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what is a Kotaku I mean what does that mean and why is a website named that
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Sep 9, 2014 21:08
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The Sharmat posted:what is a Kotaku It's like Otaku, but the next tier of ubershitlord
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Sep 9, 2014 21:15
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The Sharmat posted:what is a Kotaku
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Sep 9, 2014 22:44
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The Sharmat posted:what is a Kotaku k-otaku. it was originally for korea enthusiasts
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Sep 9, 2014 22:46
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The Sharmat posted:what is a Kotaku 
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Sep 9, 2014 23:13
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Going out of your way to avoid giving fractions of pennies to people on the internet is one of the stupidest things I can imagine. Farewell.
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Sep 10, 2014 00:11
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FactsAreUseless posted:The site started out as a Mortal Kombat fansite way back in the mid 90s, and a "Kotaku" was the term for a big Mortal Kombat fan.
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Sep 10, 2014 00:11
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They should hand out awards for excellence in video game journalism, only instead of a statue it's a solid gold Sonic body pillow.
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Sep 10, 2014 23:40
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Soral posted:i disagree. while those posts may be shittier and dumber than the article i linked, the "this speaker thing kind of looks like a video game robot, sort of" post is far more worthless in a real sense of the word. http://kotaku.com/5912115/an-exploration-game-helped-me-realize-why-nature-kind-of-sucks
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Sep 11, 2014 01:57
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what is the good video games journalism that you want to see but is not happening. in-depth industry reporting? serious cultural critiques? if not that what is there to write about beyond "the next assassins' creed will have 1 billion more of polygons" "here is how many points out of ten i think the dark prequel reboot is worth" and the occasional introspective "how i lost my viriginity to sonic the hedgehog" type thingY-Hat posted:ok how about this haha bummer
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Sep 11, 2014 20:28
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gender binary must die!?!
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Sep 11, 2014 20:34
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swamp waste posted:what is the good video games journalism that you want to see but is not happening. I want numbers lower than 7 to be used in reviews
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Sep 11, 2014 21:11
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The Sharmat posted:I want numbers lower than 7 to be used in reviews You ask too much.
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Sep 11, 2014 21:19
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swamp waste posted:what is the good video games journalism that you want to see but is not happening. in-depth industry reporting? serious cultural critiques? if not that what is there to write about beyond "the next assassins' creed will have 1 billion more of polygons" "here is how many points out of ten i think the dark prequel reboot is worth" and the occasional introspective "how i lost my viriginity to sonic the hedgehog" type thing how about one of them talks about gameplay ever
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Sep 11, 2014 21:58
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gameplay is not a serious issue we can apply literary analysis too
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Sep 11, 2014 22:06
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swamp waste posted:what is the good video games journalism that you want to see but is not happening. in-depth industry reporting? serious cultural critiques? if not that what is there to write about beyond "the next assassins' creed will have 1 billion more of polygons" "here is how many points out of ten i think the dark prequel reboot is worth" and the occasional introspective "how i lost my viriginity to sonic the hedgehog" type thing If people want video games to be compared to movies then they'll have to write like movie news writes. Hint: movie news is pretty boring trade-industry stuff, professional reviews, and sometimes casting speculation. Nikke Finke didn't make a habit of comparing Spy Kids to the rising inequalities of the middle class. Basically, find actual journalists who are interested in games and not bloggers who are interested in games. Because no one gets into journalism for the money (unlike bloggers who take $750k from Microsoft lol). "We don't understand why Destiny is getting bad user reviews! It's great! Noe please scroll down past this full-page banner ad for Destiny to read why!"
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Sep 11, 2014 22:26
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swamp waste posted:what is the good video games journalism that you want to see but is not happening. in-depth industry reporting? serious cultural critiques? if not that what is there to write about beyond "the next assassins' creed will have 1 billion more of polygons" "here is how many points out of ten i think the dark prequel reboot is worth" and the occasional introspective "how i lost my viriginity to sonic the hedgehog" type thing the only good vidgame journalism is scarecam lps idiot
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Sep 11, 2014 22:32
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Eh, I would say I'd be happy if they either put in a little more effort OR just admitted they're not journalists, that they're bloggers, and that's why there's an article related to anime every other day. A litte honesty would go a long way for me.
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Sep 11, 2014 23:48
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People complain that game journalism is nothing but press releases w/ sarcasm & pandering drivel, but honestly, i dont care. The only game news i really care about is when a game gets announced or gets a release date. I listen to the giant bombcast every week, but i dont care about their opinions, its just entertainment. I can most of the time ballpark how worthwhile a game will be just by watching someone play it & im pretty sure everyone else can too. If its hard to tell, i just read what people on forums are saying. Its been yrs since a review by ign or gamespot has influenced my decision to buy a game. So reviews dont matter to me, and i dont need to read human-interest essays about how a video game changed someone's life... So game journalism can keep doing what its doing for all i care. One of the things that surprises me about the gamergate thing is the implication that so many self-described gamers depend on ethical game-blogging (and kotaku in particular) for their information & are being screwed by this corruption. I thought everyone was just watching streams & talking to each other to find out what games are good, not reading kotaku. Somebody should care about it probably, but its not me.
