Fucking Kotaku

[Mal]

Ashcraft sure failed in living in Japan and well, helping out the team. Then again... carry on what they are doing.

I sent to many views to Gawker already.

[deanb]

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/129

"Kotaku defends the MW3 leak"

[TheRevanchist]

Shit. I meant to record GameTrailers last night. Anyone catch it? Was it a dribble piece of marketing or was it a good piece of journalism?

[MasterDex]

You've got to be fucking kidding me!

 

Can we add Joel tot he poll above? I need to revote.

Edited August 26, 2011 by MasterDex

[Cyber Rat]

I remember reading that the biggest concern of a writer of the Times was that the future would be unbearable. The demand for transport would be so great due to increased population, that we wouldn't be able to clean the streets from the carriage horse dung.

 

And then then we got cars.

 

Also, PC gaming has the same visuals as the PS3 because consoles are holding them back, due to almost everything being multiplatform.

Edited August 26, 2011 by Cyber Rat

[deanb]

Why do Xbox games running on six-year-old hardware look nearly as good as a modern PC games?

What the fuck is he smoking/playing on? Actually don't answer that hte rest of the article spells that out*

 

It's time to buck and realize that the Apple model of hardware isn't just one way to do it—it's the way hardware has to go to move forward.

What is the "Apple model of hardware"? Make things really expensive? If it was the way to do it then surely they'd have more than 8% PC market share?

 

The Razer Blade is the first credible competitor to Apple from the PC hardware world in five years.

I'll repeat, Apple are worth jack shit in the PC space. I think everyone else has been a pretty credible competitor to apple for the past 20 or so years.

 

It actually has an innovative hardware solution

Dude needs to do research:

 

It's not the first, it won't be the last. It will suck for gaming though. Not like any gamer worth their salt will end up using a trackpad for gaming. It'll still end up with a mouse stuck in the side. (Oh and the support will probably suck, especially when it's on such an expensive product)

 

One set of hardware, one set of drivers,

Laptops already have that "advantage" and have for years. And the updates will most likely come through the component manufacturers or MS. I don't see Razer doing much with helping on the driver side.

 

 

*Also what is with the constant comparison to Apple macbooks? Mac only just got Steam support last year. It's games library is woefully small. If you want to compare it go with an Alienware.

 

Kotaku is a joke when it comes to PC coverage.

[Cyber Rat]

Kotaku is a joke when it comes to PC coverage.

 

And yet they'll still earn money on that crappy coverage.

Edited August 26, 2011 by Cyber Rat

[excel_excel]

http://kotaku.com/5834293/so-where-the-hell-is-metal-gear-rising?comment=42145120#comments

This asshole actually compared people wanting more Metal Gear games to junkies needing crack. Fucking moron.

Edited August 26, 2011 by excel_excel

[RockyRan]

You've got to be fucking kidding me!

 

Can we add Joel tot he poll above? I need to revote.

 

Uh, so why exactly did we even want him on this forum?

[MasterDex]

Aaaand he took away my star! I literally laughed out loud when I saw he did that, I'm shocked I kept it as long as I did.

 

http://kotaku.com/5834795/i-cant-believe-it-the-razer-blade-might-not-just-be-the-future-of-pc-gamingit-may-be-the-future-of-pcs?comment=42194444#comments

[RockyRan]

Aaaand he took away my star! I literally laughed out loud when I saw he did that, I'm shocked I kept it as long as I did.

 

http://kotaku.com/58...194444#comments

 

He's laughably defensive about any comment that calls him a paid shill, making it all the more obvious.

 

One good read through the comments section has reminded me why I left in the first place. A bunch of garbage articles written by egotistical monkeys, for ignorant yes-man monkeys. I have no idea why we wanted this hack to associate himself with us.

Edited August 26, 2011 by RockyRan

[FredEffinChopin]

That smug dickbag..... I'm tempted to create a nick over there just to add to the numbers of people (who should be his adoring public, in his mind) that think that he's a piece of human garbage. His presence in video game journalism is a fluke, and he's the only person who doesn't seem to realize it. When 90% of your comments are critical, it must be because everyone is an idiot but you, right Joel?

 

What a deluded and insecure man.

 

Congrats on the star loss, less chance you'll get mistaken for an asskisser over at Kotaku. Seems like everyone there toting a star has shit on the corners of their mouths nowadays.

[MasterDex]

I think the fact that he approached us at all gave us the idea that he was cut from a different cloth to the other writers, I know that's the opinion it gave me. I was looking at some of his other comments in that article and one stood out above the others: Link

 

I mean, really? The guy makes some good points and all he gets is that sort of reply from the writer? Talk about unprofessional.

