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

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This stuff has been common as fuck this year.

"I would have enjoyed Half-Life Alyx more if it didn't remind me of 2020 so much!"
"The Last of Us 2 is about surviving a pandemic so I'm gonna compare it to our pandemic!"

Like damn shut the fuck up. Vice does this stuff so much especially.

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I like his Dune fanfic game that he starts posting about halfway through the article because the controller has a special vibrator.

I Like Toast posted...

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.

Nah that's why TC shared the excerpt, so we don't need to click the article

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That's a hell of an excerpt.

I don't mind someone including a comment on political or world circumstances when it comes to an opinion piece, but dedicating that much space to it is really distracting from the purpose of the piece.

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Darmik posted...

"The Last of Us 2 is about surviving a pandemic so I'm gonna compare it to our pandemic!"

In this case I think the comparison is actually very appropriate to make. All art is received into the world at a particular place and time, and the reception will always be a reflection of that. If you were to go back and read the TLOU2 reviews 20 years from now it might be useful to be reminded that the launch coincided with an actual pandemic.

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From what I have heard COVID is thought to have increased sales, but it's sold out. A lot of analyists say the lockdowns greatly helped the Switch and will help these consoles as well.

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Gaming journalism is pretty terrible and kotaku is the worst of the lot, lmao

Can't wait to hear how the PS5 is anti feminist or something

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We need laws or regulations about these types of people who can't focus on the subject on hand and go off ranting about politics or other unrelated stuff to the topic indicated in the headline.

They should be fired effective immediately for going off-topic in a "Professional" (I use that term very loosely) Publication.

The world doesn't need 13th rate Poltiical journalists and opinion pieces spread everywhere in every form of media.

If they want to be a Political Journalist, go join one of those Profesional Publications about Politics.

Or start your own Political Publication and write your own Op-Ed piece and see if people will want to read it.

NOBODY who reads a PS5 review expects or wants Off-Topic politics about the state of the world and how upset you are at it.

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You've gotta be shitting me.

It reads like an Onion article or something.
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I'm constantly worried about everything and even I wouldn't consider posting such bullshit. "I can't enjoy entertainment because the world sucks.". Fucking baby ass journalists! That's exactly why I enjoy entertainment!

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

We need laws or regulations about these types of people who can't focus on the subject at hand and go off ranting about politics or other unrelated stuff to the topic indicated in the headline.

They should be fired effective immediately for going off-topic in a "Professional" (I use that term very loosely) Publication.

The world doesn't need 13th rate Poltiical journalists and opinion pieces spread everywhere in every form of media.

If they want to be a Political Journalist, go join one of those Profesional Publications about Politics.

Or start your own Political Publication and write your own Op-Ed piece and see if people will want to read it.

NOBODY who reads a PS5 review expects or wants Off-Topic politics about the state of the world and how upset you are at it.

Girl we dont need laws for kotaku reviews of gaming consoles lol chill daddy

Ian Walker needs to be FIRED from Kotaku and banned/black-listed from Gaming Journalism.

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pinky0926 posted...

Gaming journalism is pretty terrible and kotaku is the worst of the lot, lmao

Can't wait to hear how the PS5 is anti feminist or something

"Why Buying Cyberpunk Is Implicit Support of New Anti-Gay Laws in Poland"

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Dude shut the fuck about politics and review the damn game box.

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eston posted...

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

Or the author can not include something pointless to the subject.

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People defending this shit are as bad as the author. Sometimes it feels as if you base your whole individuality around very few specific political beliefs.

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So I found they also have an article on there about the XBox having too many holes and it is traumatic for people with a fear of holes. I am serious.

https://kotaku.com/xbox-series-x-has-too-many-horrifying-holes-1845584570

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ssjevot posted...

So I found they also have an article on there about the XBox having too many holes and it is traumatic for people with a fear of holes. I am serious.

https://kotaku.com/xbox-series-x-has-too-many-horrifying-holes-1845584570

https://giphy.com/gifs/6yRVg0HWzgS88/html5

I call for motion that we have all Kotaku links (news included) banned from appearing on gamefaqs.gamespot.com.

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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

That is interesting

TC: *uses shitty journalism style cherry picking*
Also TC: "God damn guys aren't gaming journalists just the worst"

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Too much politics in gaming.
Literally taking a Tucker Carlson attitude into a gaming journalism environment. (and there are plenty on the left who are bad or worse than Tucker.)
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Topic Title delivered!

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Maybe the Kotaku author visited that topic and just lost it. ===> I haven't had sex since the Obama administration"
1061 | Sex & Sexuality

Lmfao.
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I mean its not like this review, even without the social commentary would change any of your minds. So this isnt really a big deal, though I will say this authors review was a bit performative, especially with as a white presenting author

LordFarquad1312 posted...

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

Remember when people did think they gave a fuck about it, though?

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Imagine being dense enough to buy these garbage launch systems with no library.

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They both have huge libraries

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eston posted...

They both have huge libraries

Most people don't count backwards compatibility on that though.
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Gwynevere posted...

That is interesting

TC: *uses shitty journalism style cherry picking*
Also TC: "God damn guys aren't gaming journalists just the worst"

So putting irrelevant bullshit in a review is not bad writing if there it there are more paragraphs that are relevant? I guess the next movie review I read can have 5 paragraphs about the author's new puppy as long as there are 6+ paragraphs about the content of the movie.

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BakonBitz posted...

Most people don't count backwards compatibility on that though.

It's what separates this gen from every other generation of consoles. They both fit into existing ecosystems instead of creating new ones, similar to how upgrading to a new PC allows you to run all your games at higher settings while also allowing you to run upcoming games your old PC wouldn't have been able to

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Actually my wife and I were talking about this yesterday and thought of a really good point about this rant, and why it's rubbish.

Across the world, over the last year, there's game devs and other studio employees who have been busting their asses off to get these new consoles out. They've worked through the pandemic, twice as hard, because they want these systems to be out in time for Christmas. Business aside, a lot of these developers are human beings who like seeing their hard work make people smile, and that probably goes double in a year like this.

Writing off new consoles as a form of privilege is insanely disrespectful to every person in the game industry who worked so hard to get these things out on time. People want and deserve a sense of normalcy, so telling them to check their privilege for doing so is fucking disgusting.

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>PS5 looks great!
>Xbox is fun!

>Billions of people are dying slow and painful deaths all across the world while our fascist leaders continue to do nothing but delegate with soulless capitalistic corporations to crush the exhausted working class down for their neverending financial gains. Fuck you, you privileged cis-PS5 male colonist!

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Can someone name a GOOD writer at Kotaku?
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