Man... I remember when the porn games video was the riskiest NeverKnowsBest video out there...

@khankhomrad8855

25 күн бұрын

Wait, what?

@SuperEggsNBacon

25 күн бұрын

@@khankhomrad8855 the weird world of adult video games or something like that, got taken down on yt but its on bitchute

@PurePancakes113

25 күн бұрын

@@khankhomrad8855 He made a video on porn games but it eventually got taken down and may have been the catalyst for his channel almost getting deleted out of nowhere.

@christianacquasanta1472

25 күн бұрын

​@khankhomrad8855 It was an amazing video though, quite funny and also interesting (well at least if you're willing to accept that weird customer are into weird things)

@cyniskater

25 күн бұрын

@@PurePancakes113 Didn't realize that video got taken down, that thing was S tier video essaying.

Is it just me or are people like... genuinely crazy?

@harrymason4300

25 күн бұрын

Videogames suck now so it's more fun to argue about them than to actually play them.

@FulloutPostal

25 күн бұрын

I wouldn't call them crazy... I tend towards the term "stupid"

@jacksonjabba

25 күн бұрын

@@harrymason4300do video games suck though? I mean I’d say baldurs gate 3 is one of the best games of all time, and it came out in the same year as tears of the kingdom, Alan wake 2, armored core 6, street fighter 6, lies of p, phantom liberty, and dozens of amazing indie games. Games are great now actually, the only thing ruining them is corporate greed, but plenty of games exist outside of that, especially indie games

@harrymason4300

25 күн бұрын

@@jacksonjabba Tears of the Kingdom sucked. It's just 70$ DLC. I didn't like BG3 either. It's just generic fantasy.

@jacksonjabba

25 күн бұрын

@@harrymason4300 okay so you just have bad taste lol. Joking aside I named like a dozen games, there should be something you actually like coming out because there are more games being made now than ever.

To be fair Black Rock is an evil company when it comes to buying or forcing people out of affordable apartments and upping the price multiple times over.

@Peasham

7 күн бұрын

I mean. Yes, Blackrock is evil, it's just obviously not spreading a Marxist agenda lmfao

I cant fathom people on twitter/youtube that can just rage all day. It must be super stressful.

@KasumiRINA

19 күн бұрын

It would've been impossible. They're faking it. Guys like Alex Jones and specific examples in this video are lying, they don't actually believe what they say, it's a total grift. You know, kind of like Angry German Kid or AVGN aren't actually insane in real life, they're acting, difference is that they're not pretending to be their characters in real life.

@DanKaschel

18 күн бұрын

Sometimes I fall into the trap of thinking I'm helping. By making sure "they" know lots of people disagree with their BS. Of course, the only thing that *actually* helps is human connection and that... Is not the internet's forte.

@SpartonWolf

16 күн бұрын

It’s the only way they know to make money

@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33Z

15 күн бұрын

ya mean the progs screaming about anything they havent conquered and planted their flag of victory on? yeah.. its annoying.. but the point is conquest and ensuring anyone you disagree with has nothing.. gotta "own the chuds" after all..

@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33Z

15 күн бұрын

@@DanKaschel"they?" just say who you hate.. is it da juice?.. or the "oreo fillings"? or the "rice types" who are supposedly "oreo filling" adjacent according to the vanguards of games journalism..come on.. go after "they"

The ending of MGS2 was right

@gregwessendorf

25 күн бұрын

Colonel : Raiden, you seem to think that our plan is one of censorship. Raiden : Are you telling me it's not!? Rose : You're being silly! What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context. Raiden : Create context? Colonel : The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you.

@Wohlfe

25 күн бұрын

It wasn't prescient so much as Japanese online culture was way ahead of the curve at the time, Kojima extrapolated from there.

@SirJebusHRM

25 күн бұрын

The Patriots did nothing wrong

@discordantduck1808

25 күн бұрын

yup . seen several comments of people who don't know what gamergate was and rather than investigate and discover the truth they've opted to just believe whatever their first instinct was. we are flooded with useless info.

@JayTohab

25 күн бұрын

@@Wohlfe So he saw the writing on the wall? I'd be interested to know more about his inspiration for the game, if you've got any recommendations!

Wait, wait, hold the phone. Are you telling me media and 'content creators' are farming views with clickbait?

@scrittle

25 күн бұрын

When there's a wave of buzzwords, that's usually the case. Not clickbait.

@PaulusAlone

25 күн бұрын

@@scrittle - True! However, if you see a Sydney Sweeney picture in the thumbnail then it WILL be “clickbait” and that’s 100% guaranteed by me…I tested those thumbnails personally…for science! 👀😉

@Bodwaizer

25 күн бұрын

Wait, are you telling me that Saga Anderson (strong independent BLACK WOMYN, that dont need no man (a trope)) suddenly out nowhere saying racist sexist stuff, is totally normal and by no means influenced by outside of FINLAND studio? OH MY NOOOOO

@brendangilbert3283

25 күн бұрын

That's not even close to the point of the video. The video is about how people complain too much about "go woke go broke"

@vladz1

25 күн бұрын

Those content creators and their ability to make obnoxious western women in vidya with man jaws and have genderless body types(but can't take the top off lol) in character creation menus, on top of having the games being a cutscene fest goyslop with naughty dog/post 2013 sony movie game design.

Can we just go back to being outraged about microtransactions and shitty business practices?

@JustFeral

23 күн бұрын

No, brown people bad, not anticonsumer practices.

@xslashsdas

23 күн бұрын

All that energy that could be used towards more consumer friendly games, pushing our industry into a healthy direction. But no, a 4chan crack theory is 100% more important, definitely.

@EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle

23 күн бұрын

Having LGBT and racial minorities in games are the direct cause of those things, according to the unhinged schizos covered in the video...

@domsanchez148

22 күн бұрын

Hiring political activists instead of competent devs is the single most pressing shitty business practice in today's industry.

@ihavenojawandimustscream4681

22 күн бұрын

​@@domsanchez148remotely no. Political activists and propagandists can be competent devs. This applies to both left and right. Games are shitty because of funding related problems, not because of messages

I would appreciate if, as a culture, we could drop the “-gate” suffix anytime something resembles a scandal.

@KyriosHeptagrammaton

16 күн бұрын

And thus began the gategate wars

@darrenklein6090

16 күн бұрын

@@KyriosHeptagrammaton 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman

15 күн бұрын

commentgate

@thehermitman822

13 күн бұрын

​@@ICHBinCOOLERalsJemanrecommentgate

@chiangkai-shrek1575

9 күн бұрын

gatekeepinggate

Journalists in 2100 writing about how gamergate led to the sino-american war and the indian revolution

@TheMelnTeam

25 күн бұрын

While it would be an amusing read, I'd bet against this being a common conclusion in the distant future haha. China DGAF about this stuff beyond whether it lets them control their population or not. I'm sure they'd love a distraction so they could go for Taiwan, but this ain't it :p.

@erichzannbusoumuzan

25 күн бұрын

... Now I wish Shadowrun was real. Indian revolution happening thanks to resurgence of magic from the collective butthurt of GG3 sounds like a kickass idea for a comic or a game.

@azazel166

24 күн бұрын

The world ends in 2077.

@ziggytheassassin5835

24 күн бұрын

@@azazel166 spoilers man

@aersla1731

24 күн бұрын

​@@azazel166And then Cyberpunk begins?

I enjoy how despite the reaction to the Gollum and Emil videos you haven't backed down from continuing to cover controversial topics

@EricDFreak

25 күн бұрын

Honestly if you respect your craft you will never back down no matter how offensive it may be because any piece of media needs to be held to the judgement of time no people

@brunoactis1104

25 күн бұрын

Were those topics controversial? I didn't even realize.

@chungusbooper

25 күн бұрын

There was a controversial gollum video? Did he say it was a secret masterpiece or something? 😕

@TheNickJames

25 күн бұрын

@@chungusbooperNo, he acknowledged that Gollum was a failed product. But similar to the video covering the Emil hatred, he expressed empathy for the people who worked on that project.

@BusesAreFatCars

25 күн бұрын

Fine if he wants to cover controversial topics, though there's a lot that he could have learned from those videos and the reaction to them. Has he learned?

4chan has never recovered from the election tourist influx in 2016. I has degraded the quality of all boards significantly.

@setiem13

15 күн бұрын

indeed and neither twitter after the tumblr exodus, and now after Elon things just became even crazier.

@XxjeffersonDkidxX

13 күн бұрын

no site recovered from the election tourist influx in 2016.

@bakacdaz

12 күн бұрын

What’s Election Tourist?

@Angel_Flash

10 күн бұрын

@@bakacdaz there was a massive influx of new 4chan users during the trump election because people heard the site was aligned with their political ideologies.

@Brain-washed2

9 күн бұрын

4chan has never recovered from 2005 according to oldheads

My experience is that people only view things as 'political' when they disagree with the politics involved. Things they actually agree with they view as simply 'common sense' or just the way things are, and often fail to even see that they are also political outlooks.

@AL-lh2ht

22 күн бұрын

Literally they see that a gay person exist and shit their pants

@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33Z

22 күн бұрын

you know the chinese are re colonizing africa for resources, exterminating uighur muslims, and stealing fishing rights from poorer nations.. but thats just common sense... baizuo.. oh and you cant argue with me because im trans and therefore oppressed by you..thats common sense, not politics.. nothing i just said was intersectional politics..and capitalism bad.. see its just common sense, no politics here.. sorry i need to change all your pictures to make you look like an androgenous blob with a super strong jaw and hide any femine breasts or hips even though the average cup size in america is 34 DD.... not politics though, just common sense.. and im not being "forced" by black rock and vanguard's trillion dollar investments bigger than most nations.. nope.. im doing the "right thing" and will be on the "right side of history"..but zero politics here..

@casualgamers3369

22 күн бұрын

That's pretty much just everyone though. No one raises a stink if it's something they find inoffensive or already agree with.

@LatterDayPup

21 күн бұрын

So would you be ok with a game being pro capitalist?

@saberaxe

21 күн бұрын

​​@@LatterDayPup Bro there are literally a ton of extremely capitalist games it's a whole ass genre with the tycoon games that explicitly are about the fantasy of becoming/being a business tycoon. That's some fully maxed out Ayn Rand level shit, you can't even meaningfully crank the capitalism levels are any higher and nobody actually cares. Why are you talking like it is some kind of hypothetical? It's a well known type of game I'm sure OP knows about it and also isn't mad that they exist like a normal person

Been a gamer since 1993. Time to finally find out what the fuck Gamergate was.

@JameboHayabusa

25 күн бұрын

Been gaming since 1990. I also never figured it out tbh. I still don't think I do. It honestly just sounds like a bunch of young, impressionable people who learned a thing in college or through family and think it's the only viewpoint in the world. I see it everyday with young 20 somethings everyday about a bunch of different things. They all think they're hot shit. Also whenever I visit my mom on the weekends she's always listening to prepper/ right wing shit on KZread, and these KZread sound exactly like them, it's hilarious.

@theoperator3712

25 күн бұрын

Gamer Gate was just gaming journos sleeping with game devs for good reviews. And then they cried harassment when they got found out.

