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Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (2002)

Duration: 42:56

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This video is a response to "sly cooper is a bad game" by Xavien Wisdom.
I did in fact watch the whole video.

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus aka Sly Racoon, is an absolute classic, so it irked me when I saw that this video existed. Its an absolute Sucker Punch classic, and really the best PlayStation Two era platformer I can think of. I coincidentally wrote much of this video on the anniversary of the game's publishing, which was a pleasant surprise to hear about on twitter. What you're reading in this description right now is my rambling while waiting for this video to finish uploading. Something I didn't mention in the video but probably should have, is Xavien Wisdom bullying some people in his comment section. After feeling a little guilty attacking his arguments during the script writing process, I had written some niceties for the conclusion to make clear that while he has used clearly bad faith arguments, deceptively advertised the content of his video, and shown an incredible contempt for the audience he is exploiting, I still respected his talent as a creator, and understand that merely having opinions which I strongly disagree with does not in any way make him a bad person. However, during the *editing* process I in fact came across a comment thread which led me to scrap the planned conclusion of the video. In this thread several users were criticizing Xavien the Unwise, for his bad takes. One user, TheUltrasora, humorously remarked "excuses!, after Xavien openly confirmed yet again that his intention was to flame the game’s audience, rather than engage in an interesting discussion. In response to this… joke… Xavien Wisdom decided to scour TheUltrasora’s YouTube Channel for a video without views, screenshot it, and link it to everyone else in the thread. This is completely unacceptable of anyone with a platform reaching thousands of people. Trying to treat views as some kind of a dick measuring contest is utterly pathetic, especially when the video you’re trying to insult, made with minimal effort, is better than the video you are defending. Of course, all of this bullying is entirely befitting the sort of person who would name themselves “wisdom”, which is a lot like claiming that you’re humble. Genuinely wise people, much like genuinely humble people, don’t go around claiming such. Socrates, the founder of western philosophy, famously said, “I know that I know nothing”. Xavien “Wisdom” does not. Here’s a link to subscribe to TheUltrasora, while I continue to wait for this video to finish uploading:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheUltrasora?sub_confirmation=1

It would be incredibly funny if he amassed more subscribers than Xavien Wisdom, an Act Attorney kind of justice to bullying. I had considered redesigning my thumbnail style, but seeing it in the Studio Editor, it looks perfectly fine. You clearly thought the same if you're reading this. Oh BTW, don't be a weird asshole and harass this guy, that would be a dick move. Don't do that. That's bad. This video took forever to make, I mean forever. The first parts started like three or four months ago, and the tone of the video clearly changed with the time that passed. I notably switched to the .mov file format which looks a lot better but slows my terrible lenovo laptop to a crawl while editing. I apologize if the audio is not super great, I don't project a very strong emotional presence when reading my scripts. This worked in my favor for this video as my often slightly detached delivery, helped keep the focus on the arguments rather than my distaste of Xavien's antics. I don't really intend to make a habit of making response videos if I can help it. I really enjoyed making longer-form content, which is what I personally tend to enjoy watching on YouTube, but, for me, building my channel by shitting on other people isn't really the ideal rout. I might do a souls video. I might do a video on SuperPower 2 given how awful the launch for SuperPower 3 was.

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