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Roosh's videogame site (Reaxxion)

Unread postby icycalm » 11 Nov 2014 04:31

http://culture.vg/features/commentary/o ... ming-site/

Haven't been as excited about a new videogame site since Action Button all those years ago. I've no doubt that this will be as worthless in the long run as ABDN has proved to be, but it'll still be fun following it on its journey there (I mean worthlessness).

More details here: http://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-42237.html
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Unread postby icycalm » 11 Nov 2014 04:33

I lolled at this:

Roosh wrote:The emails were sitting in my inbox and gamergate was raging and there was no established site that could speak for those on the side that I knew was right.


I wonder if they'll link me on there. They'll probably be too busy screaming at the fags and posting crappy news and submediocre reviews to have the time to bother.
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Unread postby icycalm » 11 Nov 2014 04:40

And I'll be extremely surprised if it isn't ugly. His blog is ugly, and ROK is little better. Can't wait to see it, and check out the first articles.
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Unread postby icycalm » 13 Nov 2014 00:18

Learn to Reaxion:

http://www.reaxxion.com/

What a name.
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Unread postby icycalm » 13 Nov 2014 00:50

Wow. Roosh destroyed: http://www.theawl.com/2014/11/the-new-i ... -manifesto

There's a lot of bullshit in it, but the magic happens in the last three sentences.

I've said as much on Orgy and will say it again, and with greater clarity.
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Unread postby icycalm » 13 Nov 2014 01:01

Roosh's empty gaming site gets more twits in a couple of days than my book which explains the entire history of art got in four years: https://twitter.com/search?q=reaxxion
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Unread postby icycalm » 13 Nov 2014 01:12

It is all very clear what will happen now. Roosh's site will engage in a never-ending shouting match with all the other sites, flinging insults back and forth to eternity, without either side actually doing anything at all about videogames, since neither of them give a shit about them.
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Unread postby icycalm » 16 Nov 2014 04:00

My reaction to #gamergate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTvGtPag6cc

Hilarious. Gotta love how he tries to wrap his head around what's happening in the videogame space by reaching for analogies from the PUA world. I love his deadpan delivery of the insults too. It sounds all so calm and civilized at first, and then WHAM come the insults when you least expect them. A classic. If only his site wasn't full of casual tripe... I actually thought of sending him my R.I.P., Nintendo essay the other day, but I just didn't want to wait for it to go through his vetting process. I honestly wouldn't mind giving him exclusivity for a few months of new Videogame Culture essays, but we are not on good terms, and I can't be bothered to repair our relations and come to an agreement on the publishing deal before seeing my new essays published.
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Unread postby icycalm » 17 Nov 2014 14:24

Roosh tweeted my article: https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/534094886619066368

The latest commenter in that thread betrays the exact kind of attitude I speak against in my article, and it comes from one of Roosh's most respected contributors to ROK:

Quintus Curtius wrote:@rooshv Pay no mind. Not being a gamer is an advantage, not a drawback, in setting up a gaming site. Yes, you read that correctly.


And he's put up two articles on Reaxxion so far, apart from his introductory one, that are genuinely decent and not casual fodder, so far as I can see, the second one by him:

Civilization: Beyond Earth Shows Firaxis Has Lost Touch
http://www.reaxxion.com/1531/civilizati ... lost-touch

5 Things #Gamergate Is Doing Wrong
http://www.reaxxion.com/1849/5-things-g ... oing-wrong

And that was the latest news from the world of Reaxxion.

Roosh should keep an eye on this thread if he wants to know which of his contributors are actually doing a good job. I will be linking all the decent articles here. His best writer so far is himself, which is actually a good thing for a chief editor to be, but not when he doesn't know anything about the subject matter of his publication.
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Unread postby icycalm » 17 Nov 2014 14:36

Actually, these two aren't bad either:

Jimmy Wales Puts A Stop To #Gamergate Whitewashing On Wikipedia
http://www.reaxxion.com/1601/jimmy-wale ... -wikipedia

5 Reasons Why I’m A Retro Gamer
http://www.reaxxion.com/1442/5-reasons- ... etro-gamer

Chris Bechtloff wrote:Gaming has come a long way, and that’s great. I’m glad games have evolved both technologically and as an art form. But still, I contend that we’ve lost some of the innocence, some of the charm, and some of excitement along the way. Or maybe I’m just getting old.


You're just getting old.
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Unread postby icycalm » 17 Nov 2014 15:08

I wrote:Name: Alex Kierkegaard
Email: icycalm@culture.vg
Date: November 17, 2014 @ 9:06 am
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Hi Roosh,

Here is an article from 2009 exposing "Gamergate", half a decade before anyone got wind of what is happening: http://insomnia.ac/commentary/cocksucki ... ogameland/

Here is Milo Yiannopoulos discovering that article: https://twitter.com/Nero/status/516234351479382016

You have my permission, if you want it, to repost this article on your site, as long as you include a link back to the original. I believe it would be a fitting move, given your site's mission statement, even if it goes against your policy of not reposting content. Either way, it might make an interesting read for you, to learn a bit more about the history of how all this crap began. Take care, and good luck in your endeavors.

