We all know that isn’t true, Adam. If you have any cash on hand it’s going to feeding your little coke habit that’s made you a paranoid schizophrenic freak. Funnily enough that’s not what alienated all your friends and peers. That would be the genocide cheerleading.
I truly wish I could return to you some of the joy you and the rest of the G4 community brought to a much younger and slimmer version of myself. XPlay, AOTS, Arena...that was the only channel I needed on good ol' Directv.
Your voice was always a thoughtful, measured, and honest one in the world of tech. A voice that is, truly, one that is missed.
As far as the other portions of your essay, it's hard to see the masks come off. Particularly, when people you respect were wearing them.
I have nothing but gratitude for your time as a gaming journalist. I look forward to your work in "anti-social" commentary (said in jest).
Great read as always. Yeah the POV on TikTok reminds me of the “IMO” before giving your opinion on Twitter. It’s like, no shit it’s your opinion, you just wrote it and hit send. If it was someone else’s opinion you would be quoting or summarizing them. There is no need to qualify it’s your opinion when you are about to give your opinion.
that’s evident, you’re retarded enough to support founding the “one safe place for Jews” around a bunch of countries that want to annihilate it (rightfully so).
It’s a shame you didn’t hide your Jewish supremacy and genocide loving fanaticism behind “anonymous.” You might still have a career, friends, and the respect of your peers. Oh well.
It pains me to see you regret your former work. It was very entertaining, but I understand the feeling. It all feels worthless in the end. Just know that the work you did, the years of entertaining and informing people had brought you no small number of admirers. Of course the negative voices are the loudest. It's easy to judge society as a whole awful thing, but people doing the good work like yourself with the inclusion. It's a beacon in the darkness, but every light burns out in time. There's not enough "I'm sorry" to help the hurt you're feeling, but I hope you find some way to get by before it gets too dark.
I really wish you would stop making our movement look this bad, dude. Hating Jewish people and fighting to savr Palestinian lives don't go hand-in-hand in the way you think they do. The reason Sessler is this inarticulate is because he's a gamer, and if you're really this concerned about Palestinian lives then you're wasting it harassing a random person on the net. I don't think you should reduce your political praxis to someone this thoroughly irrelevant. I understand that the things he says are upsetting and sesquipadelian, but frankly both of the people involved in this idiotic little internet spat is wasting the potential inherent to existing as a human being on some of the dumbest, self-defeating and frankly self-sabotaging actions imaginable, while simultaneously speaking in the lingo of things that actually matter as though having an opinion on the eminent events of our time makes you Socrates. You could literally spend the time you've made account after account just taking a free class on Coursera or FutureLearn to build skills that improve your own life or give you the skills that can be put to use in the movement you're pretending to be a part of. No one getting bombed right now is thinking "Wow, I'm glad that someplace, somewhere, some guy on the internet is saying mean shit to some other guy on the internet." I would recommend reading some Brene Brown, seriously and genuinely. I understand that browsing the net can make it feel like just having opinions is a form of activism. But I also get how it can be addicting. Someone genuinely taking the troll bait and blowing a gasket over it can be fun if you're emotionally immature, especially when you've genuinely found someone who takes the things people say on the internet entirely too personally and will actually spew weird shit about it on every platform available to them. It can give you a false sense of celebrity. But you're wasting your time on this and potentially your life. But I also don't have any real reason to believe you are at all politically inclined or even on the left, becaude "October 7th Enjoyer" isn't a thing anyone in any leftist space on the internet would condone or appreciate. Like, what leftist youtuber, just as a random example of a platform, would stand by that? Contrapoints, who made multiple videos on the nature of nazism, antisemitism and hatred throughout the entirety of her tenure? PhilsophyTube who did the same, particularly through her charavter of the "arsonist" in her videos on Charlottesville and Steve Bannon? Maybe you think FoldingIdeas is a fan of what you're doing? Oh wait, no, he made an entire multi-hour video essay about why film schools should stop worshipping Triumph of the Will because it's a movie celebrating antisemitic filth and isn't even a particularly great achievement when it just took the ideas of Jewish filmmakers and slapped them on some nazi propaganda. Or maybe you think Big Joel is an enjoyer of October 7th, when he himself has made multiple videos on the nature of antisemitism? Oh shit, maybe you think Shaun, of the former "Shaun and Jen" would like this? Oh wait, no, he fucking wouldn't. Maybe Thought Slime? Nope. The History Wizard mayhaps, who is extremely vocal about his disdain for Israel's actions? Oh, wait, no, he openly condemned the October 7th attacks and actively warns against antisemitism entering the protest against the U.S.'s military support of Israel. Going back to Contrapoints btw, she did much the same thing on her twitter, warning against allowing antisemitic rhetoric, action and sentiment entering the movement. No one who you're pretending to be allied with or whose approval you're pretending to court would look at what you're doing as good praxis. They'd look at it as weird stupid internet bullshit which, at best, is totally ineffectual, and at worst actually delegitimizes the movement you're pretending to be a part of. But it's not about Palestinian lives to you. It's not even about left vs. right to you. You pribably browse r/kotakuinaction looking for people who you can feel righteous about bullying on thr internet, you saw some old threads where they were complaining about Sessler erroneously accusing people of being magaheads because they didn't like the weird racial language he used in a review from 20 years ago and the shitstorm that resulted, and thought to yourself "Ah, yes, at long last, my time has come" and chose to wear the banner of a movement that's so much bigger than this X-Play guy. Literally in the time it's taken you to read this you could have started taking a free class.
I don't like being mean, and I'm not going to pretend that this hate comment I'm leaving you is righteous in some way. Frankly if I talk to my therapist tomorrow and say "I said mean words to a guy I don't really like who I don't really know" I am hopeful that she'll just ignore it and move on to shit that actually matters. But reducing the words "Free Palestine" as a slur to hurt some random guy who happens to be Jewish is so ridiculous that I just had to comment on it. Do NOT come to a protest. DO read theory. DO find ways to make yourself useful. No one, and I mean NO ONE needs you spewing dumb antisemitic bullshit in their name.
It’s not the typos that are at issue kiddo, it’s my wholesale not giving a shit what you or your Jew-hating ilk have to say that’s apropos right now. Put down the keyboard and go back to preparing for your big party in 11 days. Too bad you can’t rape my cousin for liberation again.
As expected. No Zionazi can go 5 minutes without feigning crocodile tears for some depraved rape fantasy. You’d think discovering no rapes occurred during Oct 7’s serendipitous display of resistance would make Zios happy, but no. They are furious! They need women raped! They need babies beheaded and burned, or else no one will let them satiate their genocidal lust! So even though it didn’t happen, they’ll pretend it did anyway, and then actually commit those atrocities to the Palestinians tenfold.
Hey Adam, remember when a Hamas militant led a gang rape on one of the hostages, and then became a local celebrity in Gaza, featured on many prominent TV shows as a special guest? Oh wait, sorry! That was Israel! Because Israel is a nation of Jewish supremacists who believe raping Palestinians is no big deal! They love rape!
I think you got me and the other guy mixed up. I don't enjoy the things you write and say, but I'm very much not an antisemitic person, and I do not condone or enjoy the horrific terrorist attacks on October 7th in any way. I want dumb nazi idiots like this fucker to stay the hell out of any movement that claims to be for the betterment and safety of Palestinian lives.
Edit: I would like to say that me describing this person as a "dumb nazi idiot" was both unkind and untrue, and I was not forming words that conform to any standard of ethics that would stand up to scrutiny while writing them.
If you're being sincere about what happened to your cousin then I'm very sorry to hear that happened. I was raped and healing from that has been close to impossible. I understand that you have no obligation to care about what happened to me, but my healing is my journey and I don't fault you for that. I am always grieving the life I might've had if it had never happened. I will never, ever, try to extract joy from something that horrific. It is horrible what happened, and I am sincerely wishing that healing will be possible for you and your family. My disagreement with you is not even worth mentioning in the face of that.
Edit: As gentle as I want to be with this topic, I don't think you should be using the same personal blog that you use to talk about spider man to talk about your cousin's rape. I'm sorry that I don't have a gentler way to put this. I think it would be good, when agency has been so thoroughly robbed from someone, to let that person be in charge of the conversation about what happened to them and how it's brought up in conversation. I do not know your cousin, but I do doubt that she would say that she specifically wants me to know and I also doubt she'd want it to be in the public comments section of your personal blog. I mean no disrespect at all in saying this. But obviously you know her and I don't so I'll leave that up to you. I'm hopeful that in turn, you leave that up to her.
I like how you typed up that wall of text, to which I didn’t read past the second sentence, to play defense for this genocide loving Zionazi scum and he attacked you more than he did me. Take this as a lesson, bud. 99% of Israelis and their supporters are deranged, depraved psychopaths. This isn’t nuanced, there aren’t two sides. There are the occupying rapist Jewish supremacist Zionazis and there are the indigenous people they’ve murdered, raped, and displaced for 80 years.
