Insomnia.ac, trolling 2.0

[pence]

Oh my god, someone on IRC was just telling me that Alex Kierkegaard was an insightful, original voice in games journalism, so I did a quick Google search. Everything that he has published on his website is like a vitriolic message board post; trolling 2.0.

It's amazing how he can take a simple concept that has been discussed ad nauseum (there sure are a lot of bad console games), begin an article with the claim that you must accept his point of view unless you are a 'fag' or a 'retard', and then fill poorly thought-out essays with constant digressions about how the gaming press is broken. Concision is not his strong suit.

Originally Posted by Alex Kierkegaard

Old-timers, hardcore gamers, Japan-hounds: these are the kinds of people this essay is written for (indeed, these are the kinds of people this website is written for). As for everyone else: the lazy kids who whine about the difficulty in such simple games as Ninja Gaiden (the latest one, yes) or Devil May Cry 3; the casual, party gamers with their Wiis and ever-growing collections of gimmicky mini-games; the PlayStation generation that missed out on the medium's golden age and never got a chance to develop good taste in games; the hordes of uncouth, uneducated retards who practically live in videogame forums across the internet, grouping themselves into rival camps of fanboys, unquestioningly loyal -- like dogs -- to a single hardware platform, genre or developer; the "games are art" fags who won't shut up already about ICO and Rez, and who can't even tell the difference between basketball (a game) and the Mona Lisa (art); or the new games journalists and their impressionable adolescent followers who think that some flowery adjectives found in a thesaurus can make up for the fact that they don't have a fucking clue about what it is they are talking about -- as for all these people, as for the masses, yes, I am afraid there is no hope for them. Nothing can be done about it.

Gaze upon the future of journalism, and don't forget to appreciate games correctly. Like Alex.

[PapillonReel]

Man, what a fucktard.

[Parish]

I will never understand the point of creating a link to a website you detest. Especially when you know that doing so is basically saying, "Hey, guy I hate! Check out this referring link and come spread your personality that I hate so much in this other venue!" What are you trying to accomplish, exactly?

Link in OP removed. I'm seriously not in the mood for this brand of pissing contest to pop up around here at the moment.

[pence]

Originally Posted by Parish

I will never understand the point of creating a link to a website you detest. Especially when you know that doing so is basically saying, "Hey, guy I hate! Check out this referring link and come spread your personality that I hate so much in this other venue!" What are you trying to accomplish, exactly?

Link in OP removed. I'm seriously not in the mood for this brand of pissing contest to pop up around here at the moment.

My bad, I got a bit emotional, there. And point taken.

[Tomm Guycot]

I very much enjoy that, if his disclaimer is to be understood, he's saying EVERYONE who's ever played a video game EVER sucks.

[Falselogic]

he certainly sounds like a winner

[Reluctant Hero]

Yeah, I don't agree with a lot of his opinions. But for some reason I've enjoy browsing his site over the past year and a half I've known about it.

[bloodyinkpen]

It's John K in videogamer form!

[Phat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2tSVP-AO6w