Screw this article. Screw the Fader article.

Man. I will tell you what.

Hate to be one of those folks who has actually collaborated with Fantano within the past week on a review and has had somewhat regular conversations with him, but that Fader piece was a total hack piece and borderline libelous to boot, deliberately stripping out context because Fantano has taken aim at some of their…

As a follower of Fantano’s for years. I’m just going to have to point out how much of a reach this article is. To cite one video and two podcasts from a body of work including close to one thousand videos, it can be quite easy to cherry pick a few key problematic moments to build a reactionary article off of. The…

Firstly, Fantano is about the least racist person you can find: he’s made a whole (serious) video about why he doesn’t use the n-word and even his wife is black.

This article is a definite hitpiece, Fantano has never aligned with the alt-right, and the “meme reviews” were definitely just catering to the popular memes on Twitter of the week. Any stances he took that would be considered “alt-right”, in the context of the actual videos, are blatantly satirical, and the article…

It’s not too hard to understand the satiric tone of those thatistheplan videos. Fantano is a critic who spends a lot of time reading shit on the internet. When he picks on SJWs, it’s only because they tend to think in dogmatic cliches (his real target).

This is a garbage hitpiece. I thought the AV Club had better editing/research standards than this.

I don’t know... thisistheplan was terrible, but that article, and specially this headline, feels like an overreach.

Yeah, this is pretty much just a case of “change the variable in a few places, do a bit of testing, done”. Moderation is a complex interlocking of technology, mass- and individual-psychology, and scaling (which for a company which continues to hemorrhage money isn’t a trivial issue).

They also reviewed Adventure Time, those bastards.

That’s a touching tribute. Now come on, Nintendo, we know you got a working NES emulator for the Switch now, so make with the virtual console, and don’t make us buy the same damn games over again.

This is kind of touching

The A.V Club has been around for quite some time, at avclub.com, but was only recently brought over to live under the same Gawker umbrella as Kotaku. If you peel open that A.V. Club vertical at the top of the page and click through to the Games section, you’ll notice that this site has been covering games for years. …

How exactly does this have a “crust punk aesthetic”?

I thought the “sincere” comment was a little odd, too. As if we should assume that any show of respect and public support is wrapped in three layers of irony by default.

the DSA’s support of the Juggalos does seem to be sincere,

It’s even worse. Due to space requirements they had to remove the object permanence chip, so it actually stops existing when you blink.

With all the visionary 1960s sci-fi out there, who knew Danger: Diabolik was going to be the most prescient film of its time?

She can Pokémon go fuck herself.