Blog:Grust's Top 10 Worst Gaming Moments of 2019

We're nearing the end of the year and boy howdy, it FUCKING sucked for gaming. Not only was it so bad, it played a huge role in what I see as the death of Western Entertainment (the other being celebrities caring more about preaching politics than entertaining but that's another blog....that I already did on Rotten Websites), in fact I dare to even say it, but in so many ways, this year was probably EVEN WORSE than 2018. Oh God I'm depressed just looking at this. I need me a pick me up to get through this. Where's TyrantRex?

TR: "Oh GOD!" Recalls what happens when toys try to escape me and comes willingly.

Grust: "You're being very obedient. I'll be lenient with you. Now onto this very depressing countdown.

10. Politicians Rage About Video Games.... Again: Godammit Trump not again. Oh and a Democrat nominee Marianne Williamson both came out against violent video games during the 2 mass shootings that occurred in both Ohio and Texas over one single weekend. Marianne Williamson even goes so far as to say violent video games are why the world hates the U.S. Grust facepalms. Look at my collection and notice how many violent games I got and I never even killed anybody nor do I have any intent to. In fact violent video games bring down a lot of stress and crime has actually gone down. This is high on the list though since politicians have been bitching about video games since the 1980s and even played a very small role in The North American Video Game Crash of 1983. Democrat, Republican, left, or right, too far in any direction leads to only one conclusion, a killjoy.

9. Patches Somehow Making Games Worse: I don't know how its possible but lately I've been hearing about patches somehow adding more bugs to a game or bringing previous bugs that had been patched out back. How is this possible? I thought patches were used to fix games and errors but now some are making games worse? The most notable offender is of course Fallout 76, but I've heard other things too. Thankfully I don't own any of these games but still this is something that really worries me. I mean how braindead does one have to be to make a patch that makes things worse?

Grust: "TyrantRex."

Tyrant closes his eyes for the horrific torture. Opens his eyes to see Grust unable to do anything.

Grust: "sigh... you know what. I'm just too depressed to do anything, just go, Tyrant.

Tyrant leaves and Grust starts to sob over what he has to cover next.

8. Walmart Censors Violent Media but still sells guns: After the mass shootings mentioned above, Wal-Mart higher ups began to censor their violent media which includes video games and movies. And yet, they are still selling guns. Now I want to make one thing clear. I am pro-2nd Amendment and the only reason I don't own a gun myself is mental issues. But nevertheless, this still feels very hypocritical to me and all that Walmart is doing as far as I'm concerned is using censorship to deal with this, which as I've said is the equivalent of using painkillers to treat brain cancer.

Masson Thief: "He couldn't be bothered to torture you?"

TR: "This must be a bad list. I even heard him crying."

MT: "Well he does frequently say he views Western Entertainment as dead."

7. Continued Defense of Micro-transactions and Loot-Boxes: Does this sound familiar? It should since I mentioned it once before in last year's blog and nothing's changed. Even with governments getting involved and Belgium outright banning loot-boxes (I love you Belgium), companies like EA and Bethesda are coming out and defending the practice. We did get the surprise mechanic meme out of this, but the message is not sinking in. What sad is that even if millions refuse to pay for this crap, a small portion of "casuals" and "normies" will spend thousands of dollars to get one item. And as long as this is happening, loot boxes and micro-transactions will continue, and most companies know this. They don't give a damn about long-time fans anymore. They don't give a damn more gamers despise this. They only give a crap about the "whales".

6. Blizzard Ban Hearthstone Player: I was going to make this about the "Okay" hand gesture but this takes the cake. A Hearthstone Player named Blitzchung during an interview shouted his support for the protestors of Hong Kong. Almost immediately Blizzard banned him from future tournaments and confiscated his money. This was a final straw for many people and thanks to backlash, Blizzard gave Blitzchung his money but the damage was done. The only reason I haven't deleted my Blizzard account is because they want government I.D. and I do not trust them with that information. Now I've said before I don't like political agendas in entertainment, not even agendas I agree with. It's why I quit watching South Park, but even I agree the punishment was too severe. I would have politely asked Blitz to not be political and still give him money.

Grust: "It's like all these Western companies are trying to be the most hated. Why?" Continues crying.

TR: "Doesn't he usually torture us during crap like this?"

Danetheheroofworlds: "That's the problem. This isn't pissing him off.  It's depressing him.  Grust loves gaming and crap like this breaks his heart."

5. Head of Microsoft Says XBox Isn't a Free Speech Platform: Phil Spencer, the Head of XBox said that the XBox console does not support free speech and would do its best to curb "toxicity" online. While trash talk is an annoyance in games (I already had to deal with it the first time I rejoined Neverwinter on my PS4 a few days ago), Phil Spencer's announcement came across as very pro-SJW as he does not want gamers to say what they want. In fact it's known that SJWs hate free speech. One SJW on ResetERA even said, "Fuck Free Speech! Censorship is a good thing!" Sorry Phil but your comment makes me no longer wish to support the XBox brand. And I thought that E3 presentation was bad. Plus even if it's just to get rid of the trash talk, what's to stop them from censoring other things gamers say. Sorry, but this is very bad as far as I'm concerned.

4. NBA2k20 Promotes Gambling to Children and Corruption of the Ratings Boards: Oh what a mess this is. NBA2k20 is not a basketball game. It's a casino game with a basketball mini-game. And the rating E for Everyone, which means kids as young as 3 can play casino games that'll likely use real world money. Oh what were the Rating Boards thinking? What's this, the head of 2k also has a chair in the ESRB? No wonder this game got that rating. I've seen less corruption from a land touched by Lovecraftian Horrors in a game than what I'm seeing with the ESRB. On the plus side, I now know why Persona 4 got an M rating when that game was a T.

