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Well, looks like we are launching a bit earlier than originally planned. This site is fully functional, just a bit limited on some things as we get all the backend worked out. Our CSS is a work-in-progress due to some major differences from how reddit was set up, so that will be coming, it will just look a bit barebones until then.

For the time being we still consider reddit.com/r/kotakuinaction to be our primary site, but will be building this up as a proper backup over time. We actively encourage anyone who wants to coexist on both sites to do so, and have no issue with folks who have finally had enough of reddit's bullshit that decide to make the move here completely now.

Rules are generally going to be the same here as they were on /r/kotakuinaction, but we are thinning them out a bit as some rules no longer need to apply here due to different sitewide rules/TOS from above lifting some restrictions we had to deal with. We will try to get a more complete listing of the newly modified rules up soon, as well as get them listed/linked on the Sidebar and such. Automod is not completely operational here, but will be in the very near future to make that all a bit easier to deal with.

Please be patient with us as we get things in gear. I'll try to keep everyone updated on the progress of things, though some parts will be mostly self-evident as they happen (like the return of the banner/sidebar).

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So we're getting quite a few new and lapsed users, and more than one person has asked us just exactly what KIA is.

So here's our mission statement, a basic description of what this place is for, and our half-finished rules still full of less-broken-than-I-thought-it-would-be reddit CSS and placeholder text. As you can clearly tell, THIS IS NOT DONE, we haven't even gotten started on figuring out how much of rule 3 we're gonna change...again...now that the admins are off our backs. For the moment we're allowing some shitposting and general partying, but at least now we'll have something to point to when someone goes too far past the line and needs a smack. Please bear with us as things are still very much under construction. Also, we need to do something about the character limit that's forcing me to put half of this into a sticky, so...SEE STICKY!


Our Mission

KotakuInAction is a platform for open discussion of the issues where gaming, nerd culture, the Internet, and media collide.

We believe that the current standards of ethics in the media have alienated the artists, developers, and creators who perpetuate the things we love, enjoy, and enthusiastically build communities around. We have observed numerous incidents involving conflicts of interest and agenda-pushing within media which we feel are damaging to the credibility of the medium and harm the community at large. We believe much of the current media is complicit in the proliferation of an ideology that squashes individuality, divides along political lines, and is stifling to the freedom of creativity that is the foundation of human expression.

KotakuInAction is a community that condemns willful censorship, exclusion, harassment, and abuse. It is a community that organizes to hold the media accountable to the concept of artistic freedom by standing up for the artist, the developer, the writer, the filmmaker, and all who enjoy the freedom to create, explore, and expand. It is a community that allows the exchange of information, supports the ongoing discussion of media ethics, and protects the right of the individual to embrace their personal interests in entertainment and fandom.

KotakuInAction is built around a core focus on reasonable, friendly discussion of the issues related to gaming culture, and those involved in it. That is not all we are about, but it's where we began and will remain our core. We hold ourselves to be politically neutral ground, not forcing anyone to conform in their opinions, and permitting a wide variety of viewpoints to express themselves in a civil manner.


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WARNING/BAN POLICY

For the sake of making it easier to read, more transparent, and to cut back on confusion regarding which rules get dealt with in which way, we are pulling the warning/ban policy out of Rule 1 and moving it to stand independently so that other rules with specific policies are all in one place. The updated policy is as follows:

General Rule 1 Enforcement

You'll get two public warnings from the mods. Any offenses after that, and you'll get a 3 day temporary ban. Screw up again, and you're gone for a month. Screw up again, and you're not coming back.

Warnings will expire after 90 days. So if you got a warning and didn't screw up for, say, three months, and get warned again, that counts as your first warning on the road to being banned. However, if you received a temp ban for breaking Rule 1, it'll stay on your record, and won't expire for a year, so if you screw up after that before a year has gone by, you go to a 7-day/month-long ban and the year-long timer resets. Basically, don't screw around.