Unfortunately and honestly, you're right. I don't think that claiming to enjoy what happened on that day is right, but you've honestly demonstrated more understanding of the topic than the x-play fellow. I don't think commenting on his blog is good praxis, but when I replied to you I was speaking from a place of anger that resulted in me speaking on this issue in a tone that isn't appropriate, and in a pithy and judgmental way, and I could've seriously taken my own advice a bit and just done something else instead of commenting. I hope you have a good day.
Edit: To add on to this, I think I very seriously misconstrued the content of your character and the nature of your words in every comment I've made so far. Any criticism I could make of how you're saying what you're saying would basically amount to prioritizing politeness over human lives. I'm genuinely sorry.
Every single piece of shit Zionazi at that rave on Oct 7 chose to serve Pissrael’s Apartheid enforcing terrorist army. Satan welcomed them with open arms. Cry about it you unemployed friendless bitch.
Sure thing. Before I do though, I'm going to share John Green's thoughts on this topic, because they reflect my own, and this conversation so far has had two sides represented, one side saying that October 7th was great (it wasn't, obviously) and one side saying a lot of things that I don't think can be summarized as anything other than "Every person who disagrees with me belongs to demographics I feel justified in hating." What I am about to share is neither for you or your biggest fan over here, but for anyone who sees this conversation and feels forced into the false dichotomy implied by the thrilling conversation you're having. I'm hopeful that this more thoughtful approach resonates with some and inspires others out of simplistic thinking.
"Thoughts from John on the conflict
Hank and I have been asked a lot to comment on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and I understand why people want to hear from us.
There’s a Crash Course video on the history of the conflict.
But on October 7th, there was a horrific terrorist attack in which the organization Hamas killed over a thousand Israeli civilians and kidnapped hundreds more. Hamas is a militant group that has frequently attacked Israel (and also killed many Palestinian civilians). Hamas has been the primary political leadership in the Gaza Strip since a coup in 2007.
This attack is especially horrifying because it represented the greatest loss of civilian life among Jewish people since the Holocaust, and I think it’s important to understand that many of us don’t know what it’s like to be less than one human lifetime removed from a systematic effort to end your people via the murder of over six million of them. Amid a huge surge of anti-Semitic actions globally, echoes of that tragedy, whether they come in the form of attacks on synagogues or lynch mobs in Dagestan, are especially terrifying because of the history involved.
One thing I think we find challenging as a species is to acknowledge the shared legitimacy of conflicting narratives. That is to say, there is legitimacy to the Israeli narrative that Jews need a secure homeland because historically when they haven’t had one, it has been catastrophic, and as we have seen again recently, anti-Semitism continues to be a terrifyingly powerful and profound force in the human story. There is also legitimacy to the Palestinian narrative that over the last seven decades, many Palestinians have been forced off their land and now live as stateless refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where their freedom of movement and assembly is highly restricted, and that the long history of violence in the region has disproportionately victimized Palestinians.
For civilians in Gaza, there is simply nowhere to go. They cannot go to Egypt, and they cannot go to Israel. And since Hamas’s terrorist attack, thousands of bombs have been dropped by the Israeli government onto areas of Gaza where civilians cannot help but be. The Israeli government argues the war is necessary to remove Hamas from power and cripple it as a military force. But the human cost of those bombings is utterly devastating, and I’m not convinced that civilian death on such a scale can ever be justified. Thousands of civilians have died in Gaza in the past three weeks, and many thousands more will die before Hamas is completely destroyed, which is the stated goal of the Israeli offensive. It’s heartbreaking. So many innocent people are being traumatized and killed–children and elderly people and disabled people who are unable to travel to the purportedly safer regions of Gaza. And I don’t think it’s “both sidesism” to say that civilian death from violence is, on any side, inherently horrific.
Save the Children, an organization we trust and have worked with for over a decade, recently said, “The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict globally … for the last three years.” Doctors without Borders, another organization we’ve worked with closely, reports: “There is no safe space in Gaza. When fuel runs out, every person on a ventilator, premature baby in an incubator will die. We need an immediate ceasefire.” I am trying to listen to a variety of trusted voices, and this is what some of the voices I trust are telling me.
I don’t know what else to say except that I’m so scared and sad for all people who live in constant fear and under constant threat. I pray for peace, and an immediate end to the violence. But mostly, I am committed to listening. Even when it is hard to listen, even when I am listening to those I disagree with, I want to do so with real openness and in search of understanding. I will continue to try to listen a lot more than I speak–not just when it comes to this conflict, but with all issues where I have a lot to learn.
Thanks for reading. Please be kind to each other in comments if you can. Thanks"
Edit: Given that I was led to this substack by the bizarreness that is the tiktok algorithm, I think that this set of thoughts by the other Green brother could also be of some use to anyone who, like the owner of this substack, seems to be getting entirely too many of their thoughts and opinions about the world through tiktok, including but not limited to what other people think and feel and exactly how hateful they are and how hateful you can assume someone is based on very little information. I hope someone finds it helpful. I won't be using tiktok anymore now since one of the very first things it showed me was that there was a guy with the username "October 7th Enjoyer" doing some very weird trolling. So, if anyone else went on that wild ride like I did (and I hope there's none), please enjoy this video. It's a lot better than anything you'll find here, and I hope it helps people spend their time more wisely. https://youtu.be/V6Lz97pkIBc?si=l5rCcymx9_xAELAZ
No need to apologize, I was needlessly rude to you. The reason my behavior and username is incendiary is because of the stakes involved. Do I want innocent people to die? No. But when an ethno-supremacist colony built upon the foundation of ethnic cleansing, rape, and theft removes any and all agency from the indigenous population it treats with such contempt, what other option does the latter have but violent resistance? What does a stateless people do to resist occupation and colonization?
When Palestinians in Gaza peacefully protested at the border wall, IOF snipers shot at their kneecaps, they massacred scores of innocent people. What I’m trying to make supremacists like Adam understand is, Palestinians have been having Oct 7 done to them every single day for 80 fucking years. And in using Oct 7 to justify a genocidal campaign, “progressives” like Adam only reveal that their bias comes from an innate perception of Palestinians as sub-human. They exist to die, and their deaths and humiliation is simply a necessary sacrifice for the Zionists’ Lebensraume, their “God given” right to the land.
And when evil pieces of shit like Adam spread Israel’s atrocity propaganda about beheaded babies, mass rapes, gutted pregnant women to excuse his fascism… All while every single day Israel beheads babies with air strikes, rape their prisoners held without charge or trial, and literally kill pregnant mothers whose babies have had to be rescued and kept alive without any hospitals (the nazis bombed them all)…. It fills me with rage.
You tried to approach him with nuance, but these fascist freaks truly believe anyone who doesn’t let them rape and murder as much as they want “hates jews” and “wants all jews dead.” Zionazi psychopaths believe if they don’t commit a holocaust, another will happen to them. You can’t reason with people like that.
Nobody hates Germans, they hate German supremacists. But the conflation of all Jews with Zionists is incredibly dangerous, and its done by Israel supporters to defend their atrocities in an incredibly malignant and irresponsible way.
As the game industry grew, the bad apples in the cheap seats grew more plentiful and nastier; which is an unfortunate parallel you can draw comparison with almost any artistic and non-artistic medium. On the flip side, gaming has never been more inclusive, accessible, and representative than it is today. It took a long time, in no small part it’s thanks to the likes of G4 and all of the other gaming peripheries that came after, for good and bad. As bad as the negatives have been, the positives have been far more monumental to the advancement of art and storytelling, and equally as impactful to the audience that understands and appreciates the quality. Always have and always will believe the positives have vastly outweighed the negative. The dipshit chud gamergater audience is bad, yes, but they arent as bad as tens of thousands of layoffs, studio closures, and artist burnouts that get sacrificed on the altar of shareholder value. Theyre the only poison in the well this industry should be concerned about.
It’s also very funny that Donald Trump fills you with unending rage, but you completely overlook his slavish dedication to Israel and instead attribute protesting genocide to be a “right wing” practice. Every single right wing politician agrees with you. You are a fascist, you support Apartheid, and you support genocide.
When the loving fuck did I attribute protesting Jews to a “right-wing” practice? I’ve been railing about you little Eichmann’s of the left for a year now dipshit. Can you not read? What the fuck is your malfunction? Oh, that’s right, you’re a fucking gamer. You can’t wipe your fat ass without parental assistance.
“These protesting kids are Trump voters so I don’t care if the cops bash their skulls”
Isn’t that the effect of what you said? Or has all the coke and pill abuse made your brain as useless and vacant as your shitty blog posts?
