Perez just posted this to Wil Wheaton:
https://twitter.com/PissedOffRyno/status/219343681575063552
Going for total career suicide, I see.
What funnier, that this proves that Felicia is untouchable when it comes to critique in the game industry, or that the only reason why anyone saw the tweets is because Veronica Belmont, who is the Felicia Day of tech culture bitched about it.
He's another d-list actor who's made a career out of pandering to Star Wars nerds and having them lap it up.I just searched him and it looks like he has nothing to do with videogames. Nothing important at least.
Well, i hope Dtroid fires other people for being dicks to people, man and woman alike.
Regardless of your opinion of Felicia Day, she's no more or less special than any other person connected to gaming.
i am of two minds about this:
-on the one hand, he acted unprofessionally.
-on the other, he is not wrong.
-on the other, his existence is about as if not more pointless than hers.
Perez just posted this to Wil Wheaton:
https://twitter.com/PissedOffRyno/status/219343681575063552
Going for total career suicide, I see.
This wasn't a critique
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Dunno how anyone can possibly defend this guy, his tweets were rude as fuck.
It's one thing to critique someone and be polite about it, but directly asking someone "Do you matter at all?" is pretty insulting. The guy was just being an asshole and Destructoid did the right thing.
Would you prefer I put "Not kissing Felicia's day ass" instead?
hahaha, those will wheaton tweets are hilarous, the very definition of a white knght
Come on, really. She produces a rather tepid product built off of gaming stereotypes solely for the gaming community. She is not an ambassador, and I don't think anyone would want the guild to be the show that people think of when they think of gamers.Glad the dude got fired. It's about time people start taking a little reaponsibility for their actions, even online.
I don't like Felicia Day that much, but I can understand what she does. She brings gaming to the masses, and has a lot of fans who apparently appreciate her kind of coverage. It's a certain audience that probably does not overlap at all with the audience at Destuctoid.com.
There is no need to belittle and insult her in a public manner like this. I bet Felicia Day has introduced more people to gaming than all of Destructoid combined.
Considering he is a close personal friend of hers and has worked on numerous projects with her its called being a friend not white knighting.
To be honest, he could have written something about the "cult of personalities" in the videogame industry and it would have been a bit better.
It doesn't help that his twitter comment comes off as super aggressive and hostile. Twitter has been a mess since day 1 for PR.
That's because Sterling is supposed to be "satire". So he can say whatever he wants! He seems like a pretty despicable human being but that's how he built his internet persona.
Who is Felicia Day?
Who is Felicia Day?
Considering he is a close personal friend of hers and has worked on numerous projects with her its called being a friend not white knighting.
She's a successful attractive woman that manchildren in their twenties want to make their waifu, because she appears to have an interest in video games. She is associated with a show called The Guild, which is an embarrassing mix of shitty gaming stereotypes. She has red hair.
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To be clear: Felicia is my friend, so this is personal for me. But it's also about men being shitty to successful women, especially gamers.
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Until then, shut the fuck up and go back to your sad little lives, jerking off alone every night. Okay? Great. Thanks.
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Listen, dicks, when you contribute 1/100 of what @feliciaday has contributed to gaming culture and independent production, you can talk.
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I have fucking had it with idiot asshole men being shitbags to @feliciaday because they're threatened by her creativity and success.
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just because he's her friend doesn't change the fact he's doing some textbook white knighting
ATTENTION: If any girls are reading this please mildly annoy Jim Sterling on twitter right now. The time is right and we can get some shit accomplished.
I will say Perez was unprofessional. I will also say the industry and hardcore gamers have a tendency to fetishise women that flirt with geek culture (Felecia Day, Claudia Black, etc).
oh Wil Wheaton. Even with defending Felicia, she'll still pick Fargo over you >_>
Not that his tweets weren't out of line but doesn't anyone else find it weird that Destructoid fired this guy when they keep Jim Sterling employed despite the fact he's said a bunch of misogynistic stuff on twitter in the past?
e: For reference: http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=912
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To be clear: Felicia is my friend, so this is personal for me. But it's also about men being shitty to successful women, especially gamers.
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Until then, shut the fuck up and go back to your sad little lives, jerking off alone every night. Okay? Great. Thanks.
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Listen, dicks, when you contribute 1/100 of what @feliciaday has contributed to gaming culture and independent production, you can talk.
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I have fucking had it with idiot asshole men being shitbags to @feliciaday because they're threatened by her creativity and success.
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just because he's her friend doesn't change the fact he's doing some textbook white knighting
Sadly, this has opened the floodgates. Now everybody is attacking poor Felicia.
Very, Jim called a chick cunt multiple times in some Twitter war. Nero is an opportunistic guy. He knows sterling brings in the hits. He knows felicia day is loved. Firing this Ryan perez means nothing, that guy is a no body. Hr would never of fired sterling for those comments.
Forever alone.lol Wheaton really wants to bang Felicia day
Very, Jim called a chick cunt multiple times in some Twitter war. Nero is an opportunistic guy. He knows sterling brings in the hits. He knows felicia day is loved. Firing this Ryan perez means nothing, that guy is a no body. He would never of fired sterling for those comments.