Nick Calandra is gas lighting. You can see it how he does his little smile everytime he tells an obvious lie. He thinks he's actually getting away with it and that we can't tell just what kind of person he really is. Never saw Nick Calandra before this, but I've seen enough to know that he's one of the people that needs to be gatekept.

Nick: "Why are you criticizing modern games? Go make your own!" Also Nick: "You made your own reward show? I'm allowed to criticize that!"

@dhammonds89

16 күн бұрын

Whenever they say make your own, hold up a copy of Skullgirls and tell them, 'we did, you followed us'.

@VanTesla

15 күн бұрын

​@@dhammonds89I wish I could refund my digital copy after what they did to the game... Censoring and altering a game years later after the original creators are gone is beyond BS... That really ticked me off when that originally happened. If ever an example for a modern customer rights bill for paid merchandise on the digital market. I hope Skullgirls is used as one of the examples of why said customer/consumer protection is needed.

@dhammonds89

15 күн бұрын

@@VanTesla I know dude, and I pitched in on the second big fundraiser when they were doing the polls for the new characters. It was such a hype time cause we were seeing the game being we wanted being made right before our eyes and everyone was happy. I'll never forgive the bastards that took our girls from us.

@KiraSlith

14 күн бұрын

When even the grifter SFO is saying "dude stop" you know you're arguing from the way wrong end of a topic. Honestly after that I'm convinced Nick may be new management, but I guarantee he's going to make same mistakes as the Escapists that preceded him. smh

Nick's real issue is that you are starting something that he cant control.

@nebwachamp

16 күн бұрын

Nick is still trying to get over his monkey pacs diagnosis lol

@TheBlueninja2000

16 күн бұрын

One hundred percent 💯

If only Razorfist had been the guest when Nick came on… He would either have let Craig handle the whole thing out of respect for him, or utterly eviscerated Nick’s talking points. I’m sure if he HAD been the guest, Nick would have refused to come on at all.

@PoweredByFlow

17 күн бұрын

Yeah Razor would have properly dismantled him and shut down his circulor arguments.

@fast0025ify

17 күн бұрын

True. But Razor is a white male. Anything he said would automatically be dismissed as toxic hate. By these type of people. In that case Melonie Mac was better to talk with him. Since these woke simps put women above themselves. And basically worship them!

@nebwachamp

16 күн бұрын

​@@PoweredByFlowAmen

@queuedjar4578

16 күн бұрын

I don't think Razor would have entirely agreed to it regardless especially if it was a spontaneous debate sprung at him without prior knowledge and against his will. On livestreams he's been vocal against random live debates, describing them as being basically pointless. They don't facilitate any really valid discussion other than trying to own and namecall your opponent, and whatever channel it ends up on will just take the side that the viewer is already subscribed to, so what's the point? The Rageaholic would likely much rather put out a proper video response than join a live tomato throwing contest.

@Balmung32

16 күн бұрын

@@queuedjar4578 You may be right. Perhaps he'll discuss it on one of his streams if someone asks him about it in a superchat.

Dude's is literally The Actman 2.0. Gaming is now the most influential medium nowadays so all corruption will migrate into it even egregious politics. The movie industry fall because of it. That's why they're buying Japanese Media nowadays because pf it's influencial position in the industry. You can never be a middle ground on a culture war. "Trying to be middle ground" is different from blatant ignorance. Gaming is not safe for propaganda and it's the best time to made it one with the people associated with it. They never talked about Indies that much because it's an OG IP compared to a direction that was subverted for a reason on a well known IP. As Henry Cavill had said "criticizing is passion".

@PaulieMcCoy

17 күн бұрын

Except he's got way more time into the now failed game journalist industry and makes $54k a month via just Patreon. Act Ma'am is small potatoes. Ironic that Calendar tried sweeping for SBI and similar companies.

@NormanReaddis

17 күн бұрын

​@@PaulieMcCoy He's access and trying to save face. "I just wanna play games" is like "it's just games", he doesn't care he just wanna consume, he's always blaming the business but the business itself is promoting such behavior like Blackrock is forcing on people. It's fine to play but he needs to see that the industry just changed. I owned all consoles since 2600 and play all sorts of games. I know something had changed for years now, it takes a passionate gamer to know that. The gaming awards became celebrity infested and political messaging event from trailers, ads to presentations and awarding speeches. It literally became the Oscars. We don't care about new games being DEI, it's their choice to cater for that "modern audiences" amd it's not immune to criticism. The main concern here is the established IP that don't usually do that is now doing it. Him saying there's "nothing happening" is like there's nothing wrong in the current administration. Also Craig's event is the real clubhouse. It's gate kept for people that actually don't appreciate games. You just don't open the border to immigrants that'll ruin your economy. You invite people on the side of the corporation is just a recipe for treacherous behavior. There's plenty of different opinionated votes without relying on people that is not aware of the current situation of the industry. You invite candy crush people they'll vote for candy crush.