What am I saying, the pill, booze, and coke has nothing to do with this. You were always an evil little malignant tumor. You and your Zionazi ilk. Luckily the worm is turning and the cancer will be cut out very soon. Here’s a fun statistic for you. 80% of Americans under 30 oppose sending Israel weapons. 50% of them believe Israel should be dismantled and given to Hamas.
Read that again very slowly and digest that your fascist, Jewish supremacist pedophile rapist haven colony is living on borrowed time. Your only allies are braindead geriatrics who will thankfully be dead soon. And buried right next to them will be the cancerous growth known as Zionism.
Also how hysterical that you think the worldwide protests against your nazi rape colony is in any way comparable to some sexless losers being angry about video games. Gamergate happened when I was in high school, get the fuck over it you pathetic drug addicted loser. “Oh my gosh Israel is just like Zoe Quinn!” I can imagine you say as you snort another line, before quickly checking the blog you haven’t updated in months to have a meltdown about being called out for cheerleading genocide.
it's sad to see you regret your time as a video game journalist, you made me love video games as an art. but perhaps that was the problem, we all try to see something more than what it is, or beyond what we see.
best of luck man.
and on Palestine and Israel. Sadly, the rest of the Middle East will hate a united Levant. The Jews have always valued education and hard work. While Palestinians of all religions are very resourceful and hard working. If they stopped fighting and worked together, many of the Middle Eastern powers would have a small democracy throwing its weight around in a sea of autocrats. It's why we're stuck in this cycle of violence.
But I hope you don't come to regret your gaming past in the coming days. I miss X-Play man. I miss it
I enjoyed this write up, as I have all of them so far. I am glad that you have left twitter behind as the venomous bile only grows with each passing day. I was sorry to see you mercilessly dogpiled by the screeching masses for daring to be angry at anti-Jew rhetoric. For all of their professed inclusiveness, progressiveness, and kindness, the sheer magnitude of hatred that spews from normally sane circles still shocks me. It appears they can hate with the best of them once one fails one of their increasingly arcane purity tests.
I hope for the best and look forward to your future musings
You lost me with with your ludicrous twitter comment right before the end of "why should I care for people who want to see me dead?" when talking about the Palestinians. Incredibly infantile and stupid. You are far more intelligent than that.
Going thru this huge crisis of confidence over your past is fair enough. Not sure why you want to share it with the public. I enjoyed the X-Play, Rev3, and X-Play stuff again with all the changes that were made. It's a shame the idiot minority shout the loudest and made it seem like a fruitless task, it isn't/wasn't.
I hope you come out at the end a calmer, relaxed and more happy with yourself and your choices.
That’s not what I said. I said I was I don’t care about the Ivy League Jew haters getting their teeth knocked in by the NYPD because they want me dead.
Never said word one about Palestinians. Just selfish shits co-opting their grief for personal satisfaction.
Why do they have grief? Could it be because the Fourth Reich displaced, raped, and murdered for 80 years? All so your family could have a nice vacation home?
How very homophobic of you, Adam. Maybe another reason why all your friends and peers denounced you. Becoming a fascist sure does make you unpopular.
I thought Israel was LGBTQ friendly and that’s why they should be allowed to behead and burn Palestinian babies? Are you gunna tell me about how Israel is a democracy, and how because the psychotic freaks there voted in Hitler 2 they should be allowed to rape and kill all Palestinians?
The funniest thing about you banning me shortly after I commented here is it means you religiously check this blog, the only existence you even exist to the public, despite being too much of a lazy drug addicted alcoholic to even update it. You haven’t written anything in 3 months but you open this blog every day and think “today is the day I justify Jewish supremacy and genocide some more!” but then the booze starts singing its sweet song and you realize you still got some leftover powder from that line you did on the table last night. You’re a complete failure. You may as well go to Israel and join the fourth reich, they’re the only ones who will take you.
Thanks for banning my last account, Adam. It confirms that despite not touching this blog for 3 months, you still check it regularly. Now that I know you read my comments, I’m going to make sure to make throwaway after throwaway every time you ban me and comment on your genocidal nazi-esque ramblings every single day. For every moment of the rest of your pathetic life I’m going to remind you why every single one of your friends abandoned you and why all the peers you worked with in your 20 year career don’t respect you or want to work with you anymore.
I posted this and deleted it all because it felt mean, but you know what? You've gone and said plain as day, expecting me to comfort you, that the words you need to keep me out of the gas chambers won't fit in your mouth, so fuck you, I'll post them. You're a big boy.
Please don't steal women's work, white man. You can damn well cite the women's work you're pretending to have done instead of asking people to suck your dick over how brave it was of you to write a show that was barely perceptible as left of center to its target audience and not actively be a huge piece of shit to women. I'm sure you're very proud. Also, making the thesis of your life that anyone who cares about anything is doing it for likes and views was one hell of a time to start remembering that antisemitism exists. Yours truly, a trans jew who *actually* got bullied in school for being jewish. That rainbow flag you're so goddamn worried in the latter paragraphs about flies in Israel too, and the shit you're spewing here would rightly be considered hate speech there by anyone with a brain.
Fucking tourist. By the way, before you thank a "non jew" for their comments again maybe you should check to make sure you haven't just assumed in your own head that the words "Jewish" and "Transgender" are mutually exclusive. I'm not calling you transphobic; I don't think you know enough about anything to have any feeling strong enough to be called a prejudice. Remembering X-Play as an act of activism just lets me know that your connection to reality is utterly tenuous. I was able to be patient when you were throwing hands with your fellow blue-voters when it seemed like a Democratic victory was still possible, but now that I'm the one at risk for the gas chambers (and frankly, not you, dipshit. Fucking idiot) I'm gonna go ahead and let you know that you're the new nazi's latest useful idiot. The "leftists" (infiltrators, scapegoaters and astroturfers) who sneak into pro-palestinian movements spreading anti-jewish hate, the republicans who very openly shouted jews will not replace us (without masks so I'm really curious as to why you think antisemitism needs coding in the united states), and even the kkk members whose throats I personally punched, all love useful dipshits like you. Fuck you.
I looked at your stuff like you said I should. It was fucking garbage. I read Kimberle Crenshaw's stuff like I fucking told you I would. It was actually salient. Huge breather after reading your shit. I'm sure you wouldn't like her "intersectional ass" very much. Hearing a younger voice, the voice of a woman founding terms you never studied (your degree is in literature and you never used it), must be so confusing for an old man such as yourself, at such a ripe old age of oh wait you're literally middle aged you aren't even old what the actual fuck are you complaining about
Oh yeah, and the term you pretend is so assigned to youth culture of today that you so flippantly use to refer to the asses of the fans' whose mothers you're apparently obsessed with cheating on your wife with? Intersectionality? It was founded by a woman old enough to be your mom, and was coined when you were eight. It's not new just because it's new to you, dumbass. Antisemitism existed in the early 2000s too. You aren't existing in some unique new hellscape, you're just a fucking tourist pretending to be newly oppressed because you're embarrassed that you were a skit writer and not one of the big heroes in your dumb little video games, and the young people who are *actually* engaged in activism walk over you like shit on their shoes without even noticing your fucking name, they just know you're some video game guy. Pathetic. I kept reading your stuff because you said you're lonely. Compassion is what the movement needs. And yet here we are, I wasted my time and luckily it was just a few minutes, but here you are still wasting the rest of whatever time you have left because you've decided to make your entire public persona about how unliked you feel like you are. You pathetic little damn bug. I am so glad to have caused the stupid little scowl you're going to wear on your little tikky tokky page with all your little video friends while you pretend to be someone worth listening to on topics you've never studied. By your own admission you spent your whole life around vapid gamers, and so I hope you won't mind that I don't consider your opinions on Israel to be super interesting. I've never really found "I'm someone who writes about video games" and "I have strong opinions about the middle east" to be sentences that end with them having a fully functioning face, and I like my monitor, so I'm going to consider the torture of reading a (self-described) very lonely man's very bad and stupid patronizing horseshit over.
