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Drama Brandon Orselli & Niche Gamer: A tale of cowardice, negligence and One Angry Revolt.

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A personal tale of a long-time Niche Gamer reader's interactions with founder Brandon Orselli.

NretsewThePerv

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So there's been a bit of an update recently:


Brandon is now charging money for access to Niche Gamer's comment section. 'True free speech' is what he claims to offer.

dont know if you can call it "free" speech if you have to pay money for it lmao

ok, shitty wordplay aside I guess the money is not really rolling in for niche as of late. kinda understandable as their rep has had a fucken nosedive. so tbh none of this shocks me.

I have to wonder if there is even any interest in such a news site anymore. I think most people are getting most of their news from youtube and Twitter osmosis as of late. having a dedicated news site is better in terms of archival. but I feel like the format has grown less useful for me over time. but maybe that's just me. all I know is a bearly even go to niche or any news site anymore
 

Ebicentre

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dont know if you can call it "free" speech if you have to pay money for it lmao

ok, shitty wordplay aside I guess the money is not really rolling in for niche as of late. kinda understandable as their rep has had a fucken nosedive. so tbh none of this shocks me.

I have to wonder if there is even any interest in such a news site anymore. I think most people are getting most of their news from youtube and Twitter osmosis as of late. having a dedicated news site is better in terms of archival. but I feel like the format has grown less useful for me over time. but maybe that's just me. all I know is a bearly even go to niche or any news site anymore
As someone who is working on a video talking about Sony's censorship policy, I can vouch for the existence of news sites for the simple fact that I can provide archived evidence. You have no idea how hard it is to find One Angry Gamer articles from before Billy sold it off, because the new owners deleted almost everything he wrote.
 

NretsewThePerv

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As someone who is working on a video talking about Sony's censorship policy, I can vouch for the existence of news sites for the simple fact that I can provide archived evidence. You have no idea how hard it is to find One Angry Gamer articles from before Billy sold it off, because the new owners deleted almost everything he wrote.
indeed. as I said I can agree from the archival standpoint

but im looking at form a more... how to say I put it. "normie end user" kinda view. why would people go to a news site for news they could get faster and elsewhere by just following the right people on youtube/Twitter? as depressing as that sounds

and it's a shame billy went off the deep end and we lost a lot of his more classic reporting
 

Ebicentre

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indeed. as I said I can agree from the archival standpoint

but im looking at form a more... how to say I put it. "normie end user" kinda view. why would people go to a news site for news they could get faster and elsewhere by just following the right people on youtube/Twitter? as depressing as that sounds

and it's a shame billy went off the deep end and we lost a lot of his more classic reporting
It's easy to forget that not everyone uses Twitter. And YouTube presents its own problem when creators spend half their videos promoting themselves - 'Click Like and Subscribe' and all that shit.
 

Migi

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So there's been a bit of an update recently:


Brandon is now charging money for access to Niche Gamer's comment section. 'True free speech' is what he claims to offer.
I saw it two days ago. I think he had a better chance when Free Speech was under attack, but at that moment he sold his own readers out by caving into the whole woke crowd.
It's pretty pathetic that he's begging his readers for money to simply use their free speech.
As someone who is working on a video talking about Sony's censorship policy, I can vouch for the existence of news sites for the simple fact that I can provide archived evidence. You have no idea how hard it is to find One Angry Gamer articles from before Billy sold it off, because the new owners deleted almost everything he wrote.
The "wayback machine" has some, but is tiresome to use and very slow. I tried to find some more of his articles or somebody who backed up the shit, but it's not easy.
 

Ebicentre

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I saw it two days ago. I think he had a better chance when Free Speech was under attack, but at that moment he sold his own readers out by caving into the whole woke crowd.
It's pretty pathetic that he's begging his readers for money to simply use their free speech.
I think at the time, not a lot of people would've been willing to pay money for something we've used for free since the Internet began. Nowadays people are more receptive to Walled Gardens, but we still rely on leftist infrastructures for that stuff.

The "wayback machine" has some, but is tiresome to use and very slow. I tried to find some more of his articles or somebody who backed up the shit, but it's not easy.
I've been using it religiously for a while, mostly because Archive(dot)whatever has a lot of connection issues for me.
 

Migi

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I think at the time, not a lot of people would've been willing to pay money for something we've used for free since the Internet began. Nowadays people are more receptive to Walled Gardens, but we still rely on leftist infrastructures for that stuff.
Personally, I would be willing to pay until the left wing oppressive structures van been dismantled, and we have a more free speech orientated society. I think there are more people like that, but I would like full free speech and no limitations pushed on it. In general, free speech should be a given, but these days with all those left wing groups and organizations it's looking to be something precious and rare in the future.
I've been using it religiously for a while, mostly because Archive(dot)whatever has a lot of connection issues for me.
I know what you mean, it keeps freezing on me to a point where I can barely navigate it.
 
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PhantomXero1x

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I used to really enjoy niche gamer for covering all the good Japanese stuff but now, they've fallen from grace quite hard sadly.
 

PhantomXero1x

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just noticed nicchiban has folded over into niche gamer, not surprised really since most of it was really just seasonal shit just to follow the hype
 

versvlees

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I do wonder how the comment section looks like behind that paywall. Just wanna know out of curiosity :anime-think: If there is any one commenting at all :ohohoh:
 

AizomeNoel69

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Who fucking knew that so many of these former Pro-GG " News Outlets " were Venom-Inducing Snakes and Grifters all along. They never fucking cared about Fighting SJW scumbags and winning , their entire goal was the Grift and to actually sabotage people who WANTED to " FIGHT AND WIN BIG " against Anti-Japanese Racist Scumbag SJW and Tradcucks who wanted to destroy and censor Otaku Hobbies.
 

PhantomXero1x

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Who fucking knew that so many of these former Pro-GG " News Outlets " were Venom-Inducing Snakes and Grifters all along. They never fucking cared about Fighting SJW scumbags and winning , their entire goal was the Grift and to actually sabotage people who WANTED to " FIGHT AND WIN BIG " against Anti-Japanese Racist Scumbag SJW and Tradcucks who wanted to destroy and censor Otaku Hobbies.
The best thing we can do as individuals is create our own shit, to combat against right leaning and left leaning urinalism as tradweebs are as big time hypocrites as the left leaning "anime fans" are.
 

AizomeNoel69

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The best thing we can do as individuals is create our own shit, to combat against right leaning and left leaning urinalism as tradweebs are as big time hypocrites as the left leaning "anime fans" are.
Yes both the Pax types and Commie/Xyzern types are equally scumbags. I noticed there does seem to be an unwritten form of alliance ( as there always has been ) between the Trad-Fascists and SJW Communists even more recently when it comes to going after Otakus and Japanese Culture.
 
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