I only just had my GAF account authorized a couple days ago, so I apologize if I'm just popping "out of the blue."
it's totally weird that Jim Sterling actually said that stuff. Was it a while ago? Even so, pretty weird.
I listen to the Destructoid podcast and if anything he's more of a feminist than a sexist. And his wife is, like, a serious feminist.
His only mistakes were not fully understanding Twitter and being completely unaware of this girl's rabid fan base.I'm an editor for Destructoid, and Ryan Perez was an intern who we brought on recently. I met him during E3, and he's a great guy. I'm not defending what he said to Felicia Day, because it was terrible no matter how you slice it. However, I don't believe Ryan fancies himself extra special just because he's a games blogger. He honestly was not familiar with Felicia Day's body of work, her name came up in a discussion with his friends, then he jumped onto Twitter before thinking about his actions clearly. An unfortunate decision that cost him, but I don't think less of him. He leaped before he looked, is all.
Destructoid is such an embarrassment to the gaming community.
Destructoid is such an embarrassment to the gaming community.
Oh stop it. You don't need to jump on the site for one guy's actions.
His only mistakes were not fully understanding Twitter and being completely unaware of this girl's rabid fan base.
Harsh penalty, you'd think a public apology would be enough.
it's totally weird that Jim Sterling actually said that stuff. Was it a while ago? Even so, pretty weird.
I listen to the Destructoid podcast and if anything he's more of a feminist than a sexist. And his wife is, like, a serious feminist.
Your account got approved in 2 days? Took me like a year
Didn't she do that horrible fruit ninja roleplay at the VGA's? That's all I can recall she's done.
Didn't she do that horrible fruit ninja roleplay at the VGA's? That's all I can recall about her.
They were pretty embarrassing before all of this.
Urg I hate Internet mob mentality.
I only just had my GAF account authorized a couple days ago, so I apologize if I'm just popping "out of the blue."
I'm an editor for Destructoid, and Ryan Perez was an intern who we brought on recently. I met him during E3, and he's a great guy. I'm not defending what he said to Felicia Day, because it was terrible no matter how you slice it. However, I don't believe Ryan fancies himself extra special just because he's a games blogger. He honestly was not familiar with Felicia Day's body of work, her name came up in a discussion with his friends, then he jumped onto Twitter before thinking about his actions clearly. An unfortunate decision that cost him, but I don't think less of him. He leaped before he looked, is all.
So yes, this whole affair was rather disappointing, but he really isn't the self-important misogynist that he's been painted as on Twitter.
Your account got approved in 2 days? Took me like a year
His tweets in that whole snafu were more of a response to her. Some of the stuff she was tweeting was pretty bad as well.
If Ryan owns this incident and learns from it, he'll be back in the game soon enough. People have come back from worse, I'm sure.
Wasn't that started by an offensive picture of Sterling made by the other part?
He was only an intern. Dude's career in game journalism is over.
His only mistakes were not fully understanding Twitter and being completely unaware of this girl's rabid fan base.
Harsh penalty, you'd think a public apology would be enough.
They were pretty embarrassing before all of this.
If any of you are interested why Jaffe thinks this way, his game Twisted Metal, his team, and himself was attacked by leigh alexander (there were also some snarky remarks about TM from her followers that she retweeted)from Gamasutra and not many people came to his defense and he did not even get a apology from alexander at all.
If I had sex with Leigh Alexander I'd lie and say I didn't.
hope I don't get banned by the way
Like how? They're a pretty solid site, I think. I can think of much, much worse gaming sites.
Urg I hate Internet mob mentality.
Pretty sure he means his account was just approved a couple days ago. Not that it took a couple to get approval. So, he could have been waiting months.
If any of you are interested why Jaffe thinks this way, his game Twisted Metal, his team, and himself was attacked by leigh alexander (there were also some snarky remarks about TM from her followers that she retweeted)from Gamasutra and not many people came to his defense and he did not even get a apology from alexander at all.
If any of you are interested why Jaffe thinks this way, his game Twisted Metal, his team, and himself was attacked by leigh alexander (there were also some snarky remarks about TM from her followers that she retweeted)from Gamasutra and not many people came to his defense and he did not even get a apology from alexander at all.
And Jaffe is right to his claim of both sides -- male & female -- should have equal defenders for this stuff.
Exactly. I just wanted to write this.
So much hypocrisy. What a childish industry it still is.
Wasn't my decision. Nonetheless, he wasn't a full-time member of the staff, so we just took the best course of action for the situation. He'll be fine, though. I'm sure of it.
Is this a joke?
I haven't seen much of Day's work in acting, only the guest spot in Supernatural.
She was terrible in the episode.
In the "insulting" tweets, I replaced "Felicia Day" with "Geoff Keighley" and had a good laugh.
Also David Gaffe just became my hero.