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  • @SideScrollersPodcast
    @SideScrollersPodcast  Місяць тому +239

    Hey. Glad you're here. If you're just a normal man (or woman) and think all this insanity needs to end, you're in the right place. We hope you subscribe.
    k thanks.

    • @funkyweapon1981
      @funkyweapon1981 Місяць тому +8

      I wouldn't say I'm "normal" but the insanity needs to end.

    • @TriarchVisgroup
      @TriarchVisgroup Місяць тому +4

      Glad to be here! That's fantastic, so, I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

    • @craigs71
      @craigs71 Місяць тому

      If we could go back to a semblance of reality in coming months then I'll be happy.

    • @bfrehksdhf
      @bfrehksdhf 29 днів тому

      Why do my comments keep disappearing on this channel?

    • @FireHawkX
      @FireHawkX 29 днів тому

      WHOA!! Craig!! I haven't seen you since the Hard News days at Screwattack! :) I watched every single of those until it stopped... Nice to see you taking a moderate and intelligent stance with all of this! :)

  • @ftblr66
    @ftblr66 Місяць тому +1183

    This guy is posting the full context of his answer because he's worried the journalist will chop up his response and take thing out of context. He's right not to trust the media.

    • @WayStedYou
      @WayStedYou Місяць тому +88

      They still will, REEEset era already melted down over his comments

    • @JintoLin
      @JintoLin Місяць тому +60

      Guy might of seen what happened to the CEO of Farm Folk that trusted a journalist and expected them to have integrity and want to get the proper message out there and not turn in to an hit piece using his out of context words as ammo. Always happy to see people speak out against this journalists that only know how to write click bait hit pieces

    • @georgejones5019
      @georgejones5019 Місяць тому

      ​@@WayStedYou Rætārd Era is more like it. I've never seen a site so filled with stupidity.

    • @karinefonte516
      @karinefonte516 Місяць тому +37

      And he's not wrong. Should be commonplace actually, whenever you're about to be interviewed record it all and protect yourself.

    • @LunaMane
      @LunaMane Місяць тому +13

      That's what happened to the maker of that farm simulator, and Mercante from Kotaku interviewed him then misrepresented what he said.

  • @ejc83
    @ejc83 Місяць тому +624

    It was nintendo who blacklisted Kotaku after kotaku essentially said to pirate zelda

    • @ShadowAngle
      @ShadowAngle Місяць тому +86

      Metroid, but you're right.

    • @mister-x2
      @mister-x2 Місяць тому +109

      Kotaku was blacklisted by Ubisoft and Bethesda before that happened, I also heard the FF14 /16 team hates them for calling them racists

    • @Aenarion28
      @Aenarion28 Місяць тому +88

      Meanwhile woke games are not even being pirated

    • @knox7945
      @knox7945 Місяць тому +66

      ​@@Aenarion28not worth the space and time

    • @Raspse7en
      @Raspse7en Місяць тому +42

      @@Aenarion28 It's because nobody in their right mind want overly preachy pretentious slop.

  • @tomemaster1744
    @tomemaster1744 Місяць тому +196

    I have often found that the biggest Virtue Signallers are the ones with the deepest closets full of skeletons, and I'm yet to be proven wrong.

    • @eval_is_evil
      @eval_is_evil 26 днів тому +12

      This is I think academic at this point. It's no longer a hypothesis. Well said.

    • @blacktionjackson7133
      @blacktionjackson7133 17 днів тому +3

      The only skeletons CDPR has is they hired a bunch of whiny dorks who have never worked a job before.

    • @CarlosBlua
      @CarlosBlua 5 днів тому

      100% true.

    • @chukyuniqul
      @chukyuniqul 3 дні тому

      @@CarlosBlua not necessarily. Confirmation bias is a thing. Yes, there are prettt high-profile cases of people like that having whole mausoleums of skeletons in their closet, there's a reason the trope of the on-the-surface softboi being actually an awful human is a thing.
      But there's a reason it's a deception too. So don't get carried away by your dislike of scum because the moment you stop being rational is the moment they win.

    • @Farcehole
      @Farcehole 3 дні тому +1

      Stating your opinion as fact is one thing. Demanding that others also adopt that opinion is an egregious step over the line.

  • @metalmilitia89
    @metalmilitia89 Місяць тому +600

    Woke has ruined everything

    • @XProjectHunterX
      @XProjectHunterX Місяць тому

      Because it was hijacked (like all once just causes) by narcissistic activists who only cared about money and power and not *insert marginalized group here*.

    • @jonathanbergh5763
      @jonathanbergh5763 Місяць тому +21

      Agreed

    • @jefftheindianchief8279
      @jefftheindianchief8279 Місяць тому +1

      And those who question the term "woke" have already enabled companies to continue ruining our entertainment.

    • @jonathanpretty5031
      @jonathanpretty5031 Місяць тому +1

      What? You don't like weird, stupid, ugly people making crap games and ruining the stuff we all love?

    • @Jerrel28
      @Jerrel28 Місяць тому

      Call it by its real name. Marxism had ruined everything.

  • @SuperDoggy99
    @SuperDoggy99 Місяць тому +84

    It's scary to think this guy gave a very moderate and measured response, highlighting skepticism and rational thinking, and yet he's being attacked by the very lunatic mob he's warning against.

    • @motherlyfather9871
      @motherlyfather9871 17 днів тому +6

      Monsters tend to attack anyone who might expose their existence.

    • @WorldsTallestLeprechaun
      @WorldsTallestLeprechaun 10 днів тому +9

      It’s not scary, it’s pattern recognition. They’re basically Karens with itchy trigger fingers, begging for any excuse to snap and rage at people, but they need an excuse to not look like “the bad guys” so they get the fleeting feeling of satisfaction that comes from “I’m doing the RIGHT thing!”
      Honestly, I can’t help but wonder if the guy is satisfied with this harassment to his calm, measured response.
      “Thank you for proving my point, thank YOU for proving my point, OH, is that a “moral crusader” threatening to k-ll and grape my entire family?! Screenshot…send to police…and thank you for proving my point as well, you self-righteous lunatic!”

