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[Aceofspades]

Reeeeee must be fuming now

 

[Arimer]

Reeeeee must be fuming now

Now? There was a time they haven't been?

 

[Southern Gentleman]

They aren't journalists.

They write intentionally provactive ragebait to get website traffic to entice advertisers whom they happen to review the advertisers as well. They aren't journalist and they are a dying format.

Cut it off at the source. Don't give them the click. Use ad blocker. Call them out for not being journalists.

Fuck them and cheers to this guy for calling them out.

"Ragebait" is right; outrage marketing wins every time these days.

Don't know anything about Richard other than what I've read in this thread, but the enemy of my enemy...

 

[MalcomseX]

Fun watching the dipshits at RE poop themselves over this guy. Also fun watching those idiots try to defend shitsites like Polygon, Kotaku(child porn lol) and Waypoint(are there bigger whiney bitches on the Internet than these clowns?).

 

[Starfield]

It's time for the eSports scene to have a #MeToo moment

Richard Lewis touched my peepee...

And Thorin Dunkin Shields recorded it

 

[Starlight Lotice]

From what I read. He has done stuff to stop racism, sexism and the like in his articles and did a mock story early on in his career.

The smearing is petty and shows these hackjobs their true colours.

Fortunately, in the real world people will tell them to fuck off before they get beaten black and blue, regardless of Race , Sexual Orientation and Gender.

 

[DragoonKain]

Ok, since I can't say it over there, I'll ask here:

The crazies at resetera are shitting on this guy because he worked for Breitbart (which is a dumb website, sure) in the past. They're calling him all sorts of terrible things. My question: For how long will they keep doing this? Because my feeling is that even in 30 years, the moment this guy says something, one of these crazies will shriek 'BUT YOU WORKED FOR BREITBART!!1'.

So what? We forgive murderers, rapists and thieves, but having worked for a bad website justifies dismissing and ruining someone's life forever?

W t fuck?

They hate everyone. It has nothing to do with the people they hate and all about the people who are doing the hating. When you hate that many people, maybe it's not the world that's the problem but it's the people doing the hating.

 

[Plague Doctor]

They hate everyone. It has nothing to do with the people they hate and all about the people who are doing the hating. When you hate that many people, maybe it's not the world that's the problem but it's the people doing the hating.

Counter point. They love Disney. They love Disney so much they are overlooking the Mouse's very close relationship with China (despite China's systemic genocide of its own Muslim population), their streaming service easily hackable, and anything else that is negative for Disney.

That's about it. They are frothing at the mouth Mousekateers who look to Twitter for their daily opinion. If Disney ever vouched for Trump, they would have a system error and crash.

 

[DragoonKain]

Counter point. They love Disney. They love Disney so much they are overlooking the Mouse's very close relationship with China (despite China's systemic genocide of its own Muslim population), their streaming service easily hackable, and anything else that is negative for Disney.

That's about it. They are frothing at the mouth Mousekateers who look to Twitter for their daily opinion. If Disney ever vouched for Trump, they would have a system error and crash.

They'll find a way to hate Disney too. Their natural inclination is to look for reasons to dislike people rather than to look for reasons to love. As long as that is your mentality, it's only a matter of time.

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

Has there been any blogs written about this guy by the outlets he called out since? One thing I know about "Game journalism" is that they are petty as fuck.

And over there at Reeeeee, Jesus Christ: If you ever need a solid example of brainwashed, echo chamber babies, just read their thread on the topic.

 

[Xisiqomelir]

Hells yeah

 

[Filth]

Bravo

 

[GreyHorace]

They hate everyone. It has nothing to do with the people they hate and all about the people who are doing the hating. When you hate that many people, maybe it's not the world that's the problem but it's the people doing the hating.

 

[MuleSkinner]

Has there been any blogs written about this guy by the outlets he called out since? One thing I know about "Game journalism" is that they are petty as fuck.

And over there at Reeeeee, Jesus Christ: If you ever need a solid example of brainwashed, echo chamber babies, just read their thread on the topic.

Richard himself said he was tipped off that something is coming.
Hell even Cecilia who he praised, shat on him on twitter today.

 

[ZeroGravity]

Richard Lewis: So, about that Esports Awards speech… Part 1 - Dexerto

Richard Lewis received a standing ovation for his speech at the 2019 Esports Awards. Here's why he felt it was necessary.

www.dexerto.com

Good article from Lewis himself elaborating on why he said what he said.

 

[Kazza]

From the article posted by ZeroGravity :

In the short amount of time I had, I wanted to recognize my peers, correct the wrong of Cecilia D’Anastasio not being on the shortlist and then address something of value. I had no idea what that would be because there were many topics worthy of being highlighted.

