• GAME_JAM: how Polaris' 400-thousand-dollars reality show about indie game devs crashed and burned in
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[QUOTE=Life On Mars;44420032]Hope that Jontron guy has his youtube account banned or something, he's a faggot and doesn't deserve any money like the rest of the youtube money making faggots. they're all the same.[/QUOTE] Did you just use the phrase "they're all the same" unironically?
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44420231]Alright, I went and read the entire article (quite well written, worth pointing out, kudos to the guy who wrote it). I was pretty fucking baffled by the entirety of it. Hard to believe. Pretty fucking incredible. I hope Matti will end up flipping burgers now. He's not worthy of any higher responsibility job.[/QUOTE] I doubt it, he owns a company of his own and only got hired as a middleman for Pepsi. If he can slink away and hide behind his brand he'll unfortunately be back in business soon.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44420231]Alright, I went and read the entire article (quite well written, worth pointing out, kudos to the guy who wrote it). I was pretty fucking baffled by the entirety of it. Hard to believe. Pretty fucking incredible. I hope Matti will end up flipping burgers now. He's not worthy of any higher responsibility job.[/QUOTE] Matti won't get out of a job. He did exactly what he was supposed to do but he did it in presence of people who were obviously not willing to play ball with his bullshit. People like him are hundreds in the media industry because that's what they're paid to do : stir up shit and find drama that's filmable and turnable into something profitable.
I would [I]kill[/I] to see just a few clips of what got actually recorded. Edited, unedited, anything.
How is it THIS hard to make a proper show about making video games? Seriously, people online do it for free all the fucking time and it probably turns out 9 times out of 10 better than this. I feel bad for everyone that had to put up with this shit.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;44420911]How is it THIS hard to make a proper show about making video games? Seriously, people online do it for free all the fucking time and it probably turns out 9 times out of 10 better than this. I feel bad for everyone that had to put up with this shit.[/QUOTE] Read the story. It was conceived by one group of people, then the project got bigger and bigger money got involved. New people were brought in to run the bigger project. Meanwhile, the sponsors' guy asserted himself in order to keep the sponsors interests front and center. So there's at least three separate parties trying to run this, each of which has its own agenda, of course it imploded.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;44420911]How is it THIS hard to make a proper show about making video games? Seriously, people online do it for free all the fucking time and it probably turns out 9 times out of 10 better than this. I feel bad for everyone that had to put up with this shit.[/QUOTE] In order to make most reality shows work, they need forced drama. The average person doesn't really care about this, so they have to force even more drama. Except it's not survivor or something, the contestants need to actually concentrate, and getting some stupid hollywood trash in to force drama wouldn't work. I think having something really small might work, but I don't know why it would need to be a reality show.
Most reality shows depend on the characters displaying ridiculous/silly/pitiful behaviour in the first place. These people, however, are actually doing something interesting. Besides, from what I gather, this was ~supposed~ to be more like a cooking show than scripted reality.
I bet my ass that if you didn't know about that guy and saw his picture you wouldn't mind the slightest thing.
[URL="http://www.twitch.tv/totalbiscuit"]Co-optional Podcast Talking about it atm.[/URL]
Matti looks [I]evil[/I], I expected the guy to be some 27 year old scrawny dude with tons of hair gel that got the job because his dad's a big boss in whatever company he works at. [QUOTE=BuDSpOoNce;44416959]hahaha holy shit he could not possibly look like more of an asshole[/QUOTE] the article did mention an ecig and a fedora, though...
[QUOTE=proch;44422139]I bet my ass that if you didn't know about that guy and saw his picture you wouldn't mind the slightest thing.[/QUOTE] Honestly if I saw him and didn't know anything about him I'd say he looked pretty friendly.
Am I the only one who doesn't care about how he looks?
[QUOTE=Kagrs;44418311]I looked up Josh Mattingly because I was wondering the same thing. That dude left Indiestatik because of [URL="http://kotaku.com/reporter-apologizes-for-crude-sexual-comments-to-female-1505393796"]some pretty fucked up shit[/URL]. I love how everyone just walked off. Lots of respect for not going through with this kind of bullshit.[/QUOTE] Is that why Jesse Cox hasn't done a Greenlight video with Josh in forever? I always wondered what happened to that as I hadn't heard anything about him or Josh hanging out or doing anything that pertains to Greenlight.
The whole thing should've just been a friendly documentary on a live game jam.
[QUOTE=Diet Kane;44418549]he's a big guy[/QUOTE] For you
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