i deleted twitter off my phone like a month ago and discovered i haven't missed it at all. so might plug stuff here occasionally but that's it. here's all the stuff i care about it you want to follow me:
i don't know who needs to hear this but Laura Dern's special ability in the LEGO Jurassic Park game is to dive into big piles of shit and eat all of the shit.
The United States claims it can humanely perform capital punishment. But each attempt at a humane execution method inevitably falls short. Why? And what is the dreadful new strategy?
i can’t believe they lead off summer games fest with mortal kombat fatalities as if that is just normal shit to make people watch. makes gamers seem like absolute psychos. so embarrassed.
people decide "sure, she's a bigot, but we can't punish the developers for it!" and so developers and publishers never stop making bigot IP. the bigot is never punished. the bigot thrives forever. this is the cycle people are convincing each other to accept.
jeffm was one of the hardest workers and driest, funniest people in this office. there was no one better to complain with at the end of a long day. i love you. this place will be 5% quieter and 100% more boring in your absence.
sad news: I'm leaving Game Informer next week. I made the incredibly difficult decision to pursue other creative goals, and it'll be risky but i'm really excited about it and I hope you'll join me. Thank you to everyone at GI for an amazing three years, I love you all so much.
happy one year anniversary to my beautiful girlfriend Marie and me. she’s not on twitter which is just one of a million ways she’s smarter than i am. i love her so.
don’t have any more to share about today except holy fucking shit i love GameStop. god damn they know what they’re doing and are cool. hell yes to GameStop and their strategies that will save them. Power to the freaking players.
The Tesla? Modded Austin A35. Neuralink? The Mind Manipulation O Matic. Wallace has an answer for every one of Elon's inventions. let's see if he can take the title once and for all.
who's a better inventor, Elon Musk or Wallace & Gromit?
oh that planet there? that was earth. yeah they had a bunch of natural resources and they used them to harvest little ape cartoons and sell them to each other for $40,000. luckily, everyone died
leaving twitter forever, my primary social media will now be Marvel Snap. i’m Leo on there. if you get in a match with me and want to communicate, you are allowed to use these emotes.
well. i never thought i'd have to make a video like this, but it's time to clear the air. thank you all for your support.
addressing the allegations (that i am bald)
In two weeks, I'll be starting part-time at
@MinnMaxShow
! I'll be popping up on streams and doing gaming video essays (if they hit their patreon goal)! I CAN NOT wait to reconnect with these amazing people and help MinnMax grow.
there are some real player gangs in Red Dead Online that like to wear white suits and masks and do KKK stuff. last night i saw some griefing so i stopped them and then my posse murdered them over and over until they forfeited. felt good!!
if you like my videos to be firmly Hinged, look away now. bit of a passion project here, hope it does something for ya ♥
a Fan SUCKED ME into their computer!! (REAL)
so surreal. thank you Al for blessing me, the amount of fresh viewers finding my Now You See Me video and sticking around to check out my other stuff has been staggering. and really encouraging ❤️
new vid! digging into the deep lore of Stuart Little and answering the big questions that have left fans reeling.
can they understand the cat in Stuart Little?
Javy Gwaltney also got laid off today. amazingly talented writer. i knew him from his Interactive Fiction Fund before he started, and was glad to hear he got picked up by GI. he is a force for good in this industry and i love him.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but: Wallace & Gromit do NOT have a "healthy relationship." Gromit is responsible and caring, while Wallace falls prey to his own (absurd) inventions. An ideal partner has qualities of both Wallace+Gromit. Is it you? Did you need to hear that?
god damn it!!! im trying so hard to care about PC games going exclusive to the epic store... fuck i want to be mad about it so bad!!! but i don't give a shit!!! fuck!!!
do you think when they discovered salt they said “hmm i think we’re gonna put this on everything for thousands of years.” and then pepper was like “uhh, hold my beer!” Let’s fight back against Elon’s twitter takeover by making this go viral!!
Kyle is the most patient man I've ever met. through years of getting lovingly dumped on in our videos he was nothing but a great spirit and a great friend. i can't imagine this place without him. love you Kyle.
I was laid off from Game Informer this morning which was surprising and heartbreaking. Writing for the magazine gave me some of the best experiences of my life. I absolutely adore everyone I worked with and consider them genuine friends.
it's so funny to me when recipes call for fresh lemon juice. like yeah we all agree the recipe would be better if i had fresh lemons instead of that little lemon juice bottle. we all wish we lived in that world.
so my friends are playing minecraft and they mentioned a chisel, and i said that's how snoop dogg says chill. now what if i told you that got zero laughs. would you even believe me
the israel/palestine issue is actually really quite complicated. when you say that israel doing genocide is bad, people get mad at you. so there's a lot of factors at play here.
