The day I found this site, I tried to think of what I could use as a username. I didn't want something LBT related, because I thought that'd be too easy. Then I remembered earlier that day I had successfully gotten Caleb Goldman into the Tvtropes pantheon as 'God of Hilariously Awful Voice Acting' under the name ProtectorOfTheLoyfeCycle.
Now, why use that name here? Well, if you hadn't already known
if you hadn't already known, Caleb Goldman from House of the Dead 2 might very well be, in all honesty, the Plan 9 from Outer Space of video game voice acting. And it's not just that the voice acting is so bad-- it's because of Goldman himself. Goldman constantly has that dead serious scowl on his face, his hands clasped in the villainous gesture of an evil mastermind, unleashing a massive zombie hoard across Venice that has killed hundreds-- if not
thousands-- of people... And he does it all with the dialouge of a 3rd grader, a voice actor that sounds like he's trying to chew taffy while sedated, and the most laughably absurd justification for unleashing a zombie apocalypse I've ever heard of.
The line 'to protect the life cycle' (with absurdly pronounced inflection on the li in life) perfectly illustrates the bizarre, amusing mixture of characteristics that makes Goldman so oddly amusing and endearing. A man who is deathly serious and yet impossible to take seriously in the slightest-- a man who tries to come off as foreboding and dramatic and seems completely oblivious to the hilarious tone he strikes. I found that to be the perfect thing to try to channel while posting here in the Gang of Five, and that's also why I don't have an avatar portrait-- my signature photo is too big to let me have an avatar photo, but I think it'd be a crime not to give this diamond in the rough wack job the limelight he deserves.