So it’s Layoff season and I just think maybe some folks should do some research into how to find other likeminded people and go non corporarion.
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I think I am done buying anything fragile from @amazon after seeing this tweet. Fuck me
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Of course this dumbass has this dumbass takes. I'm so tired of gamers being bitch babies man, like you think everyone who makes a game you don't like hates you because you're a miserable loser. "Maybe if they didn't hate gamers" shut the fuck up, goddamn.
I wish every company did hate you guys so you'd go away. Just completely incapable of having a good read on anything
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Peak gaming experience delivered to you by Insomniac Games for the low price of $70
Marvel's Wolverine 💀
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Rolls up sleeves let's do this. Inflation for each item:
Movie ticket should be $10.50
Popcorn $2.65
Soda $2.10
Hot Dog $3.68
Candy $1.58
Federal Minimum Wage? Was $1.25 and adjusted for inflation should be $13.13.
But it's $7.25, it's lost half it's value. Every worker has to work 2x as many hours to earn the same buying power AND then on top of it, costs of goods have outpaced inflation.
Had to work 12 minutes to buy popcorn in 1966.
Now we work over an hour to buy the same. Over 7x longer.
If any Zelda fans are reading this. Sorry but I can’t just glaze the 3rd remake of LoZ:OoT. I don’t hate anything about it aside from it existing.
Well, & the price & that scalpers are going to ruin the 40th anniversary.
here is my issue:
N64
GC
3DS
NS2
🥱 lazy
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The issue is that we’ve spent nearly twenty years building a culture that validates and encourages an appetite for pandering soulless nostalgia unburdened by perspective and authorship.
And then invented a planet-killing plagiarism machine tailor-made to feed that appetite.
Hyperbolic take? Yes
Is this dead ass what a lot of folks sound like about the upcoming film they have not seen yet? 💯
I;m sure people disagree, but not ones who are not rabid fanboys. I am telling you right now, my non gamer friends feel this way about the RE anger mob.
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We do not score our reviews at Polygon. You also only have six reviews from us listed in the last two years. Your entire site (and profile picture) is AI-coded slop.
This is absolutely dreadful lmao
Hey folks,
I'm launching a website today: videogamescritic.com
It started as a little database I built for myself. I use Metacritic and OpenCritic a lot and they're clearly useful, but to me as a designer the user experience always felt a bit lacking.
Then the thing kept growing, and at some point I realized it had become genuinely useful for any gamer, not just me. So here it is, for everyone.
My main problem with the existing aggregators: Their scores tell you how the press felt about a game, not how players did.
That made sense 20 years ago. I cared a lot what GameSpot gave a game back then. But today we can actually measure how players felt, and to me that will always matter more than how the press did. On videogamescritic.com, players hold at least two-thirds of every score, by rule. Press still counts, it just can't outvote the people who bought the game.
The other big problem: Those sites rate a game once, at launch, and then never really touch it again.
But that's not how games work anymore. A game can launch rough and get patched shortly after, but on Metacritic and OpenCritic it carries that scarlet letter forever.
No Man's Sky is the obvious example: Famously rocky launch, and Hello Games has spent the years since relentlessly improving it. Its Metacritic score has never moved. On videogamescritic.com it launched at 50 and sits at 82 today, because scores here are LIVE: launch-era reviews fade out over time, and reviews written after a significant patch count the most. When player sentiment changes, the number changes. Simple.
And since press does still count, I ended up reviewing the reviewers too. Every outlet and creator gets a trust score based on one question: When they reviewed a game, did players end up agreeing? You can see who consistently calls games the way players see them, and who doesn't. Again, simple and fair.
And everything is transparent. Every game page shows exactly how its score was computed, and the full methodology is public. No editorial opinion, no magic number.
Anyway, I hope you get a kick out of it! Even just as a way to see the best games on each platform, find something you missed, or browse a site that isn't wallpapered in ads, I think it's already pretty useful.
Enjoy!👍❤️
