Pokemon related drama. So a little while ago I poster this video regarding scalpers making it hard to get Pokemon TCG product
Well after this the YouTuber from this video Frosted Caribou got into a minor beef with a man named Gary King. For those who don’t know Gary King is he is famous for owning a lot of Charizard cards and nothing else. He was even featured on Pawn Stars
So in her response she features a DM conversation she had with Gary and how she said she was receiving misogynistic comments. Yes I know boo hoo mean words on the internet but this is the interesting part, Gary asked he could come on Frosted Caribous channel but if she didn’t want to speak with him she could speak with his wife because reasons I guess.
Now Gary said in interviews with other people (one of them being his son) and on his own response video that he had a woman looking through and deleting comments that were negative from the start but liked others that didn’t start negative. Now it doesn’t take a genius to know the person he asked to monitor the comments was his wife and he offered her up to be interviewed in order to shield himself.
He also mentioned in interviews that the original video was merely a number chasing game by her because his name gets viewers. He even goes to bat for Logan fucking Paul (who is mentioned in the first video) saying that he was obviously the bigger Pokemon fan because he has lots of Pokemon tattoos. The only reason Frosted Caribou even made this video was because after they both agreed in DM’s to no longer mention it Gary just carries on with the whole thing. Full response below
Nothing else seems to have happened other then a few minor channels picking it up at the time but we’ll see.
so what was that about, her dropping his name for views then trying to start shit when it turns out it was his wife? or his wife talked shit which would made it the equivalent of black on black crime?
video is age restricted, so no idea what's in it.
You two are talking about two different things. Lorefags are people who take the lore seriously, not the average Warhammer 40.000 player.
The average Warhammer 40.000 player is interested in the lore in the sense that it's part of the appeal of the game, but they are not so invested in it that they would stop playing due to lore changes. They get the new lore passed down to them, and they might grumble but they still accept it and keep playing. They've accepted a single Archmagos making enormous advances upon the Emperor's work and creating not only the Primaris but also all their gear. They've accepted Roboute Guilliman coming back to life through the power of hot alien titties. They accepted the Necrons being retconned from Terminators to bickering Tomb Kings IN SPAAAAAACE. They accepted the Tau being created out of whole cloth and somehow not being immediately crushed by the Imperium. They accepted the Squats being turned into bug snacks. The list goes on and on. The average 40k player is not going to get their panties in a twist about the game's retarded lore decisions.
And besides, if you asked most of them the question "would you be bothered if Games Workshop released female Space Marine models?", the vast majority would of them wouldn't reply with "I would stop playing the game if they did". Because it's a very minor thing in the great scheme of things. The "lore" reason for Space Marines being only male is very simple, and as I said before they are less of a lore break than the Primaris ever were. It's a "why not?" thing for most people, not to mention the muscle-girl fetishists who have been lusting over the idea for decades now.
Most people don't have strong feelings either way about female Space Marines, which is why in the current climate Games Workshop is going to eventually release them. They'll make a big song and dance about it, they'll get lots of public praise about "finally correcting a deep injustice in their product" or some shit like that, and they'll rake in money hand over fist with those models because they're new and shiny and people with pride flags in their twitter profiles will immediately start building their own female-exclusive Space Marine Chapters.
those are not completely separate groups, which was my point. if they don't care about the lore, why do they play a (depending who you ask) mediocre game? if it doesn't matter and it's all about wargaming with units and stats, there would be no need to become part of an expensive hobby when you can just do that with cardboard chits. if you don't care about
warhammer, why do you play
warhammer?
of course female marines won't make people burn their armies, but at the same time end times did. I didn't see all those WHFB players who didn't care about the lore storm into their local store to clean out the AoS stock - or even play it since they could re-use their armies.
any change has an effect, and there's a wide spectrum of people between a lorefag and a waacfag which to a certain degree
do care, and even if they don't they'll still be affected. or look at it like this, if you have 5 people and 2 quit over it, that limits your pool of opponents severely. the rest might not care about the lore, but when over time they don't have anyone to play against, talk about the game with or just hang out doing the same thing, all that plastic means fuck all. because again, those are not exclusive groups with no overlap. if those two start playing the cooler, better game, how high is the chance the other 3 stick with the now great warhammer where you have to make dilation rolls? how many want to get (and dump money) into warhammer instead of that cooler, better game replacing the people who jumped ship? unless ofc you believe people never quit, if they're ok with X they are always ok with Y and your playerbase will grow no matter what.
and thats's just the effect of lore changes, imagine what's gonna happen with the game when gw thinks they can do whatever without consequences...
it's the exact same shit with star wars, remember how people complained about disney decanonizing the EU? who cared about that? who read that to begin with? bunch of nerds who don't represent spending power anyway. if that doesn't matter and all you need is lightsabers and funny noises to make people throw money at you, following that logic star wars should still be a thriving market dominating IP, even bigger now that it has become more accessible and inclusive. except it's not 2015 anymore where "hurr TFA made 2 billion dollars, look at the graph, star wars will always make money" still might have worked.