    • @jflanagan9696
      @jflanagan9696 4 дні тому +1

      They’re perpetual victims. You don’t actually have to do anything wrong, you’re just there to temporarily satisfy their endless desire for attention.

    • @MutatedPixelation
      @MutatedPixelation 2 дні тому

      Quite literally what every single extremist political movement has done in the entire history of mankind. Unfortunately it's gonna be a dogfight for a long, long time.

  • @TheYukiTsuki
    @TheYukiTsuki Місяць тому +128

    ESG - Evil Sinister Garbage

    • @Zalger248
      @Zalger248 День тому

      ESG - Every Sin Going

  • @josefmacichek99
    @josefmacichek99 Місяць тому +138

    Old Mark Twain saying to never try arguing with ignoramuses because they will bring you down to their level and obliterate you, because they are better at being ignorant.

    • @Aenarion28
      @Aenarion28 Місяць тому

      Only a matter of time before Mark Twain is cancelled for writing Huckleberry Finn and using the N word despite his book depicting the South as hypocritical idiots and Jim, the "inferior" black man as the one person practicing the true values Christianity

    • @chrisd9700
      @chrisd9700 28 днів тому +13

      “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” -Mark Twain

  • @NetBattler
    @NetBattler Місяць тому +162

    More developers should grow a spines and never comply against this nonsense!

    • @maddworld3317
      @maddworld3317 Місяць тому +9

      Razor: 'REPLY, MOCK, IGNORE' This is about a tactic they're using, don't try to reason with them

    • @TheGodfather101
      @TheGodfather101 3 дні тому

      it isnt their choice. ESG effects loan worthyness in publically traded companies. if they dont its considered a breach of fiduciary duty.

    • @maddworld3317
      @maddworld3317 3 дні тому +3

      @@TheGodfather101 If they think that's more important, maybe their lack of revenue will eventually make a bigger difference when we reject their priority of them over us players. I lose no sleep over them

  • @kaleiohulee6693
    @kaleiohulee6693 Місяць тому +84

    Activists have a purposeful blind spot when it comes to tolerance of those they demand tolerance from.

    • @Dilapsor
      @Dilapsor 17 днів тому

      What exactly are they asking you to no longer do?

    • @Dilapsor
      @Dilapsor 17 днів тому

      @@VarianteMobile Dissent against what?

  • @lance134679
    @lance134679 Місяць тому +68

    The problem is games "journalists" have no respect or even any idea for what journalism even means. Let's just call them bloggers because that's all their article are.

    • @ajikpajik9331
      @ajikpajik9331 Місяць тому +8

      Personally I think that is a bit offensive to bloggers. Many bloggers do excellent research and try to show both sides of an argument. 😉

    • @lance134679
      @lance134679 Місяць тому +8

      @@ajikpajik9331 Okay, so I guess maybe call them propagandists.

    • @ajikpajik9331
      @ajikpajik9331 Місяць тому +4

      @@lance134679 I think we can agree on that. 😀

    • @noless
      @noless 29 днів тому +2

      Already ten years ago it was revealed that almost none of them had a degree in journalism. They are glorified bloggers indeed.

    • @linusgustafsson2629
      @linusgustafsson2629 29 днів тому +1

      They are mostly just "influencers". Just that they are incapable of influencing anyone, so they just use threats and coordinated attacks as well as slander to try and get people to at least a little do what they say.

  • @RyanBrown2K5
    @RyanBrown2K5 Місяць тому +462

    Well, I won't be supporting CD Projekt Red anymore.

    • @Drocksas
      @Drocksas Місяць тому +48

      How the mighty have fallen

    • @user-cq2mx3pv3h
      @user-cq2mx3pv3h Місяць тому

      Cdpr are thieves and liars!

    • @DekkarJr
      @DekkarJr Місяць тому +7

      :(

    • @QziQza
      @QziQza Місяць тому +19

      Aye, not another penny!

    • @trazyntheinfinite9895
      @trazyntheinfinite9895 Місяць тому +37

      Let the power of wallet-shut cleanse the realms!

  • @kpsk8031
    @kpsk8031 Місяць тому +43

    In the German replies Mahler gets a lot of heat because of an old story of a female ex-employee who tried to play the harassment card and failed. Mahler is very open about what this person did and still people attack HIM and not her.

    • @blisterfingers8169
      @blisterfingers8169 15 днів тому +6

      Same with Alexis Kennedy and Failbetter. All the evidence points to a psycho ex but the company sided with her and still people try and drag him for it despite their being a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Support his newer games from his new company Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours.

    • @downeebrownee
      @downeebrownee 7 днів тому

      Sounds like typical Reddit behavior, they worship the very thing they can’t touch: vagine

  • @gamerkingdom1442
    @gamerkingdom1442 Місяць тому +126

    I hope their next game, No Rest for the Wicked, become such a smash hit. If their CEO IS THIS BASED, they deserve an incredible win.

    • @pyroknight4099
      @pyroknight4099 Місяць тому +11

      I bought the Early Access last week, it's been a hoot

    • @tigerhead85
      @tigerhead85 Місяць тому +21

      I will never buy an Early Access game on principle but I can recommend the 2 Ori games without hesitation.

    • @pugnacious6290
      @pugnacious6290 Місяць тому +5

      It’s in early access currently. Came out with some issues and got mixed reviews, but they’ve been crazy effective at rolling out fixes in rapid succession. They’re listening close to the fans and definitely know what they’re doing, I think it’s going to be big success.

    • @bettysteve322716
      @bettysteve322716 Місяць тому

      are we talking about the same guy who just used a whole raft of WEF buzzwords like a bought and paid for puppet? Words such as STAKEHOLDER for one?!
      This corporate shill is the one you are claiming as BASED??!!

