VOAT Containment Megathread of Trash People for Trash People

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/danryckert/status/63387237219434496?lang=en

This is from 2011, his twitter photo is him grubbing on Taco Bell.
 

https://twitter.com/danryckert/status/293506428319174656?lang=en

'13 

What the fuck is this?

"My doctor told me I'm going to get diabetes LOL. no but seriously fuck him these airheads are delicious"

Dave Lang: "we hope that by you vocalizing adult things it will be like a pattern ingraining thing"
Dan Rykert: "like, i have met numerous adults"

[benjipwns]

Q. Your date likes Mexican food, where do you take her?

1. Ask friends for recommendations of great places in the Mission.

2. Make tacos at home, it's way cheaper.

3. There's a Taco Bell nearby. Taco Bell is great.

[benjipwns]

[benjipwns]

  at the first eight minutes

now official megathread of Dan Rykert videos

TheKingofWinter073 years ago
Goodness gracious, that was painful to watch.

He didn't even stopped to read what his abilities did.

I would've reported him to be hones lol

Eduard B.3 years ago
As a moba player, this hurt to watch. I play Dota instead of League, but this was so incredibly painful to watch him just single-handedly lose the game

Amfibios1 year ago
this guy must be braindead, i'd expect more from someone claiming that he knows about strategy games.

Allen Lendzion7 months ago
The only thing that confuses me about this video... Ryckert.... has he played any game ever? Because he was oblivious to classic video gaming tropes. Don't stand in stupid stuff, don't do the same thing multiple times, alot of the concepts are everywhere and he was oblivious to everything.  I would have expected gameplay like this if someone like, my mother were playing but not someone that works for a leading video game publication.

Direfulpot3 years ago (edited)
This is a shining example of the idiocy that is Dan Ryckert. He blabbers about things that he knows nothing about, failing along the way, while being coolly criticized by his coworkers. I'm glad they didn't let him hear them so he couldn't interrupt their splendid commentary of every fault he made and stupid thing he said. 

edit: one of the related videos is Dan's first return to GI after being at Giant Bomb (for Sonic 2006 replay video) and they're bleeping him over and over like a minute into it and somebody says "Dan you curse now?!?" like what

never even thought about how much Jeff (and Ryan) curses before the Game Informer guys freaked out and how much they're bleeping Dan, it's usually so organic, Jeff can do a quality precision f-bomb like Penn

"I learned it from Jeff Dad at Giant Bomb"

[zepblackstar]

so polygon "suspended" Nick Robinson pending investigation

on one hand, the fact you can just spread twitter allegations on people to get results is scary.

OTOH, given its polygon, they need their cred  intact with that crowd.


I get the feeling that entire video blogging industry is full of people male/female who are creeps in private

[fistfulofmetal]

so polygon "suspended" Nick Robinson pending investigation

on one hand, the fact you can just spread twitter allegations on people to get results is scary.

OTOH, given its polygon, they need their cred  intact with that crowd.


I get the feeling that entire video blogging industry is full of people male/female who are creeps in private

suspending someone seems like the right move - at least he's not fired. if nothing comes from it they are free to bring him back.

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=245433666&postcount=7

The best No Man's Sky ARG was in the lead up to release, where if you scanned over trailers, interviews, and other appearances you could uncover that the game was going to be bad.

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=245437932&postcount=952



this dude is still stanning for ffxv

[zepblackstar]

so polygon "suspended" Nick Robinson pending investigation

on one hand, the fact you can just spread twitter allegations on people to get results is scary.

OTOH, given its polygon, they need their cred  intact with that crowd.


I get the feeling that entire video blogging industry is full of people male/female who are creeps in private

suspending someone seems like the right move - at least he's not fired. if nothing comes from it they are free to bring him back.

Doubt it, even if they legit don't find anything and see its a witchhunt. Bringing him back will make the listen/believe crowd angry and stain the entire site.

[etiolate]

As much as I'd love to shit on polygon, doing all of this over twitter rumors is a bad road to take.

[venereology]

don't worry, he'll be on patreon making 40k a month before we know it

[Momo]

oh hey some guy from polygon is allegedly a douche bag? I'm not (allegedly) surprised motherfuckers.