3. Glumberland:  And I thought Phil Fish was bad. The game Ooblets isn't even out yet but once this company got their hands on Epic's money, they started treating gamers like trash and using my most hated insult against gamers and even started treating their own Patreon supporters like dirt. I'm not even a PC gamer but these guys fucking pissed me off so bad I unretired from making articles because they deserve to have their name on this wiki. In fact this taught me a valuable lesson. Separating art from artist is over rated. It does not matter to me if their game Ooblets is good. Hell it could be ten thousand times better than Ocarina of Time and it won't mean jack shit to me. I do not want support such behavior AT ALL. Some believe Epic pays for several copies of games on their platform and if Ooblets is a success, I will fully believe that statement.

2. Projared Allegations: Oh boy this was a tragic one. Jared Knabenbauer, better known as ProJared had announced his divorce from his wife Heidi on Twitter and led to a huge shitstorm where Jared was accused of soliciting nude from minors and cheating on Heidi with Holly Conrad. Now I despise listen and believe as it's a third wave feminist's best weapon, but after nude of Jared showed up online, we were all quick to abandon him, even me. However 3 months later, he came back with "receipts." The reason he had been silent was he was gathering facts and visiting lawyers and experts and was able to prove his innocence. And while he was, we all saw what had happened to him, he was clearly a broken man for those 3 months. He lost weight (and I don't think he can afford that), he clearly wasn't getting enough sleep and as he said bullying never stopped. Thankfully this has a happy ending. After his innocence was proven, his subscriber count went up, he streamed Hydlide (are we sure he's better?) and is close to finally reviewing Final Fantasy V. Only downside is I can never watch his Sailor Moon video again. It was at least a happier ending than....

Two quick dishonorable mentions:


 * Playstation teams up with the U.N.: I won't be discussing what the Playstation brand teamed up with the U. N. for as it's a very dividing topic but I am upset that they teamed up with the U.N. at all.  This is an organization that's trying to get Japan to censor its anime and games, have tailors make fashionable plus size clothes for overweight women (no offense to overweight people I'm overweight myself I just see this as a waste of money) and worst of all, allowed Zoe Quinn and "that woman" to be allowed a platform to discuss censoring the internet.  As far as I'm concerned, the U.N. is pro-SJW and Playstation teaming up with them for any reason just leaves a foul taste in my mouth.  It's only an dishonorable mention because I'm sure some of you agree with the topic (which I don't even want discussed in the comments) but like I said, I don't like political agendas in my entertainment.  Plus I'm sure Tyrant will say I'm overreacting.


 * Companies on a race to the bottom: Whether it's EA, Ubisoft, Konami, Activision, or Bethesda, several companies seem to be doing screw-up after screw-up, after screw-up with way too many controversies to list.  I say just let it all burn at this point.


 * Everything that had to do with Fallout 76: Seriously Bethesda, give up on this trainwreck. Bethesda even celebrated 100 days of Fallout 76 with a party, I'm not even joking.  And this is from a game that seems to get worse and worse.  Who's running Bethesda, Homer Simpson?  But I discussed this already from last year's blog.

And number 1 is:

1. The Death of Alec Holowka: Zoe Quinn is officially much much worse than "that woman" ever was as Zoe now has blood on her hands. With one single tweet, Zoe Quinn was able to lead a Twitter mob against game developer Alec Holowka and ruined his life so bad that in just a short time, the poor guy killed himself. So what happened to Zoe Quinn? Was she arrested, defamed, now wanted for murder? Nope, she get rewarded, several people added to her Patreon, some game developers praised her and demonize those "horrible trolls" that demanded the truth and DC is letting her write another comic book.

This isn't even the first time her bad behavior netted rewards. Another time is when she stopped making updates on an upcoming game she was working on and even started saying her own backers were harassing her. She then gets a job at indie studio Heart Machine with various developers including the developer for God of War praising her. It's disgusting.

It should also be noted this isn't the first time an SJW led hate mob drove someone to suicide. We all know of that Steven Universe fanartist that attempted suicide after a hate mob harassed her nonstop just for drawing one of the characters thin. And another instance was when a pornstar said she wouldn't have sex with a man that did gay porn as she did not want to get an STD. However in both of these instances, both these two did something to set the SJWs off. Granted to a sane person this is nothing but an SJW gets triggered whenever I comb my hair. However, Alec did nothing. Zoe had no evidence to use, except, "Believe Wahmen." With just one tweet and even without any evidence to back it up, Zoe Quinn destroyed an innocent man's life.

This is not only the worst gaming moment of 2019, this is irrefutable proof that SJWs are now beyond any hope of redemption. An innocent man's blood is on their hands and the woman that started it is being rewarded. The fact that they are also silencing proof that Zoe is lying means they aren't delusional. SJWs are simply evil. I now welcome anything if it means getting rid of these heartless monsters. World War 3, the zombie apocalypse, the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupting. Grust: Man I'm depressed maybe I should just...

Masson Thief shows up with SNES. Grust looks and sees A Link to the Past inside. Danetheheroofworlds shows up with the N64 with Ocarina of Time.

Grust looks up as both are plugged in. Seeing the classic gameplay of both Grust soon perks up. WENth100 then shows up with TyrantRex bound and gagged with a YouTube video of Daddy Would You Like Some Sausages for 10 hours paused on Youtube. Grust removes Tyrant's gag and plays the video as Tyrant screams at how annoying it is. Grust sighs of relief.

Grust: "Of course retro gaming always puts a smile on my face. Thanks guys.  So any other moment in 2019 that sucked?  Let me know in the comments."