@wadebutler7127

25 күн бұрын

​@@theoperator3712 True, except for the part where it's NOT true, that never happened, and no such review ever existed. There is zero evidence that a game dev slept with a journalist for good reviews and you cannot produce any such review because it doesn't exist and never did. I won't even bother to challenge you to produce the review in question because both you and I know you can't. What DID happen is that a writer mentioned a game in passing which was done by a woman he dated later, after the article was written. The mention was in a news article that mentioned *many* games. It wasn't a review, it was just a passing mention in a news roundup/preview. That's it. That's all that happened. And then people like you took it and turned it into "developers were sleeping with reviewers for good reviewers" mythology, as if by repeating it often enough you can will it into existence.

@adamcosper3308

25 күн бұрын

​@@theoperator3712 No.

@vazazell5967

25 күн бұрын

​@@wadebutler7127okay, then gamergate is anita grifting on hate popularity after being rightfully called out for her bs takes on games she seemingly never played, as half the stuff in her reviews are just not in the games.

Nothing says good journalism like Leafyishere style unrelated gameplay over reactionary talking points

@ataridc

25 күн бұрын

What you're pointing out here is partly why I realized the original GG was bs...They were claiming it was about journalism ethics, but they were replacing the gaming magazine/websites with youtubers who have literally 0 ethical oversight other than their own personal morality. you might think IGN is bad, but the mere presence of an EIC means it's more ethical than "Bobs youtube gaming channel"(insert your fav gaming youtuber) who gets excited because Ubisoft sends him all the press copies of their games so he keeps feeding into their hype machine. I literally have to dig into video descriptions to see if what im watching is a review or an ad, and sometimes it's not listed and I am pretty darn sure it's an ad. Gaming journalism, such that it was, has completely collapsed on itself like a dying star since GG. Anyone that thinks it has improved, well let's just say you can safely dismiss their opinions. Not to say there aren't good youtube critics, but if culture war slop is their channe's focus, it's not that guy.

@pixeljauntvr7774

25 күн бұрын

​@@ataridc Yeah spot on.

@TeleportRush

25 күн бұрын

@@ataridc tbh I think some GGers consider the destroyed reputation of journalists as a job well done. Its very petty

@pauls8227

25 күн бұрын

​@@ataridc Don't most review channels explicitly state that they have press copies or whatever (and are obligated to specify if there's a sponsorship)? Who even goes to IGN or whatever anymore. ACG at least buys teh game and donates his press copies. Shill Up's reviews usually at least go into detail and take a balanced approach.

@commisaryarreck3974

25 күн бұрын

Reactionary is a communist slur against non-revolutionaries So yeah, you're pretty spot on

Remember when the most controversial thing in gaming was whether Luigi was in Mario 64? I miss those times...

Today I learned that Starfield's weird looking faces is because of woke, not because the engine is 15 years old and itself is based on an engine is now 25 years old, and is made by a company that held a near monopoly on goofy looking faces.

@Peasham

21 күн бұрын

Somehow the best Bethesda faces no less!

@mattd5240

17 күн бұрын

I'll agree that with or without Sweet babies' influence that Stanfield writing would still be shit. As long as Emil works there, it always will be.

@adriank8792

16 күн бұрын

That’s still wrong. The weird looking faces are there because you’re talking about the faces of tertiary characters that serve more or less as the background. If you look at the faces of the pedestrians in games like Spider-Man 2, they all look plain and bad. It has nothing to do with the engine but everything to do with optimization, and that’s true for all games

@adriank8792

16 күн бұрын

@@mattd5240 I guess you haven't seen NeverKnowsBest's video about Emiil, have you?

@mattd5240

16 күн бұрын

@@adriank8792 After watching this video. I take everything this KZreadr says with a grain of salt. So much disinformation.

I'm sure the comments will be civil

@guyk768

25 күн бұрын

Run away while you still can.

@Hero_Of_Old

25 күн бұрын

I'm going to bed.

@SaberRexZealot

25 күн бұрын

Civil war

@vincentmartin9667

25 күн бұрын

LOL! Doubtful, but let's see how Never frames this video.

@labracktime

25 күн бұрын

give me your money, your lunch, PSP, 3DS, and your dog.

“Oh, shit, here we go again.”

I take umbrage with the statement "the stock market is strictly regulated"

@JiriJustra

21 күн бұрын

Dumb Money was great movie

@rudolfambrozenvtuber

21 күн бұрын

It is? Abuses are obviously always possible but a lot has been done since 2008 and the things claimed about Blackrock wouldn't have flown even then. Sorry man, GME isn't actually dropping in price due to millions of fake shares. That's not a thing that's happening

@gorillaguerillaDK

20 күн бұрын

Well, it is! But that doesn’t mean everything works perfectly! However, usually when loopholes are discovered, typically when someone exploit the heck out of them, they will get shut down by new regulations. That said, this doesn’t mean unethical practices doesn’t exist!

@frittatas8551

20 күн бұрын

😂 I will agree that is where Never lost me. The stock market most certainly is a casino

@rudolfambrozenvtuber

20 күн бұрын

@@frittatas8551 Notice my comment got shunted into the void but not really. It's got it's exploitative elements but what people on one side are suggesting about Blackrock wouldn't even have been gotten away with pre-2008

having watched many pendulums swing back and forth in forty years of spectating the culture wars, really the only thing that still gets under my skin is the insistence on putting "gate" on the end of the name of every scandal. especially these days where most people would have to do a google search to even understand why.

@foreignuser_

21 күн бұрын

"gaslighting" is used just to mean "lying" now and i am willing to bet the majority of people who think it feels cool to say don't know what it really means or where it came from. it's annoying, but at the end of the day we know what they mean. when someone adds -gate onto something they are telling you quickly that they are referring to something that is controversial

@KinotheHedgehog

19 күн бұрын

Pretty sure the whole "-gate" suffix being used for major scandals comes from the Watergate scandal incident that happened during the US' Nixon administration.

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

18 күн бұрын

It's because of Watergate when Nixon stole all the water in that pond in front of the Washington Monument.

@globalistgamer6418

16 күн бұрын

That bastard!

@Texelion3Dprints

15 күн бұрын

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD I thought the Watergate was when Belle Delphine sold her bath water ! Damn, we learn something every day.

If Gamersgate was so impactful, why didn't they make Gamersgate 2 huh? Wait....

@ThatsRaf

25 күн бұрын

Does anyone know if this is a planned trilogy? I hope the next one ties up all the loose threads.

@qaztim11

24 күн бұрын

@@ThatsRaf If the leaks are true then the 3rd edition will be have an explosive finale with massive consequences

@AKiren47

24 күн бұрын

Ask Kataku... duh.

@VikingTeddy

23 күн бұрын

It wasn't gamergate, that's a common misunderstanding. The real inception of all the crazy was actually the death of Harambe. Check the dates, we entered the dark timeline exactly on that day. Before that there was still hope, but immediately after, all the psychos came crawling out of the shadows. To. The. Day. Dicks out 😢

@KalicoKal

20 күн бұрын

@@VikingTeddy i dont like how you right the world didnt die with harambe...the common sense did

I was 14 when gamer gate happened and thankfully I wasn’t on the internet, only watched KZread lets plays at the time, but now several years later I always try to look up what gamer gate was about only to end up looking down a gargantuan confusing abyss that has no end

@Jeffmetal42

25 күн бұрын

That's Gamergate for ya. I'm still not sure wtf it is.

@henryfleischer404

25 күн бұрын

I was in a similar situation. I mostly watched EthosLab and SethBling at the time.

@vzerby

25 күн бұрын

@@Jeffmetal42 Sexism, it was about sexism.

@spider-man300

25 күн бұрын

It's was a hate group targeting women in the gaming industry. They felt they had no right to be involved in games

@SaberRexZealot

25 күн бұрын

Better to just stay off the internet in general

1:30:33 "Trying to change minds on the internet is hard". Amen to that, but I must congratulate you as you've changed at least one.

I am... *so* tired...

@XxjeffersonDkidxX

13 күн бұрын

it's all so tiresome...

@zhalosc

12 күн бұрын

Unfortunatly they never run out of steam. They constantly thirst for the next thing to call woke so they don't have to question their immature and uninformed beliefs.

Sounds like KZread making downvotes invisible has been a really positive change that has not had any negative consequences at all, and has led to a reduction in bullying online. Thanks Google! I'm sure your future versions of chrome, which will control all add-ons, will also help to make the world a better place. I don't use Chrome, but I'm sure you'll find some way to make life miserable for me until I submit to your singular view for web browsing. Thanks for having my interests at heart.

@TheJacklikesvideos

25 күн бұрын

underrated comment, right here. but nobody dislikes it.

@Hoenir

25 күн бұрын

A true Borat comment.🤡

@Nothingseen

25 күн бұрын

Would downvoting help? I don't know if it would. One of the things that led to the removal of the downvote was brigading by people like the GG2 pushers, as well as organized disinfo campaigns that would downvote official information by health organizations about, you know, health information. It was removed because it became weaponized as a tool for harassment and disinformation, and considering this whole thing IS just harassment and disinformation... well, I don't think it still being around would help.

@SleepyBear772

25 күн бұрын

Sounds like they created a bit of a Cobra Effect.

@scrittle

25 күн бұрын

@@Nothingseen At the same time, dislikes evaluated content on whether it was helpful or not, especially for scam videos. The real reason it got removed it chalked up to brigading of news/business channels like Nintendo and FOX. Dislike removal presents no benefits to the consumer or the average KZread creator because dislikes are shown in their back-end.

They are also so incredible transparent. If you think the main issue with Suicide Squad is the wokeness, you clearly haven't played a single minute of Suicide Squad.

@vincentdesmeules3816

25 күн бұрын

For real. I play it with a friend and it really REALLY bad. Just in term of gameplay. Now tell me how a narative focus team can influance gameplay to be this bad? There like on 1 pride flag in the game. You see it like 4 Time

@malkavthemad4249

25 күн бұрын

Because a woke company will have woke policies, such as promotion or leadership being based on gender/sexual orientation/race/whatever, but not primarily on competence. So naturally you end up with less impressive gameplay, that will be paired with a subversive plot that has no reverence for the source material. Which sounds exactly like suicide squad.

@KasumiRINA

25 күн бұрын

@@malkavthemad4249 that's not how things work. Stop following outrage channels, neckbeards claiming Mass Effect Andromeda had bad animations due to "feminism" in 2017 was pretty stupid (animators were male), but 7 years later you're trying to drag this cringe back into comments.

@youngthinker1

25 күн бұрын

From what I understood, the idea was simply to make something else a scapegoat for the end product. If you believe your multi-billion dollar product will be terrible, then creating some scapegoats, plus using investor money, ought to cover for the end product.

@syafiqjabar

25 күн бұрын

@@malkavthemad4249 So why are you not a communist yet? Sounds like communism will solve all this capitalist problems, hmmm?

How did you missed all those "Gamers are dead" articles of 2014?!? Wasn't "gamer journalists" fault to join together and publish articles, in all big gaming sites in the same month, inciting gamers? Until that point it was just a small group in forums collecting evidences of "gamer journalists" whisper network (proved true by themselves) and indeed ethics, only when those articles show up that actually reached mass audience and things exploded. Unbelievable to see another "retrospective" missing that obvious giant point... Anyway, we won that war. Gamergate2 is fake and didn't have 1% of reach and audience from 2014 movement.