when you guys ask him to show proof of threats, doxing etc he didn't put out any receipts and hes was dancing around the questions you guys was asking him

@PaulieMcCoy

17 күн бұрын

Hey Kaguyahime, long walk - short pier. 😱 HOW WILL YOU POSSIBLY RECOVER?!! Still waiting for those receipts Nickers.

Nick was waiting to respond rather than listening to what we in the gaming space are saying.

@nebwachamp

16 күн бұрын

Lying luFA GETter 101

"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -Mark Twain

"Im trying to find a way to word it..." That's a literal admission that he knows EXACTLY what the point is...he can't say what he wants to say and is just touting his religion's scripture.

I see more legitimacy in an impromptu website like the “Real Game Awards” if it allows meme categories like “Games We Like to Torment Streamers With”. The existence of a category like that is a better representation of the audience of gaming.

@humrH2360

17 күн бұрын

Categories like that completely capture the spirit of games. At the end of the day, it's about more than prestigious and credentials - it's about *_FUN._*

@mrjoey94

17 күн бұрын

That would be category Elden Ring could win as well. I can't recall the streamer's name but Elden Ring certainly tormented him but he came out the other side loving the game. That's not a negative category at all. :D

@NathanCassidy721

17 күн бұрын

@@mrjoey94 Yep, Elden Ring was the exact game I had in mind for that category along with games like Getting Over It and Kaizo Mario.

@thegreatbaguette1161

17 күн бұрын

One could be: "Games With the Most Memes/memeable moments". That would be interesting to see what would win.

@pyorre2441

16 күн бұрын

Category for "Games that make the Access media seethe the most"

It's a waste of time to engage bad faith actors, like the guy you had on whom I won't name. All they do is talk in circles, gaslight, and refuse to adress legitimate concerns of the real gaming community. The anti-corporate talk is just cope and refusal to address the cultural war being waged against ONE side of the aisle, not both. And the right is not the one calling for mass censorship of gamers with different opinions and policing of behavior in-game, they could care less about our hobby in that way. What's the benefit in platforming someone spreading mis/disinfo and red herrings?

@NathanCassidy721

17 күн бұрын

Except it wasn’t a waste of time. Because it exposed him as a bad faith actor. When this stuff happens it rarely works out for the guy who made a fool of himself.

@UnknownJorge

17 күн бұрын

I disagree with two points on your comment. That it was a waste of time and that he should not be platformed. He was completely exposed for the unhinged lunatic him and other “journalists” are.

@brandonnotsowise2640

17 күн бұрын

@@NathanCassidy721 It was. There's no need to expose anyone bc they do it through their faulty reasoning that they parrot day in and day out. No reason to have him on a show to rehash the same drivel over and over without any providing anything to back up their claims.

@humrH2360

17 күн бұрын

​@@NathanCassidy721The power of freedom of speech is that it allows the fools to expose themselves and have their ideas called out on. That's why the establishment media do everything they can to suppress dissenting voices. They can't feel "wrong" if no one is allowed to call them out on it.

@Mister-Six

17 күн бұрын

Not a waste of time. Showed that he is a bad faith actor and an activist first and journalist never.

During the whole Nick conversation,I kept hearing a lot of he doesn't give a s*** one way or the other. First, I think if you don't give a s*** that's a bad thing, because things will keep getting worse and circling the drain. Second, he does care. Otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to come on the show and express his dislike in your idea, and poke holes in it. I think he's trying to play both sides of the fence too. He knows exactly what the modern audience is. With him saying "Don't you Want To reach a wider audience" you know the audience he is talking about. I think maybe he's also worried about if you're plan ends up becoming popular, it's gonna take away from what he does.

@PaulieMcCoy

17 күн бұрын

He's actively lying. Smash JT, 8BitEric and others should have coverage soon covering all the crap. Calendar definitely is an activist, otherwise why would he have beef with Kern (Grummz)? Or take down Smash JT's site? I didn't catch the intro so when Calendar came on I was shocked and I couldn't really pay the conversation too much attention. Also Black Myth Wukong became popular after the rumor of the extortion came out. I know I put it on my wishlish. Nickers has a problem understanding cause & effect.

