Will you buy it?
Meh? I saw Jackscepticeye play it and that's enough for me
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this^ ,game looks ok, if it gets bundled why not. Although i wouldn't understand the jokes, I'm not a fan. I just know that he exists and his girlfriend is italian ^^
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It actually looks fun from the bit I seen. Might actually grab it one day.
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Banned him with a youtube plugin a long time ago.
Not even on a giveaway.
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I've played the iOS version, and I gotta say it's super fun :) I'll definitely get the steam version!
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Seems a bit cringe worthy for me, but hey, bundles are cheap and i have plenty worse games already in my library
It's sad though, you would think that if his name would be used in a game, that the end result would be similar to the AVGN game.
Then again, who knows, maybe it was the best product one could make, when there is so little to work with
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Looks like a low effort mobile nonsense. But then again I am not its target demographics (read: I am over 13) so who am I to judge.
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Lots of mobile games on Steam. Of course they want to spread everywhere; more money for little more work.
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this is the only game I will never buy/activate on steam
and I have a lot of shit on my account
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It's just a random platformer with PewDiePie in the name.
It's selling because is "famous"
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No matter how "famous" it is people won't write positive reviews just because it's "famous". Aside from being famous it also looks like it's good.
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That's another (valid) point.
What I mean is: without PewDiePie it would sell 1/100 of what is selling now
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Nothing wrong with that. He earned what he has now and he can license a game if he wants to. Again, the only reason I can think of as to why people shit on this without even playing is jealousy. It's so easy to hate others for their achievements and looking for faults in them but it's hard to actually get up and work for one's success, even harder to achieve it, especially as big as Pew did.
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That guy is famous, okay, I don't even know him, maybe he's talented, but he just used his name to monetize a simple platformer, that's not bad, he obviously doesn't deserve to die for this, he's just "working", but a random indie developer could release a better game tomorrow and sell 1/10 of pewpewdie. I think it sucks.
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You could say the same about any game from a big publisher that spends milions of dollars on marketing though, since there might be better games which won't sell as much because they cannot afford the same.
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That depends if the game accomplished the target audience expectations.
Of Course i still think gameplay wise its a weak game, but if it has references and whatever comedy? he makes, then at least you can think of it has a game directed to his fans
To which atleast earns the name, rather using it to assault your wallet
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Unless of course the primary customers are his fans, and they enjoy it / recommend it purely because Pooty is in it.
...in which case that's exactly what PraiseRhllor was getting at. The name is the selling point, and when the fanbase is particularly vapid a tidalwave of "+1, holds up spork, ROFLMAO!" is soon to follow. Even if the game surprises us and is actually pretty solid, any non-fanboy will have to contend with the nonsensical references and layered cringes. It might have done better if it wasn't branded after any single youtuber and had more global humour than just randumb in-jokes. Plenty of youtubers are annoying but have their certain charms, but they picked the most over the top marmite sample to put in the name.
I still don't know if that's a good or a bad move.
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+1 to that middle part. I don't want to play a platformer, even if it's good, if I have to look at stuff like this: (attached) to get through it.
Of course, the number of sales they lost because of that is probably much less than the number they gained from people who wouldn't normally purchase it, but will simply because it's PDP themed.
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I'm pretty sure they would. Confirmation bias, fanboyism and all that stuff. The primary demographic won't accept anything bad associated with their lord and savior's name.
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I don't think there are really that many people of such kind though.
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Unless it involves punching him right up his cu**, I'm not even mildly interested.
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lol all those prejucided people, it's so funny, especially that the game gets positive reviews, so yeah, don't play it just because you don't like the guy.
What a logic.
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Hating is overrated and annoying. Criticizm is fine but most guys who don't like PewDiePie just mindlessly hate on him for no reason at all. Or they are jealous that he made it big.
