Garrett Hawke
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"pretty sure i understand that hate movement that wasn't even about games journalism now"
Colin Moriarty is leaving Kinda Funny Games.
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ScientificPizza
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Updating articles with additional information as it happens is what GamerGate was ALL about
Hahahaha
Frozenprince
Banned
A movement spawned to harass and ruin the life of one, single woman.
Dave Rubin stays being a fucking moron.
Moon_frogger
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I think for me personally the reason I stopped trying to watch kinda funny was because Colin Moriarty is just all around insufferable. His politics was just the icing on the shit cake. I couldn't stand listening to someone be so utterly condescending about video games in a completely deadpan, serious manner. it was just insufferable. I subscribed to their content for about a week and then I was like nope, cant do it.
I updated my visual aid with the inclusion of #ADayWithouAWoman to show that HE KNEW what he was doing.
Don't forget to include women in the industry disagreeing with the tweet and then Colin in a respectable manner tweeting back *Everyone are humorless sacks of shit* Yeah Fuck those women who are struggling against a male dominated industry and didn't find Colins joke funny. Seriously dumbfounded by some posts in here, Hopefully mods do some good cleaning.
Posts like this make me ashamed to be in the gaming community.
Attacking someone over a sexist statement is worse than the sexist statement?
How do people type this shit and think, "Yeah. That's logic."
Ninja Scooter
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Don't even bother. The dude is intellectually bankrupt, like all GamerGaters. Their entire platform requires it. They need you to believe that people aren't really offended by the things they say, they are just pretending because they want to push buttons and push an agenda, and that's why it's okay for us to be offended and complain about them, but not okay for them to do the same.
No yeah I figured. I meant I was looking for the link to the morning show. Couldn't find it for some reason. Cheers!
Oh boy!
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
It's the seemingly innocuous shit we all tolerate in daily life that allows resentment and discrimination to survive.
GillianSeed79
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Calling out a dude for making a dumbass, lame, sexist tweet on International Women's Day isn't borderline hatred/attacks. I must have missed the part where Colin was doxxed, people Swatted his home, threatened to rape and murder him on Twitter and called in a bomb threat at PAX to stop him from speaking.
theangrypirate
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Yeah but everyone in games journalism industry pretty much writes from the same predictable perspective. People that don't think alike are pushed out. It makes reading sites like Kotaku, Polygon, etc a bore. It's nice to have different perspectives to at least encourage dialogue. Echo chambers suck.
Yeah, as a male I laughed, not because I think women talk to much but because it was just a joke an it was kind of funny. I understand some people might not find it funny. It wasn't hateful though. People say stupid shit all the time. He also said a lot of interesting thought proving things.
Obliterator
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Wish the best for Colin, and while I don't always agree with him he pretty much brought the most interesting perspectives on gaming. I find Greg just not someone I relate with much and while I like Tim a lot I'm not sure how into just Tim and Greg content I really will be.
Pretty big blow to Kinda Funny to me. Greg and Colin together were the content I enjoyed from them the most
Pretty big blow to Kinda Funny to me. Greg and Colin together were the content I enjoyed from them the most
Lilseb93
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People condemned Greg for criticizing the Tweet publicly in a letter. They accused him of being PC and backstabbing Colin publicly.
It's not necessarily the Tweet that really pushed it over the edge. It was when he dismissed people as humorless sacks of shit.
Sure, let's pretend those are equivalent. Please pretend to employ critical thinking about the social power of each group and why these might be different.
beau_beaumont
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I assume P.S. I Love You is finished. Can anyone recommend a similar podcast to get my PlayStation news fix? I don't care for Podcast Beyond.
Honestly Colin was getting more and more annoying lately. The latest PS I Love You where he said that all characters are impossible to relate to because they're fiction, and that the only way he could relate to a videogame character is if he was playing as himself. Like wtf? really? And he said it so matter of fact like anyone who has ever related to a fictional character is some kind of delusional moron or something. He also ranted against PC culture and said that it was absolutely ridiculous for anyone to be outraged over people dressing up as Native Americans for halloween. Yeah, good riddance.
And for anyone in the "jeez guys, it's just a joke you snowflakes lol!" camp. Another gaffer put it best. Using that hashtag on his "joke" is comparable to going to one of the many protests that happened on that day with a megaphone and saying "LOL glad you girls are all together instead of being annoying nags to all the men in your lives!"
And for anyone in the "jeez guys, it's just a joke you snowflakes lol!" camp. Another gaffer put it best. Using that hashtag on his "joke" is comparable to going to one of the many protests that happened on that day with a megaphone and saying "LOL glad you girls are all together instead of being annoying nags to all the men in your lives!"
Merchandise
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Do you guys truly believe he's Breitbart level of... whatever that level would measure? That's just so wrong.
soldierblue
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I would be amazing if they just promoted Kevin.
Obviously I feel bad about the guys and they're personal relationships with and just the way it went down.
I wish Colin could have been a bit more open to seeing things from different perspectives, and being less judgemental, it seemed like there was a time where he was moving a little toward the middle and being more open after the sham of Trump, but then it was almost like he deliberately went extreme right in the last couple of weeks with his "discussion points" on Horizon and then the tweet shitting on #adaywithoutawoman events to force an ultimatum at Kindafunny.
