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Colin finally got to interview Alyssa Mercante
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Unfortunatecookie
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What, precisely, is the point of spotlighting a person who clearly has an agenda against people who play videogames?
InterMusketeer
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I don't know her full backstory, but while it can explain her behavior, it doesn't excuse it. If she doesn't recognize her own role in the polarization of the gaming community, this conversation is moot.
RafterXL
Gold Member
The audio is from 2020, the blowup about all of this was last year, the interaction , 11 days ago, was pimping Ana's crowdfunding. And of course "she" is mentally ill, shes an AGP trans. I originally thought it was GoFundMe but it's something else, either way they're promoting this persons crowdfunding. Any normal person would steer clear of Ana Valens, who like Alyssa also got fired from her job at Vice last year. They're all part of the same group of people who have been stirring up trouble since early last year.
I don't know about you guys, but if someone in my community starts talking about wanted to rape "cis" women, admits multiple times to having sexual attraction to children for years, and to using sex toys while playing games with kids, I cut that person off, I don't promote their crowdfunding, I don't engage with them...they're dead to me. All of this stuff is highly documented and well known, Alyssa knows about it and yet a year later she still has her back. Even if you think every view she has about this industry is correct and you handwave all the nonsense she started in the last year plus, there is absolutely no way to defend this.
At a certain point it doesn't matter, Clark Kent is Superman. And considering this interview is the first time I've seen her be even remotely normal, in years, I'd say the person we've seen for that entire time is the real her, and this person is a fraud who wants to change her image and sell her new book.
It's absolutely middle school tier twitter drama, but that was her entire MO on the site. Her and her idiot friends would attack people, people would attack back, she'd cry harassment for attention and it would repeat over and over again until Kotaku got sick of her and fired her. Then she, and all her cronies, fled to Bluesky when things went south, and decided to sue SmashJT because in typical crybully fashion she torpedoed her own career and can't handle accountability. Now she's in this video pretending to be a normal human being and people are like "why you so mean?".
Generic
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The thick skin quickly disappears every time some random journalist or game dev criticizes the gaming community.
Generic
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Gamergate was when a portion of the gaming community started criticizing leftist influence in gaming media, but they were too shy to admit so they tried to frame it as "ethics in gaming journalism".
Unfortunatecookie
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Let's be honest. It wasn't really about leftists or progressives. It was about grifters and deliberate liars; political affiliation had nothing to do with it.
A number of men and women saw an opportunity to paint all of us as bad people who just focus on Dead or Alive boob jiggle physics or Lara Croft's buttcheeks. In reality, we're not and have never been that. These are the exact same people who thought painting Evilore as a bad person would build their career. They failed. I've been reading and posting on gaming message boards for over 20 years. So I can say this with some sort of (historical) credibility; they are lying about things and are lying about people for the purporse of money. They are bad people.
I understand why a druggie like Colin would see spotlighting a piece of shit as a good move. He's in the business of making content, so he'll capitalize on whatever opportunity he has to make profitable content. Pathetic person.
coffinbirth
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Sorcerer
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Judging by the way some on this forum have no idea who either or Colin or Alyssa are or what the big deal is, I think it's safe to say that this is not to going to rock the world in anyway.
The incident with Alyssa was only 2 years ago.
Sacred Symbols plus is behind a paywall usually so it would have reached a limited amount of people had he chose to keep the interview there.
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Gonzito
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So now Alyssa Mercante is the victim right? We need to be good to her because she is an angel and hasn't done anything or has never antagonized anyone
Yeah fuck that and fuck that chick. It's good that she is out of the industry and we don't have to deal with her insufferable attitude any longer
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kiphalfton
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laynelane
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I wonder how her lawsuit against him is going. She was more inclined towards just making personal insults towards people like Asmongold, but went a step further with Smash JT.
DenchDeckard
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I heard she got a peach.
Power Pro
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god dammit. I was so happy forgetting this person existed, but then this image just made shit come flooding back in my head. Why couldn't they just stay gone?Penis
DenchDeckard
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I actually like Colin quite a bit for being himself but damn does he not have that annoying character trait of always being like.
" Not to pat myself on the back but I was like one of the top 5 writers at ign"
Wasn't that like 10 years ago?
" Not to pat myself on the back but I was like one of the top 5 writers at ign"
Wasn't that like 10 years ago?
Ogbert
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Nah.
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Your post is 100% Resetera energy. You are doing the same thing that they do with the whole I only want to hear from people who think exactly like me and if you don't then it's war bullshit.
I want them to leave us alone.
They want us banned.
Peroroncino
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I watched it yesterday and thought it was pretty good. Refreshing to see people so much on the opposites just sitting down and talking like normal people, without some gotcha attempts and cutting each other off.
Also, I didn't recognize her at first, when I clicked on the video and Colin said "Alyssa Mercante" I did a double take.
