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Kotaku is getting raked over Laura Kate Dale’s “retarded” fake news piece And now everybody is throwing everybody else under the bus.
Kotaku editor Laura Kate Dale is up to old tricks again, this time with a fake news and conspiracy theory double whammy about a Super Smash Bros song using the word “retarded.” The claim was made in an article titled “Super Smash Bros Ultimate’s Persona 5 DLC includes a disability slur” which states: “Part of the DLC pack’s addition includes a number of Persona music tracks, which can be listened to in full outside of battle. However, one of these tracks caught our attention for all the wrong reasons. In the track ‘Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There’, if you skip to around 1:48 into the track, you’ll reach…
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Video game journalists are a joke Gamers don’t have a problem with challenge. Game journalists do, because they're lazy hacks — and because challenge itself engenders fundamental problems for their ideology.
Game journalists, you’re not the first to notice, are increasingly out of touch with the game-playing masses, yet there is no end in sight on their wailing about game difficulty or their transparent demand for art to conform to the demands of that very particular brand of corporate endorsed Woke ™ Social Justice ™ ideology. Given how well-trafficked their ideas are on social media, you can’t be blamed if you fall under the impression that games themselves are becoming more political — or politically correct. But the market speaks louder than words, and no amount of digital paper and wasted ink promoting a left-leaning narrative can change the fact that…
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Subnautica developer fired for retweeting conservatives The hate mob strikes again.
Subnautica developer and sound designer Simon Chylinski became the target of a social justice-driven hate mob on Twitter after he shared tweets by conservative journalist Paul Joseph Watson. Chylinski was subsequently fired by his employers at Unknown Worlds following a sustained campaign over the weekend by social justice activists on both Twitter and the ResetERA gaming forums, who called on the developer and publisher to act against him. Subnautica is an underwater survival game filled with eerie noises and a haunting soundtrack, for which Chylinski is responsible. Over the weekend, the outrage crowd discovered an old set of tweets by game director Charlie Cleveland, who set up a poll in…
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RimWorld dev labeled sexist for game’s romance system Game's grocedural generator spits out more hetero than homosexual characters. Now game journalists want dev's blood.
Video game mechanics are not real. They are mathematical computations devised by programmers — intended to deliver a gameplay experience, creating challenges and emergent behavior. When Rock Paper Shotgun published an article about how the popular indie game RimWorld was sexist, game journalists and social justice warriors piled on the hate wagon aimed at shaming its sole developer, Tynan Sylvester. The developer’s neutrality toward the GamerGate movement, which was emerging in 2014, may have soured their views toward him. Recently, Sylvester held multiple interviews about his game with Breitbart, which hosts the GamerGate-friendly Milo Yiannopoulos. And in a public conversation with Kotaku blogger Jason Schreier, Sylvester drew a line between…
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Kotaku is killing video game journalism When Kotaku introduced ‘social justice’ to gaming coverage, it all went to hell. Why can't we just play?
Kotaku, alongside Polygon and a handful of other similar sites, has developed a bad reputation with gamers because of efforts by a few of its writers to inject “social justice” politics into the culture and discussion surrounding video games. What gamers want to do is simply play video games and visit websites to discuss the gameplay, themes, and story of their favorite titles without being demonized by game critics who insist on speaking down to their audience. As a whole, gamers have no problem dealing with politics in games, and many popular titles, including The Witcher 3, Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid series, Deus Ex, and BioShock, all explore serious…
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Game journos: devs must force players to make the ‘right’ moral choices “If game designers are not willing to de-power players then their ‘moral choice’ mechanics are reduced to basically meaningless ‘play style.’”
The upcoming video game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has seen no end to controversy lately. With release just a few weeks away, the perpetually offended raised issues over the game’s use of the term “mechanical apartheid,” and the horns of outrage have been sounded in light of the game’s supposed appropriation of Black Lives Matter within its themes. More recently, self-described “pop culture critic” and Feminist Frequency producer Jonathan McIntosh took issue with the amount of freedom the upcoming game offers its players. It should be noted that player choice has long been a staple of the RPG genre, which allows players to decide the outcome of the story through their actions and deeds…
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Kotaku: Pokemon GO is a ‘death sentence’ for black men Because of course it is.
As we reported earlier this week, someone will probably die playing Pokemon GO, at least eventually. The game has you running around the scary outside world, looking like a dork with your phone in your hand while not completely aware of your surroundings. But leave it to the top minds at Kotaku to determine the exact nature of said death to fit into their narrative. “Pokémon Go Could Be A Death Sentence For A Black Man” breaks down the chances like some kind of macabre gambler. When my brain started combining the complexity of being Black in America with the real world proposal of wandering and exploration that is designed into the gamplay of Pokémon…
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The increasing irrelevancy of video game journalists Being good at games is now political. Is this a sign of the end times?
Another video is causing a stir in the gaming world, once again showing a shocking level of incompetence in the gaming press. A month ago it was a Polygon’s abysmal performance in their Doom demo (latest in a laundry list of bungles born of sheer incompetence), now it’s Gamespot and their inability to understand how PC graphics settings work. Here you can see the dummies at Gamespot comparing Overwatch on the PC and PS4, coming to the conclusion that the PS4 looks better. Too bad the PC isn’t on the highest graphics setting, making the comparison absolutely useless. You don’t have to be some basement-dwelling computer nerd to understand that a $1,000 gaming PC is going to have better graphics than…
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Media falsely blames Gamergate for Alison Rapp prostitution rumors It was Kiwi Farms researchers.
When allegations surfaced online recently that fired Nintendo employee Alison Rapp had been moonlighting as a call girl, the mainstream media instinctively blamed Gamergate. For those not in the loop, Gamergate is an online movement fighting for better ethics in gaming journalism and against gaming censorship that is dogged by criticism that its worst members harass women game developers. For many big media companies tracking the Rapp case, Gamergate became the obvious whipping boy. An article by the Washington Post criticized the Rapp allegations as highly skilled oppo tactics and implied they were the work of 8chan, the anonymous message-board website, and Kotaku in Action, the official Gamergate subreddit. The Mirror UK accused Gamergaters of “slutshaming.” But the group that…
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