Do people actually read Patrick's stories?

Some of them. Worth Reading is way too bloated for me, though. There must 50 links, videos and games in that thing every week and that's just too much. I would love to have a good summary every week, but not like that. 
 
edit: Thinking about it, a weekly article with videos and links recommended by all members of the staff is what I actually want.

No, not usually. Then again, I don't really come to Giant Bomb for news posts or editorials.

Sure, I would if it interested me. Personally, I mostly stick to Quick Looks, ILM's and the Bombcast.

If I do and feel it necessary to comment, it would be after reading what is written.

As for Patrick, he's an OK writer, but there is room for improvement in his prose, lexicon and grammar. His voice is the thing that gets to me (but that can be circumnavigated usually).

@geirr: Because this is not a thread about wether or not you read Patrick's articles. It's a thread about commenting on something you haven't read. The irony is just striking. I'd say this turned out even better than I could have hoped, as the social commentary is just phenomenal.

@rick_deckard: So you're posting forum headers that has nothing to do with the content in the actual post? Okay then.

I read most of them and enjoy them.

@BlatantNinja23 said:

Of course I do. I'll never understand the Patrick hate.

Then who else are we going to abuse?

All kidding aside, I love the guy's work on the site.

Don't read 90% of them since I care little for industry discussion. I only comment on articles I have actually read.

@rick_deckard said:

@geirr: Because this is not a thread about wether or not you read Patrick's articles. It's a thread about commenting on something you haven't read. The irony is just striking. I'd say this turned out even better than I could have hoped, as the social commentary is just phonomonal.

Yeah this shit is like pretty deep dude.

I do read them... I also understand all the hate. I like them but he picks topics that brings hate no matter what side you walk on. That said, I think he has an odd outlook on most topics. I "like" him.

Only if the subject interests me. I read his Worth Reading stuff sometimes though.

This thread is fucking hilarious. The OP is about people commenting on articles they haven't read and asking questions that are answered in the text and everyone is doing precisely that here. I just love it.

Unfortunately I don't read none of them, just the ones he writes about equality for women why we should support them and not oppress them. lol. not.

i don't really read Patrick's stories. not out of any kind of hate for him, but just because i don't want to read them....

@geirr: No, I'm posting a forum header that actually requires you read. Imagine that. If you actually read the content of the OP, you would know it works in tandem with the heading.

@rick_deckard said:

@geirr: No, I'm posting a forum header that actually requires you read. Imagine that. If you actually read the content of the OP, you would know it works in tandem with the heading.

Sure does!

We should just remove headlines!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Patrick's articles. Especially the ones about things that I don't know much about, like text adventure games. That being said, I tend to avoid the comments section for his bigger stories since what people post there is often pretty terrible (such as the comments section on the #1reasonwhy stories *shutters*)

While reading posts in this thread I realized I hate everything.

Guy didn't let the assholes win and kept writing. I've got to respect that.

I try to, though if it's really long I'll start skimming.
 
Although I read every word that Alex posts.  Easily my favorite writer here.

@jerseyscum said:

Guy didn't let the assholes win and kept writing. I've got to respect that.

Guy? Patrick? The assholes? Win? What?

I don't even click on them. At least not the Friday thing he usually does as they don't appeal to me.

I read them, but I don't usually comment. Seems like the most vocal people are the ones who don't bother for some reason

His writing is excellent, specifically in "Worth Reading".

I don't read any of them and don't comment either. I don't even know why I'm responding to this thread that doesn't want my reply.

Not really, because most of the times he writes about games I'm going to play in the future. He writes some really good (the best, actually) stuff here, and no, I don't comment on the articles, since I don't click on them in the first place.

This thread is fucking hilarious. The OP is about people commenting on articles they haven't read and asking questions that are answered in the text and everyone is doing precisely that here. I just love it.

To answer your actual 'point': you aren't blowing anyone's mind here. People commenting without reading happens across the internet.
 
 
As for the thread title: for the most part, I don't read them anymore, for reasons that a few people in this thread already articulated far better than I could've.

He writes good articles actually. The fact that he loses his sanity sometimes is another story (yet enough of a reason to get him fired from GB).

This thread is fucking hilarious. The OP is about people commenting on articles they haven't read and asking questions that are answered in the text and everyone is doing precisely that here. I just love it.

@Terramagi said:

Why would I? I'm a bad person who needs to check my privilege at the door because I don't think Twitter messages should count as news anywhere other than Kotaku.

The Twitter 'articles' are hilarious. The fact that this guy can 'publish' a series of slightly edited Tweets and be given as much praise as I'm reading in this thread is astonishing.

@KittyVonDoom said:

@Terramagi said:

Why would I? I'm a bad person who needs to check my privilege at the door because I don't think Twitter messages should count as news anywhere other than Kotaku.

The Twitter 'articles' are hilarious. The fact that this guy can 'publish' a series of slightly edited Tweets and be given as much praise as I'm reading in this thread is astonishing.

Slightly edited tweets filled with grammatical errors.

Given the username of the OP I feel like this thread is one big Voight-Kampff test!

It's the internet, people don't want to spend time reading an article, they want to give you their opinion and correct each other.

@Wrighteous86 said:

Look at it this way, if Patrick weren't writing these stories, there would be even less content and less people on the site.

Fewer.

Kudos to the OP if the title was intentional, it doesn't seem to matter how much text there is, people will still ask questions or make counter arguments that were addressed in the first few sentences. I wrote an article back in high school about the information age kind of robbing the youth of some basic communication and problem solving skills. It's only gotten worse since facebook and twitter, people only want the pertinent core information so they can make a comment and go on to the next thing.

yes, i read the stuff that he post. i read most of what he post but don't comment on stuff i don't read.

I only thing I want from a journalist is some kind of review, or to give me information about stuff. I don't really want opinion pieces beyond game reviews.