Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Averon]

Skill Up can never be forgiven until he sufficiently prostrates himself to them:

i will never get how Dunkey has his own thread here after saying the N word while being some white guy from Wisconsin. he never apologized for it and mocked people saying he should apologize. it's wild to me. he simply stopped doing it and the beef went away.

but SkillUp appearing on his brother's cringey ass channel years ago, liking tweets from AOC, and not having a repeat offense since while being a banned reviewer here lol. not that i care anyway, i watch them offsite no problem and guilt free because i've never heard him say or do anything bigoted and offensive.

i would love some receipts but i've never gotten them. every review thread is the same shit. in the next one people will rip the band aid off it again as someone who doesn't know he's bannd and never seen or heard him do anything terrible will have to find out the same way.

Yeh, see above mate. I don't really care if he isn't going to actually stand up and say something about that old content directly. It's exhausting having to deal with the state of gaming culture, and that old channel of his is the exact kind of thing that helped get us to where we are today.

If the best he can do is like an AOC tweet, then lol.

Has he ever taken a positive stance on anything relevant here? Has he ever said anything about that old channel? I have nothing against people learning from their mistakes and growing.

Appearing on the channel is endorsing it's views and message as far as I'm concerned. If you want to relitigate that ban PM a mod or something, here you're just shouting into the wind.

Doesn't matter Skill Up makes good, thoughtful reviews, is seemingly progressive politically, or said nothing bigoted. He was on a now dead "chud/Gamergate" channel years ago hosted by him and his brother. It can never be forgiven or forgotten.

Someone even went as far as to say Skill Up said TLOU 2 was pushing an "agenda" in his review of that game:

This is nonsense. He was claiming as recently as his TLOU2 review that the game was pushing an "agenda". This idea that SkillUp is a bumbling, well-meaning progressive that was caught up in his brother's malign influence is pure revisionism.

Smoking gun! Skill Up caught red handed being a rightwing chud, right? No, actually. Someone actually decide to fact-check instead of blindly believing something said on ResetERA:

About to watch that review to fact check this - I'll get back to you when I'm done.

And would you look at that. It wasn't true:

 Aight I gave you benefit of the doubt and rewatched his TLOU2 review and I'm confused about who's doing the revisionism here. He does not mention an agenda EVEN once during the review - and I don't doubt that the gamergate chuds latched onto it because it's a negative review much like they are this Dragon Age one but him not liking the game =/= him being a right wing chud himself.

TLOU2 review he did was, much like this one, pretty well thought out and brought up a bunch of criticisms of the game both in gameplay and narrative (He admits he never liked the gameplay of TLOU much but the characters carried it for him) and his issues with the narrative stem more from unlikeable characters with unrealistic motivations.

Not liking something that bigots also don't like doesn't make you a bigot if it's not for the same reasons.

But please, continue to accuse me of revisionism.

I ramyeon for trying. But all he likely did was just put a big target on his back. Don't be surprised when he gets a lengthy ban for something small/petty in the near future.