kotaku.com
Polygon Effectively Closing
Post game journo melties
Now bring me the severed head of Kotaku
You should really be more empathetic towards hardworking LGBT journalists
It's crazy how none of them saw this coming
You just know they thought about setting up a Patreon lol
T-this doesn't mean you w-won!
No perspective on the future is required when you are on the right side of history.
gamespot or kotaku next
Spend years being smug and condescending
Expect gamers to show empathy when they are getting what they deserve
and that's a good thing
Oh no! Anyway... how many left to take down?
Anon Babble outlived every website that wanted them dead
finally some good fucking news
Does anyone have the Schreier quote about how there's only about 20 real gaming journalists left?
Noooo... Not my heckin' game journos...
Even journos know they're cooked.
based
this
i am the captain of this universe and this is an order
gamespot
this
please tell me this is real
DANCE THREAD
Can someone explain why I'd ever support a games journalist website when I can just get reports from small group creators like Nintendo Forecast and Digital Foundry?
I'd imagine what happened is this:
1- game journalism was a fun little group of weirdos who liked games
2- they invite 1 girl who sucked the dick of the main guy
3- she invited all her cunt friends and it ruined everything
From a couple of months ago. Walls are closing in
That cocksucking faggot responsible for shirtgate is jobless now
GOOD.
I want that piece of shit to burn.
HELP US, GAMERS!
every
Kotaku and reset are still up.
Get dunked on, chuddy.
resetera is a forum, doubt it's going anywhere unless they have another drama implosion.
Kotaku is on the way out though. AI can unironically do their job better than they can at this point, not like that's saying much.
That fag is so fried.
Uhhh errm well you see...they were around before then and errr....they have more experience, chud!
put the fries in the bag journo
Resetera will, on a long enough timeline, self-cannibalize into annihilation. Woke issues will continue to split progressives apart kinda like what we saw with JK Rowling and the moderation staff there will start banning each other. It will eventually be populated by less than 30 people.
Games journalism managed to highlight a few good people amongst the sea of shit but I'm overall glad it's gone
And all the people I like from it have all stopped being games journos for years now
Sure, sure I could see that happening, but then I feel like what happened before they'll split off into another little refugee site, or maybe they'll all just run to Blue Sky now if that doesn't die soon lol.
bluesky pedo says it was awesome when a handful of faggots controlled all of the information being given to millions of video game enthusiasts
I want Rock Paper Shotgun to go down more than any of the others, it was actually great at one point, the others were always trash.
that hasn't changed, it's just all done by "influencers" now
I'm sure some will try
imagine being so shit at your job the only people who dont celebrate when you're fired are your co-workers
Thing is to be an influencer you actually have to attract an audience and provide content people will want to watch. Game journos ran a monopoly on the media back before the little guys had their own platform. Now the little guys outgrew the old dinosaurs who can't attract anyone because there are better options now.
Not surprised, pretty much the only worthwhile reading in regards to vidya is usually in specialized blogs or books. I get the general sentiment of wanting to keep accessible written content about games but 99% of game journalists throughout the existence of the medium either suck at their jobs, never have anything interesting to say, or just repeat press releases.
That already happened, there's multiple neogaf spinoff sites because resetera isnt extreme enough.
KWAV
PATHETIC PUPPETFAG
For now
Name them. I wanna read them for giggles
every resetera thread i've read that's older than a year or two has half the posters banned, its pretty funny.
YOU LET THIS HAPPEN TO US, WHY DIDNT YOU PROTECT US
it keeps happening lmao
"journalists" still won in the long run to me
terrorists win (gamer)
how'd they last this long after USAID dried up?
They're essentially demagogues of social media.
Who will largely say and do almost anything to maintain their status.
western civilization atm
Quarterly payments
I know of Famiboards, but that's it
IGN is the only one that still has decent traffic.
The others have all been circling the drain for 6 years now.
YESSS HAHAHA MORE
isn't giantbomb dying too? very curious that a funny source of government spending disappeared and now these outlets are dying left and right.
Actual professional, impartial journalists can cover stories and dig for the truth. Small groups get entagled in massive conflicts of interest. polygon doesn't have any journalists in the first place though.
It already is.
realise I haven't seen a GameSpot video appear on the YT algo for what seems like half a decade, if not more
see this
5.61m subs
these views [aside from the Larian one which is an obvious outlier]
what the fuck? why did I ever think GameSpot were a legit outlet that a lot of people paid attention to? were they ever?
Were gonna be allright bros
First, OP is a bitch for using a bare kotaku link.
Second. The work's not done. Parent company Valnet owns TheGamer, which is just polygon with lower pay rates and worse editorial standards.
Third: Remember, that their parent was founded by literal Pornhub founders, so whenever they say anything about sex, they should kill themselves first, and protest their own owners.
Fourth: REMEMBER the names, and make sure the stench of failure and their own unprofessional deeds follow them.
Not in this case. They were a spinoff from the Daily Kos people. Polygon was a politcical movement from day 1.
I came.
Then they'd fit perfectly at McDonalds, where they have no future.
poly gone lol
nerd culture lore
I don't want my tendies sullied by their filth anon.
allow me to dance on its grave (disrespectfully)
Besides fortnite flossing is there a respectful way to dance on a grave
is there a respectful way to dance on a grave
Younger generations have no idea what they missed out on.
Younger generations are lucky they don't have to deal with any of this shit.
Remember when they spent the entire second half of the 90s bitching and whining about anything that wasn't 3D purely because it wasn't 3D? Remember when they couldn't stop shitting their pants over brown, bloom, and hyper realism in the mid-00s that led to what was arguably a total death knell for any kind of creative artstyle? Remember when they refused to interact with God Hand on any kind of level, gave it a shit score, and got Shinji Mikami fucking fired?
like 10+ years ago yeah
now it's just kind of sitting in people's sub lists
relics of a forgotten age
does he have progeria
Valnet STILL has TheGamer, which is just as cancerous and anti gamer as Polygon was.
Kotaku was gone and back and gone again and is sort of back. They have orders to do less political shitposting. Mercante is out for now. A bunch of titles consolidated under IGN.
Gamespot still sort of is out there.
Gamespot WAS legit, and one of the most professional organizations out there...back before most anons were born. See the Gerstman Kane and Lynch thing for a pivotal blowup.
The forbes team cost motherfuckers in investing hundereds of millions of dollars being slow to recognize how fucked up Ubisoft was and Concord and the like. Theyr'e starting to catch up a little this year, recognizing that there MIGHT be a problem with Marathon.
Rock Paper Shotgun is still around but collapsing in ad rev.
Game informer is sort of back but was always glorified press releases.
I would use the dances they used when they thought Anon Babble was gone. Only fitting.
Gamers won
Who is dead now you stupid sonofvabish haahhaahahahahahahah
Game journos ran a monopoly on the media back before the little guys had their own platform.
Most people didn't give a fuck about what games rags and journos had to say desu. Has anyone in history ever been swayed by a Gamespot review?
*Has anyone is the history of ever
Code, please?
40 left and we can sleep
none can stop us gamers
They certainly had more sway than they do now. Yes, review scores do have an affect on game sales to an extent, but their influence has become less and less impactful over time to the point where what number IGN gives it means nothing. It used to be of more impact. People actually threw a fit when IGN gave the gen 3 pokemon remakes a 7.8 because the game had "too much water" which became a whole meme. That wouldn't have been a meme if people didnt care, and it certainly wouldn't become a meme nowadays because nobody DOES care about whatever the fuck IGN scores anything.
that's ai you dork
Yeah, asians dont have boobs that big IRL
More like Poly Gone
wtf i love AI now?!?!
Well, shit. It's getting pretty convincing. Fingers even look right.
lol you ain't been lookin' lately -- they're growing 'em big these days!
