His little magazine experiment was flawed from the get go since Game Informer isn't a independent magazine but a magazine owned by Gamestop. Of course a company who sells video games would have lots of video game ads in their magazine. A lot of what he states as being a fact throughout his death of gaming journalism series isn't actual fact but hearsay and conjecture. It is worth a watch and pretty close to the truth, but not the entire story.
And yet I bet the results would be more or less the same if he had used gamepro, tips and tricks, egm, etc. From my memory of reading these magazines in the past, I would say 98% of the ads in them were for games, 1% about gadgets and tech, and 1% were anti-smoking psa's. Game informer while not independent is pretty much the best representation of the print games media, the same way that IGN would be a good stand-in for the online games media; what they do is copied in part or in whole by the entire industry simply because they are successful at it.
One of the women who accused Skyrim (and many other games) composer Jeremy Soule of sexual assault has come forward with a blog lambasting Kuntaku for lying and breaking what she believed was a confidentiality agreement.
What it’s like sharing your #metoo with Kotaku (a cautionary tale)
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I realize that the journalist that did this to me is also “famous” (Cecilia D’Anastasio), and at this point I don’t really expect that much credibility. I only think it’s fair that you know who she is, and that she did this, so that you understand the scope when a journalist abuses information given to them. The article is titled “Two Women Accuse Skyrim Composer Jeremy Soule Of Sexual Misconduct” by Cecilia D’Anastasio on Kotaku.
Directly names the person she's calling out.
I don’t give a shit about what bridges this will burn with journalists in general.
That's generally the accepted position.
Instead of saying “we should do better” when confronted, maybe you should shut the fuck up and actually go do that for a change.
That's pretty much Kuntaku's MO. Publish some absolute horseshit claiming Atlus put a slur in Smash or post hentai of Emma Watson's Harry Potter character then go "oopsie whoopsie we made a fucky wucky" when called out and hold no one accountable.
Like I mentioned in my thread, the journalist in question mislead me about the intention of the interview when she got me to open up about the details surrounding my rape. She indicated that she would not publicize this information, but did so anyway.
I feel lied to. I trusted this person, and the repercussions have been fairly severe.
Kotaku ran with the article and included the details of my sexual assault.
Lying about and then breaking confidentiality agreements. Bravo Kuntaku.
She told me that her article was ready to publish but that Kotaku’s lawyer needed me to go over the details of my sexual assault in order to get the go-ahead to publish.
She told me that in both my blog post, and in the first call with her, I skipped over the sexual assault.
Well that doesn't at all sound shady as fuck.
For the sake of their lawyer, I tried my best to go over that night. It was really hard, and invasive.
I described what led up to that to the extent that I could manage to put into words but stopped short of saying “raped”.
She raised her voice and yelled, “Was it penetrative sex??”
I said “Yes”.
Who screams“Was it penetrative sex??” at someone? What is wrong with Kuntaku employees?
I asked her if she would share this information. I was worried that she would.
She told me that she thought SHARING THE DETAILS OF A SEXUAL ASSAULT WAS EXPLOITATIVE and wrong (unnecessary, cruel…). She indicated that she would not do so. I didn’t want this out there. This was for their lawyer. That was the premise under which I shared this with her.
I like how she talked how evil sharing the details would be and then turned around and shared the details.
Holly fucking shit ALL the details were there! In fact, that was all she included from both interviews. She did the opposite of what she indicated she would do.
Nothing more progressive than lying to rape victims!
I have to wonder why it’s even necessary to post something that gratuitous on a major news site. Why do people even need to know how I was raped?
Because clicks.
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I think, in many ways, bad journalism killed any constructive momentum with such reporting.
Other journalists reduced what happened from rape, to just sexual harassment. In their articles they said that I came forward alleging “abuse”, “sexual harassment”, “harassment”… Very few actually called it sexual assault, or rape.
For the record, I alleged rape. I came forward about being raped.
I understand why a journalist has to say that I “alleged”. I do not understand why you would call a rape accusation “harassment”.
