Current Events > Kotaku publishes dog shit review of the Play Station 5

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https://kotaku.com/playstation-5-the-kotaku-review-1845588904

An excerpt:

But Id be remiss to ignore all the reasons not to be excited for the PlayStation 5.
The world is still reeling under the weight of the covid-19 pandemic. There are more Americans out of work right now than at any point in the countrys history, with no relief in sight. Our health care system is an inherently evil institution that forces people to ration life-saving medications like insulin and choose suicide over suffering with untreated mental illness.
As Im writing this, it looks very likely that Joe Biden will be our next president. But its clear that the worst people arent going away just because a new old white man is sitting behind the Resolute deskwell, at least not this old white man. Our government is fundamentally broken in a way that necessitates radical change rather than incremental electorialism.
The harsh truth is that, for the reasons listed above and more, a lot of people simply wont be able to buy a PlayStation 5, regardless of supply. Or if they can, concerns over increasing austerity in the United States and the growing threat of widespread political violence supersede any enthusiasm about the consoles SSD or how ray tracing makes reflections more realistic. Thats not to say you cant be excited for those thingsI certainly am, on some levelbut theres an irrefutable level of privilege attached to the ability to simply tune out the world as it burns around you.

Gaming journalism is a fucking joke, and don't you ever forget it.

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well that's dumb, why can't people be excited for the PS5 AND not like the current administration and how they handled covid and stuff?

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lmao

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Anything under the Deadspin umbrella is dogshit and should be ignored

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Lmaoooooo

Kotaku

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That is pretty dogshit. They should've just said 1/10 no PS2 BC and mo PS5 games on external SSD

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Many people wont buy own because of covid but theyre sold out everywhere within seconds

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Friendly reminder that next-gen gaming consoles are a human right.

I think I'm gonna go do the Hara kiri now.

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Imagine that person going to a restaurant:

"hi, are you ready to make your order?"

"Well I would but here's the problem *goes on a 10 minute tirade about all the evils of the world"

"...I'll give you a few more minutes"

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The fuck was that.

I remember when that site was actually the place for geeky peeps to get the hottest news.

wtf

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Alteres posted...

The fuck was that.

I remember when that site was actually the place for geeky peeps to get the hottest news.

wtf

Gaming journalists are literally the bottom of the barrel. They couldn't get into a real job and use gaming outlets to spout their opinions.

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I mean, I guess he's not technically wrong but just seems an odd place to say it. Who is looking to a review of a console to be told how shitty the world currently is. Seems like a good time to try and gain some moments of happiness tbh.

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Funkydog posted...

I mean, I guess he's not technically wrong but just seems an odd place to say it. Who is looking to a review of a console to be told how shitty the world currently is. Seems like a good time to try and gain some moments of happiness tbh.

Some of it is objectively wrong. The Americans out of work part is completely false. You only need to look back as far as one month ago. Or if you're out of date two months. Or for shits and giggles three. And you can keep on going back until like April if you're sticking to 2020 alone.

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I expected this to be a Sony defense topic, but no that's just shitty journalism. A review of a product doesn't require an opinion of your world view.
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They should probably stop giving things to Kotaku.

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Kotaku sucks hard. I felt like they don't play the games they write about and hired a bunch of progressive women who only play the sims and Pokmon. Those were the only articles I'd ever see promoted by the on my Facebook feed years ago but I haven't followed them for years

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literally this guy:


lmao

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Lmao that's dumb as fuck

It's a review of a game console, just talk about the fucking console

The problem with gaming journalists these days is that they're very clearly insecure that their writing profession is centered around a hobby most people dismiss as childish and immature, so they try to contort any benign topic to fit some exaggerated political narrative. They're effectively one step above people who go on morning news/talk shows and shill "THIS YEAR'S HOTTEST HOLIDAY TOYS".

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Kotaku giving legitimacy to the word SJW as despective. Imagine reviewing the new SW movies and saying its not worth to go see it bc how things are in the world.

Maybe that IS what people need the most, right now? Not everything has to be doom and gloom all the time. Besides this is not Syria where the place you lived got completely destroyed. We just hit a recession due to a pandemic that kills less than 98% of the people who catch it. Not the end of the world scenario the reviewer tries to paint.

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Funkydog posted...

I mean, I guess he's not technically wrong but just seems an odd place to say it. Who is looking to a review of a console to be told how shitty the world currently is. Seems like a good time to try and gain some moments of happiness tbh.

Half of this shit are solely American issues. Which time and again, shows the lack of self-awareness of some of their people. No you're not the only country in the world and no, not everyone gives a shit about what's going on there.

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> when you have to write a 5000 word essay but you're only up to 2000

SpiritSephiroth posted...

Half of this shit are solely American issues. Which time and again, shows the lack of self-awareness of some of their people. No you're not the only country in the world and no, not everyone gives a shit about what's going on there.

There's that as well, yeah.

