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Amazing thread, i fail to see him as a lolcow, but boy he's a fucking idiot.
Careercow Tyler McVicker / ValveNewsNetwork (VNN) / Tyler Jon McVicker - Autist with stalker tendencies larping as the Jason Schreier of Valve news
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Amazing thread, i fail to see him as a lolcow, but boy he's a fucking idiot.
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I just remembered something. A few years back, when TF2's Jungle Inferno update launched, he did a live stream where he sees the trailer and goes through the page for it and its assets. In the stream, he also edits the video talking about it, where he records and places in information which he realizes that his source probably doesn't want him to publish, so he removes it from the video. He did all of that live. Over Twitch. And he actually asked the chat if he should keep it intact or if he should remove it.
Back to Tyler himself, while he does occasionally "report" some accurate stuff (he did accurately report on quite a few details about HLA, such as it being a HL2 prequal, years before the game was revealed), he is still an unprofessional jackass who lets his emotions get the best of him, whatever that would be his inner circle LARPing as a development studio being filled with unstable nutcases like the furry communist anti-fascist Jaycie and the unstable emo faggot purse fucker Maxx, to the many times he might've let out a bit too much information, all to the detriment of his fans or Valve itself.
Back to Tyler himself, while he does occasionally "report" some accurate stuff (he did accurately report on quite a few details about HLA, such as it being a HL2 prequal, years before the game was revealed), he is still an unprofessional jackass who lets his emotions get the best of him, whatever that would be his inner circle LARPing as a development studio being filled with unstable nutcases like the furry communist anti-fascist Jaycie and the unstable emo faggot purse fucker Maxx, to the many times he might've let out a bit too much information, all to the detriment of his fans or Valve itself.
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He has done spots with some CSGO & TF2 skin trader websites I believe, unfortunately no CS Lotto tier shit's happened with them as far as I'm aware.
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OP is a troon or a chaser confirmed
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holy shit
tyler mcvicker is a basically a cartel mob boss in mexico
edit: wait i just realized something. no wonder he seemed so angry about valve being more open and talktative now adays, shit talking them by saying they have to go through psychologists before they post anything. they're taking tyler's job away and he's angry. here's the video in question where his tone changes
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Thank every god there is that I am not the only one who cannot stand this little shit. Ever since his channel went from being something like 100k subs, or maybe it was after one of the big alleged HL3 CoNfIrMeD!1!!111! videos, he started developing this hubris of being the peoples' champion and that he alone was the only one who stood for the whole community, as well as him loudly proclaiming braindead theories that 'totally were gonna be real amirite guise', without actually taking a moment to think through the stupid crap he was saying. This obviously led to his opening of a shekel printing account on patreon since he has to pay for his expensive degree, random gf that he references all the damn time in news videos, and the home he bought (IIRC) as well. I miss ValveTime and LambdaGen. If this goes to show anything it shows that success isn't entirely determined by skill, but that pure autistic worship of a company can lead you to it too. What went from a guy who just posted news, did some digging in source code, and making separate videos for his retarded speculation to blending them all together while shilling his many shekelprinters.
TL;DR I cant stand this kid, his autistic drivel and his fans have slowly brought the community as a whole down enough IQ points to be hanging out on the short bus. I've really disliked him for a long time and I'm glad he finally has a thread. Here's to a bright future and hopefully some good spergouts.
TL;DR I cant stand this kid, his autistic drivel and his fans have slowly brought the community as a whole down enough IQ points to be hanging out on the short bus. I've really disliked him for a long time and I'm glad he finally has a thread. Here's to a bright future and hopefully some good spergouts.
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Interesting to see him here. I always found him to be fairly annoying and grating. His delivery and speech in his videos definitely feel like a raging fanboy hoping to get a deal rather than as a "reporter". He comes off holier than thou and I had to stop watching him recently since his videos seem like the same recycled garbage
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I wish I could manipulate a bunch of 15 year olds into giving (donating) me $2000 for a computer, fucking it up while building it on livestream, and then asking for more money to build another one a few weeks later.
Tyler is also the Half-Life equivalent of the SoyMonster crying at the Star Wars trailers.
Tyler is also the Half-Life equivalent of the SoyMonster crying at the Star Wars trailers.
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In theory all you need to do in addition of somewhat competent content is be assertive, have no shame and find an autistic enough fanbase. Considering most e-celebs are part "cool big bro" and part friendship simulator the nerdier the stuff the better. Just don't pick a too niche of a subject where there are too few people.
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New VNN video discussing the current state of TF2 during the coronavirus.
