june gloom on 10/4/2012 at 18:43
Quote Posted by CCCToad
I guess dethtoll is a "serious journalist"
You accusing me of not being a real journalist is hilarious when you're not even a real soldier. Fuck off already -- if you're really a TOP SECRET SPECIAL AGENT SOLJA like you claim to be, go throw yourself in front of some bullets like you're fucking supposed to. You won't, though, because you're just a typical white trash loser who's constructed an elaborate fantasy because you think it'll get you laid, nevermind the fact that it ain't human women you want to stick your tiny penis into.
Die. Now. Bullets or AIDS, I don't care which, just do it. You are far and away the worst poster on this forum, everyone hates you, and yet you continue to squeeze off your shitty posts because you're desperately looking for some form of legitimacy and recognition and maybe do a little cruising for cock. You are WORTHLESS and you need to stop sucking away oxygen that would be better spent on the rest of us.
FUCK, you disgust me.
faetal on 10/4/2012 at 18:47
Isn't most mainstream review journalism inherently flawed by being semi-dependent on advertising revenue from the people whose products they are critiquing?
demagogue on 10/4/2012 at 20:28
Yes there's a definite conflict of interest. It's just a step above the old days of radios taking kickbacks from studios to play their records.
Angel Dust on 11/4/2012 at 03:25
Quote Posted by demagogue
People still read game reviews?!
Well I do (RPS, Eurogamer, outliers on Metacritic) and they're still a useful tool. A few reviewers I've read enough of to realise their tastes are similar to my own and therefore their recommendations carry a little more weight (much like the recommendations of some TTLGers do), but generally I just filter out the bullshit and find what is useful to me - a process that isn't exactly difficult after playing and reading about games for almost 20 years. So even though a lot of gaming journalists are hacks and suckers for hype, I instinctively know how to 'read' that stuff. As, I'm sure, many here do.
In fact, the only game I've regretted buying in the last 5 or so years, (
Fallout 3), was due to me ignoring my instincts after reading the reviews and getting swept away by nostalgia after watching a friend wander the wastelands for half an hour.
Koki on 11/4/2012 at 06:06
Quote Posted by Eldron
But entertain us Koki, what percentage would you give ascend?
A horrible mess out of a 100
[Edit] Also the horrible mess is now version 1.0.905.0
heywood on 12/4/2012 at 04:34
I agree with Koki. Fun is too subjective and personal. I get bored to tears playing some games that reviewers widely regard as fun, and vice versa. Neither is fun the only thing that matters. Playing LAN Quake with friends was the most fun I've ever had in front of a computer, but I'm not always up for that kind of game. I've gotten more gaming satisfaction out of SS2 even though it was never that much "fun" to play, especially the first time.
Another point worth making is that I don't read game reviews solely to decide whether to buy the game. I used to read a lot of reviews of games I'd never play, just to hear about the technology, game design, and stay up to date on where the industry was going. I read fewer game reviews now because they mostly suck.
And I agree with Brethren that the biggest problem with game reviews is the competition to be first to publish and the need for everybody to have their reviews out before the release date. It not only leads to rushed reviews which are often written before finishing the game, it also makes reviewers beholden to game publishers in order to get pre-release copies, and leads to a plethora of cookie-cutter "press kit" reviews.
CCCToad on 12/4/2012 at 11:38
Quote Posted by dethtoll
You accusing me of not being a real journalist is hilarious when you're not even a real soldier. Fuck off already -- if you're really a TOP SECRET SPECIAL AGENT SOLJA like you claim to be, go throw yourself in front of some bullets like you're fucking supposed to. You won't, though, because you're just a typical white trash loser who's constructed an elaborate fantasy because you think it'll get you laid, nevermind the fact that it ain't human women you want to stick your tiny penis into.
Die. Now. Bullets or AIDS, I don't care which, just do it. You are far and away the worst poster on this forum, everyone hates you, and yet you continue to squeeze off your shitty posts because you're desperately looking for some form of legitimacy and recognition and maybe do a little cruising for cock. You are WORTHLESS and you need to stop sucking away oxygen that would be better spent on the rest of us.
FUCK, you disgust me.
If I'm not a real soldier than please explain why I have Schrapnel embedded iembedded in my back, and where it came from. Thanks. I seem to have struck a nerve though, and seeing you this mad is satisfying.
Also, kudos for guessing my secret sexual proclivities and that I like blue alien women. Thanks
Let me elucidate you as to how security classifications actually work in practice.
The reason I say everything's secret is because it actually is. This isn't a reflection of any super secret spy shit, but rather of the fact that we live in an era of rampant over-classification. Everything from routine policy memorandums, to talking point directives, to mundane tactical reporting (for example, number of IEDs that went off in the last month), to reports of corruption by ANSF. If an agent of US foreign policy does it, the odds are that somebody's put a secret stamp on it.This is done for a couple reasons. The first is that even small details can be enough to help plan attack, but more importantly over classification allows the pentagon to control information.
You know how the military keeps touting remarkable "progress" in Afghanistan? The reality is completely the opposite and the Afghan government is corrupt, useless, treacherous, and incapable of keeping the peace, but you aren't likely to hear any meaningful dissent. There can't be: the facts you'd need to debate this assertion are all "classified" which enables military leadership to prosecute anyone who blows the whistle or speaks out.
I've even seem some reporting on recent news events that were stamped as " SECRET// NOFORN" when the same information could be accessed simply by pulling up any internet news feed. I may disagree with the classification but I am still beholden not to honor it. Case in point, most of what I know about Iran (We track all the information we can get due to my unit's close proximity with the Iran border) is a bit frustrating to me. Unclassified media is largely correct about the country but I still can't debate specifics due to this same rampant over-classification. Which is exactly what stamping everything secret is intended to achieve.
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What you're saying here, in essence, is that you're too stupid/lazy to do your own fact-checking/fundamental reality check, and that journalists should do it for you.
Two points. The first is that its a bit difficult to "fact check" when the places that you go to in order to fact check are also telling lies. Second is that its not always possible for me to fact check because the reporters often have access to information I don't.
The case in point is game reviews, where I am not able to "fact check" most of the content in game reviews without shelling out 60 bucks for the game itself. Its a moot point then.
june gloom on 12/4/2012 at 20:04
Quote Posted by CCCToad
If I'm not a real soldier than please explain why I have Schrapnel embedded iembedded in my back, and where it came from. Thanks. I seem to have struck a nerve though, and seeing you this mad is satisfying.
Except you don't. That's made up. QED.
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The reason I say everything's secret is because it actually is.
If you were a real soldier doing real secret shit, you wouldn't say so
at all, you wouldn't even allude to it, because
real soldiers keep that shit under their hat, especially on internet forums, especially internet forums where everyone hates them. You go "hurr hurr guys im a solja and i do secret stuff i can't tell you about, and this secret stuff is integral to my argument but ur just gonna haf to taek my word 4 it LOL ;-)" and expect us to believe a word you say? Hahaha, go dodge some imaginary bullets.
You certainly spend a lot of time on the internet for someone who's supposed to be deployed overseas!
Pemptus on 12/4/2012 at 20:13
You ok? You seem kinda mad. Did CCCToad rape your mom or something?
june gloom on 12/4/2012 at 20:14
He only wishes, but he'd have to pretend my mom is a dude for him to stay hard.