@DrkFX

4 күн бұрын

@1:34:18 : For sure, I can remind you: - Whisper network. - Preview hypes for mediocre games, thanks to access media VIP treatment (Ubisoft flying and paying 5 star hotels for previewers), - High scores for ads (full page Ads = high scores, even for games launching in broken or unfinished state, Kane&Lynch2 situation years before), - High Scores for "friends" of journos (a 20 HTML pages diary called game and receiving 8 of 10 from 5 reviewers, maker of HTML pages forever called "GameDev"), - Lack of consistency (Racing game specialist covering JRPG, reviewer that cover Football Manager gives lower score and complain about not have gameplay, Dead Rising 1 getting bad review [later deleted] because the author didn't understood it was a Japaneses comedy making fun of American horror movies). I agree with you about "echo chamber network and collude to promote the same message", the difference is journos tried their best to hide their whisper network while YTs are doing it in the open. All other points you mentioned don't exist and you invented: - Political beliefs, don't exist in gaming articles at that time, - Complain about racist, don't exist in gaming articles at that time, - Cancel people for wrong thinking, don't exist in gaming articles at that time, - Mass produce lowquality sansationalist rage bait, don't exist in gaming articles at that time, I like your channel and content but like you said at @1:30:58 "A lie is a lie", your conclusion trying to connect gamers claims from the past with "youtubers acting like the journos did" narrative is a huge lie.

@Shamino1

17 сағат бұрын

I, too, recollect the summer of 2014 where nearly every major gaming journalism site- even ones who were seemingly open rivals competing for ad-revenue and viewership- all released very similarly worded 'opinions of the editor' pieces, essentially gas-lighting two entire generations of online gamers and brushing over a multitude of video-game publishing sins (this was around the same time EA had just won the least ethical business in America two years in a row, over Exxon Mobile & Goldman Sachs.) I remember the very first independently done Game Awards by Geoff Keighly, who for all the crap he got about his Dorito & Mountain Dew promotion, funded video-game journalism with money from companies NOT apart of video games. He kept the funding 'clean.' Any bias Geoff had was a personal affinity for a video game, instead of being paid to care about it. It kept him authentic.

That was a rabbit hole I didn't even know existed. Thanks for summary and hang in there.

this is probably the hardest video of yours I've watched. It's rought to see clips from every channel that I've ever tried to avoid

@PedroGomes-cx7ku

24 күн бұрын

I was a bit embarassed, when those clips came up I turned the volume down. God forbid someone overhears that kind of crap and think I agree with it lol

@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33Z

23 күн бұрын

hmm. maybe those are the channels you should be watching based on how wrong this vid was..

@MrTomaton2

23 күн бұрын

@@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33Z how was this video wrong? care to point out some points?

@butHomeisNowhere___

23 күн бұрын

@@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33Z Here you are again saying how wrong it is without citing ANY evidence or proof or even making something up. This is classic rightoid crap. You whine about how people are lying about you or harassing you, but you can't provide even a modicum of proof. You've already decided what you're going to believe and I'd bet any amount of money that you didn't even watch this video.

@johnnyboy2537

23 күн бұрын

@@MrTomaton2 1. The GDC thr eat with Anita he talks about was 5 months before GG even started. Do I even need to point out how that obviously destroys his narrative about how crazy and dangerous the GG supporters were? 2. Zoe Quinn was caught faking thr eats against herself on 4chan and Brianna Wu was caught faking "har assment" against herself on Steam. She didn't even log out of their account. They were conflating har assment and criticism on a regular basis. That and the FBI said there were credible thr eats or harassment against them. 3. Game journalists were caught coordinating how to cover GG on a mailing list called Game Journos Pros. They literally said they would make it all about har assment instead of corruption and ethics because they were absurdly unethical. That obviously being proven by coordinating how to lie on a mailing list and then doing so. Meaning that GG supporters were dead right about there being a conspiracy against them and said conspiracy was even outed. He didn't mention this at all. 4. He's dead wrong about ESG since the CEO of Black Rock has outright admitted that the point of it is to force a change of behaviors of companies to match his politics. The man at the head of the "conspiracy" he's framing as crazy is outright admitted that that's what he's doing. 5. He plays the clip where the CEO basically admits to extortion and blackmail and that goes completely over his head which is laughable. TLDR: NKB's research is so poor that watching this was a waste of time for me. Anyone who watched this either learned nothing new or walked away less informed than they would've been if they had because his research was so incompetent it was deceptive.

Bruh what was that Law and Order episode lmao

@darksamurai820

23 күн бұрын

Good days when the only reference to games in the show would be "this guy created a game that's more addicting than Civ V with the Brave New World expansion!" lmao

@Storm7777

21 күн бұрын

The episode was a trip. It was really funny.

@SuperAtomicMuffin

20 күн бұрын

I’m deffo gonna light a fat one and watch that shit later.

@jack.h99

18 күн бұрын

"They leveled up..."

@andrejaeckle9828

18 күн бұрын

They leveled up!

Sweet Baby Inc: [holding a gun to Rocksteady's head]"Make it more like Destiny"

@Mohmar2010

3 күн бұрын

TBH the devs who made the arkham series did retire a while back anyway, really wish they went with a different game

When the “just blame it on GamerGate” meme came to reality over the last decade. You’d think it was 9/11 for gaming journalists and devs by how hysterical people always act over it.

@kyleofbones9338

15 күн бұрын

Zoe Quinn was needlessly bullied and that shouldn't have happened, but I highly doubt it helped elect Trump lmao

@AKiren47

14 күн бұрын

@@kyleofbones9338 Zoe Quinn slept her way into the industry. That's what GG was about. That was the start of " Poor Us. " girls aren't included. "Everthing is sexist and racist. You just have to look for it. " When she got caught she she would start naming names. Imagine a bunch of dudes that were afraid of going to jail for SA. She's a grifter and if you believe in equal rights than you can call me a masaginist because I wouldn't call for the worst beat down a man could do to another man. Or rape... yeah men raping men. We forget about that?

@FrostbiteDigital

13 күн бұрын

@@kyleofbones9338 Are you serious? Zoe Quinn caused a man to take his own life... What do you mean "needlessly bullied"?

@kyleofbones9338

13 күн бұрын

@FrostbiteDigital That was way after 2014 dude...

@FrostbiteDigital

13 күн бұрын

​@@kyleofbones9338 So that completely excuses the fact that she caused a guy to off himself? Jesus what the hell is wrong with you? Also just so you know before all that she was sleeping with multiple journalists just so that she could have positive coverage for her game. My point still stands, she wasn't needlessly bullied, all the criticism that came to her was justified. *Especially* with regards to Alec Holowka's passing.

Even when its a bad movie, the sequel is almost guaranteed to be worse.

@acronen

25 күн бұрын

Gamergate 2 is a direct to VHS home release sequel too. Not even a dvd, blu ray, or streaming release. That's how bad and low quality it is.

@Nipah.Auauau

25 күн бұрын

Nuh-uh. Mad Max 1 vs 2.

@KasumiRINA

25 күн бұрын

@@Nipah.Auauau Mad Max 2 was a sequel to a GOOD movie, and usually in trilogies second part is the best.

@cookieface80

25 күн бұрын

@@Nipah.Auauau Mad Max 1 isn't bad though. It's just low budget.

@DJMavis

22 күн бұрын

@@cookieface80 It is tragically lacking in mohawks and chaps though. I am sure they could have bought some hairspray.

Sinclair's Law: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. This sums up a lot of problems when you have youtube outrage channels.

@colorpg152

25 күн бұрын

if you assume every act is a result of misunderstanding and incompetence but never malice then you will suddenly get a constant state of extreme misunderstandings and extreme incompetence, the ability for humans being to detect malice it the most essential ability to fight corruption

@puppykitty6100

25 күн бұрын

It sums up the vast majority of our problems in society.

@standarsh8056

25 күн бұрын

Bigger problem is the other side are pretentious low t lamo's. Pick your poison I guess

@viljamtheninja

25 күн бұрын

Well, Anita Sarkeesian's and Sweet Baby's entire careers are specifically this. Their careers rely on not understanding anything about artistic or cultural expression that doesn't align with their narrow political views and forcing everything to change into something that does conform to them. It is blatantly obvious, and the "alt-right anti-woke grifters" would not have been successful, and would not exist, if not this woke grifting had not already been going on for decades, negatively affecting the quality of the games they get their grubby little hands on, and dumbing down media discussion.

@blake77777

25 күн бұрын

@@viljamtheninja This whole post smells like broke. I love it when no-clout fartsniffers like yourself cannot see that Sweet Baby was paid millions to make contributions that unproductive and broke midwits like yourself cannot rationally accept as very valuable. Remember when your type tried to trot out "get woke, go broke" and got summarily rejected by reality? Go back to your swamp, troll, LMAO

Wait I thought Alan wake 2 was a commercial failure?

@Tigreuh

10 күн бұрын

It is, it was critically acclaimed so if you want to twist facts to fit your narrative you use that meaning of "success".

@LucasGabriel-lk3ql

10 күн бұрын

yes, the game didn’t pay itself. Probably due to no physical copy and for being epic game exclusive

@smergthedargon8974

8 күн бұрын

@@LucasGabriel-lk3ql I can guarantee it was the Epic exclusivity. Everyone who plays that game loves it, but people rightfully hate Epic. I had to pirate the game in order to not support them.

@LucasGabriel-lk3ql

8 күн бұрын

@@smergthedargon8974 Im no PC gamer, so I dont know if steam can cause this big impact on the sales, but it’s definitely one major punch

@smergthedargon8974

8 күн бұрын

@@LucasGabriel-lk3ql Can guarantee not being on the platform with the vast majority of the PC audience is the #1 issue.

I also hate that TB is still remotely connected to this, he genuinely wanted a discussion about journalism early on and disavowed the whole thing when it became blindingly obvious what gamergate actually was. Rest in peace dude.

@zeanamush

13 күн бұрын

His voice being silent makes the world worse.

@Justplanecrazy25

12 күн бұрын

Not gonna lie, I was waiting for his mention in this video.

@gargaro10

11 күн бұрын

He’d be so disgusted by modern youtube and influencers

@handsomebear.

10 күн бұрын

Using dead people who disagree with you to validate your misguided opinions is such a _classic_ political andy tactic. TB and the majority of pro GG people were fighting against the exact same people who are behind sweet baby inc. and similar companies...I.e. some of them are the _actual_ same people, many of which have several racist/sexist public statements and/or tweets lol _(just against whites and men, so who cares 🤷‍♀️)._ He and the other pro GG people with working brains obviously disavowed the actual harassment that happened _(on both sides, mind you...harassment that is commonplace in any online controversy for any side/gender involved)..._ ...but using that to pretend like they disavowed the stated goal/mission of GG, which was to call out the incestuous personal and political relationships in gaming journalism/development that were/are used to further personal careers and/or political goals over making good and/or faithful reviews/games, is pretty weasely behaviour ;v

Even the culture war politics are underwhelming and boring these days smh

@brunoactis1104

25 күн бұрын

Dude there literally is a political war in america over the support for a genocidal state. That sounds... interesting at the very least; people are self immolating as protest. We are living history, as it did not end in the 90s after the fall of the USSR.

