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Like bro it's a fucking toy, you would think that it's a religion the way these dingleberries talk.

Every major game company is greedy and terrible, your favorite gamer shit isn't any less mindless consumption-y than the gamer shit that you don't like.

It sucks because the whole industry is shitty and instead of acknowledging that they distract from the real problems facing the industry by squabbling about which souless company is the most souless.

The same kind of people complain when game industry workers try to unionize.

I always assume it's just children on Reddit that act like that... I hope.

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[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminder to all that popular gaming/nerd culture youtuber Nick Robinson (also Porter Robinson's brother) got fired from Polygon for being a rapist and sex pest. Imagine being such a creep that even Polygon fires you. What's crazy is I STILL see people post his videos on the bear and will completely ignore any comments calling him out for it. The rest of the thread continues like normal, like it's fine.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He was messaging women from a position of power, iirc. Was he accused of being a literal rapist?

This is the most critical article I could find and it accuses him of sexual harassment and soliciting nudes. https://www.dailydot.com/irl/nick-robinson-matt-conn-sexual-harassment-abuse/

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't find any articles on it, but I know I've seen social media posts accusing him of extreme coercion during dates, and I remember the details creeping me out hard as fuck. However, fucking with fans from a position of power is weird, but I honestly don't think it should be a total career ender. I mean isn't it a base of the entire rockstar image that Americans hold up? Not defending the action per se, more just saying that it's been considered a given for so long that I'm totally okay with people moving PAST from JUST being sex pests. Your average sex pests are widely built by behavior from the culture and people around them. Key word being past. As creepy and gross as being a sex pest is, I also know that many of the people who have sent me unsolicited dick pics IRL would never rape somebody. Maybe it's different from my experience, but many of the creepy messages I've gotten amount to somebody's inability to read the room. Obviously I don't like unsolicited "sexy" pics, but I have been able to read the conversation and see the route the brainworms took. They were still sexually harassing me, but they weren't trying. Many of these situations have had an air of vulnerability after I explain that I'm not going that direction, and I can just hope that they learned. I've gone through some horrendous sexual abuse, and have accidentally recreated small parts of my trauma, and I am fully aware of my abuse. I can't even imagine the thought process of the typical cis man who has to go through so much casual sexual abuse that they can't truly recognize it without frying their brains.

I am saying all of this to say that if I am wrong about the accusations against Nick Robinson, my original comment sucks and isn't informed. I'm gonna keep looking into this again, and if I don't find anything I'll edit my original comment. I distinctly remember reading worse about Nick, because his channel was one of my favorites back in the day. I was really hurt when I found out about the allegations because he was pretty much my hero as far as writing, editing, and subject goes. I'm gonna do this search because I'd honestly love to be able to enjoy his videos again. I don't use this term often, but he always makes objectively good videos that contribute to the community. You're the first person to actually interact with anything I've said about Nick on Hexbear, so I'm not going to just dismiss it. When people never responded to my comments about this, I figured it was because it was because people were aware and just didn't want to deal with it. It's not like this was small news or anything, he literally got fired. I'm oftentimes not bringing up anything new, rather a conversation that had been had years ago, lost to the hundreds of pages of content posted to forums daily. So yeah, I'm gonna look into this more. Maybe I'll respond to you with more, maybe I'll respond by telling you I was wrong. You have a source, so I really don't want you to take anything I've said about Nick as fact. Thank you for actually interacting with the text.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I feel like you can come back from some things by apologizing, and other things should be a scarlet letter R (for rapist) that follows you around. And I know feeling betrayed by someone you trusted, even parasocially can be just awful.

That opinion article writer that i linked seemed to think he shouldn't be forgiven yet because his apology wasn't restorative. But it's kind of hard to say from the outside whether he apologized more specifically in private.

I'm also sorry that people weren't taking your concerns about Nick seriously. I want this to be a safe space where people can be believed and listened to. There needs to be a balance between protecting people targeted by abuse and allowing for rehabilitation.