Maddy Myers, deputy editor and intriguing Samsung, has released her last blog and is now preparing to take on the new position as weekend host Here's the money.
Like our culture, we are now going to say bad things about her, but it's difficult, so most of us have said good things. Who cares if she's disappointed about that because she's leaving us now and can eat shit.
Chris Person, Senior Video Producer at Kotaku
I am so sorry to see Maddy go, and I am humbled to work with someone with such a hhhhh ability to wait we have to say something to say. Uhhhh …… EAT SHIT.
Natalie Degraffinried, Senior Editor at Kotaku
I remember our conversations about the wild and fragile industry, and I can't wait to see the good work you can do for yourself in the field of updating spreadsheets for white men who are not organized. I will never miss the neck collar I get from looking down every time we walk more than five feet together. I keep this roast short for your honor.
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I am sure he will kill you in your new job of teaching Chozo martial arts so that you do not give up youth. Just don't break the waist.
Kirk Hamilton, Jazz Saxophonist, Co-host of Triple Click
Maddy is really good at her job, whether that job is writing good writing, turning someone else's bad writing into good writing, saying fun things into a microphone, or, you know, making a concept album about Metroid. At one point on our podcast I spent 30 minutes blaming him for the bad jokes I found online and he was incredibly cool. He is also the reason why I finally play the Kirby game (sorry Stephen), and that is why I finally suffer the shocking results of Kirby's power. Maddy: I'm glad I worked with you in Kotaku, even though I never got you to share my appreciation for my dad's sad games. I always appreciate the times we both agreed that Jason was wrong about something.
Joshua Rivera, Travel Writer
While I do not endorse or approve of mullets in daily life, we must take a moment to look at the ways in which they, arguably, improve the life of the wearer. For example, Take Exhibit A: One of my favorite X-Men, Longshot.
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Longshot's most important transformative power is "deception," which means you're extremely lucky. This luck can be good or bad, but it usually depends on his or her mind and intent. This gift, other than the gift given to him because of his unusual birth, makes him hot and immoral.
* Does Longshot Repent? Some would argue that just as the genome-building genre built into another realistic game depicts the world of Mojoworld, that is not the case. To them I'd say: Wow, who made the comic book Rush Limbaugh?
This negation is the exact type of thing that is only made of mullet.
… wait, what's that? Is Maddy leaving Kotaku? Ahhhhh … I thought you said Maddy needed a TED talk. How embarrassing. This site has an unusual name. Why not get ready while you're here, Maddy fix a lot of things (no really. Too many.) Well. Have fun …. wherever you go. I hope you survived the experience!
Eric Van Allen, News Editor at USGamer
Maddy and I became the first two members of Compete, right from the first day. And without meeting or even communicating before, it wasn't long until it formed a camaraderie. Most of the early days included riding stories and then re-planning, I hope someone will remember that, we actually have a circuit breaker. I dumped a lot of memes into our DM's all along.
I'd like to tag Maddy for something, otherwise his important choice in Blanca, but it's difficult. Maddy was – she's a very good editor, colleague, and Slack pal. Although I'm sure he's moving on, he's doing better things, after he gets out of here, his ability to find different ways and means of looking at things will always strike me. Maddy taking the gamer drugs to see what happens. He is a witch hunter a man or machine running a circle in the Overwatch League. An angle that no one cares about, or maybe they pay attention to because of the bright lights and loud music, but Maddy sees the story.
GG Maddy, I still hope hate-enjoy your playground.
Gita Jackson, Staff Writer at Motherboard
I love Maddy Myers with all my heart and I will never forgive her for disappointing me on the social media. The story of how to introduce me to journalists is a little more interesting than the story of our first meeting though. She had been playing Dark Phoenix for a cosplay dating game in our local rinky dink anime and comedy. Don't live until you see Maddy say, "Do you like action movies?" in the dark as Dark Phoenix. Despite all this, he threatened to get out of me.
As the author of The Phoenix– Yes, he looked like Phoenix and worked on it Phoenix in Boston — she always seemed smart and eager, which is exactly what defining a girl is. He always seemed to be one step ahead of everyone else, seeing the traits that no one else could see. She called the only term "male dressing" in the criticism of a video game in our master's year 2014Your fave won't.
