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I have had problems off and on, the whole app needs a rework but I can't imagine it's to much of a priority. I bet people who consume via roku are in the small minority.

I didn't think Last of Us would win because the game came out at a pretty shitty time for the Giant Bomb staff/community and I think it probably colored the experience for everyone there understandably

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Same problem, just wanted to report for solidarity. Glad to see I'm not the only one so I know it's not just me

I don't worry about you guys in this respect BECAUSE you have always been so above board with everything, but since all of this has happened, there are journalists from other sites that have pretty much had to blanket edit their past work because they had relationships with the people they were giving exposure to. That is the kind of crap I am against.

I dunno, at the end of the day, I feel like everyone is always saying not to feed the trolls. While Jeff may have the opinion that the entire movement with the exception of a few of us who are being had are trolls, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. And at the end of the day, spotlighting the horrible people only strengthens them and makes creates more of them. Hangers-on who simply want attention and want to terrorize people. TB had some excellent thoughts on how to deal with them and so had Patrick in the past, it just seems like no one is willing to do that anymore. It seems like the easiest way to marginalize a movement would be to reduce it in the same way that GG has been. I am not putting on a tin foil hat, but I think dismissal is incredible unproductive. This has been a long speed bump and I feel like the every time someone in the industry tries to reduce it to something it isn't, it just makes it longer.

@vinny you are a stud, as long as you are with GB, GB will have my sub. I appreciate your response to my questions. I would just respond that there is no sane person in the industry who would say that things could not be better if Jeff and TB had a discussion, I cannot think of saner heads prevailing than those. That isn't us vs them, that is people in legitimate positions of authority in the industry acknowledging our concerns and discussing them

@sparky_buzzsaw: trolls can co-opt anything they choose, anything that has the potential to get them attention. I have tremendous respect for the staff at GB but I had hoped they would have been able to see past the trolls and actually dive into some of the issues.

I said it before but @patrickklepek said it already so I will quote him, "we can't control what other people do on the internet... ultimately we are responsible for what we contribute to the noise. It's really easy to look at all of this and say, 'well, what can one person do?' and it's true, one person really can't make that much of a difference, but it is exactly that kind of complacency that has allowed us to get into the situation we are now where instead of engaging with one of the most powerful tools, we choose to ignore it."

I call that shit out whenever I see it in the GG movement because I don't want it to be co-opted by those tools, and yet, only a year after that speech, I feel like you aren't giving people credit for trying to do that @patrickklepek. I am not looking for a fight or a debate with you, but part of the reason this is seen as a movement of hate is because every time you and @alex and @jeff make snide remarks on twitter, paint thousands of people with the same stroke, you are feeding the trolls. You could engage with some of the more reasonable people in the movement and shape the discussion and the narrative like I have been asking for the whole time. I don't feel like there are many people in the industry who I feel I know and trust, the staff of this site counts as those members and it pains me to see an opportunity to actually make things better get thrown out the window.