Are there legitimate points here? Sure. Are there unfortunate facts about the riddled record of the NYPD? Sure. But the title still says “That's Why Peter Parker Must Step Aside” And so is your whole thesis utterly stupid? Yeah, Phil, it is. And I'm not even going to bother getting into why.
I still want to buy a DualSense Edge, since GuiliKit said they'd make hall effect stick modules for it, but as far as I'm aware, that still hasn't materialised, so I still haven't bought one.
For me as someone who thinks The Next Generation is the best TV show of all time, every movie since 2009 has been utterly unrecognisable as Star Trek to me. Like, not even remotely the same thing. I have long since accepted that Star Trek is dead.
These are cold Hollywood slop, from the cold Hollywood slop vat, with literally nothing from of the original series, or TNG, or Voyager, or DS9, that I enjoyed.
And as someone with a passing interest in Star Wars, that's long since dead too, and every time a new project comes out, promising to do it right this time while knowing full well they have no intention of doing so, to me it feels like nothing but an overt display of deep disrespect. Like someone who can't stop playing with the corpse of a relative.
Heck after all these decades of complete bulls***, even the announcement of each new project feels like a middle finger.
@MigGui: . “You obviously can. You can cherry pick.” Unless you’re focusing on the same issue over and over again, no you can’t. And if you did, it would be extremely obvious. You can’t pick cherries that aren’t there. And what you certainly can’t do is turn a finished game into a video review with almost 15 straight minutes of bugs on display, barely a week from release. And that’s not even to mention the massive performance issues that affected every copy of the game upon release. Here’s just one such example of such a video, out of dozens: “DEATHLOOP: Review — Gaming Journalist Mode ACTIVATED!” - Uploaded by YouTuber, Under The Mayo, an independent reviewer respected enough on the platform to have his feedback directly implemented into many games over the last few years, including massive AAA titles like Doom Eternal via direct, real-time access to the developer's ear, despite only 100K subscribers. And he’s further left than me, in case you were wondering which list to put him on or label to prematurely slap on him. And keep in mind when watching his review (which I’m sure you won’t) that crap performance may be system-specific, but brain-dead NPC AI, is not. And you can’t “fake” it. And what are you suggesting anyway? That all these reviewers all had some conspiracy going to make Deathloop look as bad as possible? All just racist, were they? So a “racist” agenda is totally reasonable, but a “woke” agenda is not, huh? When you know as well as I do that 21st-century racism only hurts companies’ bottom lines, while woke-ism lifts them. Didn't spend much time thinking that one through, did we?
Let’s look at my evidence that GameSpot’s (and others’) perfect score for Deathloop was ideologically motivated:
1. The companies with the most to lose, match gamers’ opinions the least. Who are the biggest names in games journalism? If you had to quickly spit out a few names, there’s GameSpot, IGN, EuroGamer, and Polygon. GameSpot gave the game a perfect score. IGN gave the game a perfect score. EuroGamer gave the game a perfect score. And Polygon doesn’t give scores, but wrote, “Deathloop is one of the most incredible games I’ve ever played. It’s strange and wondrous, and above all, it treats me with respect.” i.e. It’s hard to tell if Deathloop is their video game or their lover. That’s less a review and more an orgasm splattered onto a webpage. I don’t think I read a single negative word in any of those reviews.
I wanted to know how many independent user reviews I’d have to read before I found a single one that reads anything like that, so I watched ~20 independent Deathloop reviews on YouTube and read ~500 Steam reviews before I gave up. So far not a single one reads anything like any of the top game websites’ reviews.
So not only aren’t any of the biggest sites anywhere close to the average gamer’s opinion, but it’s almost impossible to find a single gamer that agrees with them. Statistically speaking, there’s only two ways you end up with such a conspicuous anomaly: a) You top-down make sure that your reviewers give certain games higher scores, either via carrot, or stick. (And they’ve fired reviewers in the past for giving the “wrong” score; that's on their record.) b) You only hire reviewers that you’ve vetted to ensure they already genuinely hold the same agenda that you want to come through in your reviews. This is more likely, since it’s almost impossible to prove.
Of course, if you’ve another explanation for the anomaly let’s hear it, because “random chance” doesn’t cut it.
Just a few months ago, btw, GameSpot gave Alan Wake 2 a perfect score too. Not only did they give it a perfect score, but they literally called it “A Miracle”. Yes, really.
If you can find me a single, individually-run, dedicated YouTube review channel, literally just one, out of literally thousands, that gave Alan Wake 2 a 10/10, I’ll go watch it immediately. Alan Wake 2 has a black female protagonist, btw. I’m sure that’s not relevant at all. Where are all the games with straight white male protagonists that GameSpot rates so much higher than gamers? There's like 10x more games in that category, so there should be dozens... *spoiler*: There aren't.
2. GameSpot posts hit pieces on its political enemies. As I said before, as recently as last year, GameSpot posted propaganda and political hit pieces front and center on its homepage. They also slandered and lied about J.K. Rowling on literally every Harry Potter-adjacent article for over a year. Then they censored and deleted any comment anywhere on the website that referenced the article, under the crime of “irrelevant posting” because they weren’t related to gaming, while literally doing that exact thing themselves by writing the hit piece in the first place. This is more than evidence of GameSpot’s political bias; it’s proof.
