NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

MrBobHarris said:
Would not surprise me. He seems like a standard tightly wound up, self-righteous and deluded SJW and he belongs in there with the rest of the trash.

Considering that he posts shit like this.. yeah he's been drinking that ERA cool-aid.
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Ginger Piglet said:
That's a bit of a footbullet isn't it. Kind of admitting that the core game requires improvement but that they think that inserting a female protagonist is more important.

Of course, inserting a female protagonist requires less work and is likely to get them more credos with the REEEEEEsetera crowd, so...
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The amazing thing is there are supposedly(key word)women even calling this out and trying to explain that the problem literally doesn't exist because you never see your character model anyway, the game being entirely in first person, only to be dismissed by others on Charlie's twitter feed, some of who are literally bemoaning and hating that fans of Subnautica, GASP, would want the core game improved over an unimportant, unseen character model change. To add a cherry on top, Charlie himself even admitted on Twitter he doesn't plan to add a gender selection, he literally just wants to force the player to play as a chick.

I normally don't pull the whole "vote with my wallet" shtick because it's overused and most are dismissed anyway thanks in no small part to the fuckmints that get proven to have never intended to buy anyway, but in this case I'm straight up just downloading his game. He can kiss my ass if he wants to be like this.
 
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MrBobHarris said:
Most likely Charlie Cleveland is a spineless trigger-cunt disguised as person with a dick. No reasonable employer would fire someone over a vague tweet on a private account.
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respectfully disagree. Most companies take the old military "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" approach to social media. You get a cursory warning to be mindful of what you share online, the company generally ignores or has zero bandwidth to patrol employee's accounts if they aren't explicitly stated. But! Say the wrong thing to the wrong troon, and they'll happily deliver your post, account info linking you to it & context with threats of dragging your company through the media mud if you don't punish the closeted conservative to their liking.

Smaller gaming companies with only one title in the works are really at the mercy of this horseshit, because it jeopardizes positive press needed to drive game sales with normies, and can alienate chunks of the waiting community or testing playerbase. I'm not saying Charlie isn't a cock-smoking SJW, but there are commercial and industry needs that drive this behavior and reinforce it. Rare is the case of a dev or CEO explicitly not giving a fuck, like Brad Wardell & Stardock. He has the luxury of a dedicated playerbase that his opinions don't chase away, and being in charge so he can shitpost when he feels it doesn't hurt his bottom line.
 
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Haramburger said:
respectfully disagree. Most companies take the old military "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" approach to social media. You get a cursory warning to be mindful of what you share online, the company generally ignores or has zero bandwidth to patrol employee's accounts if they aren't explicitly stated. But! Say the wrong thing to the wrong troon, and they'll happily deliver your post, account info linking you to it & context with threats of dragging your company through the media mud if you don't punish the closeted conservative to their liking.

Smaller gaming companies with only one title in the works are really at the mercy of this horseshit, because it jeopardizes positive press needed to drive game sales with normies, and can alienate chunks of the waiting community or testing playerbase. I'm not saying Charlie isn't a cock-smoking SJW, but there are commercial and industry needs that drive this behavior and reinforce it. Rare is the case of a dev or CEO explicitly not giving a fuck, like Brad Wardell & Stardock. He has the luxury of a dedicated playerbase that his opinions don't chase away, and being in charge so he can shitpost when he feels it doesn't hurt his bottom line.
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Unfortunately it's the same in the law. I remember I got a talking to in my very first job out of law college because I made the mistake of friending a colleague on Facebook who had been hired at the same time as me. I'm going to call her DRA, which stands for "Durably Rude Arab" which is an anagram of her name. Upon where she went through my profile, found something objectionable, capped it, and tried to get me fired over it because I was "making her uncomfortable."

Since then I don't add anyone I work with on Facebook. I have a LinkedIn profile for worky things. And my Facebook is locked down so you can't see anything unless I have added you and it's under a pseudonym.

The lesson, boys and girls, is this - NEVER use your real name on social media.
 
