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El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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The best part is that she probably didn't sleep around just to get good reviews, at least that shows that you have a loving goal in mind. She was loving other dudes because her boyfriend is clearly a whiny bitch who writes 5k word tumblr screeds about poo poo that should be private and now he's trying to justify why she would betray him by making up any reason that isn't that he's a pussy rear end bitch.

Maybe this will be the time that video game kiddies learn that a large chunk of people who make art are broken shitheads who do lovely things. This isn't like, Woody Allen bad, but still.

Decrepus posted:

She would look fine if she lost like 30 pounds shut the gently caress up.

There is some amateur wannabe suicide girls style modelling poo poo she did at some point. I only know this because 4chan or whoever keeps trying to shove it into every place that can host stuff.

It's not what you'd call "attractive" but it's far from being different from any other SG ripoff sites.

El Estrago Bonito fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Aug 19, 2014

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El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Woman sleeps with guy, cheats on boyfriend, is a general rear end in a top hat about it, later guy maybe gives her game good review: A CRASS VIOLATION OF JOURNALISM ETHICS

Every major games review outlet taking millions of dollars in advertising money and pretty much every major Youtuber being outed as a paid shill for a far reaching program by an industry leader to manipulate the market: MAYBE THERE WAS A THREAD ON NEOGAF ABOUT IT OR SOMETHING? AREN'T YOGSCAST, TB AND MAX GREAT! SO GREAT!

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Also in a twist surprising no one I think she's a goon.

Or at least has dropped references to very SA specific memes in the past.

california roll posted:

word around the office is she has a donation page up to help her through this. idk where it is though but i sure would like to help her.

You ain't gonna get yo dick sucked
you might get your dick sucked empty your bank accounts plz

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Lowtax posted:

on an unrelated note, I'd like everybody to know Depression Quest is the smash hit game of the year, 10/10 A+ 100% would review again!!!
richard please send your daughter as far away from video games as possible, like there must still be convents somewhere maybe? Do the amish take donations of kids? just get her out.

MyronGognitti posted:



Hot enough for ya?

I feel bad for her because her bf is a lying scumbag who slept with a crazy woman who also is a scumbag but you know that only one half of the two people who hosed her life in the butt are gonna get punished for it. prolly best not to come out in public and say you support internet people harassing someone irl when you're a games lady since she's basically one post about not loving assassins creed away from having the same poo poo done to her.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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EA Sports posted:

post your tumblr

it would be p. boring if i did that, I just use it for fatty porn and reposts of instagram ho's flashin their butts.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Jamesman posted:

I heard about it a little while back when there was a really lovely Game Jam she was a part of. It was a pretty hilarious mess that you should look up if you enjoy reading about nerds and disasters.

it was like "THERE WAS NO WATER THEY MADE US ONLY DRINK THE DEW" and somewhere Jerry Lawler cried a single tear without knowing why.

a hole-y ghost posted:

yeah but also close the games forum preemptively

as long as we get to keep the lol thread so we can periodically watch a heroin addict argue about how a videogame company has a conspiracy against him to make him lose.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Shithouse Dave posted:

Notoriety really seems to help some artists, so you never know I guess.

Led Zepplin did pretty OK after the whole "kidnap a teenager and hold her as your sex slave" thing

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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a hole-y ghost posted:

hmm now tha you mention it i'm making a sandwich for lunch and i'd like some positive hype about my sandwich making skills

If Adam Sandler could make a good looking sandwich in that lovely "serious" movie he did I am sure yours is stellar

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Ponce de Le0n posted:

I wonder how much of that $2k a month is sympathy money, because throughout all of this no one seems to have a good word to say about her game.

I liked the flash game she made that was like ddr but about trying not to fart

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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natetimm posted:

Wait, what? I would play the hell out of this game.

http://www.beesgo.biz/dsim.html

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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The Droid posted:

Step 1: Become internet "famous"

Step 2: You did it.

If all the rapists the Green Brothers keep hiring for their music label are anything to go on then yeah rabid fandoms will praise a lot of sketchy poo poo

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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EMILY BLUNTS posted:

i heard part of some massively overwrought piece about the whole thing, about how SURPRISED everyone was at this, how GAMES MEDIA was above all of this, how even OLD MEDIA would NEVER have stooped SO LOW. BUT NOW, EVEN THE FIFTH ESTATE HAS CRUMBLED

I wonder how they would feel about stuff like when bands used to have hooker and coke filled parties with the editorial staff of Rolling Stone. I'm sure no one on their team every wrote a super favorable review after following a band from city to city getting hammered with them and loving groupies, nosiree bob.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Anyone who defines themselves by the way they spend money is an annoying fuckhead.

