@Edgar Isaí If I recall, didn't they get that apology from him as he was kicking and screaming? I distinctly remember the apology not being.... quick... or painless.
@@paulcrumpacker2078 saying that may come off as diminishing the impact of his actions. He may not have been THE problem at IGN but he definitely was A problem of IGN
+Monte Crisco No hyphen needed when typing/writing however long ago something was (8 years ago/eight years ago). But when you are typing/writing someone's age (ex: 8 years-old), it would be grammatically correct to include a hyphen.
I 100% agree with you Ralph. Forgiveness and second chances, allowing people to pay a debt to society etc. has been tossed away and it makes me sad. So i totally get your point. Also, its unfortunate he played a victim tho too lol. Could have engaged with the comment, but that wasnt the right way, especially publicly.
@@Revan-eb1wb yeah its sad. I wonder if the most effective thing for us reasonable people to do though is to be the ones to forgive (not nessecarily forget tho) and let people pay their debt and move on, to grow, to change or improve etc. If the silly minority population that screams cancel is outwighed by the reasonable, politely laying out the road to a second chance, maybe the general paradigm will shift and the silent majority will instead to be the apparent majority lol. Maybe not tho. A man can dream, at least. Idk.
He was immature but having your former boss go out of their way to talk badly about you was uncalled for. He likely will never find an audience anyway but he destroyed his career back then and paid dearly for it. No sense kicking someone if they're making a genuine attempt to right wrongs. Just my perspective anyway.
@@606hunter1 dude the guy from IGN and others had EVERY RIGHT to say what they did to him for showing ZERO self awareness and honestly stupidity for even going back to dead cells. They are the ones who had to clean up the damage he did to the company and also Filip almost got others fired due to his actions as well for not catching it before publication if what has been said is true. No he deserved those messages for being stupid and have no clue how to read a room and STILL playing the victim showing he didn’t learn a damn thing and isn’t sorry, he’s only sorry he was caught and then outed for several other offenses of plagiarism
I'm here, and just want to say I miss when you two got together to make videos for us. Truly one of the funniest and funniest times to learn about video game news
Yeah, sad to hear this. We should all be more forgiving, I mean, who knows, with the covid things still not looking any better, maybe we will all be zombies this time next year...
That's exactly what's wrong. People use their anonymity to bully other people. We SHOULD be more forgiving, it resolves issues in the end or for the sake of people's own ego's they will keep hatred going for ages. That's why there are so many broken families with all this kind of dispute that takes place
@@theredking3070 I'm glad you said that, it's exactly true and hence why people need to read the Bible and learn a bit of forgiveness or something like this. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Rebecca Black had really bad time with becoming a singer (or whoever) after she became a meme. But that was what she was passionate about, so she pushed through.
People deserve a second chance, but seriously, I don't like this guy regardless of his past His present behavior isn't very appealing as a content creator, he feels kinda like that prince gaming dude and the other half-assed content stealer that I forgot his name
True. It's not the crime that he committed, it's the person that he comes off as. I think if he came off as a likeable person, people would forgive him. I sincerely believe people deserve second chances. He just rubs people the wrong way.
@@deathproof8732 Regardless of what you think of the guy. His offense wasnt as bad. He just didnt play the games, but then he started to play the games. He also does sensational videos. Hyping up the importance of Halo and such.
this Dead Cells review is like if OJ wore the bloody glove to a book signing of his book "If I Did It" ... its like, if you did it... STFU about it, so people can forget & you can get away with it lol. but he keeps bringing it back up 😂 smh
”If a system is corrupt, then the people who adhere to the system, and are incentivized by that system, are not criminals. They are victims. The system itself must be tried. But… the only way we can figure out what the system is, is if everyone says what they did.” - Dave Chappelle Come back to this quote often. I can't imagine IGN is innocent in all this.
I realy feel that Brand also should have deleted his tweet if he himself understands that the tweet is negative. I dont like Muicin but i do agree that it does kinda seem like a two faced move to post something like that and then write to Muicin. The original tweet should have been worded way differently if he did not meen to be mean spirited.
The dynamic between you guys and the way you talk is really entertaining. Also I do not feel even for a second you guys say unnecessary things just to extend the video time. Keep up the good work, Im definitely sure you will pass 1 million very soon.
Well I'm going to start watching his videos. People do change and he needed to stick up for himself as I would too if someone told me to fuck off in ANY context. He's worth giving another go. Just like anyone else who's fucked up in life. By the sound of it , he wasn't the only one in that company who weren't "doing the right thing" and yet they are still around working at the same company, be it in the US or Brazil or anywhere else they have offices. The abuse given to Filip sounds hypocritical as it's coming from one of their own.
I agree that this guy seriously screwed up and shouldn’t really be clawing back at anything, but Ryan and some of the other IGN staff handled this like junior high students.
I feel like it's natural to be defensive when you've fucked up like he has and are trying to rebuild. It's a natural and human response to defensive when you are on the receiving end of such hate whether you deserve it or not. I don't know if he has earned the right to a spot in the game journalism community but I respect him trying to rebuild carve one out and understand why he's so protective of it. I do feel like he's going about it the wrong way but I understand it. All we can do is keep watching. I believe in second chances but it's a daily struggle to try and be better and re-establish trust and good will and you can and will make mistakes along the way.
I like that you made this point because it’s often missed when discussing people who have made mistakes. Regardless of receiving deserved or undeserved levels of hate (and this guy seems like a total douche), I think people (online or elsewhere) are naturally defensive when trying to recover from their mistakes and yet seem often confused by other people’s defensiveness when recovering from their own. When dealing with the internet we tend to only care about the handful of memories we have a person and it makes it easier to be much less forgiving, while in this case he has probably had two years worth of days trying to move on. Again, he seems hell bent on squandering any good will he could gain with people so I definitely think he’s losing any “right” he could have potentially had to rebuild a gaming audience, but as a general observation I agree with your thoughts.
@@newyeareves I get where both you and Kris Dunlap are coming from but a decent human would also try to look for cause of the situation in himself before going after others. A person that have screwed up this epicly bad should have the stones to accept the criticism (regardless of the wording) with humility rather than play the victim. Anything else reeks of self entitlement. Sure he gets to do whatever with his time but he is not entitled to forgiveness and he is certainly not doing much to earn it either.
If you want to work in the games journalism industry you just need a youtube channel or some other audience (and even an audience is optional). There are no educational or professional requirements, almost anyone can do it. Get a laptop and boom: You're a games journalist Harry. Being respected in the games industry/ good at the job is a bonus but completely unnecessary.
I agree with you; but I think him making a Deadcells review of all things is just playing with fire. He had to know or at least expect the heat. Playing victim when he gets it is disingenuous imo
I wouldn't say it's "natural", it's just a behavioural trait. Because it's also natural for people to admit/self reflect instantly when wrong. Some just don't.
If he tweeted back: "Yep, that's fair, I get it", it would have shown that he recognized people are still pissed, have a right to be pissed and have a right to express it, even in vulgar terms - especially the people he burned at IGN. THAT would have been the way to handle it. But instead, he decided to play the victim, which does him no good whatsoever. Clearly he still has a lot of growing to do.
People don't have the right to still be mad, if he's trying to rectify himself by starting again, people should be mature and act much more polite. In my eyes Ryan's tweet was much more uncalled for. I can under WHY they would be angry, but still being angry is immature. Then again old mate shouldn't also act like people ought to owe him respect either, even if it would be the better thing to do.