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People always tell me i'm jealous, the truth is i like being mean
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Or people hate him because the fanbase spilled constantly over into any related videos and swamped the comment sections with talk about PDP. The best way is to imagine the kind of person who constantly talks about one subject, then imagine they always show up with their whole family who also talk about the same subject non-stop, and then that subject also happens to be something that you find annoying. Surely you can see how that might get irksome to people? :P
PDP would have been fine on his own, but coupled with his fanbase and youtube's recommendation system constantly spamming you with PDP videos if you ever accidentally watch one or two of his uploads? Yeah, it grates. It doesn't help that the fanbase still blindly assume he is 'hated for no reason' and then start to attribute bad qualities to them, in a kind of "stop not-liking what I like!" bickering. :P
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Not really to be honest cause if someone annoys me I don't watch him and I don't listen to him. It's that simple. But people think they're entitled to bash a guy just because his videos don't fit their taste. That's rude.
Also, I've never seen what you're talking about. I've never stumbled upon anyone "forcing" his videos on me so I really can't relate to what you're saying :)
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That's the entire deal. Popular youtubers are hard to avoid, especially if they overlap with the kind of content you watch. Accidentally click into their videos a few times, and they get seeded pretty often into your recommended videos. His squarking opening line is like nails on a chalkboard to me, and before I even realise who is the uploader of a vid I clicked on, I get to hear it. Again. But I already underlined that. People would like to ignore him, but youtube algorhythms have this awful habit of seeding stuff you'd rather not see, and then taking an accidental or unknowing click as confirmation that you want more.
And yes, people ARE entitled to 'bash' someone, if they find them gratingly annoying, and their 'bashing' amounts to grouching offhandedly that they'd like to drown him in a septic tank. It's called venting. They're not real threats, they're expressions of exasperation when repeatedly exposed to something they prefer to filter out. The best comparison I can give is if you have any particularly annoying TV commercials that play strangely often, and that launch straight into a slogan or jingle that grates on your nerves before you can even reach for the mute button. The first few times you might think it's dumb. At 50 times you are annoyed. At 100+ you are compelled to mute the whole ad, and occasionally vent about how you'd like to set that company's office on fire with agent orange.
It's not personal, it's just how exposure to annoying content works.
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Actually for a lot of people it is personal, it's basic psychology really. Same thing with Kanye West for example. He's talked about a lot and so what? That gives people the right to talk shit about him? I disagree. Of course they can say whatever they want but such behavior is rude and childish in my opinion. And in a nutshell it is hating on someone who is successful and is presented and talked about in many places on the Internet. People can ignore that, why won't they? No. They have to talk shit about a successful person to feel better about themselves. And the way most comments sound proves that. Why won't they just say "I'm getting tired of seeing all those PewDiePie videos" or "I don't like Kanye West's attitude". No, most comments are filled with hatred and jealousy, not criticizm.
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No, you're missing the point, or simply not reading what I write. It's not as simple as just not going looking for their content.
There's a double-standard here. You're talking shit about people who are just venting about being tired of seeing/hearing about someone. If you're exposed to something enough, it gets grating to the point that all further exposure gets a bad reaction. That's why I used the example about advertising. It's an expression of "I'm sick of hearing about this guy" / "I'm sick of having his fans/videos jumped on me, why can't I just completely mute/block this stuff?" How a comment SOUNDS means nothing, and is utterly down to your interpretation. You have chosen to believe that everyone who grouches about PDP must obviously have an actual personal hatred, due to your opinion of 'basic psychology'.
Exposure just once or twice to someone you dislike or that annoys you? Yeah, that would normally just get a "that guy acts like an ass" or a "these videos are crap" response. Small amounts of exposure to these things over a period of weeks or months will cause that passive grouching to be more frustrated and turn into venting / cursing.
Also, this isn't what jealousy is. A more accurate word you are probably looking for is revulsion, bitterness or exasperation? Because implying that people who get annoyed at PDP all secretly want to be him or have his success (to the point they attack on sight) is myopic at best.
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What you just wrote is as much a theory as what I wrote. You can't prove none of that and it's fine that you think that. I however still stand by what I wrote yesterday. I'm exposed to the same amounts of things as most Internet users and you'll never see me cursing at some videos or singers simply because they're everywhere. Also, I'm pretty sure artists like Eminem, Beyonce, Jay-Z or Adele are talked about as much as Kanye West, Kardashians or Justin Bieber. So why the first group is almost never hated while the other group is hated almost all the time? Same goes for YT guys who have gaming channels, apparently it's "trendy" to hate on certain people for no reason because the same stuff that people say about them can be said about the rest. So if Justin Bieber acts like an asshole he's wrong but if Eminem acts like an asshole apparently it's okay? You mentioned double standards, that's exactly what people talking shit on the internet have.