Fake ones don't count
They're all plastic at this point, especially those korean ones.
good
Aw man. If gaming journalism dies, how will I insult it when I no longer see them make stupid articles that are clearly biased and fail to do what journalism is meant to do by giving honest and unbiased opinions that may or may not pique the interest of the reader and convince them into possibly buying the product that is being reviewed? I guess I'll just have to be normal and play game demos when available to build my own opinion on a game again.
yeah, her boobs are partially fake
actually, idk
the woman is real though
Games journalism has always been fake and gay. Forums, imageboards even reddit have always been a better source of game criticism.
what gaming journalist do again?
play video games?
the woman is real though
An anon can always hope!
even reddit
no, she is real in my mind
Mostly for online games.
Noooooope.
linking to fucking kotaku
What was Polygon?
Danny was one of the few I didn't hate. He was pretty good at Gamespot and the noclip stuff is pretty good overall. He's still a faggot, but he did alright.
If 2D games were the best, they would still be the norm.
tbf it's a low bar.
partially fake
she got implants thats like 3 times the size of her actual boobs
What a sad day for gaming
Anon those aren't fake tits! those are mostly authentic breast implants
Those are basically Jeff Gerstmann numbers and he's a dude with a patreon working in his house.
Good riddance!
You know what's funny?
I can snap and kill every chud like you on this board if we met IRL.
Seriously, think about it. I'd have your windpipe crushed and your eyes gouged out before you would even know what's happening.
You guys talk big shit. Watch yourselves.
is the oblivion remasted good?
the oblivion remaster is good!
ah great, don't need to watch it then. those good chaps at gamespot saving us the time
Jeff is basically the oldest games media figure that is still active and has built a 20+ year parasocial fanbase whereas GameSpot is staffed by a bunch of literal whos. I don't even know who. The only thing they have going for them is the name recognition, and that is dwindling by the day
tl;dr they never stood a chance
Honestly, I stopped paying attention to video game journalist/journo-adjacent content when gametrailers died.
Even when gamergate happened I didn't know who the fuck most of the journos involved were, just that they were desperate enough to exchange some mediocre art hoe pussy for favorable coverage.
OMG Sisters!? WTF is happening we're losing all our institutional voices!
Ai-chan...
Get fucked, you talentless pusbags
We had something awesome there, like calling this game racist, or that game sexist, or telling gamers to eat shit
hopefully kotaku's next
From their perspective I imagine it WAS pretty awesome to get paid to be a douchebag hack
It's almost as if these retards are the same ones who make all these rage bait threads with links to their shitty videos or articles. Who would have thunk?
They modern audience'd themselves out of a job.
I'm gonna miss xeir QUALITY journalistic work
Gamegate won.
how do wokies cope with losing this hard in every facet of society?
Yfw faggy game op ed websites get shut down
There's a marxist concept called "false consciousness", basically they think the whole world has been brainwashed by shuds to hate them.
*chuds
Only guy I feel bad for at nu-Giant Bomb is Dan Ryckert because he really helped bring the site back after Ryan died. I know he came back right after Jeff left but I hadn't kept up with them at all after that.
not really surprising. a gpt can spew out ragebait articles faster than a human can by now.
Dan became too much of a leftie pussy like most of bomb/beast.
5.61m subs
these views
Youtube stops recommending you videos from your subscribed list if you havent watched any of their shit for X amount of time.
So those 5.61mil subs may as well be 5000 subs at this point.
they can do sometimes, but its extremely rare and good luck picking one up.
S to shit in Polygon employee's mouths
they can do sometimes
whereas GameSpot is staffed by a bunch of literal whos
worse.
staffed by a bunch of literal who inner-city liberal women with blue hair.
they've never played video games before and got hired to fill Diversity quotas.
they have degrees in Women's Studies and Communications and have big dreams of tearing down the patriarchy via talking shit about First Person Shooters and Dota 2
its how we'd say it here in Australia.
Americans say broken as fuck grammar all the time too, like saying "pet" when patting an animal and saying "got" instead of "gotten".
You also use the word "suss" wrong too.
Counterpoint: I'm not a nigger
Notice how I didn't say I ain't a nigger.
Yes, insular communities full of retarded leftists tend to devolve into purity spirals.
Literally who tf is this fag
Like you'll do shit, tough guy
People's lives are at steak and your laughing
i love steak and i love laughing
I feel like gaming journalism was valuable at one point, although it became worthless long before it rightfully died.
When people talk about a bygone era, it was genuinely fascinating getting in there for interviews and alpha/beta footage of games changing history like FF7 or Metal Gear Solid or Ocarina of Time
They don't even make games anymore with that kind of hype and mystery, where the public wants every peek into the inner workings they can get
It's the same way with E3 dying. At some point E3 dying would have been a tragedy because E3 was valuable. In fact E3 no longer being valuable was sadder than E3 ending.
Resetera will probably always be around, it's a forum, it costs nothing to run and the mods are crazy trannies working for free.
Kotaku is certainly going down, they will be bought and what little is left of the staff will be gone and be replaced by AI.
The only thing surprising me is that they lasted this long, how could they keep getting venture capital to keep afloat, they don't make any money, not a single person interested in gaming would go there, only people who are interested in indentity politics in games would go there, and they are not enough of an audience to make money off.
You ain't black
Something that really fascinates me in places like Resetera and Bluesky is that leftists can in fact censor and ban their way into creating an absolute left-wing bubble, but when they do so they fucking hate each other and somehow their purges become even MORE vicious
You end up with people clawing the eyes out of Chuck Schumer and Gavin Newsom supporters for being far right nazis
it's like they're all disingenuous assholes who only believe in the mob rule that they've instituted. They're extremely feminized so every minor disagreement turns into a major cat fight. Those types of people have no real allies or friends, they all turn on each other eventually.
True.
It was good until about 2011
When I saw posts screenshotted from Resetera I was sure it was shitposting / satire, then I was given a direct link to a thread, and no, it was actually real.
They deserve everything they get. We tried to help but they saw us as the enemy and adversary. They made gaming less fun. I'm glad it's all dying but I want it gone completely and for them to be miserable and never work again
Carlos, have some damn tact. Heh.
for them to be miserable
they know that everyone hates them and that they have no future in journalism, that probably makes them pretty miserable
They'll likely work again, just at the same deadbeat jobs as all the other wagies they looked down upon from their cushy hack job.
even his own comments are roasting him
Kek
A mercy killing
The muppet was entertaining when he first started because having a muppet review shit was novel
The novelty has worn off and all that's left is the fact that this guy has absolute dogshit opinions
Every Resetera poster has read and memorized all of this
Every post every one of them makes is carefully scrutinized by every other poster to make sure it is in line with every tenet of this
I am on a site full of people who masturbate to anime horses and the sheer magnitude of that autism still astonishes me, but I do feel the spirit of events like when the first person to stop clapping after Stalin's speech got arrested, so he'd give some boring boilerplate and then everyone would applaud for ninety minutes
It's such a weak "persona", but extremely recognizeable. Thing is he hardly ever does puppet shit. There's no interesting puppetry. Just arlo moving the blue puppet's mouth and sometimes having him bounce into the frame. That's it. Yet that was enough to turn him into a huge eceleb, that combined with his enthusiasm over certain Nintendo games.
Chuds win again
InstallBase is a Resetera spinoff forum focused on sales. The mods chased off the salesfags, the oldest community from NeoGAF/Resetera dating back to the early 2000s, due to overzealous moderation and banning their community members over petty shit. Installbase is actually good since it's just data nerds, little identity politics and faggotry.
Famiboards is where the Nintendo community from GAF/Era went after the salesfag exodus. The place is fucking insane with even worse special snowflake, Tumblerina troon community imaginable. You can get banned for saying "Guys". It's beyond parody.
