Sweet Baby Inc. and the Steam Curator Group Conspiracy - The company that is responsible for the diarrheic video game writing.

[Dick Mason]

I'm almost certain this has been addressed before, but I can't be the only one unsettled by the fact that a company that calls itself "Sweet Baby" has a logo of a baby with a spiral on it. Not to mention the "sweet" thing almost like it wants to say "yummy" but can't. Like, I know it's kinda schizo, but c'mon.

I'll take those clocks now.

Spoiler: If you think that's bad, don't click this

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The reality is that a lot of women's good looks comes from youth. Once that youth fades the attention a no-longer-young woman can get is almost nothing

My nigga in Farms, this is just wrong. A woman in her 40's can still be smoking hot and even hotter than some 20 year old skanks. Looks don't fade, they don't change and some women age like fine wine.

None of these leftist skanks will though.

 

[Mr Processor]

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, i think they worded it that way because of the meme
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I remember that one, it was about the same time Hotline Miami was gaining notoriety.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Ragebaiting and pointless slop drives engagement to the site, and that's all management and G/O media care about, as it means more money for them.

The problem with that is it burns your long term reputation for short term gain, and is diminishing returns. It's like taking out loans to pay off a loan.

That’s the retard level of conspiracy theory that made me laugh at Gamergate v1.0.

Except it was proven though. Brianna Wu got caught inciting harassment against himself. Anita Sarkeesian's bomb threat was deemed "not credible" by the FBI and when it was released years later, it read like a pro-Anita fanfic, talking more about how fantastic she is than anything to do with threats or bombing. There was that journo that tried to upload cp to 8chan to get them shut down. We have the caps of game journos pro talking about how they're going to spin the narrative. I don't know what more you want.

 

[ChefKiss]

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I believe that they had no involvement with their first game but he has said he's working more closely with the publisher trying to make their next game bigger and you can already see the change in his behaviour.

 

[Countless irate bees]

The big divide in GamerGate came down to this after a point. There were "good ones" center-libshits that didn't want to be called sexist and that's all they cared about, and then there were people that were getting keyed in on WHY GamerGate happened and why people like Zoe Quinn or Anita Sarkeesian are able to hold so much power and influence in gaming despite not being notable persons in the industry at all.

There's always been a push for creating a conduit for minority representing well parasocialized demagogues to reach non-political (aka hobby) audiences. By creating priority desk seating for a certain type of (perceivedly marginalized) person, you can just DEI them through the educational system until they are ready and well-prepared to autonomously brainwash future RGB-backlit, gaming flavoured shitlibs. It's the Cathedral, but it's not academia-journalism anymore, it's more like vocational education-journalism, which mainly gets rid of the superficial research requirements that even soft academia has. When you see someone that has a bachelor's degree in something really vague that is not STEM, not humanities, nor arts nor languages, but that weird pseudo-humanities stuff like communications or business or media science, that's what you're seeking. Something vaguely societal with a surprising emphasis on recent social (meta)narratives and journalistic processes is a great skillset that does not take 100% of a 20yo student's time, which can then be implicated through a DEI cultural background and a campus culture, guided through club and activity funding etc.

The end result is a neoliberal ubermensch construct: a journalistic Manchurian candidate that you can shape by funding college activism (which probably writes off taxes as well) and a well-established societal inheritance that allows them to reach points of visibility with incredible ease. They now are notable persons with a valid past and a valid curriculum vitae. With Wu, Quinn, Sarkeesian it's been noticeable, but now, we have new people taking their positions right now as we speak, and we're not fast enough to see them do it. It's been going through the motions for the last 10 years.

The problem is, what to do now? My generation liked, commented and subscribed on the REKT feminist vids compilation #25-#38, shared all the retarded alt-right memes but it did not change a thing because the financials were out of scope even then. I imagine shit's even more inflated by now and it will take someone big like Ubisoft to fuck up enough and cause a cascade failure or Microsoft deciding that games aren't as profitable as selling Win11 licenses to 'jeets. Venture capital only goes so far and I would wager that a lot of these companies are riding on the wave of lockdown-induced screen addiction that probably still echoes since 2020 and 2021. Something will have to break eventually and the shitlibs will break off from their perceived lefty comrades into the next thing, resulting in painful realizations that the true left were played for stock points and ad revenue once again. Holy shit I hate what libs have done to culture.

