Is anyone holding out hope that the new buyers clean house and actual start reporting on video game news?
>>340668387
I hoping whatever buy it burn it to the ground and piss on the ash.
Maybe ask Notch to take it and make a glorious twitter shitposting empire from it.
inb4 delete
>>340668551
This thread isn't about the G company. This is about a VIDEO GAME NEWS site.
VIDEO GAME NEWS
VIDEO GAME
Remind this is your typical gawker defense force
>>340668387
>buy site
>continue to report the same clickbait shit because that's what people want
>make millions
>>340668768
No one's taking about the G-word here. I just want to speculate on a potential return to QUALITY VIDEO GAME NEWS
QUALITY VIDEO GAME NEWS
VIDEO GAME
>Trump as new President
>Ghostbusters is shit
>Kotaku is kill
Is the nightmare over?
>>340669069
Nobody cares about Trump or Ghostbusters, take that shit to /pol/ and /tv/. This thread is about VIDEO GAME NEWS.
VIDEO GAME NEWS
VIDEO GAME
>>340668913
You'll never get that, outside of actual enthusiast websites
By default, the "media" is corrupt because no actual journalist wants to talk about kids entertainment, so we're "stuck" (if you're looking at "professional" news) with san francisco retards who wanted to be journalists but couldn't make the cut
>>340668913
Unconvincing.
>>340668387
I'm hoping the new buyers burn the house down
>>340669196
Mostly likely they'll go a more tech/current haps route.
I don't visit the site too often but when I do it's not often even video games.
"under new ownership" kinda stuff rarely leads to something goodI love you Nihon no Mootbecause fans poke to that at a turning point.
I'll probably just slowly die.
>>340669393
If I remember, there was some Christian review site that was actually pretty based and had good taste. I think if the new Kotaku owners establish some firm ground rules on quality, it could revitalize the industry.
>>340669526
VIDEO GAMES
VIDEO GAMES
VIDEO GAMES
There will be some changes, but not big ones i think. Kotaku does make money as it is
>>340669626
>I'll probably just slowly die.
Oh boy, It'll.
I hope I don't slowly die, I want that shit to happen asap.
Let's use the collective neetbucks of /v/ to buy the site and make it about actual games journalism.
You know what we should name it?GatorGaming
>>340669670
Christian gamer is a good website, yeah
But someone who has been taught to write clickbait garbage their entire lives will never be able to produce quality content, shitkaku can't be fixed, it must be purged
There's a good chance it will either die or drop the whole social justice shit to focus on actual video games.
>>340668913
>return
>>340669670
>>340669196
>>340668913
>>340668387
Then go to the thread that was already here when you started a second one, dumbass
>>340667441
VIDEO GAMES
>>340667441
VIDEO GAMES
Moron
>>340670005
Hence cleaning house. When the reckoning arrives, like it has today, it teaches the younger generation that what passed as acceptable before will no longer be enough.
Hence, generations succeed cyclically. Boomers were shit, X was better, Millennials are shit, the next generation will do better.
Kotaku[g] was shit, hopefully Kotaku[x] will have hungry-enough up-and-comers that it will do better, but it does require a scorched-earth policy on current employees.
>>340670252
Mags in the 80s and 90s were pretty good, for the most part.
>>340670346
That doesn't look like a thread about Kotaku specifically.
>>340669970
Do it!
i don't need video game journalism to get my news
i'm in here 20 hours a day
I hope the billionaire guy from paypal that rekt them in court buys them
>>340670418
>That doesn't look like a thread about Kotaku specifically
Don't be a faggot.
>>340670534
Sorry, I didn't realize you already had a dick in your ass.
>>340668387
They need to get rid of that weak willed manlet Totilo and the spic girl who posts the most inane articles. Also that perve living in Japan. You know, fuck it, Kotaku sucks.
>it's wrong to laugh at a dying SJW video game news site
>on 4 chan
Up yours mods this is fun.
>>340670627
fun is a buzzword
>>340670627
Please refrain from deviating from the main topic at hand;
VIDEO GAME NEWS
VIDEO GAME NEWS
VIDEO GAME NEWS
Well they can't keep running Gawker on its current business model, that's for sure.
Honestly I just want kotaku.com to redirect to hulkhogan.com.
>>340670913
I think you mean Kotaku.
>>340669393
Being for "kids entertainment" doesn't doom an outlet to becoming the hub of stolen content and scummy influence peddling that Kotaku became. Being run by scumbags does.
>>340670418
>Mags in the 80s and 90s were pretty good, for the most part.