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Here's the paragraph right before TC's excerpt:

This review has spent 3,000 words talking about the PlayStation 5, which is the most Ive written about anything. Its as good a video game console as there has ever been. The combination of ultra high-definition video, increased framerates, high-end graphics techniques like ray tracing, and the lightning-fast SSD make it feel like a real-deal, next-gen successor to the PlayStation 4. And if youre not ready to give up on the previous console, the PlayStation 5 reliably runs a vast majority of the PlayStation 4 library, with many of those games receiving upgrades to fidelity, framerate, and loading times.

As it points out, this is a fairly long review that talks all about the PS5's features and specs, and the games the reviewer played on it. Interesting that TC would pull a paragraph from the very end that is in no way indicative of the rest of the review

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eston posted...

Here's the paragraph right before TC's excerpt:
As it points out, this is a fairly long review that talks all about the PS5's features and specs, and the games the reviewer played on it. Interesting that TC would pull a paragraph from the very end that is in no way indicative of the rest of the review

The author should've ended it there then, instead of adding irrelevant content on the tail end.

Thats not to say you cant be excited for those thingsI certainly am, on some levelbut theres an irrefutable level of privilege attached to the ability to simply tune out the world as it burns around you.

LOLOLOLOL suck my ass Ian Walker

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the problem is you're looking at kotaku TC. you shouldn't do that. they dont deserve the ad revenue.

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Esrac posted...

The author should've ended it there then, instead of adding irrelevant content on the tail end.

Or TC can not whine about one paragraph out of a 3000+ word review

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eston posted...

Or TC can not whine about one paragraph out of a 3000+ word review

Its always weird when people think shitting on or mocking something cringey is whining.

Perhaps whining isn't the word. TC's statement was "Gaming journalism is a fucking joke, and don't you ever forget it."

This statement was based on one paragraph at the very end of a 3000+ word review which talks extensively about the actual system.

So maybe not whining. Just kinda dumb.

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I was expecting the topic title to be an over-reaction, but wowsers, that is actually hella dogshit.

Benderill0 posted...

Imagine that person going to a restaurant:

"hi, are you ready to make your order?"

"Well I would but here's the problem *goes on a 10 minute tirade about all the evils of the world"

"...I'll give you a few more minutes"

lmaooooo

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eston posted...

Here's the paragraph right before TC's excerpt:
As it points out, this is a fairly long review that talks all about the PS5's features and specs, and the games the reviewer played on it. Interesting that TC would pull a paragraph from the very end that is in no way indicative of the rest of the review

interesting defending a review that spews out a bunch of unwanted political garbage that has zero place in a ps5 review.

doesnt matter that he reviewed it before his soapbox rant. Theres no fucking place for any of that in a god damn video game console review and its a joke that it was published

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eston posted...

Here's the paragraph right before TC's excerpt:
As it points out, this is a fairly long review that talks all about the PS5's features and specs, and the games the reviewer played on it. Interesting that TC would pull a paragraph from the very end that is in no way indicative of the rest of the review

Who gives a shit. The paragraph the TC quoted is so irrelevant and melodramatic that it doesn't matter what preceded it.

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LostForest posted...

Who gives a shit. The paragraph the TC quoted is so irrelevant and melodramatic that it doesn't matter what preceded it.

Context is always important

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Good god I've not seen this much stupid in a while and I was up all night on election night

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I don't think unrelated politics talk should be involved in gaming reviews. Not sure why he thought it was a good idea to go into that rant.
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the target audience of kotaku seems to be people that like that stuff and people who hateread it, so every time people freak out about this stuff it just makes me confused. were you expecting them not to write about the kind of stuff they almost always do?

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I hope he gets paid well to write dogshit like that at least

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eston posted...

Context is always important

In what context is an unrelated sociopolitical rant which talks down to your readers appropriate?

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ultimate reaver posted...

the target audience of kotaku seems to be people that like that stuff and people who hateread it, so every time people freak out about this stuff it just makes me confused. were you expecting them not to write about the kind of stuff they almost always do?

You're probably right. They know people like TC will share the review if they throw that sort of stuff in

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LostForest posted...

In what context is an unrelated sociopolitical rant which talks down to your readers appropriate?

You said that this one paragraph is so melodramatic that it doesn't matter what preceded it, and I'm saying that the rest of the review still matters regardless of what you think of the one paragraph

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Well that's the most Kotaku shit I've read in a while

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Imagine if a journalist reporting on the US election started talking about the PS5 out of nowhere for 20 minutes.
He'd be out of a job by the end of the day.

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LordFarquad1312 posted...

Gaming journalism is a fucking joke

Been that way for ages now. To become a games journalist, you basically have washed out from reporting for a real publication, or were untalented enough to not get hired there in the first place, so we get to deal with the 4th rate journos.

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LordFarquad1312 posted...

Imagine if a journalist reporting on the US election started talking about the PS5 out of nowhere for 20 minutes.
He'd be out of a job by the end of the day.

No he wouldn't. The editor would just cut it.
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They found the perfect guy to bitch about a game or system to people that have 0 interest in video games.

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No wonder they keep going broke lol.

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Kotaku publishes review that successfully gets TC to give it free advertising and more page views ensuring that Kotaku knows it's doing a great job and should keep making content like this so OP can continue to freely advertise it.

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