[Raist]

Now I'm starting to garner interest. (Image removed from quote.)

unfortunately it's very boring. i was in a group called streamfriends and it was a good group of folks including austin walker and the people from his RP podcast, as well as some others. in early 2015 austin emailed the group to let everyone know that someone in the chat had reported getting unsolicited nudes from one of the streamers. the reaction of austin and the group was that the best solution to this would be to write something in a "best practices" guide so that if it happened again, we could get rid of the offender.

i found this unacceptable and said that the offender should be revealed (if not publicly, then at least to the group) and quit. but that was deemed as something that wasn't going to happen and everyone else agreed with him, so i quit the group in disgust. still don't know who it was, just that the instant response was that this should all be covered up and swept under the rug and never mentioned again. and yes i have emails to prove all this, but again it's not very interesting stuff. just something that got me pissed.

https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/893649890772828160


His whole manthread is hilarious.

[WanderingWind]

Okay, so if this Robinson dude is a creeper, fire him. No need to keep trash people on the payroll. But I just dug through all the tweets and I see on person claiming he slides into women's DMs, then a lot of people saying "oh yeah, powerful people do it all the time" without saying he specifically did it to them. Then a lot of outrage.

Am I missing the evidence here? Is there a tweet chain I overlooked? Cause right now I see one out-of-left field accusation and nothing backing it up.

[zepblackstar]

Now I'm starting to garner interest. (Image removed from quote.)

unfortunately it's very boring. i was in a group called streamfriends and it was a good group of folks including austin walker and the people from his RP podcast, as well as some others. in early 2015 austin emailed the group to let everyone know that someone in the chat had reported getting unsolicited nudes from one of the streamers. the reaction of austin and the group was that the best solution to this would be to write something in a "best practices" guide so that if it happened again, we could get rid of the offender.

i found this unacceptable and said that the offender should be revealed (if not publicly, then at least to the group) and quit. but that was deemed as something that wasn't going to happen and everyone else agreed with him, so i quit the group in disgust. still don't know who it was, just that the instant response was that this should all be covered up and swept under the rug and never mentioned again. and yes i have emails to prove all this, but again it's not very interesting stuff. just something that got me pissed.

https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/893649890772828160


His whole manthread is hilarious.

A lot of these fuckers gonna get got because they all in various ways pull the same shit.

[tiesto]

I don't know who Nick Robinson is beyond a couple of his tweets, but RIP that guy's career I guess.

I never heard of this guy today, but then I learned his brother is the legendary electronic music producer Porter Robinson.

[fistfulofmetal]

I have some mixed feelings about this whole situation in relation to nachobro's post and Austin's tweets. On the surface there's like, a lot of hypocrisy there. But then again I don't know the full story about what went down 2+ years ago. Don't know exactly what was claimed whoever in the group did, don't necessarily why they decided to go the route they did. Also they could in retrospect realize it was a bad idea. A lot has changed in 2 years in how we react to these type of things. Given the same scenario now they likely wouldn't have made the same choice. Regardless, it doesn't mean what he said in reaction to Polygon's actions are any less valid.

[Huff]

Omg who cares you losers

[nudemacusers]

Playing video games

Paying attention to videogame "journalism"

Following these dweebs on social media

[Boredfrom]

I have some mixed feelings about this whole situation in relation to nachobro's post and Austin's tweets. On the surface there's like, a lot of hypocrisy there. But then again I don't know the full story about what went down 2+ years ago. Don't know exactly what was claimed whoever in the group did, don't necessarily why they decided to go the route they did. Also they could in retrospect realize it was a bad idea. A lot has changed in 2 years in how we react to these type of things. Given the same scenario now they likely wouldn't have made the same choice. Regardless, it doesn't mean what he said in reaction to Polygon's actions are any less valid.

We may never now how their actions or inactions changed them because they covered the problem and they don't seem concerned in sharing it anytime if Austin's tweets are anything to go by. I agree that is tangential to the polygon's dude being a creeper but doesn't make better the tweets were Austin acts high and mighty.

[headwalk]

everyone on twitter is a wanker.

everyone who has written a multi-part twitter parchment rant is an ultra mega wanker.

[railGUN]

48 fucking pages though? 

[zepblackstar]

48 fucking pages though? 

for your virtue signal to raise above the rest to be a true "soft boy", you must post often

[Himu]

Was confused by the Nick Robinson thing even after reading the gaf OT.

Found this by googling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MBMBAM/comments/6rncqz/whats_the_deal_with_these_nick_robinson_sexual/

[FStop7]

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=245468008

  Tom about to get othered by the herd.

[Himu]

They actually banned Taco-chan for bringing up Amirox and neogaf's hypocrisy. That site is disgusting.

