Games Journalism General

[Coolio55]

Oh God, Nick Calandera is dangerously close to Yahtzee. Is he going to go full woke as well? He already showed signs of it with his Hogwarts Legacy review, but even he has to realise that going woke would fucking destroy his whole brand of being a cynical misanthropic bastard. If Yahtzee goes woke then stop the planet and let me off right now.

He's never getting his balls back after that Hogwarts Legacy review, that's for sure.

 

[euler271]

So was this like a revolving door situation with these journalists?

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

At this point you may as well be the poster child of internet preservation so I must ask, would you ever consider making some sort of guide or a jumping-off point on self-hosting like you have done with internet privacy matters?

I'd back that idea @Null has kept this site running in an extremely hostile environment time and time again and it would be interesting getting a "How To" guide from him on the subject.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Wix has taken down @SmashJT's website for Kotaku Identified, a blog which tracked games journalists who moved on from Kotaku including to video game development. They've mass-reported his blog for privacy invasions, so Wix stole his domain and the archive of his entire blog.

But tracking anyone who streams the wizard game is A-OK guys! And Alyssa Mercante keeping a list of any youtuber who ever made a negative video about her, specifically asking her simps to dig up dirt on them and contacting SmashJT's wife and telling her he's a horrible person is also fan-dabbie-dozy!

Seriously, Mercante needs a lolcow thread and she needs it yesterday.

Rules for thee, not for me. Total Journo Death

 

[Softdrinks]

Are faggots and retards arguing about video games going to gut what's left of the free internet? Or is this more a matter of the censoring faggots demonstrating how fucked things already are?

It's enough to radicalize you. I guess I'm a nazi now, and need to learn to chud.

I think it's a bit of both. Twitter Retards have seen what things like for example dropkiwifarms and other deplatforming movements have seen that they are successful. When you are a twitter retard and see that such a thing is successful to hurt a person you dont like they end up doing it. You have to remember that contacting family members who have no part of your "twitter beef" is no issue to these people. I don't think its too far fetched that they would contact hosting providers too were such info they disliked on a website infact its what they've done. The Internet is being gutted by people who simply cant stand having something negative said about them or their name right next to something awful they said.

edit: by dropkiwifarms being successful i mean being dropped by cloudflare

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Are faggots and retards arguing about video games going to gut what's left of the free internet? Or is this more a matter of the censoring faggots demonstrating how fucked things already are?

It's enough to radicalize you. I guess I'm a nazi now, and need to learn to chud.

Welcome to the SS, we have potlucks on sundays and cook outs the last saturday of every month

 

[Big Fat Guy]

Just keep them away from ESA Co., Ltd.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

Funny how the tools of journalism become weapons when they're used on journalists.

 

[PetiteFeet]

Stop noticing patterns, just consoom product and SHUT UP!
FFS journo scum can't die fast enough.

 

[Dizzyuntildeath]

Historically, when cockroaches both literal or metaphorical, had the light shine on them they would scatter.
This is an evolutionary response. They no longer fear the light or its consequences, and now openly challenge it.

 

[CornBogFitz]

this getting out of hand. everything sucks so much now you have dedicated tools to find shit NOT consume.

 

[Lady Adjani]

>journalist
>video game journalist
>affiliated with kotaku

Sickening.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Well I guess Wix is on the shit list. Once again, the free internet shrinks.

It's Wix though, I'd assume this would happen with them.

 

[euler271]

Boycott wix. Fuck Israel

 

[Morch Ponkey]

All journalists should be forced to wear a hat made of folded newspaper at all times so the public can identify them

 

[reactionary]

I don't care about journalism, much less games journalism, but if anyone's got an offline copy of the list/articles/whatever, send it my way and I'll hold on to it for dear life.

Reminder: MAKE BACKUPS OF ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING YOU PUBLISH, NO MATTER HOW INSIGNIFICANT YOU THINK IT MAY BE.

 

[Bebepine]

Can’t believe it’s now 2024 and I’m still praying on the complete dissolution of Kotaku. Though I guess it’s like Buzzfeed and College Humor, those trashy leftist “news” sites will never truly die they’ll just keep putting out filler rage bait into the void that is the Internet until the last starving employee leaves.

 

[Rumpled Foreskin]

Gaming and journalism should never be in the same sentence. They’ve already convinced me, on an individual basis, not to buy any new games, anyway.

 

[vomitusdeux]

How is collecting publicly available information a "privacy invasion"? I genuine don't get it.

Rules for thee but not for me mentality with these failed abortion types. That's it. That's literally what it boils down to. They want to track everyone with wrong think but hide in the shadows everything they did wrong so they seem like a bastion of righteousness.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Total K(otaku) Death