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Hey everyone, my name is GameStach, and welcome
to Why I Hate, a series dedicated to all the
things that piss me off the most on YouTube.
And in this episode: Game Theory, where I
will mainly go over how MatPat gives shape
to his channel.
"To hate" something is of course a bit of
a loaded way to formulate something, so let
me add this disclaimer.
Disclaimers are of course a bit of a pussy
thing to add to your video, but I wanna make
sure that I'm not misunderstood.
All the things I'm gonna say, are either about
the choices MatPat or the Game Theory channel
made.
I'm therefore criticizing the choices, not
the people.
I'm sure that MatPat is a really nice guy
once you get to know him, but this is about
him as YouTuber, not him as a person.
Now that that shit is out of the way, let's
get started with the video.
At first I really loved GameTheory.
I believe I was drawn in by one of their videos
about the Legend of Zelda, and ever since
I was hooked.
I've watched a ton of their videos, although,
I have to say that I wasn't really always
into Culture Shock, mostly due to the fact
that the narrator's voice was high pitched
and that really annoyed me.
Continuing our theme of tribal Africa, they
too have a ton of masks for just about every
occasion.
But after some time, some cracks started to
show.
I believe the first thing that I really disliked,
was when they started doing live streams.
I remember that there was some kind of an
annoucement that they were going to do live
streams, and initially I was very excited,
because we had only seen MatPat in very scripted
videos.
And that of course meant that he always acted
a bit animated in some sense.
I can of course understand that.
You want to entertain your audience and a
good way of doing that is making use of the
full potential of your voice.
However, I hoped that with the live streams
we would see a bit more down-to-earth version
of MatPat that we had not seen before.
Yet if you watch those first live streams,
you actually see someone who is trying way
to hard to be liked.
And in my opinion, that kinda comes across
as being insincere.
Again, I can understand this to some extent,
but this is just something that bothers me.
A second reason why I stopped watching Game
Theory, is because some theories just rubbed
me the wrong way.
Not in the way that I don't want certain theories
to be true, but more in the way that I find
that some theories use really bad arguments.
Of course there are numerous videos that MatPat
acknowledges to have had wrong theories.
For example one of the first Zelda theories
was wrong, and I believe also some Five Nights
at Freddy's theories were incorrect.
There is of course nothing wrong with being
wrong.
Theories are there to be discussed, but if
your arguments are just bad that just
seems like a cheap way to support your theory.
There was actually one video that I wanted
to show here.
I remember in this video that the arguments
were so bad, that I said loudly to myself...
But I can't find it anymore, so I'm affraid
I can not show it to you.
It is of course a bit hypocritical for me
to say that he uses bad arguments, and then
for me not to include the video I just referenced.
So to fix that, I will instead talk about
a different video.
Take the video about racism in GTA.
In this video he wants to check whether the
police have some kind of prejudice against
black people.
To test this he does three different tests
for each of the three characters, and he repeats
these tests five times each.
The test gets a score of zero if the police
does nothing, it gets one if the police acts
agressively and it gets two if the police
start shooting or arresting someone.
In the columns you have the different police
stations, where the tests were conducted.
His conclusion is that there must be some
kind of prejudice in this region of the game.
He also notes that this might just be coincidence,
but in my opinion he heavily implies that
he does not think that that is the case.
To make such a statement is in my opinion
not very credible.
Firstly, the creators of the game have said,
as MatPat mentions himself in the beginning
of the video, that there is no kind of prejudice
in the game.
He is of course right to doubt that statement.
Secondly, some basic knowledge in probability
theory and statistics, will show you that
you need a big sample size in order to make
accurate conclusions.
Doing a test only five times is way too less.
If you do a test n times, and you see your
desired result r times, then r divided by
n is a good approximation for the probability
of that event happening.
Yet, if your n is larger, your approximation
becomes more accurate.
There is one more thing that, only after I
had seen it a couple of times, really started
to annoy me.
And that is all the down time you have in
the Game Theory videos.
And with down time I mean every time MatPat
is not getting to the point, or he includes
some kind of a word play as a joke, or when
he is repeating something he had already said
before.
You can basically start any Game Theory video
and the first one and a half minutes will
be filled with filler bullshit.
Let's just take a random video, and count
the amount of down time.
Lastly, I wanna get back to
one point I made before, and that is the insincerity
I see in MatPat.
In my opinion, this has become even more apparent
in his more recent videos.
You now have these videos, where MatPat is
sitting there and talking to a camera.
I believe the goal there was to be a bit more
serious, but all you see now is just over
the top amplified emotions.
You never just see a normal person.
When he is happy, he is ecstatic.
When he is sad, he is devestated and when
he is angry, he is furious.
I just can't take anything like that seriously.
And those are the reasons I don't like Game
Theory.
Do you agree or disagree?
Leave it in the comments below.
Tell me what you'd like to see changed in
the Game Theory channel or just tell me why
my opinion sucks.
And I'll see you next time.