@@thelegendgamer33 People can forgive or they can not forgive, that is a personal thing and you have little right to tell someone who got dicked over that they're supposed to forgive someone now. Regardless of that though, anyone who ever trusts this guy again is a fool, the kind of person that brings down governments with their incompetence.
Muicin deserves to be laughed out of the room, but the idea that IGN is angry at one ex-employee guilty of plagiarism is as laughable as the captain of the Titanic complaining about rats onboard his ship. No amount of righteous indignation can extinguish the dumpster fire that is IGN.
Anyone see "Miller's Crossing"? The part at the end, where Bernie asks Tom, "look into your heart." I totally got that vibe from Filip's tweet to Ralph about his "kind heart."
It's a pretty basic manipulation tactic. Associate the thing you want them to think with having a "kind heart" and of course everyone wants to have a kind heart so they'll be attracted towards that position more. People who are actually sorry for what they did don't usually feel the need to manipulate people into seeing them favourably.
The writing in game reviews is abysmally formulaic to begin with. It tells you how poor a writer he must have been if he couldn't even put together his own middle-school essay of a review. No sympathy here.
@@hiro0078 Most reviews don't say anything original about anything, for that matter. They congratulate the status quo while piling cliche upon cliche. Most of them, because reviewers think it makes them sound balanced and nuanced, amount to this: while [negative] is the case, the game still offers lots of [positive]. 80%.
Too true. IGN reviews are fucking abysmal... Here's 3mins of plot, followed by some contrived comparisons and no sir... I have zero knowledge of any tech. ACG and Skill up to the rescue! It's also very disturbing that so many of the self proclaimed "talent" at IGN act like they're Ernest Fucking Hemmingway.
@@ObKling slightly agree, but kinda eh. Because if that was the case no one would have said anything to Filip to begin with. I've always thought it was more of his response that made him a douche, not that actual plagiarism.
@@markrobinson7975 I know. Ugh, that gets me too. They style themselves as "writer" in their Twitter bios, etc. Not the less pretentious and more accurate "game reviewer" - writer. Like they are talented writers who just happen to be slumming it in game journalism. Like they'll be publishing their novel soon. Meanwhile, their reviews are built on cliches and repetitive, intro-to-rhetoric sentence structures. Deluded.
Forgiveness and second chances are very important to the human experience. We are all going to make mistakes, some greater than others, we are all going to fall. Is it really that impossible to allow some one the chance to get back up, dust off the dirt, and try again? Yes he screwed up. Imagine removing Baseballs three strike rule, and make it one. Or a similar change to Football. This is just some vindictive attitudes holding his mistake over his head.
he PERSONALLY believes in giving second chances. he also understands that OTHER people may have DIFFERENT opinions and be in DIFFERENT situations causing them to think differently and not ever want to forgive.* fixed that for you.
Well, it doesn't take to be a genius to understand what he's trying to say. If you cheat on your wife and get divorced, you deserve to get married again and try to be a better husband, but your former ex-wife has all the right in the world to hate you. Same here, he deserved a second chance making a living on videogames, just not in a videogame news outlet.
@@LeoFalcon True... Just because the first wife wasn't comfortable with the butt stuff doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to meet someone that's all over it.
Everyone are ENTITLED to second chances, even criminals, those who want to destroy people for past mistakes are sick, especially mistakes they got punished for.
Yeah but he's so disingenuous that there seems to be little to no semblance of any growth. He's just the same guy he was back then. He deserves all of this
I believe that everyone has the right to EARN a second chance but some bridges can't be built again no matter the effort as free humans we owe each other nothing but basic civility and non violence your past will never be washed away you can only become strong enough to carry it on your journey
@@MegaRomans01 i'd agree with you if he repeated the same thing again and again, but he didn't, you're just clapping to some shameless ign journalist who went to him without any reason and just brought up a two year old mistake he lost his job and reputation for, if I was him I'd be angry too.
Not clapping, not even happy about it. Who's happy hearing about people's troubles? What I'm saying is when you fuck something up you cant just expect to go back to it and have everyone smile at you, even if it was just once end of the day we all write our own story if you dont like yours change it but right now the only thing worth knowing about the guy is his plagiarism. how do you know he is better than that now? His character was okay with stealing in the past not for food not for safety not to survive but from another creative to make a profit does that say nothing about a person? should we let everyone do anything just once as long as they promise not to do it again?
That George dubya quote at the end, classic.... Jeeze, remember a time when people thought that you could never get a worse president than dubya, oh how times change
I totally understand that muicin has no place for a come back to anyone's rage But that talking shit publicly and wishing him good luck on DM IS a sly move IMO
I did not interpret that guy as talking shit. It seemed like he was just being blunt. And he honestly gave good advice, Filup should focus more on being an editor or a behind the scenes guy, his credibility is forever tarnished.
@@brianvaira486 He’s been getting that advice since it all blew up. I too would be helluva annoyed that an ex-colleague keeps repeating the same thing others have chimed in. Maybe that straw broke the camels back.
When he told him to "f*ck off", that was a pretty petty thing to do especially coming from a brand such as IGN. Yes, he deserves every ounce of that negativity since Filip did IGN dirty. However, when his video was just about a review (which I have not seen) it doesn't deserve that kind of offensive retaliation granted, twitter is a public forum, and as such, if IGN chose to put that kind of content out there for the world to see, then that is the kind of content they have chose to put out there, for better or for worse. Having said that, what Filip did subsequently in posting a private conversation that was meant for him, that's kind of messed up too. I too believe in second chances, and unfortunately, a lot of people will not be on your side in the near term. It's going to take a lot of hard work and a lot of rebuilding to earn back the trust of the people and no one knows for sure how long that is going to take. However, what he did in reposting that DM.... yeah... not so good. If he truly is sorry for what he did, the best thing he can do is just concentrate on developing his voice, and figuring out what it is that he want in life and just go after it the right way. Ignore the hater and the negativity. Yes Filip you've burned a lot of bridges and wasted a lot of good will. However, the only way to move beyond this is to be the bigger man. Even if that means you will have to eat a lot of crow. The road back is never easy. I just hope he finds his peace.
@Zealadinn But the person wasn't being two-faced. Mitchell Saltzman's tweet expressed concern about Filip, and the part of his review where he stated that he didn't know how much more negativity he could take. Then Mitchell provided advice on how to possibly avoid that negativity, and said that maybe being a TH-cam personality isn't in the cards for him any longer. Then after thinking his tweet may have been too negative he DMed Filip and said that if it came off as too negative he apologizes, and if he still wants to do the TH-cam thing in spite of the negativity the best of luck to him. Both public and private messages expressed concern for a former co-worker and were entirely consistent with each other. Filip tried to use the private message to make himself look like a victim, but he is not a victim he did something wrong and is reaping the consequences of his actions. Mitchell never insulted Filip anywhere in his tweet. Also, while IGN is certainly trash and has been for a while, Filip certainly didn't do them or their credibility any favors, and probably because they are aware of their credibility issues they are probably over-sensitive to anything that threatens their already tarnished credibility. Filip's best response to Ryan's tweet, especially after he deleted it would have just been to ignore it, be the bigger person, and behave graciously. If he was actually serious about redemption.
