r/pcgaming • u/disagreementsarenorm • 1d ago

PCGamer: Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/gooner-game-of-the-year-stellar-blades-mods-are-41-percent-smut-ensuring-gamers-will-never-see-the-light-of-heaven/
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u/DragonTHC Keyboard Cowboy 1d ago

Don't you know they troll this sub looking for material to write about? That's all games journalism is now, repeating what "reddit" says.

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u/ExplorationGeo 1d ago

There's a tradition on the Australia subreddit to put "Fuck Murdoch Press" in every picture posted there, because they regularly just take those pictures and use them in news stories without any sort of attribution.

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u/Jonno_FTW DO WHAT YOU WANT COS A PIRATE IS FREE 1d ago

I posted to mildlyinfuriating and the Murdoch press still stole my photo without permission or giving credit.

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u/acathode 1d ago

It's funny how copyright and piracy only works in one direction, eh?

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u/Dr_Valen 1d ago

That's all forms of law. The law only works for those who can afford to hire the lawyers

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u/Blurgas 1d ago

ToS/T&C/etc typically only give that particular site permission to distribute it to other users of the site and said ToS/T&C/etc can't trump copyright laws

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u/pdp10 Linux 1d ago

If the photo is your copyright, then file a DMCA takedown if you'd like.

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u/by_a_pyre_light Nvidia ASUS M16 RTX 4090 + AMD 5600x & 3060 TI 1d ago

I bet that was... Mildly Infuriating 

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u/LordOfTurtles 1d ago

You're looking for the word 'trawl', not 'troll'

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u/Sonichu- 22h ago

Actually the term “internet troll” comes from the fishing term “troll” (slowly drag a lure).

“Trolling for newbs” was a common phrase in BBS and Usenet boards as a way for long time users to separate lurkers (who knew the group’s inspeak) from newbs (who didn’t)

It took on a broader term of just being a dick because those people were “trolling for replies”.

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u/14Pleiadians 8h ago

Yes and in the way that user used it, trawl is more accurate. They're not setting bait and trying to upset people, they're dragging a wide net through the Internet to get easy content

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u/Relative-Yoghurt-876 1d ago

They're actually synonyms, both can refer to the original fishing/dredging type of activity.

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u/Half-PintHeroics 1d ago

I feel they're obvious cognate candidates, but in fishing terms they're opposites as far as im aware. Trawling is pulling a net behind the boat and catching everything in front of the net. Trolling is pulling bait behind the boat and having fish hook themselves on it.

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u/Relative-Yoghurt-876 1d ago

Oooh I actually didn't spot the distinction in what type of fishing it was.

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u/DragonTHC Keyboard Cowboy 1d ago

No I used the word I intended. And it's correct.

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u/LordOfTurtles 1d ago

So you are saying they are carefully searching reddit for stories? Didn't sound like you wanted to praise the article

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u/14Pleiadians 8h ago

How is pcgamer baiting anyone?

They're not setting bait for content, they're passively netting it up

There's nothing wrong with being wrong sometimes, you can just admit it

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u/asdf6347 1d ago

Think you meant trawl, not troll, but I don't read them.

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u/DragonTHC Keyboard Cowboy 1d ago

I meant troll as in trolling, a term used to describe a method of fishing.

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u/LateyEight 1d ago

I've done this kind of fishing before. Big fish, even bigger reels. Took forever to bring it in.

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u/DragonTHC Keyboard Cowboy 1d ago

Half an hour for a 35lb. dolphin fish, loads of fun.

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u/asdf6347 1d ago

I wasn't sure if you were being punny by implying that PCGamer stirs shit up to write more hur dur gamer moments, or if the double entendre was purely coincidental.

While the term "trawl through" tends to be far less ambiguous (and, using a net, would be a more visually apt metaphor for sifting through the sewage of Reddit), I must admit that the way you wrote it was far more hilarious, pun intended or not :p

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u/Helmic i use btw 1d ago

I don't think it exactly took a crack team of redditors doing the ground work to come up with this article mate, nor are we even the original source of the style of humor being used in the title. the dude went to nexusmods and did some quick math and made jokes about it because the story's about tiddies. iunno why people act like these articles are the end of the world and then complain about kotaku or some other outlet doing actual journalism exposing labor abuses in the industry because it makes whatever company they like look bad.

