Fucking Kotaku

[Hot Heart]

I think maybe this goes a little too far in some cases...

http://imgur.com/a/y8jII

[Mister Jack]

Not gonna lie, I still laughed at some of them.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I don't really care about what Patricia posts as much as others but man some of these are hilarious.

 

 

Also to some of the people who like[d] Stephen back when it was lead by Crecente... any new thoughts on him? I liked Stephen but recently he's been getting out of hand imho. Like his undying defense of Patricia's articles are somehow poisoning him. The last few articles of his are very sarcastic/whiny in the sense of "Why we don't need sequels" and "why we don't need prequels"

[Mister Jack]

I think Crecente is doing his own site now but I haven't really looked into it.

 

As for Stephen, I definitely liked him more when he wasn't in charge.

Edited May 13, 2013 by Mister Jack

[Waldorf and Statler]

If I recall correctly Crecente is one of the writers of Polygon.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Yep, he's over at Polygon being one of the reasons they're shit.

[NeoStarr]

http://gawker.com/we-are-raising-200-000-to-buy-and-publish-the-rob-ford-508230073

 

Gawker wants to give drug dealers in my city $200,000. Like, they actually think this is a good idea.

 

Oh, and gang violence has been a bit of an issue here the last three years.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

How do you know they're drug dealers? There's far more drug users than dealers. Then the users friends.

[NeoStarr]

Because the story from the local paper has a lot more details.

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/05/16/toronto_mayor_rob_ford_in_crack_cocaine_video_scandal.html

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

 

 

One person, who described himself as an organizer in the Somali community, told the Star he had copies of a video that, he said, showed Ford smoking crack. This man was acting as a sort of broker for the person who had shot the video. What followed was a protracted discussion between the man and Star reporters. The broker said he represented two Somali men who had supplied crack cocaine to the mayor in the Dixon Rd. area. The Star was not able to verify those claims.

 

The man said his two associates (one had been present when the video was made and had done the filming) wanted “six figures for the video.” At another point he said they had originally wanted $1 million, but he had convinced them to lower the price. Asked why they were selling the video, the man said the two who claimed ownership of the video wanted to make a change in their lives and use the money to move out west to Calgary.

 

Doesn't sound too bad to me.

[NeoStarr]

You don't need $200,000 to relocate to Calgary. They're putting money right into the hands of criminals. I fail to see so much as a grey area here; it's downright fucked up.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I think I'm done with Kotaku for the next few months until this shit calms down. Yesterday they announced they were gonna start being more strict with their commenting and have basically pin-pointed people who make cheesy and bad-taste jokes as targets of greying out and it seems like once again they hold the entire power on who gets recommended or not. I don't tend to do Nazi jokes [which by that I mean I do them all the time] but man this shit is getting ridiculous. Commenters are afraid to do jokes now because the Kotaku editors will now decide what's funny or not. Fuck that. I might have been popular but fuck it, I'll come back later as my fourth coming.

[deanb]

Yeah I'd heard bits n bobs here n there on twitter to folks referencing them having another crack and enforcing commenting policy again. Remember when they tried that last time?

[Mister Jack]

They want their community to be like neogaf SO MUCH.

[deanb]

Oh yeah a couple weeks back chatting with a distant mate on FB and topic is on Kotaku and I mentioned about use to comment there a bit until I was banned during the "kotakuoplspe" thing. He mentioned reading about it on reddit at the time, some high profile commenter being banned and it going to shit. I was like "yeah, that was me they banned". He had a bit of a "oh shit, small world" moment.

[TheRevanchist]

Damn it.  Now I want to login and make bad jokes and puns.  Thanks a lot, Jesus! 

[Waldorf and Statler]

Go for it. Funny enough the joke in bad taste they mentioned in the "how to comment" article was mine. It was the one written by the transsexual and my comment was "I like my women like I like my video games. Without a penis"

[Alex Heat]

I think the only thing I really miss about Kotaku is the Moneysaver articles.  I suppose I can start paying attention to Cheap Ass Gamer, but it was certainly convenient for me at the time.

[Waldorf and Statler]

they still have those. I won't stop reading kotaku as I still can't find another news/blog site that updates as often as they do. Plus I still love the community that isn't another derivative of Gawker with a holier-than-thou attitude similar to the AV Club.

[deanb]

Eh, can always hit up Savygamer. More UK focused, but quite a lot of international crossover given it's mainly digital sales (and frequently does Amazon US stuff)

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

I think I'm done with Kotaku for the next few months until this shit calms down. Yesterday they announced they were gonna start being more strict with their commenting and have basically pin-pointed people who make cheesy and bad-taste jokes as targets of greying out and it seems like once again they hold the entire power on who gets recommended or not. I don't tend to do Nazi jokes [which by that I mean I do them all the time] but man this shit is getting ridiculous. Commenters are afraid to do jokes now because the Kotaku editors will now decide what's funny or not. Fuck that. I might have been popular but fuck it, I'll come back later as my fourth coming.

Well the comment section is a cesspool due to terrible, unfunny jokes, and shitty gifs, I'm all for it.

[Waldorf and Statler]

UK focused doesn't work for me, but thanks for the offer.

 

And FDS I assumed you would enjoy their changes haha

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

I prefer my Kotaku comment section be borderline trolling by way of unpopular opinion and not lelsorandumXD kiddies.

[Mister Jack]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/why-kotakus-nerd-shaming-article-made-me-uncomfortable

 

Apparently PAR disliked a brony/nerd shaming article on kotaku enough to write their own article about it.  I clicked the link out of morbid curiosity and OH LOOK IT'S PATRICIA HERNANDEZ AGAIN LIKE I TOTALLY FUCKING KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE.

[TheRevanchist]

She does like to troll. Maybe she should be doing talk radio?