XboxEra is where the Xbox community went to after the salesfag exodus. It's alright but slow.
IconEra is another spinoff forum. It's slow and idk why it was started.
Unfortunately Resetera is still active, although it's down from it's peak of 2018-2020.
everything is anti semetic hilary clintonite for everyone sony gamer we lose well pick up 4 xbox bucks in the back
mr moralless personal homeless eliminator
Hmm wonder why left wing softies would think these guys are malicious
Yeah, I'll be honest, I was expecting to go full effort at some point when he first started and implement skits in his videos or something
But nope, just the laziest fucking puppeteer imaginable. Jim Henson would think this guy is a joke.
Guys
Gets banned
Why are they like this
Yeah, I'mma still stick with GameFAQs
Some highlights from the Famiboards ban list
It might as well just be a png or 3D model, but I guess the fact that it's a real puppet sets him apart from the other png avatars/fursonatubers. It's so fucking lazy though. 90% of his content doesn't even have the puppet in it at all, and when it does show up he just has it stare there and lazily move its mouth. That's it!
Kotaku has been hollowed out ever since Hulkamania ran wild on Gawker. They are a shell of their former selves, a walking corpse.
For expressing hateful rhetoric directed at a specific subset of Candians
lmao at your image but that English is being of the fine brownboy
everything is anti semetic hilary clintonite for everyone sony gamer we lose well pick up 4 xbox bucks in the back
What the fuck language is this sentence in
Not good enough. We need more. I don't know if it is possible but even IGN must come down.
saying "pet" when patting an animal
How is this broken? "I pet the dog for a little while." It's past tense, no one says "I'm pet the dog" while actively petting a dog
and saying "got" instead of "gotten".
"I got some bread at the store" isn't broken either, I suppose you'd like us to say "I've gotten some bread at the store" but the only difference is that one sentence starts with a contraction and one doesn't, so we adjust accordingly. Nothing is broken about either example, strewth yeah cunt? I gotta hang a shit, hold me tinny yeah?
Lmao what exactly did we lose?
Magazines were fine before internet took off.
Shilling will just be handled by influencers as well as reviews, previews etc.
Nothing is being lost here.
I wish I knew of a neutral website that just aggregated news with limited or no opinion pieces to add to my morning news routine.
I only know that christian gamer website and I ain't reading that shit
based encyclopedic autist
Take the christ pill
Why hasn't this tendie puppet nigger just an hero'd already?
These are the comments that are worth pinning in videos. May his knowledge be appreciated wherever he posts.
I'm going to masturbate using their tears as fuel
No
I feel like gaming journalism was valuable at one point
It was valuable when game journos and devs/publishers weren't in one bed. Now you could have interesting leaks and then some smug game journo faggot telling you to; ''nah, don't share the images online. Don't be that guy''. Worthless motherfucker, that's like the opposite of what you were at some point.
I think gaming journalism died around 2009 (it was actually 2006) or so, at least that's when I was routinely baffled by Gameinformer's opinion pieces and their shitty review of Spirit Tracks that still rated the game highly in spite of all the bitching and moaning. The VGA's is still an oddity to me and I really can't explain why. Maybe it's trying to make the medium more...adult.
It's true, as long as the game isn't tranny shit. If it is then yeah you aren't allowed any negative opinions at all
sold to a clickfarm company
So nothing's changed.
It's true, as long as the game isn't tranny shit
Name one fanbase that hasn't been invaded by tranny shit.
We'll wait.
I'd assume any game that hasn't sucked any western cock
Cho-aniki
you mean like anime and chinkshit games? also full of trannies.
True, well, except for the further layoffs
I always use these threads to brag that I am permanently banned from AGDQ chat for saying "lol"
I typed those three fatal letters during a promo for a special "women's speedrunning event"
I swear that ban will warm my heart for the rest of my life, every recollection of it brings the smile back
those death worm / effing worms flashgames
Right, tranny faggot players but not the game itself is what I'm getting at
The request was to name one fanbase, anon.
eheh
Who are the only people who would go to a website and read about games ?
Gamers: aka people who spend most of their spare time and a large chunk of their disposable income playing video games.
Videogame media: Let's attack gamers and tell them to fuck off, because they are majority male and in the US and Europe, majority white, we will instead write for people who would never go to a website to read about games, because they're not interested in games.
...
They'll probably hire a couple of third worlders to generate AI ragebait to keep the cost at a minimum.
More journo jobs lost which is always a positive.
games journalism hasn't been good since they were monthly magazines that came with demo disks
And that's well over a decade ago now, nearing two. All these fags ever did was apply social justice pressure directly to game devs until they gave in and started making pozzed games and hiring pozzed staff
Ah...those were the good days. I miss those skeezy shareware discs.
How much do you hate journalists?
It is not enough.
It will never be enough.
Never forget that.
Hold onto it forever.
PC Gamer demo discs were the GOAT
it's 2025 and Gravy Trader STILL isn't released
Wow classic
Back in the magazine days, it was great.
kotaku
"Do you feel in charge?"
God, I hate Glen Kennedy.
Kill PCGamer next please.
Their clickbait articles are awful.
for years executives tried to make videogames into movies and TV which failed as soon as tiktok and fornite happened
this is unironically quite sad. it's like tumblr dying. the internet is growing smaller and smaller. soon it will be nothing but inorganic AI engagement bait and bots everywhere. i'm scared bros.
Gamegate won.
who knew the fact that gamers actually buy video games and activists don't would be the one think that eventually ruins them? i don't think anyone saw this coming
I swear you could have fucking lived on those alone
Now shut Kotaku down and every other journo site that was involved in gamergate
You gotta hagmax and you'll find them.
this trash arent journalists though, just worthless sensationalist leeches.
Real journalism has always hated these fuckers.
tumblr isn't dead though, and it's certainly doing much better than gaming sites
lol at Yahoo for buying tumblr for $1 billion, banning porn and then selling the site for $3 million a year later, like holy shit how much can you fail
Real journalism basically hasn't existed for the past 15 years in any industry
If I'm generous enough to say real journalism ever existed, it was gone a long time before any of the assholes who got fired today ever came along
This is beautiful.
I'm done dumping Resetra shit. Time to dump the game journalism folder.
I forgot how egregious some of this shit was.
I did as a kid. Impoverished family scraped together enough to get a family computer but I never had money to buy a game except Atari era old shit. Those demo disks were a lifesaver. Then again if I saved up my $5 monthly pocket money instead of buying game mags with them I might have been able to afford a real game.
[Heartwarming Story] I always had the worst PC imaginable, even after finishing my studies and starting an entry level job. Just the worst crap. 5 years ago I've built a PC with top of the line hardware for almost 4k fore the very first time in my life at 31. I booted it up and felt
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it's honestly sad how much of a "naked king" this whole affair is, why can't anyone see that journos don't have a speck of influence? they can barely astroturf their own, or keep quiet about newcomers they don't like, but memoryhole-ing already established shit is beyond them
did warhorse "make it" far enough to get invited into the gritty underbelly of LA's incestuous gaming scene? the first game already garnered its share of outrage and fans, to whom exactly was he exactly beholden to? i guess it's just another reminder not to sell the fuck out
even if you are frustrated with how redpilled tradlarpers a continent away like historical rpg, you could always just keep your mouth shut on twitter (the smartest move frankly) or take the radical centrist approach and call all burger politics stupid
I'm aware.
I got banned from the Penny Arcade forums because someone said that Trump had already opened concentration camps that were killing trans people and I asked him "what are you talking about"
I wish I could even exaggerate that shit, I really was being on my best behavior but I guess I got the boot because I hadn't heard of and didn't believe in Tranny Auschwitz
Trump literally killed 6 million trans people, how do you not remember that?
grab status?
