Careercow Reuben Baron - Smart Bisexual Stuttering Clever-man

[Arctic]

Found this playa up on ok-cupid. No gamergaters allowed! https://archive.today/8PdKQ

He looks like a retarded version of Aaron Swartz.

 

[Rammspieler]

I wonder what Hunter S. Thompson would write if he was tasked today with reporting on GamerGate.

It's funny how a lot of anti-GG people say they look up to HST and how they say that games journalism should be "more Gonzo" (which some people tried to make it a decade or so back but somehow "New Games Journalism" didn't turn out to be so popular back when the big sites thought they should ape their magazine counterparts.) But I get the feeling that when the anti-GG'ers say that , they actually mean "insert SJW propoganda". I think HST would tell them to fuck off.

 

[Meowthkip]

It's funny how a lot of anti-GG people say they look up to HST and how they say that games journalism should be "more Gonzo" (which some people tried to make it a decade or so back but somehow "New Games Journalism" didn't turn out to be so popular back when the big sites thought they should ape their magazine counterparts.) But I get the feeling that when the anti-GG'ers say that , they actually mean "insert SJW propoganda". I think HST would tell them to fuck off.

He'd also probably think they were stupid for liking video games so much, and not football.

 

[ChuckSlaughter]

I know this is slightly off topic, but I watched the Johnny Depp Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas film last night, because Netflix and nothing better to do and remembering Reuben's massive mancrush for Hunter S. Thompson. What exactly is it that Ruben sees in this guy? Unless this film is a poor representation of Hunter's life work, it seems just like he went around doing inhuman amounts of drugs and abusing what little authority and charm he had when he partied too hard. Is that what "Gonzo Journalism" was? Just getting out of your skull on ether and wandering around with a violent thug lawyer and fucking with people? I can see why Reuben liked the guy if I'm interpreting this correctly. Watching the film kinda reinforced for me what a tool Reuben is, trying to pass off his shitty attempt at coercing a confession out of a mentally abnormal individual under the guise of a "recognized form of alternative investigation" which in practice seemed to simply be being an asshole on a lot of drugs.

I wonder what Hunter S. Thompson would write if he was tasked today with reporting on GamerGate.

Spoiler

Fear and loathing is fiction loosely based on reality

HST would have hated SJWs he didn't even like gay people.

 

[Conrix]

He'd also probably think they were stupid for liking video games so much, and not football.

Not to mention the plethora of bullshit made up genders and harassment of harmless cisgendered males who don't fit their agenda.

 

[Sammy]

Spoiler: is rly long

No, that's a stupid person's idea of what Gonzo was, but to some extent, the image HST deliberately created. At his best, HST was a razor sharp political analyst (flip to a random page in either The Great Shark Hunt or Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 and you will likely see something that could come out of today's headlines). He also did like wandering around fucked up out of his skull fucking with people. Sometimes he would do both at the same time.

I really don't like that movie, because while it slavishly tracks the actual happenings of the novel, and has some excellent visuals, as Gilliam always does, it doesn't really get the radical subjectivity of it. It's all outside looking in. The outside is good. Johnny Depp's HST has his mannerisms and even face down pat. But the movie is hollow and all exteriors, almost from being too respectful of its source.

As good as Fear and Loathing is, though, it is almost a victim of its own success. Absolute atrocities have been committed in the name of Gonzo journalism by bad imitators of HST, many of whom have never read anything but this one book, which they didn't understand anyway. Most of these people need to be slapped until they piss themselves, because they aren't and never will be HST.

Something that captures Gonzo better (and is probably the first work recognized as such) is "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved," also illustrated by Ralph Steadman. It's very similar in general tone, but tighter and more compact, and to a greater extent acknowledges what it's doing. I.e., it explicitly breaks with journalistic tradition.

By the time of F&L, Hunter was already following a journalistic tradition, albeit one largely of his own creation. To an extent, he ultimately became a victim of the character he created.

But tl;dr, no, the movie isn't a good place to "get" HST's writings, although it is a reasonably good and amusing introduction to the persona (as a somewhat better Where the Buffalo Roam). And Reuben Baron is no HST. What he is is a stuttering fucking exceptional individual who needs to STFU.