    • @centerfield6339
      @centerfield6339 Місяць тому +7

      The Ori games are genuinely brilliant.

  • @JamesOpr
    @JamesOpr Місяць тому +181

    You can not reason with the unreasonable.

    • @Raspse7en
      @Raspse7en Місяць тому +11

      The only thing the unreasonable will listen to is pain cause they don't think but only feel.

    • @25xxfrostxx
      @25xxfrostxx Місяць тому +4

      I don't think the moon studios guy is genuinely trying to reason with him. I think he posted that whole thing publicly himself because he knew the guy would just go public with an out of context sip and claim he called him a bad guy from ww2 unprovoked and all he did was ask an innocent question.

    • @maddworld3317
      @maddworld3317 Місяць тому +3

      "reply, mock, ignore". move on

    • @simonebernacchia5724
      @simonebernacchia5724 Місяць тому

      @@maddworld3317 hmm am i getting the context right?

  • @leandrobenitez292
    @leandrobenitez292 Місяць тому +187

    there is nothing leftoid hate more people listing and counting the many logical falacies in their every argument

    • @derekdrake8706
      @derekdrake8706 Місяць тому +6

      Of which, there is so very many.

    • @derekdrake8706
      @derekdrake8706 Місяць тому +2

      Of which, there is so very many.

    • @leandrobenitez292
      @leandrobenitez292 Місяць тому +9

      @@derekdrake8706 is there any homebrew text processing AI to spot logical fallacies?
      BTFOing NPCs get's repetitive very fast, it's be easyer if i could copypasta some AI url and be done with it

    • @summersoldier1003
      @summersoldier1003 Місяць тому +9

      @@derekdrake8706 you can say that again.

    • @denkerbosu3551
      @denkerbosu3551 Місяць тому +2

      @@summersoldier1003 and he did

  • @Vedrlaufnir
    @Vedrlaufnir Місяць тому +38

    As Yahtzee said on his hot coffee video:
    _If the history of moral panics has taught us anything is that complying with the moral panic is the least effective way to win this; it's showing weakness isn't it? it's like saying to the frenzied shark "if you promise not to bite my hands and legs off you can have this used tampon"_

    • @tumamaencosplay
      @tumamaencosplay Місяць тому

      Can you give me the title of the video where he said this?

  • @trevorsamuels8392
    @trevorsamuels8392 Місяць тому +129

    Politics never belonged in gaming to begin with, I mean the main point of escapism is to get away from the bs of the world, not overfeeding yourself with it until you're sick.

    • @valemontgomery9401
      @valemontgomery9401 Місяць тому +15

      Games should go back to being apolitical, like Wolfenstein and Metal Gear

    • @Max_Ohm
      @Max_Ohm Місяць тому +26

      When political ideology is your entire life, you try to infuse it into everybody else's.

    • @Mattened
      @Mattened Місяць тому +8

      ​@@valemontgomery9401 Gotta be kidding. Wolfenstein is a small hat's revenge for what german mustache man (supposedly) did, simulator

    • @valemontgomery9401
      @valemontgomery9401 Місяць тому +8

      @@Mattened sarcasm is hard to detect over text

    • @valemontgomery9401
      @valemontgomery9401 Місяць тому +2

      @@Mattened also, “supposedly”? Ok

  • @adamadelsberger3731
    @adamadelsberger3731 Місяць тому +65

    Pretty sure Gina Carano said something similar and common sense, and the same types tried to socially crucify her for it.

    • @Ghostgate611
      @Ghostgate611 4 дні тому +1

      I'm pretty sure she just said her pronouns where beep/bop/boop or something similar 😂

  • @MidlifeCrisisJoe
    @MidlifeCrisisJoe Місяць тому +99

    ESG snuck heavily into gaming in 2021 because investors saw the huge amount of people playing games while in lock-down and decided to drop a ton of money into the industry. We're starting to see the back end of that trend now: lots of absurd corpo diversity demands and lots of failed AAA projects that were bad ideas that got too much money.

    • @nekoboyrin5475
      @nekoboyrin5475 Місяць тому +11

      It actually started earlier than that. One example being monster hunter 4 ultimate's translation, and even earlier with mega man battle network series in the early 2000s. Their firststrike imo was on the Japanese media that was ported to the west, before it became more pronounced in 2014, then more in 2017, and full blown by 2020 and up.

    • @tumamaencosplay
      @tumamaencosplay Місяць тому

      This preceeds the pandemic by a loooooooong time.
      Don't forget big AAA games take 3-6 years to be made.
      This stsrted around 2015, when corrupt ideologues escaped the shortlived victory of GG to create consultancies

    • @MidlifeCrisisJoe
      @MidlifeCrisisJoe Місяць тому +9

      @@nekoboyrin5475 No you're talking about a separate trend. Activist prog translators have been a problem for years and consumers should demand *accurate* translations to get them out of the industry, but ESG is very specific and about conforming to DEI standards in order to recieve investment capitol from big lenders.
      While I'm sure some version of that has happened before, it really didn't take off like the trend we've seen recently in the gaming industry until rather recently. One or two companies might've been doing that in the past, but over the last few years several companies have hopped aboard this train in order to procure funds.

    • @nekoboyrin5475
      @nekoboyrin5475 Місяць тому +4

      @@MidlifeCrisisJoe I agree that the investors exacerbated the problem, but what I'm stating is we will not only need to lose them, but the activists they are utilizing that have been doing these things for years prior as well. We would need companies that decide to vet their potential employees on the subjects first in addition to not taking esg handouts, in order to correct this. Speaking of esg, Vivek Ramaswamy goes into great length of detail explaining just how and why they are doing it.

    • @JarlBarbossa
      @JarlBarbossa 26 днів тому

      No, semite bolshevics move their propaganda to whichever medium is more popular

  • @aja8590
    @aja8590 Місяць тому +114

    Well. Time to buy both Ori games.

