Gaming journalism died around that time, like joystick also closed and a ton of other did at the same time (iirc something about add revenue collapsing). Very few survived and a lot of those had to cut down on staff. I think Defy/Archon could have been entirely different entity/people and not much would have changed.
Eh, I wouldn't say no one else. There were plenty of festering shitbags that used to be users on this site, that contributed to the implosion. I recall vividly seeing certain posters names in a response to a thread, and cringing because I knew it meant that the entire subject had been derailed into something else toxic and inflammatory.
It's not like Jim Sterling is a stranger to sexist behaviour, is it? I never get the appeal with this guy, he's just a hypocrite who always goes after easy targets.
I completely forgot about her. Has she even done anything of significance in years? With everything happening in 2020, I'm surprised anyone still cares.
I'm sure market conditions for online media, especially for hyper competitive games media, didn't help matters. But if there were different people running this place back then, then perhaps Sterling doesn't leave (maybe he ventures off on his own at some point down the road) and you would've still have good content creators here instead of the clowns that Achron brought in as replacements. But to your point, the games media landscape definitely went through tough time (and probably is undergoing another) that saw the closure of some good sites.
He's acknowledged that he was an asshole in the past, and has apologized for his prior behavior, and said he has worked to be better, and more critical about his own work, and his criticisms of other people's work. I'm not sure what "always goes after easy targets" even refers to, as his current content is mostly directed at shitty gamer companies and developers who get away with actual crimes due to their positions of power in an industry that has little to no regulation. Not sure how that's an "easy target" in your book.
Sure, but who invited a lot of those shitposters? Who set out the welcome mat for a certain type of individual? Who actively courted folks from the Chans FFS? Who in their right freakin mind, regardless of their political philosophy, would have thought THAT was a good idea? And I know, not all the shitposters were from a specific group that will remain unnamed, and that some of the assholes that came here just wanted to shitpost in response to their shitposts. But you can find a very clear start of when the Forums began to descend nto an absolute hellscape.
Hence, why I hate her and have no respect. The others were right to be angry, but should have argued with facts (which many did), but they got overshadowed by loud racists/sexists assholes who did not know when to quit. Then you have all of the fighting, with me or againtst me, or you're "evil or on the wrong side" bullshit we see on Twitter.
The story was meh, despite me liking it okay enough, but I can see where she was coming from on the controls. Before the patch Naughty Dog decided to change the control set up for no reason, and a patch came in a couple weeks later to make it more like Uncharted 2.
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So long as you paint with a brush the size of Alaska, you will never make the change you want.
No. The mods ruined it. I left before Gamergate or whatever happened. These forums were already dying because every conversation would degenerate into the same topic and go over the same arguments. Things should have been cracked down on that anyone making any post at all related to sexism, regardless of their side, would have that post removed. The topic needed to be ended so that the community could become less divided, focus on the things they agreed on and enjoyed. The topic deserved to be talked about but it was clear that, at least on these forums, it wasn't going anywhere until time had passed.
Exactly! The problem was people not being able to come together on their commonalities.
I agree. It was not a good time. Once a topic becomes that heated, everyone can turn into an asshole.
I dunno. I can say that I found the site independent of those examples you cited, mostly because of Yahtzee. And freely registered myself. Did someone send up the Douchebag Signal and summon the hordes of people to the forums for a place for them to spray bile? No clue, my personal experience was just that it was what I would consider the, perhaps slightly above average number of Internet Shitbags, that can be found pretty much anywhere, who were just REALLY dedicated to arguing with everyone.
Yes. That's exactly what happened. I know, because I was there watching it unfold. Other sites and forums were clamping down on a certain subject (that will again remain nameless), and Defy Media, specifically Achron, said they weren't going to "censor" [read: moderate] people that wanted to engage in that bullshit. Theyre were posts on the chans and KotakuInAction about how great the Escapists forums were and that Archon was welcoming them in. They were boasting about how they had a direct line to Archon and (later) complained about he wasn't doing enough to ban "Anti" agitators (I know, because I made their cute little "enemies" list).
You're correct in your most recent post, I'm getting off track on a different subject and one that is banned here, so I'll steer it back to Jim's video.
Why stop there?
I forgot where we were for a second and started thinking "Nick Cannon said that?"
While he was SVP of Defy Media and running the Escapist as GM, Achron, aka Alexander Macris, was also the CEO of -- and I shit you not -- "Milo, Inc." , which was Milo Yiannopoulos' now-defunct media company. And for the record, this was 2017 -- AFTER Yiannopoulos was fired from Breitbart for those unfortunate comments.
I was here Gemmer Gete and swept up in that hard on the pro side and after I dipped out of that for a long winded reason. This information right here makes ALOT of things make more sense and its scary looking back.
