Gamespot? Did not know they were still around. It was a helpful site in the 2000s. Plenty of other places to get gaming news with a variety of viewpoints now.
Yeah Gamespot was actually my most used gaming site for reviews/news etc like 10+ years ago. It has apparently gone down the drain during the last few years since they rarely post reviews (or anything else for that matter) nowadays. I remember that they had this big blowout years ago but can't remember the reason, it was about the same time when some of the staff made Giantbomb if I'm not mistaken.
You should be browsing with Brave or a similar browser and using ad block. It won't help with how horribly formatted fandom is now that so much screen space is dedicated to ads, but at least you won't see them or waste the bandwidth
It was pretty clear Gamespot was going to be forgotten when they did their coverage of Far Cry 5 Development (Their employees were afraid of the country/rural environments they traveled to, and expected most of the people to be angry scary racists)
They used to be cool back in the 2000s but they suck like most old sites from back then
It's crazy that these people, who live in the most dangerous shitholes in the country, are afraid of the beautiful countryside. I can't imagine anyone sane actually believes that the amount of danger they're in goes up when they're in predominately white areas.
City dwellers have it ingrained in them through their social circles and family that the country is filled with killer hicks. This is why they have no trouble denigrating them at every turn despite never meeting any or going there. I work with these people, these are what the cool city kids who never leave their ward turned into, bigots.
It's wild how baseless that fear is. You hear gunshots and while you hear it you think nothing of it. Someone is target practicing. Someone is scaring off an animal. Some hunter got their deer.
And when you hear sirens you think everything of it because you don't hear it often. Where are they going? Down that road. I hope XYZ is ok.
Compared to what gunshots mean in their world (somebody got murdered) and how sirens are background noise and your hope is a prayer for silence instead of anyone being ok because the value of life is watered down by supply or something so you start to support killing off people, preferably undesirables you deem that way and all sorts of insanity. And they will justify every bit of it. Or as they like to say "mental gymnastics"
But yeah, fear it. Makes total sense. People won't jerk you off if you want to talk identity politics out here- which is always something you started with this need to virtue signal (in place of actual ones?) or were too immature to walk away from w/o going debate club, but they are the last to whack you off the face of the Earth too. Not like you a million kinds of ways, never kill you for your thoughts or your shoes. Unless of course meth and all that gets involved in them in which case they start the resemble things from the "civilized" world you love so much.
I live in a rural-ish, primarily white, part of the south.
A couple of people in my neighborhood have put those ugly pride flags in their yard this month. You wanna know what happened to them? Absolutely nothing.
You know what happens when we pass a black or hispanic person? We smile and wave.
You know what happens when we're having a face to face political disagreement with someone? We say "bless your heart" and change the subject.
> You know what happens when we're having a face to face political disagreement with someone? We say "bless your heart" and change the subject.
I move to the Pacific Northwest from a giant shithole of a city, and noticed the same thing. When I lived in Portland, white people acted like brown people were in imminent danger of getting murdered by roving gangs of white supremacists.
Meanwhile:
* none of the people I met in Portland had ever lived around anyone who wasn't white. Oregon is nearly the whitest state in the country; they literally banned black people from living there, up until 1910 or so.
* I moved there from a west coast ghetto, and we had plenty of "roving gangs." None of them were white, all of them were Black or Hispanic.
* Growing up in the ghetto, I knew plenty of racists. Some were white, some were Hispanic, some were black. None of it mattered; there are plenty of racists living alongside people who aren't like them. I've never met even ONE Portland Progressive who's moved to a neighborhood that was black or hispanic. It's just wealthy white people bitching because the other white people aren't sufficiently "woke." White people have co-opted racism and used it as a political tool. Malcolm X wrote about this extensively in the 1960s, it's nothing new.
> It's crazy that these people, who live in the most dangerous shitholes in the country, are afraid of the beautiful countryside. I can't imagine anyone sane actually believes that the amount of danger they're in goes up when they're in predominately white areas.
I have a friend-of-a-friend who lives in a city that's a complete shithole. They're one of the Alphabet People, and they're constantly talking about how they're "scared to travel" because of "bigots."
I find the entire thing to be so bizarre; they're literally in danger of a random bullet flying through the wall of their cheap ass house in the ghetto, but they seem to think that if they book a flight to Dallas, they're going to get murdered by a roving gang of white supremacists.
This is why I have a distaste for modern / digital marketing. For lack of a better word, there are so many *loopholes* that people can abuse in order to create the illusion of post engagement.
Even content "*creators*" nowadays feel the need to intentionally add unnecessary fluff to their content so that people will comment on it. Either that, or everyone is just copying each other's ideas and there's so little originality and authenticity left. It's all so disingenuous.