 

[marvlouslie]

My nigga in Farms, this is just wrong. A woman in her 40's can still be smoking hot and even hotter than some 20 year old skanks. Looks don't fade, they don't change and some women age like fine wine.

None of these leftist skanks will though.

A lot of time as far as looks go, if you see someone fairly ugly, then a lot of the time their soul is ugly as well. There's something to be said for holding a lot of hate in your heart and that directly correlating to your overall appearance. Just look at the average danger hair activist. A lot of their "Before Leftism" pictures show a very happy, often very cute (in a girl next door kind of way) average girl, and then the "After Leftism", they've cut their hair, gotten a septum piercing, a LOT of tattoos, and have just regressed into a very ugly, violent mess of a woman.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

A lot of time as far as looks go, if you see someone fairly ugly, then a lot of the time their soul is ugly as well. There's something to be said for holding a lot of hate in your heart and that directly correlating to your overall appearance. Just look at the average danger hair activist. A lot of their "Before Leftism" pictures show a very happy, often very cute (in a girl next door kind of way) average girl, and then the "After Leftism", they've cut their hair, gotten a septum piercing, a LOT of tattoos, and have just regressed into a very ugly, violent mess of a woman.

'If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
Roald Dahl

 

[AnOminous]

I don't even believe in the term "Games Journalism" like nigger you play a video game for a few hours and write a page long review.

No, that's what old school "games journalists" did. These niggers don't even play the game at all and just whine about racism.

 

[Gondolindrim]

The trashing of Stellar Blade begins

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www.fr.ign.com/stellar-blade/69174/preview/preview-stellar-blade-le-choc-et-le-charme

Whether the game is good or not is completely irrelevant at this point. Articles like this and all the tweets trashing the jiggle physics just scream that this is an organized campaign to take down a game that's being upfront about it's sexuality in 2024. If liberals weren't so concerned about looking xenophobic, they'd definitely be mocking the creator for being Korean or something.

 

[Milkshake Sniffer]

The problem with that is it burns your long term reputation for short term gain, and is diminishing returns. It's like taking out loans to pay off a loan.


Except it was proven though. Brianna Wu got caught inciting harassment against himself. Anita Sarkeesian's bomb threat was deemed "not credible" by the FBI and when it was released years later, it read like a pro-Anita fanfic, talking more about how fantastic she is than anything to do with threats or bombing. There was that journo that tried to upload cp to 8chan to get them shut down. We have the caps of game journos pro talking about how they're going to spin the narrative. I don't know what more you want.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there was one GG related genuine real world bomb threat? It was the one against, and that caused the cancellation the Society of Professional Journalists panel that was due to debate ethics in gaming journalism. That would be the proposed panel that the anti GG crowd were so hostile to. Doesn't seem to get mentioned much (ever). Strange that!

 

[Mr Processor]

The problem is, what to do now? My generation liked, commented and subscribed on the REKT feminist vids compilation #25-#38, shared all the retarded alt-right memes but it did not change a thing because the financials were out of scope even then. I imagine shit's even more inflated by now and it will take someone big like Ubisoft to fuck up enough and cause a cascade failure or Microsoft deciding that games aren't as profitable as selling Win11 licenses to 'jeets.

For now the best approach if you like playing games is to carefully pick the games you are going to be spending money on, and try to avoid or break DRM where possible.

I mean buyer beware has always been the rule in gaming, it just happens to be particularly bad now.

 

[Shieldman]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there was one GG related genuine real world bomb threat? It was the one against, and that caused the cancellation the Society of Professional Journalists panel that was due to debate ethics in gaming journalism. That would be the proposed panel that the anti GG crowd were so hostile to. Doesn't seem to get mentioned much (ever). Strange that!

Bomb Threat at the New York GG meetup

Bomb Threat at the Society of Professional Journalists event

Those are the ones I remember, at least.

 

[geckogoy]

What exactly constitutes a 'geniune, real-world' bomb threat? Was a bomb found?

 

[Celebrate Nite]

What exactly constitutes a 'geniune, real-world' bomb threat? Was a bomb found?

