# Harris Brewis

Harry Brewis (born 19 September 1992), better known as Hbomberguy, is a British YouTuber and Twitch streamer. Brewis produces video essays on a variety of topics such as film, television, and video games, often combining them with arguments from left-wing political and economic positions.

## Quotes

* If you want to know what makes a great comic work, don't just look at the basic plot, the important monologues, the "writing", as it were. Look at the desks and bookcases and bedside tables of Moore's world. That's the real writing. And then flip through a copy of, say, "Youngblood" and look at how barren everything is. These comics are supposedly set in a grimdark world where heroes are anti-heroes, but quite often, they simply just tell you that and then show you shots of characters monologuing about how complex they are in empty, character-less rooms or just straight up blank voids. [...] These kinds of creators read Watchmen, read The Dark Knight Returns, read The Killing Joke -- works that presented characters as flawed but real and used even desks as characterization and worldbuilding. Works that had, to put it in one word: ideas. But these creators didn't see that stuff when they read those comics. They saw the darkness, the edginess, the grittiness on the surface and tried desperately to recreate that. The appearance of depth mattered more than the real stuff.
** The Killing Joke Movie and The Problem With Comics, 27 November 2016
* [In] Carl of Sad's defense, he only [sends interracial gay porn] to Nazis and members of the alt-Right in an attempt to get them to stop following him, which is probably an effective short-term solution. The long-term one, of course, would be to re-evaluate why his claims keep attracting the agreement of Neo-Nazis.
** #FreeSargon: A Measured Response, 31 January 2017
* Harry: [imitating Jon Jafari] "You know, Ken, I was thinking about, you know, maybe taking a year off, going back to college, starting my career?" "Nonsense, Barbie! You're staying here and having my kids!" Skeleton: Jon, what are you playing? Harry: Nothing! This doesn't happen! Systemic problems aren't real! If you can purchase a Big Mac, you're not oppressed!
** Mocking JonTron's tweet, reading "OPPRESSION TEST: Can you drive to McDonalds not in hijab and get biggest Big Mac value meal? If yes: Not oppressed." #FreeSargon: A Measured Response, 31 January 2017
* One of my favorite paintings is "The Lacemaker." Johannes Vermeer painted a loving, accurate, and detailed rendition of a girl making lace. Vermeer celebrated real people doing ordinary things; he offered the radical idea that you didn't have to be special or important or magical or legendary to worth being painted or thought about or remembered. So it turns out there are two ways of explaining history. We can be like Geoffrey of Monmouth or the early Romans and invent these magical, wondrous, brilliant people who gave everything to us: a wizard made Stonehenge all by himself, a man called Romulus invented Rome out of whole cloth and took part in every major historical event required to fulfill his amazing design, Don Bluth made "Dragon's Lair." Or we could be like Vermeer: a bunch of ordinary everyday people built Stonehenge just by working together and putting time and effort into it, a bunch of ordinary people make video games by working together very hard for hours and hours and hours and days and years to make it, a bunch of regular, ordinary people built Rome over the span of a very long time, contributing to what would later be remembered as the exploits of one man. This way is nowhere near as magical as the one we like to imagine put our world together. The truth is often very mundane. But maybe that's okay.
** Halcyon Dreams: The Legacy of Dragon's Lair, 22 November 2017
* Imagine sitting in front of your computer with the script for your final Doctor Who episode and looking at a screen where you have physically typed the words, "Oh. It's not an evil plan. This was all pointless." Well, that's the place where I would do a rewrite or hope that, like, someone would stop me! WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY STOP HIM?!
** 2017 Doctor Who Special Analysis, 7 January 2018
* I just sort of realized one day that I was capable of being romantically attracted to men as well as women. I realized I was different from how I'd even thought of myself. I'd just sort of naturally seen myself as straight, and even if I didn't think I thought of it this way, on some primal level, I'd thought of being straight as being "normal." I didn't know why I thought like that. It's probably a mix of not really thinking too hard about these things at the time, combined with the vague notions and expectations our society tends to have towards people's sexuality. But one day I looked in the mirror, and saw myself as not who I thought I was. I saw myself as an outsider from me, from the identity I'd assumed for myself, and then I had a few difficult conversations with troublesome people about those feelings. I'd always experienced homophobia. I was an effeminate boy