Was gaming journalism ever a respectable profession?

Who is this sexy woman?

Remember when men were men

No and it's not a real profession.
It's just subhumans who couldn't be real journalists despite the non-existent requirements. Failures in every way.

There was definitely a point when people thought it would be cool to play games as a job and write opinions on them. I remember hearing even gaming journalists admit people don't ask them how to get into their field of work anymore.

That's a man

Why did her subscriber count drop by almost 100k?

>>714696757
James Sterling

You just made this thread to post about trannies because rent free yada yada.
I'll answer your question straight though. "Respectable Profession", sure, at one point. Like, its not something that's proud work like a fireman or a doctor, but it also was a legitimate career path more than flipping burgers at BK. It was just a niche offshoot of journalism for a specific crowd off magazine goers. Think like the guy who would write articles for a fucking fishing magazine, somebody does it and it's whatever.

>>714696648 (OP)
She should do laser

>>714696648 (OP)
>Was ... journalism ever a respectable profession?
Nope.

>>714697061
>her

>>714697061
because troons are delusional, and HRT is proven to lower iq by 10-20 points lmao

short answer: no
long answer: nope

>>714696808
>>714696757
>>714696648 (OP)
>>714697075
>>714697125

>>714697086
Burger King employees make more in the EU than game journos do in the US, and it's a far more respectable position no matter where you go because flipping burgers is a real job that fulfills a need and benefits others. Something "game journalism" never will.

>>714697007
A very pretty man, with pro costumer values. Unlike cucked corpo faggots like Thor.

No, but it had its short sparks of being decent enough, early 2000s gamespot is the best (and only) example I can think of.
But in my experience throughout gaming's whole lifespan, gaming centered journalism has always been garbage
>journos would boycott 2D hand drawn games in favor of ugly early 3D
>journos would publish fake cheat codes for no reason at all
>journos thought that japanese games going more edgier/more american in the early 2000s was actually a good thing!
>most journos play like crap
>most journos don't finish the games they're reviewing

>>714697125
>She

>>714696648 (OP)
>gaming journalism
>respectable
Lol, lmao even.

>>714696648 (OP)
Journalists have always been whores to the power, only a handful haven't been, and they were killed in the process.
Vidya journalists are more or less politics journalists who couldn't get into a classic newspaper, it doesn't matter the country, they're all political activists who thought they would make it n politics, but were so extremely mediocre they couldn't even get into a third class paper so they resorted into infecting gaming with their mental illness.

>>714696648 (OP)
does he call himself non-binary because
midway into his transition he realized he looks nothing like a woman so he decided to call himself non-binary so he could pretend the reason he doesnt look like a woman is on purpose?

>>714696648 (OP)
It ddin't need to be. you were a journalist back then because you actually liked games.

>>714697273
>Yes, I too am in this thread

>>714697061
It's been plummeting for years. Every time he loses another 100k he makes a passive aggressive video about it claiming it's because le evil chuds and because the world can't accept his trans identity.

The funny thing is that by all accounts he should be thriving in the current pozzed world we live in but he's found a way to not only be repulsive to right-wingers but the left as well. That takes real talent.

>>714697252
I wanna see studies for this because that sounds hilarious

>>714697302
I'm talking back in the day, when magazines were the primary means of such a thing

>>714696648 (OP)
This retarded faggot is why BotW has a 97 instead of a 98 on Metacritic.

>>714697061
Because his takes are shit and people don't want to support a grown up dude with hair in his balls trying to play pretend to be a woman, only sometimes since he didn't change his channel name, btw.

>>714697502
>Usual disingenuous smart ass answer when a shit thread is called as such

>>714696808
Back when men were men, women were men, and children were men.

No, its mostly either shillls or writters that cant write for shit and ended up writting about their hobbies in their most basic and biased view.
Whenever they try to make a deep dive into a subject its awfull with very few exceptions.

>>714697273
I have anti-transphobia fatigue.

>>714697613
BotW kinda sucks toughbeitever.

Journalism of any kind hasn't been a respectable profession for 100 years. Go post this on /pol/ or something, it'll be received better there

>>714697649
At least you acknowledged that my reply was smart

>>714696808
MISTER WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE HERBERT HOOVER AGAIN

>>714697847
You're not smart, you're not clever and your parents should've beaten you more.