When the bomb looks like this

No, that's not a joke

 

[AnOminous]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there was one GG related genuine real world bomb threat? It was the one against, and that caused the cancellation the Society of Professional Journalists panel that was due to debate ethics in gaming journalism. That would be the proposed panel that the anti GG crowd were so hostile to. Doesn't seem to get mentioned much (ever). Strange that!

Notable chink Arthur Chu posted a "this night it is over" message right before a bomb threat against some informal goobergrabbler event.

 

[marvlouslie]

Notable chink Arthur Chu posted a "this night it is over" message right before a bomb threat against some informal goobergrabbler event.

I legit forgot about that faggot. Is he still around?

 

[Judge Dredd]

Holy shit I hate what libs have done to culture.

I hate that "libs" has such a broad definition that it can basically refer to anyone.

The problem is, what to do now? My generation liked, commented and subscribed on the REKT feminist vids compilation #25-#38, shared all the retarded alt-right memes but it did not change a thing because the financials were out of scope even then. I imagine shit's even more inflated by now and it will take someone big like Ubisoft to fuck up enough and cause a cascade failure or Microsoft deciding that games aren't as profitable as selling Win11 licenses to 'jeets. Venture capital only goes so far

Here's what you should do to win Gamergate 2. Nothing much.

I'm serious. Don't give money to grifters, don't "hate stream" bad games, don't subscribe to REKT Feminist videos (unless you like REKT Feminist videos, in which case enjoy).

Despite what the grifters and accelerationists say, there isn't much you can do that isn't counter productive. Swarming GDC with protest signs won't do anything at best, and will be used as ammo against you at worst. I get why they say it, since these activists are working 24/7 to achieve their goals, but there's not much we can do. Our only real option is to wait for these groups to run out of money, something that won't happen as long as they have government grants and venture capital (ie. Infinite money pits) keeping them afloat.


The best you can do is to not buy their games, not play their games, and maybe subscribe the SBI Detected and other anti-consultancy curators. If you enjoy mocking them in the comments or sharing cringe, that's good too, as is pointing out their shills in YouTube and games journalism.

If you're lucky enough to find yourself in a position to do something about them directly, like you work at a studio that is consulting with them. Either be a vocal opponent of it, record their meetings to leak online, or do whatever you think is best. It will likely cost you your job to do so, but if you can afford it it might be better in the long run since studios that go all in on SBI and co. are going down in flames.


I want to stress the part I put in bold because far too many people want to hate-play their games for stream content, but that gives them the money and viewers they crave. Pirating the game is just wasting your own time and you're still still consooming the propaganda. Go indie, go retro, go hiking for all I care, just don't throw time and money at the losers on either side.

What exactly constitutes a 'geniune, real-world' bomb threat? Was a bomb found?

Not that I recall, but it's the credibility of the threat. My guess is the language used in the note as well as specifics included. "I'm going to blow up X unless Y happens." type of thing.

Although, someone posting a copypasta under a photo of a gun target with a calarts beanmouth character drawn on it was considered credible shooting threat, so I don't know.

I think it was more that Anita's "threat" was so obvious fanfiction no one could take it seriously. The content was basically "Anita you're so pretty and awesome and wonderful (continued for 15 pages). Btw I put a bomb somewhere I dunno. Yours truly- Mr. Repzeon".

 

[geckogoy]

Not that I recall, but it's the credibility of the threat.

There is no combination of words that can make a threat against them credible because they are liars. They will post a shutterstock noose without even trying to dress it up like its a screenshot of a DM from a sock account.

 

[Northern Blockhead]

The problem with that is it burns your long term reputation for short term gain, and is diminishing returns. It's like taking out loans to pay off a loan.

I mean, yeah? Private Equity is notorious for running their businesses to the ground in order to maximize short term profits (mainly through mass cost-cutting and layoffs) at the expense of long-term sustainability. We've seen this with local newspaper outlets owned by Private Equity firms (most notably Alden Global Capital), Toys R' Us, and other brands and businesses private equity has touched.

https://archive.fo/u4uMz

https://archive.fo/qCLQk

The same thing is happening here, as G/O Media is owned by a private equity firm called Great Hill Partners. How Money Works did a couple of videos going into Private Equity.