And yes, it is jealousy, certain people don't like the idea that a guy "looking like that/that annoying/that stupid" has a lot more than I do and people love him. Of course they won't admit that as most of the time they wouldn't even admit it to themselves. I know a little something about psychology though and I know what I'm talking about. You don't have to believe me though.
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It's not a double standard if the exposure they had was primarily of those celebrities, and not of the others. What they have in common is that they were pushed hard by the media so that it was hard to avoid constant mentions of them. Once upon a time Eminem was exactly like that, and people 'hated' on him in the same way. People do not have an omnipotent celebrity radar that makes them aware of all people equally, therefore their venting and annoyance is uneven and usually effected majorly by what has the most exposure. Especially when there are media pushes (or in youtubes case, bad recommendation seeding and rabid fanboys bringing the person up everywhere it isn't relevant).
And nah, there is a logical progress to events that nearly all people follow. Few people totally skip the minor annoyance and passive venting just to leap psychotically to genuine personal hate and genuine jealousy. Calling it all out as so much jealousy is a massive cop-out. When artists gripe about that one time someone threw cuts of meat on a bed and it got celebrated as high art, that isn't necessarily jealousy as much as it is revulsion, disbelief and frustration. Jealousy is just a fun buzzword for demonising dissenters, in much the same way the worst (genuine) haters might try to paint PDP as an actually bad person. :P
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Do you remember that petition that was written to stop Kanye performing at some festival or in some city? Literally no one who signed it was going to go see him live anyway and yet it got a shitload of names under it. Why? Why would they want to stop an artist from performing live for people who actually care about the artist if they were not going to attend in the first place? This is proof that it goes far beyond simple "annoyance". If you take steps to actually bring sadness or misery to not only the artist himself but also to his fans then it's no longer "annoyance" nor is it anything "minor". You underestimate people's psychology and you look only at the surface. Like I said, I know how human psyche works, been studying it for a long time. You don't have to believe me, that's just my opinion though.
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Why? Because he has a habit of being a douche. People who have a habit of having douche moments (especially open and unashamed douche moments during broadcasts that include award ceremonies) will tend to develop a distinct negative following :P
PDP isn't a douche, he's just annoying.
They're on completely different levels of exposure and reasons for feeling negative towards them. The comparison is weak. All you're doing is highlighting that human beings have the capacity to feel animosity towards celebrities. I never disputed that. I just said there is more of a process to it than "I don't like his music/videos, therefore I now personally and deeply hate him to the point of sabotage". Yes, there are some unhinged individuals that will make those crazy leaps, but most go through a longer process, with the vast majority stopping at the stage where they will just grouch offhandedly about them whenever they are brought up.
Yes, 'haters' exist. Yes, sometimes the negative attention is unjustified or exaggerated. However suggesting that the majority of detractors are genuinely, personally jealous haters who try to boycott or interfere with their works 'for no reason' is really stretching it, dude. I never said that those people don't exist, I said that most people who are passively grouching about PDP or remarking "man I'd love to slap that guy upside the head" don't actually hate him, they're venting. So kindly stop with the strawmen. :P
You'd likely find that most people who dislike PDP would still be willing to shake his hand if they bumped into him at some random convention and he was friendly towards them, even if they still found him annoying at that very moment. That's how people actually are. That's how flexible and social human beings are. Human psychology in negative interaction is not a rigid and linear system of destructive, judgemental Id and Ego, especially on the subject of people not yet met on a personal level. Even with how childish some people can be, it normally takes people quite a while and a number of justifications to get to the point where they genuinely feel hate towards someone. That is something that distinguishes PDP from Kanye. As far as I can tell, the only affront that PDP has ever committed was having a grating online persona and having a lot of exposure.