Also, I didn't recognize her at first, when I clicked on the video and Colin said "Alyssa Mercante" I did a double take.
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StueyDuck
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You got this painfully wrong but considering this is what you think and you havent read up about what was the actual catalyst, something tells me you wont listen and you'll have a stubborn viewpoint on it.
Gamergate started when a mixtape type shite indie game was suddenly getting perfect 10s across the board, when people dug deeper into why it was because the journalist and developers were in like a little cult fuck club and it was obvious that game journalists were no longer providing the public an unbiased opinion
The reason it turned into a gender war is because the people involved with this game were women so they did the instant get out of jail free move "is it because im a woman?"
Sure further down the line like all things gamergate evolved to mostly just a way to shit on games and journalists and there wasnt much reason. But the initial kickoff and reasoning behind gamergate is absolutely valid, you cant have game journalists getting paid in sex for good reviews, for gamers that is bad.
Hence gamergate
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Randall365
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Job interview vibes here. Both came across pretty well, but it didn't strike me as sincere.
Topher
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Do you want him to attack his guest? That would be a very short conversation. I mean....fine if folks don't agree with everything he said, but clearly this was meant to be a cordial conversation and not a debate on issues. I don't see anything wrong with that.
An Corp
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Nowhere did I say I want him to attack his guest verbally.
I'm stating that his viewpoint on games obviously seem to be on par with those that have come in and change games for the worst. The same people that said we were the issue with games and want us pushed out.
Topher
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Well, I didn't get that from the interview, but ok
ValiantInstance
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These kind of threads are always fertile ground for midwit 'both sides are exactly the same!' posts.
corgiix3
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After seeing him cook Smash JT he has my support
that's sad I used to really respect smash JT back in the day
Dr.Morris79
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everyone on Gaf should know this woman by now and if you don't Google it
AmuroChan
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He literally called her a tourist and a grifter, and a negative for the industry. Not sure how that comes off as he suppots her views.
Peroroncino
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Can you timestamp it? Because I listened to it yesterday and I don't recall him supporting Anita, if anything, he literally said has no idea what's she's talking about and the backbone of that show (fem freq) was some dude.
Toots
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Dr. Samuel Hayden
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think she just gotten fired and she was a little drunk during the Giant Bomb thing
let's not forget she drove a man to suicide.
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proandrad
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Listening to her wrap up the interview and talk about her old Xbox Live Halo lobbies makes it all make sense, that's exactly how she got radicalized. Those lobbies were not a place for thin-skinned normies. It was brutal, nonstop trash talk.
Her biggest mistake was becoming a writer and going on a revenge mission against gamers. All that did was radicalize the audience against her.
Same mistake on the Gamergate side was letting it turn into a revenge campaign too. What started as calling out corrupt journalists and activists trying to take over just became an excuse for some people to shit on the entire audience and try to replace them with their own crowd while completely changing games to fit their tastes.
Her biggest mistake was becoming a writer and going on a revenge mission against gamers. All that did was radicalize the audience against her.
Same mistake on the Gamergate side was letting it turn into a revenge campaign too. What started as calling out corrupt journalists and activists trying to take over just became an excuse for some people to shit on the entire audience and try to replace them with their own crowd while completely changing games to fit their tastes.
ReyBrujo
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Moondoggy
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This especially, why anyone on this site is defending this absolute piece of shit is completely beyond me.let's not forget she drove a man to suicide.
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mckmas8808
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Oh my God , wow! This sounds like a total crap show. It's pretty ironic that she invites people to fight her after starting off saying people need to be less mean in the gaming industry space.
This is looking more and more like what toxic positivity can do to a collection of people. Somebody in that room should have told her to settle down in real time. Because it's never that serious.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
He never really was. He just has some right leaning beliefs. But also some left leaning beliefs.
DEAD ORIGINAL
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Just googled her, what a mess.
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Ogbert
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Sure, more of a hodge podge of libertarian stuff and middle of the road liberalism.
That said, he's not a communist, so in Videogame politics that makes him right wing.
Wildebeest
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I'm sick of hearing Americans talking. Yap yap yapping for hours on end about nothing just splurging their ugly egos everywhere.
not to get too political for obvious reasons but that's basically what I am
this and he doesn't have the woke mind virus / TDS
mopspear
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You don't need to have a race to the bottom. To be better than the people you don't like is a strong motivator for improvement of yourself or the group you belong to. But I would also like her to get out of the industry.
WellSheet
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This is the crazy gaslighting that these fringe, loud and destructive groups do.
They push and push and fucking push the normal, rational and reasonable masses to a point where they react in an outsized way and then claim victimhood; or, better yet, they get the response they were always hoping for and then they say " SEE LOOK AT THIS HORRIBLE PERSON!!".
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