Thoughts?

>>3648237

I like it. They have some good articles on that website.

>>3648237
Huge faggots that don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

I prefer vgjunk.

>>3648237
I'm in the process of making a rival site to HG101.

More wiki-elements on games, like advised strategies for hard parts, or ways to play the game.

Multiple people could have articles on the same game instead of the clusterfuck of
>do the whole series faggot.
which leads to a huge descrepancy in article depth and quality on certain games. You may be very familiar with Megaman X 1-3, but then being forced to go in depth on 4-8 means your article quality is shit.

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>>3648270
>rival site
Sounds radical. But are you tuff enuff for this

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>>3648270
Make a forum and I'll join.

>>3648278
I don't mean it like I'm going to start a beef, HG101 is just the most like the site I'm working on.

>It's OK
>It's shit
>Some articles are OK, some are poor
>SJWs on the forums
>They screw their writers
>insomia.ac
>is icycalm really dead???

>>3648237
We've had this thread over and over in the last month only.

The consensus seems to always the same… The articles are of a varying quality. The pressure to do series of games only hurts it. Sometimes their texts have tons of grammatical mistakes. And the owners of the site are pussies who are sadly getting close to sjws.

>>3648281
While I'm here:

What would you guys want to see in a gaming site?

My plans already
>Forum
>Page dedicated to individual games with basic information like platforms available, version differences, release date, developer, you know the schtick
>articles for the game, including reviews from multiple people, tips/tricks, and whatever other article on the website that's useful or interesting
>low emphasis on News and clickbait
>probably have a streaming tab with "featured streamers" or something like that though since it's a hot topic.
>companion youtube channel and twitch stream

>>3648280
I'm all for it if it's possible to keep politics off the forums. That's what transformed theirs from a fun place to talk to people about a hobby into a hellscape.

Also I used to recommend (shill) the podcast but their new editor/production guy is a tool and between him and Kalata it's going for the same audience that the mother site is trying to appease, so fuck that.

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>>3648281
Too bad. Well, I can contribute a little bit of mediocre GIMP graphics if you need it. Pic related

>>3648306
Well I'm all for a forum. As for basic info, I think there are more than enough places for this already.

Personally, what I always wanted to see is a website with good unknown game suggestions outside of the usual top-10 lists which are all best sellers and nothing else. User-made top lists would be great too, ones from big sites are basically useless unless you just discovered that SNES existed a minute ago and you're clueless about what it is.

>>3648306
A way of finding good games without having to make recommendation threads. This is literally my dream.

>>3648306
>low emphasis on News and clickbait

NO emphasis on news and clickbait is a better idea.

>>3648252
I suppose you know more than all of them combined, right?

>>3648354
gog.com has pretty good user lists, the only problem is that they're restricted to games gog sells.

>>3648294

>They screw their writers

they what?

>>3648395
A bunch of the articles are going to be top10's by any other name.

Mostly stuff like
>top whatever JRPG's on the PS1 for beginners
>top whatever action games for Sega Genesis for Experts

>>3648237
Lots of good articles.

>>3648396
Actually, yes I do.

>>3648306
How far along is the project?

>>3648270

I totally want to write for this site. A better HG101-like place would be sweet.

>>3648270

How much are you paying for an article? If you can match HG101, then we can talk business.

bump for interest.

>>3648237
It's good for finds info about obscure games. Nice screenshots and breakdowns of versions between consoles.

Don't care too much about it being SJW. go there get banned for not supporting Anita, come here and get shit on endlessly for not supporting Trump.

just talk about video games please

>>3648652
>that day of infamy

To think that I even donated 10 bucks to them once...

>>3648601
>>3648652
>>3648698

/pol/tards cant into reading comprehension

I like the kusoge articles. They should do more.

>>3648237
it's kind of shit, but that's mostly because the articles aren't properly vetted/fact-checked

but there were a bunch of games I wouldn't have found out about if not for them, and many of their articles aren't that bad

>>3648270
Racketboy already exists

>>3648237
Awful, un-proofed writing. Minimal fact checking or research, infuriating grammar mistakes in every sentence etc.
Shame coz they cover lots of good games but their articles are an utter slog to read.

