Well its been a major pop culture figurehead for well over a decade now and many people have grown up on the show. Its not real life but its no doubt leeched into a lot of people's real life in one way or another.
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PS, I Love You- Greg Miller's new PlayStation Podcast
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Well its been a major pop culture figurehead for well over a decade now and many people have grown up on the show. Its not real life but its no doubt leeched into a lot of people's real life in one way or another.
innervision961
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Considering what women have had to endure throughout human history. It's less of a jump than you'd think, and that's why this "joke" is shit.
I don't think you're getting it. Colin is being extremely self-centered. It's someone else's day. Someone who doesn't really get many days, and needs support from society. Colin says, "Fuck you, pay attention to me instead! Oh, and if you don't like that I just told you to fuck off, well then you're a sack of shit."
SolidSnakex
Member
Well, while Colin was tweeting that, this is what Sony was doing
Also note the person retweeting those.
SerTapTap
Member
This is what happens when you let Colin's shit foster an "alt right" audience, screaming about cucks and sjws. Eventually just trying to be a decent human being will enrage your existing base.
It's why I'm quite happy to grow slowly rather than to let these creeps think I'm one of them. "One of the good ones".
Greg and Colin eat the corn out of his shit. They aren't going anywhere in regards to PSXWell, while Colin was tweeting that, this is what Sony was doing
Also note the person retweeting those.
Sony decides if they appear at PSX, not them.
Ninja Scooter
Member
You mean sort of like how Colin labeled anyone who didn't find his stupid joke funny a "humorless sack of shit"?
Dirtyshubb
Member
Hopefully after yoshida having to step in to stop them shitting on kyle bosman and now this, they might start looking at them differently.
Assholes tend to attract other assholes in my experience. Its pretty obvious why he says the things he says, he thinks they're funny and he know's it will rile people up without major blowback from where it matters, the people who give him money. When that starts to happen you'll probably start seeing a lot less shitty jokes but until then.
LastMinuteHero
Member
Put EZA instead
MrS
Banned
Sony actually wants people to watch the panel, y'know?
PepperedHam
Member
MrS
Banned
People who post in this thread have long been trying to pit Easy Allies against Kinda Funny. There's a lot of moaning about the opportunities that are presented to KF which others would like to see given to Easy Allies. I have no idea why people want KF to fail so much.
I went over to the EZA community thread to try to insert some jolliness into my life after reading this thread, but it appeared there was some sort of bickering going on about their Zelda review.
Where can I go for positive vibes today?
PepperedHam
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TheCowboyPoet
Member
They will after last year when they ranted about Bosman except for Tim and Yoshida.
BigTuna109
Member
You are exactly right, which is why Greg points out this would've been a nonissue if he'd said it on one of their shows. Unfortunately, there is no tone or context on Twitter and people who might not be as familiar with him ran with it (again like Greg said). Now the vitriol coming from both Colin haters and defenders is hyperbolic and absurd (like most things on the internet). It's all very unfortunate, unnecessary, and Kinda Embarrassing for everyone. Good news is Colin gets to skip PAX and feel like a martyr, his favorite thing to do, and the people who already didn't like him have a new reason and something new to point at. Win-win for both sides, and a big L for mankind in general.
That was all David Jaffe. Stop spreading misinformation.
I must have missed this. What happened?
Glass Shark
Banned
Conservatives in America want to roll back human rights for marginalized groups and make it harder and more expensive for people to get healthcare at the expense of making corporate overlords happy. They're all scum. There's a reason they're hated.
David Jaffe was shitting on Kyle during the PSILY panel last year. Colin, Greg and Tim didn't partake in shitting on him, contrary to what some are saying.
I swear Greg also said something as well about Bosman during the panel.
Dirtyshubb
Member
Gregg has moaned about him on one of their shows too I believe, all because kyle made some throwaway joke about the kinda funny my name iirc.
I think he likes to put out the bait with something offensive, then plays up being a victim of "PC culture" when people respond negatively. It helps build his image as some sort of rebellious defender of "liberty".
And there's plenty out there just eating it all up. Looking at the YouTube comments on KF's newest video, there's a ton of #HailColin and #IStandWithColin comments.
Of course the rating is also in the tank with a ton of down votes so...mission accomplished from Colin I guess...?
Buttonbasher
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EDIT: Shouldn't be comparing actual offensive stuff to a throwaway joke.
Making a joke about specific people is not the same as making a joke about a whole sex based common stereotypes.
It didn't take long for someone to compare a personal joke to one based on prejudice.
Are you saying the joke is instigative? Maybe he has been in the past, I don't know, but the joke was disney level. Not instigative at all. Maybe its more something Gaston would say than Prince Charming, but its still a vanilla joke.
