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gaming journalism ft. mr rogers
Ranx
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I don't honestly know how to feel about living in a world where this guy, tim rogers
can get thousands of people reading his article on kotaku
this several thousand word rambling piece of shit is completely and unabashedly awful.
when someone criticizes him he responds with:
tl;dr
video game journalism, culture is awful; discuss
can get thousands of people reading his article on kotaku
this several thousand word rambling piece of shit is completely and unabashedly awful.
when someone criticizes him he responds with:
you know, i've been putting "actually talking about the game now" in giant bold letters into my articles for a couple of years, and always following it up with about two hundred words that are not actually about the game, and every fuckin' time some internet kid like yourself posts a comment with the exact number of words post-"actually talking about the game" that don't actually talk about the game, and i lol like a fuckin' conference hall full of clowns and helium!
you will never know what it is like to lol the way i lol! and that's kind of funny! and that's kind of sad!
(i bet that dream about dying is the best dream you've ever had)
tl;dr
video game journalism, culture is awful; discuss
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why is this happening
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counterpoint: vikings
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I thought this was a lie, once
dear god was I wrong
The only reason they have long hair is because they couldn't be bothered to get a haircut. And if they can't do that you can bet they aren't on top of everything else, either.
So long hair isn't really so much a cause of looking awful I guess, but more a symptom to a much larger problem.
that is entirely dependent on who you are
Some pretty uninteresting words.
also see: Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean in Lord of the Rings
ie are you a neckbeard with long flowing neckbeard locks
he's also married
to a woman
people are pretty quick to either worship video games to the point of fetishism or make them their secret shame that they never talk about when they're out in the "real world"
happy medium, people, find it
oh man
i went to my high school prom in a zoot suit and fedora...and my hair was touching my shoulders
i have since repented and seen the error of my ways.
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not that my hair actually grows out when it's long anyway so much as curls in upon itself
Maybe, but I've honestly yet to come across a writer who's chief undertaking is video games who is also a talent in their own right when compared to writers and authors of other mediums.
i thought so
tim rogers is the same guy who wrote this
good to know he's been a bullshit artist for almost 10 years
that was good times
area5 is an okay replacement but isn't as interesting
long hair on a tall lanky dude just makes them look even taller and lankier
long hair on a short round dude just makes you want to start rolling him around and start a katamari
and dudes like fabio are just hilarious
yeah.. why would fucking video games need "earnest journalism"
it's not like it's not highly subjective and all in all pretty unimportant
I mean, you could compare it to cinema critics if you wanted, the form of expression may be somewhat similar
But then we get to the "games as art" discussion and that just.. needs a bit more time I guess
so are most big gaming news sites
or news sites in general
who cares
the only remotely interesting "gaming journalism" site I've read in years was Gamer's Quarter, and it was mostly a collection of essays on the emotional impact of gaming on the writer's youth, or stories where gaming happened to play a part in a story that was about more then just some dude sitting around pushing some buttons on a controller
fuck this guy
scarlet st takes up all the hipster in minnesota
there is none left for me
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smallw orld!
yeah this quote in particular made me angry
you ever read any of it?
what I look for in video game news is "what's coming out" and "who thought this game sucked how bad and why"
neither of those require a whole lot of superlative writing ability