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  1. DON'T BE A DICKWOLF

Attack arguments, not people.

"Fuck off, retard," is not an argument. Neither is "Kill yourself, faggot." Regardless of whether you think someone is a shill, SJW, or whatever, stick to arguing the points. Name-calling does not contribute to discussion. Refer to the pyramid as a general guideline. If anything, just make sure your criticism outweighs any insults. However, well-reasoned arguments that end with parting shots like, "Stop being obtuse; even children understand this concept," are okay. Ostensibly, we're all adults here; a comment like that can just be ignored.

The core of this rule is primarily based on patterns of behavior, which fall into these categories:

1. Harassment

Badgering and/or baiting another user across multiple threads or baiting after disengaging (mod enforced or otherwise), including persistent mentions and/or replies. Note that this generally does not apply to people that are outside the community, (e.g. "God, the guy who wrote that article is such a fucking retard."), but does apply in cases of tagging a user (e.g. "reallybadpersonidontlike you're a fucking mongoloid and you should go die in a fire.").

2. Trolling

Posts and comments which are clearly not intended to generate discussion, but rather aimed at generating or maximizing as much drama and emotion as possible. Intentionally posting to make people angry.

3. Crusading

Posts and comments intended to drive a wedge in the community, or to rally a mob to target users or communities, without the intent to hold a constructive discussion. Crusading eschews conversation, going beyond well-meaning criticism into behavior that includes excessive attacks against specific users, demands that action be taken against specific users, and/or bombarding a post with hostility towards KiA or specific users.

4. Malice

Don't resort to malicious name-calling, brazen insults, and/or general hostility against any individual user. Don't use identity politics or unironic slurs (that is, language intended to advocate blatant hatred) against groups of people. Don't make serious calls for violence against individuals or groups. If you're joking, please make clear you are joking so we don't have to slap you for it.


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We do not allow the publication of personal information, which is defined as:

1. Real names

Exceptions are made for "public figures," including (but not limited to) journalists, actors, published authors, and public-facing company personalities, as well as the subjects of published journalistic articles (limited purpose public figures). Facebook and LinkedIn pages may only be linked for corporations and public figures.

2. Phone numbers or addresses

Public contact numbers/address for companies (not including individual employees) are exempt.

3. Promotion of known doxxing sites

Certain websites exist for the primary purpose of collecting and spreading dox. You may not link to them, encourage others to visit them, or discuss them by name. The list of such sites can be found here. (link)

4. Other info which may be used to personally identify someone

Including personal e-mail addresses that are not intentionally available to the public, images of homes, etc.

If you are in doubt whether what you posted may constitute posting personal information, reach out to the moderator team. (link)


3. POSTING GUIDELINES

Posts on KotakuInAction must focus on one of the topics included in the whitelist and may not include a topic from the blacklist.
Post that do not meet this criterium will be removed. Removals due to Rule 3 alone have no consequences aside from the post being removed.

Meta Posts are excluded from this rule.

Whitelist

  • Gaming
  • Journalism Ethics
  • Censorship
  • Official Social Justice
  • Media Meta
  • Tabletop gaming, comics, sci-fi/fantasy, manga/anime, and derivative media of such
  • Sub related OC Artwork
  • Tech Happenings

Temporary Whitelist Items

  • None

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  • Unrelated Politics
  • Memes (as in image macros)
  • E-Celeb Bullshit
  • Forum Noise (random users complaining on random forums [directly involved devs are exempt from this])
  • Social Media Hot Takes
  • Lets Plays

Temporary Blacklist Items

None

Notes

  • To pass unrelated pol, topics containing politicians; laws; government or major political organizations without direct relation to GamerGate, must be presented without partisan slant and the majority of the topic must focus on relevant actions or proposals, rather than their partisan or electoral implications.

  • Official social justice is defined as: The propagation or implementation of identity politics by institutions or companies of major size.