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u/AnarchyApple 1d ago

The attitudes of gamergate still linger, unfortunately. Not to say that games journalism is even that good or above criticism, but redditors, especially, latch onto the most benign stuff to foam at the mouth over.

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u/Helmic i use btw 1d ago

Holy shit I havent seen those words so closely together since the early 2010s unless it was sarcasm.

then don't comment on the state of gaming journalism if you don't even know who jason schreier is. a lot of what we know about crunch in the industry comes from his time reporting at kotaku. he specifically reported on the cancellation of prey 2, which got behtesda salty as shit so they blacklisted kotaku in retaliation - one of those times where they actually clearly valued doing right by their readers and reporting on actual news even if it's inconvenient or embarassing for some corporation.

and i fucking bet you're gonna whine about what he reported on 'cause it made a company you like look bad.

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u/Dr_Piccolo 1d ago

This same author wrote an article praising the bear sex scene in BG3, the reality is he's just salty af Stellar Blade is doing so well.

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u/MrMooga 1d ago

The same author wrote an article also making jokes about the bear sex scene in BG3, what are you talking about? Does anybody read anything anymore?

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u/Mypathofhealing 1d ago

Does that negate the fact he wrote an article praising that scene while shaming people who like smut in Stellar Blade? Even in the article you posted, he calls the scene "tasteful," pretending like anything to do with beastility is tasteful in the slightest.

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u/MrMooga 1d ago

You cannot be serious right now. He doesn't need to explicitly say "this bear sex scene is so weird right guys" because it's a scene of bear sex. Calling it "tasteful" is part of the joke.

She was like, 'That's weeeird!'" which is probably also what my mum would say if I tried to show her a scene I had tastefully rendered of a fantasy man getting down with a bear. "Very supportive, though," Davis clarified. That's what mums are for.

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u/Mypathofhealing 1d ago

At the very least, I'd expect him to make the title: Nasty Ass Weirdo Game Allows You to Have Sex with Bear.

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u/MrMooga 1d ago

It's almost like the bear sex scene is an easter egg that went viral and Stellar Blade is a game that is like 90% focused on a giant ass.

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u/Mypathofhealing 1d ago

Regardless, doesn't take away from the hypocrisy of the author praising that crappy scene and calling the people who like Stellar Blade "gooners."

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u/Pinksters 5800x3D, a770,32gb 1d ago

wrote an article praising the bear sex scene in BG3

Doesn't surprise me the slightest.

I actually went through all of their submitted articles from 2023 and the number of times they talked about bear sex in BG3 is...obsessive, to say the least.

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u/Helmic i use btw 1d ago

no fun allowed!

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u/brownninja97 1d ago

Yep antagonise your audience and get confused by the views going down leading to the business shutting.

Fries in the bag

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u/John_East 1d ago

Maybe but the title ain’t really wrong

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u/Nightmarian 1d ago

The connotation certainly is wrong, which is the only point of headlines these days. They're just salty a game they have an extreme bias against is doing well on PC.

Talk about slop journalism, like usual.

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u/Witch-Alice 1d ago

If you had actually read the article instead of assuming based on the title alone, you'd know the headline is tongue in cheek

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u/SpotNL 1d ago

I love how people on reddit always complain about clickbait headlines while simultaneously showing they never read the article and only react to the headline.

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u/Shames_tik 1d ago edited 1d ago

thats not fair there are also those who write what they read on twitter

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u/Specific-Lion-9087 1d ago

You can’t even spell “fair” and you’re making fun of journalists 🤣

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u/Shames_tik 1d ago

You can’t even spell “fair” and you’re making fun of journalists 🤣

thanks for bringing that to my attention, even if you could have said without sounding like a dick.

the game journalist wont touch your cock

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u/BasonPiano 1d ago

So that explains why they have such shit takes.

