seems I remember Capcom getting all flustered and threatening to pull ads out of EGM back in the day because they dared to give Super Duper Street Fighter II Turbo Hyper Champion Awesomeness Edition or something a mediocre score
I work for Reuters. I’m a journalist in the media business.
Back in 2008, I sat in a conference and reviewed some proposals to integrate news sources focused on electronic gaming into our RSS service as niche content providers.
We considered IGN, Gamespot, and a few other syndicated online info feeds.
Now, in order to white label a source as affiliated with Reuters, you need to run through a checklist of ~100 items that are necessary for journalistic integrity. The source and its organization has to score at least a 60 out of 100 for it to be considered fair and unbiased.
These tests are carried out by senior journalists, editors, and investigators.
NONE of the gaming publications scored higher than a 15. For reference, the National Enquirer scored a 38 and the MSNBC blogosphere scored 44.
Yeesh.
Googled the quote, The only source I could find was Youtube user "zillajratomicray," which, ah, doesn't seem terribly trustworthy.
The kind of "journalistic integrity" issues in gaming are really the kinds of things press ALWAYS has to deal with. They're growing pains.
Considering most middling to good game websites at least SOURCE their material, I also find the claim that National Enquirer has more journalistic integrity than every gaming news site to be dubious to say the least.
^^I'd say that honor goes more to the people who pitched a fit when they learned that so-and-so developer was sleeping with so-and-so reporter than it does to me, to be honest.
And why shouldn't I take it seriously? I'm extremely interested in both game design and criticism.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
There is a difference between being opinionated and quid pro quo, though.
Oh, for sure, but it isn't even quid pro quo that, say, the recent Kotaku/Polygon policies on Patreon donations are enforcing. It's more like...quid et quid.
I'm not even really against Polygon's disclosure policy here, except to note that you'll never see "The publisher of this game gave Vox Media seventy fuckillion dollars in ad money" as a disclosure statement.
do you ever see someone laughing at LPs on youtube for several hours straight and you just want to explain evodevo of color changing sex spines to them
I remember this sort of thing happening with computing in the early 1990s. Windows 3.1 got glowing reviews from outlets like PC Mag, even though it was by no means perfect, simply because it was good enough at the time. It came out later, during Netscape v. Microsoft, that Microsoft had been bullying PC makers into including Windows with their machines for years, starting with Windows 3.0 in 1990, but no one knew that at the time.
The reason why this was a big deal at all at the time was that OS/2 2.0 had come out around the same time as Windows 3.1, and OS/2 fans were pissed. OS/2 2.0 was a lot more capable, a lot more stable, but also required a lot more computer than Windows 3.1 did...it would have been a hefty investment for all but the most determined geeks at the time. (Imagine going straight from Windows 3.1 to, say, Windows NT 4.0 on a 386SX/20.) Corporate types said "big deal" and stuck with NetWare until NT Server was ready several years later.
But the OS/2 types were certain, positive, that PC Mag was taking bribes from Microsoft, that Microsoft had threatened to pull their funding, something like that. I kind of doubt that; if PC Mag had been threatened that badly, they wouldn't have kept a pet OS/2 guy on staff.
And Microsoft was far from PC Mag's only advertiser, or even their biggest; most of their ad traffic came from other companies, mostly people selling PCs and accessories by mail.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
You can care about whatever you want with as much seriousness as you want, it's your business, but if you tell me about it and I don't care about it I can't help but think you look pretty ridiculous.
But still you should totally do you in spite of what I reflexively think.
You can care about whatever you want with as much seriousness as you want, it's your business, but if you tell me about it and I don't care about it I can't help but think you look pretty ridiculous.
But still you should totally do you in spite of what I reflexively think.
1: install an old, old game (1994 or earlier) on a current computer.
2: wait for old game to crash while you play it, making everything look all pixelated because you were playing that game in compatibility mode
3: watch netflix, youtube, or some other video streaming. The show now looks pixelated and wrong colors, allowing you to better concentrate on the movement of the characters and the shapes and shading; as opposed to details.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also: after Fifty Shades you shouldn't read the Bible, you should read something about what consent is, especially in a BDSM context.
Is Fifty Shades especially rapey? I've never actually read it, I just know that it's, like, the most vanilla person on earth's idea of what BDSM is like.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i still can't decide what my favorite playstyle is, i like all of them a lot.
the author (and many readers, no doubt) doesn't know the difference
holy shit the radio is playing Manic Monday ‹i› on a Monday ‹/i›
cecilyjeanne:
This is, without a doubt, the saddest photo I have ever seen in my ENTIRE LIFE.