Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6533159-20150930152159/@comment-9464517-20151003182836

LiveandSound wrote: I'm not telling you to accept it. That would go against my ideals. But it happens, and you need to acknowledge that. Maybe not literally all the time, but still happens. The more corrupt the people involved, the bigger the event involved, the more money is on the table.

Also, I don't know if you realize, but remember that big "conspiracy theory" you made about Death Battles and bribes being accepted at least once or twice? If you prove you're right, you prove I'm right. If you prove they don't accept bribes but still choose victors based on personal preference solely, then you prove my other point right.

So go on, gather the evidence to prove you're right. I'M talking about a handful of incidents where I believe that a single, small second-party game developer approached Ben Singer and Chad James of Death Battle and paid them a certain amount of money to have characters from games they were working on appear in their web series and be shown to be powerful forces to contend with. YOU'RE talking about a universal, systematic institution whereby big corporations routinely pay money to professional reviewers and award systems to have their content recognised and praised. Somewhat different levels of conspiracy, no?

And I already provided plenty of evidence. Not enough to ratify my theory completely, necessarily, but definitely enough for it to be taken into consideration, even by people who know nothing of the series.