M0oP0o
@M0oP0o@mander.xyz
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 6 days ago:
Canada is still in it, Don’t get much more “North Atlantic” then that.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 weeks ago:
Mom is in the same boat, that is why she is asking!
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 weeks ago:
People paid good money for those errors though! Not like those freeloading people doing it all for donations…
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 5 weeks ago:
Is it? Dang can’t fuck shit in the UK.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 5 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 5 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. 😐 5 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. 😐 5 weeks ago:
Can we call it now? The usa is not a real nation that should be taken seriously.
- Comment on FACTS 1 month 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 1 month ago:
retro obsolescence with over the air “updates”
- Comment on FACTS 1 month ago:
Eh only if people use the wrong coolant.
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
In most of the world? Yes.
- Comment on FACTS 1 month ago:
2001 snoopy style was peak.
- Comment on FACTS 1 month ago:
Subaru’s for all!
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Sure its the future, from years ago. One day for sure…
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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:
