Hold on whilst my heart breaks, we may be waiting a while. I haven't seen it in a while.

She's like a bad rash that never goes away. She'll be back.

You familiar with Triple S League? Apparently, outlets like Kotaku and RPS have financial connections to the Epic store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0zmn0hEv24

Still can't watch youtube vids, but are you implying that the (gaming) press has an incestuously close (financial) relationship to the industry it covers and that their "reporting" might be biased?

I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I TELL YOU!

It's almost as if all that socjus posturing is supposed to divert attention away from the fact that most gaming "journalism" is really just barely literate buffoons writing glorified advertorials under the wafer-thin pretense of helping their readers make An Informed Desicion™.

After all, if you're going to spend you career lying to people's faces that every piece of crap that a major studio unleashes unto the world out is some 10/10 Citizen Kane-of-video-games masterpiece for the ages, sooner or later somebody is going to come after you and go "Hey, cocksucker! I paid $50 for this piece of shit and it sucks!" However, you don't open yourself up to such harsh criticism if you spend the majority of the article lamenting underage transsexual gunrunners in Nicaragua or somesuch. It might be entirely unrelated to Madden 2019 (or whatever else it is you're supposed to "review"), but at least you're bringing it up for A Good Cause™. And if someone tries to object to that, you can turn the tables on them. Then you can clutch those pearls like a true pro: "What, you don't care about the underage transsexual gunrunners in Nicaragua? AH DOO DECLARE! How dare you, good sir!"

Isn't it funny how since gaems "jounalists" have started to fancy themselves as the new generation of Hunter S. Thompsons and made their articles about whatever pressing social ill-du-jour instead of the actual games, dubious and previously derided parties and outlets like IGN or the Doritopope have earned a newfound level of respect, simply because they kept that shit out of their articles. They're still shills all the same, but at least they're honest about what they're doing.

Let's just end this thread here. No need to add fuel to a fire then cry about it when it burns your house down. Life is too short to be bothered about things like this.

Enjoy your good old games and stay happy.

This is a subtle demand of ransom: "pay/hire me, and I will not tell Americans (biggest market for games) that your game is *phobic, *istic, hate-driven, etc etc).

Apparently, everyone needs to pay protection money.
And I thought racketeering is one of the most serious crimes in USA... -_-

I have no sympathy for Sarkeesian but, in my opinion, her radical irruption on the gaming media landscape has mirrored an equally radical and opposed perspective from "the community" on what gaming is or should be (wether that's good or bad it's up to you). Also, in a way but not thanks to her (probably as an indirect consequence of her outspoken outrage), a moderate feminist perspective and debate on videogames has been sprouting on the sides of the scorched earth left by the Sarkeesian wave.

All in all, I don't like people who profit from radicalisation and confrontation but sadly, this isn't a trait exclusive to Sarkeesian. Nowadays mostly everyone is doing this because there's profit to be made from it, and I believe that, should Sarkeesian disappear from the mass media landscape, the ones who are going to feel the economical impact the most are, most probably, her detractors.

Yeah, IGN sort of looks OK these days. But I don't need any of them, thank God. I know what I want, and I know where to get it. ;p

I tried watching 1 or 2 of her videos years ago, but couldn't get through it. Something about Batman's cape acting like a strategic butt covering, and her comments about Hitman's gameplay, made me facepalm myself out of my chair.

staying woke will get you broke.

I think, it counts as good news for gamers. I mean - business is business, its about getting as much money as possible. If going the way of political correctness brings doom to your income - probably big players will reconsider their opinions and we wont see another sequel to genderfield?
I mean - I have nothing to do with feminists and other sjws, but this trend with enforced inclusion of every possible race and gender in every game has gone too far

I think many gaming "journalists" are basically college/uni dropouts who wanted to write about social issues for the New York Times or Forbes, but once they failed at that (like they've done with everything in their lives) they decided to settle for writing about games, despite the fact that they probably hate games and gamers in general. So now we get all these passive aggressive articles trying to shoehorn contemporary social and political issues into games' discussion when most average gamers just want to be left alone with their hobby.

More like just wanting to get information on the games, rather than all that social, political etc bs.

The first comment on that page:

"She's not really bad-looking and she's only 36. If she learns to smile and works on a better personality, maybe she can find a man."

OH, SNAP! :D

Im a bit older than 20 and I already cant find anybody. WHERE DID MY WHITE MAN'S PRIVILEGES, THEY ALWAYS TALK ABOUT, GO?

karma is a great thing,

And nothing of value was lost.