If I painted an annoying picture know it all, yes, no comment. It it is it is annoying to find friendship with a truly good person all the time. But it also means that I trust Maddy more than anyone else in the world. You’re the one you want in your corner when the chips are down, because he will always tell you, frankly, that you can do it. I have never had a better friend than Maddy. I know you're reading this, so next time you're in town from Boston, let's get together for dinner so I can tell you eat shit.
Dennis Young, Sports Editor of the New York Daily News
The scary part of planning Maddy was either to go to Roth or Jason and ask if they agreed that the 3000 words he just typed were complete and could work in an informal way. The second shocking episode may have been waiting days or weeks after I was determined to find it, a wonderful experience of white supremacy that made me afraid that he stopped writing almost all the time. I'm glad you stick with it for the benefit of readers everywhere, and the beauty of the nameless corporate hacks that let's just make Jim Spanfeller look like Jordan Belfort. And this means Kotaku's standard roasted paste, but Maddy is stubbornly more than a regular Kotaku employee.
Paul Tamayo, Kotaku Video Producer
The silence of one of the coldest people I met during my brief media career. Maddy is in the top 20. It's a shame that you stop launching a YouTube channel dedicated to making citypop songs about Samus, but whatever excites you I guess. I have a few questionable sub-YouTube subscriptions so what else can you add to the list?
Thank you for always allowing me to ask you a thousand questions I had during your time as managing editor and you were always lying to me and telling me my articles to be separated from other editors. You are real. He lets me believe in myself only to watch me roast and get stomped on the stage.
In particular, seeing that you work remotely, in the office, or at times we talked about at E3 has given me the opportunity to learn more from you. Like anything in hell "Pocket therapy" it also means how to get destroyed by Sonicfox on Super Smash Bros. Finally. I will build my own competitive shirt and maybe I will be able to get to the final Super Metroid to your praise. I'll see you, Maddy.
Ethan Gach, Staff Writer at Kotaku
Something amazing happens to you when you start blogging fully. It's made ebb and the flow of content online for days, months, and years begin to come together as your mind moves everything from basic to idiotic to completely meaningless. First you forget that someone has already written something. Later you forget that person was you. You can even start forgetting to write anything other than anything that was published the day before. For a while I leaned on Slack logs to remind me of what happened before. Sometime last year even those records started automatically deleting after 90 days.
I blame the blogger's brain for why I didn't remember much of what it was when Maddy first joined it Kotaku back in February 2017. And why can't I remember more of what it was like after Compete – one of the only esports blogs to ever call the dam – was officially shut down in June 2018 and Maddy became an editor at Kotaku that's fine. I'm not even sure when I first consider him a good friend.
Instead it sounds like he has been the cornerstone of the gracious, open and consistent foundation of a site that has been besieged long before it got here. The person who liked to meet in meetings with the "I think we don't need to be here" expressed a complete and unbiased figure where he put it to justice, and often behind the scenes, as he tells me the most edited post was "perfect."
He feels like he has always been KotakuThe deputy editor also has been using Slack for a very "heh" post, it's very hard to imagine if today he wouldn't be here. He'll be somewhere doing another great site and occasionally ends his page with an excellent post that reminds you why people started reading blogs first. Not only this work, but the Internet as a whole, and the rich blogs that aim to try it, have a way of making us all forget it. Now I try not to.
Jason Schreier, in the works, Co-host of Triple Click
Most people know that Maddy is a rich, witty writer and podcaster. What they can know is that he is also very capable of managing and resolving conflicts, and that I will always be grateful for all the help he has given me over the years. They do not know you and do not know that you are a private person.
You see, Maddy's famous comic book series is the X-Men, and he was born with his unique ability to transform his power: the power to disrupt anyone at any time. No matter what you say, he can find a way to distract you. Whether you're trying to explain the plot of a video game or telling a tragic story about your dead dog, Maddy will find a way to get crazy before you finish speaking. It is a very impressive skill and I look forward to helping her use it Three clicks, at least until Professor X sends him to a boarding school.
Riley MacLeod, Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku
My earliest memory of Maddy was the day she started at Compete (RIP) and continued to receive incorrectly labeled email addresses, which made me spend hours sending IT messages to let them know, no, there were no two E's in Myers, or any – "T" to Maddy, until I feel bad for everyone involved and wish to move on with my life. From there, he had more jobs than I knew existed on one website, and he kicked ass in it all, even with more drama than I knew he could have in one company.
