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[[File:Dtoid whore.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Ms. Destructoid costume at Destructoid's 8 year anniversary. Costume designed by Kayla, who is a professional dancer that need SJWs to judge her career choices]]
[[File:Dtoid whore.jpg|thumb|right|300px|How Destructoid treats women]]
'''Destructoid''' is a sad excuse for a [[video game]] [[site]] that is run and staffed by a rotating roster of radical [[feminists]], [[alcoholic]]s and other [[psychopath]]s who are regularly replaced because they were either fired over [[drama|personal conflicts]] with the [[corruption|corrupt]] owners, quit over not wanting to be associated with the corrupt owners or simply high-tailed it out of there because it's a shithole anyway and now also seems to be circling the drain. The stories on the site have zero real content and are all some combination of extremist left [[propaganda]] written by the sites pro-[[social justice|sjw]] (yet oddly predominantly [[Nazi Germany|male, straight and white]]) staff and game advertisements paid for either by the sidebar ads or directly by the game developers masquerading as objective articles (the ones that weren't written by personal friends of the piece's subject, that is).


'''Destructoid''' is a [[video game]] [[site]] that 2 million+ people read every month, ten years running, which has also won various awards including 6 Webby Nominations, 1 Webby Honoree, a Sofie, a Tellie, and a UK Games Media Award. The site is funded by banner advertisements and ad-free memberships, paid for by its regular patrons. The site is divided into a few main sections: News, Reviews, Videos, Community Blogs, and Quickposts. Naturally, such success has drawn Destructoid a ridiculous amount of conservative haters. Destructoid is run and staffed by a rotating roster of editors, and has published over 300 different writers on the home page. Editors are given industry credentials to cover press-only industry events. According to the site's hosting company, Destructoid serves 14 terabytes of data a month.
Destructoid was outed during [[GamerGate]] by one of it's ex-employees for having fired him because he exposed [[Chloe Sagal]] and her fraudulent charity drive for [[AIDS|a made up terminal illness]] and then colluded to have him blacklisted from the industry for it. Further digging that was brought on by this exposed allegations of [[corruption]] and possibly [[seriously|rape]].


==History==
==Noteworthy Staff==
Destructoid was owned by Niero Gonzalez so that he could attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2006. After initially being rejected, Gonzalez began writing original editorials and drawing cartoons which were picked up by then-established gaming blogs like Joystiq and Kotaku. In 2007 the site relaunched with user blogs, forums, and a team of contributors. After E3, Gonzalez appeared at the press conference dressed as Mr. Destructoid (Destructoid's robot mascot, shown on logos and promotional material) to hand out promotional flyers. Gonzalez was the first to break the news of Jack Thompson's disbarment.
[[File:Milo vs neiro.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Dtoid founder "Niero", in a jealousy-driven drunken tantrum, accuses actual, gay journalist of being an emo misogynist who's angry he can't get any pussy]]
Destructoid posts an average of 50 stories a day. It was among the first to break stories such as the Nintendo Wii controller's final design, the Sony PlayStation 3's price at launch and Halo 3's release date. Its original editorial work gained mainstream syndication including the web show Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, now syndicated on GameTrailers. Other works were picked up by social bookmarking sites like the satirical Ten Golden Rules of Online Gaming, and its Guides on Recognizing Gamers. The Mr. Destructoid costume was redesigned in 2012 by Volpin Props, featuring animated LED circuitry, and is still active as their mascot at press events.
'''Niero Gonzales - Founder''' - Constantly [[drunk]], probably an [[alcoholic]]. Goes on vodka-induced rampages where he fires people and tells [[gay]] journalists like [[Milo Yiannopoulos]] [http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2h8yld/destructoids_niero_ladies_and_gentlemen_imagine/ they are mad at women because they can't get laid]. Defends tranny scam artists by firing his staff but only after already publishing stories about them. Responded to allegations by a female writer that she was sexually assaulted while working there by firing her, [[irony|calling her a crazy alcoholic]], deleting her content from the site and further implicating himself when he was asked about it by saying it was rape instead of sexual assault. Currently [http://gamergate.community/t/destructoids-niero-is-creating-himself-an-echo-chamber/563 has everyone blocked on Twitter] so that no one will tell him he's wrong.


'''[[Jim Sterling]] - Fat Retard''' - Fat sack of shit who used to work at Dtoid before moving to [[The Escapist]] because they could pay him more money to buy more cakes. Later became an [[SJW]] because he wanted the connections then [http://theralphretort.com/jim-sterling-shove-ethics-arse/ announced that he doesn't give a fuck about ethics] and [http://theralphretort.com/friends-like-jim-sterling/ quit The Escapist] when they wouldn't let him [[white knight]] [[Zoe Quinn]]. After that he moved to [[Patreon]] [http://theralphretort.com/sjws-turn-jim-sterling-patreon/ which is when his new SJW friends betrayed him], started calling him names and trying to get people not to donate to him because he's part of [[man|the stronger sex]], the [[white|master race]] and isn't a [[fag]] or a [[tranny]]. The SJW rage when he made money anyway was the only good thing to come out of Jim ever. [http://theralphretort.com/jim-sterling-sexist-tweets-revealed/ Used to be a racist misogynist] and when he was exposed his [[Wikipedia]] page immediately changed to note his opinions have "evolved." The fact that most of the shit he said was pretty recent begs the question of: Fucking when?<br>
'''-Quit-'''


