time_lord

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Not joking. It absolutely was about ethics, at first. The initial kickoff was the boyfriend accusing the girl (Zoë Quinn?) of sleeping with someone else for a better review. That's ethics in a nutshell. I don't think that anyone really cared about the game, or who was involved, but rather that the state of the industry was such that you could accuse a well known game reviewer of being unethical, and it was more believable than not.

The fact is, reviewers had already sold their souls and a AAA game get anything less than a 90%. Had reviewers had better ethics, probably no one would have believed the boyfriend, and the entire story would have been a nothing-burger.

Of course it went off the rails after that, the fact that the boyfriend was lying didn't help, but for a brief moment it looked like there might actually be game news/review industry reform. It was a glorious 24 or so hours.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (6 children)

There's a post on reddit about some dude who gave his phone to a friend (wiped it, new iCloud, everything), and the undeleted photos are from when OP owned the phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You can have a difference of opinions with regard to sexual and gender identities, and not be rude about it. This is just rude though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You weren't around for the 2016 presidential elections.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

We tried this already - getting ethics in game journalism.

It didn't work so well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

But it's not like insurance is going to help. If you buy a gun that gets used in a shooting, it's still used in a shooting. The only difference is that someone might get money, but it doesn't actually solve any problem.

What it does do is place a regressive tax on gun ownership.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know what else lasts 10 years? Quality cotton t-shirts.