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Judge Dredd said:
It depends. To hear Americans tell it, magazines like Nintendo Power and Game Informer were glorified adverts, but were held with a lot of nostalgia
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Game Informer was mostly ads for games, but the reason to read it was because it came with a few good interviews. I still have a few sitting around, like the Fallout 3 one.
 
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I dont really care about games media, but i found this funny

So Polygon writers and others under Vox media has thes gay toothless Unions
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3 days before Polygon got sold the made their demands to Vox
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Vox told them to get fucked, and so with no real power to bring Vox to the table, they just seeth
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After 2 days of this seething Vox sells Polygon to Brazzers to have its corpse raped for clicks
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30+GameOvers said:
Game Informer was mostly ads for games, but the reason to read it was because it came with a few good interviews. I still have a few sitting around, like the Fallout 3 one.
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What the fuck are you smoking? The only reason anyone would enjoy GI is their annual column written by an edgelord. In fact, let me educate you on the good shit that had died with GI
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NerdShamer said:
What the fuck are you smoking? The only reason anyone would enjoy GI is their annual column written by an edgelord. In fact, let me educate you on the good shit that had died with GI
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I never bothered caring about the people who wrote for the magazine, just the games in it. There were other, smaller magazines where you could tell that people who wrote for it gave a shit and that's a different story, but GI always struck me as a sterile, corporate advertisement magazine that Gamestop shoved in your face at every opportunity.
 
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They resented it being opened to the public, but E3 died as it got more corporate and safe.
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Are you kidding? Sony's press conferences were infamously corporate, half the reason their 06 was so bad is that it was a glorified investor's conference, being half powerpoints of sales figures and other boring shit.
 
30+GameOvers said:
I never bothered caring about the people who wrote for the magazine, just the games in it. There were other, smaller magazines where you could tell that people who wrote for it gave a shit and that's a different story, but GI always struck me as a sterile, corporate advertisement magazine that Gamestop shoved in your face at every opportunity.
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And this is why the rot set in. Who the fuck was lying awake at night waiting for the next piece of Ben Kuchera editorial? Or another piece on ludonarrative dissonance by Patrick Klepek? Nobody. Thats who.

When Edge magazine first launched I was right on that hype train. Did I want to see more in-depth technical articles and interviews that weren't just fluff greenlit by marketing? Yes. But along with that came the baggage of the ideas men. Your average article in Edge was 20% facts and the rest was fart huffing, and this set the precedent for most writing within games journalism. A practice that continues to this day and it is the contributing factor to why the industry is finally dying.

If you look at the career trajectory of these journalists, the vast majority of them are stuck in a rut they will never break out of. There are exceptions, but they are definitely outliers. Most of them cling to the idea of being the star because they have absolutely nothing to offer outside of their opinion. The big names touted within games journalism cannot exist outside of that field. Ideas are ten-a-penny. Developers and publishers whiteboards are filled with them. Just because these cunts have a Proustian experience when they think about getting God of War for Christmas does not mean they have any creative value. They are worthless and even the most backstreet Mumbai hosted LLM can do a better job (and consistently does).
 
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So, if anyone has any doubts about Fandom being the DEI jews who are ruining everything that they touch, the same rep actually ruined Gamefaqs by locking out new users out of the political forums in addition to the usual woke stuff and subsequently gave another canned response on how the web needs to change for the betterment of diversity and shit.

This is where I got it from, if anyone wants to keep poking around.
 
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MrTroll said:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-polygon-workers-and-the-vox-media-union

I hope you'll please consider joining me in donating to this fund. Your charitable, tax-deductible contribution can help buy a Funko Pop for a struggling video game blogger.
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They should ask for their union dues back. I skimmed some commentary and everyone says to have consensus that gamejournoing as a byline faggot is OVER. Good.

The only time I visit one of these slopsites is when I need one of those 10 top slopbuilds for the sloppa of the month. Those executives they hate are right, no one actually cares about their latest expose on "crunch culture" or whatever except a bunch of pearl clutching faggots on twitter. Jason Schrierer and Patrick Klepek belly aching how much they hate reporting on games. They're obsessed with muckracking inside of studios, blowing up small dramas into public shit. Often just making up stuff and trying to stir up shit over nothing (eg. Jason Schreier's "lolicon", Kingdom Come, Tim Soret). People inside the game industry largely hate this. Yes, they want you to talk about their game, not the thing that isn't really about the game. No one can really talk about this stuff, it's all NDA's and lawsuit fuel. It's office politics and gossip inside of video game studios, it's not actually important, it's not political. It's just poorly reported drama, Kiwi Farms does a better job at this.
 