Nigger I understand that you were a kid and probably couldn't parse it, but almost every magazine was crooked. And almost quite openly so. The blatant paid reviews back then were so fucking in your face. And the positive coverage for systems and add-ons that everyone knew was going nowhere.
Do you honestly not remember the magazines praising and hyping the 3DO or the 32X or Rise of the Robots or whatever obvious shitty game that was quite an obvious paid review. Not to mention the official brand magazines (official sega/nintendo/sony magazines).
Not to say they weren't entertaining and lighthearted, and for the most part really cared about video games. But they had to accept payoffs probably just to keep the lights on.
If anything back then the paid reviews were so in your face you could easily spot them and not take them at face value, these days it's really hard to tell.
>>340670965
Kotaku is owned by Gawker.
>>340671079
>hard to tell
>>340671147
This thread is about Kotaku, not the G-word.
>>340668387
Protip: Ziff-Davis said they were interested in several sites. They owned EGM when Dan Hsu said he was being pressured into giving advertisers good reviews.
>>340671190
When every review is a hype piece that looks like it's written by copy pasting the press release yes it's hard to tell if they're being paid off or just lazy.
>>340671190
Well same shit, all their websites have the same shitty and risky business model, hence why they're going bankrupt.
>>340671608
But in order to pertain to the rules of this board and not get deleted, this thread must remain focused on the board-specific content, which is
VIDEO GAMES
VIDEO GAMES
VIDEO GAMES
>>340671554
Well Peter Thiel had a personal vendetta against Gawker which is why he funded Hogan's legal case.
You don't make money by writing well done news stories on video games, you make money by creating click-bait articles of why Videogames are the worst thing ever.
Nothing is going to change it will still be the same kinds of articles that they already have, there just won't be Gawker links at the bottom of the page.
Fuck no, are you a fool?
>>340668387
>Ziff Davis, an internet media conglomerate and owner of IGN, has bought Gawker Media Group. Details of the sale haven't been disclosed, but reports from earlier today state that Ziff Davis had a firm bid to buy Gawker and all of its assets for less than $100 million. All seven of Gawker's established media brands, including gaming site Kotaku, were included in the sale.
Since it looks like the new buyers will be IGN's parent company I really doubt anything will change.
DUDE ETHICS LMAO
>video games news
Who gives a shit? What news is there to begin with beyond game announcements and release dates?
>>340671079
>Blatant Paid Reviews
So the remaining game magazines that still thrive today but worse?
...Wait, no, that's giving Game Informer too much credit.
>>340671998
Source? I hate IGN SLIGHTLY less than Gawker. At least IGN TRIES to be discreet about their rampant corruption and faggotry, and they usually don't clickb8 as hard as Gawker.
>>340668387
There is already a thread for this.
Check the catalogue before making new threads.
You might be surprised that your threads won't get deleted as often if you stop making duplicate threads
>>340672242
What's wrong with ethics? Is it not a core tenet of modern societal philosophy?
>>340668735
this isn't video games though, this is tertiary at best and completely off topic at worse
>>340672242
How are these people completely not self-aware
MODS PLZ!
IF YOU ARE READING THIS THEN PLEASE, FREEZE 4CHAN FOR AT LEAST 4 HOURS!
>>340668387
>actual start reporting on video game news?
watch youtube video reviews and you will see more than any website writes down
>>340672361
>What's wrong with ethics?
The only time I've heard "ethics" brought up on the internet is when either a hambeast SJW is talking about why I'm a racist bigot, or some sperg on /v/ is calling me a SJW feminist because I don't care about loli clothes.
The worst part is, both sides won't just shut the fuck up and take their politics elsewhere, and they both throw fits and tell me I'm some cartoonishly evil version of what they don't like just because I disagree with them.
The only time people bring up "ethics" on the internet, is when they're upset about something retarded and they want people to pay attention to them.
>>340668387
Trump
And he should use it like he uses his Twitter, for sick burns and bantz
>>340672310
Destructoid, just as cancerous
>>340672314
Actually, when I made this thread there were none specifically about the VIDEO GAME related piece of today's news.
VIDEO GAME
VIDEO GAME
VIDEO GAME
>>340672642
Context of that image?
>>340673079
Stardust disperses another weird and sadiatic punishment on his enemies
>>340672863
>Actually, when I made this thread there were none specifically about the VIDEO GAME related piece of today's news.
>VIDEO GAME
>VIDEO GAME
>VIDEO GAME
Boy, you sure are acting like a normal adult that doesn't have autism.
thats like walking into a courthouse and starting to talk about MLP in the middle of a case, then when the judge asks you to go outside you wave your arms around and go "NO. NO NO NO NO NO MY LITTLE PONY IS POLITICAL!! QUIT BEING A FAGGOT KEK, ITS POLITICS, SEE? LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW POLITICS POLITICS POLITICS POLITICS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS. THERE, NOW I CAN TALK ABOUT IT ALL I WANT!"