    • @ILikeYous
      @ILikeYous Місяць тому +7

      i did a couple weeks back and I am halfway through the second one. Very different feels to each but improvement on the first. Although I like the first one for ranged combat more but maybe that is just unlocked late in 2.
      Fun gameplay and satisfying visual story telling.

    • @jungledeafable
      @jungledeafable Місяць тому +7

      I like side scrollers and both are well worth a play, or a few in my case lol

    • @tigerhead85
      @tigerhead85 Місяць тому +2

      It's well worth it. Just completed the games about 6 months ago, and I don't even like Metroidvania style games.

    • @martinzemek5798
      @martinzemek5798 Місяць тому +2

      Always loved them. I even bought Ori and the Will of the Wisps artbook because the art is amazing and the soundtrack by Gareth Coker is excellent as well.

    • @GodzillasaurusJr
      @GodzillasaurusJr Місяць тому

      I bought it years ago, and don't really like it, but the wife did, so I guess it must have something.

  • @coldacid
    @coldacid Місяць тому +24

    As an Austrian company, chances are that Thomas Mahler and Maurice Weber communicated in German, and it was just his tweet in English as a translation of what Mahler told Weber.

  • @mister-x2
    @mister-x2 Місяць тому +48

    I still like the CP2077 world and game, but man The Witcher 1 remake is gonna modern audience'd so bad.

    • @misberave
      @misberave Місяць тому +2

      Nobody needs a remake anyways.

    • @italoviturino6386
      @italoviturino6386 3 дні тому

      not like W3 wasnt already paying some progressive taxes with some quests and dialogues, it was so obvious that this would happen, only people that have not paid attention to the texts of sidequests would be surprised by this

    • @henrlima87
      @henrlima87 2 дні тому

      Aside from remaking it, they'll rename it: "the wokitcher" 😂

    • @jasonaguilar4031
      @jasonaguilar4031 День тому

      @@henrlima87 Nah, theyll probably just make it about yennifer and ciri like the show

  • @brombombadil
    @brombombadil Місяць тому +321

    Those weren't yathzee tactics. Those were and are communist tactics.

    • @goldsteed8832
      @goldsteed8832 Місяць тому +43

      The yatheez were commies

    • @zonzillamagnus5902
      @zonzillamagnus5902 Місяць тому +1

      Fascists and communists both come from Marxism

    • @regulustheron2565
      @regulustheron2565 Місяць тому +76

      Yatzhees were socialists, it's in the name of their party. The painter said it so in the 2nd chapter of his biography.

    • @summersoldier1003
      @summersoldier1003 Місяць тому

      @@regulustheron2565 they were tyrannical fanatical nationalists. All other words and descriptions are window dressing. For all their hate nobody has ever accused the arrogant pr!cks of not loving their country.

    • @TheLiamis
      @TheLiamis Місяць тому +32

      The 2 are the same thing. They want 100% of the monyy and power.

  • @robertluna5737
    @robertluna5737 29 днів тому +6

    They are all about love and acceptance until someone has a different opinion.

  • @LadyAmalthea0615
    @LadyAmalthea0615 Місяць тому +40

    It was Nintendo who blacklisted Kotaku.

    • @captainmurphy4948
      @captainmurphy4948 Місяць тому +3

      Nintendo did, but I do remember there being a spat between someone and Kotaku before that. May have been Bethesda, may have been Ubisoft. I do believe it was Bethesda.

    • @user-ss6co6vj5f
      @user-ss6co6vj5f Місяць тому +9

      Bethesda, ff14/16 teams, and some other block them too

    • @phlannelboxingday6198
      @phlannelboxingday6198 Місяць тому

      F*ck Kotaku

    • @aikighost
      @aikighost Місяць тому

      Honestly who cares, Kotaku is so totally irrelevant it may as well not exist at all.

  • @ryuugamineryuuto
    @ryuugamineryuuto Місяць тому +72

    That thing about the discourse never being about *the issue*, but rather about the revolution hit home for me. I experienced exactly that last week.
    I started a petition to get Japanese companies to create and enforce guidelines for localizers because, as you probably already know, games, anime and manga that get localized get completely butchered, rewritten, censored and the people behind it know we hate and love to brag about being responsible for ruining things for us consumers that just want the product in its integrity, just in a language we understand.
    And boy, did I get mocked by a bunch of people on Twitter when I tried promoting it recently! Replies and quote retweets drawing attention not to the argument but to the strawman they made of me, calling me an incel, telling me to touch grass, calling the entire thing a waste of time... but nobody engaging negatively with my posts ever made an argument in favor of localization or pointed out flaws in the petition itself.
    All they did was have an emotional reaction to someone making rational arguments and ran with it. Not because they had opinions about the issue of localization, but because they saw someone who did! It was never about the issue, it was just about punching someone down whom they deemed an acceptable target.
    Edit: the name of the petition is "Introduce A Code of Ethics for Localization of Japanese Media・ローカライゼーションの倫理規定"
    Can't post URLs, but should be easy to find with a quick search.

    • @noonenowhere877
      @noonenowhere877 Місяць тому +13

      That’s actually a great idea you have there.

    • @G360LIVE
      @G360LIVE Місяць тому

      I'm guessing that most of the responses you got on Twitter were bots. That's why I got off Twitter. It's mostly bots that are trying to sway people's opinions and control the narrative.

    • @XG2
      @XG2 Місяць тому +9

      Link to petition? Imma sign it faster than wokes get offended!

    • @drzerogi
      @drzerogi Місяць тому +5

      I couldn't agree more. I also have had many engagements with these fanatics over the years and I get a ton of the same responses you gotten. Their comments are so predictable and boring that I simply do not care anymore. These days, I just revel in it.

    • @ryuugamineryuuto
      @ryuugamineryuuto Місяць тому

      Thank you guys for showing interest in the petition. I can't post the URL here because UA-cam automatically deletes comments with links, but the title of the petition is "Introduce A Code of Ethics for Localization of Japanese Media・ローカライゼーションの倫理規定"
      Just look it up, should be easy to find.