Exactly. My first thought was whether they feel this strongly about people with followings that commit sexual abuses, as much as they do about plagiarism. Like Louis CK trying to come back without truly atoning. Also Ubisoft. These guys don’t want to piss off their base though by going after sexual abuse. The majority of gamers (and people in general) unfortunately will believe perps innocent and victim shame, even despite mountains of evidence.
@@drawgam2946 But the majority of gamers are bad people, if nothing else, through apathy and indifference. "I don't care how many women this guy raped, man, as long as they keep making me muh gaems."
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@@jayfarris9752 No I think most people support the idea of innocent until proven guilty. If you want people who sexually assaulted others to face justice then you need the victim to report the crime as soon as possible. Waiting multiple years after the crime has happened to report it is pointless as the authorities can hardly do anything about it.
I mean, I understand everyone's perspective here, but I still think McCaffrey's tweet was awfully unprofessional. Sure, the guy made them all look like idiots but I feel is not right to show up on his tweet and, frankly, try to stir the pot. Unless the guy showed up at IGN asking for his job back, that's not the way for a pro to respond to something he should do better to distance himself from. Just my two cents.
Totally agree with you, the CEO shouldn't had gone out of his way to look for him. Especially considering that IGN was found of plagiarism, again, not long ago lmao
Not many people in the comment section are taking into consideration that this was done on a dead cells review, the one thing that is most likely to get reported on and give him coverage and not necessarily all negative. But to IGN who doesn't need the coverage, it is just further damage to their credibility that ties in with the recent plagiarism reports
I appreciate the take on letting the guy be and letting him do his thing. He already paid the price for his actions and lost everything he had. He is allowed now to try and rebuild. You dont have to watch his content, but harassing him STILL is stupid... until he does something else dumb lol
I actually disagree with what's being said here. The guy did eventually give a decent apology, he could have taken a different direction in life, but he's fighting for what he loves and it's commendable. Sure his colleagues have a right to be mad at him and don't have to forgive him. But he has every right to defend himself moving forward. He's endured his punishment already. It's like when someone goes to jail, serves their time, and gets out. They've paid their dues at that point, and its time to let them move on and not constantly hang it over their head for the rest of their lives, because it's already going to be on their permanent record anyways. He's fighting for a second chance, so in my book, he's earned it. Also, fuck toxicity and cancel culture.
I saw the review he made yesterday, it was pretty good! To those that still can't get over what happen over at ign 18 months ago I have this to say... Let it goooooo let it goooooo. Lol
Well, if he really made it himself then good for him, and good luck. Edit: But, if I were him I'll start with make review of other games, not dead cell. Find a new release game that people might miss, and make a review of it.
C'moon guys. I'm an advocate to second chances, and giving people the opportunity to change. Maybe he is just trying to keep doing what he did, and expect people to forgive him, but maybe he is sorry and trying to start again. Put yourselves in his shoes for a moment. He knew he was going to get shit on if he did come back, and he still did and is being self-conscious about it, not trying to throw his mistakes under the rug like most people would. Sure, he shouldn't really try to play victim here, but Ryan McCaffrey was also totally not in the right place when he told Filip Muicin to fuck off. The totally right way to react to such an attack, for Filip would be to ignore it and move on, but he made the PR stunt to increase his notoriety by responding. Is it shameful? Totally, but in the end, the shameless always ends up getting what they want. And here we are, talking about a dude who almost got erased from the internet. I would say Filip won this fight.
Hi all. Just started watching your Skill Up reviews and happy to find Layman Gaming. Love hearing brothers talk games. Quick questions: how many siblings in the family and what's the age differences? Cheers
I don't like the guy at all but there are people who have done far worse than plagiarism that are given a second chance. I think Phillip looks kinda bad here playing the victim but Ryan doesn't look much better.
His plagiarism was a dick move, but he should have ignored the response. Ridicule comes with the territory when you fuck up, is it right to judge a person for their crimes for the rest of their life? Depends on the seriousness of the crime in my opinion. He should focus on those who does support him and keep it moving. The biggest redemption story is building a successful platform of your own after fucking up badly.
I felt bad for Dead Cells. All the press coverage for the game ended up being about plagiarism rather than the actual game. I've talked to a fan of rogue-like games who said it was a genuinely good game.
@@linhza501 Being a great game only leads to sales if people actually hear that it's a great game. Also tons of horrid games move insane amounts of units based solely on hype. I'm not sure you have any idea how sales and marketing are related.
@@kinginthenorth1437 of course I understand that. it just seems like your comment is suggesting the game succeeds purely because of this plagiarism incident, which I'm sure it is not. I've already seen a lot of people talking about the game during its early access days too.
You were right the first time, this is totally cancel culture, just because of this I subbed to muicin and thumb up all his vids, I will do anything to fight back at this cancerous trend, IGN is guilty of far worse than plagerism, they are the EA of gaming journalism, studies show that 50% of ppl between the ages of 5-22 plagerise at some point in a test or essay or report, so chances are that at least 50% of ppl who have attacked Filip for plagerism are just hypocrites who have plagerised themselves in the past, we all know that the comment sections on TH-cam and Twitter are just loud minorities and the bottom of the barrel in terms of decency and morality, most of this can be boiled down to bandwagoners and trend chasers trying to hop on the bandwagon, nothing but hypocrites who most of which are probably guilty of far worse
If he chose to respond he should have just said, “The anger is well deserved. I’m sorry you still feel this way after two years. I messed up. Badly. I hope and believe people can change and I’m doing my best to put out the best content I can. This was a chance for me to right some wrongs.” Leave it at that and the community would most likely have his back. He’s just doubling down at this point. Not good.
Yeah, he hasn't grown as a person. He just wants everyone to forgive and forget because it's been a while. If he felt this strongly about games why the hell did he plagiarize in the first place?
Eh, it's whatever. He messed up and then continues to mess up. There is always redemption for having done bad things, but not like that. You don't engage with the negative crap on social media. Lets be honest though, everyone is being childish here. If you don't like him, don't engage. If someone doesn't like you, don't engage.
One of the positive things to come out of this is publicity for broomstick gaming. Guy has a lot of great videos and it’s good that he got a lot of exposure from that event
It's becoming clear that Filip does not have enough self-awareness or patience to endure the long walk to redemption, if there even is one. After he got fired and gave his non-apology, he made about 10 videos before he gave up and went silent for half a year. then following that, he came out with his true apology, and only made 7 videos before going on hiatus again. Now with his need to pick fights on twitter, it feels like he is fully expecting to be able to return to normal and suffer zero backlash. it's like each time, he pops his head up with weak conviction, thinking "i already did enough right?" before being scared off again. If he's smart, he should learn to grow some harder skin and just work through the mess for a full year or two with full integrity and ignore the hate.
I like that he did it, it was a closure, The dude was on his own and triggered people started to bombard with negativity, did he plagiarize Again? No? Then why attack him Again? Those people are Petty and immature
Just for the heck of it let’s get a poll: How many laymen brothers do you all think there are? I’m pretty sure five but I’d like to know what you all think. Bonus question: guessing heights. (I think Sam 6’5 Ralph 6’2)
Boy, I would have done the exact same thing as Ralph. My thought process would be "Yeah ... what he did was wrong, but I don't like getting on hate trains. Everyone makes mistakes, let's just see how he can make up for ... uh ... wait, don't do that. No, no, don't say that ... errr ... never mind, I'm leaving."
