the real answer is that games journalism has always been terrible I mean seriously
idk
PC Gamer US was terrific in the mid-90s, when dudes like Wiliam H. Trotter would write like three-page columns about obscure hardcore wargames with titles like "TACTICS POLSKA 1939" and you could only buy through mailorder from tiny companies with two employees
their reviews were really long and in depth and the staff writers all had columns where they talked about their pet genres (one guy was into FPSes and RPGs and FPSRPGs so was obviously my bro, there was the competitive multiplayer FPS guy, the sim guy, etc) and they would put games into historical context and talk about how this month's release was a pretty good shooter but you might want to check out this overlooked title from last year that did the same stuff a bit better
and I really liked PCGUK when guys like Gillen were writing for it although it was a completely different beast
but all this stuff still basically exists, it's just happening on blogs and youtube series and stuff rather than on big ad-splashy games sites and if someone believes those big ad-splashy games sites they have only themselves and their own poor upbringings to blame
Reminder that Charlie Brooker was a dedicated games journalist literally recently enough that I was reading his articles when I was a teenager.
I really love that Brooker is a games-literate media personality over there. We don't really have many people like that here in the US yet.
To be fair he's exceptional in that. I can't really think of any other decent examples off the top of my head (Dara O'briene and a few other comedy hosts I guess?). Though I've always gotten the impression that generally we are more accepting for tv personalities with an edge of being anoraks than the slickly produced american ones.
By fans? Absolutely, but that happens with nearly any fandom, regardless of nation of origin
By the official texts? I'd say yes, but in the same manner that nearly any franchise that is based around females-aimed-at-male-gaze is. Nothing explicit, but suggestive.
The Yamato (miss Yamato?) is stacked like pancakes.
Well duh
I would have made her tough looking but never really getting around to fighting.
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The most popular Kancolle character, from the numbers of doujinshi, cosplay, and crossplay I witnessed at both Comikets last year, is Shimakaze, which is kind of grody? But it was amusing taking my girlfriend through the cosplay areas and going, "so there's a dude crossplaying as her, and there's another, and there's an all-male Sailor Scout troupe..."
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Oh my god I didn't know that Fantasia was on Netflix. I fucking broke the videotape I owned of this as a wee child because I played it so much.
*presses play*
I forgot how long this motherfucker talks for
GET TO THE CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA
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The most popular Kancolle character, from the numbers of doujinshi, cosplay, and crossplay I witnessed at both Comikets last year, is Shimakaze, which is kind of grody? But it was amusing taking my girlfriend through the cosplay areas and going, "so there's a dude crossplaying as her, and there's another, and there's an all-male Sailor Scout troupe..."
huh
apparently that awkward japanese girl dancing video I've posted a bunch of times is actually cosplaying as this character
I had no idea
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... someone talk me down from the ledge... my god...
He's citing "Sticks and stones" regarding how we're living in fear of a few words.
we have laws about "a few words" and how you can go to jail for them if they're the wrong ones.
ask if he thinks he knows better than lawyers and judges and on what basis he presumes to think so. if he says something about video games laugh in his face.
honestly just skip to laughing in his face
if he persists do it louder and in a more off-putting way
think rocket raccoon's laugh that starlord says is the fakest laugh he's ever heard
The most popular Kancolle character, from the numbers of doujinshi, cosplay, and crossplay I witnessed at both Comikets last year, is Shimakaze, which is kind of grody? But it was amusing taking my girlfriend through the cosplay areas and going, "so there's a dude crossplaying as her, and there's another, and there's an all-male Sailor Scout troupe..."
huh
apparently that awkward japanese girl dancing video I've posted a bunch of times is actually cosplaying as this character
The most popular Kancolle character, from the numbers of doujinshi, cosplay, and crossplay I witnessed at both Comikets last year, is Shimakaze, which is kind of grody? But it was amusing taking my girlfriend through the cosplay areas and going, "so there's a dude crossplaying as her, and there's another, and there's an all-male Sailor Scout troupe..."
These people are doing god's work.
She was a unique model of ship, with no sisters. In media, she is often shown as depressed by this.
Oh my god I didn't know that Fantasia was on Netflix. I fucking broke the videotape I owned of this as a wee child because I played it so much.
*presses play*
I forgot how long this motherfucker talks for
GET TO THE CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA
keep calm and think of space-whales
Space whales are like an hour away!
I was upset to realize you guys aren't talking about Planetside 2.
@Abdhyius did you know they released a horn for the galaxy that makes a whale call, now? It is the best thing that Sony Online Entertainment has ever done.