@sauceinmyface9302

25 күн бұрын

I don't think it's boring, it's more extreme than ever, but I do think it's really damn exhausting

@nathanl4083

25 күн бұрын

It’s all just fake shit done by grifter reading of the same script. The only thing keeping it a bit exiting nowadays is when they go full nazi, instead of just alluring to it like they did in the past

@idontwantahandlethough

25 күн бұрын

@@sauceinmyface9302 No no, you're somehow both... right..? It's both more boring, and more extreme. Idk how that makes sense but it does 😂

@shazakito

25 күн бұрын

When gamergate first happened, I didn't follow any channels focused on internet dramas and I didn't have a Twitter account. So, while I follow gaming news, all of the Gamergate controversies went unnoticed by me. Now is 2024 and I don't follow grifter channels or use twitter. So I'm just learning of all this "gamergate 2" and it seems like another hollow drama happening in a gigant internet bubble; just another example of the Pareto principle, but completely trivial for anyone outside the internet.

had no idea about any of this and now i feel like i need to stay away from the internet for at least a month

@NIL0S

25 күн бұрын

See you in a year.

@kavinh10

25 күн бұрын

take my advice just avoid political shit when it comes to americans its a pointless stupid rabbithole

@kittaylor5752

25 күн бұрын

I'm gonna do what I did during the first GamerGate. Ignore it completely and enjoy my single player games in blissful solitude.

@cactuscam913

24 күн бұрын

​@@kittaylor5752 yup didn't even know that there was a "gamergate" until like a week ago, and still don't really understand if it had any effect on anything

@LeKain08

24 күн бұрын

Yes, I had no much idea about it, and I didn't want to... Just like, as an European, I never was aware of the Kardashians until americans shoved news and drama and all kind of bullshit i didn't asked for right on my face when browsing internet. But hey! Guess americans have to shove down our throat every single bullshit, every single petty drama, every single terrible and absolutely retard social thing happening to them, so that EVERYONE in the world can REJOYCE swimming in their pile of dogshit "trend"/"social" things and NeverKnowsBest unfortunately is no different. I didn't want to learn about these stupid "GamerGate", but here we are!!... Even on channel I don't expect to get these kind of bullshit I have the high priviledge of getting taught and highly educated on this other american-baked bullshit political drama. How freaking nice!...

really excited for the sequel. hopefully it doesn't end on a cliffhanger

I don't see what's wrong with keeping a list of political consulting firms and using that to inform your consumer purchases.

Is that an 8 bit rendition of Just by Radiohead at the beginning?? Top tier choice Edit: AND My Iron Lung? A man after my own heart

@fattub5939

25 күн бұрын

And where i end and you begin AND reckoner my pants are so wet

@Lepstick_-

23 күн бұрын

There's Reckoner in the conclusion as well

@Solid--Snake

7 күн бұрын

the whole video is full of 8bit radiohead and it's perfect

@dduuddeechil

7 күн бұрын

@@Solid--Snake agreed

2 minutes in, and various clips have already prophezied the downfall of western civilization.

@titanquest15

25 күн бұрын

A law and order episode featuring Logan Paul was not on my bingo card today.

@friendhaus1858

25 күн бұрын

and they're toooootally wrong, right?

@titanquest15

25 күн бұрын

@@friendhaus1858 I'm not in the post-apocalypse, so yeah.

@robsands6656

25 күн бұрын

@@friendhaus1858yeah you’re dumb

@itriedtochangemynamebutitd5019

25 күн бұрын

​@@titanquest15There's way too many problems with the West right now to suggest they're wrong really.

As a non-American observer, I have the feeling that political discourse in America has become completely contaminated and that reasonable conversation has not been possible there for several years. A political opponent is immediately taken as a political enemy whose views are not only wrong but even dangerous. It sometimes gives the impression that it is no longer a question of what is right or wrong, but rather that it is primarily about defarming the other side and thereby winning some imaginary war. I really hope my interpretation is exaggerated. Get well soon, America, you are loved ❤

@Zxykary

22 күн бұрын

The problem is half the Country believes people are drinking infant blood in underground bunkers. It's not a "Both sides refuse to have a conversation" ordeal, there are tons of conversations happening across sides, but that all gets drowned out by reactionary screeching.

@major5554

18 күн бұрын

@@Zxykaryyou’re actually living in delusion

@froglegstastebestsalted

11 күн бұрын

@@major5554 explain freak, half the country wants to live in the future half wants 1830. You fuc king people

@Xazamas

10 күн бұрын

(Also a non-American) I know a seemingly normie guy who said he genuinely believes USA might have second civil war soon.

@major5554

10 күн бұрын

@@Xazamas the only civil war is between the ruling class. Trump is apart of the ruling class but he very much a maverick. Him tearing apart the ruling class I don’t mind at all.

Like the video. But maybe dont reuse so many clips? By the end it was getting kinda of monotonous. It didn't ruin the video or anything its still great. It just looks kinda lazy.

@JiriJustra

20 күн бұрын

His selection of channels also was not greatest. Mostly grifters, seems to me. There are better sources.

@wumbojet

18 күн бұрын

​@@JiriJustra all the people that talk about sweet baby inc destroying games, DEI and whatever other conspiratorial talking points are either grifters or misinformed dumbasses

@Web720

17 күн бұрын

@@JiriJustra Agreed and mostly on the lower sub count, around his. I thought he was gonna bring in more Asmon or Mutahar stuff, people with millions of subs, but it seems to be just smaller channels (which is what 50K-500K is). I think this shows how underground "GG2" is compared to GG1 when you had people going to UN to TV shows and multiple gaming and non-gaming news outlet there were talking about it. He also paints a narrative picking the most loud and annoying ones than the ones that aren't, again like Asmon/Muta. The other biggest one is Rev with ~600K but its only pictures and he has WAY less alarming sounding than the guy saying it's the downfall of western civilization. I wouldn't say it was cherry picked, but he could have picked more KZreadrs videos that weren't all hyperbolic on their messaging.

@JiriJustra

17 күн бұрын

@@Web720 I was thinking Midnight's Edge or Overlord DVD would be fine as entry levels. They are easy on your ears and fairly informative (culture-wise). Or UpperEchelon. He is more fact-oriented, talks GG and his researches are throughout. That ties back to his (Never's) limited grasp of this situation, that itself is quite complex. edit: "(Never's)" added

@YusifAgayev-ck1br

11 күн бұрын

@@JiriJustramost of the people who engage in grievance-mongering and profit off of selling outrage to their audience are… grifters… surprise, surprise

Isn't it a shame that BEING RATIONAL is the riskiest thing you can do on the internet? 💯

@DaxterKing

25 күн бұрын

You thought for yourself? Clearly you are biased against my favorite youtuber where I get all my takes from, how could you be so cruel to them?

@vazazell5967

25 күн бұрын

Rational discussion of incest or any other forbidden topic in the current internet is a nightmare

@Gungrave123

25 күн бұрын

He's not rational, he is spineless and cowardly as usual.

@viljamtheninja

25 күн бұрын

@@DaxterKing Funny how everyone keeps thinking their own views are rational but everyone else is an extremist.

@user-nh8le8uv6g

25 күн бұрын

@@vazazell5967 wanna have a rational discussion regarding incest?

This is bewildering to me--I've never heard of any of this until this video. Makes me glad I'm not on Twitter, though. A few other folks have pointed this out, but as a writer, I just wanted to clarify that "sensitivity reading" is not a grift--it's just a specific form of research. If you're writing a story about a specific historical event, you might interview people who were there, or historians who focus on that specific event. Similarly, if you're writing, for example, about a character with a specific disability, you might hire a sensitivity reader who has that specific disability and would be able to read over your story to check for accuracy, as they obviously have real life experience in that area. Personal example: for a small personal project I did, I wrote a short story that involved characters from another country celebrating Christmas. I did research on how Christmas was celebrated there, but to be sure, I asked someone who was from that country to read over my story to make sure it was accurate. It wasn't as big a thing of hiring a professional sensitivity reader, but it's the same concept. Very basic stuff. Back on the wider topic of the video, while it sounds like I might disagree with you on some political stances, I'm really glad you're doing the work in being fair in covering this topic regardless of your own stance. Nice work.

@bosstuna8115

24 күн бұрын

Did you know there's something called 'empathy'? You wasted money to hire someone to judge your work when you could have used your human experience. Know thyself...

@jared20089

24 күн бұрын

​@@bosstuna8115 "Empathy" as you say, does not teach you the nuances and full context of people's real experiences, in fact, oftentimes it creates biases that only serves to offend. The way abled people treat disabled people for example.

@flavionms

24 күн бұрын

@@jared20089 People with real experiences are also biased. They can report their experience, but their experiences are neither universal now very objective. There's a huge gap between events that happened and what people interpret and feel about them. But either way that doesn't matter, because biases aren't really a problem in writing. Unless you're specifically trying to make sweeping generalizations in your writings, which is ill-advised either way, all you're presenting is one perspective. Portraying one bad thing about one certain person who has a specific characteristic is not offensive, unless you as the viewer cannot comprehend that people are unique, even if they share some characteristic with you. For instance, remember the Pokemon movie? The main antagonist was a person with a disability who wanted to do some evil stuff to stop being disabled. Some people (not all, nor most, it's always just a small handful of people who act unreasonably like this) though that was problematic, because it implied people with disabilities just want to get rid of them. Of course, that is silly, because there are millions of people with disabilities out there, each with very different experiences and perspective. A statement about what one of them could maybe think means nothing about any other. Only someone particularly irrational you would think the movie is saying every disabled person just wants to get rid of their disability because they hate it and would do anything they could. Now, of course, you as the writer has the right to opt not to write a character like that because you're worried about either offending or convincing those very same unreasonable people. But that would be a loss for everyone else. The problem is that without your biases, your unique perspective, your humanity, you'll never write a good story.

@BabyCharmander

24 күн бұрын

@@flavionms​​⁠Er, no, just about every disabled person I know said that villain was an issue. There were ways the villain could have been written that would have made the portrayal better, and better storytelling in general. More accurate and caring portrayals of things can lead to better storytelling. For example, if your only disabled character is a villain, that kinda sucks. But if you have MULTIPLE disabled characters in your work, that can make for better storytelling, and also create some great narrative parallels. Wanna know a story that did that? The original Star Wars trilogy. It’s not a perfect story, of course, but both Luke AND Vader having prosthetic hands was an interesting narrative parallel. And that’s just one example. Also, no, obviously a single disabled person’s perspective is not going to represent every disabled person. That’s why groups of sensitivity readers exist, too, like the one that the people mentioned in this video are screaming about for some reason. I have to say, you and the other reply here effectively saying “NO! Don’t do THIS SPECIFIC KIND OF RESEARCH! That’s BAD!!” is some of the weirdest anti-writing advice I’ve ever heard.

@BabyCharmander

24 күн бұрын

@@bosstuna8115I didn’t spend any money-it was a very short story that the person agreed to read over for free because they were happy to help and enjoyed my writing. I also released the story for free. It was just a small project, not a novel of anything. Also, “empathy” is not going to tell me how the traditions of another country work.

