Game:

Earthworm Jim (1994)

Duration: 56:00

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PLEASE READ THE PINNED COMMENT BEFORE YOU REPLY. SERIOUSLY. IT WILL SAVE BOTH OF US A LOT OF TROUBLE. Also you may want to view the video on a large screen for some parts where text shows up on screen, I think I made it a little hard to read...

I might have bitten off a little more than I can chew with this one. I need to choose less stressful video topics. (Doesn’t help that I was kind of not-feeling-great when I recorded this.)

If anything will get people to say that I hate video games, it’s this one. Today I look into Earthworm Jim and its main creator and find out how well the game holds up versus the nostalgia we have for it, and whether or not we should keep interest in a new project in the series. I review the two main games! I finally got around to watching the whole cartoon after having only seen two episodes for most of my life! I call upon philosophers and try to prove my degree isn’t meaningless! Fun for the whole family. Except for the parts where I swear. That’s not very fun for disapproving parents, but if the kids are anything like I was when I was young, they’ll find it hilarious!

By the way, there’s a couple of points I didn’t get to in this video, including a claim that Tommy Tallarico didn’t pay certain performers who contributed to Video Games Live, but I couldn’t find a whole lot substantiating it, so I didn’t want to go spouting off about things I only know a little about. If people can point me at some sources for this one, I’ll try making a video if an opening occurs in the schedule.

And lastly, yeah, my first attempt at uploading this got blocked in the US and Canada by NBCUniversal and Dreamworks because I used some clips from the cartoon. This is an edited re-upload.

CONTENTS:
0:00 Intro
1:47 Background
10:02 Examination
24:27 The Creator's Terrible Views
41:21 "Tolerance"
48:30 Does This All Matter?
52:06 Separating Art from Artist
53:57 Conclusion
55:02 Outro

The mentioned video from Mia Mulder can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CW9GCN0X_w

The post on Mostly Retro (one of James Eldred’s blogs) where Doug goes into the comment sections is right here: http://mostly-retro.com/2013/06/02/on-doug-tennapel-bigotry-and-supporting-hate/

The comment mentioned in that later part is right here: http://gameological.com/2013/06/foc-tennapel-armikrog/#comment-442980 - I ended up not really using this page as much of a source for anything else.

Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130622081730/http://killscreendaily.com/articles/laughing-stock-doug-tennapel/ - Doug TenNapel, Interview with Patrick Cassels, Kill Screen

http://www.matthewvines.com/transcript/ - Matthew Vines, “The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality” (video and transcription thereof)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160402191158/http://gaygamer.net/2011/05/on_ratfist_doug_tennapel_and_w.html - VorpalBunny, Gay Gamer, “On Ratfist, Doug TenNapel, And Why I Won’t Be Reading”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-does-the-bible-teach-about-transgender-people - Jay Michaelson, The Daily Beast, “What Does the Bible Teach About Transgender People?”

https://twitter.com/andrewfarago/status/1150116085246513152 - Andrew Farago, tweet thread about that SDCC 2010 panel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgwS_FMZ3nQ - PhilosophyTube, “The Politics of Antifa” (the used sections of Ollie’s video start around 27 minutes in)

David F. Greenberg’s 1990 book “The Construction of Homosexuality,” published by the University of Chicago Press.

Karl Popper’s 1945 “The Open Society and Its Enemies” was most recently published (if memory serves) by Princeton University Press in 2013. I’m using a scanned version of the Fifth Edition (published 1966).

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