Gawker Media burned 115 Million Dollars in Lawsuit

[Brovo]

PewDiePie I'm assuming?

Him, among others.

It also doesn't help that they spend a great deal of their time just spouting on about... Things that aren't related to gaming at all. Like how anime makes McDonalds better, because fuck you. Or, to focus not on games themselves, but on whether the people playing them possess a noble vagina with which to obtain the magical equality dust.

Seriously, Kotaku is staffed largely by the mentally deranged. I'm sure there are a couple of decent, perhaps even good journalists on that site who have a passion for games. It's unfortunate they get buried underneath waves of thinly veiled gender politics, hate speech, and japanese superiority complexes.

 

[Aragorn12]

This is fantastic. I hope they burn in a fiery pit of hell.

 

[SacredWarrior]

Him, among others.

It also doesn't help that they spend a great deal of their time just spouting on about... Things that aren't related to gaming at all. Like how anime makes McDonalds better, because fuck you. Or, to focus not on games themselves, but on whether the people playing them possess a noble vagina with which to obtain the magical equality dust.

Seriously, Kotaku is staffed largely by the mentally deranged. I'm sure there are a couple of decent, perhaps even good journalists on that site who have a passion for games. It's unfortunate they get buried underneath waves of thinly veiled gender politics, hate speech, and japanese superiority complexes.

No wonder everyone hates Kotaku so much. And I thought Polygon was shit

 

[Brovo]

No wonder everyone hates Kotaku so much. And I thought Polygon was shit

Oh, it is. It's just a different brand of shit. Kotaku is all about gender superiority equality, and Polygon is all about being literally the definition of psychotic incapable of discerning reality from fiction. I mean, wow, where does one even begin?.

• 1. Karl Marx was dead decades before video games were a thing.
• 2. Demonizing heterosexuality, even if the majority of people are heterosexual. (Also, putting fan fiction as the pinnacle by which other forms of writing should aspire to, when fan fiction in and of itself is by definition aspiring toward an established fiction. )
• 3. Being incapable of differentiating a fantasy within a virtual space from behaviours people actually perpetuate in the real world. (IE: If you watch hardcore porn in your VR, you obviously want to rape women. You shitlord.)
• 4. Somehow, video games with female protagonists now save people from suicide. Because vaginas have magical powers, even if the vaginas in question are distinctly not real. (Also, obviously, only Life is Strange can possess this power. No way people who enjoy other games and connect with other games might be spared from suicidal thoughts via those games. Certainly not.)

You can't make this shit up. These people are fucking insane. I just want Kotaku to go down more than Polygon because Kotaku is part of a much larger cancer. Polygon is just a singular turd, floating in the ocean. It's disgusting, but it's not like the literal island of plastic, murdering sea creature with alarming proficiency and regularity. You know?

 

[SacredWarrior]

Oh, it is. It's just a different brand of shit. Kotaku is all about gender superiority equality, and Polygon is all about being literally the definition of psychotic incapable of discerning reality from fiction. I mean, wow, where does one even begin?.

• 1. Karl Marx was dead decades before video games were a thing.
• 2. Demonizing heterosexuality, even if the majority of people are heterosexual. (Also, putting fan fiction as the pinnacle by which other forms of writing should aspire to, when fan fiction in and of itself is by definition aspiring toward an established fiction. )
• 3. Being incapable of differentiating a fantasy within a virtual space from behaviours people actually perpetuate in the real world. (IE: If you watch hardcore porn in your VR, you obviously want to rape women. You shitlord.)
• 4. Somehow, video games with female protagonists now save people from suicide. Because vaginas have magical powers, even if the vaginas in question are distinctly not real. (Also, obviously, only Life is Strange can possess this power. No way people who enjoy other games and connect with other games might be spared from suicidal thoughts via those games. Certainly not.)

You can't make this shit up. These people are fucking insane. I just want Kotaku to go down more than Polygon because Kotaku is part of a much larger cancer. Polygon is just a singular turd, floating in the ocean. It's disgusting, but it's not like the literal island of plastic, murdering sea creature with alarming proficiency and regularity. You know?

Lord have mercy! What has happened to gaming journalism?! And then people wonder why GamerGate became a thing (that's a topic for another day)! Speaking of Life Is Strange, I bought the game for PS4 and so far, I'M LOVING IT! :D

 

[Grothnor]

Something I find interesting is that the day (or so) after this happens, Digital Homicide, an absolutely atrocious indie Video Game Developer, sued Jim Sterling, a video game critic who was quite critical of their work, for $10 million. I wonder if DigiHom thinks that if Hogan can win against a media outlet, so can they.

 

[Brovo]

Something I find interesting is that the day (or so) after this happens, Digital Homicide, an absolutely atrocious indie Video Game Developer, sued Jim Sterling, a video game critic who was quite critical of their work, for $10 million. I wonder if DigiHom thinks that if Hogan can win against a media outlet, so can they.

Hope not. I don't think DigiHom can actually win against Jim Sterling. It's not like Jim Sterling released DigiHom's sex tape or something: He released and gave criticism over a video game which DigiHom themselves have offered for sale, so it's out of the privacy laws domain that Hulk Hogan had going for him.

