It's not that unrealistic though, just look at the soviet union (66 million deaths) and Mao (100 million), it clearly works lol.

It's fine if you find it tasteless - that doesn't mean he should have been treated like that.

And most all of those who were extremely wealthy before the great depression remained extremely wealthy afterwards. In fact many of them became even more wealth as they took advantage of those who were truly desperate. Not sure what point you're trying to make here. There doesn't appear to be one at all.

Pretty sums up my stance, he wasn't bad on the Rubin report but his video gaming stuff was way too prententious. 

My point was, they had to give concessions in order to keep their wealth, because if they didn't they could had been overthrown.

And what concessions were those? That they had to become more wealthy than everyone else at a much slower pace while everyone else had to pick up the tatters of their lives?

Those poor 1%ers really got the shitty end of that deal.

Very happy for him. I did a bit of contract work for IGN some years ago and he always seemed like a very nice, respectful guy in person. Years later I ran into him at PSX and he remembered me, happy to contribute to his Patreon.

I'm quite liberal, but it's helpful to have solid perspectives challenging my own, and I've found his input very reasoned, even if that doesn't go well represented on his Twitter. Here's to his success.

I mean, with all of the respect in the world to Colin, most people have games they know so well that they can write guides about them. I can write a fully detailed guide about pretty much every Pokémon game, for example. That doesn't make him knowledgeable with regards to games in general. It just makes him knowledgeable with regards to very specific games that he loves. He was just proactive about writing guides for the ones he likes.

And the PS4/XBO thing has been obvious for years. He didn't present anything new or insightful, though there is merit to presenting known and established information to a new audience. After all, that's essentially all that teaching is.

I bet only a handful of us posters are able to write details guides like he did. I know I can't and I'm sure most can't. Just have a look at his guides on GameFAQs. Listen to his podcasts, especially the ones about the best games on PS for example. I would say he knows gaming about as much as us enthusiasts do.

As a writer yourself, this comes off as a bit... petty. Sure anyone can write guides, but can you write guides so well that it convinces someone to seek you out give you a lucrative and highly sought after job at the biggest video game news site on the planet? Probably not. I know I can't.

Thousands of people genuinely respect his opinion to a point where they're willing to donate their own money to support him personally because they want to continue to hear what he has to say. Surely you have to respect that and recognize that perhaps you're not seeing the bigger picture? No one is saying his opinion is more valuable than others or everything he says can be taken as gospel, but he has a point of view that others are willing to pay to hear. You can't deny that.