Zamatsu is becoming easier & easier to defend in anime court.

@Dyno_98

9 күн бұрын

You mean Zamasu from DBS?

1:27:00 seems almost as if removing dislike counter was not very well though idea... Interesting...

@kvltovpersonality6290

25 күн бұрын

This 100%

@KuroOnehalf

23 күн бұрын

I think it's good. There hasn't been a day that I've missed it. I welcome not being exposed to more needless negativity. And I like that my lizard brain isn't looking down at the number and making some preliminary biased judgment on a video before watching it.

@KasumiRINA

22 күн бұрын

@@KuroOnehalf also, dislikes ALWAYS counted as interaction for algorithm, and people disliking videos en masse promoted them for KZread algorhithm. A lot of people just clicked to see the red lightsaber grow, inadvertently promoting bad content. NOW it's slightly more likely to get ignored. You can see in comments it's different, dislike doesn't diminish likes but rank the top comment lower.

@T61APL89

22 күн бұрын

wait, jenny smith... are you saying the multi billion dollar platform doesnt care about its users beyond how long their eyeballs stay glued to the screen playing their rage bait? damn, you sure are some kind of genius for pointing that out!

@doggfite

22 күн бұрын

What does removing the dislike counter have to do with anything? The issue is caused by adding it back through a third party tool. KZread curbed the issue of brigading via the dislikes by making them invisible to users, so people can't bandwagon. A third party extension slaps a bandaid on it and calls it good enough. That has nothing to do with KZread.

The midi radiohead renditions go so hard.

@Hero_Of_Old

25 күн бұрын

Didn't expect My Iron Lung lol

@FayeSabre

25 күн бұрын

isn't it My Iron Lung? Either way, loved the tune too lmao.

@alex-qn5xp

25 күн бұрын

@@Hero_Of_Old same, neverknowsbest has good taste.

@alex-qn5xp

25 күн бұрын

​​@@FayeSabre not just my iron lung, he's got a few in this one.

@emporioalnino4670

25 күн бұрын

I never expected 8 bit Just to rock so hard. Radiohead is timeless.

Now that you mention it, I really do feel bad for Minsc.

"I know this isn't what you subscribe for" Well, I can tell you that, for me at least, this video earned you a subscriber. Clearly very thorough in your research and very well executed.

Thanks for making this video. The first time I heard about this was looking through the comments for Bellular's video and finding so many calls for him to talk about Sweet Babie Inc. Compared to the first GamerGate this attempted sequel has not been nearly as subtle, and I appreciate your view on it. Hope you have a good day.

@madness1931

24 күн бұрын

Honestly, it's just made me respect Bellular more, for not covering the BS, for easy clicks. I've seen so many "news" channels go down that road.

@rudolfambrozenvtuber

23 күн бұрын

​@@madness1931 He could lay off the fake tweet thumbnails though (even if he makes them look purposefully fake it's still annoying)

@spvrda

22 күн бұрын

Subtle about what? Journalist corruption and cronyism? They weren't trying to

@Ren99510

18 күн бұрын

@@madness1931 But he did cover it. He just did it very badly. Like if you are going to talk about something, at least be knowledgeable about it.

@Sobepome

17 күн бұрын

@@Ren99510 He made a video in response to people demanding he cover sweet baby inc by going over basic facts for why it wasn't relevant to the original video. You really want to think it was very badly done but that's because for you and your ilk anything short of absolute capitulation and joining the mob is a dire threat to the continued existence of your movement. It's actually pretty funny that the comments are full of GG2 idiots claiming he is talking around the elephant in the room.... when there's a section in the video directly talking about SBI working with fellow traveler. If your argument relies on people not knowing what's in the video then you might be wrong.

Gamergate 2? When did this happen? I feel like Abed from Community gwtting the pizzas just to come to the apartment and seeing everything and everyone on fire

@ishiggydiggy1410

25 күн бұрын

That was Troy

@Nagram_

25 күн бұрын

@@ishiggydiggy1410 Right right, I got the names confused

@clemenscohn7371

25 күн бұрын

Never happened. It's just the anti-GG crowd calling criticism it to get people on their side because muh gooblergate.

@mechanicalmonk2020

24 күн бұрын

​@@Nagram_ 🤨

@sarahhirsch8919

24 күн бұрын

I saw some headlines pop up a couple of months ago. I tried to follow the thread, but I wasn't able to get what the problem was and then I had to pay attention to real life and promptly forgot to look it up again.

Sure, paying some weird company to check if a game is leftist enough is absolutely what a game developer would do on their own. They're not at all heavily subsidized by entities like Vanguard or Blackrock to do that. I guess we can see their newest youtube project.

@Peasham

11 күн бұрын

All things that definitely happen.

@ehrtdaz7186

10 күн бұрын

Dude, even some indie devs paid SBI for their services. I don't know how or why Vanguard or Blackrock would be subsidizing them. Get your meds.

@jonaszpawlacz756

10 күн бұрын

@@ehrtdaz7186 that's literally even more reasons to be suspicious. Indie developers spending what little money they have available on fucking "sensitivity reading" of all things? The real world is not reddit, it hasn't devolved into the progressive madness enough to justify a company such as SBI existing organically, without serious money behind it.

@shanegale6143

9 күн бұрын

@@jonaszpawlacz756 Just take your meds please its concerning

@jonaszpawlacz756

9 күн бұрын

@@shanegale6143 yess, good golem. You don't need critical thinking, it hurts your little head. Just keep consooming your media, and you will be happy.

On a related note, it seems the GG2 people have moved on to the current controversy with Warhammer 40k. I feel this is because Sweet Baby Inc. has mostly ran out of steam as a boogieman. You can only rant about one company for so long until the rage bait becomes just a background buzzing.

@LordOdio

23 күн бұрын

Its going to keep ping ponging until they implode in on themselves, just like the first go around

@bryan-7997

23 күн бұрын

Tourists that aren’t involved in the Warhammer community trying to create more controversy. The majority Warhammer community just making jokes on the retcon or just “observe and wait” right now. Personally GW could’ve done better with the retcon.

@Dext3rM0rg4n

23 күн бұрын

Oh I didn't follow that controversy. Google is telling me they retconned the custodes to say hey have female warrior, is that why there's a controversy ?

@benl2140

23 күн бұрын

​@@Dext3rM0rg4n Yes

@Icefear1986

23 күн бұрын

@@Dext3rM0rg4n yeah, basicly some people are complaining a lot about how retconing something ruins the lore, the game and basicly everything that has to do with it. In a game whose lore has been retconed donzens of times.

The biggest problem was in gg1 these tactics were shown to be the most effective. Humans will always do what works best to get what they want.

@TheMelnTeam

25 күн бұрын

Yeah. The crybullying this video highlights is right out of the playbook we saw last time, now being used against the journalists etc. Seems it's worked twice, too. I'm not particularly sympathetic to some of the journalists given prior conduct (and some conflict of interest behavior), but I'm still not a fan of the conduct now.

@scrittle

25 күн бұрын

Discrimination against whites ✔️ Woke ✔️ Western civilisation ✔️ Twitter ✔️ Be angry and reasonable about it ✔️ Back-in-the-good-'ol-days ✔️ Freedom of Speech ✔️ Hate mobs ✔️ There's a slogan for snowflakes and edgelords being two sides of the same coin.

@PaulusAlone

25 күн бұрын

@@TheMelnTeam - White has become the new black, children have become the new adults and women have become the new men recently…and people still don’t seem to realize we are simply swapping the jackboot of power from left to right foot as it were, rather than stop wearing the actual jackboot? Modern woke puritans are already creating their own backlash of conservative Christian puritans that will swing society backwards and forwards just like the conservative 1950’s led to the liberal revolution of the 1960’s and the disillusionment of the 1970’s and then back to the conservative 1980’s again and then the liberalism of the 1990’s and onwards forever…LOL People don’t read their history enough to spot the obvious patterns unfortunately?🥹

@j.2512

25 күн бұрын

good thing gaming is amazing now thanks to wokism and journalist are always right

@idontwantahandlethough

25 күн бұрын

@@j.2512 ...nobody said either of those things. Calm down there bud. P.S. Just like GG1, GG2 is nothing but a bunch of sad losers getting riled up about a make-believe issue because they don't have anything real in their lives. I get being a sad loser, and I get not having anything real in my life... but come on.

Wait people think Helldivers is serious? :O

@QuantumTelephone

24 күн бұрын

No. It's pure cope because woke people made a great game. They don't actually believe it

@DJMavis

22 күн бұрын

People think that Starship Troopers and Robocop aren't satire too. People are not too bright when it comes to things that might shake their world view.

@ronmastrio2798

21 күн бұрын

@@DJMavis No they think Starship ropers is a bad satire form a director who didn't read the book.

@DJMavis

20 күн бұрын

@@ronmastrio2798 Whilst I am sure they exist too, there are people that don't see it as satire. And I believe he started reading the book, but didn't want to read about space fascism, so lampooned it instead.

@Mondoness

20 күн бұрын

@@DJMavis plus both movies are cool asf

This comment will probably be lost in the pile with others, but if you see this, I just must express my gratitude to You. By a solid margin your channel is my most favorite place to spend time when I'm on youtube. I love that your videos are over one (two, six?) hours long, i watched every second of each, and I admire your titanic patience and effort to edit them and upload them. But most of all, I am truly grateful you are genuine in every second of your work, despite the risk and the anxiety. I'm sure this is why me and many thousands more are subscribed and watch you. The topics may be controversial, the opinions may be different from viewers, but I'm sure many come to you for who you are first, and your idea expressed topics second (and no less important to us). I work in content moderation where i see plenty, and I must confess - the only thing stopping me from following the narrative of the gamergate is a promise to my own self to not care about any conspiracy, but from what I saw in your video, I stand wiser and can now put this topic to rest. Thank you, truly. I can only applaud and encourage you, good sir, to keep on going. Even if all this monumental effort will come to a close one day, I'm sure you may stand proud that you did it all by doing what you can do best - being yourself. And, at least for one viewer (though im sure in many more), you will be remembered for a long while. See you in Baldurs Gate 3 video.

Any more spin and you'll qualify for tornado insurance

I think the reason that there hasn't been as strong as a response narrative is because well ... these kinds of controversies tend to be nothing but people just venting and then doing nothing after. So the winning move is to not play into the culture war and focus on real, actionable items like the class action lawsuit against Ubisoft over shutting down The Crew, which might actually further game preservation efforts. If there's one thing I've learned about online politicking, it's that the majority of 'activists' are just LARPers who think a Tweet from the comfort of their armchair is the equivalent of giving a speech in person at the Washington Memorial. It's why shit hasn't changed since 2014.

