Yes, everything - from gaming sites through football to political ones- it's basically full-on drama, fake/made-up news, clickbaits and journos trying hard to shovel dirt on/from someone/something. Because sponsors care about traffic to buy ad space so all of these sites do these things for more clicks. Also for more subscribers or follows etc.
I think car sites are some of the few who still have some standards and don't do such shit or at least not in that amount.
Yes, everything - from gaming sites through football to political ones- it's basically full-on drama, fake/made-up news, clickbaits and journos trying hard to shovel dirt on/from someone/something. Because sponsors care about traffic to buy ad space so all of these sites do these things for more clicks. Also for more subscribers or follows etc.
I think car sites are some of the few who still have some standards and don't do such shit or at least not in that amount.
Or some tech sites and some youtube. Its hard to avoid clickbait when its manufactured to make you hate or make you angry, divide, keep people engaged in conflict, they do what corporate overlords want them to, etc. Trick is to ublock sidebars and shit if u ocd too much
it's boring that so called alternative media or anti-woke youtubers are getting quite bad and click-baity, fake news-like even...
i saw that story where Benedict Cumberbatch said he wasn't interested in playing Thrawn (Mandalorian). This quickly turned into how he dislikes star wars and no one wants to work with Disney because you can ge cancelled. All he said was he wants time with his children and it was not the right time. lol.. i wish they would see they're turning into MSM if they keep that up, the media they supposedly despise because they lie and make up shit.
On the whole they're better than IGN or whatever, but sometimes they really lose all credibility that they've tried to build up by doing this.
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Into the trash it goes... oh wait, it was already there
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
Another shit, zero work put into it, "article".
I'm posting this one because the first comment, well:
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Hmm. This is a strange one. It's a shame EG didn't actually (apparently?) read the ruling so it could do anything except regurgitate Quantic Dream's press release.
Quantic Dream are implying here that the so-called "photomontages" were not homophobic, misogynistic, or racist because the case went against the employee who took them to court. This is completely disingenuous, because the case and the ruling only covers the images that specifically had that employee in them - which happened to be pretty tame compared to the rest, and I agree you'd have to look at it the wrong way to say it was real targeted harassment.
What happened was there was a culture of sending around photoshops of various staff members, and somebody did one that was quite negative towards the IT department - the actual content of the image (as described in the ruling) was harmless, but what the employee tried to state was it was part of a pattern of more excessive hatred directed towards the IT department simply for doing their jobs (enacting the company's security protocols.) Working in games I can believe this could happen because people get really salty when the IT department seems to be getting in the way of making games - but there's a reason the protocols are there, after all.
Anyway, the IT department basically all quit over it and asked for a chunk of money - but the problem was, the people in the department and the employee that sued them didn't formally lodge any complaint at all for years leading up to that point, even in their annual appraisal just a few weeks earlier. So in court, QD were able to successfully argue that it couldn't have been a real issue because they didn't do anything about it for a long time, even when given the chance. That, coupled with the relatively harmless photoshop, meant that QD won. As part of the case, the employee tried to lump some other people into it that were part of separate "photomontages" but it didn't really get anywhere.
So in conclusion, Quantic Dream did win against the employee in court, and it was found that there was no evidence that that particularly employee had been harassed or targeted, but the court did not find that there was never a culture of ridicule and inappropriate behaviour across the company - that there was nothing homophobic, misogynistic, racist etc. going on. Those other images that were released categorically show that there absolutely was - but this is not what was being tried in court.
If I can do that in 15 minutes of reading it's a bit of a shame that Eurogamer can't
Maybe they can hire such a person? Oh wait, it's probably a white male so scratch that
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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And this shortly after they closed their forum, but that was "unrelated" guys
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
I don't think so, I'd even say it was a sad coincidence. But what shit offers for membership they have
Most hilarious part is them trying to implicitly deny that something like adblock exists or that's some arcane near impossible tool to use. "We'll remove the ads guise!"
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
Would it be safe to assume that Eurogamer will no longer have any Activision/Blizzard advertising on the site, and won't review or promote their products?
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boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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dafuq?
And this shit seems to be legal in the UK?
EDIT: Aaaaaaaaaand comments are now closed. Spineless retards
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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where do u guys get ur reviews from, im still with angryjoe n worth a buy, but hell joe takes ages and worth a buy breaks an arm every two months . whats decent sites/utube these days?
I find that more often than not I agree with Yahtzee. I don't need reviews explaining each topic (gameplay, sound, graphics, ...) separately in detail as I like to discover those myself if the game is worth it. So the Zero Punctuation ones are ideal for me
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
Truly gone fishing.
So I would say, trust none of them and just look at as much unedited/raw gameplay you can find, it's usually pretty easy to identify game design issues from that.
Or just buy it on Steam and refund it 2 hours later.
I Agree, I am the same.
I couldn't care less what someone else thinks of a game, they are not playing it for me. I care what I think. So I youtube straight, to the point under 10 minute (or only watch 10 minutes of it) raw gameplay footage. I can usually tell in 10 minutes if its a game I would want to try.
Or friends that I know that like very similar games to me, and know personally what I like and if they recommend it.
I dont think I've ever bought/not bought a game based on a summary review from someone that I dont know, or they dont know me.
I've seen popular 'go to' reviewers frown on games I absolutely loved, because they focused on gameplay they didn't like. Or over emphasized/colored how tedious/bad design a part of a game is when its not as bad as they say just they thought it was so video makes it feel like how they saw it and clip together snippet of gameplay that reflects their view of it, not how it was in context as a whole.
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. whats decent sites/utube these days?
