If this is true, then that makes Kotaku the Westboro Baptist Church of video games.
i wonder what these people will end up like when they realise that they spent their prime literally writing shit because they know they are popular for being shit. like, when they get out of the honeymoon period and notice they have actually wasted lots of their life and not improved at all in their craft. it will be like a super mid-life crisis
Wasn't video games as a religion a big plot point in Ctrl-Alt-Del before Buckley hard reset the universe?
Our Gaben, who art in Bellevue, rotund be thy shape.
Thy Half-Life (never) come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Valve.
Give us this day our daily vidya. And forgive us our pirating, as we forgive those who pirate alongside us.
May VAC lead us not into temptation but deliver us from hacking.
For thine kingdom is Valve, The Steam, and the vidya
Forever and ever
Gaben.
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Still don't understand why people keep visiting Kotaku.
saw kotaku in the title
rolled eyes
[QUOTE=KigJow;41697658]Still don't understand why people keep visiting Kotaku.[/QUOTE]
social justicars tend to love that place
[QUOTE=sweeps;41696587][URL="http://kotaku.com/5964584/how-diablo-iii-told-me-my-marriage-was-over"]How Diablo III Told Me My Marriage Was Over[/URL]
go figure[/QUOTE]
youve got to be shitting me
theres no way this is real
no fucking way
[QUOTE=CheeseMan;41697375]i wonder what these people will end up like when they realise that they spent their prime literally writing shit because they know they are popular for being shit. like, when they get out of the honeymoon period and notice they have actually wasted lots of their life and not improved at all in their craft. it will be like a super mid-life crisis[/QUOTE]
I imagine they'll be fairly happy for having been paid to do something they loved, even if it was mediocre.
Or perhaps, you know, they could grow as writers. Weird how that works, isn't it?
[QUOTE=Simski;41696485][img]http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l189/Simski_2006/gaben_zpsed5130f9.png[/img][/QUOTE]All hail thine lord and savior...GABEN!
[QUOTE=SystemGS;41698180]youve got to be shitting me
theres no way this is real
no fucking way[/QUOTE]
welcome to kotaku
[QUOTE=Crazy Ivan;41698411]I imagine they'll be fairly happy for having been paid to do something they loved, even if it was mediocre.
Or perhaps, you know, they could grow as writers. Weird how that works, isn't it?[/QUOTE]
once you write articles such as that theres no improvement only downfall
[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHjvUjlF1kE"][video=youtube;SHjvUjlF1kE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHjvUjlF1kE[/video][/URL]
v thanks v
[QUOTE=Thlis;41699164][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHjvUjlF1kE[/media]
Media tags are awful.[/QUOTE]
You can't use https. Just get rid of the "s".
And yeah, just don't give Kotaku any more views than they already get, they're nauseatingly bad. They get one article in maybe 200 that is actually decent.
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[highlight]Onward, warriors of the Monolith. Avenge your fallen brothers. Blessed, as they are in their eternal union with the Monolith. Bring death to those who spurn the holy power of the Monolith.[/highlight]
[QUOTE=sweeps;41696587][URL="http://kotaku.com/5964584/how-diablo-iii-told-me-my-marriage-was-over"]How Diablo III Told Me My Marriage Was Over[/URL]
go figure[/QUOTE]
"It wasn't long into that first meeting when I dug into my purse. I pulled out my Nintendo DS, and just kind of fell into it for a couple of minutes before closing it and going back to him"
its like a start to a greentext story
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;41697021]I miss manuals that actually have more than health and safety information and the controls layout in them[/QUOTE]
It's comforting to go for the instruction booklet and get a good explanation of the controls or some details that weren't adequately explained in-game or I missed at some point when so many don't do even that anymore.
fuck kotaku
[QUOTE=dass;41697120]I still remember those that came in the PS1 games that literaly filled the whole game box and made it heavy on its own. CB3: warped used to have one of those. Hell, Gran Turismo 2 comes with 2 manuals, one for the actual game, and another as a guide for how to play the game, like accel/decell, cornering, how certain cars handle like mid engined or 4WD, and other stuff. It even makes the box bloat a little.
