Blah blah Avatar, 3D sucks blue cat people DAE no cultural impact?? Can you remember any character names??
but seriously it was bold as fuck for someone like James Cameron to make something so blatantly anti-US-military at a time when literally the entirety of Hollywood was united in jerking off American imperialism. It was not the least bit subtle and that makes it all the more impressive that Cameron was able to make a pointed takedown of Iraq-era militarism on such a scale.
Didn't Jack and a few others end up separating a bit from RLM to be a bit more openly leftist on other platforms?
Not really. Jack, like Josh and Tim, has never been an employee at RLM- they're just friends and appear whenever they can. I do get a sense that Jack wasn't entirely happy that Previously Recorded, his video game review show/Twitch channel he hosted with Rich ended (from what I understand mostly due to Rich getting burned out on live streaming) and that he wanted to do more in the video game/content creation space (he's just a guest on RLM, they're not his shows) which is why he ended up at The Escapist. His lessened appearances as of late can probably be chalked up to coronavirus + him being busy with Escapist stuff.
He is more politically vocal on Twitter than any of the others in the RLM crew though, which is why RLM's chuddier fans regularly get mad at him for things he says about nerd culture war hot button issues.
Also, a funny sidenote regarding The Escapist and leftist content- around the time GamerGate happened, the site's old shitty management put all their eggs in what would become the alt-right basket and went full pro-GamerGate. In fact, on the Escapist forums the site's owner (who I believe went on to work for Peter Thiel or something) would tell users to read up on cultural marxism and white replacement.
The editorial staff and talents were left-leaning liberals though but the aforementioned shitty management's awful treatment of anyone that wasn't Yahtzee Croshaw had caused them to hemorrhage most of them (including Jim Sterling) so the owners decided to go mask off and hoped to capitalize on the burgeoning fascist-curious nerd market. It didn't pay off, and after a number of years circling the drain solely sustained by Zero Punctuation, the site was bought out by some of the old staff who used to work on it and they hired new talents including Jack Packard. (They also hired back Moviebob but he was let go in less than a year :michael-laugh: )
To be fair though, The Escapist is and has always been pretty much the Zero Punctuation channel- if you look at their Youtube views, ZP gets hundreds of thousands or the occasional over a million views per episode while everything else is lucky to break 10,000
I have never seen a guy on the net who was more openly self destructive than moviebob. Guy needs a thread in The dunk tank and I shall be the one to do it one of these days