Being a producer is more than just "involved".

Yeah, no need to resort to linking to Reason.com articles.

I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website

IGN, the EA of games "journalism".

that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing

That we'll later summarize with another LLM.

Funny, and I just noticed in my YouTube feed: "Satire Isn't Dead, It's Ineffective"

I wonder why.

I remember seeing JonTron videos back in 2011, well before the 2015 gamergate era. Even back then he’d make offhand remarks about how tough it was being White, how badly women treat men, etc.

You seem to mistake cause and effect. JonTron was an racist and misogynistic asshole because that's who he was. He wasn't doing that because he was trying to tap into some kind of audience as a trick.

And he has been largely forgotten because of his behavior and image. People ditched him and moved on. GameGrumps cut him out a long time ago.

“Woke” didn’t really become a right-wing attack in the gaming and movie spheres until pretty recently.

Even before that, there was this whole corporate wokeness marketing trope that really drove the concept into the ground, like Popular Movie But Female and adopting it as a business strategy. It's like kids all running with this popular meme, only for parents to sudden adopt it and it's not cool any more. So, right-wing spheres to pick it off of the ground, dust it off, and just carry that energy forward, which is unfortunately what they are good at. Leftists are shit at messaging. Like, really really shit at messaging.

And now, you can't even tell if people are being critical of "wokeness" as a right-wing attack or as a response to corporate synergy marketing bullshit. Because the latter might actually be a good argument, but it's so abused that most just now assume the former.

Let's not forget that Russia was playing both sides. As soon as GamerGate started, a bunch of games "journalists" all posted garbage articles like this, in the same day, pushing this shitty "gamers are now dead" message, fanning the flames even further and basically just pissing everybody off.

Sorry, I'm a gamer. I'm still alive, even ten years later. Gamers ain't dead.

And then CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and the rest all ran with it to treat it like a horse race, which is exactly what the Russian experiment was trying to achieve.

Articles like this sound a lot like that garbage back then. Stirring shit in the wrong directions without proper context or thought, using dubious connection points.

I don’t inhabit those spaces, so I’m only going off the biggest names.

Obviously. The list you rattled off looks like you did a Google or YouTube search on "gaming influencer" and picked a few random names. Don't spout off uneducated opinions about subjects you don't know anything about.

Rich people tend to lean right. Is this the lesson you're trying to illustrate here?

Pretty sure he likes Russia more.

It sounds the trump expects every company to eat the tariffs.

Trump is stupid, but not THAT stupid!

All this is missing is "pee is stored in the balls".

Konami is no longer a video games company any more. They lost that title when they kicked Kojima out and decided to fully embrace pachinko games.

That's why I install mods and give them their own common sense.

Errr, don't we already have AI-powered welding machines in car factories?

It's been 25 years since Goldeneye. There's no excuse for garbage-level AI with escort quests.

Erratic deck goes hard for five-of-a-kind or flush builds sometimes. Sometimes you get two really good ranks and full house into flush house builds are best.

Japanese anime is learning too many of worst lessons from American media:

• One short season with a limited number of episodes, followed by a 2-5 year hiatus
• More popular than ever, yet 95% of it is crap
• Constantly chasing trends, like driving isekai into the dirt for the past ten years

Don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of good stuff out there, and some of these bad habits already existed. But, it's more pronounced now.

I don't think we'll ever see another excellent mega-series like Naturo or One Piece or Bleach again. Not when they are going to take long breaks after 10-12 hours of episodes.

So, weak, boring, and used by many others?

Good job, reporter! You've done your work to signal boost an AAA game for corporate profits without managing to actually add any new information!

Games "Journalism" 2025!

Reality? I mean, I assume you live in the Aussie Zone, right? How often does that county ban things in the name of "protecting the children"?

Parliament over the Australian

ban it for children

Banning shit from children in the biggest Nanny State the world has ever known? Really?!?!