Game Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits

[Ben Paddon]

Behold, a Tumblr blog expressing that very point! Did I make it? Well, yes. This is a Shameless Plug™.

I’m of the opinion that the last decent game journalism outlet was Amiga Power, the spiritual successor to Your Sinclair (which I’ve never read, but that’s my own damned fault for having been born a mere four months after the mag launched, and also having never owned a Sinclair in my entire life). Modern game journalism is shit, posting rumours and conjecture as absolute fact – anyone else remember “They’re making a videogame of Juno!” during 2008? Or is it just me? – and churning out absolutely shit articles and editorials, like TheLeen

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[Ben Paddon]

The German retro gaming magazines are all very nice. :P

[Seb Patrick]

Do you read RPS, Ben? You should give it a shot, if not.

[Ben Paddon]

I thought I had subscribed to their RSS feed, but apparently not. I have rectified this transgression.

Their Toonstruck gallery brought back memories.

[Ben Paddon]

Shameless plug: I just made this and I’m incredibly proud of it.

[Ian Symes]

Either it comes with a free MiniDisk, or the magazine’s A3.

[Ben Paddon]

It supposed to come with a 3.5″ floppy disk. I might have gotten the proportions wrong.

[Ian Symes]

Ah, I see now.

[Seb Patrick]

I wondered if it was simply a matter of Ian being too young to remember floppy disks; but even then, you probably wouldn’t fit the video on one ;-)

[Ben Paddon]

“Video” is probably a generous way of saying “animated IFF what we made in DeluxePaint IV.”

[Danny Stephenson]

You could create awesome animations in Deluxe Paint. Especially with the ‘Spirograph’ tool

[Pete Part Three]

The spelling of Disk was surely the clue.

[Seb Patrick]

So, it’s all kicked off with Leigh Alexander, then, eh?

[Ben Paddon]

Ooh, she doesn’t like me. Nor do any of her White Knight followers who think they’re defending their lady’s honour. Apparently I’m brilliant but I’m not allowed to pick on girls. Only bad boys pick on girls, our mam said.

[Seb Patrick]

Well, possibly. Either way, since she’s a friend of a friend, I’m refraining from any sort of comment ;-)

[Ben Paddon]

Blimey. Small world, innit?

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