Big name publishers are paying for positive reviews by youtubers.... yet I hear more shock and hatred surrounding Zoe Quinn and her FREE game.

"Williams and Ohmwrecker, however, argue that these deals are also becoming a necessary part of the job due to the increasing difficulty of making money by way of ad revenue or any other means."

It's the same ethics problem
* the companies are being unethical by buying positive commentary and influence on consumers (a.k.a you're being lied to)
* YouTubers are being unethical by receiving money to modify their honest opinion (a.k.a You're being lied on, again)
If your indignation really arise because of lack of…

Nice way to rationalize it
it's the same damn ethics problem. If you are concerned about ethics you shpuld be concerned about this too. They are lying to people any way
Except they weren't really concerned about ethics lol

*sits and waits for those angry, angry warriors of "ethics in game journalism" to appear with the same rage they did with the whole Zoe Quinn issue*

You mean the people who have spent the last month calling Zoe Quinn a whore and making death threats against her have been accused of attacking women? Why, that's just absurd!

Questionable ethics in games coverage? I'm sure #gamergate will get to the bottom of this and sort everything out.

It's not the fact they're advertising for games, it's mainly the fact their viewers are unaware of the fact it's a paid advertisement due to the fact they generally hide this somewhere obscure.

Er, anyone shopping in Harrods is one of the povs. If you're rich, they bring it to you.

Sam Pepper is a bit of a joke in the UK - a failed Big Brother contestant who tried to become a panel show personality. Not very popular at all. Though now with such exposure of his dark side, i suspect there will be more in the way of criticism. I truly hope so anyway.

Sure, this fanfic sucks. But look at the bright side: The eventual slash fic that comes out of her creation is going to be delicious....

I think that the reason people like that pick gay men as targets for their hatred is because those people are cowards and they think that gay men are weaker, won't fight back, and won't have community support if the attack is reported. It's the same reason people bully women, racial minorities, and sexual minorities.…

As Swansea's most notable openly gay native son, I hope Russell T. Davies - who brought back Doctor Who - reaches out to him. How horrible.

Precisely—and you know they're (the MRA neckbeard fedora brigade) gonna cling onto this statement like, "OH NOES, PERSECUTION"

This is like, every discussion of a man hitting a woman on Reddit. "OH SO IF A WOMAN IS RUNNING AT A GUY WITH A KNIFE IN EACH HAND HE'S JUST SUPPOSED TO LET HIMSELF BE STABBED?" "WELL WHAT IF THE WOMAN IS A SIX FOOT TALL PRO ATHLETE AND THE MAN IS A SKINNY 5'3 GUY, THEN CAN HE HIT HER?"

I think Joe deserves the props because prevention of domestic violence has been a plank in his platform for 20+ years. I mean, were he just saying "oh, yes, that's terrible, he shouldn't have hit her, no no," it'd be one thing, but Uncle Joe backs it up with an actual track record of trying to change things. And for…

More likely "BUT WOMEN CAN RAISE A HAND TO MEN?! #MISANDRY!"

No man has a right to raise a hand to a woman.

Right there with you. That and, "but why does she always go back."

I've cast Joe Biden as the loveable, sage, yet occasionally bumbling cat-daddy uncle in my life. Like you want to get married just to hear the epic toast he'll deliver at your reception. Like he gave you money behind your parents' backs so you could have a good time. Like he drives a convertible on his way to VP-smash…