Game Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits

Cutting straight to the point!

Its my all new favourite website.

 A catalogue of the stupid, incompetent, and generally retarded things gaming journalists say and do.

I dedicate time every day to scouring gaming news sites for dumb shit. More often than not I find it on Kotaku, where "random crap that pops into my head" qualifies as genuine journalism for some reason.

Cutting straight to the point!

Its my all new favourite website.

 A catalogue of the stupid, incompetent, and generally retarded things gaming journalists say and do.

I dedicate time every day to scouring gaming news sites for dumb shit. More often than not I find it on Kotaku, where "random crap that pops into my head" qualifies as genuine journalism for some reason.

What are some of your fav ones hamz? 

Is the GB crew on there?

" Is the GB crew on there? "

" @Hamz: I'm a little confused. Is this a call for the quality of journalism within the games industry to improve?  Maybe more enthusiast places should be transparent with that?  Or perhaps because the expectation of bad journalism isn't so ingrained in the public due to the youth of the industry it's easier and more apparent to mock. "

Dude yes. Games journalism sucks. So do games journalists. They deserve to be called on their suckiness.

Game journalists are more entertainers themselves than journalists, because that's what the audience demands of them.
 
Smart, serious game journalists kill their own work, because they aren't very entertaining.
 
It's why Fox News is beating CNN in ratings. Fox News is entertaining, CNN is not.

This site sucks, so far nothing I read has seemed stupid except to the idiot writing for the site.

Bookmarked. Thanks for the heads up Hamz.

It's an industry made for idiots so it seems about right that most of the journalists are too.

The first one I saw was this; 
 
Players will have to tackle the Drone Army of Morcubus but I don’t know why I’m telling you this because you’ve stopped reading already. Oh just read the f*cking press release or something, you don’t need me to repeat all the bollocks when EA can just do it firsthand.     
 
That's not badly written/stupid/incompetent at all! It's hilarious and entertaining, just like game sites should be, in my opinion. Did it make the site because it's not Serious Face enough or something? Personally, I believe it shows better writing skills and more creativity then you'd ever find from the journalists that this site classes as 'competent'.

" This site sucks, so far nothing I read has seemed stupid except to the idiot writing for the site. "

Wait I'm not done. I just read some more, and I've decided to write a new feature. It's called 'Stuff that Rink finds on that one site Hamz posted that is poorly written to the degree of being hypocritical, as judged by Rink himself'. Catchy, I know.
 
Episode one: 
" at least half a dozen different gaming news sites beat you to the bunch. Once again, you lose." ~ That guy from that site
Maybe you shouldn't be condescending when you can't even correctly quote common sayings? The correct saying is 'Beat you to the Punch' That's 'Punch', as in 'Falcon Punch', 'Punch that guy in the face' or 'Don't drink the Punch as it has been spiked with raw heroin, bro'.   
 
Tune in next week, folks.

" The first one I saw was this; 
 
Players will have to tackle the Drone Army of Morcubus but I don’t know why I’m telling you this because you’ve stopped reading already. Oh just read the f*cking press release or something, you don’t need me to repeat all the bollocks when EA can just do it firsthand.      That's not badly written/stupid/incompetent at all! It's hilarious and entertaining, just like game sites should be, in my opinion. Did it make the site because it's not Serious Face enough or something? Personally, I believe it shows better writing skills and more creativity then you'd ever find from the journalists that this site classes as 'competent'. "

He's just finding the slightest mistakes in the articles and being an asshole.  

I've said it before: games journalism is not really journalism. It isn't the Washington Post; it's Tiger Beat.

What do you expect though from Journalists whose target audience is largely for the under 18 crowd? If you are looking for maturity and journalistic integrity from video game critics, you may be interested in the wrong thing duder.

" This site sucks, so far nothing I read has seemed stupid except to the idiot writing for the site. "

Seemed like an interesting concept for a site, but the actual content sucks.