As long as I have your attention while you're gearing up to pretend you didn't read this, I love your work and the jokes are so lovely thanks for the memories anyway now that I ACTUALLY have your attention, on your page you mentioned that you feel that trans people are conservative in the way that they share their views. I'll be honest with you, speaking as someone with a functioning brain, you can't actually campaign for progressive policies so hard that it turns conservative. I can't say "Spend taxes ethically" so boisterously that I've horse shoe'd my way over to the right. That's genuinely a silly thing for you to believe and it shows that you don't perceive politics in terms of policies or material affectedness, but in terms of mood. Trans people made you mad, conservatives made you mad, so they're the same thing to you. And now you get to pretend that the rainbow flag in front of you represents some long-term failure of solidarity when the most you ever did for any movement was just not be the other guy, and you get to wallow in misery over a conflict you only experience on the news while trans bodies on both sides of a conflict you frankly don't care about enough except to bring up when you want to say you feel fucking LONELY of all things are literally decomposing. Just... fuck off. God. How fucking dare you say trans people aren't there enough for you. By being there for myself I'm there for jewish people, you stupid fuck. I'm jewish. I didn't risk my job and degree committing morally justifiable assault on people who make the entirety of their long-term political project my extermination because you got mad about video games or whatever. What the fuck is with these ludicrous connections in your head? Sargon of Akkad is a piece of shit, yes. So is basically everyone who came at politics from video games and not the other way around, and unfortunately it's for the same reason you are: throwing yourself into a topic you don't know jack shit about because you thought someone was out to get you and you consider the very act of being asked to consider the people who walked before you an act of violence. "No, not intersectional theory, I'll die! The asses! The intersectional asses! Nooooo!" And please do note here that I said "walked before you," not "were born before you," although both are appropriate here. An example of someone who walked before you that I'd like to use because I know you at least pretend to have the same opinions of would be Anita Sarkeesian, or Frosk as I mentioned before in the comment that I deleted that you kindly thanked me for, but as we see in this post, that's apparently just something you regret doing, and you would've really liked to have sucked Sargon of Akkad's nazi dick for money instead. ("Apropos" is a synonym of "appropriate." Go back and read through the sentence with that in mind if the lack of pointlessly highfalutin language confused you. )
Oh but if I say even one word about how I think Israel's response to the horrific terrorist attacks on October 7th are "overkill" (you find the other word too offensive for me to say so I need to be gentle with your feelings here, "Old Man" of 50 something) I guess that's just gonna erase all this and make you the big hero in you and all your little friends' eyes. Go on, do it. It's okay, I know you wanna. There's a fan in your comments whose mom is just so excited to watch you dunk on me, Mr. Tourist Gamer Man. You and your wife really rizzed her up through your comments here while you're trying to open up your relationship. "I'll fuck your mom for two dollars" is some really naughty language to be throwing around for someone who is apparently morally spurred by the pointless violence that occurred to the women in his life, especially when he then goes on to say on literally every platform and in several interviews with several outlets that anyone who says anything about caring about anyone other than themselves is doing it for attention. My bad for not reading your concern for your cousin's rape as sincere since you said it at the same time as you renounced feminism and claimed its language won't fit in your fucking mouth. But hey, I get it. With Silent Hill 2 coming out soon, cheating was on the mind and you just had to let it out in the comments section. You might end up feeling really proud of how your spit falls off your jowls while you fake outrage with your phone in your lap and type "your mom." All that said, the "What'd he do, vote for Nader?" bit will always make me chuckle, you stopped clock. Frankly I don't think you're actually even Jewish. I think you just love finding opportunities to say some variation of "I want to fuck women whose only common contact I have is a man who holds contempt for me, whether or not those women are alive, instead of interacting with my loved ones who I am objectively spending time away from when I chose to reply to people on the internet instead, am I right fellas gosh this old ball and chain huh," and you like doing it so much that when the hate dries up, you do too, and you need to start saying it to random people who have little enough taste that they'll honest-to-goodness look at a television show whose flavor I can only describe as a stale kind of mountain dew knockoff you found a cigarette butt in, but in television show form, and then somehow say "Wow, thanks for the memories Adam". (As an aside, it was very disappointing to read what I can only describe as "I am lonely and scared, no one appreciates what I wrote" and then I hop on the fucking internet archive to see what you wrote and I heard that stupid fucking announcer) I know you consider the show you wrote for activism based on the thesis of your post here, and some of the jokes land sometimes, but also when you get to the jokes about Japan that make absolutely fucking zero sense if you aren't chronically online enough to be on the X-Play boards then it frankly reads as racist, and if it gets said to a bunch of people who all laugh and cheer because they don't have the background context to tell that it's racist, then congratulations, you've successfully produced racist television for a bunch of stupid gamer teenage boys who are actively learning dumb racist shit from their dumb racist parents. You'd know that if you used the literature degree you allegedly earned and thought about what impact your work would have on your audience instead of whatever masturbatory horseshit you wanted to talk about that day since you knew that you'd always be able to rewrite your whole vapid career later as some kind of intellectual activist project. By the way, the word "intersectionality" would've been taught in your classes when you were studying. No need to pretend it's some silly youth culture thing, "Old Man of 50 Something." But hey, maybe you were gearing up to not be mean to white women on X-Play, a very difficult method of campaigning for the democratization of video games for a white man such as yourself, so I can understand if you didn't have the mental wherewithal to also read a book by a black woman.
Anyway here's your fucking assigned reading, dumbass. You're too chickenshit to read a book by a black woman because you desperately don't want anyone to ask you to do anything more than vote blue and be mean on the internet, so I'm going to give you a book you might like because the author is, like you, a male. Unlike you, he's Jewish. He wrote a very good book called "Cultural Diversity: A Primer for the The Human Services." It's something the grownups do in the place you called their "playpens" to do things like get jobs that matter. I know you wouldn't be familiar with that kind of thing since you have to tag the entirety of your resume with video game horseshit, but the book is genuinely very good and I highly recommend it.
P.S. I actually read books and can very easily tell you weren't quoting Sartre on your tikky tokky video page. Please don't cite books you haven't read, and if you're going to *try* to do that, don't cite them by the author's name alone. That just lets folks know that at best you read their wikipedia page. Maybe the philosophy wiki, but you don't know how the internet works so I don't think you know that exists or how to differentiate it from a wiki on, idk, let's just say final fantasy for shits and giggles and to see how quickly your brain singles in on stupid shit that doesn't matter.
By the way, as long as we're talking about that ridiculous little shitshow that you whine about everywhere, the reason people like me are upset isn't because *we* associate Japan with games you don't like; it's because when people bring up games you don't like, all you can talk about is the country they come from like that fucking matters. I don't know if that's because of some web forum you were a moderator on or something (The xplay boards?) but like, how do you expect me to take you seriously when you get defensive (Yes, Adam, you fucking got defensive about it and no one else's gardens will change that) about language that you used in a review that was objectively racist? Like, it will not hurt you to admit you said a racist thing. "I said a racist thing" is fundamentally not the same sentence as "I am a racist person." In fact, it can even be a really good lesson in how people who are staunchly anti-racist in identity can still find themselves inheriting racist ideas from a society that hasn't primed itself to challenging the ideas it inherited. Like, for example, a movement for Palestinian lives that doesn't consider how the use of the word "Zionist" might rightly make many Jewish people extremely nervous, and how it might actually make people who are on the same side of the political debate isolate from one another not because anyone involved actually has hate, but because one side hasn't demonstrated well enough that it has the tools to detect and root out antisemitism. (The sentence that I just wrote is the one you wanted to write instead of anything else you've written for the past few years, by the way.) That's not me being confused about your politics; I KNOW we vote the same way. We vote blue. "Accent humor" is racist. Period. Like, fucking done. You can't take yourself seriously if you disagree with that, sorry not sorry. There is absolutely no technicality where the statement "Accent humor is racist" is untrue that also fits for the review you made, or where the very, very weird joke/rant/thing that Morgan Webb did talking about nukes wasn't a cavalier "discussion" of the immediate loss of tens of thousands of lives. When my parents were your age that was not a controversial thing to point out that accent humor is racist bullshit. Read that again: When my parents were as young as you are now, the stupid racist bullshit you said to emphasize your personal distaste for some card game you had big feelings over that no one gives a flying fuck about is something they would've been able to point at and say "Wow, that's stupid racist bullshit. I don't want to wait and see if this guy's just kidding or I just don't get it or whatever. There's a million other channels. Change it." And you know what we did? We changed it to fuzz and played Mario 3 and had a good time playing a good game without thinking about the stupid man who was going to pretend he had any kinship with me years later when he decided he could use the largest single act of terrorism against the jewish people since the holocaust to score internet points and say objectifying things about other peoples' mothers, implying he will rape them for money.
You can't even tell me I'm obsessed with you. You literally told me to read your stuff. Here's my fucking review. Sorry it took a while.
That's nice. You need that much attention that you chose to reach out. Well, good for you, I'm going back to fucking your mom for $5.
We all know that isn’t true, Adam. If you have any cash on hand it’s going to feeding your little coke habit that’s made you a paranoid schizophrenic freak. Funnily enough that’s not what alienated all your friends and peers. That would be the genocide cheerleading.
Go eat some lead buddy!
I truly wish I could return to you some of the joy you and the rest of the G4 community brought to a much younger and slimmer version of myself. XPlay, AOTS, Arena...that was the only channel I needed on good ol' Directv.
Your voice was always a thoughtful, measured, and honest one in the world of tech. A voice that is, truly, one that is missed.
As far as the other portions of your essay, it's hard to see the masks come off. Particularly, when people you respect were wearing them.
