Do you forgive him?
>>339356636
Dorito pope? Nope, and I never will.
What did he even do wrong? Worst he ever did was shill for doritos.
>>339356636
there is nothing to forgive, he is already dead on the inside.
>I hate people I don't personally know
The Pope did literally nothing wrong
He's a pretty good boss
>>339356824
your fedora belongs to me now you faggot
>>339356636
Yes because at least he was upfront and honest about who was sending the shekels
>>339356636
No. But I have understand his actions and motivations and realize he was only human.
Which is more than I can say for most people in the industry.
i already did
Honestly I'm not sure what he's done besides this.
>>339357802
DEWRITOS
FEEL THE BERN
>>339357802
>Geoff Keighley is often described as an industry leader. A games expert. He is one of the most prominent games journalists in the world. And there he sits, right there, beside a table of snacks. He will be sitting there forever, in our minds. That's what he is now. And in a sense, it is what he always was. As Executive Producer of the mindless, horrifying spectacle that is the Spike TV Video Game Awards he oversees the delivery of a televisual table full of junk, an entire festival of cultural Doritos.
>>339356636
If Dew and Doritos offered you a massive pile of cash to promote their stuff alongside videogames, you'd do it in a heartbeat.
How is that?
>>339356636
Is Doritos Pope the early season villain that later on the heroes join with when a far worse force of evil threatens everything in later seasons of the show that is the video games industry?
>>339356636
I forgave him when he gave Kojima that special mention, even when he probably wasn't supposed to. Dude might come off like a malfunctioning android, but that was pretty cool.
>>339359753
honestly the original doritopope article by eurogamer was pure projection. gaming "journalists" are all on the payrolls of developers in one way or another. Geoff just gets sponsors for the events he puts on, that's it. he has friends in the industry like Kojima he really cares about. the dude is such a good shill he could go work in any other industry at this point but he stays in gaming because he genuinely seems to like it.
>videogames and their events are partially sponsored by chips and soda brands, who have no interest in influencing games or game marketing
>this instead of game companies and publishers, who could use their influence to affect the medium by buying out critics and presentators
>this is a bad thing
>>339356636
I've always liked doritos and dew so yeah, doesn't bother me any that he got paid to promote some dope ass snacks.
>Defends video games against old geezers who wants to ban all games on national television
>Uses up all his money to fund a video game event he always wanted to have
>Best bros with Hideo Kojima
>Truly loves video games
>Instead of being an asshat about it he jokes about people calling him Doritos Pope
>Bad because he made an advertisement for a game using sponsored material that doesn't even affect the game.
>>339356636
Good guy.
Better than Adam Sessler.
I never had anything against him.
>>339360189
The main thing though is that his sponsors originally were non-gaming related. Doritos and Mountain Dew may have been cringey as fuck, but at least you knew they weren't paying for positive buzz about games in the form of shilling and positive reviews.
Given how much he seems to actually care about vidya, he deserves better than what happens at the VGAs each year.
He is a good guy, people do seem to paint him as a bad guy though because of past events. Doritos and that thing with Angry Joe.
>>339360750
Joe was being a sperg. he thought doritopope would be an easy target to punch-up with and got fucking rekt.
I forgave him.
I forgive him but I never forget.
He didn't deserve this, I'd take endless doritos popes over the Polygon staff
Doritos tacos are awesome
>>339360356
We were young and naive of how bad things could get and didn't see the long term.
He totally humiliated 7 dollar spic so he's ok in my book.
He's not even that bad compared to most journalists now.
>>339360532
It's not bad because of the advertisement, it's bad because of how it was done.
>>339356824
Hitler? Stalin? Mohammed?
>>339356636
meh the Kojima thing was his redemption
I think he understands now where the industry needs to move towards in order to keep games alive.
I'd imagine he regrets the CoD Mtn Dew event shit at this point.
I think a lot of guys like him just assumed that making games more mainstream would only ever improve gaming.
Human but profoundly naive if he seriously believed that.
>>339356824
I hate you. What's your point, Gandhi?
The real tragedy is that people remember him for advertising Doritos and Mountain Dew when he was actually shilling the abomination known as Halo 4.