>>714696808
Remember when the AOC was lower and women couldn't have credit cards?

>>714697546
there's a reason this happens. I'll just say the 'are you a male or a female?' at the end of IQ tests isn't there for nothing and let you figure out the rest yourself

>>714698054
You can't take back what you said. I'm already flattered.

>>714697303
>costumer
>>714697616
>hair in his balls
>>714697746
>toughbeitever
I think the reason this still gets discussed in current year is because the only people who give a fuck are very stupid

>>714698082
Changing that was a mistake.

>>714697546
Idk any studies but I've read around HRT shrinks the brain, if you search for it you might find it
>t. tranny

>>714697086
the 1990-2000 mags were pretty cool, I wish i still had them.

>>714696648 (OP)
Yeah, maybe 20 years ago it was.

>>714696648 (OP)
Is Jim Sterling still kicking it? Stopped following him shortly before he trooned out, since his levels of agitation around the game industry practices went into unreasonable territory. After he trooned out, it was far too disturbing for me to keep up with him.

No. Some individuals attempted to operate with some degree of integrity. Even those all turned in to entertainment based video game adjacent content creators eventually.

>>714697061
I don't care if he's a tranny desu. The thing is he can't shut up about it. That's why me and most people unsuscribed.

I don't give a fuck about muh trans and women representation in videogames and faggot shit.
After watching the Deadly Premonition 2 video yeah, fuck that shit.

>>714696757
pro wrestler Commander Stephanie Sterling

>>714697061
>almost
Anon, xhe lost far more than 100k by this point

>>>/ecelebs/

>under 900k special
>under 800k special
Under 700k special when?
He's more than halfway there already

>>714697613
When has he ever been fond of Nintendo games?

>>714698174
And you're a faggot!

What was his peak sub count and how many has he lost?

>>714698723
Does he actually westle? That be impresive if he does and doesn't get injured

>>714699548
idk but he's made an under 900k special and an under 800k special to commemorate those milestones
he's at 730k right now

>>714699701
The whole tranny thing + subscriber loss special seems like a humiliation fetish

>>714696648 (OP)
there has always been respectable writers and reviewers, issues with video game journalism is that with how games have been seen as and honestly still are seen as toys the barrier for entry to review games have been incredibly low because no one really cares so gaming journalism got filled with pretty shit writers many with no actual formal training or journalistic education.

Side note, Sterling is genuinely one of the worst fucking reviewers out there it's a fucking wonder they ever managed to build a following.

>>714697616
>only sometimes since he didn't change his channel name, btw.
Same thing with Proton Jon. When your name is your entire brand, and suddenly you want to change all that, do you accept the major hit to your viewership through the confusion (even worse than the hit you take from repulsing your viewers that aren't also mentally ill) , or cling to the last vestige of your masculinity in a desperate grasp for continued relevance?

>>714699842
>they

>>714697273
You can always go to x-game subreddit if you wanna have a boring no-meanie-poopoo-heads allowed discussion about a game that has nothing worth discussing

>>714700101
"they" has been used as a 3rd person singular pronoun since Shakespeare, summerfag.

>>714699594
yes, but sterling is pretty bad at it.

>>714700101
dios mios.............

>>714697061
She stopped doing a couple of the series he used to make and she won't stop bringing up that shes a tranny in the most repulsive way possible. Someone who watched him years ago checking the channel out again in the current day would be utterly confused.

>>714696648 (OP)
Video games, faggot, VIDEO GAMES!

>>714696648 (OP)
lol, no

>>714698397
I don't know anything about the actual neuroscience aspect of it but I do think there's a good chance of a bias being present because people who seek out pumping themselves full of the wrong hormones because tumblr told them they were born the wrong gender
are probably not very bright to begin with
>>714700215
Shakespeare is gay, shut the fuck up

>>714700187
i feel like half of /v/ is redditors like this faggot who come here because "4chan is for shitposting, reddit is for REAL discussion" and then they get angry when 4chan natives don't like them shitting up /v/

>>714700248
So he doesn't actually take any serious bumps and basickly RPing westlers. That's really pathetic then

>>714700418
I hate video games

>>714696648 (OP)
You just don't like Stephanie because she's more successful than you. How many subscribers do you have bozo?

