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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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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.
Don't worry, Sess. Trump will right this wrong.