>>3648652

>this is actually real

Hahaha, oh wow.

>>3648414
Yep, would be good if we had something like this but for consoles

>>3649238
I'm just sad that they banned me from the forums, it would have been hilarious I bet.

But yeah, although they've always leaned that way mostly it seems to be Kurt kissing ass to try to get Polygon / Gamasutra - senpai to notice him, and to sell more books.

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alright, my dudes. I made a simple "prototype" for a site that is just for articles for /vr/ games. It's probably the worst system to do it, but I'm gonna do it anyways.

I don't have a title, but should I go through with it?

>>3649660
Well there's not much to discuss there so far. The rules seem OK to me. I hope submitting articles will be easy

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>>3648652
HG101 has always been shit. You guys are only noticing it now because they're acting as primadonnas over the election's result.

>>3649263
>But yeah, although they've always leaned that way mostly it seems to be Kurt kissing ass to try to get Polygon / Gamasutra - senpai to notice him, and to sell more books.
I've seen him retweet stuff from Leigh Alexander and other journalolist on Twitter before GooberGrapes happened.

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>>3649715
You basically just submit it via email. I'll probably work on an automated way later, but I think it'll work fine for now.

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>>3649745
Will you be able to submit pictures (screenshots, promo art, etc) with your articles?

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>>3649756
Maybe. I'm considering just asking users to upload to imgur first, then link it where you want the image.

>>3648294
>is icycalm really dead???
He's either dead or arrested. He hasn't logged into his Steam account in over a year and the only people posting on both of his forums are contributors.

>>3649725
Yeah, guess I should have clarified - the big difference is that GG and everything after gave him a forum to constantly whine about it and virtue signal.

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>>3649767
I always wondered how Kurt managed to attain himself a position as a gaming authority when he displays such ignorant opinions about many things. I'm guessing starting one of the most popular Castlevania fansites during the early years of the internet helped him a lot.

Show me 3 (three) horribly written articles with no fact checking. I'm waiting. No, that unlisted Chrono Trigger article doesn't count, it's not on the website.

>>3649814
I'm wondering what his cup size is.

>>3649827
That 80's heroine article is filled with so much bullshit for one thing and that covers like dozens of games. It purposely misinterpreted the plot of fucking Girl's Garden to make it more sexist than it is.

>>3649660
>>3649745
>>3649761
I already don't like it.

>>3649861
Yeah. I'll work on the CSS later. Right now is about getting the structure and flow right.

>>3648652
Yeah, at that point I stopped supporting that social justice faggot site.

>>3648270
If you manage to make a site that brings the good (not shit) posters of /vr/ over, I'll give it a shot. Just don't fag it up like HG101 does, or every other goddamm gaming blog.

>>3649882
Also, if Jonny or vetus are here, Jason X unfriended me and blocked me because I made fun of pic related. LOL.

>>3649934
I always knew you two were incompatible somehow, but I'm surprised that was the straw that broke the camel's back of all things. It's a pretty innocuous thing to retweet.

>>3649958
I was surprised myself. I've said some shit that even I think is horrible, this was nothing. Then again people are taking things way too seriously.

Miss you guys.

>>3648306
I'd like to see it alive before making plans.

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>>3648237

It's literally The Pitchfork Media of video games, some very good articles in the site but the writers seem to be like those insufferable hipsters trying too hard to be better "art conoceurs" than the rest of the plebe.

>>3648237
like the site. Have not been on in a while. Thx anon. Im going bak

>>3650065
Yet half of the time they don't even bother to play the games on original hardware.

>>3648294
>SJWs on the forums

[citation needed]

>>3649263
Why did they ban you?

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>>3650269
You've either never been to the forum or have some nebulous idea of what a SJW is.

>>3650278
Not sure. Last thing I posted I made fun of how jbackside made a huge deal about putting a trigger warning in one of his shitty walking sim reviews. On Twitter Kurt said it was because I was whining about the forums. Which is funny because this was like a day after he kept threatening to shut them down because of conservatives.

I still think aside from all this he's an ok guy. He's just a huge fucking pussy and probably p-whipped something awful like the aforementioned Jason X.

>>3650347
For example?