Pretty nice booba
I guess Polygon is Polygone now.
Your insane link genuinely helps me better understand this confusing incident from my internet life
Thank you
My hope is that the younger generation sees this crap as the cringe faggotry it is and rejects it as all the current trannies out there slowly off themselves as they hit 40. Hopefully the tranny trend will die out then.
The other day I was in a restaurant and I over heard a kid say "That's gay." No idea what the context was, but it doesn't matter. Couldn't have been older than 12. It restored a bit of my hope in humanity.
We don't need video game journalists anymore, because you can just watch youtubers give their thoughts on the game and at least you can usually tell which ones are in cahoots with the developers and have been paid. Compared to journos who 99% are acting as mouthpieces for the products they are supposed to review, at least there is a possibility to get a somewhat honest opinion.
Modern day video game journos don't even seem to like video games or have any competency in them, so why would I ever even want to know what they think of a game? Especially when they are incentivized to lie about the product they are reviewing.
If you don't believe me, then be veeeery quiet...Hear that? Listen closer
you hear an "ACK" in the distance
immediately tries to redefine genocide because their nonsense is not backed by reality (i.e. international treaties)
It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.
at least two people in this thread already made this joke, car-LATE.
The other day I was in a restaurant and I over heard a kid say "That's gay."
I've also heard teens call each other faggots and similar shit recently, so I guess they are not as blinded by the online virtue signaling as I initially thought.
yes-it-is-trans-genocide-a-faq-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-today
Gamergate won
Have addressed plenty of groups composed entirely of women (female) as "you guys" over the years.
None of them have ever given a flying fuck.
People really are looking for any excuse to get victim points nowadays, aren't they?
It was valuable when it was being done by people actually interested in videogames. Russians had top tier gaming juornalism. LKI and Igromania were some of the best gaming journalism instances I've ever seen in my entire life. They had room for small releases and big releases, constructive critique, in fact, critique so unbiased, that they were not afraid to lambast even Russian games that were crap like Creed, and each magazine came with a CD that featured game music, wallpapers, top community voted mods, game guides, playthroughs, replays for games like Warcraft, demos and they weren't afraid of risque content either, reviewing games like Leisure Suit Larry. Growing up, I took them for granted, but now, having a clear frame of reference, I realize what we've lost. I have a massive box filled with those magazines and a bag full of DVD's, they're one of my greatest treasures.
Terminally online leftists aren't real people, they're the equivalent of basement NEETs here on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
I always found it funny that once twitter became a lot more politically balanced instead of a left wing echo chamber like it was, they all immediately ran like little babies to bluesky.
Both are still shit, though, and if you use them, you need to leave.
Even funnier is that Anon Babble, of all places, is more politically agnostic than either of those places.
Your post is actually making me think and reminisce
The journalists probably/definitely were always shills
They were people that loved video games and most of their shilling was about how great the next big thing was
Their good fortune was that the next big thing almost always was that great
I think often that Daikatana proved the golden age was real. A game was huge and hyped and it was dogshit, and people were awestruck by that. That wasn't a thing that happened before that moment. Imagine the kind of Atlantean culture that would allow audiences to be genuinely ASTONISHED that the AAA blockbuster game of the season was actually garbage, that such a possibility was alien to them after endless bounties of Dooms and Warcrafts and Metroids and Bandicoots
>Even funnier is that Anon Babble, of all places, is more politically agnostic than either of those places.
Anon Babble's always been that way. It was only in the past decade or so that it got an association with "le alt-right" following gamergate and Anon Babble's growth. But gamergate wasn't even politically charged, it was just spun that way because people called it out for what it was: hack journalism. But they tried to turn it into a big thing claiming we're all evil sexists. Simply for pointing out that there was an evil fucking woman running around but in the #MeToo era you were expected to believe ALL women chud even if they were psycho insane grifters trying to nickle and dime the industry. Well they eventually got what's coming to them, all of them did. Game journos lost a ton of credibility in that time, and they were already fading into irrelevancy as people turned to other sources for gaming news and content.
Isn't it funny how all the journalists GG called out are being closed down?
it's proly'gone by now
There's probably a 100 amazing ps1 and ps2 games I only ever found out about because of these demo discs.
Just on pic related you had Maximo, SSX3, Metal Arms.
If it wasn't for these magazines I would have bought nothing for the PS2 but GTA, Final Fantasy and WWE games
We had something awesome
copy pasted wrong information, paid ads pretending to be reviews and ragebait articles calling white people racists
yea so great.
It was great, from their perspective. They were being paid good money to spread this filth.
Bingo.
When he said "we", he didn't mean (You).
They were being paid good money to spread this filth
Anon I... they weren't really paid.
Did the faggot already delet that post? can't find it
Anon Babble's blessing is being utterly unable to form an echo chamber
The rare thing I admire most about Anon Babble is that they've maintained a continuous pro-Russia thread and pro-Ukraine thread since the war started
There's something deeply disturbing that outsiders can peer in here and go "These guys are extremists and cultists because they're saying things I disagree with, and in my home community that NEVER happens"
Like be introspective about how fucking cancerous it would be to ever have a consensus on anything that everybody just circle jerks 24/7
Like be introspective about how fucking cancerous it would be to ever have a consensus on anything that everybody just circle jerks 24/7
That's why I hate most websites, because everyone agreeing with each other is the fakest shit ever
genocide is when I kill myself
And yet, some faggots still maintain it's just a hivemind... while still using reddit.
Blackrock constantly invested into these kinds of media outlets and later US government itself began to invest not just into media, but also into videogame produciton to combat the threat of "stochastic terrorism".
Hilarious because he (by virtue of being a video game youtuber) is partially responsible for these websites dying.
E3 and magazine journalism has become obsolete due to internet. The most basic purpose of getting customers informed of the upcoming games and their quality (accuracy of that information not guaranteed) can be ultimately fulfilled with no middle-men. Publishers can inform the public at their own pace, and customers can look into the games via e-celebs in real time and with no edits.
Anonymity results in honest expression.
The extremist label has always been funny considering Anon Babble is one of the most open, tolerant, and diverse places left on the internet. We must tolerate and share space with each other, whether we like it or not, meanwhile elsewhere conformity is enforced.
It's deemed "Extremist" because opinions that are deemed "unacceptable" by the powers that be are tolerated here. It's simply a psychological trick.
Arlo has a bigger audience than any professional game journalist working for a traditional media outlet.
Youtubers mogged these faggots and the world is never looking back. Turns out giving your opinions about video games isn't a hard job, to the point where "professionals" you get outshone by random idiots on Youtube!
While there is some pretty extreme stuff here, the truth it's just this place having a much higher freedom of speech than most places. What gets cracked down is completely illegal shit and users being really fucking obnoxious with their behavior, but otherwise people are generally free to say what they want provided it's at least somewhat related to the board they are posting in.
Anonymity also makes things fun, because you don't need to worry about your reputation while posting here
It's because Anon Babble is so stupidly abrasive, throwing slurs around like they're going out of style. Additionally, normalfags have problems with comprehending how this place works. On a normal forum and in real life, you are naturally going to wear a facade because you have a reputation to uphold. There is no facade to wear here, because there is no reputation, only the content of the post you just made. So we get to be brutally honest in a way that is refreshing to us, and horrifying to people who don't understand that honesty is often not kindness.
We both lost. Games are more censored than ever and the journos that slandered us are out of jobs, with no perspective of reinsertion in "gaming journos" because these are going extinct.
As usual, only the jews win.
Gen Z, while mixed liked every generation, is far more right-wing than millennials were.