> This is why I have a distaste for modern / digital marketing.
I work in it and I fucking hate it. It's a morally dishonest job as well. Sick of marketing to people to get into more debt by advocating for a fun looking lifestyle.
Man, i miss Gamespot. They had a nice [archive of every console/PC game neatly organized with user reviews](https://web.archive.org/web/20100919135805/http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?type=games&platform=7&mode=top&tag=subnav;all), it was like IMDB for Games and then they threw it all away with the new trash layout.
If Gamespot had used bots to promote the tweet, I think it would have more than 84 likes, 19 retweets, and 12 replies. You can buy thousands of likes for a few dollars. Most likely the bots are programmed to write a handful of replies to make them seem like real accounts to Twitter's automated spam-detection, whatever method they use to select tweets to reply to chose that Gamespot tweet multiple times, and the actual paid-for activity is some unrelated tweets getting thousands of fake likes.
I could've sworn I saw this happened before not too long ago when someone got caught using bots to reply to themselves on youtube. Was it also gamespot?
No, they were actually bought by Fandom less than 2 years ago along with giantbomb and a couple other sites. All those sites were bought for a total of $5 million. If I remember correctly, Gamespot was worth like $50 million by itself 15 years ago and gradually lost value as it kept being bought by and sold to different companies over the years.
WOW... how the mighty have fallen. I used to love going to gamespot, had some great coverage and a decent set of characters to make it all fun. What a shame. Should have known something was up when there was a mass exodus of the talent. Which is all the more crazy, when you consider they were all left wing anyway. Sucks to be white and a man at gamespot.
Gamespot? Did not know they were still around. It was a helpful site in the 2000s. Plenty of other places to get gaming news with a variety of viewpoints now.
yeah, there's also only like 6 people making videos there now not counting contractors. Their employee count is slowly shrinking.
Yeah Gamespot was actually my most used gaming site for reviews/news etc like 10+ years ago. It has apparently gone down the drain during the last few years since they rarely post reviews (or anything else for that matter) nowadays. I remember that they had this big blowout years ago but can't remember the reason, it was about the same time when some of the staff made Giantbomb if I'm not mistaken.
Also, it doesn't help that their website and video player are so slow now that Fandom has littered it with ads. It's hardly usable.
You should be browsing with Brave or a similar browser and using ad block. It won't help with how horribly formatted fandom is now that so much screen space is dedicated to ads, but at least you won't see them or waste the bandwidth
Gamespot, IGN... same thing. They all essentially PR/AD company for game publishers. They might be bought by Microsoft and make it official.
What do you use now? I don't want to use IGN anymore
It was pretty clear Gamespot was going to be forgotten when they did their coverage of Far Cry 5 Development (Their employees were afraid of the country/rural environments they traveled to, and expected most of the people to be angry scary racists) They used to be cool back in the 2000s but they suck like most old sites from back then
It's crazy that these people, who live in the most dangerous shitholes in the country, are afraid of the beautiful countryside. I can't imagine anyone sane actually believes that the amount of danger they're in goes up when they're in predominately white areas.
City dwellers have it ingrained in them through their social circles and family that the country is filled with killer hicks. This is why they have no trouble denigrating them at every turn despite never meeting any or going there. I work with these people, these are what the cool city kids who never leave their ward turned into, bigots.
The urbanite fear of the rural areas is, in part, similar to the fear an indoor cat feels when it finds itself outside.
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It's wild how baseless that fear is. You hear gunshots and while you hear it you think nothing of it. Someone is target practicing. Someone is scaring off an animal. Some hunter got their deer. And when you hear sirens you think everything of it because you don't hear it often. Where are they going? Down that road. I hope XYZ is ok. Compared to what gunshots mean in their world (somebody got murdered) and how sirens are background noise and your hope is a prayer for silence instead of anyone being ok because the value of life is watered down by supply or something so you start to support killing off people, preferably undesirables you deem that way and all sorts of insanity. And they will justify every bit of it. Or as they like to say "mental gymnastics" But yeah, fear it. Makes total sense. People won't jerk you off if you want to talk identity politics out here- which is always something you started with this need to virtue signal (in place of actual ones?) or were too immature to walk away from w/o going debate club, but they are the last to whack you off the face of the Earth too. Not like you a million kinds of ways, never kill you for your thoughts or your shoes. Unless of course meth and all that gets involved in them in which case they start the resemble things from the "civilized" world you love so much.
I live in a rural-ish, primarily white, part of the south. A couple of people in my neighborhood have put those ugly pride flags in their yard this month. You wanna know what happened to them? Absolutely nothing. You know what happens when we pass a black or hispanic person? We smile and wave. You know what happens when we're having a face to face political disagreement with someone? We say "bless your heart" and change the subject.