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the real answer is that games journalism has always been terrible I mean seriously
idk
PC Gamer US was terrific in the mid-90s, when dudes like Wiliam H. Trotter would write like three-page columns about obscure hardcore wargames with titles like "TACTICS POLSKA 1939" and you could only buy through mailorder from tiny companies with two employees
their reviews were really long and in depth and the staff writers all had columns where they talked about their pet genres (one guy was into FPSes and RPGs and FPSRPGs so was obviously my bro, there was the competitive multiplayer FPS guy, the sim guy, etc) and they would put games into historical context and talk about how this month's release was a pretty good shooter but you might want to check out this overlooked title from last year that did the same stuff a bit better
and I really liked PCGUK when guys like Gillen were writing for it although it was a completely different beast
but all this stuff still basically exists, it's just happening on blogs and youtube series and stuff rather than on big ad-splashy games sites and if someone believes those big ad-splashy games sites they have only themselves and their own poor upbringings to blame
Reminder that Charlie Brooker was a dedicated games journalist literally recently enough that I was reading his articles when I was a teenager.
I really love that Brooker is a games-literate media personality over there. We don't really have many people like that here in the US yet.
To be fair he's exceptional in that. I can't really think of any other decent examples off the top of my head (Dara O'briene and a few other comedy hosts I guess?). Though I've always gotten the impression that generally we are more accepting for tv personalities with an edge of being anoraks than the slickly produced american ones.
Definitely our game shows and MTV videos and what not tend to be hosted by a series of forgettable empty suits. On the other hand, our late-night talk show and interview hosts, though, are almost all kind of nerdy, unconventional people - Johnny Carson was a magician, amateur astronomer, and zoologist, David Letterman is a science and history buff, Conan O'Brian and Colbert are explicitly self-confessed nerds, et cetera - but it's something that you get the sense that an army of makeup people and image consultants and producers and PR folk try very hard to keep a lid on, lest some imagined viewer get salty about the uppity intellectuals on his teevee.
why did somebody make a... game, or whatever, where the Shimakaze - an experimental destroyer carrying a heavy torpedo armament and a hugely powerful engine - is a girl with a skirt the length of a wristband, yet still has turrets
Oh my god I didn't know that Fantasia was on Netflix. I fucking broke the videotape I owned of this as a wee child because I played it so much.
*presses play*
I forgot how long this motherfucker talks for
GET TO THE CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA
keep calm and think of space-whales
Space whales are like an hour away!
I was upset to realize you guys aren't talking about Planetside 2.
Abdhyius did you know they released a horn for the galaxy that makes a whale call, now? It is the best thing that Sony Online Entertainment has ever done.
why did somebody make a... game, or whatever, where the Shimakaze - an experimental destroyer carrying a heavy torpedo armament and a hugely powerful engine - is a girl with a skirt the length of a wristband, yet still has turrets
why does this exist I'm so confused
Japan really likes inanimate objects that are also lightly dressed girls
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To be fair he's exceptional in that. I can't really think of any other decent examples off the top of my head (Dara O'briene and a few other comedy hosts I guess?). Though I've always gotten the impression that generally we are more accepting for tv personalities with an edge of being anoraks than the slickly produced american ones.
Oh god! Everyone, post so Narwhal can agree with you!
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I would have made her tough looking but never really getting around to fighting.
When I was in band we actually did this once for a dude asking out one of the drum majors.
*presses play*
I forgot how long this motherfucker talks for
GET TO THE CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA
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Touché
*hands Athenor a loaded rifle*
take him out behind the shed
it's... it's for the best
Ooh, a Speed remake for 2015. How about instead of a bus, the bomb detonates if you make less than 5 texts a minute?
They feel so so nice though
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keep calm and think of space-whales
huh
apparently that awkward japanese girl dancing video I've posted a bunch of times is actually cosplaying as this character
I had no idea
Space whales are like an hour away!
NNID: Hakkekage
You get me sign vandalizer
honestly just skip to laughing in his face
if he persists do it louder and in a more off-putting way
think rocket raccoon's laugh that starlord says is the fakest laugh he's ever heard
We would be dead within the first minute
I haven't sent a text in weeks
... Actually, that's weird. Have I been calling people more?
(Also oh god I pressed ctrl-p instead of ctrl-i and almost accidentally printed [chat])
hand in your anime gun and waifu badge
These people are doing god's work.
She was a unique model of ship, with no sisters. In media, she is often shown as depressed by this.
space whales are fantasia 2000
nooooooooooooooooooo
I was upset to realize you guys aren't talking about Planetside 2.
@Abdhyius did you know they released a horn for the galaxy that makes a whale call, now? It is the best thing that Sony Online Entertainment has ever done.
Definitely our game shows and MTV videos and what not tend to be hosted by a series of forgettable empty suits. On the other hand, our late-night talk show and interview hosts, though, are almost all kind of nerdy, unconventional people - Johnny Carson was a magician, amateur astronomer, and zoologist, David Letterman is a science and history buff, Conan O'Brian and Colbert are explicitly self-confessed nerds, et cetera - but it's something that you get the sense that an army of makeup people and image consultants and producers and PR folk try very hard to keep a lid on, lest some imagined viewer get salty about the uppity intellectuals on his teevee.
why does this exist I'm so confused
perfect.
It is a Hatakaze class.
Japan really likes inanimate objects that are also lightly dressed girls