Washington Post has shut down it's video game news section.
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Washington Post has shut down it's video game news section.
https://twitter.com/cecianasta/status/1617967368034201601
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>it's
gottem
THE NUTSHACK
Frick you
I fricking hate millennials and zoomers. my big ass company uses the wrong its in its official documents. I guess when you lose sight of reality and think men can menstruate it doesn't matter if you're moronic or not.
You should be grateful since you sound pretty moronic
Or your company employs morons.
My company does the same thing. Turns out no one else gives a frick about fixing minor typos if the information is still good
only ESLs care about this
>only ESLs don't care about this
FTFY Pedro
Genuinely couldn't care less what the propagandists at the Washington post or the NY times think about video games
>propagandists at the Washington post or the NY times
hi trumptard
>it's working!
NY times is just as bad as fox news, fricking abysmal. American media in general is awful.
Name a dozen times the NYT were wrong and didn't correct the record.
You can find a dozen times a day during the pre-invasion Iraq era. Some say that was when they fell off a cliff.
I'd say they died just like the Wash Po when they were bought out by a shifty billionaire and flooded the management with former government employees
>bought out by a shifty billionaire
Of the three main newspapers, NYT is the only one that's independently owned. WaPo is owned by Bezos and WSJ is owned by Murdoch, but the NYT is owned by its own company.
Now it is (with one of the majority shareholders being Blackwiener). I'm talking about when Carlos Slim bought in and proceeded to ruin it, just like Bezos did with the Post.
Then he bailed out in 2017 and left the mess behind.
we've been saying this before trump dipshit, games urnalists are subhuman trolls, and i don't need their reviews or their opinions to enjoy my hobby.
>thinking only followers of the ultimate shabbos goy dislike those rags
>defending the washington compost or the israelite york times
>for free
hahahaha homosexual!
>hi trumptard
american news is by and large utter garbage. It's not a magatard vs demonrat thing.
>companies literally tell you it's government propaganda
>morons still eat it up
Just drop the nukes already
he hasn't been president for years it's time to let him out of your head
January 20th, 2016 was a horrid day for any real man. When Trump got in and all of his chuds cheered, thinking they had won and we had lost. Man I still get chills thinking about how we watched all the progress Obama made, become undone by that orange butthole. Real men were fearful for their families, while alt right incels with no one to love were cheering for the destruction of earth.
Truth is I'm just making this post now because I'm still so fricking relieved. We fricking made it men. Through the worst years of our democracy, we overcame his hate and ignorance. But we lost a lot of good people in the process. Never forget that the 45th president killed more of his citizens than of all wars combined thanks to his mismanagement of covid.
This on some real shit. We truly don't know how much of a bullet we dodged. That crazy fricker was planning on staying in office till one of his sons was deemed racist and insane enough to take over. I'm just glad we get to rub it in their hateful faces now. I hope more can be down to silence them so we can avoid this kind of uprising again. Might be a little too extreme for some, but I think employers should do super deep background checks to ensure ex-trumpers can never get a job again. I also hope that restraunts and other places will grow a spine and refuse to serve anyone still stupid enough to wear maga hats or any other alt right merchandise.
Reminder if you see anyone still wearing Trump merch, harass them non violently
Get in their faces and make it known they're not welcome with actual human beings
Not him, but stay in the truth anon. Love triumphs over evil hate and bigotry. I can still remember when evil maga rednecks wearing those dreadful red caps beat up my transgender nephew in the walmart women's care aisle. He still had the will and conviction to attend a BLM march with me that same night where we burned down that same walmart that allowed such hate to happen. Keep speaking your truth, our truth
>he thinks it's only specific media outlets
Not that I care about shitty journow but this reeks as "get woke go broke", they're laying off shit positions that harmed their bussines like HR department and the likes?
HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>twitter is heaing under Musk
ratio low key
>hi trumptard
Why does Trump live rent-free inside your head?
because he went bankrupt eleven times and can't afford to pay the rent
Why does he live rent-free inside your head?
>source: unverified statements
>source: Bidens classified documents poopoo pee pee
holy shit this made conservitards really angry for some reason, is it all trumpbots?
you unironically support bezos
Yes
Literally this. I hope they starve to death, actually.
We also have Ganker to tell us how much (You) hate videogames
>I don't like reporting on things I don't like, thus I get my credible news from trustworthy sources like, Ganker, twitter and reddit.
Yes.
Yeah, frick those c**ts. Don't care what any old israelite or trendy woman with a buzzcut cares about anything.
Washington Post maybe is doing a good move actually. Why report on an industry that is such a bad shape that it’s becoming irrelevant to gamers themselves. People quit gaming (or drastically reduce their time gaming) on the daily. The industry is in shambles and only thing keeping it afloat is american lefty wales that have their grips on politics in the industry. We need to let it di. 50% of the game companies publishers and developers alike simply need to die.
Aside from "lol WaPo/NYT", who fricking cares? I don't play games to pretend I'm some mature, cultured adult, I play to relax and enjoy some silly time in front of a screen. Why should I give a frick about any "news outlet" covering games in any fashion? If they want to shit on it, so what? The only "news" in relation to games I care about is upcoming titles/release dates and that's about it. If I really want to deep dive in "gamer culture" I'll just go to Ganker or some other forum.
Thank goodness we still have beloved gaming news outlets like Polygon, Screen Rant, TheGamer, Game Rant, and Kotaku to tell us how much they hate video games.
Good. Frick gaming """"""""journalism""""""""
Frick """"""""journalism""""""""
fix'd
>Washington Post troon writer cites Resetera a single time
>instantly kills their department and puts their fellow journalists out of a job
This might be the only good thing to come out of Resetera in history. And it's nice to know normies are finally expressing their woke fatigue.
gotta get the braindead flyovers signing the anthem again otherwise who is going to get sent to fight russia? Trannies?
Too late for that.
What happened? I didn't hear about that.
Presumably it was an article about Resetera banning Hogwarts discussion
So they were stupid enough to step on that landmine thinking they wouldn't get backlash from normalgays.
Qrd?
Echoing other posters, give us the rundown
>morons looking for news on Le Hogwarts go to google - no WP results found because Le Heckin Transphobia
>ad revenue generating clicker goes to another site
industry crash soon
who gives a frick about media journalism, it's all low effort israeli crap
this, may wapo shut down all their news sections
corpo journalism needs to disappear
Good to see when someone finally decides to shut the frick up about things they don't understand.
who?
Journalists of all stripes deserve to hang
I'm kind of shocked Washington Post had a video game section in the first place
>infuriating that games coverage remains low priority
No, it's not. Because every time it becomes a big priority you read shit like this. Most ""journalists"" are busy sniffing their own farts and pretending that everything they enjoy is fine art while the plebs enjoy things they find repulsive.
Why do companies continuously reject their audiences to try to chase some nebulous ideal that invariably fails to materialize and leaves them with loads of backstock that long-time fans despise and non-fans don't care about? You dance with the girl you brought, simple as.
to be fair it sort of worked, games went from being a relatively niche hobby to being something everyone around the world at all age groups plays (great for business, less so for games themselves), the people involved seemed to go too far up their own asses though
>to be fair it sort of worked, games went from being a relatively niche hobby to being something everyone around the world
That happened because the generation that played games grew up, moron. Boomers are playing games now because those boomers grew up with games.
Had nothing to do with journalism. It was millenials growing up with consoles + the extremely rapid computer tech explosion in the late 80s through 2000s
To get investment firm money
To get Blackrock money. Do you seriously think that companies with investors need pleb money? This shows that you know absolutely nothing about zombie companies and corporate cycles of investments and writeoffs. This is a roulette that could spin forever in perpetuity even if most of humanity died. Why do you think the fricking profit margins of fricking Goldman Sachs skyrocketed, over 20% increase during the pandemic?