@humrH2360

17 күн бұрын

Paul Tassi does the same thing. It's that kind of faux-"centrist" attitude I find the most insufferable in people like him, wearing a loosely-fitted mask of apathy and pseudo-intellectual superiority. He thinks he's being so incredibly clever and that he's playing both sides by only barely acknowledging the faults of the establishment side (if at all), on which he's on, but without really accepting the criticisms or trying to deflect it with Whataboutisms.

Chasing the real audience? While all of these gaming journalist sites are shutting down? I suppose the audience Nick is chasing doesn't exist. There exist a large gamer audience but they don't care about the current gaming journalist that hates them.

Nick sits on the fence so hard I am sure he has absorbed it up inside himself and is now more fence than man.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nick calandra was surprisingly slimy/weasly. When something happens you always talk about it but in in media res style, evolving story when something later comes up you do an update. But being honest modern journous and media had failed at this for 30 years

The problem with these conversations is a language gap. The words Craig says don't mean the same thing as what they mean to Nick. Unfortunately we're at a point in society when were so divided that we have to start conversations by defining words, otherwise we will never reach any agreement. That's what diversity does.

@treesurgeon2441

17 күн бұрын

The tower of Babel fell long ago.

"Why dont you invite access media to be a part of the Real Game Awards?" Because they are already have a ton representation in the award shows and news media that already exists. Now that theres one award show that wants to be for normal gamers and you want to water down their voices by giving access media a prominent voice in this show as well? Nah, you get to pay 30 dollars a year and be on equal footing to the rest of us for a change.

@dhammonds89

16 күн бұрын

It's like the freakout that happened when Elon took their checkmarks away. They want their crowns even if they sit on a throne of ash and offal.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

@@dhammonds89 Or a throne of skulls and bones.

I think the problem with this conversation was that Craig was trying to convince and Nick was dismissive. The conversation could have been a third of the length of they both agreed to disagree. Still 7/10.

@PaulieMcCoy

17 күн бұрын

But listen I worked at the Escapist, okay? I rode Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's coat tails and the rim of his fedora! (the only reason anyone ever watched The Escapist). Like, appeals to authority & credentialism. I suspect Side Scrollers will have mysterious funding issues soon, courtesy of Nickers.

Lol I feel dumber for listening to this dude. Craig I'm with you all the way. I love that you have somebody on the show with a different point of view. Now we can see exactly what their arguments are on the other side...... They f****** have zero

That Calandra guy is a total "Melonies favorite gamer word"

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

A real batty boy as the Jamaicans use to say.

how can anyone hate an award show with 100% biased being removed, everyone should want this.

@Dan.Hibiki

14 күн бұрын

@@wilson3387 Because Leftism, obviously

01:07:34 Oh hey, it's Nick "I'll fight anyone in this bar" Calandra who wouldn't even have a presence on YT if it weren't for his pal Yahtzee he mooches off of like the Karl Marx wannabe he is. I guarantee he wouldn't be on this show if Razorfist was there. No chance.

@humrH2360

17 күн бұрын

Nor if SmashJT or Mark Kern attended. I think that something I've heard someone say in regards to In Praise Of Shadows applies very much to Nick Calendra: He is what happens when you have someone who is highly resentful and envious of those who find happiness and success, but too limp-wristed and afraid of confrontation to do anything about it himself. He is the quintessential leech.

The DEI is EXACTLY why they corpos are changing things, Nick. You KNOW that, just dont want to admit it.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

He doesn't want to admit it because he travels in the same circles as the corpos.

I would say talking to people like Nick is a waste of time, but it is worse than that. They demand you let them into your spaces, whilst they do not want you in theirs and they will go out their way to make try and get you banned from everything. It is your show so I will not tell you who to have on, but I will not watch when people like him are on.

@humrH2360

17 күн бұрын

To paraphrase, "When I'm weaker, I demand my freedom because it is according to your principles. When I'm stronger, I take away your freedom because it is according to my principles."

@knailstheman

17 күн бұрын

Yeah, its a waste of time on this show, at least. Nick isn't going to change his mind, and the audience here isn't going to change to Nick's perspective. He's what we call a shitbag.

@Deniryer

17 күн бұрын

@@humrH2360 No the first time it have happened throughout history. We let them into our hobbies, they booted us out.

@Sentinel82

16 күн бұрын

​@@Deniryer hence the comparison

@TheBlueninja2000

16 күн бұрын

Was thinking like this entire time

Blabs bullshit detector was firing at MAXIMUM when Nick came on. I could see the smoke visibly coming out of both of her ears! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@fantoniumnitrous

17 күн бұрын

I saw that as well, she was clearly prepared.

