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- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 weeks ago:
Is it? Dang can’t fuck shit in the UK.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, makes me very confused on why we added nicotine to tobacco on top of what is in it already (my uncle worked on a tobacco farm as a young man and did spray the stuff). I guess they really wanted that nicotine…
- Comment on American exceptionalism 2 weeks ago:
I am sure they think that it is the tobacco that is a insecticide and not the nicotine that was added to said tobacco…
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 weeks ago:
I guess this is one more reason to never travel to the states, I worry Canada and Mexico will see more rabid animals though.
And now I think I will get a rabies booster (I hope that is still a thing).
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 weeks ago:
Can we call it now? The usa is not a real nation that should be taken seriously.
- Comment on FACTS 3 weeks ago:
I have had 5 of the things so far in my life, not one headgasket needed. Its the coolant additives that eat the gaskets, use the right coolant and no issues. Well that and don’t bounce on the redline like an idiot.
- Comment on We've done it, boys 4 weeks ago:
retro obsolescence with over the air “updates”
- Comment on FACTS 4 weeks ago:
Eh only if people use the wrong coolant.
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
In most of the world? Yes.
- Comment on FACTS 4 weeks ago:
2001 snoopy style was peak.
- Comment on FACTS 4 weeks ago:
Subaru’s for all!
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
Its odd that things become shiny and greasy everytime the industry pushes graphics. I want to play a game that is by it’s very nature not the real world. If you want to do a photo realistic game then bring back FMV.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
Oh yeah, for sure there is a place for it. But a big part of the whole selling point for raytracing is it will just do its thing and look good. However it looks like this.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
Sure its the future, from years ago. One day for sure…
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
And if there is dirt, its glossy and reflective. I swear they are trying to give uncanny valley vibes on everything now.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 month ago:
Like they just licked a French doods ashtray.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 month ago:
Oh it has, but the implications become clear when you look at the ones that did. Like evergrand…
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
Like 3d tv, this is just a fad. Most people I know turn off raytracing in a few min (even though they spent $1000s on hardware to do raytracing). The generated frames and full ray and pathtracing have such low payout vs the cost. Unless something changes this is all pointless waste.
Best example I can think of is the rtx portal looking and running like ass compared to the now very old original.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
I would be happy if they stopped making everything look somehow both covered in vaseline while also being more reflective then a fucking mirror.
Just look at this shit in the demo:
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
This is how we get trailer parks in tornado alley. Or mold infested hovels.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
Lips we hope. Honestly never got the aversion around what parts go into your processed meat, its a good thing to not waste meats.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 months ago:
water pie all over again, but who can afford hotdogs?
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
Its a non functioning product at launch, something that should be called out in a review. It is a low quality slop review, whether or not I agree with the conclusion. You can like or dislike a game counter to a review but I expect that at the very least an attempt will be made to point out pitfalls, and that was not done. The Suicide Squad was a bad game, someone liking it does not justify a dishonest or lazy review. You can not toss out one anecdotal view while pushing your own without looking a bit silly.
In this very thread, you can see people who are convinced that reviewers are paid off or playing difficult games on extra easy modes, neither of which are true, because they just can’t reconcile that anyone could possibly enjoy a game that they didn’t enjoy or weren’t interested in.
Neither of which are true is a bold statement that needs more then a “trust me” level of response. Next your going to tell me that redfall was actually good without much issues is more likely then some one was paid to write a fluff piece (a thing that happens in all forms of journalism). You seem to be pushing the idea that its the audience is wrong and desperately assuming that people don’t like the media state due to an inability to reconcile their own preferences with the articles (wild and odd).
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
Yeah, review have always had a slant and people forget just how bad they where in the past. I would rather watch someone play the game and skip the reviews, however it must be said the old slanted review model has largely died off. We don’t buy magazines with advertorials anymore, and the appetite to pay for such content is at a low point by both consumers and advertisers.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
Tradition, their egos, money and entitlement seems to be doing a fine job. (but yeah the access journalism model has to go)
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
I am not writing for a publication but sure I guess you expect the same level of journalism as VGC so lets cover it a bit.
Lets use their own words About how they 5 years ago where getting 7 million views a month. That great, and the article although a fluff piece about themselves is not nearly as bad as the one linked before. But hey that could just be different writers after all, but nope both done by the editor in chief Andy Robinson. And don’t get me wrong VGC is one of the better ones, but at 7 million views a month they are not competing with video from places like twitch and you tube. In fact the written coverage on games has become a walled garden of insiders writing tone deaf articles and reviews in general.
Take the reviews for example, VGC’s coverage on Borderlands 4 Does not even address the games broken state but gives it 4/5 stars vs VGC’s coverage 6 years ago on Anthem Where they lambaste the game for it’s faults. Hell we can take this further and look at coverage on the same thing under different media in current times, the VGCs review of Borderlands 4 has no view counter on it but also has no comments, where as a smaller creator on youtube using clickbait has over 6000 comments and more views then they have subscribers (425,000).
I am sorry you don’t see the degradation of written games media, and I understand it was never top shelf stuff, but it is not a controversial take that needs extraordinary evidence. People are clearly not happy with the quality and content (hence the constant downsizing due to dropping revenues) leading places to sell out more to cover the bills thereby leading to a death spiral. Just look at coverage of some of the worst most broken releases to get why audiences are turning away:
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
Legendary Drops seems to have some solid takes. I find I get more of watching people play the games though these days.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
How would you have cited “declining quality of writing” as an inciting factor? How would you measure it? And why did it just become a problem in the past few years rather than any of the problems that are listed in the article?
The part I am talking about is below the the part you are quoting. It was a critique on the part that goes:
“According to Press Engine’s database of ‘tier 1’ publications that cover games (which is defined as major websites, both specialist and mainstream, with seven-figure-plus audiences), the global pool of game journalists has declined by 25% in just two years. The vast majority of these departures were from specialist games websites like IGN, Polygon, or Gamepot.
If amateur, part-time, or freelance writers are included, the number of departures from the games media swells to more than 4,000 people since October 2023.”
I am not sure if you are just a touch upset that everyone does not agree that your writer owned slop factory is of high standards or if you just missed the part where I was trying to point out the weak writing as asked. But if I was to “cite” the declining quality of writing, I could do so by referencing old popular articles compared to current ones, I could show screen shots of the ever mounting assault of ads, or I could do what I am doing here and just assume that my audience is not wilfully ignorant of the current state of the format.
You can not out of one side of your mouth state the industry of writing is dying then say out of the other that the writing has not suffered.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
I’ll say that you state that as fact, but it’s a perception that not everyone shares.
Not everyone shares the perception that we live on a sphere, what is your point?
This reeks of wilful ignorance to the facts of the state of the media currently.