Reminds me of that one post about a meeting between Nintendo executives and investors, and one of them getting very upset that Iwata kept talking about videogames.
> Do you seriously think that companies with investors need pleb money?
Yes, idiot, obviously they do. I know no one on this board knows how investing works, but no CEO would ever choose investment financing over actual revenue. At best it’s an alternative to debt financing which may or may not be more attractive depending on the tax incentives involved, but it still involves selling an obligation to someone else.
>no CEO would ever choose investment financing over actual revenue
Why do you think there's been a concerted effort over the past 10 years to replace purchases with subscriptions? It's specifically so investors can be catered too without risking alienating consumers.
They're right though. Look at the comics industry and how on decline it and super heroes has become compared to manga which is actually for everyone.
And why do you think that is when comic book fans scream every single time about the shit that is put out? Do you honestly think a pregnant joker or a fricking she hulk TV show are made for fans? It's not that the audience is over, it's that the ones creating new shitare out of touch with reality.
they scream but they still buy apparently
Japanese manga sells more in America than American comics sell in America.
That's a fricking meme from Ganker morons who hate comics.
No, it's a fact. Marvel and DC are both owned by uncaring conglomerates now that already have the IP. Both of the big two will stop publishing by 2030. It's unprofitable. There are major titles that, at the height of super hero cultural purchase, do less business nationally than some local food trucks.
have a nice day, stop listening to armchair Ganker youtube homosexuals like yellowflash2.
Demonslayer made more money than the whole American comic industry combined that year.
Leftist garbage is only one (major) factor in why comics are dead as frick though. Another is the distribution monopoly stopping the industry moving on, the israelites in charge would rather comics died completely than ever release their stranglehold.
No kid. Comics died in the 90s. What is left is a marionette held up by gen x tards that onions face for star wars. I see people post examples of woke comics like Iron heart or other shit ideas but those were all cancelled after 1 edition.
So anything liberals do is just putting their makeup ona corpse. They couldn't make it any deader.
Comics died and manga basically replaced it with similar tones minus the political undertones and stories that actually conclude.
>That time when they announced a New Warriors line specifically designed to cater to modern youth
>Everyone laughed so hard at it that they dumpstered the line out of pure shame
No wonder they lose to taco trucks.
INTERNET GAS
in middle school over 15 yrs ago we talked about Naruto and not Superman, Batman, etc
it's probably even worse for western comics now
Going by the consistent decline of western comic sales, no they don't.
If they still buy, why are they failing.
pregnant Joker was a LITERAL JOKE COMIC you fricking Chicken Little
ywnbaw
I will be a pregnant transexual israeli landlord who works three part time jobs at walmart subway and mcdonalds and makes youtube videos about superman not reproducing krypton with his cousin supergirl.
Why not Wonder Woman? She's a literal demigoddess, so there's all the power without the risk of genetic degradation from incest.
Pregnant joker delivered us this comic panel though
Manga mostly isn't made for everyone either. On one level, you oftentimes need to have an understanding for japanese culture or customs to understand parts of the story. On the other hand, most manga are very self referential and have in-jokes and tropes that enhance the experience but would fly over your head if you've never read them before. Manga is very much made for manga fans.
>Manga mostly isn't made for everyone either.
Nah, there's legit a manga out there for basically everyone.
Everyone can find a manga they like, not a single manga that everyone likes. Comics are trying to do the latter. Manga try to cater to a specific audience, and with lots of authors going after different audiences you get actual diversity, not corporate/woke academic "diversity"
>Comics are trying to do the latter.
Which is literally completely impossible, there's no such thing as a piece of media or art that pleases everyone.
>Which is literally completely impossible, there's no such thing as a piece of media or art that pleases everyone.
Hence why they are failing.
>Comics are trying to do the latter.
Name one comic that does that
go back to Ganker, comics will always be more popular and have better writing than manga shit.
>comics will always be more popular
It's not Ganker talking points, he's literally parroting nihilistic Ganker morons.
You're so wrong that I would have to explain American history from the beginning to fix that moronic idea. But I'm going to call you a homosexual instead and let you live your delusional reality.
Man I'm not an Gankerutist but come the frick on, saying western comics are more popular than anime is some ostrich-head shit
There's not even a single american comic that's as well written as FMA, and FMA is literally just a shounen baby manga.
Are you serious? Oh you are? AHAHAHAHA Ganker gays everyone
The comics industry is in the gutter specifically because they've spent the last 20 years trying to chase that nebulous "new, wider audience" that doesn't exist because your average person doesn't give a frick about Batgirl banging clams with Huntress or whatever other garbage they think will appeal to people who don't give a shit about comics in the first place.
>Batgirl banging clams with Huntress
pics? Has Jean Grey rimmed out Emma Frost yet? That's the big pairing I always wanted.
I'm just assuming anon, I don't know if they've actually done that good taste though
Manga is made for either shut-in NEETs (Lucky Star, K-ON, Bocchi the Rock) or 9 year old boys (DBZ, Bleach, Naruto) There really isn't anywhere in-between, morons don't know that stuff like Vinland Saga or Berserk is very, very rare. But the person who unironically posts the word "tranime" gets it very well and is more consciously aware of the true nature of the medium.
>stuff like Vinland Saga or Berserk is very, very rare
most of this stuff came out decades ago
good new manga is almost nonexistent
Jahy tho
Only more further proves my point on how mentally moronic modern Americans are currently enthralled with children's comics.
That's because manga is a fricking shit format. Weekly trash is mostly silly romcom stuff, monthly shit gets 12 chapters a year and the other shit gets like 6-4 chapters a year. It's "decades old" because it takes fricking decades to finish a story. There's probably a good many LNs or even WNs that are promising, but in the sea of shit they have to get officially licenced first and then the releases are slow as molasses. It's not that different when you compare it with comics though. When was the last time a new comic book hero was created that people liked and not just some fricking replacement or reboot of an existing one.
I really like Fighter D from Reject Ranger.
I like Land of the Lustrous.
>he doesn't follow Kaiji
Rare? No, just not popular or new. There's also the demographic you forgot, the people reading edgy as frick gorefest shit that's too violent or rapey for kids but too silly for most adults like Kichikujima or Dark Massacre.
You forgot Mexicans, pendejo.
Yes, latinx fall under the manchildren category.
Capeshit is not mature either
Seinen manga are not that rare, just unpopular. There are hundreds of seinen manga, you just need to look them up.
Also you forgot stuff that's aimed at teens like AOT, chainsawman, etc.
All comics are made for 9 year old boys. What's your point?
Actually all modern day American comic books only appeal and are marketing towards 35 to 40+ adult men. There's absolutely no room for any newcomers to start reading comics. Never has been.
The entire medium is already dead and is propped up mainly by pity sales. Last time I checked
>9 year old boy
best period of my life and the only where i was truly happy. why would i ever want to move on from that?
>stuff like Vinland Saga or Berserk is very, very rare.
thank god. hyperviolent "i'm a super serious mature adult" manga that take themselves way too seriously are for autistic incels. if you hate shonen but enjoy something like vinland saga, you really need to touch grass and get laid.
What category do absurdly gory, comedically edgy ones go in? The ones that have stuff like the baby antichrist being made into stew or punching someone and they explode for no reason?
>only lists whatever is popular in the western internet
>"surely this is all that exists"
>its the anime turning kids into trannies
>ignore the child abuse
>ignore the pedos
>ignore the grooming
>ITS THE ANIME OKAY
Uh-huh
>Lucky Star, K-ON, Bocchi the Rock, DBZ, Bleach, Naruto
Ok boomer, did you just wake up from a coma?
