Then there’s everyone’s favorite Escapist Magazine. You could write a gushing review of “Time Code” as a concrete poem shaped like a moebius strip and you would still be a galaxy away from Kieron’s review of Darwinia. …the most pretentious review ever written about anything…. What is most interesting is that one of the people Robin Hunicke mentioned as, “look beyond muzzle flashes, explosions and crisp sound” is also the same person that wrote what Something Awful called That is more of what I think of when I think about journalism instead of reviews. Maybe it is because of my research interests, but I’m a lot more interested in the non-review journalism such as articles that talk about trends in gaming or gaming culture. While I like reading reviews, I read videogame reviews the same way I read film reviews: with a grain of salt. But do people really 100% trust one videogame review? Most of the comments here talk about horrible reviews, but is reviewing really journalism? Is Roger Ebert a journalist? Not to degrade reviewers. I know, I know, saying that taste is subjective is a pretty crazy idea! I’m not saying I’m some bastion of good taste. Reading these posts, however, it seems that people have very very different ideas of what “good” is. So once again, people are talking about videogame journalism and how horrible it is. Suggesting that gamers don’t know the definition of a word when the person who posted this obviously doesn’t know the definition of what it means to be a good Christian or what it means to be compassionate strikes me as quite ironic. Whomever posted it must have a taste for irony. One can only hope that this is not really Thompson and that it is just some tasteless joke by a troll. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess. Let’s pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer “buds,” knowing he was killing himself, couldn’t figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. Hey, let’s all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this “culture of death?” Of course not. You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid “gaming” really is. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.Īll of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. Your “gamer friend” will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it’s too late for that. Here is the message that is attributed to Thompson: got a copy of it before it was deleted and posted Jack Thompson’s response to the suicide. Apparently, Jack Thompson, anti-videogame lawyer and compassionate man apparently posted a message so horrible that the comment was deleted and Game Politics has decided to no longer allow anonymous comments. Game Politics has a story of a gamer who committed suicide.
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