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Drama at Kotaku
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#Phonepunk#
Banned
u just know they are going to do some self applauding article about how hard it is sometimes to be a games journalist and this behind the scenes struggle with advertisers or Union reps or something and how brave they are being right now yadda yadda yadda.
iconmaster
Banned
ViperCommand
Neo Member
Does no one like Tim Rogers?? He’s so entertaining.
Son_of_Zardoz
Banned
That's fine for Kotaku, which I don't give a shit about, but not for Deadspin. Deadspin has never ever been about straight "sports" and these stupid fuckwits that took over are killing it. From all of the fucking robots to autoplay videos etc. they are intentionally killing the entire thing and they can go fuck themselves. Private equity/venture capitalists at their finest. I read Deadspin & Jalopnik pretty much everyday and if this shit continues they'll be gone and it won't be because they aren't profitable, it'll be because the people that took over were fucking clueless and ran it into the ground.
Amazing how much of a hate boner people around here have for Kotaku. If you don't like it, don't read it--is it really that hard? I can't remember the last article I've read from them and I'm on their sister sites all of the time. It's not that hard to ignore it.
captainraincoat
Banned
Once the cancer that grew into reee was gone kotaku articles didn't really trigger people here I don't think
Kotaku simply doubled down on the woke shit and now look what you have
Horrible that people of lost their jobs but you gotta take these things as a lesson that you can't go through life with a narrow view on things even if you don't agree with the other side.....you might actually learn something
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
You can't avoid it because their mindset, "woke," spreads like a fucking cancer. It completely took over this website. It's slowly taken over what feels like all video game sites.
Son_of_Zardoz
Banned
I guess it does if you spend all of your time looking for it.
Musky_Cheese
Banned
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zeorhymer
Member
There'll still be morons asking if Kat from Gears 5 is a lesiban and Borderlands still bans people for not saying that FL4K is non-binary.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Arachnid
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nkarafo
Member
To everyone who feels bad about the people who might lose their jobs.
It's normal to feel that way because normal people have empathy. But remember, these are the kind of people who would ask your boss to fire you because of some "sexist" or "racist" reason and they could do anything in their hand to make it harder for you to find any other job or provide for yourself/family.
That said, i'm not happy or sad about their situation. I just don't care.
It's normal to feel that way because normal people have empathy. But remember, these are the kind of people who would ask your boss to fire you because of some "sexist" or "racist" reason and they could do anything in their hand to make it harder for you to find any other job or provide for yourself/family.
That said, i'm not happy or sad about their situation. I just don't care.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Insane Metal
Gold Member
Holy shit lol
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
A Regular Guy
Banned
Not surprised! They did it to themselves, and the worst part of it, they don't even realize how much shit they got into when they were writing click-bait articles.Some of them have me blocked on Twitter, so here's a screengrab by @ReeraTakes for some more corroboration that all of their writing staff have been sacked.
wordslaughter
Banned
I feel like one of the main reasons why SJWs were able to infiltrate as far as they did was with corporate blessing. And that was only because "the board" saw the outrage clicks and thought it would be profitable to pursue this angle.
But get woke go broke is a real thing, and HOPEFULLY every SJW's corporate overloard is about to tell each and every one of them to "stick to sports."
Woke "culture" needs to die a fiery death.
But get woke go broke is a real thing, and HOPEFULLY every SJW's corporate overloard is about to tell each and every one of them to "stick to sports."
Woke "culture" needs to die a fiery death.
TeamGhobad
Banned
they died after tortillo took over and allowed a bunch of lolcats and sjw posts.
zeorhymer
Member
You can't avoid Kotaku due to how large of an influence they are at the final product. If Jalopnik writes an article about how a car is designed sexist with toxic masculinity etc etc which delayed the design of a new car or worse turn it into a Homer Simpson car, you'd be annoyed. Just witness that over and over again to games that you're excited to see, only to be trashed left and right on some non-sensical like "this fantasy game should have addressed women" or "why aren't trans people in the game set in colonial times." At least you have Car and Driver, Motortrend, Top Gear, and a whole host of others that doesn't inject politics, but the video gaming space is rather small.