>vinland saga and berserk are some of the only seinen manga ever produced or distributed and definitely weren't published in monthly magazines that still exist right now
Anime website.
There's a difference between "catering to your core audience" and "alienating casuals'. Comics have done strictly the latter for decades. Hell, they don't even appeal to their core audience these days, it's an industry propped up entirely out of spite.
Westerners should make harem comics if they wish to care about beautiful female characters.
>manga which is actually for everyone
it's for teenagers and incels you lying troon frick, and i bless the japs for it every single day
now there, mister! stop associating sniffing your own farts with these nutjobs! you're giving us fart sniffers a bad name!
>it's buying things
So just like any other hobby.
I actually agree. The idea of a video game "culture" is silly. it's literally just staring at the screen while sitting on your fat ass, moving the mouse or joystick around. That's not a culture. Shit, that's a lack of one. The only good thing about vidya is they can be a way for people to get together and have some fun.
We need more games like It Takes Two and way less single player games.
>The only good thing about vidya is they can be a way for people to get together and have some fun.
Thats called a culture, anon.
Wonderful, but the best part, is that many "journalists" are also being purged in recent months.
>Vox Media layoffs.
>Washpo layoffs.
>Polygon layoffs.
Kotaku tick tock.
gamergate won
is this "gamergate" in the room with us right now?
Yes hes literally me
That's a made up troony name isn't it. May as well call himself Verunka Starfox
it's just Italian
>itroonyan
makes sense
Not made up, just an ordinary Italian
italian is just some made up bobbitty boopity langague anon they are lying to you!
Oh no, not the Bezos Post
Well at least they'll have more time to write pro Amazon, Blue Origin, Anti-Union and whatever other crap he's doing
I'm just wondering. A few months back when twitter laid off people everyone was laughing at elon musk, but now when people get laid off it's a tragedy. No.
>Elon lays off thousands of fake jobs
>Washington Post and Friends: nooooooooo u cant do dis! Ebil gazillionaire!
>(quickly sack all our fake job havers)
Is my boy Gene Park alright? Even though he's left-leaning I still respect the frick out of him he's the only cool one in my book.
he got colon cancer so god is already in the process of laying him off
Fricked up anon.
Didn't he beat the cancer and is in recovery
he got shuffled to another department so he'll be fine on that front at least.
what, did they give New World a bad review?
Imagine being a games journalist. Couldn't be me.
Maybe if they spent more time writing and less time time b***hing about their readers/sleeping with devs they'd find it easier to branch out
youtubers and twitch streamers are replacing gaming media
Learn to stream
I want both sides to die so fricking much
Fricking morons. Just start your own youtube channel/website. If people actually give a frick about your opinion and you are interesting, you will get a following and can make a living.
They can’t do that because they know they have no charisma whatsoever
To be fair gaining popularity on YouTube/twitch in 2023 has to do more with having breasts and a hot tub than brains. I've made a few decent videos and it's impossible to get eyeballs on them. I'm going to keep trying but it's hard to stay motivated with only a few thousand views after spending a week on something.
He's a moron but the "bad at games" thing doesn't apply, he beat a bunch of Dan Ryckert's hellish Mario Maker levels. Still waiting on that book report though.
Out of curiosity YT/Twitch anon, I've spent the past couple of years deciding if I'm going to get into the game or not and realize its pretty depressing on the surface. FOr what its worth, keep going - its hard to get eyeballs without either properly gently caressing the algorithm AND having time and an expansion strategy. If you just want to do it for fun, don 't worry about the metrics too much - its not a measure of the quality of video. It may just be that it didn't have a human face in the fricking YT screenshot or that some other person who is way the frick more popular than you already talked about something kinda sorta similar and everyone went to his viewpoint first and got satisfied; its an uphill battle.
I'm contemplating on ways to make some alternative platforms (open stuff - look into PeerTube and OwnCast ) and looking to see if people will actually support "anti streamer trend" content , but still just keep doing what you want. If you're trying to monetize as fast ass possible then run for the algo like everyone else but as you said , it still doesn't guarantee anything and takes time You'll probably be happier not all that.
Drop your channel. If you are any good, I'm sure some of us will sub.
Post your stuff, I am always looking for more interesting videos.
More recently I've found a channel called hidden and she mostly does DBZ stuff but I think her opinions on games aren't moronic.
Casp is another good one and the guy mostly focuses on JRPG games, his humor is clearly more geared towards people who aren't pussies but he doesn't come off as a cringy "how do you do fellow Gankerners" youtuber.
they should learn to mine
>Smug white affluent liberals who unironically told people to learn to code are now crying and shaking because their jobs are completely worthless.
>games "journalist"
>literally don't play games
>if they do play games, be comically low skill
>zog goyslop reports on how problematic games are
yep all "journalists" deserve to die
This is the same homie that finished mass effect without knowing you're supposed to gain level and allocate skill points.
jesus christ
I still believe this was a deliberately engineered meme.
It's hilarious how gays like Klepek spent the last decade transitioning from traditional games coverage to homosexual think pieces about how games intersect with society or whatever. Obviously he wanted to transition to a "prestige" news outlet like the Wapost or the Times but now they're culling their games coverage so he's basically stuck in this waypoint/kotaku hell and fearing that he's going to be laid off next. Kek.
>I couldn't write articles if I acknowledged how much of a shitshow money laundering operation this industry is
Great take, patrick
>Plays games all day, or
>Seethes about politics all day
Holy shit homosexuals, get a real job.
>scared he's going to lose his job and die broke
>meanwhile Jeff loses his job and can transition to just playing old ass games and make money fine
>he actually considers games journalism a job
i could write better articles on vidya and still have my cushy government job
these people are as stupid as people who put all their chips on a language or art degree
>I just pretend it doesn't exist
Which isn't new for them they keep doing that for world israelitery.
He's part of the reason everybody hates game journalists now. They nuked their relationship with their own audience so they could climb an imaginary social ladder. There was a time when people actually liked them and were willing to support them, they deserve much worse for how hard they fricked this industry.
Absolutely fantastic news, friend.
WHAT DOES THE REDDIT FROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?
WHAT DOES THE REDDIT FROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?
WHAT DOES THE REDDIT FROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?
haha mad af
DOWNVOTED
go plant some trees
Get out of twitter and your anxiety will be gone, just do your job when you have to and when you don't forget about it, go outside and do something else. Social media was one of the biggest mistakes in human history.
>Oh no, I might have to get a real job!
And they wonder why people hate them.
>There are simply not enough jobs available for the amount of people who are losing them.
Nice admitting the entire "industry" was just a bloated, worthless den of leeches all this time.
They would still have their jobs if Trump won. I think media in general got a huge boost by making people believe we had an actual nazi as president and then COVID as this super deadly potentially world killing virus. News media in general really need a another super boogeyman to maintain view,s and game journalists really need a Gamergate 2 or some other video game 9/11.
Reminder the government was literally subsidizing journalism that wasn't in demand. It was meant to "counter propaganda", but it just ended up being a slush fund squandered on giving people's friends make-work jobs where they write garbage "AND THAT'S A GOOD THING" style articles. They're smug cosmopolitans who laid off laborers for the good old days being gone and never coming back, not realizing that their own good old days are passing them by and never really existed in the first place.
just out shitposted my glowie friends until I met my CIA agents NSA handler but unironically, I was drunk and tried to talk about assange but forgot his name at the time lol
To elaborate, essentially I recovered from the pit of despair entirely destroying their expectations, and through the experience of being subjected to their techniques learnt them, flipped the chessboard, and by my lonesome self mass harassed the shitbag glowies back thereby proving my superiority to the shitty CIA glowies. I am superior to the CIA by myself, I am literally above their techniques now.
