Just wanted to join in with you on the celebration of Neogaf imploding Malstrom and to give you a heads up on something you probably already well know.
All those other game sites and their forums?
Corrupt as hell too and I know first hand.
I was an IGN poster and lurker for years.
IGN houses a tremendous amount of pedophiles, transsexuals and garden variety homosexual users many of whom are moderators but this is of course the same for gamefaqs and Gamespot as well as for whatever reason sick fucks seem to gravitate to the gaming hobby these days along with we few halfway normal people.
Anyway even way back when I was a bleeding heart libtard (before my inevitable red pilling) I too was always perplexed at why IGN and all the other game forums seemed to have such a heavy leftist bias to them.
Eventually I concluded it was because the entire tech industry is basically housed in California thus it only takes that awareness plus a couple of brain cells to rub together and your heart quickly sinks as you then realize that these creeps basically own and run the internet which is why freedom of speech and our first amendment rights are on the way out as I type.
When I was a young naieve internet user I actually thought that game forums were for you know? Talking about, debating about, arguing about and even dare I say sometimes “discussing” GAMES!
Noooooooooooo, Malstrom.
Thats not what they’re there for at all I soon found out.
Gradually you discover subtle unwritten rules about how the IGN forums are both moderated and administrated.
If you’re particularly bright you then come to realize that if you treat the board as what it seems to be intended as ie a place to discuss/critique/talk about games you are persona non grata ie the scum of the earth and you are soon punished.
“Games talk?”
What foolishness!
You’re here on the gaming forum foolish lowly IGN user only to utilize the forum as a social club and place to wage endless popularity contests against your fellow users, anything to distract you from actually using the forum for what you initially THOUGHT it was intended for…oh and PS we’d also like you to buy an overpriced IGN insider subscription while you’re at it.
Thats the not so hidden but hidden message of IGN and other game forums Malstrom.
My going theory is the big gaming companies either pay these sites the big bucks to have their moderators shut up their own users (using various griefing tactics from banning to trolling) or perhaps more likely have simply somehow given the message to the game sites that if they want interview “access” they’d better toe the line and shut up their site’s forum goers as telling the truth about one game series or another is just bad for business right?
Once enough users get the subtle “message” then only the corporate kiss asses, sycophants and paid viral marketers have any say whatsoever and are treated like royalty by the mods/admin but from one or two mods every now and again you can tell that they hate what they’ve become but are too weak of character to leave their volunteer position and thus “e-popularity” behind. Well ok SOME do but MOST don’t.
Its really all quite pathetic.
This is why I enjoyed the GamerGate fiasco so much, it really shook things up if only momentarily and sent the message to the more aware and the dim bulbs alike that the gaming industry has become entirely corrupt save for sites such as yours that don’t have any money exchanging hands for nefarious purposes.
Malstrom I tell ya I’ve seen countless lengthy heartfelt review/critique threads locked and or deleted on IGN over the years and the user/s banned and keep in mind the posts I’m talking about didn’t “bait” any users (so as to provoke flaming/fighting/forum wars) or in any way be construed as what the chan websites refer to as a “shitpost” but these certain game/game company criticizing threads would be shut down anyway and I’m standing behind my theory that these lowlife game companies simply don’t want their shitty products exposed and big corrupt sites like IGN (among others) are more than willing to help them to maintain their pathetic “access”.
Usually IGN, Neogaf, gamefaqs and Gamespot get away with their censorship bullshit via the “arbitrary” judgement rule just about all of them have.
Thus sad to say but the only way gamers can ever get justice and to spread the truth is to either start up a blog like yours or start making videos on youtube reviewing games there.
Ha, youtube…even that place is becoming a censorship nightmare.
I’ve thrown around the idea in my head from time to time about somehow getting the US government to start up it’s own line of constitution based message boards but thats a joke in the extreme considering who really controls our government which is to say the most evil and malevolent group of free speech hating psychopaths who have ever existed on earth.
So to conclude barring a total collapse of the industry we’re probably doomed to endless festering corruption Malstrom.
We all know that perversion and corruption infest Hollywood. Who was surprised by Harvey Weinstein? People say, “Power enables people like Weinstein to be perverted,” (by definition of perversion, I mean doing things society wouldn’t accept if it were not his protection of media mogul power). But yet, we see perversion all over the entertainment industry… including gaming. Perhaps it is not the power that enables the perversion, it is the perversion that seeks media power. The cause isn’t the power. The cause is the perversion itself. Perverted acts are caused by perverted thinking.
One thing I have learned about money is that it is an amplifier. Rich people can amplify who they truly are. There are many demonic rich people just as there are really nice good rich people too. It’s not the money that is causing the problem no more than the getaway car that causes the bank robbery.
Why does the entertainment industry attract perverts? With Hollywood, I would say it would be due to access to models. There are no models in gaming. However, there are many young boys and innocent children. Gaming would be a ripe target for pedophiles.
Here is a link for the NeoGaf Demise MegaThread. Let’s see how this shapes up.