Tyler's newest video speculates on "TF2's awkward phase", wherein he doesn't actually discuss the game, save for a tangent about how Zoom meetings are going to be responsible for more bad actors, or "neggers" at/around Valve, being more prominent because Valve cannot check up on their employees/brainstorm in real time: all of which is completely untrue if you've played CS:GO, seen Steam's newest updates, or been following Artifact 2.0's development updates in the past week or so. Instead, he decides it more pertinent to talk about, what else: the TF2/CSGO Source source code leak, and how it was all completely a fabrication of the media, saying how it was their fault that people assumed that the game was dangerous to play. Despite that factoid coming directly from Jaycie, one of the people working at Lever Softworks.
For someone who's bitched and complained previously about how journalists take his information and spread it like wildfire like back when he talked about L4D3/LFDVR, he seems eerily quiet when discussing this situation in particular and his own involvement therein.
After that, he then starts discussing how TF2 was a testing ground for all things Steam/game-economy-related changes again and that, should TF2's economy falter, then all other in-game economies will collapse: adding to the ever-present fearmongering from within the Valve community about in-game item's values. What Tyler seems to not take into account is that TF2 already had a massive event like this: the Crate Depression. This event, for those unaware, had everyone get free guaranteed Unusual hats through unboxing before Valve stepped in to stop the rampant trading of what was essentially now contraband, locking all but the first Unusual you ever unboxed into your inventory. And guess what: it didn't do any massive damage long-term; the economy is still chugging along as if nothing happened.
But Tyler perceives all of what's happening now as Valve starting to push back from these "neggers" inside their offices, and around the gaming sphere, due to a "content void" needing to be filled by these leaks, and says that there may be cancelled content from the leaks that could be used in the files, and may point to a future update in the future, but to not get your hopes up for a large Jungle Inferno-sized update.
...Before immediately dropping "info" about a single-player MvM mode called "Raid" Valve was making suggesting a complete rework of the gamemode. No segue, no warning, it's just "Think the size of Gold Rush not Gun Mettle" and then BAM, "info" drop to have VNN viewers get that dopamine rush a-flowin in their noggins.
Does Tyler just have no sense of how audiences craved for content will react when they hear something like this, or does he really think his words don't carry any wait except when he, and only he, says so? You can't just give a dying man in the middle of a desert a small cup of water, and then not assume that he's gonna flip his shit when he sees you have a jug potentially full of water that you're not sharing with him, just because "Well all I did was give him water, how was I to know that he'd get upset over it?".
For someone who's bitched and complained previously about how journalists take his information and spread it like wildfire like back when he talked about L4D3/LFDVR, he seems eerily quiet when discussing this situation in particular and his own involvement therein.
After that, he then starts discussing how TF2 was a testing ground for all things Steam/game-economy-related changes again and that, should TF2's economy falter, then all other in-game economies will collapse: adding to the ever-present fearmongering from within the Valve community about in-game item's values. What Tyler seems to not take into account is that TF2 already had a massive event like this: the Crate Depression. This event, for those unaware, had everyone get free guaranteed Unusual hats through unboxing before Valve stepped in to stop the rampant trading of what was essentially now contraband, locking all but the first Unusual you ever unboxed into your inventory. And guess what: it didn't do any massive damage long-term; the economy is still chugging along as if nothing happened.
But Tyler perceives all of what's happening now as Valve starting to push back from these "neggers" inside their offices, and around the gaming sphere, due to a "content void" needing to be filled by these leaks, and says that there may be cancelled content from the leaks that could be used in the files, and may point to a future update in the future, but to not get your hopes up for a large Jungle Inferno-sized update.
...Before immediately dropping "info" about a single-player MvM mode called "Raid" Valve was making suggesting a complete rework of the gamemode. No segue, no warning, it's just "Think the size of Gold Rush not Gun Mettle" and then BAM, "info" drop to have VNN viewers get that dopamine rush a-flowin in their noggins.
Does Tyler just have no sense of how audiences craved for content will react when they hear something like this, or does he really think his words don't carry any wait except when he, and only he, says so? You can't just give a dying man in the middle of a desert a small cup of water, and then not assume that he's gonna flip his shit when he sees you have a jug potentially full of water that you're not sharing with him, just because "Well all I did was give him water, how was I to know that he'd get upset over it?".
The Half-Life Alyx modding discord is holding its first competition next week and Tyler's a judge. Expect plenty of shittier gameplay, complaints and infighting between modders and his shills
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It always all comes back to troons, doesn't it? Let one in - bam, your whole shtick gets ruined.
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This guy feels like the weird fanboy that collects the panties of Valve employees.
Yet another example why do you need to make communication with the outside world Valve. You can cut out weird autistic middle men like this guy.
Yet another example why do you need to make communication with the outside world Valve. You can cut out weird autistic middle men like this guy.