>>3650382
>Which is funny because this was like a day after he kept threatening to shut them down because of conservatives.

Did he really threaten to shut down the forums?

>>3648237
As much as people shit on them I really comend them on actually doing articles on shit you basically wouldn't find anywhere else. I've found some real cool stuff on there.

Yeah the actual articles range from goodish to garbage but still.

>>3650403
What, of SJWs on the forums?

>jdarkside
>Jason X
>Kurt "Cuckhold" Kalata

>>3650427
Any posts of them being SJW's?

>>3650452
Check their post histories.

>>3650463
You are the one who says they are SJW without linking to specific examples.

>>3650407
Yeah, on a bunch of the locked threads and Twitter.

>>3650427
The only ones I seriously dislike are backside and neorasa. Neorasa is pretty much the worst stereotypical SA goon imaginable. Also night dreamer is a total pube. Other than that they're just tragically misguided.

>>3650452
Basically read any of their Twitter feeds. Anyone have that bad shop Kurt did of the bionic commando cover? Like holy shit.

>>3650476
http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/13076/general-chat-redux
Start here and don't say I didn't warn you.

>>3650476

it's a trend ITT, posters divide into those who shit on the website for being low quality and full SJW and those that actually read the the articles

>>3650485

did you paste the wrong link?

or do people with opinions other than your own trigger you?

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>>3650494
You're the one who asked for examples, man.

>>3650494
I would recommend looking at the locked threads below it. You'll see plenty of that, people shutting down threads because they didn't agree with other people stating their opinions. That's where they're being SJW's rather than just liberals.

>>3650497

I'm actually a different guy but if that thread has unbearable levels of SJ for you, than pretty much everything outside of /pol/ would do that for you.

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>>3650483
>Basically read any of their Twitter feeds. Anyone have that bad shop Kurt did of the bionic commando cover? Like holy shit.
Here you go.
http://archive.is/GYXis

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>>3650486
You what?

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>>3650269
SJW's are taking over the site.

>>3650637
there a bunch of autists anyway and have always been, so them becoming sjw's is no big loss as the site was good like 10 years ago, nowawadays not so much

>>3650628

oh my god they mentioned THE TROPE

burn them, never read again, never turn back, there's nothing valuable there

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>>3650628
I once knew a kid who swallowed a whole bubble gum tape. They had to pull it out of his ass. But it was still less of an ass pull than that article

>>3650628
That's incredibly cringeworthy writing but it doesn't seem to reflect the tone or quality of the majority of articles I've read on there. Honestly, the writing seems to be all over the place - some of the articles are extremely in depth and comprehensive assessments of key qualities like gameplay and differences in port versions. Other articles read more like personal rants or diatribes, and some articles just describe the games at face value by simply listing off plot elements or describing all the levels in game.

The site is totally hit-or-miss if you ask me but the SJW thing is overblown. Except maybe the forums, I've never been on them. My favorite thing they tend to do there is compare different ports and how they stack up to the arcade original.

>>3650673
>Honestly, the writing seems to be all over the place
It's mostly just derboo who seems to be enforcing the SJW mindset. He even has a hateboner for Kamiya because of his role in creating Bayonetta.

>>3650684

Well the problem is with a lot of these sites it just takes one asshole editor to fuck it up for everyone. You're only as good as your worst employee, it's the reason Movie bob was fired so many times

>>3650673
I'm more baffled by how the author made up a whole paragraph of bullshit about a game with barely one bit of substantial information about it. Why would I even bother reading when quick googling would yield more info than this load of shit?

I don't even care what they wrote. It could've been a load of dick jokes instead of an ad-lib rant about feminism. The result is pretty much the same, it's just wasting readers' time, with 0 effort put into writing. When others do real work—like get their facts straight, compile excerpts from old interviews and interesting facts from little-known sources into the article, and then meticulously compare all the ports—, that author seemingly gave absolutely no fuck about readers and the game at all.

>>3650684
Did he ever try to harass Kamiya on Twitter?

>>3650695
He probably got BLOCKED by him like all クソ馬鹿.

>>3648270
More power to ya.

