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The middle east is a very complex topic, and I don't think that Kotaku is the right voice for discussing this.
Maybe people reguegitating press releases and showcasing weird shit in Japan should avoid political takes of any sort. They have the right, but doubtful the knowledge. Leave it to people like yourself that does their homework.
I'm guessing Kotaku really put their foot in their mouth this time.
EDIT: Oh Kotaku lost the plot years ago. This is honestly their final form. It has been clear for years they hate covering video games, hate the industry, hate the community, and rather be discussing politics. Every time you tried to read an article (God help you) during the Trump years (just using this as an example, bear with me) you would read some article about gaming then by paragraph 3 like clockwork the writer would be screaming about Trump. Got to get them rage clicks some how. Well now that he's gone what are they going to talk about to? I along with others have noticed these gaming websites having been trying to resurrect gamergate again to try to bring that dead horse back for clicks. And I'm guessing this article is just another swing at the fences for rage clicks. So really this is just the end road of Kotaku's evolution from gaming website to hate click bait political rag.
This week on Kotaku did a stupid…
Lots of countrys use Roman names and have for over 2000 years. Italia, Hispania, Brittania, Germania, Aegyptus are all Roman latin names.
Kotaku being a shitty website?
insert shocked pikachu face here
Kotaku (who is staffed by radical leftwing writers not good enough to work in the MSM) was pushing pro-Palestinian propaganda? Shocking! Well, not really shocking. They're virtue signalling so they can get the head pats.
First glance at the title makes me think Kotaku was giving US remote piloted aircraft cockpits glowing reviews as they blow up innocent civillians.
"The apartheid ruling class has feels too you know"
Rant accepted. Support still there.
kotaku has pretty much always been a shitty website
It's like putting caviar in a grilled cheese. You can pretend you are being fancy but in the end, you are just someone eating a grilled cheese. That's how it feels when a gaming site tries to pretend they are the New York Times for clicks. This is an incredibly complicated and tragic subject matter that Kotaku is neither qualified to nor the right place to talk about it. I understand they might have wanted to use their platform to raise awareness of the current situation, but is their platform the right one for it? This is a sensitive matter, not a game.
I just read the article, and I'm afraid that I'm going to have to push back a bit. Now, we can agree that Kotaku is the dumpster fire hell spawn of the mating ritual of three train wrecks, and we can even agree that this article can be written better, but to say that Kotaku stepped out of its lane in writing this article is something I can't agree with (and yes, I know you said very tangentially).
The article is three paragraphs, all pertaining to the title. Two of the paragraphs explain the situation, which is the first part of the title, and the third paragraph describes the fundraising, which is the second part of the title. The gaming related part of the article is the actions taken by various entities within the gaming industry, which I find to be in the spirit of a gaming article.
Now, having a skew on a situation is natural Kotaku, so the article, as far as Israel-Palestine, would naturally not have all the relevant information for people to decide themselves: so it follows the Kotaku brand. The criticism that I have of this article is that there is not enough information about what is going on in the gaming world regarding what has happened. It seems like a rushed out article that just wanted to quickly throw some half-assed collection of information out there that is supposed to be accepted as some well-fleshed out article for clicks. So, in other words, Kotaku was just being normal Kotaku in this article: intellectually and physically lazy. It's nothing new.
So, about Six days in Fallujah?
I really just don't understand this seeming blind hatred of Israel. To the point that even a gaming site doesn't even try to hide it, or make some vague connection. Maybe it's the way I was raised, that Israel is the holy land, and needs to be protected. Is it because people seem to hate anything connected to judeo-christianity? Is it because people on the left seem to have a bias towards Islam? I don't know. It absolutely baffles me.
This is kotaku they are a troll site .
So pausing midway through as you go over the Palestine article. I'm not surprised Ian Walker is the author there. I believe he was the same person that decided to talk about US election politics in the middle of a Ps5 review for no reason. And I think he did something similar in a recent review.
Totally agree with you, these reporters/sites should stay in the lane that they put themselves on. the only exception would be the whole food writer doing crimes, but that's only in the case of Gordon Ramsey killing a chef because they didn't cook the chicken
Is there a name for this syndrome where a journalist in a field of lesser prestige tries to compensate by (clumsily) tying what it supposed to be their nieche to another other thing that's currently dominating world news?
I can't help feeling like westerners are exporting their local sense of politics to places like the middle east. I don't know how else everyone can feel like such confident experts on the ongoing situation in a part of the world the vast majority of them have never been and never will go to, don't know anyone who lives there, and whose knowledge of it can be summarized like the opening paragraphs of a Wikipedia article. I fully believe site employees should be able to speak their minds on these topics on their own time, but I have real news sites to catch me up on the situation there.
Three bra ads in three articles.
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I want to ask what the hell Kotaku was thinking but I have feeling I already know. It feels like they wanted to show the world so badly just how " woke " they were that they clearly tipped over to the bigot side and they are way to full of themselves to see it. War, politics and religion are complicated and messy things and you can't just go "all people on side A/B are evil", it doesn't work that way and this black and white thinking is probably the reason there are a people saying that politics ruins everything.
The only thing I'm going to say about Israel and Palestinian conflict is that I whis that those of you who are stuck in the middle of it will be safe ass well your family, friends and loved ones and that even if things probably are scary right now that you will have moments of peace and laughter, I wish that from the bottom of my heart.
