Second Wind is the journalist team formerly from The Escapist with a few additions. They cut themselves loose from their contracts to make gaming news and analysis videos independently. This video looks at the outrage cycle that’s evolved around video game releases since the 2010’s
Youtube link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcAXba_Uwmc
Also.
…Does anyone else feel like they spend more time doomscrolling gaming drama than actually playing?
Because this is both my struggle, and observation. I struggle with gathering too muche new, and I know a person that spends more time watching YT play sessions than they actually play.
Personally, I stick to the subscribed / following tabs on social media. The “discovery” or “recommended” tabs are where madness lies, where the algorithm is trying to get you angry so that you can’t look away.
Link is dead for me:
Here is their Patreon link with an embed, for those struggling like me:
https://www.patreon.com/SecondWindGroup/posts/every-game-is-167306401
It seems you’re right. I had tried an imbed link this time and that’s apparently a no-go. I’ll add more to the post. Thank you
Tried it again… all 8 sources are down.
This is the thing I dont get about invidious, TBH. A YouTube proxy is never going to work unless its self hosted. Wouldnt it make more sense to use an alt YT client plus a VPN?
Im not blaming you or the hosts/devs or anything, but it just seems like a impossible war for these instances.
Hmm. I am on a VPN and used those links with browsers and newpipe. This might be region locked fuckery. I tend to get the most video mobility by using S. America servers like Panama and Chile that aren’t in places that disclose to the fifteen eyes counties.
I’ll see if any Second Wind content has found its way out into peertube but that’s hit or miss. Do you recommend anything in particular?
Actually, I tried again, and it seems to work on my desktop! But it still doesn’t work on my iOS phone. It must be some specific incompatibility with mobile?
No, I got no recommendations for an alternative, unfortunately.
Devs are also contending with the issue because they pivot from any originality to make safe games in a popular genre du jour and then cynically overmonetize it. Chuds are a loud minority, but other gamers also haven’t bought Marathon, it’s not just online negativity that’s the problem because that has never impacted sales to any significant degree. It’s just that games are well enshittified and have become a bad value proposition and also everyone has libraries full of better games from times they were a better value proposition and also indie publishers have sprung that are doing a great job and prioritizing fun / quality.
Shit, I like gaming, especially since Linux became the default platform, but with a library of 1.5k+ titles in my family group, I’d have to be stupid to buy fucking GTAVI day one from the CEO that hates both games and me personally.
You could also not buy GTA6 and not be outraged about it.
Absolutely what I’m doing
Following gaming news has become increasingly exhausting in the last decade. GamerGate has never truly ended, its shadow’s been pervasive of the entire discourse on videogames for years. Every AAA game is an excuse to rant about the (perceived) political agenda of its writers or the art team or whatever.
I disagree with the final take of the video, though. While moderation and companies taking a stance is certainly necessary, the main problem is that the social media algorithm feeds on this kind of discourse and amplifies it because it increases engagement. There can never be enough moderation to silence these trolls because you cannot moderate all platforms and all places, and the trolls outnumber the developers (and with AI on the rise, the numbers are even more stacked in favour of online trolls).
There will be no solution to this problem for as long as social media is run the way it is at the moment.True that. And I think I agree with you, I remember the thing that really cemented developers taking fat L’s for a bad product was the catharsis generated by videos like The Internet Historian’s takedowns on F76 and No Man’s Sky. It was addictive, people loved seeing bad practices getting punished in a narrative and I think a lot of us are still chasing that high as a way of handling economic disenfranchisement that that we can’t otherwise do anything about.
Which is a deadly feature of social media.