IGN should have just stay quiet...smh plus there video game reviews is nothing to ride home about anyway...cuz before all this shit happen, I never trust IGN reviews & Gamespot reviews. I only trust Skillup, Angry Joe or ACG for reviews.
When people are denied any chance of redemption, violence will be the only answer What’s ironic… Is the people that want a future were no one has a chance at redemption… are too puss to survive in that future they want to create
The one good thing that came out of this 2 years ago was some recognition for Boomstick gaming. I subscribed to him and still watch his reviews. Boomstick is an excellent reviewer.
The narrative of this video felt off, which is a rarity with these two because I normally agree with them on just about everything. However, while what he was doing was definitely egregious, people coming out and flaming him after he has already paid his pound of flesh seems like you are encouraging the worst in people rather than trying to bring out the best the industry has to offer. If he is no longer a bad actor, wouldn't you want to see him present an example of what journalism should be rather than throwing everything we can at him, inevitably making the road to Integrity more difficult? His sins against his old co-workers explain their reaction on Twitter, but it doesn't justify it. I think that is a distinction that was lost in this conversation. Harassing someone, expression for something that happened years ago, it's still harassment. And it serves to only create useless noise where there should be good dialogue or entertainment.
Also love how Filip keeps framing his plagiarism as "mistake". Dude, maybe once, if you plagiarized just once under time pressure. That would be a mistake, not when plagiarism was you modus operandi. Filip Miucin has a dirty character. If you think he will suddenly become a saint in his "purgatory", you are lying to yourself.
I mean he had multiple chances to not plagiarize, and the internet uncovered not one but several of his reviews are, with Dead Cells being the most recent chain of crimes against integrity.
Not sure why Ralph felt he had to apologise for comparing it to cancel culture because that's exactly what this is by my understanding of the term. As for the guy in question if he wants to work hard on his own review content that fair play to him he has definitely suffered for his mistakes. People should just let it go and deffo give him another chance. It's not like he has abused anyone
Technically, he did abuse the work of the others, who are independently reviewing. There is a reason or two academia is ruthless about using someone else's work and not crediting while checking to make sure it was only people ended up with the same conclusion under different means of analysis.
As for Ryan McCaffrey. That guy needs to grow up. He literally is so overrated in the gaming media space. I literally have no idea how he has kept his job at IGN for so long
Also, these two seem so smug and condescending all the time that their opinions push me in a different direction. They also think they are comedic which can also be a turnoff. (This is a follow on from my previous comment below)
Two years already? Time flies.
@Edgar Isaí If I recall, didn't they get that apology from him as he was kicking and screaming?
I distinctly remember the apology not being.... quick... or painless.
Has it really been two years??
Old folks home is creeping up on us faster and faster bois
Feels like a decade ago really.
Time flies, but it doesn't change.
His entire career can be summarised in a sentence.
"Everyone, I am so sorry... that I got caught."
Politics.
It's hilarious how similar he is to Bill Clinton.
@@dagarath I did not plagirazed his work
@@TenkuuNoKishi I did NAWT! Oh hi Mark
@@dagarath saying he had sex with that woman? dont think son lol
Kinda ironic from IGN when they just got caught stealing someone else's content again just recently. (Babyzone's Deepfake Mortal Kombat videos)
that's ign. he's not the problem he's part of the ign culture.
@@paulcrumpacker2078 saying that may come off as diminishing the impact of his actions. He may not have been THE problem at IGN but he definitely was A problem of IGN
IGN: Taking the phrase 'it's only stealing if you get caught' way too seriously.
I'm Brazilian and I know the people behind IGN Brazil, they are scum and deserves all the blame on them.
IGN didn't get rid of him because he plagiarized, they got rid of him because he got caught.
"Neutral Platform like twitter" 😂😂
Im still laughing.
Laughed my ass off when I saw that kek
Yeah, a free country like Iran.
Twitter neutral? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Lol same. Twitter is toxic af
The internet knows no time.
The internet knows no mercy.
Its memory, infinite.
Its wrath, eternal.
IN THE FIRST AGE. IN THE FIRST BATTLE
@@AJZulu THE LONGER IT STAYS ON THE INTERNET THE STRONGER IT BECOMES
It never forgives.
It never forgets.
That is why internet is such a disgusting place. Maybe people should change, not accept it and sometimes be a hypocrites about it
@silverfoxeater whatever you said, good luck with that kind of attitude in your life.
Greg: “... that was like 8 years ago”
Seth: “People don’t forget...”
-Superbad
Hahaha... Was listening to Sacred Symbols and when I read the first line I thought you were talking about Greg Miller!
+Monte Crisco No hyphen needed when typing/writing however long ago something was (8 years ago/eight years ago). But when you are typing/writing someone's age (ex: 8 years-old), it would be grammatically correct to include a hyphen.
Brian S. Hell yea, thanks for the call out, always appreciate a correction. (Edited the comment)
Greg a young Dave Franco too damn
That's a blow-back I get from people when I talk about No Man's Sky. Sean Murray is a liar who has never apologized for lying.
"And then I got involved'
Well that was your first mistake.
Ah man. Phil did not deserve their kindness.
He intervened
What happened?
"A neutral platform like Twitter..."
This is comedy gold right there.
I 100% agree with you Ralph. Forgiveness and second chances, allowing people to pay a debt to society etc. has been tossed away and it makes me sad. So i totally get your point.
Also, its unfortunate he played a victim tho too lol. Could have engaged with the comment, but that wasnt the right way, especially publicly.
That is why it is almost useless to apologize. Nobody will forgive anyone and cancel culture is real.
@@Revan-eb1wb yeah its sad. I wonder if the most effective thing for us reasonable people to do though is to be the ones to forgive (not nessecarily forget tho) and let people pay their debt and move on, to grow, to change or improve etc. If the silly minority population that screams cancel is outwighed by the reasonable, politely laying out the road to a second chance, maybe the general paradigm will shift and the silent majority will instead to be the apparent majority lol.
Maybe not tho. A man can dream, at least. Idk.
He was immature but having your former boss go out of their way to talk badly about you was uncalled for. He likely will never find an audience anyway but he destroyed his career back then and paid dearly for it. No sense kicking someone if they're making a genuine attempt to right wrongs.
Just my perspective anyway.
@@606hunter1 dude the guy from IGN and others had EVERY RIGHT to say what they did to him for showing ZERO self awareness and honestly stupidity for even going back to dead cells. They are the ones who had to clean up the damage he did to the company and also Filip almost got others fired due to his actions as well for not catching it before publication if what has been said is true. No he deserved those messages for being stupid and have no clue how to read a room and STILL playing the victim showing he didn’t learn a damn thing and isn’t sorry, he’s only sorry he was caught and then outed for several other offenses of plagiarism
I'm here, and just want to say I miss when you two got together to make videos for us. Truly one of the funniest and funniest times to learn about video game news
Muicin needs to find a new career path, his plagiarism is going to follow him for a long time, and the internet is not very forgiving.
Yeah, sad to hear this. We should all be more forgiving, I mean, who knows, with the covid things still not looking any better, maybe we will all be zombies this time next year...
