Soul of the Beast
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I am not even a Nintendo fan and his attitude towards Swtich completely pissed me off.
Dislike the system all you want, but there's no reason to be a dick about it.
Colin Moriarty is leaving Kinda Funny Games.
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I am not even a Nintendo fan and his attitude towards Swtich completely pissed me off.
Dislike the system all you want, but there's no reason to be a dick about it.
I don't believe Beck either, for the record. He's scum and he helped create this toxic climate with his crazy conspiracy theories. I just pointed him out because Beck doesn't have sway on either the right or the left nowadays, so "impressing" Glenn Beck is a meaningless metric.
Beck still has years of being on his best behavior to even move an iota towards the good person column in my book.
Beck don't give a fuck, he's as two-faced, and spineless as Ryan or Cruz. He ain't do no soul searching. He's an ass, and has always been an ass.
LOL yeah, you're going to have to dig a little deeper than that if you want to create a wildlife preserve around a gaming company. Of all the things in the world to attach things too.
[Agent]ZeroNine
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This is the childish ish I was hoping not to see in this thread.
Nonsense aside, I hope Colin surprises us and does some soul searching and realize
where there's smoke, there is fire, and transforms himself into a person better than what he currently is.
But I do know as people get older, they tend to double
down on bullshit.
I've been listening to him, Gregg, and a ton of the IGNers back in the day and want
nothing but good things for them.
JayhawkerStL
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Regarding Glen Beck, I think he appearance on Samantha Bee explains a lot of the shift in perception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuSDfVRGI54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuSDfVRGI54
Glen Beck also got treatment for a very serious neurological problem that may have contributed to his past conspiratorial thinking. I'm not saying he's an angel, but when he says his views are shifting, it's plausible.
There's a little more about this on his Wikipedia page. I'm doubtful about the official diagnosis, but I'm not doubtful that he experienced severe health problems.
There's a little more about this on his Wikipedia page. I'm doubtful about the official diagnosis, but I'm not doubtful that he experienced severe health problems.
Arkage
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How does his PS4 Pro talk exemplify his blinders for Sony? If anything it disproves that, since he's been constantly trashing it. Along with The Last Guardian, in which he said reviewers had Ueda-blinders on.
SolidSnakex
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Not just that, but Colin is the same guy that took time to tell people on Twitter that he and Greg would be spending more time talking about their bowel movements in one episode of PSILY than Gravity Rush 2.
beau_beaumont
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I remember seeing his show before he moved to Fox News and he didn't seem too whacky. It seemed like his time at Fox scrambled his brain. It's good that he's turning the corner, though. I would imagine many republicans are going through similar soul searching. We definitely need some more rational conservative voices in today's climate.
The really sad thing is they actually did. That's a big fuck you to gravity rush fans.
excelsiorlef
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Again Beck is not turning a new leaf... he's still peddling far right crap he's just also claiming to have changed and his projecting a more common demeanor.
GalacticToast
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Uhh, what? Lol Go outside fam. Nintendo is not that important. Definitely does not give any sort of insight into one's political leanings.
Damn, this thread is still flourishing. I feel like that Lime post should be cited in the OT. I'm happy he's gone on to meddle in politics, this podcast circuit is exactly what I need to get him as far away from gaming as possible.
I hope the rest of the KF crew can find their groove, new community manager and all.
I hope the rest of the KF crew can find their groove, new community manager and all.
gamerMan
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This makes no sense. Colin doesn't like games that don't have an interesting narrative. If a game doesn't grab him right away, he doesn't ever pick it up again.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Can you name any Nintendo fans who are also Trump supporters? I can't.
excelsiorlef
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Gamergate people I mean unless you believe they all hate Nintendo.
Let it go, dude. You've mentioned Jim in almost every thread I've seen you in since the 7/10.
Just thought I would point out that For Honor was #1 on NPD for February and is the best selling game of 2017 so far... Listening to the last PSILY, well #ColinWasWrong
I know "Colin was right" is an inside joke, but his industry analysis really isn't/wasn't anything special.
I know "Colin was right" is an inside joke, but his industry analysis really isn't/wasn't anything special.
MrS
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It doesn't have to be something special. He's not going for a Pulitzer. It just had to be entertaining, and it was.
LordRaptor
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Given he himself used to be part of that mainstream media it comes across as projection more than anything else.
rackham
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Ubisoft had wet surfaces being unable to climb in assassins creed 1. Nintendo does it in 2017 "wow I can't believe al these crazy systems that work with each other that nintendo made. Wow. Wow."
Nintendo does get away with a lot of shit. It doesn't mean they don't have good stuff but to act like Colin was saying something untrue with that statement is just people trying to comfort themselves about their favorite company.
Just because they don't get away with other shit like federation force doesn't change what they do get away with
Nintendo does get away with a lot of shit. It doesn't mean they don't have good stuff but to act like Colin was saying something untrue with that statement is just people trying to comfort themselves about their favorite company.
Just because they don't get away with other shit like federation force doesn't change what they do get away with
Even more brilliant is him blithering about being a facts guy yet feels that for honor did poorly based on his twitter feed....
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LordRaptor
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I don't believe most people - including mainstream press - see everything through the lens of a console warrior trying to prop up one team over another, or tear another team down to make their team look better.
Like I say - if you think like that, extrapolating that out to others is called projection.
That feels kind of reductionist though. I mean, there's a ton of stuff in Zelda taken from a lot of western games and all the systems are actually working together.
Nintendo didn't invent the stuff, but did bring all the best systems together and make them all work unlike anyone else is currently doing which is a breath of fresh air in a world where open world fatigue is happening among reviewers and players alike. Also no one has even said Nintendo invented the stuff as far as I know (especially not reviews) but the way the systems all come together and compliment each other so incredibly well, it is deserving of praise.
facetheslayer92
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I can almost hear the eyerolls from Tim and Greg when Colin talks about Zelda. To say it's not a 98 after playing the tutorial is laughable.