My friends were my power, they handled a lot of it for me behind the scenes. Destabalizing gaslighting is easy if you just reverse the propoganda.
>he thinks that $160 mil would be evenly divided between 1000 journalist instead of shrinking into a small fraction as it gets dragged through government bureacracy
>he thinks that government is so fast they will start paying them the instant the law gets passed
lol
lmao even
Why don't they just make youtube channels? They can support themselves on any other minimum wage job while building it. They weren't earning anything higher doing vidya "journalism"
these morons have no idea what people want from "gaming journalists"
I used to read a local gaming newspaper a lot but when the writers whose tastes I grew to know better quit I just stopped reading it. Why bother? I only cared what specific few of those writers had to say about games and I would value those recommendations because I my own views aligned with theirs for a long time. the new writers just wrote complete garbage about unimportant shit that didn't matter to me at all so I just didn't bother. this was 10 years ago, I don't read any news media these days.
#learntocode
>when you get the booster
Journalism is a trade. Just go be a war journalist or something.
It's not impostor syndrome if you genuinely are a useless frick who no one wants or needs. Impostor syndrome would be if he were skilled but believed he was not, this is just conceit.
Remember, Videogame Journalism Dies in Darkness Along with Democracy
>videogames are for children
>"Why are all these young men checking out of society"
Anything men like that isn't beneficial to women or the rich people is seen as bad.
>get bought by Bezos
>start laying everyone off
Burgerpunk2077
Bezos bought it almost a decade ago
I pay zero attention to news
Huge win for gamehomosexuals if less lefty propaganda publications talk about them.
>washington pozz
israelites gave up kek
Who cares.
Nature is healing
learn to code
I unironically think this is amazing news, the less shitty opinions I have to hear from mainstream news about my hobby the better.
Good. Make gaming a niche market mostly for children again.
Frick, that was good.
>a literal PhD in romantic comedies
>if you need someone who has spent 10 years posting opinions on the internet and who spent 10 years and 100k of daddy's money watching netflix in place of an education, call me
How is this not satire.
The funny thing is all the coders are now being put out of work by AI.
Not a single one yet. But in a few years, yes.
and they said Multiplayer is dead.
RARE based frogposter.
hello bot.
write an article about this thread topic like you're a games journalist that's having a panic attack and is barely holding on to their composure.
moron
meds now.
>phD in romantic comedies
This """woke""" (for lack of a better word) really is ruining Western society. Every industry is doing poorly because institutions and industries simply can't seem to simply shut the frick up and do their jobs. They are like kids with ADHD who is meant tp be doing his homework but is instead doing it in microsecond bursts between using his phone and watching netflix and playing genshin.
>local supermarket keeps announcing some new social program launch
>Indigienous rights! Women in the workplace! Green energy!
Meanwhile there are no fricking eggs and the carpark has potholes and crackheads breaking into your car.
I'm gonna miss this homie like you wouldn't believe
Based. Nothing is a bigger meme these days than game jurnoz
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its gaming journalists are treated
this but the correlation is inversely proportional
>prestige
Let me know when that homosexual Jason Shrieker is finally run out of the business
>That time when the Dragon's Crown guy politely called him a homosexual
It was pretty funny.
Outstanding.
Speaking of blacklisting, did Nintendo backlist Kotaku for publishing that article that not only told everyone to steal Metroid Dread through piracy, but linked how to do it?
Jason Schrier has been pretty good at actual journalism
Multiple employees nearly dying at Naughty Dog helped me know to not buy their shit
He drops some genuinely informative stories now and again, like the absolute shitshow that was Anthem's development, but between scoops he just sits around blithering the stupidest shit imaginable.
>Many of his stories end up being bullshit based on "sources"
>Good journalism
Right...
>Jason Schrier has been pretty good at actual journalism
Anonymous sources without any on the record corroboration have told me that you surgically removed your own penis. I am a real journalist. Unionize, or else.
Jason is the Dave Meltzer of videogames, with the same sort of person buying into it
>Imagine think that rat faced israelite is an example of good journalism.
have a nice day
Guaranteed (you)s
why does the welfare of the workers matter to you as a consumer? also the games they make being total dogshit didn't deter you from buying a naughty dog game? damn you're moronic.
>why does the welfare of the workers matter to you as a consumer?
This isn't specific to Naughty Dog, but I prefer the company doesn't completely fricking burn out its devs, because on the off chance they make a good game and I'd like to see a sequel to it, that sequel will immediately be in jeopardy because half the team is contracted and won't be recalled because they might ask for more money or didn't submit to crunch, while others just leave the company altogether because their working conditions weren't worth the money. I know the current meme is that no developer does anything and they're all just Black folk, pajeets, women, homosexuals and trannies, but there's far too many game series I like that got killed off because publisher/executive bullshit resulted in a subpar game, which the suits then concluded meant nobody actually likes the games anymore.
He admits he's being selective about which stories he features.
I guess they need a journalist that insiders are dumb enough to trust and get burned and excised from the industry in timely manner?
Schrier is a petty sociopath who creates group chats with devs and reposts shit from ERA and then uses that to make a fake reputation as a good journalist to harass and bully developers into doing what he wants.
He's a slimy sociopathic israelite. Nothing more.
He literally did this with the recent blizzard article about a dev.
Turns out the dude still works there and is probably getting fired because the gay outed him lmao
>Schrier
no idea who he is, but I don't trust him
>no idea who he is
She looks like a human blob fish
a israelite who keeps linking his paywalled articles on twitter, go figure
Only when the story doesn't doesn't offend the LGBT crowd or inconveniences his handlers (which is rare). Remember how hands off he was during the Blizzard sexual harassment scandal despite everyone else covering it in detail?
Makes complete sense, people who read newspapers don't play videogames
I have done nothing but play video games and consume video game related media for the past 20 years and I had no fricking idea that this site existed. Apparently it's been around for almost 10 years
Gaming journalism has no reason to exist.
Anyone who's cheering this on is going to let yellow journalism from kotaku and IGN win instead of real journalists who care about writing good video game stories that follow journalistic integrity.
>instead of real journalists who care about writing good video game stories that follow journalistic integrity.
WaPo is a marketing agency, not a journalistic source.
>instead of real journalists who care about writing good video game stories that follow journalistic integrity.
Such as?
Less political articles from communist outfit wapo? About games? How terrible
It literally couldn’t matter less what the NYT or Washington Post write about video games, those are boomer outlets and gaming is a younger medium. There zero overlap.
god I hope that shitass site dies
I hope every journalist dies too
Adam Sessler is having an actual meltdown, but I can't tell if it's a new meltdown or a continuation of the old one. He had a legitimate mental breakdown on twitter that lasted at least two weeks, or is still going.
who?
That crack addict (unironically) from g4. Not the attractive woman, the coomer looking twitchy guy.
How long will it be before news comes out that Sessler's a creepy sex pest? It must be right around the corner for him to be acting up this much
>How long will it be before news comes out that Sessler's a creepy sex pest?
Only when he pisses someone off.
Right now, everyone is just laughing at him.
that news is already out there, him trying to trade coke for pussy is part of what got him ousted the first time
Didn't that guy do troony porn?