  • @Lagbeard
    @Lagbeard Місяць тому +11

    I would definitely like to thank CD Porjekt Red for telling me to never buy anything they make in the future.

  • @trazyntheinfinite9895
    @trazyntheinfinite9895 Місяць тому +54

    Gamestar lost its soul and credibility 20 years ago.

    • @AVKnecht
      @AVKnecht Місяць тому +7

      Gamestar is just a Munich-rich-guys bubble that never had to face any negative side of the whole progressivism. Mick Schnelle was the last normal guy there

    • @RambleOn07
      @RambleOn07 Місяць тому

      GameSpy was the only gaming journalism I truly enjoyed.

    • @MrHorton12
      @MrHorton12 Місяць тому

      Oh boy, I will never forget about the Fallout 76 Test. "We need more time"...yea ok the 50 crashes and what not in the 30+ h they played were not enough. They need to test it at least 100h more. And no, this had nothing to do with the huge ad banners on there side, obviously not...😅😂😂😂

    • @misberave
      @misberave Місяць тому

      Their videos are still great and politics free, just not their articles.

    • @WannabeShady90
      @WannabeShady90 29 днів тому

      ​@@misberaveBruh, their videos aren't great anymore eather. They used to actually test games, now they just talk 10 minutes about the game and write opinion pieces...and they barely even test half of the relevant games that get released.I remember back in the 2000s when Nino Kerl (now Ninotaku), Fabian Sigismund, Gunnar Lott, Christian Schmidt (now Stay Forever Podcast) used to work for GameStar...they had creativity, integrity, passion...now there are only corporate shills, DEI-hires and failed politics "journalists" left, who haven't played a game in their life, but hate actual gamers with a passion.

  • @mattsanderson5258
    @mattsanderson5258 Місяць тому +7

    The fact that this guy is getting attacked over this, just further highlights the points he was making in this tweet. Amazing.

  • @christiansmith9306
    @christiansmith9306 Місяць тому +19

    All is missing is Razor spinning in his chair saying his classic phrase.

  • @Will_GM_for_Food
    @Will_GM_for_Food Місяць тому +67

    As a fan of Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk 2020, I can say it was always pretty progressive. It primarily focused on rebelling against corrupt megacorps, particularly the Rocker and Nomad character classes. Cybergen was even more explicitly so.
    And to be fair, Night City in 2077 Northern California would naturally be pretty diverse. The medieval European analogue of the Witcher, though... maybe not so much.

    • @DekkarJr
      @DekkarJr Місяць тому +10

      Pondsmith is a cool cat kind of a guy.

    • @o00nemesis00o
      @o00nemesis00o Місяць тому

      "Progressive" in what sense? Night City is a dystopia, and the rebel punks are a reflection of the problem, not the solution. You should see what the CP2020 manual says about equality and diversity.

    • @conjurezero9745
      @conjurezero9745 Місяць тому

      Pondsmith represents what progressives used to be. They used to be anti-corporate. Nowadays, they're the biggest simps for Big Pharma and ESG schemes.

    • @DMAN99
      @DMAN99 Місяць тому +37

      That’s just old school Liberal though, where diversity could be a strength and not crammed into everything. Just look at how many cartoons back in the 90s/00s pushed for diverse characters and yet they didn’t feel that pandering because they were still characters first

    • @jmmywyf4lyf
      @jmmywyf4lyf Місяць тому +8

      Thats PUNK! Not progressive

  • @cormoran2303
    @cormoran2303 Місяць тому +17

    Gotta love when the German response is essentially the 'Downfall' meme.

  • @biocular
    @biocular Місяць тому +19

    I wholeheartedly regret preordering Cyberpunk 2077.
    Even without the ESG-mining aspect; by the time it was objectively playable, it was already on sale.
    I just liked Witcher 3 so much that I wanted to support CDPR; won't make that mistake again with any company.

    • @maddworld3317
      @maddworld3317 Місяць тому +1

      CyberPunk 2077 is the last CDPR game I'll ever buy

    • @Jeremy-ql1or
      @Jeremy-ql1or 26 днів тому +1

      Don't ever pre-order any games. It is messing up the entire industry.

  • @Foolsjoker
    @Foolsjoker Місяць тому +10

    Guessing CDPR didn't see what happened to the Netflix version of The Witcher?

    • @Grobut81
      @Grobut81 Місяць тому +4

      Honestly, i don't think CDPR even has a say in the matter anymore.
      After the botched launch of Cyberpunk, they needed money, and ESG loans is what was on offer. As we now know though, that's a faustian bargain that comes with all sorts of woke strings attached.

  • @godslayer2797
    @godslayer2797 Місяць тому +14

    He could not have said it better.

  • @BlueBD
    @BlueBD 21 день тому +2

    He is being attacked for telling a journalist that they are not a journalist and instead is a propagandists.
    He is attacked for telling the truth and they cannot have that

  • @polishprince47
    @polishprince47 Місяць тому +134

    Poland is 98% White & Proud!!
    🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱

    • @jmmywyf4lyf
      @jmmywyf4lyf Місяць тому +16

      Lucky

    • @Mattened
      @Mattened Місяць тому +2

      The real global minority and people of color.

    • @npcimknot958
      @npcimknot958 Місяць тому +24

      Cd project red is like all white too and look how woke they are

    • @From_a_Peasant_King
      @From_a_Peasant_King Місяць тому +5

      @polishprince47 For now.

    • @realsomething2981
      @realsomething2981 Місяць тому +32

      But, according to Netflix, You have many "afro american" elf's in your forests! 🤣

  • @melonetankberry5211
    @melonetankberry5211 Місяць тому +18

    in germany we (each seperate household) are forced to pay a monthly fee (not a tax) called "Rundfunk Gebühr" in theory it is meant to fund unbiased news. long story short: they aren't they are state news now. we are forced to pay so they can do as they please. you can't opt out. it doesn't matter if you are not listening to their stuff. "pay pig! and say thank you for the great service we provide." it blows.

