But again, I think the issue boils down to people only paying attention to the mainstream media, which very often all play up the same narratives, that I agree on.
Expand your horizons and read the smaller site if you don’t like what mainstream offers.
I can tell a lot of you haven’t read much of the new Escapist lol. People on Twitter still think we’re “apolitical” cause of what Russ said, but that was never the case. We just don’t push our personal politics front and center in our work.
I do. I mentioned it in the first post before this one and the second one. Albeit, they are usually independent commentators, analysis, or reviewers on YT. And event then, I avoid certain individual YouTubers like The Quartering, Angry Joe, NoBullshit, ReviewTechUSA (which stopped reviewing tech around 2014 and became another loudmouth that acts like he knows everything), and others I can't think of at the moment. RTUSA encouraged the harassment of a Nintendo fan, just because Yoshiller, the fan in this case, happened to wear a Yoshi hat during a news interview at E3 2014. Because of that, I unsubscribed and wanted nothing to do with RTUSA right then and there.
I go out of my way to avoid major sites because they are the worst kinda of BAD. Boring, Annoying, Dumb.
As for your actual articles, they're okay, but most I have no interest in reading. At least you guys actually bother to write legit articles, regardless if I agree with you certain stances or not
Thompson was a pioneer of Gonzo journalism; that is to say, journalism presented from a first person perspective, without any claims of objectivity. Conventional journalistic ethics and standards are rejected in favour of finding the most interesting things to write about, sometimes regardless of how factual they actually were. In the case of Thompson it also meant doing work while taking copious amounts of drugs.
You know what, we learned a little about this guy in my junior year in high school in literature class. Some of it's coming back to me. Thank you.
Then link some of those, show us what you think are bad articles that are pushing the gays, or the liberal agenda or promoting loot boxes and microtransactions. Give us the examples you seem to be saying are all over the place, they should be easy to find since you make it sound like there are so many of them. And since I am sure you will find so many of them, try and keep the publish date within the last few years.
Also, I've got friends who love the Devil may Cry series and still love DMC so you get absolutely no points for that. I thought it was kinda stiff, but I always liked Bayonetta more then Devil May Cry.
If you like DmC, I have no problem with it. My problem is a lot of journalists were trying abandon the classic DMC as if they were archaic or "behind the times". When DmC has aged worse in story, characters, and tone (the game reeks of 2012/13 in terms of following trends). The gameplay is better than DMC2, but that is not much of an achievement. DmC was just a lesser version of DMC4 & Bayonetta. I like the DE version of DmC (PS4 & XONE), but that is because they fixed a lot of the bad gameplay design from the vanilla release. Actual lock-on, bringing back the trickster dash as angel evade, God Must Die mode, Hardcore mode which makes enemies more agressive and does not lift demons helpless in the air, and fixing the whole your weapon bounces of the enemy if they're not the matching color. Color coded enemeis are a lazy design, and shows the combat was severly limiting in the original release. Now DmC is better than most Western style hack n slash/brawler action games & Ninja Gaiden 3, but can't hold a candle to the original DMCs nor Bayonetta. Not to mention, DmC was supposed erase/replace classic DMC, before all that backfired, because Capcom could not understand its own core audience. A lot of problems were going on with Japanese corporations in this time period. Trying to appeal to the Western crowd, while abandoning what made them special or unique in the first place, while trying to suck up to the COD/GTA/Gears crowd. The crowd who could not give a rats ass no matter how much Capcom and certain others had tried.
As for articles pushing gays, that is not exactly what I meant. I just meant politics in general regardless if your left or right. I noticed that there were cases of journalists (not just gaming either) calling certain groups or all people being anti-gay/racists/anti-women or whatever due to some loud assholes, yet throwing a label under everyone. That I do have problems with. Like I said before, these articles are have the with me or against me attitude or are sucking up to their corporate overlords. And honestly, don't feel like digging up any these of articles again, because they are not worth my time nor frustration. I am all for being inclusive when it comes to gaming, so I figured out to do things my own way a long time ago. Actually giving people legit info about games whether and helping them as best they can about what they're looking. I can't do everything, but I do the best I can. If not, I link them or show them something with more info or trustworthy than me.
I just don't have a patience nor care anymore for a majority of these mainstream articles. If it's easy as you described, go for it. I am sure as hell not gonna stop you.
EDIT: fixed grammatical errors.