I have nothing but gratitude for your time as a gaming journalist. I look forward to your work in "anti-social" commentary (said in jest).
Great read as always. Yeah the POV on TikTok reminds me of the “IMO” before giving your opinion on Twitter. It’s like, no shit it’s your opinion, you just wrote it and hit send. If it was someone else’s opinion you would be quoting or summarizing them. There is no need to qualify it’s your opinion when you are about to give your opinion.
Best of luck out there,
Kevin
You need some mental help. This is a bunch of rambling nonsense.
and you need a set of balls since you hide behind "anonymous."
Also, pro-tip: It's not cool to announce you have the comprehension skills of a 4th grader.
You might wanna clean up all those grammatical errors in your own work before you criticize another person's comprehension.
no i don't wanna, i like the mistakes, unlike you.
that’s evident, you’re retarded enough to support founding the “one safe place for Jews” around a bunch of countries that want to annihilate it (rightfully so).
It’s a shame you didn’t hide your Jewish supremacy and genocide loving fanaticism behind “anonymous.” You might still have a career, friends, and the respect of your peers. Oh well.
It pains me to see you regret your former work. It was very entertaining, but I understand the feeling. It all feels worthless in the end. Just know that the work you did, the years of entertaining and informing people had brought you no small number of admirers. Of course the negative voices are the loudest. It's easy to judge society as a whole awful thing, but people doing the good work like yourself with the inclusion. It's a beacon in the darkness, but every light burns out in time. There's not enough "I'm sorry" to help the hurt you're feeling, but I hope you find some way to get by before it gets too dark.
I ain’t reading all that
Free Palestine from the river to the sea!
I really wish you would stop making our movement look this bad, dude. Hating Jewish people and fighting to savr Palestinian lives don't go hand-in-hand in the way you think they do. The reason Sessler is this inarticulate is because he's a gamer, and if you're really this concerned about Palestinian lives then you're wasting it harassing a random person on the net. I don't think you should reduce your political praxis to someone this thoroughly irrelevant. I understand that the things he says are upsetting and sesquipadelian, but frankly both of the people involved in this idiotic little internet spat is wasting the potential inherent to existing as a human being on some of the dumbest, self-defeating and frankly self-sabotaging actions imaginable, while simultaneously speaking in the lingo of things that actually matter as though having an opinion on the eminent events of our time makes you Socrates. You could literally spend the time you've made account after account just taking a free class on Coursera or FutureLearn to build skills that improve your own life or give you the skills that can be put to use in the movement you're pretending to be a part of. No one getting bombed right now is thinking "Wow, I'm glad that someplace, somewhere, some guy on the internet is saying mean shit to some other guy on the internet." I would recommend reading some Brene Brown, seriously and genuinely. I understand that browsing the net can make it feel like just having opinions is a form of activism. But I also get how it can be addicting. Someone genuinely taking the troll bait and blowing a gasket over it can be fun if you're emotionally immature, especially when you've genuinely found someone who takes the things people say on the internet entirely too personally and will actually spew weird shit about it on every platform available to them. It can give you a false sense of celebrity. But you're wasting your time on this and potentially your life. But I also don't have any real reason to believe you are at all politically inclined or even on the left, becaude "October 7th Enjoyer" isn't a thing anyone in any leftist space on the internet would condone or appreciate. Like, what leftist youtuber, just as a random example of a platform, would stand by that? Contrapoints, who made multiple videos on the nature of nazism, antisemitism and hatred throughout the entirety of her tenure? PhilsophyTube who did the same, particularly through her charavter of the "arsonist" in her videos on Charlottesville and Steve Bannon? Maybe you think FoldingIdeas is a fan of what you're doing? Oh wait, no, he made an entire multi-hour video essay about why film schools should stop worshipping Triumph of the Will because it's a movie celebrating antisemitic filth and isn't even a particularly great achievement when it just took the ideas of Jewish filmmakers and slapped them on some nazi propaganda. Or maybe you think Big Joel is an enjoyer of October 7th, when he himself has made multiple videos on the nature of antisemitism? Oh shit, maybe you think Shaun, of the former "Shaun and Jen" would like this? Oh wait, no, he fucking wouldn't. Maybe Thought Slime? Nope. The History Wizard mayhaps, who is extremely vocal about his disdain for Israel's actions? Oh, wait, no, he openly condemned the October 7th attacks and actively warns against antisemitism entering the protest against the U.S.'s military support of Israel. Going back to Contrapoints btw, she did much the same thing on her twitter, warning against allowing antisemitic rhetoric, action and sentiment entering the movement. No one who you're pretending to be allied with or whose approval you're pretending to court would look at what you're doing as good praxis. They'd look at it as weird stupid internet bullshit which, at best, is totally ineffectual, and at worst actually delegitimizes the movement you're pretending to be a part of. But it's not about Palestinian lives to you. It's not even about left vs. right to you. You pribably browse r/kotakuinaction looking for people who you can feel righteous about bullying on thr internet, you saw some old threads where they were complaining about Sessler erroneously accusing people of being magaheads because they didn't like the weird racial language he used in a review from 20 years ago and the shitstorm that resulted, and thought to yourself "Ah, yes, at long last, my time has come" and chose to wear the banner of a movement that's so much bigger than this X-Play guy. Literally in the time it's taken you to read this you could have started taking a free class.
I don't like being mean, and I'm not going to pretend that this hate comment I'm leaving you is righteous in some way. Frankly if I talk to my therapist tomorrow and say "I said mean words to a guy I don't really like who I don't really know" I am hopeful that she'll just ignore it and move on to shit that actually matters. But reducing the words "Free Palestine" as a slur to hurt some random guy who happens to be Jewish is so ridiculous that I just had to comment on it. Do NOT come to a protest. DO read theory. DO find ways to make yourself useful. No one, and I mean NO ONE needs you spewing dumb antisemitic bullshit in their name.
I'm sorry for the typos. My phone sucks and I'm poor.
It’s not the typos that are at issue kiddo, it’s my wholesale not giving a shit what you or your Jew-hating ilk have to say that’s apropos right now. Put down the keyboard and go back to preparing for your big party in 11 days. Too bad you can’t rape my cousin for liberation again.
As expected. No Zionazi can go 5 minutes without feigning crocodile tears for some depraved rape fantasy. You’d think discovering no rapes occurred during Oct 7’s serendipitous display of resistance would make Zios happy, but no. They are furious! They need women raped! They need babies beheaded and burned, or else no one will let them satiate their genocidal lust! So even though it didn’t happen, they’ll pretend it did anyway, and then actually commit those atrocities to the Palestinians tenfold.
Hey Adam, remember when a Hamas militant led a gang rape on one of the hostages, and then became a local celebrity in Gaza, featured on many prominent TV shows as a special guest? Oh wait, sorry! That was Israel! Because Israel is a nation of Jewish supremacists who believe raping Palestinians is no big deal! They love rape!
I think you got me and the other guy mixed up. I don't enjoy the things you write and say, but I'm very much not an antisemitic person, and I do not condone or enjoy the horrific terrorist attacks on October 7th in any way. I want dumb nazi idiots like this fucker to stay the hell out of any movement that claims to be for the betterment and safety of Palestinian lives.
Edit: I would like to say that me describing this person as a "dumb nazi idiot" was both unkind and untrue, and I was not forming words that conform to any standard of ethics that would stand up to scrutiny while writing them.
If you're being sincere about what happened to your cousin then I'm very sorry to hear that happened. I was raped and healing from that has been close to impossible. I understand that you have no obligation to care about what happened to me, but my healing is my journey and I don't fault you for that. I am always grieving the life I might've had if it had never happened. I will never, ever, try to extract joy from something that horrific. It is horrible what happened, and I am sincerely wishing that healing will be possible for you and your family. My disagreement with you is not even worth mentioning in the face of that.
Edit: As gentle as I want to be with this topic, I don't think you should be using the same personal blog that you use to talk about spider man to talk about your cousin's rape. I'm sorry that I don't have a gentler way to put this. I think it would be good, when agency has been so thoroughly robbed from someone, to let that person be in charge of the conversation about what happened to them and how it's brought up in conversation. I do not know your cousin, but I do doubt that she would say that she specifically wants me to know and I also doubt she'd want it to be in the public comments section of your personal blog. I mean no disrespect at all in saying this. But obviously you know her and I don't so I'll leave that up to you. I'm hopeful that in turn, you leave that up to her.
I like how you typed up that wall of text, to which I didn’t read past the second sentence, to play defense for this genocide loving Zionazi scum and he attacked you more than he did me. Take this as a lesson, bud. 99% of Israelis and their supporters are deranged, depraved psychopaths. This isn’t nuanced, there aren’t two sides. There are the occupying rapist Jewish supremacist Zionazis and there are the indigenous people they’ve murdered, raped, and displaced for 80 years.