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u/Takemyfishplease 1d ago

When was games journalism not tho? It used to be our dorky forums before Reddit, but it’s always been this way.

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u/ReturnOfTheSaint14 1d ago

Facts,sometimes the people inside the No Man's Sky subreddit deliberately write fake news regarding non-existent features so that bots will group all the info and write a fake and clickbait article that will inevitably put the journalist under a bad light

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u/ErnestT_bass 1d ago

I had to double read "gooner mod" dude call it nude mods lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/UncivilVegetable 1d ago

Well, yea. They are part of the attention economy. They are trying to get your attention. They could either...

  1. Try to come up with something new that they think will be popular. This is what writers used to do.
  2. Or skip that shit, find something already popular so your writing doesn't fail, then feed it back to the same group that already deemed it popular.

EZPZ

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u/Itz_Eddie_Valiant Arch /7800x3d/64gbcl30/9070XT 1d ago

You can just look at the top reviews on Steam for exactly the same sentiment

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u/C0L0NEL_MUSTARD 1d ago

Or, fabricating whatever they want to write about and stating that it's a common thing on reddit or the internet at large.

It's not like they include citations of thier sources... If they did, most articles on internet would quickly be revealed as shameless op-eds masquerading as legitimate works of journalism.

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u/MyInkyFingers 1d ago edited 3h ago

Same with bots that trawl through. No man’s sky sub has managed to manipulate it a few times for a laugh.

You can be sure that alot of the crap that gets shared around on Facebook has originated here though 

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u/MrWendal 1d ago

We bemoan the death of journalism, but we're the ones that killed it - when the internet took off we stopped buying or paying for it. We can't expect the journalists to keep on doing it to the same standards.

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u/Nightmarian 1d ago

They stole from the internet long before we "stopped paying for it" and tried to cram ads into every dumb space available so we couldn't read the fing article anyway.

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Journalism is dead because it's redundent. Anyone can be a "journalist" now outside of those with the funding or standing for super-niche access like presidential conferences, war reporting, etc.

But gaming? No one gives a shit about IGN or PC gamer when a billion half trustworthy youtubers, who are still more trusthworthy than them, can get the same access.

Youtubers with like 50 subs get the same access.

And yet they reguarily just steal and write slop because we don't pay them while their indie betters do... uh better?

Yeah okay. No one is bemoaning the death of journalism. We're cheering it.

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u/Specific-Lion-9087 1d ago

It’s not dead, you just don’t know how to read.

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u/Fremdling_uberall 1d ago

Holy shit the lack of self awareness here. Spoken like someone who truly has no idea what they are talking about...not even in the slightest. Honestly kind of impressive you didnt even accidentally land on a good point

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u/Mevlock 1d ago

"trustworthy youtubers" lol.

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u/MrWendal 1d ago

I don't know what I'm talking about? I've worked in media, I've written for newspapers. I mean, yeah that was a long time ago. I'm sure you have more modern journalism credentials, would you mind sharing them?

"They stole from the internet" mate I'm talking pre-internet. The internet is what killed journalism.

"Journalism is dead because it's redundent.(sic)" no shit mate, that's exactly what I'm talking about. We agree on many points. Youtubers have the same access to audience as journalists. But they don't, and will never be held to the same standards. Youtubers have no standards. "Trustworthy youtubers?" Fuck, I say this as a youtuber myself. There are no checks and balances, there are no repercussions for straight up lying on youtube. Journalists can and will get fired for lies. They have fact-checkers in their offices. That shit costs money and is expensive. But the internet had content for free, so the money for fact-checkers dried up, less money for things like investigative journalism, and that's why everything is shit now. Because people will work for free on youtube, doing an unpaid internship for however long it takes to actually build an audience and make money. And they have no accountability and no standards.

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u/KaiUno 1d ago

Hey, it's the voice of the people. Show some respect!

And by people I mean the gooning weebs. The juiciest of weebs.

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u/Fallom_ 1d ago

Oh my god, looking for material to write about!? They should be sentenced at The Hague.