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  • If you believe your post is of sufficient importance to the community but are concerned that it would not pass the above guidelines, please contact the modteam for approval


4. Posts must be intelligible

  • Non-English links must include a translation in the immediate comments from the OP. This can be either a full length translation, a copypaste of a machine translation, or a direct link to a full machine translation of the page.

  • All links to videos longer than 5 minutes will require either a comment by the OP or to be in a self post summarizing the relevant parts of the video to what they are trying to point out with it. Exceptions may be allowed if the title is clearly explaining what's going on with the link pointing directly at the relevant timestamp in the video.

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The subreddit has been set to private for the 12th-14th of this month in the protest against the API changes and how they were implemented.

These changes are going to make 3rd party apps unviable and will negatively impact the user experience of many users that use these apps to access the site. Of non desktop users (around 50%) over 70% of the users are accessing the sub through non 1st party apps. This means a large portion of the users of the KiA sub are going to be negatively affected.

While most people can understand the requirement to update API charges with the increased use of LLM's that scrape sites like reddit for data to build their models the way that these API changes have been implemented has been in a way that will negatively impact the users.

newGOD here.

Howdy, weltallic here.

KiA users may know me for my yearly GamerGate Retrospectives and Vivian James media archive.

My account was permanently suspended by reddit admins a few days ago (May 2023), so I'm posting my Imgur albums here for everyone, in case you want to link them yourself. If you're interested in more details about my suspension, check out my comment below this post.

Anyway, I went back to reddit and added certain KiA-safe Imgur albums into my GamerGate 2022 Victories postscript, but I'm including them ALL here since the .win network is not subject to reddit's rules, so I can post the ones I wasn't allowed to, meaning those featuring trans content and Cuties.

Enjoy:

 

 

 

Gaming & Pop-Culture:


BBC

Blizzard

Buzzfeed

College Humor (Dorkly)

Cracked

G4 TV

Game Informer

Games.On.Net

Gawker

IGN

Jezebel

Kickstarter

Kotaku

Mary Sue

NBC (GG)

PC Gamer

Polygon

Rotten Tomatoes

VICE

 

Big Tech:


Facebook

Google

Imgur

Mozilla (Firefox)

Netflix

Reddit

Twitter

Twitter (GG)

Twitter (Elon

Wikipedia

"Free Speech Platforms"

 

News & Politics:


AP

Atlantic

Buzzfeed News

BBC News

CBS

CNN

FiveThirtyEight

Guardian

Huffington Post

Independant

NBC

- CNBC

- MSNBC

Newsweek

New York Times

Outline

Politico

PolitiFact

Salon

Slate

Snopes

TIME Magazine

Vox

Washington Post

 

GamerGate:


#GamerGate #NotYourShield

#NYS

#NYS (Ladies Night)

A Heartfelt Apology from Lizzyf620

Champions of Diversity

False Flags, Fake Tweets, Alt Accounts & LIES!

FTC using KotakuInAction as Evidence

GamerGate Parties are BEST parties

Honey Badger Brigade (Calgary Expo)

Sad Puppies - Hugo Awards

William Shatner

 

Films


America Chavez

Captain Marvel

Charlie's Angels (2019)

Cuck

Cuties

Cuties (KiA-safe)

Doom (2019)

Ghostbusters (2016)

Joker (2019)

Lightyear

Strange World

 

Television


Cowboy Bebop

LotR: Rings of Power

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Ms. Marvel

Santa Inc.

She-Hulk

Star Trek: Discovery

Thundercats Roar

Velma (Mindy Kaling)

Warior Nun

 

Comic Books


America Chavez

Goddess Mode

Iceman... gay?

IronHeart

Mockingbird

New Warriors (2020)

Nightwing

Rippaverse

Spider-Woman vs Spider-man (pose)

What If... Miles Morales Became Thor?