Unfortunately and honestly, you're right. I don't think that claiming to enjoy what happened on that day is right, but you've honestly demonstrated more understanding of the topic than the x-play fellow. I don't think commenting on his blog is good praxis, but when I replied to you I was speaking from a place of anger that resulted in me speaking on this issue in a tone that isn't appropriate, and in a pithy and judgmental way, and I could've seriously taken my own advice a bit and just done something else instead of commenting. I hope you have a good day.
Edit: To add on to this, I think I very seriously misconstrued the content of your character and the nature of your words in every comment I've made so far. Any criticism I could make of how you're saying what you're saying would basically amount to prioritizing politeness over human lives. I'm genuinely sorry.
That’s nice. How about both of you just eat shit and die.
Every single piece of shit Zionazi at that rave on Oct 7 chose to serve Pissrael’s Apartheid enforcing terrorist army. Satan welcomed them with open arms. Cry about it you unemployed friendless bitch.
You mean like all the Zionazi concentration camp guards sent to hell on Oct 7 did? No thanks, I don’t enforce Apartheid.
Sure thing. Before I do though, I'm going to share John Green's thoughts on this topic, because they reflect my own, and this conversation so far has had two sides represented, one side saying that October 7th was great (it wasn't, obviously) and one side saying a lot of things that I don't think can be summarized as anything other than "Every person who disagrees with me belongs to demographics I feel justified in hating." What I am about to share is neither for you or your biggest fan over here, but for anyone who sees this conversation and feels forced into the false dichotomy implied by the thrilling conversation you're having. I'm hopeful that this more thoughtful approach resonates with some and inspires others out of simplistic thinking.
"Thoughts from John on the conflict
Hank and I have been asked a lot to comment on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and I understand why people want to hear from us.
There’s a Crash Course video on the history of the conflict.
But on October 7th, there was a horrific terrorist attack in which the organization Hamas killed over a thousand Israeli civilians and kidnapped hundreds more. Hamas is a militant group that has frequently attacked Israel (and also killed many Palestinian civilians). Hamas has been the primary political leadership in the Gaza Strip since a coup in 2007.
This attack is especially horrifying because it represented the greatest loss of civilian life among Jewish people since the Holocaust, and I think it’s important to understand that many of us don’t know what it’s like to be less than one human lifetime removed from a systematic effort to end your people via the murder of over six million of them. Amid a huge surge of anti-Semitic actions globally, echoes of that tragedy, whether they come in the form of attacks on synagogues or lynch mobs in Dagestan, are especially terrifying because of the history involved.
One thing I think we find challenging as a species is to acknowledge the shared legitimacy of conflicting narratives. That is to say, there is legitimacy to the Israeli narrative that Jews need a secure homeland because historically when they haven’t had one, it has been catastrophic, and as we have seen again recently, anti-Semitism continues to be a terrifyingly powerful and profound force in the human story. There is also legitimacy to the Palestinian narrative that over the last seven decades, many Palestinians have been forced off their land and now live as stateless refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where their freedom of movement and assembly is highly restricted, and that the long history of violence in the region has disproportionately victimized Palestinians.
For civilians in Gaza, there is simply nowhere to go. They cannot go to Egypt, and they cannot go to Israel. And since Hamas’s terrorist attack, thousands of bombs have been dropped by the Israeli government onto areas of Gaza where civilians cannot help but be. The Israeli government argues the war is necessary to remove Hamas from power and cripple it as a military force. But the human cost of those bombings is utterly devastating, and I’m not convinced that civilian death on such a scale can ever be justified. Thousands of civilians have died in Gaza in the past three weeks, and many thousands more will die before Hamas is completely destroyed, which is the stated goal of the Israeli offensive. It’s heartbreaking. So many innocent people are being traumatized and killed–children and elderly people and disabled people who are unable to travel to the purportedly safer regions of Gaza. And I don’t think it’s “both sidesism” to say that civilian death from violence is, on any side, inherently horrific.
Save the Children, an organization we trust and have worked with for over a decade, recently said, “The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict globally … for the last three years.” Doctors without Borders, another organization we’ve worked with closely, reports: “There is no safe space in Gaza. When fuel runs out, every person on a ventilator, premature baby in an incubator will die. We need an immediate ceasefire.” I am trying to listen to a variety of trusted voices, and this is what some of the voices I trust are telling me.
I don’t know what else to say except that I’m so scared and sad for all people who live in constant fear and under constant threat. I pray for peace, and an immediate end to the violence. But mostly, I am committed to listening. Even when it is hard to listen, even when I am listening to those I disagree with, I want to do so with real openness and in search of understanding. I will continue to try to listen a lot more than I speak–not just when it comes to this conflict, but with all issues where I have a lot to learn.
Thanks for reading. Please be kind to each other in comments if you can. Thanks"
Edit: Given that I was led to this substack by the bizarreness that is the tiktok algorithm, I think that this set of thoughts by the other Green brother could also be of some use to anyone who, like the owner of this substack, seems to be getting entirely too many of their thoughts and opinions about the world through tiktok, including but not limited to what other people think and feel and exactly how hateful they are and how hateful you can assume someone is based on very little information. I hope someone finds it helpful. I won't be using tiktok anymore now since one of the very first things it showed me was that there was a guy with the username "October 7th Enjoyer" doing some very weird trolling. So, if anyone else went on that wild ride like I did (and I hope there's none), please enjoy this video. It's a lot better than anything you'll find here, and I hope it helps people spend their time more wisely. https://youtu.be/V6Lz97pkIBc?si=l5rCcymx9_xAELAZ
No need to apologize, I was needlessly rude to you. The reason my behavior and username is incendiary is because of the stakes involved. Do I want innocent people to die? No. But when an ethno-supremacist colony built upon the foundation of ethnic cleansing, rape, and theft removes any and all agency from the indigenous population it treats with such contempt, what other option does the latter have but violent resistance? What does a stateless people do to resist occupation and colonization?
When Palestinians in Gaza peacefully protested at the border wall, IOF snipers shot at their kneecaps, they massacred scores of innocent people. What I’m trying to make supremacists like Adam understand is, Palestinians have been having Oct 7 done to them every single day for 80 fucking years. And in using Oct 7 to justify a genocidal campaign, “progressives” like Adam only reveal that their bias comes from an innate perception of Palestinians as sub-human. They exist to die, and their deaths and humiliation is simply a necessary sacrifice for the Zionists’ Lebensraume, their “God given” right to the land.
And when evil pieces of shit like Adam spread Israel’s atrocity propaganda about beheaded babies, mass rapes, gutted pregnant women to excuse his fascism… All while every single day Israel beheads babies with air strikes, rape their prisoners held without charge or trial, and literally kill pregnant mothers whose babies have had to be rescued and kept alive without any hospitals (the nazis bombed them all)…. It fills me with rage.
You tried to approach him with nuance, but these fascist freaks truly believe anyone who doesn’t let them rape and murder as much as they want “hates jews” and “wants all jews dead.” Zionazi psychopaths believe if they don’t commit a holocaust, another will happen to them. You can’t reason with people like that.
Nobody hates Germans, they hate German supremacists. But the conflation of all Jews with Zionists is incredibly dangerous, and its done by Israel supporters to defend their atrocities in an incredibly malignant and irresponsible way.
As the game industry grew, the bad apples in the cheap seats grew more plentiful and nastier; which is an unfortunate parallel you can draw comparison with almost any artistic and non-artistic medium. On the flip side, gaming has never been more inclusive, accessible, and representative than it is today. It took a long time, in no small part it’s thanks to the likes of G4 and all of the other gaming peripheries that came after, for good and bad. As bad as the negatives have been, the positives have been far more monumental to the advancement of art and storytelling, and equally as impactful to the audience that understands and appreciates the quality. Always have and always will believe the positives have vastly outweighed the negative. The dipshit chud gamergater audience is bad, yes, but they arent as bad as tens of thousands of layoffs, studio closures, and artist burnouts that get sacrificed on the altar of shareholder value. Theyre the only poison in the well this industry should be concerned about.
It’s also very funny that Donald Trump fills you with unending rage, but you completely overlook his slavish dedication to Israel and instead attribute protesting genocide to be a “right wing” practice. Every single right wing politician agrees with you. You are a fascist, you support Apartheid, and you support genocide.
When the loving fuck did I attribute protesting Jews to a “right-wing” practice? I’ve been railing about you little Eichmann’s of the left for a year now dipshit. Can you not read? What the fuck is your malfunction? Oh, that’s right, you’re a fucking gamer. You can’t wipe your fat ass without parental assistance.
“These protesting kids are Trump voters so I don’t care if the cops bash their skulls”
Isn’t that the effect of what you said? Or has all the coke and pill abuse made your brain as useless and vacant as your shitty blog posts?