==Presence in video games==
'''Anthony Burch - ????''' - Used to work there. Now works at GearBox and uses Destructoid as his personal PR company. Jealous and possibly [[horny]] for his more successful sister, is <s>[[Cuckold|being cheated on by his wife in their "open marriage"]]</s> (lol she still left him after he let her sleep around), turned [[bisexual]] out of desperation, took pictures of [[Nu-male|himself in a bikini]] and sent it to [[Anita]] then framed the tweet she sent him back and hung it on the wall, tried to prove [[GamerGate]] wrong by exposing more corruption and is probably the saddest man in gaming today.<br>
The site's mascot, Mr. Destructoid, has appeared in various console, mobile, and PC video games.
'''-Quit-'''


In 2007, it was announced that [[Hudson Soft#Hudson_Entertainment.2C_Inc.|Hudson Entertainment]], the American branch of [[Hudson Soft]] had teamed up with ''Destructoid'' to develop and introduce a playable character based on Destructoid's mascot, Mr. Destructoid, into its [[Xbox Live Arcade]] game ''[[Bomberman Live]]''.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Hudson Partners With Destructoid In Bomb-Up pack 2 For Bomberman Live |publisher=[[Hudson Soft]] |date=2007-09-19 |url=http://www.hudsonentertainment.com/newsdetail.php?news_id=108 |accessdate=2009-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Susan |last=Arendt |title=Destructoid Mascot Added to ''Bomberman Live'' |url=http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/09/destructoid-mas.html |publisher=[[Wired News]]|date=2007-09-19 |accessdate=2009-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Mike|last=Fahey|title=Destructoid Makes Bomberman Live Appearance |url=http://kotaku.com/301353/destructoid-makes-bomberman-live-appearance |publisher=Kotaku|date=2007-09-19 |accessdate=2009-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hudson Partners With Destructoid In Bomb-Up Pack 2 For Bomberman Live |url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/hudson-partners-with-destructoid-in-bomb-up-pack-2-for-bomberman-live |publisher=[[Eurogamer]]|date=2007-09-19 |accessdate=2009-08-11}}</ref> Mr. Destructoid later appeared in ''[[Bomberman Ultra]]'', the PlayStation 3 port of Bomberman Live. Mr. Destructoid's head is available as an unlockable helmet in [[PixelJAM Games|PixelJAM]]'s game ''[[Dino Run]]'', by entering the password "[[Totino's|totinos]]" in the cheats menu.  This was included as an in-joke, because that particular brand of pizza was a favorite of one of the editors, and he in turn was a friend of the game's developers. The code was revealed in one chapter of the Podtoid podcast.
'''Max Scoville - "Video Warlock"''' - Went apeshit over GamerGate and quit.<br>
'''-Quit-'''


In 2008, ''Destructoid''{{'s}} mascot was also included in the [[platform game]] ''[[Eternity's Child]]'', but was later removed  after a scathing review of the game on the web site.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eternity’s Child Versus Destructoid |first=Kieron| last=Gillen| url=http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/08/04/eternitys-child-versus-destructoid/
'''Hamza Aziz - CEO''' - Recently left the site along with others like rats fleeing a sinking ship.<br>
|publisher=[[Rock, Paper, Shotgun]] |date=2008-08-04 |accessdate=2009-08-11}}</ref><ref name="echild">{{cite web |title=Luc Bernard Steamed Over Destructoid's Review of Eternity's Child |first=Stephanie| last=Nunneley| url=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169220|publisher=[[1UP.com]] |date=2008-07-08 |accessdate=2009-08-11}}</ref>  Mr. Destructoid also appeared in Agent MOO: Maximum Overdeath on Xbox Live Indie Games along with Ron Workman, Destructoid's former community manager.
'''-Quit-'''


In 2010, it was announced that Mr. Destructoid would  be appearing in the upcoming [[Xbox Live Arcade|XBLA]] release of ''[[Raskulls]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mr.-Destructoid-Returns-to-Videogames-in-Raskulls! |first=Jim| last=Sterling| url=http://www.destructoid.com/mr-destructoid-returns-to-videogames-in-raskulls--162325.phtml |publisher=Destructoid |date=2010-02-02 |accessdate=2010-02-02}}</ref> Later that year it was discovered that Chapter 2-18 in ''[[Super Meat Boy]]'' is called Destructoid.  The game was acclaimed by many of the editors, taking ''Destructoid''{{'s}} Game Of The Show at the [[Penny Arcade Expo]] earlier in July. Mr. Destructoid also appears in the flash game Pirates vs. Ninjas,<ref>{{cite web|title=Play as Mr. Destructoid in Pirates vs Ninjas|url=http://www.destructoid.com/play-this-flash-game-with-mr-destructoid-win-a-gift-card-186545.phtml|work=Destructoid|publisher=Bardo Entertainment|accessdate=19 August 2011}}</ref> by Bardo Entertainment.
'''Dale North - EiC''' - Also quit this shithole.<br>
'''-Quit-'''


