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Drama at Kotaku

ExpandKong

Banned
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.

I’ve been ignoring it. That doesn’t mean I stop not liking it.

Burn it down.

Thought the right was all about free speech though.

I understand the excitement of thinking you’ve got a “gotcha” point you’re about to make, but nobody’s getting thrown in a gulag here. The human excrement at Kotaku is 100% free to keep writing their garbage articles about the size of Luigi’s dick when they get home from their new jobs cleaning gas station toilets.
 

Abriael_GN

RSI Employee of the Year
Thought the right was all about free speech though.

While being apolitical I can't speak for "the right," free speech is a very different thing compared to demanding to be able to use the site you work for as a personal blog/soapbox straying completely off-topic from its focus.

Sticking to your outlet's focus topic and whatever is related to it (which is very broad) isn't losing free speech. It's doing your job.
 
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Komatsu

Member
Unlike Polygon, who published some top notch stuff on the industry though they're still hated by the anti-SJW types for some of their more identitarian articles, I don't really think Kotaku was that good of an outlet. Their review of Days Gone, to mention a recent example, was below criticism, it was unconscionable. The boneheaded critique that it was simply about "another gruff white dude experienc[ing] the extremes of humanity" was lazy, of one piece with that idiotic GameSpot review. It's particularly bad since the game is actually kind of woke and was only getting flak since the protagonist was a white biker.
 

zeorhymer

Member
Being serious, do people think being "pro free speech" means being accepting of everything anyone says?
Of course not. In this country, you are allowed to say anything you want. Just expect to watch your back with you start spouting the N word in Detroit or in Compton. You're also free to lie to an officer of the law if you so choose.
 

Abriael_GN

RSI Employee of the Year


He'd better have a Patreon account handy, because no one in their right mind should hire Jason or any of these "protesters" into another corporate position.


"Editorial autonomy" is the most ludicrous thing I heard today about this whole drama.

"Editorial autonomy" doesn't mean doing whatever the hell you want, and it doesn't involve taking the platform provided by those who pay your salary to spin it completely off-topic compared to the focus it's supposed to have, overlapping the work of your sister sites in the process.

What a clown.

Wow Jason. The owners specifically said to just write sports. The editor didn't do it. The owners fired the guy. Why is it so hard to understand?

Worse. They said to write sports and whatever topic relates to it, which is an extremely broad field that leaves a TON of freedom. They have absolutely no ground to stand on when they cry over their "editorial autonomy" being interfered with.
 
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NickFire

Member
Thought the right was all about free speech though.
Do you actually read what people argue here, or just accept what other people claim about what is said without actually investigating those claims? By and large the people here, who I assume you are referring to, are against cancel culture. In case you aren't sure, by cancel culture I am referring to the practice of taking statements from 5-30 years ago, and demanding the firing of the wrong thinker even though the statements had nothing to do with their employment, the retraction of awards, the erasing of history, etc. Being against those things does not organically extend to supporting an employee's right to work for someone when the employee actually shits on the employer (and uses employer resources to do it), or an employee's right to keep a job that they refuse to do (such as writing mainly about sports for a sports site). The distinction is one of those "duh, that's common sense" things.
 

Abriael_GN

RSI Employee of the Year
Turns out the people at Kotaku love freedom of speech... as long as you say (or make) things they like.



A game journalist blocking a game developer's official account (which could provide relevant news which is the game journalist's job to report) is the climax of ludicrous head-in-sand attitude.
 
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Clear

CliffyB's Cock Holster
Honestly, it annoys me when tabloid hacks start talking about their "editorial autonomy" being a thing of importance.

They are purveyors of cooler-tank tattle, disposable trash to feed the pop-cultural dumpster fire. Pontificating as if their work is in any way valuable or significant is just delusional.
 

NickFire

Member


He'd better have a Patreon account handy, because no one in their right mind should hire Jason or any of these "protesters" into another corporate position.

Going by his understanding of editorial autonomy, what would justify firing a reporter who refused to turn in text articles because they think the audience really prefers poorly drawn cartoons?
 
Good, hope all these woke dipshits have been taking coding classes.


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Right on time XD
 
Thought the Alt-right was a fading, irrelevant political movement? Wrong.

Kotaku's journalists reliably inform us that it's actually the overwhelming majority. The Alt-right encompasses conservatives, moderate liberals, libertarians, leftists who are only 90% on board with socialism, feminists who think trans people can't share their "lived experience" for some reason, millenials who are socialists but don't like avocado, Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, Tim Pool and Tim Pool's beanie.
 
Ok in all seriousness, I fucking hated Kotaku, their woke hit pieces were amateur tabloid journalism at best, and their whole child porn hentai article was disgusting and probably illegal.

HOWEVER, Jason Schreier did write some great investigative pieces. His exposé on the development behind Mass Effect Andromeda and Anthem were brilliant, and if anything put public scrunity on devs RE crunch and inhuman working conditions.

It's just a shame he's so wrapped up in the woke BS.
 
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Hinedorf

Banned
I guess I'm in the minority when I say I very much enjoy reading stories on Kotaku. I think this totally sucks but these writers are very talented and will do just fine
 

#Phonepunk#

Banned
aw man they are really going to lean on this advertising thing? for real?

imagine if back in the day when i was reading EGM every other article was about how bad advertising is and capitalism is evil, then i flip the page and see a full page ad for some game. LOL face the facts, you work in an industry, your job is selling products.

they need to quit kidding themselves, they are corporate shit peddlers. they could refuse to write for any of these ads, but apparently they want to go on working for and accepting money from these companies (that they hate).

they have no moral high ground to stand on. complete total hypocrites.
 
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