That's exactly what's wrong. People use their anonymity to bully other people. We SHOULD be more forgiving, it resolves issues in the end or for the sake of people's own ego's they will keep hatred going for ages. That's why there are so many broken families with all this kind of dispute that takes place
It wouldn't matter what he does. People won't be satisfied until he deletes himself.
@@theredking3070 I'm glad you said that, it's exactly true and hence why people need to read the Bible and learn a bit of forgiveness or something like this. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Rebecca Black had really bad time with becoming a singer (or whoever) after she became a meme. But that was what she was passionate about, so she pushed through.
It's times like this where one quote from The Hound in Game of Thrones really sums it up best...
*"Dumb cunt."*
Why is IGN attacking him when they recently stole another persons Mortal Kombat video???
That was IGN brazil or mexico i think. Still bad but i think the american branch is different
@@doobzsalam1847 oh okay i thought it wasn't the USA one. Thx for the info
Shoutout to Boomstick Gaming. Been following him since the drama. Quality channel 👌
People deserve a second chance, but seriously, I don't like this guy regardless of his past
His present behavior isn't very appealing as a content creator, he feels kinda like that prince gaming dude and the other half-assed content stealer that I forgot his name
CleanPrince annoys the piss out of me.
Prince gaming does some nice videos
Does that prince gaming guy still make videos?
True. It's not the crime that he committed, it's the person that he comes off as. I think if he came off as a likeable person, people would forgive him. I sincerely believe people deserve second chances. He just rubs people the wrong way.
@@deathproof8732 Regardless of what you think of the guy. His offense wasnt as bad. He just didnt play the games, but then he started to play the games. He also does sensational videos. Hyping up the importance of Halo and such.
I'm not sure if IGN do have any right to be angry with him, they aren't any better to be frank.
No dude they do, as his actions not only cost him his job it nearly cost others who worked with him their own jobs too
LOL, from the thumbnail, I thought this was a video recommended back to me that I saw like a year or two ago.
this Dead Cells review is like if OJ wore the bloody glove to a book signing of his book "If I Did It" ... its like, if you did it... STFU about it, so people can forget & you can get away with it lol. but he keeps bringing it back up 😂 smh
”If a system is corrupt, then the people who adhere to the system, and are incentivized by that system, are not criminals. They are victims. The system itself must be tried. But… the only way we can figure out what the system is, is if everyone says what they did.” - Dave Chappelle
Come back to this quote often. I can't imagine IGN is innocent in all this.
Philip loves video games soooooo much that he steals other reviews and can't be bothered to do them himself. That's true love baby.
Gives him more time to play videogams... He's a weapons grade genius!
I realy feel that Brand also should have deleted his tweet if he himself understands that the tweet is negative. I dont like Muicin but i do agree that it does kinda seem like a two faced move to post something like that and then write to Muicin. The original tweet should have been worded way differently if he did not meen to be mean spirited.
The dynamic between you guys and the way you talk is really entertaining. Also I do not feel even for a second you guys say unnecessary things just to extend the video time. Keep up the good work, Im definitely sure you will pass 1 million very soon.
News is THIS sprarse, that we have to focus on petty fights.
He didn't really pick the fight though, did he? Someone in a position of authority told him to F Off... I mean it's obvious who started it?
Well I'm going to start watching his videos. People do change and he needed to stick up for himself as I would too if someone told me to fuck off in ANY context. He's worth giving another go. Just like anyone else who's fucked up in life. By the sound of it , he wasn't the only one in that company who weren't "doing the right thing" and yet they are still around working at the same company, be it in the US or Brazil or anywhere else they have offices. The abuse given to Filip sounds hypocritical as it's coming from one of their own.
SkillUp: props to you for how you presented and handled the Twitter thing. And good on you!
second chance was his "challenge you to find more plagiarism" response after being caught
the first time so for me that's both chances spent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree that this guy seriously screwed up and shouldn’t really be clawing back at anything, but Ryan and some of the other IGN staff handled this like junior high students.
I mean I agree but he did seriously jeopardize the integrity of IGN which reflect badly of everyone who works for them.
@@ricknavarro8181 IGN's integrity is and was already spoiled.
Yep. Extremely unprofessional. Just goes to show they don't have any integrity with or without Mucin.
@@ricknavarro8181 IGN doesn't have integrity 😂😂
I feel like it's natural to be defensive when you've fucked up like he has and are trying to rebuild. It's a natural and human response to defensive when you are on the receiving end of such hate whether you deserve it or not. I don't know if he has earned the right to a spot in the game journalism community but I respect him trying to rebuild carve one out and understand why he's so protective of it. I do feel like he's going about it the wrong way but I understand it. All we can do is keep watching. I believe in second chances but it's a daily struggle to try and be better and re-establish trust and good will and you can and will make mistakes along the way.
I like that you made this point because it’s often missed when discussing people who have made mistakes. Regardless of receiving deserved or undeserved levels of hate (and this guy seems like a total douche), I think people (online or elsewhere) are naturally defensive when trying to recover from their mistakes and yet seem often confused by other people’s defensiveness when recovering from their own. When dealing with the internet we tend to only care about the handful of memories we have a person and it makes it easier to be much less forgiving, while in this case he has probably had two years worth of days trying to move on. Again, he seems hell bent on squandering any good will he could gain with people so I definitely think he’s losing any “right” he could have potentially had to rebuild a gaming audience, but as a general observation I agree with your thoughts.
@@newyeareves I get where both you and Kris Dunlap are coming from but a decent human would also try to look for cause of the situation in himself before going after others. A person that have screwed up this epicly bad should have the stones to accept the criticism (regardless of the wording) with humility rather than play the victim. Anything else reeks of self entitlement. Sure he gets to do whatever with his time but he is not entitled to forgiveness and he is certainly not doing much to earn it either.
If you want to work in the games journalism industry you just need a youtube channel or some other audience (and even an audience is optional). There are no educational or professional requirements, almost anyone can do it. Get a laptop and boom: You're a games journalist Harry.
Being respected in the games industry/ good at the job is a bonus but completely unnecessary.
I agree with you; but I think him making a Deadcells review of all things is just playing with fire. He had to know or at least expect the heat. Playing victim when he gets it is disingenuous imo
I wouldn't say it's "natural", it's just a behavioural trait. Because it's also natural for people to admit/self reflect instantly when wrong. Some just don't.
If he tweeted back: "Yep, that's fair, I get it", it would have shown that he recognized people are still pissed, have a right to be pissed and have a right to express it, even in vulgar terms - especially the people he burned at IGN. THAT would have been the way to handle it. But instead, he decided to play the victim, which does him no good whatsoever. Clearly he still has a lot of growing to do.
He shouldn't have even acknowledged the tweet, he got baited and fell for it.
People don't have the right to still be mad, if he's trying to rectify himself by starting again, people should be mature and act much more polite. In my eyes Ryan's tweet was much more uncalled for. I can under WHY they would be angry, but still being angry is immature.
Then again old mate shouldn't also act like people ought to owe him respect either, even if it would be the better thing to do.
It's not about growing, the man is an egotist at best.
@@thelegendgamer33 People can forgive or they can not forgive, that is a personal thing and you have little right to tell someone who got dicked over that they're supposed to forgive someone now. Regardless of that though, anyone who ever trusts this guy again is a fool, the kind of person that brings down governments with their incompetence.
@@thelegendgamer33 Being angry isn't immature if the reason for that anger is rightful.