>>714696648 (OP)
>mfw LordKat became a tranny

>>714699375
At an average of 1500 lost subs per month the past few months it will occur in approximately 20 months

>>714696648 (OP)
I loved EGM as a kid and I thought it would be cool to write about video games all day. But then in my teenage years the video game magazines were on life support and clickbait arose in the 2010s, plus the clickbait people got access to twitter so they could show off how retarded they are 24/7. That is when it lost any respectability it had.

Sure, EGM eventually died an inglorious death in the clickbait era, but before that they had a lot of thoughtful reviews. The Rumble Roses incident showed that they wouldn't bow down to outside pressure. The Seanbaby columns at the end of the magazine were always funny. It was a real gem. I wish I could find the picture in my folder, but there was also an article they did on game scores being influenced by bribes (or maybe that was PSM, my brain is hazy). Overall, I just haven't seen the same retarded bullshit from EGM that I have seen from other gaming journalism outlets past and present, so I guess it wins by default. Feel free to prove me wrong though. Oh, and shoutout to Tips & Tricks for their excellent "Japan corner" and tournament columns, as well as their dedicated Armored Core 2/3 column they had for a while

>>714700525
Your real discussions are twitter threads and the same dozen decade old memes

>>714700525
Yeah. They're just too stupid to realize more REAL DISCUSSION takes place here even with the constant trollan and baiting people into arguments for no reason.

>>714700525
>REAL 4channelers DON'T make fun of trans folx
get a load of this nigga

>>714700731
>>714700689
See what I mean
>>714700791
Tbf up until a few years ago a lot of oldfags genuinely believed traps aren't gay

>>714697061
almost 300k now and still dropping lmao

>>714700093
>remember protonjon's old videos
>good shit
>even years later he does neat stuff like aria of sorrow
>turns out he's a huge furry degen
>and now has trooned out
why is all the old guard like this

>>714699375
The fact that under milestones even exist is pretty funny. What other youtubers have even lost that many subs? I'm surprised people are even bothered to unsub

>>714701008
HRT hit nerd communities like crack hit black communities in the 80s

All mainstream magazines were always corrupt to the bone.

The weird body dysphoria these creatures have is sort of understandable but they do actually look in the mirror and think they look better this way now? Like theres no way a fat man with a receding hairline, double chin, but hair reaching down to his shoulders thinks he looks better with makeup and drugs to give him more estrogen right?

>>714700949
I subscribed to that idea because "haha who are they hurting"
Then pederasts started putting fagotraps everywhere and troons started appearing left and right thanks to groomers making a whole subculture of spamming Astolfo on discords.
Yes, troons came from traps. Only the Californian think that the concept of traps is offensive to trannies.

it's pretty funny trannies try to act casual like nothing happened while pretending to be women as a skinwalker
and then act surprised when normal people don't let it slide

>>714697148
It was cool at least, circa late 90s early 00s where the best mags were PSM, EGM, Tip & Tricks, and to a lesser extent PC Gamer when they still included emo discs with Coconut Monkey content or easter eggs. Free community Duke3D levels, shareware, trailers, awesome.

>>714700949
traps aren't trannies though
I will die on this hill

>>714696648 (OP)
no. never.
they were either insufferable cunts or industry hype men. not one single person offered objective views in the entire history of games "journalism"

>>714696648 (OP)
It was when it was a boys club.

>>714697061
From what i remember he nearly crossed a million subs at some point, then he trooned out and has been losing subs for like 4 years now

>>714696648 (OP)
Oh hey, look, its Garth Marenghi in drag.

When I was a kid I would read gaming magazines and fall for the overly positive reviews designed to maintain ad revenue.

So I'm going to say no.

Lynch it mag dump a billion rounds into his disgusting body burn it melt it

>>714700605
Wasn't that confirmed to be a joke?