But ofc, there are small manuals that still give a lot of insight about the game world, like MGS1's manual that has info about all the characters, enemies, types of enemies, places, weapons, how-to's, stories from the prequels, and even a small poster between the pages.
Now, all you get is what could very well be a torn page of a book, with a cd key and a how-to install that nobody needs anymore. Curiously, the first game that gave me that was HL2. Was kind of... sad, to get just that for a "manual".[/QUOTE]
We stopped using manuals like that because firstly we can now tell you all the shit about the world, the characters and the story in the game, which leads to the second big reason; it's a waste of paper and money to print them.
Back when we got those, it was hard to give the player exposition on the world around them without it taking up valuable space on the tiny ass storage media we used, or without overwhelming the machine running it. We don't need that now, we can tell players everything in game.
Sometimes I wonder how many people shit on Kotaku and then immediately go read their RSS feed of Lifehacker or Consumerist
That's not to say they're a pinnacle of excellent writing or anything (most of their news is reported a day after it happens and this "article" is completely without substance) but their more well-thought-out editorials get gamers so mad and it's great because it means we're seeing gaming becoming more and more of a mainstream thing and some people just can't handle it
[QUOTE=Zeke129;41701086]Sometimes I wonder how many people shit on Kotaku and then immediately go read their RSS feed of Lifehacker or Consumerist
That's not to say they're a pinnacle of excellent writing or anything (most of their news is reported a day after it happens and this "article" is completely without substance) but their more well-thought-out editorials get gamers so mad and it's great because it means we're seeing gaming becoming more and more of a mainstream thing and some people just can't handle it[/QUOTE]
Lifehacker's pretty good. I haven't used it in forever, but I remember liking it around a year ago. I've heard it's gotten worse and more sucked into the Kotaku-style journalism.
I've seen a few good Kotaku editorials, but a lot of them seem to exist to incite gamer rage for views and ad revenue. Not a big fan of that part.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;41701086]Sometimes I wonder how many people shit on Kotaku and then immediately go read their RSS feed of Lifehacker or Consumerist
That's not to say they're a pinnacle of excellent writing or anything (most of their news is reported a day after it happens and this "article" is completely without substance) but their more well-thought-out editorials get gamers so mad and it's great because it means we're seeing gaming becoming more and more of a mainstream thing and some people just can't handle it[/QUOTE]
no, kotaku is just the epitome of shit
nowhere else can you get an article on how someone fucked someone on a sonic bed
nowhere else do you get this
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiuX6Pp_AwQ[/media]
Did anyone watch the video in the article? This guy is an idiot... if is trying to say that gaming is, in a way, a religion, he's plain retarded. If he is trying to say that gaming is going to act as the next [I]form[/I] of religion, he is really just describing a form of art and storytelling (media is the new god afterall) and seems to have completely missed the point.
[QUOTE=FlakAttack;41701278]Did anyone watch the video in the article? This guy is an idiot... if is trying to say that gaming is, in a way, a religion, he's plain retarded. If he is trying to say that gaming is going to act as the next [I]form[/I] of religion, he is really just describing a form of art and storytelling (media is the new god afterall) and seems to have completely missed the point.[/QUOTE]
It's a moot comparison. Radio, television, film, none of those were "new religions" even though they revolutionized art and storytelling.
I can see what he was trying to say but the comparison makes about as much sense as "are chihuahuas gonna be the new mastiffs?" one came before the other and they both took shits with similar consistencies, so what?
Fucking, I hope not. Because now you'll have annoying kids screaming religious persecution as their easy out when anyone contradicts their opinion that Master Cheif IS TO the best space marine ever and can kick the shit out of Samus with a babytoy Wii U strapped to each hand.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;41701086]Sometimes I wonder how many people shit on Kotaku and then immediately go read their RSS feed of Lifehacker or Consumerist
That's not to say they're a pinnacle of excellent writing or anything (most of their news is reported a day after it happens and this "article" is completely without substance) but their more well-thought-out editorials get gamers so mad and it's great because it means we're seeing gaming becoming more and more of a mainstream thing and some people just can't handle it[/QUOTE]
They write retarded shit only to get attention and clicks. There is absolutely no deeper meaning behind any of it.