 

[SacredWarrior]

Something I find interesting is that the day (or so) after this happens, Digital Homicide, an absolutely atrocious indie Video Game Developer, sued Jim Sterling, a video game critic who was quite critical of their work, for $10 million. I wonder if DigiHom thinks that if Hogan can win against a media outlet, so can they.

DigiHom is NOT gonna win that lawsuit. Why haven't they gone out of business yet?

 

[Gwazi Magnum]

Digi-Hom has done stupid thing after stupid thing in a desperate attempt to make their game look good.
I think this lawsuit is a last desperate attempt fuelled by nothing more than butt hurt over being criticized.

 

[Brovo]

I'm all for anything that dismantles tabloid garbage that somehow are legally allowed to stalk and slander people because they happen to be famous.

I hope Gawker tears itself apart so we don't have to see its trash anymore.

BURN GAWKER

BURN TO A CRISP

Gawker is terrible and deserves to be ruined by their own follies.

The less of these garbage news sites that exist the better.

This is fantastic. I hope they burn in a fiery pit of hell.

Wish granted.

Gawker Hit with another 25 million in damages. Total is now at 140 Million Dollars.

 

[Minerva]

2. Demonizing heterosexuality, even if the majority of people are heterosexual. (Also, putting fan fiction as the pinnacle by which other forms of writing should aspire to, when fan fiction in and of itself is by definition aspiring toward an established fiction. )

Wait, what?

Someone just made that up...

I'm sorry, but fanfictions are not the pinnacle of fiction, even if one of the longest English Language works is a Smash Bros Fanfiction.

 

[Brovo]

Wait, what?

Someone just made that up...

I'm sorry, but fanfictions are not the pinnacle of fiction, even if one of the longest English Language works is a Smash Bros Fanfiction.

Yep. Welcome to Polygon: Where quality doesn't matter, so long as it has a greater level of donuts than hot dogs. Or if it can be compared to the works of our great and almighty leader, Karl Marx.

 

[Minerva]

Yep. Welcome to Polygon: Where quality doesn't matter, so long as it has a greater level of donuts than hot dogs. Or if it can be compared to the works of our great and almighty leader, Karl Marx.

Ah! But here's the greatest question:

Is Slash Fanfiction better than the works of Karl Marx?

 

[Brovo]

Is Slash Fanfiction better than the works of Karl Marx?

Obviously. At least the former might produce something functional one day.

 

[MurderDeathKill]

• Kotaku: A website that is supposedly about gaming journalism, which was caught up in controversy after it decided to burn its own user base and declare "gamers are dead" and "gamers are sexist."

I'll never forgive Kotaku for that. I'll never forgive a whole mess of websites that similarly threw their entire communities under the bus like that.

 

[Windsong]

I came here to say this is a good thing.

 

[Dervish]

See, thing is though, they can have shitty opinions, and that's okay. It's okay to have a shitty opinion on an ideology, or a franchise, or even an individual person... That's freedom of speech. However, where freedom of speech meets a grey barrier is when one violates a person's rights to privacy (ex: private property) in order to use their freedom of speech, and then atop that uses said freedom of speech in a damaging way. This didn't just upset someone's feelings: This ruined Hulk Hogan's career. IGN posting shit pieces about Kingdom Hearts doesn't ruin anyone's career. It just shows that they have an opinion you don't like, which is acceptable. Hell, it should be protected.

I don't like IGN either, so I simply don't browse their content... But then, IGN doesn't threaten people's careers with what is tantamount to blackmail and libel. At least, not generally. Gawker made a business model off of that. Jezebel made a business model off of that. Kotaku, too, has thrown individual people in the gas chamber "spotlight" to be victims of mob justice, and continues to do so.

This is why I am cheering the death of Gawker, but would protest and be disgusted by a court sanctioned death of IGN. I don't like IGN. I think IGN is stupid. That does not at all mean that IGN is doing serious harm to my person, or to any other person, by merely existing. Their freedoms are inexorably tied to my own: If I cheer their death of freedom of speech, someone will cheer mine. We have to protect each other, even if we don't like each other.

Which is why I'm cheering on Hulk Hogan, "fighting for the rights of every man" as his theme song would put it. Because he is not only fighting to recoop the loss of his career, but this case will help shape how future cases involving privacy violations vs freedom of speech will be handled.

A true masterpiece worthy of its predecessors. IGN rates this 9/10.

 

[Kestrel]

Disco inferno.

 

[Alphakoka]

Now that's not to say that every blog site under the Gawker wing is terrible. They also have Gizmodo, and, um...

... Yeah no Gizmodo is pretty much the only semi-redeemable blog they have on their network.

Hey Bruv:
http://gizmodo.com/you-can-now-torrent-a-blu-ray-version-of-star-wars-the-1766611796

 

[Psyker Landshark]

Words cannot express my joy at Hulk Hogan leg dropping Gawker for $140 million. The best part is that by Florida law, if Gawker wants to try to appeal and weasel their way out of it, they have to pony up the entire $140 million first and dump it into an escrow account. So they're going to have to make cutbacks somewhere either way.

Smash 'em, Hulkster.