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Furthermore, your face smells of poop and your mother is- wait what?
You agree with me?
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man
I don't even know how to respond to that.
I'm gonna need to go sit down for a while.
I don't know whether to celebrate this rare occurrence or feel really spooked by it.
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Maybe it's the way you explained it but what you wrote makes sense so I agree with it. What's so weird about that?
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I dunno man. Hearing someone agree with something I wrote on the internet? It's like an episode of the Twilight Zone. Agreements never happen on the internet. I've fallen into some kind of horrible alternate dimension again haven't I?
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Who said something about a guy? this topic refers to a game...
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You know well what I mean. Plus it's even worse if people judge a game without playing it first. Internet in a nutshell.
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I see where you're coming and that's fair.
On the other hand, how many people bought it and gave it positive reviews because they do like the guy? He's known for having a very loyal following and the review scores could be misleading. I don't watch him, but I've seen his fans drop mentions of him in the comments of plenty of videos and they're very passionate about him indeed.
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Even if that was true that's absolutely no reason to hate either the guy nor the game. But nowadays everyone has to have opinion about something and saying shit about others "empowers" so many people on the Internet. It's sad. I've seen that so many times though that I don't even want to keep looking at such behavior to be honest. People get a fix for their own issues by bashing others.
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Agree about not hating him or the game. He's not for me, but then I'm almost certainly not his target audience and life's too short to spend going round hating everything you don't like when you could spend the time enjoying stuff you do, you know?
Was just trying to offer a word caution regarding the reviews. I don't know that they're less reliable than reviews for other games, but I think because of who he is there's a possibility they might be.
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Yeah, sure thing, I understand. I wasn't talking about you in the first place though. I was talking about mindless haters who just hate on the guy for no reason or for reasons like "he sucks" or "he's overrated".
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Thank mighty Gaben for allowing me to delete games from my library, if it's in a bundle.
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I just really don't like this guy, don't know why maybe because he is rich and popular and I'm not, but nooo that can't be a reason :P
And what about the game? Surely won't buy it, but who knows, maybe it's good, I'm just a poor kid blinded with hate :P
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I think people who hate on him are being unreasonable. Yes he is annoying, but his audience are kids, not us adults. If he entertains children and makes them happy then he obviously isn't a bad guy and doesn't deserve all the hate he's getting from people who are jealous because he makes lots of money by having fun and being silly.
Anyway, I've seen some gameplay videos of this game and it doesn't seem bad, there are many platformers on steam that are way worse. I don't think I'll ever get that game though, it doesn't seem good enough for me to bother, especially with the backlog I have. And I've read that there are a lot of in-jokes so I don't think I'd find the dialogues enjoyable as I wouldn't understand most of the jokes because I don't watch his videos.
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I think the people that hate the opera singer from Go Compare are being unreasonable. Yes he is annoying, and constantly gets pushed into your field of view when you would rather not look, but his audience is people who maybe want to buy car insurance or listen to tedious advertisement song! If he sells car insurance, he obviously isn't a bad guy and doesn't deserve all the hate he gets from people who are obviously jealous.
(for reference : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_-9QFvhQWo)
The point is that the 'hate' isnt actual 'hate'. It's annoyance. It's over-exposure to something they don't like. Like TV ads that repeat far too often and jump straight into the annoying bit before you can change channel or hit mute. Most people would love it if they could just opt not to look at his content, but with how youtube recommendations work it's quite easy to have his videos flung at you. Accidentally clicking onto one or two videos by a single uploader will give them priority in the related videos list, and if you're the kind of person who looks into horror games or lets plays, it's easy to stumble into certain celebrities that grate on your nerves. PDP also has an awfully passionate (and annoying) fanbase that used to spill into all related videos and immediately insert PDP discussion into comment chains.
His videos are fine for what they are. He as a person is just some random guy doing youtube shit. But his flavour, his fanbase, his approach, his popularity (and therefore frequency of auto-linking) add up to the youtube equivalent of a spam ad. It's like accidentally stumbling into the weird part of youtube a few times, then suddenly finding a ton of mislabeled videos on your 'up next' which are all about people poking themselves in the eye, or uncomfortable close-ups of owners filming their dogs licking themselves. No, it's not a terrible problem, but when it feels you can't escape something you would rather just mute / skip, you start to get annoyed. ;P
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Go to his channel > about, find the flag icon and click on "block user". I think that will prevent youtube from showing you his videos.
