One of my biggest takeaways from the Dragon Age Veilguard review controversy was that video game “journalism” in 2024 is mostly just a bunch of no-name leftist websites with no readership. I hadn’t heard of even half the “professional review” sites included in the metacritic average, yet their retarded opinions are valued higher than YouTubers with massively larger audiences (many of whom didn’t even get review codes). The entire metacritic system is astroturfed nonsense at this point. The big boys (ign, euro gamer, Pcgamer, and gamespot) dish out their usual 7-8s, and then the fringe ideologues mop up with 9s and 10s for all the “good games”.
The sad truth these roaches are no different than their insect cousins. You flip something over and they scurry away but that doesn’t mean they are gone. It just means they will find a new place to hide. I bet she already has a job lined up with another outlet or game studio. The whole game industry is incestuous and rotten to its core.
And this is why I am insisting that this wont be like last time where woke stuff exploded in the first Trump term. The Popular Vote win breaks so many of the narratives the woke used to convince companies of their DEI bullshit, where they argued that "We have the mandate, not him". Well, it has been definitively proven now, after 8 years, not only do they have no mandate but it may have made the situation they were claiming to correct worse.
The activist will still keep pushing, and there will absolutely be companies that will ride that bomb all the way to the ground like it is the end of Dr. Strangelove. But far more companies are going to say "We are done here, get lost" and try to do whatever they can to salvage some of their reputation back. It will still require vigilance, but I think we can start to say we are turning the corner.
The wokists already did the damage they wanted. Im thinking they will funnel the money into terrorism instead which would hurt Trump more. And given Germany's latest very harsh laws against criticizing israel which are directed at their migrant populations, it looks like my suspicians are right.
You mean the guy who worked for Kotaku for 17 years and doesn't disclose that anywhere in this article?
One of my biggest takeaways from the Dragon Age Veilguard review controversy was that video game “journalism” in 2024 is mostly just a bunch of no-name leftist websites with no readership. I hadn’t heard of even half the “professional review” sites included in the metacritic average, yet their retarded opinions are valued higher than YouTubers with massively larger audiences (many of whom didn’t even get review codes). The entire metacritic system is astroturfed nonsense at this point. The big boys (ign, euro gamer, Pcgamer, and gamespot) dish out their usual 7-8s, and then the fringe ideologues mop up with 9s and 10s for all the “good games”.
Fuck I'm running out of popcorn for the salt! There's too much salt!
Guess I'm making salt pork, salt beef, the stocks for salt must be through the floor right now with oversupply!
That'd be about the only commodity that's through the floor right now. Even precious metals have pretty much rebounded to what they were Tuesday.
I have more imaginary retirement dollars worth of stuff in my 401k now than ever before.
(Suddenly a wild Gimli appears) Salted Pork??? /drool
The sad truth these roaches are no different than their insect cousins. You flip something over and they scurry away but that doesn’t mean they are gone. It just means they will find a new place to hide. I bet she already has a job lined up with another outlet or game studio. The whole game industry is incestuous and rotten to its core.
And this is why I am insisting that this wont be like last time where woke stuff exploded in the first Trump term. The Popular Vote win breaks so many of the narratives the woke used to convince companies of their DEI bullshit, where they argued that "We have the mandate, not him". Well, it has been definitively proven now, after 8 years, not only do they have no mandate but it may have made the situation they were claiming to correct worse.
The activist will still keep pushing, and there will absolutely be companies that will ride that bomb all the way to the ground like it is the end of Dr. Strangelove. But far more companies are going to say "We are done here, get lost" and try to do whatever they can to salvage some of their reputation back. It will still require vigilance, but I think we can start to say we are turning the corner.
The wokists already did the damage they wanted. Im thinking they will funnel the money into terrorism instead which would hurt Trump more. And given Germany's latest very harsh laws against criticizing israel which are directed at their migrant populations, it looks like my suspicians are right.
I wonder how much longer till they shut down.
I’m just holding out to see Alyssa MerCunty’s rage tweet when they finally kick her to the kerb.
Please Jesus 🤞
https://nitter.poast.org/alyssa_merc/status/1854580770008187382#m
Thanks for that.
lol, “this was my decision that I made entirely on my own and before the layoffs were announced…”
I hope someone buys the domain name and points it to this site.
Couldn't happen to nicer people.