To be fair, upsetting Nick isn't that hard. Like, I do it just by existing at this point.

@ggthxpwnt

17 күн бұрын

Based af

@humrH2360

17 күн бұрын

It often takes very little to hurt those who are most eager to hurt others.

Calandra: "WE'RE NOT POLITICAL!" When he literally promotes calling people's jobs and sources of income to get them fired for speaking against the machine.

@treesurgeon2441

17 күн бұрын

There are no neutral institutions.

There's a youtuber, I forgot the name.. I think mortisim gaming.. could be wrong.. Well anyways, he doesn't do a review until he 100% completes a game. Needless to say his reviews are days or weeks after the games release and his channel still does great.

@Albus_Rex

17 күн бұрын

Mortismal Gaming, I love watching his CRPG/TRPG videos. I must say, I don't believe the 100% is necessary as long as the reviewer has a confident understanding of what they're reviewing.

@eotikurac

17 күн бұрын

the problem with this is that people who aren't on youtube all day and who aren't addicted to games have no idea who mortism is and will never find him. regular people and casuals who maybe just got a playstation and are looking for some game to play will always end up on ign, kotaku and places like that. the industry wants 40+ year old people's money who maybe worked a job for the last 20 years and now want an easy hobby. this sort of person will never land on a honest review channel. the industry cannot extract more money from a game addict because this sort of person is already spenfing a lot on games, subscriptions, dtcs, etc.

@MidlifeCrisisJoe

17 күн бұрын

@@eotikurac That doesn't matter at all. Mortisimal gaming is a targeted channel for CRPG players (predominantly). That is a niche audience and they're the ones who find his content. He neither needs nor probably wants the "average" gamer who doesn't play CRPGs usually. You're making a classic mistake in thinking about how economics and marketing works post social media. Appealing to the masses is irrelevant these days. Appeal to your niche instead and you'll find more regular success every time these days.

@WayStedYou

17 күн бұрын

There are plenty, but they have to do it by building up an audience the only one at escapist that could do that is yahtzee and that is basically the only reason their site even lasted that long in the first place before they went solo.

I'm glad you let Nick on. Nick just showed us how spineless he is. He doesn't go into length about how he feels and he circles back to "I still have a problem" even after the problem has been specifically addressed over and over in the stream. He's also horrible at trying to show any kind of neutrality in this. All this tells the audience is he's a spineless coward who is purposely disingenuous or has listening difficulties.

Said this multiple times on Twitter, and I will say it here: People like Nick and Alyssa have the same vocabulary as the hosts here, but they operate with a different dictionary than the rest of us. A perfect example is the verbal nuiance around "regular" gamers. Craig and Nick go back and forth about that definition, and you can see Nick saying is not so many words that he and his group get to decide what is regular and what is not. Then he pulls the motte and bailey move of "I don't disagree with your awards show. I just disagree with the messaging." Look at the question about "his audience" being regular gamers. He's playing the inclusivity card to virtue signal to his audience that he's on their side in enemy territory. It's a classic dialectical process. Play in the grey area of words in an attempt to catch your opponent in a gotcha, and then attack that nuiance. The key to picking this up is the use of the phrase "It's just" or "I'm just" or some variant. Like they are trying to understand, but, in reality, Nick is playing in the margins by gatekeeping what the awards show should be if it wanted to be legitimate in the eyes of legacy gaming media. Attack this by being direct, bold, and not apologizing for word choice. Call it out directly. Demand that he define his terms and then use those terms against him. Again, he uses the same vocabulary but has a much different dictionary.

@imjust_a

16 күн бұрын

I've noticed this a lot in recent years with social and political discourse. Two people from opposite sides of the argument will say the same words, but you can tell that they define those things completely differently. In essence, they're speaking two different languages, and as such cannot communicate properly. When you analyze the intended meaning between both sides' use of that given word or phrase, you can better understand where the two are coming from.

Somebody send the memo to Roger Waters, "Leave the Kids Alone" is now hate speech.

Nick: "Why don't you include corporations?" Also Nick: "I don't agree with corporations" That how he came off this entire show for every topic.

Have him on again, but different people to argue with him

The Great Rebellion is NOT banned on Steam. (At least not in my region.) I am looking at it right now. Steam rarely bans games, and has some very strict rules for banning games.

@Abafrasco

17 күн бұрын

I think it is banned in Germany. The game developer, I think is also from Germany

@adrianalexanderveidt344

17 күн бұрын

@@Abafrasco I haven't played the game myself but does if contain the Swastika or imagery of the high command of the 3rd Reich? I ask because Germany prohibits that in games regardless of context. That is a common reason for games being censored in Germany.