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Haramburger said:
Smaller gaming companies with only one title in the works are really at the mercy of this horseshit, because it jeopardizes positive press needed to drive game sales with normies, and can alienate chunks of the waiting community or testing playerbase.
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The only way to counter that is to make it even more painful for them financially to succumb to this kind of bullshit. So the old gamergate fags are going to come back and since they actually do buy games, urge people to boycott this or pirate it if they do want to play it.
 
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Apoth42 said:
Unfortunately, he has an impact by virtue of his audience.
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And he really shouldn't. He's just another lowbrow bottom feeder in with an angry voice. Gaming "journalist". I scoff at thee.

Claiming to be a journalist would require actual education. Something he has not (yes I did a fact check on this, so this is not slander). But it seems most people don't care and just want an angry man-baby screaming about the latest videogame-buzz for 30 minutes every week or so. Me personally, I value him about as much as gonoreea. If that in any way wasn't clear enough.

Haramburger said:
respectfully disagree. Most companies take the old military "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" approach to social media. You get a cursory warning to be mindful of what you share online, the company generally ignores or has zero bandwidth to patrol employee's accounts if they aren't explicitly stated. But! Say the wrong thing to the wrong troon, and they'll happily deliver your post, account info linking you to it & context with threats of dragging your company through the media mud if you don't punish the closeted conservative to their liking.

Smaller gaming companies with only one title in the works are really at the mercy of this horseshit, because it jeopardizes positive press needed to drive game sales with normies, and can alienate chunks of the waiting community or testing playerbase. I'm not saying Charlie isn't a cock-smoking SJW, but there are commercial and industry needs that drive this behavior and reinforce it. Rare is the case of a dev or CEO explicitly not giving a fuck, like Brad Wardell & Stardock. He has the luxury of a dedicated playerbase that his opinions don't chase away, and being in charge so he can shitpost when he feels it doesn't hurt his bottom line.
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This is a very american way of seeing things. The whole idea that a person is representative of an entire company. Even in his or her spare time.

Most people that actually care about these nonsensical witch hunts seems to be in their mid twenties and lower. In other words. No real income in most cases and thus no money to properly vote with. That is the image I've gotten anyway. Might be wrong here as it's based entirely on gut feeling rather than facts.
 
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MrBobHarris said:
Claiming to be a journalist would require actual education.
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Nah, you just need to be able to investigate and be fact based. You can even have (and should have tbh) opinions that are based on what you facts you have.

Ruin said:
The worst part about this is now that they're getting drunk on the power of their victory they'll only try harder to ruin the lives of innocent people.
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It's like an internet version of the Khmer Rouge. It'll be interesting to see what happens when it declares a random war against an enemy that can easily crush it.
 
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Apoth42 said:
Nah, you just need to be able to investigate and be fact based. You can even have (and should have tbh) opinions that are based on what you facts you have.
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Partly true. To actually call yourself a journalist you do need a bachelor's degree in either journalism or communications.

You can work as a journalist without this, yes. But it's going to be very hard to break in without one. That being said there are some great journalists working today without college degrees.

Jim Stirling however is not one of them. His claim to fame is being just another angry face on the internets with a loyal fan base built from neofags and retardera people.
 
BuckBumble said:
Fuckboy went protected.
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Don't worry, he hasn't posted anything new,
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Going through other team members this guy is also locked down now: https://twitter.com/obraxis
 
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This situation and the asshole people celebrating it angers me more than it should. I see fucked up shit here all the time and it's usually funny because it feels like parody more often than not. You literally can't make that shit up. However, this thing really gets me because the one good thing we have in most of our society is the possibility of being wrong. I can say something idiotic right now, but it wouldn't harm any of you. You could laugh at me. You could even get mad. You could do whatever the fuck you want and that's the definition of information. People saying stuff about stuff, that's it.

Now that we live in the information age, some people are seriously regressing. I know this was one person being fired by one company under one specific circumstance so I shouldn't generalize it, but it's still a shit example of something that should never happen. When people need to police themselves lest they lose their livelihood over some mild tweets, you don't have information. You lose the possibility of being wrong. That's how we want to use the unbelievable technology advancements of the 20th century? That's just mediocre.
 
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