-That annoying guy with the stupid philosophy site you banned from RooshV.com
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Unread postby icycalm » 19 Nov 2014 02:41

More good stuff from Reaxxion:

Why Men Will Always Need Games
http://www.reaxxion.com/1881/why-men-wi ... need-games

It's full of mistakes and typical subhuman viewpoints ("this world isn't perfect", etc.), but the message is good, and worlds away from the drivel on Kotaku and co.

And there's general public service articles like this one, that are sorely needed:

Why Does Jennie Bharaj Want $50,000 Of Your Money?
http://www.reaxxion.com/1742/why-does-j ... your-money

It's basically the same sort of thing he publishes on ROK (link, for those who don't know the site), only confined to the videogame sphere. Which pretty much mirrors the subject matter of my own sites, the only difference being that Orgy obliterates ROK, just as Insomnia obliterates Reaxxion.

It's interesting to note also the commonalities of our journeys. We both started from the specialized (he: pick-up, I: videogames), and from that expanded to the general (he: social commentary and pseudo-philosophy, I: philosophy and genius social commentary). But isn't pick-up (i.e. sex) supposed to be healthier than videogames? Then how come my less healthy obsession for videogames led me to a much higher philosophy than his?

But see, the sexual drive is a much lower (i.e. more fundamental) drive than the drive for art, and by the time I started Insomnia in 2005 I had already been having sex with no problems for a decade, while Roosh had to become a PUA merely to lose his virginity in his twenties (I "lost" mine age 17). His entire life has been colored by the fact that he has to actually toil away for weeks and months to get laid, so it is no wonder that he sucks at every other area of life (no interest in sports or art or philosophy, for example).

Roosh is basically a mini version of me, a mini-me lol. That's why I like him so much and I sympathize with his trials and tribulations in this world.
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Unread postby icycalm » 21 Nov 2014 22:31

Reaxxion is definitely fulfilling its MO, as I predicted:

Nintendo: An Unlikely Anti-SJW Hero
http://www.reaxxion.com/2056/nintendo-a ... i-sjw-hero

Kriss James wrote:What really makes Nintendo an anti-SJW hero isn’t the fact that the company is frequently attacked by them but the way they respond. With the exception of the “Miiquality” debacle (which was picked up and amplified by the mainstream media) they’ve consistently ignored their complaints, exposing SJW’s as the lunatic fringe minority that they are while showing other companies that appealing to their actual fans rather than appeasing fake gamers is still a viable approach.

Sometimes they’ve outright trolled SJW’s. Shortly after both Sarkeesian and her puppet master Jonathan McIntosh panned Bayonetta 2 for its “objectification” and use of the “male gaze”, Nintendo announced that they were teaming up with Playboy to promote the game. Palutena’s so-called Stripper Pole Taunt in Smash Bros. 4 might as well represent Nintendo taunting SJWs.


Very informative, enjoyable and well-written article.
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Unread postby Some guy » 19 Sep 2015 17:44

Reaxxion Is Closing
http://www.reaxxion.com/10995/reaxxion-is-closing

Roosh Valizadeh wrote:
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I’ve decided to close Reaxxion after approximately nine months of operation. Traffic has not grown to a level that allows the site to financially sustain itself. We have not been able to consistently surpass 250,000 page views a month.

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I take full blame for the site’s commercial failure. The writers and editor did a great job trying to achieve my vision of what Reaxxion should be, but in spite of that, the growth did not occur. I attribute this failure to creating the site from a spontaneous idea (in response to gamergate) instead of developing it organically based on an actual need. The fact the gamergate continues to be successful and influential in other communities shows that I did not even provide a substantial need to the audience it was intended for.

The success of my own blog, my books, and Return Of Kings comes from fulfilling strong needs that my audience demanded of me, but Reaxxion did not start from the community; it started almost out of impulse. I broke my own rules when launching it, as you can see below from my general business philosophy:

How To Turn Your Passion into Profit (With Roosh V): https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=H5I04YRdXoE

Many of the writers you saw here will be published on Return Of Kings in the future. I thank them all, including the site editor Matt Forney, for putting out great work. We all learned quite a few things from working on Reaxxion and hope that you enjoyed our run.
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Unread postby Some guy » 19 Sep 2015 17:50

From the comments section:

Chance Boudreaux wrote:Too bad, maybe just fold it into a sub-topic of return of kings?


Roosh Valizadeh wrote:Yes that is the plan. You'll see Reaxxion type articles on ROK starting in late August or early September.
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