@walkingcontradiction223

17 күн бұрын

​@@adrianalexanderveidt344From what I have played, no... At least from 8 hours into it.

@adrianalexanderveidt344

17 күн бұрын

@@walkingcontradiction223 It could be that German authorities just not like the games messaging... but I would say that's a less likely reason for it getting censored.

The thing Nick doesn't realize is that writing suffers in most games, movies, tv shows where the DEI pandering elements have been made a priority. When a site like Kotaku or IGN write an article about a game if they mention the character's color/race, sexual orientation/identity, or gender and this information has no real relevance and/or has been changed from previous iteration, then DEI has been inserted. If whole articles are written to talk about the DEI and/or it's mentioned first in an article, then those elements were probably the priority. As such the writing suffers because it doesn't get then attention it needs.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

The whole focus on more "story" in games is one of the main reasons gaming is in the toilet now. Who needs "stories" in games? Especially in stuff like Beat 'em up's, Racing- or Sports-games. And even shooters didn't need stories in the older ones.

I think i now have a crush on Blabs. She just says it like it is. Not beating around the bush, just goes for the throat.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

And yet she got dogpiled for her honest opinion on the Hogwarts Legacy-drama.

Props to Nick for having the balls to show up for an interviews. Based purely on his comments, he either seems very ignorant of the broader cultural issues in gaming and entertainment as a whole or is lying through his teeth.

@rishnix

17 күн бұрын

He claims that he used to run The Escapist. He doesn't get to claim ignorance.

@icarusjumped2719

17 күн бұрын

I think he is being disingenuous. He knows full well what people are saying, he just refuses to acknowledge it. Either because he desires to gaslight on behalf of the wokism, or because he is trying to virtue signal to his side of the isle.

@Duranous.

17 күн бұрын

@@FairPlayGaming He is not ignorant, he knows what he's doing. He knows his side already won but is now losing so he wants us all to stop fighting and let the status quo stand.

@FairPlayGaming

17 күн бұрын

​@@Duranous. Yeah, given his past behavior, I was leaning more towards the idea that he was lying rather than being ignorant.

@dhammonds89

16 күн бұрын

In the words of the Highest Mallet, it is malice.

The funniest moment was that nick guy saying he thinks of himself as moderate. Lol

@humrH2360

17 күн бұрын

Which tells you just how far his ilk has moved the Overton window and how out of touch they all are with general society.

Nick asks of Kabrutus "what authority does he have other than he put together a steam group" the same can be said of access media types and "journalists" such as himself. What authority do they have other than they get paid to share their opinions? If anything the access media has less authority because they get paid by publishers to do the reviews so have pressure to review positively plus they often end up just being glorified bloggers like with Kotaku, IGN or The Escapist. Also he says that he doesn't understand the "taking games back", but he doesn't understand this because he's one of the people gaming needs taking back from. And "I'm not out of touch I ran the Escapist" is a redundant statement and is like saying "I'm not out of touch with the poor people, I ran a company replacing affordable housing with big mansions"

@eotikurac

17 күн бұрын

if anything, kabrutus is too strict about which games get on his list and which don't. i'd put all of them on the list until the pay me to remove them.

1:48:18 Geez... Nick. Why certain people were locked out of their bank accounts Nick? Why certain companies are literally unable to take out a loan Nick? Why some people were deplatformed from crowdfunding sites Nick? Do you really think that creating a competitor to Blizzard is that easy? lol. How many big budget studio you have had in the past that failed and no longer exist? Only people with backing, sponsors and investors funding can withstand this despite of producing big budget failures over and over again...

The reason bad writing and poor management of things not just in the video game industry but in general is because unqualified peiple are being hired and guess what group is? also that guest is here just to contradict you.

@PaulieMcCoy

17 күн бұрын

Didn't Earn It.

For gamers by gamers isn't cringe, its great!

@MidlifeCrisisJoe

17 күн бұрын

Well, it used to be Interplay's slogan, so yeah, it's been around for a minute.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

@@MidlifeCrisisJoe And since Nick isn't a real gamer, it's not for him. Simple as that.

Tldr Nick is a lefty journalist who gets given free things and gets mad when people point out getting free things can alter your opinions.

As said in chat: 1:24:11 His Ace in the Hole: ​​nick just doesn't get it. he's either one of them, or hes the delusional centrist that hasn't evolved past 10 years. calandra is making old tim pool look like a militant.

