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I don't know about the whole journalism thing, I bought game magazines in my country in the late 80s-early 90s and they were top notch, they did criticize games (and applications) rater sharply and even ratings like 15 (out of 100) weren't that uncommon and basically no game made it ever past ~85-90. I remember an interview with one of the journalists from that magazine many years later and he basically said the whole industry changed a lot in the late 90s and it wasn't so much journalism anymore as it was advertising and that's why he left. I don't think it was always that way but maybe that's just true for my particular country when games were still a small thing and a big city had maybe one videogame store.

Also Lowtax wife being nuts explains a lot. Lets see for how many years she sticks around.
 
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Alec Benson Leary said:
The one person who ever came closest to justifying his anti-gg fervor to me logically was by saying that games journalism is not and never was "real" journalism, it's always been a de facto advertising platform and thus necessarily biased - which any sensible customer should've recognized - therefore any customer who felt lied to should've understood the concept of caveat emptor. But my rebuttal was that even if that was true, there were a ton of fans who wanted it to be real and fair journalism, and they had a point because the field has always made the choice to portray itself as having integrity when they could've just admitted they were shills - so his claims that that was just a show and was effectively "just the way it's done" were meaningless because people were tired of the "way it's done". In other words, he thought that the lie was legitimized pageantry, while I said they wouldn't have a business built on fooling customers if they weren't scumbags worthy of getting fed some harsh medicine to begin with.
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You could easily counter the "games journalism was always shills and not real journalism" talking point by pointing out that "real" journalism has a lot of the same flaws. Besides the very term "yellow journalism", there have been plenty of instances where stories were underreported or supressed due to someone not liking it, whether it be a corporate sponsor, someone well connected in government/business, or is in a conflict of interest with the entity's parent company. Even most op/eds on the major news sites tend to have some sort of bias towards authoritarian neoliberalism (whether on the conservative or liberal end), and rarely, if ever, have an article from a trad leftist perspective (libertarians get a tad more of a voice due to being more receptive to capitalism)
 
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Lowtax is gearing up for another begathon. He could always sell his car.
 

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If he's gonna get more money of goons by the virtue of existing (because lets face it, he'll never do a anything significant on/with the forums again, even the dumbest goon must have realized that by now) then I'm honestly impressed.
 
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If he's gonna get more money of goons by the virtue of existing (because lets face it, he'll never do a anything significant on/with the forums again, even the dumbest goon must have realized that by now) then I'm honestly impressed.
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It's probably going to be less and less each time. The Xenforo upgrade drew in a lot of money pretty quickly but then when he spent it on hearthstone a bunch of people felt cheated.

I'm sure some additional people aren't going to donate to his health sob stories anymore if his wife is just going to go to the ER for the vapors and demand $7,000 worth of reassurance. That and having everyone's favorite forums M'Lady Pick ask on his behalf is probably only going to work the one time.

The time to complain about health issues was probably 5-10 years ago when goons were donating tens of thousands to hotdog salesmen, african villages, disaster relief and hundreds of thousands to space video games. Now it takes like 3 weeks to scratch up a few thousand.
 
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It's probably going to be less and less each time. The Xenforo upgrade drew in a lot of money pretty quickly but then when he spent it on hearthstone a bunch of people felt cheated.

I'm sure some additional people aren't going to donate to his health sob stories anymore if his wife is just going to go to the ER for the vapors and demand $7,000 worth of reassurance. That and having everyone's favorite forums M'Lady Pick ask on his behalf is probably only going to work the one time.

The time to complain about health issues was probably 5-10 years ago when goons were donating tens of thousands to hotdog salesmen, african villages, disaster relief and hundreds of thousands to space video games. Now it takes like 3 weeks to scratch up a few thousand.
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It must truly twist his tits that some redneck frog with a hot dogs kickstarter can raise ~15,000 goon dollars as a goof but his own repeated trips to that well, on his own site for fucks sake, return less and less cash each time. All this while his life falls apart completely. It is a crying shame.
 
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Lowtax is gearing up for another begathon. He could always sell his car.
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Oh man, Uwe Boll is gonna regret signal boosting LT now. "Hey Uwe, remember when you boxed the fuck out of me? Well now the bill for my broken spine is $65,000. Think you could float this through another movie?"
 
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It's probably going to be less and less each time. The Xenforo upgrade drew in a lot of money pretty quickly but then when he spent it on hearthstone a bunch of people felt cheated.

I'm sure some additional people aren't going to donate to his health sob stories anymore if his wife is just going to go to the ER for the vapors and demand $7,000 worth of reassurance. That and having everyone's favorite forums M'Lady Pick ask on his behalf is probably only going to work the one time.

The time to complain about health issues was probably 5-10 years ago when goons were donating tens of thousands to hotdog salesmen, african villages, disaster relief and hundreds of thousands to space video games. Now it takes like 3 weeks to scratch up a few thousand.
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dont forget the purges more and more people kept getting banned and not comming back so his draw pool get smaller and smaller

as for pick and the other weirdos they need to be put in some kinda containment forum.
 
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