In 2011, Mr. Destructoid appeared as a non-playable character in BiteJacker, a game created by the Bytejacker show on the iPhone as a VIP Character.  Your score increases the longer that he remains on screen. In July ''Destructoid''{{'s}} reviews editor, Jim Sterling, became a playable character in The Blocks Cometh.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sterling|first=Jim|title=Jim Sterling is a playable character in The Blocks Cometh|url=http://www.destructoid.com/jim-sterling-a-playable-character-in-the-blocks-cometh-205909.phtml}}</ref> Later that month Mr. Destructoid  appeared in Twisted Pixel's Ms. Splosion Man<ref>{{cite web|last=Aziz|first=Hamza|title=Fight Mr. Destructoid in Ms Splosion Man|url=http://www.destructoid.com/explode-fight-mr-destructoid-in-ms-splosion-man--206680.phtml}}</ref>  as a destroyable villain during challenge mode, and again as a ball-swallowing fixture in Zen Studio's Pinball FX as part of the Ms. Splosion Man pinball table.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gonzalez|first=Niero|title=Destructoid wants your balls in Ms. Splosion Man pinball|url=http://www.destructoid.com/destructoid-wants-your-balls-in-ms-splosion-man-pinball-207088.phtml}}</ref>  On August 1 Mr. Destructoid became a playable character in Arcade Jumper on iOS.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mr. Destructoid stars in Arcade Jumper|url=http://www.blackhivemedia.com/arcadejumper.html|publisher=Black Hive Media|accessdate=2 August 2011}}</ref>  The remake of the classic arcade game Burgertime also features Mr. Destructoid as a playable character.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mr. Destructoid joins the cast of Burgertime World tour|url=http://www.destructoid.com/mr-destructoid-comes-to-burgertime-world-tour-210258.phtml|accessdate=3 September 2011|publisher=MonkeyPaw}}</ref>
'''Jonathan Holmes - EiC''' - Replaced Dale North when he quit. [http://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/2p7os7/jonathan_mcintosh_of_femfreq_jonathan_holmes_of/ Went to school with] [[Jonathan McIntosh]] and had [[Zoe Quinn]] on on a podcast in 2012. Worst choice to replace North.
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In 2012, Mr. Destructoid was revealed as a playable character in SpicyHorse's Big Head Bash, where his rooster gun shoots similar but smaller "cocks".<ref>{{cite news|title=New Big Head Bash details revealed|url=http://www.destructoid.com/new-details-of-spicy-horse-s-big-head-bash-revealed--224737.phtml|accessdate=3 March 2012|publisher=SpicyHorse}}</ref> He is also a non-playable monster enemy in MonsterMind (Facebook Game) and a machinegun accessory in PerfectWorld's Blacklight Retribution. In the game ''[[Retro City Rampage]]'', several of ''Destructoid''{{'s}} staff appeared in the game as unlockable player skins that are available by going to MJ's Face-R-Us and entering the coupon code DTOID.{{Citation needed|date=December 2015}}


'''Chris Carter - Reviews Director''' - Reviewed Borderlands 2 DLC and gave it good scores because Anthony Burch, who worked on the game, used to work at Dtoid.


==Charitable Work==
'''Joseph Leray - ????''' - Used to work there. Also involved in the Burch DLC thing.
In 2008, Jim Sterling, a Destructoid editor, took part in a sponsored gaming marathon raising money for young cancer patients. Raising $3,000 for the charity, Sterling and friend John Kershaw played a selection of games from the SingStar franchise, effectively singing almost non-stop for twelve hours. The event was broadcast live online for the duration of the event.
In 2009, Niero, and other Destructoid editors continued the gaming marathon tradition on October 17–18 for cancer awareness raising $4,835.60 for Extra Life children's hospital in Texas.
In 2010, the Destructoid office hosted a 24-hour gaming marathon for the charity Extra Life. Community members raised over $6,000 for Children's Miracle hospitals in Texas. Destructoid has also partnered with Revision 3 to build a clean water well in Africa through the Charity Water organization.
In 2011, Destructoid hosted another marathon for Extra Life, raising $6909.16 for Children's Miracle hospitals.
In 2012, Destructoid hosted a 56-hour livestream on its Dtoid.tv channel, which raised over $7,000 for Habitat for Humanity. The Gonzalez flew to Costa Rica and assisted the build of a 32-house government project for families living in extreme poverty in Liberia.


==Controversy==
'''Bill Zoeker - "Video Technomancer"''' - Allegedly [https://archive.is/6kWZi either slept or was friendzoned by Zoe].
Destructoid was criticized during [[GamerGate]] for firing an employee over publishing a single-source news story about [[Chloe Sagal]] and her fraudulent charity drive for [[AIDS|a made up terminal illness]]. The site owners were against running the story as Chloe has a history of mental issues. When the publication asked Allistair for additional sources and he refused and ran the story anyway, which caused an uproar on social media for outing a transgender person, and then attempting to shift blame to his employer which included ugly personal attacks to Allistair's employer. Screenshots of Allistair's attacks made the rounds on GameJourno Pros which some considered a form of collusion, while others cited as self-inflicted career suicide. It was previously cited here that Destructoid fired Allistair for exposing the scandal (omg pageviews!), which obviously don't make any sense with all the facts left out. Destructoid is also criticized for upvoting it's stories on Digg, but the writers did so with their real names under the site's terms of use.  Ironically, Digg redesigned a year later because its own community was bullying publications like Destructoid from participating and consequently self-imploded. Destructoid is also criticized for laying off Holly Green, who dug into Destructoid on Twitter two years after being fired. This forced the owners to give a brutal interview about Holly's chemical abuse problems, and it was also discovered that various co-workers cited her as volatile and difficult to work with. In 2013 management stopped supporting Vbulletin and split the forums into its own site (now called OuterHeaven Forums), and was also the subject of controversy by firing a popular moderator for hazing new members and refusing to stop making rape jokes.  


==Destructoid Faking Votes on Digg==


==External links==
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* {{official website|http://www.destructoid.com}}
 
{{Video Game Critics}}
==Allistair Pinsof gets illegally fired for exposing Chloe==
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[[File:GG Batch14.png|thumb|right|400px|Destructoid drama in a nutshell]]
 
[[Chloe Sagal]] is a crazy, tranny "game dev" with one and a half games under his belt (alongside a cock) who frequently makes up diseases he doesn't have (Autism, a disease that isn't deadly but for some reason is for him) and makes fake suicide threats for money and attention. A couple of years ago this tran pretended to be in a car accident to try and scam people out of money for his sex change.
 