"Neutral platform"... "Twitter". Those 2 are mutually exclusive
Muicin deserves to be laughed out of the room, but the idea that IGN is angry at one ex-employee guilty of plagiarism is as laughable as the captain of the Titanic complaining about rats onboard his ship. No amount of righteous indignation can extinguish the dumpster fire that is IGN.
The one good thing that came from all this, is I discovered boomstick gaming. Great channel!
Filips story of redemption, IGNs scorn and thirst for revenge. Is a better plot then LOU2 not gonna lie
Anyone see "Miller's Crossing"? The part at the end, where Bernie asks Tom, "look into your heart." I totally got that vibe from Filip's tweet to Ralph about his "kind heart."
It's a pretty basic manipulation tactic. Associate the thing you want them to think with having a "kind heart" and of course everyone wants to have a kind heart so they'll be attracted towards that position more. People who are actually sorry for what they did don't usually feel the need to manipulate people into seeing them favourably.
Bernie: "Look into your heart"
Tom: "What heart"
"i'm a journalist that was caught red-handed in an act of blatant plagiarism, but i'm the victim here."
bruh.
THIS MAN CALLED TWITTER NEUTRAL..... NEUTRAL MY GUY!!!
(Taking a huge deep breath)
FULL HAND AND ARM EXTENSION - BOOOI!!!!👏🏿
The Bush reference that will never die.
The writing in game reviews is abysmally formulaic to begin with. It tells you how poor a writer he must have been if he couldn't even put together his own middle-school essay of a review. No sympathy here.
The rubric was fine. It's the original thoughts and ideas he couldnt come up with.
@@hiro0078 Most reviews don't say anything original about anything, for that matter. They congratulate the status quo while piling cliche upon cliche. Most of them, because reviewers think it makes them sound balanced and nuanced, amount to this: while [negative] is the case, the game still offers lots of [positive]. 80%.
Too true. IGN reviews are fucking abysmal... Here's 3mins of plot, followed by some contrived comparisons and no sir... I have zero knowledge of any tech. ACG and Skill up to the rescue!
It's also very disturbing that so many of the self proclaimed "talent" at IGN act like they're Ernest Fucking Hemmingway.
@@ObKling slightly agree, but kinda eh. Because if that was the case no one would have said anything to Filip to begin with. I've always thought it was more of his response that made him a douche, not that actual plagiarism.
@@markrobinson7975 I know. Ugh, that gets me too. They style themselves as "writer" in their Twitter bios, etc. Not the less pretentious and more accurate "game reviewer" - writer. Like they are talented writers who just happen to be slumming it in game journalism. Like they'll be publishing their novel soon. Meanwhile, their reviews are built on cliches and repetitive, intro-to-rhetoric sentence structures. Deluded.
This just shows that social media is actually hindering the world instead of helping it....
Well he fits into the IGN that steals other peoples videos to use anyway.
The golden age of layman. Miss it.
Forgiveness and second chances are very important to the human experience. We are all going to make mistakes, some greater than others, we are all going to fall. Is it really that impossible to allow some one the chance to get back up, dust off the dirt, and try again? Yes he screwed up. Imagine removing Baseballs three strike rule, and make it one. Or a similar change to Football. This is just some vindictive attitudes holding his mistake over his head.
12:57 I can't imagine that many people remember Bush making that gaff. Saying that, thanks for giving this old dude a sensible chuckle.
Ralph: I believe in giving second chances. I also totally understand carrying hate forever
Ralph just loves the feel of that sweet sweet fence post in his special place!
he PERSONALLY believes in giving second chances. he also understands that OTHER people may have DIFFERENT opinions and be in DIFFERENT situations causing them to think differently and not ever want to forgive.*
fixed that for you.
@@SiBai- he defo still loves butt stuff though.
Well, it doesn't take to be a genius to understand what he's trying to say. If you cheat on your wife and get divorced, you deserve to get married again and try to be a better husband, but your former ex-wife has all the right in the world to hate you. Same here, he deserved a second chance making a living on videogames, just not in a videogame news outlet.
@@LeoFalcon True... Just because the first wife wasn't comfortable with the butt stuff doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to meet someone that's all over it.
IGN and Kotaku deserve guys like this.
LOL Ralf with that George w bush meme at the end
Classic, if bush was president today the memes would be hilarious. Basically everything that guy said was a meme
Man, I love you guys so much that I watched this whole vid about a twitter arguement about IGN staff....
Everyone are ENTITLED to second chances, even criminals, those who want to destroy people for past mistakes are sick, especially mistakes they got punished for.
Yeah but he's so disingenuous that there seems to be little to no semblance of any growth. He's just the same guy he was back then. He deserves all of this
I believe that everyone has the right to EARN a second chance but some bridges can't be built again no matter the effort as free humans we owe each other nothing but basic civility and non violence your past will never be washed away you can only become strong enough to carry it on your journey
@@mogul188 why is he the same guy? Did he plagiarize again? No, stop finding excuses to bully him and then act surprised when he acts defensive.
@@MegaRomans01 i'd agree with you if he repeated the same thing again and again, but he didn't, you're just clapping to some shameless ign journalist who went to him without any reason and just brought up a two year old mistake he lost his job and reputation for, if I was him I'd be angry too.
Not clapping, not even happy about it. Who's happy hearing about people's troubles? What I'm saying is when you fuck something up you cant just expect to go back to it and have everyone smile at you, even if it was just once end of the day we all write our own story if you dont like yours change it but right now the only thing worth knowing about the guy is his plagiarism. how do you know he is better than that now? His character was okay with stealing in the past not for food not for safety not to survive but from another creative to make a profit does that say nothing about a person? should we let everyone do anything just once as long as they promise not to do it again?
That George dubya quote at the end, classic....
Jeeze, remember a time when people thought that you could never get a worse president than dubya, oh how times change
I totally understand that muicin has no place for a come back to anyone's rage
But that talking shit publicly and wishing him good luck on DM IS a sly move IMO
I did not interpret that guy as talking shit. It seemed like he was just being blunt. And he honestly gave good advice, Filup should focus more on being an editor or a behind the scenes guy, his credibility is forever tarnished.
@@brianvaira486 He’s been getting that advice since it all blew up. I too would be helluva annoyed that an ex-colleague keeps repeating the same thing others have chimed in. Maybe that straw broke the camels back.
Spider-Man 3? You guys didn't have to even finish the video this was certified gold in the first ten seconds.
When he told him to "f*ck off", that was a pretty petty thing to do especially coming from a brand such as IGN. Yes, he deserves every ounce of that negativity since Filip did IGN dirty. However, when his video was just about a review (which I have not seen) it doesn't deserve that kind of offensive retaliation granted, twitter is a public forum, and as such, if IGN chose to put that kind of content out there for the world to see, then that is the kind of content they have chose to put out there, for better or for worse.
Having said that, what Filip did subsequently in posting a private conversation that was meant for him, that's kind of messed up too. I too believe in second chances, and unfortunately, a lot of people will not be on your side in the near term. It's going to take a lot of hard work and a lot of rebuilding to earn back the trust of the people and no one knows for sure how long that is going to take. However, what he did in reposting that DM.... yeah... not so good.
If he truly is sorry for what he did, the best thing he can do is just concentrate on developing his voice, and figuring out what it is that he want in life and just go after it the right way. Ignore the hater and the negativity. Yes Filip you've burned a lot of bridges and wasted a lot of good will. However, the only way to move beyond this is to be the bigger man.
