If gaming fans have ever proved anything as a whole in the last 30 years, unfortunately, it's that there's never any accounting for taste and no hole too deep they'll dig themselves into for even a crumb of acknowledgement from the mainstream, even if the mainstream is just taking advantage of them.

So according to the suits, *you bet* he's the best guy to represent the gaming community, because he's a soulless smile in a sports jacket who cares more about shilling as much as possible than he does about putting on a sincere program.

Keighley is a nominee for "Biggest Problem in the Indsutry".

He's the guy who produced the Spike Game Awards between reruns of Cops back when THAT disaster of a cable channel existed that no one cared about either.

He's also the guy who did a presentation of Halo 4 surrounded by Mountain Dew and Dortios.

GameFAQs daily polls have more meaning than TGA or T"R"GA.

The ONLY thing I give TGA any credit for is, at the very least, giving the entire GOTY category the orchestral symphony treatment. That feels like the only truly sincere appreciation towards one aspect of gaming art.

But yeah it's basically only ever been a glorified awards show with ads.

Still remember hearing about how some honky presenter in that "real game awards" cracked a joke about "black ops history month", which I'm sure felt real safe and vindicating to do in a platform with exactly 0 black presenters.

I expect no less from a show where a pick-me presented "best waifu".

That's right, the console wars may be over but Casual Gamer vs. Hardcore Gamer is still on the menu, boys.

And the funny part is the casuals don't get mad and sweaty over a video game. Keep grinding for that "Master" tier or whatever it is that makes you relevant for maybe half a "season", losers.