[[homo|Allistair Pinsof]], a [[oxymoron|Destructoid journalist]] who knew Sagal and was aware he is running a [[scam]], decided  to run a story about it. However, not before spending much of his time trying to convince him to stop. His coworkers knew about it and laughed at him wasting his time on some [[psychotic]] tranny, but that didn't stop them from stabbing him in the back and acting innocent in the events that followed.
 
When all else failed, Allistair told Sagal that he was running the story. This was the moment when Sagal made his first [[suicide]] threat. Not wanting to be blamed for it, he told Sagal that he won't expose his fraud if he (Sagal) doesn't try to kill himself and everything was done... or was it? [[Nope]]. Several hours after promising not to try and off himself for [[attention]], Sagal went ahead and did it anyway.
 
Allistair Pinsof decided that, since Sagal broke his promise not to [[an hero]], and since, now that he was safe in the hospital, he could no longer credibly threaten suicide, he was free to reveal that it was a scam.  He got the green light from his editor who didn't care if Sagal lives or dies and ran the story, not on Destructoid itself, but on his personal site unlinked to the site he was employed at.
 
The internet trannies were assdestroyed. They didn't get preferential treatment so, in their mind, exposing fraud by a tranny is [[Bigot|bigotry]] regardless of that freak of nature being guilty or not. Pinsof's editor, in turn, caved to the pressure and fired him, possibly while [[drunk]].
 
To show he doesn't hate trannies (why would anyone want to do that?) and save his future journalistic career [http://gamersagainstbigotry.org/2013/05/chloe-allistair-roundtable/ he went to "Gamers Against Bigotry"], a site run by [http://www.samisfunny.com/ an insult to comedians everywhere] and a self-confessed [[faggot]], and reached out to both Sagal and several of the [[crossdressing]] faggots who had sent him [[Internet death threats|death threats]], and asked them to join his charity. As an interesting sidenote, [http://www.dailydot.com/news/gamers-against-bigotry-hacked/ the site's been hacked] for being unbearably faggy.
 
 
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The struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved [[1984|Big Brother]]. The end.
 
 
Or was it? The entire drama was forgotten until [[GamerGate]] started and dug it back up when [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructoid-corruption-and-ruined-careers/ a blog did an interview with Pinsof where he revealed what actually happened], which was: Besides all that was mentioned already, his boss, [[spic|Yanier "Niero" Gonzalez]], privately fired him in an email, and then told everyone publicly that Pinsof was only suspended. Then he waited for him to [[tweet]] something so that he could pretend he fired him because of his tweets.
 
But that's not all. Yanier also consulted with people on a secret mailing list called "GameJournosPro", containing 150 members of the gaming press, asked their advice, [[Slander, Slander Salamander|slandered]] Pinsof and agreed with them to blacklist him from the industry. All of which are violations of state [[law]] by "Niero", and possibly by some of the people who participated. Then Yanier told Pinsof that, not only will he not give him a letter or recommendation, he would [[delete]] all his work from the site and add a tagline saying [[ALL CAPS|'''"WORST EMPLOYEE EVER! DO NOT HIRE!"''']] to his page on the site if he exposes him. Subsequently, Pinsof quit games journalism, realizing what a pile of shit it was.
 
[[Irony|When this came to light Yanier Gonzalez tried to deflect blame by saying that Pinsof was an SJW.]]
 
 
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===[[BILLY MAYS|But Wait! There's More]]: Holly Green Sexual Harassment Accusations===
[[File:Dumbassboxer.gif|thumb|right|300px|Destructoid defending itself]]
But the drama didn't end there.
 
At the start of GG, Holly Green, a writer for [[Ian Miles Cheong|Gameranx]], went on a twitter meltdown accusing the industry of corruption and saying she was [[almost raped|sexually harassed]] and [[fired]] for complaining about it. Everyone ignored the loony and forgot about it when she deleted those tweets. Until that article about Destructoid came out and people realized ''who'' had sexually harassed her. Yep, it was someone at Destructoid.
 
All of Holly's work has been deleted from the Dtoid site like what had been threatened would happen to Pinsof. Niero (in a display of perfect professionalism) responded to her claims by [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructoids-battle-with-abuse-lies-and-scandals-part-1/ saying that she was a crazy, drunken] [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructoids-battle-with-abuse-lies-and-scandals-part-2/ lunatic who assaulted him and was on crazy pills], saying (in a hilariously pathetic excuse) that it isn't his responsibility to back-up his writer's work, [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-nowhere-on-my-site-does-it-say-we-are-journalists-says-destructoid-owner/ and announced that the people who work for him aren't real journalists]. Neiro then finished off by making things worse and escalating Green's allegations by saying her complaint wasn't about getting sexually harassed but rather about getting '''raped'''. [[Ian Miles Cheong]] (her current employer) however said that Green was a perfect employee and that Niero is [[lying]]. Which is funny because Ian is anti-GamerGate, so either they didn't think to match their stories or Ian was forced to choose between defending his anti-GG narrative or his employee... Not that it changes the fact that he was probably the one who made her delete her tweets about being sexually assaulted.
 
 
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===Anthony Burch tries to defend Dtoid, instead, retardedly implicates them further===
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In comes [[Cuckold|Anthony Burch]], loser and writer for the "Boarderlands 2" developer "GearBox". In an attempt to prove that GamerGate isn't about ethical violations, Burch exposed that everyone in the industry is making '''[http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/09/gamergate-borderlands-2-dev-outs-destructoid-corruption-polygon-nepotism/ a lot of fucking ethical violations!]''' Besides mentioning that [[Gone Home|Polygon's]] editor hired his brother, Burch also explained that the only reason his game got [https://archive.is/VFSUJ a good review on Dtoid] was that '''he is friends with some of the staff.''' To him this was proof positive that GamerGate only cares about attacking [[women]], despite the fact no one knew he was friends with them until he exposed that fact at that very moment.
 