Hanson is unbelievably talented and funny and his hard work inspires me every day! i'm so glad to see these amazing people come together for something like this. it's the best thing i could've hoped for. godspeed my friends ❤️
After 9 years, I’m sad to leave Game Informer and excited to launch
@MinnMaxGames
as a Patreon devoted to games, friends, and getting better. If you’ve enjoyed our videos/podcasts throughout the years, we could really use help sharing our new adventure.
hey i wrote a review! i'm as surprised as you are. thanks to
@Joejuba
for making it 100x more readable and thanks to Valve for making a really good VR game!!
new video! a terrifying deep dive down memory lane, just in time for halloween. join me as i sort through 👻complicated emotional territory👻
Hatewatching Vine's "Popular Now" Boys
For the other part of my time, I'm starting a new personal YouTube project! The first episode just went up, if you liked my E3 stuff it's kinda like that. vids will be on all kinds of topics. Your subscription would mean the world!
i only play mortal kombat to freak out my mom. it’s not fun at all but i play 100+ hours a week in the hopes that my mom will find out and freak. every time i see someone’s eyes get pulled out of their ass i say “i hope mommy doesn’t see this” but secretly i want her to
my politics are simple: i don't stan anyone who flew on jeffrey epstein's plane. *finds out Crazy Frog was on the flight log* ok look this stuff is more complicated than you people think.
You ever think about how it's good for you to take probiotics AND it's good for you to take antibiotics? Seems to me like your body has just the right amount of biotics to begin with. - Leo Vader
i brush past this pillar every day to get my lunch from the fridge. there are a bunch of annoying nails stuck in it that would catch on my shirts and rip holes in them. i whined about it once and the next morning when i got in, Kyle had put up a piece of foam to cover them ❤️❤️❤️
no E3 kings tonight! going to see my grandpa for the last time after work. not feeling like the comedy jokes man!! thank you for understanding. please enjoy the GI show live every night this week, i'll be modding the chat. <3 u
today is my one year anniversary at game informer! it has been the best year of my life. thank you to everyone who’s been a part of it or any of the other years that led to it ❤️❤️❤️❤️
i try to not let comments get to me, but there was one that fucked me up recently. they said i should keep the good jokes but lose all the bad ones. but like… which ones are which? how would i know? clearly i thought they were all good. it bodied me
at the end of Spy Kids 3D they forgive every villain in the franchise, including the one they're currently fighting, and they all just chill together. disney doesn't want you to know this is possible
Suriel was an absolute treasure at GI. unbelievably funny and knowledgable. one of our best on-camera personalities and it is going to suck working here without him. glad we live next door so we can still hang. i love you man.
I was laid off this morning so today was my last at Game Informer. Thanks to everyone who's made this whole experience a blast over the years, let me know if you have leads on potential work, and unionize your workplace.
Thank you all for supporting me so hard that I can feel good about making a move like this. I'm doing a goodbye stream with GI next week, and then I hope to see you all at
@MinnMaxShow
the week after that! 💗💗💗💗
1. move bars i don’t understand for 3 hours until i go insane
2. repeat to myself “this is what humans look like” in the face of an over adjusted pastel mess
i love you Imran. you made game informer a better place and put up with more undeserved shit than maybe anyone i've ever seen. it was an honor to work with you.
My position at Game Informer was eliminated today. Thank you to all the readers, the fans who have sent me nice messages over the years, my colleagues, and everyone in the industry who made me feel welcome. You all made this the best experience of my life.
i started at game informer around E3 so every year it’s like a birthday party for my employment here. it’s my favorite time of year to be in this business, just a week of fun coverage and hard work on projects i’m proud of. i’m excited!!!
Hard to believe, but this is my last week at Game Informer. After 29 years, it is time for a change. I’m leaving games journalism. I wanted to thank everyone who made this dream possible. It has been an amazing experience. My final letter: (1/3)
all it is, is people deciding it's fine. there's no secret cabal of transphobes funding JK Rowling that are the real problem, and we just gotta vote her out of office! decisions like this are all we have. play something else. my opinion.
my new video is up and you're not going to believe me but it's probably the most personal thing i've ever made! please enjoy: "when you slip on a banana peel"
well i did it. nobody told me to do it and in fact i was actively warned against it, but i made an episode a day for seven days. my shortest work day was 11 hours. i’m very proud and grateful that people have enjoyed it so much. ready for the freaking weekend.