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Sep 12, 2014 00:35
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I been playing games pr much my whle life so by now I have a good feel of what games im into and what ones im not so reviews dont hold a lot of value for me except when a review makes smacktarded console warriors mad then its just god times all around
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Sep 12, 2014 00:50
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Also buy all the games anyway because Steam lol ten of the articles on GameSpot's FP are about Destiny. Totally legit and unbiased news you guys
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Sep 12, 2014 01:03
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Sir John Feelgood posted:People complain that game journalism is nothing but press releases w/ sarcasm & pandering drivel, but honestly, i dont care. The only game news i really care about is when a game gets announced or gets a release date. I listen to the giant bombcast every week, but i dont care about their opinions, its just entertainment. I can most of the time ballpark how worthwhile a game will be just by watching someone play it & im pretty sure everyone else can too. If its hard to tell, i just read what people on forums are saying. Its been yrs since a review by ign or gamespot has influenced my decision to buy a game. So reviews dont matter to me, and i dont need to read human-interest essays about how a video game changed someone's life... So game journalism can keep doing what its doing for all i care. For me it's much less related to "caring" and more that I find it fun to mock these garbage websites. When it comes to gamergate, one side are these dorks are far too concerned with something that affects them so little, and the other side are the "gaming journalists" who write articles about butt-shaped watermelons, so to me it seems stepping back and letting them at each other is the smartest move. Gooth fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Sep 12, 2014 |
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Sep 12, 2014 01:24
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if the problem is that they're turning into bloggers who have to keep a drip feed of bad content going, or that they make money from ads for the stuff they report on and that they expect their audience to be into, or that they're corrupted from doing like 'pure' journalism because of their personal connections to the industry people who hook them up, okay, but that's also a list of the problems with regular journalismSir John Feelgood posted:People complain that game journalism is nothing but press releases w/ sarcasm & pandering drivel, but honestly, i dont care. The only game news i really care about is when a game gets announced or gets a release date. I listen to the giant bombcast every week, but i dont care about their opinions, its just entertainment. I can most of the time ballpark how worthwhile a game will be just by watching someone play it & im pretty sure everyone else can too. If its hard to tell, i just read what people on forums are saying. Its been yrs since a review by ign or gamespot has influenced my decision to buy a game. So reviews dont matter to me, and i dont need to read human-interest essays about how a video game changed someone's life... So game journalism can keep doing what its doing for all i care. that's where i'm at except i dont listen to the giant bombcast
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Sep 12, 2014 02:53
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Y-Hat posted:ok how about this it would be cool if i could never see so much as a headline written by patricia hernandez again on a site where every other day brian ashcraft writes about how he lives in japan and his god-awful children that i don't give a poo poo about love this "yokai watch" bullshit, she continually manages to top the charts when it comes to being insufferable the easy solution would be "stop reading kotaku" which I tried but dammit like an addict I just keep going back
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Sep 12, 2014 02:56
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JethroMcB posted:the easy solution would be "stop reading kotaku" which I tried but dammit like an addict I just keep going back i said deadspin is cool earlier in the thread but that was before they dedicated 10+ articles a day to roger goodell/ray rice
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Sep 12, 2014 04:55
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can we please just all take a moment and think about Christmas
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Sep 12, 2014 04:58
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Sir John Feelgood posted:People complain that game journalism is nothing but press releases w/ sarcasm & pandering drivel, but honestly, i dont care. The only game news i really care about is when a game gets announced or gets a release date. I listen to the giant bombcast every week, but i dont care about their opinions, its just entertainment. I can most of the time ballpark how worthwhile a game will be just by watching someone play it & im pretty sure everyone else can too. If its hard to tell, i just read what people on forums are saying. Its been yrs since a review by ign or gamespot has influenced my decision to buy a game. So reviews dont matter to me, and i dont need to read human-interest essays about how a video game changed someone's life... So game journalism can keep doing what its doing for all i care. i assume they just want that particular bunch of idiots out of the business and this is the easiest way to do it. idk what the gently caress they would even do if game journalism would ever be worthy of the name because its basically always been wildly terrible
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Sep 12, 2014 06:39
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It's more that a bunch of shut-in nerds can finally tell people their opinions thanks to the internet and instead of writing their representatives or joining non-profits, they can make lots of money while still being shut-ins and shouting their opinions on ~^*IsSuEs*^~
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Sep 12, 2014 06:57
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