>>340673470
Do you have a list of the various methods he used or a link to the comics?
CAN'T SULK THE HULK
>>340673778
No, i remember it from storytime threads on /co/. I think the creator was not really a good person, and died sleeping on a bench because of the cold or something.
>>340672314
Hey anon, that thread is dead.
>>340672417
If this isn't video games, neither are the cosplay threads that get hundreds of replies.
>>340672417
>video game news site isn't related to video games and/or video game culture
try again cuck!
>>340668387
as long as they bring people who actually play video games and understand how to do a review without a sjw agenda
>>340674105
Yeah, 100 posts into this one.
All I'm saying is, if your thread gets deleted, it might not be a conspiracy and you might just be shitposting, even if you don't know it.
>>340674297
No, it means people are gonna get rabid, you wanna delete shit people are gonna start lighting up and attacking.
It's close to E3, it's like getting a Christmas gift before Christmas bro.
>>340674205
>I TOOK A HUGE SHIT TODAY AND GOT EXTREMELY TRIGGERED ABOUT HOW BLA BLA BLA Overwatch BLA BLA BLOOD AND CUM AND PISS AND SHIT BLA BLA BLA BLA MANSPLAINING AND TRIGGERING
>this is considered video games
>>340674205
Its not.
Only literal children and retards care about game reviews and its been this way since the 80s
Same with music reviews and movie reviews too. No one that gives even the slightest shit about their hobby cares what the critics think, and the people that do care what critics think obviously don't enjoy the hobby enough yet or they would have learned to form their own opinions.
Gawker is about as Vidya related as Food is.Gamer Fuel threads are cancer too and should be moved to /ck/
>>340673978
Great, now I am protected from harmful opinions aka ones I disagree with, thanks gamergate!
>>340673978
Stupid goy, stop interfering with our businesses
Is io9 going down too? It was the only one I use. Where am I going to get my science fiction reccomendations now
>>340674494
It is. Why are you shitting on my right to shit on hack fraud journalists?
>>340668387
It's one of their few brands that does reporting 24/7 and doesn't go dormant on the weekend, so yeah, depending upon who took control over it.
>>340674469
>No, it means people are gonna get rabid,
Those people can get banned then.
If I wanted to hang out in a meme filled echo chamber of autists and literal children I'd go to Reddit or a daycare or something.
4chan has rules, its always had rules, and just because you throw a fit when you get banned like a kid in a grocery store, doesn't mean the rules don't matter.
4chan might be more lenient with what rules they enforce and why, but that has never meant that there were no rules.
>>340674494
>>340674518
>it's not vidya journalism because I said so!!
l m a o
just leave the thread dudes, you lost. if you don't like it just hide them.
>>340674737
>Those people can get banned then.
>getting upset that people are gonna be rightfully pissed over a discussion being banned
Hello, reddit!
>>340668387
Based on the other sites they own Ziff Davis will hold Kotaku to at least some basic level of journalistic standards. They have a big legal team and won't want shithead editorial staff getting them into another Hogan situation. They'll probably still clickbait but they won't be quite as slimy and antagonist about it.
>>340674630
>Why are you shitting on my right to shit on hack fraud journalists
>implying you are shitting on them
All these threads can be summed up with "LOOK GUYS PAY ATTENTION TO THESE JOURNALISTS WHO DO NOTHING BUT SHITPOST AND GAIN MORE FAME THE MORE ATTENTION YOU PAY TO THEM, THAT WILL DEFINITELY BRING THEM DOWN SO GIVE THEM MORE ATTENTION PLEASE!!!!"
>>340674864
>hamfisting a video game in a completely unrelated topic makes it video games
k i l l y o u r s e l f
BASED HULKSTER SMASHING SJW FAGGOTS LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW
>>340672361
Today, ethics is one of those things where it's best to be an outsider looking in, since everyone who still "believes in ethics" can't seem to talk straight about it at the same time as "believing" in them.
It's not about belief in ethics, really. The truth is that we are all unique animals, and to do our best requires us to author our own "ethical codes", regardless of the society immediately surrounding you and its ethics (which are often straight out of the looney bin anyways).
When we all agree to live together in society, certain codes are enforced to ensure everything flows smoothly and is protected. Being ethical at the workplace is just following those rules, even if indignant idiots want to act like it deserves a medal or something.