    • @drzerogi
      @drzerogi Місяць тому

      Any news that is funded by the state is ultimately state news. We have NPR in the US and it's the same situation, except they stay pro-Democrat. No nation should have tax-payer funded news.

    • @C42ST3N
      @C42ST3N 27 днів тому

      Sry but thats bs. Some media is biased for sure but you describe it as if we are living in russia or china with a full media control system. Not every programm funded by gez is that manipulated.

    • @blisterfingers8169
      @blisterfingers8169 15 днів тому

      Same in the UK with the BBC only you can choose not to pay. They will tell lies, force their way into elderly people's homes and do lots of other horrible tactics to try and get people to pay but if you just don't let them in your house to check, they don't have any legal grounds to get in and therefore can't prove anything.

    • @eteline_music
      @eteline_music 3 дні тому

      Yes, it's deeply unfair. I can't help thinking that this mandatory TV license payment through taxation will eventually happen in the UK, where I'm from.

  • @Joyapp
    @Joyapp Місяць тому +11

    witcher 4 is going to be a cringe fest

  • @dangiambrone7350
    @dangiambrone7350 Місяць тому +5

    I'd wager that one of the reasons why CD Projekt Red has opened up another development studio (who will create the next Cyberpunk game) in Boston USA, is to boost their diversity quota.

  • @redsimonDE
    @redsimonDE Місяць тому +5

    I think it's a first that a German games developer (and CEO!) spoke out against all of this (cancel culture, failure of journalism and anti-customer behavior of game corporations). If you wonder why it took so long, the risk as a German is bigger so it's very brave of him to do that.

    • @WannabeShady90
      @WannabeShady90 29 днів тому

      The few german studios that exist are basically all supported with tax Euros, so the state forces several quotas on them. The german developer market is very insignificant as is, but most of them develop niche games, so they're not able to survive without government handouts. The only developers from Germany with some kind of mass appeal are Crytek and Giants Software (Farming Simulator).

    • @redsimonDE
      @redsimonDE 28 днів тому +1

      @@WannabeShady90 The German media industry is small because foreign lobbyists from the US have lobbied from the beginning of the FRG for politicians to make laws to make it as hard as possible for media upstarts to prosper. However, all of this changes nothing about what I posted above. This is a first, and it's very brave for a German CEO and media industry person to do that.

  • @steffen89able
    @steffen89able Місяць тому +6

    Considering CDPR was attacked by rockpapershotgun, eurogamer, kotaku and polygon when W3 came out its baffeling they choose to behave like this now.

  • @t.a.matuska3537
    @t.a.matuska3537 Місяць тому +7

    @Razörfist : you missed the part in his bio where it said moongamestudios is situated in Vienna, Austria and not Vienna, South Dakota or another one of the 17 Vienna named cities in the US. So yes it makes sense for him to talk to a German language gaming magazine. There is quite a bit of German speaking gamers out there ;)

  • @Crylhound
    @Crylhound Місяць тому +38

    Maurice is a clown and he gets praised by all his followers like he is some sort of gaming messiah. That's why I unsubscribed from Gamestar/GamePro. Can't take them serious and you shouldn't, too.

    • @thomasa7187
      @thomasa7187 Місяць тому +4

      Unsubed too after he went nuclear over a guys comment few months ago. Just let them be crazy and ignore them

    • @chrissawyer1484
      @chrissawyer1484 Місяць тому

      GamePro? That was a magazine that used to think even the worst game was "just average". Had some nice pictures of the games, though.

    • @elLooto
      @elLooto 29 днів тому +1

      @@chrissawyer1484 7/10 has been 'average' since at least as far back as the 1980's gaming magazines.
      As an editor of one of those mags said a while ago, if you give accurate reviews all that happens is that they dont send you advanced copies (so you can review them before release) in future and your magazine suffers because everyone else has already reviewed the game and theres no reason for someone to buy your mag.

    • @WannabeShady90
      @WannabeShady90 29 днів тому

      ​@@elLootoIn the 2000s there were actual game journalists in german gaming media who could sell you a Game even if it didn't get a very high Score (85-90% is very high in German Media). That's why I bought for example Vampire Bloodlines.

  • @visto576
    @visto576 Місяць тому +6

    You can't reason someone out of a view that they weren't reasoned into to begin with

    • @MungeParty
      @MungeParty 27 днів тому

      Words of a lazy coward

  • @sprostongreen
    @sprostongreen 29 днів тому +4

    His first mistake was expecting journalists to do their job

  • @schnecks2180
    @schnecks2180 Місяць тому +6

    Gamestar was a great place, but it went downhill years ago.

  • @MidlifeCrisisJoe
    @MidlifeCrisisJoe Місяць тому +12

    To the emotionally incontinent, those who can control and maintain their emotions to respond or speak rationally are always the bad guy, because they put the overly emotional into sharp relief on the point of their ineptitude.

    • @elLooto
      @elLooto 29 днів тому

      "emotionally incontinent"
      I am so stealing that.

    • @MidlifeCrisisJoe
      @MidlifeCrisisJoe 28 днів тому +1

      @@elLooto Feel free to. I find it describes far too many people too well.

  • @JHand04
    @JHand04 Місяць тому +3

    It was G. Edward Griffin who discussed that strategy of calling folks "fascist" who start becoming (allegedly) irksome to the regime.

    • @elLooto
      @elLooto 29 днів тому +2

      _The Creature from Jekyll Island_ is still one of my favourite books.