Kacho
Member
Nah. This is news that appeals to GG/Kotaku in Action type people.
The drama is still entertaining though and I won’t be shedding any tears. The 2-3 people worth a shit will find jobs elsewhere.
nkarafo
Member
No, let that one be. It's useful. It keeps the crazies into a quarantined area which is easy to monitor.
I wouldn't want that kind of plague to spread around random places, especially here.
Mojoraisin
Member
Wonderful news. Most has already been said here. Kotaku has done so much harm to the gaming community I’ll be very happy if they’re gone for good.
Jigsaah
Gold Member
So wait, I'm having trouble following this. Barry gets fired. Kotaku folks are upset and say this will not stand yadda yadda yadda. Deadspin is a part of Kotaku? I'm so lost right now, can someone break this down for the laymen?
How does this mean Kotaku as a whole is dead? Please don't make me go to ResetEra to figure this out. I've heard stories.
How does this mean Kotaku as a whole is dead? Please don't make me go to ResetEra to figure this out. I've heard stories.
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Its starting to look like nothing more than a collective cry for attention and outrage over a guy getting fired to me. The editor is back to posting stories, another one is claiming their written piece will run tomorrow, and no one is sharing the full story after posting cryptic tweets about being unsure of the future. I'm guessing there was so much shock and indignation about the "sports writers" being forced to reduce the politics crap, followed by even more collective shock that the employer wouldn't let them run hit pieces against the employer, that they all posted cryptic shit hoping for concessions if the employer thought they were all leaving and/or received major backlash from the readers.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
And NeoGAF is still standing, even with all the coordinated hit pieces in 2017.
Should we do a celebrity death pool, but for these “woke” sites.
Waypoint, he gone.
Kotaku, he gone.
Polygon ... ?
Eurogamer ... ?
PC Gamer ... ?
VG24/7 ... ?
Should we do a celebrity death pool, but for these “woke” sites.
Waypoint, he gone.
Kotaku, he gone.
Polygon ... ?
Eurogamer ... ?
PC Gamer ... ?
VG24/7 ... ?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
A Regular Guy
Banned
"Excellent Gaming Journalist" LOL! Reee are very autistic
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...www.resetera.com
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
Fuck, I forgot how everyone is alt right. I didn't realize I was alt right, but now I see the light.
A Regular Guy
Banned
Tim Pool now covering the situation with Deadspin!
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
So they're actually okay then?
Yay keep fighting the good fight of shilling, clickbait, and pushing radical progressive insanity.
Whether dead or not, they're dead to me... They're dead to me.
Yay keep fighting the good fight of shilling, clickbait, and pushing radical progressive insanity.
Whether dead or not, they're dead to me... They're dead to me.
SlashBringingHasher
Banned
fuck them . pure aids
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
Imagine typing "alt-right chuds" and still thinking you are on the cutting edge of political critique.
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Orenji Neko
Member
Exactly. I will defer to Ghostbusters as a visual aid for what happens when a containment facility, such as Resetera, is shut down:
Musky_Cheese
Banned
Wondering when he will have the “wait... are we the man babies” self reflection revelation
edit. Apparently man baby is blocking people on twitter now
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a multicultural team of v
Member
But if someone says NPC then reeeeeeeeeeeee
Grand Theft Scratchy
Banned
I don't feel sorry for sites like Kotaku. I feel sorry for the lesser-known gaming news websites whose editors write for free and whose accompanying forums become ghost towns because they have to compete with IGN, Reddit and social media. Remember a time when people still talked about video games because they loved the industry, before cancel culture and political correctness gripped it with its slimy tentacles and won't let go? I strongly recommend sharing real video game articles, perhaps now more than ever so that hopefully we can return to good ol' fashioned quality reading material. You know what I'm saying?
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
No one here has said the government should step in and jail them for writing for Kotaku. ?
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