Anyways, one way of effectively enforcing these codes of ethics is to lie, to say that the codes are essentially human and have always applied and always will, etc. Like I said earlier, from the outside, you can see that ethics are just a necessary practice to keep society in check against a corresponding threat. It's not a requirement that you fall for them to enjoy their benefits.
I'd also like to point out that most of what Kotaku writing is awful for is how it takes a "code of ethics" or something similar and whacks it over every game and game news article it can. It's no coincidence that someone worn and wretched (their readership) would want to guilt trip others with a piece of imaginary finery.
>>340675085
Let me explain to you something you little shit, if they even get popular it's because of faggot 'SJW' types that like to lurk around here, like you.
Sorry you got buried like WCW.
why are mods doing damage control for Gawker? Who is being paid?
>>340675302
>Who is being paid?
No one.
>>340674864
Dude, check out this sweet Videogame movie
Its not actually based on a videogame, none of the characters are from games, none of the music is from games, no one that has made games before worked on the movie, but they did play videogames at that one part.
>>340675302
>>340675412
>mfw
>>340675286
>Y-YOU'RE AN SJW EVEN THOUGH I'M BEGGING PEOPLE TO PAY ATTENTION TO SJW-S
Kill yourself
>>340675603
But no one is, you mentally retarded monkey.
>>340674926
>getting upset that people are gonna be rightfully pissed over a discussion being banned
I never once said I was upset, I said if they want to willingly break the rules, they can then suffer the consequences and get banned.
You should read over the rules some time, there are a lot of them and they've been around for a long time.
Who the fuck would buy it?
Gawker media has 50m in assets and 500m in liabilities.
Shit is going down in flames.
>>340675085
>hamfisting a video game in a completely unrelated topic makes it video games
You made me go there, but here's your video game article. Now fuck off retard.
>>340668387
no one is who isn't from silicon valley will buy them.
>>340675709
>video
>game
>culture
Fuck off, a thread that gets deleted on purpose by a malicious mod should be treated in kind with a spit in the face and a new thread.
Buyers own ign nothing will change
>>340675302
>why are mods doing damage control for Gawker?
Just a hunch, but it probably has to do with multiple threads being made for the same topic.
Doesn't help that most of them are 50% "HAHAHA FUCK YOU MODS!!! KEK KEK CUKC MY MOM GOT ME A NEW CELL PHONE, JUST TRY AND BAN ME HAHAHA NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER!"
>>340675781
>ps4
>related to video games
GG DIDN'T WIN
GG DID NOT WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!
>>340675721
News Corp.
>>340668387
Someone needs to tell notch to buy kotaku and shut it down AMD Everytime You entre to the site there a huge sign that says
"WE never cared about games We Just make useless clickbait"
>>340675876
>>video
>>game
>>culture
That is so vague that it could be literally anything.
That means nothing.
Literally 10 years ago when they wrote that rule, "video game culture" was completely different.
>>340675989
You're right, /v/ won.
Hulk won.
>>340676014
Ziff, the company the owns ign, is looking to buy gawker
>>340668768
>free press
But Anons, "freedom of the press" only protects you from the GOVERNMENT shutting you down.
There's nothing in the 1st Amendment that says you can't face consequences from private entities about the things you publish.
>>340676062
>That is so vague that it could be literally anything.
No shit, have you seen this board recently?
>>340676062
>That is so vague that it could be literally anything.
And your point?
>>340675987
Thanks for conceding the argument.
>>340672242
>Outed a billionare that was gay
>refused a court order to remove a video that was recorded without consent.
Sounds like to me little bit of ethics would've saved them alot of trouble. whodathunk?
>>340674581
Just check archive.web for the archived version of the website.
Similarly, there's no need to do all that shit in >>340673978
If you need to check one of those sites while avoiding giving them views aand/or ad revenue just check the google cache version of the site
>>340676062
It's vague to allow leeway with things like E3 and similar that aren't video games, but are intrinsically linked to video games.
>>340676290
>And your point?
That one line in the rules is a big problem because people throw it around whenever they're called out for off-topic shitposting.
Its why there are so many stupid e-Celeb and internet gossip threads on /v/ lately, since, TECHNICALLY, watching other people play games is now a part of "video game culture"
>>340676339
I'd still deport that
>>340676461
And?
It's video game culture, and I don't see the mods deleting that...
>>340676179
Hogan's sex life is so vital for the well-being of the country the government should protect Kotaku.
>>340676289
>have you seen this board recently?
Yes, thats why I'm being an ass about the rules at the moment.