@PaulusAlone

25 күн бұрын

THAT my friend is likely the closest to the real TRUTH that we will ever hear…and most of us will not want to hear it because of that…LOL Remember the golden rule of Oscar Wilde: “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”🥹

@ARantingMarch

19 күн бұрын

And I feel like NKB should've been more clear. The "other side" learned from GG 1.0. it's best to just NOT engage with this obvious BS, and let these people rage by themselves in their room lol. Plus, all the "left" people, as he said, are busy talking about the upcoming US elections and the wars around the globe. The "real stuff", as someone would say.

i highly appreciate you giving us this kind of content, it shows you dont want to treat your audience like dumb people, and instead you raise interesting questions about both sides of the argument, thanks man, good content

@CaptainBongMan420

24 күн бұрын

He literally raised NO questions in the anti SBI direction... Literally nothing... This was a fuckin propaganda video at best lolol what did YOU watch? xD

@lirionbelmont

24 күн бұрын

@@CaptainBongMan420 can't tell if you're ironic or not, nice shitpost bro

@Crowder

23 күн бұрын

@@lirionbelmontgiven his name most likely

@deesevrin8570

23 күн бұрын

...He really does though. If you had an understanding of both sides of this issue you'd see this video for the shallow nonsense that it is.

@CaptainBongMan420

23 күн бұрын

@@lirionbelmont the only shit post here was the OP and this video... and all the mental midgets that think it was good xD

A few things (Don't know if you read comments, but if not I guess this is hear for other people to see): I have always thought it was painfully corny that people slap "gate" on the back of controversies. Gamergate is no different. It's lame. I also think ganging up on people on social media is lame, but what that Grummz guy is doing, if true, is not the same as what some (because I don't know about all of them) of the KZread guys do, especially in regards to targeting others or trying to attract negative attention to themselves. I'm also think some of these creators bloat the amount of content they put out, which can get tiresome. And yeah, no one deserves harassment, and it's also tiresome to see people talk in extremes. Definitely agreed that that conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories (and that "Get woke go broke" uses cherry picked examples a lot of the time), but don't think you did a good/fair job of showing why some of those youtubers were saying what they were saying, because they weren't all angry over a conspiracy theory. Also, when Sweet Baby was talked about, it was hard to believe you were being charitable to both sides when you didn't show much of the actual evidence of what (I can only say some, because I don't watch or pay attention to all of those guys that he showed, and haven't even heard of a lot of them) those guys were specifically talking about, which they (at least the ones I've seen) tend to include in their videos but is missing here. Endymion and Gundam, for example, tend to actually read entire quotes and show what they're specifically talking about. Not saying you have to agree with their opinions on the topic, but they are specific, and they do so often enough for you to at the very least understand (even if you don't always agree) with their takes. It was kind of frustrating to see clips of guys yelling without even knowing what piece of evidence they were using to justify their anger, regardless of whether or not they were correct. Anyone can edit stuff like that for anyone, so that just didn't seem fair. The discussion got sloppy when talking about the youtubers discussing racism, missing the point that the people (like the Gundam example you used) talking about this stuff are pointing out the hypocrisy and racism coming from the people whose whole initiative/narrative depends on them being the victims of it. The whole issue is that they claim to be victims of it without proof, but use that claim to justify being openly racist "in retaliation." Again, I'm not going to try and act like everyone who's on youtube covering these topics are doing so thoroughly or in a mature way, but I also don't think it's fair to try and formulate an argument that lumps all them together as if their behavior and rationale are all exactly the same, especially if some (like Upper Echelon) definitely do research before putting up a video. And again, they also at least show some evidence so that you know why they think what they think. Also, both sides use the word "gaslighting" a lot. What's an actual issue is whether or not they are using the term correctly. Who cares if they're saying it a lot if it's accurate? That's not a point against their argument if that's the case. I'm not going to act like any youtuber or whoever is perfect or infallible. It's possible that individuals have made errors in what they're reporting, whether it's to do with this gamergate stuff or something else in the past. I'm not going to pretend like I'm trying to defend everyone, and I wouldn't even want to try, especially when it comes to malicious behavior. However, while I understand you annoyance with how this drama has unfolded, I don't think you got into the meat of the issue (the ACTUAL issue that's the common denominator of all this drama), but instead skimmed across areas where some people were mad or made weak or anger-fueled-but-not-factually-based points. The "you" and "you all" in the conclusion just seemed too reductive, because, while I do totally get that a lot of people who get all tribal about controversies (which is why I don't like politics in general) and snowball into echo chambers (And there will always be bad apples in every group of people who agree about something on the internet), I think there are enough youtubers at least who've covered this stuff who don't fall into the category of crybullying. Some do, yes, but . Some of the examples you used in this video are of people I'm pretty sure don't fit that description, at the very least in regards to the gamergate drama. I still like your work on this channel, though.

Great funny coverage. Knew nothing bout this and now i wish I could go back lmao. Keep up the great work, over the years ive dropped many subscriptions to channels like yours, but you just keep pushing in new informative directions. The fact you dived into actual financial documents for this is great journalism.

anytime anyone adds "-Gate" to anything, I sleep... especially when its lazy media.

@jonathaneilbeck2263

24 күн бұрын

I prefer calling things "Affairs" sound old fanshioned and classy.

@The_Zeta_Male

24 күн бұрын

Uh...in gamergate's case the name was created by an actual gamergater

@aersla1731

23 күн бұрын

What about elsagate?

@jellomello2683

23 күн бұрын

Baldurs-Gate will come in hot

@gabbiehoffmeister3962

23 күн бұрын

The scandal involving hydration at that hotel Nixon got in trouble for is now walled Watergatewatergate.

Everything else set aside what annoys me about all of this in general is how it made me see race. When I was younger I did not care what race characters in movies or games were. Blade was awesome, Morpheus was cool, no thought given beyond that. But with a spotlight being shone so brightly on inclusion, race and diversity, I can't help but always wonder WHY a certain character is a certain race, exacerbated by raceswapping of established characters being done. I do think that all of this divides more than it creates cohesion. There's nothing natural about it. On the other hand, I do see that there are people who still deny others opportunities or validity because of race or gender. I am not like that, so it is easy to not consider that. I'm all for sensible inclusivity, but it shouldn't be done forcefully, with a hammer, whilst antagonizing a large part of the population (mainly white people). I don't have a solution for this, but the way it currently stands and is done, it only creates further strife. And, as people usually do, having things forced on them and antagonizing them will lead to irrational reactions. Instead of trying to impose and forcing others, there should be an effort to realistically discuss matters and find a workable consensus. In an ideal world, that would work, but with the internet and social media completely destroying the ability to discuss and compromise I don't see that working either. Personally, I just wish there would be more genuineness in the world instead of everything being manufactured and twisted to cater to agendas (this goes for all sides). I don't see that changing, though. You could argue there always were narratives being pushed, but I feel that with the internet and its reach today it became much, much worse, giving people the opportunity to grab virtual pitchforks and just form mobs to attack each other. This is not the way this should work, and the division seems to just grow every day, with people gleefully cheering when the other side takes a loss. I wonder how this will turn out eventually. Thank you for a more balanced video that takes all side's points of view into consideration. This is sorely lacking today.

Is Sweet Baby Ray a pdf file too?

Stellar video, thank you for your sacrifice... but can I just say that I WAS GETTING REGULARLY DISTRACTED BY ALL THE RADIOHEAD COVERS IN THE BACKGROUND 😭 I just came out of the honeymoon obsession phase with that band, I can't be going back this soon, lmao Other music choices are supreme also, shout out to Hotline Miami 🤟

i just don't understand how anyone can listen to anything said by people like heelsvbabyface and think "yeah, they're totally rational and reasonable and i should take what they say as correct".

@Tenosyn

25 күн бұрын

To be fair, his content is a spinoff of "Angry video game reviews" which is a genre about yelling and getting overly angry about video games. It's a character. That said, I don't think the character is productive to discourse at all.

@LonelyKnightess

25 күн бұрын

Imagine sitting there for 16 hours a day listening to these people fucking scream at you all the time no wonder these people are insane.

@eyoshinthemaximum

25 күн бұрын

I miss when he was a WoW KZreadr and stayed in his lane instead of spouting bullshit

@KuroOnehalf

25 күн бұрын

@@Tenosyn AVGN uses anger as a comedy bit though.

@acronen

25 күн бұрын

Not gonna lie, I didn't mind him when he was making his little WoW videos, and enjoying the game. It was kinda wholesome. He slowly descended into anger at WoW and saw that got more views and engagement, and then just went full pivot from there to become an absolute parody at this point. Kinda sad.

It'd be nice if people could disagree with something, without blowing it out of all proportion into some evil, apocalyptic threat. I guess nuance doesn't bring the clicks, though. Plus, if we're gonna freak out about the future of gaming, let's stop obsessing over some small, myopic consultancy, and instead worry more about the monetisation strategies of greedy "AAA" developers.

@Praenuntium

25 күн бұрын

It's not just about gaming, the woke have infiltrated everything. People are just sick of it. Not surprised there's this kind of reaction.

@thirdrebirth7683

25 күн бұрын

Or we could just call it trash and move on like everything else. Starfield was dogshit and I complained about it a few times because I felt I wasted my money, and moved on with my life. Not hard. Weirdos that can't move on though...

@PaulusAlone

25 күн бұрын

@@thirdrebirth7683 - That my friend is the problem with the modern era in general. People are now LIVING in their moments of hurt, disappointment, anger etc.,etc. Instead of expressing it, accepting it and moving forward. This is truly a first world problem that people living real hard lives in Africa certainly don’t have…because they are too busy surviving…and they do it with more grace than I see here in this first world of ours?😅

@D64nz

25 күн бұрын

@@PaulusAlone Reminds me of a very old Homer Simpson quote. - Don't keep beating yourself up over it. Beat yourself up once and move on.

@blastkillskank

25 күн бұрын

Completely valid point, however do you not see that for some reason it is exactly all of those greedy, scam pushing AAA companies that are pushing the woke ideology the hardest? If they don't care about your wallet or livelihood trying to milk your wallet dry - then they most definitely don't care about your sexual and diverse freedoms either... there is somewhat of a trojan horse element to all of this progressive propaganda existing so often games, and Im sure it has something to do with socio/economic long term investment that will rake in more profits from "suckers" in the long run. its no surprise either that the quality of AAA has gone down because their hiring practices have changed and it seems like they favor hiring activists instead of talent. Im sure they pay the new activist devs less too..which all equates to predictable, soul less, noncreative and greedy products in the end that people are tired of seeing being pushed into their favorite IP's of all time.

people complaining about how companies are out of touch have clearly not been in the roblox community.

i had somehow forgotten that time carlton of swindon found himself on rogan it was such an embarassment, i dont remember why but sargon basically spoke for one hour about this one time (it was a recent event) where he sat front row at some sarkeesian talk and she sort of passively aggressivley ignored him while vague talking about him? idk, but basically rogan implied he was a hypocrite (i dont remember why) then tuned the fuck out for the rest of the show

@l.a.wright6912

12 күн бұрын

It wasn't passive it was a very litteral callout.

The reality is that some games are just shite. Has little to do with diversity or SJWs. I think it has more to do with overblown budgets and publishers and large studios basically forcing their own hands by making games that need to sell absurd amounts of copies to make a profit. And when you need to make a media product that needs to sell millions and millions of copies to break even, it tends to become bland, boring and safe. That's why games suck dong, not because of activists. I'm sure there could be amazing games made with all kinds of representation, but for that to happen those games must come from genuine talent and creativity, not from 500+ man teams scrambling to make the appeal so broad that there's nothing creative left.

@MRwho35

23 күн бұрын

Personally...I feel it's kinda both? I know that representation when done RIGHT can be good, being a Fallout New Vegas fan myself and one of my favorite characters being Veronica, unfortnatly instead of being an actual positive to create new media with original Stories and Characters, it's being smeared in Established IP's people have come to care and enjoy over the decades. Makes one wish Loot Boxes were the Boogie Man again haha! (not really) But the last part of your comment is absolutely true back in the day and it still is nowdays, we need people who can create great sotries and innovative gameplay for their audiences to enjoy and I'm thankfull that indies are more or less managing to be suscessfull at least.

@RutabagaSwe

23 күн бұрын

@@MRwho35 i might be a bit of a negative Nancy here but I imagine most of the games that have eaten dirt because of claimed SJW interference would probably suck even if there were no forced representation as well. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that, while forced political agendas might not by default add anything valuable, it's not the core of the problem with the larger gaming industry at the moment. Obsessing over activism in gaming now feels like being fixated on a small cut on your hand, while having a gangrenous leg. It just doesn't make much sense to me.

@MRwho35

23 күн бұрын

@@RutabagaSwe I get where you are coming from. What I was trying to say is that, by adding poorly implemented progressive narratives into games (specially estabilished IP's) it only serves to add to the mediocrity of said games, thus creating a Targert/Narrative to those who may not know better to blame upon. Paying for said games and not having reasonable refund policies can defnetly spark more then mere disapointment as well in my personal experience... Couple that with the continues engagement farming from both sides of the argumnent, specially from Journalist websites and people who made a name for themselves and are still plaguing the industry to this day, it's no wonder we are seeing the second wave of GG now. Which, in itself, does come with it's share of Bad Actors and other problems that are likely to come. I dare go even farther and say the timing of this new movement isn't just a coincidence for happening right in the next presidential election....but thats another can of worms best not be touched upon for now.

@theanimerapper6351

21 күн бұрын

​@@RutabagaSweI think devs add diversity to bad games on purpose as a shield. Like they knew forespoken would be bad so they made the MC black so they could deflect some of the criticism. I hate that they keep putting us in bad games and movies smh

@mattd5240

17 күн бұрын

​@MRwho35 Diversity in a game doesn't make something inherently woke. New vegas is a shining example diversity done right. Unfortunately, games can no longer do this anymore due to incompetent writers forcing their ideology into the products they make.

How can video games be a pillar of "Western civilization" when the entire industry was carried by Japanese companies for literal years after the Western markets imploded with the 1980s arcade/Atari bust? Without Nintendo and Sega, there is no current video game industry, like please be serious.

@TheJacklikesvideos

25 күн бұрын

i guess food isn't a pillar of culture because other cultures eat, too.

@OK2BeFat

25 күн бұрын

​@@TheJacklikesvideos That doesn't make any sense and it doesn't apply.

@lamontkhoza2856

25 күн бұрын

​@TheJacklikesvideos yeah but food is manufactured everywhere??? OP's point still stands cause Japan was the sole country in the 90s manufacturing and creatively designing majority of the gaming market until the west caught up again

@theidiotchildren

24 күн бұрын

@@lamontkhoza2856 That's literally not true. id created Doom and Quake in the 90's. Sierra and LucasArts developed and published tons of games, notably revolutionizing and popularizing point-&-click adventure games in the 80's and 90's. Ultima and Wizardry were the inspirations for Dragon Quest. Modern versions of Oregon Trail are based on the commercial version first developed in 1984. 1983 represented a crash in the market, not the wholesale destruction of it. The NES in the 80's and all the popular consoles of the 90's simply pushed gaming towards the mainstream much faster than the PC could have on its own in those days.

@lamontkhoza2856

24 күн бұрын

@theidiotchildren okay yeah, you're right. I forgot about that. I was solely thinking about the mainstream console market, my mistake. However, the Point still stands. Western civilization did not fall cause the American video game industry went through a rut

It's not so bad: eventually, Emil Pagliaurulo will herald in a new era, uniting all gamers in an epic battle facing off Tommy Tallarico in the ultimate climax of the Culture Wars, with Pagliaurulo winning because he came prepared with a metric ton of design documents on his USB Stick he found at venue he found where Randy Pitchfork was performing a magic trick, making fun disappear in Gear Box' Video Games.

@psionicdongpunch

20 күн бұрын

Hahaha xd Tommy tallarico lol just like that one hbomberguy video lmaooo 😂

My sister heard me watching this video and said that you have a really nice voice.

To this day I have no idea what gamergate is. It was explained to me before but I can never care enough to remember five minutes later.

@theoperator3712

25 күн бұрын

Gaming journalists sleeping with game devs for good reviews. Who then said they were being harassed when called out on it.

@Nuvizzle

25 күн бұрын

@@theoperator3712 This allegedly happened a single time for a game nobody cared about. Any evidence of that single event is too flimsy to ever hold up in any kind of court if this were even illegal, but even if we grant that single event as happening it's a meaningless blip an doesn't justify starting a crusade championed exclusively by history's most out of shape and unfuckable crusaders.

@wadebutler7127

25 күн бұрын

​@@theoperator3712 Repeating this over and over won't magically make it true. ​Fact is, no such review exists or ever did. You are welcome to produce it, but you and I both know you can't because you and I both know you're just repeating what you heard from some other internet clown, who himself heard it from an internet clown, who also heard it from yet another internet clown. There was no review. A writer (Nathan Grayson) mentioned a game by (Zoe Quinn) in a news article. He never reviewed the game. The mention was done in passing, among a number of other games. They weren't in a relationship at the time, but started dating later. That's it. That's all that happened. There's zero evidence anyone slept with anyone else for reviews. None. Even a decade later, you're still repeating long since disproven lies.

@tical2399

25 күн бұрын

@@theoperator3712 Please produce verifiable proof my good sir / mam

@scrittle

25 күн бұрын

@@wadebutler7127 I'm willing to come out guilty here and say I always believed that wasn't the case because all the sources debunking the conspiracy didn't have a consistent story. Every article blamed somebody new, mocked white men, and some believed the relationship part was true, and stories covering the opposite side weren't clear either. I tuned out of it and assumed gender pandering had something to do with it, and that's coming from someone who visits their local cross dressing pantomime every year.

Very solid video, honestly the only thing I disapprove of is the apology at the very very end. Not that I don't see where you're coming from, but I appreciate your content nonetheless, and as much as I can't speak for everyone else, I'd like to think that a lot of others also enjoy your content, regardless of whether it's related to politics or Baldurs Gate. I personally found your channel from browsing my front page on KZread and the Adult Games video stood out, so I gave it a chance and since then I've been pleasantly surprised with your content, how in-depth you often go, but most importantly how well-versed you are in whatever topic you choose to talk about, your pacing, script (assuming you do write one, but I would be surprised if you don't) and your list of sources. I must say in terms of list of sources, I actually appreciate that it's not just a bunch of links thrown into a pastebin, but that they're actually carefully split up into the parts where they're brought up and as such belong. I personally don't engage or consume much of these kind of things, as in actively browsing stuff e.g. in regards to Gamergate 2, however even though I haven't been actively browsing for it, I have still seen my fair share of posts here and there about it. That being said, I much prefer a more in-depth and well-spoken video essay, such as yours here, especially when it comes to times where it's as if nobody else speaks out on an issue, which you mention in the very end of the video. With all that being said, you do also present things in a way that can make it both interesting and an entertaining watch, regardless of whether or not you find the subject matter interesting, so thank you for a great watch and I hope you have a lovely day!

@kittaylor5752

24 күн бұрын

Congratulations on making a polite and honest comment, sharing your view while remaining cordial. Something lacking in a lot of discourse these days. Prior to NKB making videos that gets everyone arguing, I must say his deep dive into Chinese Indie games was something I had never thought about before (as was the Adult Games video before YT removed it)

Thank you for lending your voice. Genuinely this video means a lot to me. I sincerely believe my life would have been better if I was exposed to a video like this when the first gamergate happened. I had to do so much growing to undo the damage gamergate did in 2015 to my worldview.

Thank you for the informative summary - I didn't know about this, and hearing your point of view cleared up a lot things. Thank you for the effort, I know it was a tough decision on your part.

I love your videos man, I ain’t going anywhere, great work on this one as well

First the Emil Pagliarulo video, now this. My man really has balls made of tungsten. It is really funny how we went from everything being racist and sexist to everything being racist and sexist, except the sides somehow swapped.

@MISOFOREVERRR

24 күн бұрын

Those balls are brittle and will eventually break under the weight of his own hubris

@mattd5240

17 күн бұрын

Simply using the enemies tactics against them. Fighting fire with fire.

another week went by and even more D3@th threats were issued BY A DEVELOPER plus a KZreadr's family got harassed by Alyssa Mercante for making a petition to close down Kotaku, as if that has any significance. do you see now how demented and degenerate this industry is?

I'm 35 minutes into this video... how is there still an hour left?! I'm already exhausted by these people.

Anybody know what game the girl chatting with the giant playing guitar is from? Looked neet.

@3MolesInATrenchCoat

22 күн бұрын

Haven't seen that part yet but the description sounds like South of Midnight to me. Apologies if that's incorrect.

The real story of Gamergate 2 is about getting a new hobby

@shroomer8294

25 күн бұрын

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@picahudsoniaunflocked5426

25 күн бұрын

we should sign them up for beekeeping newsletters

@michaelkitchin9665

25 күн бұрын

Hell, it's not even that. There's a big wide world of games out there and most of the outrage focuses around the floundering top table. It's like someone saying they love movies but all they watch is Marvel adaptations. It's a really narrow perspective.

@KickinRadTopHat

24 күн бұрын

@michaelkitchin9665 When you look at most of these guys comments and thinking skills it’s honestly not surprising at all that they only seem to focus on lowest common denominator entertainment and literal children’s media

@Crowder

23 күн бұрын

And gatekeep that hobby. Very important!

Some things I've just noticed is that they're doing the actions that their enemies were doing in 2016-2022 and now the power dynamic has shifted to them, which is ironic ngl

This is the first time I'm hearing about Gamergate and I'm reminded just how wonderful peaceful life is when you stop watching TV and only watch game retrospectives and playthrough. Everyone should try it 😊

57:44 you know whats utterly insane each game each KZreadr repeated the most like starfield, forspoken, and saints row actually had nothing to do with sweet baby and sweet baby didn’t work on those games at all

@kyleo7945

24 күн бұрын

They did

@han5807

24 күн бұрын

Sweet baby is just the most obvious one.Blackrock and Vanguard money and ESG scores alone enough to persuade and thereatened many of those clowns in game companies.Add to that alread indoctrinated and radical feminist and liberals in a position of any kind of power.These are radical socialist guided by politics and ideology not by merit or basic common sense logic.

@beyvntarson3123

24 күн бұрын

@@kyleo7945 No they didn't lmao. SBI Detected list removed them even and many other games because the moron who added them to the list was wrong.

@Notallowed101

23 күн бұрын

I don't think this is "utterly insane". This is just how misinfo spreads. Trusted news sources routinely retract statements but no one reads about it after the fact.

