Vaelka
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Is RPG Codex really that bad? I remember the rpg.net forums bitching about them being a bunch of bigots and homophobes back in the day. Not that rpg.net is any better. They're just as bad as ResetEra nowadays.
I've visited the RPG Codex once or twice and have seen the occasional edgelord nonsense but for the most part they're hardcore rpg gamers.
As for One Angry Gamer, I've read some of his articles bashing sjw crap in gaming and other media but have been blissfully unaware of his more hardline stuff.
A lot of people were unaware of just how bad OAG was.
Most people don't sit around and obsess over internet drama or keep a notebook on all of the problematic websites and people etc.
There were people mentioned in his articles that actually thought he was a good dude because he said something nice about them because he agreed with them about something.
In reality he was genuinely a real piece of shit who was actually incredibly racist, misogynistic, transphobic, antisemitic etc. Just think of every worst stereotype about '' Gamers '' ever that you see on Resetera or Twitter and that was him but for real.
A lot of people were just fooled by it because they don't like '' SJW's '' either and didn't see the barrage of weird random articles about Jewish conspiracies or him losing his shit over trans characters in random indie games etc or him spamming the N-word everywhere and his alt-right shit.
I used to visit the site every now and again just because I really care a lot about censorship in games and hate it, and usually he'd cover it when it happened and I wanted to know which games had been censored.
That was until I started to see those weird alt-right articles and when I started being spammed by completely non-gaming related political articles, and I also started to look in the comment section and how he was interacting with people.
Think the absolute worst people in gaming chats you've seen but worse.
OAG was the same as Kotaku, Polygon and the other dregs of internet gaming "journalism", just from the other end of the horseshoe.
Good riddance.
Honestly OAG was worse.
That's probably the best credit I could ever give Kotaku, Polygon and VG247.
Which doesn't say a lot in their favor...
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