 

Video Games


Assassin's Creed Origins

Carmen SanDiego (OG female video game villain

Kerri Hoskins (Mortal Kombat)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Nessa (Pokemon)

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

 

Misc:


Anita Sarkeessian vs. Buffy Reboot

Cultural Appropriation

Decency - Virtual Morality Police

Female Game Devs

Japan - Kimono Wednesday

Ken Akamatsu

Mothers in gaming

Proud Male Feminists

"Comic books are exagerated! Real women don't look like that!"

Redheads Erased

Redheads Erased.mp4

Reddit Mod Busted for Framing Novelist

Soylent Grin

Woke entertainment making "history"

Women in Gaming

Women Artists

United Nations vs. Japan

Uzaki chan

 

Anti-GG Journalists/Devs/Pundits


Adam Sessler

Alex Lifschitz

Amir0x (NeoGAF)

Ana Valens

Anita Sarkeesian

Andrew Dobson

Anthony Burch

Arthur Chu

Ashly Burch

Ashley Lynch

Barry Deutsch / Ampersand

Ben Kuchera

Bob Chipman

Brianna Wu

Carolyn Petit

Cliff Bleszinski

Chris Kluwe

Chris Poole / Moot

Chris Plante

Christine Love

Chuck Wendig

Dan Slott

Daniel Z. Klein

Devin Faraci

Dina Karam (Mighty No.9)

Peter Bright / DrPizza

Franchesca Ramsey

Graham Linehan

Heather Alexandra

Jason Schreier

Jed Whitaker

Jim Sterling

Imran Khan

Jennifer Scheurle

Joey Cuellar

John Funk / EditorialComplex

John Oliver

Jon St. John

Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon (GG)

Joss Whedon (feminist)

Joe Bernstein

Kate Leth

Katherine Clark

Laura Kate Dale

Leigh Alexander

Leslie Jones

Manveer Heir

Mark Bernstein

Mark Di Stefano

Matt Hickey

Max Temkin

Nathan Grayson

Palle Hoffstein

Patrick Klepek

Peter Coffin

Phil Fish

Rami Ismail

Randi Harper

Robert Workman / The DCD

Robert Marmolejo / UnseenPerfidy

Ryan Broderick

Ryulong (Wikipedia)

Sam Biddle

Sarah Jeong

Sarah Nyberg / srhbutts

Sceptic Feminist

Scott Kurtz

Spacedad (Something Awful)

Spencer Crittenden / Sixler

Stephen Colbert vs. Star Wars Kid

Tauriq Moosa

Teridax

Tim Schafer

Tristan Cooper

Veerender Jubbal

Wil Wheaton

 

Socio-Politics


James Gunn

Jussie Smollett

Kurt Eichenwald

OK Hand Gesture

Sarah Silverman

Stephen King

Wikileaks

 

Gatekeeping isn't just a necessity against sjws, old school prudes, cosplaying onlyfans bitches and anime "fans" who always talk about what shouldn't be allowed or but also certain people who claim to be anti-woke.

Nerdrotic, HeelsVsBabyface, Ryan Kinel, ItsaGundam, other Friday Night Tights members, Yellowflash2, ThatUmbrellaGuy, Literature Devil, Razorfist, YoungRippa and Clownfish TV (add any others you know about)They've watched anime but admit much of it isn't for them which is fine.

At least when it concerns the mainstream crap and some gems like Berserk they'll defend it but when you bring up stuff like hentai and girls in the -18 range they get squeamish and non-committal (excluding ItsAGundam, at the moment if the topic is brought up he just says he doesn't like it and moves on which is fine, neutral is fine). I get some of them have kids but if you can't understand enjoying fiction doesn't make you an latent criminal then you're a possible backdoor to another gamergate.

Nick Rekieta and Drexel, both having kids, have spoken about loli. Rekieta because I assume was a lawyer has argued against it personally, doesn't want to ban it but has also shifted how he speaks about anime to be less antagonistic likely to retain viewers, Drexel flat out said loli fans are pedos in denial. Fuck him.