>>3648306
Image database of everything from box art, screen caps, developer art, pixel art, whatever in various categories.
Strategy guides with user input. You could cull some of the business away from GameFaqs if it's serious enough.
"Games in the historical news" division, like articles where a game caused hell like Tortanic, or Sim City being forced online and failing and stuff like that. Never let a publisher / developer forget when they screwed up, and never let them forget when they do it right.
Find somebody talented, maybe multiple people write articles on new games, earning some benjamins through ad revenue, so you have people that are not industry shills. (This is really optional since this is the /vr/ board.)
Links to approved long plays, music databases, SFX and manuals. (You could easily reference things like if a game has docs on replacementdocs.com or galbadia hotel / ffshrine or whatever.)
Comment / recommendation section per game.
.
Just a few ideas you could keep or toss in the bin.

>>3648307
I TOTALLY agree with this one. Stick to vidya, keep ass-pains to the real world.

>>3648307
>Also I used to recommend (shill) the podcast but their new editor/production guy is a tool and between him and Kalata it's going for the same audience that the mother site is trying to appease, so fuck that.
Haven't they learned anything from Feigbusters, all those canceled Marvel titles and Hillary's defeat. Appeasing to SJWs never work.

>>3649660
I already like it. As for names, well, what about Magical Game Shower?

>>3648542
Then submit an article, its always great to read more perspectives

>>3650945
Sounds good. I have it up at beanz-stuff.pw if you're really interested.

>>3650980
Thanks. Is the site open to discussion/articles of arcade games too?

>>3650991
pre 2001 yeah

>>3650659
YEAH! 4chan told me any criticism of THE TROPE was evil and for feminazi cucks!

Lets get em!

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>>3650980
>forum set up like an image board
C'mon, man. Let us have a profile.

>>3651007
This will only be temporary. I'll work on a proper one later. I'm just using TinyIB for the time being while I learn shit.

>>3651013

Normal forums are extremely easy to set up.

>>3651076
Setting it up on a test server right now my dude.

>>3651007
>>3651013
>>3650991
>>3651076
All set up with MyBB. Tell me if you have any hiccups and I'll kink them out.
beanz-stuff.pw/forum/

>>3651184
When I try to register, it tells me that I haven't entered the image verification code, but there doesn't seem to be one on the registration page...

>>3651207
Fuck. I'll fix it in a minute

>>3651207
Fixed

>>3651229

Still doin' it for me.

>>3651252
Now I think it's fixed

>>3651260

Yep. Good job!

>>3648270
I'd love to join i have some articles written up but its mostly reviews and i dont know how good they are overall but i wanna contribute to more.

>>3651304
>tfw tons of /vr/ wants to join

OK I'll focus my efforts more. I'll also buy the domain name I was looking at. I had a couple of projects on the go but I think this one has the potential to be the best to setup and maintain then I can start the others.

Probably won't be done until at least end of January but I'll try and get something up and running in January at the very least.

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>>3651347
I'm sure this was something that many people in the community wanted to get done for a while and if this becomes a reality, then it may be a way for many people to see a different perspective on things instead of whats usually being given out. Because several articles written is usually from le reddit:^), youtube, and HG101 Point of view.

but on the other hand, there can be a bunch of trolls that clog it up with shit too and then bitch and moan

>>3651386
Well, I'm not a SJW, and have no interest and desire in having political correctness be a feature of the articles or site content (even forum postings, that shit pisses me off to no end).

It'll be impossible to fact check everything if the site gets big just due to time constraints but obviously thats something that's going to need to be done at least in some capacity.

I'll have submission guidelines and probably have some kind of enforced structure for the way the articles are laid out just so it's easy to template since I'm using python and django.

I'm not opposed to editorials but I value facts over feelings.

I'll be the Adolf Hitler of this sites shitter.

>>3651404
Well as long as game reviews are quality or you feel meet the quality of standards that many on /vr/ want or want to edit features that may suit the website more, by all means it's your website and people hopefully will use their best judgement.

>I'm not opposed to editorials but I value facts over feelings

What about editorials that might use evidence to convince one side or the other about certain opinions? would you even consider those editorial?

>>3651415
Depends on the agenda.