Even if that means you will have to eat a lot of crow. The road back is never easy. I just hope he finds his peace.
@Zealadinn But the person wasn't being two-faced. Mitchell Saltzman's tweet expressed concern about Filip, and the part of his review where he stated that he didn't know how much more negativity he could take. Then Mitchell provided advice on how to possibly avoid that negativity, and said that maybe being a TH-cam personality isn't in the cards for him any longer. Then after thinking his tweet may have been too negative he DMed Filip and said that if it came off as too negative he apologizes, and if he still wants to do the TH-cam thing in spite of the negativity the best of luck to him. Both public and private messages expressed concern for a former co-worker and were entirely consistent with each other. Filip tried to use the private message to make himself look like a victim, but he is not a victim he did something wrong and is reaping the consequences of his actions. Mitchell never insulted Filip anywhere in his tweet.
Also, while IGN is certainly trash and has been for a while, Filip certainly didn't do them or their credibility any favors, and probably because they are aware of their credibility issues they are probably over-sensitive to anything that threatens their already tarnished credibility. Filip's best response to Ryan's tweet, especially after he deleted it would have just been to ignore it, be the bigger person, and behave graciously. If he was actually serious about redemption.
Forgiveness doesn't equal Forgetfulness. Many people need to learn this lesson and understand it will follow you forever.
You guys gonna cover ubisoft sexual misconduct?
Exactly. My first thought was whether they feel this strongly about people with followings that commit sexual abuses, as much as they do about plagiarism. Like Louis CK trying to come back without truly atoning. Also Ubisoft. These guys don’t want to piss off their base though by going after sexual abuse. The majority of gamers (and people in general) unfortunately will believe perps innocent and victim shame, even despite mountains of evidence.
Jim sterling made an amazing video about those retards from Ubisoft
@@jayfarris9752 They have covered it plenty of times before,stop with stereotyping gamers into bad people.The majority you think of does not exist.
@@drawgam2946 But the majority of gamers are bad people, if nothing else, through apathy and indifference.
"I don't care how many women this guy raped, man, as long as they keep making me muh gaems."
@@jayfarris9752 No I think most people support the idea of innocent until proven guilty. If you want people who sexually assaulted others to face justice then you need the victim to report the crime as soon as possible. Waiting multiple years after the crime has happened to report it is pointless as the authorities can hardly do anything about it.
people trying to make something right should never be overlooked
I mean, I understand everyone's perspective here, but I still think McCaffrey's tweet was awfully unprofessional. Sure, the guy made them all look like idiots but I feel is not right to show up on his tweet and, frankly, try to stir the pot. Unless the guy showed up at IGN asking for his job back, that's not the way for a pro to respond to something he should do better to distance himself from. Just my two cents.
Or at least back it up!
Totally agree with you, the CEO shouldn't had gone out of his way to look for him. Especially considering that IGN was found of plagiarism, again, not long ago lmao
This is cancel culture. On the internet, you can never be forgiven. That is wrong.
Not many people in the comment section are taking into consideration that this was done on a dead cells review, the one thing that is most likely to get reported on and give him coverage and not necessarily all negative. But to IGN who doesn't need the coverage, it is just further damage to their credibility that ties in with the recent plagiarism reports
@@strikeforce1500 Ryan is an employee, he's not the CEO. It says 'Executive Editor of Previews' on his twitter
He had his second chance when coming forward, instead he dared the internet to do the thing the internet is good at.
I appreciate the take on letting the guy be and letting him do his thing. He already paid the price for his actions and lost everything he had. He is allowed now to try and rebuild. You dont have to watch his content, but harassing him STILL is stupid... until he does something else dumb lol
this video popped up while watching the most recent AJS news. but i got my popcorn ready XD
I actually disagree with what's being said here. The guy did eventually give a decent apology, he could have taken a different direction in life, but he's fighting for what he loves and it's commendable. Sure his colleagues have a right to be mad at him and don't have to forgive him. But he has every right to defend himself moving forward.
He's endured his punishment already. It's like when someone goes to jail, serves their time, and gets out. They've paid their dues at that point, and its time to let them move on and not constantly hang it over their head for the rest of their lives, because it's already going to be on their permanent record anyways. He's fighting for a second chance, so in my book, he's earned it. Also, fuck toxicity and cancel culture.
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Thicc Boi also spent 2 years in purgatory.
I saw the review he made yesterday, it was pretty good! To those that still can't get over what happen over at ign 18 months ago I have this to say... Let it goooooo let it goooooo. Lol
Ooh love the outro song.. so much skillful kazooo!!! Woooo!!! 🤘🏻😜
Well, if he really made it himself then good for him, and good luck.
Edit: But, if I were him I'll start with make review of other games, not dead cell. Find a new release game that people might miss, and make a review of it.
Or just do let's play for a couple of months then start doing reviews again.
When you put an "Edit" BUT.. it's just your "BUT". Dudes an idiot. Edit: moron. Edit: "Edit"..
Yea it’s insane that he reviews Dead Cells after all this time, he’s totally in the “I’m not sorry I did it, I’m sorry you caught me doing it” mindset
Perfect use of the Bush "can't fool me again" quote at the end lol
C'moon guys. I'm an advocate to second chances, and giving people the opportunity to change. Maybe he is just trying to keep doing what he did, and expect people to forgive him, but maybe he is sorry and trying to start again. Put yourselves in his shoes for a moment. He knew he was going to get shit on if he did come back, and he still did and is being self-conscious about it, not trying to throw his mistakes under the rug like most people would. Sure, he shouldn't really try to play victim here, but Ryan McCaffrey was also totally not in the right place when he told Filip Muicin to fuck off. The totally right way to react to such an attack, for Filip would be to ignore it and move on, but he made the PR stunt to increase his notoriety by responding. Is it shameful? Totally, but in the end, the shameless always ends up getting what they want. And here we are, talking about a dude who almost got erased from the internet. I would say Filip won this fight.
Hi all. Just started watching your Skill Up reviews and happy to find Layman Gaming.
Love hearing brothers talk games. Quick questions: how many siblings in the family and what's the age differences?
Cheers
I don't like the guy at all but there are people who have done far worse than plagiarism that are given a second chance. I think Phillip looks kinda bad here playing the victim but Ryan doesn't look much better.
His plagiarism was a dick move, but he should have ignored the response. Ridicule comes with the territory when you fuck up, is it right to judge a person for their crimes for the rest of their life? Depends on the seriousness of the crime in my opinion. He should focus on those who does support him and keep it moving. The biggest redemption story is building a successful platform of your own after fucking up badly.
a trilogy of apologies? so what you're saying is, this is the rise of skywalker of apologies? 🤔
The Fallout 76 of apologies.
Muicin vs. IGN, talk about multiplying zeroes.
I felt bad for Dead Cells. All the press coverage for the game ended up being about plagiarism rather than the actual game.
I've talked to a fan of rogue-like games who said it was a genuinely good game.
It is genuinely fantastic
It is genuinely a great game, that is why it succeeds. If it's a bad game then no amount of coverage is gonna save it.
I've got close to 200 hours on it on switch easily one of the best 2d metroidvanias and rougelike
@@linhza501 Being a great game only leads to sales if people actually hear that it's a great game.