Now let’s look at how your counter-claims for why I’m wrong:
1. “Deathloop’s Steam score only improved 3% from release to now.” This is your strongest/only argument, and it’s true, but at best what this proves is that people were forgiving of the bugs (which we've already proven existed) at launch (a tradition for Bethesda titles), and at worst it only proves that Deathloop was never a 10/10 game, or anywhere close to it, and that the largest review sites were miles off public opinion... for some reason...
2. “Yeah well you’re just a dirty conservative.” I’m literally not a conservative. I've never been. If you had to place me on the political spectrum I’d be slightly left of center. You just make up whatever you like. Not concerned with facts at all.
3. “You just don’t like Deathloop because the protagonist is black.” i.e. You're a racist. I never once said I don’t like Deathloop. I own Deathloop. I like Deathloop. It’s a solid 7 - 7.5/10 game, in line the average Steam review. Again, a little lying to get what you want doesn't bother you in the least.
4. “You just hate that people don't tolerate bigory.” i.e. You're a bigot. I was writing a comment about a video game review and the state of modern journalism. You’re the one who made it personal, then started attacking my character based on my opinions of a GameSpot review. So while I’ve done nothing that meets the standard of a bigot, you’re the dictionary definition of one, neatly and objectively.
In summation, a pretty sorry little collection of lies and bigotry, with a half-legitimate point as a cherry on top of the turd, whereas I've clearly proven, that you are the one who hides from the data, fills in the gaps with whatever lie fits your agenda, and resorts to character assassination for lack of substantive arguments.
I'm not wasting any more time on selectively blind liars who're too scared to look at the facts. That will be all. Dismissed.
@MigGui: “My point is that you're making up that the game was absolutely infested with bugs when it was praised by critics and users alike”
You're simply wrong, and that's objective fact.
All you have to do is bring up the the YouTube reviews from the small, independent reviews on YouTube around the time of launch, and look at them. Use your eyes, andlook.
Don't look at the established companies, who have all become terrified of being labelled bigoted or facist in the last decade, and have pathetically fallen in line parroting every woke mob talking point. (This very site posted literal propaganda hit pieces on its policitcal enemies as recently as last year.)
Don't look at the reviews and user scores from months/years after the developers' morally-obligatory but financially-unnecessary apology. Look at the small, independent reviewers, with nothing much to lose, and you will see that you are aboslutely, categorically wrong. And if you don't, the proof will continue to sit there in the public domain, indefinitely being ignored by you nonetheless.
You can edit a video review to make a buggy game look like a polished one. But you can't edit a polished game to look like a buggy one.
As long as you're ignoring the all the relevant and available evidence, there's no point in my talking to you.
@MigGui: I never said anything like “everyone hated the game”.
The biggest companies, including GameSpot, posted their review before any fixes, and didn't mention a single word on bugs, despite the game being absolutely infested with them. That's what I said.
Is there anything else you'd like to throw in while you're here? Perhaps a quote of me saying the Deathloop devs are worse than Hitler? I mean it's total BS but that doesn't seem to concern you.
While a lot for a TV, that's an astounding price cut compared to similar products from just a few years ago. For example Samsung's “The Wall” has 50% more screen, but costs 1,500% more dollars.
Even at this size (i.e. not 146 inches) if you dedicated an entire room to it, you could probably sell tickets just to spend time with it.
@mrbojangles25 This is the way I look at it: Capitalism is a tool. And like many of the most useful tools, it's dangerous. If you use it carefully, vigilantly, to complement existing instructions/ideals, you can build some incredible things, and everyone can benefit. In that respect it beats out many of its alternatives automatically, because it calls to people to be more than they are, and sets them on a path.
But if you use it as a substitute for a religion (as many people do), if you blindly raise it to that level and start to worship it, then it's going to take you to some very dark places. And that's because in essence, it accrues power for the corporation. That's not all it does, by a long shot, but that's all it's designed to do. Now in the short term, that can be extremely good for the consumer too, but that consumer benefit is nothing more than a convenient side effect. i.e. It's in the coporations best interests for you to benefit, for now.
If you let capitalistic principles play out long enough, unconstrained, capitalism will first oppress the workers, then discard them, then oppress the general population, then discard them, then finally oppress its own consumers, then discard them, and the end game, hundreds of mergers and acquisitions later, is a single, all-encompassing coporate entity, with complete control, indistinguishable from a totalitarian government.
Capitalism, like its alternatives, (and in some sense, like everything, in my opinion) is ultimately no better than the principles which constrain it, and those principles are informed by law, and the law is informed by religion, and religion is informed —as per its dictionary definition— by God.
So when talking about capitalism, or more specifically about Jeff Bezos being an awful person to his workers yet again, I think it's important to discuss the topic at the right level, and with the right paradigm in mind. Not that you weren't. Just my two cents.
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