RedButtonPusher
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I had the same. His science-related stuff is great, as long as he doesn't repeat himself like some boomer, which unfortunately he does rather often. Its when he starts talking politics it becomes cringe.
Thunderf00t / Phil Mason - Single manbaby, angry atheist/anti-feminist Youtuber, attention whore
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Sister services, email, and search will continue to be negatively effected by the attacks. I made a thread to talk about it, if you're into networking.
It's not all that difficult to be better than some creationist moron, a new-ager, or some dumb legbeard who thinks sexy women in videogames create rapists. What perplexes me is why he seeks these people out, the creationists make sense for him to get angry about and debunk, he's a scientist and likely sees red whenever someone talks about Noah's Ark as a real thing that actually literally existed precisely as the bible described it. Same for the New Age types, various sorts of Pseudo Science pushing frauds and other miscellaneous weirdos that intrude on his area of expertise.
His participation in the teh greeat vidya gaem culture war seems odd to me though, Thunderfoot is a functional adult with a reasonably important job and likely doesn't have enough spare time on his hands to both play video games and also mock the people who hate, say, titty armor for example.
Dopamine hit from being "right."
IIRC 'Thunderf00t' is the nickname he originally used for online FPS games like Tribes. So he was into video games at some point.
Edit: Oh, and a lot of his anti-SJW attitude stems from the Atheism+ stuff rather than GamerGate.
It's not perplexing at all. TF is a serial puncher-down. I don't think he has ever taken on somebody who can engage with him as an equal. He deliberately seeks out the dumbest people to target and laugh at. He's not only a coward, he's completely insecure and obnoxious. He plays the 'not touching you!' game like a seasoned master, poking and jabbing at people until they lash out, then immediately taking the high ground. When somebody he doesn't like fails or messes up in some way, he gleefully dogpiles on them and kicks as hard and as often as he can.
Basically, he's an absolute soyboy and in every way a mirror of the people he mocks, just with enough intelligence to pick and choose his battles a bit better than normal.
And if I recall correctly about 2 years ago there was a bit of a controversy as he was found to be taking stuff entirely out of context, then arguing against points the subjects didn't make.
I think the last part is the most important one. He doesn't attack any of the powerhouse non-mainstream scientists out there who have the intellectual and academic chops to dunk on him.
Other Thunderfoot imitators like Professor Dave pick fights with everyone who disagrees with the current scientific paradigm and regularly end up twisted into pretzels when their more legitimate opponents cite a litany of Nature articles that refute the highschool-level chemistry and physics takes they have. TF's particular grift is only attacking the lowest hanging fruit so he can never be hit back.
Phil is a shining example of why scientists should not be in charge of running the world. Many young kids pose the question "Why don't we let the scientists run things?". Phil is the perfect example of why this is not the case.
I only recently found Professor Dave while looking into flat earth bs (I finally met one IRL) and I got the feeling that he did the same sort of thing that Thunderfoot does: removes context to make the other look stupid.
I liked the Busted series, but when I went to watch the creationists series, I couldn’t help but notice how he would either ignore the context of what was being said or remove it entirely. It really soured my opinion of him. I’m no Young Earth creationist, but if you’re going to debate someone, intellectual honesty is required (an understanding of Christian doctrine, in the case of the creationists series, would’ve been helpful as well).
The man made three videos about a Kickstarter that was an Aeropress coffee maker clone, specifically sperging about how it’s impractical and how he doesn’t make coffee that way. Ignoring context is his brand.
I wanna say "hes buying into the whole 'trump hates climate change' crap that occurred when he axed some obama-era legislation, to which bernie did an ultra-stretch by claiming trump has a climate change denial agenda"
its basically the standpoint of most of the cookie cutter atheist channels(the ones who make 10 videos about [insert creationist channel here] and how "atrocious" it is that said channels are gaining an audience but I digress) when it comes to politics, and the main trojan horse of how they inadvertently and unknowingly start taking in libtardic political views, which would inevitably lead to the dickswinging of said political views(regardless of what alignment they have), complete with the "anyone who disagrees even a little bit is a subhuman" drivel.
The only edge that tf00t has over all the others, in my opinion, is his voice isnt as grating to the ears, oh and his face isnt as punchable.
Beard_Chan
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I like his content when hes focusing on practical things like the Theranos deception, the crazy shit Elon promises like the hyper loop, or debunking crazy kickstarter inventions. He does a decent job presenting objective evidence, but he does tend to drag things on. When he gets into politics and religion it gets difficult to watch.
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