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I don't get why the journalist is so aggressive towards the helmet right off the bat, really. Lots of statements left me sort of dumbfounded as to where the an

by serf 6y ago

I don't get why the journalist is so aggressive towards the helmet right off the bat, really. Lots of statements left me sort of dumbfounded as to where the anger/hate came from. Why is this helmet 'douche-ified'? Is it because it looks weird, or is it because the manufacturer didn't send the journo a free one? The price-point? Style ranks wayyyy down on the list for requirements on a medical product, personally. Also, is it weird to anyone else that we're listening to the complaints of a journalist when they can't get a free testing unit? This isn't a normal consumer issue, and it elicits absolutely no sympathy from me. Boohoo, a startup didn't send some random local journo , albeit an important locality, a free testing unit. I play the world's smallest violin for their hardships. Halfway down we learn that the helmet doesn't fit : finally, an actual consumer gripe. It slips, it doesn't work properly. Great! An actual review -- it only took 6 paragraphs, some complaints about what the CEO of the startup looked like, and an introduction to the journalists activities of daily living... fantastic.

polka_haunts_us 6y ago
Because it sounds like you aren't acquainted, Drew Magary is an ex Deadspin writer where his common articles were, basically this. He's basically a man who has been paid for at bare minimum the last 8 years of his life, probably longer, to write needlessly aggressive rants about the most trivial of things (In his past sportswriter life it was The St. Louis Cardinals), or anecdotes about his daily life that people care about a whole lot less than he thinks they do. He's a one trick pony, and his one trick isn't actually good. I appreciate OP for putting his name in the title so I would know enough not to click the link, not that anything written by him belongs on this site in the first place. It's the equivalent intellectual stimulation of an Adam Sandler comedy.

by serf 6y ago

polka_haunts_us 6y ago

Because it sounds like you aren't acquainted, Drew Magary is an ex Deadspin writer where his common articles were, basically this. He's basically a man who has been paid for at bare minimum the last 8 years of his life, probably longer, to write needlessly aggressive rants about the most trivial of things (In his past sportswriter life it was The St. Louis Cardinals), or anecdotes about his daily life that people care about a whole lot less than he thinks they do. He's a one trick pony, and his one trick isn't actually good. I appreciate OP for putting his name in the title so I would know enough not to click the link, not that anything written by him belongs on this site in the first place. It's the equivalent intellectual stimulation of an Adam Sandler comedy.