Jesus Christ we get it. You're so much better than us because you have a BA in English. You're so much better than us because you spent 25+ years of your life wasting your time being in an industry you gave not even an iota of a fuck about and only jumping in on it because you think it would give you a boost in your career. You're so much better than us because you use words you only knew in college that no actual person uses in a conversation to give the illusion that you're smart. (Spoiler: only brainlets do that). Your insults are as milquetoast as your opinions, by the way.
Well, in that field BA usually means Barely Anything!
Imagine you are sucking at everything in life including even insults.
If I get the time, I'll archive the quotes but part of his overall "argument" against being a gamer is that he has gained enough success by founding and selling some A.I. tech company named SpikeTrap to Reddit in 2022. Okay sure, but if you look into it a bit more, Adam Sessler left the company in March 2020. Checking the Wayback Machine, you can see that while Sessler was with the company, they advertised themselves as a 'Gaming Intelligence' company - quite literally during January 2020, two months before Sessler left the company. However, the exact month Adam reportedly leaves, the website redesigns itself as a more general non-gaming specific audience AI-oriented company. Indeed, I think it is no coicindence that this happened literally the exact month Sessler departed. All of this autism is to say, any indication by Adam that he found success by selling a 'non-gaming oriented' company to Reddit is a fucking lie and premium cope upon further inspection.
I recommend anyone who is a fan of classic G4 and especially X-play to save and archive as many clips as possible before Comcast or Adam Sessler try to delete all so-called problematic comedy. Journalists will try to ruin your life if you make half the jokes Adam Sessler did back in the day. Adam Sessler was even the go to the gay, pervert and transgender joke guy. Morgan Webb was the go to Slut joke G4 girl before Olivia Munn joined the attack on the show. G4 and x-play even loved to use racial jokes about as much as gay jokes. Code Monkey has a character named Black Steve. The X-play Yu-gi-Hoe gang is one big Mexican LA gang joke.
Spiketrap was always about analytics for advertising. For the first few years they aimed at selling their software to gaming companies and had little success. They were out of money in 2020 and had to raise another round of venture financing. I think Adam's offiicial title was "Chief Revenue Officer" (of which there was very little). They got the new money, they moved away from their focus on gaming and Adam left all around the same time.
Yes Adam. All the millions and billions of people around the world who enjoy video games doxed this random apartment. What a fucking genius.
I would describe the book as pretentious literary junk food. Its a very random book full of short chapters on things and places to do with the city. Every chapter is about something and its between 5-10 long. Its written in an annoying first-person style. Its like reading the diary of a excited person who is romantically exuberant about everything in the city that sees. He throws tons of random facts and trivia constantly at the reader to make up for the fact that the book is really hollow and empty. The author's favorite topic is himself.
If there are jobs out there which aren't part of the gaming industry, how about getting one yourself you lazy sob.
Tbh, if Sessler wouldn't be such a coked out idiot he could write books and maybe even find success, but IMHO he's even to lazy to even consider the thought.
If they were smart and possessed critical thinking skills, Adam, they would have never let Frosk’s tirade happen and, honestly, would have hired attractive, likeable hosts like what you did in the early 2000s.
For some reason, media companies often don't get that the presenters of a show are usually absolutely core to the brand and are a much more valuable asset than the sets, the name or the logo.
Top Gear wasn't quite that simple. They had been tired of Clarkson's crap for a long time and him punching a producer was the last straw. Trying to justify him not getting fired for that would be next to impossible, and of course the others left and wound up on their grand tour show on amazon that frankly, was a bit boring for the first season. Considering Top Gear before the main trio had changed hosts until they found the magic 3 that made it an international success, I highly doubt the people running things did it from the perspective of being clueless media dunces.
It'd also help if the hosts, if you selected anyone who had a connection to gaming, were into the games people care about. There's a pretty well known phenomenon in gaming that capital G "Gamers" aren't into the top competitive games that much, they tend to be into single player and cooperative experiences. Instead they picked an eSports dyke who, if you're not into LoL, is a literal "who?" And normies won't bother watching a gaming show, so why bother trying to attract the normies who play those games for a bit on the side?
There's a massive problem with this part. You'd need to be willing to pay enough for someone like that to have it be worth their while. Not only would you be having that person doing work for you, but it would also detract from time spent working on their own content/channel. When it comes to getting anyone actually known for this stuff, they're likely already going to be making a decent amount of money in the first place even if they're still a 1 man operation but can pull 200k+ views on youtube a day. I'm not saying someone like that would be rich, but the problem is you'd still need to cover the dent in their own production schedule plus the time put in to work for you, otherwise it likely isn't a very attractive proposal.
