bad-faith criticism is less likely to work by virtue of not wanting to admit that the Jerkass Has a Point), Hbomb then points out that for all the times Luna has said he does try and find good-faith criticism of the series, he never actually acknowledges it in public and spends more time quote-retweeting bad-faith criticism of the show, leaving a perception that he never engages with good critique and setting a bad example for his fandom on how to handle criticism. invoked
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_dd7cfe55	comment	Apophenia Plot: Discussed in his dissection of Sherlock: following the disastrous final episode of the show, some fans became convinced that there had to be a secret fourth episode of season four which would retroactively make the rest of the season good - and that it would take the form of Apple Tree Yard, a BBC drama beginning the week after Sherlock ended. How did they reach this conclusion? Among other things, one version of the show's website led to a 404 error page (as in "episode 4.04"), the leading actress had the last name Watson, Sherlock at one point had the main character say "people always give up after three" and in another scene had an apple tree on some wallpaper, and a promotional image for Season 4 of Sherlock displayed Mark Gatiss holding up four fingers.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: From the "Flat Earth" video: When discussing Armored Skeptic's response to Bill Nye Saves The World in the Bill Nye Vs. Pseudoscience video, Hbomb states that he personally wouldn't have slut-shamed the ice cream and chuckles upon realizing how that sounds.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Not getting Doomfist's costume in Overwatch. Complete with Hbomb trying to sing Mad World.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Explored in Power Fantasy, Male Objectification and Lady-Fanservice. His RWBY video includes several quotes, Tweets and segments from interviews with Monty, Miles and Kerry where they make crass jokes about the protagonists and their bodies. Many of these immediately cut to one of the trio noting that Weiss, Blake and Yang were all seventeen at the start of the series, while Ruby was just fifteen.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: A large portion of his Deus Ex: Human Revolution video talks about how many of the problems that exist in the game as it stands (a long intro and forced tutorial with minimal actual gameplay, a Hacking Minigame that gets tedious quickly, the Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth systems interacting poorly, a plot where characters just kind of vanish and most of the interesting events happen in cutscenes) were also issues that, according to Warren Spektor, also existed in early builds of Deus Ex but ended up being fixed in the final game. Harry makes the point that this isn't the Human Revolution team being incompetent, but really more a sign of how the increasing scale and corporatization of game development makes it much more difficult for people to go back and fix wide-scale problems once they become apparent. So Ion Storm was able to simply cut and replace large swathes of what they had made (which would get them fired today for â€œwasting resourcesâ€�), while Eidos was stuck putting band-aids on bullet wounds.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_e5406b1b	comment	Beat: All over the place naturally. One particular usage of this trope sticks out in Harry's video about New Vegas, in which he says "pause for effect" when changing the topic to that game from Fallout 3.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: He pointedly refuses to refer to Andrew Wakefield as "Dr. Wakefield" in Vaccines: A Measured Response, due to him having neither a doctorate degree nor — thanks to his fraudulence — a license to practice medicine.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_e63f5f28	comment	Faux Symbolism: invoked Spends a good chunk of his Human Revolution retrospective joking about how the game repeatedly brings up symbolism relating to the myth of Icarus, mainly because he finds the metaphor a lot dumber than the game seems to think it is (for instance, essentially naming the antagonist megacorp "The Sun"). He even compares it to the use of religious terms in the original Deus Ex, claiming that it makes sense for Bob Page to create a naming system that positions himself as God, and that it gives Page a Wicked Pretentious vibe that he's so willing to drop Biblical metaphors in reference to his own workstation.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_e6730c11	type	Accidental Aesop
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_e6730c11	comment	Accidental Aesop: invoked He believes that the film The Room is a close impression of how Tommy Wiseau saw an actual breakup. This means it (unintentionally) works very well as a statement about how bad relationships warp your perceptions, with the nonsense characterization, rampant misogyny, and Random Events Plot being a symptom of the fact that Wiseau's viewpoint wasn't healthy or accurate. RWBY's handling of the Faunus plot is so muddled and disoriented that it accidentally makes the point that supressing a civil rights movement is actually a good thing, because they're all evil terrorists who want to bomb cities that largely are apathetic to individual acts of racism.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Discussed in his Pathologic video, where he points out how a lot of people feel that this trope ultimately cheapens the experiences of the characters in the story for the sake of a twist, but then the game challenges this line of questioning: the story was all made up anyway, and audiences should know this, so why do people feel strongly when this happens In-Universe?
