@CrunchyPickles said:
@BaconGames said:
Ben Kuchera can write effectively on a topic (even if I often disagree with his opinions) and it seems like Kain can too, so that's an arbitrary red herring thing to latch onto. Both articles of Kain's I've read come off as poopy just because that's not the argument I would make and I'm not going to find more of his work to read (aka I disagree with his views and am moving on). Ben's usefulness is his sometimes novel and well written approach to topics and mostly that he acts as an effective filter for cool shit on the internet. He's also not above copping to a mistake (like when he posted that Walking Dead non-trailer) but I guess this time he felt the need to take a stand. Ultimately I can't see how it was worth it, especially since this the internet and people can harp on the evidence left behind.
Either way, Kuchera was the aggressor here and indeed comes off as a dick. However, I've read too much of his stuff here and there to outright dismiss him and stop reading, but I'm still kind of bummed and it does somewhat make me want to read his actual editorials less. Is it a smear campaign? Eh it's shit talking on twitter, and unfortunate that who seems like a professional and good writer resorted to that. He should know that twitter of all places is not the place to talk shit and have it become a discussion.
From what I can tell Kain wasn't necessarily above criticism but looking at the situation purely from a tactical perspective, Kain playing the better man gives him the upper hand here.
Kain wasn't above criticism, and he agrees with that notion. He said multiple times that yeah, he made a mistake. But he owned up to it, apologized, and attached a question at the end of the article regarding copyright laws on abandoned projects and the legal grey area therein (he attached the question for reader involvement, but apparently reader involvement is a bad thing?). But that wasn't good enough for Kuchera. He kept going on and shit-talking Kain late into the night, even being as petty as to change his twitter avatar to the "deal w/ it" sunglasses dog.
The whole thing is just fucking sad. It shows that gaming journalism is just as immature and undeveloped as the games industry itself. People like Kuchera are everywhere in gaming journalism, which is unfortunate because their attitudes do nothing but take away their own legitimacy. This has been building up for a while now I think. It seems like every other day now we see journalists saying stupid shit like "gamer entitlement" and "stop complaining about his hair you loser haters," and it's just not a good situation overall.
If there's anything to be learned from this it's that gaming journalism needs more people with Kain's level of professionalism and level-headedness and less manchild-encouraging behavior from the people that are already in the industry.
I disagree with your assessment. Gamer entitlement is a real thing. Why do you feel that games journalists should ignore what is a very real phenomenon in the industry they cover?
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