Yeah, I was there, there was a huge thread about ethics in game journalism that went in deep about various issue inherent to enthusiast media.
He has always been an ignoble piece of shit. The mask slips ever so slightly once he can get on his high horse. The shit he used to share on Facebook back a few years ago was just bitter and unreal. Sadly we are no longer connected (my choice) but gosh was he always problematic.
Maybe when Russ is brave enough to start talking about "ethics in journalism", his first article can be about the ethics in publishing something that takes no consideration for the victims involved in the story.
Look at the bolded text, and then remember that Russ Pitts took a look at a disgraced openly pro-GG media outlet and publicly made noise about how he was going to try to Humpty Dumpty that reputation.
What a find.
I think there were genuinely people who bought in to the ethics angle, though. But I guess that also doesn't invalidate what you're saying.
The folks that might have been "suckered in" by the ethics angle, and still stuck around as the targeted attacks, doxing, gaslighting, and so on are just as complicit in the ordeal as those that started it.
There were. But they were useful idiots and honestly if they even fact checked a single thing beforehand they would have seen this was all bullshit so fuck them too. The main claim that ZQ slept with a reviewer for a good score on her game was so easily disproven that it would be laughable if the consequences weren't so terrifying. (Kotaku never even reviewed the game In the first place)
They aren't even trying to hide their actual motivation, Jesus Christ.
Maybe our hero Bob should go do it
Which makes it all the more insidious that he seemingly can’t delete the offensive articles
It’s a ludicrously uncomfortable video. Vic is barely talking about it on social, i hope he regrets teaming with Russ on this
At best, anyone who was taken in was just an idiot or didn't do a single bit of research. None of the things GG actually talked about involved actual ethics breaches. Most of them were purely fabricated bullshit, and those that weren't were still mostly fabricated bullshit with a nugget of truth where the true part doesn't remotely involve any sort of ethical breach.
I agree. This article comes across more as shameless self-promotion at the expense of his fellows in games journalism than any call to GamerGate.
What has he done to earn this much benefit of the doubt?
Both his wife and Moviebob, the site's biggest not-Yahtzee contributor, are very vocal in their beliefs against Gamergate and the alt-right. That still doesn't make this article right though. It's not an alt-right prespective but rather from a perspective of someone in a high place of privilege thinks equality is.
I'm reminded of the time he tried to attack some rivals over the possibility of them not properly disclosing their connections and then immediately backed off the second they hinted at him being even more guilty of it.
And the nastiness he spewed on twitter right after? And then continuing to message her when she told him to stop? His refusal to remove the old GG articles? Why did he revive a GG site under the dog whistle of no politics in the first place? To post this article? And that gross documentary he’s now promoting?
wtf
Games are a product being sold. How would the customer not be the most important aspect of the industry? No consumers, no games industry.
Jesus christ the cringe in that video, such a lack of professionalism framing it like that.
the TMZ-style wandering camera doesn't help. Just have them both sitting down, this makes it feel like Vic and the camera person just ambushed her in the hallway lol
It's still fairly amusing that I still see them parroting the same "it's about ethics" BS that educated people knew to be a load of crap even when it first began. Like, it's literally happened on more than one occasion tonight alone on Twitter. Literally nothing has changed in their depraved existences.
Two minutes of an uncomfortable woman not wanting to answer your question is, uh, an interesting approach to hyping up your new series, I guess.
The reality TV-style framing of the whole thing is skeevy as fuck, but I literally had to stop the video when she broke from her spiel, said how difficult this was, and he started lecturing at her about how she needed to keep going like he was her tough-love life coach or some shit. Just an utter lack of sensitivity when you’re interviewing someone about sexual harassment.
I mean, I can’t speak for what’s in the dude’s heart, but if he’s not a gator he’s so enmeshed in that worldview that it makes no difference. Either he’s one of them, or they’ve duped him so badly with their duplicitous messaging that he spouts off their dogwhistles without even realizing what he’s doing. He rescued their largest allied outlet from its well-deserved demise and relaunched with a message around avoiding politics that could’ve been taken straight out of the GG handbook, then wrote this completely unprompted piece about ethics that seems to cite a whole bunch of GG myths about the industry with no actual evidence, and then finally he showed his whole ass and revealed that he harbors a bizarre degree of animosity towards Zoe Quinn for... reasons. The pattern is pretty clear.
Come the fuck on, Vic. Hyping up your shit like "Yooo look how uncomfortable she is! Excited for some #honesty?!"