The guest said we shouldn't make it an us vs them thing but he either is playing ignorant or is completely stupid because it's the game journalists, and the industry that has made it a them vs us thing we didn't start it they did we just didn't roll over like they wanted and they came to far to back down at this point so that is why it's an us vs them thing

This dude's a worm lol. Still a great show. Glad you invited Melonie Mac back on too. 🙂

Hey Craig I’m a G1 here. Loved having Nick in the show, I know nothing about him or the drama he has been involved in. I don’t think blabs was ready for this conversation (sorry blabs) I consider Nick could be a potential “Normal Men” and inviting him to the board will not only put your money where your mouth is but also prove your point and show how transparent and genuine you are. Let’s keep having conversations ❤

@AarturoSc

16 күн бұрын

Well said.

@mariopoke

16 күн бұрын

@@AarturoSc thank you, I just really enjoyed this episode, it felt fresh and what we should all aim to do (have a conversation) Normal Men don’t have to think alike or work on the same side, we just need to have common sense and know that at the end of the conversation we can go back to being friends. Having Normal Men like Nick will only help to prove the point that EVERYONE is welcomed. Just like I felt welcomed when I first came to the country by the ScrewAttack Community

@mariopoke

16 күн бұрын

@@AarturoSc I know Craig invites people from all views to come to the show so I don’t blame them for that. But I do get it, it takes two to tango. On the clip they made they should have say something like : Two opposite sides having a Normal men conversation.

@AarturoSc

16 күн бұрын

@@mariopoke It was most likely Blabs who did the clip and thumbnail tbf.

constant fear = need for powerful central government

@afkalmighty1557

17 күн бұрын

Ah how the enlightened atheists push back at the notion of an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-benevolent cloud man yet fervently believes in an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-benevolent government.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

@@afkalmighty1557 It's funny, isn't it? Man just needs this in some form or another.

Hold on, did this guy just accuse Stellar Blade of pushing politics? I'd love to know what political messages he was talking about. Were screenshots of the game the 'gore DMs' he was getting, and now he's assuming it's a political game because people were trying to argue with him over some censorship issues or something?

You can tell Blabs is being corrupted when she snickers at the mention of the word "hummer".

Craig is too nice, you just need to say that we don't want the access media with people who hate gamers and who made their woke activism their priority and everyone who supports that and yes, it would be mostly right wing. Nick being dishonest to be like "Whats the big deal with the woke stuff, barely notice it. Now let everyone in even with woke believes!", no, Nick, this is very much about gatekeeping and being vigilant against people who antagonized us for many years now and i would even say we should keep out disingenuous people like Nick who are relentlessly fence sitting pretending non of this is a thing.

@EthnicWeeb

16 күн бұрын

If there's one thing I disagreed with Craig on this 'discussion', it's his insistence that 'anyone can vote'. If it were me, I would've outright said that, no, the woke faction is not welcome. Any of them. They're all liars.

1:33:54 he does say “I’d combat that with one of the board runs Geeks+ Gamers…” so is he comparing G+G to Activision or Sony or Microsoft? 🤦🏻‍♂️

@WayStedYou

17 күн бұрын

Geoff totally doesn't run his own board for the game awards either!

Its the double standards in the industry too. If you have a different viewset they will go after you. Like Limited Run firing the lady that was interested in Hogwarts Legacy.

Is this the guy that doxxed Grummz?

@eotikurac

17 күн бұрын

he didn't technically dox him, but yes, that's the guy

I like how a growing trend in games is just giving cute aminals firearms and I’m here for it.

it's frustrating that Nick doesn't get why gatekeeping is necessary. for the exact reason we are where we are now.

@queuedjar4578

16 күн бұрын

What I'm getting from Nick's point of view is a deadly combination of both dismissing the act of gatekeeping and also the belief that everything must be inherently political.

More proof why Nick Calandra shouldn't be trusted and SHOULD be defenestrated.

There is a reason Jeremy stoped talking to his enemies Nick proves it

I appreciate Nick coming on and trying to have a conversation, but I am sad it was ultimately unfruitful. If Nick's intent was to truly give his side of the story and show he and his audience aren't so different...then he did a poor job of conveying it. He says he's been stalked, harassed, taken out of context, and didn’t doxx Grummz, but we have nothing but his word on it. Why not publicly show the reciepts vindicating him instead of supposedly sending them to Craig privately? Or did he actually post them publicly on his Twitter or something? Genuinely curious and would like to know.

Yeah, Nick seems like he only pretends he's trying to acknowledge the problems with gaming without being caught blatantly lying about what he stands for.

Really should have had Grummz, SmashJT, 8-Bit Eric, or Razorfist on with him.