[Takao]

I just got permanently banned:


What provoked this? http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=245467513&postcount=2373



I think I maybe had three or four bans (all video game related) total prior to this? The last one was years ago. If I knew they were going to cull me for even bringing that up I'd have gone out a little less passive aggressively.

Now I'm in the same position as other permanently banned NeoGAF members, like Dennis and arrested pedophile Amir0x.

[Himu]

Polygon is this huge now? I only read them for their game retrospectives. Other than that, I dismissed them when they rode MS dick hard when Xbox One was going to have online only and shit. Is the site good? Why is it so popular?

[thisismyusername]

Pffft. You knew you were gonna get perm'd for that. 'Lore circles the wagons for him and Ami. You'd think Ami would have dirt (read: given him child porn) given how much 'Lore easily bans for anything like that.

[Himu]

I'm convinced Ami has dirt on Evi and although I know it's bad to point fingers and give accusations towards pedophilia but Evi looks mad suspect and especially since Ami stayed at Evi's house. Given how much there is a gag order on the Ami thing, and the Ami thing in general, I wouldn't be shocked.

Is Evi the ring leader of the neogaf pedo ring?

[Himu]

Evi is prolly doing all this because Ami has dirt and could snitch on EviLore. EviLore is probably scared to go out Jared style.

[Raist]

I doubt pedor0x has dirt on EL. Remember, EL didn't even know his real name.

[Takao]

Pffft. You knew you were gonna get perm'd for that. 'Lore circles the wagons for him and Ami. You'd think Ami would have dirt (read: given him child porn) given how much 'Lore easily bans for anything like that.

I saw a few Amir0x name drops in that thread, so I figured the worst I'd get was a month's ban. 

Oh well, now I can tell people they permanently banned a 10-year old account for mocking a pedophile. A pedophile who happened to be a moderator on the site when a very underage me joined it.

[Raist]

Shut up Duf

[Himu]

why the fuck is everyone using their own nickname for evilore

'Lore? Evi? EL? just say evilore or tyler you dopes

His username is techncially EviLore. Is it "evil ore" or evi lore" I don't fucking know. So Evi it is.

[agrajag]

why the fuck is everyone using their own nickname for evilore

'Lore? Evi? EL? just say evilore or tyler you dopes

For real. Evi and Ami, what a cute little endearing duo.

[Rufus]

I'm convinced Ami has dirt on Evi

He is the dirt on EvilLore.

[Takao]

his brother is the legendary electronic music producer Porter Robinson.

Is that true? My GAF avatar for the last few years was from one his music videos. Funny coincidence.

[counterhit]

When did wanting to wait for evidence become such a shitty thing to do? I get that harassment cases can hardly have any concrete proof but what's wrong with the stance itself? Not everybody is saying women are maniacal misandrists and I already forget his name is innocent, just that a witchhunt ain't exactly the best reaction from the jump.

More than that, what Robinson actually did (and to who) is completely vague. The scale and depth of this seems up to your imagination, you can make him out to be another Jimmy Savile if you want (though the fact some of the people saying they had heard stories remained friendly with him as recently of the goofy Krystal tweet sort of sets the bottom for it). My understanding may be outdated or incomplete at this point, but the conversation seems to be centered exclusively around people bringing up stories they heard from friends, without telling those stories, and those moving straight to making a talking point about it, like Walker (hypocritically?). There's pretty much no evidence of not only the "crime" itself, but what that crime even is exactly, which I find a little hard to accept without doubts. I want to say this isn't the first time people were told to "believe women!" (and condemn this person) without hearing any details whatsoever, it's kind of a concerning trend to then shame people who are questioning or confused by it. "Sliding into DMs" leaves a pretty exact paper trail and doesn't need to feature your identity after one min of mspaint, but failing that, just quote him or give a summary of those stories. The whole thing does seem concerning from the "internet mob" perspective.

[nudemacusers]

why the fuck is everyone using their own nickname for evilore

'Lore? Evi? EL? just say evilore or tyler you dopes

Duffie ur so tsundere 

[Himu]

Apparently dude used his power to coerce women who want to get into the industry by asking for nudes, some he knew to be underaged.

Why this isn't being articulated and is being made under the pretense of safety makes no sense to me. Surely someone, such as the guy who made the original tweet can give some information. But apparently you're a bad person for wanting such information. I mean, the victims have my support, but the fact people are supposed to go along with it even without anything other than people dog piling him is....odd. But completely in line with authoritarian SSW behavior.