To go off on a tangent, this is what happens when you fill your field with barely-qualified mouthbreathing dipshits and allow them to form a clique so they can't be held responsible for any of the stupid shit they do. No other industry could turn "its about ethics XDXDXDXDXDXDXD" into a defense of their incompetence so now when something as big as MeToo hits videogames it gets completely bungled because they aren't qualified to handle it in the manner it requires. Imagine someone contacting Uma Thurman and going "EHHHH GIVE US ALL THE SORDID DETAILS OF HOW HARVEY ASSAULTED YOU OUR TOTALLY NOT FICTIONAL LAWYER NEEDS IT I PROMISE I WON'T PUBLISH ANY OF IT" and then turning around and publishing it. They'd get sued off the face of the Earth and never be able to show their face in public again. Granted people actually know who Uma is and she obviously has a boatload more money than this chick but the fact remains you don't see this kinda shit from anyone but game journalists and there's never any sort of lasting consequences for it. The most that will happen is CD gets fired and blacklisted and Tortilla will post an article going "oopsie whoopsie we made a fucky wucky" and then another couple months will pass before they do something reprehensible again. But hey, GamerGay was the real evil.
Taking everything at face value what we have here is a website that paints itself as progressive lying to a rape victim in order to obtain explicit details of their trauma which for whatever reason (perhaps CD is a sick fuck) they felt necessary to post in their article about the woman's accusations. Kuntaku's done some pretty fucked up shit over the years but goddamn. They're fucked either way here. Either they accuse or provide evidence of an alleged rape victim being a liar or they admit to exploiting her trauma for clicks. There's no face-saving in this one.
And finally, always get your confidentiality agreements in writing kids.
Game Imformer Issue 265 November 2017: 98 pages(including the inside covers) 9 ads, 3 Gamestop ads(3 full pages, One 1/2 page), 1 Fullsail University ad(1/2 page), 1 UAT ad, 2 Think Geek ads, 1 cancer research ad, 1 Geico Ad = about 9% of the total magazine, about 3% of the total pages for video games directly.
lolwut. Have you seen Skyrim? Mods are gonna make nude skins regardless of what country the game was developed by. The only time devs are ever gonna step in is when it "cuts into" their profits ala the people that got sued for hacking money into GTAO or if it affects other players like dipshits using aimbot in competitive multiplayer games or that dry-hump mod in (also in) GTAO.
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For some extra fun, Matt Lees of the Sit Up and Shut Down show, Cool Ghosts, game journo and terminal TDS sufferer got into some hot water this week.
(For contex:
This is a guy who rants about the evils of Animal Crossing supporting capitalism
Believes "games culture was the ideal recruitment zone for modern fascism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY90symFHaY (slides for such https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lIINvk49YC_Kr8n2mJIHg07I-CP7xnQ-1c-85PjX7y4/edit#slide=id.p )Matt Lees - PAXU on Twitter
“Honestly kind of nuts that we now know in pretty black and white terms that games culture was the ideal recruitment zone for modern fascism, and in response to that the industry like, changed basically nothing”
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A 2B cosplayer from Nier got the director Yoko Taro to sign her thigh. General reaction over the internet was "man is living the dream". Matt Lees, not so much. He considers it creepy behaviour from Yoko, even though the woman requested it herself
MarkyX on Twitter
“Here's "male feminist" Matt Lees having a problem with a woman asking a game director to sign her leg. Nothing says "women's rights" like a white dude telling women what to do”
This leads to mockery with thousands of RT and likes:
And now he's trying to mix backpedaling and holding his ground at the same time.
For some extra fun, Matt Lees of the Sit Up and Shut Down show, Cool Ghosts, game journo and terminal TDS sufferer got into some hot water this week.
(For contex:
This is a guy who rants about the evils of Animal Crossing supporting capitalism
Believes "games culture was the ideal recruitment zone for modern fascism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY90symFHaY (slides for such https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lIINvk49YC_Kr8n2mJIHg07I-CP7xnQ-1c-85PjX7y4/edit#slide=id.p )Matt Lees - PAXU on Twitter
“Honestly kind of nuts that we now know in pretty black and white terms that games culture was the ideal recruitment zone for modern fascism, and in response to that the industry like, changed basically nothing”
)
A 2B cosplayer from Nier got the director Yoko Taro to sign her thigh. General reaction over the internet was "man is living the dream". Matt Lees, not so much. He considers it creepy behaviour from Yoko, even though the woman requested it herself
MarkyX on Twitter
“Here's "male feminist" Matt Lees having a problem with a woman asking a game director to sign her leg. Nothing says "women's rights" like a white dude telling women what to do”
This leads to mockery with thousands of RT and likes:
And now he's trying to mix backpedaling and holding his ground at the same time.