I will always be grateful that, as my editor and manager, it gave me the opportunity to make several comments online and to pass on issues in the field that you don't always seem to want – I had someone to tell me I was wrong, or they would encourage me not to simplify complex ideas. He always found himself DMs, with good thoughts on whatever problem I decided was my point of the day.
While I was happy with his new job he did Blizzard Arena light circle, I miss his strong presence and sense of humor. The site feels lonely now, in a company that feels lonely every day. Unfortunately I have his phone numbers, so this will probably keep me from sending messages that start with "OH MY GOD" but they won't be the same.
Alexandra Hall, Staff Editor at Kotaku
Maddy was the second of two phone conversations I promoted when I applied to Kotaku. Between my deepest objections to the changing of people's names and his writing is a great reason to enjoy being here for the first time, I had a great deal of nerves.
But darn if he wasn't the most kind, supportive, and kind thinker you could, put me right there (which I'm trying to eliminate easily). Between that kindness and the extent of our association I feel bad to recreate the story of a formal arrangement, so instead, Maddy, let me propose that you should feel comfortable, in your fun, dining in a variety of small activities – anointing can be a smart situation, and definitely check out expiry dates – ethics evil.
So, take that. Roast. Own to Fuckin (I'm so sorry.)
Mike Fahey, Kotaku Senior Journalist
In March 2018, I was rushed to a local hospital for a life-saving operation. I have been in treatment for several weeks and for several months recovering at various health facilities. When I finally got home in July of that year, a joint Kotaku / Deadspin esports joint was held, and Compete writer Maddy Myers suddenly became the person in charge of making sure I wrote correctly. That is why I will always associate Maddy with a nearby aortic dissection that leaves me paralyzed from the chest down.
Can I tell you all the secret? I'm a huge fan of Maddy Myers podcasts. Not Splitscreen, anything new he does with Kotaku's other collaborators Jason Schreier and Kirk Hamilton – I think "Three Lost Animals Fahey Talk About Games." I'm talking about Mutant Ages and in the old Let & # 39; s Watch Two movie. I love listening to Maddy and friends talk about Marvel Comics and movies until I go to bed, usually five or six minutes. And that song title to the Mutant Ages podcast is amazing, all I hear when Maddy talks to me. It makes her edit my post awesome. Yes, it does.
Ian Walker, Staff Writer at Kotaku
Maddy has at least three buttons (the music genre), which looks like a lot of keyboards. I see them every time we have a staff meeting. I know he's like a great gun artist and all, but he's a thunderbolt.
Now that's no more, I think I'll say something nice about Daddy? How does this work? Is this item on? No one answers me so I think I can do whatever I want.
For a long time, Maddy was the only link to me on Kotaku. She handles a lot of my freaky stories, often telling me to cut down on obscenity and stop talking shit about Super Smash Bros. players. His planning was careful but assured. With every story, Maddy taught me something new in writing. He's the best journalist I ever had because, of course, he's the only one I've ever had. And he didn't hold that for me.
The worst thing about having Maddy as an editor is that I didn't learn to write to her often. But even without the usual bylines, I feel like he left her a mark on everything she touched on during her time at Kotaku. It allows authors to own, refine them for better versions of themselves. I never felt my voice was lost in the editing process while Maddy was the one holding the red pen.
I joined Kotaku during the chaos, but I didn't hesitate for a second when the opportunity presented itself because I knew Maddy would always take me back.
Ari Notis, Staff Writer at Kotaku
When Maddy interviewed me for the job, four days ago, she asked me if I had nothing to "cut it off." So far, it's the most honest question ever asked in a job interview, and I felt comfortable. That tree is simply the state of Maddy's improved ability: a sharp razor organizer, a head leader, and someone who can make anyone feel comfortable in any situation at any time. With one question left, I knew that I not only wanted to work with Maddy but work with her for a long, long time.
Well it is! So much for that!
Truth be told, I'm not sure if Maddy's divination – or it looks like something she kicked – is in my best interest because:
- A) I don't know him long enough to put on a wink-and-nod line.
- B) Still working, as of this writing, masterfully my boss.
- C) You have a cat. I would never do that in Warren. He is an angel.
- D) He's never been too short to work with: he's kind, attentive, helpful, patient, supportive, and ah fuck it eats sh * t Maddy.