I think the reality of modern dating culture is really redpilling a bunch of them. It's why so many teenagers fall into the retarded Andrew Tate normalfag redpill pipeline.
another cyst at the fat ass of wokie game development cut away
What a fine day!
Geezeranon here. Shills were pretty much always a thing, but things got worse and worse to the point where video game journalisim is far worse than sports and hollywood. That wasn't always the case. Also, when it was just hobbyists, all the journalists could and would actually play games.
I have never once visited Polygon. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing?
surprise surprise shitflinging on the internet doesn't matter IRL
It’s not even just dating culture, it’s the whole system falling apart that’s waking people up. Inflation, housing, student debt, clown world politics—it’s all pushing them to question the narrative. The Tate stuff is bait for normies, yeah, but it’s a gateway. Once you start asking “Why is everything screwed up?” you’re already halfway out of the matrix.
That's ok if you're a repo man or smth. Js.
WOKETROON LOSERS!
It's a hollow victory because it took us 20 years to get here and the older ones already made their money and most likely won't be punished. When Kotaku first started it was insane how just barely it was about games and all these retarded writers made articles about random shit masquerading of games. IMO this is the worst shit they ever made
kotaku.com
Basically some hipster spends most of the article talking about his time in Japan in a band and how you should dress like him. The sad part is ad revenue was so batshit back then that this made money. Gawker's entire business model was to piss people off and it worked initially and made Nick Denton so much money where he is still doing fine even after Hogan raped him.
The real evil people got away with it. This shit really fucked our culture up in many bad ways and led us to where we are now and the people at the forefront of that will never see punishment for this. People like Alyssa Mercante failing is a hollow victory since she was just a leech that came on too late and not the brain.
surprise surprise shitflinging on the internet doesn't matter IRL
That couldn't be further from the truth, to be honest
Gamergate chuddies won, can't believe we had to suffer through these cretinous faggots when they were just doing to die off in 10 years time.
this feels like bullshit unless something magically changed after the hack
I've been hating these faggots for over a decade now.
It's not bullshit, but you also need to spend about a year or two lurking to be able to detect bad actors, which is a big drawback
Oh shut up
GG did not achieve a single one of its goals, everyone involved lost except the ones pulling the strings.
Journos were never the enemy, they were simply useful idiots.
GG never had a stated goal, it won by exposing the veil of corruption and drawing attention to government meddling in mass media.
Oh shut up
Hahahahaha!
I could tell you some stories. But I won't.
So I'll leave it at that.
underrated
At least I'm not Anthony Burch
99% of the threads in this shithole end up getting derailed the second someone says or likes something someone else doesn't like
Sure that's technically free speech by definition but 90 tards yelling out in chorus drowning out people trying to have an honest conversation doesn't feel like free speech in spirit
For every person that had their eyes opened, 20 others bought the counter narrative that gamers are oppressors.
There is not a single measurable metric or real life consequence, supporting the idea that GG won, in any capacity.
You can win against the people holding the microphone by screeching in the comments.
reddit spacing
reddit writing
If it walks like a duck...
I meant to say you CAN'T win.
she is real, her name is Hikaru Nagi
There is not a single measurable metric or real life consequence, supporting the idea that GG won, in any capacity.
polygon is dead lmao.
nobody believes journoloids at all anymore. gorillion dollar slop games are flopping even though they are getting 10/10 reviews. everybody has a problem with forced faggotry.
we won.
For every person that had their eyes opened, 20 others bought the counter narrative that gamers are oppressors.
Those people would have bought that narrative regardless of GG being present or not.
here is not a single measurable metric or real life consequence, supporting the idea that GG won
The avalanche of "gamers are dead, let's make gamers+" articles and Kotaku eating shit, along with Polygon dying are pretty clear real life consequences.
You can win against the people holding the microphone by screeching in the comments.
You meant to say "can't", I'm pretty sure, but your demoralization agitprop has no effect on me. This isn't sports where you're trying to win a high score in a competition. Truth will always triumph over deceit, whether it takes a year or a decade or ten decades.
That's just sophistry. He chose to sell Warhorse, he knows his balls are owned by Embracer group and he will dance when told for his paycheck.
During gamergate I was once banned from giantbomb forums for using the phrase "normal people". That's around the time I came here.
Truth will always triumph over deceit, whether it takes a year or a decade or ten decades.
There ain't no justice and you know it
I said nothing about justice, I only spoke about the truth.
(You)
>reddit spacing
>reddit writing
If it walks like a duck...
I did that on purpose, just to see if you would give out the automated 'Reddit spacing' comment, and just like clockwork, you did.
I was only pretending to be retarded
The death of gaming journos is unrelated to GG, they have simply outlived their usefulness, much like gaming conventions such as E3. If GG had "won" in such a capacity, we'd see them being replaced with moraly upstraight journos, but instead the medium itself is being erased.
Look, I'm not opposed to GG. I think it was a good thing. I just don't think it was a successful good thing.
OH NO!
Anyway
And now you're quoting like you're doing e-mail reply. Hilarious.
Weren't they celebrating Anon Babble dying a few weeks ago?
LMAO
There are two branches of theory about how that happened in such a coordinated way. 1. The government conspiracy involving rebranding video games as an educational (propaganda) tool. 2. Incursion of political activists in to media, sliding in via affirmative action/DEI then nepo hiring. #1 is probably true in some form. The "gamers are dead" thing was too well coordinated for it just to be political activists loosely connected via back channels.
Polygon? More like poly....GONE if you catch my drift?
consultant for African History and Culture
(((Isaac Samuel)))
Every time
Stop making this goddamn point already, one more time and we'll have made a new polygon!
So, what, they just have this list of banned users with explanations publicly available for anyone to read like it's the fucking FBI Most Wanted list?
That's how you know it's nothing but a performative power trip. If it was truly about cleaning up the board and keeping it nice, then they'd just do it quietly behind the scenes. Making it a spectacle is pathetic
i think i remember reading a review of the ps5 on polygon and whoever wrote it spent more time talking about random inane shit than the console itself
Maybe you meant Kotaku? Or maybe both? On Kotaku the guy spent 80% of the "review" about how he felt bad about being privileged enough to buy a console
im not surprised if it was both
LOL
My channel blocker addon makes youtube look completely woke free
moraly upstraight journos
In a habitat where will solely rely on publisher good-will to get handed a pre-release copy, so their clickbait can matter? That isn't really feasible, and it hasn't been since EA first gifted intercontinental flight tickets to poorfag C64 gaming sheet writers for oversized multi-page reviews, and later hired them on as translators for their games.
The whole sort of deal has always rotten to the core, only back then there was more public disclosure about this, and those boomers were at least actual playing fans themselves instead of biz-dissolving political activists.
THAT Danny O'Dwyer?
I only use bluesky to post porn and I generally block trannies on sight.
famiboards.com
Pretty much. You need an account to view it though. And unfortunately it only shows active bans and permas. If it included every temp ban and warning the list would be 1000s of pages long.
Here's the moderation feedback thread if you want another autism rabbit hole to go down. It truly is beyond parody
famiboards.com
The problem with liberals is you could never convince them this is heavy handed because they have been brainwashed for decades that their "opposition" is an evil caricature and the ends justify the means.
The rare thing I admire most about Anon Babble is that they've maintained a continuous pro-Russia thread and pro-Ukraine thread since the war started
Browsing /chug/ in the opening days was fun, I really liked the explicit videos of killings and war crimes. And yes, the fact both sides coexist in the same board indeed is something that could only happen in Anon Babble.
This thread is a symphony of internet slang from the last decade to now. I love it.
Fuck SJWs, fuck Game Journalists, and fuck virtue signalers. Forever and always.
I hate schizos on Anon Babble. But average schizo on Anon Babble has better and more well rounded takes than "gaming" "journalists".