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I kinda feel like even if Valve was more forthcoming with news and info, this cow will still be at it with his shenanigans. Like the OP mentioned, he's desperate to get in the game industry, but has no relevant skills to offer, so he's going the "journalist" path, like many others.
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If you can't get in, you still can be the gatekeeper.
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I mean he can try all he wants, but it won't work.
Even in the few interviews he's done with Valve employees, including Gabe Newell, Dave Riller, Merle Dandridge and more, he can never put aside his fanboy 'tism for one second and act professional, and instead was way too forward with his questions, asking things like "Where's HLVR?", "Where are the TF2 updates?", "The fuck's goin' on with cancelled projects X, Y, and Z". He then painted that in later videos as him being a better reporter than everyone else in that room, which 1.) even if true is still an incredibly low bar to clear, and 2.) you don't just ask those questions in a developer interview because you just can't. Game companies - especially Valve - love to be super-secretive about what they're doing, and when you ask questions like that, and then also say to your audience in a prelude before your interview that you know about some secret Half-Life news and about how HL3's never coming out: game companies - again, ESPECIALLY VALVE - won't want you back there in fear that your extreme bias is gonna cause a disaster within the company. There's a reason why people like Jason Schreier didn't immediately leak shit like the Fallout 4 script until after the game had been properly announced, and why game journalists always seem to get "secret inside info" somehow.
But I think two of the most egregious ones he's ever done were with Jeri Ellsworth and Merle Dandridge where he doesn't even try to hide his bias anymore.
Jeri's is fun in that it pretty much just reads like anti-Valve propaganda amongst rampant conspiracy theories.
So eventually he gets an interview with her. But instead of talking about her new project (because remember she is an ex-employee), the interview then quickly steers into rampant speculation about VR/AR as Valve's future, Oculus, the then declining health of Gabe Newell, how she got laid off by the company, speculation about how Gabe's brain-interfacing technology is an attempt by Gabe to become immortal which is just seventeen levels of insane, and L4DVR. She clearly did not want to talk about any of this but he just couldn't keep it in his pants that he finally had evidence that Valve was truly EVIL and awful and how dare they silence Jeri, this should be known to the world: all of this in a blatant attempt to try and spin Valve's reputation before the release of Half-Life Alyx. Which didn't work.
And not only did it not work, it was later revealed by Valve themselves that while Jeri was laid off, it wasn't because they were evil, it was because from the period of time between 2012 to 2019 (The Valve Dark Ages as some call it) they had wasted all those years spatting about AR development while the VR department was working with Oculus at that time. Unfortunately, when Jeri got laid off because her project wasn't going anywhere, not only did she take all of her past work with her, but this was also around the time the VR department just broke up with Oculus as well, with Oculus essentially stealing Valve's technology, hence the later partnership with HTC and the Vive. This was all even in an earlier story that Tyler himself covered as well, so why he thought this would be a win for him, I'll never know.
- Doesn't it suck how they recast you as Winter Wyvern and other heroes in Artifact and Underlords and you didn't know about it?
- Aren't you sad that you're not playing Alyx again?
- Did Valve ever tell you that you were being replaced or did they leave you in the dark like always?
Notice how none of these actually pertain to positive experiences she had with the company, it's only "Boy Valve sure does suck, doesn't it?" questions. And originally when the video came out people were pissed that he was doing that. Unfortunately most of the responses are buried now, but I did find this one comment from then because Tyler actually responded to it.
And everybody ate it up that Valve were big stupid horrible monsters that didn't know what they were doing.
Come to find out: had Tyler just kept it in his pants until the game's release, he'd know that there was actually a reason Valve didn't recast Merle as a younger Alyx, and it wasn't because someone there hated her, or because they thought she couldn't do the voice, or just because they wanted a younger personality. It's because of how HL:A ends: Merle actually DOES voice Alyx in the game, the older version of Alyx from the end of HL2:E2. And because younger Alyx decided to actually stop the Advisor that killed Eli, she inevitably changed the future and this version of Alyx was put into stasis, while the other "alternate" timeline version of herself (the version from HL2) got taken by the G-Man: the Alyx you follow in HL:A is not the same one we saw in 2, hence why they needed to recast her, and hence Valve setting up for her return in Half-Life 3. They pulled an Igor from Persona 5 on everybody.
So now this interview has no point to it anymore, and only serves to make Tyler look like an even bigger egotistical "journalists".
EDIT: I may link the other videos I mentioned in here later for added context but for now, just Google "Valve News Network AR" or "Valve News Network Jeri" and you'll come up with the same results/videos I did. As an unrelated aside, I'm surprised OP didn't mention how Valve originally tried distancing himself with VNN by changing his channel name to Tyler McVicker, couldn't, changed it back, and then wondered and sperged out, questioning why his metrics went down.
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