River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[thisismyusername]

What did Hannibal actually do? Kick people out to make air BNBs or turned apartments into air bnbs when leases were up?

https://twitter.com/hannibalburess/status/1189592269852172288

 

https://twitter.com/DannyVegito/status/1189601801567440902

Fucking LMAO.

[zepblackstar]

Looks like deadspin bloggers are all quitting in mass.

get ready for those patreon plugs

[Boredfrom]

What did Hannibal actually do? Kick people out to make air BNBs or turned apartments into air bnbs when leases were up?

https://twitter.com/hannibalburess/status/1189592269852172288

 

Anyone think it’s weird that an established comedian is a landlord on the side? If he wanted to get into real estate, you’d think he’d have someone who handles that stuff for him.

He is not exactly dirty rich. The RE thread mentioned he was not even sure if was going able to be a comedian for all his life.

[clothedmacuser]

He single handedly gave a face for the #metoo movement.  He deserves high schools named after him.

[Don Rumata]

He single handedly gave a face for the #metoo movement.  He deserves high schools named after him.

What irony.
The man who brought down Bill Cosby was he himself rotten to the core (for owning property). 

[clothedmacuser]

 


I think when I would throw beer cans at Bill O'rielly on the TV I made more sense than Excel does when she tries to argue.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

He is not exactly dirty rich. The RE thread mentioned he was not even sure if was going able to be a comedian for all his life.

yeah, but most of era seem to think there are two levels of richness;

• Borderline poverty that they're in, because they can't afford HBOMax AND Disney+, they can only get Ubereats 4 nights a week, only watch MCU new reelases 4 or 5 times at the cinema the day it comes out, can't afford a PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One AND Xbox One X on top of their Switch and Switch Mini, and don't have a house big enough to house all their animu love pillows and vidya tchotchkes in their own dedicated incel gallery
• Filthy 1% boomers lighting cigars with the amazonian rainforest they bought from the n-word store

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Imagine rallying against hannibal fucking buress for diversifying his assets.

Like holy shit

[I'm a Puppy!]

Ok, can someone give me a sum up on the Kotaku thing?
All I know is that Reset's lord and savior decided to bite the hand that feeds him and then was surprised that it didn't go well?

can someone give me the summary as I don't wanna read umpteen pages from people that don't know how the world works.

Yuka in advance for thanks.

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[thetylerrob]

The landlord plague is even affecting the bire now, no wonder that comradexxx are fleeing this site in droves

[Nintex]

Ok, can someone give me a sum up on the Kotaku thing?
All I know is that Reset's lord and savior decided to bite the hand that feeds him and then was surprised that it didn't go well?

can someone give me the summary as I don't wanna read umpteen pages from people that don't know how the world works.

Yuka in advance for thanks.

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From what I gathered they wrote an article complaining about their own shitty autoplay ads and how to contact management to complain
The boss didn't like that so he removed it. And now they're acting like they are the French resistance in WW2.

Some other site in that network also got into a pinch. A sports site which told their writers to cut the woke bullcrap and write about sports instead.
However, an employer can no longer ask his staff to do the thing they are hired to do. Because reasons.

The clickbait journo's sort of got hit by a bus called reality.

[zepblackstar]

rumor is Kotaku senior staff got house cleaned.

https://twitter.com/jonbernhardt/status/1189700482320805888

[Nintex]

These cretins don't understand that editorial oversight isn't uncommon.
If you want a free reign you have to set up your own company and outlet. Until then the owners can decide what sort of content they want.

Sure, it's better if they listen to the staff (more motivated, better workplace) but looking at their behavior on ResetEra there's no use in arguing with those people.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1189668169469837315

[Snoopycat_]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/when-should-you-stop-bathing-with-your-kids.150266/

Yikes

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/FacianeA/status/1189418373920235520

[Stro]

FULL STOP

[Boredfrom]

https://twitter.com/FacianeA/status/1189418373920235520

I don’t want to sound like Nintex but: This rich people are their fucking bosses, their bosses were scummy rich people since their Gawker days and most of their new bosses will most probably be rich people.

[shosta]

I don't really care about Kotaku because videogames are for children but Deadspin was a good site. RIP.

