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HornedLion posted...

Me too... but they keep banning my accounts.

I don't believe you.

But if it's true, you keep getting yourself banned.

She's not going to jail so her free speech was not divested from her. She said things freely, and her boss freely and righteously forced her to quit.

Welp, after someone linked me to an article that I agree was wrongfully judgemental, I read another one by the same writer defending Ninja (of whom I have no opinion of since I'm "old" for his audience). Basically she shot down typical SJW allegations of him being misogynistic.
So now I feel like this writer has somewhat balanced opinions which is good.

But yes, I did come across some opinion pieces, but they always felt like that. The informative pieces tend to be just informative, chiefly among them Jason Schreier.

However, I'm not blind. I know Americans are very divided now and each side has their faults and virtues, and I see how Kotaku leans on one side of the cultural schism which would cause some people on the other side to dislike them.

My point being, I now understand a little better why some people have a low opinion of Kotaku.

Sarcasthma posted...

https://kotaku.com/youtuber-projared-accused-of-sexually-soliciting-fans-1834650673

Thank you very much!

Hmmm, I have to agree that the latter half of the article (latter half if we don't take the updates into account) was unnecessarily judgmental. And I do think that they should put that last update at the top as Jared pretty much cleared himself of the most serious accusation, and accepted and apologized for the others.

Then again, this doesn't seem to have been a super big article. I'm going to read more of what the writer of that piece has done to see how prominent she is (she's a senior writer after all) and how SJW-y (am I using this right?) she can be.

RoboXgp89 posted...

for example ProJared got implicated in something last year and before he could even respond the writers already had an article and the comment section was pretty toxic

a year later he cleared his name with a lawyer or whatever
but it's just publicity like that

Wasn't all that this year?

Do you have a link to the article? I don't doubt you, everyone did a piece on that when it first started, including Philip Defranco. But I cannot leave this on word of mouth, and if the article didn't pass judgement and just the comments were toxic, well, that's not their fault. I'm sure there were a million threads here bashing him.

BlackScythe0 posted...

OniRonin posted...

Nemesis347 posted...

So no links?

spoiler alert: they're not going to link you because all the shit they're talking about either doesn't exist or is being massively overblown

So I actually was expecting to just go to google with "Why do people hate Kotaku?" and get an article immediately with sources explaining it so I could shove it back at you.

But that didn't happen, apparently this actually isn't easy to look up.

I don't care enough or really remember at this point what articles I can suggest to prove a point. My opinion on Kotaku was solidified years back, they have one really good investigative journalist Shrier or something I don't recall exactly. The rest of their stuff is click baity garbage that tends to be aimed at attacking the general gaming audience with excessive SJW bull shit.

If TC likes Kotaku, whatever I don't care. I don't think anyone feels compelled to try "proving" to him anything. Proving shit to people on the internet tends to be an exercise in futility anyways.

I don't even read Kotaku. I just thought their Outer Worlds review was good and decided to make this topic.

Sir_Specter posted...

Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

But you could argue that the rot was already starting 20 years ago when magazines under the Ziff-Davis media company started to hire college grad journalism majors to write their magazines, and not actual gamers. In the early days of EGM (and many other gaming magazines) you had to pass a gaming aptitude test. Writing was second to that. You had to show that you were a gamer, and knew what you were talking about.

Do you have a source handy about the gaming aptitude thing? Not that I'm calling bullshit, just curious about it and what it entailed. It seems like the ideal solution to keep people like modern game reviewers far away from a business they have no right being in.

I've been asking for sources but people give none.

I did google but I just couldn't find anything besides the Catherine article and I see why some minority would take issue with that piece. But it's still only one piece, and I don't to fall for a fallacy of composition.

I'm just trying to get why the site is unpopular but so far it's only word of mouth.

What's overlord? I can't find the article with google

So no links?

awezomerobot posted...

Kotaku is disliked because they keep injecting politics into a lot of their articles. People play games to escape the grind of the day to day. It gets frustrating when you are trying to relax and people won't let you because they want push their politics in your face.

Could you link me a politically injected article?

RoboXgp89 posted...

Nemesis347 posted...

Can someone link me one of the articles where they insult gamers?

they b**** and complain about games like battlefield trying to tell a story or other games where people are competitive they want to act like snowflakes instead of muting people
they complained that the main character of catherine got shocked when their was a gender reveal with the 3rd option
every single article was screw nintendo this screw nintendo that until it started selling systems
they're pretty two faced

Which Battlefield review? You know so I can read it for myself.

Can someone link me one of the articles where they insult gamers?

Honestly want to know

Sonicplys posted...

Donald Trump

Ok, that gets an actual LOL.

Wolfenstein The New Order is a must, especially if you liked DOOM 2016. Stay away from the others that came after it though.

Yay! The site shows a litle of its previous luster.

wwinterj25 posted...

I stopped playing Gears after 3. Sure 5 looks cool I guess but I see no reason for me to buy a Xbox One other than that and maybe 4 so I'll probably never play it.

They're on PC too.

BlazeAndBlade posted...

EclairReturns posted...

You mean Final Fantasy VIII?

could also be torchlight 2 on consoles that came out today or that weird catherine game

You're missing out on the best puzzle game ever.