So many deleted handshake comments here. I guess that means this is a must-watch!

someone who thinks you can litigate away human flaws

So true. See "A conflict of visions" by Thomas Sowell. Some people think that human nature doesn't exist, but it's the "systems" that are corrupting them, and if only the systems could be fixed, then all of humanity's woes would perish.

According to gameplay footage (from dunkey) you get to throw bolts when the game fully opens up.

For me, and for what I've heard about their "innovative AI technology", I don't think I would like it. I dislike that sort of "AI spawns in a radius around you" thing.

"If you don't like this poster, don't look at it. You clearly aren't the target audience. It wasn't made for you, tourist!"

Good for him

"...gracias por venir aquí soportar presidente Trump..."

Soportar sounds like "support", but it actually means "to put up with", or "to tolerate". The word for "support" is "apoyar", which sounds like "approve".

Perhaps it's just a regional thing, where wherever he grew up (Cuba? Venezuela? Here?), has a different meaning, or is actually just Spanglish, but that's not what the official Spanish dictionary says.

Update: The rest of Second Wind have responded. https://nitter.poast.org/SecondWindGroup/status/1824135694723277201#m

Basically, they don't respond to everything Frost said and all stand by Nick.

Paints this comment from him in a new light: https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17tL6L9VNY/we-cant-expect-these-journalists/c/

A content creator that worked with Nick and Yahtzee at The Escapist and now Second Wind. He and Yahtzee were the only content creators that were profitable.

Summary copy/pasted from Grummz: (archive)

Frost details why he resigned from Second Wind and his problems with Nick Calandra. Claims made and exposed in this video include:

• History of slandering, libeling, blackballing and threatening to mobilize his audience against people in the games industry with the explicit intend to harm their careers.

• Gamurs (Escapist owners) were going to demote and fire Nick, giving control to the others.

• Nick was making/made a documentary for a studio in exchange for a four thousand dollar investment in Nick's kickstarter

• Nick tried to micro manage every creative decision, steering content to validate his views while minimizing critism of his views.

• He Isolated, overworked, verbally attacked and manipulated his coworkers.

• He blackballed small indie devs if they asked for coverage too many times. He discouraged others from doing pro-bono coverage of indie games so he could charge them instead.

• Mislead the community into the costs of the business in order to elicit more money from them in sympathy.

• Even though he was not a top earner for Second Wind, he was paid 2nd highest. He replied: "I'm accustomed to a certain lifestyle and have a mortgage to pay."

• His business decisions overspent and ballooned costs at Second Wind to over 1M, a 40% increase for no real benefit.

• Nick constantly went for power grabs within Second Wind. Nobody picked Nick to lead SWG, it's just that nobody else wanted it.

• Nick cyberstalked his peers in the industry to the point of making them uncomfortable.

And so much, much more in this video. Give it a watch.

Nick is the man who worked for 3 months to slander me and attack my character and business. It turns out it was all gaslighting and manipulation and harassments, part of a pattern that is revealed in this video of his entire tenure in the industry.

He was projecting. Everything he falsely accused me of, was actually his own dealings, unethical, and stalker-ish behavior.

Nick has done some damage to my reputation and my game with his lies and manipulated tweets. But, we're still here, and Nick is rapidly on the way out.

If he doesn't, and rejects the will of the community (the reason why KiA2 was created in the first place), then we will all know where we stand. We will be free to leave for KiA3.

What more do you want him to do besides banning? What more CAN he do?

Regardless, our mod cannot be trusted to appoint any other mod.

So don't trust him. Trust the users to nominate a mod that they trust, then all Dom needs to do is give him powers.

Marxists are known to do shitty things and then backtrack half way if the backlash gets too much. And then seek mercy

When do they ever do that? All I see is "double down", "deny reality" and "edit historical records".

Like I've said in the past, we can be more organized about this

Make a new topic with a list of nominees, collect votes, and then in a separate topic, present the results.

I know he stormed the temple, but I can't find anywhere it says in the bible that he had a group of armed men with him, or that he prevented a ceremony.

Let's be careful not to accidentally embellish details.

What building did he storm with a group of armed men, and what ceremony did he prevent? Please cite the verses you're talking about.

John 7:53-8:11

Verses 17 and 21 also apply.

Do you think that "don't fight, because your kingdom is not of this world" wasn't the lesson that Jesus taught?

Or are you just lamenting the consequences of this teaching?

The verse you're talking about is 1 Corinthians 13:13, and the word there is not "caritas", it's "agape".

https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1co/13/2/ss1/t_conc_1075013

He convinced the mob not to stone the adulterer [John 8]...The followers of Nice Jesus love to quote the 'throw the first stone' verse...

Both verses are likely forgeries. They only appear in one manuscript that was written later than the other manuscripts we have that contain the book of John. The earlier manuscripts do not contain these verses. Research "Pericope adulterae" to find out more.

While we're often reminded that Jesus said 'live by the sword, die by the sword', we seem to ignore his other sword references. Like when he told his disciples to sell their cloaks and buy a sword [Luke 22].

The verse in Luke 22 precedes the event that caused Jesus to say 'live by the sword, die by the sword'. He wanted to use the swords as a lesson and to fulfill prophecy. He himself mentions the prophecy in Luke 22:37. The lesson was to not fight, because Christians have no need to fight, because their kingdom is not of this world.

Everything else this anon said is fine.

Can DoM see IP addresses? If not, then he has no basis of accusing anyone of being an alt.

The author of the tweet just posted this by itself.

The broader context is that this "journalist" has been doxxing and having beef with grummz and other people who he sees as "grifters", so by "angry people" he's probably referring to people who actually care about gaming as a hobby enough to be vocal about the cancers that are killing it.

See also: https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17tKeHhtXb/gaming-website-smashjt-taken-dow/c/

These "Journalists" are happy to go after old-school GGers, or people who criticize DEI, censorship, localization, or updates for "modern audiences".

But they won't make enemies of their buddies in the games industry, because they directly profit from them. They're not going to grill a corporate exec about layoffs, studio closures, or why they made a failing product, for example.

Nick and his team is getting paid tens of thousands per month from Patreon, but STILL he refuses to be critical of the games industry. It saddens me to see him waste this opportunity.