Brian Ashcraft, Kotaku Night Work Writer
Maddy was cool. It was. While working at Kotaku. He is now cool and will have to agree.
Heather Alexandra, Senior Staff Writer at Kotaku
I may think something of a tone but the truth of the matter is that Maddy is one of the hardest working people I have ever met, and she has endured one of the most powerful bulls ever. He is one of the survivors of Compete, our esports team which was really good and if the internet always wants to suggest otherwise they can hold their hands. Maddy's inputs, and wherever she goes, to take things seriously. Giving them the attention and respect they deserve. That means challenging those things from time to time and few people (if any) can do it better than Maddy Myers.
I'll admit now that I've listened to the X-Men podcast The Mutant Ages more than I've ever listened to Slitscreen. It's not your fault; Kirk may have been talking about his saxophone or being extremely good at anything. Jason was canceling with all my favorite games. However! I say this because I want to make it clear that Maddy does All Things. He has promoted one of the most popular podcasts on our sites, wrote a great work, and was an excellent editor. My last Metal Gear Retrospential was like over 12,000 words and he didn't kill me in confusion. Because Maddy does the job, all the work and she does it well.
Anyway: fuck you. Are you right? You rock-in, how? What was it about Heartbeat of Next that didn't work? We have a cold bar in the office. I don't give a shit if you were miles away. We have a cold snack and sometimes there are tacos or whatever. No other place will give you these boots and no other place will give you all the sudden excitement of G / O Goddamn Media. I'm sure Vice or Vox or whoever the fuck only have granola bars and durability. You can stay here and Live Más. I will never forgive you and God will not do it.
Zachary Zwiezen, Staff Writer at Kotaku
I just started working full time in Kotaku yesterday and Maddy is leaving the site now. Meeting? I don't think. I think if Kotaku hires someone like me, the site is actually a lost cause. So Maddy leaves us in search of a new home for her talents. But I miss him. Before I started working here fully, I spent a lot of time working here. Maddy was always helpful and cool. She was the queen of reservations, deciding when my posts would go up. Sometimes I ask her about the space and find the hour worked. Sometimes I had a bad time and yet, that was the assignment. It made me happy. I also worked with him to find time for work. So thanks for working years Maddy, Calendar Man of Kotaku.
Cecilia D & # 39; Anastasio, Staff Writer at Wired
Maddy Myers has great potential. He is a professional boxer. I don't want him to hit me. Also, he has a great voice. That's not easily weaponized, but who knows. Because Maddy Myers is low key is scary, and his name also sounds like supervillain & # 39; s, in the sarcasm of Maddy Myers, I'll just make some honest statements. At one point, Maddy Myers, SonicFox and I played Super Smash Bros. together. Maybe he killed once. He once spent a lot of time in a sweaty esports house with people like Joemeister and Hard. She cares about the details of the frame. Also, you almost added me to the blacklist for the Overwatch League event. (It was a mistake! Refreshing, Blizzard!).
More facts: Maddy Myers is brave, inspirational and committed to law enforcement games, and if she is not even given a credit, she will be president of sports journalism. He is a compassionate boss and a dedicated advocate of the sporting and supportive communities of sport. He is a sharp writer and is a patient editor. Also, you are right about the leopard list. They are full of shit.
Stephen Totilo, Editor-in-Chief of Kotaku
Ah no. We do one of those riding roasts again. That's bad enough. But I'm tearing my brain apart and I can't find much that Maddy needs. Yes, I think there is Metroid fail, or I admit guilt to everyone, myself. It was at this point that he and Nathan were almost banned by Kotaku in the Overwatch stadium because they live a little hard (but, hehe, you don't do your job on Kotaku directly if I haven't received at least one angry trace from a PR person for you!).
There's the fact that he's my fourth deputy in nine years (Wait. That's enriching himself, isn't it?). Hmm. At that time we were at those Deadspin awards where … oh, he put those sports jerseys in their place. Fine, Maddy. Definitely limited to Kotaku. And Deadspin. My father is forever.
Nathan Grayson, Senior Journalist at Kotaku
Many years before working with Maddy in Kotaku, I took her to a quiz about a match she made with her friend, fellow journalist Samantha Allen, at a sports conference. I don't remember much about the interview (sorry, Maddy) or the game (sorry, Maddy) or the meeting (sorry, I want to say … GDC?), But I remember making a point of finding Maddy and Samantha while they were waiting in line and maybe heck it on them .
