 Hi, I am Nathaniel Rumpeljantz and I am your local boss man and today I want to talk to you about Zelda fans and my big problem with the Zelda fan base. And then I'm going to end this episode with a little bit of a twist. I'm going to do an unboxing of a new item. I found a GameStop that has to do with Majora's Mask 3D. The item has already been unboxed and is sitting on my desk right over this old way. So today I wanted to talk to you about you, the Zelda fan. And this doesn't apply to everyone but this applies to enough people that I feel this point needs to be addressed. It's that Zelda fans and probably fans in general but I'm going to stick to just Zelda fans have this repeating thing going on throughout the fan base of judging Now obviously as human beings we are always judged and it is our human right to feel free to judge but we judge what makes someone a fan and that bothers me. As an example, someone might have just played their very first game in the Zelda series and played Majora's Mask 3D and a lot of Zelda fans will be well he's not really a real Zelda fan because he's only played Majora's Mask he hasn't played Arcade of Time, hasn't played the Legend of Zelda NES, doesn't know about the Tingle games, doesn't know about BS Zelda and the Ancient Zone Tablets, doesn't have Hyrule Historia, doesn't even own a Wii U let's say and we'll be all oh he's not a real fan he's not a true fan he's a casual he's this he's that he's not I can't even call him a fan he's just someone who tried out a Zelda game I hate that I hate that why why do we have this incessant need to rank what makes someone a fan to me a fan of the Zelda series is just someone who played at least one Zelda game they don't even have to have beaten that game but they have enjoyed their time playing that game and that they themselves say hey look I'm a fan of that game and you know what I'm probably gonna be a fan of the series so I am a Zelda fan that's fine what why why does it have to be any more than that to become a Zelda fan now I'm not gonna say there's not a difference between Zelda fans that there's not some that are you know more or less experienced than other fans of course I've been doing this all this thing for fansites for 17 years dating all the way back to 1998 when Ocarina of Time came out so when I launched my very first fansite and obviously Ocarina of Time had a big a big deal with why I did launch a fansite at the time but my point is is that obviously I played you know all 17 Zelda games I've played the CDI games I've played some of the Tingle games I haven't played Tetris slash Navi's trackers yet but I've played a lot of the Zelda games even the game and watch and I haven't beaten every single one I'm not gonna sit here and be oh man I've beaten all 17 Zelda games I've beaten them you know hundreds of times that's not true I haven't actually beaten every Zelda game but I've played every Zelda game and I've seen the ending of every Zelda game I'm a pretty you know I guess what you would say a pretty big fan I've been theorizing about the series for years I don't I don't own a physical copy of Hyrule of the story but I don't own a Wii U has a digital copy of it so I've actually read front to back Hyrule of the story and I often reference it when I'm debunking fan theories or trying to come up with my own in the grand scheme I'm a pretty big Zelda fan but I'm not sitting here telling someone say my best buddy Eric who also enjoys all the games hey you're not a real Zelda fan because you don't own all the Nintendo systems you don't own all the Zelda games you haven't played all the Zelda games and you know you visit my website and you shouldn't be visiting my website because you're not a real Zelda fan it's kind of infuriating to me in a bit I've seen this comments and I'll maybe we'll put some comments up here in the video of people who say you know you're not a Zelda fan if you know you haven't played Ocarina of Time you're not a Zelda fan if you don't know about ancient stone tablets you're not a Zelda fan period if all you do is just like Zelda and actually don't know a whole lot about it you aren't aware of all the intricacies of all the different characters in the lore and all that such and I hate that because we should be a very inclusive community that's what I want Zelda Informer to be I want us to be able to invite everyone be it the eight-year-olds who are just trying out the game or heck even if you're an adult and just trying out the game everyone from age six and eight all the way to age a hundred they all should be welcome here at Zelda Informer we shouldn't they should be coming here to be judged because that's not why fans are here fans are here to profess their love of this other series or you know if they if they love it to a point that they're able to criticize they're able to criticize some things they don't like about this other series but we're still all here because we'd like Zelda and really that's all the parameter should be to be a Zelda fan that you like Zelda period and a story so why do we have to tell fans that they're not fans I don't I don't get this I also don't get some of the fan bickering that goes on where someone has an opinion and then we have to attack that opinion because we don't agree with it and then we say oh well if you look at this unobjectively at the same time of that person who just said if you look at the game objectively that they at the same time are actually not looking at objectively they're putting their own opinions into saying that this mechanic is better for them than a mechanic in a different game and that that's just clashing and ironic and it's not right I'm not saying let's stop the debates I'm not saying let's not you know correct fans when they're wrong I'm just saying that why can't we be nicer about it be more inclusive and understanding that not everyone knows everything about Zelda and just because some fans visit or you guys visit zelda informer.com or our YouTube channel or our Facebook or our Twitter or our Google plus or our Tumblr if you guys visit anything that has to do with our website it doesn't necessarily mean that you know a whole lot about zelda and that's a misnomer that needs to be tossed away just throwing out the window there's this general opinion out there that if you visit a site like zelda informer you're obviously a mega fan of zelda and I I just that's been proven untrue time and time again people who are just fans in general of zelda like it as an example if because people like to throw out the term casual a lot I'm kind of a casual fan of the witcher series I have played the witcher one but I never beat it I played