On July 30, 2019, Brian David Gilbert set out to read every single Halo novel. He has finally unraveled all of them, but it's come at a price: No one wants t...
    • TransTomboy [she/her, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I legitimately cannot hear 'ACAB' without thinking "All Cops Are Bad (At Cuddling)" from his Mortal Combat Comfort video because of him.

      • GreatBearShark [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        lmao he literally makes a joke about military coups. i honestly think he could radicalize a lot of gamers because of the way he talks about these things

    • RindlessWatermelon [they/them,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Most of the Polygon on-camera team (as well as many more less well known staff) were pretty active in the industrial action that was taken against Vox Media a couple years back.

      That's not to say they all are 100% correct abput everything, but none of them are complete libs.

      • Darkmatter2k [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Here's Mat Ombler pushing anti venezuela imperialist pro-war propaganda for the trump administration and its US state department through vox owned polygon:

        https://www.polygon.com/features/2020/5/27/21265613/runescape-is-helping-venezuelans-survive

        Not a single word about sanctions and the thousands of excesses deaths (must be well above 100k now since 2017 was 40k alone), just more "Maduro" is a dictator, feeding the gamer to fash pipline that the right wing has been building for years.

        Again the entire Vox media empire is at best a neo-liberal publication with a large emphasis on pro war imperialism and pro capitalist ideology, any dissent is immediately exercised from the organisation, and as a result they have consistently bad takes.