[Boredfrom]

The entire point isn’t that sports are inherently political, it’s that rich assholes only have a problem with sports becoming a political cudgel when it’s used against them or things they like. Notice none of those trust fund babies or their mongoloids sycophants in their MAGA hats have any problem teeing off on the NBA over the China stuff.

Isn’t mongoloids problematic slang? 

[shosta]

I don’t want to sound like Nintex but: This rich people are their fucking bosses, their bosses were scummy rich people since their Gawker days and most of their new bosses will most probably be rich people.

This is bullshit. Gawker Media went under because of Hulk Hogan, and then a private equity firm came in to run its pieces right into the ground. The new owners are the problem. They don't respect what makes its staff special.

[BisMarckie]

I don't really care about Kotaku because videogames are for children but Deadspin was a good site. RIP.

Deadspin stoped being good and funny in like 2012

[Boredfrom]

I don’t want to sound like Nintex but: This rich people are their fucking bosses, their bosses were scummy rich people since their Gawker days and most of their new bosses will most probably be rich people.

This is bullshit. Gawker Media went under because of Hulk Hogan, and then a private equity firm came in to run its pieces right into the ground. The new owners are the problem. They don't respect what makes its staff special.

 

How that contradicts that “their bosses were scummy rich people since Gawker”?

[shosta]

I interpreted that to mean their owners at Gawker were bad, too. I mean they were, but at least they cultivated a decent staff.

[shosta]

this is the second night in a row that we have beef. you and I are enemies now

[Boredfrom]

I interpreted that to mean their owners at Gawker were bad, too. I mean they were, but at least they cultivated a decent staff.

 

That last part is debatable.

[shosta]

Rereading some of the best Gawker articles

https://gawker.com/what-are-the-odds-these-new-media-brands-will-survive-1619650304

15) Gawker Media

A tax shelter for a Hungarian businessman, run as a network of second-tier gossip blogs with no gossip and very little actual blogging. Stagnant traffic but still beating all competitors in unearned self-regard and smugness. Best-case scenario is everything except Lifehacker gets sold off. More likely: Kinja actually works and the sites become a kind of liberal-arts Reddit, only a quarter as big and an eighth as interesting. Everyone says io9 is good but we're not sure anyone reads it.

Odds: Til our next paycheck.

[Tripon]

I liked deadspin too, but eh.

Edit: Top of page Yuka.

Fuck that, top of page Asuka and Kairi.

[shosta]

This thread is the gawker of video game forums 

and by that I mean constantly at risk of a devastating lawsuit

[BisMarckie]

This thread is the gawker of video game forums 

and by that I mean constantly at risk of a devastating lawsuit

Rahx posted his sextape himself

[marrec]

I don't really care about Kotaku because videogames are for children but Deadspin was a good site. RIP.

Deadspin stoped being good and funny in like 2012

this is just incorrect

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1189720275807592448


Deadspingate.

[Lonewulfeus]

This thread is the gawker of video game forums 

and by that I mean constantly at risk of a devastating lawsuit

Rahx posted his sextape himself

Links!!!!

I’m running out of material on rahx since I never leave this thread

[Lonewulfeus]

I don't really care about Kotaku because videogames are for children but Deadspin was a good site. RIP.

Deadspin stoped being good and funny in like 2012

+1

[EightBitNate]

Imagine getting news from an actual blog and not just using Reddit in 2019

[daycru]

Who will stick it to the Big Wet Cheeto in Chief?!?

[Lonewulfeus]

Imagine getting news from an actual blog and not just using Reddit in 2019

Imagine not getting your news from the largest video game forum as measured by traffic in 2019

[EightBitNate]

Imagine getting news from an actual blog and not just using Reddit in 2019

Imagine not getting your news from the fifth largest referrer to Elizabeth Warren’s campaign website.

FTFY

[marrec]

imagine getting news

[Lonewulfeus]

imagine getting news

Imagine thinking diablo 3 is better than diablo 2!

[Potato]

Imagine all the people...

[Transhuman]

“Today, a number of our colleagues at Deadspin resigned from their positions,” the statement read. “From the outset, [G/O Media CEO] Jim Spanfeller has worked to undermine a successful site by curtailing its most well-read coverage because it makes him personally uncomfortable. This is not what journalism looks like and it is not what editorial independence looks like.