I have a few ideas in the works for editorals, mostly along the lines of "It's not worth it to buy games at launch/pre-order because 1. Prices always drop. 2. There is never a shortage of new copies, it's better to wait for reviews, and potential patches, exceptions like multi-player only since it's always the most active at launch or VERY niche releases it's alright to pre-order".

It'd obviously be a case-by-case basis.

Again, I'm going to heavily favor quality content for the site. I want to be professional. Accurate, clean (no swearing, like one of my high school teachers always said, get an adjective)

>>3651424
appreciate your work anon, Wish you luck on your project and i'll be lurking alot more until i see your website being posted on the board. Wish several more had your approach to gaming journalism, especially in the retro love to hear some anon write articles about obscure games from all over.

>>3650886
Eh, Marvel is still doing it.

>>3651605
Yeah, but aren't their titles selling like crap lately?

>>3648237
>Thoughts?

Is this how you fags from HG101 shill your shit now?

Let me guess, next week's thread is gonna be just the picture and a period.

One thing I always hated about HG101 is that they barely discuss the technical aspects of the games themselves. Like they would claim the FCD version of Jackal is "worse" than the NES version (never mind that it came earlier, so it technically not "worse" so much as they made improvements, but who cares about accuracy) without explaining why and how the improvements were made (hint: it has something to do with the media, genius). They kinda betray themselves as emulation kiddies.

This is pretty prevalent when they do a retrospective of a long-running series and they always start off by saying how the oldest entries in the series are ugly and dated. Yeah, because I was expecting a 1990 Famicom game to look as well as its 2003 GBA sequel.

For a site that proclaims themselves to be "hardcore", they're really more casual than the average /vr/ trooper.

>>3650637
Not trying to start shit (especially since I think that whole Females in 80s Gaming article is a load of biased horseshit), but feeling shitty about Trump winning isn't something exclusive to 3/4 shaved head, SCUM Manifesto worshiping, immature babies.

>>3650065
When the Final Fantasy articles went up and when they treated Wikipedia like it was 100% made-up facts because the article for Ultima 0 didn't find every shit fanzine in the 80s to figure out the "real" sales numbers for it, I knew it was time to abandon ship.

It was great for getting a beginner's introduction to more obscure games, but once they strayed away from that, I just couldn't keep reading.

>>3651838
Trust me, Kurt doesn't give a shit about 4chan.

>>3651965
More like he feigns indifference about 4chan while secretly lurking the boards to fuel his moral self-righteousness.

>>3651965
Whatever you say Mr. Kalata

>>3652018
Actually this is shillstar. He considers 4chan beneath him.

>>3650628
Jesus, these articles made my fucking pussy hurt. Dragon Warrior 3 was my favorite game growing up because my friends would build the characters as ourselves and pass the controller around for battles when it was our character's turn. While my brother was bogarding the SNES, I got to actually bond with other girls playing an RPG on his NES; fuck them for not thinking that's not a good enough show of girls in gaming.

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>>3652050
Yet he posts on fucking NeoGAF of all places and even tweets links to recommended threads. I'm guessing any place that isn't a leftist echo chamber is beneath him.

>>3652162
pretty much. That's why he shut down a bunch of years-old threads, because he didn't like the way the discussion was going.

>>3652217
I remember he locked that one FemFreq thread when people we're starting to question Anita's motives.

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>>3652162
This has to be one of the cringiest things i've seen on the entire net.

I know most games are in English or Japanese, but are there any other languages worth learning for obscure games?

>>3652779
read his twitter account.

Anyway I hope the anon doing the site can keep with it and make this work.

>>3652226
I gotta find where my preemptive strike Anita avatar went (at the time he threatened to forcibly change peoples' avatars to pictures of Anita if we criticized her).

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>>3653118
>I gotta find where my preemptive strike Anita avatar went
I don't think it was this exact screenshot, but close enough.
>(at the time he threatened to forcibly change peoples' avatars to pictures of Anita if we criticized her).
I remember it was to stop people from using SJW as pejorative. Either way, that was the moment for me when Kurt went FullMcIntosh.

>>3649868
You might want to nail down the structure and flow first and then worry about content especially if it involves help. Reminds me of making total conversion mods 20 years ago, you need to sell yourself before you share your vision.