>having an actual meltdown
since like two weeks already
>Adam Sessler is having an actual meltdown
...I am curious if this is in any way related to what's going on here or is it just Sessler can finally tell everyone to frick off without having to hold back and got way to "into" Twitter since the end of G4?
hard to say, he goes on coke binges and then throws an online tantrum for days at a time, then back to somewhat normal, then tantrum, etc. He's remarked about the layoffs twice that I see, and wants them to know that they can get jobs outside of gaming, which is funny when you consider that most of these people were glorified electronic entertainment gossip bloggers precisely because they couldn't get real journalism jobs. Its why they hated their jobs and their audience.
the unfortunate thing about sessler is that unlike most of these media parasites he can be genuinely funny & entertaining when he tries to be. on the dick stream he actually had some good moments where it was like 'oh yeah you could put this guy on television'
You can put pretty much anyone hopped up on cocaine on television, so long as you're careful he won't jump one of his cohosts and tear their neck open.
I'd wager he had skin in the game when it came to G4 which is why he has been so unhinged recently.
>shitprick
Yikes, homophobic much Sessler?
Memes aside has ChristianXXX just been one long journey of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality on camera? Like he's just been easing himself into just fricking normal men while denying he's gay? I assume at some point he fricked women, then he'd atleast frick passable traps, but now he fricks just the ugliest fricking dudes in wigs, does this just end with his retirement/marriage announcement to a fat middle aged balding man he shares a lot in common with?
He's bottomed. If you bottom, you're gay. Doesn't matter if you do it with a passing troony or otherwise.
You might get away with it if you top, but the minute you take a dick in your own poopshoot, you're gay -- or at the very least, bisexual.
Love to see it. I think game "journalist" days are numbered.
Journalist college degree people that couldn't get a job anywhere else fall into gaming cus they know a friend or are in a clique and can get hired. Most have a contempt for the medium and it's fans.
More people just watch people with YouTube channels or livestreams for game reviews and shit now. Why care about what some pretentious homosexual that doesn't even like games has to say about games?
People who distrust journalists are all mentally ill conservative trumptards.
Rope. Tree. Journalist.
You will face the wall with your precious journalist and I will show them and you what a real nazi is like
If journalists didn't keep saying such stupid shit I wouldn't distrust them.
Not the biggest loss but it's kinda lame anyway
>prestige outlets
good
now we just need all the rest of the game journos to get fired
people arent willing to pay for real news, so they certainly wont be willing to pay for news about video games
If the old 1up guys were around I'd pay for them. Gfw radio is still the goat gaming podcast. There was a time when some game journalists were funny and insightful.
>another anon remembers 1up
They were pretty good, thankfully the site died a couple of years before all the homosexualry started with their peers.
Joystiq was decent for a while too but they got heavily brain poisoned right before they were shut down. Giant Bomb was also good but only up until Ryan died, the site died with him.
1up was just EGM
EGM was great. I miss the era of gaming mags before the israelites bought everything and let lgbt and loony troons loose on modern online "journalism"
Those sites were ahead of their time in a way, just being mostly personality driven and having good chemistry for their shows. Would have fit perfectly in the Youtube/Twitch era.
Garnett Lee was last working for Amazon doing mobile shit a while back and his twitter feed is full of woke bullshit, it's better to remember them as they were in the 1UP.com days
>wapo
>prestige outlet
the dark days for journos continues. 7 years as a faithful propaganda dog to end... like this?
Hope the sausage fingers handjob was worth it.
GO WOKE
PANTIES GET SOAKED
>until recently
Gaming is and always will be primarily a child's hobby
Meanwhile what's his name tiddyhater mc problematic is still working at Bloomberg and will continue to polish resetera/kotaku quality turds through the sheen of his important journalism post.
That said, I don't know enough about WP's specific games related journalism (and I'm a bit skeptical they'd do much more that didn't align with BUY WHATEVER BEZOS DEMANDS DID YOU HEAR NEW WORLD JUST PATCHED) but if "the papers of record" and others that do investigative journalism don't cover gaming, then almost all "journalism" will come from the typical bias of standard game sites which either fall into advertorials or Kotaku-style "we have a pre-aligned ideological lens we apply to everything about gaming" with the later seen as the "serious" ones. We don't want that.
The ability to cover stuff like unionization, crunch, studio management and exploitation, shitty monetization, mega publisher frickery etc.. is useful and can't be left up to those who are going to ignore all that stuff in favor of another article on "why Hogwarts Legacy had a "problematic" producer that should probably be fired and the game will be a hateful piece of crap because of it" . Actual investigative journalism, even when there is a slight if known bias, is useful vs poorly sourced garbage.
None of these outlets do investigative journalism you moron, the closest you'll get will be Schreier reporting on rumors he hears from his friends or resetera once every few years while sitting on shit like the blizzard sex scandals.
Do you think he sat on the story to protect his gossip mongers, or do you think he lied about knowing about it so that people would still take him seriously as a plugged in very serious journalist?
Probably both, not like he has any integrity stopping him from doing either.
and nothing of value was lost. frick wapo.
Who the frick are game journalists even writing for? Everybody who plays games hates them, they know less about the subject matter than a 16 year old kid on YouTube and instead of making entertainment they make propaganda that complains about everything. They want to write for "real" news outlets for boomers who don't give a frick about games. Why would you intentionally make yourself completely irrelevant then whine about job security?
Themselves, mainly.
What kind of fricked up society allowed them to get such a huge ego when they served absolutely no purpose? Why would they be delusional enough to assume they deserve a job with no audience.
There's a class of reddit gamer that almost literally jerks off to stories about how racist, sexist, and whatever other ist or phobic gaming is, because it gives them the opportunity to be "part of the resistance" and get that dopamine hit from convincing themselves that they're doing something virtuous and meaningful by posting the approved words on reddit and playing the approved games and hating the evil CRUUUUUNCH poles and all that kind of bullshit.
Oh no, not the journalists.
What the frick is a game vertical?
Kill game ""journalists"".
Normies and casuals need to game less anyway. I don't need every joe schmo and plain jane to like video games.
Is being intensely unlikable and complaining about everything a bad business model or something?
>sunsetting
You mean KILLING? Like bloody MURDER? As in causing its DEATH?
can't imagine caring
>WaPo
I thought this was another slang for white people at first.
THEY TARGETED GAMERS
Yes.
You should know by now you don't mess with gamers.
It's absurd to me the "anime feminist" b***h climbed up to the ranks to where she is today.
Either she fricked around or any dumb b***h can be a journalist.
>any dumb b***h can be a journalist
Its so easy even an algorithm can do it.
>or any dumb b***h can be a journalist.
well yeah
Guess they should learn to code.
>glowie opinions on vidya
Worse than trash covered in shit.
are all companies at muttmerica laying off people these days? what's going on?
20 years of playing with monopoly money and hiring up every semi capable moron to stop them from competing with you is very abruptly coming to an end
sounds like a reductionist explanation. what's the actual reason?
We intentionally destroyed the global supply chain for over a year to get rid of a man with a bad spray tan because he was rude on twitter. The economic consequences can't be staved off from much longer, and everyone knows it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization
we strip mined every fundamentally sound aspect of our economy to the bone to create a debt based system with zero resiliency that managed to function largely due to inertia and positive thinking and then
happened
Tech companies are laying people off because they hired a frickton of people during the pandemic because they thought everyone would be always online forever. Now they're realizing that they don't need that many people/can't really afford to invest in moronic things with little ROI.
Gaming journalists are being laid off because they're fricking worthless.
so WaPo is just opportunistically jumping on the layoffs train?
I don't think it's that specifically, newspapers in general are just fairly unprofitable and getting worse. Daddy Bezos was probably just tired of propping up the worst of WaPo.
Yeah copycat syndrome+its easier to justify layoffs if everyone else is doing it to investors in a recession.