Also tons of horrid games move insane amounts of units based solely on hype. I'm not sure you have any idea how sales and marketing are related.
@@kinginthenorth1437 of course I understand that. it just seems like your comment is suggesting the game succeeds purely because of this plagiarism incident, which I'm sure it is not. I've already seen a lot of people talking about the game during its early access days too.
You were right the first time, this is totally cancel culture, just because of this I subbed to muicin and thumb up all his vids, I will do anything to fight back at this cancerous trend, IGN is guilty of far worse than plagerism, they are the EA of gaming journalism, studies show that 50% of ppl between the ages of 5-22 plagerise at some point in a test or essay or report, so chances are that at least 50% of ppl who have attacked Filip for plagerism are just hypocrites who have plagerised themselves in the past, we all know that the comment sections on TH-cam and Twitter are just loud minorities and the bottom of the barrel in terms of decency and morality, most of this can be boiled down to bandwagoners and trend chasers trying to hop on the bandwagon, nothing but hypocrites who most of which are probably guilty of far worse
If he chose to respond he should have just said,
“The anger is well deserved. I’m sorry you still feel this way after two years. I messed up. Badly. I hope and believe people can change and I’m doing my best to put out the best content I can. This was a chance for me to right some wrongs.”
Leave it at that and the community would most likely have his back.
He’s just doubling down at this point. Not good.
Yeah, he hasn't grown as a person. He just wants everyone to forgive and forget because it's been a while. If he felt this strongly about games why the hell did he plagiarize in the first place?
That spiderman 3 meme killed me xD, laymen allways with the memes
this is all so pathetic wtf is this an industry or a 4th grade classroom
Love the black background. Definite improvement imo
Eh, it's whatever. He messed up and then continues to mess up. There is always redemption for having done bad things, but not like that. You don't engage with the negative crap on social media. Lets be honest though, everyone is being childish here. If you don't like him, don't engage. If someone doesn't like you, don't engage.
"If you're not gonna say something positive, you have nothing to say" basically, the IGN dude was wrong, baited the Mucin and he fell for the bait.
welke to social media where outrage and cancel culture rules. It's a cess pit
If only some people would realize it’s actually that simple.
One of the positive things to come out of this is publicity for broomstick gaming. Guy has a lot of great videos and it’s good that he got a lot of exposure from that event
It's almost like he's addicted to the drama.
He's like Randy Pitchford - he goes online with this warped image of what's the right course of action in any discourse and makes an idiot of himself.
Lmao @Ryan Mcaffrey. "Fuck off" haha. Oh man, I never thought Ryan would say something like that. I love that dude even more.
How is he playing the victim when he's admitted to the plagiarizing. I'm confused.
It's becoming clear that Filip does not have enough self-awareness or patience to endure the long walk to redemption, if there even is one.
After he got fired and gave his non-apology, he made about 10 videos before he gave up and went silent for half a year. then following that, he came out with his true apology, and only made 7 videos before going on hiatus again. Now with his need to pick fights on twitter, it feels like he is fully expecting to be able to return to normal and suffer zero backlash. it's like each time, he pops his head up with weak conviction, thinking "i already did enough right?" before being scared off again.
If he's smart, he should learn to grow some harder skin and just work through the mess for a full year or two with full integrity and ignore the hate.
I like that he did it, it was a closure, The dude was on his own and triggered people started to bombard with negativity, did he plagiarize Again? No? Then why attack him Again? Those people are Petty and immature
Just for the heck of it let’s get a poll: How many laymen brothers do you all think there are? I’m pretty sure five but I’d like to know what you all think. Bonus question: guessing heights. (I think Sam 6’5 Ralph 6’2)
Well I think Thicc Boi plagiarized both Ralph and Sam's appearance... The other two brothers I wouldn't know about it...
No. What a sad way to spend your time...
That would be -6'5 and -6'2
They are Aussies. You have to give their height as negative numbers.
Bless him.... He just wound the clock back about 2 years...
More then anything this shows how unprofessional IGN is.
nope, it shows how human people are.
Boy, I would have done the exact same thing as Ralph. My thought process would be
"Yeah ... what he did was wrong, but I don't like getting on hate trains. Everyone makes mistakes, let's just see how he can make up for ... uh ... wait, don't do that. No, no, don't say that ... errr ... never mind, I'm leaving."
IGN should have just stay quiet...smh plus there video game reviews is nothing to ride home about anyway...cuz before all this shit happen, I never trust IGN reviews & Gamespot reviews. I only trust Skillup, Angry Joe or ACG for reviews.
Agreed, it's ironic if not hypocritical for any IGN employee to rail dude given their reputation and history even w/o him.
Mack From Worth A Buy its even better
@@kielweiss3606 No its not. IGN is questionable, but this dood is proven to be PoS. And, since people already doubt IGN it makes it even worse
Stop playing video games and go and finish school kid.
Smh...
Why should IGN stay quiet
When people are denied any chance of redemption, violence will be the only answer
What’s ironic… Is the people that want a future were no one has a chance at redemption… are too puss to survive in that future they want to create
Good on you for giving him a second chance. Oh wait your the Last of Us Guy! Forget it!
The one good thing that came out of this 2 years ago was some recognition for Boomstick gaming.
I subscribed to him and still watch his reviews. Boomstick is an excellent reviewer.
The narrative of this video felt off, which is a rarity with these two because I normally agree with them on just about everything. However, while what he was doing was definitely egregious, people coming out and flaming him after he has already paid his pound of flesh seems like you are encouraging the worst in people rather than trying to bring out the best the industry has to offer. If he is no longer a bad actor, wouldn't you want to see him present an example of what journalism should be rather than throwing everything we can at him, inevitably making the road to Integrity more difficult? His sins against his old co-workers explain their reaction on Twitter, but it doesn't justify it. I think that is a distinction that was lost in this conversation. Harassing someone, expression for something that happened years ago, it's still harassment. And it serves to only create useless noise where there should be good dialogue or entertainment.
This guy sounds like a quality individual..
Also love how Filip keeps framing his plagiarism as "mistake". Dude, maybe once, if you plagiarized just once under time pressure. That would be a mistake, not when plagiarism was you modus operandi. Filip Miucin has a dirty character. If you think he will suddenly become a saint in his "purgatory", you are lying to yourself.
I mean he had multiple chances to not plagiarize, and the internet uncovered not one but several of his reviews are, with Dead Cells being the most recent chain of crimes against integrity.
Not sure why Ralph felt he had to apologise for comparing it to cancel culture because that's exactly what this is by my understanding of the term. As for the guy in question if he wants to work hard on his own review content that fair play to him he has definitely suffered for his mistakes. People should just let it go and deffo give him another chance. It's not like he has abused anyone
Technically, he did abuse the work of the others, who are independently reviewing.
There is a reason or two academia is ruthless about using someone else's work and not crediting while checking to make sure it was only people ended up with the same conclusion under different means of analysis.
As for Ryan McCaffrey. That guy needs to grow up. He literally is so overrated in the gaming media space. I literally have no idea how he has kept his job at IGN for so long
Passion and works cheap.
Ralph if you make a Shadowkeep review the Internet will no longer think you’re problematic
Also, these two seem so smug and condescending all the time that their opinions push me in a different direction. They also think they are comedic which can also be a turnoff. (This is a follow on from my previous comment below)
That intro was epic guys 🤣