the witcher two I got about three quarters into it but I'd never beat it and I'm probably gonna play the witcher three but I'm not like this huge fan I don't read into all the lore behind it I don't follow all the developer interviews and the videos about everything going on with the game but that doesn't mean I'm interested in the game that doesn't mean that I won't go to a witcher fan site once in a while just to see what's going on and that that's what happens with casual fans and this ignores the fact that the last time I heard anything about the witcher was on Facebook I had a mention of it from a fan page about the witcher that I liked because I do like the witcher just because I don't follow it religiously doesn't mean I don't like the series and they had an update and that update appeared in my feed and I read it and I went to that website and this is what we have to understand is that Zelda Informa encompasses an entire world of fans it's not just the elite of the elite fans even though majority or audience as adults it doesn't mean all of those adults are exactly top tier Zelda fans when I say top tier I mean that notion that they've played every game you know everything about the series you are inside my brain and can understand what I'm saying and look at it objectively and because objectively I'm just talking opinions it's dumb so let's be nice to each other let's be inclusive to each other if a fan doesn't know about something let's inform them I mean we are Zelda Informa we're here to let fans know about the things that they don't know about so let's inform them no matter how old the game is or how new the game is it doesn't matter let's help our fans out let's make them more knowledgeable about the series if they want to know that knowledge and let's not be mean about it and this brings me to my last point I wanted to bring up about fans we had a case of a severe case of bullying going on on our Facebook page and our Facebook page is not the only place this happens we have a strict no attacking other people policy at Zelda Informa this includes our Facebook our Twitter our comments at Zelda Informa etc and there's only so much we can do in terms of banning people I just wanted to bring up that bullying whether you intend to be mean or not you have to be conscientious of what you're saying to people on the internet I know I know this is the internet you know I'm gonna be called fat because hey I am fat I'm gonna be called stupid I'm gonna be called you know a retard and none of these words are okay to use especially the retard word that has a connotation that goes well beyond trying to call someone stupid you're trying to call me stupid just call me stupid or better yet defeat what I'm saying instead of just acting like I'm some big bumbling idiot which I know I can be at times I think that the bullying stuff needs is to go away it needs to stop we had a fan and I'm not gonna say any names and I'm not gonna go too deep into it we had a fan who attempted to commit suicide last week and they attempted to commit suicide over something that was said on our Facebook page not just something and not just someone but several somethings and several someone and this disturbed me disturbed me greatly and I called and I have it all confirmed but I'm not gonna share any of that information with you guys because I know what the internet does when they get a hold of this public information and I'm ashamed that I can't be more forthright because I have to protect this person this is the kind of stuff that needs to stop we can't be having this going on at Zolden former and I understand it goes on in the internet all the time and I have had it happen to me I have had death threats against me and death threats against my family obviously nothing's ever come of it and I doubt anything ever will but it's still one of those things that we need to stop attacking people and just thinking it's okay because I'm anonymous and I'm on the internet and no one's gonna do anything about it it's it's silly and I don't want to start reporting you guys to the authorities just because you know our fans are getting depressed over things that you're saying to them let's all let's all be kind and rewind and and think about what we're gonna say before we say it okay even if you think it's not a big deal you know to say someone's ugly even if you legitimately think they're ugly you know it's it's like I've learned growing up as a religious person is you don't have anything nice to say just don't say it at all it doesn't mean you can't be critical that doesn't mean you can't be constructive it just means you need to be a bit more conscientious that everyone in life everyone on the internet comes from different backgrounds as an example growing up and this is a story I told Facebook I don't know how many people read it I tried to commit suicide twice in my life and I've thought about it probably four or five other times and the only reason I failed at the suicide is because I was a kid and as a kid I didn't know how to do things properly I tried to hang myself and I didn't tie the knot properly so the rope not came loose I ended up falling down about 10 feet and got severely hurt until my parents found me and then the other time I took a bunch of pills and again my parents found me and I had my stomach plumped at the hospital so I've had some serious things happen to me over my life because I was bullied I was made fun of and a lot of this happened when I was at school I was called four eyes because I had glasses you know I was told I wasn't good enough to hang out with certain people that I wasn't good enough at sports I was I was picked on and by the time I had high school I actually got physically beat up at a football game underneath bleachers and that's I was standing up for someone and then because they wouldn't stand up for themselves because I learned that maybe when I thought you stand up the bullies maybe they'll back down I'm gonna get him back down they kicked the crap out of me and no one did anything about it and this kind of stuff needs to stop those those people didn't realize that I had grown up mostly without a father now I'm gonna say my father wasn't there he was there and my parents are married they're still married but he was working 60 to 80 hour weeks and I didn't see him a whole lot I saw him occasionally on the weekend sometimes at a baseball game and you know he just kind of came in and out of my life while he could afford to because he was too busy putting a roof over our head and putting food on our table I got bullied to the you know and made fun of and I didn't know what to do about it because my