| Slimebeast said: Holy smoke, 182 comments on the Destructoid.com article in the OP, in addition to the 85 comments on the original blog article. And this thread will get at least 500 posts since madskillz is one of our own boys. Anybody found the Digg count yet? (Im not familiar with that stuff) |
Hey folks. Truth be told, and I am only gonna reveal it here - we have had at least 300 comments on the blog entry. We had to delete a lot of them with swear words, racist and derogatory comments. We are a newspaper blog - and can't let a lot of stuff through.
The blog was my opinion on how games appear to be heading. It wasn't an attempt to get hits, attention or the like. I was merely pointing out what I could see hapening with folks. I do appreciate folks reading the original article - and not just hearsay - which folks were doing - and then commenting.
What really stirred up the hornet's nest was my comment about the Confederacy. Folks claimed I didn't know what I was talking about. Mind you, I am well-versed in history and fully understood - as I mentioned in the article - that Lincoln wanted to preserve the Union - to stop the states from seceding. That was the purpose of the Civil War. I am a product of the South - and yes, there were some knuckleheads on the Union side - but Jim Crow and the like are a Southern delicacy. I grew up in this for most of my life - and it's apparent from the thousands of responses the blog entry received that it's alive and well, as I have known for years.
Regardless, what I find funniest is - how one person's opinion can get thousands of responses. It's a nonstory that the pros @ Destructoid used - pimped to get hits. Major hits. Google Houston gaming racist or racism and see what you get. Yeah - I know, it's scary.
In the end, folks, it's my observation - and just my opinion.
Thanks for my 15-minutes of notoriety. 
