I feel like these commenters didn’t watch the disaster that was Elon pretending he was the greatest PoE2 player of all time.

After that, I think it’s fair game to write shit about his gaming setup. It’s a puff piece, for sure, but it’s a well-deserved one.

I’ve lost count of the number of companies EA has murdered.

Exactly. How does a Congressperson resist a executive order? It doesn’t land in their court.

“Today, we’re going to be giving 550 of our employees a slap in the face.”

Some already have, but it’s too late. They voted for the motherfucker.

Clever girls?

No, you need Marvel, like real Marvel, not GotG-lite.

No, I’m arguing that people shouldn’t be so fucking allergic to watching videos on this damn forum.

Because PeerTube isn’t a threat.

Also, this gives me real text-on-image-in-Facebook-post-just-to-get-noticed vibes.

If everybody can use Markdown in their post titles, then everybody will use Markdown in their post titles, until it’s a mess of colors, bold, and italics.

The what? You do realize it’s just some guy with 73 subscribers. He’s not getting paid billions of dollars.

we all know what’s going on without having to watch a youtube video

The horror. God forbid, you actually support the video uploader.

ATARI is just a brand name at this point, trying to feed off of people’s nostalgia. There’s nothing left of the company that made this stuff in the 80s.

He won enough influence that people mistake him for being the new president. He won shifting a social media platform into a hard right turn.

He no longer cares about the business or the money. He’s after raw power and influence now.

No shit. This sounds like the DEA overstepping its bounds.

All the more reason to not use Chrome.

Really easy to say, but, believe it or not, during a time where the tech industry is actively shedding 10s of thousands of jobs, looking at your resume doesn’t actually do anything for you.

Are you just proving his point by saying that the whole industry is laying people off, instead of it being specifically a gaming industry problem?

Remember Tango Gameworks? The studio that everyone liked, and didn’t have any flops? That was completely laid off?

He pointed that out as an exception. But, it’s been mostly the AAA studios that produced massive, massive high-budget flops, and then they laid off a bunch of their staff.

But it’s not developers doing that, it’s publishers and executives. No one writing code is like, “I’ve decided to make live-service schlock”. But they’re the ones losing their jobs, not the dorks who did decide that.

No, but when developers and the rest of the teams see that it’s “live-service schlock”, they should start looking at their resumes, instead of thinking “well, my job is safe because it’s a large corporation”.

Why would anybody working on Concord think that it’s a good game with a good concept that is going to succeed? Or Kill the Justice League? Or Multiverse? You think all of those microtransactions and attempts at catching some unoriginal idea are going to be well-received?

Just look at it for what it is, and realize it’s going to fail. And then plan accordingly.

He then turns this into some kind of attack on game journalists, who have been rightfully calling out the game industry layoffs

No, look at what they did before they talked about the layoffs. Sure, calling out the layoffs is justified and it’s worth reporting.

What’s not worth reporting is what Twitter is saying about any of this, and then going on some soapbox trying to counter it. Thus, promoting this idea that the general public gives a shit about whatever fight this is, when in reality, they don’t even know it exists. He’s literally reading off one of this articles, that goes off on a tangent that a few people on Twitter said something about games being “too woke” and tries to counter that.

Fuck Twitter. Stop reporting on Twitter. It’s a shit platform that is a tiny, tiny microverse of actual people doing actual things that don’t see any of that. Obviously, nobody looked at a game and thought “oh, well, that’s too woke, so I’m not going to buy it”. They didn’t buy it because it was a shit game with shitty microtransactions.

And if you check the comments, his fans definitely heard the whistle too.

I checked the comments. I read the comments on most YouTube videos. I saw nothing of the sort. Most of them are praising him for what he’s saying.

Ideological soapboxes are very real things that games “journalists” push on a daily basis. It’s manufactured bullshit that gets echoed only because they report on whatever some dude on Twitter said. I don’t know why you would mistake that as some dog whistle.

“As a customer I’m going to be honest, I just don’t care or feel anything for any of these internal struggles that these companies go through.” (7:10 in the video)

Right, instead of talking about the discussion as a whole, let’s take some out-of-context quote he said in the video and use that as evidence that he doesn’t care about the industry.

You didn’t even quote the entire sentence: “…especially when it’s mismanagement to blame.” I guess that bit didn’t fit your narrative?

Funny how that works…

You already missed the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2.