Imagine considering yourself a centrist while saying the only problem with SS:KtJL was the gameplay.

Nick seems like a fairly reasonable guy, I just don’t understand how he doesn’t get that these things cost a lot of money (or maybe he actually does) and sometimes take time to build up to. I’m excited to see the non-corpo awards!

Melonie Mac with the shoutout to Dodge Vipers. Very nice

Nick is about anti establishment as MSM 🤣

To be fair Craig, you say you're not a news program but you have a segment called hard news... Love your show... Been watching for over a year now and a member for 7 months.

Glad to see Calandra being put in the place he deserves. Side Scrollers Respect+1

Happy to see someone actually come on to discuss opposing opinions. I agree the conversation went in circles a lot, but that’s to be expected when people who view the world through different lenses are hashing out issues. I’m excited to see The Real Game Awards!

Craig fumbled. The award show is not for everybody, screw that keyboard activist Nick. The Real Game Awards is viewed and voted by everyone but it's definitely not for everyone. "Making something for everybody is for nobody".

@SideScrollersPodcast

17 күн бұрын

Truth. You said it better than me 😂

@Ambusher1st

17 күн бұрын

That's the problem. They conflate, "this is accessible to everyone," with, "this is for everyone." Like you said, something may be accessible to everyone, but it will not be for everyone. Star Wars was accessible to everyone, but it wasn't for everyone.

@RipperRoo92

17 күн бұрын

@@SideScrollersPodcast Thank you 🙏🏿☺️.

@RipperRoo92

17 күн бұрын

@@Ambusher1st Facts 💯

Some time markers of interesting points worth looking at: 1:41:14 , 1:44:41, 1:55:49, 2:00:00, 2:13:00, 2:18:50

02:18:08 again an example of nick being slimy. The reason why you use diversity is because otherwise people don't have to chance to get into that industry. Since if a group is per capita less into something the skills and ability relating to those fields is less. That is the agrument for affirmative action (just explanation). *b* rambling section *b* An example of using this positivly, how paleo agreculture was used in africa with grazing cattle (so black to white people, now it is reversed). Teaching beter water managment for crop irrigation

Craig is a stone cold Legend for slapping this guy around

It’s important to keep DEI and all that activism out of our space as much as possible. We should gate-keep be wise we are now certain that when you let them in they take over and ruin. We don’t want them and we don’t need them.

Why hasn't SBI come out and denied the Wukong Claims ..... ?

"There's lots of games with no messages so stop talking about all the other ones." Dude has views.

NC: Go make your own stuff People sick of woke garbage: Fine we will Also NC: How dare you gatekeeping from the people you dislike. Also agree with Blabs

Melonie, Vanelope von Schweets cosplay when?

With how much Nick talks about Twitter, it seems to be all he thanks about

Side Scrollers, you better make sure your guest doesn't come after your income. Also Dev / ShortFatOtaku was very keen for the guest to unblock him on Twitter. Makes you wonder. 🤔

Hail from Hypnotics community. I support the real game awards and Nick is so slimy pretending he is against Alyssa Mercunty attacking people and threatening violence while also hes been nothing but a simp for her. He needs to be gatekept out of gaming forever.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

Especially the simping part is extra-whack. Funny, Graig didn't mentioned that.

he said why not make your own games first of all we could not compete with triple a and there is some indie games we can play 2 then why don't you make your own games with diversity ohh wait you can not as nobody will by that's why they leech on to our games just to try and get there foot in the door as a casual gamer who has played games for 30+ years (commandor 64 ) nick made me raging mad by changing the goal post when it didn't suited him and yet i had no ill will towards him i still appreciate him at least coming on and talking and thank you craig and blabs and melonie mac for pushing back in a respectful way

Thanks for the conversations... I agree, Hollywood needs to end this never-ending spree of sequels and remakes... We want some originals without agendas... Also, with regards to this Utopian idea some folks keep taking stances towards... While it sounds ideal, the reality is that the world is not like that, and different people have different likes/dislikes and varying degrees of tolerance... Government will never be perfect... This may sound ridiculous, but even if a powerful Alien appeared and threatened the world to get along or perish, some of humanity to include governments might try to shift things towards a given ideal, but you can never 100% control the masses in the ways you want, even under threat of doom...

I’m sure the girls and Craig have also had people threaten them Nick acts like he’s a special flower

"Can we live a real life? 🎶 A real life - do we even know what that means? 🎶 Can we live a real life, and know people outside machines? 🎶 Can we live a real life between the devil and the digital sea? 🎶"

Not that hard to notice the big shift in gaming (like other media) with the like of DEI and ESG in recent years. Red flags such as consulting groups such as Sweet Baby Inc, GaymerX, Black Girl Gamers, and Hit Detection are major reasons why. People see them attached to games and they bail out. Which is killing games and companies.