Everyone likes to blame the mods, but the real reason why /v/ is shit is because of the people that use it. The mods can only do so much to help fix a large group of people that just want to pretend to be retarded so that someone else can pretend to be retarded by falling for retarded bait. Its like a giant back patting circle of spergs thinking "he he he, everyone here is stupid except me, they probably have no idea I was only pretending!"
Delete E-celeb threads.
>>340676425
All I'm saying is that the wording made more sense 10 years ago, these days it just leads to shitposting more often than not.
The rule itself is fine, it just needs to be reworded, its too easy to abuse right now, and too vague to really enforce.
>>340676339
Don't forget the part where the guy stated under oath that he believed publishing the sexual affairs of a minor would be "newsworthy" as long as they weren't under 4.
If you love something you have to let it go.
>>340676740
except videogames
cling to those until you die alone in an empty apartment in your mid 30s
>>340676339
Looks like Michael Jackson with worse moves.
Guess who is trying to run some damage control?
Best part is that even his hugbox is telling him to fuck off.
>>340676626
If you don't like shitposting then you can always leave.
If you don't like the rule then you can go to /qa/ with your complaints.
>>340676339
This, didn't Hogan tell them kindly to take down the video before he did the court order?
>>340674519
No problem! Heil Hitler, goys and berns!!
>>340676718
The wording makes just as much sense now as it did then.
>>340676827
Good thing I'm engaged :^)
>>340676880
>If you don't like shitposting then you can always leave.
I've been lurking /v/ for 10 years now, I don't plan on leaving just because kids figured out how to ban evade on clover.
>If you don't like the rule then you can go to /qa/ with your complaints.
I'm on /qa/ quite regularly,
/v/ should buy it.
>>340677096
>using qa/
That's the problem.
>It's not about revenge, it's about specific deterrence
Big Boss, I...
>>340677096
>I've been lurking /v/ for 10 years now
congrats, family. Maybe in another 10 years you'll learn to deal with anonymous words.
>I'm on /qa/ quite regularly
I bet you are.
>>340675905
Bullshit they were deleting threads when they were the only ones up. It's some SJW triggered that their favorite site is getting fucked and that they're upset we don't think like they do.
>>340677192
Well its not like you can just talk to them in IRC like the old days, is it?
>>340677483
Fuck off, stop treating /qa/ like it's /q/.
>>340669196
>Nobody cares about Trump
hahahahaha
>>340677439
Are you retarded? they moved 2 to pol an deleted the rest.
stop trying to blame the mods.
>>340673079
http://adrireadscomics.tumblr.com/post/32395005646/the-golden-age-part-two-fletcher-hanks-and
>>340676339
Diosa Canales BTW
>>340677483
That's because SJWs don't like being questioned.
"Oh no! I'm being called out and they're tearing my arguments apart! I better mute the whole room!"
>>340677096
>I'm on /qa/ quite regularly
i bet u are u fuckin fag
>>340677598
>stop trying to blame the mods
What do you mean? The mods were literally on a thread deletion spree all fucking day until they finally gave up on it a couple of hours ago. Who else deletes threads besides the mods, retard?
>>340668387
Never going to happen.
The good news is it will get worse and eventually close.
>>340676850
Hopefully Tortilla will learn a valuable lesson from all this.
Hopefully Burrito learns the lesson of how to generate a truly loyal readerbase.
You see, Enchilada, if you're reading this, loyalty does not come from feeding them cake. They will *seem* like they're loyal, but they will abandon you the moment you run out of cake to feed them, or somebody else comes along with better cake.
Loyalty, Mr. Tostada, comes from building a bond of trust with your readers. That trust comes from behaving with honesty, honor, and integrity. From placing faith in your readers by not insulting their intelligence with clickbait headlines. From adhering to the journalist's code of ethics and humbly issuing retractions and apologies when you make a mistake.
You're never too old to make a mistake, Mr. Quesadilla.
>>340677598
This was a /v/ mod who didn't know about thread IDs. The thread was deleted after they were called out.
>>340677881
Mods deleted the threads because
1 - not videogames
2 - there already was one in /pol/
I don't get why are you bitching about them
>>340678095
>1 - not videogames
I hope you're posting in every:
Giant Bomb thread
Every Overwatch thread if there's more than 5+ threads present on /v/
the 24/7/365 drawfag thread that has a sister thread ON /b/, ergo your analogy to this topic being on /pol/
Any other e-celeb thread, Vinesauce, etc
"thicc" "husbando" threads
Dare I even mention Cosplay threads (hmm)
Go go hypocrisy.
>>340678072
>The thread was deleted after they were called out.
I was in that thread and it went over the bump limit and fell off page 10. It didn't get deleted.
>>340678303
if I have the opportunity, I do.
