Tanner Glass
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They have a subscription for $7 with 0 content. Glad to see ol' Patrick learned 0 lessons from Giantbomb.
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They have a subscription for $7 with 0 content. Glad to see ol' Patrick learned 0 lessons from Giantbomb.
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Fucking hell, how cucked do you have to be to pay $10 for "Commenting Privilege"? This whole stack is retarded. $7 for Nothing, $10 for what any other org considers bare minimum engagement tools to give people a reason to care and read, and fucking $100 for a pat on the ass and "An Aftermath writer of your choosing will recommend you a game, bit of tech, or whatever!" - Literally a hundred bucks to be told to go buy a videogame. IF you've got that kinda money you don't need advice on how to spend it, you're capable of wasting plenty yourself.
Looking through the initial content, I really wonder why they're still claiming games journalism. While its only been a few weeks, every single piece here is just opinion and casual home blogging energy - A show they found, complaining over announcements from various studios or just flexing pointless twitter trivia. Imagine if they dedicated themselves to actual journalism and actually reporting on the industry, not just regurgitating the latest press release. I feel like a lot of these wannabe branch-offs could do to go learn from Forbes and their gaming section - They actually break news they discover, not just pointless rehashes. They bring on contributors that actually invest in and play major titles to provide an insiders view of sentiment about titles and how tides are turning for the studios as a result. There's actual value in the mainline shit they write, and they still fit in editorials and opinion pieces alongside it for the contributors to have 'fun'.
I expect to hear about issues or a collapse in this site within six months, contributors will fuck off when told to create content that actually brings in views, the money will run out, or both. They'll realize you can't pivot to a closed monetization when you have no audience, and can't build an audience producing content they could get for free on a youtube video critique, and it'll burn out.
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Aftermath is going to be "worker-owned" and full of anti-gamer clickbait as usual.
More importantly, Aftermath is going to be a dumpster fire.
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Sophia Narwitz found some interesting screenshots on Kotaku's ousted editor-in-chief & beta cuck Patricia Hernandez acting like a male feminist cuckold telling people "If you don't like how bad and woke our sites are, you hate wahman!". The tweet was later deleted.
And today's paragraph from Kotaku, it's read like something a mental child would write.
And today's paragraph from Kotaku, it's read like something a mental child would write.
Tanner Glass
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"People who get paid tens of millions of dollars to create long term business plans are good at long term business planning"
Hard hitting journalism right there. They should get one of those CEOs to run G/O media before they throw Kotaku in the garbage after Jezebel.
Fakenamemagoo
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No Patricia, my hatred for Kotaku and women are entirely separate.
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Is that the one that embeds the owners twitch stream on every page to give him fake viewers? That happening to those sites would be extremely funny.
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Fandom may do that as well but Fextralife is the one you are probably thinking of. They are notorious for that on the Dark Souls wiki.
Fandom are the ones that bought Giantbomb, Gamespot and Gamefaqs and continue to parade them around like the ship of Theseus.
And remember when it was just Wikia until it rebranded itself as a bullshit Fandom site with clickbait bullshit?
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If there's was ever a horrible cancer that's ruined just trying to find basic bitch stuff about a game it's Fandom.
Sure miss web 1.0 days of fan sites that didn't throttle my computer.
Sure miss web 1.0 days of fan sites that didn't throttle my computer.
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https://breezewiki.com/
Enjoy 99% less bullshit around your game autism. The wiki for Oxygen Not Included (or really any game with a heavy focus on crafting components) is completely unreadable without it.
The internet died by the mid-2010s
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Pompous cockgoblin tries to defend including a game from a AAA publisher in the indie category for The Game Awards.
The TL;DR is "shut up, it's up to our hand-picked jury of industry insiders".
This is the trans sports debacle all over. If you can't win on your own merits, compete against someone who is never going to be in the same tier as you.
The TL;DR is "shut up, it's up to our hand-picked jury of industry insiders".
This is the trans sports debacle all over. If you can't win on your own merits, compete against someone who is never going to be in the same tier as you.
Chickenpolar
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Cities Skylines II got a strategy game nomination.
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You could at least sort of defend that one. It is /sort of/ a strategy game, and technically the category is "best sim / strategy game".
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Geoffs response to the indie game debate is fucking retard. Faggot literally listed Kojima Productions as an independent studio.
Does anyone besides game journalists give a shit about game awards at this point?
Does anyone besides game journalists give a shit about game awards at this point?
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Skylines could definitely win an award or highest fidelity simulated NPC teeth. Do we have a game awards analogue to the razzies yet? I'd love to see awards go out for worst optimization and most pandering. Overwatch 2 would definitely sweep a couple categories.
Pizza Tower is the only thing really worthy of real awards this year as far as I'm concerned. Nintendo and Square slop was good, but it was completely uninspiring and predictable.
Pizza Tower is the only thing really worthy of real awards this year as far as I'm concerned. Nintendo and Square slop was good, but it was completely uninspiring and predictable.
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That's interesting. I wonder if we're going to see more AAA developers setting up shell indie companies and getting away with it by having pixel art that's ugly enough to avoid attention.