What am I saying, the pill, booze, and coke has nothing to do with this. You were always an evil little malignant tumor. You and your Zionazi ilk. Luckily the worm is turning and the cancer will be cut out very soon. Here’s a fun statistic for you. 80% of Americans under 30 oppose sending Israel weapons. 50% of them believe Israel should be dismantled and given to Hamas.
Read that again very slowly and digest that your fascist, Jewish supremacist pedophile rapist haven colony is living on borrowed time. Your only allies are braindead geriatrics who will thankfully be dead soon. And buried right next to them will be the cancerous growth known as Zionism.
Also how hysterical that you think the worldwide protests against your nazi rape colony is in any way comparable to some sexless losers being angry about video games. Gamergate happened when I was in high school, get the fuck over it you pathetic drug addicted loser. “Oh my gosh Israel is just like Zoe Quinn!” I can imagine you say as you snort another line, before quickly checking the blog you haven’t updated in months to have a meltdown about being called out for cheerleading genocide.
it's sad to see you regret your time as a video game journalist, you made me love video games as an art. but perhaps that was the problem, we all try to see something more than what it is, or beyond what we see.
best of luck man.
and on Palestine and Israel. Sadly, the rest of the Middle East will hate a united Levant. The Jews have always valued education and hard work. While Palestinians of all religions are very resourceful and hard working. If they stopped fighting and worked together, many of the Middle Eastern powers would have a small democracy throwing its weight around in a sea of autocrats. It's why we're stuck in this cycle of violence.
But I hope you don't come to regret your gaming past in the coming days. I miss X-Play man. I miss it
Israel just voted in Hitler 2 so why should anyone give a shit that it’s a democracy?
I enjoyed this write up, as I have all of them so far. I am glad that you have left twitter behind as the venomous bile only grows with each passing day. I was sorry to see you mercilessly dogpiled by the screeching masses for daring to be angry at anti-Jew rhetoric. For all of their professed inclusiveness, progressiveness, and kindness, the sheer magnitude of hatred that spews from normally sane circles still shocks me. It appears they can hate with the best of them once one fails one of their increasingly arcane purity tests.
I hope for the best and look forward to your future musings
people committing genocide in the name of racial superiority deserve to be hated.
You lost me with with your ludicrous twitter comment right before the end of "why should I care for people who want to see me dead?" when talking about the Palestinians. Incredibly infantile and stupid. You are far more intelligent than that.
Going thru this huge crisis of confidence over your past is fair enough. Not sure why you want to share it with the public. I enjoyed the X-Play, Rev3, and X-Play stuff again with all the changes that were made. It's a shame the idiot minority shout the loudest and made it seem like a fruitless task, it isn't/wasn't.
I hope you come out at the end a calmer, relaxed and more happy with yourself and your choices.
Good luck
Alex
That’s not what I said. I said I was I don’t care about the Ivy League Jew haters getting their teeth knocked in by the NYPD because they want me dead.
Never said word one about Palestinians. Just selfish shits co-opting their grief for personal satisfaction.
Good luck with reading in the future.
Why do they have grief? Could it be because the Fourth Reich displaced, raped, and murdered for 80 years? All so your family could have a nice vacation home?
Ah, so that’s Jackson Hinckle’s cock in your mouth.
How very homophobic of you, Adam. Maybe another reason why all your friends and peers denounced you. Becoming a fascist sure does make you unpopular.
I thought Israel was LGBTQ friendly and that’s why they should be allowed to behead and burn Palestinian babies? Are you gunna tell me about how Israel is a democracy, and how because the psychotic freaks there voted in Hitler 2 they should be allowed to rape and kill all Palestinians?
Nazi scum.
I have no clue what that means.’is it intended for this post?
Zionazis aren’t intended for this world, it’s why they’ll all be sent to hell soon.
God bless Iran for making it happen!
Hope your cousins enjoyed the light show today, nazi. A lot more where that came from. Again and again until Palestine is free.
Israel will be destroyed, Nazi.
The funniest thing about you banning me shortly after I commented here is it means you religiously check this blog, the only existence you even exist to the public, despite being too much of a lazy drug addicted alcoholic to even update it. You haven’t written anything in 3 months but you open this blog every day and think “today is the day I justify Jewish supremacy and genocide some more!” but then the booze starts singing its sweet song and you realize you still got some leftover powder from that line you did on the table last night. You’re a complete failure. You may as well go to Israel and join the fourth reich, they’re the only ones who will take you.
Thanks for banning my last account, Adam. It confirms that despite not touching this blog for 3 months, you still check it regularly. Now that I know you read my comments, I’m going to make sure to make throwaway after throwaway every time you ban me and comment on your genocidal nazi-esque ramblings every single day. For every moment of the rest of your pathetic life I’m going to remind you why every single one of your friends abandoned you and why all the peers you worked with in your 20 year career don’t respect you or want to work with you anymore.
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I posted this and deleted it all because it felt mean, but you know what? You've gone and said plain as day, expecting me to comfort you, that the words you need to keep me out of the gas chambers won't fit in your mouth, so fuck you, I'll post them. You're a big boy.
"I spent an inordinate amount of time campaigning of the democratization of video games"
The campaigning of the democratization of video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwH9S1rSdw
Please don't steal women's work, white man. You can damn well cite the women's work you're pretending to have done instead of asking people to suck your dick over how brave it was of you to write a show that was barely perceptible as left of center to its target audience and not actively be a huge piece of shit to women. I'm sure you're very proud. Also, making the thesis of your life that anyone who cares about anything is doing it for likes and views was one hell of a time to start remembering that antisemitism exists. Yours truly, a trans jew who *actually* got bullied in school for being jewish. That rainbow flag you're so goddamn worried in the latter paragraphs about flies in Israel too, and the shit you're spewing here would rightly be considered hate speech there by anyone with a brain.
Fucking tourist. By the way, before you thank a "non jew" for their comments again maybe you should check to make sure you haven't just assumed in your own head that the words "Jewish" and "Transgender" are mutually exclusive. I'm not calling you transphobic; I don't think you know enough about anything to have any feeling strong enough to be called a prejudice. Remembering X-Play as an act of activism just lets me know that your connection to reality is utterly tenuous. I was able to be patient when you were throwing hands with your fellow blue-voters when it seemed like a Democratic victory was still possible, but now that I'm the one at risk for the gas chambers (and frankly, not you, dipshit. Fucking idiot) I'm gonna go ahead and let you know that you're the new nazi's latest useful idiot. The "leftists" (infiltrators, scapegoaters and astroturfers) who sneak into pro-palestinian movements spreading anti-jewish hate, the republicans who very openly shouted jews will not replace us (without masks so I'm really curious as to why you think antisemitism needs coding in the united states), and even the kkk members whose throats I personally punched, all love useful dipshits like you. Fuck you.
Yours truly,
Josie Fucking Romero you goddamn piece of shit.
I looked at your stuff like you said I should. It was fucking garbage. I read Kimberle Crenshaw's stuff like I fucking told you I would. It was actually salient. Huge breather after reading your shit. I'm sure you wouldn't like her "intersectional ass" very much. Hearing a younger voice, the voice of a woman founding terms you never studied (your degree is in literature and you never used it), must be so confusing for an old man such as yourself, at such a ripe old age of oh wait you're literally middle aged you aren't even old what the actual fuck are you complaining about
Oh yeah, and the term you pretend is so assigned to youth culture of today that you so flippantly use to refer to the asses of the fans' whose mothers you're apparently obsessed with cheating on your wife with? Intersectionality? It was founded by a woman old enough to be your mom, and was coined when you were eight. It's not new just because it's new to you, dumbass. Antisemitism existed in the early 2000s too. You aren't existing in some unique new hellscape, you're just a fucking tourist pretending to be newly oppressed because you're embarrassed that you were a skit writer and not one of the big heroes in your dumb little video games, and the young people who are *actually* engaged in activism walk over you like shit on their shoes without even noticing your fucking name, they just know you're some video game guy. Pathetic. I kept reading your stuff because you said you're lonely. Compassion is what the movement needs. And yet here we are, I wasted my time and luckily it was just a few minutes, but here you are still wasting the rest of whatever time you have left because you've decided to make your entire public persona about how unliked you feel like you are. You pathetic little damn bug. I am so glad to have caused the stupid little scowl you're going to wear on your little tikky tokky page with all your little video friends while you pretend to be someone worth listening to on topics you've never studied. By your own admission you spent your whole life around vapid gamers, and so I hope you won't mind that I don't consider your opinions on Israel to be super interesting. I've never really found "I'm someone who writes about video games" and "I have strong opinions about the middle east" to be sentences that end with them having a fully functioning face, and I like my monitor, so I'm going to consider the torture of reading a (self-described) very lonely man's very bad and stupid patronizing horseshit over.