Microsoft laid off 10k employees, but they hired 60 thousand in the past 5 years. Thats alot of fat.
>sunsetting
What a homosexual term. The dept. is dead but its not bad, its going down like the sun 🙂
Why did they need the section in the first place
Video game journalism belongs to the lowest tier of the field
>google
this b***h has more IQ and hustles more than anyone on this board
Im sure she used that IQ and hustle to track you down and is sucking your dick right now too. Congrats on defending her bro
"shes not gonna frick you bro" has to be the most pathetic copegument incelibates pull when they get blasted, you virgins don't realize how pathetic you look projecting your obsession with getting laid on people completely unrelated things
Hope she sees this.
Have sex
Bitter loser incels.
Real men like bawds. They probably won't marry them but they're fun to frick and they are fun to jerk off to. But incels get offended by them. Why? Because they have the psychology of a loser. Deep down they know they can't get pussy because deep down they know they are failed men, so instead of using that fact to try to improve themselves they become resentful and frustrated at women.
bawds are fun. Sex is fun. Incels are losers who should be killed..
I like bawds but I don't defend them online
You seem mighty desperate to prove you have tons of sex with throw away prostitutes but also go this out of your way to defend one lol. Lmao!
i too enjoy defending bawds on the internet in hopes that they'll notice me and offer to have sex with me.
this b***h is dumb as frick but is a good goy who went to indoctrination school. girls like essentially function as on-call escorts at these companies. if you fired her and everyone like her, literally nothing would happen to these tech companies ability to function.
That's a pretty normal setup in any "real" job, anyone upset with this is unemployed or works in a mcdonalds
Shut up and stop telling tradies how office work is reeeeeeeee.
Eh, at least this one actually says she does 7.5 hours of work, which is still on the shorter side of things, but it's also not unheard of.
>which is still on the shorter side of things
no it's not wtf, where do you work that expects over 7 hours of working time?
Every job in my country (Australia) is minimum 8 hours, but most are 10ish hours a day. Especially for trades etc. I'm not that guy, but I always pictured Americans working longer hours.
>Every job in my country (Australia) is minimum 8 hours, but most are 10ish hours a day. Especially for trades etc. I'm not that guy, but I always pictured Americans working longer hours.
its usually the same for America
Yup, minimum is 8 hours, some juniors might get contracted for 7.5 hours. But most people who are on 40-hour weeks will usually end up doing more than that. It's not uncommon to see people doing 10-hour days.
>The vast majority of full-time employees in Australia work additional overtime hours. A 2015 survey found that of Australia's 7.7 million full-time workers, 5 million put in more than 40 hours a week, including 1.4 million who worked more than 50 hours a week and 270,000 who put in more than 70 hours.
Love to know where that poster is from where 7 hours isn't considered short.
>wake up at 9
>start time is 9
>sleep in 15 minutes
>go rip a fat shit while checking mobile outlook
>take a 40 minute shower
>may follow-up shit pending diet the few days before
>sit down at laptop
>jiggle mouse and check to see if i need to do any 5-15 min adhoc insights or pulls
>eat breakfast
>go watch tv/game a lil
>check mobile app
>back to gaming/tv
>lunch time
>take a nap for an hour
>wake up and eat real lunch while checking app
>back to gaming/tv
>log off
occasional odd 30 minute meeting i'll rearrange the lack of work for. i'd say avg work day is around 2 hours.
>real lunch
fat frick
>work starts at 9am
>wake up at 8:50am
>take a shit
>make coffee
>go to desk
>open laptop
>start working
>pull up Ganker on second monitor
>shitpost in free time
work from home life is fricking amazing
>400k Americans died during 6 years of WW2? That's a big deal
>116,516 died during 4 years of WW1? That's a big deal
>58k died during 20 years of Vietnam? That's a big deal
>36,516 died after 3 years in the Korean War? That's a big deal
>22k get murdered a year? That's a big deal
>4424 died from 8 years of the Iraq War? That's a big deal
>2297 died from 9/11? That's a big deal
>2403 died from Pearl Harbor? That's a big deal
>2,216 died from 19 years of the War in Afghanistan? That's a big deal
>Just under 2k died during Hurricane Katrina? That's a big deal
>60 died from Las Vegas shooting? That's a big deal
>52 Americans held hostage during the Iran Hostage Crisis? That's a big deal
>33 died from Virginia Tech? That's a big deal
>30 died from riots? That's a big deal
>15 died from Columbine? That's a big deal
>4 died from Benghazi? That's a huge heckin' deal, Hillary is a criminal
>3 died from the J&J vaccines? That's it, you can't trust the vaccine
>Alec Baldwin shot someone by accident? That’s a huge deal, better make a trillion threads about it
>Antifa vandalized some property? That's a huge deal, everyone PANIC
--
>500k died from the coronavirus in ONE year? Lol who cares
So why do Republicans obsess over "black crime statistics" yet downplay COVID, when the homicide rate in America is 5 per 100k, averaging to 15k deaths a year, while the COVID mortality rate is 200 per 100k and killed over 500k Americans in one year? Why do they say "lol only 1%" when it comes to COVID when homicides don't even kill .01% of the population each year?
Also, why do conservatives call the COVID death statistics fake because they’re from the government but the FBI crime statistics 100% real when they’re also from the government? Why is the FBI to be trusted when it comes to black crime statistics, but when the FBI says that right wing terrorism is the greatest threat to America, actually, they can't be trusted?
>>500k died from the coronavirus in ONE year? Lol who cares
and yet the actual total death rate remained unchanged from the previous several years average, with no excess deaths to account for these coronavirus deaths, while cancer, heart disease, and the flu virtually disappeared. it really was a miracle.
>Millions of people died of the flu during Obama's term, what a shit president
This is how moronic you're being
damn homie that’s a lotta words I ain’t bouta read
Because both sides suck the wiener of China.
t.
>Why is the FBI to be trusted when it comes to black crime statistics, but when the FBI says that right wing terrorism is the greatest threat to America, actually, they can't be trusted?
The former is objective. The latter is subjective.
It really shows in that they stopped reporting organizing general crime stats by demographics and will label random latinos as white men just to desperately get those white crime numbers up. The media will also only report mass shootings when a white guy does it and none of the mass black shooters that happen nearly daily. They also redefined mass shootings to exclude gangs for this reason.
The news has been all over the California shooting which as an old asian man who just wanted to make his ex-wife suffer
I know there are exceptions. I actually heard about 3 different Asian mass shooters, all from Cali. Not sure which one you're talking about but I have been wondering if one of them was motivated by being anti-Chinese. It's kinda embarrassing that the media reports them all as "Asian Americans" and not seem to know that the Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Koreans are all different and tend to really hate each other.
Like this just happened, guy was in his 70s. It sounds like basically an old people's club for asians. So it sounds very much like he just hated everyone in his life.
They were trying so hard to make it sound like he had some impossible super gun because it's hard to spin a plain ass handgun like it's an "assault weapon".
Non-murrican here. It's hilarious how fast the media put that in the news, it's like they have to put it on tv because muh united states news so we must but they just end things quickly compared when it's a "white" man or needing to put up some agenda like gun control... And they actually shoved muh gun control in there lmao
Fake shooting to make Asians look bad after the recent wave of black on asian crime. Rich asians throw their own under the bus like everyone else
If videogames go back to being purely associated with children and maladjusted manchildren that will be the best thing possible to happen to the industry
if manchildren like you killed themselves it'd be a net positive to the world
*does a big cheetoh fart in your face*
whatever dude
moronic homosexual
Muh gaming is art
homosexual
but gamers died in 2015
Why do game journalists continue to shit on the readership they depend on a for a paycheck and then get surprised when they are inevitably out of a job? It's like putting your hand in an open flame and then get shocked they have third degree burns. Is virtue signalling on Twitter THAT much better than making sure you have a steady income?