“‘Stick to sports’ is and always has been a thinly veiled euphemism for ‘don’t speak truth to power.’ In addition to being bad business, Spanfeller’s actions are morally reprehensible. The GMG Union stands with our current and former Deadspin colleagues and condemns Jim Spanfeller in the strongest possible terms.”

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/this-guy-truly-has-no-idea-what-hes-talking-about-1838500602

I get it now.

[Tektonic]

"stick to sports" is bad? wasn't deadspin's popularity built on being a sports website?

i mean, wikipedia says "Deadspin is a sports news and blog website". but "stick to sports" is the new "gate"?

edit: here is some more https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584 - seems like sticking to sports is really hard for sports journalists. "stop vilifying journalists" etc

[marrec]

imagine getting news

Imagine thinking diablo 3 is better than diablo 2!

I don't have to imagine being on the right side of history

edit:

Deadspin built it's reputation on really good editorial content that was sports adjacent.

[zepblackstar]

its all these furry posts that pop up

This thread is the gawker of video game forums 

and by that I mean constantly at risk of a devastating lawsuit

[EightBitNate]

Reminder that none of those sites are actually any good:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/jury-sides-with-hulk-hogan-in-his-sex-tape-lawsuit-against-gawker-awards-him-115m.1198505/page-27#post-213621681

[clothedmacuser]

Haha, I liked Deadspin because they would "stick to sports" but report on them in a clearly liberal way.  I hated everything else from Gawker media.


I even took a principled stand against them when they outed Shep Smith as gay in the most vag-fart way possible.  Something like "Shep Smith was seen leaving Radicchio Grill with "long time friend" David and finding out his car had been booted," and made it a front page news story. 

Fuggggkeerrrr  OooooofFofff.

That's a great color in hexdec

[I'm a Puppy!]

“Oh no!” The editor said, “where ever will I find people that can write words?!!!”

[thisismyusername]

imagine getting news

Imagine thinking diablo 3 is better than diablo 2!

marrec is that true? Because if so: sksksksksksksksksksksksksksksk and I oop.

Edit: It's true. Christ, marrec. In no universe is that true, unless you're talking the REAL Diablo 3: Path of Exile, and even then...

[Potato]

“Oh no!” The editor said, “where ever will I find people that can write words?!!!”

Ability to generate listicles and regurgitate Twitter hot takes is a job description these days apparently.

[Transhuman]

“Oh no!” The editor said, “where ever will I find people that can write words?!!!”

Ability to generate listicles and regurgite Twitter hot takes is a job description these days apparently.

"social media person" I believe it's called

https://mobile.twitter.com/theisen95/status/1189651256387735552

[Potato]

“Oh no!” The editor said, “where ever will I find people that can write words?!!!”

Ability to generate listicles and regurgite Twitter hot takes is a job description these days apparently.

"social media person" I believe it's called

https://mobile.twitter.com/theisen95/status/1189651256387735552

Does any University offer a Bachelor of Outrage Generation?

[shosta]

What am I gonna read now? Buzzfeed?

[Nuitangg]

https://twitter.com/drdisrespect/status/1189731384752889857?s=19

[Potato]

Also, copying and pasting from two separate press releases does not make you an investigative journalist.

[james]

Id never heard of deadspin before yesterday.

I'm a blogger, btw, but I disabled all ads because I'm not a capitalist pig.

Viva the bernielution

[Pepinappe]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/barack-obama-twitter-activism_n_5db9292ee4b0bb1ea3716bb7

OOOOOH REEEE should cancel Obama.

[blame space]

wow breaking news

[Don Rumata]

Also, copying and pasting from two separate press releases does not make you an investigative journalist.

Depends how full of spam you email fees is. Could be quite a challenge to navigate through it.

[who is ted danson?]

the whole reason kotaku is going on strike is because EA has come back to steam and one of their VPs has basically called out epic and said storefront fragmentation/exclusivity is bad. nathan grayson just doesnt want to have to write that article after all of his shilling to the contrary about how its so good for companies.

also, remember when kotaku posted an article about CP last month?
With pictures?
And complained that the porn wasn't good enough, literally "i can't fap to this"?
remember how they "apologized" saying "whoops, don't know how this slipped past the editors, we'll do better next time"?

LOL