It's kind of interesting that it comes at the same time of the Ferguson re-ignition and the tapes showing Mike Brown didn't even commit a robbery so there was no reason to stop him much less shoot the kid and leave him to expire on the sidewalk for 6 hours. He was doing business (illegal business) but certainly not robbing anyone and the police completely made all that shit up.
THERE ARE REAL PEOPLE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED, BEING KILLED BY CLOSED MINDED PEOPLE THAT LIKE TO THINK IT'S OK TO JOKE ABOUT REAL SOCIAL PROBLEMS BECAUSE THEY AREN'T ADVERSELY EFFECTED BY THEM. SO YES, I THINK KINDAFUNNY DID THE RIGHT THING IF THEY TRULY ARE ABOUT BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
I wish Colin could have been a bit more open to seeing things from different perspectives, and being less judgemental, it seemed like there was a time where he was moving a little toward the middle and being more open after the sham of Trump, but then it was almost like he deliberately went extreme right in the last couple of weeks with his "discussion points" on Horizon and then the tweet shitting on #adaywithoutawoman events to force an ultimatum at Kindafunny.
It's kind of interesting that it comes at the same time of the Ferguson re-ignition and the tapes showing Mike Brown didn't even commit a robbery so there was no reason to stop him much less shoot the kid and leave him to expire on the sidewalk for 6 hours. He was doing business (illegal business) but certainly not robbing anyone and the police completely made all that shit up.
THERE ARE REAL PEOPLE BEING ADVERSELY AFFECTED, BEING KILLED BY CLOSED MINDED PEOPLE THAT LIKE TO THINK IT'S OK TO JOKE ABOUT REAL SOCIAL PROBLEMS BECAUSE THEY AREN'T ADVERSELY EFFECTED BY THEM. SO YES, I THINK KINDAFUNNY DID THE RIGHT THING IF THEY TRULY ARE ABOUT BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
that might be sad, if he lost his job. then again, if you are a liability to the job on a consistent basis maybe you should find a new job and let someone more capable come in.
If people kept shitting people on staff just because losing a job sucked, everything would be much worse.
Poltergust
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He appeared on Glenn Beck. He's basically only a couple steps away at this point.
MysteryQuesadilla
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This is...not the same at all
excelsiorlef
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preach it
funkystudent
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For the best.
You wouldnt want someone to leave (especially in the fashion Collin did) and still have a say in the company.
shouamabane
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I might check out Kinda Funny sometime now.
Ninja Scooter
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I know some people don't read OPs but not even reading thread titles?
Obliterator
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I think it's pretty clear Colin is going to go straight into politics. Glen Beck, Ruben Report etc.
I don't think he's going to be doing anything really gaming focused next
I don't think he's going to be doing anything really gaming focused next
Has Colin expressed his thoughts on GG in the past?
Messofanego
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Fake news really has taken over, huh.
gow3isben
Member
You guys are funny. Those were merely two examples, nothing more. Examples out of an infinite number of possibilities. Another just for you to come back to your senses:
How about, the neighboring white kids bullying a black kid or neighboring black kids bullying a white kid, purely for being a different race.
Basically, if behaviors promote racist or sexist sentiment, I consider that out of line. I don't consider that tweet to be the case. By strict definition it was sexist, but it wasn't meant to turn males against females or reflect the true views of Colin.
MrS
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A huge blow. Whether the posters in here like it or not, Colin was the best thing about Kinda Funny. Nobody gives a fuck about Tim, Kevin and Nick.
I don't think women talk a lot, and plenty of women don't think men are pigs. And there's a word for assuming the French are arrogant and that Russians are evil, it's called stereotyping and is definitely not cool.
GametimeUK
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Ah. Peace and quiet.
#ADayWithoutColin
#ADayWithoutColin
Raven117
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I mean...in what fashion? Dude resigned because he obviously was over talking about video games for a living.
Obliterator
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Sounds like he left under his own terms, according to him.
Palette Swap
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I honestly don't know the guy, but felt a bit unsurprised at the Sommers retweets. There must be like a faux liberal concern trolling guide somewhere that goes something like :
"I'm a liberal" > "why can't we have a reasonable conversation on <x group>'s humanity and rights, where we hear both sides" > "you guys are ruining everything by using these dirty labels on the other side" > "that's it, the other guys are nicer, enjoy your fascist thought police"
I don't doubt there's a lot of debates and soul searching to be had among progressives, but the minimum bar to clear would be for it to happen would be ingenuity.
Ninja Scooter
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Or how about, people can decide for themselves where their personal line is, and if you or Colin or some other mouth breather on twitter take issue with that, they verbalize it rather than labeling and dismissing them as part of "outrage/PC culture"?
I have still found no one capable of telling me what is funny about that "joke"
If it is a joke, it is the least funny, least original joke I have ever heard.
"says something awful"
"That was really insulting!"
"haha it was all a joke!"
"What's the joke?"
"well uh, you see women talk a lot...."
If it is a joke, it is the least funny, least original joke I have ever heard.
"says something awful"
"That was really insulting!"
"haha it was all a joke!"
"What's the joke?"
"well uh, you see women talk a lot...."
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