It doesn't matter if you're a "gamer" or a "Pro Poker player" or a "Birder". No one likes that guy.

Also if you took any of the Tropes v Women videos and replaced Sarkeezy with Charlie Brooker, they'd have to hire a dumptruck to deliver all the BAFTA's they'd be trying to jam into his hands.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Someone go through one of these articles and pretend its 1989 and replace all references to video games, gamers and gaming journalism with Heavy Metal, Metal Heads and metal journalists

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Carecat posted:

Come on, if it was Yahtzee talking over that footage about general gaming news no-one would have given two shits about credits.

I still remember when a Goonette detailed how she had purchased Yahtzee his ugly fedora hat when they were dating and about how he eventually had to throw it away because he wore it so often and long that it slowly began to mold and fall apart. :barf:

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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It's telling that everyone who was anyone at EGM during the salad days ended up in management positions or in completely different industries.

I think it's pretty much just Parish who is still in the thick and he's got a pretty freeform editorial position now where he gets paid to replay FF tactics and poo poo. All the guys like Shane and Milky are off doing real rear end work with real pay checks now.

There are guys who are doing real critical games review stuff but the only high profile one is that guy at Forbes and he cut his teeth as a real journo other places before doing games.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Tuxedo Catfish posted:

what's his name

It's not Erik Kain although he is OK. Forbes new site is a loving nightmare to navigate, but he was, for a long time, the only video game guy that wasn't a "contributor" before they started that whole system. Now their video game stuff is like 35% Buzzfeed because of their submission system.

I will say Erik Kain's article on this mess is probably the only one anyone has written that brings up valid points about the entire industry being basically a giant balancing act of shilldom.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:

what would be an acceptable tumblr sjw game anyway? a character creator with a 2D graph for plotting your gender and an infinite number of skin tone and clothing options to create the perfect pan sexual gender fluid princess?

All Points Bulletin but without the part where it restricts clothes by gender

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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Tuxedo Catfish posted:

thanks, i didn't expect the mainstream news to pick this up at all but assuming you mean this it's a good article

The only real issue is that, as Forbes, they don't have to deal with some of the stuff actual 100% video games focused media outlets have to deal with. Ubisoft locked 1up and EGM out of a bunch of poo poo for poo poo talking their aggressive ad money = good ratings platform, but no one is going to lock loving Forbes out of anything because come on its motherfucking Forbes.

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El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

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It should be noted that the year or so has contained a shitload of actual corruption in games media that 0 online nerds seemed to care about.

Lets not forget the fact that a bunch of Goons who are one of the most watched gaming channels on YouTube basically came out and said "As long as you agree to a extensively predatory and assrapingly harsh profit sharing contract we will gladly publicize and promote your game on our channel." which was based on the idea that since Indie games desperately need media attention they would be willing to sacrifice a huge chunk of their profit just to be featured in a couple videos with 500k views.

Or how about that time someone in video games actually did real journalism and found out that a shitload of YouTubers were violating a bunch of laws.
(This isn't 100% accurate, I know the person in question who did the UbiSoft coverage and it was all labeled as being sponsored, also it wasn't really a review or anything mostly he talked to one guy for a little bit and then showed off some con swag)

Or that Need For Speed slash XB1 payola thing that turned out to be paying out to a ton of people, all of whom were told to under no circumstances ever disclose any relationship with Microsoft?

I say we need to go back to the Nintendo Power era of games journalism:

-Games sponsored by the parent company (or which are so good they cant be denied or obvious system sellers) get 8-10
-Games by tier 2 developers who advertise in the magazine or who have a good relation ship with the parent company get 6.5-8.5
-Everything else gets a 5 unless it's so bad it serves as a comedy review to entertain 8 year old boys (LOOK HOW AWFUL BARBIE HORSE ADVENTURES IS 2/10 BUY MARIO TENNIS INSTEAD)

El Estrago Bonito fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Sep 4, 2014

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