Even ignoring all political bullshit and just taking game journalists analysis on games in a vacuum: they fucked sucked. They got mogged by retards doing YouTube video essays. "Professional critics" couldn't even reach a bare minimum standard
vast majority of game journoloid reviews dont even talk about gameplay.
Neogaf also does this.They have public ban list that is 196 pages long goes as far back as 2018. They often link the post and then usually put in a snarky ban reason or an insult if you pissed off a mod really bad.
My friend briefly worked at kotaku he said a big reason their failed is they rejected having a youtube presence of any kind. You go to their channel it barely has views.
youtube.com
last video 6 months ago
They chose instead to go the boomer proprietary video software route and it cost them dearly. They never built a youtube presence ever mainly because all their writers were hideous trolls you couldn't put in front of a camera
antisemitic conspiracy theorist
based
So these people keep losing. What is going to happen to them in the long run? They act like parasites for companies, where they use their internal political sway to push the company towards their agendas and act like political commisars (often leading to more political commisars being hired). But this makes their output unappealing and it kills the company. What then?
1. Outsourcing. A lot of games are going to be outsourced to Latin America, South East asia, china, etc. Culturally they won't be nutty so they avoid these people entirely.
2. The companies they work for fail entirely.
3. They are subject to massive layoffs.
4. AI takes over their jobs.
So the future is unemployment for them. They haven't built up much infrastructure, but instead are anathema to it and keep destroying any they find for their short term gains.
btw, MOST OF THIS IS TWITTER ADDICTION. They're literally just trying to appease their buddies on twitter and get those sweet sweet likes and retweets. That's it. Ban people from twitter and they won't be like this. yes, they will sink 300 million dollar companies because in the short term they want to feed their twitter addiction.
since gamergate was just a broad outcry against the entrenched cronyistic journo menace, it alone didn't establish some new TRUE and HONEST journo scene
but do you think the sheer butthurt that follows the mere mention of GG is indicative that its history is written by the victors? by what exact metric have anti-goober-gaters won? the money that was made, the wikipedia articles, the globohomo that's still around?
as Anon Babble poster you should know that just because ubisoft and bethesda shill their shit doesn't mean they hold the mic exactly
based God, very relatable
You're huffing some serious copium lmao. Movie and Gameindustry are on their last leg. Companies that post tranny shit get bullied into submission that is caused by one tweet. We banded together and created alternative media and communication. At the drop of a hat we call a game woke and 50 youtube videos pile on until it's fucking dead. We not only won the culture war we salted the fields and burned the roots. You freaks will have nowhere to hide.
Their overall goal was to take over all media so that there is no alternative which would guarantee them safe spots forever.
It kinda worked for them for a long time. They weaseled themselves into all these companies and still run extortion rackets with their """consultant""" gigs.
Just doesnt work that way with luxury stuff like this. Nobody NEEDS the current slop. Plenty of alternatives either from japan, the indie space or just old shit. They got super far but ultimately they bled out. Maybe they shouldve boiled the frog longer. They actually managed to poz up many japanese studios already by infecting them with activist "localizers". They just didnt manage to seal the deal.
Of course many of these activists see themselves as martyrs and the ones who pull the strings dont even care when some faggot journoloids go jobless.
But that kind of martyrdom is a strength of the subversive lefty collective. They are actually willing to sacrifice a lot to shit up things while normal people mind their own business, focus on things like friends and family first and go for careers that actually pay.
Looks like the visa expired for these tourists.
I recently learned that in Astolfo’s myth he got cheated on by his wife and then proceeded to cheat on her with like a hundred married women.
This only works as long as:
1. The media keeps selling. They naively assume that old media is "problematic" and it was only popular because of a white-male-heternormative-patriarchial-capitalist conspiracy. Their media will be just as popular since it's removed the problematic material and replaced it with double plus good material. Reality tends to show this media is made for no one.
2. That companies aren't wise to this. They're starting to realize slowly that westerners are a pack of morons and they can outsource everything for cheaper.
3. That consumers aren't wise to this. But the same social media that told THEM to change media based on 90's era feminist theories can ALSO tell people about what they're doing.
They're 0-3 on all these points. It doesn't matter. Long term is that they're dead.
Astolfo's fan portrayal is about the opposite of his myth portrayal.
ActionButton is all the gaming journalism I need
I argue it's simply not possible to derail a thread in this format. Go ahead and intentionally spam 90% of it, people are still going to easily be able to navigate and converse with each other, about several topics within the same thread. And if the thread dies, any single person can just remake/continue it.
The only people affected by "derailment" are those that intentionally focus and engage with it despite not wanting to. It's more than easy to skim over chaff and only interact with posts you think are worth it. That's hardly "drowning out honest conversations". On the flip side, you wouldn't want to drown out people who simply post differently than you expect/want, either. Both sides are free to post here.
It's different for other forum formats where things are sectioned into pages, or comments shift around based on meta influence like votes, reputation, etc.
But Anon Babble doesn't have these problems, everything is a single page, with everything linked together. Easy to follow from beginning to end, even if there's multiple subtopics.
sensitivity consulting
nigger culture consultant
for a game taking place in late medieval eastern yurop
I was told none of that was true, they made all these decisions themselves, and to say otherwise was a far right conspiracy theory. Have I been misled?
sound like bots desu, jannies bans certain threads while allowing others to just spam the catalogue with bs. the discussion is controlled that way, remember trying to talk about sweet baby here before "they" decided to rebrand DEI?
I think they dont even care if they burn things to the ground as long as it doesnt stay there in its current state.
When they make games based on their own ideals as new IPs they tend to instantly flop.
If they take over an existing franchise and gay it up they often get decent sales because of past brand momentum and can then use that to justify shitting up other franchises. doesnt matter to them if it crashes and burns in the sequel because everybody realized whats happening. what matters to them is that yet another franchise is ruined one way or another. better dead than pushing chud principles.
That strategy was very effective and their spell on the western industry specifically was and is incredible. It just doesnt work long term for all the reasons listed. They mightve succeeded if they didnt accelerate this fast.
Americans acting as the arbiters of proper English on this site will never stop being funny to me
How about the stuffed and mounted asshole of vg24/7
this kind of shit is showing cracks already.
without their journo propaganda arm to attack game companies these """consultant""" mobsters dont have any leverage on studios.
they also overplayed their hand by bragging about the damage they have caused which made the evil gamers notice. when its out in the open its way easier to attack. remember the sweet babby list that caused leftoid meltdowns?
But they need jobs though. They're very self-serving, and enact policies to make themselves important, essential, and to hire more people like themselves. They see the host company as something they can act like a parasite to. This is all great and dandy... excpet actually making a good game an dhiring people who can make a good game are very low on their priorities list.
They don't care about the end product, but EVENTUALLY it kind of matters. Part of this is just mega-corp problems, where companies get so big they're imposible for anyone to have any accountability, and no one's steering the ship. Tiny teams are directly invested in their products and are passionate. As they grow bigger, these cancer problems happen.
In other words, they enact internal company policies through their lobbying to enrich themselves, hire more of their allies, and work for their long term gain, but the actual product is of little concern to them. Their lack of passion is extremely obvious, when you see a lot of intense passion in older games with smaller teams.
I saw some ubisoft graphic, talking about multiple internal committees created staffed largely by women, which is all about ensuring content is politically correct. At least 5 separate commitees, with dozens of useless stupid women who do nothing to ensure the game sells more, all asking for full salaries for years. That's the kind of nonsense they lobby for inside these companies. External consulting companies are just the external version of this which is already going on inside them.
Fuck jewnalists!
Sorry, JOURnalists!
buy company
shut them down
why tho?
asians have small breasts
they can do sometimes
how is that grammatically correct?
