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I don't see how promotional consideration for a game makes us stop being a game review site.

This phrase has been included on each of our live stream articles:

"Thanks to Tequilla Works and Cavalier Game Studios for the promotional consideration allowing us to bring you today's stream!"

http://www.shacknews.com/article/99680/the-sexy-brutale-giveaway-live-stream

There is no Shacknews review of this game because of the obvious conflict of interest. If we do review the game, there will certainly be a mention of the promotional relationship.

I am actually really tired of how this community reacts to my attempts to generate revenue. You want to keep coming to this site? Maybe support us occasionally instead of looking for any opportunity to complain that this isn't what your Shacknews do.

This is not just addressed to you, but I decided to post here since this is the "Not My Shacknews" thread of the day.

There have been Shackers in The Sexy Brutale streams everyday. These are some of the highest quality streams we have ever had on the channel. At least Shack landed an ad campaign for a game that is brand new. This was actually a big get for us, and seeing reactions like this is truly disappointing.

Seeing people urge site visitors to use 3rd party apps/sites to avoid giving us ad revenue is equally disappointing. All I can say is that we are trying our best to be profitable in a very difficult industry.

Please understand.

ALL CLEAR!!!!

Doc said he was going to be doing rounds all day tomorrow and wouldn't have time to sit and talk with me because he knows I'm a talker and am always full of good questions.

First and foremost, thank you to each and every one of you for your support though this entire thing. I WOULD NOT have made it without this community, and I'm not just talking about monetary donations. Simply existing is more than enough to get me through most days. I owe my life to id software, Quake, the Quakecon volunteer staff, Steve Gibson, and the Chatty. But if I were Dorothy, and it was the end of the movie; Asif, I would miss you most of all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping the lights on here.

I completed the 2nd bone marrow stem cell transplant back in September. By mid December I was feeling mostly my old self again, plus feeling much better about life and my place in the world. Started couch to 5K, and progress is being made there. I rolled my ankle while celebrating my birthday this weekend, but by tomorrow I should be able to get back out on the pavement. That I felt good enough to run ~3 miles in 40 degree weather was really all I needed to know about how things were going.

I'm ready to start looking for work again. I've been given a de facto, genuine, 2nd shot at life so I'm gonna try not to fuck up this time. While it would be easy to get back into what I was doing before, even a cursory search of my post history has shown that I've never really been happy with my career choices. Looking to make a radical turn into something completely new and adventurous, and it even involves you guys in the near future, so that is super exciting.

And it wouldn't be a fleabug cancer post without the closing paragraph where I have to remind everybody to stay happy and hopeful and humble no matter what. I recognize that I am extremely lucky to have an eternally sunny disposition. I've always had more happiness than I needed, so I've always tried to share it at every turn.

Ask questions or not or whatever, y'all know the drill. <3 <3 <3

Nothing more to say right now, I'll let Craig Sager take me out.
https://youtu.be/01BMPwDUO74?t=9m26s

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I said fuck it and told the owner I was getting it and explained why. My family has been eating here since I was a little kid so he knows me all too well.

Not only did he say he was going to take care of their meal he bought my dinner too. He insisted on it.

There are good people in this world after all.

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As importance raises, wife's ability to answer phone decreases.

HERE YOU GO MY FRIEND: http://jsbin.com/ikomaj/1

GOOD LUCK

Oh hi there


Over the years, I've seen many a poster, complaining about the content of the site, which has frankly, baffled me. I won't deny I'm a notorious whiner, who loves a little chaos but I just don't get whinging about shack content. What shack does to survive, I'm fine with, I just come for my chatty. I think a lot of people just come here for the chatty.

Infact, I've been really impressed with what you've done with the site, since you took over. I think Cortex is a really good idea, twitch was a good idea, youtube was a good idea, twitter accounts, even the articles which are like hint guides with keywords that people will google for, fucking a-ok for me, if it gets clicks and money and keeps the chatty alive I'm happy.

I'm especially impressed with what Shantynews was. It's the ONLY content, I've felt like sending to friends from here in years, it was fucking clever and my kind of humour, I love satire / parody done right.

When people complain about the content, or site direction, I often groan, it frustrates me even, because some of the shit people say, about the news content or the staff is outright fucking classless and mean. Posting a 'this article is dumb as fuck' is shit and I don't support that, I'm not for it. I don't cheer it.
So I want to make that very, very clear. You, your dog, your news staff, articles, be they good or bad, I don't take issue with them. I like what's been done here, I think the mods are generally fair here too.

Now I know I'm a whiny prick, I'm not stupid, I often whinge, all the time, be it to be the devils advocate, to start a conversation, or because I have pretty weird opinions on things and I hate going with the flow. I'm a natural contrarian, it literally runs in the family.

However, my feedback that caused some of this ruckus was not a "fuck shacknews" post, I simply wanted the ability to filter a cortex root post, which was political. I just wanted to avoid politics, that's all. Shanty taking a political direction, meant that political posts were therefore appearing in the chatty. That's it. This site is 950x better with the politics filter, off.


So I'm self aware, that I can be a handful, I'm a bit of a weird dude, I don't want people taking my shit personally. I generally don't take things too personally. I am fully aware that I deserve a ribbing from time to time.

However the Cortex article on me, has:
My picture, sourced from mayooms twitter.
It references my wife, frequently, in not a good light, she's a great poster here and she has no enemies, she's very sweet, thoughtful and she doesn't shit stir like me. She really shouldn't have been put in the article at all
It would've been funny if it was less than half as mean.
It does have an amazing headline, over 60% of is bang on the money.


Again, I understand why someone would get frustrated and annoyed about me, I get it. Though the article feels as if I've personally insulted / attacked or hurt you directly or the shack, which is, without question, not my intention. I got the total and utter shit bullied out of me at school too, I have desire to do that to others
I can take someone not liking me, because of my personality, however I never have intended to attack or appear to attack / dislike the staff or site, that article feels a little like, personal revenge for me being a bully, I haven't intended to be?
I recall the morning I woke up and saw it and I was grinning from ear to ear, oh man this is going to be amazing and funny and slowly I ended up with my heart beating pretty rapid and just thinking 'whoaaaah, fuck'
Considering the picture and my missus the article might be better off being pulled down perhaps.
It's also factually incorrect! I couldn't care less about CP2077 since it launched, fuck that 2/3's of a game

Again, I meant everything I said here: https://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=40345604#item_40345604 I don't hate the site. I don't hate you, or the staff or your dog (and I don't hate all dogs either! read the posts more carefully people)


I'm not going to address one of the tweets, which seemed to reference me in an even more sour way than the article, I'm going to just ignore and forget that, it's not worth it.
So for the sake of mayooms who unlike me DOES deserve some respect / love and for the sake of the site, where people aren't posting due to the article, I think it's time to let the thing go please.



XOXO

Asif and staff, you guys need to be better than this. This is disappointing.