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kane_magus) wrote2013-07-16 09:28 am
kane_magus) wrote2013-07-16 09:28 am
"Kotaku’s nerd-shaming article about Bronies is both nasty and unnecessary"
Wait, you mean there are people out there who still actually care about Kotaku? Huh. Go figure. *shrug*
Seriously, I can count on one hand the number of gaming "news"/blog sites that I give a shit about and still have digits left over.Penny Arcade Report (which Gabe and Tycho have since stupidly shut down), Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Forbes Games, and PC Gamer. And even those sometimes sadly seem to be starting to fall to the stupid side that I no longer care about. If anyone has any gaming news sites they want to recommend (that aren't complete crap like Kotaku, Joystiq, 1up, or especially Destructoid), I'm definitely in need of such.
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In any case, generally speaking, video gamers have no place in calling out bronies for supposedly being weird. Remember when being a gamer meant you were a nerdy, basement-dwelling, no-shower-taking, anti-social, virgin loser? It wasn't all that long ago when that sort of thing was the commonly accepted view by the "mainstream" when it came to those who played video games, and many still hold that view even today. How would we feel if someone posted a video of, say, any given LAN party or maybe the crowd at a fighting game tournament or, hell, anyone playing a Wii/PS3 Move/Kinect game and said "Ha ha look at those awkward douchebags!"? Yet, now, we have video game "journalists" thinking it's okay to write articles about how "awkward" bronies are? Glad to see that at least some, such as Ben Kuchera, don't find that acceptable.
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Seriously, I can count on one hand the number of gaming "news"/blog sites that I give a shit about and still have digits left over.
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In any case, generally speaking, video gamers have no place in calling out bronies for supposedly being weird. Remember when being a gamer meant you were a nerdy, basement-dwelling, no-shower-taking, anti-social, virgin loser? It wasn't all that long ago when that sort of thing was the commonly accepted view by the "mainstream" when it came to those who played video games, and many still hold that view even today. How would we feel if someone posted a video of, say, any given LAN party or maybe the crowd at a fighting game tournament or, hell, anyone playing a Wii/PS3 Move/Kinect game and said "Ha ha look at those awkward douchebags!"? Yet, now, we have video game "journalists" thinking it's okay to write articles about how "awkward" bronies are? Glad to see that at least some, such as Ben Kuchera, don't find that acceptable.
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