Spoiler

Fear and loathing is fiction loosely based on reality

HST would have hated SJWs he didn't even like gay people.

Yeah sorry smarter than me people. I'm new to the whole HST thing. Thanks for informing me. So Gonzo Journalism is actually a thing, and not just trying to keep your friend from killing themselves or someone else while stoned.

Movies: Pan's Labyrinth, Ran, Spirited Away, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, Pulp Fiction, Lord of the Rings (all 3), Birdman, Wall-E, The Incredibles, The Shawshank Redemption, Tokyo Godfathers, Harold and Maude

This is a film student, ladies and gentlemen. What the actual fuck? It's like everything he's interested in is for the general viewing public. Nothing unusual, nothing French, nothing experimental, nothing structural. Absolutely sickening.

Good God, its a sad day when my own list of favorite films is more relevant to the study of films than a bonafide film major.
Unless he isn't a bonafide film major.
And isn't Hunter S. Thompson either.
And is just a stuttering asshole instead.

 

[blackie toy]

Good God, its a sad day when my own list of favorite films is more relevant to the study of films than a bonafide film major.
Unless he isn't a bonafide film major.
And isn't Hunter S. Thompson either.
And is just a stuttering asshole instead.

It's just like when Jace schooled Reuben at both journalistic integrity and gonzo journalism. It's downright embarrassing.

As an aside though, Reuben is not the first film major I've seen with pleb-tier tastes in film. A very good friend of mine with a bachelor's in film admitted that, on the first day of a class they'd go around saying what their favorite movies were, and he'd always say (unironically) The Matrix.

 

[Trombonista]

Jesus Christ, Reuben. Yet more evidence of the bubble he lives in at Bard College. People in his special little snowflake circle would be excited. Virtually nobody else would care.

I'm just gonna pretend he was referring to Tsutomu Miyazaki.

 

[Conrix]

Dude looks like Captain Hook to me.

 

[Crisseh]

Dude looks like Captain Hook to me.

Avast me hearties the Captain Otherkin is on the starboard bow!

 

[HoloSkull]

https://kiwifarms.net/media/cow_ascending.109/full​

 

[millais]

With the latest Deagle Nation revelation, I can just see Reuben desperately trying to spin his little "interview" into something more palatable for potential employers.

"Hy-hy-hyeah, it w-w-was just part of an in-in-internet art performance in-in-installation. Ruh-ruh-really avant garde st-st-stuff."

 

[Watcher]

Oh Christ Reuben. Now that Jace has been confirmed to be an actor, what little credibility and integrity you claimed to have is completely out the window.

Just trying to even explain this sort of thing to an employer, that you interviewed a performance actor in hopes of building a court case on them. You can't even get a job writing for your own website at this rate.

 

[Positron]

LOL Brianna Wu touched everyone around him -- and turn them into unemployable lepers.

But who am I kidding? Reuben didn't expect to find a job with his Film Studies (?) degree right?

 

[Hodor]

I just finally got around to the Jace interview.

He got wrecked by a guy who doesn't even exist. That was hilarious.

 

[dabluearmedbandit]

So is Reuben gone for good? I'd love to see his reaction, though I agree he's probably going to try and fail to lie about being in on it.

 

[Positron]

He might redeem himself somewhat if he interviews Jan again, but I'm not sure if he can conduct a proper interview.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

He might redeem himself somewhat if he interviews Jan again, but I'm not sure if he can conduct a proper interview.

If he has any sense at all he will steer completely clear of the topic and anything associated with it.

If.

 

[millais]

Things are looking up for Reuben in light of all the Buzzfeed news coverage regarding the MDE reveal. While Reuben may have been the first "journalist" to be made a fool of by the Commander, he certainly wasn't the last, lol

 

[Red_Rager]

He might redeem himself somewhat if he interviews Jan again, but I'm not sure if he can conduct a proper interview.

Reuben burnt whatever goodwill Jan had for him. He'd be lucky if Jan even glanced at another email recieved by him