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So You Want To Be A Game Journalist?
simoniker writes "Over at Game Career Guide, they're looking at how to become a video game journalist, and exactly what that 'infamous' job entails. An extract: 'An [apparently simple] task roster belies the complexity of the role of games journalist. For example, playing a game with an eye towards reviewing it differs from playing it purely for fun and, if it happens to be a terrible game (which you will see more than your fair share of in time), it may not be such an enjoyable experience. Dealing with PR people ... can be tiresome to degrees depending on the nature of the PR person (some are more tiresome than others, let's just say).'"
Step 1: ???? Step 2: Editorialize all Slashdot articles involving Sony, and post absurd content as fact from completely untrustworthy sources, such as the Inquiror. Step 3: Profit.
The only thing I got out of that article is that I really don't want to be a journalist (Just look at my posts and you will understand why I fear editors), and that I need to reread Transmet.
Do Or Do Not, There Is No Spoon, There Is Only Zuul. Everything in the above post is probably opinion.
in the same file of "Being a Porn Star".
Sure, in theory it's a great way to earn your wages.
However, at the end of the day, what would you do to relax and 'get away from it all'? Balance your checkbook?
I'll just stick to what I know best, "Would you like fries with that?".
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
Rule #1:
6.0 is the absolute lowest score, reserved for only the absolutely intolerable piles of crap. Regular "bad" games get at least a 7.
Property is theft.