That guy didn't really make an incredible discovery when he mentioned Kotaku. I'm still looking for someone who takes those attention whores serious anymore.

Also, the ironic thing is that the author of the site is, himself, an Incompetent Fuckwit.

He treats gaming journalists as REAL journalists - which is the most common mistake, which is pointed out by many gaming journalists themselves. It's like complaining that amateur basketball isn't as entertaining as the NBA - it probably isn't, yet those are basicly two different sports.

GamesRadar: "5 things you didn't know about Gears of War 3. Until now." »

Or until four hours previously when at least half a dozen different gaming news sites beat you to the bunch. Once again, you lose.

Also, grabbing on petty mistakes and attempts at humor isn't pointing out mistakes that is valuable in any way. It's nitpicking. It's a review - it's supposed to give you info about the game, help you decide if you should buy it or not and occasionally be entertaining. An orthographic mistake is really hard to correct, seriously. I think someone should die because of one - so there goes half of the world's journalists.

(that bit about "bollocks" and "EA" was bad, though)

Seriously, that guy reminds me of those assholes that go watch Star Wars and then conclude that the movie is utter shit. Because you can hear lasers in space, which is impossible in reality. We all know a guy like that. We all want to punch him to death. Hey, look, that guy is a twit - I'm going to disregard his whole writing career by pointing out he wrote "grew" instead of "grown". Blimey, that was hilarious, I should write a blog!

There's a lot to complain about in video game journalism - like in every type of journalism. Many times it's lazy, sold out, attention whoring and painful to read. But this ain't the way to do it.

He's seems like a fuckwitt.

"He's just finding the slightest mistakes in the articles and being an asshole.   "

He is part of a new trend of internet grammar nazi's. I was highly disappointed to see this but his peers are on twitter crticizing people for bad language there. It's stupid and his website just promotes his dickish nature.

That website is dumb. Of all the things to call journalists out for, the regurgitating press releases, the lack of any initiative, the bias, the lack of any insight; he chooses instead to comb for grammatical errors. Shame.

Interestingly enough, the journalists themselves like the website, while you all hate it. I find this amusingly ironic.

Interesting reactions here. I find it odd that there are those who feel it is alright that people being referred to as "journalists"  can get away with doing a half-assed job. If it is your job to write all day, than at the very least, the mechanical aspect of the job (you know... the writing part) should at least be correct. I'm not even yet taking into account a general lack of research that goes into a majority of these blog posts (a high percentage are press release reductions as it is). Stating my agreement with his point of view however, doesn't mean I want to go to a site that compiles all of the garbage into one place for me to read. I generally don't go around and purposefully ram my nose into heavily soiled litter boxes for enjoyment... the same holds true here. 
 
(I'm almost interested to visit the site briefly just to see how many posts by Jim Sterling pop up. I'm willing to bet there are a lot).

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Seemed like an interesting concept for a site, but the actual content sucks.

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I just lurk forums a week after the game is out and debate it then.  If a large percentage of them are beating the game quick, it's a rent.  But forums help me more than anything else. 

This guy is like some kind of hardcore troll who hates his life...

This guy is like some kind of hardcore troll who hates his life...

the few at the top i've read are all lame save for the doom one.
 
@nanikore said:

" He's just finding the slightest mistakes in the articles and being an asshole.   "

I've just stumbled across this. It's hilarious.

I'm glad i'm not the only one who often despairs at the ridiculous shit passing for game journalism. Out of interest, has he targeted giantbomb at all? I had a quick glance down the list and I couldn't immediately spot any giantbomb quotes...

" I've just stumbled across this. It's hilarious. "

Nice find.   :)

"I've just stumbled across this. It's hilarious. "

Oh awesome, the world needs more God complex.

Wow..he must have his own server dedicated to the farce that is CVG.

And here I thought this was a mod attempting to commit account suicide.  
 
I think the concept of that website is dumb.  Its sole existence relies on the mistakes of other websites?  It might be interesting and sometimes comedic, but it's a stupid idea to me.