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Some articles good
Some articles bad

The end

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>>3653118
>>3652162
I think there's an old saying that goes “To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”, but in the case of the interwebz it's "To find out the webmaster's political bias, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize".

>>3653203
Hell, I might not even continue with this. Considering just deleting the whole project and using it as my old personal site. The first anon who brought it seemed to have more experience with this

>>3652162
>>3653395
That's why everything political if left/right/sjw/*gate/other crap should NEVER be allowed on a gaming platform. It will and does always poison the community. No one, really no one who want's to discuss games care about fucking politics at this point. If there is need one can always go to a site where he can discuss this politics aka brainwashing aka fake democracy nwo shit.

>>3653573
The issue is always that' the platform gets sullied.

A gaming site should be "pure" and focus solely on gaming content.

I used to read Kotaku, years ago. There was 1 article that turned me off

I can't find the article, but this was the video associated with it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThHBv-Jn_Mg

This was what constituted an "article" on a gaming website that I thought was reputable.

Whether it's off topic content, or agenda's getting pushed into articles people fucking notice.

People -do not- give a shit about agendas. You can think whatever the fuck you want, do whatever you want. If you wanna be a faggot furry and jerk off in a fursuit, no one gives a shit.

They start to give a shit when it gets thrown in their face. You shouldn't be surprised when people reject your blatant agenda. When people call you out on being retarded and posting content that they don't want to see on a specific forum (gaming in this case).

I love talking politics, but there are appropriate forums to do so. Shoe-horning it into your gaming website is retarded.

>>3653613
>instant ham sandwich video

What did you mean with this?

>>3650510
/pol/ gets raided everyday, if you actually were being upset idk where you could go besides a dead section of infinity or some subreddit intended to be a equally ban happy counterpart to hard left places

I have nothing to do with any of this but I'm assuming it has more to do with the fact they'll ban you than him being upset by seeing different opinions

>>3653573
>aka brainwashing aka fake democracy nwo shit.

Even if you're being facetious this way of ending your post kinda demonstrates why it always happens, people are always going to throw in opinion and humor, in your case taking the position that they're all full of shit and it's all fake lol. Even if the initial side-point or joke is reasonable or funny there's going to be someone who gets offended or annoyed. People on the left will flip out and demand stricter censorship, people on the right will be pissed off and troll, and it all spirals into a big shitball where otherwise reasonable people start saying very mean things and/or a mod goes apeshit like pictured in >>3652162. This would be hard to avoid if we were discussing fucking furniture but when you're discussing anything with even elements of narrative art it's literally not possible to avoid completely, and why should it be necessarily? The main thing you don't want is people getting banned for having the wrong opinions. If someone wants to write some silly shit about how American kids are "evil" because they changed the name from girl to ninja or some shit they should be allowed to, but they open themselves to being told to fuck off.

The point is to get away from people with little-Hitler syndrome not create an inverse of their garbage

>>3653638
/pol/ raider here.

I do that purely to annoy the shit out of them for my own amusement

>>3653692
it's obvious as hell at least half of you don't actually believe the shit you post on there

somebody has to play target dummy though

the articles are pretty terrible, and they sure love injecting their retarded political beliefs and opinions in them.

At best, useful for a glance? Their opinions aren't worth dick.

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>>3653179
Found it.

>>3654012
One time Kurt lost his shit on the forums when I suggested people get a chance to write a rejoinder or "second opinion" for some of the articles, since in a lot of case there's valid opinions going one way or another on a game. He basically said "We have only one opinion on this site, and it's the RIGHT one."

So yeah, again for the people wondering about the "SJW" allegations about HG101, it's not that they're progressives, it's that they choose to express and promote their opinions as the one true fact and then stamp out any "dissent".

>>3649660
give up

>>3654393
I remember when he gave me shit for merely discussing strategies in the Shinobi talkback article. Then again, I did make fun of him for whining about the difficulty of certain games.

I only like retro podcasts now like WoFF

>>3655295
wow first time seeing that picture here on this thread, wow thx anon lolol

>>3648652
I need some context please. I only visit HG101 to get some info about obscure games I randomly found on flea markets, but I'm not on the forums or follow the admin, I don't even know who he or she is.

