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I briefly wrote articles for an oldschool PC hardware outlet (HardOCP if anyone remembers)... And I'm surprised any such sites are still alive. Mine shut down, and not because they wanted to.
Why?
Who reads written text over their favorite YouTube personality, or the SEO garbage that pops up first on their search, or first party articles/recs on steam, and so on? No one, except me apparently, as their journalistic integrity aside, I'm way too impatient for youtube videos, and am apparently the only person on the planet that believes influencers as far as I can throw them.
And that was before Discord, Tiktok, and ChatGPT really started eating everything. And before a whole generation barely knew what a website is.
They cited Eurogamer as an offender here, and thats an outstanding/upstanding site. I'm surprised they can even afford to pay that much as a business.
And I'm not sure what anyone is supposed to do about it.
This phrase doesn't work though. Unless you're some body builder type, and can throw them really really far.
But even that doesn't make sense either. Because if you said
"I only trust this guy 18 feet....."
the other person would say
".............18 feet? What? What does THAT mean????"
And you would say "What??? You think you can throw a man 19 feet??? Ok. Go grab him. Go. Go grab that man, and throw him 19 feet. Show me."
At about this time I think they would just call the cops, assuming you have mental problems, and violent tendancies.
Which to be fair.....yeah. You're over here talking about how far you can pick another man up against their will, and how far you can throw them.
Although, how have we never made that an olympic event? You get a bunch of fat guys in a bar, and some body builder muscleheads, and see who wins. If the fat guy can escape, his time to escape is measured. Fastest fat guy gets the medal. Or, if he gets thrown, farthest throw distance wins the medal.
I'd watch that.
Maybe they’re tiny and can’t throw them and thus can’t believe them.