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Their assessment isn't too far off the mark actually considering they have scenes like this in the game:
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"MAKIN' THE MOTHER OF ALL OMELETTES ELLIE, CAN'T FRET OVER EVERY JOEL!"
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IGN isn't wrong there though.
Hoenn is the worst region, Water Routes suck and there should be at most 2 in any pokemon game.
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Honestly it deserves all those 10's out of 10's
It's the perfect Tranny simulator, because right out of the gate you feel like you wanna kill yourself.
It's the perfect Tranny simulator, because right out of the gate you feel like you wanna kill yourself.
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Should be added to Polygon's Greatest Hits.
Remember, it's only the old white guys that are violent. Everybody else gets along just fine. Especially in a world of fungus zombies.
Remember, it's only the old white guys that are violent. Everybody else gets along just fine. Especially in a world of fungus zombies.
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"it's a missed opportunity to explore how the rage of a marginalized character might take on a different form, and what that form may look and sound like."
Considering the last two weeks, violent and self involved doesn't exactly sound implausible...
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Considering TLOU2 forces you to kill a dog in a QTE, it really feels more like Druckmann's creepy violence boner rather than any actual message about muh circle of revenge.
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I thought the riots and looting demonstrated perfectly the "rage of marginalized people".
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Not sure where to put this, so I’m just going to say I’ve done my own games journalism until someone has a better idea of what to do with this...
So, while looking at some of the games in that big bundle in the Free Games thread, I came across this game: Democratic Socialism Simulator. Which had this as part of its description:
Curious about how many people would actually buy a stupid thing like this, I checked their forums... turns out they raised about $700 for the Sanders campaign.
Slight problem: “ thanks to many donors from outside the USA.”
well, turns out that
so this game has basically laundered several hundred dollars of international contributions to Bernie Sanders. (Not that it did much). And he was even nice enough to document which contributions came from which country.
oh, also, in case you were wondering, about 200 copies since March.
P.S. Eat your dick off, Klepek.
So, while looking at some of the games in that big bundle in the Free Games thread, I came across this game: Democratic Socialism Simulator. Which had this as part of its description:
Curious about how many people would actually buy a stupid thing like this, I checked their forums... turns out they raised about $700 for the Sanders campaign.
Slight problem: “ thanks to many donors from outside the USA.”
well, turns out that
so this game has basically laundered several hundred dollars of international contributions to Bernie Sanders. (Not that it did much). And he was even nice enough to document which contributions came from which country.
oh, also, in case you were wondering, about 200 copies since March.
P.S. Eat your dick off, Klepek.
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I don't want to backseat mod, but the Culture Wars thread would be perfect for this.
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This was most of his "scoops" which he was good for once in his life when he had a willingness to just publish anything like that. But he doesn't have that anymore, they're paying for a reputation he had years ago.
Same deal with Jason Scherier, he was a guy to anonymously bitch to and he'd write it up as an article. Now he's probably not going to be that guy anymore working for Bloomberg, it's going to be someone else out there blogging junk.
You usually never hear about these dudes once they get that first "big time" site change gig. Klepek has been able to keep the racket going his entire life, since dad was buying him E3 passes, etc. Remember the video of Polygon's launch with all the dudes from sites they collected? How many of those do you even remember let alone know what they're doing now? Arthur Gies, etc. If they aren't doing something stupid and getting clowned on by the internet they quickly become forgotten by most people. And they've never been the actual "games journalist" types who have decades of connections and can get anybody on the phone or whatever. That's very limited in the industry. Most everyone is interchangeable. (As shown by how often they literally do swap jobs.) They're glorified press release re-writers. They aren't people who even know how to "break" a story or work with a true deadline even.
Not to puff up Game Informer anymore than they need but since they've been the official magazine of GameStop for so long they actually know how to deal with being handed exclusives, talking to actual decision makers/sources, and how to contact people and go "hey, we've got a page to fill, do you guys want it?" Plus until recently they've had people around there for twenty years, fifteen years, ten years, etc. Rather than hopping all over from one job to the next every six months, never really learning how to be more than an ascended fan who hates other gamers. They've for a long time worked at teaching their employees a lot of this stuff because they couldn't afford (even when GameStop was footing the entire bill) tons of losers who did nothing but blog and tweet, they needed to work contacts/sources/etc. to produce the physical magazine every single month. Most of these sites will never even have an infrastructure like that of actual editors, let alone ones with years of experience in the role.