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30+GameOvers said:
I never bothered caring about the people who wrote for the magazine, just the games in it. There were other, smaller magazines where you could tell that people who wrote for it gave a shit and that's a different story, but GI always struck me as a sterile, corporate advertisement magazine that Gamestop shoved in your face at every opportunity.
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GI was always bottom-tier even at its peak, probably below GamePro.

I miss vidya magazines but smothering Nintendo Power with a pillow back in 2012 was probably the best ending it could've had.
 
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They should ask for their union dues back. I skimmed some commentary and everyone says to have consensus that gamejournoing as a byline faggot is OVER. Good.

The only time I visit one of these slopsites is when I need one of those 10 top slopbuilds for the sloppa of the month. Those executives they hate are right, no one actually cares about their latest expose on "crunch culture" or whatever except a bunch of pearl clutching faggots on twitter. Jason Schrierer and Patrick Klepek belly aching how much they hate reporting on games. They're obsessed with muckracking inside of studios, blowing up small dramas into public shit. Often just making up stuff and trying to stir up shit over nothing (eg. Jason Schreier's "lolicon", Kingdom Come, Tim Soret). People inside the game industry largely hate this. Yes, they want you to talk about their game, not the thing that isn't really about the game. No one can really talk about this stuff, it's all NDA's and lawsuit fuel. It's office politics and gossip inside of video game studios, it's not actually important, it's not political. It's just poorly reported drama, Kiwi Farms does a better job at this.
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Anyone whose byline I'd remotely give a shit about I already watch on youtube. I can't remember the last time I even saw, retained, or cared about the byline at a game journalist rag. Paul Tassi I vaguely remember having a bunch of seemingly AI generated and human polished articles for the slop of the week on Forbes only to discover he's just another asshole on twitter who hates people like me. Schrierer I know of because he's the most Jewish man in Games Journoing, up to and including concealing Blizzard's sexual harassment culture so he could sell a book about it and covering up... someone (Jewario? The guy behind NeoGAF?)'s sexual harassment accusations because Kotaku In Action broke the story and he refused to give them a win. Other than that, some names I recall when I see them again (Mercunty, Quinn's boyfriend, Ana "it's not real queer representation unless I can masturbate in front of your child and you can't stop me" Valens, etc) but only cause of culture war shit. I know nothing about their industry work because it literally doesn't matter.

I currently hate my job as it's jeet infested. I bet I could, with a little work and a chatGPT subscription, shit out a better job than any of these sites. Pick up a Businesswire or PRNewswire subscription to fill the site with press releases alongside my AI-Gen and HumanPolished slop of the week... But there's no money in it, even generating alternative content from the slop troth. If I was going to do something like that, why not just learn Godot and start making Indy games that don't involve sad trannies in snow or whatever as an alternative to that particular trash fire?

We're rapidly circling the drain for a 1980s style game industry crash, alongside the rest of media. Hate to see it, but, we kind of deserve it.
 
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Lucas Silva #4903141 said:
Deepfreeze needs some major updating. Jfc, no updates since 2017, from the looks of it. Regarding what @Flatline asked, it's GameJournoPros. That's the group. The DeepFreeze link explains what it is but it has links that are dead. Archive.

Lol at the 8chan link at the bottom. Lol at every oneangrygamer link in there.
It's such a time capsule of a site. Who owns the site? It could be much more useful.
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It's a guy named "Bonegolem", an Italian IIRC, but he hasn't posted on Twitter since 2022 https://x.com/bonegolem
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
A lot of Kotaku articles in the late 2000s and early 2010s were a lot of the same gaming culture fluff that places that Reddit linked to, including things like Pikachu bento boxes, the Super Mario theme done on different floppy disk drives, vidya tattoos and art, and other stuff that were outgrowths of the G4 gaming culture (this was widespread and even done in Nintendo Power, and ultimately led to GG in the end). One of these old Kotaku articles I remember reading was some huge video game store in...Australia, I think, which had the Wii-focused "The Nintendo Experience" on the upper level (Australia's version of GameStop, EB Games, which kept the name...today TNE focuses on Switch).
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Looks like it closed in 2022.
 
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