What is the fucking point of this line of argument if bad Nintendo games getting bad reviews doesn't count.
Jesus Christ, have people accusing Nintendo reviewers bias lived through 2016? That was a bloodbath.
FinaruDensetsu
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It's funny isn't it? The people who are supposedly encroaching on his free speech, are pc snowflakes and are out to destroy his career aren't even the ones who went to dislike bomb their videos.
It's funny on the last episode of gamecast when Colin says some unintelligible joke by saying "like a feminist" when they were asking him about whether their dog would take both his and Erin's name you can hear Tim go "Here you go again".
MrS
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Have you ever watched Jerry Springer?
ScientificPizza
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yeah that's true if it wasn't for people hyping the wet surfaces this would be a 75 at best
i like that the conversation has turned from colin is the only knowledgable member of KF to who cares if he doesn't know anything as long as he says it in an entertaining way
FinaruDensetsu
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It's really the only way it could go. I'd ask over and over to the people who claimed he was so insightful and intelligent about the game industry and never get any answers except "go watch his videos".
Funny thing is I do.
Take his supposed "debate" with Adam Boyes video. Not only does he not debate because it's not even in a debate format, he doesn't even ask many questions so you couldn't even really call it an interview. It's mostly just Adam talking by himself the majority of the time.
Should have titled that one "Adam was right and Colin was just... there"
I think the difference is irrelevant, it's mostly just "are you actually self-consistent on this issue."
If you complain about other people having thin skins and then respond to light criticism like Moriarty has in several exchanges published here, you've lost the ability for me to give a damn. I think people are too thin-skinned these days too, but that means someone has the right to call me out if I'm bitching about something. It also doesn't mean I get to handwave complaints away as whining just because it might be uncomfortable to me.
The ethos doesn't innately bother me (everyone has their areas where they go "hands off gubmint" about something), the hypocrisy does. I wouldn't hate on American conservatives so much if they actually practiced their bootstraps philosophy instead of just usually leaving it as an excuse for why they won't help a marginalized person. Likewise, I wouldn't shit on Moriarty for his beliefs if he didn't fly off the handle while excoriating special snowflakes.
Vice isn't all that liberal, really. Their founder is a crazy Trump supporter. Like Moriarty, they mostly seem more left-wing than they are because of their more libertine stances on social stuff. So in that sense, you're absolutely right. He'd be a good fit.
Lord of Ostia
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What exactly is Nintendo getting away with? They released a good game that many people love and people reviewed it accordingly? Who are you to say one person's experience wasn't a 10 out of 10? When Nintendo releases crap, they get shit on for it, just like any company. BotW is getting such good reviews because it is a high quality game. Also originality is not as important as execution.
rackham
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I criticized Colin in this Very thread. Sorry to detail. Take my post as jealousy cause I want to play botw
benjipwns
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Gavin McInnes was one of three founders, responsible for mainly the magazine and he left VICE in 2007 because he thought it was becoming too PC and corporate. And no longer focusing on the important things, like the trials and tribulations of the straight white male in North America.
Colin wouldn't even know about wet surfaces because it doesn't rain on the Plateau.
Look, whether you think he's right or wrong doesn't matter, the point is that he's making these giant statements ("people give the game a pass because it's Nintendo", "there's nothing in there that Horizon doesn't do better", "welcome to 2007") without actually playing the game. That's ridiculous, but because he has the same talking points as some other people with a Nintendo hate boner, he's praised as a guy who tells it like it is. Meanwhile the people reviewing it, you know... played the game. How much of an egomaniac do you have to be to think you're the only one who's right?
Same with Splatoon by the way. He has no idea what this game is like.
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ScientificPizza
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The second paragraph wasn't directed toward you. Sorry for not being more clear
Also all of the different Vice brands are so compartmentalised that even if he was there his political ideas don't reach Waypoint at all. Waypoint's political voice is dictated entirely by the editors, who are all incredibly liberal
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. I always kind of suspected that the only reason he seemed optimistic about the Switch at first was so that he could then turn around and shit all over it while saying "and I was excited for this thing!" It pisses me off when he says "there's only 2 interesting games coming for the Switch in 2017," like it's some objective fact.
Wow...it was (quite obviously?) a joke...
Gavin has also been having his own alt-right meltdown this week.
benjipwns
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more like the last five years
Supermanisdead
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whoever picked that laughably bad fan comment is to blame too. someone says they've never played a zelda game but cant imagine they are good enough for their high scores = industry are nintendo shills. and then the whole panel agrees with this gamefaqs troll post.
karasu
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I kind of wish he would come to his senses and stay. Don't fall down that dark hole, man. Come on. I disagree with him most of the time but I've watched them for so long and felt some kind of pathos with him when he would talk about depression and anxiety that I hate to see them part. I remember him talking about how much it hurt him that people thought he would leave and go full hermit or something and made sure viewers knew that he was all of the way in and not going anywhere.
I mean, yeah, but Colin and Greg aren't much better. Outside of the business aspects of games, C&G don't really discuss games in depth. Greg with his dismissive "This game is more x" and Colin with his "I only played it for 30 minutes because it didn't speak to me" are infuriating as fuck.
Abandapart82
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He does some like a good dude but he's done a few cringy things like trying to be on "Ellen" with his Disneyland proposal video.
Just watched the Gamescast bit where Colin arrogantly claims that most Nintendo games are critically overrated and Breath of the Wild doesn't deserve a 97 on metacritic because he played the game for a bit and of course his opinion is the only one that counts. Holy shit at that ignorance.
Yeah good fucking riddance.
Yeah good fucking riddance.
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