Musky_Cheese
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It's always the damn trolls
To be fair, most of her articles read like they are trolls. Unfortunately they aren't.
Sorry the trolls are laughing at the manbabies/womenbabies
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It's always the damn trolls
To be fair, most of her articles read like they are trolls. Unfortunately they aren't.
Sorry the trolls are laughing at the manbabies/womenbabies
dolabla
Member
REE is freaking out at the thought of what's supposed to be a gaming actually writing articles about games. Please let them replace everyone and turn the site into this. The REE melt would be glorious.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
the correct term is People of Age, troll!
zeorhymer
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Because con artists journos insisted that politics drive clicks! So to make money, you politicize everything! The top didn't know better except with number so they followed them. Fast forward to today and the top now knows better since all these political sites are closing shop and they're putting their foot down.
ROMhack
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Probably true. Feels like that ship has sailed... which is nice.
#Phonepunk#
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no you had it right, she is the troll, her articles are written to troll people. i mean, Spiderman working with cops? you have to be fucking kidding me. is she a fucking retard? nobody can be that stupid.
she HAS to be trolling w this stuff. the lot of them are.
they are just a bunch of hipsters, people with industry connections, they get free games, get to go to parties, and they just write the gossip they hear. sometimes they cover games, mostly they just interpret press releases. they are access media. the thing about access media is, if anyone was given the materials, then really anyone could write this shit. if you get a dozen press kits and EPKs a day, your work is basically half done for you.
outside of the more interesting longform game explorations (Tim Rogers here) they don't provide much of value and actually get in the way of their reporting more often than not.
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Fuz
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The tide is turning.
This is what people here are thinking. I'm really skeptic, though, and I think there's a different reason.
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Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
what it does to content it sucks every drop of fun from it. You only need to look at the rise of Barstool to see the market reaction to this. I don't personally enjoy Barstool, but at least their shit is fun.
GrayChild
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You forgot the xirbabies, you transphobic bigot.
mcjmetroid
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So what the actual fuck IS going on? All I'm seeing is smarmy vague tweets from members of Kotaku.
Some of which are full of nonsense like "we want to do good by our readers"
Like either give us something to read and tell us what's going on or shut the fuck up.
Some of which are full of nonsense like "we want to do good by our readers"
Like either give us something to read and tell us what's going on or shut the fuck up.
Endless Fluff
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Musky_Cheese
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Hostile_18
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Yeah not sure why it was changed to a factually incorrect title... dosnt give the best impression of this forum.
zeioIIDX
Member
But I like Monster Factory and those damn McElroy brothers crack me the fuck up.
Grinchy
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It's so easy. You go on the internet and have someone with a blue checkmark next to their name tell you what you're supposed to think.
That way you will never think the wrong thing and you'll be an automatic good person on the right side of history.
Ulysses 31
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Son_of_Zardoz
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I don't really care about Kotaku either way but the stupid ass private equity overlords are killing Deadspin so fuck them. Deadspin has always been good.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
I mean it would be nice if something good came of it but if Kotaku does shut down (or everyone's fired and they take on other people) the trash articles they used to do will just be spread across all other publications that will rush to get their click bait friendly asses onboard.
I'd rather they find other jobs they're good at than keep pretending they're gaming journalists though, of course, I don't wish for anyone to be unemployed.
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Rean no Kiseki
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Musky_Cheese
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Cybrwzrd
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Does that mean jezebel is in the grave too
Don't forget The Root.
But they could probably go to Daily Stormer and create a sister site.
The Bloody-Nine
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I'm no fan of that added question mark.
DigitalScrap
Member
Hopefully this means that sanity is slowly beginning to come back. I actually would enjoy reading gaming sites that actually... talk about the games. For too long now the game is just an excuse to spout off an opinionated agenda.
dolabla
Member
Jason Schreier of Kotaku posts a really ominous tweet
Owners of capital need workers in order to generate value. Without workers, there is no profit. That's the fundamental logic of capitalism, and is why workers have historically been able to form unions and extract concessions from the owners of their businesses. Now, there's always a risk that...
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Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
That's another problem with this. You have people who 5 years ago were writing GameFAQs walk thrus and have spent their entire lives immersed in video games now pontificating about complex political issues that they only understand from Twitter. It's why I don't think there's anything wrong with "stick to sports." Anyone would be irate to a dentist and have him instead share his amateur philosophy. It's not what you came for, and that's not what the dentist is good for.
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Whitesnake
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From what I can gather:
- Kotaku or its parent company recently got new management.
- Said new management decided to place auto-playing audio/video banner ads on their network of sites.
- Writers of those sites write pieces that are critical of this decision.
- The articles are taken down by management and they act as if nothing happened.
- Writers say “we didn’t take the articles down” and “go complain to management about ads”.
- Some people got fired, it’s unclear who or why but it apparently has something to do with the ad situation.
- Many other writers are striking/quitting in solidarity of those that were fired.
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You mean GAF might go back to a time when most of the threads were actual gaming news or specific game threads and not complaints about shitty clickbait editorials?
GAF > Kotaku > GAF died long ago.
michaelius
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To be fair Jason has put some good articles about bad practices in industry
On the other hand - his article about Dragon Crown made me drop reading Kotaku totally (it was pretty cool blog about weird gaming things in Japan before)
On the other hand - his article about Dragon Crown made me drop reading Kotaku totally (it was pretty cool blog about weird gaming things in Japan before)
Randall365
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Musky_Cheese
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I think it may be a bad mix of 2 things
1. People who are working as a game journalist, not passionate or care much about gaming. They landed a job. Will make the most of it.
2. People who were passionate about games, but are now passionate about politics.
IDK. It always felt to me like Video Game Forums/Sites are the worst place to proclaim ones oppression. It's hard for me personally to believe you are the at the bottom of society while preloading God Of War.
zeorhymer
Member
Is that why he wanted to unionize...so that he couldn't get fired?Jason Schreier of Kotaku posts a really ominous tweet
Owners of capital need workers in order to generate value. Without workers, there is no profit. That's the fundamental logic of capitalism, and is why workers have historically been able to form unions and extract concessions from the owners of their businesses. Now, there's always a risk that...
The Alien
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Go woke, go broke. This cant happen to enough media outlets and is a trend that I hope sustains momentum.
I dont care about race, gender, etc. If you are on a video games site, write about video games. If you are on a sports website, write about sports (that's why Barry got fired...and disobeying the owners).
I dont care about race, gender, etc. If you are on a video games site, write about video games. If you are on a sports website, write about sports (that's why Barry got fired...and disobeying the owners).
Kacho
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Dthomp
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Wait...this is alot of pages and I am only half paid attention. They are firing people...for not doing what they are paid to do? Why is this bad? If these people want to talk politics, go into fucking politics, don't pollute other mediums because you aren't able to get the job you think you want.
Kittehkraken
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Absolutely nothing of value was lost.
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If only Polygon, IGN and GameSpot could go away with Kotaku, gaming would be in a far greater place.
Caffeine
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