time_lord

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[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 0 points 4 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.

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 31 points 4 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.

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 1 points 4 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.

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You weren't around for the 2016 presidential elections.

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

We tried this already - getting ethics in game journalism.

It didn't work so well.

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One could argue that they were the ass hole first by releasing an unfinished game. Just playing devils advocate here though.

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

By progressive and youth, you mean millennials, right? Who are as old as.... 40.

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Pre George W. Bush, it was perfectly legal to discharge student debt in bankruptcy. That made loans harder to get, and consequently, kept college prices from these insane increases.

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

If I never got the email, does that mean I wasn't effected?

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's because macs don't have games. They've had 3 iterations of ARM processors and I still can't download steam natively. If I could, most of my steam library wouldn't run natively.

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Google didn't tell him that they were going to delete the data until a week before. I think that's the issue. It's like when you tell someone a family member moved on, you need to use the word "die" or it's open to interpretation. Google needed to straight up say that they were going to delete the data after 6 months, but they didn't.

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