Damn, that was a good fucking movie earlier. Furious 7 is worth anyone’s time. But when I got home, I saw that there was a shitload of news to cover. I’ve been gathering all the sources and screenshots up and I’m ready to talk to you about a problem at PC Gamer. It turns out one of their writers, Ian Bransfield, has a hate crusade against TotalBiscuit and GamerGate. But that’s not even the worst of it. He also brags about getting swag from developers and has some serious problems with disclosure. In short, he’s only a shade better than the Rolling Stone writer I’m going to talk about next.
Here’s TotalBiscuit calling him out the other day for not showing the replacement joke in Pillars of Eternity:
PC Gamer sourcing the Mary Sue. Now I've seen everything.
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) April 4, 2015
Maybe if you're going to write a story on the Obsidian joke, include the statement of the person that wrote it in the first place?
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) April 4, 2015
I'll do your job for you, here is what the backer had to say – http://t.co/9uCarO8WEy http://t.co/zRcrzutdcH http://t.co/hZcZzDfLw5
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) April 4, 2015
How did the journo react to all this? Not well:One look at this guy’s history tells you all you need to know. He’s a major anti-gamer, and supports the SJW agenda lock, stock, and barrel. Here’s more from Mr. Bransfield. We can start off with him making a crude joke about erotic fanfic to the Polygon UK writer who was laid off a couple weeks ago:
It doesn’t get any better from there (thanks again to @TheIvyClover1):
https://twitter.com/atlasnodded/status/584902057984974850
https://twitter.com/atlasnodded/status/584899712614064128
https://twitter.com/atlasnodded/status/584890235517009921
Basically the guy just goes on and on for ages about hating gamers and loathing GamerGate. There’s a lot more stuff here, including him chopping it up with Leigh Alexander and Brianna Wu. The KotakuInAction thread also goes into more detail. He even wrote a “GamerGate is dead” article back in November for Red Bull, which is strange in and of itself. I didn’t know Red Bull had shit to do with all this, but apparently they needed cheap-ass content for their site. But before you think all is lost, at least Bransfield agrees with us on one thing (Richard Stanton cameo):