Then there's ThatStarWarsGirll, all she ever mentions liking is Redo of Healer because of the rape (cool). You'd think that makes her trustworthy but she's like her flashcast alumni. The major red alert with Anna is how frequently she interacts with brittany venti who's very vocal about wanting anime censored for her preferences and has a dumbass simp army ready to push her views. Additionally TSWG does cosplay which attracts the same simp crap that has idiots latching on to a girl then spreading pro-censor views just like venti.

What sparked this post is the attendance of most of those mentioned at Anime Matsuri including venti strutting around with her tits out while complaining about anime fanservice.

At this point of those I mentioned only venti and drexel are two to explicitly boot out, rekieta is on the edge. Clownfish TV to not show any ecchi/hentai to since Kneon and Geeky definitely aren't on board with ecchi/hentai, they're the next most likely to eventually side with the prudes (but they end up making a video about it anyway then lean towards the pro-censor side while trying to stay pro-creative freedom). yellowflash2 in my eyes is a grifter, he may watch some anime but he'll gladly side with the prude censors while claiming to be anti-censorship. The rest are more of a "be careful about which fun spaces you lead them to".

It's fine that they don't like what I like but they're looking for a new space after hollyweird ruined their franchises with alphabet insanity and I fear will inflict the same harm upon anime that hit stuff like star trek and marvel comics.


09/04/2022 Adding more - Hero Hei... not sure about him, he at least admits he's not into loli or the more fun stuff but I feel he would join the prudes someday.

Rev Says Desu, definitely don't trust, he's similar to Hero Hei but worse. First his deleted video about Genshin impact vs black history month; some white girl says she cares more about genshin impact than black history month. Hell I'm black, I've never cared about black history month. She later bent the knee but Rev's response (caring more about your media than some glorified month) was retarded, I'm not obligated to care about BHM.

Next is his recent response to hololive drama concerning Ouro Kronii and fans shipping the girls and holostars guys. The expected drama sparked there because it's fucking idol culture but he's supportive of restricting creative freedom to "respect" what the creator is comfortable with. That's a load of crap, should we suddenly start respecting nintendo's wishes to stop making hentai of Pokemon's Ash and one of the many pokegirls, hell no. Additionally hololive already shows their hypocrisy with the dozens of approved lesbian ships around before holostars appeared.


9/23/022

Literature Devil: He does a friday stream labeled "weeb day" but rarely ever stays on topic. That's not the issue here, the issue is he's obviously using anime as his new stronghold against wokeness but he knows jack shit about most anime, his knowledge is at normie level. He and his guests are definitely the type to join the prudes if the topic of loli hentai ever comes up despite claiming the be the types to live and let live.


1/04/2023

Should've added these dipshits a while ago. The podcast of the lotus eaters who push traditional cuckservative values, this video lays out why they're never to be trusted in anime affairs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaUYnX_NkWM

but if you don't want to watch the short version: carl and his hosts want to end anonymity on the internet, spout the usual loli hentai is cp bullshit and in that video are attacking mastodon for having servers that contain loli hentai.


11/17/2023

Geeks and Gamers who are part of the yellowflash2/nick rekieta/nerdrotic clique recently spoke against loli ecchi and figurines proving that group only planted themselves into anime circles using garbage like anime matsuri because they lost their precious star wars and now want to do the very same thing that happened to western media to anime/manga and its related media. Push back against these retards


05/29/2024

This one was well overdue, OtakuDaiKun. He does call out anime/manga/game censorship frequently but he's another one of those "I support freedom of expression but..." when it comes to loli ecchi/hentai. Then there's that thing he does with his female vtuber model, that makes one wonder if he's all there mentally.

