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Magazines Faking Game Reviews?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-it-would-have-been-really-nice dept.

lunchlady doris writes: "With videogames becoming a huge business and magazines having large lead times, something has got to give if they want to compete with web sites. Planet GameCube has a story where it seems that some magazines have decided that eschewing actual journalism is the way to go, with both Extreme Gamer and Request Magazine having reviews for Nintendo's Eternal Darkness, a game that is currently incomplete and is only expected to arrive in stores at the end of June."

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  1. Science rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's easy to get first post with a time machine.

  2. sorta like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sort'a like Kathleen Fent faking orgasms?

  3. Re:Happens all the time... by Chasuk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.

    I'm probably going to get modded down for this, but yours is probably the most unfunny .sig I have ever seen. I do understand the sentiment, yes. However, deliberate cruelty and unkindness should never be humorous, and your .sig manages to be both. Might I convince you to change it?

    Or are you going to tell me to fuck off?

    --
    Neopets - the best free game on the Int
  4. Re:Happens all the time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn, it must just absolutely SUCK to be you.

    Let me guess...you've probably got a retarded kid brother or some shit like that. So now you feel that you have to protect the retarded people of the world by stopping "cruel" (how the FUCK does that word apply here?!) comments. Well I got news for ya, pal...retarded people are pretty fucking hilarious (except for that retard bitch at Wendy's that one time who got to the point where she had to give me change, looked at the money I'd given her, looked at the cash drawer, back and forth a few times, and said "Gosh...this is hard!"). Hell, half the reason to go to WalMart at all is to see what apparent mental disability plagues the greeter.

    So, in summary...in case the other poster does not, I shall say "Fuck off, sir, and have a lovely day."

    Now I shall go kick some retarded people in the head. *THAT'S* cruelty. The sig isn't anything of the sort.

  5. Don't get mad, get even! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Chasuk, don't worry about the two idiots. You'll get back at Evil Penguin (and also Mike Mentalist) by treating them to the "poor man's bitchslap" treatment: whenever you have some mod-points, pick 5 random posts of EvilPenguin, and mod them down as overrated. Once EvilPenguin has reached a posting default of -1, move on to Mike Mentalist (how retarded do you have to be to be an jerk under a named id? Yes, in this case the word applies; for a person bound to a wheelchair it doesn't. Keyword: Steven Hawking).

    Moderating as "overrated", rather than flamebait also makes sure that Metamoderation doesn't get you.

  6. Re:Not very unusual -reminds me of Manchette (RIP) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What is this? Fucking Tennyson? You know how to make normal line lengths? Or are you trying to write in iambic pentameter?

  7. Re:Try EBs list for fake "top selling" charts. by Mondrames · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    BAH!

    it taint REAL music unless the beat comes from Ogg-gog beating on a log, and the melody from Derf-ish squeezing a duck.

    Oh, I miss paleolithic.