In conclusion, everyone laughed at how [[stupid]] Burch is, at the fact the only reason anyone even knows about him is because of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Ash,_Whatcha_Playin%27%3F his far more successful sister], at the fact he is in an "[[open relationship]]" with his wife and she is constantly fucking other guys while he isn't fucking anyone including his own wife despite turning "bisexual" in pure desperation (I am seriously not making any of this up).
 
Burch is still making an [[ass]] of himself on twitter where he has to block anyone who tweets at him with the word "[[Cuckold]]".
 
===Doxing "The Fine Young Capitalists"===
 
The hits just keep on coming with good old Dtoid.
 
Now it turns out that the one who originally doxed [[Vivian James|TFYC]] and gave those dox to [[Zoe Quinn|Zoe]] [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-tfyc-was-doxxed-by-a-games-writer-not-zoe-quinn/ was a writer at Dtoid]. When confronted about it "Neiro", in classic Dtoid fashion, tried to [[lie]] and say that the guy had never written anything for him, only spell-checked articles and has not been a part of the site for over 5 year. But [[:File:AeroxDestructoid01.png|he was exposed again within moments with a simple google search that found the guy wrote entire articles for them just a few months ago]].
 
===Faftermath: Dtoid only slightly less shit than before===
 
After all this was exposed, amazingly, someone actually took some responsibility. Dale North, the editor-in-chief, realizing what a shithole he has been working at, [http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-10-21-destructoid-eic-quits-over-disagreement-with-management said he didn't know about any of this shit and quit.] Before leaving he also [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/09/gamergate-destructoid-updates-disclosure-policies-due-to-controversy-thank-you/ changed Dtoid's disclosure policy to be less shit] (while still pointing out that everyone who wanted this is a misogynist anyway). Later Max Scoville also quit the site following a GamerGate induced fit of autism.
 
===Have you ever been so mad that you deleted an entire forum?!===
 
After a year of neglect, uncle Neiro decided that the community needed another boost. So instead of asking around what the 30 people that visit the forums actually were interested in, he decided he's going to insult his entire website by telling them he doesn't want anything to do with them and will, henceforth, be pretending that the forum is separate from the rest of Dtoid and is just a fan forum and demands they change their logo so it doesn't look like the Destructoid robot. He then reacted to someone making a rape joke by disallowing all rape jokes and calling everyone on the forum a sexist, rapist and a racist in what must have been another one of his drunken stupors. Soon after he banned 3 mods and half the users, [[Pathetic|which he replaces with over 1,000 bots and dead users who he either called back to side with him or used their abandoned accounts as socks to tell people he's right.]] This all and set the forum into ragemode and prompted the [[Kotaku|Gamejournopro]] president and [[faggot|SF-resident]] to call everyone around him a [[irony|clique]] before deleting the entire fucking forum as all his users began migrating to the superior '''[http://digitalconfederacy.com/ Digital Confederacy.]'''
 
====Revenge of the Dtards====
 
The thing is, when you run a site/forum for long enough, your users will remember things you've said and have dirt on you.<br />
People quickly pointed out the irony of Neiro accusing people of racism when he's the one who make posts on the main site that look like this:
 
 
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and the irony of him banning rape jokes when one of the site's main contributors, Jeb Whitaker, made many rape jokes in a number of videos, specifically one where he spends seven minutes calling people niggers, faggots, [[Bitches and whores|bitches, whores]] and cunts while being aggressively unfunny. The pair's reaction was to freak out, but mostly Whitaker provided most of the comedy as he made ridiculous excuses and tried to blame people linking to Dtoid via archive to deny them their jewgold of piracy.
 
When this failed he went on a DMCA rampage, trying to get the video taken down. However, the internet never forgets, [http://vodlocker.com/tgrt2esdw5eb and you can still watch a copy of it here.] Or just watch it right here on ED because we uploaded it directly to our site and if he tries to DMCA us we'll just laugh in his face.
 
 
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==See Also==
[[File:Calssy Dtoid.png|thumb|right|250px|Classy, Dtoid]]
*[[Chloe Sagal]]
*[[Clickbait]]
*[[Digg]]
*[[Tabloid]]
*[[Sexual Harassment]]
*[[Alcoholism]]
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==External Links==
[[File:Dtoid2.png|thumb|right|250px|What Dtoid needs to do]]
* [http://digitalconfederacy.com/ Digital Confederacy] - A Dtoid alternative that isn't an SJW shithole.
* [http://vodlocker.com/tgrt2esdw5eb The video Jeb Whitaker doesn't want you to see]
* [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructoid-corruption-and-ruined-careers/ Destructoid exposed pt. 1]
* [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructoid-corruption-and-ruined-careers/ Destructoid exposed pt. 1]
* [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructoids-battle-with-abuse-lies-and-scandals-part-1/ Destructoid exposed pt. 2]
* [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructoids-battle-with-abuse-lies-and-scandals-part-1/ Destructoid exposed pt. 2]
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* [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-tfyc-was-doxxed-by-a-games-writer-not-zoe-quinn/ Destructoid exposed pt. 7]
* [http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-tfyc-was-doxxed-by-a-games-writer-not-zoe-quinn/ Destructoid exposed pt. 7]
* [http://attackongaming.com/gaming-talk/borderlands-2-writer-outs-destructoid-as-corrupt-in-wake-of-gamergate/ Destructoid exposed pt. 8]
* [http://attackongaming.com/gaming-talk/borderlands-2-writer-outs-destructoid-as-corrupt-in-wake-of-gamergate/ Destructoid exposed pt. 8]
 