Well, it seems that Cecilia D'Anastasio (a Kotaku journilst) didn't appreciate his praise. However, she sill got a classy reply from Richard Lewis:

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

Richard himself said he was tipped off that something is coming.
Hell even Cecilia who he praised, shat on him on twitter today.

Just like Richard says in his reply, it was only a matter of time until the pettiness (re)surfaces .. I expected something like that reply from Kotaku, but not as incoherent and emotionally fueled, considering they are "journalists" they should know how to put a few English words together to form a coherent sentence.

 

[EviLore]

From the article posted by ZeroGravity :



Well, it seems that Cecilia D'Anastasio (a Kotaku journilst) didn't appreciate his praise. However, she sill got a classy reply from Richard Lewis:

Told ya.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

"Take my name out of your mouth"

Cretin.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

lol game journalism

 

[Fake]

Some classic examples include:
– Erotic fan fiction about Streetfighter V passed off as game analysis
– A post on Mario Kart that declared “Wario is a libertarian and Bowser is a fascist” as well as shoehorning in an Alex Jones reference.
– An article about how people who attend Smash events have hygiene problems
– An article about “what stops women from going pro in esports,” that was a dialogue between two women who have never tried to go pro in esports.
– A news post wondering if two people in a crowd shot taken from an esports event were pleasuring each other.
– A post about Donald Trump misspeaking and referring to the 52 jets the US sold to Norway as F-52s, a fictitious aircraft that only exists in Call of Duty, instead of 52 F-35s.
– An article on performing fellatio while your love interest is playing video games, that was predicated on a tweet that used the phrase “sucking d**k” to mean “playing badly.”
– An article on a tired topic in esports, one that has long been put to bed, about whether or not esports competitors should use their real names over their in-game monickers.
– An article that compares teabagging, the act of moving up and down quickly on a dead or prone opponent in a video game, to sexual assault/rape
It is also worth noting, in the interests of fairness, that Dexerto ran stories about the fake Call of Duty jets and a YouTuber handing out deodorant at a Smash Brothers event.

This is gold. Remind me that 'Smash Persona retarded music' article. Probably one of the best.

 

[Petrae]

“Games journalism” - where it’s all about the drama between the “journalists” and not one fuck is given about the “games”.

That’s why “games journalism” is now and forever will be a joke. Nothing more.

 

[Inviusx]

He's not holding back, he's written 2 articles in the last few days outlining major issues with the reporting coming out of those establishments. He's expanding those pieces into a multi-part series now.

They are a great read, go check his Twitter. Kotaku's sharpening their knives as we speak I imagine.

 

[switchback27]

Richard Lewis has his faults, but one thing he definitely is is a JOURNALIST. And he'll defend his profession to the death.

Don't always agree with the man, but I do respect him for that stance.

 

[TeamGhobad]

about time, he kinda reminds me of Marcus Beer.

 

[GymWolf]

Oh shit the tweet mob is gonna eat this guy alive...

 

[GymWolf]

Wow. I never thought that having a different opinion over on that other side literally is a reason for a PERMA BAN

Its fucking crazy how BRAINWASHED some of these people are. Like, I get it. You have a different opinion but goddamnit do some actual RESEARCh for fucks sake before you just believe what everyone says.

All these people over there would be the first ones to raise the hand if it was 1939

It's a shame how easily you can control the crowds. It is really fucking scary actually.

Then you are not really familiar with that site...
It is like that from day one.

 

[ZeroGravity]

I actually didn't know about this one and in retrospect I guess it's no surprise that Kotaku's disdain for their audience goes back a long time.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

So what? We forgive murderers, rapists and thieves, but having worked for a bad website justifies dismissing and ruining someone's life forever?

Those are arrested by the police, incarcerated by sleazy judges and racist jurors. More importantly, they are not thought criminals (presumably). They are actually victims of society, if we love them they will come around.

If you disagree with the hurd, there is nothing to do, even if you're in most of the time you may stray away once in a while and we can't have this, diversity is just too important.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

Epic speech, he is correct about these people inserting their friends as gatekeepers.... all the smears, lies etc.
I don't know who Cecilia is....
I wish gaming companies would stop empowering these gatekeepers and hiring from their ranks. You always see folks from the likes of IGN and Kotaku trying to get jobs in writing or social media for publishers.

Waypoint, Kotaku and Polygon must die. I'd add many more to that list too...

Once you promote one in position of power, give them the ability to hire they will hire their own and it will grow.

More importantly, if you hire someone straight out of University (a communication expert I imagine) chances are that they were pulled in, it may take a while for them to recover, and if they are amongst themselves it may never happen.