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"It's been a strange week in video game land, particularly on the front of the unfortunate war between gaming fans and the gaming press, which is reaching new levels of insanity. All this week, every forum thread I read is decrying the state of the gaming press. My Twitter feed, conversely, full of gaming journalists, is decrying the state of the gaming public."
"All this week..." huh. Only that long? Yeah, this article is mostly about that thing I posted about the other day in which I have little interest, outside of the whole "cover-up conspiracy" angle of it that some are pushing. I find the rest of it, the whole feminism/feminism-is-bad/white knighting/social justice warriors/tumblr/etc. bullshit, to be exceedingly tedious, though, so I'm not even going to get into that at all.
I only have this to say concerning the subject of video game journalism in general: Video game journalism has been a joke, on the whole, for much, much longer than simply the breaking of this latest scandal. Video game journalism has pretty much been a joke for almost a decade now, perhaps two. This certainly isn't the first time that I've written a post about an article in which a video game journalist has felt the need to defend video game journalism and in which the author of said article went on a tirade against the "gaming public."[1] Probably won't be the last either. The mere fact that video game journalists are so often feeling the need to defend video game journalism itself says plenty enough about the state of video game journalism, at least to me anyway.
Rare are the occasions when video game journalists themselves admit and shine a light on how shitty video game journalism can be.
(EDIT) Also, say hello to my new video game journalism tag. I didn't realize that I'd written that many posts about this shit already (and there are probably more of them down in my archives that I haven't found yet). (/EDIT)
(EDIT 2) Also also, on a completely unrelated note, I hate Forbes's new layout, where all articles are appearing on the same scrolling page now, rather than having their own separate, dedicated pages. The comments don't show up until you click a separate thing now, rather than just being there by default as it used to be. Why, oh why, do Internet websites so often feel the need to "fix" what wasn't broken? (/EDIT 2)
[1] - That said, I do agree that many members of the "gaming public" are indeed actually just as bad as these video game journalists think they are, and that the "gaming community" as a whole is also kind of a great big fucking joke. There are definitely an imperial fuckton of misogynist, sexist, racist, homophobic, bigoted asshats out there, too true. I've ranted about similar issues before, with regard to gaming "news/blog" sites in particular, and I think this is at least a small part of the reason why video game journalism has gotten as bad as it has in the first place. However, I just don't think that the assholes are the majority of the gaming public who think that video game journalism is a joke, nor do I think pointing out those assholes in any way mitigates or validates how terrible video game journalism has become, or, perhaps, always was. (The important thing is that I've found a way to feel superior to both. ¬_¬)
"All this week..." huh. Only that long? Yeah, this article is mostly about that thing I posted about the other day in which I have little interest, outside of the whole "cover-up conspiracy" angle of it that some are pushing. I find the rest of it, the whole feminism/feminism-is-bad/white knighting/social justice warriors/tumblr/etc. bullshit, to be exceedingly tedious, though, so I'm not even going to get into that at all.
I only have this to say concerning the subject of video game journalism in general: Video game journalism has been a joke, on the whole, for much, much longer than simply the breaking of this latest scandal. Video game journalism has pretty much been a joke for almost a decade now, perhaps two. This certainly isn't the first time that I've written a post about an article in which a video game journalist has felt the need to defend video game journalism and in which the author of said article went on a tirade against the "gaming public."[1] Probably won't be the last either. The mere fact that video game journalists are so often feeling the need to defend video game journalism itself says plenty enough about the state of video game journalism, at least to me anyway.
Rare are the occasions when video game journalists themselves admit and shine a light on how shitty video game journalism can be.
(EDIT) Also, say hello to my new video game journalism tag. I didn't realize that I'd written that many posts about this shit already (and there are probably more of them down in my archives that I haven't found yet). (/EDIT)
(EDIT 2) Also also, on a completely unrelated note, I hate Forbes's new layout, where all articles are appearing on the same scrolling page now, rather than having their own separate, dedicated pages. The comments don't show up until you click a separate thing now, rather than just being there by default as it used to be. Why, oh why, do Internet websites so often feel the need to "fix" what wasn't broken? (/EDIT 2)
[1] - That said, I do agree that many members of the "gaming public" are indeed actually just as bad as these video game journalists think they are, and that the "gaming community" as a whole is also kind of a great big fucking joke. There are definitely an imperial fuckton of misogynist, sexist, racist, homophobic, bigoted asshats out there, too true. I've ranted about similar issues before, with regard to gaming "news/blog" sites in particular, and I think this is at least a small part of the reason why video game journalism has gotten as bad as it has in the first place. However, I just don't think that the assholes are the majority of the gaming public who think that video game journalism is a joke, nor do I think pointing out those assholes in any way mitigates or validates how terrible video game journalism has become, or, perhaps, always was. (The important thing is that I've found a way to feel superior to both. ¬_¬)