It was the first of many times that I upset the heck out of Maddy. It's a great start.
When he was an editor at Kotaku, Maddy always asked me, "Nathan, are you making this harder than it needs to be?" or "Nathan, does this need to be 4,000 words long?" As a clock, I then took out an outline of 4,000 words, at least 3,000 of which are garbage dump puzzles in the truck on anything that broke my mind that day. Over time, I think Maddy was expecting this thing from me – perhaps with her slight disappointment – but she didn't stop asking. In part, I believe it was because he wanted my pieces better and saved himself the trouble of using jaws to cut pieces from the above brain fractures. But I also treated him with questions to say "Are you doing this hard?" In other words, would I put on a ringer for no good reason? Do I spend many hours on something that didn't really matter to me? Was I overworked?
Despite being high and many times over the course of his time Kotaku, Maddy never stopped giving a shit. He cared about the site and, in particular, the people who worked there. As deputy editor, he has shaken heaven and earth to bring more tolerance and consideration to how we treat each other internally, and although nothing is perfect, we are all much better off than we were when he first arrived. She has done a lot of invisible work that no one has ever seen directly – especially not students, and yet she deserves to be thanked the world for.
That has nothing to do with his seemingly straightforward, bonch track. He has left his post shortly after the fall of Compete's regime (RIP, no Fs number in negotiations will be enough) to be promoted, for example, eight times in the space of several seconds – to second. Who just comes in and does that? Maddy Myers, apparently. Accept what is not.
Then there is her body of written, inaccessible work. He is full of smart, boldly acting like "No, Qualifying for a Chief Officer does not get rid of him"No"If These Esports Fans Don't Give Their Hand Up, They Are The Best Actors, ”And other less important matters bizarre reporting on harbors that continues to be traumatic information to this day, a drug-fueled odyssey in the heart of space, again a passing piece about the cost of being a woman covering sports. Maddy lived several lives in Kotaku, and was successful in each.
This is grilled sausage, because apparently I have only good things to say. Okay, give me a sec to think something about what it means. Ah, here we go: At the time we were covering the Overwatch League issue together and skipping Blizzard. Or, to be fair, it was a great misunderstanding, and it wouldn't have been possible from the beginning if I hadn't resisted making the broadcast from the theaters. But Maddy had to know better than admit to making dumb jokes with me on camera. That doesn't end well. So in retrospect, I blame him for something he wasn't even blaming. And, this catch up? It's still far from what it should have been, indicating that I haven't learned anything in all these years under Maddy's watch. Eat shit, Maddy. She is a lover. May you never die.
Patrick Redford, Diamond Lucio Main and Editor of patrickredford.kinja.com
Here's a lesson Maddy Myers taught me: Video Games is not about FUN, it's about WINNING and DOMINATION competing. OK EAT BIRDS as long as they work. I consider him a trainer of sorts.
Or from Boston, Maddy was a real person, and Compete deserved better than the cruel fate he was given. Talk of whi- (excessive canal extract).
Tom Ley, Editor of Early Signs at Deadspin
One of the weird things about working on them Gawker/Gizmodo/ Whatever-fuck Media is how much time you spend praising people from afar. You can hear compliments by people who work on various sites on the network – people you might interview at work events but you know a lot like byline – and given the amount of small work done on this site, you can also feel about the people who work on your damn site. I've talked to Maddy personally two or three times, and I think I've edited a few short stories that she wrote while she was still Compete.
I don't know Maddy very well, but I've always respected the hell out of her. It tries to sell Esports affiliate in-between Kotaku and Deadspin being advertisers is one thing, but trying to create something compelling to both the audience & # 39; s critical audience involves solid footing. Maddy and her colleagues at Compete walked the rope as their favorite benefits. He never wrote bad news to Compete. Of course not! They were all bangers, because he understood Deadspin and Kotaku& # 39; S machines and sensors and anyone who has ever worked for any site. Maddy will ride the donkey wherever she goes next. In confidence is a place where talent like it is highly valued: d uplifted. You deserve less.
Update – 5:34 p.m .: The latest version of this space was the "I love you bitch I will never stop loving bitch" Vine. Added.
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