* [http://vanhir.tumblr.com/ Collection of quotes from Dtoid]


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How Destructoid treats women

Destructoid is a sad excuse for a video game site that is run and staffed by a rotating roster of radical feminists, alcoholics and other psychopaths who are regularly replaced because they were either fired over personal conflicts with the corrupt owners, quit over not wanting to be associated with the corrupt owners or simply high-tailed it out of there because it's a shithole anyway and now also seems to be circling the drain. The stories on the site have zero real content and are all some combination of extremist left propaganda written by the sites pro-sjw (yet oddly predominantly male, straight and white) staff and game advertisements paid for either by the sidebar ads or directly by the game developers masquerading as objective articles (the ones that weren't written by personal friends of the piece's subject, that is).

Destructoid was outed during GamerGate by one of it's ex-employees for having fired him because he exposed Chloe Sagal and her fraudulent charity drive for a made up terminal illness and then colluded to have him blacklisted from the industry for it. Further digging that was brought on by this exposed allegations of corruption and possibly rape.

Noteworthy Staff

Dtoid founder "Niero", in a jealousy-driven drunken tantrum, accuses actual, gay journalist of being an emo misogynist who's angry he can't get any pussy

Niero Gonzales - Founder - Constantly drunk, probably an alcoholic. Goes on vodka-induced rampages where he fires people and tells gay journalists like Milo Yiannopoulos they are mad at women because they can't get laid. Defends tranny scam artists by firing his staff but only after already publishing stories about them. Responded to allegations by a female writer that she was sexually assaulted while working there by firing her, calling her a crazy alcoholic, deleting her content from the site and further implicating himself when he was asked about it by saying it was rape instead of sexual assault. Currently has everyone blocked on Twitter so that no one will tell him he's wrong.

Jim Sterling - Fat Retard - Fat sack of shit who used to work at Dtoid before moving to The Escapist because they could pay him more money to buy more cakes. Later became an SJW because he wanted the connections then announced that he doesn't give a fuck about ethics and quit The Escapist when they wouldn't let him white knight Zoe Quinn. After that he moved to Patreon which is when his new SJW friends betrayed him, started calling him names and trying to get people not to donate to him because he's part of the stronger sex, the master race and isn't a fag or a tranny. The SJW rage when he made money anyway was the only good thing to come out of Jim ever. Used to be a racist misogynist and when he was exposed his Wikipedia page immediately changed to note his opinions have "evolved." The fact that most of the shit he said was pretty recent begs the question of: Fucking when?
-Quit-

Anthony Burch - ???? - Used to work there. Now works at GearBox and uses Destructoid as his personal PR company. Jealous and possibly horny for his more successful sister, is being cheated on by his wife in their "open marriage" (lol she still left him after he let her sleep around), turned bisexual out of desperation, took pictures of himself in a bikini and sent it to Anita then framed the tweet she sent him back and hung it on the wall, tried to prove GamerGate wrong by exposing more corruption and is probably the saddest man in gaming today.
-Quit-

Max Scoville - "Video Warlock" - Went apeshit over GamerGate and quit.
-Quit-

Hamza Aziz - CEO - Recently left the site along with others like rats fleeing a sinking ship.
-Quit-

Dale North - EiC - Also quit this shithole.
-Quit-

Jonathan Holmes - EiC - Replaced Dale North when he quit. Went to school with Jonathan McIntosh and had Zoe Quinn on on a podcast in 2012. Worst choice to replace North.

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Spinof's firing in his own words


Chris Carter - Reviews Director - Reviewed Borderlands 2 DLC and gave it good scores because Anthony Burch, who worked on the game, used to work at Dtoid.

Joseph Leray - ???? - Used to work there. Also involved in the Burch DLC thing.

Bill Zoeker - "Video Technomancer" - Allegedly either slept or was friendzoned by Zoe.

Destructoid Faking Votes on Digg

Allistair Pinsof gets illegally fired for exposing Chloe

Destructoid drama in a nutshell

Chloe Sagal is a crazy, tranny "game dev" with one and a half games under his belt (alongside a cock) who frequently makes up diseases he doesn't have (Autism, a disease that isn't deadly but for some reason is for him) and makes fake suicide threats for money and attention. A couple of years ago this tran pretended to be in a car accident to try and scam people out of money for his sex change.

Allistair Pinsof, a Destructoid journalist who knew Sagal and was aware he is running a scam, decided to run a story about it. However, not before spending much of his time trying to convince him to stop. His coworkers knew about it and laughed at him wasting his time on some psychotic tranny, but that didn't stop them from stabbing him in the back and acting innocent in the events that followed.

When all else failed, Allistair told Sagal that he was running the story. This was the moment when Sagal made his first suicide threat. Not wanting to be blamed for it, he told Sagal that he won't expose his fraud if he (Sagal) doesn't try to kill himself and everything was done... or was it? Nope. Several hours after promising not to try and off himself for attention, Sagal went ahead and did it anyway.

Allistair Pinsof decided that, since Sagal broke his promise not to an hero, and since, now that he was safe in the hospital, he could no longer credibly threaten suicide, he was free to reveal that it was a scam. He got the green light from his editor who didn't care if Sagal lives or dies and ran the story, not on Destructoid itself, but on his personal site unlinked to the site he was employed at.

The internet trannies were assdestroyed. They didn't get preferential treatment so, in their mind, exposing fraud by a tranny is bigotry regardless of that freak of nature being guilty or not. Pinsof's editor, in turn, caved to the pressure and fired him, possibly while drunk.