  • @TheKaiserize0
    @TheKaiserize0 Місяць тому +9

    CDPR peaked with Witcher 3, and they were pretty based till then. Unironically, the huge success of the W3 was their downfall. Since that time it was just a slow march towards woke agenda, and even political activism. They're not the same company that they used to be, probably due to new investors' money, and that a lot of OG stuff behind W3 left the company. I still remember that our local game media shilled so hard for the CP2077 that made me very suspicious of the final product.

    • @mikecampos1193
      @mikecampos1193 Місяць тому +1

      My gut feeling told don't trust Cyperpunk I was right it was bad still is.

    • @WannabeShady90
      @WannabeShady90 29 днів тому

      Most of the team that developed The Witcher 3 left after the game was finished.

  • @randoir1863
    @randoir1863 Місяць тому +11

    You may as well ask for world peace while hoping JOURNALISTS starting doing journalism again . I don't fully blame the journalists as much as I blame who they work for . INDEPENDANT Journalism is flourishing atm the moment while mainstream media is dying off .

    • @maddworld3317
      @maddworld3317 Місяць тому

      Well when they all fall due to cancellation of relevance, new employees will be brought in and we might get some actual commentary & news again

  • @thepassenger6499
    @thepassenger6499 29 днів тому +2

    Germany here: This thing blew up quite a bit online. I was always a fan of Maurice Weber and I still am, but the CEO from Moongames made some valid points.
    Personally, I'm totally fed up with agendas forced into video games and movies.
    Take care! ✌🏼

  • @Marcara081
    @Marcara081 Місяць тому +1

    Journos 10 years ago: 'We're not trying to take away your games.'
    Now: They're taking away EVERYTHING.

  • @Suffah911
    @Suffah911 Місяць тому +2

    That dev basically described everything I've been feeling the last 4 years.

  • @Sargonarhes
    @Sargonarhes Місяць тому +5

    And like that games like Ori and No Rest for the Wicked just got a sales boost.

  • @NicholasBrakespear
    @NicholasBrakespear Місяць тому +2

    "How dare you suggest that we should be understanding and empathetic and tolerant of other views! That's ignorant, callous and intolerant of the fact that we're righteous and ideologically pure!"

  • @nadrewod999
    @nadrewod999 Місяць тому +5

    Personally, I agree with what the CEO of the Ori developer studio was saying, but I would address it to ALL games journalists rather than just 1 German games journalist website, and I would have probably spouted out a lot more curse words from my sheer rage at how much their ilk have destroyed my beloved lifelong hobby.

  • @tsalapbeew
    @tsalapbeew Місяць тому +13

    10:07 this guys sounds like so proud of what he is doing but in reality he sounds like someone who has been living under a rock.
    ESG? Really?

  • @AncestorEmpireGaming
    @AncestorEmpireGaming Місяць тому +14

    Dragon lord is German.

  • @thedude7319
    @thedude7319 Місяць тому +3

    05:40 this is similar to older people selling their houses for high prices to corps. you are selling out the future of tomorow for comfort today without having to deal with the moral implications

  • @stevenobrien7686
    @stevenobrien7686 Місяць тому +8

    I’ve always loved Moon studios, but now I know how based the CEO is I love them even more.
    No Rest For the Wicked is phenomenal btw.

    • @G360LIVE
      @G360LIVE Місяць тому +2

      I love that Moon Studios refused to be bought by Microsoft. That definitely saved them from having to conform to Microsoft's DEI framework shenanigans.

    • @mikecampos1193
      @mikecampos1193 Місяць тому

      ​@@G360LIVEthey probably dodged a bullet.

  • @stormstrider
    @stormstrider Місяць тому +4

    For like 3 seconds, I thought Noah Antweller made a comeback

  • @nukecoladrinker7744
    @nukecoladrinker7744 Місяць тому +3

    As a Polish guy im ashamed by fact CPR is now woke

    • @WannabeShady90
      @WannabeShady90 29 днів тому

      Don't be. Everyone can catch that virus.

    • @dHempfler
      @dHempfler 4 дні тому

      Yeah im Polish too and didnt know CDPR turned that way. What a shame...

  • @jackratscratpack9323
    @jackratscratpack9323 Місяць тому +2

    This isn’t just on the German side all these tactics he’s calling out is universal all these mainstream journalists do this crap and people are sick and tired of it and are waiting for their reality to all come crashing down

  • @Chibi1986
    @Chibi1986 Місяць тому +3

    Expecting game 'journalists' to shape up in current year is a fool's errand. They never will. You're better off never talking to them.

  • @gamingonamonday6342
    @gamingonamonday6342 5 днів тому

    Love how the people attacking him just prooved him right in the end.

  • @DonJuanDM
    @DonJuanDM Місяць тому +2

    The number one golden rule for journalism - "You are supposed to CHALLENGE the power with TRUTH, not ENFORCING the power".

  • @RockyRoyale84
    @RockyRoyale84 Місяць тому +7

    Next time, let Razor read.

    • @gerardhill6163
      @gerardhill6163 Місяць тому +1

      You got there before I could. The continual ignoring of accurate word forms began to hurt the cogency of the points being made.

    • @Stalinfalcon
      @Stalinfalcon Місяць тому +1

      And here I thought I was the only one to think that!

    • @Stalinfalcon
      @Stalinfalcon Місяць тому +1

      @@gerardhill6163not to mention full on skipping of words lol

    • @G360LIVE
      @G360LIVE Місяць тому +2

      He talks too much, so no.🤣

  • @midnitepagan9118
    @midnitepagan9118 Місяць тому +7

    Why does diversity have to be about skin colour? I was taught Diversity came from accepting people from other nations reguardless of skin colour. Well i guess thats the non-progresive version of it. not thee modern version of it.

    • @birdsteak9267
      @birdsteak9267 Місяць тому

      Sorry i keep having my comment deleted, because YT deem it Anti-PC

  • @hansjuker8296
    @hansjuker8296 26 днів тому +1

    Its not "notsee" tactics...its FEMENINE tactics...

  • @25xxfrostxx
    @25xxfrostxx Місяць тому +3

    I believe Moon Studios just fired their DEI commissar recently so this may be related to that.