They have a very warped view and think that the evil "gamers" are the minority or are on their way out.
Because majority of game journalist are just reject mainstream journalist. They look down on their readership because they think they are superior to them and given the chance to cover anything mainstream, they would jump at the first opportunity
forbes is the only media outlet i put any vidya stock into and even then it's very minimal.
Not much of a surprise. They thought coasting on the watergate shit was enough for them for decades. There are few reasons nowadays someone would want to read the wapo to begin with, and vidya news certainly wasn't one of them.
>troon
>cringe liberal buzzword repetition
>wapo
>israelite york times
>prestige
oh no how will these subversive "games journalist" propagandists ever recover.
in all honesty I think the israelites realized they've pushed too far and that "gamers" aka single disenfranchised men are on the verge of enacting expulsion #110, so they're cutting back on the propaganda in male spaces to try and cool things off.
>it's
Maybe if the people who did gaming journalism had any integrity they wouldn't get shut down.
She's saying 20 fricking people were running that games vertical? I could do that shit solo for half the pay.
>shills for Pfizer™
Just wait till She has an Adverse Reaction, I'll be there.
She will make a fine edition to the Death List
"We will show them......................................
*2023 Death (List)*
https://anotepad.com/notes/a955jq46
*2022 Death (List)*
https://anotepad.com/notes/ynrb7jdy
*2021 Death (List) Part A*
https://anotepad.com/notes/swdqxy54
*2021 Death (List) Part B*
https://anotepad.com/notes/qrdy6tde
......................................... We will show them all"
and nothing of value was lost
>until fairly recently
lmao when the frick was this wrote?? decades ago???
gamergate bros... we won...
they utterly destroyed gaming, they won
as a true gamer my ultimate goal is to destroy the viability of gaming as a mainstream hobby and have it banished back to the realm of reclusive neckbeards
Problem is that we now have the opposite. Gaming is mocked, but you can't enjoy it without trannies and brainwashed Zoomers trying to fricking kill you.
Unironically peak gaming was when we all had Wii U's and Vita's.
After 10 years of damage, the locusts move on; hardly encouraging.
btw Nathan Grayson, the guy who started the whole Gamergate thing by fricking Zoe Quinn while giving her "game" press coverage, is one of the guys that got fired lol
In the end...who won I wonder?
Zoe was given a dozen opportunities and fricked them all up
Nathan might be done in game journalism because he's white and male. Even if he does land somewhere, they'll eventually get shut down too. Like most journalists, he doesn't have any skills or talents for a real job.
Game journalism died and it's never coming back.
>Zoe was given a dozen opportunities and fricked them all up
>given
those lunatics just went and clinged onto installed place and fricked them over.
>Zoe was given a dozen opportunities and fricked them all up
She still managed to kill a man and get away with it like she always wanted
came here because i heard the good news!
Good.
Nice
but ultimately still them
>btw Nathan Grayson, the guy who started the whole Gamergate thing by fricking Zoe Quinn while giving her "game" press coverage, is one of the guys that got fired lol
I love that you correctly posted
>press coverage
Instead of
>a positive review
(He shoehorned that fricking twine game into a bunch of articles, goddamn what a simp.)
Brings back memories, I tell ya what.
Wasn’t much of a jump from
>games media is all fake and gay
To
>wait what about all the other buttholes that they were just copying their playbook from
Of course they're shutting down, they aren't needed any more. Your average Zoomer will have a full on unironic hyperventilating panic attack if they see anything ResetERA doesn't like. You don't need police when society is now filled with their own rabid jailers.
>ResetERA
Why do we/or anyone gives two shits over a site that is a forum where any moron can sign up for and post?
The average Zoomer doesn't give a shit because they probably outside of sjw circles don't know what that place is or care because the are so ADHD they can't focus.
>Why do we/or anyone gives two shits over a site that is a forum where any moron can sign up for and post?
Because they have a monopoly on dev consensus. All Zoomers get their opinions from there, even if they don't know it.
No one my age knows what resetera even is. It's an even smaller subset of shitheads than those who posted on neogaf. They've unironically cornered themselves, much like we have.
Power comes from influence, not numbers. ERA controls most of the professional pipelines in the industry, like a cancer that's grown over the brain stem.
But how do they control, well anything? It's just some ultra-lib hangout. I don't follow where you say their influence is coming from.
They control key positions within HR departments, and personnel is policy. That's why even Japanese devs continue to pursue ESG crap even though no one fricking likes it. It's why treehouse trannies never get fired. It's why Forespoken has a black lead no one wanted.
I dont really understand how they could influence nip devs. I figured they'd have their own jap websites as an outlet, but I can follow HR/journo tomfoolery they can do in the west.
I wouldn't exactly say Ganker always follows journalists' BS. Id say a large portion of that are shitposters or legit shills. The gaming community at large, I can understand.
>I dont really understand how they could influence nip devs.
ESG money, foreign investors, localization.
>No HR dept (read the actual corp/investors) would give two shits about a forum
I work in the industry and it would be so nice If this was true; it is not.
>They will do whatever it takes to line their bottom line (i.e their investors)
The vast majority of their investors' capital is managed by asset managers like BlackRock, which will explicitly vote for ESG stuff at the detriment of short term profit.
NTA, but a lot of gaming journos hang out there and it has a clear influence on their personality and worldview, and those people go on to greatly influence the gaming community at large, even places like Ganker which claims to hate journos but follows along with anything they say. Jason will turn on a dev for not diversifying their medieval Euro setting enough, or not having a union, and put up some flimsy bullshit shield about it, and Ganker and redditors and all the rest actually buy into it.
No they fricking don't, they are forum of troony neckbeards with less power than Ganker or reddit. No HR dept (read the actual corp/investors) would give two shits about a forum.
also ESG is a fricking meme in any investment world. You think a corp like microsoft has any give a shit about SJWs and environmental issues frick no. They will do whatever it takes to line their bottom line (i.e their investors) and that has nothing to do with how "woke" they are.
>(i.e their investors)
You mean like blackrock?
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-31/how-blackrock-s-invisible-hand-helped-make-esg-a-hot-ticket
Zoomers get their opinions from their favourite youtubers, tictoc, and suprisingly, here
>and suprisingly, here
If only
>surprisingly, here
Sort of. Only autists, outcasts, and edgelords who realized this is where 99% of memes used to come from. I stumbled here for the porn a decade ago.
Mandatory reminder: you're here forever.
No need to tell me that twice fren. If I haven't left here yet, there is absolutely no turning back. As if this hell wouldn't vise grip me by my saggy testicles and haul me back in. It's also thr last unfiltered internet around which is a bonus.
There are some other Ganker-like websites but none that I know about which are as populated or good. Gankerx also really spoils me with how nice and easy it can make Ganker to use.
Some of the clones are decent for really niche porn or actual extremism, but I agree, not nearly the same. I've been debating using Gankerx, but frankly I've grown accustomed to the shitposting and kind of like it, like smelling manure on a farm.
>prestige outlets
>Washington Post
>New York Times
Absolute comedy gold.
Ok, nobody respects games journalism and journalism is entering a situation where it needs to fight hard for respect if they want anybody to listen to them so makes sense to cut it
It's rough out there for fake jobs in the Biden economy.
It's infuriating that a news outlet devoted to important news has shut it's model railroad section.
Let's be honest: the vast, VAST majority of people are gaming REPORTERS, this is not the same as a journalist.