I had no idea this happened… I get most of my videogame news from youtube and don't read videogame websites much unless they come up in something I'm searching for online. Like cheats for a game, a guide or perhaps more esoteric video game knowledge.
Also, I felt super terrible that someone just discounted an entire country as not a thing. I've been told, to my face, that my race doesn't exist so I know how that feels to an extent. I'm not going say they are the same thing (was some kid I shared a class with in high-school) but I can imagine what it'd be like to hear or read someone with some form of platform extolling something similar…
Anyhow, anyone play any fun videogames over the weekend? I tried to chill out after that rough Friday by getting back into Unreal Tournament whenever my allergies would allow. Man I do so love that game and remember why now XD
Israel is an apartheid state, that can stop this madness, there is no even handedness in this situation, Israel has all the power here. Kotaku is in the right here.
Stop making fun of her for the bra ads! It's not her fault, not everyone can but off the shelf I have the same problem with pants. Everyone in my height is is way thinner or way fatter.
7 years later and gamergate still taking Ws
why are you surprised? its kotaku, hm but then again the way todays media is they like sneaking things in that re severely off topic when ppl just want to have fun, and yeah i went through 3 browsers, no ads.
Although clear Kotaku is worse, it needs to be clarified IGN was not much better in their side taking presentation hence being called out by IGN Israel. All acting woe is only the Palestinian people meanwhile Hamas is shooting rockets indiscriminately into Israeli cities.
Palestine is actually derived from the Hebrew 'Peleset.' Meaning it is in origin not a Roman name, but a Hebrew name.
I look up this sort of stuff. I just recently learned what my own people are actually called. Everyone still uses the Roman term, though. And my people weren't even colonized by the Romans (for very long). Thanks, Pliny, you absolute plague in human form.
Apparently Liana needs a new bra!
I love the Gamespot articles which are clearly political but with a tenuous connection to games, anime, or comics and then they preemptively disable comments because they know it'd be a shitshow if they left them on. If they know it's going to be like that why even publish the articles? And they just keep going further and further from games and just throwing in random movie news and other crap like obvious shills for Amazon sales.
They are encouraged to do it is my belief. In company and outside company. But we all probably realize this and I am spinning my wheels
the only defense i can come up with for them is they arent actually a gaming site, theyre a political site wearing a raggedy, maggot eaten skinsuit thay is vaguely gaming shaped
doesnt make it right, but fits with what kotaku ACTUALLY does rather than what it SAYS it does
It's all such b.s.
Let's be honest here: Israel was created in reaction to the terror of the Holocaust. The creation of Israel displaced a lot of people who laid-claim to land that they had ruled for a long time, as if THAT wasn't going to ruffle any feathers. Since then, the whole region has been a political and humanitarian disaster.
What I find extremely stupid is how fricking VIDEO GAME MAGAZINES (Game Informer / IGN / Kotaku; I think at this point, only fake progressive Kotaku has doubled-down) are publishing extremist op-eds as virtue-signalling without a shred of journalistic integrity. They are basically using the issue as click/ragebait… in essence, ambulance chasing for clicks. That I find more despicable. They are the Thenardiers of gaming "journalism."
Underwear follows you around. They're kinda like that.
i have to completely agrea with the main point of this video. gaming sites/journalists should stick to gaming and away from politics. though i would disagree with this being a gaming channel with how often politics is talked about.
It's a brilliant marketing strategy: make articles so unenjoyable to read that you'd rather look at the ads. This video is a perfect case study. Bras everywhere! Getting all the attention!
Based Kotaku. As an old school gamer gater I acknowledge that everything is political, and being even handed is taking a side. Like if during ww2 some news anchors were like, "well wait a minute, why do the germans want to get rid of jewish people? Let's analyze both sides." Isreal is a genocidal apartheid state.
Not sure if this is a good time, considering the video material. But thought I’d bring up an article Polygon just released “about” Mass Effect Legendary Edition. I guess it kind of relates to this as it’s Polygon using a game’s release as an excuse to connect to the material they really want to cover by declaring Shepard as an authoritarian, space cop. So they set themselves up to go off on their take on the policing discourse.
But the reason I wanted to bring the article up is that it goes on a whole argument about Shepard shooting too often, not being held brutally accountable enough, & being the decider to too many issues (again, to connect to their anti-policing stance). But seemed to me that the article maligns the games for the things that make them games: gameplay, interactive narratives, & choice. I immediately thought about your Last of Us 2 coverage stating that game is so beloved by the crowd that loves it because it’s less of a game & more of a long movie with some button presses. It shows again how these gaming journalists don’t actually care for games & would prefer games to be changed into Netflix shows they’d prefer to cover.
Amazingly enough, I can have sympathy for both the people of Israel and the people of Palestine without feeling a need to co-opt a pulpit from which to declaim my views. Shame on Kotaku. This is more fail than their usual level of fail, which is a pretty low bar to stoop beneath.
You know kotaku really fucked up if even you are pissed at them
TL;DW…..
Kotaku being SSJ4 level asshats again. 😁
I think it may be worth revisiting the points of this video some time when you feel less rightfully pissed. It definitely came out more as an angry-Liana-stream-of-consciousness than your usual analytical… uhh… analysis. That's very fair obviously given the circumstances.