As for his fanbase starting discussion about him on other people's videos... well just ignore those comments lol.
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i just tried it but channels i blocked keep popping up as "Recommended channel for you". maybe i did something wrong. idk. :/
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I never tried it myself, but I do remember reading somewhere that it should block the channels video from showing up if you block it. I guess that was either a lie or youtube changed how it works.
Check this userscript out. Supposedly it'll block the videos of channels you don't like from: Recommended Channels tab, Recommended/related videos, Search results and My subscriptions/What to watch.
Can be used on Firefox with greasemonkey and on Chrome with tampermonkey.
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i'm not good with scripts (a.k.a. never used one) but will definitely give this a try. it's really pain in the arse to see videos over and over from youtubers you don't like. thanks for the help.
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I'm suspecting that the recommendation algorithm used by Youtube does not actually care about what you've said that you're not interested in, but just bases it on the videos that you've watched (and the things around that, like the tags on those videos and what other people who watch those videos watch). There is for an example one channel that I often get several recommendations from, that is run by a really despicable person (the kind of person who thinks that sending death threats to people who don't share your opinion is a good idea and recommends other people to do the same thing, and that is quite popular in certain gaming circles), and I've time and time again told youtube that I'm not interested in his videos, or his channel, as soon as youtube recommends his videos, yet youtube still thinks that it should recommend me more of his videos.
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It's a common problem that a lot of people have, especially if you've ever looked at any politically or socially charged videos. If you ever look at a handful of Anti videos, by association you're likely going to get a ton of Pro videos recommended to you as a result. It's a pretty good algorhithm for capturing general areas of interest, but it lacks the ability to fine-tune or filter. I suppose that would require people to title/tag their videos properly, and that won't happen any time soon, heh.
There's always that sinking feeling when you click through a video (or let autoplay redirect you on, before you click back into the tab) and then you realise you just inadvertantly gave +1 view to a content creator you really dislike.
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Individual comments aren't even necessarily the problem but the attitude that was prevalent in them. Any singular encounter can be shrugged off (and with a tactical roll of the eyes for good measure), but when you keep stumbling across fans mocking random lets plays for "ripping off pewdie" and trying to gather other fans to downvote material for that 'reason', or when all they added was "pewdie did it before you, and better" and "+1 if pewdie rocks" it just casts a bitter shadow back on the source videos. My point was that it becomes a tumbleweed of minor frustrations that makes avoidance or filtering nearly impossible. Like annoying repeat adverts, or whatever novelty song the media is all pushing hard for at any given moment.
So yeah, it's not just any individual little niggly annoyance, but there is a cumulative effect if you encounter enough of those tiny things in a short period. While I admit I haven't had the misfortune of blundering such a minefield in some time, the bad impression the fanbase and those videos left on me has stuck to the point that whenever I see something with PDP's name slapped on it for celebrity power, I can't help but feel an aversion. There's nothing wrong with the guy himself, and naturally all fanbases have their fair portion of idiots (I certainly don't begrudge the non-idiots for having a common thing to gather around, more power to them), but the bigger something gets the more chance you have of over-exposing people who would rather not have to look at it all the time, y'know? It's a natural problem with any single fart of media that gets too big.
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Heres my opinion on the guy:His youtube facade is not that enjoyable,it really never was for me.However the guy is generous and donates millions to charity so he is o.k. in my book,just not in the comedic category.
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It does not seem like a game for me (I really don't like his style of humor), but the worst thing the existence of this game can do to me is take the spot from some other game in some future bundle. If it's a good game, then congrats to those who enjoy his style of humor.
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Did you guys see that?
PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist
EDIT: We also have Nyan Cat (Thanks fozon)
and Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures on Steam
EDIT 2: Zero Punctuation: Hatfall - Hatters Gonna Hat Edition (Thanks CBlade)
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