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The Brad Muir Thread: Also Starring Giant Bomb
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There's a Mario and Yoshi statue on Otacon's desk
And also they turned Ocelot's fight to shit
That's all I really remember abou- oh wait kickflipping off a missile
You're a crook, Captain Hook, Judge, won't you throw the book at the pirate!
For real though outside of the Hind D that's probably my favorite MGS1 boss fight
You're a crook, Captain Hook, Judge, won't you throw the book at the pirate!
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
And hoooooo boy does it not just show up when there's an airplane.
i got so close to beating this fight and then i made a misclick and fucked everything up
and now i can't replicate what i did
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
nah, clearly he's a ghost with unfinished business. Risk.
These fucking people.
No they're not
You're a crook, Captain Hook, Judge, won't you throw the book at the pirate!
Uuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh
follow the money
you're a gamer
I can't tell how you guys are reacting to this article
do you agree and think they're making salient points about Kotaku, or are you calling it awful and anti-feminist?
what makes you think I wouldn't be first in line
wow, mods??
The latter.
I'm not sure why you think any of us are saying the former.
I think it's an awful anti-feminist making salient points about Kotaku by accident. By this I mean they're seeing shit they don't like and investigated because "they wouldn't put up these articles I don't like if it wasn't for a nefarious reason!" The problem is this applies to every fucking article on Kotaku and not just the anti-sexism ones. Every single article is put up, headlined the way they are, written the way they are, and crosspromoted the way they are specifically to make Gawker money. Anyone with two braincells could have seen that years ago. This douche is only seeing it now because he was previously pandered to and now that he isn't, he's finally at a vantage point to realize how shitty Kotaku really is.
unce unce unce unce
big surprise
did this guy just learn what the word agenda means
Seriously?
Fuck
I was gonna watch that as part of a Fast and Furious curriculum that a friend of mine outlined for me.
Dammit
that's all I have to say about that
fight the subscriptors
fight the subs
They like that.
ah, okay! carry on
wait
ugh
I'll be honest, and possibly open myself up to some harsh words but I didn't find anything terribly anti-feminist in my first read of the article
upon reflection it is suspect that the guy doesn't reference the rest of Kotaku's horrible journalistic practices and frames it all through the equality lens, but I didn't take that to mean the guy wasn't having issues with the site before Kotaku's clumsy and, yes, I'll agree, manipulative treatment of gender inequality issues propped up
he does admit it's a real issue and one the industry should be and is tackling, but I don't think his point is 'these feminists are making kotaku crazy-bucks', his point is 'Kotaku never gave a shit about these issues before they realized they could drive more pageviews than ever before from both sides', which is fucking despicable
but then he does defend Vanillaware so maybe I'm the dumbass
The first two paragraphs of that article in TLDR form would be:
Kotaku is making me uncomfortable by looking at equality issues in games and I don't like it.
The writer is being very dismissive of the issues, acting as if they're being thrust upon us to drive up ads. Acting like they are engineered issues.
Basically he's got a dog whistle, and he's blowing it as hard as he can.
I'm not sure if he is acting like they're engineering issues, though
like, he's more forgiving than most of us would be, particularly in relation to the Vanillaware stuff and I can see why the impulse would be 'this dude is calling it a manufactured issue as a way of damning Kotaku', but I don't quite see it that way
I do think the author means well and cares about equality, but he's upset at Kotaku's woefully weak journalistic techniques in handling it and feels like they're using cynical tactics to expose the issue rather than, you know, being journalists
but again, I could be giving the benefit of the doubt to someone who doesn't deserve it, and I need to make it clear that I am not necessarily defending this guy 100%. I just think he means better than some of you believe he does, and I could be totally wrong here
...what
What do you mean that was only the fifth fucking mission
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck