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[Lucas Silva #4903141]

Just wanted to give a little update on something I said earlier.
This is why people were dunking on Jeff Grubb about two months ago:

https://archive.md/Lyqrg

A hissy fit over Sophia Narwitz and people who dare to not want political sperging in their games coverage.
Very cool that Giant Bomb associates with someone like this!

 

[AnOminous]

Just wanted to give a little update on something I said earlier.
This is why people were dunking on Jeff Grubb about two months ago:

https://archive.md/Lyqrg

A hissy fit over Sophia Narwitz and people who dare to not want political sperging in their games coverage.
Very cool that Giant Bomb associates with someone like this!

Jesus, I remember this faggot back from when Dragonlance was the main thing shitting up AD&D. I see he's become an even bigger retard and hack since then.

Look at his bibliography. In almost 35 years, the only remotely memorable or good thing he ever did was the Manual of the Planes.

Also he's also either a genuinely dense motherfucker or being deliberately obtuse, completely missing @sophnar0747's point that gamers don't get butthurt about negative reviews, they get rightfully annoyed when some shitty review from some worthless joke of a "games journalist" has absolutely nothing to do with the game and is just anally anguished reeeeeing about shit that nobody cares about.

 

[Water-T]

Just wanted to give a little update on something I said earlier.
This is why people were dunking on Jeff Grubb about two months ago:

https://archive.md/Lyqrg

A hissy fit over Sophia Narwitz and people who dare to not want political sperging in their games coverage.
Very cool that Giant Bomb associates with someone like this!

Who is this Dia cunt he was trying to hype up in hopes that she'd let him touch her breasts?

 

[albert chan]

Courtesy of E3 2021

 

[Water-T]

What is that bottom douche going on about? Exclusives are what get people to buy a specific console in the first place. In addition, MS has a history of releasing their "exclusives" on PC, rendering the whole point of exclusives as moot anyway.

 

[Cyclonus]

Just wanted to give a little update on something I said earlier.
This is why people were dunking on Jeff Grubb about two months ago:

https://archive.md/Lyqrg

A hissy fit over Sophia Narwitz and people who dare to not want political sperging in their games coverage.
Very cool that Giant Bomb associates with someone like this!

 

[HeyYou]

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Courtesy of E3 2021

Jason discovered the secret, hidden truth that big, multinational corporations lie and only care about making money at the end of the day.

 

[Vapid_Idiot]

Just wanted to give a little update on something I said earlier.
This is why people were dunking on Jeff Grubb about two months ago:

https://archive.md/Lyqrg

A hissy fit over Sophia Narwitz and people who dare to not want political sperging in their games coverage.
Very cool that Giant Bomb associates with someone like this!

'dont you ever get sick of pandering"

self awareness -5000

What is that bottom douche going on about? Exclusives are what get people to buy a specific console in the first place. In addition, MS has a history of releasing their "exclusives" on PC, rendering the whole point of exclusives as moot anyway.

he must be new to gaming, if he knew about the various exclusives on the snes and sega genesis he might kill himself

 

[albert chan]

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Off topic but what comic is that dog from? I’ve seen it before, but I forgot the name of it.

 

[Cyclonus]

It's Sam and Max.

 

[Cyclonus]

Oh by the way, I was looking through some old Kotaku articles and I found this pretentious bullshit:

https://kotaku.com/there-are-reasons-i-dont-talk-about-video-game-violence-5970598

 

[Herbert West Reanimator]

What is that bottom douche going on about? Exclusives are what get people to buy a specific console in the first place.

The (rather obvious) point is that if Microsoft actually gave a shit about giving more people access to more games, it wouldn't have bought Bethesda and then refused to allow Bethesda games to release on Sony consoles, because that's preventing access, not providing it. Microsoft is paying lipservice to the idea of "more games available to more people", but under the PR veneer it's just business as usual, buying up exclusivity to project a false sense of value onto its hardware offerings. Gotta make sure nobody pays attention to the near nonexistent hardware gap between PS5 and Series X, or to the fact that both machines are essentially gimped, locked-down PCs. People won't wonder why they arbitrarily aren't allowed to have Game X on Platform Y if you just repackage it as "you get this stuff and other people don't" and sell it to them as a feature of the thing they're buying.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I quite frankly am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you that Microsoft of all people/corporations/business friends/magical game uncles would lock a piece of software to an exclusive platform that they OWN. Truly unthinkable, history shall not look kindly upon them.

 

[Next Task]

Oh by the way, I was looking through some old Kotaku articles and I found this pretentious bullshit:

https://kotaku.com/there-are-reasons-i-dont-talk-about-video-game-violence-5970598

Aw, you just reminded me how the gaming press was gearing up to start claiming video game violence led to real-world violence again - until Trump said the same thing, so they all quickly backpedalled. Because TDS demands that you never agree with Trump on anything, ever, whether it's bullshit (like that) or not (like the actual source of Covid being the Wuhan lab).

 

[Cyclonus]

If you told me back in the nineties that video game journalists would one day condemn video game violence I would have laughed in your face. What the fuck happened?

 

[Back me up!]

If you told me back in the nineties that video game journalists would one day condemn video game violence I would have laughed in your face. What the fuck happened?

The people that did it got old and had a middle age crisis that their whole lives was based upon children digital toys. Then the failson moved in thinking video game journalism was just a spring board to a bigger and better career and never left.

Basically video games should have never gotten main stream popular.

 

[Alter Ego]

Isn't he the very definition of a broken buck?

Its seems that Austin Walker barely mentions it (which is unusual given his social circle), but he's previously stated that he's bisexual. He also once mentioned having a celebrity crush on Elijah Wood.

And don't forget about how the very intro of the show describes how Zeon helped kill half of all people alive by shooting nukes everywhere and gassing colonies (this was before the colony drop even), and it's described and shown repeatedly that Zeon gassed and nuked countless space colonies to deal with Spacenoids who opposed them. This is either elaborate shitposting or the result of a hardcore tankie watching Gundam. Wonder what his thoughts are on Stalin and Mao?

Definitely a hardcore tankie as I previously explained. In that Gundam podcast episode I linked to, his acolytes (who I believe are new viewers to these shows while Austin is their expert contact) are even explicit about their takes aspiring for communism.

Just a couple of days ago, here's how Austin Walker described the arc of Haman Karn, the main antagonist of Gundam ZZ carried over from Zeta:

https://archive.md/9Tabi

While I can't find from him any mention of Mao, Stalin the CCP, or the USSR, I'm reminded of a previous incident in which the Waypoint podcast had a long segment talking about Hong Kong after the Blizzard/Blitzchung controversy from 2019. In this segment, he's very ambivalent about saying "fuck China" (unlike "fuck America" or "fuck Israel") particularly because he can't stand the notion of being on the same side of an issue as his primary political enemies (Republicans, etc.). Even if the intense hatred he has for his political enemies is justified, it's very much a nonsensical contrarian mindset analogous to "Hitler liked dogs, so I hate them!" So instead, he mainly falls back to his comfortable "fuck corporations" rhetoric.

Who is this Dia cunt he was trying to hype up in hopes that she'd let him touch her breasts?

Dia's a dude. I have further explanation of him and that game coverage incident in a different thread.

 

[BrokenWokenBespoken]

Also nobody in their circle supports Lacina's takes. Their posts on Reddit barely break 50 upvotes outside on KiA.

 

[Cubanodun]

Want the description of Simps? look no further than Kotaku!




He is bitching because two thots were banned from twitch for "bohoo no reason"

Spoiler: A total mystery

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Want the description of Simps? look no further than Kotaku!

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He is bitching because two thots were banned from twitch for "bohoo no reason"

Spoiler: A total mystery

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I thought Twitch was solely for gaming not webcam models who look like they be prostituting themselves at McDonald's.