Culture (Cringey) Excellence in Games Journalism 101
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Kotaku not wanting to be outdone...
They deleted the Tweet but not the article.
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They deleted the Tweet but not the article.
Halo Infinite’s Oddball ‘Quidditch' Glitch Lets You Live Out Your Transphobic Wizard Dreams
Halo Infinite may have removed Halo 5's ball passing mechanic, but it has replaced it with a ton of new physics interactions
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ParadiseLost
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At least the writer is self aware!
Honestly though that's such a fucking lie, the connection between this glitch in Halo Infinite and Harry Potter is just ridiculous. The author wrote it because it would get clicks, and its rrreeeaaallly, rrrrrreeeeeeeaaaallllyyy hard to believe anything else.
Honestly though that's such a fucking lie, the connection between this glitch in Halo Infinite and Harry Potter is just ridiculous. The author wrote it because it would get clicks, and its rrreeeaaallly, rrrrrreeeeeeeaaaallllyyy hard to believe anything else.
From four years ago... a timeless classic.
A Games Journalist named Matthew Fault for Motherboard/Vice who couldn't handle the slavery themes in Middle Earth: Shadow of War.
A Games Journalist named Matthew Fault for Motherboard/Vice who couldn't handle the slavery themes in Middle Earth: Shadow of War.
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The best response to such bitching, which IMHO usually comes from virgin soyboys or ugly feminazi landwhales, is to post either ZardOz or Conan.
Khee Hoon Chan (try not to laugh) of The Gamer has disclosed a shocking revelation about a 'Kung Fu Brawler' called Sifu being developed by the French studio Slocap.
ParadiseLost
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Imagine if someone made a headline, "Feeling cautious about medieval-inspired game made by Asian developer."
The Dark Souls of game developer racism and cultural appropriation.
Remember when people bitched that Witcher III and Kingdom Come didn't have enough Black people and Native Americans (okay I don't think anyone mentioned the latter but it's funny to think maybe they did)? Same energy, cross purposes.
European games should be for white people, not diversity quotas. No one bitches when asian or african games have only their respective race in it, so why the fuck should white-coded games pamper these thieves of history?
Shit like this is why modern entertainment is shit. White roles belong to white people. All these excuses of "Skill matters more than appearance!" only reveals a seething hatred for whites.
Or else why is there no MLK played by a white man? Where's Uncle Ben's autobiography portrayed by a white? How about Ray Charles? I'm sure Peter Dinklage can convincingly play his role.
Polygons Ana Diaz is taking a courageous stand against the expectation that she should have in depth knowledge of games.
The Left: where janitors fly planes, people with hand tremors perform surgery, and rotting crotch-wounds are vaginas and don't you dare reject any of these claims.
What a joke. Anything requires a minimum of knowledge. The gall of this cunt to demand she should be allowed to review games despite her inability to play them...
ParadiseLost
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What's the complicated game she can't handle?
Bear Ribs
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Cookie Clicker is really hard, and probably racist, look at how the brown parts representing minorities are kept imprisoned? It makes it really stressful and difficult to play such a game.
ParadiseLost
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I was asking a serious question...
Tbh, while I doubt I would think much of her opinions... video games are absolutely complex enough that I do think it would be unreasonable for a reviewer to specialize in all video games.
Imagine having to understand Paradox-style grand strategies, tactical games like X-Com, souls-likes, incredibly difficult platformers like Getting Over It and Spelunky, challenging FPS experiences like Ultrakill and Doom Eternal, realistic racers like Nascar and F1, and also having to play through incredibly long Jlike newer Atlus and Nihon Falcom games.
And this is still only covering a segment of gaming.
Like... looking over her record at Polygon, it looks like writing articles is a side gig she does, and over all her articles are super casual. Most are about the latest Pokemon game.
It does seem a bit silly for her to say she's reporting on games. She'd be better off saying something like "covers pop-culture and Pokemon."
Its also a symptom of the fact that the entertainment review industry is so small that there isn't really room for specialization via genre, even though that's arguably necessary for video games.
Robovski
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There is room for specialization, you just tend to find it as independents like on YouTube. If she can't play games she has no business being a "games journalist". It's like a Top Gear presenter without a driver's license.
Will J. Powers, a PR person for the gaming technology company Razer and who previously worked for Deep Silver Games, Playstation and tencent games, tried to cancel some streamer named Melonie Mac for wrongthink.
When there was backlash, he then whined how people were trying to cancel him and getting him fired for a "difference in opinion."
Then this resurfaced:
Below is a longer letter from an alleged victim of his Predatory Victim back in 2020.
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When there was backlash, he then whined how people were trying to cancel him and getting him fired for a "difference in opinion."
Then this resurfaced:
Below is a longer letter from an alleged victim of his Predatory Victim back in 2020.
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That's exactly back in the days of proper game journalism, aka enthusiast press, every respectable outfit had a variety of journos more or less interested in certain genres of games. Few guys would do FPS games, few guys would do RPG games, one or two guys would do strategy with occassional RPG if needed, one guy would do adventure games and so on. At worst, if necessary, they would hand over lower profile and simpler games to someone not usually playing those, or someone with more generalist interests. But if something high profile, for example new Witcher game came out, it was pretty much mandatory to assign the RPG expert to it. With internet based, more or less freelancer using outlets, finding the right people to review videogames for them should be even less of an issue than for the old, paper gaming press, who had to have these people as actual employees.
On the other hand, we all know that hiring people on the basis of their ability to do a good job is not considered cool in these circles.
Of course you also can't use this traditional and well working management strategy if most of your journos don't like any games but preachy hipster stuff, and the rest may occasionally like a basic FPS or RPG.
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"It's unreasonable to expect me to know everything about every game, that's not really the sort of thing I do and I don't know where this expectation that just because I write about a few games I have to be an expert in all of them very from" is a reasonable statement to make.
The problem is you have to word that very carefully if you don't want to run into the existing stereotype of the games journalist that doesn't understand games because they're a moron/entryist political hack/etc, and this was something she said on Twitter, a website designed to prevent carefully worded statements from existing.
The problem is you have to word that very carefully if you don't want to run into the existing stereotype of the games journalist that doesn't understand games because they're a moron/entryist political hack/etc, and this was something she said on Twitter, a website designed to prevent carefully worded statements from existing.
Do you have an Art History degree without realizing the lack of application for it?
Try Games Journalism!
Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation
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Try Games Journalism!
Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation
(archived link here)
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