I mean the wrestling segment in the Beastcast made me roll my eyes especially the Vince mention by Dan but if AEW is a positive impact on the wrestling community and obliterates the WWE and that shitlord McMahon then I'm all for it.
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At least they talked about that and other labor issues fairly extensively on the podcasts. Alex especially. I don't think that's on this level.
I think you can still support the wrestlers while dismissing the WWE, tho that becomes harder because of Vince's role. As for Dan, maybe we expect too much.
I agree.
I have the right to complain when he's sending that ignorance directly into my inbox, to be fair.
Never claimed otherwise. I'm saying his lacking of selfawareness is what leads to this newsletter getting out together and sent out. Dan can be ignorant if he wants, but he should keep it to himself.
You're right, my bad! Didn't mean to come at you like that so I apologize.
I don't remember this kind of reaction to the powerbombcast. Shit was just as bad back then.
I think the real failure here is that no one else stepped in and told Dan to knock it the fuck off, personally. I can easily believe that Dan is enough of a cock-eyed dipshit to think that newsletter was a good idea, but someone else somewhere along the line should have spiked it long before it was sent to customers.
I had the choice not to listen the wrestling podcast if I so wished.
I didn't get a heads-up that the mailing list for the video game site that I signed up to was going to push that shit out, though.
TBF powerbombcast was before a lot of the newer shit went down.
Also TBF I hated it and I'm glad that it's done for and all wrestling is to be purged.
They should really bring back the Powerbombcast. They just can't contain the wrestling talk, it's everywhere, eventhough they seem to have a soft ban on it. Bring it back and leave it in there.
I take your point, but also, attitudes in wrestling are moving on swiftly and more voices are being heard and calling WWE out on its shit. Your argument is akin to "I didn't hear complaining about booth babes ten years ago so don't talk about it now". People change, communities change. There is a section of the wrestling community moving on from hand-waving away Vince McMahon's bullshit, and not just creatively but also for all these more important issues. So you gotta move with the times or be challenged.
Or the site focuses on videogames and purges everything regarding wressling. And anime.
I assume most people who think the WWE is shit never listened to its contents (I didn't). Also there's probably more awareness about it now. This is kind of a whataboutist response.
To be clear I think, obviously, you can talk about the WWE as an entertainment product. Lots of art and entertainment has problematic underpinnings. But to write a newsletter all about the WWE and how it's bad and to just completely gloss over the Saudi stuff, while bringing it up, is just weird. Especially given that this is a Giant Bomb newsletter!
IDK your post might as well be Dan's newsletter. Really objectionable gross shit has ALWAYS been baked into the WWE cake. Some people were ALWAYS complaining about booth babes in the same way some people have ALWAYS been complaining about the WWE so I don't think my argument is akin to that at all. The fact some are now no longer willing to hand-wave the WWE doesn't excuse all their hand-waving.
Powerbombcast was something you could skip, (i did) the newsletter is something fed to my inbox.
I don't know if they read replies to that email but i replied back after reading it this morning.
Not cool at all. Very disappointed but not shocked.
I don't know if they read replies to that email but i replied back after reading it this morning.
Not cool at all. Very disappointed but not shocked.
Some people have, more power to them, that shouldn't be used as a reason to stop people who are coming to the conversation later from airing their voices. Should Giant Bomb not comment on labour practices in the video game industry moving forward because they haven't meaningfully before? Not sure what you mean by the newsletter comment, wrestling does not equal WWE.
Yeah I think this is the part that dissapoint me the most in all this.
Dan to be a Vince puppet is par for the course and expected at this point... The rest of the staff signing off on it tho...
We're back to what I was saying earlier about having one of your employee tarnishing the company reputation in public... At some point Jeff will have to play his boss role and sit Dan the fuck down to have a talk...
This is some bullshit. So if you didn't have any issues from the start (maybe because you didn't know??) means you're not allowed to change your mind? foh with this false equivalence of "your post might as well be Dan's newsletter". This post is just one tiny step removed from complaining about outrage culture or PC police.
should've been born woke brehs!!!
No, obviously not. I am suggesting that longtime WWE fans don't have much of a leg to stand on in terms of aggressively going after current WWE fans or even wrestling fans talking about WWE.
Honestly the best way to get criticism on this issue actually acknowledge would be to reach out to Jeff on tumblr, it seems to be the most consistent way to get a reply out of him.
Honestly I feel like the other Beasters have already given up on Dan, but sad nontheless. So I hope Jeff steps in and has a real talk with Dan. I wonder how such talk might look like - can't imagine having a serious discussion with Dan about politics and ethics.
Wrestling had a reputation for being shitty and trashy for decades, and it's a reputation people looked past because they were enjoying what they were seeing. Dan is like most of them with trying to ignore that shit.
Remember All Systems Goku
That was good Dan content.
(Thought he brought up wrestling and Vince occasionally...)
That was good Dan content.
(Thought he brought up wrestling and Vince occasionally...)
If you ignore ignorance it just starts to get worse.
Dan's reckoning with Mr. Popo to be featured in the next newsletter.
the site needs less vince mcmahon and more vince zampella
I'm not unsubbing. But I'm expressing my disappointment and hoping they listen and don't let this shit continue unchecked. Why should I have to unsub. What a garbage post
I'm not going to let one ignorant person ruin my favorite gaming website.
I'm keeping my premium subscription.
I'm keeping my premium subscription.
You mean like it's changed the other times they've mentioned WWE right? Is that the direction you're going with here?
What if they don't listen? You still gonna stay subbed?
I'm not unsubbing. Dan's voice isn't representative of GB as a whole. But it's a bummer they let this newsletter out without checking it. I get Dan is someone whose really fond of wrestling and basically grew up on the WWE brand so it might be hard for him to move on. It's especially hard for him to quit when he's already friends with talent of that company. But he needs to have much better awareness of the real terrible garbage the WWE is responsible for and needs to consider that when he talks or chooses not to talk about the WWE. I would like to see what the rest of the crew say about the newsletter if they do.
So be honest, who in here is actually unsubscribing? I've seen 1 person say they would but I haven't seen anyone else.
Let's see who's gonna walk the walk.
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