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Careful, it’s gatekeeping to prefer that your game journalists have ever played a game at all other than when researching for an article. They write like this
by menacingly 3y ago
Careful, it’s gatekeeping to prefer that your game journalists have ever played a game at all other than when researching for an article.
They write like this because it’s how anyone writes on a topic about which they have no experience. If you embed me as a wartime reporter, I’ll talk about the weird food and noise, not what most people reading the article want to read about.
- HideousKojima 3y agoPersonally I only read reviews of running shoes from lazy obese people, paraplegics, and amputees.
- djur 3y agoWhat do you think people reading wartime coverage want to read about?
- menacingly 3y agoI don't know. So I will let my 0.0% experience with the topic keep me from writing about it.
- torginus 3y agoGoing by Henry Ford's "faster horse" quote, I prefer my media to be aspirational, to assume potentially too much of me and be disappointed, not the other way around.
- jccalhoun 3y agoYou really think that these people who have worked for multiple gaming sites and are now starting their own gaming site really don't play games? It seems like there would be an easier way to make a living than writing about something you don't care about.
- menacingly 3y agoI do think that, and a lot of other people do as well. It’s why they aren’t taken seriously and have a hard time being employed unless we’re in wasteful high growth economic states. And identifying a profitable market segment, inserting yourself as a critical member, and blaming doing a poor job on vague concepts of gatekeeping and bias seems like a good enough way to make a living that they keep trying at it