>>340678305
>this much denial
>like 15 threads just straight up disappearing in under 10 minutes
>>340678072
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by shitposting." - Memelon's razor
>>340678095
>Videogame site is dying due to its parent company fucking up.
>"It's not vidya guys!"
I don't know what you're trying to do but you can't alter reality by lying.
>>340678072
It's on 4chan's archive, that means not deleted.
>>>/pol/76746233
Also, how do I know that it's a mod and not a falseflag?
>>340678095
>not videogames
video game culture
A thread already existing on /pol/ is irrelevant. Vidya weapon threads aren't against the rules just because /k/ exists. Fuck off retard.
>>340678431
What denial? The /pol/ thread stayed until bump limit, but every thread on /v/ was getting killed.
yay now our freedom of press hinges on private citizen's will! WE DID IT!
>>340678583
>video game culture
>gawker
wew lad, you don't even know what site's died, yet you're celebrating.
>a fudgepacker funding a washed up old wrestler to destroy an unholy liberal rag
god bless america
>>340668387
Never happening.
Unless Hogan, the gay guy which I don't remember the name or Notch buys the name and site, it'll just be bought by the groups that own polygon or RPS and they're going to be absorbed. If gay dude or Hogan buys it, it's going to be shitcanned, if Notch buys it, it might, MIGHT, be turned into something good.
I wish that I had the money so that I could buy them, fire everybody, and then put an end to the name.
Why do these threads always get deleted? It just encourages people to spam them repeatedly in retaliation for being censored.
I mean this is pretty major news for the vidya industry. Just let the threads run their course
>>340678395
Shall I start linking the threads here then?
>>340678812
IGN's the current highest bidder
>>340678845
B-But muh safespace
>>340678395
>This person has the inability to ignore something he doesn't like and will only affect him if he forces it on himself.
You must be unhappiest fucker alive.
>>340678713
Gawker owns Kotaku. What do you gain from this circular shitposting? Honestly? Are you that upset over the whole thing?
>>340678712
>private citizen's will
>private citizen
>private
as in
>private sex life
>not newsworthy
>>340678862
nah, I don't feel like.
here, have a cute anime girl.
>>340678904
Or IGN, like this guy says.
They're just going to buy the name, shitcan most of the staff, keep 2-3 guys that are friends with other IGN staffers and make it a day.
>>340678961
>Are you that upset over the whole thing?
In fact, I'm glad gawker died, but I don't thing that's videogame related.
Kotaku's still going on btw.
http://archive.is/0UhVW
>>340678904
Where can you find this information?
>>340671554
I love how you retarded trump drones will preach the glory of trump even if he's got absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand.
>>340678712
I guess it's okay to report on your sex life then if I find it newsworthy? if there is a sexlife
>>340679026
So you're all full of talk. Ok.
This is the best news this week
>>340679152
https://twitter.com/RMac18/with_replies
Forbes guy covering this, his twitter has the most up to the minute info, should be an article later
>>340679140
>business that files chapter 11 is still running due to the fact they can and can still keep paying their employees so they dont lose their housing and can still eat
shocking, good deduction, shitlock
>>340679221
Exactly.
>>340679140
>but I don't thing that's videogame related
It's related to video game culture based on the fact that Kotaku is a video game journalism website. Now fuck off.
>>340679367
/v/ needs more cute of everything, at least we can agree on that
>>340679357
btw, Ziff Davis is the conglomerate that own IGN if you didn't know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziff_Davis
>acting like the war is finished
Gawker attracts clicks, There's no way they can not be bought unless Thiel buys the site themselves.
we started it bros
Why should they when there's a billion others mostly bigger?
>>340679557
we should apply for janitors with your cute dogs and my cute anime girls.
>>340668387
No.
If I want videogame news, I'll go to /v/
There is no need for centralized news sites.
Company PR? The company has Twitter.
Opinion? /v/ users can type their own views out or link to blogs.
Someone fired illegitimately? They've got Twitter to bitch on.
Gaming news sites are redundant in the modern day.
ITS GOING DOWN!
>>340678712
Not all attacks on the press are attacks on free speech.
When the press enforces the spread of misinformation, this is called "propaganda". It's the antithesis of honest reporting. Ideally, a free press is resistant to propaganda, as you can always look to alternatives to give you the real story. However, unfortunately, we've reached a point where all of the big players are in bed with each other, and many of them get their news from the same biased sources. We don't have the wide variety of separate news sources that we might appear to have looking at the surface. Instead, we just a have one big propaganda machine that's in dire need of being taken down.
Also, stopping the spread of misinformation and demanding that a particular position either defend their points or shut up is not censorship. On the contrary, this weeding out of non-truths is the strength of free speech.
