Fucking Kotaku

[BrainHurtBoy...2]

Um... wow. The editors just went on an un-starring rampage, just because some users made comments they didn't find funny. What is this shit?

http://kotaku.com/comment/35797165/

[slatz_grobnik]

Um... wow. The editors just went on an un-starring rampage, just because some users made comments they didn't find funny. What is this shit?

http://kotaku.com/comment/35797165/

 

If an un-starring rampage is two people who made dick comments at the beginning, then our skin is just as thin as we accuse theirs of being.

 

EDIT: Not, mind you, that I find the comment worth the attention to begin with.

Edited January 20, 2011 by slatz_grobnik

[Mr. GOH!]

Um... wow. The editors just went on an un-starring rampage, just because some users made comments they didn't find funny. What is this shit?

http://kotaku.com/comment/35797165/

 

If an un-starring rampage is two people who made dick comments at the beginning, then our skin is just as thin as we accuse theirs of being.

 

EDIT: Not, mind you, that I find the comment worth the attention to begin with.

 

I agree 100%.

 

I also dislike this trend of highlighting long and inane comments on the front page. Few are worthwhile and most are just babble.

[SomTervo]

I'm really starting to hate BAshcraft's obsession and abundance of posts about food. Japanese food. That have NOTHING to do with games, and I'm not interested in. Granted, some of them are interesting, the editors can post about whatever they want, and I'd like to try a lot of that food- but he's just doing it so much now that I'm really starting to hate on it.

 

On that un-starring rampage: I just looked and everyone who I recall being starred seems to have their stars in that thread? Maybe they re-starred them all after complaints?

[deanb]

http://gamejournos.com/post/2840482015/an-open-letter-to-kotaku

[Cyber Rat]

Eh, Kotaku will just say "Haters gonna hate."

[Vargras]

lol. Oh man, that Mass Effect 2 debate article is so depressing.

 

Let me summarize it: A bunch of people play Mass Effect and are disappointed when Mass Effect 2 doesn't live up to their lofty expectations.

 

And Owen Good doesn't like Mass Effect 2. What a shocker.

[BrainHurtBoy...2]

To me, the worst part of Kotaku is when someone comes up with a very well-articulated, non-provocative complaint against the site, and they respond with a clever, but useless response.

[Mal]

To me, the worst part of Kotaku is when someone comes up with a very well-articulated, non-provocative complaint against the site, and they respond with a clever, but useless response.

Then a ban. ;D

[Enervation]

http://kotaku.com/5739461/china-is-totally-freaking-out-japan

 

:angry:

 

This article is so... pointless. It is essentially a current events piece with "but the gaming industry is indifferent" tacked to the end of it. It may as well have been an article about the price of eggs at the grocery store.

 

But the thing is, I like eggs.

 

Well, I like throwing them at people. That's how I troll in real life!

[Cyber Rat]

http://kotaku.com/5741570/why-the-playstation-2s-most-beautiful-game-didnt-do-better

 

Big gaping hole?

[Strangelove]

Last three articles: magic the gathering tactics, something about underpants, something about hostesses. One of these is acceptable, the others are not.

if your artticles tend to only get less than 10 comments for a prolonged period of time consistently, you really should get fired.

Fucking weaboo.

[King Jimmeh]

I'm not usually one to complain, but today has had some pretty poor stories posted so far.

[Vargras]

I'm not usually one to complain, but today has had some pretty poor stories posted so far.

 

 

Yep.

 

http://kotaku.com/5741709/gaming-skills-may-have-saved-this-mans-life

 

"HE SAID VIDEO GAMES, QUICK! POST IT! IT'S RELEVANT!"

[Pirandello]

I noticed there was a pretty large increase of speakup-related topics.

 

Speakup has had a surge in people trying to throw in their own thought-provoking opinions with long walls of text in order to make front page.

 

*sigh*

 

And the editors actually use them. What, are they running out of material or something? Or can they not really be bothered themselves to actually post something thought-provoking besides their usual trash articles?

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Most of those walls of texts, even the ones that end up on the front page, aren't very thought provoking though. They're typically long and convoluted.

[deanb]

Yeah I've noticed of late many posts are things they've just pulled from #speakup. Videos, pictures, those "speakuponkotaku" posts, and other things. If they wanted material like that I'm sure they'd be able to write a few editorial pieces similar to what Beefy wrote or others. And as Faiblesse said not many of them are that great. But tie it to a attention grabbing headline and it at least spurs on comments which = page hits for them too.

It'll be amusing to see if #spekup is taken down from the new Kotaku and it's result upon Kotakus articles.

Fluff is fine and all, but when Fluff starts to outweigh actual gaming articles then something is up.

For example most of todays posts are just #clips. Actual news content for todays front page is pretty low.

[Pirandello]

Most of those walls of texts, even the ones that end up on the front page, aren't very thought provoking though. They're typically long and convoluted.

Yeah, I can see that. Seems more like a front-page grab. Fire and forget.

[Mal]

Those wall of text also seem to follow a pretty strict format. You know what I'm talking about...

[Pirandello]

Linky

 

I think I'll just pull a quote I got off the back of a biker's jacket:

 

"Screw God, believe in yourself."

Edited January 25, 2011 by Pirandello

[Enervation]

Someone named Annalee Lewitz posted up the article talking about Evangelion 2.0.

 

Do they take guest editors or something?

[deanb]

She's an io9 (the sci-fi n fantasy/science one) writer.

[Mr. GOH!]

Someone named Annalee Lewitz posted up the article talking about Evangelion 2.0.

 

Do they take guest editors or something?

 

It's a Gawker crosspost. They do that with io9 and Giz all the time.

[Mr. GOH!]

Many apologies for posting twice in a row, but this fucking Kotaku article really steamed me. Not for the supposed content about JRPG's, but for the godawful and weird writing.

 

Take this paragraph:

 

"It's common for role-playing games to feature young characters as they are entering adulthood. Stylistic choices, such as hairstyles or even settings, are shared among many Japanese role-playing games. The shame, however, could be said about Western shooters, but that's another conversation for another time."

 

Ignoring the obvious typo ("shame" instead of "same"), it reads like a dry news article. But it's also unsourced and fucking vague as all hell. Now, you and I know what Ashcraft means and he doesn't need to tell most gamers about these common JRPG features, and so the paragraph is superfluous to the intended audience and should have been cut.

 

But wait! Maybe Ashcraft is trying to let non-gamers or other clueless folks know about some of the salient features of JRPG's. If that's the case, the paragraph still fails because it's too vague. I mean, "games about young characters entering adulthood?" I guess it's true, but that's not what annoys Westerners; it's the particular tropes attending a Japanese Bildungsroman RPG, like taking place in a high school, the whiny teen who rages about dumb shit, the magical girl who grunts playfully, etc.

 

Indeed, Ashcraft doesn't even assert that these things turn off western gamers; he just implies it with a wimpy and vague paragraph. For a site that calls itself a blog, this article is aefully short on style or editorial content. For a newsite it's awfully short on sourced explanations.

 

Fucking Kotaku

[Thursday Next]

The whole article is pointless. JRPG's are plenty popular in the West. They just aren't CoD or WoW popular. As I said in my Kotaku comments, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest all sell like hot cakes in the West. It's like saying that Haze is proof that FPS's are unpopular because the sales were low, but you're not allowed to count CoD, Battlefield or Halo as proof of FPS popularity because they are popular even when they are crap.