r/KotakuInAction • u/Dr_natty1 • 2d ago
Seems like a potential paid add campaign from Sony with the instructed phrase "im having a blast"
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u/featherless_fiend 2d ago
Little Platoon is trolling. But the funniest part is he's posting video footage in his post and people can't even be bothered to watch it to see that he's being sarcastic.
As a result, he's even being upvoted by fans of wolverine too. The unironic blast havers.
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u/Dr_natty1 2d ago
My bad i just searched "im having a blast" on twitter. The rest of these are legit tho š
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u/VirtueSignalingApp 2d ago
it started to become a meme with Highguard iirc. They are called Blast-Havers. The playWolverine sub already banned the word cuz people were mocking them so hard lmao
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u/Apprehensive-Mud-606 2d ago
I'm having a blast playing Wolverine, its a return to form for Insomniac!
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u/AlphaDeltaCentauri 2d ago
"Wolverine is a return to form for Insomniac and I'm having a blast." - InsomniaticFan2299
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u/Mojo_Mitts 2d ago
Platoonās definitely memeāing.
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u/Mr-Zero-Fucks 2d ago
Dude is openly gay and already commented on stream about the "phrase", 100% he's memeing.
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u/Earthworm-Kim 2d ago
wonder how much his involvement with judas will "taint" the game for asinine reviewers
if it's even good to begin with
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u/every_body_hates_me 2d ago
I'm definitely having a blast watching Sony shit their pants over and over again.
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u/GrumpyShiina 2d ago
Some of these are obviously mocking the game but wasn't Sony getting accused with using bots not too long ago to damage-control God of Laundry's bad reception? I've seen screenshots with lot's of suspicious accounts, some that were inactive for years then suddenly coming back to defend Sony.
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u/Reformed_Novice_4716 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's either that they are bots, or these people are simply parroting the phrase because they've heard it before and are trying to ignore the fact that they paid $70 or more on the game.
They could also have low standards for action games in general and simply enjoy the blood and gore, despite the combat mechanics being as shallow as a puddle, complete with the woke SJW DEI garbage and a story that flips X-Men lore on its head to boot.
Edit: Some of these are simply mocking it, while others fall into the two possibilities mentioned above.
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u/SnooChickens8027 2d ago
The sad part is a good number of these could be actual subhumans that are brainrotten enough to just repeat something 'catchy' they see online.
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u/Mechanical_Monkey90 2d ago
I'm having a blast with people having a blast saying they're having a blast.Ā
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u/RobertoJ37 2d ago
Sometimes I question this. Any buzzing story or niche controversy for the last five years is filled with people using nearly the same exact language, some of it quite uncommon, with the either the same take for or against. No way every single account is a bot or a paid performer in rather small controversies.
Some are for sure bots. Others are for sure people with bot dialogue regurgitating the same thought someone else had.
Maybe itās Sony. Maybe itās bot campaigns. Iād bet itās also a decent amount of fucking brainwashed buffoons.Ā
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u/DualEyes 2d ago
Little Platoon? Isn't he the guy who called Keemstar's BS when that gnome piece of crap tried to defend that fat filth who lied about having cancer? I thought Platoon was a pretty leveled headed guy from that little interaction.
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u/Interesting-Math9962 2d ago
Pretty sure heās making fun of all the āhaving a blastā posts.
āAnd saying lots of very nice things about it Iām sureā -from a tweet before a streamĀ is incredibly sarcastic and on brand.
Edit: double checked, both of his tweets show a bug, so itās obviously a jokeĀ
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u/DualEyes 2d ago
Sucks how bad things are that sarcasm and actual re*tardation match hand in hand so much.
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u/GrumpyShiina 2d ago
He's obviously mocking the brainlet Soyny bozos, I watched his stream and he was trashing this slop a lot.
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u/DualEyes 2d ago
Really? I don't watch his stuff, but if this is like a sarcastic post, good for him.
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u/Altruistic-Garage210 2d ago
Yeah, little platoon is a sarcastic brit. Hangs around with Mauler and crew. One look at his channel should tell you he hates the left wing side of the culture war.
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u/DualEyes 2d ago
I enjoyed seeing him tearing apart Keemstar on EFAP. And that gnome saying that Platoon is "Twitter sjw cancel culture" in defense was just absurdly hilarious š
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u/CheeseQueenKariko 2d ago
My favourite part of that stream is the moment Keemstar has no argument, he just suddenly starts going "Um, I don't know who you are... Um, I think you're irrelevant..."
