Colin Moriarty is leaving Kinda Funny Games.

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gow3isben said:
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.
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Do you really think that, especially since he has not apologized for it?

Also, a joke like this is an attempt to be "funny" at the expense of women who face inequality in the workforce to this day. I'd say that's plenty reason to stick up for them.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
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"?
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Did I say people can't do that? You really don't comprehend what I am saying at all. Again, take it easy man.

Do you really think that, especially since he has not apologized for it?
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Yes 100% he said as much. I don't think there is anything to apologize for.

Also, a joke like this is an attempt to be "funny" at the expense of women who face inequality in the workforce to this day. I'd say that's plenty reason to stick up for them.
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You should NEVER watch any stand up by any person ever.
 
To me he's embraced being the role of right wing game journalist a little too much to the point he's gained fans from right wing people who weren't even fans of KF all that much until Colin became really political. Colin tried to appeal to this right wing fanbase a bit too much by being a controversial figure who calls out liberals and makes jokes about the left. IDK why he feels he has to be controversial because he leans right wing. Yes liberals and SJWs can be unreasonable and over dramatic, but you can be a conservative and be reasonable with fair opinions. But instead he chose to appeal only to his right wing fan base, which isolated everyone else. And that made it difficult for KF to manage their business with one of their co creators being so controversial and divisive.
 
And thus, the political divide in America is made manifest through a twitter joke.

Colin will go wrap himself in his bubble of never-apologize egotism, and anti-Colin people will get their bubble more tightly sealed around them while cheering. People say the joke shouldn't have been taken seriously. OK, so why did Colin view a hypothetical 1 sentence apology so seriously as to quit? The bottom line is that everybody is now taking everything seriously. What you put on twitter becomes your persona, so you best use those 140 characters wisely.

The future of political discourse is grim.
 
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I never liked him, he always came across as an unlikable douche to me. And well, now everyone thinks the same.
 
Obliterator said:
I mean I disagree with a lot of what Colin says about politics but yeah the reaction here isn't remotely representative of what the real perspective is on him leaving
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Yup. Like I said eariler, whether you like it or not, Colin is at least half the reason that people supported Kinda Funny in the first place, because of his days at Beyond/IGN with Greg.
 
gow3isben said:
Did I say people can't do that? Man you really don't comprehend what I am saying at all. Again, take it easy man.
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Nobody is. Because what you are saying is bullshit that makes no sense. You really can't see how you are no different than the people you are complaining about.

Edit: and here you go again, thinking it's about the joke. You are just all over the place throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, because you have nothing to actually stand on. This is what happens when you stick to a flimsy ass position.
 
Poltergust said:
The argument here is that the joke was sexist (which it is).
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but I also didn't think he was being sexist or at least I didn't think it was his intention.
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I talked about this in my first post that you responded to. I understand how you could confuse this for me saying that it wasn't sexist but the second part of my sentence implies that I admit that it may have been sexist but I didn't think much of it at the time because I didn't think he had any malice behind it. Does that mean it's not sexist? Absolutely not but I think intent is an important thing to consider. Either way, I'm not really interested in arguing the merit of the tweet as I don't think I will convince people that it was or wasn't a big deal. Just wanna know how it lead to this as I don't have much info.

P.S It doesn't escape me how condescending the first part of my post sounded so I wanted to end with me saying I meant it when I said I understood how you could have been confused by my first post because of how I wrote it.
 
Wasn't that stupidly named "Colin was Right" thing a fairly recent creation? I suppose if that is the case, this had to be an abrupt change. I couldn't see this as a planned departure and they still made that.
 
Salty Rice said:
Serious question but would people get as much offended if women would make such a joke on international mens day?

Kinda doubt it.
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Anyone who would get offended in your stupid snenario is a clueles entitled dipshit.

Men don't need their own holiday, every day is their holiday.
 
I might give Kinda Funny another chance now.

I'm sure it's been beaten to death in this topic- I like Greg but Colin's hot takes about how life is no worse off for anyone since Trump won etc, reallllly rubbed me the wrong way and kept me away from the channel. Especially when he straight up knows people whose lives are worse because of it.

But easy to say when your life isn't affected I guess.
 
I'm just watching the KF Morning Show. Colin coming on as the janitor really made me smile. It shows how they're all still friends and he's been playful about it. It's clearly the move he wants to make and he and the rest of KF are going separate ways.

I've always enjoyed Colin but I have zero interest or opinions when it comes to politics so it seems many of his decisive moments have been because of this so it's never bothered me. I just enjoyed his unique take and blunt approach to talking about games. I'm excited to see where he goes next. I'd pay him to just call me every day and talk to me about games for an hour.
 
gow3isben said:
Did I say people can't do that? You really don't comprehend what I am saying at all. Again, take it easy man.



Yes 100% he said as much. I don't think there is anything to apologize for.



You should NEVER watch any stand up by any person ever.
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You are one obtuse son of a gun aren't you?
 
