It seems I’ve gotten the attention of a few people when I made a story about Kotaku’s stealing, plagiarizing, whatever you want to call it, of the Smarthouse story (or was it the other way around, I’m not even sure anymore). The N4G moderators felt the need to censor the story after it reached 530 degrees, and someone who we won’t name but his comments about the story are here.

Thing is, though, when you really look at this situation, it is just one of the many that I have faced since I have opened the site: so many don’t want the media outlets that they know don’t do the right thing being called out. It’s annoying and ridiculous, and it has to really stop, because the gaming industry and the gaming public has had enough of being lied to.

When I began this site, I had one goal in mind before all else: being able to catch game companies and the gaming media doing the wrong thing, calling them out, and then hoping that they get the message. I’m sure the likes of Kotaku, GameDaily, and Ars Technica were probably being in a bad mood when they found out that their words wouldn’t go without them having to take responsibility for them.

However, it does come to pass when the gaming media just piles it on, and then the gaming public just accepts it. Like the N4G user blog I showed you. The user didn’t even give the story about the story fairly. I didn’t say that I knew 100% that Kotaku was the one stealing the story. Hell, anyone could tell that Smarthouse’s story about the PS3 announcement was dated after Kotaku’s. However, that being said, neither story referenced the other, so I knew something was off. That and Kotaku did something similar before. It only added fuel to the fire. If you are accused of doing something and someone else sees that the same crime is being committed again, and the same person might be involved, who are you going to consider as a suspect? The person that did the crime last because you know they are capable of committing the action.

So really, who the hell can blame anyone for suspecting that Kotaku stole the story somehow? If they didn’t, then Brian Credente should come forth and say that they didn’t. I would gladly post his response on here, and I would gladly apologize if it was truthful, and I think Credente would have more integrity than to just let such an accusation go without responding to it himself, since it IS his site.

But see, this has been the way it has been lately. Kotaku and the rest of the media whores have been so anti-Sony (and I know a few other sites have been too anti-MS/Nintendo, but I’ll discuss my reasoning of focusing on anti-Sony stuff later) that they think that anything Sony related has to be bad. I’ve made a Special Comment about it before that the PS3/Sony hate HAS to stop. The system isn’t going anywhere, and the people that want it to fail for some odd reason really have it in for the system.

Seriously, there is one main reason I’m standing by my Kotaku story: Because I, and I would suspect everyone else, has had enough of the bullshit that these media outlets put up. This goes on because we, the gamers, allow it to happen, and yes, I myself am guilty of not being tough enough on these people to do the right thing. I’m not looking for hits on my website, though they are nice to have. When I was accusing Torrence Davis of the Bitbag of not being at the GDC08 Blogger Breakfast last year (which I apologize for assuming, as it was more because I didn’t think Microsoft would admit to so much BS in their meeting without expecting a bunch of laughter erupting. I now know Microsoft WOULD), I didn’t do it because I was trying to get attention. I did it because I thought that it was true. I knew I was onto something there, and because of the backlash I got, I knew I hit a nerve. Probably because, for what it’s worth and with all due respect to the work they do over there, they were never challenged like that before, at least not to my knowledge.

However, anymore you see people like the HipHopGamer being blasted like God knows what for things that he says. Why? What in the hell did he ever do to deserve racist comments towards him? He’s running a gaming site, not being a pedophile. No one said you had to agree with him, but he’s asking that you respect his wishes and talk to HIM about the disagreeing. Yet it’s the same thing every time.

And it’s the same thing with these media whores and those who defend them. We have VGChartz (who are such pathological liars that they could pass a lie detector test with nothing but lies) posting their latest software sales charts. What’s missing? Killzone 2. What do we do? Praise it. Why? Because it’s what we want to hear: Killzone 2 didn’t chart. It was Sony’s ace-in-the-hole, and it didn’t chart. But any other time, we would never believe a word that came from the site. It’s what we want to hear.

When someone comes out with another “gloom and doom” story for the PS3, we condone it, but we don’t take a RROD article (as sickening as it is to see one of those anyway) without a fight. Why? It’s what we want to hear.

Why is it? Why are we so fixated on seeing these anti-Sony articles? I’m sure that there are so many anti-MS articles that make heads spin, but it has become common knowledge that if you have an anti-Sony article, you are in a sense, “fighting the bad guys”.

And here’s why we have Kotaku, GameDaily, Ars Technica, AnalogHype, and the other media whores that are too plentiful to mention hating on Sony so much: Ken Kutaragi. That’s your only reason. Remember what he said on the Playstation 3’s launch? People would get another job to pay for a PS3. Yes, that was incredibly stupid to say, and yes, he should’ve been reprimanded for the crap he spewed during all that. However, does it seem like Sony is STILL paying for that mistake from the media, even when the man who said that shit had since stepped down, probably BECAUSE of those comments that many in Sony, even, probably were shocked to hear him say? Why is this? They’ve learned their lesson, and now they have done steps to try to restore that image.

Yet we see these idiots continue to try to turn a good story into a bad one for Sony. Anything they come out with has to be written about in a negative light. How many stories have we seen say that firmware 2.7 sucked? Now, how many of those people were the ones that HYPED the son of a bitch? Right. Sony didn’t say that 2.7 had everything and a bag of chips. The media did, and when the FW didn’t, they blamed Sony. Twisted, isn’t it?

But it gets worse. How many times on N4G have you commented on one of these types of stories that were submitted only to have the phrase “Sony Defense Force” or “Sony fanboy” thrown at you? I’ve lost count of how many times it’s been thrown at me just because I defend them on this site so much (maybe a bit too much, I probably should admit). Let me give you something, FYI: the “Sony Defense Force” site was made as a parody by Microsoft fanboys. I personally think that they are a stain on the fabric of the gaming industry. They are not gamers in any form of respect, and I feel like I have to take a fucking shower every time I go to that place. That being said, however, not everyone that ever comments on an anti-Sony article to say that the article is wrong is a SDF member, and a group of people doing that doesn’t match to a SDF attack. It’s ridiculous to think that, because it’s only a distraction to the real issues.

Thing is, it has come to this with us: Gamer is no longer a label or anything else. It’s become a brand name. We hold trademarks on it now. Certain people hold claim to the brand name, and whoever disagrees with them is a fanboy for the system they don’t like. One side does that while the other side responds in ways that no one could ever see coming. It goes back and forth, and it gets nastier and nastier, to the point where, no joke, we start having people telling us that we should kill ourselves because they don’t like the opinions we make. It’s even worse when the people requesting the suicide are the ones that are a part of the media whores (I’m looking at you, AnalogHype).

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