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: One of his main criticisms of Fallout 3 is that the ostensible main character isn't actually driving the overall plot—he points out that the driving engine of the story is your father's choices, from start to finish, and at no point do you get to come into your own and start being proactive. He finds the choices the player character does get to make minor, some variation on cartoonish evil vs basic decency (do you want to blow up a whole town for some money and a nice apartment, or...not do that?), just plain stupid, or all three.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	Also in the New Vegas and Deus Ex videos: "[short spiel about how the franchise is amazing and a timeless classic]... so the developer went bankrupt!" Punctuated by the developer's logo falling off its hinges and then detonating. The Deus Ex video promises to use this gag about 12 more times.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: Done occasionally in Measured Response videos, such as with "Carl of Sad" and "Pajama Watso". In a retrospective video, Hbomb notes that he started doing this because he noticed that his opponents often do this in an attempt to dehumanize their targets, so he was using their own tactic against them. And also because it's funny. Defied in Sherlock is Garbage where he refuses to get Benedict Cumberbatch's name wrong for a cheap joke... except for just once. He then goes on to refer to co-star Martin Freeman as "Martin McBacon".
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_eea09b27	type	Political Correctness Is Evil
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_eea09b27	comment	Political Correctness Is Evil: Deconstructed in The War on Christmas: A Measured Response. Hbomb points out that almost all of the things pointed to as indicative of political correctness attacking the religious elements of the Christmas holiday are either completely normal aspects of the holiday that have been around for a long time or made up entirely. He also notes that a few token changes in language to help some people feel more included isn't Serious Business. Hbomb concludes by arguing that proponents of the "War on Christmas" narrative have to pretend that there's some sinister ulterior motive behind wanting to change a few things about the presentation of Christmas in media in order to avoid having to admit that it's a solution in need of a problem.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: Used in "Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response" at the end of the video. When Harry gets to the conclusion as to why Andrew Wakefield would do the terrible things he did, Harry sums it up as "money" without elaborating any further and ending the video right after that. Used to express one of his criticisms of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, from the opening of his video on the topic: after the deep and prescient themes of the original Deus Ex the new game just doesn't really say anything (which makes it an anti-climax in and of itself). Played for Laughs also in his Deus Ex video. For the first half of the video he dropped comments about how he thought the boss battles were poorly implemented with varying levels of venom, as if he was building to a large segment viciously lambasting their inclusion. When the segment finally came, with an appropriately bombastic intro, it solely consisted of the following:
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: He delivers his review of No Man's Sky entirely by screaming, in a parody of what he regarded as overblown outrage at the game's features by YouTube reviewers.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_f3faf1d4	comment	Something Something Leonard Bernstein: Hbomb's rendition of Mad World involves him mumbling every second line.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Discussed; one of his main theses in "Sherlock is Garbage" (and, to a lesser extent, his review of Moffat's final episode of Doctor Who) is that Steven Moffat, often out of what appears to be some desire to prove how much smarter than the original source material he is, keeps taking what were simple-yet-effective ideas and bolting on too much plot and gimmickry onto them. In Bomberguy's view, this ends up just tripping him up by resulting in everything collapsing into an over-complicated mess, whereas the original lasts precisely because it's simple but effective.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Several. Many of his video essays open with him referring to it as anything but a video essay, usually with a self-deprecating comment. He refers to his Sherlock essay as a "primal hallucinatory nightmare", his RWBY essay refers to the "...And Here's Why" series in general as "the increasingly infrequent cries for help my family refuses to believe is my job", and in his Pathologic video he refers to his entire channel as "the assorted mess of concepts that can scarcely be called a YouTube channel." KEVIN, in the "Measured Response" videos. Often Hbomb will make a Pun or some other deliberately terrible joke and immediately apologise for it. Frequently, scenes will end with Hbomb in mid-sentence, or even mid-word. Hbomb knocking something over and shouting "Oh, fuck!" The credits of his videos tend to run over slow-mo footage or out-takes of something (often an item used or referred to in the video) being smashed around on the floor of his studio. Hbomb's obsession with defending the Star Wars prequels. In the second "Scanline" episode, Shannon Strucci even forces him to sign a contract that he'll keep his prequel discussion to a minimum. Pressing a big red button causing the phrase CITATION NEEDED to come up in big red letters, accompanied by dramatic music, anytime someone makes a dubious claim without citing a source. In Soy Boys: A Measured Response, he pulls the button out in anticipation, only for the person in question to actually give a source this time. "Horses aren't real" has now come up in several videos. In his vaccines video he ends up having to say "putting the cart before the...squid". Whenever Shaun voices a quotation in videos about games, it's shown on-screen as a text bubble from a skull, which Harry shoots immediately after.note Shaun's avatar on most social media is a skull. This is the case in Fallout: New Vegas Is Genius, And Here's Why, where a revolver is used, and in Deus Ex: Human Revolution is FINE, And Here's Why, in which the skull is blasted at point blank with the GEP Gun. Also in the New Vegas and Deus Ex videos: "[short spiel about how the franchise is amazing and a timeless classic]... so the developer went bankrupt!" Punctuated by the developer's logo falling off its hinges and then detonating. The Deus Ex video promises to use this gag about 12 more times. Throughout the New Vegas video: "[insert companion name], NO!" Usually whenever Veronica does something reckless, but she earns herself the inverted version of the gag too ("Phew, thank you, Veronica").
