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So I don't have to read the words "Colin was right" on a daily basis anymore? Nice.

 

[Tom Nook Sawyer]

Colin just appeared on the livestream lol

 

[shira]

Ok, they're gonna do a final GOG show with him this week. Good.

The intro better be the "last ever Colin Moriarty staff show"

 

[WooHooAlex]

Mixed feelings about this. I used to REALLY like Colin when he was with IGN. After he and Greg left to start KF, I slowly started losing interest in hearing what he had to say, probably because he became more jaded and seemingly less interested in the industry in general - and let his political views become the loudest voice at KF. Beyond used to be my favorite video game podcast. PS I Love You could have been great, but it evolved into a rapid fire podcast of stale bits and segments, and it just got old really fast.
I have no idea what this means for PS I Love You, I hope Greg and Tim decide to keep it going. I'd be happy to give the show another try with this shakeup.

Seems like this was inevitable, but I wish Colin luck with whatever he ends up doing next.

 

[FreedomFighter]

Just found this blog post. Pretty much sums it all up:

Colin Moriarty is Why I Stopped Supporting Kinda Funny

 

[BoosterDuck]

Good riddance, nobody disses my boy Bob Mackey and gets away with it

 

[RoKKeR]

LMAO

He's on the morning show.

 

[butman]

Good.
Colin was oil, Tim was water and Greg was crap.

 

[Coda]

LOL Colin is the janitor now sweeping the floor on the morning show.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

What's next, Jaffe suddenly stans for us? Dyack returns from Valhalla to apologize?

Gaben gives us Half-Life 3.

 

[3rdamention]

EDITED: I am just going to avoid this for now.

 

[Weebos]

Colin is on stream right now, looks like they did in fact buy out his shares.

 

[pashmilla]

I've been out of the loop. What tweet?

https://twitter.com/notaxation/status/839542070050115584

posted on international women's day. but that's okay, because men make jokes about women being annoying all the time! -__-

 

[Holundrian]

He always rubbed me the wrong way, but man that tweet was damaging for something that is clearly a joke. I'm as anti-Trump and alt-right as it comes but my goodness the shit I hear in person when playing sports or out with buddies having a beer would put to tears anyone who's legitimately stirred by Colin's tweet. Jeez

I'm more of an Easy Allies guy so I can't really tell what else Colin has been stating but it does feel like his negativity and lack of gaming enthusiasm didn't make sensne for KF anymore.

It's not about if the remarks hurt people or not, it's more about encouraging a society that's just nice.

I mean I could curse the heck out of every post and call everyone disagreeing with me names. But we have rules against that not because most people will get deeply hurt by that stuff no but because it creates a nicer environment for discussion. The same way when we dial down on awful jokes that are misogynistic in nature will create a kinder environment for decent human interaction easy as that.

 

[Sulik2]

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/841346909147025408

You might not like Gies as a critic and he has some bad taste in games at times, AC3, but he always is pretty straight up about his politics. No surprise he disliked Colin.

 

[Swimmer9800]

As a huge KF fan, holy shit! This is unbelievable. Colin was my main draw to them.

 

[Ryan_MSF]

It's time for your boy Tim to shine

If this is the future of Kinda Funny they may as well close doors now.

 

[SJRB]

...I'm actually pretty okay with this.

 

[Jennipeg]

Yes it's a real post. Are you intolerable of my opinion?

No, just wondering, I honestly wasn't sure.

 

[DryvBy]

If only all politics could be left out of gaming, that'd be nice.

 

[Ray Down]

No, he didn't.

Half the stuff being thrown around in this thread is coming from people who read his tweets here and there and/or caught a 30 second sound byte.

The people who really know and follow KF know that and know what kind of person Colin is. I wish I had the time to call out all the posts for their inaccuracies, but there are so many.

Please humor us then.

 

[Jacce]

He supports racist and sexist politics. Good riddance.

Hope the door hit you on the way out and I hope your awful hate filled politics haunt you for the rest of your shallow empty life.

 

[Its Quite Toasty]

"Feminists are cunts"? "Fuck Islam"?

Whoa. I actually started looking through some of KF vids on youtube to see if I could find him spewing this type of hateful stuff.

I learned he had a show called Colin Was Right, which I found to be quite ironic.

The name of the show was an in joke and the article was written in a time when it made more sense to believe that.

 

[madmackem]

You might not like Gies as a critic and he has some bad taste in games at times, AC3, but he always is pretty straight up about his politics. No surprise he disliked Colin.

He's the new intolerant face of the supposed tolerant left, the worlds a strange place right now.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

If this is the future of Kinda Funny they may as well close doors now.

this, or that kevin guy or the guy that acts like videogames are beneath him .

 

[Daouzin]

"Resigns"

Good riddance.

Agreed, he was a nightmare.