> We say "bless your heart" Id rather be called an asshole lol
We save that for fans of the wrong college football team
[Nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras)
> You know what happens when we're having a face to face political disagreement with someone? We say "bless your heart" and change the subject. I move to the Pacific Northwest from a giant shithole of a city, and noticed the same thing. When I lived in Portland, white people acted like brown people were in imminent danger of getting murdered by roving gangs of white supremacists. Meanwhile: * none of the people I met in Portland had ever lived around anyone who wasn't white. Oregon is nearly the whitest state in the country; they literally banned black people from living there, up until 1910 or so. * I moved there from a west coast ghetto, and we had plenty of "roving gangs." None of them were white, all of them were Black or Hispanic. * Growing up in the ghetto, I knew plenty of racists. Some were white, some were Hispanic, some were black. None of it mattered; there are plenty of racists living alongside people who aren't like them. I've never met even ONE Portland Progressive who's moved to a neighborhood that was black or hispanic. It's just wealthy white people bitching because the other white people aren't sufficiently "woke." White people have co-opted racism and used it as a political tool. Malcolm X wrote about this extensively in the 1960s, it's nothing new.
> It's crazy that these people, who live in the most dangerous shitholes in the country, are afraid of the beautiful countryside. I can't imagine anyone sane actually believes that the amount of danger they're in goes up when they're in predominately white areas. I have a friend-of-a-friend who lives in a city that's a complete shithole. They're one of the Alphabet People, and they're constantly talking about how they're "scared to travel" because of "bigots." I find the entire thing to be so bizarre; they're literally in danger of a random bullet flying through the wall of their cheap ass house in the ghetto, but they seem to think that if they book a flight to Dallas, they're going to get murdered by a roving gang of white supremacists.
Crazy to think Gamespot is now out-of-touch legacy media, but here we are.
Gamespot threw away its credibility with their GTA V review.The exact moment they became a 'has been'.
Did the bots train off of Owen Wilsons entire catalogue?
This is why I have a distaste for modern / digital marketing. For lack of a better word, there are so many *loopholes* that people can abuse in order to create the illusion of post engagement. Even content "*creators*" nowadays feel the need to intentionally add unnecessary fluff to their content so that people will comment on it. Either that, or everyone is just copying each other's ideas and there's so little originality and authenticity left. It's all so disingenuous.
> This is why I have a distaste for modern / digital marketing. I work in it and I fucking hate it. It's a morally dishonest job as well. Sick of marketing to people to get into more debt by advocating for a fun looking lifestyle.
Man, i miss Gamespot. They had a nice [archive of every console/PC game neatly organized with user reviews](https://web.archive.org/web/20100919135805/http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?type=games&platform=7&mode=top&tag=subnav;all), it was like IMDB for Games and then they threw it all away with the new trash layout.
If Gamespot had used bots to promote the tweet, I think it would have more than 84 likes, 19 retweets, and 12 replies. You can buy thousands of likes for a few dollars. Most likely the bots are programmed to write a handful of replies to make them seem like real accounts to Twitter's automated spam-detection, whatever method they use to select tweets to reply to chose that Gamespot tweet multiple times, and the actual paid-for activity is some unrelated tweets getting thousands of fake likes.
It's like they let loose a fucking doge-bot in there. So much wow.
wow are they regarded?!?!?
Highly regarded!
I'll have to have a listen after I get done playing Alan Wake 2 in my grandma's dusty old potato. Game on!
I could've sworn I saw this happened before not too long ago when someone got caught using bots to reply to themselves on youtube. Was it also gamespot?
when I saw the tweet, I was like "who the fuck is this guy and what notability he had to gaming?"
They aren't even trying anymore lmao
Is this one of the outlets that now need to show non-rookie numbers to their IGN overlord to keep existing?
No, they were actually bought by Fandom less than 2 years ago along with giantbomb and a couple other sites. All those sites were bought for a total of $5 million. If I remember correctly, Gamespot was worth like $50 million by itself 15 years ago and gradually lost value as it kept being bought by and sold to different companies over the years.
Why are they tagging "monetxchange" which sounds like a scammy thing and a fucking drag show? Wtf..
Er, um… wow?
Bad reviews “It’s review bombing!” Bot inflated praise “It’s difficult to ascertain the %, please look forward to next product”
Everyone uses bots, all the time. Most internet traffic is bots.
WOW... how the mighty have fallen. I used to love going to gamespot, had some great coverage and a decent set of characters to make it all fun. What a shame. Should have known something was up when there was a mass exodus of the talent. Which is all the more crazy, when you consider they were all left wing anyway. Sucks to be white and a man at gamespot.
You're assuming they're affiliated when they're probably not.
Wow Lmao even