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_fc151e9d	comment	All over his ''Plagiarism and You(Tube)", there are examples of people who, either in their attempt to hide their plagiarism, change the facts to seem more original or because, well, they lie. He first mentions this with Internet Historian's "Man in Cave" where he confuses the cave that Floyd Collins tried to turn into a tourist attraction, "Crystal Cave", and the cave he got trapped inside of, "Sand Cave". He then treats them both as the same cave. But most prominently with James Somerton, who has pretty much lied about everything.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_fc451ba4	comment	invoked Follow the Leader: A Discussed Trope in his RWBY video. Hbomb goes into detail on the various instances of the show taking elements from other anime and shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Soul Eater, with a particular comparison of Ruby's first scene and Spike Spiegel's first scene in the Cowboy Bebop movie (as writer Miles Luna is a long-time fan of Bebop and the scenes have many similarities) as part of a point on how taking a scene from another product without understanding why that scene originally worked only hurts your own product and makes it feel less original. This is lamented in The Killing Joke Movie and the Problem with Comics. Hbomb criticizes the comic books industry throughout the 90s for endlessly reproducing pale imitations of the actually good works of the late 80s by the likes of Alan Moore and Frank Miller. He spends about a minute reciting a litany of such characters, taking special note of the many clones of Wolverine.invoked
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: All over the Fallout: New Vegas video, where he comments about things Fallout 3 did well but weren't executed as best as they could be, then remarking that he wished a game existed that did execute those things better. Cut to New Vegas footage, and Hbomb explaining that New Vegas is that game.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_fd33878a	comment	British Humour: Being English, Hbomb does this often and as cuttingly as possible.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In the 2019 video "Pathologic is Genius, And Here's Why", Hbomb states his intention to lift a quote from the gamenote "Truth does not do as much good in the world as the appearance of truth does evil", for the curious and attribute it to a philosopher. He made good on that promise four years later, ironically including the quote in "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" and attributing it to Daniil Dankovsky, one of the characters in the game... before correctly reattributing it to La Rochefoucauld.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_fe262584	comment	Cutscene Power to the Max: His bigger issue with cutscenes is that Human Revolution's cutscenes basically just stand in for cool challenges that the player could have been doing, but are merely stuck twiddling their thumbs watching Jensen do. Comparing it to a similar mission in Deus Ex which also had a sequence where the protagonist had to set up bombs to sabotage their enemy, but did so in gameplay rather than a cutscene so the player had to be aware of how they would place the bombs, detonate them, escape the ship, etc., Hbomb lambasts Human Revolution for making the player feel like they're taking the back seat in a game that should be empowering them.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ff90e4ca	comment	Cross Through: During "Flat Earth: A Measured Response", Hbomb visits Abigail Thorn to discuss the subject, only to walk in on the filming of her video, "Why Does Britain Still Have A Queen?"... which involves Abby pouring HP Sauce onto her face and into her mouth. Hbomb decides to just reference Abby's video on the subject instead.
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H.Bomberguy (Web Video)	hasFeature	Verbal Backspace / int_ba744c4b
H.Bomberguy (Web Video)	hasFeature	Voice-Only Cameo / int_31e66c2b
H.Bomberguy (Web Video)	hasFeature	YouTubers / int_31e66c2b
HBomberGuy	sameAs	H.Bomberguy (Web Video)
Hbomberguy	sameAs	H.Bomberguy (Web Video)

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