- Joined
- Jul 30, 2021
Uh, I've seen the cock of one of the main contributors but I don't know who because several of them have one name they use "professionally" as a "game journalist" and then one name they use for things like their "after dark" Twitter account that they do a mostly bad job of hiding, which is where I saw the photo. I want to say it was Bobinator but I don't want to commit to that and then wind up being wrong because starting actual rumors about people that are untrue is kind of a shitty thing to do. One of the contributors was a furry though, because I followed his SFW profile. Whoever the furfag is, that's our guy because it was his AD account. There's a chance it might not be someone who is currently listed on the website however because this was 10+ years ago and they might have left the site and their name's been removed.
Anyways, micropeen. I'm talking full on acorn dick. I have no idea why someone would post something like that onto the internet unless they actually got off on humiliation.
Looking at their submission guidelines page it doesn't really seem like all that much has changed from back then, it's mostly just boilerplate "this is how we want you to format specific gaming-related words and phrases". I cannot remember if the payment scale has changed, it probably has because I want to say a lot of the website was crowdfunded via Patreon or something like that. I assume nowadays book sales play a role but I don't know how the proceeds of those are divvied up, like if the writers whose work was featured in the book get "royalties" or something or if submitting an article to HG101 is just a "here's a one-time payment and we now have lifetime rights to use this work however we see fit and are not obligated to pay you any further if we print it".
They are missing some very obvious notable games on their website, like Banjo-Kazooie for example. That was a game I wanted to write a thing for but for some stupid reason if a game is part of a series you can't just write a post about that one game by itself. You have to write a post for every single game that has been released for that series so far. Yeah, you get paid for each one, but I only wanted to write about the first game. Not Banjo-Tooie or the one for the Xbox 360. Apparently nobody has stepped forward in the decade it's been to write the BK post because it comes with the baggage of doing everything else with it. They are probably missing a lot of articles for games whose lineage contains way too many fucking games that no one cares about.
As far as "editorial process" goes, I remember just talking to Kurt over email or something and "pitching" the games to him. He either gave them a thumbs up or down, the ones he approved I wrote the posts for, sent them in, and some amount of time later they went live on the website and I was paid via PayPal. I never submitted enough stuff to HG101 in a single year to warrant needing to claim it on my taxes so I have no idea what that process is like, if there's even one at all. The stuff I submitted was pretty much posted as-is with no major changes which is probably why there are lots of articles with inaccuracies and stuff because none of that gets checked I assume.
I really only ever spoke to/with Kurt in the way of "people I worked with". Since I was just a guest contributor and not primary website staff or anything like that I didn't really interact with the other people involved with the running of the website in any sort of professional manner. I had an account on their forum back in the day which appears to have been replaced with a ProBoards instance but I don't really remember actually getting that into the community of the site. I just wrote some posts, got paid for them, and when I graduated from college I just sorta went on with my life.