@Locksden

23 күн бұрын

I don't doubt @kyleo7945 is correct. But it's not *just* Sweet Baby, nor *just* DEI Consultants. The issue is that there's an obvious correlation between the use of DEI principles when designing games and creating *bad games.* SBI just happened to be in the right place at the right time to get a lot of attention.

The Dragon's Dogma videos are gonna be rad

Does anyone know what game griffin gaming is playing in his videos? It honestly looks pretty dope and I want to play it

@Mohmar2010

3 күн бұрын

CS:GO, before it's update into CS2

The Black Rock thing is definitly NOT a conspiracy. You have the CEO Larry Fink openly state, that they want to force behavior in that direction and if companies dont complie they will be financially impacted. QUOTE: " What we are doing internally is, if you dont achieve these lvls of impact (talking about ESG scores of companies), your compensation is going to be impacted financially, ok ?" On top of that there are multiple talks of him, that at least strengthen the claim that Black Rock is trying to use monetary asets to impact culture in certain "progressive" ways.

@lorenzo1425

12 күн бұрын

He's acc describing internal polices, and "compensation" meaning compensation of blackrock employees being based on targets for diversity. The outward-facing ESG stuff on the other hand _is_ a way they exert pressure on the industry, but ESG is a complete joke anyway. Meta is a top ESG stock, oil companies make "clean" arms that reinvest in the same oil company, and every major fund sees it as an easy way to convince gullible investors to pay a higher premium on their index funds

@36shadowboy

11 күн бұрын

Nope. False, the perfect example of how these people lie. You can read the full quote by looking this up, he was talking about trying to get companies to hire more diverse staff. Whether you think thats based or cringe, the only behavior they are talking about there is hiring practices. Not any sort of "Cultural Impact." Most of the stuff about blackrock ESG scores are tied to environmental sustainability, not anything social. The thing here is that this is an investment strategy. Investing in a coal mine in a blue state probably isnt the best idea, pragmatically it isnt whether you are for coal mining or against it. So those are the only behaviors they are tryign to force, internal corporate practices which Blackrock thinks will set them up for consistent growth.

@monke3842

10 күн бұрын

​@@36shadowboy "You can read the full quote by looking this up, he was talking about trying to get companies to hire more diverse staff." hiring should not be based on religion, sex or race, it should only be based on skills, qualifications and willingness to do work, if you hire people based on any other factors that's discrimination and immoral

@36shadowboy

10 күн бұрын

@@monke3842 I don't care, thats ur right to believe. My point isnt that blackrock is good, it's that ESG scores aren't conspiratorially pressuring companies to produce woke content

@allesarfint

7 күн бұрын

ESG is not a conspirancy to make the world "woke", is an attempt from companies to avoid government regulations by self-policing and from financial institutions to create new invesment markets people can pour money into, money which companies like Black Rock get to manage and to profit from. Of course there is people who actually care about what ESG stands for and try to make change, but they are few and mostly powerless, often used to make superficial statements that make the company look good as if it cares about things. It could have started with certain intentions, but ESG are no more a facade build to profit from.

Interesting window into a world I didn't know existed. Thanks for that. Whenever you feel sad about the state of things, just remember the point you made - most people just don't care enough to get involved. After watching this I don't think there really are sides, or winners. The only metric that matters is how people end up voting with their wallets.

@Veritas-66

25 күн бұрын

Unfortunately, there are so many predatory ways that companies have to hit our dopamine brains and there are many who are losing their money, and more, to these practises. Thankfully the EU is about to bring down the hammer and hopefully it'll help consumers.

@scrittle

25 күн бұрын

GamerGate isn't as influential as people claim it to be. There are many windows and each one has a shutter. Also. [Voting with your wallet is a sham. If dollars are ballots, why do some have more than others? You can't compare a real world democracy to a manipulative landscape teeming with micro-transactions and low-effort releases.] I copy this whenever I see that Twitter copypasta.

@KasumiRINA

25 күн бұрын

@@Veritas-66 entire EU still unable to get parity with shell production 2 years into biggest war since WW2, and they somehow fail to make proper sanctions that limit russia, so I don't know how they will succeed in more nuanced regulations. Not saying it's doomed et al, just very disillusioned with how ineffective Western bureaucracy is when combating foreign influence and corporate greed. So many companies manage to work in russia without major consequences....

@Veritas-66

24 күн бұрын

@@KasumiRINA I do not judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree. The EU has taken great strides in consumer protection, from mandating right of return across the EU, something the US doesn't have, to even taking on the giant Apple, in which they, I believe recently, have mandated that Apple to stop something that I can't quite recall, but I remember thinking it was crazy at the time.

"this is their playbook? to call people racist and cancel them for old tweets?" to be fair it did work for their side. they did win last time.

@blake77777

25 күн бұрын

Reality has a leftist bias

@commisaryarreck3974

25 күн бұрын

This is still their playbook Only they've infiltrated positions of power in major corporation now as well

@Maduc

25 күн бұрын

So you admit it's only about "sides" and "winning."

@kyokyodisaster4842

24 күн бұрын

"Their Side" showing your colors there huh? God you people are pathetic.

@ilililililili563

24 күн бұрын

@@Maduc it's random ass twitter war, ofc it's about wininng and sides. Game industry (the AAA side) is producing shit games since like 10 years. Baby inc, gamergates and other such clickbaity topics are not detrimental to quality of games nor are helping.

52:26 What a load of garbage lol. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is tacked on when my company got the ESG talk and presentation. Saying and listing a word is one thing. Actions and meaning and interpretation afterwards are another. The presentation and business vision changed to always combine ESG & DEI together.

@Peasham

20 күн бұрын

What is your problem with your company being diverse?

@justinland1208

5 күн бұрын

@@Peasham What's your problem with not purposely misunderstanding someones statement and then putting words in their mouth?

@Peasham

5 күн бұрын

@@justinland1208 He said it himself, him complaining about diversity is in the comment and everyone can see it.

@justinland1208

4 күн бұрын

@@Peasham incorrect. How embarrassing for you

I don't know why I ever doubted your capacity to give a well-reasoned and thoughtful perspective on a complex subject. Even if it's not what you'd normally cover, you once again knocked it out of the park, good job!

I'm not that plugged into everything that goes on online so I was at first only peripherally aware of Gamergate 2, but some of GG2's proponents were kind enough to explain that the ringleaders they were fighting against were Jewish women - which let me tell you did wonders in clarifying the entire thing for me.

@foreignuser_

21 күн бұрын

yeah a lot easier to just pretend it's because they are jewish and people you disagree with are racist rather than giving a shit about the situation itself

@sarafontanini7051

5 күн бұрын

or at leats they personally BELEIVED the people involved were jewish women, which was good enough for them anyway

Bunch of nonsense back then, bunch of nonsense again now.

@GangstarComputerGod

25 күн бұрын

I believed that the first time around. Partially because I’ve dealt with nonsense from guys in MMO’s. But after looking into more and ignoring the reactionary types I think there is a real issue in the industry with no independent journalism AT ALL. To disregard it as nonsense is willful ignorance. It’s exhausting so I get it but there is a problem with these huge investment firms and “consultants” controlling what is being made.

@widget5963

24 күн бұрын

​@@GangstarComputerGod I don't think I understand. If the studios are hiring the contractors for the specific purpose of helping decide what to make, how can that be the consultant's fault? And how does video game journalism even get brought into that? It sounds like what you're really mad about is that "gamers" aren't just white men any more, and companies have realized they can make more money if the games aren't full of just white men. Like, of course investment companies want to make more money? That should be obvious.

@Ares42

24 күн бұрын

@@GangstarComputerGod So, let me get this straight. In this luxury goods industry that's producing thousands of different products every year you are concerned about the fact that this company has an influence on something like 10-20 games per year ? This in an industry where you have large corporations that completely own and curate their own sections of the market ? If people were so concerned about centralized controlled messaging where was the grassroots uproar against the Microsoft-Activision merger, which had an infinitely bigger impact on the industry ? In the context of what you're talking about these concerns are farts in the wind compared to what's actually going on in the industry.

@rudolfambrozenvtuber

24 күн бұрын

​@@GangstarComputerGod consultant controlling huh? We went over this, but you didn't watch or didn't pay attention. And if they wanted more independent journalism, weird choice of targets. Bellular is independent, and Second Wind has also earned GG2's ire

@720pchannel

23 күн бұрын

@@Ares42 the one you are arguing is clearly stupid. Good making they see stuff for how it is and not for what their right wing/conservative shitholes tell them it it

Anybody who says the kind of shit that the CEO from Sweet Baby Inc. had said deserves to be fired for consistently insulting the fanbase they supposedly serve. I have zero sympathy for people that bite the hand that feeds them. Those comments don't sound like they're in jest, probably because they're not. Simply reverse the roles by replacing gamers in her speech with almost any other group and then see if it sounds fair to you to say the shit that she did.

@AntHero18

9 күн бұрын

It sounds like you've never worked in any industry ever. Literally any professional will talk like that about their customers in (non-formal) industry meetings. There are constant jokes in the software space about how every user is an idiot that can't understand UI. Look at a UI conference talk and chances are there will be jokes about this while they tell you how to "idiot proof" your UI. Comparing users to babies is not uncommon lol

@josedorsaith5261

8 күн бұрын

​@@AntHero18 Nah he's right. Saying "literally" just makes you sound desperate

@Peasham

8 күн бұрын

Oh I'd love to know what fanbase you think a consulting company serves.

@LordOdio

5 күн бұрын

@@josedorsaith5261 damn one word invalidates everything now, you guys have no dogs in you

SBI has been on my radar for some time now. I'm surprised no one mentions that Upper Echelon Gaming covered them more than a year ago.

@asrieldreemurr1856

13 күн бұрын

Wow that was more than an year ago? I thought it was like 6 months or something. Time flies. I watched his video and back then I totally did NOT expect this entire drama would happen. Life is funny

@GardoGamer

13 күн бұрын

now curious about the video... gonna check that after this...

LMAO I was waiting for the "FUCKING PRONOUNS" clip to show up at some point and you did not disappoint. That dude is never gonna be able to live that down

@amyzonkers7568

25 күн бұрын

He wasn't wrong though. Putting choosable pronouns in a game is ridiculous and showcases the influence of woke standards in modern video games. You can't even call characters "Male" or "Female" anymore.

@KickinRadTopHat

25 күн бұрын

@@amyzonkers7568 The pronoun options in Starfield are He (male), She (female), and They (nonbinary), what are you even talking about lmfao If you guys can't even take two seconds to google this stuff before talking shit why should anyone be obligated to take you seriously?

@amyzonkers7568

25 күн бұрын

@@KickinRadTopHat There are no Male/Female avatars in Starfield, only "body type 1" and "body type 2." The he/her pronouns are not tied to male/female. Perhaps you should play the game instead of googling it.

@roozbeh6999

25 күн бұрын

@@KickinRadTopHat there is no such a thing as " non binary " . woke propaganda shouldn't be forced fed to people when most people aren't a part of lgbtards

@KickinRadTopHat

25 күн бұрын

@@amyzonkers7568 So there's a male body type, a female body type, corresponding pronouns for both, and a nonbinary option. What's the problem here?