game journalists are mostly postpubescent babies who upon any sort of criticism get self inflated and pretend that their mystical job of playing video games all day is more important than the hard wrokers like myself and you who have to cook pizzas for a shitty boss who gropes your girlfriend and then offers her some MDMA all the while you cant do shit because if you say anything he'll fire you and you can see your world falling down around you so you start resorting to heroin but hey that doesnt take all the pain away and your girlfriend is secretly getting wet from his gropesthe more they go on because he is 5 years younger anjd has nice blonde hair with a little taft and god damnit your scruggly fucking hair just dont cut it anyumore
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Its a love/hate relationship. GAF is psychologically analyzing the situation while 4chan is observing the outcome. It's a test to see how long it takes until someone's willpower breaks down with the amount of sheer stress applied to the brain. When virtual life becomes bigger than reality, the voice of one man can echo as if its been said by millions.
It's a standalone complex type issue; representing "Ghost In the Shell: Standalone Complex" as a metaphor to his scenario. Similar to the game: cybercrime, espionage and terrorism plague a society lost between humanity and technology. NeoGAF and 4chan must uncover the truth behind a mysterious case known only as T.A.R.
Standalone complex type issue.
It's a standalone complex type issue; representing "Ghost In the Shell: Standalone Complex" as a metaphor to his scenario. Similar to the game: cybercrime, espionage and terrorism plague a society lost between humanity and technology. NeoGAF and 4chan must uncover the truth behind a mysterious case known only as T.A.R.
Standalone complex type issue.
He calls GAF's involvement in harassing her a "standalone complex type issue".
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/261531282293542912
Keep backtracking.
Edit: Beaten.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/261531282293542912
Keep backtracking.
Edit: Beaten.
Ian Miles Cheong ‏@stillgray
@JaundicedMeme @shagg_187 Well, that's good. I apologize for the hyperbole. Some users seem to have taken matters into their own hands.
It's taken from the Ghost in the Shell anime. The very basic idea is that the similar actions of many people on modern communication mediums can be perceived as a concerted and organised effort by many when in reality each person is acting on their own without any direction from a management hierarchy.
It's an interesting idea with merit, but for him to blame GAF for harassing her as part of some campaign is ridiculous if he's then going to say it's people acting individually.
It's also not fair to accuse every GAF user of being complicit in a campaign to harass and abuse her, when in reality we're just discussing the issues at hand.
It's an interesting idea with merit, but for him to blame GAF for harassing her as part of some campaign is ridiculous if he's then going to say it's people acting individually.
It's also not fair to accuse every GAF user of being complicit in a campaign to harass and abuse her, when in reality we're just discussing the issues at hand.
Guy just made it worse.
Those who are tweeting for that girl's head should stop, obviously. Yet to accuse whole communities of partaking in the whole thing is pretty much a stupid, misguided move.
Ian Miles, I know you're reading this, F5-ing the thread every few minutes. Just apologise for this. Most of us weren't criticizing her in the first place, but instead angry at the whole situation.
Also it would be nice if she actually explains her relationship with Square Enix. You're right that we don't really know anything about it, but her silence over this issue isn't actually helping her at all.
Those who are tweeting for that girl's head should stop, obviously. Yet to accuse whole communities of partaking in the whole thing is pretty much a stupid, misguided move.
Ian Miles, I know you're reading this, F5-ing the thread every few minutes. Just apologise for this. Most of us weren't criticizing her in the first place, but instead angry at the whole situation.
Also it would be nice if she actually explains her relationship with Square Enix. You're right that we don't really know anything about it, but her silence over this issue isn't actually helping her at all.
This is a slippery slope, here. There have been some "people" that have admitted publicly to using cheat codes in reviewing a game, either in order to finish sections of the game, get additional lives, unlock progressive content in lieu of the time it would take to naturally obtain it, etc. Does the use of said codes, or any other means than how developers intended the general public to experience their content, challenge the integrity of a review?
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/10/eberts_little_rule_book.html
Has the full Ebert suggestions - fascinating read, which I strongly recommend all critics peruse at the first opportunity.
Has the full Ebert suggestions - fascinating read, which I strongly recommend all critics peruse at the first opportunity.
I don't really care because I am over the music game thing anyway, but I find it pretty convenient that Jeff is not reviewing Dance Central 3 even though he has loads of problems with it. It does give him a convenient out to avoid alienating friends.