They can sometimes. They do sometimes. They can do, is it just an anglo expression or something? Never heard it before and I'm a britaboo
be a programmer
How is journalism a profession? Literally zero marketable skills and you've learned nothing.
gaming journos have always been leftist trannies
Right now that money has dried up. People can't afford to be throwing money at shitty ideas and shitty games especially with how absurd these modern budgets have got. I think a lot of common sense shit is just thrown at the window, but I genuinely don't understand how they can be so reckless with their spending to the point where they NEED their game to sell 5M+ plus or it's a huge flop. These longer development cycles aren't helping either. Just complete incompetence and mismanagement along with no real guiding vision for many of these teams. They hired the wrong people and everything just turned into a circle jerk where nobody wants to point out what they're making is actually shit because that might hurt someone's feelings.
Reminder when twitter feminists tried to say they've always liked Bayo after doing everything to attack it?
first quarter without USAID begins
more bullshit propaganda collapsing
Pure coincidence?
you get what you fucking deserve.
I haven't visited a gaming news website since Siliconera stopped putting up the weekly Japanese game sales. Sham of an industry.
all you had to do was like videogames. the easiest job.
you told people this was bad.
As I said, the individual might need a job to survive, but the collective sees it as a worthy sacrifice. Thats a strength of that kind of idiological collectivism. The individual is also rarely capable of seeing and understanding consequences of their procedures because they rabidly aim for their goals at any cost.
Of course their strategies will suffer harder now that they are less incentivized. CEOs might start asking questions now too.
I dont even talk about the corporations here. The parasites are evidently not the whole company. Said parasites just abuse the fact that these companies are bloated, that regular workers dont have actual passion and just see it as a 9-5. You have turbo activists that are willing to play psycho mindgames and harrass coworkers vs generic wagie who just wants to mind his business. One side will obviously manage to amass more power and get more pull.
That they got as far as they did is actually very impressive. I think they got rather close to succeeding too. Just overplayed their hands. Made their games too gay too quickly, antagonized the wrong people too early.
isn't it funny how these worthless retards made a hugbox platform where they refuse to learn from their mistakes?
and now...unemployed bluecry retards.
Australians just too advanced for you anon
admittedly, he forgot a comma between do and sometimes
The second one is bad
Just complete incompetence and mismanagement along with no real guiding vision for many of these teams. They hired the wrong people and everything just turned into a circle jerk where nobody wants to point out what they're making is actually shit because that might hurt someone's feelings.
The devs are very much parasites who know how to play victim and exploit diversity quotas. Lisa Brown (Prof Brown) is "non-binary", and seems like a moron, but seems to be an expert on marketing themselves and making themselves seem important and useful. The entire dev teams consist of these kind of idiots. They're not talented, creative, or even particularly smart.
The era of these mega-huge AAA or AAAA projects is over. They need to scale down. This is what Capcom found out in 2012 but the rest of the industry never figured out.
kotaku is next to die.
It's funny to me to contemplate how they made their mass exodus from Twitter, not because Twitter ever banned them, but simply because they were that angry that Twitter *wasn't* going to so doggedly ban everyone they didn't like anymore
reminder to buy good smile figures, the 16th birthday miku is amazing btw.
the person in the picture is real but the video was AI
it's img2vid
capcom themselves bloated up to retard levels again.
The Feds had interest rates at 0% for along time, which meant borrowing loans was super cheap and everyone took advantage of that environment.
As I said, the individual might need a job to survive, but the collective sees it as a worthy sacrifice. Thats a strength of that kind of idiological collectivism. The individual is also rarely capable of seeing and understanding consequences of their procedures because they rabidly aim for their goals at any cost.
In the short term: they are trying to impress their real world and online peers primarily. Every tweet is a claim of their virtue after all. They also create systems where they and similar people get hired en masse. It all works out in the short term, but these are all short term interests. At some point, a product has to coem out, it has to appeal to someone, and someone has to buy it.
Ideologically, they reject economics theories like supply and demand and look at everything through the lens of media analysis theories from University's humanities departments (where these theories came from). Ugly ex-Marxists in France turned their analsysi to finding the cultural conspiracies, and thousands of MA and PhD degrees since 1980 have been written about how x or y media is patriarchical, heternormative, etc.
But the problem is if you ONLY learn this cynical critical ideologies that can only critique, you know FUCK ALL about how to actually create or how to run a business that appeals to anyone.
Oh and this shit is called "cultural marxism", and the french guys like Foucault were ex-commies, but they embraced Nietzsche primarily. Cultural Nietzscheanism might be more accurate. But it does steal the revolutionary ethos of Marxism. Kind of like how Nazis stole the revolutionary ethos, but applied it in a reactionary manner rather than communist.
Imagine considering yourself a big-time literary giant but throwing tantrums on social media like a teenager. Stephen King is an absolute dipshit. I get writers are people at the end of the day and everyone has flaws but someone like that should be more measured and reserved.
seethe endlessly about bayo, say its sexist and not GOOD SEXY like Lara Croft
seethe endlessly about 2B, say it’s sexist and not GOOD SEXY like Bayo
seethe endlessly about stellar blade, say it’s sexist and not GOOD SEXY like 2B
Every time.
e3 died cause of these retards thinking booth babes were sexist.
fuck them.
TOTAL
CHUD
VICTORY
Foucault and James Baldwin convinced me that countries that kill all homos have the right idea
Believe it or not I'm tolerant enough that the homosexual acts themselves don't horrify me in some moral grandstand, but it's become irrefutable that somehow every homosexual, 100% of the time, is a civilizational cancer cell even though there's no specific direct reason they should be
Just through "coincidence" they all are
I don't think that has ever really been the standard, writers have often been the massive faggots of their time.
Asmongold deserves a bit of credit for dabbing on them while having a big audience. But this is a collective victory.
I dont even talk about the corporations here. The parasites are evidently not the whole company. Said parasites just abuse the fact that these companies are bloated, that regular workers dont have actual passion and just see it as a 9-5. You have turbo activists that are willing to play psycho mindgames and harrass coworkers vs generic wagie who just wants to mind his business. One side will obviously manage to amass more power and get more pull.
Yeah, that's a dynamic, but it also can only work in big companies because they are required to have diversity quotas, HR Departments, and they can no long only hire passionate talented people directly. These SJW idiots all score well and often have Masters degrees, but they lack self-awareness and often score very high for narcissism.
That they got as far as they did is actually very impressive. I think they got rather close to succeeding too. Just overplayed their hands.
They co-ordinate on social media (namely twitter), and their ideas are almost custom built to trend well and win online discussions. The social media landscape rewards and creates people like this.
>But the problem is if you ONLY learn this cynical critical ideologies that can only critique, you know FUCK ALL about how to actually create or how to run a business that appeals to anyone.
I heard Norm Macdonald come at this about hack political comedians and unfunny impersonations. He essentially said in order for an impersonation to be good, it has to come from a place of admiration, not hate. Same thing goes for creating anything, there has to be love behind it. These people aren't creating products out of love, but out of this hollow signaling of what they think to be love, which often turns out to be some form of spite, or for many of these indie teams some kind of therapy exercise where they can dump their mental health issues into a game and push their story as deep and groundbreaking, forgeting the entire reason why people even play games. They are so very self-absorbed, which I don't think is wrong for a game developer to be IF he is self-absorbed and fully devoted to the CRAFT OF MAKING GOOD GAMES because he has a deep knowledge of games that he LOVES and is inspired by.
A lot of the people making these games don't know jack shit about games to begin with and that's the problem. Their heart just isn't there. They just think the idea of being a game developer is cool, but it turns out it's a pretty hard fucking job to do right and so much of whether people like your game or not is unpredictable. Still, it's not randomness killing these shit games. It's because they're SHIT games. If you make a genuinely excellent game that remembers the entire point of being a game and delivers a unique and memorable experience, people will stumble upon it and if it's THAT good, word of mouth will sell your game alone.
