In 2001 (when the GC and Xbox were brand new) EGM did a cover story comparing the two consoles and telling you which one was better. They picked the original Xbox over the Gamecube and said it was a better console. A year later they revisited it and changed their mind, saying the GC had way better games and the Xbox basically only had better hardware over it. No one gave a shit about this back then. I can imagine the screeching and meltdowns if the gaming media did this today. People somehow understood that there were different opinions back then and the gaming media wasn't as generic. I'm actually happy gaming magazines died before this culture took over gaming. The news stories in the magazines today would be about what games are the most sexist, why straight white males shouldn't be allowed to be featured as protagonists and why they're traumatized over being trash talked on an online game.
Why do their attempts at humor suck so badly? When someone actually makes a funny joke they don't understand it and get pissed off. There's a subreddit called Gamingcirclejerk (another community full of men in dresses) and it's full of completely unfunny leftist "humor". I also find it interesting that these people have an inability to laugh at themselves. Good comedians in the past would make fun of themselves and their own culture.