That's pretty small beer compared to most of the stuff being discussed in this thread, though.
That's pretty small beer compared to most of the stuff being discussed in this thread, though.
lol, Are you seriously trying to undermine them by quantifying their amount of "corruption"?
They were all extremely biased and were rewarded with jobs in the things they were biased for. It's as simple as that.
Theres the case you just mentioned, where he got rewarded with a job at Sony.
Then, when you work for a gaming website where you have to deal with all sorts of games and say something like "the Halo franchise is probably the only franchise in gaming that I care about", you get rewarded with a Job at Bungie.
When you continuously trash on Sonys casual games you get rewarded with a job at MS promoting Rare Kinect games.
When you give a launch game (PDZ) a 10/10 completely outside of all other reviews you get a job at MS.
+ the other 2 dudes I don't fully remember. It's the sad state of the gaming "journalists" we have. But 1Up was nothing but a sham job used as transition/booster to something better. The amount of people that got jobs that way is really telling.
They were all extremely biased and were rewarded with jobs in the things they were biased for. It's as simple as that.
Theres the case you just mentioned, where he got rewarded with a job at Sony.
Then, when you work for a gaming website where you have to deal with all sorts of games and say something like "the Halo franchise is probably the only franchise in gaming that I care about", you get rewarded with a Job at Bungie.
When you continuously trash on Sonys casual games you get rewarded with a job at MS promoting Rare Kinect games.
When you give a launch game (PDZ) a 10/10 completely outside of all other reviews you get a job at MS.
+ the other 2 dudes I don't fully remember. It's the sad state of the gaming "journalists" we have. But 1Up was nothing but a sham job used as transition/booster to something better. The amount of people that got jobs that way is really telling.
Not as many white knights around on this one, colour me surprised. The whole issue of iffy reviewing has gathered pace of late, i hope this is the start of people being held accountable and a openness. I think it even goes as far as game video previews and them using the pc version with a 360 pad and not saying which version it is, thats a real bee in my bonnet that.
We can save it for another thread but suffice to say he wasn't talking about games that can't be finished, games that are clearly broken as soon as you start playing or any of the easy examples. He was trying to make a case for doing it with your run-of-the-mill game. He made himself look a total ass.
And if you're forced to use cheats to get past a level then clearly something is wrong and it should feature prominently in the review as an unbeatable level. If it's cheats so they can blast through the game then they'll never have an accurate grasp of the difficulty curve or experience the frustration of cheap level design if it's present. Using cheats to unlock after-game bonuses that would require much grinding is fine. Using it for anything else is self-evidently wrong.
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Oh shit, that was much worse. Yeah, he's a write-off.
Is there supposed to be a counter-argument in there somewhere? It'd be nice to have some paragon of actual journalism in gaming but Klepek is way down the list.
And if you're forced to use cheats to get past a level then clearly something is wrong and it should feature prominently in the review as an unbeatable level. If it's cheats so they can blast through the game then they'll never have an accurate grasp of the difficulty curve or experience the frustration of cheap level design if it's present. Using cheats to unlock after-game bonuses that would require much grinding is fine. Using it for anything else is self-evidently wrong.
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Oh shit, that was much worse. Yeah, he's a write-off.
Is there supposed to be a counter-argument in there somewhere? It'd be nice to have some paragon of actual journalism in gaming but Klepek is way down the list.
Friendships and working relationships are different. There is an air of professionalism assumed that those "friends" aren't bribing their way into good reviews/press.
In any industry you're going to have some crossover with business and personal but it's up to the individual to know when that line has to be drawn.
Are you really equating 'knowing somebody' to actually being on their payroll and/or accepting gifts for favorable coverage? I mean, really?
In any industry you're going to have some crossover with business and personal but it's up to the individual to know when that line has to be drawn.
Are you really equating 'knowing somebody' to actually being on their payroll and/or accepting gifts for favorable coverage? I mean, really?
I really don't care what they call themselves. As if calling themselves enthusiasts is suddenly going to make the coverage and content that much more serious. Wake the fuck up semantics is the dumbest part of the issue. Also stop being friends with baseball players Peter Gammons!! You can be a great writer and maintain relationships with people that you cover.
It's not unusual for them not to review a game anyway, so I don't think people need to jump to conclusions about it. They never did a review for Torchlight II even though they praised it quite a lot and seemingly have a good relationship with the Runic guys who brought in the game for them to show on a few occasions.
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