Like if someone is accused of rape, we know what that entails. But the stuff aimed at Robinson is pretty vague beyond "he's a creep" and the only thing we have to go on are tweets throwing him under the bus going,"HE DID IT." Did what? "Don't ask that, stop defending him!"

[Himu]

When did wanting to wait for evidence become such a shitty thing to do? I get that harassment cases can hardly have any concrete proof but what's wrong with the stance itself? Not everybody is saying women are maniacal misandrists and I already forget his name is innocent, just that a witchhunt ain't exactly the best reaction from the jump.

More than that, what Robinson actually did (and to who) is completely vague. The scale and depth of this seems up to your imagination, you can make him out to be another Jimmy Savile if you want (though the fact some of the people saying they had heard stories remained friendly with him as recently of the goofy Krystal tweet sort of sets the bottom for it). My understanding may be outdated or incomplete at this point, but the conversation seems to be centered exclusively around people bringing up stories they heard from friends, without telling those stories, and those moving straight to making a talking point about it, like Walker (hypocritically?). There's pretty much no evidence of not only the "crime" itself, but what that crime even is exactly, which I find a little hard to accept without doubts. I want to say this isn't the first time people were told to "believe women!" (and condemn this person) without hearing any details whatsoever, it's kind of a concerning trend to then shame people who are questioning or confused by it. "Sliding into DMs" leaves a pretty exact paper trail and doesn't need to feature your identity after one min of mspaint, but failing that, just quote him or give a summary of those stories. The whole thing does seem concerning from the "internet mob" perspective.

They are arguing for safety. Okay. Why not release the stuff anonymously? Lots of question marks on this thing. The fact it was an open secret and people just let it slide doesn't really do much to make me feel any better about the games industry either.

[Rufus]

The most convincing reason I've seen cited for the secrecy is because press is a tiny and incestuous industry. They can't afford to rock the boat unless they can be sure it's not going to blow up in their face or go nowhere because it starts and stops at "he said she said." The vague approach they've taken instead is obviously not ideal either.

[Himu]

Well, what they're doing gives zero credence or trust in the SSW press. Comparing it to Bill Cosby for instance, is laughable. Cosby had clear allegations aimed at him from day one. Dude raped women with cocktail drugs. Simple and enough for people to want to disassociate themselves from. Here, all we've got is he slid into chicks dm's. What he did in the dm's we aren't allowed to know but should trust them 100%. That's not how it works. You gain trust by giving evidence of at least allegations. But with this we're supposed to trust the accusations entirely and completely despite no idea what the allegations even are. But the SSWs want to be taken seriously.

Another point of contention is that if this will result in blowback against the press because Nick Robinson abused his power for favors, if this implicates others in the game press all that does is question why they are so gung bo about calling him out if they - reportedly - already knew and tolerated such behavior.

In the end, this just makes me trust the game press less. Is that their goal?

I don't see the GB crew going on about this. One more for Giant Bomb, one less for that fruitcake SSW Austin Walker.

[fistfulofmetal]

this discussion is embarrassing. there's a story about a dude harassing women online and we've somewhere twisted the discussion into how awful social justice warriors are. bunch of fucking idiots on this board.

[counterhit]

From the GAF thread, someone posted a screenshot of Nick "The Player" Robinson flirting/harassing. He does comes off as a creep to some degree in how he steers the conversation towards sex. Not anonymous.

https://twitter.com/souIspear/status/893855282245361665

Without screenshots, but apparently it gets more direct at some point:

https://twitter.com/souIspear/status/893861081315250176
https://twitter.com/souIspear/status/893869982219735040

Also some background information (snapchat might be a good explanation why there was so little evidence?)

https://twitter.com/souIspear/status/893850710068125696

I hope I'm not misrepresenting her, but it seems she isn't coming forward as a "victim" and is mainly providing proof he "goes after" fans.

This is kind of boring tbh, but I ended up getting a little invested because how frustrating to read that GAF thread is.

[Vertigo]

I hope that isn't the extent of his 'creepiness' or a lot of guys are going to be getting internet hemmed up.

Seems like a overly thirsty guy trying desperately to get any nude action. He is an absolutely terrible flirt though.

[fistfulofmetal]

I hope that isn't the extent of his 'creepiness' or a lot of guys are going to be getting internet hemmed up.

Seems like a thirsty guy trying desperately to get any nude action. He is an absolutely terrible flirt though.

There's a difference when he's constantly doing it to literally any chick that follows him and is using his "influence" to get in. Which is what it seems to be the case.