Tonight, the question we've all been waiting to have answered: Who Won E3? See if you got it right in this conclusion to the Who's Winning E3 video collection.
3. export and realize it 100% looks like dump ass but id rather release it than spend one more minute color correcting
4. never hear anything about it because no one cares about color correction on youtube videos
hope this was helpful!!!! 🤟🏻😘👍🏻
i was angry that cops get away with gleeful murder and we consider getting fired a Just punishment as if they were caught stealing napkins from the break room but then I saw a comment that said "most cops are good, this just keeps happening for some reason" and now im enlightened
Elise is an excellent talent who worked extremely hard to get where she was. she provided representation and points of view that benefited us greatly as a team. love you Elise.
I was laid off and today is my last day at Game Informer...along with a handful of colleagues. I'm heartbroken. I loved my work so much. But if you know of anywhere that's hiring, give me a heads up. Thanks to everyone who has read my words. <3
now that i finally have a platform on youtube, i’d like to use my power to say Fuck the Raycon E25 Everyday Earbuds, they're super uncomfortable and change volume randomly and connect like half the time. use code "SexyJDaniel" at checkout for 10% off
we all knew this day was coming. i have made a video about ketchup. the question: is it good? or is it bad? the answer may shock you.
Ketchup: Good or Bad?
new vid! i discuss why dramatic title sequences need to get their point across more quickly and oh look it's my longest video.
Prestige TV's intro problem
new video! and it's exactly the kind of youtube shit i love to watch myself: a too-long dissection of a movie no one's thought about for five years. enjoy:
were the magicians in Now You See Me wizards or what?
i can't believe the day is finally here. it feels like christmas. come watch the joy slowly slide off my face over the course of 12 hours as i realize it's just a video game and won't fix every problem i've ever had!
Join
@leovader
(seen here) at 9am Central as he kicks off a marathon stream of Watch Dogs: Legion, his most-anticipated game in years.
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my "You Only Say F**k Once" video about adult content in PG13 movies was starting to do well on YT and then got removed for nudity. i appealed because it was for education and they gave my channel a strike and now i can't upload for a week. will re-upload (blurred) after that!
new vid! finally closing the book on a piece of trivia that's been a controversy in the MoD community for over a decade.
Was the Turtle Club scene really shot on 9/11?
damn... i'm just thinking about how the guy who was assaulted by kevin spacey died right before the trial. the universe is so wild sometimes. so random. it turned out kinda good for kevin spacey though. he must be like "phew!", you know. "glad i paid for that
this wasn’t intentional but, my sister pointed out to me how very meta it was to start with an episode on ADD, then disappear for two weeks and come back with an exhaustive look at an episode of TV from five years ago
Mandela Effect Moment: many adults remember childhood Christmases spent watching cartoons of a nasty villain named The Grinch, but really it turns out his name was The Grinc. Isn't that crazy. Like this if you knew it was The Grinc the whole time
i've been blessed with some great bosses but Bertz was another level. never felt more appreciated and cared for than in those yearly reviews, not to mention his talent for writing and as a personality. love you man.
Today GameStop informed me that I don’t work at Game Informer anymore. I was very proud to manage and work alongside that incredible team of editors, designers, writers, podcasters, programmers, videographers, and gamers. They will always be fam to me.
and you know what! for the video i filmed today i accidentally wore a green shirt in front of my green screen. don't let anyone tell you you can't be completely dumb as shit and still be successful
i've been going to great lengths to avoid burning myself out on youtube and it's been a really wonderful success but now I can't make a heartfelt video about how i'm burning out so that's pretty bullshit.
MY claim to fame? nick robinson once followed me on twitter by accident and unfollowed me minutes later. then he got cancelled, and you know what? i orchestrated the whole thing.
somebody in the youtube comments is trying to spread a rumor that i don't play video games. i would just like to say this is 100% true. i didn't even know what a video game was until i started working here. i thought it was a sports magazine.
hey it's my new video! i traverse the wilds of VR Chat to see if it's possible to experience the highs (or lows) of movie-fantasy Virtual Reality.
has VR caught up to Ready Player One? or Spy Kids 3D?