  • @paradigmafluch
    @paradigmafluch Місяць тому +2

    i dont even read german stuff as a german. those journalists are a shame no matter the country...

  • @mikefreitag574
    @mikefreitag574 Місяць тому +2

    I’m just finishing ori and the will of the wisps and have loved it. I’m glad to hear this from the dev

  • @NaZReD
    @NaZReD Місяць тому +2

    so what we saying is we miss Total biscuit..

  • @FoxFireUnlimited
    @FoxFireUnlimited Місяць тому +1

    I think I'll buy a physical copy of Ori, if it's on a system I own, and send Mahler a picture of the receipt next to his statement.

  • @magetsalive5162
    @magetsalive5162 Місяць тому +4

    You think you hate activists, but _you don't hate activists enough._

  • @chaosmastermind
    @chaosmastermind 4 дні тому

    "Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." -Mark Twain

  • @computeraidedyami
    @computeraidedyami 28 днів тому +3

    Blabs didn't say a word, is she a cyborg or something?

  • @Hermentotip
    @Hermentotip Місяць тому +1

    Based! Now go and publish that, mr. 'journalist'

  • @nicholascowling7052
    @nicholascowling7052 Місяць тому +2

    That's a great Twitter post, and I think many people feel the same way. It's interesting that they chose to attack him after... I can't help but wonder if they are looking for him to respond negatively to them or call them Nazis and then they can use that ammunition against him to prove that he always was a mean/hateful person. I hope he doesn't respond to any of the attacks and just leaves the people feeling ignored as they should be.

  • @Zer0......
    @Zer0...... 20 днів тому

    Great show, will be back for sure

  • @thegreathadoken6808
    @thegreathadoken6808 28 днів тому

    The other feud involving Kotaku that the redoubtable Mr Fist was referring to was with David Jaffe, I believe. There was a recording of a rather one-way conversation Jaffe had with a Kotaku urinalist.

  • @Jammet
    @Jammet 28 днів тому +1

    Maurice is a really nice guy and a critical thinker. I don't know what this here is actually about, but I like Maurice a lot, and hope things can be ironed out.

  • @sturmherooflance
    @sturmherooflance 25 днів тому +1

    The Greek philosophers might have called these people sophists.

  • @samurai90x
    @samurai90x 2 години тому

    "then they came for me" and i was like "you sure you got all them jews?"

  • @ToastMallows
    @ToastMallows Місяць тому +1

    They're really emphasizing the RED in CD Projekt Red

  • @winsomehax
    @winsomehax Місяць тому +19

    Remember. Normal people feel the need to correct the record when accused. So you spend time answering. This wastes your time, and is chumming the water. Constant criticism is also a psych war tactic.
    So you have to ignore it.

    • @denkerbosu3551
      @denkerbosu3551 Місяць тому +1

      No, actually correct the record, but do so with an actual recorded audio or other objective proof.

    • @winsomehax
      @winsomehax Місяць тому

      @@denkerbosu3551 No you don't get it. You will be hit with dozens or hundreds of these things. If you spend your time "correcting the record" against these people you will never live your life. Never apologise and never explain. You are just chumming the water.

    • @Dante02d12
      @Dante02d12 Місяць тому +1

      We've been ignoring them for a decade. How did that play out, remind me?

    • @WannabeShady90
      @WannabeShady90 29 днів тому +2

      ​@@Dante02d12He's not saying "ignore them", he's saying fight them on another battlefield. You won't convince the woke cultists anyway, so don't waste your time defending yourself against them. Educate people who don't know what's going on, spread awareness to normies...that's how we win.

  • @GetBased
    @GetBased 17 днів тому

    only 3.30 minutes in but already have insane respect for this dev calling out the journalisim industry.

  • @StreamTeacher
    @StreamTeacher Місяць тому

    Seems like an excellent person for the TakeGamesBack board!!

  • @nuke7138
    @nuke7138 Місяць тому

    I finally got a notification for your channel.

  • @andrerodon3921
    @andrerodon3921 19 днів тому

    I'll have to buy some of his games to support his perspective and gumption! I'm proud of this guy! Enough is enough with this insanity!

  • @Jaimas
    @Jaimas 3 дні тому

    It was Nintendo the blacklisted Kotaku, specifically after they advocated pirating Metroid Dread mere days after release.

  • @thomasace2547
    @thomasace2547 18 днів тому +1

    Forced DEI kills creativity

  • @TheCybercoco
    @TheCybercoco Місяць тому +2

    Gotta love it. Craig tries to make a point about the lack of diversity in a video about diversity that's plainly obvious from even a slight observation. Razor goes off on tangent about totally unrelated topic about crunch times. He did the same thing with the Bethesda Kotaku thing. He's got some attention deficiencies or something.

  • @SaltySplatoon-tj1id
    @SaltySplatoon-tj1id Місяць тому +2

    Ahhh the exposed hypocrisy 😚🤌

  • @maddworld3317
    @maddworld3317 Місяць тому +8

    Cyberpunk 2077 is the last CDPR game I will ever buy.

  • @playinghardball
    @playinghardball Місяць тому

    This Thomas Mahler guy wrote an utterly great and highly important comment on the integrity and responsibility of journalism and journalists. Would be great to know how the Gamestar guy reacted to this...

  • @WujuDekar
    @WujuDekar 2 дні тому

    Blabs knows what's up, she's got a point.

  • @jehmmadicine4367
    @jehmmadicine4367 9 днів тому

    That's why I gave up attempting to be objective and logical with people.
    My statements still reflect these traits but I no longer go out of my way to reach anyone through it. The logic I apply may be objective but I am oftentimes more bitter and aggressive when communicating. They don't seem to like that. And most either steer clear themselves. Or if one does engage, I usually get all the aggression out eventually and am able to more easily drop the back and forth without even reading their last word. As it's endless with those types anyway.