[Vertigo]

I hope that isn't the extent of his 'creepiness' or a lot of guys are going to be getting internet hemmed up.

Seems like a thirsty guy trying desperately to get any nude action. He is an absolutely terrible flirt though.

There's a difference when he's constantly doing it to literally any chick that follows him and is using his "influence" to get in. Which is what it seems to be the case.

True. That is fucking sad and utterly pathetic on his part. He should have been slapped down earlier though if this was an open secret between these game writers.

EDIT: Although this even more fucked up if they knew he was allegedly chatting to younger fans as well.

[Himu]

From the GAF thread, someone posted a screenshot of Nick "The Player" Robinson flirting/harassing. He does comes off as a creep to some degree in how he steers the conversation towards sex. Not anonymous.

https://twitter.com/souIspear/status/893855282245361665

Without screenshots, but apparently it gets more direct at some point:

https://twitter.com/souIspear/status/893861081315250176
https://twitter.com/souIspear/status/893869982219735040

Also some background information (snapchat might be a good explanation why there was so little evidence?)

https://twitter.com/souIspear/status/893850710068125696

I hope I'm not misrepresenting her, but it seems she isn't coming forward as a "victim" and is mainly providing proof he "goes after" fans.

This is kind of boring tbh, but I ended up getting a little invested because how frustrating to read that GAF thread is.

That's pretty creepy. Is that it though? I mean, he's like a regular thirsty dude. I've seen and received worse. The only reason this is news is because the dude is known and works for Polygon. Is that really it? Also, in that convo in the first tweet she doesn't really seem to be telling him flat out no. In fact looks like she played along with it.

Either way, if the guy was asking for blowjobs that's pretty fucked up if it wasn't consensual and Polygon was right to suspend him. If it's true he did this to a girl who was underaged though? SMH.

Real talk though, that tweet was regular ass dude behavior. Why he didn't think to just go with Tinder, I don't know.

[zomgee]

that looks like half the posts in the dating thread here

[Nabbis]

Im not keen on Gaf like outrage over these things, but i would hardly call that normal dude behavior either. Par on course for a gaming "journalist" though.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Now I'm in the same position as other permanently banned NeoGAF members, like Dennis and arrested pedophile Amir0x.

Who is a pedophile and who is Amir0x?  I don't know why you keep making accusations that there's a pedophile problem at NeoGAF?  I'm triggered.  Mods?  MODS?!

[Himu]

Normal in the sense that it's common. It's mostly only from dudes who are thirsty and think with their dicks. Another thing is that he probably did this because it got him laid before. It probably worked before, so he probably kept doing it.

[nachobro]

wait underaged? now that's whole different thing. but the real question: does he have a gaf account? (unlike banned pedophile/former moderator amirox and dennis)

[Himu]

wait underaged? now that's whole different thing. but the real question: does he have a gaf account? (unlike banned pedophile/former moderator amirox and dennis)

all I heard about under aged is from that Reddit thread I linked last page. I have seen nothing to confirm it.

[Himu]

Normal in the sense that it's common. It's mostly only from dudes who are thirsty and think with their dicks. Another thing is that he probably did this because it got him laid before. It probably worked before, so he probably kept doing it.

Yeah but it's implied he did the same thing towards coworkers and workers below him, and kept doing so, which would make it sexual harassment. I assume when they say "influence and power" they mean their boss, and if he has fans them coming forward could lead to them getting doxxed. Hell, he wouldn't even need fans, GG dudes would just do it anyway and twist the narrative to them sleeping with him to get ahead.

So i can understand why a couple wouldn't come forward if it truly was an "open secret" at that point.

Well, the facts are all over the fucking place and I've never heard him doing this to co-workers until now. When they say influence and power I thought they meant people trying to get into the industry.

This is why this entire thing is fucked up beyond his actual behavior of course. We only have our imaginations to go on but we're supposed to be mad. Again, it doesn't work that way.

[Himu]

I'm pretty sure it was about him creeping on women in the industry from the start.

Oh, so it's women within the industry?

[Boredfrom]

I'm pretty sure it was about him creeping on women in the industry from the start.

He took pot shots to the Undercooked game and a dev dropped the harassment claim. That it was needed that he shot on a game to people to (half assed it) speak up is also shitty. There no real martyrs here.

[Himu]

Okay so, if this was known why was it allowed?

And why are we supposed to take the game media seriously if this was known and allowed?

Why should we take up the SSW flag if this was known by SSW game journos and it took a game dev to reveal it for people to get on his ass?

Surely they can see they are complicit?