>>340668387
Go back to /pol/, gamergator. Nobody gives a damn about your personal philias.
>>340668387
HAH
its just going to end up like buzzfeed
>>340672417
Not like that stops 3/4 of /v/ threads.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1zE7VyT6i4oLUlJemZBM0gydzJtUGplOFJzOG1lYXNwOGE4/view
Gawker's form
The tide, she is a turning.
>Hiroshima's sticky just made more people shitpost about any thread that could be considered off topic
>>340679583
I don't think anyone here is fooling themselves into thinking that this is the end of SJW clickbait garbage.
It will continue on Polygon, it will continue on Joystiq, it will continue on RPS, and it could very well continue on Gawker and Kotaku.
This is just to send a message to them all that there are consequences for your actions. That there's a line you shouldn't cross.
>>340679850
>0.01 sheckels has been deposited into your account
>>340680309
Isn't joystiq dead? Because they didn't do clickbait?
>>340680309
>it will continue on Joystiq
i thought they were shut down?
>>340679690
dont forget red pandas
>>340679221
>>340679367
This pretty much goes to show that a lot of people who cry to mods about certain threads not being vidya enuff to their liking actually don't mind and simply enjoying complaining to ruin other people's fun in those threads.
>>340680437
>>340680446
so they are, fuck me sideways lel
time for the hulkster to tag Notch in so he can buy gawker and then shut it down and fire everyone
>>340675282
> The truth is that we are all unique animals, and to do our best requires us to author our own "ethical codes", regardless of the society immediately surrounding you and its ethics
>/v/ in charge of arguing anything with a deeper meaning
What a load of shit.
>kotaku bought by IGN
>blog that gators allege to be corrupt bought by website everybody knows to be corrupt
>this is somehow a good thing
I don't understand you people sometimes.
>>340668387
Hell no, I want to see Kotaku's head on a pike as a warning to others.
>>340680481
>ruin other people's fun in those threads.
as a common shitposter in this kind of threads, I don't do it to ruin people's fun, I just do it to make people who's not having fun, have fun.
You can always ignore my posts, ya know?
>>340668387
why should i care i never really go to video game news sites anyway i'll read the od review but nowadays i can just watch someone streaming the game to see if its good without all the BS
>>340678845
>for being censored.
>>340668387
>reporting on video game news?
and what is this exactly? """""""games journalism"""""" boils down to leaking TBA games.
Notice how there is no "movie journalism"
Notice how movie critics don't consider themselves part of the film industry.
Recognize Gamejos as underachieving flunkies who in 4 years lost all their perks to "influencers".
>>340668387
IGN bought them
SHUT IT DOWN
>>340679604
>the head of advertising
>andrew gorenstein
>gorenstein
Believe it or not, I have never actually bothered to visit /pol/, and I don't ever really plan on doing so. Yet, in the back of my head I'm hearing...
>looks like /pol/ was right again
>>340671079
I understand that you weren't born yet, but as bad as it was then, it's much worse now. I could literally dig up a pile of old mags and prove it to you.
>>340681754
Sale isn't final yet. The bankruptcy judge has final say of who gets it or whether (if Hulk loses on appeal) it has to get sold at all.
no, im hoping that their brand wont even get a $100 bid because its so bad. let that shit disappear.
the current rumor is that IGN is going to be the ones buying them out, and if that's the case the site is going to be just as bad as it was
whatever, at least HH took em most of the way down..
>>340682173
And I'm not saying otherwise you double nigger
>>340681367
Deadline
Variety
Plenty to report on like these guys do.
>>340682173
It's not really worse, just different.
>>340682131
>/pol memes
>twitch memes
why
>>340668768
fyi this guy was baiting, he was just copying posts from a different forum
>>340682891
Mostly because it triggers people. If I was going to post triggering material, this seems like the thread to do it in.
>>340682173
Fuck off dude,the official xbox magazine fucking raved about colonial marines before it got a name switch.
>>340682175
Kek buthurt jans removed the hotpockets
>>340682815
desu I could live with vidya journalism remaining the paid shillery it has always been if they steadfastly refused to talk about politics
>>340668387
Naturally not
Any good it would do will be outdone by the idiots it enables.
You guys are idiots.
Kotaku has been doing some of the best journalism for a long time. Schreier, Klepek, Totilo and McDonald are all doing excellent work consistently.
What they need to do is hire a new Japan reporter, because Brian Ashcraft is genuine scum. Patricia is fine, she brings in the clickyclicks and everyone else is just fine.
>>340676886
Yes, and then they taunted him.
>>340683542
shit bait.