To show he doesn't hate trannies (why would anyone want to do that?) and save his future journalistic career he went to "Gamers Against Bigotry", a site run by an insult to comedians everywhere and a self-confessed faggot, and reached out to both Sagal and several of the crossdressing faggots who had sent him death threats, and asked them to join his charity. As an interesting sidenote, the site's been hacked for being unbearably faggy.


   
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It suddenly became abundantly clear that society is the problem. The right situation would be one where Chloe wouldn’t need to acquire money to be who she is.
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—IT WASN'T HIR FAULT XE TRIED TO SCAM MONEY FROM PEOPLE ON INDIEGOGO, IT'S OUR STUPID DUMB HATERIARCHAL TRANSPHOBIC CISSEXIST'S SOCIETY'S FAULT FOR IMPOSING THIS OUTDATED GENDER BINARY ON HIR.


The struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. The end.


Or was it? The entire drama was forgotten until GamerGate started and dug it back up when a blog did an interview with Pinsof where he revealed what actually happened, which was: Besides all that was mentioned already, his boss, Yanier "Niero" Gonzalez, privately fired him in an email, and then told everyone publicly that Pinsof was only suspended. Then he waited for him to tweet something so that he could pretend he fired him because of his tweets.

But that's not all. Yanier also consulted with people on a secret mailing list called "GameJournosPro", containing 150 members of the gaming press, asked their advice, slandered Pinsof and agreed with them to blacklist him from the industry. All of which are violations of state law by "Niero", and possibly by some of the people who participated. Then Yanier told Pinsof that, not only will he not give him a letter or recommendation, he would delete all his work from the site and add a tagline saying "WORST EMPLOYEE EVER! DO NOT HIRE!" to his page on the site if he exposes him. Subsequently, Pinsof quit games journalism, realizing what a pile of shit it was.

When this came to light Yanier Gonzalez tried to deflect blame by saying that Pinsof was an SJW.


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Spinof's firing in his own words


But Wait! There's More: Holly Green Sexual Harassment Accusations

Destructoid defending itself

But the drama didn't end there.

At the start of GG, Holly Green, a writer for Gameranx, went on a twitter meltdown accusing the industry of corruption and saying she was sexually harassed and fired for complaining about it. Everyone ignored the loony and forgot about it when she deleted those tweets. Until that article about Destructoid came out and people realized who had sexually harassed her. Yep, it was someone at Destructoid.

All of Holly's work has been deleted from the Dtoid site like what had been threatened would happen to Pinsof. Niero (in a display of perfect professionalism) responded to her claims by saying that she was a crazy, drunken lunatic who assaulted him and was on crazy pills, saying (in a hilariously pathetic excuse) that it isn't his responsibility to back-up his writer's work, and announced that the people who work for him aren't real journalists. Neiro then finished off by making things worse and escalating Green's allegations by saying her complaint wasn't about getting sexually harassed but rather about getting raped. Ian Miles Cheong (her current employer) however said that Green was a perfect employee and that Niero is lying. Which is funny because Ian is anti-GamerGate, so either they didn't think to match their stories or Ian was forced to choose between defending his anti-GG narrative or his employee... Not that it changes the fact that he was probably the one who made her delete her tweets about being sexually assaulted.


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The Holly Green Tweets


Anthony Burch tries to defend Dtoid, instead, retardedly implicates them further

In comes Anthony Burch, loser and writer for the "Boarderlands 2" developer "GearBox". In an attempt to prove that GamerGate isn't about ethical violations, Burch exposed that everyone in the industry is making a lot of fucking ethical violations! Besides mentioning that Polygon's editor hired his brother, Burch also explained that the only reason his game got a good review on Dtoid was that he is friends with some of the staff. To him this was proof positive that GamerGate only cares about attacking women, despite the fact no one knew he was friends with them until he exposed that fact at that very moment.

In conclusion, everyone laughed at how stupid Burch is, at the fact the only reason anyone even knows about him is because of his far more successful sister, at the fact he is in an "open relationship" with his wife and she is constantly fucking other guys while he isn't fucking anyone including his own wife despite turning "bisexual" in pure desperation (I am seriously not making any of this up).

Burch is still making an ass of himself on twitter where he has to block anyone who tweets at him with the word "Cuckold".

Doxing "The Fine Young Capitalists"

The hits just keep on coming with good old Dtoid.

Now it turns out that the one who originally doxed TFYC and gave those dox to Zoe was a writer at Dtoid. When confronted about it "Neiro", in classic Dtoid fashion, tried to lie and say that the guy had never written anything for him, only spell-checked articles and has not been a part of the site for over 5 year. But he was exposed again within moments with a simple google search that found the guy wrote entire articles for them just a few months ago.

Faftermath: Dtoid only slightly less shit than before

After all this was exposed, amazingly, someone actually took some responsibility. Dale North, the editor-in-chief, realizing what a shithole he has been working at, said he didn't know about any of this shit and quit. Before leaving he also changed Dtoid's disclosure policy to be less shit (while still pointing out that everyone who wanted this is a misogynist anyway). Later Max Scoville also quit the site following a GamerGate induced fit of autism.

Have you ever been so mad that you deleted an entire forum?!