I love these globohomosexual corporations using Le Town Halls to fire the morons who come up with these moronic terms. It's rhyming pottery
>until fairly recently games were considered a niche hobby, typically associated with children
>videogame are now the most childish, shallow pieces of software they have ever been with no signs of recovery from it aside from mere graphical fidelity
Just a bunch of homosexuals that can't deal with their electronic's toys being meant for children.
To be honest, I PRAY AND HOPE for the day that video games are associated only with children/manchildren again. That stigma alone will filter out most people currently shitting up the space. Video games becoming popular and also being taken more seriously as (potential) art has ruined it. It's made things way more corporatized on one hand, and has become dominated by pretentious asshats who sniff their own farts and are offended by every little thing on the other.
I'm okay with people shrieking about being offended to be honest as long as devs arent caving in to their demands. That was what made like like MK, Bloodrayne, and GTA special. Call me a sophomoric edgelord but it was a net positive that there were games that shocked people away and made the hobby controversial at times.
You know what's great about all these lay offs? They probably kept all the low skill workers like the janitors because their contribution to the company is clear as day. It's a valuable service and if anyone is getting the boot, it's gonna be one of the overpaid lackeys who failed to prove their worth.
Jannies are based. Real life jannies, I mean. Not the Ganker kind.
Not always. I work for a huge globohomosexual company that continues to flood it's executive levels with moronic fake jobs while gutting the essential parts. Our customers b***h and moan that service and product quality is nosediving while prices rise, but they still come back.
I suppose certain industries in America have reached their inflicfion point though.
>Washington Post has shut down it's video game news section.
Based, I hope Bloomberg does too.
journalism is already at the bottom, now imagine journalism for the lowest of the lowest in entertainment kek
It took them this long to trim the fat off all these dogshit companies? Good fricking riddance. The imminent depression will be a welcome culling for all these godawful corporations.
>until fairly recently games were considered a niche hobby, typically associated with children
How recently is "fairly recently"? Because the video game industry eclipsed the film industry a decade ago in terms of overall revenue. Typical New Yorkers with their head up their own asses.
I long for the day every single news paper goes bankrupt. Nothing but propagandists.
I'm frankly amazed it hasn't happened sooner. Like who needs 500 pop culture sites posting the exact same blurb whenever anything happens or is announced? News trickles down to social media and places like Ganker instantly anyway, and I've never needed more than trailers, screenshots, developer pedigree and occasional user reviews/scores when deciding what to buy. I don't think I've made use of gaming "journalism" since I stopped visiting GameSpot mid 2000s.
You know things are bad for the globohomosexual when they are gutting their pet Lügenpresse. They know the Russia/China new world order is coming and this is for them
Russia and China are both terminally ill.
China is fricking insane and is probably going to go through a very violent insurrection soon.
Russia's just weird. Every Russian I've talked to is weird, and dark. The relationship between the government and its people is one with undeserved trust, though.
Russia can't even beat Ukraine, what makes you think they can take over the world?
Ganker - video games(?)
you're too stupid to see how the death of video gaming journalism relates to video games? really? really?
>video gaming journalism
literally: who cares
the only time vg "journalism" was worth a damn was in the 90s when it was pure entertainment with rags making shit up and stuff like game players mag taking this piss on just about everything
once vg churnalism went all srs bizness there was literally nothing of value to be lost
>video games are a massive industry
>tons of older people and plenty of young people still look down in it and don't even try to understand it
Twitch is a massive industry as well and I still look down on it, so I can't really blame anyone.
>the crash is FINALLY coming
It's not going to be as fun as it seems. The 1983 crash was greatly exaggerated. This coming crash is gonna be awful because it's actually going to be much bigger than just video games and will frick all of us along with it.
I'll be fine because I'm willing to commit violence and rob people in order to maintain my lifestyle.
Every guy thinks they're going to be Mad Max instead of the many extras dying in a ditch. I know you're probably joking but there are way too many idiots who tried joining the military because of fricking Call of Duty games. Although I am not actually predicting some gigantic collapsing event, just everything very shitty for a long while before things start to get better. Just prepare to pirate everything (and get started on that now).
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I've been living the bottom feeder life for years. It amazes me how bad with money normies are. People my age used to freak out when they found out I own my own apartment. Then they doubly freaked out when they found out it's in a very violent, run down part of the city. Now, post COVID, they are having panic attacks because they can't even find places to rent, let alone afford, in decent parts of the city and claiming they will have to move back with their parents in their 30s.
>they are having panic attacks because they can't even find places to rent, let alone afford
They're likely the same kind to defend the speculation in housing with the old "if you can pay it why not?/if it's worth the price it's no problem", stupid as they are they didn't realize or even consider the effects it could had and only now see as it comes back to bite them in the ass and filter them.
Yes and no. They believe in rent control etc etc...while also supporting open borders to "support the economy". They want cheaper services...while not realising that they need to pay for the infrastructure to support millions of pajeets and south east asians, and that there are so many places to go around.
Essentially: Competition for thee...but not me?!
Jokes on normies. I'm already on the bottom of the wagie rung and am used to living a garbage life in a globalized, neo-lib world.
We had a guy who recently graduated law school working with us while looking for entry level jobs in his field and he lasted about a month before breaking and moving back to his regional town to live with his parents and "evaluate his next move"
No shit. They dump on the demographic the reviews are for at every turn, and anyone who actually consumes vidya reviews is a youtube addict or twitch simp anyway.
And nothing of value was lost
>prestigious outlet
>in the same breath as Bezos Post
I cannot imagine being that delusional about any part of my life.
>every single tech and journo outlet has finally reached the breaking point now that Glorious Leader Joe destroyed the economy so hard that the fed had to turn off their magic money creation machine
>which turns venture capital to zero
>which makes loans too expensive to afford based on "next quarter for sure"
Is the techbro bubble finally over?
nooo, not the washington post
>pic
how did you find my linkedin page anon?
was spenny right all along?
Now if only all game journos shutdown and were completely replaced by people who actually like video games.
Couldn't care less. The less people cover games the better
>this is washington post “journalism”
>WP thinks Argentina is white
This.... speaks volumes.
we have amerindians, that's not black enough for your woke agenda, also our amerindians are racists as frick
It literally says it's a myth that it's a white nation. Learn to read before you criticize.
It also says Argentina is "diverse" which is not.
Anon, diverse means non-white, non-male, non-cis, etc. There are people that will tell you a room of middle aged black women who all agree on everything is "100% diverse".
>Anon, diverse means non-white, non-male, non-cis, etc.
Sorry, I'm not moronic so that's not diverse at all in my book.
Does anyone here know the story behind jason schrier knowing about the blizzard sexually harassment stuff but he slept on it? Vaguely relevant to the thread.
I'm still trying to figure out how they had 20 fricking people working on that thing.
The staff list for Game Informer magazine is 15, and that's counting the graphic designers, video editor, web content. It does not take 20 people to do what they were doing.
I feel like this is a great example of what nepotism inevitably leads to.
Journalists used to cover wars and actual scandals and exposed corruption. Now they're all circlejerking about whatever gets them the most clicks and getting their dickhead friends and roommates jobs that they aren't qualified for. We went from motherfrickers risking life and limb to bring shit like the Panama papers to light, to "HERES WHY GAYMERS ARE MEAN FOR NOT BUYING GAME." Nuke it all and start the frick over. Christ what a shitshow.
didn't the leaker behind the panama papers get barbell'd?
>one less ~~*games journalism*~~ outlet
Good, they should all be killed.
moronic Twitter Screenshot thread
>evolution is necessary
Holy r*ddit