You may have seen this tweet before from VG247, which has been making the rounds on Twitter: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/tpkc2e/here_we_go_again/

Direct archive: https://archive.ph/SaDBH

This article is made by Alan Wen, a "contributor" for VG247. Essentially, the premise of the article is that Ghost of Tsushima (GoT) doesn't really focus on and give enough depth to Japanese culture, degrading GoT to a "superficial cultural toruism [sic]". However, as I said in the title, he actually has a massive hate streak specifically for GoT.

Notably, two of said game's directors were actually made ambassadors to said island, despite not being Japanese themselves, and, for most people, that would actually be sufficient to counter the article above to demonstrate how much the game is loved both in the Japanese community and how much attention was given to the location itself.

But that wasn't sufficient for me, and I had the (unfortunate) idea of doing a dive into said person.

First is the fact that Alan Wen actually has a review for the game: https://archive.ph/Th2C5

He gives the game three stars, which pretty much means that he sees the game as average. You can read the article for yourself, but the important bit is not the review itself; it's the date of the review (July 14, 2020).

If we look at his Twitter account, there are notably two tweets from him that stand out against GoT:

https://archive.ph/yzicQ

But Ghost of Tsushima could be pretty cool. Just a shame it’s not a Japanese dev. Sounds a bit racist I know #SonyPGW 4:49 PM · Oct 30, 2017

https://archive.ph/1kBEh

Plus absolutely cannot deny the distinct Japanese aesthetic, so [Sekiro] really could be the Japan-inspired [From Software] game I’ve been wanting (and forget about Ghost of Tsushima, this is the real deal here) 10:20 AM · Dec 8, 2017

Notice how these tweets are several years before the game is even out. Also note that this is even before the time when the same game, developers, etc., were memorably labeled as racist for having an actual master of the shakuhachi flute for a presentation of an E3 demo because said performer was a white guy, meaning that this guy actually hated the game when it first premiered (GoT was announced in October 2017, and the performance was for E3 2018).

Now, you may think he actually is one of those kooky journalists who thinks Japanese things should be made in Japan and should not be produced outside of Japan (he even made one of these tweets to "promote" his article for VG247), but that is actually not the case.

https://archive.ph/vTVXZ

Trek to Yomi looks terrific, the samurai game that Ghost of Tsushima wasn’t

https://archive.ph/Phijb

Okay, forget Tsushima, [Trek to Yomi] looks like my kinda samurai game

Trek to Yomi is a currently-in-development side-scroller distributed by Devolver Digital, directed by Leonard Menchari, and produced by Flying Wild Hog. In case you haven't seen the trailer, it is a game heavily designed after classic Akira Kurosawa films, complete with epic samurai fights gawd, I want this.

By the way, Flying Wild Hog is a Polish developer. In case you don't understand the implications, other than the different gameplay genre, Trek to Yomi has the same premise as GoT (Western developer literally making a love letter to Akira Kurosawa films and even getting Japanese VAs), but have completely opposite reactions from Alan Wen.

BONUS:

If you think this guy is a newbie to mining for that SEO gold, here's a blog post from February 2016 (that is now deleted):

10 Hours as Leigh Alexander – The Notso Harrowing of a Female Games Journalist

which features this line:

So I decided I would formally catalog, all @ mentions toward Leigh Alexander, not just a woman in games (and we know how terrible their online life is) but one who has constantly spoke about how gamers, particularly the fanatical boogieMAN that is GamerGate, treat women so terribly in games on twitter.

I'd like to make a short tldr on his ban reason but as you can see, certain term is not allowed to be mentioned on this sub, hence for the reason please visit his sub for information.

I was banned from Reddit for simply stating this "They are plotting to kill the Jews!" Post claiming that I was inciting violence. That sentence is a context that was my response to the news about the Biolabs and also the fact they have a Neo Nazi military In their country of Ukraine if I made that statement scared people that much on Reddit that conspiracy theory is flying around on the internet for a while.

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