As long as I have your attention while you're gearing up to pretend you didn't read this, I love your work and the jokes are so lovely thanks for the memories anyway now that I ACTUALLY have your attention, on your page you mentioned that you feel that trans people are conservative in the way that they share their views. I'll be honest with you, speaking as someone with a functioning brain, you can't actually campaign for progressive policies so hard that it turns conservative. I can't say "Spend taxes ethically" so boisterously that I've horse shoe'd my way over to the right. That's genuinely a silly thing for you to believe and it shows that you don't perceive politics in terms of policies or material affectedness, but in terms of mood. Trans people made you mad, conservatives made you mad, so they're the same thing to you. And now you get to pretend that the rainbow flag in front of you represents some long-term failure of solidarity when the most you ever did for any movement was just not be the other guy, and you get to wallow in misery over a conflict you only experience on the news while trans bodies on both sides of a conflict you frankly don't care about enough except to bring up when you want to say you feel fucking LONELY of all things are literally decomposing. Just... fuck off. God. How fucking dare you say trans people aren't there enough for you. By being there for myself I'm there for jewish people, you stupid fuck. I'm jewish. I didn't risk my job and degree committing morally justifiable assault on people who make the entirety of their long-term political project my extermination because you got mad about video games or whatever. What the fuck is with these ludicrous connections in your head? Sargon of Akkad is a piece of shit, yes. So is basically everyone who came at politics from video games and not the other way around, and unfortunately it's for the same reason you are: throwing yourself into a topic you don't know jack shit about because you thought someone was out to get you and you consider the very act of being asked to consider the people who walked before you an act of violence. "No, not intersectional theory, I'll die! The asses! The intersectional asses! Nooooo!" And please do note here that I said "walked before you," not "were born before you," although both are appropriate here. An example of someone who walked before you that I'd like to use because I know you at least pretend to have the same opinions of would be Anita Sarkeesian, or Frosk as I mentioned before in the comment that I deleted that you kindly thanked me for, but as we see in this post, that's apparently just something you regret doing, and you would've really liked to have sucked Sargon of Akkad's nazi dick for money instead. ("Apropos" is a synonym of "appropriate." Go back and read through the sentence with that in mind if the lack of pointlessly highfalutin language confused you. )
Oh but if I say even one word about how I think Israel's response to the horrific terrorist attacks on October 7th are "overkill" (you find the other word too offensive for me to say so I need to be gentle with your feelings here, "Old Man" of 50 something) I guess that's just gonna erase all this and make you the big hero in you and all your little friends' eyes. Go on, do it. It's okay, I know you wanna. There's a fan in your comments whose mom is just so excited to watch you dunk on me, Mr. Tourist Gamer Man. You and your wife really rizzed her up through your comments here while you're trying to open up your relationship. "I'll fuck your mom for two dollars" is some really naughty language to be throwing around for someone who is apparently morally spurred by the pointless violence that occurred to the women in his life, especially when he then goes on to say on literally every platform and in several interviews with several outlets that anyone who says anything about caring about anyone other than themselves is doing it for attention. My bad for not reading your concern for your cousin's rape as sincere since you said it at the same time as you renounced feminism and claimed its language won't fit in your fucking mouth. But hey, I get it. With Silent Hill 2 coming out soon, cheating was on the mind and you just had to let it out in the comments section. You might end up feeling really proud of how your spit falls off your jowls while you fake outrage with your phone in your lap and type "your mom." All that said, the "What'd he do, vote for Nader?" bit will always make me chuckle, you stopped clock. Frankly I don't think you're actually even Jewish. I think you just love finding opportunities to say some variation of "I want to fuck women whose only common contact I have is a man who holds contempt for me, whether or not those women are alive, instead of interacting with my loved ones who I am objectively spending time away from when I chose to reply to people on the internet instead, am I right fellas gosh this old ball and chain huh," and you like doing it so much that when the hate dries up, you do too, and you need to start saying it to random people who have little enough taste that they'll honest-to-goodness look at a television show whose flavor I can only describe as a stale kind of mountain dew knockoff you found a cigarette butt in, but in television show form, and then somehow say "Wow, thanks for the memories Adam". (As an aside, it was very disappointing to read what I can only describe as "I am lonely and scared, no one appreciates what I wrote" and then I hop on the fucking internet archive to see what you wrote and I heard that stupid fucking announcer) I know you consider the show you wrote for activism based on the thesis of your post here, and some of the jokes land sometimes, but also when you get to the jokes about Japan that make absolutely fucking zero sense if you aren't chronically online enough to be on the X-Play boards then it frankly reads as racist, and if it gets said to a bunch of people who all laugh and cheer because they don't have the background context to tell that it's racist, then congratulations, you've successfully produced racist television for a bunch of stupid gamer teenage boys who are actively learning dumb racist shit from their dumb racist parents. You'd know that if you used the literature degree you allegedly earned and thought about what impact your work would have on your audience instead of whatever masturbatory horseshit you wanted to talk about that day since you knew that you'd always be able to rewrite your whole vapid career later as some kind of intellectual activist project. By the way, the word "intersectionality" would've been taught in your classes when you were studying. No need to pretend it's some silly youth culture thing, "Old Man of 50 Something." But hey, maybe you were gearing up to not be mean to white women on X-Play, a very difficult method of campaigning for the democratization of video games for a white man such as yourself, so I can understand if you didn't have the mental wherewithal to also read a book by a black woman.
Anyway here's your fucking assigned reading, dumbass. You're too chickenshit to read a book by a black woman because you desperately don't want anyone to ask you to do anything more than vote blue and be mean on the internet, so I'm going to give you a book you might like because the author is, like you, a male. Unlike you, he's Jewish. He wrote a very good book called "Cultural Diversity: A Primer for the The Human Services." It's something the grownups do in the place you called their "playpens" to do things like get jobs that matter. I know you wouldn't be familiar with that kind of thing since you have to tag the entirety of your resume with video game horseshit, but the book is genuinely very good and I highly recommend it.
P.S. I actually read books and can very easily tell you weren't quoting Sartre on your tikky tokky video page. Please don't cite books you haven't read, and if you're going to *try* to do that, don't cite them by the author's name alone. That just lets folks know that at best you read their wikipedia page. Maybe the philosophy wiki, but you don't know how the internet works so I don't think you know that exists or how to differentiate it from a wiki on, idk, let's just say final fantasy for shits and giggles and to see how quickly your brain singles in on stupid shit that doesn't matter.
By the way, as long as we're talking about that ridiculous little shitshow that you whine about everywhere, the reason people like me are upset isn't because *we* associate Japan with games you don't like; it's because when people bring up games you don't like, all you can talk about is the country they come from like that fucking matters. I don't know if that's because of some web forum you were a moderator on or something (The xplay boards?) but like, how do you expect me to take you seriously when you get defensive (Yes, Adam, you fucking got defensive about it and no one else's gardens will change that) about language that you used in a review that was objectively racist? Like, it will not hurt you to admit you said a racist thing. "I said a racist thing" is fundamentally not the same sentence as "I am a racist person." In fact, it can even be a really good lesson in how people who are staunchly anti-racist in identity can still find themselves inheriting racist ideas from a society that hasn't primed itself to challenging the ideas it inherited. Like, for example, a movement for Palestinian lives that doesn't consider how the use of the word "Zionist" might rightly make many Jewish people extremely nervous, and how it might actually make people who are on the same side of the political debate isolate from one another not because anyone involved actually has hate, but because one side hasn't demonstrated well enough that it has the tools to detect and root out antisemitism. (The sentence that I just wrote is the one you wanted to write instead of anything else you've written for the past few years, by the way.) That's not me being confused about your politics; I KNOW we vote the same way. We vote blue. "Accent humor" is racist. Period. Like, fucking done. You can't take yourself seriously if you disagree with that, sorry not sorry. There is absolutely no technicality where the statement "Accent humor is racist" is untrue that also fits for the review you made, or where the very, very weird joke/rant/thing that Morgan Webb did talking about nukes wasn't a cavalier "discussion" of the immediate loss of tens of thousands of lives. When my parents were your age that was not a controversial thing to point out that accent humor is racist bullshit. Read that again: When my parents were as young as you are now, the stupid racist bullshit you said to emphasize your personal distaste for some card game you had big feelings over that no one gives a flying fuck about is something they would've been able to point at and say "Wow, that's stupid racist bullshit. I don't want to wait and see if this guy's just kidding or I just don't get it or whatever. There's a million other channels. Change it." And you know what we did? We changed it to fuzz and played Mario 3 and had a good time playing a good game without thinking about the stupid man who was going to pretend he had any kinship with me years later when he decided he could use the largest single act of terrorism against the jewish people since the holocaust to score internet points and say objectifying things about other peoples' mothers, implying he will rape them for money.
You can't even tell me I'm obsessed with you. You literally told me to read your stuff. Here's my fucking review. Sorry it took a while.