dad wasn't around to teach me basically how to be a man and how to stand up for myself and how to put bullies in their place so they stopped doing it and the thing is they're not just doing it to me they're doing it to others and as I grew up there were friends of mine and people I was aware of in my town that actually did commit suicide and were able to complete it and didn't fail like me and a lot of it got linked back to bullying and that upsets me and now this happened at our website because of somebody or an attempt because of stuff that people on our website are saying I'm deeply disturbed for personal reasons and for the obvious reasons that this shouldn't be happening encompassing the whole not judging other people and not telling them how much or how little of a fan they are belittling them because they don't know as much about the series as you do we also have to be conscientious that everyone comes from different backgrounds as an example one person told me that I should go die in a fire now that might seem like you know an internet joke I'll go die in the fire well when I was a kid I almost did die in a fire my whole family almost died in a house fire and I you know that's not a joke to me to say that it might be a joke to you but it's something that actually happened in my life but it when they said it they don't know that background about me so I can say oh they don't know that so I should forgive them but because you know when you're a kid you're not able to necessarily get that and when you're an adult say you've been picked on your whole life or you're really sensitive about certain topics and someone calls you a retard that could send you way off on a tangent especially if you know people that are mentally handicapped it's it's a problem and it's a problem I don't want it's all the informers so we are cracking down we are banning people and getting them off of our website and off of our Facebook and social media because we want a friendly and company compassing place so this is kind of a warning a plead you know showing my desires for the kind of community I want Zeldin Farmer to be so please please please please think before you say things and if you just want to troll and have your fun then you could you could just do that elsewhere because that we just don't want that here too many people are being affected and the last thing I need to do is get an email get a phone call get a letter in the mail that somebody died because of something our fans do so please stop obviously we got an unboxing coming up I'm pretty excited about so we'll try to switch tones here get a bit more excited so uh yeah here we go here's the unboxing hey everybody I recently made a trip to GameStop when I say recently I mean today to just browse a little bit and see what I could find first off as you can see I finished off my Zelda amiibo collection do we need to do that for quite some time just been putting it off so I'll open those for you guys in a second but I wanted to show you something I didn't even know existed and it's this bad boy right here as you can see it's cheap and costs 10 bucks but it's a Majora's Mask 3D case for your 3DS and as you'll see right here as it focuses in it works with the new Nintendo 3DS XL new Nintendo 3DS the 3DS XL the normal 3DS and the 2DS so it's compatible with all the 3DS systems so I'm gonna open this for you right here I'm gonna try to do it one-handed I can't find my camera stand right now of course it's really hard to do one-handed aha these plastic tabs on the bottom here all right sorry about all the shaky camera so as you can see it's basically like a cdk shape the old cd cases it's got the official artwork on there the same one used on the box art the moon all the way on the back on the inside so it's got six game six game spots and then take this over here and this is where the pouch that you put the 3DS in and you might even want to keep this in here depending on which model you have extra protection so as you see it's kind of a cheap little thing but it's a nice way to protect your 3DS or in this case the new nintendo 3DS XL I'm still looking for a hardcover case for this so I just don't scratch it the hori cases exist but amazon does not have them in stock right now that's why I don't have but uh yeah kind of cool so that being said like I said 10 bucks at game stop I don't know if you can find these anywhere else it might be a game stop exclusive but pretty cool so I'll open up these bad boys quick I do like collecting things but I don't like keeping them in cases because what's the point of collecting something if you're not going to take it out all right so this is toon link a lot of you guys already have this toon link amiibo picked him up because obviously I want to complete myself the collection and I don't think toon link's going to be made forever because they haven't made a new toon style game since 2009 when spirit tracks came out all right and this one's link this was a launch one that I never got so just take him out there's link and then this is chic that's chic which by the way for those wondering is female been confirmed by bill trying to net nintendo but uh yeah there you go chic was obviously only in ocarina of time and hyrule warriors so chic like toon link could also be one that's out of out of print soon or out of production I should say and then obviously I had my is all the one that I bought at launch there's my four amiibo and there's the brand new case in the back as I said this is 10 bucks the amiibo's you know we're about 13 so yeah pretty cool hope you guys like it and hope you guys like adding to your majority's mass 3d collection and that should about wrap it up this week you can check me out if you have a twitter you can check me out on twitter at nate chance you can also obviously check out our website at zelda informer and we have a facebook we have a tumblr we have all this great stuff put some links up and get you guys around be sure to subscribe to our channel if you like these videos I know that this was a more serious video and I know on my last video if you want to go back and watch that last video I was kind of ripping into nintendo and that's great that's cool that's dandy uh you can go check that out if you want but there's also videos I have where I theorize about zelda you and I got some awesome theories rolling around in this head that I want to bring out to you guys uh but this week I felt like I needed to be a bit more somber a bit more serious because I've been noticing an ongoing problem and hey let's just stop let's make a better tomorrow and a better zelda informer all right I will see you guys next time adios