Jim Sterling to me will always be the guy that uploaded a photo of himself with cum on his face to twitter. For context, he said the game Genital Jousting made him cum Devolver Digital's account asked for proof

>>714700473
>>714698397
>>714697252
Are you actually serious. Jesus christ this means that all those kids who had HRT forced on them are fucked for life

>>714700605
LMAO I forgot about that.

Yes back when Vidya magazines were popular I guess

>>714696648 (OP)
Even before he started to think he was a woman Jim has physically repulsed me

>>714701645
He was starting to lose them even before the trooning, because him being a dinosaur that refused to change his format was starting to bite him in the ass.
Being obnoxiously performative is one thing and so is being boring, but being both while also at least a week late to the party completely killed his momentum in an era when clickbait merchants will have a rough video or stream about any news within hours. Especially when he repeated the same talking points with different coats of paint every single time, regardless of how hard he had to crowbar them in

>>714702037
no shit anon

>>714696648 (OP)
What causes this?

>>714701884
https://www.youtube.com/@JasonPullara
You tell me

>>714696819
>It's just subhumans who couldn't be real journalists
But anon, "real journalists" are some of the lowest most subhuman scum in society

>>714702276
autism + porn addiction + low self esteem

>>714702276
Living in a satanic country

>>714702276
oh hey I have that Zant
do I have to troon out now

>>714702276
Imagine your ancestors seeing this shit....

>>714697061
Went from shitting on bad games and bad game companies to whining about "gamers" and acting like an obnoxious tranny. I actually used to look forward to the Jimqusition every week but unfollowed a long time ago.

It’s going to be hilarious in the coming decades seeing all the trannies slowly go insane and kill themselves when they realise how they permanently destroyed their bodies with surgery and hormones.

>>714702276
I think he had a nasty divorce which made him troon out

>>714702276

>>714702276
I'm convinced he was about to get metoo'ed which made him trooned out.

>>714696648 (OP)
Why did he do it?

>>714702817
Take the metoo and move on ot's daily ocurrence by this point

>>714700648
I still have a bunch of old EGM, Gamepro and Tips and Tricks magazines. Probably 3 boxes full that I still look through sometimes.

>>714697061
The real answer is that most people got sick of the editing. If you watched Jim Sterling for any period of time, you knew a few things:
>Skip the intro until you don't see Jim anymore
>Watch until Jim appears on screen again, then turn it off because the bits at the beginning and end sucked
Even as somebody left leaning who fully believes Jim lost ~50k subs from going trans, for the last 5-6 years literally every video is the exact same shit edited the exact same way. Take a drink every time you see:
>Stock footage of stock brokers and dudes in business suits playing with money
>le funni screencaps of 80s cartoons
>Skeleton Warriors
It's boring as shit after a while. And if you look at Jimquisition Patreon earnings, you'll notice that the Patreon keeps going up until the Under 900k subscriber special, and then over the next four years it just kept going down. At a certain point you need to admit that what you're doing isn't working. I watched a video last month and apparently the answer was to replace 80s cartoons with a cartoon avatar. It's retarded

>>714702976
There is some truth to that. I'd be more inclined to watch Critical Drinker's videos if he didn't pull from the same pile of 5 or 6 clips in every video.

>>714700093
So Jon trooning out is definitely going to kill TRG, right? He's already gotten pissy at Emile for making a punny joke about his new name, and he's only going to get more insufferable from there.

>>714702721
I would be more worried about letting my body be destroyed by DHT and then become an ugly bitter /v/irgin

>>714696648 (OP)
I lost all respect for this Sterling person after they refused to support SKG just because someone who supported it was rude to them. It's not possible to take their politics seriously after they jump the shark that badly.

>>714697273
>you know who else likes "X"

>>714700552
So fucking leave

>>714703617
I love DHT
big ol' pp

>>714701428
>4chan
>normal

>>714697273
>x-game
Why would skating be allowed on /v/

>>714703606
TRG spiritually died when the cancel attempt on Emile happened, and Jon's way of dealing with it was to "distance himself professionally" from Emile until it was officially okay to associate with him again. It's never gonna be the same, though I guess they'll keep it going until either Tim keels over or hormones fry Jon's brain enough for him to do the patented tranny crashout.

>>714703748

>>714697727