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Who's gonna replace them? Washed up Gen Z's with burnt out passion towards the industry who likely would get shown the door?
Come on, they're mostly re-posting exclusive press kits about upcoming skins for popular games, they're doing the retweets disguised as articles thing, copy-pasting reddit or forum posts while they're not busy trying to write enough characters about someones youtube video so that it qualifies as an article in the eyes of their employers. They should be paid less than jannies.
 
more than half the people at these sites have been there less than a year
Update on GMG Union strike, so they won.
They get better healthcare, higher salary and diversity requirement.
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The only thing they don't get is remote working because covid 19 reasons.
That second last sentence says they actually lost, they're just too stupid to realize they fucked themselves, the think the code of journalistic ethics will somehow protect them, it will end them.
 
The myth that unions will save the day just show how detached from reality they are.

Only thing union's are good for is making it hard to fire people. You're stuck on an equal level with absolute retards, unable to go up anywhere until you've worked a few years and even then lol good luck.

Also, your rep is too busy on vacation to help your wage slave ass.
 
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Update on GMG Union strike, so they won.
They get better healthcare, higher salary and diversity requirement.
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The only thing they don't get is remote working because covid 19 reasons.

To be fair, I'm not surprised, they don't really follow safety at all either. In before their need of showing their joy and bravery face over the danger of a deadly virus.
Their victory party.
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During their bargaining, they were having food so that's fine. 1 and 2. But truly showing professionalism for supposedly important meetings0.
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And many more during the strike, first pic.
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That shameless honk reference.

From Emily Leibert,
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They look so happy celebrating this “win” , but if this were in a war-torn country that silenced and jailed journalists, these kinds of “game” journalists who get sent to actually participating in war and get treated like cattle prod.
 
Update on GMG Union strike, so they won.
They get better healthcare, higher salary and diversity requirement.
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The only thing they don't get is remote working because covid 19 reasons.
"You wanted diversity so we decided to replace you all with a third party company in India. We didn't realize how much cheaper it was, thanks for the advice!"
 
I was thinking of all the gaming magazines I used to read back in the day, and I think there might be a candidate for ground zero of the SJW bullshit that took over games journalism: Edge magazine. I remember them peddling the idea that Resident Evil 5 was racist, and a retrospective I saw showed games developers sending in fawning letters about how "games journalism has finally grown up" when it launched. And get this: when everybody else was raving about Doom in 1993, Edge was not only considerably less impressed, their review actually said "If only the gameplay was based around talking to the demons and trying to find some common ground with them, THAT would be interesting". Fucking seriously.
 
Who's gonna replace them? Washed up Gen Z's with burnt out passion towards the industry who likely would get shown the door?
anyone working for pocket change shitting out a few articles as filler like screenrant/gamerant does. all the union does is make it more expensive and I doubt the margins are that big in the first place.
 
I was thinking of all the gaming magazines I used to read back in the day, and I think there might be a candidate for ground zero of the SJW bullshit that took over games journalism: Edge magazine. I remember them peddling the idea that Resident Evil 5 was racist, and a retrospective I saw showed games developers sending in fawning letters about how "games journalism has finally grown up" when it launched. And get this: when everybody else was raving about Doom in 1993, Edge was not only considerably less impressed, their review actually said "If only the gameplay was based around talking to the demons and trying to find some common ground with them, THAT would be interesting". Fucking seriously.
Edge was definitely the beginning of games journalists wanting to do anything but play video games.
 
I remember them peddling the idea that Resident Evil 5 was racist, and a retrospective I saw showed games developers sending in fawning letters about how "games journalism has finally grown up" when it launched.
Gosh! A zombie outbreak happens in an African nation, and the survivors end up fighting hordes of African zombies? HOW RACIST! Leon and Chris should have given all their money to the zombies and then laid down as a feast offering as REPARATIONS!
 
Gosh! A zombie outbreak happens in an African nation, and the survivors end up fighting hordes of African zombies? HOW RACIST! Leon and Chris should have given all their money to the zombies and then laid down as a feast offering as REPARATIONS!
this. complaining about racism in RE5 is peak retardation. honestly, what skin colors do they expect zombies to have?

can't even imagine what the eventual blowback will be, you can only be a dipshit for so long before being called out, and at some point it will be more than just mean tweets...
 
I was thinking of all the gaming magazines I used to read back in the day, and I think there might be a candidate for ground zero of the SJW bullshit that took over games journalism: Edge magazine. I remember them peddling the idea that Resident Evil 5 was racist, and a retrospective I saw showed games developers sending in fawning letters about how "games journalism has finally grown up" when it launched. And get this: when everybody else was raving about Doom in 1993, Edge was not only considerably less impressed, their review actually said "If only the gameplay was based around talking to the demons and trying to find some common ground with them, THAT would be interesting". Fucking seriously.
>talking to demons
>finding some common ground


These days, they would tell you to not misgender demons and tell the lead character killing demons to check his privelige.
 
I was thinking of all the gaming magazines I used to read back in the day, and I think there might be a candidate for ground zero of the SJW bullshit that took over games journalism: Edge magazine. I remember them peddling the idea that Resident Evil 5 was racist, and a retrospective I saw showed games developers sending in fawning letters about how "games journalism has finally grown up" when it launched. And get this: when everybody else was raving about Doom in 1993, Edge was not only considerably less impressed, their review actually said "If only the gameplay was based around talking to the demons and trying to find some common ground with them, THAT would be interesting". Fucking seriously.

They sound like Undertale's fandom just two decades too early.
 
Saw this elsewhere, gave me a chuckle. Kotaku getting baneposted in a interview and are too lame brain to notice:


Hex editor afficionado and professional shitposter Malcolm Reynolds convinces Kotaku to print an interview with him where all he's doing is baneposting. They have no idea he's making fun of them and throughout the interview the journalist takes him and his responses completely seriously.

lol good find


Kotaku comment section sense he’s a big enough villain… for you.
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He really shouldn’t have invaded Ukraine, hopefully FromSoft sanctions this chud
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it's like I traveled back in the mid-2010s
Playing a Switch in public should be his biggest worry if he's that worried about judgemental looks from random strangers
 
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I was thinking of all the gaming magazines I used to read back in the day, and I think there might be a candidate for ground zero of the SJW bullshit that took over games journalism: Edge magazine. I remember them peddling the idea that Resident Evil 5 was racist, and a retrospective I saw showed games developers sending in fawning letters about how "games journalism has finally grown up" when it launched. And get this: when everybody else was raving about Doom in 1993, Edge was not only considerably less impressed, their review actually said "If only the gameplay was based around talking to the demons and trying to find some common ground with them, THAT would be interesting". Fucking seriously.
Everyone said RE5 was racist because the main character was white and the co-op partner was very obviously north African and fairly light skinned. That Kijuju was literally stated to be pretty much the only civilization for tens of miles in any direction except for oil derricks was completely ignored. The even more direct statements that the swamps and tribal lands were literally like that because the people are super xenophobic and murderous was also conveniently ignored to continue the narrative of "game waycist."
 
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