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  • More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC

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  • The idea of ranking games on a numerical scale is inherently flawed. I suspect many publications still use it as a way to make nice with game publishers. Text that's lukewarm can slap a 9/10 score on and a lot of people just jump over the review to the "objective" score.

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  • I feel it’s important

    Genuinely, why?

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  • Not all YouTubers are quality. This is obvious. What I am saying is that I've found a mere handful who are quality and for my tastes they have replaced the entire legacy professional gaming journalistic media. Other people I'm sure can find similar YouTubers who cater to their tastes and opinions.

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  • That might be exactly part of why gaming journalism is irrelevant.

    If the "news" about an upcoming game is just repeating developer hype, then it's just useless noise. At that point the only thing that matters are reviews, and independent YouTubers are beating the professionals in quality and trustworthiness.

    So what's left? Actual dry industry news? I suppose some small amount of people care, but not enough to support the amount of gaming journalists out there.

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  • click- and rage-bait headlines on Facebook over quality journalism

    Gaming journalism has been overrun with that.

    What I, and I think many people, want are trustworthy, knowledgable reviews.

    I can't trust any of the major publications. I trust a small handful of YouTubers who are giving me more of what I want than the entire professional industry.

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  • Back in the late 90s-early 2000s the PCGamer magazine was actually worthwhile. It had reviewers who specialized in different genres and if read enough you could get a feel for their writing style and critical voice. The fact it was a monthly publication meant they weren't racing to get a review out in the first 24 hours.

    Nowadays it all seems like publications race to put reviews out online for relevance, and the reviewers often seem to have a disdain for video games and even if they don't they aren't genre experts.

    I don't like fighting games. My review of a fighting game would be trash. Yet major publications just pump out reviews by whoever.

    Individual youtubers at least can develop a recognizable critical voice and stick more to genres they know and enjoy.

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  • The entire industry was flooded with mouthpieces for developer statements, and opinion piece hottakes. How many of those people does an industry really need? (Or more importantly: How many of those people can it financially support?)

    As for reviews, they are for the most part similarly worthless and hard to trust. There's about five YouTubers who I actually trust the opinions of, and I haven't felt left out at all with that as the extent of my gaming journalism intake.

    I can't be certain, but I suspect a lot of gamers are completely burnt out on the professional gaming journalism industry.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • A wrinkle to this case is that Federally marijuana is in the most restricted category. It's above meth or cocaine.

    Obviously a lot of people consider those drugs more harmful than marijuana, but if we are playing the legal game then marijuana is legislated as being more dangerous and that's what the court has to work with.

    SCOTUS I think has to decide if controlled substance use as a whole can prohibit legally buying a gun or not. I'm not sure if they can just make a carveout for marijuana. (Also the person taking the case up had cocaine too, so it can't not be brought up.)

    You'd be surprised how many 2A people, who are across the political spectrum, are fine with removing that category of prohibition entirely. However I wonder if it will make SCOTUS more hesitant to make such an "extreme" ruling.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Yes it is. Drog's patch is the universally recommended patch that fixes bugs and has a lot of optional changes like adding new playable races, removing annoying sound effects, and more evenly distributing party experience instead of a per-hit system.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • A surprising amount of people don't understand that if they live in a state where weed is legal that doesn't mean Federal laws on it don't apply.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • The case is about overturning an existing restriction, not adding new ones.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • This case is not about imposing new restrictions.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • Weed is already prohibited. The case is about overturning that.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • The case is about overturning existing prohibitions. Reading the article would clarify this.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • I wish people would read the articles. Weed is already Federally prohibited. The case is an attempt to overturn that.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • The case is not about implementing new gun control, but looking at if an aspect of existing control is unconstitutional.

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  • The case in front of SCOTUS is not about implementing a new restriction. It is about if a long standing restriction on the unrelated use of controlled substances is a Constitutional violation. Weed is grabbing the headline, but the restriction applies to a vast range of substances.

  • Whenever a centrist is rude to you, you can infer that they have decided that you are less than human

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  • I'm curious to see how this approach shakes out in practice.

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