 

Congrats on the star loss, less chance you'll get mistaken for an asskisser over at Kotaku. Seems like everyone there toting a star has shit on the corners of their mouths nowadays.

 

Which is one of the reasons I'm glad I lost it. It's not as if I was ever licking the ass of anyone over there, I've just been lucky. I do feel a tinge of sadness though. Now I can't promote those intelligent comments the asslickers ignore!

Edited August 26, 2011 by MasterDex

[deanb]

Thing is Joel talks of standardization, and that's what PC already has. Without becoming consoles you can't become much more standardized. You've got DirectX to make GPUs play happy, you've got drivers and APIs to make all the random parts play pretty with Windows. You've got USB so even your peripherals run through a standard port.

 

And yeah if you get a reaction like that from the editors you must have said something right.

[Mr W Phallus]

You don't get to accuse us of being paid to write what we want and be a starred commenter.

Wait, what?

 

Is it the accusation of free will that upset him, or the implication that he has a salary?

[MasterDex]

You don't get to accuse us of being paid to write what we want and be a starred commenter.

Wait, what?

 

Is it the accusation of free will that upset him, or the implication that he has a salary?

 

Nah, he picked up what I was saying correctly. I was accusing him of being paid to write up a glowing review of the machine.

[Cyber Rat]

I realize why he'd unstar you for that, but I find it quite sad that he found it appropriate to tell you how you don't deserve a star.

[FredEffinChopin]

I realize why he'd unstar you for that, but I find it quite sad that he found it appropriate to tell you how you don't deserve a star.

 

The 2nd grade teacher approach is what all the hip writers are taking nowadays, you hadn't heard?

[Cyber Rat]

I think the fact that he approached us at all gave us the idea that he was cut from a different cloth to the other writers, I know that's the opinion it gave me. I was looking at some of his other comments in that article and one stood out above the others: Link

 

Wow, that's really an irrelevant counter-argument attempted to gain merit and approval by being a witty humourous response <3 I was born in 1989 and while I did play games from the 16bit era, I was too young to know anything properly. I know about that period of gaming well enough because I actually spent 2 years later in my life playing those game exclusively. Age or whether you've been into something more than someone is irrelevant, or rather, that actual fact is irrelevant. It's what you did with that time. If he was confident enough in his own knowledge and article, he would have argued the finer points. I personally ignore rude comments directed at my work or respond to them equally rude. The person he was responding to was willing to offer backed-up arguments, at least show the same courtesy or just don't respond at all.

[MasterDex]

I realize why he'd unstar you for that, but I find it quite sad that he found it appropriate to tell you how you don't deserve a star.

 

Well, I didn't. Only asslickers deserve stars these days, at least that's how it comes across now. Anyway, enough about me. Let's get back to fucking Kotaku...I mean, complaining about fucking Kotaku.

Edited August 26, 2011 by MasterDex

[Cyber Rat]

Fucking Kotaku is hard. They're so stuck up!

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

Hilariously bad article. I admit I have a long way to go to improve my writing, but that whole thing is full of baloney. Bad bad bad.

[Hot Heart]

I admit I have a long way to go to improve my writing

 

Lies. ALL LIES!

[Mr W Phallus]

You don't get to accuse us of being paid to write what we want and be a starred commenter.

Wait, what?

 

Is it the accusation of free will that upset him, or the implication that he has a salary?

 

Nah, he picked up what I was saying correctly. I was accusing him of being paid to write up a glowing review of the machine.

Oh I know he got the message, I just find it funny that someone who writes for a living can't even express himself properly. Out of the context of your comment, his reply makes no sense. 'Being paid to write what we want' is just one of the pros of being a 'professional' blogger, what he meant was 'being paid to write what other people want'.

[MasterDex]

You don't get to accuse us of being paid to write what we want and be a starred commenter.

Wait, what?

 

Is it the accusation of free will that upset him, or the implication that he has a salary?

 

Nah, he picked up what I was saying correctly. I was accusing him of being paid to write up a glowing review of the machine.

Oh I know he got the message, I just find it funny that someone who writes for a living can't even express himself properly. Out of the context of your comment, his reply makes no sense. 'Being paid to write what we want' is just one of the pros of being a 'professional' blogger, what he meant was 'being paid to write what other people want'.

 

Ahh, I see what you're getting at now. Yeah, all that rage over being called out must have confused him.

 

Loving the comments in this article. Now everyone is making comments about how it seems like paid coverage. Seems to be a strange lack of starred commenters making the same accusations though, I wonder why.

Edited August 26, 2011 by MasterDex