>>340683542
here's your (you)
>>340668387
>actual start reporting on video game news
isn't kotaku not just for video games but also for eastern culture? like japan or something
>>340683610
>bait
Not even once.
>>340668387
No chance. The team is what they're paying for, why would they clean the house. Who cares anyway, Kotaku isn't relevant anymore just like the rest of them bloggers
>>340681245
>mods deleting threads they don't like isn't censorship
>>340682676
>Plenty to report on like these guys do.
Such as? Functionally games press is a hype machine.
Every piece of investigative journalism has been eyerolley. How many times can you report on EVE online as if it was a REAL WAR?
Their idea of gonzo journalism is installing dick mods in Skyrim.
Jason Crier's feather-in-a-cap piece on Titan was blindsided once Overwatch was revealed a week later, something his super sleuthing failed to uncover.
>>340671079
Yeah nah. PC powerplay through the 90s was the best vidya journalism. Dat demo disc it came with
>>340676339
Let's not forget that they're still bragging about the Rob Ford story where they crowdfunded a bunch of money to give to inner-city crack dealers for blackmail tapes.
Or the time they posted a video of a girl probably being raped and when she asked them to take it down they basically told her to fuck off.
Or the time they used a stolen iPhone prototype to extort Apple
Or the fact that Jezebel exists.
Or like 50 other equally terrible things that don't immediately come to mind.
I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long for someone to finally dig into Gawker. They've done so much shit ranging from unethical to straight up illegal that they should have been assraped in court long ago.
>>340684272
Its not
They only exist to enforce rules, you're taking it as a personal attack when they delete your posts, but ultimately, you're just one of millions of people on 4chan, they don't know you enough to try and attack you personally.
/v/ is also one of the fastest boards on 4chan, with, I can only assume, the fastest flood of reports to go along with it. Instead of assuming there is a conspiracy against you, maybe just consider that the mods aren't omnipotent and have like 200-300 reports an hour to deal with at least
>>340686191
Honestly I bet there's more reports per hour than that.
But if I recall, ain't janitors responsible to sort of sift through all the reports, dismissing ones that don't need attention, and or flagging reports that do need attention (aka elevated "ticket" in support queues when it comes to IT/etc).
Also, that's why janitors can block you from posting if a mod still hasn't caught up to a report, or for example, someone submitting false reports as well (by then wasting the janitors/mods time).
That's why there is always janitor recruitment, because janitors are plenty, but mods are only promoted from janitors after time and experience. Don't know what else because I haven't really cared for behind the scenes drama since I came here over a decade ago besides the figureheads and some mod personalities.
>>340668768
So what's the counter argument to 'mum free press'?
>>340686191
I'm not even the one making the threads. And this is pretty huge news in the vidya industry, so it doesn't break any rules. There's no reason to delete them
>>340686112
>Or the time they posted a video of a girl probably being raped and when she asked them to take it down they basically told her to fuck off.
I never heard about this one. I thought their whole thing was exploiting men is good, women is bad
>>340686932
There IS however a reason to delete them when there are 4-5 other threads already up.
When it comes to something like this that is only just sorta videogames, then its always best for OP to look through the catalogue first.
Regardless of what OP says, he made this thread for the (you)s because he didn't think his post would get much attention in a thread that was already moving.
All you need to do is keep in mind that no one is being "censored", duplicate threads are just being deleted. And since Gawker isn't a popular new game release like MGSV, Overwatch or something, then it doesn't get a 2-3 week free pass before being limited to 1-2 threads at a time like everything else.
>>340687307
>duplicate threads are just being deleted
Early today every single thread on the topic was deleted. I have no problem with duplicates getting deleted, but every single one isn't okay
>>340688008
There is a good chance that maybe more than one jani/mod were going through reports and didn't plan out which thread should be kept.
Instead of assuming the mods are out to get you, just try and consider just how fucking many shitposts they have to delete on /v/
Just think of how shitty /v/ is at all times, all of the threads you've seen shit up by autists and kids. Now consider that you only browse 4 maybe 5 threads at a time, and its their job to get rid of shitposts in all threads at once, sometimes for more than one board at a time.
Instead of believing internet consipiracy theories, just try considering that maybe they just fucked up or maybe you broke the rules somehow.
If you ever feel like your "freedom of speech" is being impeded on /v/, try a different board?
If you want to talk about "gamer fuel" you can always make a snacks thread on /ck/, if you want to talk about music you listen to while playing games, /mu/ is always an option. etc..
/v/ isn't the only board on 4chan, you should try other boards when you don't want to talk about games.
However, in this particular case it just sounds like someone messed up