growing up, but I hadn't really cared, because at the time I'd not really accepted it as an insult, or seen anything wrong with being called gay by losers in high school who had just as much growing up to do as I did. But, when I actually was one of those people and knew it, all of a sudden, it was a real judgment of who I actually was. To them, I'd actually become lesser. Being told I was going to die of AIDS, and that my feelings were unnatural, and so on, and having to deal with being actually expected to try to convince people that I wasn't inferior to them, suddenly made me think about that Cthulhu film I'd seen a few years before. It was like it knew what I was going through. It knew how it felt to sit in a room you just can't leave, and have a piece of your personhood interrogated. It knew how it felt to be seen as an outsider, and it knew how it felt to connect with someone who understands and accepts you. Somehow, it knew me and how I'd felt, before I'd ever had a chance to. Some of the scenes from this film just kept coming back up in my mind. It hadn't been what I'd thought I'd wanted, but what it was struck a chord with me anyway, on a level I didn't know was there. It just took a while for me to hear the chiming. It turns out that some of the greatest horrors, biggest sources of sadness in our lives, don't come from scope or big questions, but from the tiniest things. If you've ever lost a loved one and had to be involved with the arrangements of their funeral, or if you've ever had to be around someone you've made an effort to cut out of your life because of something abusive they'd done to you, or even something as simple as being reminded, gently, that you're in a place where everyone regards you with suspicion, that you're an outsider to them-- You'll already know that the idea of a powerful cosmic monster out there somewhere beneath the sea can actually be the least of a person's problems.
** Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century, 3 July 2018
* People seek these solutions because they perceive on some level a problem, and they’re right. Something is wrong with the world right now. The world is figuratively on fire, world leaders are asleep at the wheel, there’s nothing in place to prevent another massive financial crash which will destroy thousands if not millions of livelihoods, and ecologically speaking, instead of being, you know, figuratively on fire, the earth is literally on fire, wildfires are getting worse, temperatures are shifting all over the place, ice is melting at an astounding rate... even on a globe Earth, the edge is coming fast. So I can’t blame anyone for feeling alienated and lonely about living in late capitalist society. You know, at least under feudalism we had job security. So of course people are gonna try and find something that helps them cope, or seems like a solution. I mean, that’s why you get cults, that’s why you get Scientology, that’s why you get Jordan Peterson supporters. You know, something is wrong, and we can all tell, and some people have arrived at a solution that doesn’t really work.
** Flat Earth: A Measured Response, 1 January 2019
* Just one small problem; sell their houses to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?!
** Climate Denial: A Measured Response, 31 May 2019
* The depressing thing about charity is that no charity should exist, the things charity advocates for should just be built into the system.
** Donkey Kong 64 Stream, 2019
* "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." That's a quote commonly attributed to Winston Churchill, but he was actually probably paraphrasing George Santayana. [...] But here's a corollary I came up with all by myself: "Those who let hucksters write the history they're trying to learn from are doomed in some other horrible way".
** ROBLOX_OOF.mp3, 17 November 2022
* This is a massive problem with media platforms right now. YouTubers who know nothing about anything can misunderstand a bunch of articles and spread lies to millions of people. And then they get to vote how you live your life! I wonder why everything’s getting worse all the time!
** Iilluminaughtii and the perils of lazy video essays 5 December 2023
* I think people tend to fool themselves. People think they’re good at what they do, and they don’t question their practices. Because James [Somerton] and [co-writer] Nick both thought they were experts on the topics they talked about, they bumbled into so many blind alleys. I mentioned making this video to my friend Todd and he independently started watching James, and fell down all these rabbit holes, and made a video about him as well. It’s the Dunning-Kruger effect, when you’ve managed to stay at the top of the curve so you think, "I must be an expert", and you never do any work that can disconfirm your hypothesis. It’s scary how easy it is to do that.
** Hbomberguy Didn’t Want to Make That 4-Hour Plagiarism Video, 22 December 2023

## External links

* hbomberguy on YouTube
* H.BurgerGuy on YouTube
* Hbomberguy on Twitter
* Hbomberguy on Twitch
* Hbomberguy on Nebula
* Mr Ghost on Mastodon