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I would deeply enjoy a game where the queer woman protagonist totally eschews personal violence and instead spends the entire game whipping up twitter mobs against her enemies, only to discover that twitter doesn't work in post-apocalyptic zombie land and is promptly dragged off to a life of slavery.
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Games Journalists: Now is the time for marginalized voices to be heard, there are far more important things going on, this is a turning point in history, what will you tell your children you did when this happened, systemic racism is embedded in this country, black lives matter before all lives matter, etc. etc. etc.
Video game Youtubers: LOL IT'S MOUNT REICHMORE!
And they wonder why all game publications are dying.
Video game Youtubers: LOL IT'S MOUNT REICHMORE!
And they wonder why all game publications are dying.
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I'm sure Schreier will still go on Resetera to whine about gamers and start another harassment campaign against people in the industry who don't share his opinion on current events.
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Some hilarious drama concerning who I write for:
Some fool is trying to file a copyright claim with Google because we dared give a bad review for technical reasons. Even though everything written (not by me, another reviewer) does not libel the creator and gives a perfectly legal opinion based on the game's technical merits using images from the game for purposes of demonstrating the game (i.e. - fair use) described in the review, they are mad we dared say "the technical quality was pretty bad and this is why".
Some fool is trying to file a copyright claim with Google because we dared give a bad review for technical reasons. Even though everything written (not by me, another reviewer) does not libel the creator and gives a perfectly legal opinion based on the game's technical merits using images from the game for purposes of demonstrating the game (i.e. - fair use) described in the review, they are mad we dared say "the technical quality was pretty bad and this is why".
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Game journalism is trash, but all those youtubers who do nothing but screech about 'MUH GAMEZ JOURNALIZM' are worse.
People like Upper Echelon Gaming are basically more conservative versions of your worst Kotaku hack, except even Kotaku doesn't start their videos shilling for trash mobile games and merch.
The whole Last of Us 2 review score drama has exposed the fact that pretty much everyone covering video games is shit. From Youtubers outraged because 'muh lgbt agenda' game got a 96 on metacritic, to the uncritical mainstream hacks who have given every Naughty Dog game since 1997 perfect review scores.
"Christ centered gamer' lmao. Are people really clamoring to get the Evangelical Christian perspective on video games?
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Upper Echelon is not like Kotaku (that would be Yong "lootboxes" Yea), he makes good content. Shilling for a shitty mobile app or some shirts, that's all these youtubers have, since most of their videos get demonetized.
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Nah, he's pretty trash. He makes hack culture war content. The fact that he has a script and talks fast doesn't change that. He's another one of those youtubers who'll make a 15 minute video about a topic that only needs a sentence said about it. Do we really need another monotone dweeb telling us why Anita Sarkeesian is literally Hitler and Kotaku puts out dumb articles?
I would actually rank him a tier below people like The Quartering and One Angry Gamer, since at least those guys don't have any delusions of being anything other than outrage bait. Upper Echelon seems to have journos like Schreier and others living in his head rent free, he just seems very bitter and insecure about his 'place' in the gaming industry. I don't think a week goes by where he hasn't gone on a twitter rant about how 'askshually, everyone in games media is bad except for meee!' The guy who ran Niche Gamer used to do the same thing, until he got exposed as a plagiarist and had a melt down on discord.
Yong doesn't really delve into that political stuff on his channel. The main criticism you could have of him is that his videos are usually way too long and a lot of them are just him reading out an article he found on Kotaku or Game Informer.
In general, though, all of the youtube gaming 'news' channels are garbage. They don't have any sources, so all they can really do is regurgitate whatever they read on IGN.
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I used to think he was okay until he made a video whining about Doom Eternal while exposing he didn't properly learn how it works. People called him out on it and he proceeded to make an essay video pissing and whining about people not liking his review. It made me realize he wasn't really any better than the journalists he bitches about because he was doing the exact same thing with Doom Eternal, not liking a game because he didn't take the time to learn it and getting defensive when everyone called him out on it. Except this was more annoying because he tried to hide behind meaningless intellectual talking points in order to disguise his butthurt rather than outright saying he was butthurt.
Not to mention his videos are insanely repetitive. You see one of them, you've basically seen them all.
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A niche is a niche. I'd think it'd be popular with parents of young kids who actually care about what their kids consoom but are too stupid to read the ESRB label.