 

[Lord of Ostia]

If he simply spoke out against the crazy talk from his right wing fans (like he did with the left) and tried to be reasonably right wing and fair, he probably wouldn't have been canned. But since he had a carefree, I don't give a shit attitude about the Tweet and in things in general, KF had to pull the plug. It left the fanbase divided between people calling him out for his comment and another side calling those fans crybabies. He created a toxic environment for KF. They've always been uncomfortable with how political he is. You could tell.

He basically made the rest of KF look like disloyal snakes to Colin's fans by his carefree attitude about the Tweet.

Yep, this basically. The other guys don't agree with him politically, and have never liked that he tried to make the shows about political subjects. None of them are knowledgeable to really stand up to him in that sphere either, so it was just a bad scene all around. It's also been obvious over the last year that Colin has become tired of games coverage and wants to cover political issues more and more. But Kinda Funny is a games channel, not a political one.

 

[Guy LeDouche]

Glenn Beck was a small time nobody until he started peddling nonsense to white conservatives. Now he's a millionaire. KF is small time.

 

[Lashley]

Not surprising at all

 

[Garrett Hawke]

If only all politics could be left out of gaming, that'd be nice.

you could ask a robot to try and make a game

 

[Loxley]

Can't say I'm surprised. In this heated political climate his personal politics were beginning to overshadow everything else he was doing.

 

[Bolivar687]

If only all politics could be left out of gaming, that'd be nice.

This is certainly a big step in that direction.

 

[Bahorel]

this means I can listen to the podcasts again, huzzah

 

[hemo memo]

Don't be an insufferable bigot, period.

How about people not getting offended over every fucking thing? Why everything is a big controversy!! Don't people get tired?

 

[Dirtyshubb]

What tweet?

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=231944249

 

[TheRed]

I never liked him at IGN so have easily ignored Kinda Funny Games. Maybe now I'll give them another shot and maybe Colin can be less of an ass in his next gig..

 

[Silver Arrows]

If only all politics could be left out of gaming, that'd be nice.

Guess what, it ain't.

Nor should it be.

Let me guess, fair representation on a racial and gender level is considered politics for you, right?

 

[TheMrPliskin]

No, he didn't.

Half the stuff being thrown around in this thread is coming from people who read his tweets here and there and/or caught a 30 second sound byte.

The people who really know and follow KF know that and know what kind of person Colin is. I wish I had the time to call out all the posts for their inaccuracies, but there are so many.

Pointing out inaccuracies takes a few seconds, you could've pointed at least one out in the time it took you to say how difficult pointing out inaccuracies would be.

 

[birthbystars]

If this is the future of Kinda Funny they may as well close doors now.

Tim is the most bland personality I've ever experienced. It's like he's the tofu of on air people. Bland, flavorless, but some people's thing.

 

[Darryl M R]

Just found this blog post. Pretty much sums it all up:

Colin Moriarty is Why I Stopped Supporting Kinda Funny

Those pictures choices. . man lolol

 

[FreedomFighter]

The name of the show was an in joke and the article was written in a time when it made more sense to believe that.

Just like previous gen handheld battle?

 

[KalBalboa]

How about people not getting offended over every fucking thing? Why everything is a big controversy!! Don't people get tired?

Come on now. This was hardly a one-time thing.

 

[soultron]

Man, as someone who doesn't follow the new wave of these weird YouTube personality based game companies, this shit is all so confusing to me.

I tried watching this video of him and Jason Schrieier (sp?) talk together and realized it was 1h45m long.

Who has the time for these guys? Don't people have games to play instead of listening to other people talk about them?

 

[Frozenprince]

He's the new intolerant face of the supposed tolerant left, the worlds a strange place right now.

 

[Fledz]

I never understood why people liked this guy anyway. One of the biggest cunts I've seen in video game journalism with a head so far up his own arse he's practically turned himself inside out.

 

[LionPride]

How about people not getting offended over every fucking thing? Why everything is a big controversy!! Don't people get tired?

It wasn't a big controversy though. It was "Hey Colin is a dick" "I know right"

 

[SerTapTap]

If only all politics could be left out of gaming, that'd be nice.

One of the biggest games of the year (horizon) is chock full of politics. And in an insanely tone deaf way, so is Tom Clancy's Spinning In His Grave: Wildlands.

 

[Zemm]

This guy single handedly stopped me from ever wanting to watch/listen to Kinda Funny. Will give them a chance now.

 

[3rdamention]

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/841346909147025408

I honestly cannot stand Gies, and he doesn't like me since he blocked me on twitter. But I loved that tweet. He made me laugh, and I like to laugh.

 

[diaspora]

If only all politics could be left out of gaming, that'd be nice.

political commentary has existed in art forms for the entirety of human civilization

but of course it should be excluded from muh gaems