After a year of neglect, uncle Neiro decided that the community needed another boost. So instead of asking around what the 30 people that visit the forums actually were interested in, he decided he's going to insult his entire website by telling them he doesn't want anything to do with them and will, henceforth, be pretending that the forum is separate from the rest of Dtoid and is just a fan forum and demands they change their logo so it doesn't look like the Destructoid robot. He then reacted to someone making a rape joke by disallowing all rape jokes and calling everyone on the forum a sexist, rapist and a racist in what must have been another one of his drunken stupors. Soon after he banned 3 mods and half the users, which he replaces with over 1,000 bots and dead users who he either called back to side with him or used their abandoned accounts as socks to tell people he's right. This all and set the forum into ragemode and prompted the Gamejournopro president and SF-resident to call everyone around him a clique before deleting the entire fucking forum as all his users began migrating to the superior Digital Confederacy.

Revenge of the Dtards

The thing is, when you run a site/forum for long enough, your users will remember things you've said and have dirt on you.
People quickly pointed out the irony of Neiro accusing people of racism when he's the one who make posts on the main site that look like this:



and the irony of him banning rape jokes when one of the site's main contributors, Jeb Whitaker, made many rape jokes in a number of videos, specifically one where he spends seven minutes calling people niggers, faggots, bitches, whores and cunts while being aggressively unfunny. The pair's reaction was to freak out, but mostly Whitaker provided most of the comedy as he made ridiculous excuses and tried to blame people linking to Dtoid via archive to deny them their jewgold of piracy.

When this failed he went on a DMCA rampage, trying to get the video taken down. However, the internet never forgets, and you can still watch a copy of it here. Or just watch it right here on ED because we uploaded it directly to our site and if he tries to DMCA us we'll just laugh in his face.


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In Conclusion

See Also

Classy, Dtoid

External Links

What Dtoid needs to do

The GamerGate thread on our forum

#GamerGate Series

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Phil Fish

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Ryulong

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Brianna Wu

Chloe Sagal

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Moviebob

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DQ Sim

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Other People and Sites That Got Involved:


People:
Anti-GG Faggots: Videogame "Journalists" ◈ Videogame Reviewers ◈ Cameron Baker ◈ Joss Whedon ◈ Egoraptor ◈ Chris Chan ◈ Ahuviya Harel/ADF-Fuensalida ◈ m00t ◈ A Man in Black ◈ Nick Denton ◈ Ellen Pao ◈ DarksydePhil ◈ Adam Sessler ◈ Jed Whitaker ◈ Alison Rapp ◈ Nolongersilenced ◈ Tony Sidaway ◈ Alex Wuori ◈ Andrew Hussie ◈ TransFrequency ◈ Wil Wheaton ◈ Asalieri ◈ Jerry Peet ◈ Angry Joe ◈ Maxofs2d ◈ Chris Kluwe ◈ Tauriq Moosa ◈ Todd in the Shadows ◈ Maddox ◈ Faggot Who Started OWS ◈ Sceptre‎ ◈ NorthBySouthBaranof ◈ Ironholds ◈ George R.R Martin ◈ Stephen Colbert ◈ Jim Sterling ◈ ValisHD ◈ Nerdcubed ◈ Joshua Idehen ◈ Vordrak ◈ Rian Johnson◈ Julia Alexander


Pro-GG Faggots: Adam Baldwin ◈ Anne Rice ◈ William Shatner ◈ Hideki Kamiya ◈ Boogie2988 ◈ JonTron ◈ Derek Smart ◈ MrRepzion ◈ Suey Park‎ ◈ Richard Dawkins ◈ Richard Stallman ◈ Filthy Frank ◈ Shoe0nHead ◈ TotalBiscuit ◈ Theamazingatheist ◈ Thunderf00t ◈ Julian Assange ◈ Weev ◈ Icze4r ◈ Roosh V ◈ Gabe and Tycho ◈ TheRalphRetort ◈ ParkourDude91 ◈ The Wannabe Dickriders ◈ JewWario ◈ LordKat ◈ Cowkitty ◈ Craig Brittain ◈ Sir Wulfington ◈ Sargon of Akkad ◈ Lane Davis (Seattle4Truth) ◈ Carly Fiorina ◈ AlisonPrime ◈ Zoe Askalon ◈ DJBPlaythroughs ◈ Mister Metokur ◈ Armored Skeptic ◈ MundaneMatt.


Sites: Reddit ◈ Voat ◈ RationalWiki ◈ SJWiki ◈ 76chan ◈ Twitter ◈ Wikipedia ◈ TGWTG ◈ BoingBoing ◈ VICE ◈ GOG ◈ TheMarySue ◈ Stormfront ◈ ScrewAttack ◈ The Escapist ◈ Buzzfeed ◈ Salon ◈ Patreon ◈ Jezebel ◈ Something Awful ◈ TV Tropes ◈ 4chan ◈ EDF 2: Electric Boogaloo ◈ Encyclopedia Dramatica ◈ We Hunted The Mammoth ◈ Mic ◈ Vox Media ◈ ResetERA.

Others: 2064: Read Only Memories ◈ Facade ◈ Fire Emblem ◈ FleetCOMM ◈ Dead or Alive ◈ Cards Against Humanity ◈ GNAA ◈ Bill Waggoner Crew ◈ MSNBC/CNN/BBC etc ◈ The Guardian ◈ Electronic Arts ◈ Intel ◈ Adobe ◈ Google ◈ Shirtgate ◈ Million Dollar Extreme ◈ Hatred ◈ Postal 2 ◈ Baphomet ◈ Anonymous ◈ Gamers ◈ Everybody else on the internet and their dog.

Minor Related Pages: Censored article about Brianna Wu ◈ Sarah Butts FFshrine chatlogs ◈ List of people defending Butts' pedophilia ◈ The DMCA Butts sent us ◈ Milo Yiannopoulos ✡ The feminist version ◈ Shanley Kane's butthurt rant ◈ The Great Gawker Implosion of 2015 ◈ Skype Con Leak ◈ Ralph's retarded group to monitor people trolling him.



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