Losing a "being an unlikable autistic jerkoff" contest with Elon fucking Musk is impressive 2bh
Reminds me of how Billy Mitchell has been so rehabilitated not because he's ever gotten any better but just because his albino nemesis is worse
Most writers/thinkers/philosophers are gay as hell historically. Creative fields just attract these types.
Foucault was an insecure nerdy outsider, and became a communist until falling out with them, and then embraced Nietzsche. It's Nietzscheanism and continental philosophy that's retarded. Foucault, Derrida, etc were just taking Nietzsche's ideas to their logical conclusion.
I also find it peculiar. Even ordinary adults shouldn’t behave that way, but actually world famous people? Have some dignity, have some restraint.
writers have often been the massive faggots of their time.
Not necessarily. Many lived lives of solitude, as recluses and not making much of a puff. There's not many types like that left, a lot of them died off a long time ago. Hardly anyone even writes good stories anymore or cares about the craft of writing, it's all gone to shit. "Journalism" is a joke as well. People used to care about doing a good job when it came to writing. It was eroded ages ago once TV and video became the norm.
It makes me think he has some form of dementia because I feel a younger King would be more reserved or at least sarcastic rather than just being passive aggresive in the most childish way possible. His mind has to be slipping
I've heard that before, that satirists fail when they are driven solely by venom, that you can't truly make fun of something unless you empathize with it on at least some level
Honestly I gained respect for Tina Fey because she made me laugh at a Trump joke. Trump jokes are so fucking unfunny because of the unbridled seething behind them. But on Fey's show she had him have a heart attack - and the punchline was that he was recovering comfortably in the hospital, boasting to the reporters at his bedside, "The doctors tell me that this was the biggest heart attack anyone ever had. Nobody else EVER flatlined as long as I did and came back."
And I laughed. Apparently I'm not some mindless Trump shill, I found that fucking funny.
They are so very self-absorbed, which I don't think is wrong for a game developer to be IF he is self-absorbed and fully devoted to the CRAFT OF MAKING GOOD GAMES because he has a deep knowledge of games that he LOVES and is inspired by.
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Polygon actually won in the end
Nobody ever called them racist or sexist. Cant say the same for those piggy gamers
but I genuinely don't understand how they can be so reckless with their spending to the point where they NEED their game to sell 5M+ plus or it's a huge flop
They had to increase the number of employees to meet diversity quotas or be financially penalized by (((BlackRock))) etc when they take the huge loans they need to cover the development cycle costs.
These diversity hires don't do shit, and on top of that they need to hire DEI consulting firms, and of course they still need to keep the people who actually know how to make games, and the DEI bleeds into the games which in turn makes them sell poorly.
So it becomes VERY expensive, and now it is crashing the AAA industry.
I have a theory that social media gives you brain damage but my hottest take on it is that it's WORSE the older you are
There's somehow a generation of people on the internet now that never used the internet before and were middle aged when it took off and they're the biggest retards of all
Maybe. I also think it’s just an adaptation to changing times.
For some reason, people seem to think acting like a passive aggressive child is stunning and brave now. Anyone disagreeing with anything I believe is a threat to the entire planet and throwing a tantrum is the best way to combat it.
Oh I'm sure you'll find someone who did if you trawl poosky or retardera.
I thought the link said 'yes it is trans genocide, fag' at first
Ideologically, they reject economics theories like supply and demand
they are too retarded to believe in it, but they also know that nobody actually wants their shit.
propagandists of the pasts were way more nuanced and smarter with their approach.
I guess these old propagandists were better at it specifically because they understood that demand is vital.
>I've heard that before, that satirists fail when they are driven solely by venom, that you can't truly make fun of something unless you empathize with it on at least some level
Yeah, an example that comes to mind is Weird Al, the king of musical parodies.
All of his songs just have this kind of cute mockery of the original subject and subverting it to be something silly. Rarely if ever is it an attack on the original artist, or an attack on some other random celebrity or whatever. Nothing he makes comes from vitriol. You can tell he enjoys the source material, and he even goes out of his way to seek permission from the artists before parodying them, even though he doesn't need to. That's how you do it. Anything made by someone seething trying to "own" somebody else is always going to be shit. Not to say you can't make funny "roast" content, but it has to be level-headed and someone with a certain amount of self awareness and humility, someone with the ability to laugh at themselves. Many of these people in a constant state of anger have seemingly lost the ability to do that. They wouldn't know "funny" or "good" if it came and bit them in the ass.
isn't it funny how they fucked up the easiest job?
like videogames
post about videogames in a positive way
post art of hot game girls with big boobs
that is ALL THEY HAD TO DO. But they failed.
I mean it's not even just a theory, there has been tons of research on the subject and how it impacts mental health. Nearly every study has walked awawy with the finding that social media is all around just bad for people, most of those studies focused around young people and their growing mental health, but I don't doubt it's equally bad or worse for old people.
I just would think Stephen King would at least try and be clever about it, try and make a witty comment. You're a fucking writer, put some effort into your shitposts. He just made himself look like a total bitch for no reason. He could have just ignored Elon and he'd be the better man, but I know that's hard for most people. At the end of the day he's just a person and social media takes away the mystery around people that are supposed to be "intellectuals" as they often make fool out of themselves in the most ordinary ways possible. Modern social media is just garbage, it truly brings out the worst in people. Honestly it wasn't this bad in the myspace era.
they are too retarded to believe in it, but they also know that nobody actually wants their shit.
They genuinely believe these theories, which portray media as part of a conspiracy of elites (european males) and are thus full of problematic assumptions, biases, and predudices. Thus, if this the ONLY problem with media, fixing these would IMPROVE media. it's incredibly simplistic.
And they think humans are blank slates at birth, where society imprints upon them (such as through media), thus by changing the input, they remake people in their images. It's call social constructivism. They're trying to socially construct their utopia.
Video games are politic--- AAAAACCCCKKKKKKKKKKK
Im sure good potential writers still exist but all the publishing gigs are given to women, faggots and nigs.
post art of hot game girls with big boobs
but how are the male game journos going to get laid by the female journos if they don't call out muh sexism? we gotta shed our old ways bros! we need to fix these boob-loving gamers...so we can get laid by mid-tier danger hair pussy!
Anybody can publish these days, it's easier than ever. Any schmuck can put their book online, and plenty of people do, and many of those books sell. But you're not seeing any "classics" being made because the art has long died off. Films were the start, radio took over, then TV, more bigger films, and now games and the internet.
People that would have been writers in the past are instead becoming content creators, game developers etc. Nobody reads books anymore except women and adult literature. Those are the best sellers. And Harry Potter, MAYBE game of thrones. Asides from that and a few other authors on the outskirts anything anyone reads is old, old old.
make lara croft on netflix less attractive
it fails
no one likes it
ruins her character
they throw away the easiest money making things.
forget about your big boobs! they need to impress their female employees so they can get LAID!
thats a win to them though.
Ive said it many times, the jews and commies must be seething about the lord of the rings movie trilogy existing the way it does.
a few years later and they wouldve forced it to be like rangz of power so that the legacy is ruined.
>thats a win to them though.
it's certainly not a win for the unemployable faggots out of a job
game developer doesn't have sex
lmao look at this loser virgin incel!!!
game developer does have sex
nooo they're making my games le heckin woke
They just can't win
they got to contribute to "the cause™"
Am I out of touch?
No, it's the gamers who are wrong
see pic related
if they just focused on making good games they could get laid and win, but we're talking about game journos here. They can barely make a sandwich on a good day
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what the fuck is the deal with that tranny shit anyway
twitter clone for the raped.