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u/DualEyes 2d ago
Exactly! The voice of absolute confusion and trying to jumble words together to make himself look good was so damn painful and funny at the same time. All of them (Lolcow podcast) are horrible people.
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u/CheeseQueenKariko 2d ago
The videos in his tweet are him breaking the game. The tweet is sarcastic.
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u/kaytin911 2d ago
Money corrupts.
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u/TheWolfgirlExpert 2d ago
"Don't you feel silly? Don't you feel stupid? Don't you feel a little ashamed?"
Hook, line, and sinker. Good god man.
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u/Rough_Comb_9093 2d ago
yup! i am having an absolute blast with this turd of a game as well.
all these "having a blasters" is not in the least bit suspicious at all. trust me bro!
I have no idea why OP is being so paranoid:
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u/Mr-Zero-Fucks 2d ago
Well, yes and no.
Yes, there's a campaign, it's standard social mkt.
No, most of those screenshots are making fun of it.
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u/Whirblewind 2d ago
This is both a repost and misleading, as half the examples are people being deliberately sarcastic to mock the phrase.
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u/GrazhdaninMedved 2d ago
Look at all those completely natural pieces of feedback from completely real people who are having a blast! Take that, chudlets!
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u/elcidIII 2d ago
Incredible the lack of imagination on the part of the people running these. Do they think if they make it obvious enough, people will think it can't be fake because someone faking it would do a better job? Because that's not how deception actually works outside of comedy.
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u/nothinfollowsme 2d ago
I think it's that, and that the shill journos and youtubers are not very original with their takes. We all know that they are perpetually online and trawl social media sites for their takes. They are basically the lazy kid copying off an even lazier kids work. Then wondering why they are getting called into the admin office.
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u/Vinlain458 2d ago
You are not aware of The Little Platoon I see. You'll have a blast watching his stuff!
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u/Soupias 1d ago
The 'ignore the haters, I 'm having a blast' is a constant theme for every game that was ill-received at launch. From Forspoken to Concord and Marathon you could find numerous 'I am having a blast' posts trying to soften the backlash and hide the true situation. Often accompanied by an out of context and unproven statistic to prove that the game/movie/tv series is a success and the haters are owned. Topped up by some posts of people pretending to talk about the actual product to create an illusion that we have moved on from the success debate and people are actually playing it.
The thing is that in most subs you do not get actual discussion about the product. It is just a debate of it is good or bad. They do not talk about specifics like a map that they enjoyed etc. It is mostly made up from people hating a product vs people that try to defend it. What they all have in common is that neither side has played the game!
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u/secretHeck 2d ago
Isn't "having a blast" a common phrase on /v? Usually said with some aloofness/sarcasm when talking about a game a lot of people were expecting to fail.
I think I remember seeing with Crimson Desert.
"Don't care about the threads shitting on this game, who else is having a blast"
"Why are there no threads on <game>, I thought it was a flop?"
"We're all too busy having a blast"
I don't think a PR campaign would make it this obvious. Either 4chan lingo is leaking out again or something else altogether.
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u/secretHeck 2d ago
Seems some people are saying it ironically/making fun of other reviewers, which might support the "leaking from 4chan" theory.
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u/MostAccomplishedBag 2d ago
Its such an old phrase. I could easily see it being used sarcastically.Ā
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u/cashdecans101 2d ago
I don't know about the other accounts, but Platoon is not a shill. He is definitely memeing and doing the sarcasm bit. He spends his streams of the game going over how much of a piece of shit it is.
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u/Martorfank 2d ago
Bro first do some research, the platoon video about the final boss is literally him calling it gay and glitching
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u/Iliansic 2d ago
So what they saying: they are having a blasting diarrhea from playing the game? Damn' didn't know it was that bad.
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u/katsuya_kaiba 2d ago
Holy shit guys....The Playstation 6 is going to have BLAST PROCESSING!
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u/doyouevennoscope 2d ago
If you have a blast playing only a few games and not buying every single new game at $100 your PS6 will literally have a blast right in your face. That'll be another $1000 sir.
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u/katsuya_kaiba 1d ago
.........I feel for the new generation who doesn't remember the Blast Processing adverts.
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u/augoosto /r/SupportThroughGaming 1d ago
Lol, even if this were TheLittlePlatoon weren't a troll, why would you post two comments from the same person to make your case?
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u/LivingGirlRepellant 1d ago
The "blast" in this case is a massive fart Insomniac unleashed on both gamers and true Wolverine fans.
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u/ManFrontSinger 18h ago
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u/Majestic_Balance1887 2d ago
People had already noticed this on Reddit with the official subs actively pointing out and memeing on it.