Waste of time giving air to someone who does not deserve it. 👎

Oh boy…this dude hides from his own shadow. He’s bounced back and forth on his own stances. Thats a mentality thats taught by the corporation that he serves.

How many of the board members of the other game awards have that aren’t media or industry people have on it?

1:30:51 I can explain why a low entry fee is a bad idea. If the price is too low, the vote won't be valued. There are plenty of people who just like to screw things up for others; you'll find them in every GTA V server. There is also the possibility of mass influence campaigns by activists. A comparatively high fee means that those types either can't afford enough votes to make a serious impact, or if they can we're the ones laughing...all the way to the bank, and then all the way to the budget for the event next year.

1:45:45 "are people being pushed out of gaming? I don't think so" well, except for all those being banned from servers and games and such by large corporations for not rolling over or using wrong speak or naughty words or being "Bigots" cause they ARE being pushed out. steam nukes entire accounts, not just the game you did bad in.

Funny how Nick would bring up how the Wukong game had the rumor of SBI was trying to extort but not bring up about the slew of articles of sexism which the articles were referenced off each other of the sexism.

That guy Nick just gave me a headache. I do love Melanie looking beautiful as ever and repping my two favorite colors black and green. ❤❤❤

@NormanReaddis

17 күн бұрын

He's saying he's not onto Xwitter but he talks the same talking points of each shill Xwitter users in every fallen industry. It's not my first rodeo conversing with people like him on Xwitter so i can see his BS. Also Melonie looks like Shego from Kimpossible.

@queuedjar4578

16 күн бұрын

Simpage detected, no valid criticism detected.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

@@NormanReaddis No, Shego is definitely more prettier than Melonie.

I just watched Legal Mindset's stream with... Armchair-something, and this one dovetails neatly into this one and why PROPER gatekeeping, not taking the bait and "not attacking their shields" i.e. their minority identity statuses they wield like-well, shields, is so important. The most important is to not give them ANY attention on their terms and platforms. They want to farm you. Point, laugh, and congragate outside their turfs and just say NO!

It's really about entertainment vs activism. I don't want to support the Christian right anymore than I do the progressive left, but regardless what someone's opinions are, I don't want activism and ideologies being injected from any group. And yes Nick, being an activist is virtually always a negative thing, because when was the last time you've heard of a rational activist open to discourse and conceding ground.

hmm. has a problem with one side making lists, but seems fine when the other side does it.

Nick is being extremely disingenuous, he knows that DEI as a corporate practice is a problem but refuses to say so because his corporate masters wouldn't allow it. Zero respect for someone who pretends to have principles but is so willing to throw them aside to make a buck.

1:26:18 yes, there's all these indi games coming out all the time, and NO ONE IS PLAYING THEM. they are not the main stream, they are not in focus and most people have no interest in them. so they are not relevant other than curiosity.

@stevekramerf242

16 күн бұрын

And most of them are copies of older, better games. And also a lot of them are of the "artsy" variety that mostly appeal to hipsters and not real gamers.

Hi, just one thing that was left unclear to me watching this, dunno if it was ever mentioned and perhaps I missed it... Did Nick Calandra used to run the Escapist and has he been on both sides of things?

@imjust_a

16 күн бұрын

That's a great question! I *think* Nick Calandra used to run the Escapist, but what I'm also unclear on is whether he has been on both sides of things. I might need to rewatch the stream a few more times to figure that out.

@danielmiles7666

16 күн бұрын

@@imjust_a If you do rewatch the stream to be sure please take a note of a time stamp when Nick mentions whether or not he used to run the Escapist!

The Calendra segment was quite physically painful to watch. I've these types throwing fallacies like bills at a gentleman's club before, but the level at which Nick was doing so, you'd think he's trying to maintain an SSS rating on the style meter.

@maxmaxmaxmax647

17 күн бұрын

I had him figured out when he asked "even people you dislike" on who can vote , its always the same "mean girl in grade school" way of rhetoric of the 100 flat IQ people. literally seen one seen all with at best personal modifiers like speech cadence for example like destiny

@WayStedYou

17 күн бұрын

style over substance? seems apt

@frankf684

17 күн бұрын

It was uncomfortable lol

@shadowdancer2543

16 күн бұрын

Underrated comment.

Nick the Fink on Side Scrollers? How did I not know about this?