>>3655794
You dont want to know, there creeps, autists, SJWs, very unpleasant people. The forums are impenetrable to anyone not in their small circle. Even the articles have taken a nose dive in quality compared to 5-10 years ago.

tl;dr fuck 'em

>>3655801
It used to be better when the political shit was confined to the General Chat thread, but after Gamergate it gradually rotted away into a mass of bullshit. And now apparently that stuff has infected their podcast, which used to be separate/unaffected by it (now they're another advertisement to grab patreon money).

What pissed me off was that he did absolutely nothing to promote the podcast for years, still doesn't. He didn't give us an operating budget (most of the guys working on it were college kids or younger so that would have helped them). Yet we had to push for his fucking patreon when he started doing that. Had to re-brand to make the HG101 name more prominent to support the site/patreon. Then again, no huge surprise.

>>3655814
Wow, Patreon proves it cancerous ability once again...

You considering flippin' them the bird and calling it quits? I'm sure there are plenty other retro podcasts more deserving than anything that places does/has its hands on.

>>3655829
Ah, I'd quit a while ago (due to our different schedules and disillusionment with hg101) and I still like/get along with the show creator and most of the other guys that do it. I'm just not allowed back basically per kurt. That, and they're letting sacaitlin (this one nasty cunt from twitter) and other trash guest host now. Anyway FWIW after that podcast thread I started my own thing so I can occasionally record something with people I know on Twitter or from here (although it's not retro game specific).

>>3648237
metal slug

>>3655914
There was a contest to create a logo on the forums years ago, although I forget who it was specifically that "won", but that's the one that tends to get reused the most (supposedly they didn't get paid or anything. Then again that describes all of the stuff like the "top whatever" lists that they have like the female characters one, which by the way they're going to be selling books of yet not crediting the people that contributed).

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>>3650427
>>3650483
>nightdreamer
I always hated that little tool and how he's always whining about other people's whining while unironically proclaiming he's above it. He doesn't post in the HG101 forums anymore though. He rage-quit after trying to virtue signal when people discussing Muslim extremism in the general board.

Anyway, looking at all his social network accounts, he seems like the type of beta guy who befriends a lot of girls and thinks that makes him a mack daddy even though he's probably been friend zoned by all of them (I remember him tweeting about a girl who stood him up on a date around the time Frozen was released in theaters).

>>3658285
>he thinks /vr/ has good posters
yes, youre a shitposter

>>3658276
I try to be friends with people even if I don't agree with them. But he got seriously butthurt about my reactions to certain events (i.e., skepticism) and said in PMs how I'm a piece of shit and should die, etc. then blocked me before talking shit on Twitter. History repeats itself.

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>>3658657
Nightdreamer had a habit of bitching about stuff I or someone else would write in a rather indirect not-subtle way. The first time he did it I passed it off as coincidence, but then he would keep doing it and doing it until I called him out on it.

Quite frankly Kris Jou seems to have some self-worth issue, since he once tweeted about a bodybuilding friend of his and bitched about how bodybuilding is a waste of time or some other nonsense like that (no doubt envious of the fact that his friend was getting meaningful attention from the opposite sex). He also bitched on his blog about movies in which girls are attracted to rebellious delinquents. The fact that a good chunk of his books on his goodreads profile outside the usual capeshit are vacuous self-help books is quite telling of his issues.

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>>3660040
>bitched about how bodybuilding is a waste of time

HE CAN'T EVEN LIFT

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>>3660040
Now that I think about it, a lot of those guys do that shit - colonicbh is another. What a faggot (literally).

As for nightdreamer, he used to give me shit over retweeting idols or waifushit. I'm guessing he has deep seated insecurities on that front. And he can't lift.

I didn't think he was all that bad at first - he was helping us translate stuff for this Taiwanese licensed game (L-Man) for an article and livecast. He was less of a sick then. But once the Traycon Martin thing happened holy shit, white knight mode engaged.

On the topic of broadcasts, jonny - let me know if you ever want to record something. Sometime I want to record a podcast about Yoshihisa Kishimoto if you'd be up for that.

>>3661567
>colonicbh
Who?

>>3663329
Tonicbh. Sorry, forgot his actual nick.