All I saw was a bunch of white men getting outraged at a dad joke, I didn't see one person whose feelings got hurt. Nothing in the universe would have changed if he posted that joke and no-one replied. Nothing at all. In the end Colin is still a nobody, he's not a public figure watched by hundreds of thousands of normal adults on tv, he's not a political figure who needs to keep any personal beliefs out of the public eye. He's just some guy who writes for some shitty b-tier website.
That's the joke
What? More than ever? Women are more empowered than they've ever been in history right now. We've reached a point where we now have the privilege to knee a guy in the crotch and get away with it. But a guy can't make a simple joke? I guarantee if I went out and punched a guy in the stomach people would just give me funny looks, that's it.
Maybe go back to the fifties, or look at the middle east if you want to see a political climate where women are underprivileged.
That's subjective. I found it kinda funny. It's a dad joke, some people like dad jokes.
I'd probably feel the same way after being dogged by a hundred people. He's obviously a bit grumpy in that tweet, but the outrage in return is far more volatile than his. When looking at the two, the response people gave him is far more disgusting than the tweets he made.
People were being humourless. By definition they couldn't let a joke be a joke. It was a statement that made sense.
The sacks of shit would've been a bit much if it weren't for the fact that he'd made a simple joke and got absolutely dogpiled. He was probably upset.
Lets see how you feel when hundreds of people jump on you for making a harmless joke? I'll bet you'll feel like you're being victimised too. Especially when your mate throws you under the bus.
What?
Listen, Colin is just one guy, he's now getting bullied by so many people because of a few tweets he made. Even if he made the most offensive tweet in history, treating someone like this is far FAR worse than making a joke and then getting upset about it.
By the way I'm not a Colin fangirl, I don't only know about Greg Miller because of his MGS fanboyism, otherwise KFG is a nothing site to me. I just hate how much bullying there is on twitter sometimes. It's overtaken Youtube comments section as the most toxic place on the internet.
God.
I hope I dont get banned for this -_-
Tinfoilhatsron
Banned
Nope. He certainly did not. I was there at the show and it was all Jaffe.
Dirtyshubb
Member
One was a joke about the name of a company, the other a thoughtless and inconsiderate joke deliberately timed on an international day to celebrate a marginalised and historically oppressed group of people and then followed up with childish insults to anyone who took offence and after his friend and Co founder wrote an apology letter for him he posted a flag suggesting he was a hero of freedom and victim of the left.
There is a slight difference between the two situations
He didn't really moan about it, they (Tim, Greg and Colin on a Gamescast) kinda just shrugged it off after Greg brought it up when Tim mentioned Bosman.
The episode was back in 2015, and Brandon Jones has been the Gamescast and GOG, so there's no bad blood between KF and EZA, other than the fans who are arguing about which group's better.
Buttonbasher
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One was a joke about the name of a company, the other a thoughtless and inconsiderate joke deliberately timed on an international day to celebrate a marginalised and historically oppressed group of people and then followed up with childish insults to anyone who took offence and after his friend and Co founder wrote an apology letter for him he posted a flag suggesting he was a hero of freedom and victim of the left.
There is a slight difference between the two situations
Totally. Sorry if I wasn't being clear, I just think if Kinda Funny was holding a grudge against Bosman making a name joke, but getting defensive when called out for a genuinely gross tweet, it's pretty backward.
The two totally are not comparable. I wasn't trying to start more shit. The Colin tweet is gross, and will keep me continuing to avoid their content.
Apologies to anyone I offended. That was not my intention, and I removed the post.
There's so much wrong with this I genuinely don't know where to start.
FinaruDensetsu
Member
His belief is making dumb jokes and calling everyone humorless sacks of shit? So courageous.
It saddens me that the younger generation of conservatives think that the major thrust of conservatism is about saying "non-PC" (read: usually offensive things that they then downplay as a joke, not serious, or metaphorical) and not receiving any criticism over. You guys need to go and learn what conservatism actually used to mean.
If you cut out all jokes that made light of serious issues you'd only be left with knock knock jokes and shit puns
MrS
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There are many in this thread who have been triggered. I am not one of them, pupper.
It was a throwaway joke but I'm sorry, I completely forgot we weren't allowed to make those anymore.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Lol now people are claiming he's being bullied? And who's the sensitive snowflake?
Start by trying to contend my statement that a hundred people hounding someone on twitter isn't ok. Regardless of the context.
GalacticMouse
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I don't mean to single you out for any reason other than you're the latest person to make this argument...but to a lot of people taking this same approach to the situation, consider reading this Polygon piece regarding the PewDiePie situation from a few weeks back.
It's not an apples to apples comparison between the initial jokes at all, but it answers the question why some people don't get - or more specifically, haven't earned - a pass for their comedy.
Ploid 3.0
Member
hah Yoshida!!! Going all in on Horizon, love it.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
There's probably more people defending him tbh
Wait, a hacky disrespectful joke and a follow up insulting anyone who thought the joke was bad are ideas that challenge me somehow? Wow.
Colin said something dumb as hell, then whined about being told it was dumb. Stop being a baby about people getting criticism.