The only thing that sucks is that no one else on the show really knows much about video games or sony for that matter. Who's gonna replace him on PS XOXO?
 
Two Words said:
Wasn't that stupidly named "Colin was Right" thing a fairly recent creation? I suppose if that is the case, this had to be an abrupt change. I couldn't see this as a planned departure and they still made that.
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This has been a thing that was built up over time and the tweet and the events afterward were the breaking point.

Colin Was Right was a fairly recent show yes, but I still don't see the problem with the name. It's a recurring joke from KF videos.
 
Logash said:
I talked about this in my first post that you responded to. I understand how you could confuse this for me saying that it wasn't sexist but the second part of my sentence implies that I admit that it may have been sexist but I didn't think much of it at the time because I didn't think he had any malice behind it. Does that mean it's not sexist? Absolutely not but I think intent is an important thing to consider. Either way, I'm not really interested in arguing the merit of the tweet as I don't think I will convince people that it was or wasn't a big deal. Just wanna know how it lead to this as I don't have much info.

P.S It doesn't escape me how condescending the first part of my post sounded so I wanted to end with me saying I meant it when I said I understood how you could have been confused by my first post because of how I wrote it.
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That's fine. I'm not gonna give him the benefit of the doubt here, though.
 
SNURB said:
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I never liked him, he always came across as an unlikable douche to me. And well, now everyone thinks the same.
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Honestly, I don't find him any more personally grating than Arthur Gies, who still has a job. But it's a good thing that lazy, BS misogyny isn't tolerated any more.
 
And yet again the folks bemoaning sexism are the real sexists, as another white man is victimized for being a True Patriot.

Good luck at Breitbart, Collin.
 
In general, when you want to make a joke, you make sure you punch up, not punch down.

If people take issue with your joke, you generally don't want to antagonize the people who are taking the issue.

Colin punched down, and basically antagonized people who took issue with it. Not cool.

(I don't follow KFG, so I don't know about previous history).
 
ZeoVGM said:
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."
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It is not a statement though. There's nothing that's off limits to joke about. There's no time that you wait for or some minorities that you should avoid joking about. Sexist joke and sexist statement are two completely different things.
 
KZXcellent said:
This has been a thing that was built up over time and the tweet and the events afterward were the breaking point.

Colin Was Right was a fairly recent show yes, but I still don't see the problem with the name. It's a recurring joke from KF videos.
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I just think the name is stupid.
 
gow3isben said:
Pot calling kettle black if I ever saw such an example.
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The difference is between dismissing someone's opinion as "oh your just PC/Outrage Culture" to avoid actually having to have some introspection and potentially challenge your own views. It's the pre-emptive outrage to the outrage. It's exactly why people got tired of Colin's bullshit. He said things with the obvious intention of riling people up, so he can then fall back and play the victim.
 
sobaka770 said:
I think people need to lighten up. It's hardly an attack on women, it's just a joke. Yes, men think that women talk a lot, it's a common thing. Just like women think that men are pigs, and most assume the French are arrogant and Russians are evil. Making a joke about these prejudices should be okay if it's sarcasm.
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These are some fucking weak-ass assumptions you're making for the sake of "comedy"

theangrypirate said:
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.
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I've said stupid shit. I've also apologized for it. Because I'm not a fucking asshole. However Colin received criticism and anyone that doesn't like his tweet is a "humorless sack of shit." Maybe, just fucking maybe, his attempt at a joke wasn't funny. And maybe that's not the kind of fucking joke we need anymore?
 
KZXcellent said:
Greg's first thought was to cancel it but they haven't decided yet. He wants feedback from the audience so they may continue it. Even Colin said they shouldn't cancel it.
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Ya but they don't have anyone else there to talk straight video games with him especially about playstation. They'd have to add someone.
 
Burbeting said:
In general, when you want to make a joke, you make sure you punch up, not punch down.

If people take issue with your joke, you generally don't want to antagonize the people who are taking the issue.

Colin punched down, and basically antagonized people who took issue with it. Not cool.

(I don't follow KFG, so I don't know about previous history).
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This, too. It's a variation of Pewdiepie's shitty "I'm an amateur comedian makin jokez, sorrrryyyy" spiel, except Colin is being more smugly dismissive.
 
With that said, in terms of gaming I enjoy Colin's take on things. At times, I thought he was too negative and too dismissive of other opinions, but I did like that he contrasted with everyone else. I don't want a group of people all agreeing with each other. Plus controversy aside, I think Colin knows a lot about the industry and knows a lot of people in it. So it's a big loss for KF in terms of that. But I'm very interested to see how KF handles this now.
 
Poltergust said:
That's fine. I'm not gonna give him the benefit of the doubt here, though.
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And that's fine because I find that telling people how they should feel about something never helps. People take things different ways and that's life. I feel like last years election convinced me more than ever that every body has a different thought process and things were never as black and white as I thought they were.

Now, please can anyone at all fill me in on this cause I don't see anywhere where anyone from kinda funny responded.
 
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